Lost TV Series News and Theories

This is the third and last chapter of the book “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” which appeared in the LOST episode “The Long Con”. Read the first chapter here.

Chapter III

As Peyton Fahrquhar fell straight downward through the bridge he lost consciousness and was as one already dead. From this state he was awakened — ages later, it seemed to him — by the pain of a sharp pressure upon his throat, followed by a sense of suffocation. Keen, poignant agonies seemed to shoot from his neck downward through every fiber of his body and limbs. These pains appeared to flash along well defined lines of ramification and to beat with an inconceivably rapid periodicity. They seemed like streams of pulsating fire heating him to an intolerable temperature. As to his head, he was conscious of nothing but a feeling of fullness — of congestion. These sensations were unaccompanied by thought. The intellectual part of his nature was already effaced; he had power only to feel, and feeling was torment. He was conscious of motion. Encompassed in a luminous cloud, of which he was now merely the fiery heart, without material substance, he swung through unthinkable arcs of oscillation, like a vast pendulum. Then all at once, with terrible suddenness, the light about him shot upward with the noise of a loud splash; a frightful roaring was in his ears, and all was cold and dark. The power of thought was restored; he knew that the rope had broken and he had fallen into the stream. There was no additional strangulation; the noose about his neck was already suffocating him and kept the water from his lungs. To die of hanging at the bottom of a river! — the idea seemed to him ludicrous. He opened his eyes in the darkness and saw above him a gleam of light, but how distant, how inaccessible! He was still sinking, for the light became fainter and fainter until it was a mere glimmer. Then it began to grow and brighten, and he knew that he was rising toward the surface — knew it with reluctance, for he was now very comfortable. “To be hanged and drowned,” he thought, “that is not so bad; but I do not wish to be shot. No; I will not be shot; that is not fair.”
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Bernie Quigley has an interesting post about LOST’s connection to nature and Synchronisity on his blog.

Synchronisity is an idea developed by physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Swiss psychiatrist C.G. Jung. It means a relationship between Inner life and Outer life – parallel events expressed by coincidence.

Most of the names and relationships in Lost appropriately suggest the spiritual and psychological condition at the end of the Second Millenium after the birth of Christ and the awakening of the Third Millenium, which awaits the second face of the avatar. The baby born on the island is Aaron, for example, who started the Judeo-Christian procession millenia back, incarnate again in the awakening age of Aquarius (which began, technically, on January 1, 2001). Some of these relationships are quite uncanny. The birth of Aaron restores and reunites the Earth and the Earth Mother (Claire) to its human occupant and natural child, after 500 years of separation.

Read the entire article.

This is the second chapter of the book “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” which appeared in the LOST episode “The Long Con”. Read the first chapter here.

Chapter II

Peyton Fahrquhar was a well to do planter, of an old and highly respected Alabama family. Being a slave owner and like other slave owners a politician, he was naturally an original secessionist and ardently devoted to the Southern cause. Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth, and he chafed under the inglorious restraint, longing for the release of his energies, the larger life of the soldier, the opportunity for distinction. That opportunity, he felt, would come, as it comes to all in wartime. Meanwhile he did what he could. No service was too humble for him to perform in the aid of the South, no adventure too perilous for him to undertake if consistent with the character of a civilian who was at heart a soldier, and who in good faith and without too much qualification assented to at least a part of the frankly villainous dictum that all is fair in love and war.
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A new book appeared in last weeks LOST episode The Long Con when John Locke wasalphabetizing the books in the hatch. It is pretty clear that Locke was not alphabetizing the books. He was probably looking for more pieces of the orientation film.

The story is a bit macabre, so maybe you want to read something else to your kids tonight…

Chapter I

A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man’s hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners — two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff. At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed. He was a captain. A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as “support,” that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest — a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. It did not appear to be the duty of these two men to know what was occurring at the center of the bridge; they merely blockaded the two ends of the foot planking that traversed it.

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The latest installment of The Official LOST Podcast with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse was just released.

