TROPICAL DEPRESSION. MISSING PIECES 9.

Let's talk about LOST! Missing Pieces 9: Tropical Depression.

{Arzt is chasing a bug with a jar. He is wearing his neckerchief type thingy around his neck.}

ARZT-"I have my eyes on you. You have your eyes on me ... HA!" {He bends down and traps a bug in a glass jar} "HaHaHa!"

{Michael approaches. He has a backpack}

MICHAEL-"Doctor Arzt! Yo! Doctor Arzt! Hey. What's the weather going to be like for tomorrow?"

ARZT-"Uh, tomorrow, ummm ... I don't know"

MICHAEL- "What?"

ARZT- " I'm not a meteorologist. I'm just a high school science teacher.  All that stuff I said about monsoon season, I made it up."

MICHAEL- "What do you mean you made it up?"  {Michael wants to get up, but reluctantly stays to hear Arzt's story}

ARZT-"I fell in love with a woman from Australia. I met her on the Internet.  We chatted with each other for about a year.  I saved all my and I flew down to Sydney. I shouldn't have used my buddy Nick's picture okay, I admit that. I said that. I said that I was sorry. I thought we were beyond that, so it made no difference. That we were really connected."

MICHAEL- "Mmm" {Michael being polite}

ARZT- "So I get to Sydney, and I see her and she looks so beautiful.  I took her out to the nicest restaurant I could find.  We order the lobster. Then she friggen disappeared.   Never came back to the table. They wouldn't even let me give the lobster back! {Michael wants to get up and leave, but Arzt continues his story and Michael stays}

ARZT- "That's not the worst part. Not the worst part. The worst part is, I could have just hung out. Sydney. Doin the bar scene? You know what I did? I booked an early flight out. Oceanic flight 815."

MICHAEL- "You know what? I- I would really love to feel sorry for you and all. But you know, take a look around. Everybody on this beach has got a story just like yours. Do you think any of us wanna to be here?"

ARZT- "I know nobody does. I'm really sorry that I lied about the weather."

MICHAEL- "It's okay. The raft is finished.  We're getting out of here. We're going to bring back help."

ARZT- "You are! I know you are! I know you are! And I am going to be the first one on the beach waving 'hello' when you get there."

MICHAEL- " Okay, man, take care." {Michael walks away}.



GREAT MOBISODE!
* I thought Arzt was frickin' married!!
* Arzt saying he lied... Did he? Or does he play games like the Others; speaking Bull Shit, but somewhere in there is the truth?  Was Arzt's role to have the raft depart when it was supposed to?
* Everybody on the "Island" does indeed have a similar story. The how and why they are "connected" to the "Island".
* "No Worries" is a term familiar with people who live in the Islands. Island life.
* When Arzt says, "And I am going to be the first one on the beach waving 'hello' when you get there." Go back and re-read that line! Is Arzt going to be at another/different beach waving at Michael????
* Could the word depression be giving us a clue, a tie if you will, to Santa Rosa? Or a clue to something being below/sunken, etc.
* I'm sure we'll need to find out the importance of "jars".


Let's explore! Let's learn. Weeeeeeeee!!
Living in Florida and having lived through a few major hurricanes, I can tell you this...A tropical depression is a system that develops an eye in the center.  The depression can grow into a much greater storm. The eye develops due to the low atmospheric pressure.  If the system grows, the eye remaining in the center, and the system swirling around it, you get a 'cone' effect. There's another clue I think will come into play, "Cone".
The storm is in full force all around the eye, leaving the eye clear of clouds, rain, thunder, major winds, etc.
Tropical depressions that progress into a GREAT storm are known as Hurricanes here on the east coast. Other parts of the world call them Typhoons, Cyclones, Monsoons. There are also time of the year factors that contribute to the forming of such storms.

