Lost plus Muppet Babies equals Crazy Delicious

These are the kind of videos that seem tailor-made for this exact blog.  They’re so thematically-targeted and ridiculous, I couldn’t have done a better job if I’d done them myself.

See for yourself:

LOST Babies – Let The Fear In:

LOST Babies – He’s Yellow, Man:

The videos are the work of David Goodberg.

[Via Blog@Newsarama who got them from EW’s Popwatch]

Lost: He’s Our You

Ok, so tonight’s episode of Lost, He’s Our You, was really singular in its approach, which is odd for this season. As opposed to the multiple storylines/characters/narratives this episode was all about the duality of Sayid and Benjamin Linus.

Jumping right in tonight.

Did you notice?:

  • A Separate Reality
  • The book Ben shares with Sayid. Check the link; it’s worth it.

  • MacCutcheon
  • I really want to the official fake Scotch whisky of Lost now.

  • University of Michigan/Ann Arbor
  • The first reference to Michigan since the second season. Is an appearance by Gerald and/or Karen DeGroot imminent? Or maybe even Alvar Hanso?

  • Illusion
  • Name of one of the boats in the harbor in L.A. in Sayid’s flashback.

What do we think of the following?:

  • Prisoners
  • Sayid and Ben both enter other camps as prisoners. Not to mention all the similarities in their fathers and the persistence (Murder for Sayid; Manipulation/lying for Ben) of their natures.

  • Does anyone feel sorry for Sayid or Ben?
  • Sayid says that the next time he sees Ben there will be consequences and he makes good on his promise, despite the fact that it means – in his eyes – that he can’t change his ways.

    Was Farraday wrong? Can the past/future be changed? Is the book a signal that there may be alternate realities and not just time travel?

  • Oldham
  • Is he more than just the agent of this week’s title?
    Why is he living in that tent?

  • Ilana
  • Who was she really working for?
    Why Guam if that dude was killed in the Seychelles?
    What is her relation (if any) to Caesar?

So I don’t think Ben’s dead because I want to believe that the Rules laid out by Farraday are as close to Law as we’ve got. I’m not ready to give them up just yet.

That said, I also think we’ve got something more than time travel at work here. The “future” of the Ajira 316 crash seems different than the path our Lostaways were on, but then they all ended up in 1977 so who knows.

Bonus linkage:

Cool site: MetaLost

Cool video: Did Claire make an appearance in last week’s episode (Namaste) in the scene with Christian Shepherd?

Leave a comment.

Until next week!

Lost: Namaste

Tonight’s episode of Lost seemed tailor-made for my specific areas of expertise. I’ll go into that … now.

  • Hurley the Bulldog
  • I guess it’s actually more like a shout-out to Josh Holloway (Sawyer) who grew up in Georgia and attended UGA for a while, but it’s cool for this UGA grad to see Hurley in a Dawgs hooded sweatshirt.

    And check out the link in the bullet because Jorge Garcia (Hurley) actually responds in the comments.

  • The Muppet Show
  • I’d need to go back and check that the intro is the correct intro for 1977, but in the scene where Jin is watching the monitors in The Arrow station, the top left monitor is displaying the song & dance number at the beginning of The Muppet Show.

  • The many role reversals of James LaFleur
  • He’s now a thoughtful (non-brooding) reader to Jack’s (now) zen and former impulsiveness?

    I also dug that Sawyer had the opportunity to torture Sayid to get information from a “hostile” (as he was tortured by Sayid in Season 1) he didn’t.

Some questions:

  • When is the Ajira 316?
  • So, not 1977, and I’m pretty sure it’s the future but when?

  • Why is Sun NOT in 1977?
  • Is it because she wasn’t pregnant or traveling with Ji Yeon? I’m open to theories.

  • What does it mean that the 1977 Losties know what will become of Ben & Ethan?
  • Two of the creepiest moments tonight were when Amy told Juliet that she and Horace were probably going to name the baby Ethan and when Sayid learned that the boy who brought him his sandwich was Ben. (What a rotten sentence!)

    Anyhow what does that particular shift in the power structure mean?

    I’m still stuck in Austin in my mind so I don’t know if I’m thinking correctly about all the previously-agreed-upon narrative structures of all this time travel, but I’d really love to hear what others think about those little nuggets.

I’m missing tons of stuff and I’m doing this for the first (only?) time on a laptop.

Put me straight.

Until next week …

Namaste!

Lost: LaFleur

Before I even begin to do my meager and half-hearted recap here, I’d just like for everyone to read Kottke’s post on timetravel which is really just an excuse to link to Lost: A Theory On Time Travel

For the lazy, an excerpt:

1996-1996 (third iteration): several years elapse on the island, as Kelvin and Desmond push the button in the Swan. The island is theoretically invisible to the outside world because time is physically being reset every 108 minutes, so only people inside the magnetic bubble of the island can actually experience the looping 108 minutes of time. What Ben is trying to do is two-fold: first of all, he wants to stop time from ever reaching 2007. Second, he wants to create a utopia on the island such that people can live forever! Ben, in fact, isn’t the bad guy. He’s trying to preserve the timeline to prevent disaster and create a fountain of youth. True, he has a rough way of going about his work, but can you blame him? He can’t tell many people about the “time loop” because their knowledge could lead them into actions that may alter the future, and possibly screw up his plan.

