For me the Last Recruit brought up more questions then answers. But first we got the show down we had been waiting for Jack vs. Anti Luck. The winner? I don’t really know. It seemed more like a stale mate then anything else with no real clear winner.
We did however get some interesting information from this conversation for one anti Locke said that john had to be dead before he could look like him. And next he had been Christian Shephard the whole time. Which at first made sense for me but then that does not explain other appearances off island. How do we explain that??
We know Smokey can not go over water as Smokey, but can as a man, that’s he traveled to the other island. So how is it that the image of Christian Shephard appeared off island? Was that a ghost? Or maybe it was a projection of Jacob? Similar entities similar abilities perhaps?
Then there is the whole “Christian Shephard” held Aaron part, which really freaks me out. Since a lot of the focus has been on hands and touching anti Locke this season does that mean that Aaron is evil?? Of course he didn’t really do so voluntarily so does that make a difference? Maybe he just touched the blanket and not the baby’s face? I can’t really remember.
Also Claire refers to her friend and her dad as keeping her company on the island for three years…that’s two different people. Why would she refer to them as such if she knew that MIB was pretending to be Christian Shephard?
As well remember Eloise Hawking made Jack take dead Locke with him. Did she know what would happen? Was she in league with Smokey the whole time?
All I know is that for me the whole Christian Shephard issue is far from over, there are just too many outlying factors to deal with yet.
The next interesting moment happened in the flash side ways when Claire said "Its him, its him" what does that mean, did she see something? All in all the sideways universe was interesting; I liked how this week we had a multi centric alt universe storyline. After all we are getting closer and closer to the finale, this may be the easiest way to finish up all of the story telling.
We are also seeing people mention they are running into each other more – sawyer even mentions it in the episode to Kate, and I think that’s the point. We got Sun, Jin and Locke running into each other, Kate Sawyer and Miles, Illana, Claire, Desmond, and Jack, and finally Jack and Locke all interacting with each other in their alt universes.
Next we finally get Claire and Jack talking to each other and realizing that Claire knows that Jack is her brother, how anti Locke would have known that im not sure, except for the fact that he seems to have some memories of John Locke, so he must have had some memories of Christian Shephard. She also says something very interesting about anti Locke. "You decided the moment you let him talk to you, just like the rest of us. Like it or not your with him now." I’m not so sure about that, after all Jack, Kate, and Sawyer all seem to be very wary of Anti Locke and they have all talked with him. I don’t really think they are with him.
I think Claire and Sayid are with him, mainly because they were infected. But I think in this episode Claire and Sayid were starting to not feel his influence as much, especially Claire. She is with friends now, and seems to be really with them even though she did say, “If John finds out, he’s going to be mad.” And I really do hope that she has turned to the light side.
Speaking of the light side, nice reference to the dark side and star wars on Hurley’s part. I love it when they put in star wars references into Lost.
We also got confirmation that Desmond is alive for now. The throw down the well did not kill him, as well that was not the same well as we have seen before on the island, different location all together...unless of course this is a continuity error.
The next interesting moment comes from jack when he says leaving the island doesn’t feel right, maybe it’s afraid of what happens when we stay – an interesting idea which I like, but I still believe some people deserve to leave the island as well.
Back in the alt universe we learn that Sun’s baby is alive, which how does a baby survive a gun shot to the stomach? Still not clear on that. We then see Jack operating on Alt Locke. And there we see are one and only mirror of the episode when Jack looks down into one to see Locke on the table. Other then that real mirror there were no mirrors, or reflections in this episode, however the characters were kind of mirroring themselves from alt universe to real universe in this episode.
But as always it seems with this season the real story line is more interesting then the alt universe and this week we finally get the Jin and Sun reunion that we have been waiting for since the very end of season 4 when they were torn apart. It was emotional and bitter sweet, and did not last as long as I would have liked especially since it looked like Zoey and her team from Widmore are going to execute them all. Argh!
Jack arrives back on the main island after jumping from the boat with the rest of our losties on it and arrives just in time for bombs to go exploding and for those really cool sound affects. Jack seems to have lost consciousness and anti Locke comes up to him and says "Your with me now.” Really?? Are you sure??
The last question up in the air this week is whether Desmond is dead or not now. Anti Locke has Sayid kill him, but after Desmond talks with Sayid and tells him “What will you tell her, on why she’s alive again.” I think that hit something in him, made him think. Perhaps brought the humanity back into him. Perhaps he is turning to the light side of the force as well.
But after all is said and done it still feels like last weeks promo - I don’t know where we are going, and what is happening. And I wonder is there any other way the writers can make me more confused then I am now?
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Everybody Loves Hugo review
Everybody Hates Hugo, no Everybody Loves Hugo. This week’s episode’s started with showing us again how very different this alternate world is, how upside down it is. Hugo is the happiest person in the work, the luckiest person in the world, he has never been in a mental institution, and he’s happy…except his mother thinks he’s unhappy because he doesn’t have a woman. Got to love Hurley’s mom. But even with all of the interesting parts of the alternate reality and the great connections that were made, especially with Desmond pushing Hurley towards a certain future, and with the great moments of Libby and Hurley. I was not expecting to see her in this episode. Looking back I am seeing more importance in the alt reality, but I still prefer the current time line.
The current timelines story was riveting, intriguing and ghostly…ok I threw that one in. Ghost Michael shows up on the island as Hurley is talking to Libby’s grave and says "I'm here to stop you from getting everyone killed" - Michael - darn you ABC for spoiling him in last weeks promo.
However what was not spoiled for me or I think anyone else was Illana’s end, where she got her artz moment and blew up while handling dynamite. And I and everyone else started asking. WHAT IN THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN??
Ok yes it does mean that she’s dead, that is obvious, but there was so much more promise and expectation to the character. She is the person who is supposed to know what to do; she is the person who is supposed to protect the losties. And I have a really hard time believing that Jacob would let the woman he thought of as his daughter just die like that. Several weeks ago I was spoiled/foiled to the fact that Jacob would be Illanas father, but apparently that was changed, to he was the closest thing she had to a father. And I keep wondering if this character is so important, then why die like that? Is it as Ben said, the island was done with her? I would hate to think that that was it. I’m very conflicted on her death, it was entirely unexpected and unnecessary, it didn’t really have emotional resonance, and she didn’t get to do what she was supposed to do. Will she come back as a ghost to Hurley and guide him that way? Or will she be a ghost that is not trapped on this island.
Which leads me into the whole whispers reveal. According to Michael…and finally realize by Hurley, (which how as a ghost talking dude has he not realized this sooner) the whispers are of ghosts who are stuck on this island and who can’t move on. It surprised me that this was not presented to us as a major reveal. After all it has been something people have been having questions on since season one, instead I like how they just slipped it in there, not everything has to be a major reveal.
