IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED CLOVERFIELD, DO NOT READ!!!
I've never, ever watched a movie more than twice in theaters on the same night...until now. And I absolutely loved it. It is my favorite movie. I came out of both of them shaking from excitement; I think I even teared up from amazement in the middle somewhere. Also, did anyone notice the DHARMA logo (Hydra, I think) in the first minute of the movie in the bottom right corner? The cinematography was great, the acting was great, and the score (being the song in the credits, which was by Mikey G. (Lost music!)) was great. Did you guys stay 'til the very end to hear the audio? Well, there were various ideas...but if you reverse it...you can hear (pretty plainly) "It's still alive." Of course! It's not a J. J. production without a backward whisper! Out of 4 stars...I'll give it...108 stars!
Friday, January 18, 2008
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Still...Too...Much...Thinking...
If you ever get bored, look for the Tim Tang Test online, and try it out. It's more fun working with someone else, but I'm addicted to it. My friend Kathleen and I took from 12:30 (just past noon) until 1:30 AM to get to level 31, which I've been told is making good time.
And here it is, in case you don't read the LostUnlocked podcast comments (which both of you do).
Okay, that one was a bit (insert synonym for "crackpotty" here). But here comes the mega-theory, which covers why the Island couldn't be found but can now, superb healing powers, why babies and their mothers died, ridiculously high sperm count, the four-toed statue, how various travel-crafts arrived to the island, the hostiles, the DHARMA Initiative, Desmond seeing the future, and the Whispers.
I would've been done sooner, but I wanted to see how Ch. 2 of the ARG turned out to help support my theory. I apologize for the longness.
Ok, so I'm gonna give you the startings of a working theory. It is in no way complete yet. Also, if this theory is already thought up better on some forum, I apologize; I've been too afraid of spoilers to go on any theory boards. And so it begins:
So we've all heard about the Bermuda Triangle and its notoriety for electromagnetic problems and disappearing ships and planes. Well, there are said to be 11 /more/ such triangles around earth: Five on the Tropic of Cancer, five on the Tropic of Capricorn, and one above each pole. I think that these 12 triangles are wormhole sort of things that dump whatever disappears from them to one of 6 places, one of which is the island.
Alright, this next place is hard to explain, partly because I just barely understand it. As I was looking for a good map of the Vile Vortices via Google Images, I came across something called Becker-Hagen’s Planetary Grid, which maps out the centers of these 12 triangles and 50 more triangles (which aren’t quite as notorious for anything. I think The Numbers pinpoint the locations of 6 of these points (see Numbers below) which are the dumping grounds for the main 12 Vile Vortices.
If you have a globe or Google Map in front of you, this will be easier to understand. If you notice, Flight 815 wouldn’t have normally gone through any triangles, but they turned back towards Fiji, thus heading directly into the Loyalty Islands triangle. According to the Find815 ARG, the Black Rock disappeared in the South Indian Ocean, so it could have disappeared in either the Wharton Basin triangle or the Zimbabwe triangle. The French Research Team (Rousseau) could have gone from anywhere (but why /was/ she traveling around researching while 7-8 months pregnant?!). The Polar Bears could be transported via the Arctic triangle. And the Nigerian Drug Plane could have gone through the Algerian triangle (directly above the Sahara). One point of the Bermuda triangle touches Miami (where Juliet left from).
And now it gets a bit harder to explain and much less believable:
Point 4: South-middlish Russia
Point 8: In Canada, specifically the province of Alberta
Point 15: Just Northwest of the Midland Islands (which are just west of Hawaii
Point 16: Just Northeast of Hawaii
Point 23: East of Africa, Southwest of the British Indian Ocean Territory
Point 42: East of South Africa and South of Point 23
DHARMA and/or The Others might be researching these 6 points to discover more than they already know. I think they’ve discovered how to successfully use most, if not all, of these points. The Others seem to have a love of Canada, and Mikhail thought that Bonnie and Greta were on assignment there…possibly to research Point 8?
