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Post by kchoya on Mar 5, 2009 8:35:27 GMT -5
Sure I'm not the first, but
Richard Alpert
= RA???
Eyeliner, Egyptian statue, etc...
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Post by Boz on Mar 5, 2009 9:15:12 GMT -5
OK, this isn't Stargate, and Richard Alpert isn't a hermaphrodite God who seduces moronic Irish assassins in his other life.
Enough about the stupid statue. It's a statue.
Personally, I'm worried about how much Amy looked like that lady from Herman's Head. After Armageddon turned out to be the worst movie in history, I was pretty sure we had finally buried everyone from from that show forever.
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Post by TC on Mar 5, 2009 10:20:17 GMT -5
Personally, I'm worried about how much Amy looked like that lady from Herman's Head. After Armageddon turned out to be the worst movie in history, I was pretty sure we had finally buried everyone from from that show forever. HH had Jane Sibbett in it, so it was okay. And you want to bury Hank Azaria? Anyway, Amy was Michelle Dessler from CTU, I kept expecting Tony Almeida to pop out of nowhere and try to avenge her, fail, and need to be saved by Jack Bauer. |
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Post by vagrant on Mar 5, 2009 10:35:40 GMT -5
Anubis, as you all know, was the God of the Dead, Master of the Underground, who would ensure the safe passage of souls to the afterlife. He was associated with rebirth, the reason he holds the ankh, the sign of life. As the son of Osiris, he was well versed on the Osirian schools of the occult, which held that the soul would be judged, according to its kharmic value, and reborn into a life worthy of its kharma. Anubis judged. The process of death and rebirth, (reincarnation) as per the van Ben moved Jeremy Bentham's body in took 144 years, but don't box yourself into thinking earth years. Anubis' statue, appearing to guard the island, may signify the island is the underworld. If so, does this give a clue to the premise of the show? But why was the statue destroyed? did Dharma somehow have a role in this?
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Post by TC on Mar 5, 2009 10:45:32 GMT -5
Ben is kinda Set-like, if we want to continue on the Egypt-motif.
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 5, 2009 10:47:11 GMT -5
They did promise that the island is not any kind of afterlife or purgatory.
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Post by Boz on Mar 5, 2009 10:56:13 GMT -5
Oh, good call, TC. I forgot Hank Azaria was in that show.
Hey, I love Egyptian religion/mythology. I love all kinds of mythology. Have I not made it clear over the years on this board how much of a complete geek I am?
I'm just sayin', my money is STILL on this whole statue thing being a big tease though. Oh, it will have some sort of relevance, just nothing hugely consequential.
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Post by kchoya on Mar 5, 2009 11:50:00 GMT -5
Wasn't there an Egyptian god Horus? ...Horace Goodspeed
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Post by thebin on Mar 5, 2009 12:13:34 GMT -5
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Post by jgalt on Mar 5, 2009 12:47:42 GMT -5
If the statue is Anubis (and that seems pretty likely) then maybe at some point the island was not an island and was attached to Egypt. The Egyptians discovered all this stuff (hence the hieroglyphics) and then they accidentally moved the island separating it from the main land. Richard and the others are descendants of those Egyptians and that is why they feel that it is their island (but that wouldnt explain why they look European and why there is little in the way of existing settlement)
The statue also brings back the idea that the island may be Atlantis and that is why there are things like the statue that seem impossible for ancient societies to have achieved.
Hopefully we find out soon. And i wish they would understand that i dont really care about the Jack-Sawyer-Kate-Juliet love tetrahedron that is going on.
