It Cant Be True

(I like being cautious, so just in case you did not see tonights Lost, don’t highlight the following text to read my quick episode reaction.)

I refuse to believe that Rousseau is dead.

I get sad when any character gets killed off, but for some reason this one effected me the most.

More later! Right now my head is spinning.

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I always get nervous posting stuff like this when I host the video on my own site, because I’m scared of the big bag studios with endless money bullying me to take it down. But I have to believe this constitutes “promotional use,” so I should be fine, right?

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Yes, I really did stay up and encode this because I didn’t feel like waiting until someone had a grainy YouTube version up by tomorrow.

Anyway! I can’t believe the new season is only about two weeks away. I finished Season 3 around November, when they were deliberating about starting Season 4 in January or April. They chose April, and back then it felt like forever. But with Lost on from week to week, BSG hasn’t been on my mind much.

These were actually really funny, but then again I think it’s because I actually watch the show. #7 seems to be the hottest most relevant to the average viewer. #5 and #4 got an audible mumbly laugh from me, which is saying a lot because I don’t usually laugh when I’m by myself.

By myself. Watching Battlestar Galactica top 10 lists and posting them online.

::sigh:: Off to bed! (Next to a laaaaady, even!!)

EDIT 3/20/08 @ 6:00PM - As much as I’ve enjoyed the influx of traffic to this site (5x more viewers in a day) CBS on YouTube now has the video up so you all can embed it on your sites.

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I now have 3 blogs.

This one, which is about TV, movies, books, whatevs.  No personal stuff here.

My tumblog, which used to be about the food I ate, is now about the strange dreams I have.  It’s pretty good, but then again, I would say that because I write about them.

And MySpace, which is for personal stuff.  You gotta be my friend to see it, but if you’re a reader here, you are my friend, all you gotta do is add me if you’re interested.

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I wish I could take credit for this, but I can’t.  It’s one of those things you find on the internet and after a day or two becomes a blur, so I don’t know who to give credit to.  Anyway, notice there are 3 white houses on this mural.

The mural, of course, comes from the Swan station.  When the Swan, Desmond, and the button were all introduced, you were kind of led to believe Desmond drew this.  Knowing what we now know about Desmond, that probably isn’t true.  It might have been Kelvin and Radzinsky, just as they drew the blast door map that Locke discovered.

Regardless, the 3 houses are interesting to me because they might represent Jacob’s cabin and how it moves around.

This would be significant since this mural was first seen in season two, two full years before Jacob’s cabin was introduced.  Pretty bad ass.  Do you notice anything else in the mural that has a new meaning now, with two more years worth of knowledge to go on?

What’s interesting is that if the “hiding in the past” theory from my last post ends up being somewhat true, maybe one of our main survivors drew this.

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Apparently a company out of Boston has been developing the “Big Dog,” a robot with four legs that is surprisingly adaptive to it’s environment, and looks life-like as it walks. It’s purpose it to carry heavy loads, presumably during war, and scare the shit out of people with the noise it makes.

I mean, come on, if you saw this thing coming at you, what would be your first reaction?

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Kelvin Inman (of the hatch) had to clean up Radzinsky’s suicide blood stain, and so, too, does Kevin Johnson have to clean up some other guy’s blood stain.

Aside from the name and stain similarities, I have to believe that the “cabin fever” driving Gault’s crew to suicide is probably what got to Radzinsky, too. Maybe even Rousseau’s crew, sixteen years ago. A few weeks ago, when they showed us time traveling’s side-effects, I thought that might be the “sickness” Rousseau was referring to, back in season one, that drove her crew to death. But it might actually be this “cabin fever,” which could be side effects of time distortion, or something else.

So! The big “reveal” this week wasn’t necessarily the return of Michael (who saw THAT coming, right?!), but rather the fact that Jin doesn’t make it off the island.

He’s not one of the Oceanic Six, which kind of makes me glad, because the spoilers I read from the beginning of the season said that he was, so I was actually surprised at this turn of events which was a welcome change to a spoiler-addict like myself. But that leaves me kind of uneasy, because it would mean that Aaron is an Oceanic Six-er. I guess technically he was on the plane, but it just kind of feels like it should be a ticket holding passenger. Aaron would just be the son of a Six-er, unless there is more to this story that hasn’t been revealed yet.

Everyone seems to be asking “is Jin really dead?!?” I think the answer is clear: hell naw he ain’t dead, Sun!

