Austin Improv

answer:

Don't Click...if you don't wanna know!



I'll keep answering yes or no on this thread otherwise!

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Ehhhh, I dunno. You could say the same about Sun.

Jin and Aaron?

I clicked. Holy smokes! Wha...? How'd you catch that, Dave?

It's more like, what of whom is missing.

That's fine Dave, but I don't see how this is all related to Karl.

mcnichol wrote:That's fine Dave, but I don't see how this is all related to Karl.

I was going to make a joke here, but don't want to spoil the picture for others.

Basically, Karl is...the thing not in the picture. See? The joke doesn't work that way. Boo me.

Dave wrote:answer:

Don't Click...if you don't wanna know!



I'll keep answering yes or no on this thread otherwise!

Paul McCartney did the same thing on an album...

boo yah!

that episode had everything an arthursimone could possibly want

Tonight's episode was a welcome change from the overly sci-fi-ness of the previous three episodes.

Asaf wrote:Tonight's episode was a welcome change from the overly sci-fi-ness of the previous three episodes.

It was so neat! I woke up still excited about it.

If you've seen LaFleur...


I was so happy to see the statue. I felt like it was a teaser from the writers, reassuring us that they'll get to the statue properly in good time.

I still keep thinking about the way the island moves. It's so nutballs that the O6 arrived back in 1977. I guess that's just the way the space-time portal points work in the Lost universe: if you get into the island's space at the exact time for arriving there, you end up there at... whatever time the island is... at. Those are some pretty quirky rules, but I think they're fun, even with some potential holes in the logic. Time travel rules are only pure fiction, anyway. I think it's awesome that there are so many different rules of time travel in so many different stories (I'd like to read--or write-- a book or article about that some day).

But the real quirkiness in Lost time travel is how only a few of them are time-traveling. Instead of it being the whole island that's time-jumping, the time travelers appear to be only the crew who didn't make it off the island before Ben turned the Big Wheel. So that crew jumps to different points in time (while remaining always in the same relative space from where they time-jumped) and meets up with other people who aren't time-jumping, like the French crew and the Dharma Initiative. (Bear with me, I'm just thinking out loud on the internet). So if the island itself isn't time-traveling, how does the O6, who are in 2007, land in 1977, three years after what Sawyer claimed to be 1974?

Must the island in fact be time-jumping? I think so, but like I said, I'm just thinking out loud. I'm imagining the O6 flying over that swath of ocean towards Guam. Then I imagine a movie-special-effects swirl of an electrical nebula rising from a point in the ocean, and the plane flies into it. That nebula, as I see it, is the event horizon, or the portal zone, where, if you're caught in it, you're going to the island.

So with that picture, how do they end up in such a specific time as 1977? Oh, I see. That flight was the first deliberate/successful attempt by outsiders to reach the island since the Big Wheel was fixed back in its place, so wherever/whenever the time jumps on the island stopped, that's when/where the island currently exists.

Now that's settled, so back to such a specific few people being the time-jumpers. There's a group of people who were present on the island when Ben turned the wheel-- the Others, the ones who Locke was presumably going to lead-- who were not time-jumping with our heroes. Are they just not special enough? Does the island have a plan? Were Sawyer, Juliet, Locke, Jin, Faraday, Miles, and Red specifically chosen by some unseen force to play the game? And what happened to Bernard and Rose? Seriously, I forgot.

That actually makes sense.

What I want to know is, where does Richard get his eye liner and shirts. Is there a portal somewhere that sends stuff back from the late 90's or something, like a goodwill chute somewhere that empties out on the island? Does he get first pick because he's like the king of the native people, and the rest of them end up with whatever's left over... like they fell off the set of Deadwood or something...