LOST Episode 5×16 “The Incident” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
May 13, 2009
Talk about an unbelievable episode to cap off another mind-blowing season of LOST. Absolutely loved this episode…sure most will agree. We may add some additional commentary to this post, so feel free to check back often. Call us and leave your thoughts on the episode at 920-626-6086. Here are a few initial thoughts:
- So, Jacob is real…and he has an adversary. My hunch is that their discussion at the beginning of the episode impacts the end game of the show. It was probably no accident that Jacob and his enemy were dressed in white and black, respectively. This contrast has been a theme on the show from the beginning. So let’s play theory of the day. What if…Jacob’s enemy is the smoke monster? Here are some things that could support it:
- The black attire would be a symbolic reference.
- We’ve seen that Smokey can take human form (Yemi), so it stands to reason that he could take over Locke’s body.
- If Smokey’s job is to judge, then it would make sense that he couldn’t kill Jacob if the judgement didn’t “authorize” it. From there, a “loophole” would be needed…such as tricking someone else into doing it (see “Locke” and Ben).
- Smokey could have even taken over Christian Shephard’s form when he told Frank and Sun to wait for John Locke. Why would he know Locke was coming unless it was going to be him having taken over Locke’s body.
- When Ben went to be judged, “Locke” and Smokey were never seen at the same time (at least I don’t believe so). Locke disappeared into the jungle and came back and magically knew that they had to go to the Temple because the island told him. Only after Locke left Ben alone in the temple did Smokey appear. How convenient, too, that Smokey (via Alex) told Ben to follow Locke’s every order and not even think about trying to kill him again. That would seem to begin to create the “loophole” needed for Jacob to be killed.
- Jumping back to Jacob and his enemy’s conversation, if you consider some of the dialog between Jacob and his enemy with the mindset that his enemy is a human incarnate of Smokey, it would seem to support what we know of Smokey. Here’s some dialog:
- Jacob: You’ll have to ask them when they get here.
- Enemy: I don’t have to ask. [pause] You brought them here.
- You could look at “I don’t have to ask” a couple different ways. You could just assume he doesn’t have to ask because he knows Jacob brought them. However, you could also look at it like he doesn’t have to ask because he can read their minds once they get there like we’ve seen Smokey do.
- More dialog:
- Enemy: Still trying to prove me wrong, aren’ you?
- Jacob: You are wrong.
- Enemy: Am I? They come, fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.
- The enemy is trying to pove a point that the any new island inhabitants will follow a predictable pattern that will end up resulting in their demise. If looked at from Smokey’s perspective, if your role is to be a “security system” of sorts for the island and judge people on it, you’re basically just used to this pattern that unfortunately keeps playing out the same way.
- Shifting gears away from Smokey a bit and onto Jacob, let’s focus on his response to his enemy:
- Jacob: If it only ends once, anything that happens before that is just progress.
- I believe Jacob is looking to end the cycle of people becoming evil, destructive, and corrupt. When Ben talks later in the episode about “all those lists” that he had been given by Jacob, perhaps these lists are the people that Jacob feels can break the cycle.
- I think Jacob now thinks that he has the right list of people to break that cycle with our Losties. I think the end game might be whether or not they can break this cycle and possibly save the world by virtue of it. When Jacob says, “They’re coming…” before he dies, he’s referring to our Losties, the ones he visited and made contact with (see my later comments on him literally touching them). Maybe this is what changes one of the factors in the Valenzetti equation. Maybe this is the forthcoming war: Good vs. Evil. Maybe this is their destiny.
- Switching gears, it was disappointing to not have Desmond, or Walt for that matter, in the finale.
- I loved Miles’ voice of reason that perhaps by behaving in a certain way you think is going to change the future, you end up creating that exact future. We’ll have to wait to find out if he was correct.
- What a heartbreaking seen with Sawyer and Juliet. I’m holding onto hope that perhaps if the Losties were sent back to 2007 when the bomb detonated, then Juliet may somehow survive <crosses fingers…and toes>. I heart Juliet.
- I took a great amount of sick pleasure in watching Phil get impaled, especially after grinning at Sawyer when he thought he was going to be able to shoot him (and obviously after hitting Juliet last week).
