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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen
« on: May 17, 2010, 06:06:01 PM »
Would you recommend Smallville to someone who knows NOTHING about the mythology of Superman, or about comic books in general?
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 06:03:51 PM »
No i meant (to the writers) why would you wait 3 episodes to the end to deal with it?
To deal with what?
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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh
« on: May 17, 2010, 06:03:06 PM »
Yep, I expect to use the iPad in landscape almost all the time, it just looks better that way. I wish the iPhone/iPod Touch would modify the home screen to rotate to landscape, then I'd use my iPod Touch the exact same way.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:58:34 PM »They took Walt for the same reason they take children in general, which is the same reason Mother took the two babies in the last episode - to mold them into being a potential "protector" of the island. That's the whole reason the Others are there at all - Jacob brings them there because he is looking for someone to take over as the island's protector. I think that is exceedingly clear at this point.Assumed, not understood. In fact, most of the things you've said are assumptions based on partial facts the shows provides. No offense intended. I mean, you may be right, but since there's there are so few concrete answers given on the show, they don't really count as answers.QuoteWhy was everyone brought to the island? Jacob brought them there in his search for a replacement. IT'S BEEN ANSWERED.Might be part of it. On a few occasions, it's been said or suggested that Jacob brings people to the island to prove the Man in Black wrong about the nature of man who Jacob believes are inherently good. And one could argue who's really responsible for bringing the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 to the island. It's assumed (there's the word again) that Jacob caused the storm that brought the Black Rock and Richard Alpert to The Island. However, Desmond caused Flight 815 to crash by failing to press the button on time in The Swan station. As of yet, it hasn't be revealed if Jacob and Desmond ever met so Jacob has no influence over Desmond.
Again, the necessity to come to conclusions by making logical connections between pieces of information doesn't mean the show isn't answering the questions - it means the show assumes its viewers are smart enough to figure things out without their hands being held! That, to me, is extremely refreshing. I'm very satisfied with the extent to which they are answering most of these questions.
I think it's clear that Jacob meant for 815 to crash, given that he visited a bunch of the passengers before the flight and that he had their names on a big list. Jacob has magical powers so it's extremely feasible that he could have influenced the events that caused Desmond to miss pushing the button. This is an ASSUMPTION I'm making, yes, but I think it's completely reasonable, and having enough information to make reasonable assumptions like that really should be enough!
By the way, I agree that Jacob also seems to be bringing people to show MIB that people can be good. So Jacob is bringing people to the island for two reasons. Either way, answered.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:54:52 PM »Showing bits and pieces of random stuff without tying them together in any meaningful way does not count.
Yeah, maybe Lost isn't really your speed ... that stuff is meant to be tied together with your brain. I would hate Lost if it held your hand and walked you through explanations the way you seem to want it to.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:38:58 PM »
I don't really pay any attention to anything that's not in the show proper, and I don't think the Lost creators should expect anyone to. But I'm not really upset to not have that explanation in the main show, anyway.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:35:05 PM »I haven't read a single post in this thread since page 14, and now I read the one above this post, but didn't the writers say they had an endgame during an interview back in s3 or s4? that the story was plotted out already and they knew exactly what they were doing the entire time?
They did, but why would you wait 3 episodes to the end?
Marathon. There are so many shows to watch right now and to take the suspense torture out of Lost by not watching it till it's almost over helped lighten the stress of following so many different shows.
The 1 week break between episodes and all the commercial breaks can be avoided and I can still finish the show at or around the same time as everyone else. I just wanted to avoid torrenting the 1st 7 or 8 eps when I already had them saved on my DVR box.
Are there any sites that have All of this season of Lost up for?
Is LAX pt 1 the season opener? if so then ABC & Comcast have all the current episodes, but ABC doesn't list the episode number and Comcast has LAX pt1 & 2 both listed as episode 2. so I wanted to be sure before I start marathoning.
LAX is the season opener, yes.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:34:00 PM »
The behavior experiments were setup to change the Valenzeti equation. What is the Valenzeti equation? 4 8 15 16 23 42
What's your canon source for that?
Yes, it's unknown how the journal left the island, but I don't think that's a particularly interesting question to spend time explaining at this point.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:32:37 PM »
Being crossed off the list isn't the same as dying, because Kate was on the list and then got crossed off, but she's not dead.
