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Lost: The Variable

April 29th, 2009 | by | lost

Apr
29

For a fleeting moment tonight, I thought that my beloved Lost was about to abandon the conceit that you cannot change the future, that what is going to happen is going to happen and there’s damn little you can do about it.

Did I mention how fleeting that moment was?

Remember, if you will, that Desmond tried to save Charlie multiple times. But no matter what he did, he could only change the circumstances – not the end result.

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Have I mentioned yet that you shouldn’t read if you didn’t watch? No? Well, I have now.

We did have a bit of foreshadowing of Daniel’s death, when he told Jack that the present is the present and anyone could still die.

And I think it’s important to note that now everyone who came on the freighter is dead except for Miles. Even Abbadon is dead.

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Lost: Some Like It Hoth

April 16th, 2009 | by | lost

Apr
16

How totally awesome was it that the title came from a complete sub-sub-plot, wherein Hurley is writing a new and better script for Empire Strikes Back, one that negates the need for the Ewoks in Jedi.

We all know by now that there’s no way to change the future, so he is doomed to never get his script into George Lucas’ hands, or maybe something in his script even sparks the idea of Ewoks; but that’s one I suppose we’ll never know for 100 percent sure.

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What we do know for 100 percent sure now, is something I predicted month and months (maybe eons!) ago: Dr. Marvin Candle (not his real name, but that’s how I always think of him) is Miles’ father.

Toldya.

Of course, that wasn’t too shocking once we knew Dr. Candle had a baby and realized all those recruited for the trip to the island had some sort of connection to it.

So this is the main question I have about Candle/Miles – did Marvin Candle do some weird experiments that led to his son having the ability to commune with the dead? Or was he born with the ability because he was born on the island? Either way, is that why his mom left his dad?

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Lost: 316

February 19th, 2009 | by | lost

Feb
19

OK, first off, does the fact that the flight number in the episode title bother anyone else? It’s not from the dreaded “numbers” and it doesn’t add up to a dreaded number. Bugging the crap outta me.

Just sayin’.

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OK, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I have to admit that I considered yesterday’s ep to be a transition episode from the insanity we’ve been dealing with to the insanity we’re going to deal with.

We knew they were going to get back to the island; it was only a matter of time.

But yesterday raised more questions than it actually answered.

They are:

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