- What’s in the guitar case?
- It was great to see Rose and Bernard (and maybe even Vincent a little bit). I could see them being Adam and Eve, but based on Jack’s comments in Season 1 that he estimated the bodies were deteriorating for 40-50 years, then that estimate was high and Rose and Bernard probably would’ve had to have died shortly after 1977.
- Was the ship in the water the Black Rock? Sure looked like it. Based on the coversation between Jacob and his enemy, I’m not sure we’re going to get much more of a Black Rock story. I could be wrong, but it may just have been used to demonstrate that at some point in the past, another group of people showed up and they fought, destroyed, and became corrupt. We’ll see.
- Now let’s check out the statue. We’re pretty sure it’s Taweret, as was suggested as a possibility after LaFleur:
- To me, the most important comment of the episode was Richard’s revelation that he watched the Losties die back in 1977. This would indicate that we’ll find out next week whether or not whatever happened, happened or if free will wins out. If whatever happened, happened then we’re losing a significant portion of the cast (Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Jin).
- Yet another mention of Richard’s agelessness, this time by Ben. Ben also referred to Richard as an “advisor”. Many people have surmised that Richard was originally part of the Black Rock crew (if he’s not tied to the ancient Egyptian influences). We saw him working on what appeared to be a model of the Black Rock ship. Could this be a hint?
- Despite my objections, it appears that Ellie may be pregnant with Daniel in 1977. Widmore can be heard faintly discussing Ellie’s “condition” while he has his hand on her stomach. This would put Faraday at about 30 years old when he died, although he seamed a fair amount older than that, hence my objections.
- How did the island tell Locke exactly when to dispatch Richard to 2004 Locke? It was nice to see how Richard knew, but it’s even more of a mystery now regarding John’s “communion” with the island.
- When Radzinsky demanded that Sawyer draw a map, we couldn’t help but wonder if this would end up being an influence on the blast door map. Probably not a big deal.
- I was surprised to hear dissension from Richard regarding Locke (”I’m starting to think John Locke is going to be trouble.”), especially to Ben. Richard was influential in getting John in place and ousting Ben. WTF?
- Are we finally going to get some insight into Jacob? It sure would seem so based on Locke’s mission to take everyone to Jacob and then kill him. So why does Locke now feel the need to kill Jacob? Did the island tell him to do that? If so, why?
- It looks like we can begin to piece things together regarding Hawking and Widmore’s “supervision” of Desmond (and Faraday for that matter). Assuming they were given a “download” of information from either Farday’s notebook or some of the Losties (perhaps in exchange for getting the Losties back to 2007), it makes sense that they would steer him through life to make sure that he eventually ended up on the island. This presumes that they know much of what is going to happen and they want it to happen and that they believe in free will. Otherwise, perhaps they’d just fall into the ‘whatever happened, happened’ camp. Widmore also spoke of having to “sacrifice” his relathionship with Penny, which tells me he had to do that to keep the intended path moving forward. Also, I always thought Hawking believed in free will after she freaked out on Desmond in 3×08 Flashes Before Your Eyes when he wants the ring. It’s either that or she’s been told that Desmond is uniquely and miraculously special, which brings me to…
- How does Farady know that the rules don’t apply to Desmond? Was it their conversation over the radio in 4×05 The Constant and the fallout from the Failsafe Key? Plus, does he now believe that everyone has a similar ability to exercise free will like he seemed to be stating upon his return to the island?
- Learning of how Widmore (through Hawking) had all of this future information in the past and how it seems he used it to shape how he acted in the future makes me really wonder if he’s really a bad guy or if he’s really just kind of stuck with having to carry out the master plan to get us to some future result.
- So, Widmore is Faraday’s father after all, which in turn makes Daniel and Penny half siblings. We speculated about that after 5×03 Jughead and ran a poll about it. 56% of almost 2500 respondents thought Widmore was NOT Faraday’s father. This has been one of the few times when the popular opinion has been wrong.
- I loved Faraday outing Miles as Chang’s kid. Hopefully it will spur them on to future conversations.
