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Station 7 rewatch

Even if only one person stumbles across this blog post, it would have served it's purpose. Station 7, the podcast I was on most of last season while doing my podcast, is doing a series rewatch. Even though we already started, and are almost done with season on, we would still like new participants. The podcast is recorded as we watch the episode live on Hulu, DVD, or iTunes and serves as an audio commentary for the episode. I will leave a link to the podcast below, please check it out.

-Namaste

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=73908&cmd=tc

A brief discussion about The Swan hatch scene

I believe most of you remember the memorable scene in the episode 'Orientation' when Locke told Jack "it's a leap of faith". Nobody I heard (at least to my recollection) had touched on the subject that I'm about too.

Locke needs to learn his terminology. A 'leap of faith' is something you take when there is no rational evidence to support the action you are about to take, while there is evidence supporting an electromagnetic cataclysm would occur. When Jack was walking by that wall the key to the gun case stood on end, meaning there is strong magnetic activity going on, and it must be strong in order to move through concrete. When Jack watched the film he learned it was an electromagnetic station, so anybody is able to put the two together in order to realize that they should be pushing the button.

While on the other hand Locke should be advocating that they shouldn't be pushing the button, since their is demonstrable evidence supporting the need to push the button. If Locke truly was a "Man of Faith" and Jack a "Man of Science", they both should of had the opposite stand point on the problem than they had.

Brief update

Sorry that it took so long to make an update, and chances are you haven't come here since my previous post, so I'll make this brief.

First thing I want to say is I'll be having a LOST re-watch after the complete series collection blu-rays come out. Also for those of you who also listen to my podcast on talkshoe and are waiting for it to be put on iTunes, it's not happening. Let me explain why.

Sometime in my second month of podcasting I decided to attempt to put it up, but I learned I had to download it. So I downloaded the program, but my bloody computer wouldn't recognize that I had downloaded it, so I gave up. A couple week ago I had to reinstall the operating system so I thought that I might be able to. I was wrong. What happened was it was downloaded into broken text documents. So sorry to say that it won''t be on iTunes in the foreseeable future. But I encourage you to still listen to the podcast on talkshoe.

The Package

Sorry for the late update. Even though Ab Aeterno was easily the better of these two episodes, that one aired two weeks ago and was probably overly discussed through the LOST community so I want to briefly discuss The Package.

The first thing I want to discuss is the scene when they were in Room 23. From the moment we found Jin in the chair I knew we were in Room 23. I probably had an unfair advantage to other fans since I watched the episode "Not In Portland" two days before it aired. Even though it looked slightly different than it did in the season 3 episode, I still saw the megaphone and the viewing screen before he flipped the switch.

After Jin turned of the video Zoey walked in the room with the DHARMA Initiatives map of all the pockets of electromagnetism on the island. Now unless they planned on showing us at least a hint of DHARMA later this season there would be no point in showing us this map. We also learned that she was the subs Physicist. Something tells me she will play a bigger role in the season than guiding the sub to the island.

We finally see Desmond on island. I was actually scared that we wouldn't see anymore Desmond on island this season, never been so glad to be wrong.

The best part of scene of island (besides Sun's strip tease *wink*) was the brief fight scene with Mikhail. It's a shame he had to die though.

There were a few good one liners in this episode. For example when Miles said "Unless Alpert is covered in Bacon grease I don't think Hugo can track anything".

The runner up was the exchange between Ben and Illana, "For the last time, I was gathering mango's and I found knocked out under the tree. Why don't you believe me? Because your speaking".

What I would rate this episode, I'd probably have to give it a B. It would probably a B+ if we saw it before Ab Aeterno.

Part 2

Sorry for the late update. Let's continue, shall we.

I'n my previous post I said I'll explain how the parallel time lines are real, so I will.

Now some of you are thinking you know how, it's one of the first theories proposed on this subject, but that's not what I'm talking about. For those of you who don't know what I just alluded to I'll briefly explain. It's called Schrödinger's cat. Now this is the theory is that you take a cat and put it in a box with a unstable piece of radioactive substance. And until you look inside the box the cat is both dead and alive. This is not what I'm referring to.

What I was referring to is something called the quantum suicide theory. I will briefly summarize this so I can get to my point. You take a fully loaded gun and put it to your head, than pull the trigger. What will happen is the trigger will jam, but then at the same time the universe will split and a world will emerge where you didn't die; and the process will keep repeating. So in short every time you pull the trigger two more universes are formed; one where you die, and one where you don't.