However I question why do they whisper in the first place? Are they trying to warn people or give them messages? I did not have the time this week to go back into the transcripts, but it would be interesting to do so. After all as Hurley said, “dead people are more reliable then alive people.”
Another interesting point in this story was that Hurley lied, Hurley Never Lies!! But he does this time to make people listen to him (I had a half page of notes on this on whether Jacob was really there until Hurley admitted he was lying) darn you Hurley. Then he went and blew up the Black Rock, definitely and unexpected move. And then decides that they need to go talk to anti Locke, I love take charge Hurley, but I’m really uncertain as to if this is the right move for the group as the better. However it has been said that once MIB makes a promise he can’t go back on it, and he did promise Hurley that he wouldn’t hut anyone.
A quick note on the alt universe story for Hurley, one of the best lines of this season was said in it by Hurley “Bizarro alternate Universe.” I love how the writers use Hurley as a character that really channels the fans and the Lost community.
I LOVED how Desmond pushed Hurley towards Libby to get him to remember and how her kiss triggered his flash of the island. His plan is to slightly push people in the right direction to seeing the other side - genius because he's not entirely interfering with their lives, but just giving slight suggestions and pushes - very Jacob like. But then he later does something very un Jacob like. HE RUNS OVER ALT. UNIVERSE LOCKE. One of the few people I cared about in the alternate universe, because A. he’s Locke, and B. he’s finally happy and doing something he’s good at. But why does Desmond want to run over Locke? It keeps running in my brain that perhaps he saw something in his flashes of anti Locke and thinks that this Locke may be one in the same. Or he believes by destroying Locke he will destroy the body of anti-Locke, but I’m really unsure as to how he would know this.
Staying on the Desmond track he looked way to complacent strapped to that tree, doesn’t know who anti Locke is and touched anti Locke!! Something is way more up with him then just accepting his fate. There has to be more then this then there is. Or am I over thinking it?
We see the strange looking boy again, and he does look a bit different, but think on this we now know that Desmond, Sawyer, and anti Locke can all see him? Does this mean something? We know Richard can’t see him. What enables a person to see him? It can’t be a candidate issue since Desmond is not a candidate nor has ever been one that we know of.
Last but not least Desmond down a Well. He can not be dead!! All I know about next weeks preview was the creepy Willy Wonka music; I was too busy writing notes. All I can say is if he is dead that would be a really bad end to his character and his story line, there is still too much work for him to do, and too many things for him to do, I can not imagine that the island is done with him.
A great solid episode, interesting....was good, but became great at the end.
The current timelines story was riveting, intriguing and ghostly…ok I threw that one in. Ghost Michael shows up on the island as Hurley is talking to Libby’s grave and says "I'm here to stop you from getting everyone killed" - Michael - darn you ABC for spoiling him in last weeks promo.
However what was not spoiled for me or I think anyone else was Illana’s end, where she got her artz moment and blew up while handling dynamite. And I and everyone else started asking. WHAT IN THE HECK DOES THIS MEAN??
Ok yes it does mean that she’s dead, that is obvious, but there was so much more promise and expectation to the character. She is the person who is supposed to know what to do; she is the person who is supposed to protect the losties. And I have a really hard time believing that Jacob would let the woman he thought of as his daughter just die like that. Several weeks ago I was spoiled/foiled to the fact that Jacob would be Illanas father, but apparently that was changed, to he was the closest thing she had to a father. And I keep wondering if this character is so important, then why die like that? Is it as Ben said, the island was done with her? I would hate to think that that was it. I’m very conflicted on her death, it was entirely unexpected and unnecessary, it didn’t really have emotional resonance, and she didn’t get to do what she was supposed to do. Will she come back as a ghost to Hurley and guide him that way? Or will she be a ghost that is not trapped on this island.
Which leads me into the whole whispers reveal. According to Michael…and finally realize by Hurley, (which how as a ghost talking dude has he not realized this sooner) the whispers are of ghosts who are stuck on this island and who can’t move on. It surprised me that this was not presented to us as a major reveal. After all it has been something people have been having questions on since season one, instead I like how they just slipped it in there, not everything has to be a major reveal.
However I question why do they whisper in the first place? Are they trying to warn people or give them messages? I did not have the time this week to go back into the transcripts, but it would be interesting to do so. After all as Hurley said, “dead people are more reliable then alive people.”
Another interesting point in this story was that Hurley lied, Hurley Never Lies!! But he does this time to make people listen to him (I had a half page of notes on this on whether Jacob was really there until Hurley admitted he was lying) darn you Hurley. Then he went and blew up the Black Rock, definitely and unexpected move. And then decides that they need to go talk to anti Locke, I love take charge Hurley, but I’m really uncertain as to if this is the right move for the group as the better. However it has been said that once MIB makes a promise he can’t go back on it, and he did promise Hurley that he wouldn’t hut anyone.
A quick note on the alt universe story for Hurley, one of the best lines of this season was said in it by Hurley “Bizarro alternate Universe.” I love how the writers use Hurley as a character that really channels the fans and the Lost community.
I LOVED how Desmond pushed Hurley towards Libby to get him to remember and how her kiss triggered his flash of the island. His plan is to slightly push people in the right direction to seeing the other side - genius because he's not entirely interfering with their lives, but just giving slight suggestions and pushes - very Jacob like. But then he later does something very un Jacob like. HE RUNS OVER ALT. UNIVERSE LOCKE. One of the few people I cared about in the alternate universe, because A. he’s Locke, and B. he’s finally happy and doing something he’s good at. But why does Desmond want to run over Locke? It keeps running in my brain that perhaps he saw something in his flashes of anti Locke and thinks that this Locke may be one in the same. Or he believes by destroying Locke he will destroy the body of anti-Locke, but I’m really unsure as to how he would know this.
Staying on the Desmond track he looked way to complacent strapped to that tree, doesn’t know who anti Locke is and touched anti Locke!! Something is way more up with him then just accepting his fate. There has to be more then this then there is. Or am I over thinking it?
We see the strange looking boy again, and he does look a bit different, but think on this we now know that Desmond, Sawyer, and anti Locke can all see him? Does this mean something? We know Richard can’t see him. What enables a person to see him? It can’t be a candidate issue since Desmond is not a candidate nor has ever been one that we know of.
Last but not least Desmond down a Well. He can not be dead!! All I know about next weeks preview was the creepy Willy Wonka music; I was too busy writing notes. All I can say is if he is dead that would be a really bad end to his character and his story line, there is still too much work for him to do, and too many things for him to do, I can not imagine that the island is done with him.
A great solid episode, interesting....was good, but became great at the end.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lost: Happily Ever After....or not???
