Lost "Lockdown" Airdate: March 29, 2006
There are still a few things that I want to cover from last weeks Lost, and I will get to it eventually. I did get a chance before tonight's episode to go back through a few of the season one shows as I back tracked a bit to check a few details. I came to the conclusion that I need to go back and disect all of season one. There are a lot of details that I missed because I wasn't watching for easter eggs then... I wasn't hooked... I liked the show, but I wasn't infatuated with it like I am now. When I'll find time to do this indepth study of season one is yet another of life's great mysteries. Maybe I'll book a trip to Hawaii and bring my laptop with me...
"Lockdown" was kick ass tonight. So much to discuss and yet so little time (my wife is running an egg timer on me now). Let me just jump right in and say I knew Henry Gale was an "Other"... I just knew it. And it was so brilliant of Sayid to dig up the grave. The alibi was just too perfect. Here's a screen cap of the "real" Henry Gale's license:
Notice his house number is 815. And just for the sake of wasting a few minutes, I googled the address... nothing. When I zabasearched "Henry Gale" a bunch of people and phone numbers popped up. I bet there are some freaks out there making some strange phone calls... don't get any damn ideas now.
Probably more important than the drivers license was the blacklight map on the back of the blast door. Here's a few caps of that:
My pics are kind of hard to make out, but I can surmise that it is what it looks like: a map of all the Hatches. I can make out the swan symbol in what must be the hatch that is manned by Jack & Locke. I remember hearing or reading somewhere a while back that there were six Dharma hatches. It looks like there is a count of seven, but the top left item looks to be drawn differently. I'm not sure what the question mark in the middle is...maybe its the power supply to the island...or the area that our blacklight aritist had yet to explore. I guess the important questions here are: Who drew the map? Was it Desmond or Kelvin? How long and how often was he in Lockdown? He had to be in lockdown mode for the blast doors to be down, right? And why was this person being so secretive?
Lets discuss the lockdown procedure, shall we? We hear static over the hatch speaker, then a countdown, and then the blast doors come down. We also find out later int he episode that food and supplies have been delivered via parachute. Perhaps the squelch that we hear is the drop plane sending out a coded signal. I'm sure this is connection, I'm just not sure why they have to lockdown the hatch while the drop is made. Does it keep the test subjects contained while the scientists get the supplies? Is that the purpose of the lockdown? Or does it have something to do with the magnetic field of the island? My brain is liquifying. Let's change the subject.
Not only did we get way more back story on Locke tonight, which I will get to in a moment, but we also learned a little quickie about Jack, he spent some time in Phuket, Thailand. Jack wouldn't elaborate as to why he was there, but I have a feeling we will soon find out in a future flashback episode, a little JJ Abrams set up if you will. Ya think he was there before or after his wife left him? It was also around the time of this scene we received the line of the night: "Should I go get a ruler?" Oh snap... Kate laying the smackdown. We also heard Jack say that when he needs the guns, he'll get the guns... and Sawyer makes some sort of reference to getting VD in Tallahassee.
Locke seemed to be doing pretty good for himself back when he had hair. He owned a home inspection company. I thought he was just working for one when I caught this capture:
It's a little fuzzy in the pic but it says "John Locke - Owner." It seemed that he was living a pretty good life. It's a shame that he was so messed up in the head over his dad conning him out of his kidney. There had to be more to it. I'm sure it was the whole acceptance issue. Helen enjoys reading the obits. She says that no one ever says anything mean after someone has died. As soon as she read ol' Anthony Cooper's name, I had a feeling that he faked his own death. BTW, if you google "Anthony Cooper," one of the results is a Professor of Psychology at Miami University in Ohio... COINCIDENCE?!?...yeah, probably. I just wasted five more minutes. Is my egg timer up yet?
So Locke's not-so-dead father enlists his help in getting his $700,000 dollars which he conned from Jimmy Pane. I had read in multiple places that we were going to discover a major connection between Locke and Sawyer tonight. I didn't see it unless this Jimmy Pane guy some how connects them. I need to back track a few episodes to see if he's mentioned in "The Long Con." The only other theory I have is that Locke's dad is the real "Sawyer." The man that messed up Sawyers childhood by conning his father. The man that Sawyer took his name from. I may be getting way ahead of myself. Here's a quick easter egg:
The bank safety deposit box is numbered 1516. I'm sure that's just the writers abusing the numbers again.
Oooooooh bonus! As I was writing, this hi-def screen capture of the blacklight map just showed up in my inbox:
Blacklight Map
Sorry to back up, but you can see that one of the hatches was scratched off and re-located on the map. So there are 6 hatches. I can make out the Swan, the medical hatch, the Arrow in which the Talies were in is on the top right, and in the circle it says, "I am here."
