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132 comments:
first!
thanks, mb. you're the man.
WOW!!!
fastest post-slinger in the east, that Palmer.
As much as I love ThLOSTday, I miss LOSTnesday.
Happy viewing!
word up.
i'm watching pop-up "Egg Town" right now. So far the captions haven't delivered any revelations.
some stuff i'm noticing on rewatch.
- Ben's read "Valis" but the book club didn't think he'd like "Carrie". I figured he was a literature snob, but Philip K Dick doesn't really rate among the snooty.
- i know Sawyer's request for coffee was really a request for some alone time with Kate, but Claire was holding her Bay-bee and Kate doesn't even budge. jerk.
- Kate's lawyer wanted to put a 2 year old kid on the stand to be a character witness for her.
"how long have you known this woman?" "this many!"
lol - excellent Andrew. Good points.
Talk to you all late tonight or tomorrow!
i was just about to post this thread!
enjoy the show you East Coast lamers!
i will watch it in 4 hours.
I think the bay-bee was more to sit in the courtroom probably in a sweater like this.
I'm actually thinking Aaron was separately represented by Barry Zuckercorn and thus managed to be in court to provide support.
Holli
des reminds me of a certain classic convenience store clerk from a movie of which i am named after.
IM NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TODAY!!!!
i bet that guy is minknowski. and i bet that thing that happened to dan happened to des.
Is this the sickness that Danielle talked about?
This episode is crazy!!!
What the hell is going on in this show?
this has to be the weirdest lost crossover ever.
what the fuck. i really like this. this i so confusing.
im with trevor. and, ooh. it could be the sickness. they need to explain that eventually. why not now?
Did Faraday and Desmond just pull a Bill and Ted?
dharmalars, or lost initiative, or someone, please play the song "luno" by bloc party, or the cover by DFA 1979 on your podcast. besides the fact that its a pretty good song, the chorus is
"AND YOURE NOSE IS BLEEEEDDDIIIINN! AND YOUR NOSE IS BLEEEDIIIIIIIIIINNNN!"
that would be funny.
OMG! I LOVE LOST!
this was the most awesomest episode yet, this season. leave it to desmond to not disappoint with a good episode.
i cried like a bitch when he was talking to penny (finally!)
sayid is the fucking man! in like 2 minutes he's like, ok here's the phone.
yes, i think they played a bill and ted
we'll already leave the keys there, and they'll be there when we get there!
i love that movie.
so, this is kinda some flashes before desmonds eyes. its odd. and dan is experiencing the same thing. i guess that explains the crying at the tv? maybe? probably not.
its christmas eve. i wish this episode corresponded with real time, and aired in december. oh well.
What a completely enjoyable episode. Yes, I think that's the sickness Roussou's crew ailed from. I hate the fact that Fisher Stevens so quickly exited the show.
yeah. i liked him. what was he in? i recognized him, but my severe laziness forced me to stay away from his imdb page. im sure we'll see him again somehow.
not only of this season, in this humble viewers eyes, of the series. It was awesome. They explained a lot and i felt the cross cutting was done perfectly. The auction scene was just enough to get your mind racing in a million other places then it is already thinking about.
flawless lost
That was amazing! Well, amazingly confusing at first, anyhow.
But then I remembered that Desmond travels through time and that yes, he was close to the magnetic thingymajigg that may have triggered this loss of memory...
Ngah! I loved it though.
holy shit...
one of my favorite lost episodes EVER.
my only problem was how the door opened? really no one saw that. and please if thats the only episode fisher 'The Plague' stevens is going to be in i will be a sad panda.
Flawless is F---ing right.
I got really teary at the end myself. I'll admit it.
Desmonds story is amazing.
was the scene cute enough to make you cry?
i thought it was great, and mind-blowing. I gotta admit that they're really reading a thin line for me -- telling Dez in the future to do something in the past so that he can do something later in the future really is a little too close to Bill & Ted for me -- but it's so entertaining and well-done that I don't really seem to mind. I really have no clue what the heck is going on anymore.
And the final scene ... there was just a little bit of dust in my eyes.
I heard a while ago, they expected this episode to have one of the most reviewed moments on tivo in history...I think it is the equations in faradays book and on the chalk boards.
I can't wait to check out the high res screen caps
holy moly! good episode.
this even felt more tonally consistent with LOST than "Flashes Before Your Eyes" even as it featured a rat ray.