Another fantastic episode of Lost this week as we delve into Happily Ever After, Desmond episodes are always so interesting and exciting. He has always been a favorite character of mine and the rest of the fan base, and what is the first thing that happens to him when he comes back, he’s put in a box with two electromagnetic coils. I keep wondering if that thing has a name.
We soon find out that it puts his consciousness into the alt reality. Or does it? He doesn’t seem to be aware right away of what’s going on or of the real time line. We soon learn he is not married to Penny or anyone else, and works for Widmore. Not only does he work for him, he actually likes him, and Widmore likes him back!!! Of all the alternate reality’s that we have seen so far, this is the one that I would say is the most complete opposite of how the person is in the real time line.
But the one thing that is still getting to me after all this time really popped up with this episode. THE TIME LINE!!!
If the incident sunk the island in 1977 as we have been led to believe this whole time then how in the world did Widmore get off that Island, same with Eloise, and Daniel since she was pregnant with him at the time. They should not be alive if the island just sunk! Of course we don’t know really if it took some time to sink of if it just sunk.
What it looked like to me was that when the bomb went off near the electromagnetic energy, the island flashed to the bottom of the ocean. After all what we saw in the premiere was an island that looked a lot like it did when it was above ground, just a little wetter.
In fact over the course of the season we have seen a lot of people that have been off island alive in the real world when they should have been nice and dead on the island because of the incident if it happened in a flash like I am supposing, this list also includes Ethan Goodspeed/Rom and Benjamin Linus.
I have a few theories as to why this is occurring, and they had better answer this question I have on the time line.
1. the island did not immediately sink when the bomb went off bet went on a slow sinking kind of like the titanic, but that doesn’t explain how we saw everything at the bottom of the ocean in near perfect condition.
2. There is a mention on the swan hatch door of another incident or event in 1985. it doesn’t say what happened but perhaps because a new incident happened in 1977, something different and worse happened in 1985 to sink the island. Far off but its something.
3. In the orientation video for the swan Candle seemed to indicate that the incident occurred shortly after the Swan station began operations, but as we saw it happened during the construction process. However it is worth noting as Lostpedia does that “Pierre Chang alluded to (that the station was "originally" a laboratory used for research), the Swan's protocol was established during the construction of the Swan itself due to the workers drilling into the magnetic energy field. This would seem to suggest that there wasn't even a brief period of time that the Swan was used for its original research purpose. However, it's not clear yet whether or not this is the same mysterious Incident that Chang spoke of.”
So what actually happened? Did changing the time of the incident affect the timeline of the island? Because it happened during construction things were worse off?? That still doesn’t explain how people who should have been killed in the explosion and or sinking of the island are still alive. Any ideas??
Another problem Charlie’s explanation of his vision that he saw in the plane while chocking. He says he saw Kate two rows in front of him before hand, but Kate is at no time that close to him, picky I know, but still. CONTINUTIY ERROR.
I loved that it was Charlie’s hand that triggered Desmond’s flash of the island and finally discovering what was going on. It made me believe the more flashes he got that this time line does matter. Desmond now has a plan, and in this reality he has the resources to go through with the plan. I now see him going to ever 815er and trying to convince them that this is not where they all belong. I’m not sure what else he can do, but perhaps now that his two selves seem to be linked he will slowly discover what he needs to do.
It helps that he ran into a lot of people in his alt reality, and the Eloise interaction was the most interesting, she says the iconic words, “What ever happened, happened” of course this is in regards to him not getting drive shaft, but still. Then she goes all time cop mode, and it makes me wonder does she have the same position that she did in the original reality? How did she get that position in the first place? Is it a gift that Jacob gave her? That Widmore is the leader and she is the time cop? Or what ever we want to call it.
I love that Daniel is a musician in this reality, in some ways it fulfills his promise that he can do both math and music at the same time. we get his notebook once again, and his explanation of the flashes, plus the actual words on paper “Imaginary time” which is what I firmly believe we are dealing with now.
And now a “brief” definition of Imaginary Time from Wikipedia, there is no dictionary definition
In quantum mechanics
Imaginary time is obtained from real time via a Wick rotation by in the complex plane: . It can be shown that at finite temperature T, the Green's functions are periodic in imaginary time with a period of . Therefore their Fourier transforms contain only a discrete set of frequencies called Matsubara frequencies. Another way to see the connection between statistical mechanics and quantum field is to consider the transition amplitude between an initial state I and a final state F. H is the Hamiltonian of the system. If we compare this with the partition function we see that to get the partition function from the transition amplitudes we can replace , set F = I = n and sum over n. This way we don't have to do twice the work by evaluating both the statistical properties and the transition amplitudes. Finally by using a Wick rotation one can show that the Euclidean quantum field theoryin (D + 1)-dimensional spacetime is nothing but quantum statistical mechanics in D-dimensional space.
[edit]In cosmology
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds? Stephen Hawking
Imaginary time is also used in cosmology. It is used to describe models of the universe in physical cosmology. Stephen Hawkingpopularized the concept of imaginary time in his book A Brief History of Time.
The relationship of real and imaginary time can be visualised as perpendicular axes of direction.
Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The concept is useful in cosmology because it can help smooth out gravitational singularities in models of the universe (see Hartle-Hawking state). Singularities pose a problem for physicists because these are areas where known physical laws do not apply. The Big Bang, for example, appears as a singularity in "regular time." But when visualized with imaginary time, the singularity is removed and the Big Bang functions like any other point in spacetime.
Does anyone understand that? The most important part is this: Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The science lesson is now over, now on to the heart strings part of this episode. PENNY!!!! I was so thankful they brought her back, hey they brought dominic back to lost from Flash Forward, thy could by well bring Sonya Wagner back as well…and they did. Thank you ABC for that, now bring back Pushing Daisies as well. It wasn’t as emotional of a scene as the one in the constant, but it was as fulfilling, because it brought everything together and brought us back to the stadium, the same place where Desmond met Jack. It also seemed to make the final connections between the alt realtiy and the real time line. After he touched Penny’s hand he was flung back to the real time line, and he knew everything and trusted Widmore for the first time in his life. He even took his hand to get up. Yes, Nancy Drew, your hands popped again, but for me they are a symbol of trusting someone to touch them, that is all.
At the very end of the episode however I have a problem. Something is very very wrong with Desmond. He agrees to go with Sayid, willingly. When Desmond should know not to trust him? Why does he do that? In an interview Henry Ian Cusiak says that he believes Desmond went with him, because Desmond has a purpose now, and believes that whatever he does will lead him to that. I’m not so sure on that, it just seems that Desmond is WAY too trusting at the end of this episode, and something just makes me feel that him going with Sayid is a very bad thing.