- Hawking told Desmond in 5×06 316 that the island wasn’t done with him yet. If she’s truly at the point where she now doesn’t know what’s going to happen in the future (as she told Penny), then how did she know this?
- Faraday getting killed sucked, especially when you realized it was by his own mother.
- We should probably assume Farady is older than 30 in 2007 just based on his looks, but wouldn’t it be interesting if Widmore and Hawking chose to have Daniel only after having seen him in 1977.
- So if Faraday kicked the bucket, then who was the mysterious voice we heard behind the camera in the Comic-Con video where Chang is making his plea for the re-constitution of the DHARMA Initiative (thanks Aaron for the heads up)? It wouldn’t seem that they would’ve had time to film it together. Perhaps Miles gave him the information, but it doesn’t seem to be Miles’ voice (he calls him Pierre as well, which Miles wouldn’t do).
- Recalling that Miles said he was from Reseda, I was waiting for young Miles to stumble upon Mr. Miyagi fixing Daniel LaRusso’s bike at the apartment complex. For those of you who don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, you’ll have to brush up on your Karate Kid trivia.
- After getting a taste of the Miles and Hurley pairing in Whatever Happened, Happened, I really enjoyed the pairing in this episode. Their discussions generated most of the Get Lost COW (clip of the week) nominees. Pretty funny stuff.
- I can’t take the phrase “circle of trust” seriously after Meet the Parents.
- The abundance of Star Wars references, all the way up to the episode title, were brilliant. The writers must have been sucking up to Damon.
- It was no surprise that Miles was Pierre Chang’s son. Back after 5×04 The Little Prince we had a poll asking whether or not you thought that Chang was Miles’ father and over 90% of voters said yes.
- It was funny watching Hurley squirm just a bit when one of the Swan builders was reading off the numbers.
- We were treated to a new bit of intrigue last week with Ilana’s “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” question. We saw in this episode that the goon who was with her on the beach, Bram, tried to redirect Miles from joining Widmore’s science team and asked Miles that same question. It’s also noteworthy that this exchange took place back in 2004, so this new team has been in place for some time now. Bram also hints at this “war” that we’ve heard about and that he believes Miles in going to be on the wrong team. So, whose team is Bram on? Vote below in our poll. Popular choices include DHARMA and Ben. DHARMA seems to make sense, but who knows.
- I have a suspicion that Chang didn’t abandon or discard Miles and his mother like his mother made it sound. Instead, I think getting them off the island will be some sort of precautionary measure to keep them safe. I don’t have much of a basis for this other than a hunch predicated on the way Chang reacted to and played with baby Miles as older Miles looked on from a distance.
- Once again, we got a not so subtle hint about the Egyptian influences on the island. The chalkboard in the classroom was littered with history on Egyptian language. My guess is that we’ll continue to get more Egyptian tie-ins yet this season.
- Kate is an idiot for the way she handled Roger Linus. I’m not sure what part of laying low she doesn’t understand. Sigh…
- News flash: Juliet is still hot.
- LaFleur and our other Losties just might be screwed at this point after Phil saw the security tape and LaFleur subsequently knocked him out. Will LaFleur be able to work his con man magic or is the cover finally blown?
- Once I heard there were scientists from Ann Arbor coming in on the sub, I was a bit disappointed when it wasn’t the DeGroots. Don’t get me wrong, I love Daniel, but it would’ve been great to finally get an “in person” look at the DeGroots.
- We can pretty much confirm now that Widmore (for the most part) was telling Locke the truth about being the leader of the Others for over 3 decades until being exiled.
- In trying to put some dates to these events, it gets a bit hairy. Alex was born and stolen in 1988. When Widmore is banished, we see Alex swinging with Ben and she appears to be somewhere around 6 years old. It is obviously post Purge (which happened in 1992) since the Others are living in the barracks. This would put Widmore’s exile at about 1994. The part that’s a bit strange is that Widmore says he’s been trying to get back to the island for 20 years even though it’s now 2007, or 13 years after he was banished. Perhaps he was just using round numbers.
- Ben getting Caesar airborn was priceless. Nothing like a double barrel shotgun blast from short range. I was happy to see Caesar go as I didn’t care his character very much. His storyline seemed a bit pointless.
