1)  Millions of citizens elected to delay their taxes by decreasing their withholding to zero

2)  Millions of other citizens decided to be tax protestors and not pay taxes

3)  The government was short billions more dollars than expected

4)   Since the government was deliberately printing and spending trillions that it did not have, the fact that people were not paying their taxes should not have mattered.

5)  But it did matter when some wag told China that the currency used to pay them  interest as not even backed by labor.  It was worth less that the corn shucks put on tamales

6)  China declared the US in default and demanded to be paid in gold

7)  President Karl Marx, Speaker of the House Chairman Mao, and Senate Majority Leader Che Guevara declared martial law and had thousands of tax protestors shot.

2010. Total Recall. Reboot the Nation. Term Limits

By poetryman69

1.  Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

2.  Abolish the Department of Education

3.  Open the Communist Manifesto and do the opposite of every it says

4.  Term limit all congressmen and senators

5.  Kick all sitting senators and congressmen out of office.  Those whores have sold their votes for the last time.

6.  Since all politicians work for bribes from foreign nations, bribes from corporations, bribes from big labor, bribes from communists, bribes from Marxists and bribes from Socialists, impeach them all.  Try them all as traitors and lock them all up.

The Capitalist Manifesto: Dismantling Marxism

By poetryman69

There is a specter haunting Washington DC. It is a communist cabal which is conspiring to destroy the last free nation on earth. With the advent of Marxist Medicine and the Socialist Redistribution scheme known as Cap and Trade they have almost succeeded.

The Capitalist Manifesto:  Dismantling Marxism

2010 Predictions.  The Year of the Tiger

If patriots retake the House and the Senate in the 2010 elections…

Is Sarah Palin Qualified to Squeeze the Cheese?

A Constellation of Idiots

Why you don’t have a job yet

ENEMIES LIST

MARXIST MEDICINE

COMMIE CARE

ENEMY OF THE STATE

DEBATE, DISSENT, DISAGREEMENT

FAITH, FREEDOM, CAPITALISM

No Wealth

How to Bankrupt a Nation

President Karl Marx…A Love Story

Wishing Well

Whose fault is it?

Post Consumerism

How to Plunder a Nation

Selling Zero

The Most Corrupt Politicians in Washington

Dictionary of Dreams

It is better to be Drunk than Wasted

A Forest of Feathered Fire Flowers

By poetryman69

How get a job in 30 days

$50,000 per year

Earning $25 per hour

Free stuff and giveaways

12 Days of GiveAways. Happy Xmas Freebies

Free Software

The next million

Beer Omelet

It is better to be drunk than wasted

Money for Art

Dictionary of Dreams

2010 Predictions:  The year of the Tiger

The Capitalist Manifest:  Dismantling Marxism

Christmas Star

Cyber Rainbow

Feathered Suns

Free Short Poems online.  Free Gallery online

New Moon Poetry

Google’s Secret Count Down

Top 20 Gag Gifts

Of Fire flowers and crocus neath freshly fallen snow

the cold snaps and steam rises from hidden waters

seized up and spillout over the snow

Lost Season 4 Episode 9 The Shape of Things to Come

Part 1

Part 2

Alternative:

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Motion comics are the comic book industry’s most visible foray into new media since, well, maybe ever. These items, playable in iTunes or on most internet browsers, are more viewed than read. True to the name, characters in motion comics move around in panels, and word balloon dialogue is performed by voice actors.

Of all the major comic book companies, Marvel has invested the most in motion comics. A few months ago, popular writer Brian Michael Bendis‘ new Spider-Woman series was launched simultaneously via motion comics and print issues. Spider-Woman is available via iTunes, and can be found on Hulu and YouTube for a limited time as well. Spider-Woman is a curious choice for such a large-scale push–the character has a backstory so convoluted that I can’t see non-comic readers warming to the title, and Bendis’ name is only a draw among confirmed Marvelites. Marvel’s next motion comic series, an adaptation of Joss Whedon’s tenure on Astonishing X-Men, seems like a more lucrative move (even if all Whedon’s dialogue reads like Gilmore Girls for geeks).

The problem with Marvel’s motion comics, though, isn’t really specific to their content. It’s that motion comics–in general–are basically just shitty cartoons. Take another look at the above trailer, then watch this footage:

The Astonishing X-Men art–adapted from John Cassady’s work on the comic of the same name–is prettier. Hulk has way better music. But in both, characters move about with distracting stiffness. At the time it was made, the Hulk cartoon’s clunkiness may not have stood out. The X-Men motion comic’s certainly does, though, and it makes one wonder why motion comics are being made at all–the technology behind them seems to lag behind the ambitions of the folks putting them out.

The obvious question is, ‘Why not an actual animated adaptation of Spider-Woman or Astonishing X-Men?’ Marvel’s been doing plenty of these lately, too. Today on the LA Times‘ Hero Complex blog, beloved comics artist Neal Adams attempted an answer:

[In the X-Men motion comic] you will actually see the drawings of artist John Cassaday come to life and move. You will hear the words of the writer Joss Whedon (of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Dollhouse” fame) spoken by John Cassaday’s drawings…It’s a comic book come to life and fully drawn by your favorite artist and written by your favorite writer.

Now it’s not mentioned on the blog that Adams supervised the Astonishing X-Men adaptation. Disingenuous? Maybe a little, but it at least explains why Adams doesn’t touch the criticism that motion comics Don’t. Look. Good.

Adams’ influence on comic artists, and the esteem in which he’s held, will outlast any comments he makes on a probable fad like motion comics. That said, his claim that motion comics are comics “come to life” actually suggests what’s most frustrating about them–when viewing a motion title, readers are prevented from bringing a story to life themselves. (And don’t receive the same kind of stimulation they would from more fluid film animation in return.) The benefits one finds with comics as a medium are lost in conversion: viewers can no longer linger on panels, imagine the tenor of an exchange between characters, or link a sequence of images together to form a narrative. If I didn’t enjoy the work readers do after grabbing a comic, I wouldn’t read them, and it’s not work I’d like performed for me. For those who disagree, Astonishing X-Men arrives online October 28.

Hello and welcome to our creative writing user community. This blog is open to all who would like to contribute short stories loosely based on the theme “the shape of things to come”.

Stories need to fit into one of these categories:

• The shape of things to come
• They came from outer space
• Time travel
• Trouble in paradise

How you can join in

This is a group blog for anyone to contribute short stories and comment on other people’s stories. It’s a good way for you to try out your creative writing and publish to a wider audience.

What you need to do now

1. You must be a member of the WordPress community. But it is really easy to join. Just follow this link to sign up and apply for your username.
2. To have your story added to this blog, add a comment to this post at the top of the blog saying you have a story to add.
3. I will add your WordPress username to this blog and give you author permissions.
4. Add a new post with your short story and categorize it with one of the categories listed.

