The Lost Lowdown

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Sorry, I've given up on predictions. I spend all this time looking back at past episodes, doing some serious math, and then I come up with what I think the length will be and C&J just post a podcast with some arbitrary length that has no basis on past show lengths and I'm left feeling empty. I hate...

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Although Lost may not have gone in the exact direction I would have preferred (too much deus ex machina magic), I appreciate that I never know quite what to expect week to week. I guess maybe the best way to write an unpredictable story is to have no idea what you are doing yourself. Both Genius and...

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Mother said it herself... "Every question I answer will simply lead to another question. You should rest." It seemed like Mother and MiB were the ones that had similar philosophies when it came to humanity. Maybe Jacob will be more willing to enlighten us mere peasants. I won't hold my breath. Not ...

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I feel like this episode was telling us that we are not going to get many of the answers we want. The light was an analogue for the tree of knowledge. "Mother" stated that all men have a little light, but they always want more. We, the audience are those who seek enlightenment. We are not going to g...

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I just had a crazy thought about the Smoke Monster. I am not caught up on the podcast so sorry if this is similar anything C&J theorized. It's so dumb I doubt it. It's also so dumb I might be right, this is LOST we are talking about here(I kid... a little bit). We have not seen Locke appear as a gho...

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Even if ypu didn't like this episode, there was way too much plot to skip over. Not only did Ilana die, but her team split up. There was a definitive final word on the whispers (sorry Claude). Hurley's group meets up with Locke. Desmond gets thrown down a frickin' well by Locke. Desmond runs Locke o...

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Pierre Chang is looking pretty youthful and spry for a 70+ year old. Oops.

Edit: Also, anyone else catch the Seinfeld reference?

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...profit.

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The realities really are bleeding over. What would we do without youtube?

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This may be completely apocryphal, but was curious about aphasia and found this article: Selective aphasia in a brain damaged bilingual patient http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/07/selective_aphasia_in_a_brain_damageed_bilungual_patient.php I also read somewhere (wikipedia, I think for wh...

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Lost is simply an analogue for the Bush administration: Jacob = George W. Bush Lighthouse = Patriot Act (spying on people for the greater good) Others = Christian conservative base (Jacob secretly has contempt for Others much like W. for his base, fact) Smokey = Terrorism (so easy this all must be i...

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8:47:10

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Time travel! It's sideways time travel right? Claude called Justin and, because of magnetism (and a guest director) Claude actually did the podcast with alternate reality Justin, ...who was just a bit off........ At the 6:03:21 mark Fukstin (Fake-Justin) said: "Hmm...I never had a hunch about that!...

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Thank you for setting us straight, C&C. I forgot it was okay to try and process the show. Although you are probably more right than some people will admit. I will be disappointed if the answer to everything is 'Jacob did it'.

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Special guest?

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I used to think that maybe he needed that vacuum cleaner device to generate a magnetic field to facilitate his powers. He wouldn't need one on the Island because of it's inherent magnetic properties. However, when we see him as a child he doesn't seem to need any sort of device. Oh well...

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I am glad that they summarily put the issue to rest as well. I did not want to see this become part of the plot. They tied it to a Nikki and Paolo reference as well. I am not sure if they needed to be part of this retrospective kick that the show is on, but it was very efficient.

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Alt-Ben was on the Island as a child. Intriguing that Roger still took Ben to The Island and DHARMA in the flash-sideways but they left before it sank... I took Roger's line differently. I took it as proof that the the flash sideways isn't an alternate dimension that has existed since the beginning...

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It certainly wasn't non-stop action. But, maybe I was watching a different episode than riothero, but I actually thought we had as many answers in this episode than in previous few. Maybe I am just easily entertained. At least, it seamed to confirm a lot of stuff that people had been suspecting for ...

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Yeah, the 'other' island is a sticking point. Crackpot explanation: At the end of the show, the Island travels back in time, the barrier fails and 'crashes' into our universe, much like 815 crashed into it. Would that be morissettian irony or what?

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It seems like most people are assuming that there are now 2 completely full and separate parallel dimensions on Lost. I just wanted to float the idea that maybe the Island is in a sort of pocket dimension or universe all to itself. Maybe this has been shot down by the producers or something. But, I ...

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I was fairly certain that this was going to be a Sun episode. The producers have now sunken to even using the episode titles to fool us. I liked the episode. I thought the last segment was particularly engaging. But, this show has really taken a dark turn hasn't it? Is it me, or does Sayid now seem ...

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6:48:11 BTW, Claude & Justin, I just wanted to say that you put on a great show, by far the funniest out of all Lost Podcasts (I think the only relevant way to judge a Lost podcast). I posted a couple times a long time ago... I'm just too flaky to be a regular contributor. But, I'm gonna post a half...

