Thursday, July 23, 2009

Cause we love more Dharma mysteries.

Hi Losties,

Our lesson is always about keeping our eyes open. So watch this!

Where are we going with this?

Via abc.com

Apparently there are four more to come.
7/23/09
8/4/09
9/8/09
10/15/09
11/16/09

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Two podcasts for the price of one!

Hi Losties,

There are two podcasts to share with you today:

We recorded a special Comic Con Preview podcast for you all. Our good friend G-Man also joined us to talk about the LOST Fantasy League that he hosts over at DarkUFO.

The Comic Con portion is about not only what is going on with the LOST panel and what we are planning but a little of what to expect from the event in general. As always we will be live blogging the event on the site and most likely the LOST panel in the spoilers sections.

Last year was a blast, because The ODI met many of you and he looks forward to meeting even MORE this year!!

For the LFL portion of the podcast, we talked to G-Man about running the LFL, what happened in Season 5 and what is in store for Season 6!!

Compared to our previous podcasts this is a mini one and is just about an hour long!

Hope you all enjoy it!!

Click Here to Subscribe on iTunes

ODI LOSTcast 45 - Comic Con 09 and LFL Season 6 Preview

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Over at the Jacobs Cabin podcast, we had the honor of participating in their very special LOST episode titled “What Lost Means to us.” It’s a beautiful collection of narratives shared by LOST podcasters and bloggers.
It was great to see what makes all of us so passionate about LOST. Head over to Jacobs Cabin listen to find out why we love the show Lost! A special THANK YOU to Jacobs Cabin with bringing all of us together again!

In order of appearance:

Matt from the Keys to Lost podcast
Wayne from LOSTcasting with Wayne and Dan
Donald from Donald is Lost
the JDman
Karen and Anil from The ODI LOST podcast- The ODI, and Karen’s Lost Notebook
Guitarchitect
Ryan and Jen from The Transmission
Cliff from the GSPN Lost podcast
Alex from Alex’s Hiatus Cast
Manuel Katy
Nancy Drew from Lostaholics, The Black Rock, and the Lostaholics Rewatching Lost podcast Children of Nancy Drew
Dwayne Jed and Cara from LOSTies with Jed and Cara
Matteo from MKLost
Mr. Bill from the Behind the Cutting Edge Lost podcast
Heath from the Lost Revisited Now podcast
Ms. Wendy from the Lost Revisited Now podcast and the It’s About Bunnies blog
Erik from Lost Chatter
Jay and Jack from the Lost Podcast with Jay and Jack
Matt from The Smoke Hatch
Denise from Jacob’s Cabin
Anna from Jacob’s Cabin

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Numbers.

Let's talk about LOST. Numbers.

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Waves crashing. Jin {Handcuff. Holding a group of long wires/twine} is trying to communicate to Hurley to hold the bamboo together so he can tie it. Hurley misunderstands him thinking he wants to make snowballs. Michael interjects, "He wants you to hold the bamboo tighter...I think." {Come on, he understands Jin} Jack walks over to see how things are 'coming', "As long as nobody sabotages this one as well huh?" Michael assures him he has people standing guard 24/7, "Nobody gets near this with or without intent to burn." Michael mentions to Jack the chances of a passing ship spotting this raft out there are pretty slim, they could use something to send out a distress call to any ships that might be close, "Like an SOS." Jack will ask Sayid but even if he can make something like that he's not gonna have anything to power it with. Hurley asks, "Didn't Sayid say that crazy French chick had batteries?"

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Deus Ex Machina

Let's talk about LOST! Deus Ex Machina.

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Locke is working in a 'super center'; he's setting up the game “Mouse Trap” in the TOY ZONE. John’s name tag on his blue vest introduces him to the customers as the Assistant Manager. A little boy walks up to him and asks “What’s that?” Locke tells the boy it's his favorite game, one he used to play with his brother. The little boy asks how you play. Locke explains to the boy “You start with all these parts off the board and then one by one you build the trap. Shoe, bucket, tub. Piece by piece it all comes together. And then you wait till your opponent lands here on the Ol Cheese Wheel, and then if you set it up just right you spring the trap.” John notes the older red haired woman in the fur coat watching them. John lets the boy have a turn, “Go ahead kiddo.” The silver ball rolls down the slide of the trap. John asks the lady if he can help her. She’d like to know where the footballs are. John, “Aisle 8 for regulation, Aisle 15 for Nerf.” She thanks him but looks at him longingly as she backs away. {Throughout we can hear over the PA video game pickup extension 354, carryout on checkout 2.} We see the silver ball of the game trigger the trap, ultimately trapping the blue mouse.

At the hatch Locke sweeps away dirt from its window. Boone, “You want my opinion.” John tells Boone “You gotta have some faith. All we gotta do is break the glass and then we’re in. Trebuchet delivers a half a ton of force.” Boone wonders why they call it a trebuchet when it looks like a catapult. Locke, They call it a trebuchet, Boone, because it’s a trebuchet.” Boone doesn’t get Locke, “One minute you're quoting Nietzsche, now all of the sudden you're an engineer. I don't think I can spell trebuchet.” Locke is sure to note there’s a “t” on the end. {Boone may not know how to spell trebuchet but he knows who Nietzsche is. Interesting.} They work hard on putting the trebuchet together. Boone doesn’t understand they've been there every day for 2 weeks and Locke doesn’t talk about himself, “Everybody’s got a story.” Locke feels his story would bore Boone. They get everything into position and Locke counts down, “3…2…1…” He lets go of the rope, and although the trebuchet makes perfect contact with its mark it doesn’t break the glass at all. The trebuchet literally falls apart. John touches the glass, he is very upset and he starts to yell and stomp on the little window, “This was supposed to work. This was supposed to work!” Boone calls out to John, “Your leg, man.” A piece of metal is lodged in his right leg; Locke never felt it go in. John pulls the metal out, again not even feeling it. John realizes he's losing feeling in his legs but is puzzled by this. He’s fine.

