YAY! It’s time for MAIL BAG! [Where Amy finally gets off her tail and does the best she can to answer your questions about LOST!]
THIS EDITION OF MAIL BAG focuses on lingering questions after “The End.” The finale left a lot of LOST fans scratching their heads (and/or CRYING their eyes out like ME). The good news is with the finale over, all the puzzle pieces are FINALLY in the box. The better news is: if you are one of those fans determined to figure out what happened, you are in luck! Team Rewatch here at LOSTblog is all about going BAAAAACK to the beginning and re-examining the entire show in context. Be sure to check out all our recaps, podcasts and LIVE chats each week!
This is a special edition of MAIL BAG is dedicated to answering excellent QUESTIONS from groovy LOST fan, Diane. Her questions and my answers cover similar questions many of my lovely LOST readers have been posting over the past three weeks. I’ll encourage all of you to read through them!
Diane wrote:
It’s me again, Amy. I’ve re-read your recaps and some of the other articles you’ve written about your theories, and they are very interesting.
Thank you very much! I’m glad you are enjoying them!
Did you come up with this on your own?
I didn’t start really digging into LOST until after the Season 3 finale (first flash forward), and even then, I spent very little time debating/discussion the show with other peeps on a regular basis. I’m not the only fan (by FAR) who made a strong case that nothing on LOST taking place in a physical world well before the finale. However, I’ve yet to find someone who syncs up 100% with what I’m doing, esp when we start getting into the Undershow — I’ll save that one for later! Unless I specifically note it, everything I post comes from my own head (disturbing, right?). All I can say is what I always say: I only follow the evidence.
Do most of the people on this site agree with your theory? Just asking.
Always feel free to ask questions! We love it! The simplest answer is: maybe. LOSTblog was developed and set up to facilitate rewatch and post-finale activities, all based on the idea that this is supposed to be FUN. What’s so very cool about rewatch, and about LOSTblog in general, is that the guess work is over. Now is the time to TEST our theories against the show as a whole. Everyone on LOSTblog is very excited and really digging in, which I LOVE! If you’ve explored other writers on the site and LOSTblog peeps’ discussions on our podcasts, then you know there’s a wide spectrum of theories about the show represented here. Right now, we are all at the “maybe” stage. For the most part what I’ve heard is — okay, so I can agree it’s not physically real (since the finale made that pretty darn clear), so where does that leave us? Now is the time to ask more questions. The best way to do that is to start from scratch and work together. That’s what makes the show so cool in the first place!
Hopefully, you’ve also noticed that at LOSTblog we work very hard to keep our discussions friendly, fun and interesting without putting anyone down or making anyone feel “wrong” or “stupid” about their ideas. LOSTblog is a hater-free zone *– ALWAYS! So feel free to ask your questions — they are NOT stupid!
Did that answer your question? All I’ll say for now is that it’s become a lot easier for other peeps on this site to “see” what I’m talking about. That is way cool in itself!
*FYI for all lovely LOST readers: Hater-free zone is exactly what it implies. Any and all opinions and constructive criticisms are welcomed here with open arms. However, comments laced with insults, condescension and hurtful intent will be completely ignored and immediately deleted, regardless of subject or target (Team LOSTblog or other lovely LOST readers). [Welcome to Rewatch, jerkies!!]
O.K. Here are a few questions. Please forgive me if they seem stupid, but I’m still trying to get my non scientific mind around this.
There are NO stupid questions when it comes to LOST! And FYI: I’m an English Lit/Freshman Comp teacher! I’m right there with you!
Chapter 4: Flash “Sideways” and “Moving On/Leaving”
Previously in Amy’s Viewing Guide:
In Chapter 4, we’ll dig into the purpose of the flash sideways world its importance to our losties by “The End.”
CHAPTER 3: Who’s Who Again?
In Chapter 1, we discussed a few of the basic elements of storytelling on LOST and how “Everything is real,” (but not physically real) and how this constructed (restricted by available resources) is developed. In Chapter 2, we discussed how our losties experience the world of LOST — one experience at a time in the order WE SEE it in the show. There’s no time travel, and there’s no external timeline (nothing WE SEE happens to our losties before Jack opens his eye in “Pilot” or after he closes it in “The End”).
In Chapter 3, we’ll be examining character and how character development works in the island and flash worlds.
Let’s talk about identity.
WELCOME to LOST REWATCH!
My name is Amy, and I’ll be one of your friendly neighborhood Snappy Recappers from LOSTblog.com! Each week during rewatch, I’ll post an “Amy style” recap of every episode of LOST with observations and brief analyses. Make sure to check out weekly recaps from Erin (@ErinAva), too!
PLEASE NOTE: If you are watching LOST for the FIRST time (aka a NEWBIE), and you want to AVOID SPOILERS for future season/shows, this is NOT the recap for you. I’ll be making all kinds of connections from all six seasons as I see them (WOOT! I’m so excited!).