Thank you for stopping by to look at this blog. Whether you want to author a short story yourself, or just want to read the stories I hope you find the blog entertaining.

If you want to find out what sort of surveillance environment the children and grandchildren of Europe will have to endure, read this report. It’s called The Shape of Things to come and examines proposals put forward by the shadowy Future Group, a group set up by the Council of the European Union. The proposals include a range of extremely controversial measures, which include techniques and technologies of surveillance and enhanced cooperation with the United States.

Frankly, it’s all summed up by the opening words to the report from the EU Council Presidency:

“Every object the individual uses, every transaction they make and almost everywhere they go will create a detailed digital record. This will generate a wealth of information for public security organisations, and create huge opportunities for more effective and productive public security efforts”.

Was it not Goethe who said “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free”.

spoiler alert.

To paraphrase one Dan Humphrey: Do with this what you will.

While i hate the idea of nate and blair together, and adore the C/B chemistry, i cant help but admit that im more than okay with this if Josh wants to take it here. Here’s why:

1. have you seen how freaking cute these two are in real life? Seriously.

2. theyre the only other couple besides Chuck and Blair that actually has had believable chemistry on this show (remember that whole Dangerous Liasons storyline??).  Granted, that might be because Ed Westwick could woo a stuffed animal, Chace Crawfrd is way too gayface, and PennB is just a complete dufus, but still.

Ik besef dat het nu toch al een hele tijd geleden is dat ik hier nog iets postte. De voornaamste reden was natuurlijk dat ik de 4 afgelopen weken examens heb moeten afleggen. Ik kwam dus wat zuurstof (lees: energie) tekort en was bezig aan een kleine remonte op persoonlijk vlak. Body en mind verdienen af en toe ook is een kleine ‘break’.

Ik heb ook een aantal knopen doorgehakt. Wat gaat er veranderen?

The shape of things to come:

1. Ik ga de blog herdesignen
2. Ik ga hem op mijn eigen hosting gooien
3. Ik ga voortaan in het engels verder bloggen

Tegen wanneer is alles ‘up and running’?

Ik schat een goeie maand ofzo! Dus ik ga er mijn best voor doen alleszins.

In the meantime…

ik zag gisteren dit prachtige interview op de nederlandse televisie. Antropoloog Thomas de Zengotita was te gast in de studio en kreeg een aantal vragen over zijn boek:

Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It

Wow, another fantastic episode. Unfortunately I didn’t get to enjoy it as fully as I would have liked on my first pass since I had to be here at work tonight… but I managed to catch most of the episode amidst having to vacate my nook to ‘work.’

Here’s the rundown of what I thought were the most important bits:

• John ended up in the same place that Ben did when he turned the wheel
• This time cameras were posted
• Widmore was waiting for Locke to get tricked into leaving
• As he was by Ben many years ago, exiled.
• Widmore convinces Locke that he’s the good guy
• After the wonderment of Locke appearing exactly the same as 50 years before
• Gives him money, a new identity, a wheelchair and a driver
• Matthew Abaddon who’s job it is ‘to get people where they need to be’
• Locke sets off to find the O6

• Sayid is building houses in the Dominican Republic
• Locke tells Abaddon he wants to find Helen
• Walt isn’t recruited because “He’s been through enough”
• But Walt has been having dreams about Locke in a suit on the island
• Hurley assumes Locke is dead when he sees him
• Freaks out when he finds out he’s alive and actually there
• Also freaks out about Abaddon because he is “EVIL!”
• Kate refuses, asks Locke about love
• “I was angry, obsessed” “Look how far you’ve come”
• Drives Locke further to find Helen, Abaddon caves
• Helen died of a brain aneurism
• Abaddon is shot at the cemetery; Locke escapes but gets in a wreck
• Which brings him into the hospital bed of Jack
• “Your father says hello”

• Locke writes his letter to Jack
• Prepares to kill himself
• Last second a knocking at the door
• In comes Ben to save the day
• Talks Locke out of it
• And kills him as soon as he gets Eloise Hawkings’ name
• Windex can clean ANYthing

• On the island…
• Ceaser explores an apparent Dharma building
• Illana comes in saying they found a man in the water wearing a suit
• It’s John Locke, alive
• “You asked me what I remember. I remember dying.”
• There was a flash of light and some people on the plane simply disappeared
• Otherwise everyone is accounted for, including the injured…
• Including Ben
• “He’s the man who killed me.”

A ton of answers, some I didn’t even mention here because I wasn’t able to hear a whole lot of what I knew was important dialogue. For example, when Widmore was explaining the whole Island situation. Now that we’ve seen this episode, I think it would have been far worse to have this and ‘316′ in reverse order, it would have been way more confusing. And so, new questions I have…

• Was Widmore telling the truth after all?
• How was Locke resurrected?
• Are the Ajira-ies in a different time from the Return-ies?
• Are Sayid and Sun part of the Ajira-ies?
• Why is Ben such an evil jackass?
• Will we ever visit 1954 again? (ok that one isn’t really posed by this episode… but still, I want to know!)

A couple of those aren’t really mythology questions; I didn’t think this episode really posed many new questions but instead answered a whole lot of them. They wrapped up Abaddon’s story in a fairly nice little package, and assuming he’s telling the truth, revealed a whole mess of information about Widmore. I also have a couple of other questions but those are just from not being able to pay attention the entire episode.

The only real storytelling technique I took note of this week was the strong references to past episodes throughout the entire hour. Too many to list them all, but the main instance off the top of my head is the structure similarity to Season 4’s Meet Kevin Johnson. Another episode with many similarities is The Shape of Things to Come which detailed Ben’s happenings off-island after the events of him turning the wheel. I also thought it was really clever that as soon as Locke left the island, he got right back into a wheel chair.

I’ll write a new post if I come up with anything I didn’t catch due to the whole being at work thing…

That’s all I’ve got, until next post…

posted on behalf of Smileyone

Following on from our recent post DEAN WINCHESTER IN WIDE-FIT SHOCKER, we here at the Crazy Buckets Office came across a very interesting semi-related article on Jensen Ackles & his pretty big feet. An article entitled ‘Shape Of Things To Come’ featured in the recent Titan’s Official Supernatural Magazine [which we really love reading btw] Jensen Ackles was quoted saying the following:

”Just the other night, when I was getting into bed, I picked up the sheet and slid my legs underneath and as I was about to put the sheet back down on my chest, a spider suddenly dropped down from inside the sheet, right next to me on the mattress and I was just like, ‘what?’ I got it with my hand, put it on the floor, and then stepped on it.”

Interesting stuff we think you’ll all agree. Although a bit sad for the unexpected demise of the poor spider (a second silence please) and ok, moment over… back to Jensen!