At night by campfire John wraps his wounded leg. He takes a safety pin and pokes at both legs. He is very upset at the loss of feeling. John even takes a burning stick out of the fire and uses the hot end to run the test again. He’s stunned when he feels nothing.

Daylight. Locke in a white tee shirt chops wood with a piece of metal. Boone asks him why the trebuchet didn’t work. The trebuchet didn’t work because it wasn’t strong enough. Boone shares that he doesn’t think the glass is gonna break. Annoyed Locke feels everything breaks if you apply the right force. Boone, “So we’re just gonna build another one of your inventions hope it works this time?”

Determined pissed off Locke says “That’s right.” But what if it doesn’t? Locke tells Boone, “Then the Island will tell us what to do.” Boone wonders what he just said. Locke changes the subject by suggestion they get back there and salvage those pieces. Locke is having trouble standing and walks slowly. He tells Boone he’s fine. Locke carries the large tree limb away.

In a parking lot, John takes a flyer for a lost dog off the windshield of his red VW beetle. He sees that the red hair woman has been watching, following him. She tries to run off knowing she’s been spotted. As John hurries after her he gets knocked down by a tan car backing out of a parking spot. He’s fine. John gets up, spots the fleeing woman and stops her, “Why are you following me? Who are you?” She apologizes and then blurts out, “I’m your mother.”

Sitting in a diner, the woman is focused on shoveling large amounts of sugar in to her coffee cup that apparently has tea in it. John doesn’t know why she would think he’s her son or how she found him, but the woman cuts him off and asks, “You’re adopted aren’t you?” John, “No. No. I was raised in a foster home. Not, well, several foster homes actually.” He asks what she wants from him. Mom says, “I want to tell you that you’re special. Very special. You are part of a design. You do realize that, don’t you? That our meeting, me finding you…this is a sign of things to come. Great things.” {Who is this nut?}. John asks if his father is still alive. Mom, “Still alive? Oh, John…Don’t you understand?...You don’t have a father. You were immaculately conceived.” This pleases her to tell John this, but he is puzzled. {That was a fantastic conversation, indeed!}

Sawyer asks Sun, who is working in her garden, which leaf is the right one. Sun tells him which one, which happens to be the one he’s using, “But nothin’s happening.”

Sun apologizes that it’s not helping. Kate just happens by carrying a sac of bottles for water and asks “What’s not happening?” Sawyer won’t reveal anything. He compliments Sun on the garden and leaves. Sun confesses to Kate that Sawyer has headaches and aspirin didn’t help.

In the cave Jack shaves {Mirror}. Kate asks Jack, “Say you’re having bad headaches…everyday…” It’s not Kate they’re talking about, its Sawyer. She thinks there may be something really wrong with him. Jack asks what Sawyer thinks. Concerned Kate tells him he thinks he’s fine but she feels he could be playing it down. Jack would love nothing more than to check the guy out and make sure he’s ok, “But we both know all I’m gonna get for my trouble is a snappy one liner. And if I’m real lucky a brand new nickname. I’m just over it.”

John is focused on rebuilding the trebuchet. Boone arrives and John announces, “You’re late!” Boone nonchalantly asks, “Late for what?” Late for work. Boone is done working, this is useless, “You can’t open that thing up, you say you can but you can’t.” John, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do.” Boone, “Don’t you get it? It’s a dead end. You’re not getting in.” {Get in where, really?} John feels that’s impossible, “We didn’t find this by accident. We’re supposed to…” Boone walks over and stands on top of the hatch, “Oh we’re supposed to. We’re supposed to find this, right? We’re supposed to open it, right? Then tell me something, John. If we’re supposed to open it, then why the hell haven’t we opened it yet?” John tells him “The Island will send us a sign.” Boone mocks him, “The Island will send us a sign.” John feels all that’s happening now is "Our faith is being tested, our commitment. But we will open it. The Island will show us how!" Boone asks what kind of a sign will the Island send them. The sound of a sputtering engine is heard. John sees a small plane fly over, trailing black smoke, and then crash into the jungle. John points and asks Boone if he saw that. Boone is staring up. Glitchy flashes of him bloody. John hears glass break; he looks around sees his mother in a fur coat pointing up. Bloody Boone says over and over "Theresa falls up the stairs, Theresa falls down the stairs." There's a lot of static and then a scream can be in the background {sounds like someone screams “John!’}. John’s eyes are very green. John's in a wheelchair! Boone is repeating his Theresa mantra although it is becoming distorted. As John falls from the wheelchair he yells " No. No. Please! Don't take it back!" Locke jolts awake and thinks.

At the beach camp Locke wakes up Boone. Boone asks “What time is it?” Locke tells him its morning. Ok, Boone’s up. Locke just shuffles Boone along.

“Emily Annabeth Locke. In 10,000 words or less.” {Flash whoosh}

Locke sitting in the 'break room' of the super store with a hired private investigator. {There's a sign on the wall that says ‘Safety is no accident’, a foosball table, lockers, hanger, 2 vending machines, 2 refrigerators, 2 microwave ovens.} The investigator gives John a yellow envelope with Intel on Emily. The investigator lifted some hairs from her car and matched them with John’s DNA samples; confirming it’s his mother. It’s 99% certain.