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Post by Boz on Mar 5, 2009 13:21:36 GMT -5
If the statue is Anubis (and that seems pretty likely) then maybe at some point the island was not an island and was attached to Egypt. The Egyptians discovered all this stuff (hence the hieroglyphics) and then they accidentally moved the island separating it from the main land. Richard and the others are descendants of those Egyptians and that is why they feel that it is their island (but that wouldnt explain why they look European and why there is little in the way of existing settlement) The statue also brings back the idea that the island may be Atlantis and that is why there are things like the statue that seem impossible for ancient societies to have achieved. Hopefully we find out soon. And i wish they would understand that i dont really care about the Jack-Sawyer-Kate-Juliet love tetrahedron that is going on. I don't know. Richard looks like he could be a Ptolemic Egyptian. They had very western/caucasian features. But, if there is anything to the Egypt thing, it'd have to be MUCH older than about 300 BC, I'd think. I agree with your last point. This is really the only thing I don't like about the Washington Post Lost girls. They spend way too much time (like ALL of today's discussion) talking about the love quadrangle. They did bring up a long forgotten image from the show today though. Wonder if we'll find out during this Dharma 1970s timeline the origin of the "Adam & Eve" skeletons the Flight 815 castaways found in the cave. If I had my way, those skeletons would be Jack & Kate....time paradoxes be damned! |
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Mar 5, 2009 13:50:34 GMT -5
How did Jack, Kate, and Hurley get back to 1974? How does that work?   My first thought as Sawyer sees Kate again, uh, oh, who will have his affections now?  |
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Post by HoyaSinceBirth on Mar 5, 2009 18:40:01 GMT -5
I want adam and eve to be rose and bernard
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Post by jgalt on Mar 5, 2009 21:47:49 GMT -5
I want adam and eve to be rose and bernard That would be cute/disturbing/and a better way to end things for the only interesting relationship on the show than to just have them disappear |
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Post by vagrant on Mar 7, 2009 12:30:46 GMT -5
I was rewatching season 4 episode "cabin fever" and Horace was in it. Locke wakes up and sees Horace chopping down a tree. Horace tells him that he is building a cabin for "he and the misses" and then the scene repeats itself: chops down the same tree and says "hello how are you, i'm Horace." But this time he has blood trickling down his nose and says "i've been dead for 12 years. If you find me, you'll find him." and when john asks who "him" is, horace answers "jacob, he has been waiting for you a long time." he then goes back to chopping the same tree which is magically up again.
P.S. although the producers said this is not about the afterlife, there sure are a lot of dead people walking around the island and John had to "die" to get back.
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Post by strummer8526 on Mar 7, 2009 20:42:54 GMT -5
I was rewatching season 4 episode "cabin fever" and Horace was in it. Locke wakes up and sees Horace chopping down a tree. Horace tells him that he is building a cabin for "he and the misses" and then the scene repeats itself: chops down the same tree and says "hello how are you, i'm Horace." But this time he has blood trickling down his nose and says "i've been dead for 12 years. If you find me, you'll find him." and when john asks who "him" is, horace answers "jacob, he has been waiting for you a long time." he then goes back to chopping the same tree which is magically up again. P.S. although the producers said this is not about the afterlife, there sure are a lot of dead people walking around the island and John had to "die" to get back. --vagrant That is one of the creepier scenes, I think, in the whole series. I'm happy Horace is back. |
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Post by Boz on Mar 18, 2009 8:15:27 GMT -5
Sorry, what the hell is going on in this show again? I forgot.
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Post by kchoya on Mar 18, 2009 17:23:03 GMT -5
From Drudge:
The Teleprompter-in-chief is scheduling a news conference for 8:00 EDT tonight. Not sure how that screws everything up for others, but hopefully it's done in under an hour so those of us out west will be ok.
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Post by strummer8526 on Mar 18, 2009 17:44:24 GMT -5
From Drudge: The Teleprompter-in-chief is scheduling a news conference for 8:00 EDT tonight. Not sure how that screws everything up for others, but hopefully it's done in under an hour so those of us out west will be ok. What, do you want him to deliver a speech off paper like this is 1930? Take your snark to one of the political threads. This is Lost space here. |
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Post by kchoya on Mar 18, 2009 18:09:54 GMT -5
jeez, one little jab. You'd think I'd injected Jim Cramer, John Stewart and Tim Geitner into the thread.
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