- now we know why Dan wanted to call Minkowski but Frank later told him to hang up if Minkowski answered.
- How the hell do they get Desmond's hair to work in the past and present? It can't be a wig on island considering the track record (including disshoveled professor Dan)
- confession time: who's screen got all blurry like you were looking through a rainy window when Desmond & Penny were talking on the phone?
"i thought it was great, and mind-blowing."
that's what she said.
and yeah it was! i kinda spoiled myself and knew it was a desmond flashfoback tonight, but it was still great.
i was screaming at penny, just give him the fucking number! i was afraid he was gonna go "back" without the number.
so is that the sickness that Russeau's team got and that everyone is worried about. cause all the boat people are worried about it? if they bring people back to the boat do all but 6 die? crazy on you
Independant of the time travel stuff, which I can't wrap my head around, what about that auction scene? I caught them saying that one of the Hanso's put the diary up for auction ... was it Magnus? Were any of the bidders recognizable besides CW?
Someone opened the door for Des. Who opened the door? Michael?
Damn right that's what she said.
I think the first letter of the hanzo name was T. that book must have been from the island. I loved the auction scene
I think that Frank opened the door.
the door opening was Minkowski pulling the Bill&Ted, which is why he had the nose bleed. That was the implication anyway
"- now we know why Dan wanted to call Minkowski but Frank later told him to hang up if Minkowski answered."
i'd forgotten about that, that's a good point, andrew.
Who here thinks we haven't seen the last of Minkowski aka Fischer Stevens? I got the feeling that he might show up in some flashbacks/time travels.
Does the Black Rock ledger hold any significance to the story, or is it just a tie back?
I loved the transitions from 1996 to 2004 with the editing. Very cool.
San Dimas High School Football Rules!!!
kablamo!
But if Minikowski was on the boat in the past and in the future, wouldn't he have had a constant?
Minkowski didn't know about needing a constant, thats why he died. At least that's my understanding.
He also said that he was on a Ferris Wheel.
yeah so whereever he was jumping to and from is not on the boat, because he mentioned the ferris wheel. unless the boat they're on used to have some kind of carnival or something. LOL, how's that for a crackpot theory.
This is definitely some "Slaughterhouse-Five" time-unsticking.
Wow! so i never turned off my TV after LOST, and Eli Stone has been on in the background this whole time. I'm pretty sure the doctor from the freighter is now on Eli Stone?!? is he unstuck from time too!
i didnt cry. i just had something in both of my eyes.
but seriously, no i didnt. i felt a bit of a choke, though. the only time lost made me burst into tears crying was the last charlie episode when he says goodbye to hurley.
Is anyone actually watching that Eli Stone? It looks terrible.
i need to read slaughterhouse 5. im reading the 3rd policeman now. sadly, i was spoiled on the ending, but its just fun and wacky enough that i still want to read it.
i want to sue god for allowing those in charge of eli stone's creation to flourish.
yeah. it looks dumb.
Was Dan crying in episode 2 because he had just jumped back in time?
So the other Losties that were recently exposed to high levels of radiation or electromagnetism are Charlie, Eko, and Locke.
2 of 3 are dead, so perhaps the only other character that would have his consciousness travel through time would be John Locke. I imagine he would be hard pressed to find a constant from two different points in time. Unless his time travels are to the future rather than the past. hmm...
I must say, I loved this episode. Even more than "Flashes Before Your Eyes" - Love me some Desmond
Just think how kick-ass seasons 2 and 3 would have been if the writers knew where their end-point was. Ever since the end was defined, the show has really stepped it up a notch.
I do think Dan's crying, and his "caretaker" have something to do with his consciousness traveling through time.
Now we get to see him try to locate Desmond. Looking forward to THAT episode.
p.s. Did anyone else think they might going to "off" Desmond tonight?
"Was Dan crying in episode 2 because he had just jumped back in time?"
Dan was crying because he saw this episode in his mind, from the future.