Locke learns that Emily was institutionalized a few times not for anything criminal or violent, but for a type of schizophrenia. {At Santa Rosa} Apparently if she stays on her meds she’s Ok.

Important Details:

Driver’s license (copy) expiration date is 3/20/94.

Emily DOB 10/15/40.

It appears to have been signed on 3/20/90.

Address 2448 Greenwood Ave, L.A., Cal. 90019.

Height 5’5". Weight 115 lbs.

Hair brown. Eyes BROWN.

The Santa Rosa admission papers show she is divorced.

SS# 584-243-15.

She had an Aunt Bea, three Doctors- D. Madison, C. Silva and R. Munos. She filled her prescriptions at SKADDEN PHARMACY.

John seems more interested in his father’s Intel. The investigator cautiously gives him the information contained in a RED FILE FOLDER. {Yes it is!!} The investigator feels since the mother sought him out “She’s fair game. But this guy…maybe he don’t even know you exist. And I’ve done this enough times to know this stuff isn’t meant to be, even though it may feel that way.” He feels this probably won’t have a happy ending. John wants the Red File Folder. The investigator slides the red folder over to John.

John drives his red VW beetle up to the gate where the guard asks, “Your name is?” John replies,”John. John Locke. I’m Anthony Cooper’s son.” {Plate#2ABM487}. The guard informs John Mr. Cooper doesn’t have a son. John sees the camera observing him and reassures the guard he doesn’t want anything from Anthony. “My mother is Emily Locke. Please.” The guard looks intrigued. The guard picks up the bat phone and tells Mr. Cooper, “I’ve got John Locke here. He says he’s your son.” John again notes the camera is watching. The guard tells him he can go on in.

Inside the trophy room of Anthony’s house John looks at all the photos of his world traveled adventurous father. {White water rafting, hunting, scuba diving.} Anthony enters confessing this is awkward. Anthony, “Somethin tells me I’m gonna want a drink for this.” Anthony prepares two scotch drinks and asks, “So who found who?” John shares Emily found him. Anthony asks how did she look? {Read that again.} John, “Fine, I guess.”

Anthony also wants to know if she said anything about him. John reveals Emily said he didn’t have a father; that he was immaculately conceived. Anthony laughs, "I guess that makes me god, huh?” He claims he didn’t even know John existed until a year after he was born {Interesting hmmm!?!?}

Emily said she wasn't going to have the baby at all. Then Emily "drops off the face of the planet when she turns up again asking me for money, telling me she put you up for adoption. You gonna drink that or what?" {Oh really}. John sips. Anthony inquires about John having a family of his own. John, “No sir.” Anthony,”Me neither.” Although he’s tried it a couple of times, “Didn’t take. Do you hunt?...You’re not one of those animal rights nut jobs, are ya?” John admits he is not. Anthony offers a hunting trip for this Sunday. John would like that very much. They raise their glasses in a ‘toasting’ gesture. {Flash Whoosh}

“I had a dream last night.” Locke in his white tee shirt is talking to Boone. “I asked for a sign. And then I saw a plane crash, a... a... a... Beech craft, right out there. (He points.) It was a dream but…it was the most real thing I’ve ever experienced. I know where to go now.” He knows where to go to find what we need to open this bastard up. {Him or the hatch?} Boone asks if John’s been using that wacky paste stuff that made me see my sister get eaten. {Oh, you mean the stuff that made you ultimately 'see' so you could feel relief.} John says no. Boone, “Cause John, I gotta tell ya…signs and dreams and…”
John cuts him off asking who Theresa is; he tells Boone he said Theresa falls up the stairs, Theresa falls down the stairs in the dream. Boone asks how he would know about that. John doesn’t know, “But we’re supposed to go to this place. We’re supposed to find that plane. Will you come with me?” Boone will.

Michael and Jin {One cuff on} work on building the raft. Jack’s impressed their project is coming together fast. Michael, “The fire wasn’t a total loss. We learned a few things from building the first one. Which is saving us from trial and error. Now it’s just…” He looks at Jin and says to Jack, “Trial.” Jin communicates with Michael in Korean and Michael answers him, Yeah, Yeah, I know…now, now now. {He understands him} Jack remarks on him picking up on a little Korean. Michael feels he’s pretty sure he knows how to say “Faster and “Idiot”. Jack {Key around neck} sees Sawyer laying against a tree few yards away; putting a blue wet cloth on his head.

Jack walks up to Sawyer, “I hear you’re having trouble with your head.” Sawyer thinks “she’s” got him making house calls now. Jack notices Sawyer is sensitive to the light too.

Actually Sawyer is sensitive to Jack. Lol! Realizing this won’t go anywhere Jack says to him, “We’ll see ya.” {We’ll not I’ll?!} Sawyer calls for the Doc and asks if the sensitivity to the light is bad. That depends on what’s causing his headaches. Sawyer, “It’s not like it’s a tumor or something…” Concerned Jack asks what makes him think it’s a tumor. Sawyer says he doesn’t. Jack starts to leave again when Sawyer blurts out “My uncle.” Sawyer confesses his uncle died of a brain tumor and wonders if that runs in the family. Jack asks what type of tumor was it. {He said brain tumor.} Smart ass Sawyer answers, the type that kills ya.

