S3E22/23 "Through the Looking Glass" Addendum Notes/Caps

I didn't take that many notes on second watch cause, well, we've got 8 months to kill, right? But I'll start with one thing I caught that might clear up something:

- after Jack steals the oxycodone and is confronted by Dr Hamill, he gives the name of the woman he saved when he says "I was just checking the ARLEN charts to see how the operation went" - and Dr. Hamill also mentions her name "Mrs Arlen woke up in recovery about an hour ago..." - so we have a name for the woman that Jack saved.

Now for some caps. And there were some AWESOME shots last night:

- Jack about to jump. The pan to above Jack was really well shot:



- This is just another great shot. The waves breaking on the shore added to the scene:



- "weren't there supposed to be 3 explosions?":



- Here's the Looking Glass logo seen in the Station itself - again, no hole/clockface reading 8:15 in the bunny's neck like on Sayid's Map of the Station:



- Here's a great shot of Hurley walking away from Sawyer and Juliet (we had another great long shot coming up too):



- this was a cool find - on Ben's Map, you can see the location of the PEARL, the BARRACKS, the Radio Tower, and someplace called PASCAL FLATS (likely where the Others are camped now):



- here's that other long shot of Ben meeting the Losties:



- And I'll close out this seasons notes with this chilling appearance of "Walt" to Locke. I call it "You have work to do":




All in all it was an incredible episode, and I can't wait to tear it and every other LOST episode up over the next 8 months with all of y'all. :)

Discuss on.

Peace,
Truff

S3E22/23 "Through the Looking Glass"

First round notes:

- HAHAHA!! that beard looked so fake!! :P

- the women in TLG are being conned by Ben too. What is Ben's purpose?

- Sarah is pregnant in the future.

- MAP MAP MAP MAP MAP!!!! Temple? "Take them to the Temple" says Ben to Richard.

- there was NO HOLE in the rabbits neck in the logo for TLG that Des swam by

- "on assignment in Canada" - oh really? Doing what? For whom?

- so was the whole "runway" thing from Juliet a joke, or just the aliens part? Hmmm.....she saw the plans for whatever it was, so she knows. I think runway is a safe bet, and that is an answer as to why they were working and hauling rocks on Hydra Island. Just my 2 cents.

- I will need a cap to confirm but my brother was screaming that he saw SMOKIE behind WALT when he appeared to Locke. First we heard some WHIPSERS, then we hear and see WALT, then my bro started yelling as I was trying to write as fast as possible.

- Danielle wants to stay on the Island. Interesting.....

- WIDMORE vs HANSO? Ben knows something about Naomi's boat. I believe Ben is aligned with Alvar Hanso. Naomi might not be sent by Penelope, but Charles Widmore is still very much a suspect.

- Rousseau's first words to her daughter "will you help me tie him up?" - PRICELESS!!! What a great reunion!!!

- BAM!!! "That's for takin the kid off the raft" PAYBACK, BITCH!!! "You and I ain't done yet, Zeek, not by a long shot" - damn skippy, Sawyer!! How great was that to see!!!

- Penelope now knows that Desmond is alive, and that at least Charlie Pace survived the crash of Oceanic flight 815.

- Not Penny's Boat.....then whose is it? Her fathers? Thats my guess. How else would Naomi get the pic of Des and Pen? Unless it was something crazy like Mrs Hawking or the Monk.....

- R.I.P. Charlie Pace. That was so sad.

- BAM!!! Locke kills Naomi. Did not see that one coming. Kinda reminded me of Charlie killing Ethan.

- HOLYCRAPOMGOMGOMG - THE "Flashbacks" ARE ACTUALLY THE FUTURE!!! Nice one!!! I did NOT see that one coming at all - my jaw hit the floor!! So that sure as hell sounds like Christian Shephard is ALIVE!!!


THE BIG QUESTIONS:

- Who died in the future? What did that article that Jack ripped out say?

- Who will miss Kate cause she's gone to see Jack? Sawyer?

- Is Christian Shephard ALIVE? Did the Island bring him back to life somehow???

