'Lineage'
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OMGWTF has become my new favorite acronym.
I find it hard to believe it hadn't become popular till now. I mean, OMG and WTF individually were teh awesome, but together they wield even more acronymical power. Who's tracing the etymology of netspeak? Why has no one come up with this until now? Or where has it been hiding?
The new recap is up at TWoP. In general, I don't think the Lost recaps have been very funny, but there was one bit in this one that cracked me up good. Also, this line gave me pause:
Back at his late-night fire, Jack's crying again. Behind him, a branch snaps and we hear ice cubes rattling. Huh: obviously this isn't just a hallucination -- there's something corporeal out there. These scenes sure make me hope the writers are awfully creative to come up with an explanation for all this stuff that doesn't seem like grade-A baloney.
See, I had pretty much the opposite reaction. I figured that the sound of ice cubes was supposed to be a tipoff that Jack was hallucinating. I mean, even if his father did come back to life, where in hell would he get ice cubes on the island?
From the camera crew?
Maybe it was in the bottles of Coca-Cola that the polar bears are drinking?
no kidding. That's kind of bullshit. People hear voices all the time. Aural hallucinations aren't often from lack of sleep though if I remember correctly.
BTW...what if Jack's dad is the monster. A shape-shifting monster.
I mean, even if his father did come back to life, where in hell would he get ice cubes on the island?
Maybe there's a hotel with an ice machine on the other side.
Right -- where the French people are laughing about the practical joke they played on the Americans.
You'd think that someone might propose doing a perimeter check of the island, at least.
There are probably a finite number of Ontological Mysteries available, falling in to three classes: the world is strange, or the people are strange, or there are strange people in a strange land.
My guess is that the island is last one. Jack was hallucinating the ice cubes (he is strange) the hallucinations were particularly vivid (the strangeness of the island at work.)
I'm reminded of The Forbidden Planet, with a lighter reliance on the Tempest paralells.
eta: Do I worry about a spoiling a movie made in 1956? Well, it doesn't hurt to whitefont:
There was a machine on the planet that magnified and made physical the impulses in a person's id. This manifested as a large invisible creature that liked to stomp on things and batter stuff down. My parallel from this to Lost is there may be some magical something on the island that works similarly.