Jack, “Do you smell anything funny? Brain tumors bring on phantom smells maybe like something burning.” Sawyer says it’s just headaches. Jack’s sure he’s fine but if Sawyer’s worried there’s a couple of tests he can do. Sawyer thinks that sounds fun but his insurance ran out. Jack finds that amusing. Sawyer runs the “smell for something burning test” after Jack walks away.

John and Boone trek through the jungle. Boone wonders if he mentioned Theresa’s name one day out at the hatch, “Maybe I was talking to myself.” John, “Maybe. {Takes out a compass. Didn’t he give the compass to Sayid in 'Hearts and Minds' because he didn't need it?} But you didn’t.” Boone tries to rationalize John’s dream by suggesting he dreamed of a plane crash because of the fact they were... John falls down! Boone wants to help John up but John insists he’s fine. Boone asks what’s wrong with John’s leg. Something catches John’s attention; he finds black rosary beads. He immediately hands them over to Boone. Boone wonders if they came from someone at camp; John does not. John yanks a decayed body of a priest out of the trees; that’s where it came from. {Luv the millipede crawling out of the eye socket.}

John pulls up to the guard house; the gate is already opening. John stops to say good morning to Eddie the guard. Evidently John and Anthony have been bird hunting a few times.

John walks up to a partially open door and sees Anthony receiving Dialysis. John wasn’t supposed to be the till 12. John thought Anthony said 11. Anthony reveals his kidney’s failing and needs a transplant. He’s on the donor list, “But I’m an old man and it’s a long list.” John is concerned but Anthony says he didn’t tell John so it wouldn’t spoil what’s going to be a fantastic day. They’ll go have a nice lunch and shoot some birds. {OK, then.} {Flash Whoosh}

Boone announces, “He’s a Priest.” {W/gold tooth} John removes the pen from the dead dude’s pocket. Boone is looking through a pocket size book. John is wearing the rosary beads around his left wrist. Wondering how long the priest has been dead, John tells Boone normally clothing would completely decompose within in two years but this is high quality polyester; could be two years, could be ten. The pen’s true identity is a knife. {Is there high quality polyester? Lol} John notes the gold teeth, “Obviously well off.” And John reveals a wad of Nigerian Naira. {How does he know that? Smart.} Boone questions, “What is a Nigerian priest doing on an island in the South Pacific?” John takes a gun out of the priest’s pocket, “I’m not so sure he’s a priest.”

Sawyer tries to remedy his headache/eyes; but the crashing waves seem to play a part in his discomfort. The pounding and hammering noises are amplified and pissing Sawyer off. He yells at them to keep it down. Kate comes over and commands him to get up.

Kate physically moves him to go see Jack. Aggravated Sawyer, “Do I get a lollipop?”

Jack uses the ol “Eyes follow the pen test” and asks Sawyer when the headaches started. Sawyer’s eyes do indeed follow the pen. The headaches started a few days ago, a week maybe. Jack, “Do you have them when you wake up in the morning?” These usually hit him in the middle of the day. Jack continues on with the pen test; to check to see if his pupils respond to changing stimuli. Sawyer is getting worried with Jack in Doctor mode and a nod he gave. Kate tells Sawyer to let Jack do his thing. Jack snaps his fingers near Sawyers ear; this bothered Sawyer. Jack goes on with Dr. questions and note taking. “Have you ever had a blood transfusion?...Taken pills for Malaria?...Have you ever had sex with a prostitute?” Nope, Nope and Yes. Apparently Sawyer’s also contracted a lovely STD. Jack’s mock inquiry asking about his last outbreak pisses Sawyer off. This amuses Kate and Jack. Jack’s diagnosis is Sawyer needs glasses.

In the jungle John’s legs are freezing/stiffing up causing him difficulty walking. He can barely walk but feels he’s fine. “It’s the wound from the shrapnel.” Boone notes that that injury is to his right leg but asks what’s wrong with his left. Fine John falls down and this warrants Boone to suggest they go back. John again feels he’s fine. Boone, “No you’re not. Let me get you back to Jack!” John doesn’t think Jack would know the first thing about what’s wrong with him. {Hmmm. Why? Is Jack not a real Doctor? Is Jack wrong about Sawyer’s diagnosis?} John can’t get up and he won’t let Boone help him. Boone adamantly wants to go back and asks, “What’s wrong with you. Are you crazy?” John confesses to him that he was paralyzed and in a wheelchair for four years, “The plane, our plane, I was in that chair when we took off but not after we crashed.” Boone, “Why were you in a wheelchair?” John, “It doesn’t matter anymore. This Island, it changed me. It made me whole. Now it’s trying to take it back and I don’t know why. But it wants me to follow what I saw… I know it sounds crazy, four weeks ago I wouldn’t have believed it myself, but you and I are here for a reason. There’s something that we were meant to find. Something that’s gonna help us get into the hatch, I know it. But we gotta keep going.” Boone agrees, “Can you move your legs?” John nods yes, “Just help me up son.” Boone literally pulls him up! {Flash Whoosh}

Anthony and John are bird hunting. Anthony, “These doves fly a lot faster than you think. So you gotta really lead them. You have to drop it and I'll cover you.” John shoots at a flying bird, “Got um.” {John wears camo pants} Dad’s proud of his son’s good shot.