At first we were having images of a big clump of spider goop being stuck to Jensen’s underfoot…

(Jensen, serial spider killer)

…but then we started thinking about just how much of a serial spider killer our Jensen may actually be? We started seeing the spider bodies piling up all round his bed. Maybe he has already started to fashion a little moat around his bed (ugh). A big moat to separate his little bed from the rest of the world. Maybe that’s why we don’t see so much of him about when Supernatural is not on TV… see, where we are coming from? We’re starting to worry here…
We came to this conclusion as he continued to say:

“I don’t like them, but they don’t frighten me.If that would’ve have been anybody else I know, it would’ve been, ‘WAHHHHHHH!’ What’s amazing is that if you think about how many spiders you don’t see. That’s more scary to me then actually seeing one, because if I see one then I know where it is and I can take care of it… [ btw "Taking care of it"don't see that can mess with my head.'' doesn't always mean killing it, surely?]…but it’s all the ones I don’t see that can mess with my head.”

( Kinda like these scary bitches, Jensen?)

We’re thinking spiders around Jensen’s house have started to view his bed area as ‘Spider Graveyard’ i.e. the place where they all go to die!

See, in Jared’s bedroom space, because we’ve heard that that boy is up at all stupid o’clock-o’times of the day and night pounding pavements an such, he has worked out how to confuse them! It’s daytime all the time in Jared’s room! Spiders say ‘Oh, coming up to night time, soon time to go out hunting… oops, daytime again… staying in again‘ -thus starving them all to death in their little hidey holes (genius!) Therefore, they all then head into Jensen’s room in their droves to catch a last meal before stomping time!

Really, we here at Buckets, have started getting worried. Jensen will have built such a big wall up around his bed using all these dead spider goop, legs, squishy bodies etc… that very soon, we may never see him again!

(So maybe he is really Spiderman?)

In an effort to stop this from happening, we want to suggest some ways to use up all this spider stuff, before he makes it his life’s mission to rid the world of every arachnid!

1. We thought we’d suggest he gathers up a load of goop and makes some protein enriched shakes for Jared to have each day before he goes out pavement pounding…
2. Or maybe mixing some in with his cereal in the mornings, adding a bit more fiber to his diet
3. He could stick them all in a big material bag and make a huge big comfy beanbag out of them
4. He could even mix some in with a bit of glue, wrap it all up in a bit of cling film and make some really interesting looking weights for Jared [Shhhh, Jared, look away now or you will have spoiled Jensen's next birthday present for you… ] …the possibilities are truly endless.

Yes indeedy, we think of everything here at Buckets, so you can thank us later Jensen, we don’t mind.

In S3E15, “Left Behind” Juliet and Kate encounter the smoke monsters in the jungle.

I believe the Smoke Monster was evaluating Juliet’s memories (as it apparently did with Eko in S2?) and determines that she can not die yet because…

She does not yet have the memories that the Smoke Monster has of past events, that is… She has to live in order for the past to happen as it should/has always happened. This could also be a variation on the whole “You have work to do” and “You can go now.” The island/Smokey/Jacob know that certain events must happen or have always happened, so they do what they can to make it that way.

Later in S4E9 “The Shape of Things to Come” after Keamy kills Alex, Ben proceeds to apparently summon the Smoke Monster to take out Keamy’s team.

Anyway, the Smoke Monster let Keamy live… because if he had died at that point, the Freighter would have exploded much, much sooner. The helicopter wouldn’t have taken off, Ben wouldn’t have had to turn the wheel, and the “Flashies” wouldn’t have become part of the islands past which is (I believe) how it has always happened.

So the Smoke Monster seems to be some kind of Time Cop, or at least aware of who can die and when.

That’s all I’ve got, until next post…

Once again, I’m not cool enough to get screeners before the shows air, so I’m stuck waiting for the Lost Season 5 premiere just like everyone else.  Now that I’ve re-watched some key episodes from the first four seasons this weekend, I’m fully prepared for the new season to air.  Here are the episodes I checked out to get ready for the new season:

Season 1 – Pilot (2 parts), Exodus (3 parts, season finale)

Season 2 – The Other 48 Days, What Kate Did, Lockdown, ?, Live Together Die Alone (2 parts, season finale)

Season 3 – Through the Looking Glass (2 parts, season finale)

Season 4 – The Constant, The Shape of Things to Come, There’s No Place Like Home (3 parts, season finale)

If you still need some Lost chatter to fill the hours between now and Wednesday night, here are a few good stories (with little or no spoilers) to check out.

Talking about Lost - Great commentary about living as a Lostie.

10 Questions we hope get answered in Season 5 – (only spoilers if you aren’t through season 4)

TV Squad’s Season 5 Early Look (limited spoiler info at the end of the article)

Woo Hoo! LOST has racked up 7 Emmy nominations this year. They are as follows….

1.) Best Series, Dramatic : LOST

2.) Best Supporting Actor in a Dramatic Series : Michael Emerson as Ben

3.) Outstanding Cinematography for a One Hour Series: Lost * ” The Constant” * ABC *ABC Studios, John Bartley A.S.C. C. S.C., Director of Photography

4.) Outstanding Single Camera Picture Editing for a Dramatic Series: LOST, ” There’s No Place Like Home (Parts 2 & 3), ABC * ABC Studios
Henk Van Eeghan , Editor
Robert Fiorio, Editor
Mark J. Goldman, Editor
Stephen Semel, Editor

5.) Outstanding Music Composition For a Series (Original Dramatic Score) Lost * The Constant* ABC* ABC Studios, Michael Giacchino, Music By

6.) Outstanding Sound Editing For a Series : Lost * The Shape of Things to Come* ABC * ABC Studios
Thomas deGroter, M.P.S.E , Supervising Sound Editor
Paul Fairfield, M.P.S.E., Sound Editor
Carla Murray, M.P.S.E. ,Sound Editor
Maciek Malish, M.P.S.E , Sound Editor
Lloyd Jay Keiser, Sound Editor
Joseph Schultz, Sound Editor
Jim Bailey, Foley Artist
Cynthia Merrill, Foley Artist
Alex Levy, Music Editor

7.) Outstanding Sound Mixing For a Comedy or Drama Series: Lost * Meet Kevin Johnson* ABC * ABC Studios
Robert Anderson, Production Mixer
Frank Morrone, Re-Recording Mixer
Scott Weber, Re-Recording Mixer

Update: Listening to Ryan and Jen of The Transmission podcast ( and I believe they also mentioned it on LOST Unlocked podcast) that LOST Mobisodes were nominated for an Emmy in a new catagory specifically for this new media. I didn’t see it on the official Emmys list when I was typing it up. But I must have missed it. So, congratulations on another nomination!

