That works too.
Or maybe you could just be Buffy, he'll see your amazing heart, and he'll fall in love with you.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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Polter-Cow - May 13, 2010 6:59:06 am PDT #5700 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 13, 2010 6:59:45 am PDT #5701 of 5968
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I wonder if that was a wishful-thinking tweet.
Sounds like it, given the interview. Interesting. It certainly would have worked better earlier in the season. I see the point Cuse is making about why they put it there, but it felt like very awkward timing. I still liked the episode, all the same.
Polter-Cow - May 13, 2010 8:29:59 am PDT #5702 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Heh, that was a nice interview.
-t - May 13, 2010 8:41:28 am PDT #5703 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
So, all that was supposed to be several thousand years ago? I did not get that. I actually thought that this episode was telling me that Jacob was a lot more recent than I had previously believed.
Frankenbuddha - May 13, 2010 8:54:17 am PDT #5704 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
So, all that was supposed to be several thousand years ago? I did not get that. I actually thought that this episode was telling me that Jacob was a lot more recent than I had previously believed.
I read somewhere that the game Jacob and Smokey were playing was Senet which was an acient Egyptian game (Wikipedia says it may be the oldest board game that we know about, something I also remember Laurence Olivier's character in Sleuth mentioning).
Dana - May 13, 2010 8:55:05 am PDT #5705 of 5968
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
They were speaking Latin at the beginning, weren't they?
le nubian - May 13, 2010 9:02:26 am PDT #5706 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Given that they spoke Latin and referred to the use of ships, etc., that a game from Egypt was on the ship, the time this took place could be anywhere from around 400 BCE to the 5th century, I guess.
I'm not sure if anyone can narrow it down further from that. I just don't think we have more clues on which to narrow.
-t - May 13, 2010 9:06:15 am PDT #5707 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Could have been. Which still puts it not as ancient as I was thinking before, so, maybe I just overcorrected in the recent direction.
I'm trying to pin down why I had that misapprehension and I can't, really. Probably just me getting it wrong
Hayden - May 13, 2010 9:19:11 am PDT #5708 of 5968
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Well, the mummification of the corpses was a counter-indicator of the episode's "meanwhile, two thousand years ago..." approach. They should have been nothing but dust after all that time exposed to the elements.
-t - May 13, 2010 9:22:16 am PDT #5709 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'm getting that "several thousand years" from the interview Cindy linked, btw. Probably should have contextualized that when I brought it up.