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Also i think they say if you are reincarnated you do not remember your past life or lives. So wouldn't that throw out the idea of reincarnation? Who said this? Carlton and Damon on their little podcast? If you are just saying that people say this in general, remember that Cuse and Lindelof are the ...

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vickih wrote:Carl's boat did not look like this boat.

Actually, I thought Carl's (or Karl's) boat looked pretty damn similar to these 'new' boats.

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Savard wrote:didn't miles say he's not korean? or doesn't understand korean?

He said something like: "They're speaking Korean, I'm from Encino." His surname Straum would suggest that he is of Swedish ancestry. Although somehow I doubt of pure Swedish ancestry, but I won't make that assumption.

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God, this who recreation thing better stop at the crash. i don't want to relive the pilot, or any other parts of season 1. Gee, I sure do hope Hurley brought his CD player so we can experience more heart-warming montages. Maybe that guitar case was actually jam-packed with AA batteries! Or, maybe J...

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Claude wrote:Desmond gets the award for best choreographed indignance. He danced around that pendulum like a pro.

It's apparently the other "one great thing" he will do!

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Well what I'm saying is that it's not just a coincidence that they all wanted to take a vacation to Guam on that flight. Clearly they had free will, but someone has convinced them to take the flight. It's kinda what I thought you meant, I was just being a bit uptight about the semantics. I'm not qu...

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I hope he had a good co-pilot if the Island beamed him down too.

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To Perry: It's was their destiny (to some degree) just by the pure fact that they did show up on the flight. The question is whether man has any free will or if it is all predetermined. *edit* What I'm trying to say is the destiny does not preclude conscious choice. Even if they all decided to go wi...

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20,320 feet

(from the top of Mt. McKinley via semaphore code)

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Actually, since I really didn't buy the trial in Eggtown anyway, I don't even care if they let this one go. Fine with me if she walks right on the plane. I just don't want to think about Kate's legal status anymore and am not interested in seeing any scenes about it. I lost interest in Kate as Fugit...

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Stephen wrote:How did Kate get on the plane?

You mean Guam is OUTSIDE California?

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I think a group led by the mysterious man who gave Jack his 'condolences' at the airport may be the shooters from the outriggers. That dude seems like he's no good for anybody, not Jack the other guy. Jack knows CPR.

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Sayid, what the hell is up with him? Why did he have curly hair again? Did he shave and just regrow some facial hair? He looks like on Island Sayid. It seems like the woman holding him in custody doesn't want him to speak to anyone else. Why in the hell wouldn't Jack or anyone else just ask him why ...

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I really like the idea that Desmond tipped Ben off on a Hawking/Widmore cahootiness (it's a word now). Has Ben finally been played for a fool? I was sort of bored with the off island story, but this could get interesting.

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What makes you think that some power wants Danielle to die? I was thinking 'the sickness' is less of a sickness and more the Island/Smokie's ability to take control or brainwash. Therefore, it's will would be to kill Danielle. Just a guess. If instead it is just some sort of brain disease, does it ...

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It seemed to me that whatever experience the crew had in those ruins brainwashed them in some manner. I don't think Danielle could have killed them if they were manifestations. What I don't understand is why whatever power (the Island, I'm assuming) wants Danielle to die. Seems like the Island or Sm...

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Thanks Claude! So, if the Island needs a constant, why the oceanic 6? Why not Richard Alpert? He's the one that's always been there. Would it make too much sense? I don't get it.

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dunno, hard to surmise from one look...

It could be:

WTF, Eloise ain't a dude?

or

WTF, I'm the one that carried Daniel for 9 months. He is my pain and my burden and ultimately my glorious ray of sunshine! That bitch!!!

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Uh oh spaghetti-o! So let me get this straight. Danielle can recount in specific detail a past incident in which Jin was involved. Yet, she can't remember him. But she is insane right? We all know that Merriam-Webster's dictionary defines insanity as "The state of having total recall of past events,...

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It's been several days and no one has used the phrase "Death by Chocolate". I must applaud the restraint and discipline.

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The episode was alright. It didn't really go anywhere unpredictable, but it moved along the plot very swiftly and felt satisfying, like we are getting somewhere. I guess one thing this episode did was shut up the people that thought that Rousseau had made up her whole story. I wish we would have lea...

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Hey guys! I've been lurking for awhile, but this is my first post here. I want to say you have maybe the most entertaining podcasts outside of ones featuring Karl Pilkington. I came out of lurking because I have a theory that could reconcile the two different types of time travel that seem to be occ...

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