Lost babbling

[alonewiththemoon]

Random observations:

Brother Justin is scary, no two ways about it.  Those dark sunglasses must have been a reference to his Carnivale character.  But more significantly, he told Sayid that they forced him on the road to becoming a torturer because there would be something he would need to find out someday.  I'm guessing Brother Justin is a friend of Desmond.  Also, the other, kinder gentler army guy was Kate's dad (the not biological dad), the plot does thicken.  Maybe that helps to explain why Sayid was on the tv monitor in Kate's dad's office.  My co-worker, who says she looked this up though I haven't done it yet myself, said that Kate's mom was the waitress in the diner where Sawyer met with his accomplice in last week's episode.  I do remember that her mom was a waitress in such an establishment.

Have none of the characters read the Wizard of Oz books?  Henry Gale?  A hot air balloon?  Hello!  Though watch, it will be Sawyer with all his reading who gets the reference, though whether he tells anybody will be another thing entirely. That fellow is so Other.  Sayid would have gotten it out of him if his self-control hadn't snapped, I'm sure.  But maybe he needed his self-control to snap to prevent himself from tapping deeper into that part of himself.  Punching a man, who you are sure is the enemy, out of rage over Shannon's death seems more humanly understandable than coldbloodedly and methodically causing a person extensive pain over a period of time.

Crazy red Egyptian hieroglyphics flashed in the split seconds during which Locke hesitated before pressing enter.  I recognized truth (a feather) and a vulture, though of course they may have refered to phonetic sounds and not the things they look like.  Hieroglyphs can work either way, if I recall correctly.  But the feather makes me think of the final judgment of the souls of the dead before they may enter the happy afterlife--the deceased's heart is weighed against a feather representing Ma'at, the goddess of truth.  If the heart is good and pure, it won't outweigh the feather.  If it is not good and pure, crocodiles will devour your soul forever more.  So perhaps by not entering the numbers, one invites final judgment upon one's soul.

Hated Sawyer for squishing the frog, but I think he did it because Hurley pitied him.  Pitied Sawyer, I mean--he made it clear that Sawyer's threat to tell on him didn't really matter that much to him, so he must have accompanied him out of pity.  Sawyer really does seem to want everybody to hate him.  I do like the way however that not all characters are making clear progress towards lifting whatever burdens they arrived with.  I would say Kate, Mr. Eko, Locke, Sun and Jin and somewhat Sayid are the only ones who are really facing themselves and their pasts and moving forward into becoming better human beings.  Charlie was doing this, but clearly backslid, ditto Sawyer.


yeah, way too seriously.

I forgot to mention that frankensplean  took some lovely photos of the Ominous Collective event last week.  I actually even like the ones of me, except for the one where I think I was doing big hip circles and look about six months pregnant.  Ah well.  The wings ones are really nice though.  I like the way the wings look like they are slightly vibrating as though I am in flight.

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Your insights are enlightening

[sanguineempathy.livejournal.com]

I didn't think about it that much - it just made me sad. But now I can see your points clearer :)

[firefly124.livejournal.com]

+++Have none of the characters read the Wizard of Oz books? Henry Gale? A hot air balloon? Hello! +++

Thank you! I thought I was the only one who got that.

+++Hated Sawyer for squishing the frog, but I think he did it because Hurley pitied him. Pitied Sawyer, I mean+++

Huh. I didn't get that part. I thought he was just reasserting himself as a rat bastard. But now that you say it, I can kinda see that, too.

Good pictures!

[http://users.livejournal.com/_perihelion_/]

good clues but you seem to be implying that you think they are in some sort of purgatory. however, Lindelof has stated unequivocally that that is not what's going on. I will agree that they are all on some sort of metaphoric / spiritual journey but whatever it is / whatever the mythology, it's still a part of the real world.

[alonewiththemoon]

Oh, even before Lindelhof denied the purgatory thing I strongly disliked that particular theory. I firmly believe they are all alive, at least the ones who are still living. It's all real world, but that real world may well contain judgmental crocodiles ;-)

Actually, this judgment theory kind of fits in with the black smoke monster making scenes from people's lives flash before their eyes when it has a close encounter with a person. Big black smoky crocodile.

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

i don't think they're all egyptian...

http://www.greatscott.com/hiero/hiero_alpha.html

[alonewiththemoon]

thanks for the captures! The thing I thought was a feather is not. So much for my crocodile theory ;-)

The thing about hieroglyphics is that there is no one single alphabet--the written language changed a lot over time. So I'd be hesitant to rule out any of those characters based on a single alphabet collection. There were also hieroglyphs that functioned mostly just as pictographs, representing either the object depicted or something that the object symbolized. The kneeling guy in the second capture looks like a pictograph for either generic "man" or a symbol for The Man (pharoah, the god in a story, whoever).

[subatomicsatan.livejournal.com]

check out the much better pics (and translations) here:

http://www.thetailsection.com/

[alonewiththemoon]

I'm still kind of skeptical without getting to see the actual source being referenced :-)