- It’s been made even more clear that Jacob is calling the shots on the island. All people need to hear to fall in line on something is that Jacob wanted it so.
- Ilana’s question to Frank, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?” was a very intriguing question indeed. Her character became infinitely more interesting, as it now appears that she may have some sort of tie to the history of the island if we assume that the statue she speaks of is indeed our favorite four toed statue. Does she work for Widmore? The fact that she knew about Peter Avellino and that Ben told Sayid they were knocking off members of Widmore’s organization would give her a tie to Widmore, not to mention the tie-in to the statue and the island’s history.
- What’s in the large crate that Ilana and crew were messing with (a couple of the numbers were on the side of the crate as well; we need to get a screencap up for that yet)? Accessing its contents would seem to be an integral part of their plan. Could it somehow be tied to Jughead? Just a wild theory / speculation.
- It also looks promising (based on the presence of the outrigger left on Hydra Island and the Ajira water bottles that were not-so-discretely flashed in front of us) that Ilana’s crew are going to be the ones chasing our former-time-jumping Losties in the outriggers, so it’ll be cool to see which one Juliet takes out.
- As we’ve seen in previous encounters (Yemi, for example), it appears Smokey can take on the form of a human to deliver a message. After reading Ben’s mind and judging him, Smokey morphed into Alex in order to scare Ben straight and get the point across that Locke was ultra important and that was not to hurt him, but instead listen to and help him. I honestly think Ben’s going to heed Smokey’s advice and become one of John’s “disciples”, but we’ll see.
- Speaking of Locke, as I hinted at, it looks like Widmore was correct (from 5×07; Locke: Why do you think I’m so special? Widmore: You just are.) in that John is critically important to the island and probably the end game of the show. The island chooses who or what it wants and people seem to fall in line with that.
- Is the war that’s coming going to involve Ilana and her people against Locke? Is said war the same scenario Walt was explaining to Locke back in 5×07 when they met up in NYC? If Ilana is working for Widmore, this wouldn’t necessarily seem to make sense that she’d be trying to hurt Locke after Widmore’s handling of him…unless Widmore was lying to Locke. Widmore told him that if he (Locke) wasn’t on the island, that the wrong team was going to win the war. Does Widmore secretly think he’s ensuring that his team (which would be the opposing team to Locke’s team under this scenario) will win if Locke is there? Enough on that one, my brain hurts.
- It was a bummer to not see Ellie in the island flashback scenes. She should have still been there in 1977, when we first saw Widmore with young Ben, but perhaps she had left the island by the time the more recent flashbacks had occurred (1988 for the heist of Alex and around 1994 for Widmore’s exile)?
- When Smokey judged Ben, did it not destroy him there because the island truly did want Alex dead, meaning Ben had not “disobeyed” by his part in her death? Charles had already indicated that the island wanted Rousseau (and subsequently Alex) dead and Ben seemed to defy the order at that point. I’m just wondering what would have happened to Ben if he had done everything he could to keep Alex alive. Would Smokey have judged him differently?
- It’s no secret that I have an affinity for Des and Penny, so I’ve been nervous since 5×07 that Ben may have taken out either or both of them, not to mention little Charlie. Then when Ben told Locke to apologize to Desmond, I really got tense. Needless to say, I was happy to see Des beat the piss of Ben. One thing that I can’t seem to get out of my mind, though, is that we never really saw the connecting scene where Ben gets out of the water and calls Jack…which would keep the door open just a crack to the idea that what if Ben still somehow managed to gather his bearings and make another run at Penny (Des is safe based on Ben’s comment to Locke). I’m sure I’m just being a worry wart, but hey, it’s Lost and you can never be comfortable.
- The game of Risk we saw set up in the barracks indicates that we’re not dealing with an alternate timeline version of 2007. Back in 2004 (pre time jumping by our Losties) when the Losties were living in the barracks (before Keamy’s team invaded), Sawyer and Hurley were playing that same Risk game and it appears to be set up the same way (see 4×09 The Shape of Things to Come) in 2007. This leads me to believe that the version of 2007 we’re seeing is an extension of the version of 2004 we saw before all the time jumping occurred.