:D
well, i leave to watch a little LOST and i come back to 56 new posts. yeesh! good going, folks.
ok, so, yeah. Desmond's consciousness jumps through time in his own body. but his body doesn't jump through time. interesting. he randomly quantum leaps into himself. is this why he got dishonorably discharged from the army?
widmore bid on T. Hanso's book ledger from the black rock (captained by Magnus Hanso, methinks). cool. is T. Hanso Alvar's baby boy?
do you think Widmore didnt want Penny hooking up with Desmond because HE KNOWS THAT DESMOND WILL BECOME UNSTUCK IN TIME?!!!! hee hee. fun to theorize.
desmond's hair in 1996 is a wig. you can see the glue on his scalp.
did desmond have chest hair stubble?
is desmond's Island hair the inspiration for Sayid's future-hair?
oh. and did the random boat phone run on direct current and that's why it needed to be hooked up to a battery? cuz the rest of the boat would be alternating, right? and couldn't sayid have used a radio's power supply to convert the AC to DC and run the phone off of the ship's main power?
i think they did something similar on Mythbusters. :)
anyone understand anything about electricity? i can use a voltmeter and that's about it.
oh. and the Desmond/Penny love story is infinitely more interesting than any romantic story with Kate.
besides the Kate/Juliet/Dharma whipped topping love story.
Sayid probably just alternated the current the same way he alternated that one dude's neck with that break dancing move.
palmer. agree about Penelmond.
That's a love story even a grisled old man like I can enjoy.
So if Desmond is Daniel's constant, when he read that 'reminder', did he get all of his memory back?
GOD, what an amazing episode!!! Des and Penny's story is sooo phenomenal that it's totally my favorite storyline now. So, SO good. One of the best episodes PERIOD. And I'm soooo glad everyone seems to agree.
And no, definitely have not seen the last of Fisher Stevens. But can we see the FIRST of Zoe Bell???
p.s. Can I call a blogspot (C) on "Penelemond"?
from the shooting script:
"The jumble of wires is an unusable mess. Sayid gives it the stink eye and it assembles itself into a working radio rather than face any potential physical violence."
and the set-up
kablamo to get "my honor back, brother!"
nice. way to take it back, brother.
my new avatar is a love story for the ages. and it involves time travel.
throw in some exploding robots and we've got television gold.
One of the pages in Danny's notebook said something about the Lorentz Invariance. Wikipedia that one. It's pretty intersting.
thanks for reminding me
i was wondering if Sayid was feeling like a complete asshole because he was helping Desmond connect with the love of his life while Sayid had basically moved on from Nadia.
"What's that your're looking at Desmond? Is that Penelope? Yeah, i have a photo like that but i misplaced it somewhere during season 1 when i was mooning over the blonde girl that got me strip searched at the airport."
i just changed my avatar to celebrate one of the worst wigs in Lost history.
most have been just rubbish, but this one is not even the right gender, apparently.
LOL Andrew!
Great episode, although I thought Desmond was going to drop dead as soon as he got off the phone with Penny. I'm relieved they didn't go that route.
b. linus,
I have to think that the wiki entry you refer to is only interesting if you happen to be at least a grad level Physics student. which I am not, btw.
well, that was my favorite episode in a long time.
i hope that jimmy talks about the creepy merry-go round dharma music that was playing while Jake and Sayid were hanging out on the poop deck!
Nice "Slaughterhouse-Five" comparison Andrew.
Ok, so Desmond went a little crazy because he was at ground zero when the swan station blew up. Maybe anyone close to the beach at the time are affected too. Of the people that we know are the Oceanic 6, they were all on the other side of the island. Jack, Kate and Hurley were at the dock, and Sayid was on a boat on the other side. Maybe it is too risky to bring anyone else off the island for they might go crazy/time jump.
The only thing I can think of for Aaron is at the time on the island, he's only 2-3 months old. His young self won't know what's going on and won't remember, but it would be a trip for his older self for sure.
ally, i think faraday's wig was Kate's wig from the episode where she married the guy from Firefly.
p.s. weird pics of Bruce Campbell
Superbium.
Some transatlantic problems - the auctioneer saying "one hundred fifty" instead of "one hundred and fifty" (although that does slip later), and the fact that Penny seems to live in 1890 London.
There's a Cheyne Walk not ten minutes on foot from my house.
If Desmond one day randomly wandered out of the Scots Guards and buggered off, I suppose it could at least contribute to his eventual court martial.
Daniel's memory loss "like that's going to happen" - this could indeed explain it, and maybe it'll flood back now.
Fisher Stevens. After all that build up... bye! (Although when one of our characters has cause to go on a ferris wheel after the island, we may well see him again).
Oh, and whaddaya know? Penny's Boat.