I think they're more interested in capturing and brainwashing kids because they're moldable, while full-grown adults aren't as moldable. I think Jacob's list actually applies more to adults he thinks might ALREADY be suitable for his job, without the need for excessive molding. Anyway, Jacob's a really poor manager so the Others don't always seem to do things his way. Especially when Ben Linus was the leader, because I'm convinced that he was taking orders from Man in Black by mistake.
I think they're more interested in capturing and brainwashing kids because they're moldable, while full-grown adults aren't as moldable. I think Jacob's list actually applies more to adults he thinks might ALREADY be suitable for his job, without the need for excessive molding. Anyway, Jacob's a really poor manager so the Others don't always seem to do things his way. Especially when Ben Linus was the leader, because I'm convinced that he was taking orders from Man in Black by mistake.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:23:41 PM »
Jacob's list of potential replacements had dozens of names, and we haven't seen all of them. At this point in the show, all but 5 have been crossed out, but there were originally a lot more people on that list than those 5. You saw the episode "The Lighthouse" right?
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:17:10 PM »
They took Walt for the same reason they take children in general, which is the same reason Mother took the two babies in the last episode - to mold them into being a potential "protector" of the island. That's the whole reason the Others are there at all - Jacob brings them there because he is looking for someone to take over as the island's protector. I think that is exceedingly clear at this point.
The pregnancy question doesn't specifically have anything to do with the Others, so I'm not sure why you're lumping that in there.
They live on an island inhabited by a smoke monster because Jacob brings them there ... duh.
Dharma Initiative - they are a group founded by Hanso, whose distant relative was on the Black Rock and wrote about the island in a journal that was somehow found and passed down through the Hanso family. The exact mechanics of this sequence of events won't be explained, but I don't think it's important enough to warrant it. Needless to say, Hanso found out about the special qualities of the island and funded a research group to go exploit it. He probably created the Lamp Post station to find the island - how he figured out how to do that, I'm not sure, and I don't care. But as far as what the DI actually IS, that's explained. The island has enough seemingly magical, psychological things happening on it (seeing dead people etc.) that running behavioral experiments seems perfectly natural.
Why was everyone brought to the island? Jacob brought them there in his search for a replacement. IT'S BEEN ANSWERED.
EDIT: And the cabin - pretty sure that, although the cabin was originally Jacob's, by Season 3 the cabin was actually inhabited by smoke monster/man in black/Jacob's brother. Ilana mentioned in season 5 that Jacob hadn't been there in a while, and that it was being used by "someone else". That's when she torched it. The "someone else" is certainly Man in Black, given the fact that Christian Shepherd occupied it and convinced Claire to stay on the island, and as we all know, she turned out to be on MIB's side by the end. So the "help me" was probably Man in Black talking to Locke, which is very interesting given the fact that Locke DOES turn out to help Man in Black by dying and giving MIB the opportunity to assume Locke's form.
The pregnancy question doesn't specifically have anything to do with the Others, so I'm not sure why you're lumping that in there.
They live on an island inhabited by a smoke monster because Jacob brings them there ... duh.
Dharma Initiative - they are a group founded by Hanso, whose distant relative was on the Black Rock and wrote about the island in a journal that was somehow found and passed down through the Hanso family. The exact mechanics of this sequence of events won't be explained, but I don't think it's important enough to warrant it. Needless to say, Hanso found out about the special qualities of the island and funded a research group to go exploit it. He probably created the Lamp Post station to find the island - how he figured out how to do that, I'm not sure, and I don't care. But as far as what the DI actually IS, that's explained. The island has enough seemingly magical, psychological things happening on it (seeing dead people etc.) that running behavioral experiments seems perfectly natural.
Why was everyone brought to the island? Jacob brought them there in his search for a replacement. IT'S BEEN ANSWERED.
EDIT: And the cabin - pretty sure that, although the cabin was originally Jacob's, by Season 3 the cabin was actually inhabited by smoke monster/man in black/Jacob's brother. Ilana mentioned in season 5 that Jacob hadn't been there in a while, and that it was being used by "someone else". That's when she torched it. The "someone else" is certainly Man in Black, given the fact that Christian Shepherd occupied it and convinced Claire to stay on the island, and as we all know, she turned out to be on MIB's side by the end. So the "help me" was probably Man in Black talking to Locke, which is very interesting given the fact that Locke DOES turn out to help Man in Black by dying and giving MIB the opportunity to assume Locke's form.
