"We're not going to Guam are we."

-Frank Lupidus

Lost podcasts, both audio and video, are released on Itunes. The Audio podcasts feature executive producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindeloff as they pre-hash the next episode and answer fan questions. Their answers to the fan questions are almost always hilarious and sometimes insightful. I’m going to start reviewing some of those answers for fans who miss out on these podcasts.

This first post will contain content from the first 3 audio podcasts for season 5. For a point of reference this brings us to episode 6 “316”.

· Someone asked for a translation of the hieroglyphs in the “Donkey Wheel” chamber. Damon explained that hieroglyphs cant be word for word translated because they are pictograms meant to convey concepts and ideas. He said the theme of the glyphs in that room was Resurrection.
· The place where “Smokey” dragged Montand and relived him of his arm was not the “Temple.” Consider it the outer wall of the grounds where the temple is. And we will definitely learn more about the temple.
· Montand was an inside joke. He was an aspiring concert violinist before he lost his arm. The Violin was his. Old Shtick: “Doctor, will he live? Yes, but he’ll never play the violin again.”
· Rose and Bernard did not die in the flaming arrow attack. You would have seen them die. But all of the other “Socks” died. “Socks” is the term they used for the other crash survivors that don’t have main stories. Niki and Paolo were the 2 biggest examples.
· The episodes “316” and “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” were written by Carlton and Damon at the same time. They could be watched in either order.

Well that’s all for today. I’ll try and watch the video podcasts and rehash them.
Till next time.

Lost episode 505 - This Place is Death

"I'm not aloud to have chocolate before dinner" - Charlotte

Why isn't Daniel getting nose bleeds? He has a constant, but Desmond isn't there.

"Say hello to my son" - Christian

Locke was supposed to turn the wheel. Sounds like this is all his fault. Nice that Locke makes the choice to fix the wheel and go back, knowing that he will need to die.

We finally see how Montand "lost his arm." Danielle's story is now complete.

We learned that Smokey guards the Temple. So what's in it. The temple that's covered in hieroglyphics. Confirmed by Damon Lindeloff in a season 4 DVD extra: They got an expert in hieroglyphics to construct them to convey very specific things. For example a large one on the door in Ben's house, when Ben released Smokey, meant "despair". They are supposed to be Egyptian, to add the thought that the island has been around for a very long time.

Till next week.

Lost episode 504 - The Little Prince

By now you should know that the title is a reference to a French novella titled The Little Prince .
Check it out.

We have yet to see what happens if the time-traveling survivors try to interact with their past selves. It's possible that they would be "out of phase" and just sound like...disembodied whispers?

John apparently told Jack that everybody on the island dies. Maybe the nose bleeds are the start of that.

And finally, for those that don't know, The side of Ben's van is an anagram for Reincarnation.

"Son of a Bitch!" - Sawyer

Lost episode 503 - Jughead

Jughead = the name of an H-bomb. That's just damn funny. Shades of the big season end reveal bring code-named "the frozen donkey wheel" and it actually being a frozen donkey wheel. Okay let's dive right in. My wife pointed out the Swan station had a section that was shielded in heavy concrete. Sayid found it and commented that it reminded him of Chernyobl (pardon the spelling). Maybe Dharma built the Swan where Jughead was buried. Electromagnetic field + Hydrogen Bomb = Implosion?

Eloise Hawkins is Daniel Faraday’s mother. Eloise Hawkins is the woman Desmond met in “Flashes Before Your Eyes.” She warned him that he couldn’t change the past. Eloise is also the name of Daniel’s lab rat. Naming your rat after your mom is a bit strange. Maybe they didn’t have a rosy relationship. AND Eloise Hawking, her name is likely a combination of George Ellis and Stephen Hawking, who together wrote The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime . Im no physicist, but it seems to me that the Power source near the Orchid could have been a Black hole. I go Wikipedia nuts sometimes and found some wacky stuff about Black holes and temporal radiation. Maybe the Swan had a small one, and Desmond imploded it. Phew! My head hurts, but wait there’s more!

We found out Daniel’s benefactor is Charles Widmore, once again confirming that everyone is connected. Oh yeah, and Charles Widmore was an Other, one that broke a cardinal rule. You don’t hurt your own people. He killed one, and was probably kicked off the island for it.

Now the paradox that is John Locke, being a fan of Dr Who, I just love this. Locke tells Richard to go and visit him when he’s born, and gives him the compass. Richard visits Locke because he told him to. Paradox. Just like the one Daniel was muttering about when Desmond came to see him in Oxford. Years later Richard sees Locke. He shows him several items and asks, “Which of these belongs to you?” One of the items is the compass which Locke gave to Richard, after Richard gave it to Locke. Paradox! Also,
John is their leader because Richard told him he was, because John told him he was. And so on and so on! Para-freakin-dox! So many shows that do time travel steer away from the, “I did it cause you told me to paradox,” but Lost embraces it.

And lastly, The revelation that Desmond and Penny named their child after Charlie, I’m sure brought many to tears.