'First Date'
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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.
Heh, that was a nice interview.
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.
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).
They were speaking Latin at the beginning, weren't they?
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.
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
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.
I'm getting that "several thousand years" from the interview Cindy linked, btw. Probably should have contextualized that when I brought it up.
While the Allison Janney character may have been there for a couple of thousand years, I really didn't think that the boys had been. I mean, when did Spanish develop as a language separate from Latin and whatever the original Spanish people spoke?
On the other hand, I think that the Island has too many time oddities to make a straightforward chronology possible.