It features the second half of the interview with Evangeline Lilly, which we heard the first part of in the last podcast. Damon and Carlton also discuss last week’s dramatic episode “The Long Con” and give a preview the upcoming LOST episode - “One of Them”

LOST’s co-creator J.J Abrams, who is also the man behind Alias, has been hard at work on the movie “Mission: Impossible III” starring Tom Cruise. But according to Sci Fi Wire, J.J says that since the movie is now nearing completion, he wants to be more involved in LOST next season.

Executive producers and writers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have been running the show this season, says Abrams.

They have a very clear picture of this year and the beginning of the next. My dream would be to be able to go back and … definitely direct an episode and at the very least … be more involved than this year, which was incredibly peripherally because of the movie. So. People come to me and say, Oh, my God, I love Lost this season, and I’m always flattered. … I always have to say, ‘I wish I could tell you that I had much more to do with it than I do, you know, this year.

As for the rumors about Ana-Lucia getting killed off, this is what J.J has to say.

“While we don’t want to report on the fate of any of the characters in
the show, I would say without question that any reports that anything
that’s going on with any of the actors as being problematic or
certainly resulting in changing the storyline to sort of you know get
rid of them is just erroneous and silliness.”

According to New York Daily News, Matthew Fox, LOST’s Dr. Jack Shephard, will be featured in next month’s GQ Magazine.

If you think Fox was born to be an actor, you’re wrong. Before he started to play doctor on a LOST island, Fox was trying to find work on Wall Street.

Fox borrowed a suit and shoes from a much shorter friend for an interview at Prudential-Bache, and everything seemed to go well - until one of the interviewers joked about his footwear.

“And I looked down, and I had those f—–’ penny loafers on, with pants that were, like, this much too short on me,” Fox said. “And they all had exactly the same pair of Oxford shoes on. And in that moment, I was like, ‘There’s no way I can do this.’”

Matthew is now one of the stars on LOST, he is married to a former runway model and was named one of the sexiest men alive by People Magazine. And all thanks to a pair of loafers and too short pants.

I’m beginning to think this site should be named “The Monaghan Blog” with all the rumors and articles surrounding Dominic, but I can’t really complain. After all, I’m one of the few who still believes Charlie is a good person.

Anyway, there is a friendly little interview with LOST’s addicted rock star over at Zap2it. Dominic talks about his career and his parents. He also discusses his personal view of Charlie and the character’s struggle between faith and addiction.

There might be a tiny spoiler related to Charlie’s future, but it’s nothing too revealing.

It has been a while since we’ve seen Desmond. You might remember him as the paranoid guy who lived in the hatch and then ran off into the jungle.

Anyway, I found Desmond to be a very interesting character so I figured I would see if I could find some real world connection to his name.

Possibly contains spoilers

The first thing I found was that the name Desmond is of Celtic/Latin origin and means “man of the world”. This connection itself is pretty interesting, seeing how LOST’s Desmond was preparing for a “race around the world”, but I found something even stranger.

It turns out there was an Irish born scientist named John Desmond Bernal who died 1971. J. D. Bernal is known for pioneering X-ray crystallography. He also wrote a number of books with titles such as “The World, the Flesh & the Devil: An Inquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul”, “The Freedom of Necessity” and “World without War”.

Since we know that Locke and Rousseau got their names from philosophers, I wouldn’t be surprised if Desmond got his name from J. D. Bernal, who apparently was also a philosopher.

What makes John Desmond Bernal so interesting though is his ideas of a space habitat intended as a long term home for permanent residents in future space colonies - The Bernal Sphere.

The sphere was originally planned to be 16 kilometers in diameter and filled with air. It was supposed to contain a target population between 20,000 and 30,000. Many years later at Stanford University, a much smaller sphere was proposed. The smaller Bernal sphere with a 500 meter diameter and simulated Earth gravity and sunlight, was interestingly enough named “Island One”…

I was just browsing the 4815162342 LOST forums, and everywhere I look, I find threads investigating what was seen in the preview of the next LOST episode.

If I had my way, previews should be forbidden. I don’t want to know what happens in the next episode of a TV series before I see it. If I already know more or less what happens, then where’s the suspense?

I know the forums only allow spoilers in the spoilers section, and in my mind, anything related to future LOST episodes are spoilers.. but since the scenes have been shown in the preview they are no spoilers for those who watch the previews…

What are your thoughts, do you watch the previews?