Wow.
I'm really glad we have this as a dedicated thread.
I will add more when I have something thoughtful to say. My brain is still hurting from thinking about the debate you've all been having already! Very intelligent, are the Buffistae.
Wow.
Gavin, ask yourself this question. What are you more afraid of, a giant murderous demon or me?
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Pix - Oct 25, 2004 11:54:30 am PDT #517 of 10000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
libkitty - Oct 25, 2004 11:56:09 am PDT #518 of 10000
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I just have to say, I love having a show that inspires thinking and discussion and curiosity. I was so pessimistic when Angel and Wonderfalls were cancelled, but this is not a bad substitute. The only problem is I can't keep up with this AND Natter.
More on topic,
I'm still in the "lost his license" camp, especially after his conversation with his mother, in flashback.
This would work with him being called "mister," too, since he would hardly present himself as Dr. Jack (do we know his last name?) if he had lost his license.
For all that's it's fun to come up with various possibilities, and even probabilities, I actually hope that I'm wrong on some of them, because I want the writers to come up with something really fantastic that none of us has thought of.
Amy - Oct 25, 2004 12:08:01 pm PDT #519 of 10000
Because books.
I'm not sure what to guess based on what we've seen. I'm not leaning toward them being dead/in purgatory at all, maybe simply because I just don't want to.
t /immature
But I agree that I think the show doesn't support that theory. Or at least not yet. My speculation is something more like the Bermuda Triangle, or like it -- a place where too many/just the right kind of points have converged, creating a fluidity to reality for those who enter it alive. Has this already been postulated? This thread is brand-new and I can't keep up already. That wouldn't affect those who were dead on impact/during the crash, then, although it does leave open the issue of Jack's dad. Of course, we're not positive he's actually alive, though, just that Jack has seen him.
This theory also sounds kind of lame and non-specific now I'm typing it out. Hmmm.
Dana - Oct 25, 2004 12:09:18 pm PDT #520 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Maybe it's like the Star Trek: TOS episode "Shore Leave."
Huh. Not actually sure I could be geekier unless I were writing in binary.
Sean K - Oct 25, 2004 12:29:10 pm PDT #521 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Maybe it's like the Star Trek: TOS episode "Shore Leave."
Now we need a leaping, idiotic, bad-brogue-having, leprechaunish characature of an Irishman to show up on the island.
::sits down in the uber-geeky corner with Dana::
Amy - Oct 25, 2004 12:33:19 pm PDT #522 of 10000
Because books.
a leaping, idiotic, bad-brogue-having, leprechaunish characature of an Irishman
I'm totally getting a visual from The Simpsons there.
Vonnie K - Oct 25, 2004 12:38:07 pm PDT #523 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Dr. Jack (do we know his last name?)
Sheppard. (Sheperd?) Yeah, not too subtle there.
The writers seem to like meaningful names. We have John Locke, after the philosopher. Claire, who has a certain unmarred purity of spirits about her. (Or it could be Claire as in clairvoyant, given her affinity for astrology.) Sawyer and Boone, I'm not sure about, except they have last names for their first. "Jin", if it's the often-used Chinese word I'm thinking about, means truth, which doesn't fit with what we've gather from the character. "Sun" can mean 'meek', or 'good' as in 'good vs. evil', although I suspect the name was picked for the metaphoric possibilities in its English version.
Charlie, Hurley and Shannon? No clue.
DavidS - Oct 25, 2004 12:47:29 pm PDT #524 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Charlie, Hurley and Shannon? No clue.
Hurley is burley.
Shannon needs to be shot out of a cannon. Into a pool of sharks with frickin' lasers on their heads.
Charlie? Clearly the Barley King. cf., Frazer.
alienprayer - Oct 25, 2004 12:48:07 pm PDT #525 of 10000
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Hurley could be the Samoan Olympic javelin thrower (javelineer?).
le nubian - Oct 25, 2004 1:19:23 pm PDT #526 of 10000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I did a whole name analysis including the newly dead Joanna but I don't have the cojones to post it.
Lest you all think I'm completely nuts.