- Our favorite scenes of the episode did not include Kate (big surprise). That honor instead goes to two scenes: the time travel chat between Miles (essentially serving as a proxy for Faraday) and Hurley and the Richard Alpert scene. Let’s start with the time travel discussion. We’ve come to know that episodes written by Darlton themselves are either massively important or contain specific details surrounding the show’s mythology and rules (particularly when it comes to time travel: Flashes Before Your Eyes, The Constant). Tonight was no exception as we were enlightened to a few new rules of time travel. We absolutely loved the Back to the Future reference. I think we’ve used Back to the Future 3 or 4 times on the podcast (including our most recent episode — all hail Biff Tannen) as a point of comparison. The first new thing we learned concretely was that despite our Losties being back in 1977, they can die because, from their point of view, their futures haven’t happened yet. Contrarily, the lives of the rest of the people they encounter back in 1977 will always lead to the same place in the future because, as the episode title suggests, whatever happened (already) happened back in 1977. Basically, every individual has his/her own timeline that contains a past, a present, and a future, no matter what year that past took place in or what year it is in the present. That past will always remain unchanged. That present and future are up for grabs. That takes a minute to digest, but makes sense. The other thing we learned concretely was that adult Ben won’t remember being shot by Sayid while he was young Ben. Miles was confounded when Hurley confronted him on this topic, but we came to learn via Richard in our other favorite scene that Ben will lose this memory, along with his “innocence” apparently. Plus, he’ll “never be the same”. What exactly Ben does and does not remember remains to be seen. In any event, it appears Richard’s cryptic comments are tied into the nature or mythology of the island and the Temple. We also loved hearing Ellie’s and Charles’ names mentioned when one of the Others was talking to Richard. This seems to somewhat validate Widmore’s claim that he was leading the Others and mostly in peace (i.e., the truce). It also suggests that Ellie and Widmore had a long running history together. We’re just not sure if it was as lovers, peers, or siblings (remember the discussion earlier this season over whether Widmore and Ellie were Faraday’s parents?). Of note was the fact that Richard made it clear that he didn’t answer to them (Ellie and Charles). We’re really looking forward to a continuation of this story line.
- Speaking of Widmore and Ellie, by 1977, we’re getting to the point where Penny would be need to be born. There are a number of possible scenarios here, including her being born on the island to them, her being born off the island to them where Ellie left the island to deliver her, Penny not really being their child, or if Widmore and Ellie are siblings then perhaps Widmore has a different love interest who gives birth to Penny.
- It turns out our readers’ hunch was correct on what would happen with Aaron. In our entry covering episode 5×06 316, 52% of respondents thought Kate would give Aaron to Carole Littleton, 22% thought she’d give him to Cassidy, and 18% thought he’d be kidnapped. What’s funny is the show teased options 2 and 3 as well before settling on Carole Littleton. Will Carole make a public stink about Claire being alive? I would guess not knowing that Kate is going to look for her.
- We found out that Sawyer’s whisper to Kate on the helicopter was, as many suspected, in relation to his daughter, Clementine. It was nice to see her and Cassidy and know that Sawyer was making sure Clementine was taken care of, despite Cassidy’s continued bitterness toward him.
- Kate’s purpose for coming back to the island is to find Claire. I was glad to hear that her reasoning had nothing to do with Sawyer, even if deep down part of it does. Giving Suliet an honest chance might be tough, though, when Claire isn’t even born yet in 1977.
- Jack has become Locke, at least mentally. He has no idea what he’s supposed to do next, but doesn’t seem to care. He just knows that he was supposed to come back and he feels his path will become obvious at the right time.
- A note about the bullet wound on Ben: It appeared last week that the wound was on the left side of his chest near his heart and that this week it was on the other side of his chest. Was this a continuity issue or something more?
- Sayid must still be off in the jungle.
- After a brief hiatus, it was nice to see Locke again. Now let’s see if Ben somehow manages to screw him over…again.
- Characters we miss: Desmond, Faraday, Ellie (Hawking), and Widmore
- We’re still waiting on the payoff episode for Miles. He really hasn’t put his ghostbuster skills to much use, so that’s got to be coming yet this season.
