Every nightmare I have that doesn't revolve around academic failure or public nudity is about that thing. In fact, once I dreamt that it attacked me while I was late for a test and naked.

Willow ,'The Killer In Me'


Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR  

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tiggy - Nov 12, 2004 8:32:56 am PST #2340 of 10000
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore

wow, megan. thanks for the translation. now i really can't wait until next week.

people asking about Jin and what was said wednesday night, DDK answered that at The Fuselage last night. i also don't think he heard Sun speaking english. especially based on DDK's translation of the korean. he said: "What's going on here? What are you doing sneaking around with this guy!"


arby - Nov 12, 2004 8:48:42 am PST #2341 of 10000
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)

Shannon distinctly translates "I'm all alone" when the woman never says any such thing.

In fact, she says the opposite! Was the part about the black rock similar-sounding to the French for "I'm all alone"? (non-French speaker, duh)


Kathy A - Nov 12, 2004 8:55:35 am PST #2342 of 10000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

They'll probably get the actual translation from someone else (maybe the person who sent it?), and then when they confront Shannon, she'll be all, "I told you I went to France to drink, not study!"


megan walker - Nov 12, 2004 9:02:57 am PST #2343 of 10000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

"I'm all alone" would have been "Je suis toute seule" which is pretty different from anything in the message.

I had to listen to it many times to be sure of the "keys" and the "black rock" lines. I then googled those lines to confirm what I heard and that seems to be the consensus of the other French posters I found.


Vonnie K - Nov 12, 2004 9:08:43 am PST #2344 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Il est dehors. Il est dehors et Brennan a pris les clés.

OK. This part about the keys gives me total chills on the spine. Especially now that I'm imagining this being said by the eerie disembodied voice again.

Was the part about the black rock similar-sounding to the French for "I'm all alone"?

Hmm, my French is rusty, but I don't think so. "I'm all alone now" would be something like "Je suis toute seule maintenant," which doesn't sound anything like "Je vais essayer d'aller jusqu'au rocher noir."

ETA: x-posty!


Vonnie K - Nov 12, 2004 9:46:56 am PST #2345 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Cereal:

From an interview with Matthew Fox: [link]

Casting Fox in the lead entailed a considerable twist of fate. He came in to audition for the role of the conniving Sawyer, a part that eventually went to Josh Holloway.

Dude. I CANNOT see MF as Sawyer. Not at all.

Also, an earlier interview with Josh Holloway (no future ep spoiler that I can see): [link]

It's so funny because at the beginning of the pilot, I'm loving the way these guys work. J.J. Abrams and Damon (Lindelof) came sneaking into my trailer in the rain and they're like, 'This is what's in the letter. Don't tell a soul.' You're like, 'Oh, my God, that changes everything!'

They do that. They come in and give you just a little information. It's kind of like we're on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't even reveal it to anyone in the cast.

Ha. That's kind of cute. I like the idea of only the character himself/herself knowing his/her own backstory and the rest of the cast being in the dark.


Polter-Cow - Nov 12, 2004 10:28:13 am PST #2346 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

Ha. That's kind of cute. I like the idea of only the character himself/herself knowing his/her own backstory and the rest of the cast being in the dark.

Me too. That's great, and totally as it should be, because it allows him to know that when he's acting. Otherwise, you get situations like Alias S3, where Melissa George clearly has no idea she's evil for the first half, so her actions make no sense in retrospect.


Beverly - Nov 12, 2004 10:47:53 am PST #2347 of 10000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Thank you for the translation, Megan!

Shannon's French isn't that good, she's just winging the translation

Well, she was forced into trying to translate. She said her French wasn't any good.

Oh lord, I can't believe I'm defending SnickerBitch.


Liese S. - Nov 12, 2004 3:01:55 pm PST #2348 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

I like the idea of only the character himself/herself knowing his/her own backstory and the rest of the cast being in the dark.

That's awesome. Now I want to go interrogate the other cast members to see what they know. Without, you know, bamboo or anything.


Liese S. - Nov 12, 2004 3:03:11 pm PST #2349 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Oh, yeah, and the translation is great. I love that there's so much else there that needs explored. It's way more interesting than, "I'm all alone." Wonder if Shannon just botched it, or why she would deliberately misinterpret, even after being pushed into translating?