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It is true that the name Zeke ultimately refers back to Ezekiel, but I agree that it isn't relevant to Sawyer's use of it as a stereotypical name for a hillbilly type. He could have just as well used Jethro or Jedediah (also good Old Testament names) to make the same point. It is like calling...

Didn't see Stuff but I did see some other magazine that had a gorgeous portrait shot of Evangeline Lily. I went home and stuck another pin in my Dominic Monaghan voodoo doll. ;) Regards, Joe

No, in his made-up story Plato says that he got the account from Solon, who got it from the Egyptians. (He also claims that Solon was one of his ancestors, which may or may not be true.) No other source or tradition mentions any such thing about Solon, nor are there any Egyptian myths, legends...

Well, Atlantis wasn't - anywhere. Atlantis isn't a legendary or mythical location, it is a literary invention, no more "real" than Gondor or Plato's Republic or Cloud Cookoo Land. It made sense to go looking for Troy, because there really was such a place. But looking for Atlantis is like...

Some contracts are for five years with an option to renew for two more at a pre-determined rate (usually a percentage bump based on the season five salary) and straight five year contracts aren't unknown. (Joe Straczynski made sure that all the B5 people were signed to five year deals precisely...

Got it in one! :) That was my guess, too, which also suggests telepathy in some form, if it was able to transfer images/memories from one to the other. Regards, Joe

Actually one of the oddest mysteries is one that hasn't been has mentioned recently: How the hell did Locke end up having what amounted to one of Eko's visions? He saw himself as Eko, acted as Eko would have, saw an accurate image of Eko's brother who gave him a genuine clue to the location of...

Closed Captioning is generally done by the National Captioning Center, a non-profit. The folks doing the captioning do not have access to scripts, they transcribe a show "on the fly" while watching a tape. (Or worse, have to caption a live event in real-time, which is why you see so many more...

Don't suppose you'd care to be specific? Because of course this is now going to bug some of us. :) Regards, Joe

The economics of modern TV do work against very long runs. Unless a show is a monster hit and/or the network owns a piece of it so it will share in syndication, overseas and home video revenue, it is very hard for a show to run beyond the 7 years of the standard TV contract. (Union contracts...

He said that after he returned, to the island right? Let's see. He set out from Australia, failed to reach his next scheduled port of call, drifted around the Pacific for an unknown amount of time, and finally washed up on the island unconcious and disoriented after wrecking his boat in a...

The Bounty mutineers did, on Pitcairn island. :) But that's another story. Regards, Joe

For those of you scratching your heads trying to think of a philosopher named "Desmond", his full name is "Desmond Hume", as in David Hume (1711 to 1776), Scottish enlightenment philosopher, historian and economist. Hume was much influenced by the writings of fellow Scott John Locke (1632 to...

Hard to say since there is so much we don't know. I think you're right that letting the numbers run down is what turns off (or breaks through) the force field, however briefly. I had thought the fail-safe switch did that, but the guys in the ice station talk about having missed "the last one"...

Which is why I said, "implausible", rather than "impossible." :) But as you note, some things are less likely than others, even within the Lost universe. I think a self-contained "dome" that one can nonetheless fly and sail into and out of, falls into the category of "seriously less likely." As...

I don't think this is remotely plausible. We haven't seen anything to suggest a tecnology capable of something like that. They can see to the horizon - just how big is this "dome"? How do you fly a real jetliner inside it? Where do you build something this big and keep it hidden? How do you...

Interesting explanation. Silly, but interesting. Of course it has nothing to do with why this particular fad in date writing got started or took hold. When dates are hand-written as "September 2, 2004" sloppy penmanship can stretch the comma and make it look like "September 21 2004". It was for...

When and how did he get off the boat without Micheal (or us) noticing? He was crouched down in the cabin and would have had to pass Michael and been visible in any of the shots between the point where we see him and the point where the boat pulls away. Unless he teleported off the boat - but why...

One of the few things that makes me laugh louder is Lost fans who assume that when the show doesn't conform to their theories the show must be wrong. I guess there's no way your theory about how to read the numbrers could be wrong, huh? "they certainly know what the numbers were supposed to...

Except that on the day of the crash, Desmond didn't use the fail-safe device. He just missed entering the numbers on time, which started a build-up to we know-not what. He then entered the numbers and everything went back to normal. So we can't draw conclusions about the day of the crash from...

You're assuming that the effect at ground level and the effect at 30,000 feet would be the same. Why? Things may be much worse aloft than at sea level. In fact may be that the control mechanism prevents the island from absorbing too much electromagnetic energy and that once the numbers run out...

"How come we never get to tie up the women when we have prisoners?" :)

I'm with Rain on this one: He's certainly going to try. Even setting aside the slight legal jeopardy he'd put himself in, and the danger of private revenge (I still can't believe somebody didn't put a bullet through his head when the darts started flying - I sure as hell would have), there's the...

"Inland" to where? What "worthy people"? As far as we know the only surface dwellers on island prior to the plane crash were The Others and Rousseau. (Kelvin and Devlin were in the hatch.) There are no other people to select the worthy ones from. Unless they could cross to the hypothetical other...

A few random thoughts in response to the episode and the comments above: 1. There really was an "incident". Something altered the experiment as it was originally designed. The Rube-Goldberg number punching system was probably a makeshift designed to buy time until a permanent solution could...

Right. Because after a massive EM event that sucks a washer and dryer across the room and then spews tons of metal stuff all over the island the TV cameras will definitely still be working. :) Regards, Joe

Right. Because there's no chance in the world that they plan to revisit that when the time is right. The writers aren't that smart, after all. I'm sure they've just forgotten about this detail, because they don't know their show nearly as well as the people who watch it for an hour a week...

Very interesting, indeed. It would explain why people who never seemed to leave would have a boat, and why said boat didn't look like it remotely had ocean-going range. Sort of like Jurassic Park and The Lost World. The entire expirment is too big to be contained on the single island, and there...

Every had a pet when you were a kid? :) Vincent is Walt's dog. Walt has known Vincent a lot longer than he's known anybody else on the island, including Michael, and he probably has a stronger emotional bond with the dog. Walt can see that Michael is alive and healthy enough at that moment -...

As I recall, Jack did the standard ID: somebody opens the drawer, slides the body out, lifts the sheet so the next-of-kin can see the face for a few seconds and the whole thing is over. With the right connections (which the Dharma/Hanso folks certainly seem to have) it would be childishly simple...