I think the Island may not be in just one place. What I mean is, it’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time. NOT PURGATORY, but a purgatory-esque environment. As in, it’s stuck /between/ places. It may be in more points at one time, which seems impossible, but you gotta use some of that pseudo-meta-physic stuff to understand (I still don’t totally get it). When the Hatch went Kablooey, the Island suddenly became stuck in one location, so it can now be seen and much more easily discovered.
And maybe, just as it can jump space, it can jump time. I don’t mean necessarily back in time, but little jumps forward, which could explain why 815 hasn’t been found yet in our time (according to the ARG) and Walt is older and so on. And the Hatch (im/ex)plosion might have caused this. The powers/waves/whatever the heck the Hatch was meant to control might have had something to do with the time leap, explaining why Desmond himself took his own kind of time (*cough*quantum*cough*) leaps.
Speaking of these powers, I think there are ways to control it, a.k.a. The Swan. But the power just kind of works on certain parts of anyone who is there: their antibodies and other healing parts and (fe)male sex organs. This explains while they heal quickly, why sperm is 5-10 times greater in volume, and why Juliet (upon seeing the womb X-Ray) guesses a much younger age of the woman to whom the womb belongs than is true. And The Hostiles know how to harness this power and they aren't effected by these time jumps. The Hostiles could possibly have lived there since the beginning of that Island's existence. Their religion may have falled apart, due to the arrival of the DHARMA Initiative taking over the island, but the Temple and a portion of their statue remains.
Back to the time jumps, ya know in that ARG where Sam hears the transmission from days after Earhart disappears? That sounds leaped forward in time from its time to his. Desmond can see forward. Is it too far to think that the souls (or something less familiar) of the dead jump forward? The Whispers. According to transcripts of The Whispers found on Lostpedia (but aren’t necessarily correct, since it was analyzed by some fellow fans whose names escape me presently), somewhere in a whisper you hear some German (there was a man in the rear of the plane mentioned to be German), you hear someone say they’ve experienced in a plane crash before, but the biggest support is in the episode where Shannon gets shot (Collision, I think). Watch the few seconds before she gets shot and you can hear two or three times pretty clearly (and in the forefront) “Hi Sis”. Yeah.
To conclude: I think I need to sleep more often.
And here it is, in case you don't read the LostUnlocked podcast comments (which both of you do).
Okay, that one was a bit (insert synonym for "crackpotty" here). But here comes the mega-theory, which covers why the Island couldn't be found but can now, superb healing powers, why babies and their mothers died, ridiculously high sperm count, the four-toed statue, how various travel-crafts arrived to the island, the hostiles, the DHARMA Initiative, Desmond seeing the future, and the Whispers.
I would've been done sooner, but I wanted to see how Ch. 2 of the ARG turned out to help support my theory. I apologize for the longness.
Ok, so I'm gonna give you the startings of a working theory. It is in no way complete yet. Also, if this theory is already thought up better on some forum, I apologize; I've been too afraid of spoilers to go on any theory boards. And so it begins:
So we've all heard about the Bermuda Triangle and its notoriety for electromagnetic problems and disappearing ships and planes. Well, there are said to be 11 /more/ such triangles around earth: Five on the Tropic of Cancer, five on the Tropic of Capricorn, and one above each pole. I think that these 12 triangles are wormhole sort of things that dump whatever disappears from them to one of 6 places, one of which is the island.
Alright, this next place is hard to explain, partly because I just barely understand it. As I was looking for a good map of the Vile Vortices via Google Images, I came across something called Becker-Hagen’s Planetary Grid, which maps out the centers of these 12 triangles and 50 more triangles (which aren’t quite as notorious for anything. I think The Numbers pinpoint the locations of 6 of these points (see Numbers below) which are the dumping grounds for the main 12 Vile Vortices.