The date of death on the tombstone is 9/22/04, or… the date of the plane crash.

Jack is sick of lying and wants to go back. Matthew Abbadon (Naomi’s boss) asked Hurley: “Are they still alive?” and he freaked out. Plus, I like a happy ending. So I’m saying, yes, Jin is alive, along with all the rest of the missing survivors, and the end of the series will reunite everyone. I hope.

One side-note before I keep going: I have mixed feelings about the flash-back-flash-forward-at-the-same-time narrative. About half way through, I almost said out loud, “I wonder if they’ll ever do a flash-back, and flash-forward at the same time. I think if they did, that would be too much.” And lo, they did. I was not expecting it at the time, and the more I think about it the more I think they got lucky that it worked, but I think it’s pretty risky and asks a lot from the casual viewer, who may not only feel cheated but also overwhelmed. Then again, casual viewers are suckers.

Anyway, the other big “reveal” was the return of Michael, under the alias Kevin Johnson. Sure, this was ruined since Day One, but I think the shock isn’t necessarily in WHO the man on the boat was, but HOW the man on the boat was who he was. In other words, how did Michael get on the boat? Specifically, the hair cut and the seemingly convincing alias?

Keep in mind, Lost-time moves slower than our time (not sci-fi, just the way the story works, like how “24″ takes place in 1 day). It’s still 2004 in the Lost world, and only 50-some days have passed since the crash. A little over 2 weeks ago, Michael sailed away with Walt after the hatch implosion. So, Michael has only been gone for roughly 20 days, yet here he is, all clean cut and shaven, minus Walt, with a new name.

That was quick.

One possible easy explanation that would not be at all out of place: Ben invented the alias long before Michael’s departure, had a real rescue for Michael in place where he could shower up, shave, and get his facts straight before the ship met up with the freighter and they said “here’s the new janitor from the company.”

Another possible explanation that I hope is not all out of place on Lost: A lot of people are saying that Michael and Walt time traveled into the past. Remember, Faraday told Sayid, Desmond, and Lapidus to stay on a heading of 305. Ben told Michael to stay on a bearing of 325. Faraday’s heading would have no side effects. Who knows what Ben’s heading does? Maybe the side effect is that he sailed three or four years into the past, and left Michael a Jigsaw-like tape recording instructing him to seek him out for help.

So, Michael in the past tracks down the Ben from that place in time, not knowing what else to do when he goes home, sees himself, and finds out it’s actually 2001. Ben says “you can work for me,” and Michael gives him the rundown.

Ben did seem awfully familiar with the plane crash as it happened. I still think he knew about it long before it was set to occur.

This is asking a lot, though. I have a feeling #1 is the real answer.

BUT, #2 would answer another question: Walt’s aging. He looked a lot older when he appeared to Locke, and Locke even said so, calling him “an Older Walt.” Obviously this is because the show has been on for 4 years in the real-world, and the actor has grown, but remember only 50 days have passed on the show so they need a creative way to deal with his aging. I’ve already speculated that maybe Walt will just be seen in flash-forwards from now on, and that’s why he appears older, but maybe there really will be a sci-fi explanation for his aging.

Either way, we should get some kind of answer in the next episode, since it’s called “Meet Kevin Johnson.”

One last, sort-of-off-topic thought: earlier in the post I mentioned Abbadon (Naomi’s boss) asking Hurley if “they are still alive,” presumably talking about the other Oceanic survivors who didn’t make it off the island. This means that he legitimately doesn’t know. But, according to the last episode, the people on the boat are instructed to kill everyone on the island after making off with Ben. So, obviously something happened, here. I think the survivors will get friendly with the people on the boat (thanks, Daniel, I knew I could trust you) and come up with a way to make it appear like everyone has died. Somehow 6 are allowed to leave, but I’m betting the rest voluntarily stayed behind with the full knowledge that they’d be there the rest of their lives.

Or!!! They are all “hiding” in the past, still living on the island, but years and years before anything happened. And the Others are their descendants. Remember Adam and Eve, from season one?

And remember how they had the black and white pieces?

Ones remarkably similar to the ones Locke carries around?

(Props to Mike for the awesome Locke picture).

Aaaaaand I have to get these blogs done sooner. By the time I post them, there are hundreds of blogs saying the same thing. And we only have 1 episode to go before a brief hiatus (I think), and then five more episodes until the end of the season and we have to wait another 9 months for more Lost!

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