This Place is Death & 316

First I owe you a huge apology! SORRY! Sorry sorry sorry. I m so sorry That I totally skipped out on This Place is Death and am coming up late on 316. I can blame it on a million things, but let's just say I got LOST. Anyway, now you get a double dose.

THIS PLACE IS DEATH/316



1. OK so check this out (esp since we're doing a double header) Check out Christian Shephard's shoes when Locke is in the cave with him. They are NOT white anymore! This is pretty interesting, especially since we find out the reason for the white shoes in 316. Does this mean Locke is taking Christian's place on the island? Will he be the new ghost on the island since we know he ends up in a casket being kept chilled in a butcher freezer of sorts. Were the dark shoes he was wearing his own that Jack eventually gets in 316? If they were the dark shoes that Jack puts on Lock's feet in 316, what are they doing on Christian's feet in This Place is Death???

2. How long has Faraday actually been on the island? Is he just like Alpert? Does Faraday age? Apparently, Charlotte saw him when she was a kid and he was a man. OR, did he simply just go back to tell her to never come back because she will die (since he now knows her fate)?

3. (really try hard to wrap your mind around this one) - Locke goes down the well which is already built to where the wheel is, then time flashes backward, the well is gone, but Sawyer is still holding the rope which is stuck deep in the ground because whatever you hold stays with you. NOW there is a location to dig a future well because Sawyer has marked it! Without Sawyer's rope, there is no well! (aka chicken and egg)

4. Why didn't Rousseau ever remember Jin from the past? He was there to save her and Alex from our lovable smoke monster. I'm not about to check now, but I'd love to know how many interactions Jin and Rousseau actually had in the last 4 seasons. Did they really ever interact after Oceanic's crash? I mean there was a 16 year time gap, so maybe she wouldn't have actually recognized him??? Actually here's the lowdown from Thefuselage:

In season 1, Danielle has contact with Sayid in "Solitary", with Hurley in" Numbers", and then she comes to the ebach camp in "Exodus, Part 1". Danielle and Jin have no interaction in that episode, and by the end of the episode, Jin sails off on the raft.

In "One of Them", Danielle only has intereaction with Sayid.

In "Maternity Leave", Jin doesn't appear.

Throughout most of season 3, Danielle is trekking to Otherville with Kate, Locke and Sayid.

They have no interaction in "Greatest Hits" or "Through the Looking Glass".

Danielle and Jin never meet each other face to face before season 5

5. Caravaggio's famous painting named "The Incredulity of Saint Thomas" pointed out by Ellie Hawking: I believe this painting is directly pointing to a Jack metaphor. Thomas was the apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes. jack needs to be convinced with his own eyes. The painting also is about resurrection - which we see a lot of on the island - people assumed to be dead are always coming back.

6. Is Miles really Dr Chang's son? He says he's from Encino! (shout out to san fernando valley -woot woot) My favorite line of the night by the way.

7. Christian Shephard was holding a lantern - so ghosts can hold things on the island or is he really a ghost?

8. Geronimo Jackson strikes again on LOST! Charlotte refers to Geronimo Jackson! What is that, like the 5th time or something?

9. Locke knows about Miles gift of talking to the dead. As Locke travels down the well, he says goodbye to Sawyer and Julietm but directly to Miles he says, "See you when I get back."

10. The message from the radio tower which replaced the numbers- Jin's fault. He was the one that told the French people about the radio tower.

11. Ben uses Jin's wedding ring to get Sun back to the island even though Jin told Locke to use it for the exact opposite. How did Ben get it? What did Locke tell ben about the ring? Locke made a promise to Jin that he wouldn't take Sun back. Is he keeping his promise now, since Ben is the one luring her back?

12. Why did Ben originally turn the wheel, when Christian told Locke that Locke had to be the one to turn it? Locke never told Ben who he actually spoke to Jacob or Christian. And when Ben asked what they were supposed to do, Locke said, "We have to move the island." Not I have to move the island.

316

13. white shoes on Christian - they were the only one's Jack had. Now he gets his dad's black ones, puts them on Locke's feet and if you look back to episode This Place is Death - I believe Christian is wearing them??? hmmmm

14. Narnia. I know what a weird correlation, but the writers and producers love the book references. First, let me start with Charlotte Staples Lewes - RIP from This Place is Death. However, her initials are CS Lewis just like the author of Narnia. NOW, the fun begins.

15. The off island hatch is called the Lamp Post!!! The lamp post is a HUGE symbol in the Narnia book, The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. Remember when Lucy goes through the wardrobe and enters Narnia, she comes upon a lamp post which lights the way. Much like our off island hathc which lights the way back to the island. There was also a lamp lighter in the book The Little Prince.