I got teary at the telephonic reunion - I'm a big girl where Desmond is involved.
Brilliant.
Best. Episode. Ever?
Who knows - but certainly one of the best.
Finally... what is it? Flashforward? Partial Daniel flashback? or neither of these things?
for Chris.
ha. all this talk of Fisher Stevens and then Cat Stevens hops on the radio.
My brain hurts.... but my heart aches in a good way??
Hey, Dre - good to see you back again.
Palmer - nice one. I'm a big fan of the Short Circuit films (particularly the second).
"It's a saying we have in my country where... sometimes we are speaking Spanish. It does not mean 'your mother sleeps with my dog', but that the men she sleeps with - they are LIKE dogs"....
even more of the Iron Man trailer.
Iron Man Trailer++
So was Desmond traveling into the past, or into the future? And I got the very strong impression that Daniel remembered his conversation with Dez in the past (and had some notes in his journal to back it up); why didn't Dez remember it?
One other thing I liked in last night's ep ... Daniel puts on the lead apron because of the radiation exposure, Dez asks about his head, and Daniel just says, "Yeah..."
Thanks, Chris, I hadn't realized that apparently it is Penny's Boat.
After Desmond said his "I love yous" and "I'm sorrys", I was afraid he was gonna drop dead. I'm glad he didn't and I hope we get more episodes about him or like this one, again.
/i still can't get over that wig, or the fact that he's cuddling a mouse.
wouldn't you be wanting to protect your head first?
or is he thinking that bad wig will work as a helmet?
lol, good one Ally.
hehehehheheheheheheh. a lead apron and a lead wig. brilliant!!!
faraday was kinda hippie-like in the past, you could've sworn desmond jumped back to the 60s/70s and not late 90s.
What was the reason for Widmore leaving the water running? To show how short Des' flashes were getting? That his time was running out?
Why did Frank point out that the phones could only call each other? To show Des HAD to get to the com room to contact Penny?
I believe if Des and Penny don't get a happy ending, the fans will be more disappointed than if the smoke monster is never explained.
I figured that he left the water running because he's a dick and expected that Dez would turn it off for him.
or he KNOWS THAT DESMOND IS A TIME JUMPER!!! and was using it to effect.
that's my crackpot theory. Charles "Chuckulicious" Widmore knows that Desmond is Unstuck in Time and THAT'S why he doesn't want Penny to date him. crackpot!!!
i agree with trevor, i don't think there was any reason behind him leaving the water running.
check out the second picture. i hadn't realized that oxford was the same place as the badly photoshoped picture of mrs. hawkings.
http://getlostpodcast.com/2008/02/28/lost-episode-405--the-constant--initial-reactions--easter-eggs.aspx
/too lazy to make a fancy link.
I wonder if that means anything, or if they just picked up the first background they could find for that horrible photoshop.
Apparently, the person who put the diary up for auction was Tovard Hanso. That's interesting to me because Tovard, as everyone knows, is the Norwegian form of Trevor.
I actualy wept in this episode how uncool..Youd think Charlie dyin would do it but nope it took My man Desmond f'n Hume to do the trick since he entered the lost world he was my Fav. charecter and once again he shows me why..for the U.K. folks CHEERS SIR cheers well done for makin a grown man cry..As for us Americans You Kicked Ass Desmond! And the Brit slang is in my Fav. can't wait to start slingin some Wanker daft drunk rabbits:)
I just erased 3 paragraphs of why Bill and Ted have no write bein compared to lost..Im sorry it's just wrong no offense ment on either side bil/lost but ones comedy ones drama...I'm stopin before this goes to 3 Parg. again..I think Bad analogy
MB
My theory lives for another week my first origanl thought I have to thank Ralph for the Thinkin outside the box.(ff may be fb or fb may be F>F>?) So keep mulin it over..Or put it on paus etill the hiatis..hopefully..I think its got some legs so far..next week? But not seein the previews I at least have the luxery of thinkin I'm correct for 7 days:) or more???
Last thought
White Animal Theroy also still alive.
Maybe they can only get Whit bunnys And White polar Bears to stay in the same time or place or i have no idea..But White/black still afactor much like backgammon..maybe there's a golf coarse in otheresville? Maybe its Bad vs. Good..Who's good again I forgot?
KABLAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO my first and iCHEATED SO THERE i'M DONE GOOD NIGHT yA'ALL CRAZY cATS AND kITTENS:)
RRB, I made some big posting last season about the difference between dramatic time travel and comedy time travel. In comedy time travel, it's ok to say, "We need our keys! After this is all done, we gotta remember to go back in time and put our keys right here!" That's a big no-no in dramatic time travel, because it's completely ridiculous. Daniel telling Dez to go back in time, get on a train, find past Daniel, give him the info he needs to make his flux capacitor work, so that past Daniel gives Dez the info that he needs to get Penny's phone number, so that he suddenly has it in the future might not quite be Bill and Ted, but it's really close. But they did such a great job of it last night that they somehow pulled it off. I wasn't making a comment about the quality of the episode, just noticing the similarity.
boobies
OK, now I feel better.
Gotta put things in perspective after a confusing-as-all-heck episode like that.
Sorry dude:) I just watched the Ep. My brain was runnin a muck with stuff and I started readin the blog without the finish....My bad..but things thought of last year I do need to catch up on..I'm such a desmond dork i stick up for him in the real world:(
Boobies hehe some how i feel ishould say sorry ladies but..it was fun:)
TWSS
McFurr woke me up from the dead darn that fur I should be passed out poor blog.. My ramblings are so tiersom:)
"darn that fur"
TWSS....?
Darn that soft supplel ladie lovin fur he's sooo bad..
i'll second that twss, trevor.
speaking of bOObies...
no need to apologize, RRB, we're all immature adults here.
I have to say, last nights episode was probably one of my favorites.
and the editing was impressive, probably the best edited episode of the series
Kate gets a lot of credit (deservedly so) for doing dirty well. Not that I would put her on the same level as Kate, Juliet does dirty quite nicely too.
Thank You Ally butt futer or is it past Penny would have been more my ticketit Boobies:) or none.. As for the boobie tallk when i first steped in to the scoott and steve I was expecting dirtyville:) but I kinda found sorta dirtyville: - So I was confused am still..but learnin is a Whole lot of fun:)BOOBIES I like um..
I just finished ROME SO HERES MY ROMEN
For now I shall sleep for it is over due..
"Thank You Ally butt futer"
Well no one's gonna top that.
Wow....what to say. So good - and I think all the due reverence to this episode has already been said by you all better than anything I can come up with, so I'll just leave it at - WOW!
Right there with most others with the bitch cryin' - that was easily one of the top 2 most emotional moments of the series (with Boone's death IMO).
RE: Trevor's question:
"I got the very strong impression that Daniel remembered his conversation with Dez in the past (and had some notes in his journal to back it up); why didn't Dez remember it?"
It seems like the writers are going with the idea that a person's timeline is somewhat dynamic, and that when you change something in the "past" you can be aware that the change occurred in the present. At least that's what I thought was happening when Daniel looked through his journal at the end and found the note to himself about Desmond being his constant. I thought he was actively looking for that note b/c he knew it hadn't been there previously (assuming he knows what is in his journal page by page pretty well).
for the Doctor Whovians - I was pretty heavily reminded of Blink
/"Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey"
lmao - I laughed at that one too Trevor.
RRB I assume you were meaning:
"Thank You Ally! But future Penny..."
but the way that came out was priceless.
So I didn't get to watch LOST last night. Was it any good?
Just kidding. What a great mind-blowing episode. The auction scene alone with all it's Hanso, Black Rock, Widmore stuff was enough to make any obsessive crow with all the things that have linked back in -- finally.
I wish the episode had stopped before the last Dan scene. I was bawling during the Penelomond (is that the right word DenAss?) scene. The Dan thing just left me confused.
If you haven't read Slaughterhouse Five and you want to know what's going on with Desmond, it's a quick read, under 200 small pages. If you ever wanted to read a LOST book, this could be your one.
I for one am so glad it's consciousness time travel and not bodily time travel. At least I don't have to worry about Desmonds colliding in the past, or future, or present.
One thing I don't get is why Minkowski and friend got so sick so fast and yet no one else on the Island has suffered this problem. I get that they lacked a constant. What I don't get is how they got apparently more exposure than Locke who doesn't appear to be unstuck in time, but merely appears to be insane.
Looking forward to the podcasts and the musical choices for them. As well as more Dharmalars Karaoke.
Holli
Just heard an interesting listener theory on J&J. They think the journal may be Richard Alpert's.