If you truly want to watch LOST from the beginning spoiler free, but still want to read recaps/analysis online, I highly recommend you head over to Karen’s LOST Notebook. Karen took notes and wrote up recaps on every episode as it aired. If you follow her notes by episode in order, you’ll be as spoiler free as you can get.
Amy’s LOST Rewatch Recap of Episode 1.02 – “Pilot, Part 2″
Previously on LOST [Recap for 1.01 "Pilot" HERE] : In our first episode, we were introduced to most of our losties. The names we know so far are: Jack, Kate, Charlie, Sayid, Boone, Shannon and Walt (technically, we know Vincent’s name too). In our very first episode of LOST, Jack woke up, found the crash, saved a bunch of people, found Kate, and sat around half nekkid lookin’ pretty darn good while Kate sewed him up. Our losties also learned that 1) there is something big and scary and deadly in the jungle and 2) they are screwed as far as rescue is concerned. Jack’s discussion with Kate yielded the first “flashback” – His experience of plane trouble. In it we saw Cindy, Rose Charlie and a bit of John Locke. Jack, Kate and Charlie find the fuselage, chat doomed rescue with the “survived the crash for exactly 5 minutes” pilot, freaked when said pilot was slaughtered by “the monster” soon to be known as “Smokey,” and dumped in a tree.
WELCOME to LOST REWATCH!
My name is Amy, and I’ll be one of your friendly neighborhood Snappy Recappers from LOSTblog.com! Each week during rewatch, I’ll post an “Amy style” recap of every episode of LOST with observations and brief analyses. Make sure to check out weekly “Staying Lost After Lost” recaps from Erin, too!
PLEASE NOTE: If you are watching LOST for the FIRST time, and you want to AVOID SPOILERS for future season/shows, this is NOT the recap for you. I’ll be making all kinds of connections from all six seasons as I see them.
If you truly want to watch from the beginning spoiler free, but still want to read recaps/analysis online, I highly recommend you head over to Karen’s LOST Notebook. Karen took notes and wrote up recaps on every episode as it aired. If you follow her notes by episode in order, you’ll be as spoiler free as you can get.
SEASON 1
1.01 – Pilot
1.02 – Pilot Part 2
1.03 – Tabula Rasa
1.04 – Walkabout
CHAPTER 2: The ISLAND – Zip Cords, Green Screens and Time Travel
THE GREEN SCREEN
Remember in Chapter 1 where I described our losties existence as linear? Our losties are all together on a zipcord, and they can only go forward in their linear existence. They are not time traveling because they can’t. They can only move forward on the zipcord. And they are all together at the same point on the same zipcord.
Their zipcord is surrounded by a green screen. The green screen can be the island, LA, a flashback, a flash forward, 1977 etc. When they “time travel,” our losties do not leave their spot on their zip cord. Rather, the green screen around them changes to a different “time.” That’s why our losties all experience time at the same rate no matter where they “are.” [It's three years for the Oceanic Six and three years for Sawyer and Juliet.]
This is how the storytelling works. This is our characters’ existence on LOST.
Miles explains what Team LOST is up to when he and Hurley argue about paradoxes in “Whatever Happened, Happened.” Continue reading »
After watching and re-watching the final two scenes (and crying harder every time), I think we’ve got everything we need to put Season 6 together. The trick is to start at “The End” and look back. [Hindsight is 20/20 after all.]
First, let’s examine Jack’s arrival at the church, his coffin-induced memory upload (or “flash”), his discussion with Christian and finally, his reunion with all our losties who are “ready” and his “death” on the island. Hint: Pay VERY close attention to the transition back and forth from church to island.
Here we go!
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CHURCH PARKING LOT
SEASON 6
6.01 – LA X, Part 1
6.02 – LA X Part 2
6.03 – What Kate Does
6.04 – The Substitute
6.05 – Lighthouse
6.06 – Sundown
Ya’ll, Season 6 ROCKS! WOOT! If you want to know What (TF) is going on on LOST, just scratch the surface of any number of scenes in Season 6!
In the last post, we discussed Jacob’s metaphor (Find “Jacob’s Bottle” HERE). In this post, we’ll be discussing Jacob’s job. To do this, we’ll decipher Jacob’s explanation of what he does as told to Ricardo in “Ab Aeterno”: wine corked in a bottle.
Remember Amy’s baseline perspective: NOTHING on LOST takes place in a PHYSICAL world, but it is ALL REAL. There is NO timeline other than the sequence of events AS THEY ARE PRESENTED to us in the show. There’s no “past” except what happened in the prior scene/episode(s). HERE WE GO!
RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE
According to my European History professor, the first sign of any great leader is his/her reluctance to go to war. If your country is attacked, you don’t have much of a choice really, but barring that, a truly great leader does everything in his/her power to avoid starting or going to war.
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