- WHO GETS RESCUED? WHEN? HOW? BY WHO?

Discuss on.....for 8 months.

Peace,
Truff

S3E21 "Greatest Hits" Addendum Notes/Caps

Not much to add this week.

- nice shot of "the hike" to see the tree blow up:



- "Ben is using one of the Dharma stations to block all of the signals off the Island except for ours" says Juliet

- "there was an accident. Ben told us it was completely flooded" says Juliet about the Looking Glass Hatch. I wonder if there really WAS an accident, but Ben just lied about it being flooded and unoccupied.

- I'm trying to figure out what this portion of the Looking Glass map says. It starts with "Control Room", then 3 words I can't figure out, and the last word is also "room".



- here's a nice cap of Karl as he rows to warn the Losties:



- "Mom gave you that, it was her fathers, and his fathers before that" - so Charlie's mother's maiden name is Stratton.

- "Mom would've wanted it this way" - so is Charlie and Liam's mother dead?

- I'd just like to add that Michael Giacchino has done it again. The score for "Greatest Hits" was so well done, so powerful and moving.

- and I'll close with this shot of Charlie about to dive into certain death:




Next week is going to be INSANE!!

Discuss on.

Peace,
Truff

S3E21 "Greatest Hits"

Amazing Episode!!!

First Round Notes:

- WOW!! Karl rowing away fast and furious with no explanation after not seeing him in how long? What a way to open!!

- YRE2OL - license plate on Driveshafts crappy van

- THE LOOKING GLASS!!! As if the underwater portion of the HYDRA wasn't payoff enough for those of us who have speculated that there was an underwater Dharma station...this....this was AWESOME!!!

- so Desmond flashed Claire and her baby being taken away on a helicopter....don't mention seeing anyone else. My spidey sense is tellin me that Desmond didn't exactly flash a RESCUE helicopter. More like a HANSO Helicopter.

- Sayid has a MAP of the LOOKING GLASS???? WHAT???? And WHY have we not heard ANYTHING about this until NOW????

- YAY!!! Rose and Bernard!!! Eat your hearts out, Rose/Bernard turned into Nikki/Paulo when the key was turned theorists!!

- "they're coming RIGHT NOW!!" - what a way to go to commercial!! I was squirming in my seat this whole eppy.

- Ben has OBVIOUSLY lost it. And Richard can see this. I have a feeling Ben's people are gonna turn on him sooner than later.

- Whoooo...Alex questions that Ben is her father!!

- there was a really nice shot (though quick) of Karl frantically rowing to the Losties camp. I'll have it in my caps post tomorrow.

- "everything has to happen at the same time" - talk about setting up a season finale!!!!!!

- DriveShaft - Dexter Stratton. Very interesting.

- I giggled when Charlie put on the special DS ring from Liam....the ONE RING.....hehehe....

- was that NADIA that Charlie saved from a mugging? I couldn't tell cause she was all wet.

- Jack is SHADY. I don't know about y'all, but I am getting a serious "DO NOT TRUST THIS GUY" vibe from him now that I've never felt before for Jack....

- Charlie and Claire's meeting during the crash night - PRICELESS.

- "you can always spot the newbies" -

- what an excellent way to tie the episode title in. Just AWESOME.

- I want a HiRes cap of that Looking Glass Station logo ASAP!!!!!!!!


And the preview for the finale.....good lord.....just....hang on.....

Discuss on.

Peace,
Truff

S3E20 "The Man Behind the Curtain" - Addendum Notes/Caps

- Ben was born 32 miles from Portland

- "there are properties on this Island that exist nowhere else on Earth. Our mission is to study these properties for the betterment of mankind, and advancement of world peace" and also to change one of the core human or environmental factors in the Valenzetti Equation.

- "most of you will be working on the mainland, but should you be assigned to zoological studies, the Pala Ferry will carry you to...*can't make out the rest*"

- when Ben calls for Tom and Richard to stop Locke from beating up Mikhail, they just sit there and do nothing. Its there that I see the look of fear in Ben's eye. The look like he might not have the control he thinks he has over these people.

