Lost was great!

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UPDATED: Friday, October 1, 2004 15:13
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BROWNCOAT1

Friday, October 1, 2004 1:32 PM

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Originally posted by dug:
My thought on the 16 year transmission was that it was an emergency beacon. Some that I have seen on ebay include both the option of recording a message so you can leave it on repeat and a solar charging system to avoid the issue of dead batteries. Not that hard to explain with off-the-shelf tech.

My wife pointed out that she didn't think the message mentioned any type of wreck...just stuff like please come get me, "it" killed them all. That could lead to the possibility of a secret science operation engineering giant killer mechanical polar bears.

My wife about this too. There is no mention of any sort of shipwreck or surviving a plane crash in the message. Coupled w/ the fact that the broadcast has to be coming from some sort of sophisticated equipment (keeping in mind the transmission is more than 16 years old) with solar power or a generator, it points to some sort of station or hidden base. Could be there was some sort of scientific research station secreted on the island. That may explain the polar bear and the strange creature.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

DUG

Friday, October 1, 2004 2:26 PM

Sophisticated equipment? Not so much. Life raft emergency radios fit the bill. Solar powered and with a repeating recordable message. Not much different in size than a shoebox.

What points to a permanent establishment from my pov is that there is no mention of being a member of a stranded party. The message seems to be pointed at a specific group that would know her plight, such as who "it" was and who "they" were. Also it might not be on the standard emergency channel since the receiver had to be retuned.

The french is interesting. A Canadian military experiment, maybe?

REANNAREMICK

Friday, October 1, 2004 2:59 PM

All speculation about the show aside I can't believe I'm the first to note that the actor who played Rance on Firefly was on the last episode of Lost as the US Marshall who had shrapnel in his stomach and Jack was operating on. He seems to be a bit of a jerk in this show as well. Hopefully it's just typecasting. Anyway, just thought I'd go ooh ooh! and point that out.

"When you can't run anymore you crawl and when you can't do that you find someone to carry you."

CARDIE

Friday, October 1, 2004 3:13 PM

The third episode is no doubt named "Tabula Rasa" because, while they are on the island, everything about their pasts is meaningless. They are given a blank slate upon which to begin their lives again.

French is not odd at all. Since they were flying from Sydney to LA, they have to be somewhere in the South Pacific, and there was a lot of a French colonial presence on those islands, whose inhabitants still speak French.

Much more likely than a group of French Canadians, although with tropical polar bears, "likely" may not be an operative term.

Cardie

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