There will definitely change.  Either we will be led to Marxism and 2nd world status or toward Communism and 3rd world status.

Our heyday is done.  Prepare for $20 per gallon gas.  Don’t worry, the dictators who Barack Hussein Obama gives your tax dollars to will make good use of them.  They will enslave their people or buy yachts.  If they have any left over they may fund a anarchist group.

En el noveno e impactantementeasombroso episodio de Lost

Spoilers Zone, Cuidado!!!

En la playa:

Bernard encuentra a un hombre traido por el mar, para que poco despues Daniel corrobore que se trata del doctor del Kahana, como el telefono satelital sigue averiado Bernard aconseja enviar un mensaje en codigo Morse el cual es enviado por Daniel que recibe la respuesta y traduce para Jack y Kate que se encuentran allí de manera incorrecta, pero Bernard que también sabe codigo Morse dice lo que constestaron en verdad, Es entonces cuando Jack cansado por las mentiras de los tripulantes del carguero presiona a Daniel para que diga la verdad, “Ellos no están ahí para rescatar a los sobrevivientes…”

En las barracas

Alex es capturada por el grupo de mercenarios que iba a bordo del carguero y la obligan a apagar la barrera sónica que protege las barracas de los Otros. En ese mismo instante, suena el teléfono de la casa donde se encuentran Sawyer, Locke, Hurley y Aaron, al contestar un mensaje automático repite continuamente un código. Tras informar a Ben, éste les dice que significa que los mercenarios están ahí. Sawyer sale en busca de Claire y los mercenarios comienzan a dispararle, matando a tres de los supervivientes y destruyendo con un cohete la casa de Claire; no obstante, Sawyer la encuentra viva entre los escombros y la lleva con el resto.

Poco después, Miles entra en la casa con un walkie-talkie de los mercenarios y al asomarse por la ventana, ven que uno de ellos tiene a Alex a punta de pistola. Ben se niega a entregarse e intenta que no mate a Alex diciéndole que no significa nada para él. A pesar de ello, el mercenario la mata y Ben, en estado de shock, se mete en una habitación secreta y cierra la puerta tras él. Poco después, vuelve a salir y ordena a los demás que salgan de la casa y corran hacia los árboles. Entonces, el humo negro entra en el poblado y ataca a los mercenarios, mientras los supervivientes se alejan.

Ben les dice entonces que deben ir a ver a Jacob para saber que hacer, pero Sawyer decide regresar a la playa y Miles, Claire y Aaron le acompañan.

Flashforward:

Ben despierta en medio del desierto del Sahara completamente solo enchaquetado y con una herida en el brazo. Dos beduinos armados a caballo se acercan. Ben les pregunta si hablan inglés, y cuando no le contestan les pregunta si hablan árabe o turco, pero siguen sin hablar con él. Mientras uno de los beduinos le está cacheando, encuentra una porra en el bolsillo de Ben. Éste se da la vuelta, le golpea, y mata al otro con el arma del primero. El que ha sido golpeado grita desde el suelo: “Me rindo”. Ben le dice: “Así que sí que hablas inglés”, y le golpea con la culata del rifle. Ben se hace un torniquete en el brazo y se va en uno de los caballos…

Luego lo vemos registrandose en un hotel de Tunez, la recepcionista pregunta si es la primera vez en el país a lo que Ben contesta que hace tiempo ya había estado allí, Ben se registra bajo el nombre de Dean Moriarty y dice que es un “invitado preferente”. Dean Ben pregunta le fecha a lo que ella contesta que es 21 de octubre, luego de asentir pregunta ahora por el año a lo que la extrañada recepcionista contesta 2005.

En Tikrit, Iraq, Ben baja de una camioneta y con una camara fotografica en mano sube a un edificio desde el cual toma fotos a un hombre, espectando un funeral que se está llevando y luego apunta a uno de los que llevan el ataud, es Sayid quien poco antes vimos en la tele declarando que solo quiere que lo dejen tranquilo para enterrar a su esposa, mientras Ben toma la foto Sayid voltea y lo ve, Ben baja corriendo pero Sayid lo intercepta pensado que se trata de un paparazzi o algo por el estilo, se sorprende al descubrir que se trata de Ben por lo que no tarda en preguntar como llegó ahí… Ben explica que salió con el bote de Desmond y desde Fiji alquiló un avión está detrás del hombre que mató a su mujer (la de Sayid) él fue enviado por Charles Widmore para matarla en Los Angeles, y le muestra unas fotos del hombre en cuestión. Sayid prometer matarlo…

En un Café Ben espia al hombre, Ishmael Bakir, pero lo pierde, cuando sale trás él en un callejón este aparece detrás de Ben, no sin antes Ben pedir un favor, y es que le de un mensaje a Charles Widmore y es entonce cuando Sayid cobra venganza y lo asesina… Ben aconseja a a Sayid que no deje que su pena se convierta en enfado pero Sayid insiste en vengarse y pregunta ¿Quien es el siguiente? A lo que Ben sostiene que no es su problema, pero Sayid insiste así que Ben con sonrisa entre dientes se marcha no sin antes decir que estarán en contacto…

Mi comentario:

Pues luego de un parón que pensé AXN no nos iba a hacer sufrir al igual que los norteamericanos volvemos con este dinámico capitulo, buena manera de volver…

• Nos enteramos de que Jack tiene una especie de parasito el cual lo hace sufrir ya para el final del capitulo.
• La muerte de Alex… DAMN! para nada de acuerdo, quizas estaban faltos de un momento impactante, pero es que acaso no fue suficiente con Karl (no tanto) y Danielle Rousseau,

Rousseau???? por qué????????

Adios a mi viejita loca????

Sinceramente espero que como el fenix, renazca de sus cenizas y acabe con medio mundo

• Punto a parte por la muerte de los 3 desafortunados extras, no lo sé, lo vi tan de comiquita, hubiese preferido que nadie apareciera o cuando mucho solo 1, o aún que no los mataran de esa manera, de verdad que fue bien gafo

• La arrolladoramentemerecidasangrefriacoñoemadre venganza por la muerte de su hija que Ben provocó, bien merecida caracha… pero no podemos ignorar lo obvio… Ben de alguna manera llamó al mostruo de humo para que acabara con los mercenarios, ese me pareció sensacional y por vez primera aplaudí las acciones de Ben. (no te preocupes amigo Linus te seguimos odiando)
• A buscar a Jacob, excelente opción aunque no me cuadró del todo como de pronto Sawyer decidió regresar a la playa, pero algo que no me fijé bien… Miles se fue con Sawyer? o con Locke y Ben? digo, debido a la extraña naturaleza de Jacob me parece que sería interesante llevar a Miles con él, recuerden que Miles parece tener habilidades para contactar con seres de otros mundos y cosas parecidas…
• Que rayos hace Ben enchaquetado en el medio del Sahara??? como llegó ahí??? como es que tenía aún una herida fresca en el brazo??? Que rayos fueron a buscar los beduines para allá??? no me digan que hacian una ronda de rutina… hay quienes suponen que Ben puede de alguna manera teletransportarse… quien sabe…
• Ben pregunta la fecha… que sucedió que necesitaba preguntar el año en el que se encontraba??? viaja también en el tiempo??? vaya creo que me quiero tomar unas vacaciones por la isla y volverme panita de Jacob…
• Me pareció muy bien que se aclarara la relación Sayid/Ben en el futuro. algo que quedó bien claro, sin embargo me parece que Ben en cierta medida la tenía todo premeditado, digo, por la sonrisota al final de la conversa con Sayid.