16. Ben lied about his mother teaching him to read. His mother died when Ben was born. (great line though).

17. Locke's suicide note read, "I wish you had believed me." Which in my interpretation means, you should have never left, which means that Sun would have died and Ji Yeon wouldn't have been born, which means that Charlotte is right in that Jin should not let Locke bring her back there because the island will course correct itself, which means...
PLUS - From the Bible - John 3.16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life"
John Locke needed jack to believe.

18. Why weren't they dressed to survive on an island? Did they pack suitcases, knives, matches?

19. kinda funny - LOST has featured the Wilhelm scream! For anyone who doesn't know what the Wilhelm scream is, this youtube video will help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdbYsoEasio
You can hear it in 316 at about 39:20 (time without commercials... 2 or 3 minutes to the end) as the flight is going down.

20. How did Hurley know about the flight and why does he have a guitar? How did he get out of jail? Did the Charlie ghost tell him?

21. Lapidus as the pilot was CLASSIC!

22. Similarities of Ajira and Oceanic passengers:
Sun has Jin's ring, like Rose had Bernard's
Jack has Locke's letter, like Sawyer did had a letter to Locke's father -the original con man?
Hurley has an instrument case...like Charlie Pace
Sayid boarded in handcuffs...like Kate on 815.
What about Kate? maybe she's pregnant like Claire? or bitchy like Shannon?

23. Similarities to pre-boarding:
Hurley has a disagreement and trouble getting on the flight
Jack having an issue about bringing a dead body on the plane
Hurley was also reading a comic book
jack was in a bar (like when he met Ana Lucia)
The officer escorting Sayid kinda resemples Ana Lucia (who was an officer)

24. Similarities to crashing:
Jack wakes up in the jungle
Someone is drowning
Someone is screaming
Separation between other passengers

25. Where did Ben go and how kicked his butt? Let's hope he didn't try to kill Penny. Ben was reading Ulysses in the plane, which contains a chapter entitled "Penelope" which is Penny's real name.

26. What did Kate do with Aaron? My guess is she dropped him off with Claire's mom.

27. From the Bible - John 3.16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life"
John Locke needed jack to believe.

28. And a biggie for the last one - Charlie's dad's name was Simon who was a butcher. The name of the place keeping Locke's body cold - "Simon's Butcher Shop"

Ghostbusters Video Game

The Ghostbusters video game is almost here. It's being released on June 16, 2009 for Playstation, Wii and XBox (along with the release of the original movie on Blu-Ray). I took a look at the game last year at Comic Con and it looked AWESOME!!! The really cool thing is that the game will feature the original characters and their real voices. Get ready to fight ghosts with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson. Plus, the game also features our favorite gob of goo, Slimer and the very tasty Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
Check out a sneak peak:


For more information and a look at a super cool website go to http://www.ghostbustersgame.com/

A LOST Little Prince

LOST's episode 5.4, The Little Prince was WOW! SO MANY ANSWERS REVEALED!!! You wanted answers - we got them. We also got more questions, book references and an a new anagram! This is so exciting! So let's see what The Little Prince gave us:

1. My first observation (and this is totally probably nothing) but this season Aaron always seems to have something red in his hand. Last week it was a red crayon and this episode began with a bottle of ketchup. hmmmmm. It's probably nothing, but I just wanted to point it out.

2. Sun has been watching and investigating Ben and Jack for a short while - we can see this from the pictures she pulls out of the envelope. However, if you pause right at the perfect moment the report she got is dated 2004 and has the names Allie Lamar, Walbert Dopelson on it. hmmmm? Didn't those fake chocolates look real?

3. Nose bleeds correlate with time on the island. Charlotte was there the earliest. Miles' bloody nose came next, which may mean that he came next to the island. (Like I said in the past - probably Dr. Chang's son). Juliet, next. Then would come the Oceanic peeps and lastly Faraday, since he was a freighter boy. However, things may turn out differently.

4. How does Locke know that the O6 are still alive when he saw Keamy's arm bomb thingy turn off?

5. Who's the guy who tried to kill Sayid and why does he have Kate's address? I doubt he's one of Ben's men, so who is he with - possibly Widmore? Sayid sure is a badass!

6. Hurley looks great in orange!

7. Jack's phone # is 323-555-0156! Guess he lives in Hollywood or near there.

8. They meet at slip 23 in the marina - shout out to one of Hurley's #s

9. The beam of light! Looked like the light on the top of the Luxor hotel to me - but we all know it was the moment the Swan hatch light went on for Locke! What an epic moment in LOST history, and now we get to see if from afar. Locke knew exactly "when" they were.

10. Kate, Claire and the delivery of Aaron. That meant that Jin and Charlie were standing nearby. The birth of Aaron was also the same moment that Boone died. A lot was going on the island at that moment. But this is where I toot my own horn and say, "I told you so!" Now we can totally assume we know what the whispers are (which I've been saying for a very long time - go check out my posts from The Fuselage if you don't believe me). The whispers are people in or around the exact same spot in another time (kinda like a different dimension - there but not 'there').