Next episode: Everyone Loves Hugo!! This should be interesting
We soon find out that it puts his consciousness into the alt reality. Or does it? He doesn’t seem to be aware right away of what’s going on or of the real time line. We soon learn he is not married to Penny or anyone else, and works for Widmore. Not only does he work for him, he actually likes him, and Widmore likes him back!!! Of all the alternate reality’s that we have seen so far, this is the one that I would say is the most complete opposite of how the person is in the real time line.
But the one thing that is still getting to me after all this time really popped up with this episode. THE TIME LINE!!!
If the incident sunk the island in 1977 as we have been led to believe this whole time then how in the world did Widmore get off that Island, same with Eloise, and Daniel since she was pregnant with him at the time. They should not be alive if the island just sunk! Of course we don’t know really if it took some time to sink of if it just sunk.
What it looked like to me was that when the bomb went off near the electromagnetic energy, the island flashed to the bottom of the ocean. After all what we saw in the premiere was an island that looked a lot like it did when it was above ground, just a little wetter.
In fact over the course of the season we have seen a lot of people that have been off island alive in the real world when they should have been nice and dead on the island because of the incident if it happened in a flash like I am supposing, this list also includes Ethan Goodspeed/Rom and Benjamin Linus.
I have a few theories as to why this is occurring, and they had better answer this question I have on the time line.
1. the island did not immediately sink when the bomb went off bet went on a slow sinking kind of like the titanic, but that doesn’t explain how we saw everything at the bottom of the ocean in near perfect condition.
2. There is a mention on the swan hatch door of another incident or event in 1985. it doesn’t say what happened but perhaps because a new incident happened in 1977, something different and worse happened in 1985 to sink the island. Far off but its something.
3. In the orientation video for the swan Candle seemed to indicate that the incident occurred shortly after the Swan station began operations, but as we saw it happened during the construction process. However it is worth noting as Lostpedia does that “Pierre Chang alluded to (that the station was "originally" a laboratory used for research), the Swan's protocol was established during the construction of the Swan itself due to the workers drilling into the magnetic energy field. This would seem to suggest that there wasn't even a brief period of time that the Swan was used for its original research purpose. However, it's not clear yet whether or not this is the same mysterious Incident that Chang spoke of.”
So what actually happened? Did changing the time of the incident affect the timeline of the island? Because it happened during construction things were worse off?? That still doesn’t explain how people who should have been killed in the explosion and or sinking of the island are still alive. Any ideas??
Another problem Charlie’s explanation of his vision that he saw in the plane while chocking. He says he saw Kate two rows in front of him before hand, but Kate is at no time that close to him, picky I know, but still. CONTINUTIY ERROR.
I loved that it was Charlie’s hand that triggered Desmond’s flash of the island and finally discovering what was going on. It made me believe the more flashes he got that this time line does matter. Desmond now has a plan, and in this reality he has the resources to go through with the plan. I now see him going to ever 815er and trying to convince them that this is not where they all belong. I’m not sure what else he can do, but perhaps now that his two selves seem to be linked he will slowly discover what he needs to do.
It helps that he ran into a lot of people in his alt reality, and the Eloise interaction was the most interesting, she says the iconic words, “What ever happened, happened” of course this is in regards to him not getting drive shaft, but still. Then she goes all time cop mode, and it makes me wonder does she have the same position that she did in the original reality? How did she get that position in the first place? Is it a gift that Jacob gave her? That Widmore is the leader and she is the time cop? Or what ever we want to call it.
I love that Daniel is a musician in this reality, in some ways it fulfills his promise that he can do both math and music at the same time. we get his notebook once again, and his explanation of the flashes, plus the actual words on paper “Imaginary time” which is what I firmly believe we are dealing with now.
And now a “brief” definition of Imaginary Time from Wikipedia, there is no dictionary definition
In quantum mechanics
Imaginary time is obtained from real time via a Wick rotation by in the complex plane: . It can be shown that at finite temperature T, the Green's functions are periodic in imaginary time with a period of . Therefore their Fourier transforms contain only a discrete set of frequencies called Matsubara frequencies. Another way to see the connection between statistical mechanics and quantum field is to consider the transition amplitude between an initial state I and a final state F. H is the Hamiltonian of the system. If we compare this with the partition function we see that to get the partition function from the transition amplitudes we can replace , set F = I = n and sum over n. This way we don't have to do twice the work by evaluating both the statistical properties and the transition amplitudes. Finally by using a Wick rotation one can show that the Euclidean quantum field theoryin (D + 1)-dimensional spacetime is nothing but quantum statistical mechanics in D-dimensional space.
[edit]In cosmology
One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds? Stephen Hawking
Imaginary time is also used in cosmology. It is used to describe models of the universe in physical cosmology. Stephen Hawkingpopularized the concept of imaginary time in his book A Brief History of Time.
The relationship of real and imaginary time can be visualised as perpendicular axes of direction.
Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The concept is useful in cosmology because it can help smooth out gravitational singularities in models of the universe (see Hartle-Hawking state). Singularities pose a problem for physicists because these are areas where known physical laws do not apply. The Big Bang, for example, appears as a singularity in "regular time." But when visualized with imaginary time, the singularity is removed and the Big Bang functions like any other point in spacetime.
Does anyone understand that? The most important part is this: Imaginary time is difficult to visualize. If we imagine "regular time" as a horizontal line running between "past" in one direction and "future" in the other, then imaginary time would run perpendicular to this line as the imaginary numbers run perpendicular to the real numbers in thecomplex plane. However, imaginary time is not imaginary in the sense that it is unreal or made-up — it simply runs in a direction different from the type of time we experience. In essence, imaginary time is a way of looking at the time dimension as if it were a dimension of space: you can move forward and backward along imaginary time, just like you can move right and left in space.
The science lesson is now over, now on to the heart strings part of this episode. PENNY!!!! I was so thankful they brought her back, hey they brought dominic back to lost from Flash Forward, thy could by well bring Sonya Wagner back as well…and they did. Thank you ABC for that, now bring back Pushing Daisies as well. It wasn’t as emotional of a scene as the one in the constant, but it was as fulfilling, because it brought everything together and brought us back to the stadium, the same place where Desmond met Jack. It also seemed to make the final connections between the alt realtiy and the real time line. After he touched Penny’s hand he was flung back to the real time line, and he knew everything and trusted Widmore for the first time in his life. He even took his hand to get up. Yes, Nancy Drew, your hands popped again, but for me they are a symbol of trusting someone to touch them, that is all.
At the very end of the episode however I have a problem. Something is very very wrong with Desmond. He agrees to go with Sayid, willingly. When Desmond should know not to trust him? Why does he do that? In an interview Henry Ian Cusiak says that he believes Desmond went with him, because Desmond has a purpose now, and believes that whatever he does will lead him to that. I’m not so sure on that, it just seems that Desmond is WAY too trusting at the end of this episode, and something just makes me feel that him going with Sayid is a very bad thing.