El final del capitulo:

Ben, en Londres logra entrar a la habitación de Charles Widmore donde tiene con él una curiosa conversación…

Linus acusa a Widmore de asesino de su hija, y luego de una breve discusión sobre quien tiene la culpa Ben lo amenaza con la muerte de Penelope para que sienta lo mismo que él…

Widmore, continúa diciendo que todo lo que tiene (Ben) es por que se lo ha quitado a él (Charles)

Desearás no haber cambiado las reglas, dice Ben, nunca la vas a encontrar (refiriendose a Penelope) y que quiere que le devuelva su isla, Ben de la misma manera contesta que no la encontrará, antes de irse dice… “La cacería ha comenzado…”

• En realidad Charles le dice algo así como… la isla fue y volverá a ser mia…
• Que ni se les pase por la cabeza matar a Penelope
• Son 6 de Oceanic, Ben está afuera pero no cuenta porque él no estaba en el vuelo… será que Desmond también salió y no lo cuentan porque tampoco estaba en el vuelo de Oceanic??? dejenme jugar con esa posibilidad porque si hay algo que tampoco se pierda en la serie es la historia entre Desmond y Penelope, que como ellos nadie más ha luchado…
• Re-pensando aquello de Ben apareciendo enchaquetado en medio del Sahara me hace pensar en algo que vimos en el episodio 2 de esta temporada, Muerte Confirmada, y es que Charlotte en una expedición en el Tunez consigue un medallon de Dharma además del cadaver de un oso, ¿será por eso que visitan tanto mi reseña de Muerte Confirmada?

Ahora me despido con unas imagenes por fans bastante simpaticas de Lost que conseguí buscando imagenes para esta reseña y algo que debí haber conseguido antes de comenzar con esta temporada.

Resumen de las tres primeras temporadas de Lost en tan solo 8 minutos… no es broma…

Aquí

Es que no se agregar videos de Daily Motion

T_T

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¿Tengo que avisar de que en este artículo hay SPOILERCACOS del final de la 4ª temporada de Lost? Pues eso.

La temporada de Lost ha acabado. Era lo único que nos quedaba, era lo que más esperábamos, lo mejor de la parrilla. Y ya está. Ya no nos queda nada… Bueno, algo nos queda: preguntas. Como cada año.

Está claro que no es la mejor season finale de la serie. De hecho, ha sido la que menos audiencia ha tenido de ellas. 12 millones de espectadores, superados, por ejemplo, por los 17 del final de temporada de Grey’s anatomy. Aunque sospecho que este hecho, como la bajada de audiencia de la serie progresivamente, tiene que ver más con los espectadores que eligen verla en sus ordenadores. Qué listicos.

La verdad es que los finales de la 1ª y la 3ª temporada de Lost quedaron para la historia: eran casi insuperables. Pero There’s no place like home no ha sido tan vertiginoso y sorprendente, o no nos lo ha parecido, por una simple razón: la temporada a la que pertenece era la mejor de la serie. Llevábamos una docena de capítulos redondos, para una temporada redonda. Y así ha sido, de principio a fin.

Qué ironía que, tras las vueltas que hemos dado durante estos últimos capítulos, volviésemos al sitio donde nos dejó el final de la 3ª temporada, en el mítico final de Through the looking glass. “We’ve got to go back!”, Jack gritándole a Kate frente a millones de espectadores con los ojos como platos. Y ahí estamos de nuevo: Kate se da la vuelta y le grita, rabiosa ella, pero guapísima porque ahora tiene maquillaje, que no piensa volver. Que aún está intentando olvidarse de todas las cosas horribles que pasaron cuando dejaron la isla. Y que no nombre a Aaron, su casihijastro-sobrino, que aún le tiene que explicar por qué no está cada noche ahí para contarle un cuento. Y Jack, con barba y empastillado, se calla. Un dramón.

Pues sí, los flashforward nos llevan a tres años después de cuando los 6 de Oceanic se montaron la película que se montaron ¿por y para qué? Pues por fin lo sabemos. Y es que si por algo está caracterizada esta temporada es porque ha sido casi autoconclusiva. Al estilo Damages: desde el principio sabíamos que alguien iba a salir de la isla, y progresivamente nos mostraron quiénes eran esas personas y qué les pasaría una vez fuera. Una gran estrategia para mantener el interés.

Mientras tanto, nos daban respuestas a preguntas que llevábamos arrastrando desde el piloto de la serie. El oso polar era un experimento de Dharma. El humo negro responde a órdenes de las personas. El padre muerto de Jack andando por toda la isla no era una alucinación. Tom Friendly es gay. Incluso supimos qué había pasado con Michael y Walt.

Pero no hay nada como verse cerrar tramas que seguías desde hacía mucho tiempo, como el reencuentro entre Desmond y Penny. Y el caso es que, aunque parece el final de la historia, todos sabemos que no: Ben ya prometió en The shape of things to come que mataría a Penny, para vengar el hecho de que Widmore matara a su hija. Y todos sabemos que Ben es capaz de todo, y lo que quiere, lo consigue. Esto pinta interesante.

Otra pregunta, que nos repetíamos una y otra vez, se ha respondido: ¿y qué pasa con la gente que está en la isla? Respiramos aliviados al ver a la mayoría vivos, que sólo perdieron su oportunidad porque el carguero explotó, y Ben ha movido la isla. Por eso no han podido ser rescatados. Sabemos ya que Claire no está muerta, sino ¿desaparecida? Bueno, sentada en un sofá de una cabaña que cambia de lugar, hablando con su padre muerto, y echando sonrisillas siniestras. Y además le dice a Kate en sueños que no se atreva a volver a llevar a su hijo a la isla. Y todo eso mientras Jack decide que deben volver, y Ben añade: “Tenéis que volver todos”. El obeso loco, el irakí vengador, el médico deprimido, la fugitiva con su falso hijo, cuya madre se aparece en sueños, la coreana rica, y el negro huérfano que no sabe que es huérfano. Y lo mejor de todo es que sabemos que casi ninguno de ellos querrá volver. Ah, y ese cadáver calvo que está en la tumba, un tal Jeremy Bentham, que en realidad es John Locke, que salió de la isla en algún momento y ha hablado con todos ellos, y al final ha muerto. A saber por qué.