11. Where are Rose and Bernard?

12. Where the heck did Claire ever get to?



13. The Little Prince - what's with the name? Besides that fact that it's a French book and we see Danielle Rousseau and her French team, there's a lot on this book and it's correlation with LOST! I love the LOST writers. FIRST OF ALL - The book was written by a French PILOT!!! HA! His name is Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The idea for the book first came to the author after he experienced a plane crash in the Sahara. The story starts out talking about a jungle and introducing the narrator as a pilot. It also begins with a child vs adult perception of a child's drawing of a snake eating an elephant. The child sees the snake, but to the adult's eye it looks like a picture of a hat. There is a short lesson here about how one views life. The story also mentions a shipwreked sailor in the middle of an ocean. The narrator and a little prince meet in a desert where the narrator crashed his plane. The little prince reveals that he is from another planet. The little prince keeps saying how everything is so small where he is from. This little prince was from astroid B-612. (hmmm more #s). The little prince is also looking for sheep (could the O6 be Ben's sheep). The story also mentions France. One line that intrigues me in the book is when the little prince says,"I am very busy with matters of consequence."Next the little prince spoke of a flower that he loved but felt was in danger. He also felt that even though he had love for this flower, the flower would never know his love (Does this sound like Sawyer and Kate to anyone?). The flower in the book also has a strong personality and expresses no fear in the face of tigers. The little prince describes the flower as a "very complex creature." The little prince describes being "too young to know how to love her."The little prince then leaves his flower and visits 6 different astroid planets inhabited by 6 different beings (all seeming to represent a side of Sawyer that we have seen in the past). The little prince first meets a king that insists that his authority be respected (let's recall the "new sheriff in town" line), then the little prince meets a conceited man who only heard praise, then he met an alcoholic (and while Jack has been our depressed alcoholic time and again, Sawyer never passes up the chance for a Dharma beer), then he meets a business man who is counting all the stars because he wants them for himself (let's remember who the 'real Sawyer' was - be it con man or Locke's dad aka Tom Sawyer), then he meets a Lamplighter - the only one who is doing something for the good of others, but just follows orders (I think we've seen Sawyer take the back seat before), and lastly MY FAVORITE, the little prince meets a man who is reading a large book (hmmm have we ever seen Sawyer reading - YA like almost every episode)!!! However, the man is a geographer who specifically says he knows the location of all the seas, rivers, towns, mountains, and deserts. Interestingly, the geographer tells the little prince that his beloved flower is ephemeral, meaning that it will die one day. Lastly, the little prince goes to earth. When the little prince meets a fox on earth we get a neet quote, "Here is my secret. It's quite simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. . . . It's the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important. . . . People have forgotten this truth,” the fox said, “But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose. . . .” (My belief, if I haven't been clear yet is, Sawyer is the little prince and Kate is the rose, and LOST has a ton of metaphors from the book The Little Prince).


14. Ajira - we finally see our new airline http://www.ajiraairways.com/
I wonder who came on the flight? Maybe that's why that runway was being built way back when. I wonder if they just missed themselves leaving on an Ajira flight home. Hope Vincent's ok. Maybe all the empty beer cans were left over from a celebration party.

15. Locke is exactly where he needs to be.

16. Why the hell is Sawyer wearing red!?! Get that red shirt off of him and put any other color on him!!! You all know what a red shirt means and it can't be good.

17. Wonder who is in the other Ajira boat?

18. Claire's mother knows nothing about nothing - apparently.


19. YAY a LOST anagram - you guessed it - that van does say something. CANTON RAINIER when all mixed up says, "REINCARNATION" dun dun dun!!!

20. JIN IS ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again tooting my horn - I knew it!!! Except I thought he'd be stuck in the middle of leaving and the time warp. Apparently, he's caught in the time warp. But how does Jin meeting Danielle Rousseau work with what Daniel Faraday said about not being able to change the past??? AND MY BIG QUESTION IS THIS - Did Jin get thrown into Danielle's time or is he momentarily caught in one of our time flashes. Will he run into Sawyer and Locke and join them or is he stuck in a different time shift since he was so far away from the island when it disappeared? What happens if Jin tells Danielle not to let Ben ever take Alex? Then what?

21. How did Sun know where they were all meeting? Guess she's still following Ben.

22. The French guy and the receiver playing Hurley's numbers!!! We see and hear the original moment before Danielle recorded over it!!! Loved it!

23. Here's a BIG question (thanks Tamara for bringing it to my attention): Why were our island friends able to keep the canoe? Shouldn't it have disappeared when the island flashed again, leaving them swimming in the ocean? OR, do they get to keep anything they hold on to? Such as Locke's compass? He was given the compass by Alpert during a different time, Locke is able to hold on to it for some time. When he meets Alpert in the past and tells him about the compass, he drops it and it leaves with the flash. I also believe that Sawyer picked up his new gun from someone in "Because You Left." What happens if he puts it down during a flash?