Next episode: Everyone Loves Hugo!! This should be interesting
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Episode 10: The Package
Well this posting is quite late, ive been sick the past few days, so better late then never.
I am not sure what to think of this episode it gave us an interesting side to Sun and Jin’s love story. In the alt time line they are not married, but Sun is pregnant, so is the baby Ji Yeon?
One big problem I had with this episode was the garden on the island, it was in a different location from where its always been, why couldn’t they just have used the previous location.
People on this island really do need to watch where they are going when they run on this isand so they don’t run into a tree or something.
We got another Mirror in this episode, but only Sun sees her self in a mirror and seems to pause a moment. However Jin was in the bathroom where there was a mirror but we did not see if he had the same sort of experience as sun.
One of the most interesting points of this episode was that Widmore took Jin not because he was a possible candidate but because he had been no the island in the 70’s, and had been mapping the island. I thought this was a nice touch and was a surprising one.
The Keamy/Jin scene puzzled me because for the longest time I thought keamy said “I can't let you know what’s going to happen on the island?" The actual line confirmed by Jorge Garcia is “I can’t let you know whats going to happen to you.” There must have been some mumbling in there.
We once again get a reference to hands, sun takes Jacks hand but not Lockes, I am more convinced that this means something but I don’t know what.
The Package is Desmond and he is back!!! Awesome and interesting. Also there is the thought that it could be more then desmond, what if Penny and little Charlie are there too? Or JiYeon?
This episode was entertaining but no where near as good as last weeks episode, as well it seemed to drag in the first half hour but the 2nd half hour was paced a lot better.
I am not sure what to think of this episode it gave us an interesting side to Sun and Jin’s love story. In the alt time line they are not married, but Sun is pregnant, so is the baby Ji Yeon?
One big problem I had with this episode was the garden on the island, it was in a different location from where its always been, why couldn’t they just have used the previous location.
People on this island really do need to watch where they are going when they run on this isand so they don’t run into a tree or something.
We got another Mirror in this episode, but only Sun sees her self in a mirror and seems to pause a moment. However Jin was in the bathroom where there was a mirror but we did not see if he had the same sort of experience as sun.
One of the most interesting points of this episode was that Widmore took Jin not because he was a possible candidate but because he had been no the island in the 70’s, and had been mapping the island. I thought this was a nice touch and was a surprising one.
The Keamy/Jin scene puzzled me because for the longest time I thought keamy said “I can't let you know what’s going to happen on the island?" The actual line confirmed by Jorge Garcia is “I can’t let you know whats going to happen to you.” There must have been some mumbling in there.
We once again get a reference to hands, sun takes Jacks hand but not Lockes, I am more convinced that this means something but I don’t know what.
The Package is Desmond and he is back!!! Awesome and interesting. Also there is the thought that it could be more then desmond, what if Penny and little Charlie are there too? Or JiYeon?
This episode was entertaining but no where near as good as last weeks episode, as well it seemed to drag in the first half hour but the 2nd half hour was paced a lot better.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Ab Aberto Review
This will go down as one of the best episodes of Lost ever. They promised something epic, Nestor Carbonell said it felt like a movie, and for us viewers it did as well.
The first revelation we gat was that in 1867 Richard was alive and well on the Canary Islands, and with that math we get him at the ages of 170 and 180 years old taking into affect that he was probably between the ages of 30 or 40 when he came to the Island.
One of the most interesting parts of this story is that it started off with Jacob and Illana talking off Island in her flashback that we saw before that is pre 2007, I was not expecting a continuation of this scene, they continue to talk about the candidates and what Illana needs to do next. How Richard knows what to do next I don’t know, because at this point in the story line he seems like the most lost person on the show.
We next get the revelation that Richard thinks they are in Hell. This is interesting as one of the first theory’s that was out there was that they losties were either in purgatory or in hell.
We then finally learn Richard’s back story, and it is one of the most tragic love stories we have ever seen on this show.
"I see the Devil" - Tarawet. - So a surge of water brought them into the middle of the Jungle - destroying the statue. But what about what we saw in the finale - it was daylight and they were headed toward the island then. There are many theories for this….same ship different day…however the first mate didn’t seem to have a clue as to what was happening. Then there is the perspective theory, what Jacob and MIB saw was different from what the people on the Black Rock saw. And did they really see the Black Rock, or was that a different ship entirely. I’m inclined to believe that what we saw during the finale was the Black Rock. And while it could certainly be a different trip, what makes the most sense to me is the perspective theory, as well, perhaps Richard’s side of the boat was facing away from the island when they first starting approaching it during the day light hours. Many scenarios could be possible.
As for the Surge of water, I’m not so sure that the Black Rock could topple the statue, after all it’s made of stone, the ship is made of wood, now the Titanic I could see it happening, but not the Black Rock. I can defiantly see that storm take the ship into the island; it was a pretty big storm surge.
Next we come to Smokey and his affinity for taking pictures of people…he kills everyone else and lets Richard live. I think it is because he sees Richard is the most desperate, the most malleable to his will, and that’s why he let him survive.
My co worker has a theory that Smokey was not taking pictures of Richard, but just staring him down. I still think he was taking pictures; we have seen the flashing before and seen the images come back to us, so I’m sticking with it.
One problem I do have with this episode is the fact that everyone died on the Black Rock and yet we see the 1st mates Journal off the Island. In fact the whole timeline of the Black Rock is messed up. It could very well be a continuity error but it’s a big one for the time line. And the Journal just confuses me; perhaps someone came to the island and took it off, but still why takes a journal off the island? What would be the purpose of it?
The other question comes in with what was Isabella the first time we saw her on the Island, a ghost? Smokey? Real or something else? The first time I saw it I thought she was a ghost. But now I believe she was Smokey, and MIB was just trying to deceive Richard and play games with him. Some may say…but wait; Isabella and Smokey were in the scene together. I say wrong, they are off screen. Remember the Ben and Alex encounter. The first thing he comes up against is Smokey who presents images to him of his past. Smokey very easily could have done the same sort of thing. Come to Richard as Isabella, play on his heart strings, then get out of eye sight, return to smoke form making noises, and have the sound of someone screaming coming out of him as well. Is this too far fetched? TV guide backs me up in their review:
(TV Guide Article: Richard is visited by his wife’s ghost (a manifestation of Smokey, who reclaims the spectre to Richard’s dismay) and visited by the Man in Black, who declares, “I want to be free, too.”) Some thing else that makes think that this theory is true is that it is exactly what Jacob says to Richard.
So what do you think of this theory?