But just to make sure we are perfectly clear, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! This theory is just that, a theory, and should not be tested.

Now what was the purpose of bringing this up? The purpose was to share a possible quantum physics explanation as to how both universes can be real.

I originally planned for this to have three parts, but I think I got the general point across. The next post will be a review of the episode "Ab Aeterno".

Reaction to Keys To LOST Podcast

I just listened to the most recent Keys To LOST podcast, and many things I disagree with. Lets get started with the basics. First their guest made a statement that Flash forwards are impossible. I need to make this clear since it seemed to be clear when it was the present story telling device; the characters themselves are not having these experiences. The creators are showing them in order to show what happens off the island in a way that it in itself will not be a season.

She also said that when Desmond turned the key the island was glitched. The island is not a computer program. They backed this up by saying the flashbacks were shown before the turning of the key and the flash forwards were shown after. First like I said before the island is not a computer program. Second, let's hypothetically say it is a computer program, there is still a hole in her theory. The flashbacks did not end with the turning of the fail safe key.

I will later post part two of this post in which I explain how the parallel time line is real.

Tune in

Listen to todays podcast to hear my new theory.

MY EXPLANATION AS TO WHY THE ISLAND SUNK

If you listen to the podcast you'll already know this, but if you stumbled into the blog I'd thought I'd let you guys in on it.

I believe that one way or another the emp (electromagnetic pulse) emitted from the plutonium core of Jughead managed to reverse the polarity of the pocket of energy at the swan site. The result was catastrophic. Instead of attracting items to the pit it repelled things, and if the charge gets big enough it could theoretically produce enough force as to force the island underwater.

I understand not to many people will except this as a possible answer, but it is the most plausible thing that I can think of, (excluding Jacob did it).

LAX... Pt 2

The best part in my opinion of the second part of the premire is when Flocke kicked Richards ass in three moves.

The conversation Locke had with Jack at LA X caught my attention, but probably not in the same way it caught yours. When Locke said "they didn't lose him, just his body", it got me thinking. Remember the first time we saw Christian in the episode "the white rabbit" Jack didn't find the body in the coffin? I'm thinking the body wasn't put on the plane in either time period, and what was traveling on the island was his spirit. I know this doesn't make sense since he was able to interact with objects, but maybe the island gave it a tangle body.

Was I the only one that caught the change in accent that Sayid had when he "came back to life"? I believe that something managed to control his body after he died. I know people are hooked on the fact that Miles didn't sense anything after he died, but from I could tell he needs to want to read the body in order to read it.

LA X... part 1

WOW, what a freaking awesome premire! I was actually surprised on how many theories I got right. I only got two theories wrong; that Richard was a pirate and Sayid dies (or stays dead).

I just want to touch on the first scene real quick, when they showed the island under water. When I saw it last night I thought in this time line the bomb casued the island to sink, but after thinking about it that doesn't make sense. In the 50s the United States tested bombs in the North and South Pacifc, and they never sunk any islands, so how could a 30 year old core cause one to sink? I don't believe we saw the end of DHARMA just yet. They most likely caused that.

Also was Desmond ever really on the plane? We see him in the openeing scene, then he was gone.
The last time Desmond was in an alternate timeline he reconized it right away.

One of the funniest parts of the episode was when Hurley tried to handle the gun. He is the only person on the island who can't even handle a gun. I think Hurley is coming close to his death. All episode he was acting toughter and more in charge, just like Faraday before he was killed.

Probably the best line all episode was from the smoke Monster; "What are you? I'm not a what, I'm a who. You're the monster. Lets not resort to name calling". I was laughing at the point.

Finally I don't think we saw the end of Jacob.

Just some thoughts on part one of LA X. I'll be back later on part 2.

FIRST PODCAST DATE

My first podcast will be on Feb. 5 at 5:30 Pm (EST). It's titled "Faraday's LOST Community Podcast". To call in dial (724) 444-7444, when you do that they'll ask for the call id. The call ID is 75084. Anybody can call in.

The direct link is: http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=75084&cmd=tc

My Podcast

All the podcasts I do will be community calls, that is anybody can call in. When I finish I will post the talkshoe number on the blog so you can call in.

Hello

Hey everybody. I'm going to try to make this a LOST podcast blog, but if there are any difficulties I'm just going to make this a LOST blog.