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Guest, are you smoking crack?


While Dayseed is the loudest, most egoistic person I've ever met, his writing is extremely entertaining. Just read all the comments below his posts and in the shoutbox, and you'll see that this is one of the most popular blogs on CKA.


Now to Lost...




That episode did kick ass, because we finally know what happened to the Dharma Initiative. However, it raised more questions than it answered.

Who are the Hostiles? How did they get there? And why is that guy/new character there? Richard is it?

Also, we still don't have answers to the four toed statue.



I really hope they tie everything together...

Arctic,

Thanks for the kudos, I betcha that detractor is a previously pounded foe sniping from the sidelines.

Did you see the still picture of Jacob posted at lostpedia.com?

I'm attaching it to the main article.

Fuck, I'm in stasis here. Lost 2 is still playing on the TV stations here.

While I agree that it's good a good direction for the storyline, I was a little ticked when "Jacob" was brought into the mix... unless he's used to explain all, or most of, the other goings-on on the island, he's just another big question to be answered on the writers' already lengthy todo list. I just don't think much was accomplished by bringing another mysterious character into it... we're still unsure of Dharma's role on the island, who these Hostiles/Natives are/were, the magical properties of the island, etc etc etc, without worrying about a ghost who lives in run-down cabin.

What's the deal with the guy who met flashback-Ben in the woods, does he not age or what?

The flashback with Ben in general was well done... I'm curous as to why he claims to have been born on the island.

[quote="Blue_Nose"]While I agree that it's good a good direction for the storyline, I was a little ticked when "Jacob" was brought into the mix... unless he's used to explain all, or most of, the other goings-on on the island, he's just another big question to be answered on the writers' already lengthy todo list. I just don't think much was accomplished by bringing another mysterious character into it... we're still unsure of Dharma's role on the island, who these Hostiles/Natives are/were, the magical properties of the island, etc etc etc, without worrying about a ghost who lives in run-down cabin.

What's the deal with the guy who met flashback-Ben in the woods, does he not age or what?

The flashback with Ben in general was well done... I'm curous as to why he claims to have been born on the island.[/quote]

Two things of interest:

1. Now that ABC has set a definite end-date for the show, the writers can figure out the pace of solving mysteries and introducing new ones to be solved. Lost isn't going to work if all of the mysteries are solved instantly and the series peters into a new direction of either war, escape attempts or whatever for the next two years. Whereas before this announcement, the Jacob storyline would be introduced by the writers with no real sense of conclusion. Perhaps they envision, for the sake of argument, Jacob is the Devil and this is his Hell. Before the definitive end-date, new nuggets would be sparingly meted out to pad the length of time before Jacob's identity is revealed. Now, the writers can instead decide, in 4 episodes, Jacob resurrects somebody, in another 2 episodes, Jacob dips his balls in a river of lava. Whatever.

2. Apparently, there's a big to-do about a book called the Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien relating to this series. In that book, the protagonist and an accomplice set upon an old farmer and kill him for his cash-box. The accomplice hides the cash-box while the protagonist buries the body. Then, the protagonist sticks like glue to the accomplice for three years, such that the accomplice can't double back and steal the cash-box from whence it was hidden. Suddenly, the accomplice reveals the location of the cash-box and invites the protagonist to go fetch it as he has hidden it in the murdered farmer's house. When the protagonist removes the cash-box, he is confronted by the murdered farmer. The murdered farmer tells him that the cash-box is in the possession of three policemen who live down the road in some barracks. The protagonist travels down the road and befriends a one-legged man en route to the barracks. At the barracks, the protagonist meets Sergeant Pluck who handily solves bicycle thefts in the town. It's later revealed that the Sergeant is the bicycle thief who creates work in the town by stealing them and recovering them, such that the Town Council doesn't create other work. He soon meets another policeman, Constable McCruiskeen. This Constable has set about creating a series of boxes which fit inside the other, until they become invisible to the naked eye. The third policeman, Constable Fox, is a mysterious one and nowhere to be found. One night, as the protagonist stays at the barracks, it is revealed that when the lights go out in Constable McCruiskeen's room, a map of the town is shown through lit cracks in his ceiling. The police had noticed this and followed a road shown on the map not known in town until they discovered a hatch. Inside the hatch, a machine had to be watched which consistenly needed attention to keep its readings inside normal parameters. The secret of the hatch was a series of mechanical ovens which could produce inside whatever the person imagined. The constable explains that this is because the ovens have Omnium inside them, Omnium being the root material of the universe. The book waxes that if all things are primarily waves, a photon's wavelength can be stretched to become sound, sound stretched to become matter and the like. So, according to the book, there has to be a natural state to something, being this Omnium. Thus, the policemen never age when they're inside the hatch, the Omnium keeps them young. However, there's a catch, nothing can be removed from the hatch. To forward the plot, the police discover that the protagonist is the one who murdered the old farmer and decide to hang him. The protagonist instead is able to get word to the one-legged man who enlists an army of one-legged men to spring him from jail. As the Sergeant and Constable McCruiskeen go to fight the army of one-legged men, the protagonist escapes on a bicycle. He rides back to his house, but is disturbed by a light shining in the murdered farmer's house. He throws a rock through the window and a person emerges from the house. This person is the third policeman, Constable Fox, but Constable Fox has the face of the murdered farmer. Constable Fox states that what was in the cash-box was Omnium and the surreal tone of the book has been caused by the protagonist. Constable Fox says that he knew the protagonist had come looking for the box and sent it to his home. The protagonist arrives at home where he discovers that the accomplice is married with two children and that sixteen years has passed rather than the three days he believes have instead past. The accomplice goes mad, stating that he planted a bomb inside the location where he sent the protagonist that night, blowing him up and killing him.

The accomplice dies of fright and the protagonist AND the accomplice beging their journey anew to meet the Sergeant.

Does that bear any light on any of the mysteries already shown or the direction in which the series is headed?