Another interesting moment in the episode was when Richard and MIB first met on the Black Rock; he describes himself as a friend and touches Richard for a very long time, too long for my taste by someone so evil. He also makes a bargain with Richard in order for him to free him he has to do anything MIB and kill the devil….Jacob
MIB says Jacob Stole his body and soul and the knife is the only way to kill Jacob, however Ben killed Jacob, talked to him even, didn’t have that knife, and still killed him. So what gives what was different?
But what I am most intrigued about is what MIB said that Jacob stole MIB’s body and soul. What does that mean? Is it literal, figurative. There are so many ways I could go with this one, Jacob is now in MIB’s old body, or Jacob took MIB’s old body for something else, or this could be MIB’s original self. But then it could all be an allegory. At the end of the day I just have to realize that I have to wait to get more answers.
Jacob vs. Richard….clear winner Jacob. And it’s the first time we see any violence from him giving Richard a Baptism in the ocean that looks rather painful.
We then get what is the best metaphor for the island so far. The island is a cork keeping the darkness from spreading, like a cork keeps wine from coming out of the bottle. We have to keep the bad genie from coming out of his bottle. And Jacob brings people to the island to prove to MIB that they aren’t corruptible, but then doesn’t help them when MIB tries to kill them or influence them against Jacob. Hence why he then decides to hire Jacob as an intermediary between Jacob and the people he brings the island because as Jacob says “Its all meaningless if I have to step in,” sounds like god talk to me.
The next thing that hits me strongly is that MIB says almost the exact some things to Richard about Jacob as Dogan says to Jack about MIB. Does this mean anything? Or have these things been said to people for generations. And something that is passed down almost.
Something that was not brought up in the podcast was the location of MIB/Richard’s final meeting, the place where he buried the necklace and where he talked to Isabella through Hurley. There is a benches and sitting stones. Is it more ruins? A special place of MIB’s. Or am I seeing too much?
I Loved the Isabella/Hurley/Richard scene, it is very ghost whispery, for your information this is what Hurley says to Isabella in Act 2: this is not translated in the episode.
HURLEY: ¿Por qué? Qué no sé.Sí, te puedo ayudar, pero, yo no sé como encontrarlo. [English] Why? I don't know. Yes, I can help you, but... I don't know how to find him.
It all felt very Ghost Whispery. And was a great moment at the end. “If you don’t stop MIB we all go to Hell” with the last line of the show being from MIB sometime in 1867 “Sooner then you think,” breaking the bottle. My question: so sooner is 140 years….seems like a long time to me.
Over all this was one of the best episodes of Lost ever, even better then the constant. Nestor Carbonell deserves an Emmy. In fact can we just give the whole cast one?
The first revelation we gat was that in 1867 Richard was alive and well on the Canary Islands, and with that math we get him at the ages of 170 and 180 years old taking into affect that he was probably between the ages of 30 or 40 when he came to the Island.
One of the most interesting parts of this story is that it started off with Jacob and Illana talking off Island in her flashback that we saw before that is pre 2007, I was not expecting a continuation of this scene, they continue to talk about the candidates and what Illana needs to do next. How Richard knows what to do next I don’t know, because at this point in the story line he seems like the most lost person on the show.
We next get the revelation that Richard thinks they are in Hell. This is interesting as one of the first theory’s that was out there was that they losties were either in purgatory or in hell.
We then finally learn Richard’s back story, and it is one of the most tragic love stories we have ever seen on this show.
"I see the Devil" - Tarawet. - So a surge of water brought them into the middle of the Jungle - destroying the statue. But what about what we saw in the finale - it was daylight and they were headed toward the island then. There are many theories for this….same ship different day…however the first mate didn’t seem to have a clue as to what was happening. Then there is the perspective theory, what Jacob and MIB saw was different from what the people on the Black Rock saw. And did they really see the Black Rock, or was that a different ship entirely. I’m inclined to believe that what we saw during the finale was the Black Rock. And while it could certainly be a different trip, what makes the most sense to me is the perspective theory, as well, perhaps Richard’s side of the boat was facing away from the island when they first starting approaching it during the day light hours. Many scenarios could be possible.
As for the Surge of water, I’m not so sure that the Black Rock could topple the statue, after all it’s made of stone, the ship is made of wood, now the Titanic I could see it happening, but not the Black Rock. I can defiantly see that storm take the ship into the island; it was a pretty big storm surge.
Next we come to Smokey and his affinity for taking pictures of people…he kills everyone else and lets Richard live. I think it is because he sees Richard is the most desperate, the most malleable to his will, and that’s why he let him survive.
My co worker has a theory that Smokey was not taking pictures of Richard, but just staring him down. I still think he was taking pictures; we have seen the flashing before and seen the images come back to us, so I’m sticking with it.
One problem I do have with this episode is the fact that everyone died on the Black Rock and yet we see the 1st mates Journal off the Island. In fact the whole timeline of the Black Rock is messed up. It could very well be a continuity error but it’s a big one for the time line. And the Journal just confuses me; perhaps someone came to the island and took it off, but still why takes a journal off the island? What would be the purpose of it?
The other question comes in with what was Isabella the first time we saw her on the Island, a ghost? Smokey? Real or something else? The first time I saw it I thought she was a ghost. But now I believe she was Smokey, and MIB was just trying to deceive Richard and play games with him. Some may say…but wait; Isabella and Smokey were in the scene together. I say wrong, they are off screen. Remember the Ben and Alex encounter. The first thing he comes up against is Smokey who presents images to him of his past. Smokey very easily could have done the same sort of thing. Come to Richard as Isabella, play on his heart strings, then get out of eye sight, return to smoke form making noises, and have the sound of someone screaming coming out of him as well. Is this too far fetched? TV guide backs me up in their review:
(TV Guide Article: Richard is visited by his wife’s ghost (a manifestation of Smokey, who reclaims the spectre to Richard’s dismay) and visited by the Man in Black, who declares, “I want to be free, too.”) Some thing else that makes think that this theory is true is that it is exactly what Jacob says to Richard.
So what do you think of this theory?
Another interesting moment in the episode was when Richard and MIB first met on the Black Rock; he describes himself as a friend and touches Richard for a very long time, too long for my taste by someone so evil. He also makes a bargain with Richard in order for him to free him he has to do anything MIB and kill the devil….Jacob
MIB says Jacob Stole his body and soul and the knife is the only way to kill Jacob, however Ben killed Jacob, talked to him even, didn’t have that knife, and still killed him. So what gives what was different?
But what I am most intrigued about is what MIB said that Jacob stole MIB’s body and soul. What does that mean? Is it literal, figurative. There are so many ways I could go with this one, Jacob is now in MIB’s old body, or Jacob took MIB’s old body for something else, or this could be MIB’s original self. But then it could all be an allegory. At the end of the day I just have to realize that I have to wait to get more answers.
Jacob vs. Richard….clear winner Jacob. And it’s the first time we see any violence from him giving Richard a Baptism in the ocean that looks rather painful.