Yo, en el fondo, sigo esperando que Jin no haya muerto, igual que su mujer, Sun, que está dispuesta a encontrar la isla. Quien sí sabemos que ha muerto es Michael, que lo estaba deseando el pobre, no como el actor, que dice estar decepcionado y ha hecho una gran muestra de paranoia y estupidez, al decir que “hay muchas preguntas sobre la gente negra de la serie. Sayid consigue encontrarse con Nadia de nuevo, igual que Desmond y Penny, pero un niño negro y su padre ¿no era interesante? En su lugar, Walt se queda huérfano. Todo eso se enmarca en el gran y extraño estereotipo de que un negro como yo, no es interesante.” Será que la historia de Charlie, la de Libby, la de Nikki y Paulo, todos ellos blanquitos como la leche, no eran tan trágicas como la suya.

En fin. Esta semana ha acabado lo que, sospecho, ha sido la primera parte de una gran trilogía. La trilogía conclusiva de Lost. Podríamos llamarla Historia de una ida y una vuelta pero sería plagiar a Bilbo Bolsón.

Los restos de un barco, un vacío donde antes estaba la isla, Locke en un ataúd no se sabe cómo ni por qué, la tal Charlotte que parece ser que nació en la isla, y no lo sabe, el tal Daniel perdido en una balsa y Jack dispuesto a volver a la isla… Lo dicho, preguntas y más preguntas.

Y todas tendrán que esperar a ser respondidas en enero de 2009. Hasta entonces, sólo podemos darle vueltas a la cabeza…

Todos os episódios da atual temporada de Lost,apaguei os post’s velhos e juntei tudo neste.

4×00 – Special: Past, Present & Future -> Gigasize
4×01 – The Beginning of the End -> Rapidshare 01,02
4×02 – Confirmed Dead -> Filefactory - Rapidshare 01,02
4×03 – The Economist -> Megaupload - Filefactory
4×04 – Eggtown -> Megaupload - Sendspace – Filefactory
4×05 – The Constant -> Megaupload - Sendspace - Filefactory
4×06 – The Other Woman -> Gigasize - Filefactory
4×07 – Ji Yeon -> Megaupload
4×08 – Meet Kevin Johnson -> Megaupload - Filefactory - Rapidshare 01,02
4×09 – The Shape of Things to Come -> Megaupload - Sendspace – Filefactory
4×10 – Something Nice Back Home -> Megaupload - Sendspace - Filefactory
4×11 – Cabin Fever -> Megaupload - Sendspace - Filefactory
(novo) 4×12 – There’s No Place Like Home (1) -> Megaupload - Sendspace - Rapidshare 01,02

Well, LOST ends really soon now with There’s No Place Like Home Part 1 and 2, airing over two weeks as I said in LOST: One More Hour. For those of you who haven’t been following since the break keep reading, and for those of you who haven’t watched any of this season, but still want to watch the finale, read here, then here. Now, without further rambling, read up on how the last three episodes went:
With the Lockers: Otherville gets attacked by the people from the freighter (who left the episode before) and everyone gets killed but the main characters. They are keeping Alex hostage and they shoot her. Ben gets angry and sicks smokey on them (yeah, he’s his pet). They all leave otherville and split up (again). Ben and Hugo go with John, and Claire, Aaron, and Miles go with Sawyer. Sawyers group runs into Christian Shepherd (Jack’s dad) and he kidnaps Claire, but leaves Aaron. In John’s group they find Jacob’s cabin and find Claire and Christian Shepherd. Jacob tells them to move the island…
In Jack’s Group: The Doc from the freighter washes ashore dead. Jack phones the boat and they say the Doc is fine. Jack faints and needs an appendectomy. They do it and Jack sees a helicopter coming back to the island.
On the freighter: Michael is being held hostage and Keemy comes to investigate. He reads from a folder with the Dharma logo on it and attaches a thing to his arm. He then kills the doctor and the captain and goes back to the island. Sayid leaves on a canoe to the island and leaves Desmond and Michael to fend for themselves with a bunch of crazy, scared, boat people without a captain.
So there you have it. If you want more info, check here and here and here.

No se preocupen pronto, quien sabe cuando, pero pronto Lost volverá a nosotros los que vivimos en Latinoamerica,

¿Por qué están repitiendo?

Recordemos, y los que no saben, el año pasado si no me equívoco en Octubre hubo una huelga de escritores que dió frenazo a la producción de cualquier cantidad de series en Estados Unidos, también la industria del cine se vio muy afectada, Lost y Los Simpsons fueron los menos afectados (hasta donde sé) ya que como “niños juiciosos” volvieron a sus puestos de trabajo antes de lo acostumbrado, Lost tenía planeada la producción de 16 episodios esta temporada de los cuales ya tenían 8 episodios listos en las fechas del parón de los guionistas y como el episodio 8 (Meet Kevin Johnson) aunque muchos lo consideramos revelador y bueno, no estuvo al nivel de los finales de temporada que bien nos tienen acostumbrados los productores, guionista y todo personal pertinente en los finales de temporada de Lost, por ello se toma la sabia decisión de hacer 5 episodios más con un final de temporada de 3 partes llamado “There’s No Place Like Home” (No hay lugar como el hogar) claro, con ese titulazo pone a más de uno a fantasear y pensar, “¿Que Carajo se traeran entre manos?”

Siento que debo pedir disculpas, he tardado un poco en dar esta expliación para aquellos Lostmaniacos que no saben que es lo que sucedía, tarde en publicar porque me había topado con información interesante en un blog en ingles de la serie pero… NPI (Ni Puta Idea) de cual era el blog, por lo tanto no pude, o no he podido traer esa info, de momento solo sé que la primera semana de repetición no me fijé cual episodio transmitieron, luego fue el flojo “Eggtown” y esta semana será el genial “The Constant”

Los Episodios que esperamos ahora son

The Shape of Things to Come – La Forma de las Cosas por Venir

Ben Linus y Sayid Jarrah

Something Nice Back Home – Algo Agradable de Regreso a Casa

Hurley Reyes, Jack Shephard, Kate Austen

Cabin Fever – Fiebre de Cabina

John Locke

There’s No Place Like Home – No Hay Lugar Como el Hogar

Capitulo de tres partes y el cual no sabemos sobre quien  o quienes girará.

I was really excited for “The Shape of Things to Come,” the last LOST episode that showed last Thursday. I knew that Locke’s camp was going to be attacked, but I was unsure about who. The appearance of Keamy remedied that.