Holli
Holli,
I think the issue is, in order to get unstuck like Desmond you have to:
1. have been exposed to a magnetic field (I think that's what Dan said) recently.
2. passed through whatever weird-ass temporal-shifting barrier surrounds the island.
Sayid wasn't affected like Desmond b/c he hadn't been living next to a huge magnet (in the Swan Hatch) for years like Dez.
Minkowski said he and his crewmate (can't remember name) got bored and went out on the ship's tender ( like a dinghy I guess - here's the wiki entry for the term ) to get a look at the island, after which they both started experiencing the time shifts. So, I assume they passed through the barrier or whatever it is.
Also, I think bodily travel is coming in some way or another - hence Anthony Cooper and the "Magic Box" and the rabbits in the Orchid Video
MB, I agree we're going to get body shifting at some point like the Tunisian polar bear.
But what was Minkowski and dude exposed to? Also, you can only escape the pull of the Island if you know the right heading. How could they get close enough and be freaked out and head back just right? And how did they get closer to whatever than Sayid who spent some time in the Hatch and was actually on the Island when the sky turned purple. And why have they been exposed to something, but not Frank? That's what I can't put together yet.
Holli
Meant to add that Dan said "exposed to radiaton" as well as magnetism I think - anyone else remember? I'm trying to look it up now.
Also, I assume Minkowski had been exposed to some radiation or magnets working with communications equipment - or maybe there's something else on the ship or in his past that did it.
Damn this is good Lost
was = were in first sentence, 2nd paragraph
Holli
Hmmmmm. I guess I wasn't on the same wave length as most people here. While a nice moment, I didn't find the final scene overly emotional in any way. Guess I'm just dead inside.
Holli, so we are thinking that it is consciousness time travel? That would be cool for me. It's actually the way I interpreted it during the ep. The only thing that made me think I might've been wrong was the final scene with Faraday and his journal. It sorta seemed to me that the note was new now that Des changed the past. Overall for the story and the show, I'd rather it be mind time traveling to past memories or times than actual time jumping. Far less absurd. But I'm not so sure what it is.
Jordan, You are a regular Michael Bluth. You probably can't imitate a chicken either.
As for the consciousness travel, I'm just quoting Doc Daniel Brown.
Holli
"so we are thinking that it is consciousness time travel?"
according to Danny Boy Faraday during the rat race, it IS just the conscious mind unsticking itself from time.
which was a relief to me over the idea of bodily time travel. although, i have no idea why "just yer consciousness travels through time" is somehow more plausible than bodily travelling through time...
yeah...
"desmond travels through time."
"what?! that's crazy talk!"
"ok, how about his conscious mind jumps back and forth through time after it gets unstuck in time?"
"that's much more plausible."
I'm assuming that the sky turning purple (and the little time Sayid was in the Swan) is not enough exposure to trigger the unstuck-ness - but I guess we'll eventually see if Jack or the other Oceanic 6 experience anything when they try and leave.
Also, there is that bearing of 325˚ that Michael left on that I assume Ben was saying was safe (but maybe not?). Perhaps that's the same "hole" in the barrier that the sub would come and go through. Ben mentioned an underwater "beacon" to Locke (Man from Tallahassee??) that allowed the sub to return to the island - I assume that that is what guided the sub in?
I think I saw that Frank was flying on a bearing of 305˚ (someone correct me if this is wrong - I couldn't find a screen cap of the paper he was looking at in the helicopter), so perhaps this was why Dez did not pass through the barrier safely.
This is my problem with the Minkowski sneaks on and off the Island/near and away from the Island. Desmond sailed for 2 weeks and couldn't get through the barrier. Juliet knows that if Sayid, Sun and Jin have the Elizabeth they can't get out of the Island's reach either. So how could Minkowski and dude who are essentially going off the reservation with their sneak out after the parents are asleep escapade get in and out of the barrier. And if Sayid didn't have enough exposure just by being on the Island or Frank either for that matter, why did Minkowski and dude. Were they recruited to the Freighter from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant?
I buy the idea that you need radiation or electromagnetic exposure plus passing through the barrier, but I don't see how we have that info. on George and his wayward body-bagged pal.
Holli
methinks george and his pals were subjected to radio waves all day in the communication area and then snuck off and got rebuffed by the MagicalBarrier(tm) around the Island. which caused them to go FruitLoops.
new thread apparently.
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