- when Ben's mother first appears to him briefly in his bedroom, something taps on the window several times causing young Ben to turn around from the argument his dad is having with Horace.

- the scene with young Ben takin off his drunk father's shoes reminded me of Kate and her father (right before she exploded him )

- this is a nice shot of Ben and Annie sitting on the swingset:



- there were no Smokie sounds when Ben saw the Havid of his mother - but right before she appears the second time (on the other side of the sonar fence) - WHISPERS. First a faint male voice, then a much louder female voice, but I can't make out what it says. So - we now have connection between: The Havids, Smokie, and now the Whisperers. And now, thanks to the brilliance of rvturnage, you can see detailed transcriptions of the WHIPSERS in this scene HERE at Lost-Tv! :)

- Here are two of my favorite shots of Ben at the sonar fence:




- the fire started when Jacob freaked out is put out before Ben shakes the chair. Actually from the frame by frame, it looks like the fire is blazing in one frame and then all of a sudden out; and Locke has this look on his face like "what the hell did I just see?"




- here's my attempts at Jacob and the Eye. Note the long flowing hair on Jacob (looks different than some of the other shots I've seen so far):




- 4:00 - time to set off the gas.

- so when did Ben take the gun from Locke? or did he have one of his own the whole time?

- and I'll close with this ominous cap called "The Purge":




Til Wednesday. ;)

Peace,
Truff

S3E20 "The Man Behind the Curtain"

First round notes:

- Emily and Roger - Ben's parents. Born near Portland.

- I liked the reveal of Roger Workman being Ben's father.

- APOLLO BAR!! YAY!!

- Nice. Alex gives Locke a gun. "Happy Birthday Dad".

- Ben's "mom" on Island, that was Smokie. The "hostiles" including RICHARD ALPERT seem to be in league with BOTH Smokie AND the Whispers!! Oh, and not to mention that they don't appear to age!! (at least Richard) *head asplodes*

- what did Ben cross over? Gunpowder? The "Dark Territory"? If it was gunpowder, might it be to create a fire perimeter?

- 54439, young Ben enters the code, disabling the fence and causing "THE INCIDENT".....I think.....speculation here. We didn't "see" any repurcussions of Ben turning off the fence, but the timeline is about right.

- HANSO LIFE EXTENSION PROJECT. 'nuff said.

- um....so Jacob is invisible and a telekenetic? That's kinda weak IMO. I'm sure once I know more I'll be like "oh, so that is what that was" but for now...meh.

- BEN is the last living member of the DHARMA Initiative!! Wow!!

- The PURGE!!!! Holy Crap!!!!

- Locke IS NOT DEAD. If he was dead, they would've shown him dying. Completely dead, not left still moving around in pain. The ISLAND will heal him. We'll all think he's dead, but he knows where Jacob is now, so I bet Locke comes back and saves the day.

Caps and more notes tomorrow.

Discuss on.

Peace,
Truff

S3E19 - "The Brig" - Addendum Notes/Caps

My apologies for the lateness of this post. Now lets get down to it....

- "we're going to a new place, well, an old place actually" says Ben to Locke. I can't wait to see where that is. Someone mentioned the 4-toed statue, or something like it, and I like that idea.

- when we see the Others setting up their tents, we are shown two women staring at Locke as they walk by; and as Locke finishes helping Cindy, she looks back at another Other couple, who also have a very similar look. You tell me, doesn't the look on these faces seem like a hopeful one? Like, "oh I really hope he is the one". This is even more apparent when Locke refuses to kill Cooper in front of everyone, but that's later. And on top of all this is Cindy's comment "don't mind them, they're just excited. We've been waiting for you."




- we see some of Ben's books in his tent. One of them is "The Oath" by John Lescroart:



- 80 nautical miles west is Naomi's company's Freighter ship. Okay, now what?

- so they sent down little robots with cameras to scan the wreckage of "flight 815" - sounds more and more like a coverup the more I hear about it. And yes, ALVAR HANSO is a man who is THAT powerful that he can get things like that done, and in short order if need be.

