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Archive for the 1.06 House of the Rising Sun Category


Missing Pieces: “Buried Secrets” & “Jin Has A Temper Tantrum On The Golf Course”

Missing Pieces:  “Buried Secrets“and “Jin Has a Temper Tantrum On The Golf Course”

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Rewatching LOST: Myths and Mommy Issues

This entry is part 17 of 28 in the series Rewatching LOST - Analysis by Amy

LET THE CONTEXT BEGIN Mother, Jacob and MIB are making me crazy, so let’s start with them. Three hours from “The End,” we get our “mythological download” in “Across the Sea” [More on mythology at Team LOST #1 Sneakiest Trick Ever: Making History]: Claudia pops out of the ocean. She wanders inland. Mother leads her [...]

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Team LOST #1 Sneakiest Trick Ever: Making History

This entry is part 16 of 28 in the series Rewatching LOST - Analysis by Amy

MYTHOLOGY USED TO BE A FRIEND OF MINE The “past” is basically a collection of stories. A story is considered History with a capital H when it has been verified as “based in fact.”  A story can’t be verified as “based in fact” without independent, credible sources of verification. The higher the number of independent, [...]

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Epilogue to the Epilogue: Hector and Glen in Flight

This entry is part 20 of 28 in the series Rewatching LOST - Analysis by Amy

[This post is lateral LOST theory for my forthcoming post on The Caves. Enjoy!] “LET ME HEAR YOUR BODY TALK” SETTING: Halfway through a nighttime plane ride from Guam to LAX, boarded mere hours after Ben “closes up shop” in “The New Man in Charge.” After 20 years of faithfully filling and shipping pallets of [...]

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Amy Deciphers “House of the Rising Sun”

This entry is part 5 of 13 in the series Amy Recaps/Deciphers Episodes

LET’S DECIPHER EPISODES, SHALL WE? [YES! LET'S!]

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Karen’s LOST Notebook: Re-Watch White Rabbit, The Moth, House of the Rising Sun.

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Karen's LOST Notebook

Hi LOST fans! I am so sorry for the delay in posting, but I was totally under the weather for the past few weeks.   This put a crimp in my notes and observations pertaining to the re-watch. Even though I didn’t post additional notes for the past three episodes I want you to have [...]

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Amy’s LOST Rewatch Recap: Episode 1.06 – “House of the Rising Sun.”

Previously on LOST: Boone gets rescued, then gets pissy, then does something stupid and gets rescued again. Kate/Charlie tend/bond to Claire (while Jack is in the jungle). Locke pulls a mysterious pop-up rescue and counsels Jack: “A leader can’t lead until he knows where he’s going.” Jack finds out his dad is “gone/dead.” By the [...]

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Team LOST Sneaky Trick #4: Themes With A Capital ‘T’

This entry is part 12 of 28 in the series Rewatching LOST - Analysis by Amy

WELCOME TO POSTMODERN STORYTELLING IN THE DIGITAL AGE The first time I introduce academic analysis of texts (film, book, poem, etc.) to my students,  I pose the following question: “If I asked you to write a paragraph analyzing the suicide deaths of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, what would you say? [...]

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LIVE Chatlog – House of the Rising Sun (Tues. 7/3/2010)

Here is a transcript from this mornings (or late afternoon, if you’re CutePoison10) rewatch. Had a good time rewatching with CutePoison10, Susan212 and Gobosox54. Glad I wasn’t watching Football, even if the team I was told to root for won. Next week is a bye week for the Rewatch, but the chatroom is open at [...]

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Team LOST Sneaky Trick #3 – “Hiding” Clues/Evidence in Random Dialog

This entry is part 11 of 28 in the series Rewatching LOST - Analysis by Amy

THE ART OF FLIRTING Let’s take time away from rewatching “House of the Rising Sun” to point out one of Team LOST’s SNEAKIEST tricks:  hiding significant clues/evidence in random dialog. Case in point: Jack’s and Kate’s “verbal copulation.”  Hints of a solid comradeship between the two are already in place from the pilot, but this is the [...]

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