I was surpised that Alex was killed. I figured that she was going to be given a deeper back-story. We don’t know the process behind Ben kidnapping her, we don’t know how she met Karl, we don’t know, well, we don’t know a lot.

I was also expecting an answer to whether or not Danielle and Karl are alive. It would be pointless to end an episode without answering a question…unless you are making LOST. So it’s acceptable.

I’m glad that the writers decided to show a Ben flashforward. I was wondering how Sayid ended up working for Ben in the end. The fact that Nadia died after Sayid married her was interesting.

This also brings up the whole Shannon-Sayid-Nadia triangle. Shannon and Sayid had something going on in Season 2. And where was Nadia this entire time? In Kal-I-Four-Nye-A. Very interesting…

This is some trivia from the Lostpedia.com website. The hyperlinks do nothing so don’t click on them.

Can’t watch the episode tonight because I’ll be at a track meet. Can’t watch it tomorrow ’cause I’m going to a Skillet-Decyfer Down concert. Might watch it Saturday and get to you soon after that.

This post is a departure from my “normal” posts…whatever that is. I’m a huge fan of the show Lost. Well…I fell in love with Season 1, which was an utter masterpiece in television drama, perfectly fusing a depth of character development with a level of plot development that was pretty much incredible. And now, watching it is more of an exercise in maintaining that initial enthusiasm. It’s still a good show though.
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It’s been confirmed. The “Time-Loop Theory” for the TV show Lost is legit.

I am aware that the writers of the show have said no wacky time-travel related plots will be in the show. Well, they lied. Or made a mistake. Because this theory is too solid.

Basically (and I repeat, this is a very basic summary), what the guy who came up with the theory states is that when the Oceanic plane crashed onto the island in 2004, the entire island was stuck on a continuous time-loop of the year 1996. The island was being sent back in time every 108 minutes, which is how often “the numbers” in the Swan station had to be entered. So by crashing onto the island, everyone on the plane broke through some kind of hole in the time-space continuum and traveled back in time to 1996. (The hole was created when Desmond failed to enter the numbers in the Swann station the first time.)

That explains why Rose and Locke have their former health restored because both Locke and Rose were perfectly healthy back in 1996. That’s also why Jack’s dad is alive on the island (I think), because his body made it on the island, and his body wasn’t dead in ‘96. It also explains why the outside world can’t find their way to the island. And it explains a bunch of other stuff too.

The theory also explains the origins of the DHARMA initiative (they’re the bad guys…Charles Widmore is one of them); the motives of Ben, Richard, Jacob, and the Others (they really are “the good guys” as Ben put it); why births can’t occur on the island; what the hell that Black Smoke Monster thing is; and it just explains almost the entire show and what exactly has been going on (even the polar bears). However, it doesn’t really explain how the show will end. That’s not what the theory is. It is basically just a breakdown of how the universe of the show works…and what the rules of the world of the story are.

One very important part of the theory is that Ben and the Others are actually from the future, but in a fairly normal way. They stole the time-machine from the DHARMA initiative in 2007, and went back to 1996 to kill the entire DHARMA organization off…well, except for those members of Dharma who weren’t on the island in 1996, like Charles Widmore (possibly…more on that later). This also makes Ben and anyone else basically invincible until time catches back up to 2007, which would have been never if the island stayed on its continuous loop of 1996.

So…the island was going on in its nice 1996 bubble while the world kept going forward in time outside of it…until 2004, when Desmond failed to enter the numbers, causing Oceanic 815 to come crashing into their 1996 world. And Locke further screwed things up by not entering the numbers at all, leading to the destruction of the time machine.

You can go and read the theory in detail at the “Time Loop Theory” page. It’s quite lengthy…it took me about 20-30 minutes, but really, most of it fits together remarkably well. That guy has seriously put some thought into this. It’s almost like he was a writer for the show or something. Now, as much sense as his theory might make, I’m sure he’ll turn out to be wrong in some aspects — for example, I think he was just a tad off on Widmore. And the actual writers of the show are most likely aware of the theory, and will modify any parts if necessary. But I think he’s really onto something with the whole time-travel/loop business.

All right, so the “basic” run-down is done with.
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This “Time-Loop Theory” has been around for a couple of months now and has been covered and discussed in forums, Lostpedia, blogs, and probably a million other places. But while it seemed pretty logical, I wanted to wait for the show to start up again to watch for any bits of confirmation. And I think I got it with the last episode (Season 4, Episode 9).

The first clue came when Ben told Locke or Sayid or someone (I forgot when he said it) that “‘when’ is a relative term.” Of course it’d be relative, if you’re a freakin’ time traveler!

Another was when it showed what appeared to be a “flash-forward” of Ben and Sayid in the year 2005, after the “Oceanic 6″ make it off the island. In that flash-forward, we see Ben recruit Sayid to be his personal assassin. He uses the trauma of the recent death of Sayid’s wife as a motivating tool to use Sayid to kill off key members of DHARMA. But…in light of the time-loop theory, this is actually a flash-BACK, my friends. Look at Ben’s contemplative face, when the story shifts back to the events of the island after his supposed “flash-forward”:

“Hmm…I remember back in 2005, when I met Sayid off the island. Too bad I’m back in 2004 now.”

(Sorry I couldn’t come up with a better caption.)
Also, in that flash-forward, when Ben checks into a hotel, he double-checks and confirms with the front desk woman what the date and year are. Seriously, who doesn’t know the year? No one! No one except a time traveler. You’d have to make sure what year you were in if you happen to travel through time once in a while. I think this was one of the biggest confirmations of time-travel playing a big part in the plot.

But there was also that last scene, when Ben confronts Charles Widmore at his penthouse. It had a whole bunch of clues in it…some of which I’m not too sure what they’re hinting at.

First of all, Ben says that he can’t kill Widmore and that they both know he can’t kill him. Which is weird, because, really, what’s stopping him? He could’ve brought a gun. He could wack him to death with his super-stick that seems to be his weapon of choice. He could choke him, stap him, punch him, whatever. But no, he “can’t” kill him, for some reason…

Then they both talk about “rules,” with Ben accusing Widmore of breaking them when he killed his daughter, Alex.

Widmore also says that the island was his, and that everything Ben got, he got from Widmore.

This is where my addition to the theory comes in…
All this leads me to believe that both Ben and Widmore (along with the Others) traveled back in time. Widmore was the leader of DHARMA up to 2007 and, up to 2007, DHARMA was in charge of the island. That’s why Widmore claims that the island was his and it will be his again. In 2007, Ben joined with the Others to hatch a plan to steal DHARMA’s time machine to go back in time to 1996 in order to exterminate DHARMA from the island. It was at that time that Widmore, after he realized he had lost, made a deal with the Others, and Ben, to save himself. “The Rules” are what the Others laid out for Widmore in exchange for sparing his life. And everyone who traveled back in time from 2007 was made invincible at least up to 2007, because they were all alive up to 2007. That’s why Ben can’t kill Widmore.