If you have a globe or Google Map in front of you, this will be easier to understand. If you notice, Flight 815 wouldn’t have normally gone through any triangles, but they turned back towards Fiji, thus heading directly into the Loyalty Islands triangle. According to the Find815 ARG, the Black Rock disappeared in the South Indian Ocean, so it could have disappeared in either the Wharton Basin triangle or the Zimbabwe triangle. The French Research Team (Rousseau) could have gone from anywhere (but why /was/ she traveling around researching while 7-8 months pregnant?!). The Polar Bears could be transported via the Arctic triangle. And the Nigerian Drug Plane could have gone through the Algerian triangle (directly above the Sahara). One point of the Bermuda triangle touches Miami (where Juliet left from).
And now it gets a bit harder to explain and much less believable:
Point 4: South-middlish Russia
Point 8: In Canada, specifically the province of Alberta
Point 15: Just Northwest of the Midland Islands (which are just west of Hawaii
Point 16: Just Northeast of Hawaii
Point 23: East of Africa, Southwest of the British Indian Ocean Territory
Point 42: East of South Africa and South of Point 23
DHARMA and/or The Others might be researching these 6 points to discover more than they already know. I think they’ve discovered how to successfully use most, if not all, of these points. The Others seem to have a love of Canada, and Mikhail thought that Bonnie and Greta were on assignment there…possibly to research Point 8?
I think the Island may not be in just one place. What I mean is, it’s everywhere and nowhere at the same time. NOT PURGATORY, but a purgatory-esque environment. As in, it’s stuck /between/ places. It may be in more points at one time, which seems impossible, but you gotta use some of that pseudo-meta-physic stuff to understand (I still don’t totally get it). When the Hatch went Kablooey, the Island suddenly became stuck in one location, so it can now be seen and much more easily discovered.
And maybe, just as it can jump space, it can jump time. I don’t mean necessarily back in time, but little jumps forward, which could explain why 815 hasn’t been found yet in our time (according to the ARG) and Walt is older and so on. And the Hatch (im/ex)plosion might have caused this. The powers/waves/whatever the heck the Hatch was meant to control might have had something to do with the time leap, explaining why Desmond himself took his own kind of time (*cough*quantum*cough*) leaps.
Speaking of these powers, I think there are ways to control it, a.k.a. The Swan. But the power just kind of works on certain parts of anyone who is there: their antibodies and other healing parts and (fe)male sex organs. This explains while they heal quickly, why sperm is 5-10 times greater in volume, and why Juliet (upon seeing the womb X-Ray) guesses a much younger age of the woman to whom the womb belongs than is true. And The Hostiles know how to harness this power and they aren't effected by these time jumps. The Hostiles could possibly have lived there since the beginning of that Island's existence. Their religion may have falled apart, due to the arrival of the DHARMA Initiative taking over the island, but the Temple and a portion of their statue remains.
Back to the time jumps, ya know in that ARG where Sam hears the transmission from days after Earhart disappears? That sounds leaped forward in time from its time to his. Desmond can see forward. Is it too far to think that the souls (or something less familiar) of the dead jump forward? The Whispers. According to transcripts of The Whispers found on Lostpedia (but aren’t necessarily correct, since it was analyzed by some fellow fans whose names escape me presently), somewhere in a whisper you hear some German (there was a man in the rear of the plane mentioned to be German), you hear someone say they’ve experienced in a plane crash before, but the biggest support is in the episode where Shannon gets shot (Collision, I think). Watch the few seconds before she gets shot and you can hear two or three times pretty clearly (and in the forefront) “Hi Sis”. Yeah.
To conclude: I think I need to sleep more often.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Too...Much...Thinking...
I just /have/ to listen to Lost podcasts as I go to bed, don't I...
So now this amalgamation of mini-theories I've had are trying to be lumped together into one mega-theory. It keeps me up for at least an hour later than I mean to be awake every night because I'm either reasoning things in my head, Googling and Wiki-ing terms, or reading this book called PSIence. In a day or two, I'll remove it from the fractured ideas it is in my head and have it typed up into a semi-intelligible theory. It'll have holes, of course, but I need people to ask questions so I can try to fill those holes, thus making the theory more forceful...