- Based on the preview for next week’s episode, we’re going to predict that it’ll be one of the, if not the, favorite episodes this season. We won’t comment on specifics for those who are sensitive to possible mild spoilers.
- To us, the big question is whether or not Ben is actually dead. If he is, that would indicate that our Losties have the ability to change the future, rendering “whatever happened, happened” null and void. What do you think? Vote below:
- We loved the return of MacCuthcheon whiskey that Sayid was drinking at $120 a pop.
- Another Geronimo Jackson appearance, this time on a poster in the cafeteria.
- The DHARMA Chef logo is priceless. The chef hat / toque is nice, but what really makes it is the fork and knife crisscrossed below that. It’s got a bit of a buccaneer or pirate feel to it.
- Roger Linus is a jackass.
- OK, so Ilana’s not a marshal. We challenged whether or not Ben could’ve hired her and pinned it on Avellino, the guy he shot on the golf course, but the timing doesn’t seem right. Ben would’ve had to know well in advance that Ajira 316 was going to be the flight so he could tell Ilana what flight to be on w/ Sayid. Ms. Hawking had told Ben the night before that there was a window to get back, but not with any details and not with enough time to get Ilana mobilized. In addition, Ben seems truly shocked when he sees Sayid on the plane.
- The introduction of Oldham was great. Whether it was the ultra bizarre makeshift teepee, the phonograph, the truth serum, or the local neighborhood pedophile appearance, we were pretty captivated by this guy. More of him would be a good thing.
- It was great to hear an Ann Arbor mention. It seems the DeGroots have the final say in sensitive matters. We can only hope they visit the island soon.
- It’s a bit off topic, but we can’t wait to see Desmond again. We haven’t forgotten about him. We now know that Sayid didn’t get Ben all bloody, so perhaps we’ll know soon enough what really happened and if it’ll drive Des to the island.
- We may add some more thoughts over the next day or so, but we’ve got to call it a night…
- Where the hell did Faraday go? Is he experimenting with time jumping in an attempt to find a way to get the Losties back to the future?
- What are Faraday’s “interesting theories” on what the Losties can and can’t do back in 1977 Dharmaville?
- It appears Caesar and Illana didn’t know each other. We had presumed they were working together, but maybe not.
- Great to see Radzinsky. Reader Darryl Diamond pointed out that Radzinsky bares a resemblance to Hurley’s number spouting crony Lenny from Santa Rosa.
- Did you catch the Muppets on FlameTV?
- If the Swan station wasn’t built yet, why did Chang have a Swan lab coat?
- Honestly, for us it was a bit anticlimactic finding out that the baby boy was Ethan (Goodspeed? Rom?). He never seemed like a significant figure, but who knows? Plus, didn’t he look a bit older than 27 in 2004? Is there a different Ethan?
- You could hear the taxi receipt printer noise indicating Smokey was around when the trees were shaking upon Lapidus and Sun walking on the sub dock.
- More WTF from Christian. Not sure what to make of that whole deal. By the way, check out the Easter Eggs for what may be a Claire sighting in the background behind Sun while Christian is talking to her and Frank.
- Loved Hurley’s chef role (including what appeared to be a new chef hat DHARMA logo on his jumpsuit) as well as Jack’s workman role (”based on your aptitude test…”)
- The return of Jack, Kate, Sayid, and Hurley seemed a bit uncomfortable. There appeared to be genuine animosity between Kate & Juliet and Sawyer & Jack. Messy love quadrangle. Go Suliet!
- Meanwhile, the return of young Ben was pretty sweet. We’re anxious to see more from him.
- “Is that a runway?” - It seems like we got closure on the whole runway storyline. Just how much is Linus (and others) going to learn about future events back in 1977?
