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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Apr 16, 2009 19:43:08 GMT -5
As Liz wondered, Ilana's accomplice from the previous week, chatting with Miles in the van: <snip> Lostpedia confirms his name is Bram, per the credits from an ABC press release. Of course, Lostpedia notes the name is familiar to most of us because of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula. The entry adds, "Bram is usually a nickname for Abraham, as it was for Stoker." So not only are they paying homage to a classic author, but throwing a little Biblical mojo in there to boot. Ah, thanks.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Apr 18, 2009 9:03:02 GMT -5
I thought that with that scene where Miles reads Felix's body that it settled the question of who is responsible for staging the fake plane wreckage, but now I'm not so sure again. From Doc Jensen.
''His name's Felix,'' Miles reported. ''He was on his way to deliver something to a guy Widmore.... A bunch of papers, photos, pictures of empty graves...a purchase order for an old airplane.''
Now, if you recall, last season we had that business about an Oceanic 815 cover-up, with a plane loaded with corpses found at the bottom of the ocean. In ''Meet Kevin Johnson,'' Mr. Friendly showed Michael all sorts of stuff — including photos of an exhumed cemetery — that he claimed was proof that Charles Widmore was behind the hoax wreckage. So: Did Big Tom kill Felix and swipe his stuff? Or is it possible that Charles Widmore wasn't behind Oceanic 815 cover-up at all, that it was actually Ben who was behind it, and that Felix was killed to prevent him from reporting the scheme to Widmore?
*Sigh.*
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Apr 18, 2009 17:46:29 GMT -5
Rewatching notes:
Horace says at the beginning that Sawyer is already in the Circle of Trust Lies and Betrayal, and thus knowing about the violations of The Truce, etc. Which on the one hand partially explains why he's so intent on covering things up, hiding the Oceanic Six, etc, suggesting on the one hand that Sawyer's not just worried about losing his cushy position but the DHARMA inner circle turning against him and the rest of The Losties with deadly consequences. On the other hand, being willing to be party to and go along with whatever they are up to while keeping it secret from the rest of the Losties speaks very negatively of him.
Miles' reluctance to go on the mission is because he doesn't want to interact with his dad. That probably distracted him from the Erase the Tape mission.
Alvarez got killed when the EM radiation from The Swan dislodged his filling and it shot through his brain.. I didn't put that together the first time. He was thinking about some one named Andrea when he died, which may or may not be significant.
The lesson on the board that Jack is erasing in the school room is about Egyptian hieroglyphs. I wonder if they test the kids aptitude and put the ones that show aptitude for certain things relevant to the DHARMA experiments on special tracks.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Apr 23, 2009 19:09:19 GMT -5
The twop recap reminded me that when Miles was first introduced, he didn't seem to need an actual body to get info from a dead person. Or something.
Also, the scene where Punk Miles goes to visit his mom is intriguing or awkwardly written. I assume he's in his early 20s at that point, so he's not living with his mom anymore and possibly hasn't talked to him in quite a while. When the aide sees him, she gives him an annoyed look, and then he asks his mom all these questions that surely he's been wondering about for a while. So what triggered Miles to ask his mom at that point in time? And was his mom dying of cancer or what?
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Post by Sara on May 4, 2009 20:19:13 GMT -5
After catching some of the third X-Men movie last night, I'm starting to think that Miles' pierced look in the flashback was a bit of an homage to his role in X3: As Kid Omega in X3: And in "Hoth":
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Post by Sara on May 6, 2009 8:22:34 GMT -5
The Doc Arzt site pointed out this fun little Easter egg—check out the image you can see in the wineglass on the right: It must be bunnies.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on May 6, 2009 9:45:54 GMT -5
Heh. Cool.
But isn't this for The Variable, not Some Like It Hoth?
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Post by Sara on May 6, 2009 11:54:01 GMT -5
Heh. Cool. But isn't this for The Variable, not Some Like It Hoth? Yup, it is. That's what I get for trying to get the post done before my boss got to my desk. I'll duplicate the post in the correct thread.
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