Post your LOST explanations (with a date)..

[CycloneYoda]

The numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42=108

In Buddhist temples, monks burn 108 sticks each morning. Why? I don't know.

In season 3, Hurley gets a Dharma van running. The song that came on was "Road to Shambala" by 3 Dog Night. Shambala is the mystical land of enlightenment according to Buddhist teachings. Shambala is renamed Shang-ri-la in the novel LOST HORIZON, in which a group of strangers are taken to the temple by design. That design was indeed a plane crash.


And people said History Degrees are worth jack squat. :smile:

 

[HOTDON]

It seems that the island was discovered by the US Army in 1954 (we saw this earlier in the season in the episode with the big bomb).

I'll agree the US Army took interest in it in 1954, but as far as the original discovery of the island I would bet that the 4 toed statue and, potentially, Charlotte's death babble about Carthage will shed new light on that. Carthage could have been another of the "lamp post" type portals. Not much to support this yet, but nothing happens in this show for no reason.

Oh, and I also think in one form or another Jack either is or was born to replace Jacob. I'm waiting for Jack's birth name to be revealed as Jacob.

One more stab in the dark. Daniel Faraday is the "smart man" who wrote the equation for the "lamp post" station to predict the location of the island. We've seen him in the past and we've seen similar equations in his lab.

 

[CyCrazy]

wait a minute now im LOST :wink:

 

[JRCampy]

Okay, completely off-topic... who else didn't realize Lapidus was The Lawnmower Man until last night?! Totally freaked me out when he walked out of the cockpit with no goatee...

 

[HOTDON]

Okay, completely off-topic... who else didn't realize Lapidus was The Lawnmower Man until last night?! Totally freaked me out when he walked out of the cockpit with no goatee...

He did look very strange without the goatee and with his hair combed up. I am not willing to admit that I remember The Lawnmover Man well enough to have recognized him. I like his character. It's like he's just along for the ride and doesn't really care to ask why.

 

[cycloneworld]

The creators have said several times that they do not plan on explaining the numbers. They are mystical to the island, that's about all we will likely find out.

They gave the reason being they grew up loving Star Wars and were mystified by the force. But it lost its luster to them when it was revealed that the force was little tiny organisms going through their bodies. They said they wanted to leave the numbers a semi-mystery.

 

[CycloneYoda]

The creators have said several times that they do not plan on explaining the numbers. They are mystical to the island, that's about all we will likely find out.

They gave the reason being they grew up loving Star Wars and were mystified by the force. But it lost its luster to them when it was revealed that the force was little tiny organisms going through their bodies. They said they wanted to leave the numbers a semi-mystery.

The creators also said several times that time travel was not part of the equation. They lied to us. :wink:

 

[maui6651]

I'll agree the US Army took interest in it in 1954, but as far as the original discovery of the island I would bet that the 4 toed statue and, potentially, Charlotte's death babble about Carthage will shed new light on that. Carthage could have been another of the "lamp post" type portals. Not much to support this yet, but nothing happens in this show for no reason.

Oh, and I also think in one form or another Jack either is or was born to replace Jacob. I'm waiting for Jack's birth name to be revealed as Jacob.

One more stab in the dark. Daniel Faraday is the "smart man" who wrote the equation for the "lamp post" station to predict the location of the island. We've seen him in the past and we've seen similar equations in his lab.

We know that someone has been there along time, and the Army weren't the first humans there. The people on the Black Rock ended up there (what the heck happened to them?), and obviously the original "others" had been there for a while. That statue still has me perplexed, but I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later.

Interesting about Jack becoming Jacob, although my current feeling is that Christian is the real player in most of this. I guess I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been to the island before.

Faraday being the "wise man" his mom spoke of also jumped out to me too. I guess we don't have any evidence that he's done more time travel than we've already seen, but who knows what's going to happen in the last 25 episodes.

 

[JHpsyclonz]

The numbers: 4 8 15 16 23 42=108

In Buddhist temples, monks burn 108 sticks each morning. Why? I don't know.