John gathers up the shell casing. Beret wearing Anthony feels John’s mother may be a little crazy but at least she brought them together. He’s glad it happened now while they still have time, “Let’s find your bird.” {Flash Whoosh}

Boone helps crippling Locke through the jungle. He reveals to John that Theresa was his nanny. His mother wasn’t around much and he needed someone to take it out on. “My bedroom was at the top of this huge flight of stairs and I would sit in bed all day calling her over the intercom. One day she took a bad step, broke her neck. I was 6.” {Spoiled brat!} John sees something over Boone’s shoulder; he is pleased. John points up at the plane perched above. As best as John can tell this is the plane he saw. It doesn’t matter how long it’s been there what’s important is that they found it, what’s important is what’s inside it. Boone will have to climb up there for them to find out what’s inside. {Flash Whoosh}

Anthony and John join hands from their hospital beds. John doesn’t have to change his mind, “They just shaved my back.” Anthony is so thankful for John. Compassionate John feels this was meant to be. The nurses come in with the gurney for Anthony. Anthony tells John, “See you on the other side, son.” {Hey! That’s what I always say on LOST night!} {Flash Whoosh}

Sawyer sits reading a wrinkle in Time. Jack brings over a shoe box of glasses. Sawyer’s been reading a lot since they “came” to the island. Jack breaks the news in dramatic fashion that Sawyer’s got Hyperopia. He’s farsighted. It can develop later in life, especially when you add any strain to the eyes; like with reading. Jack tests a few pairs of glasses on him. Jack holds the book up in front of him to see what works. Sawyer, “Blurry.” Another pair…Jack,” Better or worse?” Worse. Sawyer doesn’t like the look of the glasses and Jack tells him, “It’s not a fashion show.”

Sayid gently separates two pairs of glasses and welds the proper half of each set to make Sawyer one new pair. Sayid’s work takes place over maps and diagrams.

Hurley comments to Sawyer in his new accessory, “Dude, looks like someone steamrolled Harry Potter.”

Boone climbs up the roots to the perched plane. Encouraging John watches Boone struggle a bit to climb, “Hang on.” {Did you hear the dove coo?} Boone looks in the window of the plane. He pulls the door off and drops it to the ground. Inside he find maps (focused in on Nigeria and Sahara). The plane starts to teeter and a decayed body falls on him. John calls up to Boone; Boone is fine. John is getting anxious; he struggles but stands, “Boone, what do you see?” Boone is mad, “You wanna know what’s in your damn plane, Locke? Here’s your sign!” Boone tosses a Virgin Mary statue out the window exposing the heroin. {There is the glass breaking sound we heard earlier in the vision} “They’re Drug smugglers, Locke…heroin! That’s all that’s in here!” Disappointed John doesn’t understand. Boone discovers a radio. He turns it on to static. The plane teeters again. John calls for Boone to get out, “There’s no time! Get out now!” Boone calls a Mayday over the radio. We hear another voice on the other end, “Someone there? Repeat a transmission, please.” Boone, “Hello! Hello! We’re survivors of the crash of Oceanic flight 8 1 5, please copy!” The voice on the other end says something to the effect of, “…survivors of Oceanic 8 1 5.” {“there were no”…?} The plane drops/falls, crashing down to the ground, ultimately landing upside down/its topside. Locke manages to get inside the plane to badly hurt, bloody Boone.

Locke physically carries Boone. {Damn! Terry O’Quinn is fuckin strong!!!! YEAH!}

Inside the cave Jack opens a black shoebox that’s nestled inside a black suitcase. Kate thanks Jack for helping Sawyer, “I know it’s probably the last thing you wanted to do.” {Why?} Jack admits he didn’t do it for him. Locke calls out for Jack’s help. Locke enters carrying Boone.

John says there was an accident that Boone fell off a cliff out near the place they were hunting. {Lie} Boone’s chest is torn up. Jack recruits Kate’s help to gather things he needs to staunch the bleeding. Jack wants John to tell him exactly what happened. All of a sudden John isn’t there! John was standing right there then he wasn't!!!!! Jack is yelling, “Locke! Locke!”

“Locke!” John awakens from the surgery. He looks over to see Anthony isn’t in his bed. A pearl wearing nurse appears and takes his pulse, “I think what you did was so kind.” She informs John that she didn’t know Mr. Cooper was his father and that he checked out this afternoon. He went home, has private care and didn’t leave John any message. She’s going to get him some juice. John is confused and in a lot of pain. “It was his idea”, Emily says standing in the doorway. She apologizes to John explaining she needed some money, “He’s always been good that way. Your father’s always Emily,”He said that’s the only way you’d give it to him. It had to be your idea. He told me where to find you, he asked me to go see you. I wanted to see you.” John is starting to cry, “This can’t be happening. This is a misunderstanding. This can’t happen to me. He wouldn’t do this to me!” But he did. Devastated John rips out his IV and stands up.

John {White tee shirt} pulls up to Anthony’s guardhouse and tells Eddie to open the gate. Eddie says Mr. Cooper isn’t seeing guests. {Note the photo wall} But John is not a guest. John gets out of his beetle and demands Eddie open the gate. John walks up to the gate and notes the camera, “I know you’re watching me. You can’t do this.”

Frustrated John smacks the rearview mirror and hits at the car as he drives away from the gate. He pulls over to have a crying fit.

John is having a crying fit over the hatch door. “I’ve done everything you wanted me to do, so why did you do this?! Why?!” A light shines through the hatch door window.

Dues Ex Machina is a GREAT EPISODE and I must say this is one very important episode. Great in so many ways. I LOVE this episode so much! There's so much valuable information to soak up. I want to mention the title. I know that from my days in theatre; Greek theatre. Could that be a connection? I think yes. I know it also means 'god from machine' in Latin.

