Saturday, March 13, 2010
axe cop
comics as imagined by a 5 year old.
"Malachai Nicolle is a five year old kid from Washington who loves Dinosaurs, Ben 10, video games of all kinds, and anything involving bad people getting destroyed."
"Malachai Nicolle is a five year old kid from Washington who loves Dinosaurs, Ben 10, video games of all kinds, and anything involving bad people getting destroyed."
Lost
Lost spoilers/questions/theories/ramblings
Some of this is out of date now that lost is going all good vs.evil, but i wrote/compiled this recently.
3-2-10
First I want to say i wont see the show tonight so don't respond until Wednesday afternoon to tonight's show!!! also, sorry for grammatical errors: i'm writing this real fast before the show tongiht.
my favorite thing about Lost is it's riddles and clues that people can ponder in between shows. that and the references to art, philosophy, religion, myths, etc. There is a ton of info on the books http://abc.go.com/watch/clip/lost/SH006723620000/167277/160559
referenced in Lost at http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Literary_works. My favorite is Watchmen, as i've mentioned before. http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Watchmen
I like the season promo pic with 'The Last Supper' as 'The Lost Supper' on an airplane wing. Although the number of figures is off by one, I like how Locke is posed in Jesus's place, with Sayid in Judas's place.
Where is home for the Smoke Monster/Man in Black/Flocke? Who has he lost/who was he before the island? How has Jacob been keeping MIB there against his will?
MIB tells Jacob "it's always the same: they come, they fight." Rose doesn't seem to fit in this mold.
Sayid said he deserved to die, then the spring took a long time to heal his wound/bring him back from death. water was muddy. ben had said "dead is dead" on the island, so why the zombie Sayid? He is not the MIB, so what happened to him? Miles (who talks to the dead) seems particularly perturbed.
In the flashes for Season 6 we see the Losties as if they never crashed and the island has been in the ocean since some time after Dharma Initiative and after the statue was destroyed. Things are different. Christians body was lost by Oceanic, Rose helps Jack calm down, Boone is without Shannon on the plane, Locke is engaged and closer to his father, Hurley is lucky w/o being cursed, Jack gets 1 bottle of alcohol on the plane, Jack's appendix was out (his mother claimed it has been out since Jack was young) and Jack was no longer in row 23 (now he's in 24). Have the numbers changed? Much like Charlotte knew as she was dying that they should go to the well, Juliet knew "It worked." Perhaps what worked isn't immediate and the losties who we see on the island in the present will someday be living the flashes we are seeing. The other options being either an alternate reality (which the writers are telling people not to call it) or time branched into 2 realities at a certain point because "whatever happened happened," and thus it had to happen on one time line.
It is interesting that David (Jack's son) played the same song on the piano as Daniel did before Eloise told him to focus on science.
Ben claimed there are many lists (plural); perhaps the lists change. Earlier in the series we are told by the others that Jack and Kate aren't on the list. *edit MIB doesn't deny Sawyers guess that "Shepard" in the cave stands for Jack*. "Shepard" in the cave/on the wheel could stand for Aaron, Jack's grandpa who we saw claiming he would escape one day and no one would know where he went, or even Jack's mom. All of the mirrored places shown in the lighthouse correspond to where Jacob touched the Losties (Sawyer's parents' funeral and the Kwon's wedding), but we see Jack's house, as opposed to the hospital where Jacob handed him a candy bar. The lighthouse wheel had some different numbers than those in the cave, but this could mean that Lewis stands for another Lewis on the island when Charlotte was young.
Jacob claims that someone is coming. Ater MIB sawthe blonde kid in the jungle, I'd be tempted to think Aaron was coming. However, Jacob also said "they are coming" to MIB, implying a group, perhaps Widmore's army. We have heard before that a "war is coming." Eloise said the island "isn't finished" with Desmond, so he could be coming to the island as well, perhaps with Widmore. The 108 degree mark that Jacob had told Hurley to turn the lighthouse wheel too (although he obviously meant for Jack to smash the mirrors) corresponds to the name Wallace. We know that after Michael and Walt came back to the U.S., they didn't tell anyone who they were. Perhaps Walt's name is different.
I just watched Jacob's Ladder, a movie themed around coming to terms with your life and letting go of it. The character Jacob calls out "help me" from a hospital bed, much as either Jacob or MIB said "help me" to John in the cabin. Also, Jacob's Ladder has a lot in common with the story "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge," which was referenced in Lost (Locke is shown holding the book). The rest of this paragraph is a spoiler for "Jacob's Ladder" and "Owl Creek"!!!!!!!! In both "jacob's Ladder" and "owl creek" the whole story is imagined, and in the end we are back to the beginning. Could the flashes indeed be the continuation of a reality in which the island dosn't exist?
Do we trust Jacob? Is Jacob testing his replacements like Willy Wonka tested the factory tour winners? Is it all a game as suggested? black vs. white teams? Is Jacob trying to prove that humankind is not only violent, but compassionate? What Jacob has been doing has rules, just like Ben and Widmore have rules.
Awesome Lost chess promo:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RecTEQ7BNg8
An unlikely theory: is Jacob Death, making MIB judge the dying? I think that what Lost is doing is centered around life and death, despite specific claims of the creators of Lost that the continuing characters are not dead.