Arzt uses the word monsoon. The English name Monsoon, was derived from the Arabic word mausim meaning seasons.
* Depression in geology is a land form sunken or depressed below the surrounding area. Depressions may be formed by various mechanisms, and may be referred to by a variety of technical terms. An impact crater is a depression created by an impact such as a meteorite crater. * Depression in physiology and medicine refers to a lowering, in particular a reduction in a particular biological variable or the function of an organ. It is in contrast to elevation.
* Depression of the central nervous system of an animal may be expressed as drowsiness or sleep, lack of coordination and unconsciousness.
* Bug: Hemiptera is an order of insects, comprising around 80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, plant hoppers, shied bugs, and others.
* BUG: A covert listening device, more commonly known as a bug, is usually a combination of a mini radio transmitter with a microphone. The use of bugs, is a common technique in espionage.
* The Volkswagen Type 1, more commonly known as the Beetle, is an economy car produced by the German auto maker Volkswagen from 1938 until 2003.
* A bug in poker is a limited form of wild card.
* A computer BUG.
* A pathogen (Greek pathos (suffering/emotion) and gene (to give birth to)) or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host.
* The Arachnids (known as Bugs) are a fictional alien race from the movie Starship Troopers. Note that the bugs in the movie differ considerably from those in the novel on which it is based.
* The butterfly effect is a phrase that encapsulates the more technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Small variations of the initial condition of a nonlinear dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. So this is sometimes presented as esoteric behavior, but can be exhibited by very simple systems. The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that ultimately cause a tornado to appear (or prevent a tornado from appearing). The flapping wing represents a small change in the initial condition of the system, which causes a chain of events leading to large-scale phenomena. Had the butterfly not flapped its wings, the trajectory of the system might have been vastly different.



You're wondering why I gave a description of the butterfly effect here with this Mobisode. I know it must seem really out of context, but you all know I never let go of a clue unless it is proved it does not pertain to our story. So this clue word stays….for now.

Eye of the storm and cone of the storm. Tropical storm...is it only telling us about Arzt's inability to predict the weather?  Maybe this Mobisode could possibly be showing us that there is an event about to happen that will cause changes in other events on the "Island".
A storm is coming, indeed!

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Original MySpace Post 1/1/08


abc.com Video. 

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? Good! 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! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story.

BURIED SECRETS. MISSING PIECES 8.

LET'S TALK ABOUT LOST! Missing Pieces  8. Buried Secrets.



{Jin is with a fishing pole. Sun is watching him from the jungle greens.  She heads into the jungle where she stops to look at a California driver's license and starts to dig a hole to bury it; first with a stick and then with her hands. Michael comes running by looking for Vincent.}

NOTE: Sun is wearing a dark hooded sweater.

MICHAEL- "Vincent! Vincent! Oh, hey I'm sorry. I was looking for Vincent. I didn't mean to scare you. You okay?" { He sees that she's upset.}

SUN- "Yes, I'm, I'm fine. I just, I just needed a moment by myself."

MICHAEL- "Hey, you sure you're okay?  {Sun looks down. So Michael looks down too. He sees her license on the ground and picks it up.}

SUN-{crying} "I was, this is... "

MICHAEL- "No, no, no, you don't have to explain." {He hands the license to her. She takes it with both hands.}

SUN- "I was going to leave him. I was going to leave Jin, and start a new life in America. But I changed my mind at the airport because I was afraid."

MICHAEL- "Hey, hey, it's, it's, it's okay. {He holds her hands.} We're getting off this island any day now. Things will change."

SUN- "No. It's too late. This place. It's my punishment. It's my destiny."

MICHAEL- "No... Maybe you should talk to him."

SUN- "He's not the man I fell in love with." {Michael tenderly hugs her.}

MICHAEL- "Maybe he just needs a little time. It's been hard on all of us. It's okay. It'll be okay."

{They pull away from each other then stare at each other. Michael's hand touches her hair and face. They lean in to kiss, but before they do, Vincent comes up and barks, interrupting them and they back away.}

SUN- "I must go. I'm sorry." {Sun runs away.}

MICHAEL- "Uh... {Watches her leave.} Come here, Vincent. Come on." {Vincent has a collar on.}

Great Mobisode! Here's just a few things to note.
* Where in the puzzle exactly does this piece fit???   What time frame is this from?
* How friggin long have I been saying that there is some sort of connection between Sun and Michael? Come on! Go back to my notes from season 1 and 2. Why these two people?
* Vincent! The damn dog is always at the right place at the right time! Where does he go when he's gone? Hmmm? What else can this super dog do? Morph?! He is Amazing! Woof, Woof!! That's all I'm sayin!!!
* Sun is wearing a dark hooded sweater.
* Clue to New I.D.!   We usually see clues to NO I.D..   We do see changes in Castaway's I.D.'s through the episodes.  Some shows us different versions of their names, date of birth, hair styles, eye color, etc.. So, who are these people, REALLY?
* Can Sun really drive a car? I'm just wondering. LOL
* Both Jin and Sun have said they feel that they are being punished and that's why they are on the "Island".
* Jin tells Jae to start a new life.
* Sun and Locke feel the "Island" is their destiny.
* "He is not the man..." That's SO important!  People changing.
* Sun and a connection to yet another man. Why?
* It is time to start addressing TIME! Time on the "Island"... Is time different there? Does time run faster or slower there? Maybe there is NO concept of time at all there.  Is this "Island" exempt from "TIME"?

