Recent content by Simon Young

John - I'm assuming you realise that the Faraday cage is a real invention by a real physicist (Michael Faraday) and that its mention on Doctor Who had absolutely nothing to do with Lost. Apologies if you do, but I just wanted to check because it seems like you think Doctor Who was referencing Lost.

I'm a bit confused about something. We've seen that Derek and Jessie were a couple in 2027, and yet in the latest episode Derek referred to the friend that he murdered, and how Jessie couldn't have known him because they are from different futures or something. And in the previous episode he...

I don't see how this explanation makes any more sense. I mean, if the studio is indeed pandering to people who like their HDTV screens filled, why stop at distorting the credits? Why not distort - or better still, crop - the entire film?! If the idiots don't care about missing picture...

This is wrong. I saw The World Is Not Enough twice in cinemas (for my sins) and the oil-covered globe in the opening titles was perfectly round. One only has to glance at the image of Roger Moore to see it has been horizontally squeezed. Even the text looks wrong. What's even worse is that the...

They can't kill young Ben. They could try, but they would fail. The past cannot be changed. Whatever happened, happened... and they were always part of it. Put it this way: when Jack, Locke and Sayid were holding Ben captive down in the Swan station (back in Season Two), if they had somehow been...

Loved seeing Idris Elba (Stringer Bell from The Wire) back on my screen!

Seems like this show remembered what made it compelling in the first place: the characters. You can jump about in time all you damn well please - for me the last two episodes have been the most enjoyable Lost in a while. The problem with the dense mythology episodes is that, while they give...

What a fantastic episode! A real tour de force performance by Terry O'Quinn and the best writing from Damon and Carlton in quite some time. Everything just felt right, like classic Lost of old. Great to see the Hydra station so unexpectedly; it looks like we've got a fresh batch of red shirts...

I think it is both simpler and more complex than this. The reason that nothing they do in the past has any effect on the future is that they have always been part of the timeline, i.e. when Claire was giving birth back in the first season, future-Sawyer was actually witnessing it. Had...

Fantastic episode this week. Did anyone else spot Sarah Wynter from 24?

OK, so I was wrong about that - there are clearly occasions where the Others have deliberately killed survivors without provocation. However, I think these are exceptions to the rule. I think they see themselves as a peaceful group of individuals despite occasionally turning a blind eye to...

Todd, we have learned several things about the abductees: 1) When Ben saw the plane crash, the first thing he did was order Ethan and Goodwin to infiltrate the survivors and make lists of names. Presumably this was to determine who had survived. Meanwhile Mikhail gathered information on the...

I just get the distinct impression that Richard is the only ageless character. It was that exchange between Locke and Juliet where Locke asked her "How did you know he'd be here?" and Juliet replied "Richard's always been here". That implies he - and he alone - is the oldest inhabitant of the...

I don't think the whispers have anything to do with time hopping, and I don't think the writers had any clue what they were when they first appeared. I'm not even sure we'll get a definitive answer to the whispers besides spirits or 'memories' of the dead. Think about it - Miles can speak to the...

The only thing that contradicts this is the fact that the helicopter was closer to the island than Jin and it wasn't within range. However, as I originally suggested in my "excruciating logical contortion", the chopper was too high to be caught in the radius.