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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 1, 2008 11:09:58 GMT -5
Some interesting tidbits and triva related to the episode from lostpedia.com: - 423 Cheyne Walk is near where Desmond's photograph with Penny was taken. In addition, Widmore Industries has its offices in the same neighborhood. ("Flashes Before Your Eyes"). Cheyne Walk is a famous street in London known for its famous inhabitants. Residents have included Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, George Eliot, Dante Rossetti, and Henry James (who wrote The Turn of the Screw).
- After the auctioning of the Black Rock ledger, some of Charles Dickens' belongings are put up for bidding.
- Jeremy Davies, who portrays Daniel Faraday, also portrays Tom-Tom, the main character in the movie The Million Dollar Hotel. Tom-Tom is in love with a woman named Eloise.
[/color] [/li][li]The auction lot number of the Black Rock diary is 2342. [/li][li]Faraday says that while Desmond was in a catatonic state in his room at Oxford, 75 minutes had passed. Desmond perceived the same amount of time as 5 minutes. The ratio of 75:5 is equivalent to 15:1. At the auction, Widmore is bidder number 755, the same numbers as the time ratio. [/color] [/li][li]Charlotte earned her doctorate at Oxford. Daniel taught there.[/color] [/li][li]The series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation ["All Good Things"] features Captain Picard in three different timelines. He becomes unstuck in time, like Desmond and Billy Pilgrim. As he bounces back and forth, he becomes aware of a temporal anomaly in all three timelines. In essence, this anomaly is The Constant. Only when he identifies the constant and directly contacts it is he able to stay in one timeline, ignorant of his future. Also, Desmond's trip to contact Daniel at Oxford is reminiscent of Picard's trip to visit Data at Cambridge. Damon Lindelof confirmed that "All Good Things" was a big influence in writing "The Constant" here.[/color] [/li][/ul][/quote] Oh yeah! I love that movie. And Jeremy Davies is so good in it.OK, I didn't catch that one. Quite a bit of number stuff in this episode, huh?An oxford connection. Huh.Neat!
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 1, 2008 11:40:52 GMT -5
Some one on my flist reminded me about the 2004 tsunami which occurred on December 26th 2004. Wonder if they'll work it into the show some how.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 1, 2008 11:41:55 GMT -5
Also I wonder if anyone's on the island is going to try to celebrate Christmas.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 1, 2008 11:59:44 GMT -5
I swear, watching this show is truly a collaborative effort.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 1, 2008 16:43:14 GMT -5
Going through the questions and answers thread, I was reminded that Jack spent time in Thailand for some undisclosed reason, and had that whole weird tattoo thing done. Anyway, since the Black Rock was heading to Thailand when it shipwrecked (presumably), I wonder if there's a connection.
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Post by Anne, Old S'cubie Cat on Mar 3, 2008 10:42:26 GMT -5
So, finally watched this episode.
Compared to the others we've gotten lately, this one was actually straightforward - Desmond has time slippage issues, it needs fixed. It was kind of a nice standalone episode. Maybe this is the Christmas episode, although I wouldn't put it past Hurley to try to put together some kind of celebration.
Now I'm wondering, after the lovely sentimental Penny-Desmond Christmas Eve phone call, has one of the pair just donned the figurative red shirt of doom? Because it's almost a cliche in TV drama that as soon as the long-separated couple resolves their differences, one of them will be hit by a truck, or a falling safe, or something. I really hope not - if nothing else, from the mythic standpoint, Odysseus did make it home to his Penelope.
I was amused by the hair - past!Desmond has short hair, past!Faraday has long hair, current Desmond and Faraday are the opposite.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 3, 2008 12:59:24 GMT -5
Some one on my flist reminded me about the 2004 tsunami which occurred on December 26th 2004. Wonder if they'll work it into the show some how. That would actually be, well, logical, considering that we now know the islands are located in the Pacific. But I wonder if they'd do it because it could be seen as disrespectful . . .
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Post by Sara on Mar 3, 2008 13:31:40 GMT -5
Some one on my flist reminded me about the 2004 tsunami which occurred on December 26th 2004. Wonder if they'll work it into the show some how. That would actually be, well, logical, considering that we now know the islands are located in the Pacific. But I wonder if they'd do it because it could be seen as disrespectful . . . Yes, but the tsunami originated in the Indian Ocean—not the Pacific. The entry does note that "some of the tsunami's energy escaped into the Pacific Ocean, where it produced small but measurable tsunamis along the western coasts of North and South America." It also states that it's suspected those tsunamis "were focused and directed at long ranges by the mid-ocean ridges which run along the margins of the continental plates." So if the Lost island is indeed in the Pacific, then in theory whether or not they experience any effects from the tsunami would depend on the geological structure of the surrounding ocean floor. ETA: For example, America Samoa saw fluctuations of 13 cm from crest to trough; Fiji measured in at 11 cm; Hilo, Hawaii measured 6 cm; and San Diego 22 cm.
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 4, 2008 9:51:08 GMT -5
Oh! I finally placed Creepy Doctor. He was the doctor who gave Gunn the lawyer upgrade and what not on Angel.
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Post by fish1941 on Mar 4, 2008 15:06:22 GMT -5
What was a slave ship doing in the South Pacific? Who were the people that the Black Rock was conveying?
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Post by Shan on Mar 4, 2008 21:42:18 GMT -5
What was a slave ship doing in the South Pacific? Who were the people that the Black Rock was conveying? What do YOU think?
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Post by Sara on Mar 5, 2008 11:11:02 GMT -5
So, here's something I've been wondering: If Daniel wasn't going to teach Eloise to run the maze for another hour, and during the 75 minutes Desmond was out of it Eloise died... then when exactly did Daniel teach her the maze? Did he manage to teach her how to run that whole thing perfectly in less than 15 minutes, or did he move his timetable up and go through it with her right away?
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Post by Spaced Out Looney on Mar 5, 2008 11:24:17 GMT -5
So, here's something I've been wondering: If Daniel wasn't going to teach Eloise to run the maze for another hour, and during the 75 minutes Desmond was out of it Eloise died... then when exactly did Daniel teach her the maze? Did he manage to teach her how to run that whole thing perfectly in less than 15 minutes, or did he move his timetable up and go through it with her right away? I figured he moved the timetable up. I dunno.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 5, 2008 13:43:34 GMT -5
That would actually be, well, logical, considering that we now know the islands are located in the Pacific. But I wonder if they'd do it because it could be seen as disrespectful . . . Yes, but the tsunami originated in the Indian Ocean—not the Pacific. The entry does note that "some of the tsunami's energy escaped into the Pacific Ocean, where it produced small but measurable tsunamis along the western coasts of North and South America." It also states that it's suspected those tsunamis "were focused and directed at long ranges by the mid-ocean ridges which run along the margins of the continental plates." So if the Lost island is indeed in the Pacific, then in theory whether or not they experience any effects from the tsunami would depend on the geological structure of the surrounding ocean floor. ETA: For example, America Samoa saw fluctuations of 13 cm from crest to trough; Fiji measured in at 11 cm; Hilo, Hawaii measured 6 cm; and San Diego 22 cm. Excellent point. Since we don't know which direction from Fiji or how distant, we can't really place the island enough to know if it could have been affected. Or to what extent.
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Post by Lola m on Mar 5, 2008 13:44:37 GMT -5
What was a slave ship doing in the South Pacific? Who were the people that the Black Rock was conveying? Intriguing question. Off course, like the plane was? Different slave trade? Perhaps even one going to and from the island itself?
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