Vocabulary and Research...
* To license or grant license is to give permission. License is the document demonstrating that permission.
* Vincent is a forename derived from the Latin "Vincentius" related to the word "vincens",winning ", "conquering", or "seductive"

Now I must reveal how big of a nerd I really am! My Geekness will truly show through! The following is a very short lesson in "TIME".
There are two distinct views on the meaning of the word time.
One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured. This is the realist's view, to which Sir Isaac Newton subscribed.
An opposing view is that time is part of the fundamental human intellectual structure (together with space and number) within which we sequence events, quantify the duration of events and the intervals between them, and compare the motions of objects. In this second view, time does not refer to any kind of entity that "flows", that objects "move through", or that is a "container" for events. Time, rather than being an objective thing to be measured, is part of the measuring system used by humans.
The origins of the current measurement system go back to the Sumerian civilization of approximately 2000 BC. This is known as the sexagesimal system based on the number 60. 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour – and possibly a calendar with 360 (60x6) days in a year (with a few more days added on). Twelve also features prominently, with roughly 12 hours of day and 12 of night, and 12 months in a year.
Another form of time measurement consists of studying the past. Events in the past can be ordered in a sequence (creating a chronology), and be put into chronological groups (periodization).

Incan, Mayan, Hopi, and other Native American Tribes, plus the Babylonian, Ancient Greek, Hindu, Buddhist, Jainist, and others have a concept of a wheel of time, that regards time as cyclical and quantic consisting of repeating ages that happen to every being of the Universe between birth and extinction.

Spacetime: Modern physics views the curvature of spacetime around an object as much a feature of that object as are its mass and volume. Time has historically been closely related with space, the two together comprising spacetime in Einstein's special relativity and general relativity. According to these theories, the concept of time depends on the spatial reference frame of the observer(s), and the human perception as well as the measurement by instruments such as clocks are different for observers in relative motion. Even the temporal order of events can change, but the past and future are defined by the backward and forward light cones. which never change. The past is the set of events that can send light signals to the observer, the future the events to which s/he can send light signals. All else is the present and within that set of events the very time-order differs for different observers.

Arrow of Time:  Time appears to have a direction – the past lies behind, fixed and incommutable, while the future lies ahead and is not necessarily fixed. Yet the majority of the laws of physics don't provide this arrow of time. The exceptions include the Second law of thermodynamics, which states that entropy must increase over time, the cosmological arrow of time, which points away from the Big Bang, and the radiative arrow of time, caused by light, only traveling forwards in time. In particle physics, there is also the weak arrow of time, from CPT symmetry, and also measurement in quantum mechanics

Time quanta is a hypothetical concept. In the modern quantum theory (the Standard Model of particle physics) and in general relativity time is not quantized. Time travel is the concept of moving backward or forward to different points in time, in a manner analogous to moving through space. Additionally, some interpretations of time travel take the form of travel between parallel realities or universes. A central problem with time travel is that of logic – say, violation of causality (when effect precedes the cause it is the consequence of) – which has given rise to a number of paradoxes (see grandfather paradox)Stephen Hawking in particular has address ed a connection between time and the Big Bang. Hawking, in A Brief History of Time and elsewhere, along with several other modern physicists, has stated that even if time did not begin with the Big Bang and there were another time frame before the Big Bang, no information from events then would be accessible to us, and nothing that happened then would have any effect upon the present time-frame.




WOW!!! Buried Secrets. Time is man-made.  Only humans are slave to time, i.e. clocks and calendars etc.. What the hell is the deal with "time" on the "Island"?   Do the people of the "Island" believe as the ancient cultures did about "time"?
Are they in a LOOP? Yep.
Would they ever be able to escape this loop?  Could "time travel" be possible? Did someone find a way to "time travel" to the "Island".    If so, can events be changed?    Is time travel even part of the story? In reality if time travel were really possible then it would have always been possible.

