Comments on: Able was I ere I saw Elba

By: Somebody

Somebody — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:36:36 +0000

So much to explain with just a few episodes left, they’re going to jam a lot of stuff down our throats the upcoming weeks. Linus joining Team Jacob was as unexpected to me as Sayid joining Team Fake Locke.

By: Rick Cardy

Rick Cardy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:56:46 +0000

I think Heidi confused William Atherton (who played the dick teacher in Real Genius, a Martha Coolidge movie) with Jeffrey Jones who played the dick principal in Ferris Bueller (and also the bad guy in Howard the Duck).

I couldn’t find a Hughes credit for Atherton.

By: Randall Kirby

Randall Kirby — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:47:50 +0000

Since Jacob touched Linus when he was dying, he may be a secret candidate.

By: mark coale

mark coale — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:00:57 +0000

that’s why I suggested someone on staff should do them.

it seems stupid for ABC to stick them on the show if there is misinformation.

By: Jason A Quest

Jason A Quest — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:08:08 +0000

Darlton does not do the LOST For Dummies captions. They are not canon.

By: ed

ed — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:46:40 +0000

Now that’s how you “redeem” a Bad Guy! Don’t know if it’ll hold up, but Ben NOT shooting Ilana in the back when he had a chance to, and joining the now-reunited LOSTies’ Team Jacob shows promise… if it’s not just another pointless character turnaround.

As for the LOST: For Dummies pop-up factoids: are Lindehof and Cruse behind these, or is it just ABC’s
re-run team? Its gotta be the latter, as those
‘clarifications’ describe the flash-sideways as ‘what would’ve happened if the 815ers landed instead of crashing’— when it’s obviously not: Hurley being lucky instead of cursed, Jack having a son, Locke marrying Teela, Nadia married to Sayid’s brother. Still have to see how side-Kate and side-Sawyer’s side-life pans out. (And still expecting the side-flash to Oswald Correctional Facility to see where side-Michael and side-Eko ended up…)

By: The Beat

The Beat — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:05:32 +0000

Jake, I like the Hashem analysis!

Everything about the school storyline that wasn’t emotional was incredibly phony — uh you can’t just get a teacher to be a principal — but getting to see Michael Emerson act like a whole different person was a treat.

I also enjoyed Mario Van Peebles direction — it was very different from the usual Lost look, very vivid and saturated and quick cut, but an interesting change.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:45:29 +0000

Ever since Todd Alcott started posting his analysis of A Serious Man, I can’t help but look at the Flashes sideways in that light. Either the characters are being tested by “Hashem/Jacob”… or they’re not. Regardless of how literal the good/evil breakdown turns out to be in Lost, I love the way this season is forcing each character, removed from the context of monsters, polar bears and Others, to come to terms with the question “am I a good man?”

By: Henrik J

Henrik J — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:01:22 +0000

David Hackett : I see it completely different, apart from Hurley it is clear to me that all the other characters lives are worse in the sideways episodes. Sure they arent in mortal danger every week, but the theme seems to be that they are all lacking something, something is missing in their lives they dont know what it is, just that it makes them miserable

By: Mr Wesley

Mr Wesley — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:44:14 +0000

The flash-sideways is no more fate than the stuff on the island. They’re just events being manipulated by different entities. Over at the Pop Candy blog at USA Today, the theory is that the sideways flashes are what life would be like if each of the main characters sided with MIB. It’s sort of a monkey’s paw, where the greatest desire of the primary character is granted, but with a cost that makes that wish meaningless.

Kate: Claire has Aaron, but she still wants to give him up.
Sayid: Nadia is alive, but married to his brother.
Locke: Is getting married, but still in a wheelchair and a loser.
Ben: Alex is alive, but she’s not his daughter and he’s stuck in a job he hates.
Jack: … I admit I haven’t figured Jack out yet.

By: Tommy Raiko

Tommy Raiko — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:49:23 +0000

Jake sez: “…didn’t the flash-sideways reboot initiate in 1977…”

FWIW, because some of the differences in the flash-sideways timeline seem to originate from before 1977, there are those who theorize that the divergence point between the “real” timeline and the “sideways” timeline, might not be the 1977 incident but rather something else…

Another of those fun LOST mysteries…

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:34:11 +0000

@ HABE, didn’t the flash-sideways reboot initiate in 1977, well before Alex was even born? If that’s the case, the events of her birth and everything thereafter were a clean slate from what we saw before.

By: Tommy Raiko

Tommy Raiko — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:28:27 +0000

“My only gripe is that I found it very difficult to imagine a scenario that would have placed Alex in the U.S. at the same school as Linus in this time-line. A forgivable contrivance, but still.”

Yeah, but to some extent, this show has always been rife with those sorts of character-interaction-coincidencies all gussied up as Fate.

For what it’s worth, if I understand the timelines right, in the “real” timeline, Rosseau’s team didn’t come to the island, where Alex would ultimately be born, until the late 1980s. If in the alternate timeline, the island sank before then–in the 1977 “incident” or before–then it’s very possible that Danielle and Alex Rosseau’s lives would be very, very different. Different enough for Alex to be attending school in the U.S. may be a stretch, but it’s not the most imagination-stretching this show has asked of viewers ;)

By: mark coale

mark coale — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:26:51 +0000

Last night was the first time I consciously sat and watch the pop-up episode.

It’s so funny that they explain every little thing, as if someone was watching the show for the first time at this point. “Jin was a survivor of flight 815 and doesn’t speak English.”

By: HABE

HABE — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:17:59 +0000

My only gripe is that I found it very difficult to imagine a scenario that would have placed Alex in the U.S. at the same school as Linus in this time-line. A forgivable contrivance, but still.