- We got this season’s first appearance of the whispers. We put together several versions of the clip (forward/reverse and slow/normal speed). Have a listen and let us know what you hear:
- Obviously, the four-toed statue was incredible. I can only hope we’ll see it again in the future, despite the time shifts stopping. It definitely appears to be of Egyptian nature, which coincides with the hieroglyphics we’ve seen. A possible identity for the statue is Anubis, the god of the dead in Egyptian mythology. Anubis is also associated with the afterlife, which can also be referred to as the underworld. We’ve been told that the Swan hieroglyphics meant “underworld” as well, not to mention that Cerberus, the name used in the blast door map to possibly identify the smoke monster, is commonly referred to as the guardian of the underworld in Greek mythology. In addition, Paul’s necklace was an ankh, the same symbol held by many Egyptian gods, including Anubis. A number of other Egyptian gods have been theorized as candidates for the statue including Horus (god of the sky and the obvious Horace Goodspeed reference), Osiris (ruler of the underworld and father of Anubis and Horus), Set (god of chaos and destruction and rival of Horus), and Tawaret (a deity of fertility or protection in pregnancy and childbirth where pregnant women wore amulets with her name or likeness to protect their pregnancies; also, Tawaret was typically reflected in images as pregnant, which could help explain why we only saw the back of the statue since a pregnant statue would be a nice surprise later — thanks to reader Joe for this feedback!) among others. Check out this link (thanks to a DarkUFO reader) for pics and descriptions of a number of Egyptian gods. Also, check out some additional images of Anubis for comparison purposes:
- Note to self: don’t mix alcohol and dynamite. Ever.
- Loved the Geronimo Jackson shirt that Rosie was wearing. We may even get more mentions in the future as it appears we’re going to hunker down in DHARMA days for a while.
- Sawyer is awesome and LaFleur is a badass name. End of subject.
- Juliet is one damn fine woman. How cool was it to see her have Sawyer’s back in front of everyone even when she knows he’s got a bad idea, take out an Other with a rifle before Sawyer can get a shot off, work under the DHARMA van with a grinder as a mechanic (sporting another new DHARMA logo with the wench), deliver a baby via C-section, and put together a great meal for her man (DHARMA Merlot included)? I heart Juliet.
- Speaking of Sawyer and Juliet, I love them together. It’s too bad Suliet don’t sound cool. Nonetheless, I was completely irritated at the sight of Kate at the end of the episode all because I suspect it’s going to throw a wrench into Sawyer and Juliet’s relationship. Jaters, you can have her. I wouldn’t have said that a few episodes ago when we saw Sawyer watch Kate with Claire. At that point I was convinced that Sawyer and Kate had to end up together in the end despite both of their flaws. You know what, though? I think Juliet’s better for Sawyer. Kate’s proven to be nothing but trouble with her vacillating back and forth and with her “run” mentality. And I genuinely think 3 years is enough time to get over someone, particularly if you’ve met someone new that you think is fabulous.
- LaFleur is French for “flower”, so I thought it was a nice touch to see Sawyer bring Juliet a flower.
- Is Amy’s baby boy going to be someone we know? I would guess it’s going to be someone significant, but tough to say exactly who it could be. I wanted to suggest perhaps Desmond (a baby conceived and born on the island could account for him being “uniquely and miraculously special”), but the timing doesn’t seem quite right (Des seems a tad too old). If it’s 1977 when the boy is born (Sawyer told Juliet it was 1974 when he was trying to convince her to stay for 2 weeks, plus it’s 3 years later), then the boy would be about 27 when Flight 815 crashed in 2004. Is Horace going to be the father? Whatever happened to Olivia, his wife when they found the Linus family after Ben was born and who taught on the island as part of the DHARMA Initiative?
- If what Widmore said was true about his 30+ years as leader of the Others, then he would stand to be the leader during this era. He claimed he led in peace, which is consistent with the “truce” between the Others and the DI. It’d be sweet to see a middle aged Widmore consulting with Richard one of these episodes.
- Charlotte’s mom’s voice reminded me of Penny, especially when she called Charlotte “Love”. I’m certainly not implying that Penny is Charlotte’s mom, just commenting on the British accent.
- Speaking of Charlotte, if we saw her here as a child of about 4 years old in 1974, then Ben had misinformation in Episode 4×02 Confirmed Dead when he claimed that she was born in 1979.
- I wonder what Richard thought about Sawyer’s comments to him regarding Locke and Jughead?
Sobek may be another possibility…
Or at least someone is pretty convinced that’s who it is (this LOST episode is referenced in the Wikipedia entry).