We then get what is the best metaphor for the island so far. The island is a cork keeping the darkness from spreading, like a cork keeps wine from coming out of the bottle. We have to keep the bad genie from coming out of his bottle. And Jacob brings people to the island to prove to MIB that they aren’t corruptible, but then doesn’t help them when MIB tries to kill them or influence them against Jacob. Hence why he then decides to hire Jacob as an intermediary between Jacob and the people he brings the island because as Jacob says “Its all meaningless if I have to step in,” sounds like god talk to me.
The next thing that hits me strongly is that MIB says almost the exact some things to Richard about Jacob as Dogan says to Jack about MIB. Does this mean anything? Or have these things been said to people for generations. And something that is passed down almost.
Something that was not brought up in the podcast was the location of MIB/Richard’s final meeting, the place where he buried the necklace and where he talked to Isabella through Hurley. There is a benches and sitting stones. Is it more ruins? A special place of MIB’s. Or am I seeing too much?
I Loved the Isabella/Hurley/Richard scene, it is very ghost whispery, for your information this is what Hurley says to Isabella in Act 2: this is not translated in the episode.
HURLEY: ¿Por qué? Qué no sé.Sí, te puedo ayudar, pero, yo no sé como encontrarlo. [English] Why? I don't know. Yes, I can help you, but... I don't know how to find him.
It all felt very Ghost Whispery. And was a great moment at the end. “If you don’t stop MIB we all go to Hell” with the last line of the show being from MIB sometime in 1867 “Sooner then you think,” breaking the bottle. My question: so sooner is 140 years….seems like a long time to me.
Over all this was one of the best episodes of Lost ever, even better then the constant. Nestor Carbonell deserves an Emmy. In fact can we just give the whole cast one?
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Lost: Episode 8: Recon
This was a good episode, right after the episode, I didn't think I liked it very much, it just rubbed me the wrong way, i liked parts but not the episode as a whole.
This episode was all about conning people and discovering the truth. For me everything that is said by MIB and Widmore needs to be taken with a grain of salt, we never know if they can be taken seriously, if what they say is the truth, a lie, or have a little bit of both.
If they are indeed the two who are going to war then i say go at it...I don't care, we have often said that we want to know whose side we are supposed to be on, and in this case, we are on no one's side.
For me, I am invested in the characters, and if those two can go at it and kill each other then all is good. However if any of our losties really get involved, then I will be worried. And that I believe is what Sawyer's goal is with this episode.
He con's both sides to get them at each other, making each side believe they are the upper hand, but Sawyer isn't on either of their sides, he is on his own side, and protecting his people.
Its interesting that i say his people. I say this because his character arc I now believe has been from the loner to the leader. Can we have two leaders in the group like Jack and Sawyer, I think yes. After all, we need someone to stay on the island and protect it and someone to leave, or at least thats what I believe. i don't know who will be who, Ive flip flopped the entire season as this theory has developed in my mind.
In the screen caps of the substitute it said that Sawyer joined the side of Locke, it also said the same thing about Kate being a recruit of anti Locke.
I now disagree about both.
Kate is not on Anti-Locke's side because she was just following along, she didn't know who anti locke was nor what he stood for. She is still following blindly at this point, but is very wary of anti Locke and doesn't trust him at all...as it was noted in the podcast...he refused his hand, she has not touched him at all.
Sawyer on the other hand, when i first saw the Substitute I agreed that he was a recruit of anti locke, but now, i believe he is not. He has just been using his skills of a con man and liar to stay out of the fray and to use people to his own and the losties advantage. He just want off this island, after all hes been there for 3 years....I think you would want off the island too after three years of no internet!! lol.
But seriously Sawyer may be back to his old self somewhat, but he has also integrated both his 1970's side and his old self into this new person, who is doing things that may be questionable, but for good reasons. He has changed a lot, it was though difficult to see the changes in this episode because it seemed like he had just reverted to his post crash self, that he had no character growth, but as I said, I now disagree with myself. All of the characters in this episode had some very interesting character growth.
Locke and his screwed up mother....seriously he holds on to this for thousands of years possibly...grow up already. ok ok, I believe he was lying when he told Kate about his mother, but he did use this story to explain the Claire situation to Kate, and now I think she is worried even more about Claire and about Aaron, I hope we see more of this, and i really hope we get some conclusion to this story line and see Aaron again and hope we find out how he is special....and PLEASE DO NOT HAVE HIM BE ANTI LOCKE...that would to me be horrible. mainly because it would be very predictable of a story line.
I do think however that Anti Locke and Jacob have to be gods or Demi Gods as some of you are suggesting.
As for Anthony Cooper here is what I believe is true in the x time line.
Anthony Cooper did Con James's Parents
He is John Lockes father.
Somewhere along the line, he changed, and is lying to John Locke about his past.
He may or may not have had a kidney transplant...could go either way.
he deffinitly did NOT push John Locke out of the window....after all would you still be nice to your parent if they threw you out of the window? I wouldn't.
So over all, a great solid episode, with lots of great dialouge, plenty of Sawyer half naked, and some interesting plot movement.
Not as good ad Dr. Linus though. That so far is our highest point in season, but this one is a really solid, good episode that was now i think really enjoyable.
This episode was all about conning people and discovering the truth. For me everything that is said by MIB and Widmore needs to be taken with a grain of salt, we never know if they can be taken seriously, if what they say is the truth, a lie, or have a little bit of both.
If they are indeed the two who are going to war then i say go at it...I don't care, we have often said that we want to know whose side we are supposed to be on, and in this case, we are on no one's side.
For me, I am invested in the characters, and if those two can go at it and kill each other then all is good. However if any of our losties really get involved, then I will be worried. And that I believe is what Sawyer's goal is with this episode.
He con's both sides to get them at each other, making each side believe they are the upper hand, but Sawyer isn't on either of their sides, he is on his own side, and protecting his people.
Its interesting that i say his people. I say this because his character arc I now believe has been from the loner to the leader. Can we have two leaders in the group like Jack and Sawyer, I think yes. After all, we need someone to stay on the island and protect it and someone to leave, or at least thats what I believe. i don't know who will be who, Ive flip flopped the entire season as this theory has developed in my mind.
In the screen caps of the substitute it said that Sawyer joined the side of Locke, it also said the same thing about Kate being a recruit of anti Locke.
I now disagree about both.
Kate is not on Anti-Locke's side because she was just following along, she didn't know who anti locke was nor what he stood for. She is still following blindly at this point, but is very wary of anti Locke and doesn't trust him at all...as it was noted in the podcast...he refused his hand, she has not touched him at all.