Could Emily's ranting be the tales of a crazy woman, but there could be some truth to it too. Again the reference of two halves being brought together to make one, a design of sorts. Locke has a vision, {I don't like jumping ahead but in season 3 he has a vision again, both times involving Boone. What's his connection to Boone?
John feels compelled to open that hatch, but is that really part of his calling, his destiny? Is it going to end up being a 'door' that shouldn't be opened?

Things to note…Questions to ask…

♟Note when the “Flash” sounds.

♟Glitchy flash vision. Repeating. Written words/pen.

♟Game. Con. Lies. Costumes-Pretending to be someone else. Trap….Trapped in a game/pen?

♟Information on drivers license is contradictory.

♟Eyes! Eye colors. Vision. See. Glasses.

♟Emily obviously has blue eyes and then is referenced having brown. Millipede coming out of the eye socket.

♟Red file. Drivers License. Admission papers.

♟Mental health. Santa Rosa. Hospital.

♟John talks about very worldly things, of ancient things often, Philosophy, engineering.

♟Mirror.

♟Paralysis. Brain Tumor. Headaches. Light sensitivity. {Brain waves?} Wake up.

♟Feeling nothing. Schizophrenia. Crazy.

♟Family. Watching. Anthony is watching. Who else is watching and from where?

♟Design. Conceived. Invention. Created. Wires. {Machine}

♟Beetle= Bug.

♟Wacky paste. Drugs. Meds. Prescriptions. Alcohol.

♟Adventure.

♟John doesn’t seem to pay attention very well and he’s easily influenced.

♟The Priest/father’s true identity is revealed to be something else. Could John’s father or someone else be revealed to be something else? Hmmm.

♟Is something happening with their heads, while they are sleeping or under. Something with their brain waves? There seems to be something going on in their heads.

Vocabulary and Research…

♦Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche a 19^th German philosopher and classical philologist. He suffered a mental breakdown and death (1889–1900) He wrote what was known as "Madness Letters" to his friends. He was diagnosed with Frontotemporal Dementia. At least one study has suggested that brain cancer (rather than syphilis).

♦Deus ex machine is a Latin term referring to a simplistic technique of resolving a plot.

♦Deus Ex Machina was a computer game.

♦A trebuchet is a siege engine that was employed in the Middle Ages either to smash masonry walls or to throw projectiles over them.

♦Trébuchet in CHESS- A position of mutual zugzwang in which either player would lose if it is his turn to move.

♦Trebuchet MS is a humanist sans-serif typeface used in computer.

♦Immaculate: 1). absolutely clean, neat, and free from blemishes 2). showing faultless perfection.

♦Conceive: 1). To think, imagine, or invent something. 2). To become pregnant.

♦Dialysis (Greek "dialusis", meaning dissolution, "dia", meaning through, and "lusis", meaning loosening) is primarily used to provide an artificial replacement for lost kidney function due to renal failure.

♦Millipede is a 1982 arcade game and is the sequel to the arcade hit, Centipede.

♦IBM Millipede, a MEMS technology for non-volatile data storage.

♦Pen-1). Any of various instruments for writing or drawing with ink or a similar substance. 2). the profession of writing. 3). an enclosure used for confinement or safekeeping. 4). a dock having a protective concrete structure overhead, used to service and repair submarines. 5). A female Swan. 6). Short for Peninsula. 7). Short for Penitentiary.

Lost, trying to find something for a purpose. Learning through trial and error. Are some of these pupils repeating the same mistakes preventing them to move forward? We know our Lostie’s are confined in this pen of sorts, but are some prisoners or patients/mental patients? Is there a machine that helps them see? Is someone playing god or playing a part in the “birds” island experience? I think so.

Games and traps are all part of the plan. Locke, a master at games and strategy but seems to lack common sense. When John says the Island “wants me to follow what I saw”, could John have been wrong to follow what he saw? Hence the reason for John loosing the use of his legs; the “Island” may have been trying to get him to stop from making the same mistake again. Is that possible? Or is this what has to happen help him or someone else make progress?

Is John also part of this experience because he is putting pieces in play for Anthony? Or is this the test given to John? In the flash while bird hunting Anthony tells John “These doves fly a lot faster than you think. So you gotta really lead them. You have to drop it and I'll cover you.” Doesn’t it seem like that’s what happened here with Boone? Would Shannon count as well?

If John is not a guest could he be a major player or even architect in all of this? Or is he a lost dog, merely a pawn or a knight?

Bottom line here…what is real and what’s not? But the answers are right in front of our “blurry “eyes.

Love to all who are "Lost"™

PS: I must note that as I transferred these notes over here that it was very apparent in this episode that the whole Boone-Locke vision from Further Instructions was foreshadowed right here, as is what we saw from then and all the way through season 5. Here Boone tells Locke he has to get him back to Jack. This line and other clues from Deus Ex Machina and the amount of clues I felt I got from the Further Instructions vision reaffirms my theory on the vision not being about Eko but indeed about Jack. But how else does Eko factor in if at all? But we do know John's "further instructions" came from Eko's stick. I also feel this episode does indeed lay out a huge amount of detail to the "whole" of the story. It's a nice little playbook!

Note: SKADDEN PHARMACY is Emily's pharmacy here but in Something Nice Back Home Jack gets his prescription from Kaddaen's Pharmacy. Skadden/Kaddaen's anagrams to Dad Snake.