One of the “rules” that were laid out would be that Widmore leave the island immediately. But he was still allowed to try to find any way possible to find it again — which explains why he was at the auction of the captain’s log of the “Black Rock” ship (it contains the ‘325 bearing that is needed to make it onto the island). This was an easy compromise for the Others to make because they knew the island was invisible to the outside world — and they didn’t expect Desmond (or Locke) to fail in entering the numbers, which served to both keep the island in 1996 and keep it invisible to the outside world.

Another one of the “rules” would be that no innocent people would be killed, a rule that Ben has repeated throughout the show to both the Oceanic survivors and everyone else. When Alex was murdered, Widmore had apparently violated this rule. BUT, he maintains that Ben in fact murdered her himself — which may be true. Because of the fact that she died indicates that unlike Ben, Richard, and Widmore, she actually did not live through the year 2007; She died sometime before that (perhaps 2004? Which is the year of last week’s episode). Ben could have knowingly killed her for some necessary reason, banking on the fact that he could take her (fatally wounded, but not dead?) body back to 1996 and keep her alive there. As long as she didn’t make it to 2004, she’d be fine. But “fate has a funny way of course correcting,” as evidenced by Charlie, so of course, she died anyway, exactly when she died before — and that’s what Widmore is pointing out.

So…yeah, I’ve concluded this “Time Loop Theory” is legit and give it my stamp of approval. If all this didn’t make sense, I promise it will make sense if you go back and read through the Time Loop Theory that I linked to above.

I’m sorry if this was all esoteric babble for all you non-Lost fans. We will now resume regularly scheduled blog-posting.

Song of the Day:

Weezer – “Island in the Sun”

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Tras un mes sin Lost debido a la huelga de guionistas, volvió la gran serie que todos conocemos

A continuación se revelarán detalles de la trama así que si aún no has visto el capítulo mejor no le des al link de continuar leyendo

El capítulo

Sigo en mis trece y vuelvo a reafirmarme en que el hecho de saber cuando va a finalizar la serie le ha hecho un gran favor a los guionistas. El de esta semana ha sido otro de esos capítulos espectaculares que dejan a uno totalmente satisfecho. Ritmo trepidante, acción y nuevas incógnitas hacen de este capítulo uno de los mejores de esta cuarta temporada (aunque sigo sintiendo especial predilección por The constant) Pese a quien le pese, ejem, esta cuarta temporada está siendo grandiosa.

Buen flashforward de Ben, en el que sigue mostrando sus habilidades para manipular. Me quiedo sin duda con su cara de satisfacción al reclutar a Sayid, como una de las imágenes del capítulo. Tanto él como el bueno de Desmond creo que son mis personajes favoritos (Kate, es otro tema…) Y la acción es la isla, simplemente espectacular, con el retorno del humo negro y la intriga de que pasará con Jack y Jacob. Por cierto, Ángel, si algún día llegas a leer esto, siento esa muerte

Conclusiones, preguntas, teorías

• ¿Como acaba Ben en el desierto? Vuelve a tomar fuerza la posibilidad de vaijes espacio-temporales. Se despierta sin que haya huellas a su alrededor y vestido con un anorak. Además cuando llega al hotel no está seguro de en que año está.

• Cuando muere Álex, Ben se queda a cuadros. No se lo espera y acaba diciendo: “He changed the rules” ¿Tal vez sean las mismas reglas que impedían que Michael muriese o por las que tampoco puede matar Ben a Wilmore al final del capítulo?
• Tras la última escena parece que The economist del 4×03 puede ser Penny.
• ¿Ben controla el humo negro? Por lo menos es capaz de pedir que actúe. Ojo a lo sucio que sale Ben del pasadizo secreto.
• ¿Qué enfermedad tiene Jack? ¿Como influirá en el hecho de que acabe saliendo de la isla? Parece realmente jodido el hombre.
• ¿Murió el doctor del barco?

Curiosidades

1.-Traducción de los diálogos en árabe:

Benjamin :Hola
El del Gorro Gris : Que pasa!
El del gorro Rojo : Quédate en tu sitio
Benjamin : no no espera
El del Gorro Rojo : ¿¿??¿¿??^¿?¿?¿?¿
El del Gorro Gris : Esta en su sitio, no ves que no hay ninguna marca de pasos de pisadas?
El del Gorro Rojo : Este de dónde ha venido! Bajó del Cielo ?
Benjamin : Espera, lo puedo explicar. Hablas Ingles? Hablas árabe? Hablas turco?
El del gorro Rojo : Ve!
El del Gorro Gris: No te muevas
Benjamin : (mientras abre la chaqueta) Mira Mira!
El del gorro Gris cuando encuentra algo en el bolsillo : Y esto ?
Benjamin : Ok
Benjamin : Esto es…
El del Gorro gris : Que es esto ?

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Luego en las noticias En el Hotel
Benjamin subiendo con las llaves se da la vuelta y ahí la voz de la presentadora de las noticias decía : Uno de los hijos de Irak a causa de unas circunstancias dolorosas para su vuelta. SAYID JARRAH. Uno de Los miembros de Oceanic 6 ha volado a Bagdad después de enterar a su mujer.
Sayid Jarrah y su esposa ( en ese momento Said dice : Solo ….. después continua la Presentadora : la q se celebrara en el mismo sitio

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después en la marcha decía Una voz : Solo Hay un Dios!
Y los demás decían : y Mahoma su Profeta

2.- Jeroglíficos en la entrada de la cripta por donde Ben invoca al humo negro

3.- El retorno del humo negro:

4.- “Australia es la parte más importante del juego” Es lo que menciona Hurley mientras juegan al Risk. ¿Habrá sido un guiño de los guionistas o una pista? Si recordamos el capítulo 2×19 cuando Bernard y Rose fueron a ver a Isaac a Ulruru (Australia), se hacia referencia a que habían ciertas áreas con propiedades curativas. En cierto modo, podrían estar haciendo alusión a Australia en este aspecto. O tal vez, es un guiño por el hecho de haber sido el punto de donde partió el vuelo Oceanic 815.

5.- Existe un parecido asombroso entre el logo de la chaqueta de Ben (“La Orquídea”) y la máquina del tiempo usada en la serie de los años 60 “El Túnel del Tiempo“. En la ficción de “El túnel del tiempo”, la máquina está localizada en un lugar subterráneo de Arizona, fue creada por el gobierno como un arma secreta en calidad experimental.

Próximo capítulo

Será la próxima semana y lleva por nombre Something Nice Back Home. Os dejo, como siempre, con la promo:

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