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Movies & TV / Re: Rate the last TV show you've seen
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:04:20 PM »
I had no idea Smallville was still going.
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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh
« on: May 17, 2010, 05:01:07 PM »I've been writing a paper on it, which works surprisingly well. If you use it in landscape orientation the onscreen keyboard is big enough to touch type on, and I've been able to do so with abut the same speed and accuracy as on my regular keyboard. The only thing that slows me down is certain punctuation, which requires an extra step.
Yeah, after playing with it in Apple stores a few times, I have to say that I was really surprised how quickly I was able to type on the landscape keyboard. There was very little difference in speed between typing on that and on a regular keyboard for me! I'm convinced that people who continuously crap on the iPad's virtual keyboard simply haven't tried it. When you factor in the auto-correction, which I've had a lot of good luck with generally, you've got a pretty damn good typing device.
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 194
« on: May 17, 2010, 04:54:41 PM »
I was really glad to hear some Killer 7 love from Karl in this episode. I find it a bit disheartening - and telling - that in the midst of a discussion of why video games don't have more interesting stories, one of the very few video games that has a truly dense, unique and thought-provoking story gets dismissed as simply being "crazy". Keep the Killer 7 love alive, Karl, you're not alone!
Also, has anyone told Karl he sounds just like Merlin Mann?
Also, has anyone told Karl he sounds just like Merlin Mann?
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 04:50:24 PM »
And I'll take that $10 bet, especially re: Aaron. He will be mentioned again.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 17, 2010, 04:49:25 PM »
You must have missed a LOT of episodes if you don't know who the others are, what the Dharma Initiative was or why people have been brought to the island, vudu. That stuff is all completely answered in my mind.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 12, 2010, 12:23:45 PM »
It's my thought that the Temple was later built on top of that glowing cave. It makes sense to me that Jacob would have his "followers" (people he brought to the island) build it there. Maybe the magical pool that heals people is connected to that cave.
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 11, 2010, 10:54:35 PM »Well, I think his mother simply didn't want him to leave the island because she had given him some "power" (the power of immortality) that shouldn't be let out in the real world. Also, I think she still wanted him to be the one to protect the island.
Yeah, the thing about the donkey wheel was pretty silly, but I kind of think they wrote themselves into a corner with that one. How could they really rationally explain how that works??
I don't have a problem with her torching the villagers and burying the cave - after all, she seems to have the power to create storms to bring people to the island, just like Jacob now has. She gave Jacob her powers, remember.
When this show abandons subtext, the answers seem spoon-fed and forced. See "the whispers" for an example. I'm glad they're letting us figure things out. For the most part, I think they explained what they needed to in this episode - the motivations of Jacob and the Man in Black, and the fact that there's a great metaphysical source of "power" on the island that can do crazy things like grant immortality and turn people's souls into smoke monsters.
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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh
« on: May 11, 2010, 10:09:35 PM »
Is the Wii warm and yellow and smelly?
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 11, 2010, 07:52:08 PM »
Get on it!
Also, check out the iPad thread - did you steal someone's iPad??
Also, check out the iPad thread - did you steal someone's iPad??
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General Chat / Re: Lost
« on: May 11, 2010, 06:43:22 PM »
I'm hell of excited for tonight's episode.
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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh
« on: May 10, 2010, 03:18:59 PM »
Sorry I'm not "productive" when I'm browsing the web, posting on forums, checking email and social networking sites at home, I'm sure when you do the exact same things at home on your real computer you're SUPER productive.
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General Chat / Re: iPad...meh
« on: May 10, 2010, 02:35:48 PM »The portability aspect of the iPad is it's biggest draw (right?)
Not as I see it - the biggest draw is the UI and the app store in my opinion. If I someday get one, I'd use it at home 95% of the time. I'm currently doing the majority of my casual web browsing, email checking, and Twitter/Facebooking on my iPod Touch in bed or in my living room. An iPad would be a nice upgrade for that kind of usage.
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