In Hearts and Minds during Boone’s vision, he and Shannon were being chased by a giant bird.

Click for my notes on Further Instructions.

This is from Further Instructions:

Then connect the Eko-John-Yemi Dream into the mix now that we know Boone did the same thing!

Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don't claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don't need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode; we all know what they are. Understood? Let the fun begin! I'll only note things that I know come up as clues later, but need to be noted when they first show up and things I find that will be of importance.

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Jack Bender in Rome.

Hi Losties

My friend Roberto79it from the web site www.lost-italia.net shot this interview with Jack Bender at Roma Fiction Fest two days ago. Jack talked a bit about the sixth season of lost.

Also be sure to check out the group I Love Jack Bender on facebook. This page is run by my friend Elena from Cool News!

Grazie mille Roberto79it and Elena!

Here the original link to the Jack Bender news on www.lost-italia.net.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

LOST Q and A at the Curzon Cinema.

This info comes from my friend Matt who was at the event and met Damon, Carlton and Jack Bender. He's one lucky Lostie!
Thanks to Matt for sharing his experience with us.

Check out his site McLeron

Initial thank yous, then showed a recap video of Lost.

* D&C confirmed that Stranger In A Strange Land was the turning point for the studio, and they were allowed to establish an end date.
* Jack’s beard is bad.
* 16 episodes next year, but 18 hours of Lost. Jack Bender confirmed a two hour season premiere, and a two hour finale.

After Lost, they will go in to hiding for a while, due to the inevitably interpretive quality to the series ending.

Damon: You are married to your destiny, you can try to avoid it, but it will catch up to you. This is why Charlie shut the door in the Looking Glass station, because he embraced his death.
Sometimes they get pointers from the studio, telling them stuff is too outlandish. Originally, in the season four premiere, Hurley was going to come across himself in Jacob’s cabin, but the network urged them to change the scene to Christian Shepherd, afraid it would set a precedent of weirdness. With season six, there won’t be any of that.

Q: What was your favourite scene to watch or write?
CC: The scoring session we attended for the raft’s launch at the end of Exodus . These musicians were playing this incredible music without having rehearsed it, and the moment was so beautiful, there were tears in the control booth. That was just one of those great moments where you felt this blessed synergy of all these talented collaborators all come together and make Lost what it is.
JB: I love all of them
DL: I have many...but for me, during season one, when we first started writing the show coming out of the pilot, when it first started revealing itself, was really cool. I’m drawn to scenes that take place with just two characters and somehow they’re talking about very very heady things and I’m a huge fan of whenever Jack and Locke talk to each other. We’ve been very judicious in having those guys talk to each other, it happens very rarely. I go back back to White Rabbit and that 6 or 7 minute long scene where they’re just sitting in the jungle and Jack says he’s following the impossible and Locke says what if it’s not impossible and we were all put here for a reason, and that scene is the genesis for those guys’ relationship and if you think about how that was the 3rd episode shot out of the pilot, here we are now, 100 episodes later, and now Jack is finally saying ‘Y’know, Locke might be onto something’.
CC: Jack’s kinda slow.
DL: It had to permeate through his beard.

Q: My wife is fascinated with the artistry of delivering this idea into a script. We had, in a video podcast last year, a glimpse into the writers’ room and she’s fascinated that you get the idea and put it into a script.
CC: We have a call centre in Delhi. We just ask them ‘we need a flashforward this week’
DL: We have a minicamp before we write, where we just discuss the season with the writers, the character arcs and we decide on the season’s final image so we know exactly our beginning and where we’re trying to get to. Once we start writing the show on a week-to-week episode basis it gets a bit more intense
CC: We spend a lot of time breaking each aspect of the story and once we have the story worked out from beginning to end, we’ll put it up on whiteboard and then pitch it back to ourselves, and we’ll have scenes in different colours, withan on island story, an off island story, and a C-story, split it into six acts for the commercial breaks and structure it so you’ll wanna come back after each act. Then we’ll give it to some writers to rewrite and send back, and we’ll give our notes, make some changes.

Q: Jack was originally a protagonist for the show, but he seems to have gotten more antagonistic as it goes on. Was this intentional?
JB: Matthew Fox loved the idea of wearing the not so flattering jumpsuits and his character beginning to let go of his heroic side, which people accuse me of, taking Jack Shepherd’s character.
DL: Basically Jack spent a hundred hours majorly rejecting it, there was no purpose whatsoever to the island and now he’s come back in the 70s and he’s still waiting to be told ‘Here’s what you’re supposed to do’ and then when he is told what to do, he then gets to decide what he is going to do, so basically it’s contingent on what he feels his mission is.

Q: Can we get more Lost screening where you project episodes in a cinema like this?
CC: I think so. It’s a good idea and it may happen in some form or other.

Q: On the official website, there was a video of behind the scenes and you went into your offices and you had a wall of whose dead and whose alive, I want to know about Claire being on the wall of dead.
[shocked gasps from audience]
DL: Are you absolutely sure
Q: I am.
DL: [explains wall of alive, dead, undead] Well, uh, if you say you saw her there, I don’t know what to tell you.
JB: I think her agent slipped it in there.
DL: She is going to be back on the show.
CC: Eventually all of them will be on the wall of the dead.

Q: My question is about the fate of Lost, because I know it ends with season 6, but do you think because of Bryan Fuller with Pushing Daisies continuing it in a comic book, and I love Ultimate Wolverine vs Hulk (Damon’s comic) and with Lost it has a disjointed timeline and it comes together in the end, do you think that you’ll do any spin offs in a comic book form?
DL: We feel that if we hold anything back for the final season of the show, it will be bad. People have come along this far, and they need a conclusion.