(thanks to Wikipedia for the image)
Click the thumbnail below for a better look at the statue:
Something we noticed about Jacob’s visits was that he always seemed to touch those that he visited. In some cases, the camera made it very obvious that this was happening. It made us think that somehow by touching these people, Jacob was making some sort of connection that would draw them to the island. Jacob’s rival also made a statement early in the episode regarding how he thought Jacob brought the Black Rock folks there (”You brought them here.”). Take a look at pics from each of the visits that Jacob makes and see for yourself:
Here are a few more “Easter Eggs” from the episode (use the arrow keys to scroll between pictures):
Read what Jacob reads:
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LOST Episode 5×15 “Follow the Leader” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
May 6, 2009
Clearly a set up episode this week, but a good episode nonetheless. A heavy dose of Richard Alpert is always a good thing, especially in both timelines 30 years apart. Leave your thoughts at 920-626-6086. Now on to our thoughts:
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Get Lost COW (Clip of the Week):
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LOST Episode 5×14 “The Variable” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
April 29, 2009
As expected, fantastic episode. A lot to ponder. Eric brought up a great point that it’s actually kind of devastating watching it through a second time when you think of the 30 years of heartbreak that Eloise and (probably to a lesser extent) Widmore had to go through knowing they were marching their son toward his death. Leave us your thoughts at 920-626-6086 for inclusion in the podcast. On to our thoughts:
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Get Lost COW (audio):
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LOST Episode 5×13 “Some Like it Hoth” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
April 15, 2009
Good episode tonight. Nothing too earth shattering, but it was nice to finally fill in Miles’ storyline. We also enjoyed the banter between Miles and Hurley. Leave us your thoughts at 920-626-6086 for inclusion in the podcast. On to our thoughts:
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Audio:
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LOST Episode 5×12 “Dead is Dead” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
April 8, 2009
As predicted last week, this will be the hands down choice for episode of the season (at least so far). Unbelievable. Leave us your thoughts at 920-626-6086 for inclusion into the podcast. Our thoughts are below, but make sure to leave your thoughts in the Comments:
Easter Eggs:
After we saw the four toed statue in LaFleur, we suggested Anubis as one of the choices for the statue. This hieroglyph looks a hell of a lot like Anubis…
Here are a few images of Anubis as a reference…
LOST Clip of the Week:
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Here’s a barrage of screencaps…use the left and right arrow keys to cycle through them.
LOST Episode 5×11 “Whatever Happened, Happened” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
April 1, 2009
When we first heard this was a Kate centric episode, we weren’t thrilled. However, despite already getting what seemed like 37 Kate flashbacks over the course of the series, we were curious to tie up Kate’s loose ends regarding Aaron and what she was doing for Sawyer off the island, so we’re glad to have gotten those scenes. Overall, we liked the episode and really enjoyed a few particular scenes. Before reading our thoughts on the rest of the episode, leave us your thoughts at 920-626-6086. OK, on to our thoughts:
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LOST Episode 5×10 “He’s Our You” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
March 26, 2009
Overall, we thought this was a pretty good episode. What a killer ending (pun intended)! We were both pretty shocked when Sayid shot Ben. We both loved the introduction of Oldham; excellent job of casting. What did you think? Let us know at 920-626-6086. Some additional thoughts:
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LOST Episode 5×09 “Namaste” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
March 19, 2009
OK episode this week. Seemed like more of a setup episode than anything else. Leave us your thoughts at 920-626-6086. A few thoughts:
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LOST Episode 5×08 “LaFleur” - Screencaps, Easter Eggs, Audio, & Analysis
March 4, 2009
Wow! Awesome episode…Call us at 920-626-6086 and let us know what you thought!
There are almost 200 HQ screencaps below, but everyone’s going to want to see the four-toed statue (and see below for a few more related images):
Thanks to Wikipedia for the Anubis image.
Initial reactions on the episode:
Extra props to Joe, Keeping Pace, and Slone13 for pointing out this picture of Taweret. It makes a very strong case for the statue being Taweret, from the location and height of the ears to the headpiece to the items in her hands, to the four toes (hippos have four toes and Taweret is a hippo) not to mention my earlier comment that it would make sense that we only saw the back of the statue because Taweret is pregnant:
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