In season 3, Hurley gets a Dharma van running. The song that came on was "Road to Shambala" by 3 Dog Night. Shambala is the mystical land of enlightenment according to Buddhist teachings. Shambala is renamed Shang-ri-la in the novel LOST HORIZON, in which a group of strangers are taken to the temple by design. That design was indeed a plane crash.


And people said History Degrees are worth jack squat. :smile:

I have a history degree and now my life is trash...

Seriously, I work in the recycling industry and my history degree has come in handy in many situations.
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[cyhiphopp]

We know that someone has been there along time, and the Army weren't the first humans there. The people on the Black Rock ended up there (what the heck happened to them?), and obviously the original "others" had been there for a while. That statue still has me perplexed, but I'm sure we'll find out sooner or later.

Interesting about Jack becoming Jacob, although my current feeling is that Christian is the real player in most of this. I guess I wouldn't be surprised if he'd been to the island before.

Faraday being the "wise man" his mom spoke of also jumped out to me too. I guess we don't have any evidence that he's done more time travel than we've already seen, but who knows what's going to happen in the last 25 episodes.

I am an aidiot and don't remember the status at all. Can someone elaborate for me? Pretty please?

 

[Clonefan94]

I am an aidiot and don't remember the status at all. Can someone elaborate for me? Pretty please?

Did you mean Statue? If so, its a lower leg left of an old statue, it only had 4 toes.

The statue consists of a four-toed left foot, wearing a sandal.

From Lostpedia.

link to 4 toed statue page here: Four-toed statue - Lostpedia

 

[cyhiphopp]

Did you mean Statue? If so, its a lower leg left of an old statue, it only had 4 toes.

From Lostpedia.

link to 4 toed statue page here: Four-toed statue - Lostpedia

Yeah I meant statue. Thanks.

 

[dustinal]

I think Danielle and the Frenchies were in the coach section of Ajira Airways 316. The Oceanic 6 (minus Aaron and plus Lapidus) were taken from the plane during the flash of light and deposited on the island in a different time. The plane also traveled to a different point in time, ended up in the 1980s, and crashed in the ocean. Danielle and the Frenchies were the only survivors.

I could be way wrong.

OK yeah, I was way wrong.

 

[Shinyhappyclone]

2-28-09

Group of screenwriters get together for Pinot and brie with really yummy warm baked bread. The guys get a little tipsy and ***** about middle American family values and how awful Tom Hanks hair was in Davinci Code. A few of the guys have been out of work a while and blame those damn reality shows and heinous gameshows on primetime. At about 2 am after playing Cher's greatest hits a few times, the creative juices are flowwing. One of the screenwriter says "Hey, let's make a totally bat&&^t crazy show that makes absolutely no sense at all! Kind of a Gilligans Island with beautiful people...ok, we'll put one fat guy on for comedy relief. We'll have to have diversity of all kinds of course too. Anyway, we'll just make crap up every week like "Land of the Lost" with slestaks."
"You think we can pitch it?"
"Sure, I know Harvey over at ABC. He owes me big time, and he knows I gave a lot at his last political cocktail party."
"We'll have to write in some bikini shots, and some ripped abs scenes on the beach to get started."
"No problem. Plane crash, beach, wierd stuff."
"How wierd?"
"Wierd enough to make people think they are intellectual for following it and trying to figure it out, but not so wierd to awaken them to the fact that they are totally wasting their time."
"So "pretentious" wierd is what we're going for?"
"Yes, that's it! OK we got time machine. monsters. lazers. What else can you think of?"
"Dude, this better work. I am two months behind on my Saab payment and my pool has a leak. Can we produce this in Mexico to save costs?"
"Costa Rico dude."
"I'm concerned about diversity. Can we have a middle-eastern character that is benevolent?"
"Sure. I don't give a crap what we do, I need money too. I haven't had a hit since "Wings" was in prime time. We gotta stop all this "Fear FActor" reality crap and start dishing up some more of our productions to America. We gotta get 20 episodes in before the pending writers strike too."
"Are you going to picket if we strike?"
"Yeah, maybe. I dunno. Anyone need anymore wine?"