Sawyer on the other hand, when i first saw the Substitute I agreed that he was a recruit of anti locke, but now, i believe he is not. He has just been using his skills of a con man and liar to stay out of the fray and to use people to his own and the losties advantage. He just want off this island, after all hes been there for 3 years....I think you would want off the island too after three years of no internet!! lol.
But seriously Sawyer may be back to his old self somewhat, but he has also integrated both his 1970's side and his old self into this new person, who is doing things that may be questionable, but for good reasons. He has changed a lot, it was though difficult to see the changes in this episode because it seemed like he had just reverted to his post crash self, that he had no character growth, but as I said, I now disagree with myself. All of the characters in this episode had some very interesting character growth.
Locke and his screwed up mother....seriously he holds on to this for thousands of years possibly...grow up already. ok ok, I believe he was lying when he told Kate about his mother, but he did use this story to explain the Claire situation to Kate, and now I think she is worried even more about Claire and about Aaron, I hope we see more of this, and i really hope we get some conclusion to this story line and see Aaron again and hope we find out how he is special....and PLEASE DO NOT HAVE HIM BE ANTI LOCKE...that would to me be horrible. mainly because it would be very predictable of a story line.
I do think however that Anti Locke and Jacob have to be gods or Demi Gods as some of you are suggesting.
As for Anthony Cooper here is what I believe is true in the x time line.
Anthony Cooper did Con James's Parents
He is John Lockes father.
Somewhere along the line, he changed, and is lying to John Locke about his past.
He may or may not have had a kidney transplant...could go either way.
he deffinitly did NOT push John Locke out of the window....after all would you still be nice to your parent if they threw you out of the window? I wouldn't.
So over all, a great solid episode, with lots of great dialouge, plenty of Sawyer half naked, and some interesting plot movement.
Not as good ad Dr. Linus though. That so far is our highest point in season, but this one is a really solid, good episode that was now i think really enjoyable.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Ben is Awesome: Lost Episode 7: Dr. Linus
I LOVED this episode, it had everything anyone could want....except for Sawyer with no shirt on.
I Agree completly with Michael, this is the first time that I really cared about what happend in the alternate time line, but also I noticed that we didn't see Ben see a reflection of himself in any mirror or reflecting surface...unless I missed something. Also Ben did not have any dejavu moment through the episode that others on the island have. He didnt seem to have any connection with the real time line.
Perhaps this is because he wasnt a lostie, he was a boy when the island sunk, and when he left, though we are still unsure as to when this happend to him.
Was he shot in the first place to need to be healed? I dont know, the Roger/Ben conversation while very interesting didn't give us many hints as to when and how they left. After all the last we saw little Ben he was in the camp with the others after being healed.
Of course If the Bomb did work then the losties never made it to the island, and there was no need for them to come to the island in the first place, then no need for them to detonate the bomb...right...then wouldnt the island still be there? Unless by not detonating the bomb that sunk the island?
Whoever said time travels a bitch is right its giving me a headache thinking of all the time paradoxes, if anyone can explain it to me please do so, I will be bringing up this topic on the Podcast tomorrow.
Michael Emerson is brilliant in this episode, but also a very good performance of Jack and Richard in the Black Rock, seeing who would blink first, and whether the dynamite would go off or not.
Other cool moments...Miles and the Diamonds...hillarious. Hurley: Cheese Curds...hey he was hungry...Also Hurley asking Richard if he was a vampire, on his podcast Jorge Garcia revealed that this line was an ad lib that he did on set, and was surprised that it got into the episode. I loved it!
This episode was very much about Redemption of oneself in one time line but also across timelines. As well we are still focusing a lot on destiny, but also on belonging, Ben said that only Smoky would take him, Illana says she would take him.
One of the themes that I think has been over looked through out the series is the sense of belonging, it has been said that a person alone doesnt have much sense of identity, humans are social animals we want to feel like we belong some where. And the losties have had that dilema since the beginning.
We had the Cave people and the Beach People.
The People in the Barracks and the People on the Beach
and Now we have the People on the Beach and the people with Smoky.
The characters that have gone it alone in this series after a time go rather crazy: Case in point: Danielle, Desmond in season 2, and now Claire.
Time after time our characters have gravitated toward one another for companionship but also just to feel like they aren't alone in the world. And this episode was a prime example of it for Ben in the end. He now feels like he belongs somewhere, now that all his power has been taken away, he just has to figure out what his position is in that group...and that is something we will just have to wait and see...that and Sawyer with his shirt off again.
I Agree completly with Michael, this is the first time that I really cared about what happend in the alternate time line, but also I noticed that we didn't see Ben see a reflection of himself in any mirror or reflecting surface...unless I missed something. Also Ben did not have any dejavu moment through the episode that others on the island have. He didnt seem to have any connection with the real time line.
Perhaps this is because he wasnt a lostie, he was a boy when the island sunk, and when he left, though we are still unsure as to when this happend to him.
Was he shot in the first place to need to be healed? I dont know, the Roger/Ben conversation while very interesting didn't give us many hints as to when and how they left. After all the last we saw little Ben he was in the camp with the others after being healed.
Of course If the Bomb did work then the losties never made it to the island, and there was no need for them to come to the island in the first place, then no need for them to detonate the bomb...right...then wouldnt the island still be there? Unless by not detonating the bomb that sunk the island?
Whoever said time travels a bitch is right its giving me a headache thinking of all the time paradoxes, if anyone can explain it to me please do so, I will be bringing up this topic on the Podcast tomorrow.
Michael Emerson is brilliant in this episode, but also a very good performance of Jack and Richard in the Black Rock, seeing who would blink first, and whether the dynamite would go off or not.
Other cool moments...Miles and the Diamonds...hillarious. Hurley: Cheese Curds...hey he was hungry...Also Hurley asking Richard if he was a vampire, on his podcast Jorge Garcia revealed that this line was an ad lib that he did on set, and was surprised that it got into the episode. I loved it!
This episode was very much about Redemption of oneself in one time line but also across timelines. As well we are still focusing a lot on destiny, but also on belonging, Ben said that only Smoky would take him, Illana says she would take him.
One of the themes that I think has been over looked through out the series is the sense of belonging, it has been said that a person alone doesnt have much sense of identity, humans are social animals we want to feel like we belong some where. And the losties have had that dilema since the beginning.
We had the Cave people and the Beach People.
The People in the Barracks and the People on the Beach
and Now we have the People on the Beach and the people with Smoky.
The characters that have gone it alone in this series after a time go rather crazy: Case in point: Danielle, Desmond in season 2, and now Claire.
Time after time our characters have gravitated toward one another for companionship but also just to feel like they aren't alone in the world. And this episode was a prime example of it for Ben in the end. He now feels like he belongs somewhere, now that all his power has been taken away, he just has to figure out what his position is in that group...and that is something we will just have to wait and see...that and Sawyer with his shirt off again.
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