It’s the worth the jump down the rabbit hole and may actually be *less* confusing than tonight’s episode.

Here are the thoughts:

  • Four-toed statue
  • Even seen briefly from behind, it was nice to see it again. I think it looked a lot like Horace, but what do I know.

  • The Ankh
  • I don’t recall much previous Egyptian symbolism, save for the time that Desmond didn’t push the button and the clock reset, but religion and Lost are pretty tight buddies.

  • Horace Goodspeed
  • Present at Ben’s birth in Oregon, married to Amy at one point and then Olivia. He appeared to Locke on a “loop” while chopping wood. Lostpedia is your friend.

    UPDATE: It strikes me that Will’s comment below is really smart. I put two and two together and realized that our friend Horace could be a misspelling of Horus, an Egyptian god symbolized by the hieroglyph for a bird, that was seen when the Swan hatch exploded.

My questions:

  • Who is the baby born to Amy & Horace?
  • When is the timeline for the non-Oceanic 6 survivors of Ajira 316? (Basically undead Locke et al) It may be 1977 but I’m not sure yet.

I’m surprisingly stymied tonight. Chalk it up to tiredness and the relentess “3 years” back-and-forth we had tonight.

I’ll be smarter tomorrow and the comments are always illuminating. Have at it.

Oh, and I *loved* the idea of Sawyer brokering the truce by revealing all his time travel acquired knowledge. Plus, Jenn and I really liked the organic romance that happened between him and Juliet.

But now Lost is back to throwing us the curveball by bringing Kate & Sawyer into proximity.

Fate or Free Will.

Have at it.

Lost: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

I’ll get this out of the way early: if you don’t want a casting spoiler, don’t click and if you don’t want a programming/scheduling spoiler, don’t click.

Now, where were we? Dead then Reborn Locke? Sounds good!

No big deal tonight, just a stream of consciousness.

Tropes/Stuff you may have missed:

  • Rebirth
  • Locke is become Christian. He comes to the island in a box and wakes up a man in a suit.

    Oh, and how awesome that Locke should be wheelchair bound again.

  • Numbers
  • Widmore’s quick dial is “23”.

  • Life Magazine cover
  • Early on Caesar finds a Life Magazine whose cover talks about the hydrogen bomb and is dated April 19, 1954 – the same year as Locke makes his way to the camp in this season’s episode “Jughead“.

  • Ben’s Map to the Temple
  • Originally given to Alex, it was shown in the same scene as the Life Magazine cover and was spirited away by Caesar.

Questions:

Who took the third boat from the Ajira 316 camp along with Frank Lapidus?
If the two other boats stayed at the Ajira camp, wouldn’t that mean Caesar and Alana are/were shooting at Sawyer/Juliet/Faraday/Miles?
When is the Ajira 316 crash?
Why did the Oceanic 6 just disappear? (My guess: different rules apply if you’ve been to the island more than once, but that doesn’t fully explain Ben)
When are the Oceanic 6, then, in relation to the Ajira 316 survivors?
How in the hell was the Dharma Initiative able to air-drop food to the island (think back to Seasons 1 & 2) and who would have been doing it with all the upheaval of leadership (Alpert/Widmore/Ben/Locke)?

Answers (or shitty guesses):

I think Richard Alpert is more important than we can know right now. I think the fact that he was on the island (or I believe he was) during Widmore’s turn as leader, Ben’s turn and Locke’s turn means he’s no dummy.

I also think it’s likely that he’s a descendant of some older inhabitants of the island, like those that came from the Black Rock.

I think that Eloise Hawking is also vital to the story, as she seems to have a long history with the Dharma Initiative and Ben killed Locke to keep him from her.

The next thought isn’t actually an answer, but a question: how nice was it to see Ben kill Locke after pleading with him not to kill himself? Really nice. I *LOVE* evil Ben.

That being said, I don’t trust either Widmore or Ben with the island, but I do trust Locke. I think he’s just enough of a wise fool – he “knows” what the island wants/needs but he’s not privy to all the backstory (much like us) – that he couldn’t foul things up too much. But then again he’s done the exact opposite at times.

Who would you want running the island?

I’m also a big fan of the theory that Hawking had a falling out with Widmore and won’t help him because she’s got irons in the fire as well. I figure everyone has an angle, even Alpert.

The first person to do something truly selfless for the island or show the levels of faith that Locke has (maybe future Jack?) wins the keys to the island.

Oh, and interesting theory from last week’s comments or maybe this comment recap post: Jack’s grandfather is Jacob?

I think I’m spent. Tell me what you think in the comments.

I know I missed a ton. Let’s start hearing those theories. It’s getting to be that time in the night.