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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.

Polter-Cow - Oct 25, 2004 1:22:09 pm PDT #527 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

DO IT.

Sean K - Oct 25, 2004 1:23:21 pm PDT #528 of 10000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

Lest you all think I'm completely nuts.

You say that like it's a drawback around here....

DavidS - Oct 25, 2004 2:26:59 pm PDT #529 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Lest you all think I'm completely nuts.

You just saw me rhyme Hurley with "burley." If I'm willing to look stupid, then nuts should be a cinch.

Dana - Oct 25, 2004 2:56:35 pm PDT #530 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

LN, I'd say you're well nigh obligated to post it.

DCJensen - Oct 25, 2004 3:12:33 pm PDT #531 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Dr. Jack (do we know his last name?)

Sheppard. (Sheperd?) Yeah, not too subtle there.

Except he was supposed to die in the pilot...

I suppose they could have changed his name.

Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 25, 2004 3:33:31 pm PDT #532 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I don't need it to follow Dante's rules, but I do need dead dead people to have dead dead people problems, and not problems that mimic those of living people.

I think my hypothetical afterlife situation might cover this though. Certainly if the characters are dead, none of them are aware that they are. If they were inhabiting a shared mindscape (kind of like the What Dreams May Come version of the afterlife), it would seem natural that most of their problems would be of the living people variety. With the weirder invisible monster/polar bear stuff cropping up as a result of all the irrational unconscious fears/thoughts that don't make sense.

The apparent deaths of the pilot, the marshall, Joanna, and Engine Chow Guy might have happened because they themselves expected that result in response to the circumstances around them. (And it might not actually be "death", but some change of state like that the "killed" ghosts underwent in The Frighteners.)

Mind you, I actually think it's likelier that they're all alive and really experiencing the strange events in the physical world, but I'm not ruling out the possibility that Abrams could pull a "And they realized they were all DEAD!" switcheroo in an interesting and enjoyable way.

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