- what is a differential GPS grid search?

- just thinkin about this now....this is the first time Sawyer has seen the Black Rock!! He was on the raft when they went to get the dynamite. I wonder if he even knew about it....

- now the "watching Locke" scene. Just look at these faces. This was a REALLY big deal to them for Locke to kill Cooper. But why? What will happen to them if/when he does?




- "I've never seen equipment this sophisticated" says Sayid of the Satellite phone. Interesting....

- "that could only happen to someone who is extremely special" says Richard to Locke about his ability to walk again on the Island. There it is again - "Special". Walt was "special" in this same way. I really hope they tell us more about why Walt was so "special" to the Others eventually.

- here's a cap of Sawyer's file:



- I'm sorry, but if they were all dead or in HELL, Sawyer would not be gettin it on with a hotty like Kate. That, my friends, is called Heaven. ;)

- poor Locke, everyone else gets to sleep in a nice tent except for him



- Sawyer mentions Jasper, Alabama. Wasn't the letter he wrote from Tennessee (Knoxville, specifically)?? I remember caps from Season 1 where we could see the letter clearly. *is confused*
ETA - found the cap here - http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage-70-803.html - and I'm right, it says Knoxville, Tennessee, NOT Jasper, Alabama.

- so now not only can Sawyer go tell the camp about Juliet being a mole, he can also tell them about how Locke was a cripple and now can walk. Only a very small number of people knew about Locke - Walt, Rose, (I think) Charlie....am I forgetting anyone?

- and I'll close with this cap I call "Gettin Jabba'd":




Next week is gonna be INSANE!! :)

Discuss on.

Peace,
Truff

Episode 19 - "The Brig"

A good episode. Kinda on the predictable side as far as storyline for this eppy though IMO. Still, great eppy.
First round notes:

- "Don't you know where we are, John?" - nice to try to make us think he knows more than he does. Cooper is just another kitten killer. Okay, he said hell, but he thought they were dead.

- "where are you goin?"...."to take a leak"...."well, um, us too" - classic!!

- Cindy says "we've been waiting for you" - oh yeah....why??

- Ah, thank you TPTB - THE MAGIC BOX IS A METAPHOR.

- 10:15 prediction - Locke didnt take Ben, he took Cooper, and he'll turn out to be the Real "Sawyer" as many of us have thought....

- NAOMI!!! Finally!!! We can say it and I don't have to tag it anymore!!! Y'all have NO IDEA!!! NAOMI NAOMI NAOMI NAOMI NAOMI NAOMI NAOMI!!!!!!!

- Off the coast of Bali - answers question of where did they find the wreckage

- when Locke was asked to kill Cooper the first time, it seemed like the Others really wanted, almost NEEDED it to happen. The looks on their faces seemed to tell the tale.

- YAY!! Its Cooper, and not Ben!! GIMME A COOKIE!! :P

- Why does Danielle need explosives? This is a KEY. VERY IMPORTANT I think. ;)

- so Richard says the infertility experiments are a waste of time....then what is the TRUE purpose of the Others????

- BAM!! COOPER is the REAL Mr. Sawyer!! And he has to read the LETTER!! NICE!! :) For all of us who called this one - YAYAYAYAY!! :D

- what happened to Ben's last words to Juliet - "I'll see you in a week?" - its been at least 8 days, and Locke said the raid on the beach wasn't for another 3 days.....???

- "Don't tell me what I can't do, John" - damn....there it is again....

- Sawyer JABBA'd Cooper!!!!!!!

- we should tell Kate WHAT???? Come on now....how shady is that!!??

- HA!! Locke nabbed the tape recorder proving Juliet is a MOLE!!

BRING IT ON!!!

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO TRAIN AN ARMY?

YOU HAVE 3 DAYS.

Holy crap folks....next week looks like its the one we've been waiting for......

ISLAND FB!!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!

Caps and more notes coming soon. :)


Peace,
Truff