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[alonewiththemoon]

What a gorgeous horse, and what an enigmatic one. I was glad it was real--"What, you mean that big ass horse standing over there?" But in addition to whatever it means to Kate and the plot*, it was also a nice nod to another island castaway story, The Black Stallion. Maybe Kate will take him home and win the big match race.

*my guess being spirit of the island was showing her its approval for coming to face her demons by saying to Sawyer what she did. Of course, this also would mean that the spirit of the island interfered to help her escape the marshall long before she came to the island, but hey, what's one more coincidence/manifestation of fate?

The Internets are all abuzz about the Kate/Jack kiss, but I think she just did it to prove to herself that she didn't actually want Jack. Pretty clear she was all about the hot shaggy haired blond boy... yeah...

Also, I have not really been able to verify this, but many people are saying you see Sayid's face briefly on a television monitor in Kate's "dad's" office in a news report. Maybe it had to do with his assistance in the thwarted plot in Australia? Though you'd think the last thing he or the CIA would want would be for his face to be broadcast all over the world.

I have a Walt theory, too. Being with the Others changes people; we saw that Mister Eko feared what seemed to be the people who had been kidnapped from the tailies, and there was Rousseau's experience. So perhaps Walt is being changed by the Others, but a part of him is resisting it and that's the part that appeared to Shannon and Sayid, speaking backwards to fool the part of himself that has been changed already, looking drowned because that part of him is pretending to be dead. So which part is talking to Michael? I'd imagine the changed part, which would be bad.



There is a man on the sidewalk outside my window yelling about paying a buck fifty for a bagel. He seems rather overwraught about it. Apparently it ought to be a buck fifty for three.

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[xenoglaux]

As long as it isn't a Twin Peaks kind of horse. eek.

I still think they're all dead and they're in an In-Between waiting the 42 (heh) days before rebirth. Ecko knows this and is prepared which is why he is coping so handly.

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

I still think they're all dead and they're in an In-Between

My coworker suggested something very much along those lines last night. That does sound plausible.

[alonewiththemoon]

One of the production team, I believe it was Damon Lindelhof, said categorically that they are not all dead or in purgatory. Which is good, because I never liked that theory anyway ;-)

That doesn't mean that some of the characters might not come to believe that, though; Eko did go silent for 40-some days...

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

as i recall the writers have already said that they are not dead.

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

"What, you mean that big ass horse standing over there?"

That really was the best line, and delivery, of the whole ep.

Of course, this also would mean that the spirit of the island interfered to help her escape the marshall long before she came to the island, but hey, what's one more coincidence/manifestation of fate?

Not necessarily. It could have just lifted that image from her mind. Or perhaps that black horse is her spirit guide who rescued her from arrest so that she could end up on the plane and then the island in order to work out this stuff. But ... more likely it was the island all along. It seems to have had enough other retroactive effects on people.

many people are saying you see Sayid's face briefly on a television monitor in Kate's "dad's" office in a news report

Damn, I wish I'd taped it so I could check that out!

So perhaps Walt is being changed by the Others, but a part of him is resisting it and that's the part that appeared to Shannon and Sayid, speaking backwards to fool the part of himself that has been changed already, looking drowned because that part of him is pretending to be dead.

Huh, that is a good theory.

So which part is talking to Michael? I'd imagine the changed part, which would be bad.

Actually, given the piece of film the other two had just watched, I kind of thought it might be the computer itself trying to trick Michael. And that perhaps whatever would cause the computer to do that, would be the spirit or elemental behind all the negative and dangerous stuff that happens on the island, in opposition to the spirit or elemental energy that gets people to work out issues from their lives prior to the crash.

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

please do not post this elsewhere as i am hosting it...and i hope no one hot links this, but here's your evidence:

[alonewiththemoon]

excellent, thanks! That's definitely him alright!

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

he is in two frames and it looks clearer than in the screen cap. it is definitely him. :)

what does it all mean?!

:> HELLO?

did you see the update at the hanso foundation website? click on hanso's picture.

[alonewiththemoon]

Fascinating! Zanzibar, huh? That's certainly close enough to mainland Africa that a small plane could end up there (that's something that always nagged at me--the Nigerian plane couldn't have come from *that* far away, but a small plane could get from Nigeria to Zanzibar with stops for refueling). Though I am somewhat partial to the idea that the island moves.

I also hadn't seen the press release about the life extension project before...

[sanguineempathy.livejournal.com]

I was really glad the horse was real too - and SO pretty too ;P

I just really hope nothing bad happens to it. :~/