Ancient Egypt plays a big role in the history of the island. The island's exit is in Tunisia, which isn't right next to Egypt or anything, but close enough for speculation. The biblical Jacob spent his last years in Egypt. Jacob's (multilingual, island Jacob that is) reputation could be the basis for the Ancient Egyptian creation of Anubis (Jackal= Jacob) and the smoke monster could be Ammit, devourer of souls in ancient egyptian lore. This has been an ongoing theory for a long time on Lost, but the most recent episode shows that Jacob was in possesion of weighing scales, like in the Anubis legend. This is what Anubis used to weigh the heart of the dead against a feather to see if they would live forever. We do see all the characters being tested on the show. The temple wall picture (below) shows that at least the early island inhabitants interpreted Jacob as Anubis, however close they were to what he really was doing.
After a fan followed a clue to "use letters backward from end" in a magazine, we know for sure the statue is of Tawaret, Ancient Egyptian goddess of childbirth and fertility.
Someone suggested Richard Alpert (RA) could be Ra, reborn every night (he doesn't age). Also, it probably doesn't have significance, but i love that Locke's vertical scar makes his eye stylized like the eye of Horus/Ra.
Is the reason no one else should raise Claire's baby because it would make her crazy? Was Malkin the psychic a fake like he told Echo? Was Malkin bribed into getting Claire on that plane, like a deleted scene would have had him claim. Did his daughter really die?
What are the whispers? The translations are online (http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Whispers), as are the translations of the Japanese.
When Richard had young Locke choose from objects this was said to be based on the Dalai Lama. The new Dalai Lama should be able to select, if he truly is the reincarnated Lama, the object that has already belonged to him.
If the MIB can no longer take another form besides Locke's, why can he still change to smoke? Why is he acting like Locke when he says, "don't tell me what i can't do!" We know MIB has Locke's memories, but is Locke still in there somewhere or is he a tabula rasa?
Why did they test Sayid with electricity? How did this show he was claimed?
How come the smoke monster was smart enough to hurt the man in the protective ash by knocking rocks from the ceiling, but is kept out by the Dharma fence, which Kate easily climbed a tree to get over? Why does ash keep him at bay? Is this ash from the volcano on the island or just any ash?
Why was llana hurt when Jacob came to her?
Who drops the food near the hatch?
Why did Richard say he watched 'them' die when Sun asked about Jin.
Why was Sun left in the present?
Is Sun's father involved with Widmore?
How did the Black Rock get so far inland?
Why kill Nadia? to test Sayid? to manipulate him?
What's up with the poison gas that Faraday contained? jim jones party island?
What happened to Ben's childhood friend Annie, who made the wooden dolls?
Juliet supposedly looked like someone Ben knew. his mom? her in the past? who knows? they also said she looked like Jack's ex-wife and i don't think so.
How was Richard in chains? really or figuratively?
Who made the equation to find the island?
Why did Eloise leave the island? This must be when Widmore became the leader, since Eloise was the leader.
Why do Adam and Eve have one black rock and one white. Who are they?
Is Boone's former nanny Theresa connected to Faraday's ex Theresa who is in the coma?
Why is Walt special? Why is Hurley special? We at least know Miles grew up on the island.
Ben lies and said he was born on the island. If this matters somehow, it might indicate Aaron's importance. We know that Juliet delivered a baby in the 70s on the island, so the problem with childbirth may be new, perhaps after the fertility statue was destroyed. or maybe just the radiation from the bomb (hence quarantine signs).
Why did the bird say Hurley's name in the jungle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHaa6PbKsw
we know the MIB can take other forms, but how can he change? Is it related to the properties of the island? What is he doing when he flashed white light- reading minds?
And finally, what of the numbers? We see them now on the cave wall, but what exactly makes them so important?
Lostpedia also says "According to the 1975 orientation film in the Sri Lanka Video, the Valenzetti Equation "predicts the exact number of years and months until humanity extinguishes itself." During the video, Alvar Hanso also states that the radio transmitter on the Island, will "broadcast the core numerical values of the Valenzetti Equation." The numbers, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 42, are explained in the Sri Lanka Video, as the numerical values to the core environmental and human factors of the Valenzetti Equation. Alvar Hanso also states in the video that the purpose of the DHARMA Initiative is to change the numerical values of any one of the core factors in the equation in order to give humanity a chance to survive by, effectively, changing doomsday. However, Thomas Mittelwerk reveals that as of 2006, they have failed to change the values through manipulating the environment, as the equation continues to arrive at the same six numbers."
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Teacher warned for homophobic slurs in class
http://www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2009/10/13/80301805/index.xml
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Indoor or Outdoor Cats?
I just commented on a friend's status and thought i'd repost here.
Sometimes when i take my cat for walks i get remarks that really piss me off. A lot of people like to voice some critique of the cats' harnesses along the lines of "hey, bummer, let the little guys be free."
It's a tough choice. i very much understand letting them be free, but i'd most likely be shortening the cat's life, while hoping it's improving the quality of that life.
That said, I prefer to take them outside myself on a long harness allowing lots of freedom (but i'm lucky cuz my cats don't mind the harnesses). i also have a big balcony that they like to go out on when i'm too busy to take them out.
i get a lot of shit for not letting them be 'free' but i consider them better off. they wont get lost and add to the feral cat population, injured, eat antifreeze or toxic plants, they wont get hit by cars or shut in sheds, they wont get in fights, they wont kill other creatures like dwindling bird populations, they wont get stuck in bad weather which will make them sick, they wont be exposed to fleas or diseases, they wont be prey, no humans will mess with them (did you see that poor kitty who survived with an arrow shot through its head? people can be messed up or the one that was ducttaped and left that wayup ), and most of all we (humans) designed the city environment which they are not used to so we should aid them by helping take care of them in it.
Also, no one ever yells at dog owners. Hey, man, let the doggies be free.
here's a link to the cat who was almost killed with an arrow. only look at the article if you think you can handle it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/02/wayward-cat-limps-home-wi_n_275861.html
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