So...We can talk about time/travel, but is that really what's going on here? I think things we are seeing aren't really what's going on!

Be careful...Could we being mis-led?! Remember, Illusion, Tricks and Manipulation!
What other secrets are buried on the "Island"?  We know that secrets don't stay buried forever.

Love to all who are "LOST"™

Posted on MySpace Post 12/28/07

Abc.com video.

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? Good! 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! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story

THE DEAL. MISSING PIECES 4.

Let's talk about LOST!   Missing Pieces  4: The Deal.



{Michael is sitting tied up in a at the decoy village. Juliet enters. Michael looks troubled through their whole conversation.   Juliet has no shoes on.  There is a box/crate to Michael's right with a lantern on it.}
Michael appears to be sleeping.

Juliet- "Hello Michael. I'm Juliet."
Michael- "What do you want?"
Juliet- "The boat you asked for... they wanted me to tell you it's yours."
Michael- "Good."
Juliet- "Beatrice told me you saw your son. I spent some time with him, with Walt. He's a very interesting kid. He's uh... he's very smart. He's very special."
Michael- "What do you mean 'special'?"
Juliet- "He's not an ordinary boy, which is why I'm worried about him. So I'm very glad that you agreed to do this for us. I'm glad that you're going to get him away from here."
Michael- "You expect me to believe that you give a damn about my son?"
Juliet- "Believe it or not, Michael, I am not your enemy."
Michael- "Oh you're not, huh?"
Juliet- "No I'm not. The man in your camp, the one you're going to free, his name is Ben. He's very important."
Michael- "Is he the one that can get me off this island?"
Juliet- "Yes."
Michael- "Will he?"
Juliet- "Yes, he will."
Michael- "I guess I'm just supposed to take your word for that, huh?"
Juliet- "I guess you are."
Juliet- "I made a deal with him, too."
Michael- "Then why are you still here?"
Juliet- "Because he saved my sister's life."
Michael- "And where is she?"
Juliet- "Miami."
Michael- "But you had to stay. What's the point in saving her life if you can't be with her?"
Juliet- "Wouldn't you do anything to save Walt? You have your list. {she gets up to leave} Good luck."

{Juliet leaves. Michael looks around and slams his feet in frustration.}

GREAT MOBISODE!
Deals are  being made all over the damn place!  But the "Deal" only seems to ever favor Ben or the "Island".   Why does it seem there really is no escape for these "people" regardless of the "deal" that is made?

Things to Note...Questions to Ask:
* Juliet says "good luck" NOT Namaste, as we've heard from a few people before.   Dharma says Namaste.
* Deal. I'm not going to put you through those definitions of the word again. Head back to Mobisode 3 notes for that.
* The boat again; The fishing boat! You mean the boat that is not meant for open water! Is it this little shitty fishing boat that's so important? REALLY?!
* Kate has ties to Miami.  Juliet's sister Rachel is in Miami.  What is the tie to Miami? We know that Ethan and Richard traveled there.
* Stated above, Michael's List, Michael's Boat.
* I've said it before and I'll say it again, Michael and his association with "the Island" or what goes on there is NOT new to him!  I've felt going all the way back to season 1. Why is he being held by this group of people?  Could it be these are not the people Michael has "dealings" with? Or he simply doesn't remember all of them.
* Michael has used the words Hut and Tepee to describe the decoy villages dwellings to the Losties. Hut and/or tepee are terms that describe dwellings of primitive houses made by old or even ancient cultures, I.E. Indians or even nomads.
* Walt is special, not ordinary. How? Is he genetically special? Mentally special? Can the kid tie a damn cherry stem in a knot while it's in his mouth? Hmmm???!!!!
* Is Walt a threat to the "Island" or someone/something on it?
* We learned that supposedly Ben is not the one entirely able to let them off the "Island". Yet Juliet tells Michael that he is the one who can get him off the  "Island". What is the truth? What is a lie?
* How is Ben important?
* Beatrice.

I am really LOVING these Mobisodes!

Love to all who are "LOST"™



Original MySpace post on 11/29/07


Video: abc.com video. 



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!  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? Good! 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! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story.