I need sleep.
So now this amalgamation of mini-theories I've had are trying to be lumped together into one mega-theory. It keeps me up for at least an hour later than I mean to be awake every night because I'm either reasoning things in my head, Googling and Wiki-ing terms, or reading this book called PSIence. In a day or two, I'll remove it from the fractured ideas it is in my head and have it typed up into a semi-intelligible theory. It'll have holes, of course, but I need people to ask questions so I can try to fill those holes, thus making the theory more forceful...
I need sleep.
Saturday, January 5, 2008
.01% Internet Sucks
I hate not being able to post often.
It's really difficult to do the ARG with no internet.
Christmas rocked. I have the 2008 Lost calendar and season 3 of Lost, speaking of which, my favorite easter egg is (semi-spoiler, but maybe not for the two of you who read this) the Room 23 sequence. I want to try looping that as I sleep on night and see if I end up weird in the morning. Oh yeah, and the Lost season 2 soundtrack.
I had to go to the Cotton Bowl to play at the game there. I didn't really have much fun there, but at least I bought an 1000 piece Lost puzzle. I think I got the one about the connections between the characters.
And finally, a joke I found on a forum (Chris and Brian, feel free to use it in a podcast):
How many LOST fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: 108
One to notice the light is burned out.
23 to argue whether the light bulb is burned out or just off.
One to check to see if the light bulb has a DHARMA logo on it.
42 to discuss the significance of the light bulb and why it burned out exactly when it did.
Three to look up the “Meaning” of light bulbs.
Two to site references in classical literature about light bulbs.
One to stand around and ***** about how light bulbs have “Jumped the Shark”.
Ten people will come from out of nowhere to say how the hate light bulbs and how they’ll never watch a light bulb again.
15 more to complain that light bulbs were better in season 1.
Four to discuss whether the light bulb is a hallucination.
Five to wonder if Kate will fall in love with the light bulb.
One who will take screen captures of the light bulb and enhance it x 100 then post it to discuss the significance of the piece of dust covering part of the DHARMA logo.
One to check the serial numbers on the light bulb to see how they match up with ‘The Numbers”
http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/archive/index.php/t-63250.html
Here's the thread I took it from, and it's kind of funny to read some of the other suggestions for answers.
It's really difficult to do the ARG with no internet.
Christmas rocked. I have the 2008 Lost calendar and season 3 of Lost, speaking of which, my favorite easter egg is (semi-spoiler, but maybe not for the two of you who read this) the Room 23 sequence. I want to try looping that as I sleep on night and see if I end up weird in the morning. Oh yeah, and the Lost season 2 soundtrack.
I had to go to the Cotton Bowl to play at the game there. I didn't really have much fun there, but at least I bought an 1000 piece Lost puzzle. I think I got the one about the connections between the characters.
And finally, a joke I found on a forum (Chris and Brian, feel free to use it in a podcast):
How many LOST fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: 108
One to notice the light is burned out.
23 to argue whether the light bulb is burned out or just off.
One to check to see if the light bulb has a DHARMA logo on it.
42 to discuss the significance of the light bulb and why it burned out exactly when it did.
Three to look up the “Meaning” of light bulbs.
Two to site references in classical literature about light bulbs.
One to stand around and ***** about how light bulbs have “Jumped the Shark”.
Ten people will come from out of nowhere to say how the hate light bulbs and how they’ll never watch a light bulb again.
15 more to complain that light bulbs were better in season 1.
Four to discuss whether the light bulb is a hallucination.
Five to wonder if Kate will fall in love with the light bulb.
One who will take screen captures of the light bulb and enhance it x 100 then post it to discuss the significance of the piece of dust covering part of the DHARMA logo.
One to check the serial numbers on the light bulb to see how they match up with ‘The Numbers”
http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/archive/index.php/t-63250.html
Here's the thread I took it from, and it's kind of funny to read some of the other suggestions for answers.
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