Q: You make a lot about the characters searching for their destiny and their purpose, do you feel that you yourselves had a purpose in your own lives being involved in the show, or you’ve learned something about life from doing it?
CC: I think as writers we use the show to explore personal issues, spiritual or otherwise. We’re mainly concerned by how much faith and how much control do you have over your own destiny, something which is very fascinating to us, and obviously season 5 was an exploration of that with the time travel leading to an event at the end of the season, so that is going to be something we’re going to explore a lot on the final season of the show. The writers room is diverse and that diversity gets worked out in the characters.

Q: What’s Brian K. Vaughan like?
DL: Unfortunately he has left for greener pastures. When he first came on the show Jorge Garcia was ecstatic because he’s a huge fan of his work.

Q: Where are exactly are you with season 6?
CC: We are here, and the following Monday we’ll start writing.
JB: Shooting starts August 24th
CC: We’ll work continuously until the middle of April and the show will air sometime between January and February and will finish around May.

Q: I want to know about the end of Lost. Michael Emerson said in an interview this week that he suspects it will be quite bittersweet or melancholy. Is it going to be an upbeat ending or ambiguous? Just any kind of hint to the flavour of the ending.
DL: All of the above. We are aspiring for an ending that is fair. Bittersweet comes with the territory. The ending will be different as for once, we won’t leave you on a cliffhanger. You will stay on the cliff this time.
CC: We hope that if we like it, you will like it.

Q: I was sad Charlie died, but he had to die to give his story credibility. That makes me wonder about John Locke. The fact he is now dead, having hit his lowest ebb...what’s up with that character arc?
CC: We’re not prepared to answer any of those questions here tonight. We feel that the final part of the experience of Lost is that you have this time between to theorise, postulate, agonise.
JB: If the actors really need to know what’s coming ahead, they’ll ask. As an example, Josh Holloway did not know what he was whispering to Kate when he jumped out of the helicopter, and neither did Evangeline Lilly, but the actors sold it so well. Terry O’ Quinn was playing Locke with this dark mysterious quality, unintentionally playing into the ending which he didn’t know. I presented him with the script asking him he wanted to read it and he was sure. He came back after saying ‘I wish I hadn’t read it’.

Q: How much do you know about each character’s story, are there any you’re particularly proud of, or not proud of?
DL: When you come up with an idea for a character, and they come into the show, like Eko, who was originally a priest who had a crisis of faith, and we found Adewale in New York, and we basically said we don’t buy that this guy is a priest who has lost his faith, we buy that this guy is a warlord impersonating a priest, and somewhere along the way he’d decide he wasn’t just impersonating a priest, he’d decide to be one. So we’re certainly proud of the way that one worked out, and as for the ones we’re not proud of, we bury alive...or have Michael shoot them.

Q: How do you come up with these amazing twists?
CC: A lot of getting yourself to a point where you cry. We have a really brilliant writing staff and that’s part of the DNA of the show now, and that’s a big part of the writer’s room, how we re-route things one way and flip it back another. We love introducing a character in a certain way and then reveal the character to be very different. You know originally Sawyer tested the second lowest after the pilot, and now of course he’s a very heroic version of that character.
Q: Keep the Smoke!
DL: You’ll be seeing the smoke in a probably interesting character in itself
JB: And it will be in the shape of Jack’s beard.

Q: Season 5 was hard work watching, with time travel. How are you going to pay that off?
DL: We acknowledge with a degree of difficulty. We were ostensibly frightened at first with the time travel story, were basically desperate to get everybody back together again. Time travel is now complete and everybody gets back together in one form or another and we feel that season 6 is a lot like season 1 with its community.

Q&A ended here.
The guys signed stuff for the fans. My friend had a copy of Half Blood Prince, Damon signed it saying ‘Locke is VERY similar to Snape!’

Friday, July 3, 2009

LOST hiatus got ya down?

Hi Losties!

How's the hiatus treating you? I'm sure you all know how its treating me. HA!

So many of us are re-watching, still podcasting, and still writing about our favorite obsession.
If you need a fix be sure to get involved with a few of the LOST re-watch sites.

Visit my friends at :
Doc Arzt & Friends
Jopinionated
Josh Meister's LOST blog
Lostaholics
Sledgeweb's LOST...stuff

In addition to my friends listed in this post and on my site, be sure to go those sites for even more sites to explore for the re-watch, great podcasts and informative blogs such as LOST LaFleur and Long Live Locke.
B.Quain's blogs and LOST book club podcasts, which can be found over at The Printing Press w/ B. Quain and Karen

There are many fantastic sites run by great LOST fans and friends. Stop by a for a visit.

Don't forget your summer reading from Titan Books, Lost: Messages From The Island.

I'll be hanging out over at The ODI this hiatus so we can bring you more podcasts to hold you over. We have a bunch of things in the works, so check there often.

Over at Dark UFO there's always something going on and I know they'll be gearing up for another season of The LOST Fantasy League. More on that very soon.
While you're there be sure to check out LOST blogs from our podcasting buddy Vozzek69.

The ODI and DarkUFO will be bringing you all constant updates from this years Comic Con.

Thanks for another wonderful year, my friends!
You truly are a special group of Losties.

Until later...

Love to all who are LOST™

~Karen~
aka
~Shortcake~