I better get this wrapped up (I just heard a *ding*). The only screen cap I didn't get was at the Flight Line Motel where Locke meets his father. The plane that flies over supposedly has a Dharma logo/Oceanic logo on the tail. And as always, if I missed anything, please feel free to post. Oh wait... one more thing before I log off. I caught a glimpse of the wall mural in the hatch that we saw a lot of in season one. I wanted to post that cap and compare it to the the season one pic (second picture) to see if there have been any changes to the mural.
I don't see any at first glance. Probably nothing more than a few more wasted minutes in photoshop for me.
Until next time.
"Lockdown" was kick ass tonight. So much to discuss and yet so little time (my wife is running an egg timer on me now). Let me just jump right in and say I knew Henry Gale was an "Other"... I just knew it. And it was so brilliant of Sayid to dig up the grave. The alibi was just too perfect. Here's a screen cap of the "real" Henry Gale's license:
Notice his house number is 815. And just for the sake of wasting a few minutes, I googled the address... nothing. When I zabasearched "Henry Gale" a bunch of people and phone numbers popped up. I bet there are some freaks out there making some strange phone calls... don't get any damn ideas now.
Probably more important than the drivers license was the blacklight map on the back of the blast door. Here's a few caps of that:
My pics are kind of hard to make out, but I can surmise that it is what it looks like: a map of all the Hatches. I can make out the swan symbol in what must be the hatch that is manned by Jack & Locke. I remember hearing or reading somewhere a while back that there were six Dharma hatches. It looks like there is a count of seven, but the top left item looks to be drawn differently. I'm not sure what the question mark in the middle is...maybe its the power supply to the island...or the area that our blacklight aritist had yet to explore. I guess the important questions here are: Who drew the map? Was it Desmond or Kelvin? How long and how often was he in Lockdown? He had to be in lockdown mode for the blast doors to be down, right? And why was this person being so secretive?
Lets discuss the lockdown procedure, shall we? We hear static over the hatch speaker, then a countdown, and then the blast doors come down. We also find out later int he episode that food and supplies have been delivered via parachute. Perhaps the squelch that we hear is the drop plane sending out a coded signal. I'm sure this is connection, I'm just not sure why they have to lockdown the hatch while the drop is made. Does it keep the test subjects contained while the scientists get the supplies? Is that the purpose of the lockdown? Or does it have something to do with the magnetic field of the island? My brain is liquifying. Let's change the subject.
Not only did we get way more back story on Locke tonight, which I will get to in a moment, but we also learned a little quickie about Jack, he spent some time in Phuket, Thailand. Jack wouldn't elaborate as to why he was there, but I have a feeling we will soon find out in a future flashback episode, a little JJ Abrams set up if you will. Ya think he was there before or after his wife left him? It was also around the time of this scene we received the line of the night: "Should I go get a ruler?" Oh snap... Kate laying the smackdown. We also heard Jack say that when he needs the guns, he'll get the guns... and Sawyer makes some sort of reference to getting VD in Tallahassee.
Locke seemed to be doing pretty good for himself back when he had hair. He owned a home inspection company. I thought he was just working for one when I caught this capture:
It's a little fuzzy in the pic but it says "John Locke - Owner." It seemed that he was living a pretty good life. It's a shame that he was so messed up in the head over his dad conning him out of his kidney. There had to be more to it. I'm sure it was the whole acceptance issue. Helen enjoys reading the obits. She says that no one ever says anything mean after someone has died. As soon as she read ol' Anthony Cooper's name, I had a feeling that he faked his own death. BTW, if you google "Anthony Cooper," one of the results is a Professor of Psychology at Miami University in Ohio... COINCIDENCE?!?...yeah, probably. I just wasted five more minutes. Is my egg timer up yet?
So Locke's not-so-dead father enlists his help in getting his $700,000 dollars which he conned from Jimmy Pane. I had read in multiple places that we were going to discover a major connection between Locke and Sawyer tonight. I didn't see it unless this Jimmy Pane guy some how connects them. I need to back track a few episodes to see if he's mentioned in "The Long Con." The only other theory I have is that Locke's dad is the real "Sawyer." The man that messed up Sawyers childhood by conning his father. The man that Sawyer took his name from. I may be getting way ahead of myself. Here's a quick easter egg:
The bank safety deposit box is numbered 1516. I'm sure that's just the writers abusing the numbers again.
Oooooooh bonus! As I was writing, this hi-def screen capture of the blacklight map just showed up in my inbox:
Blacklight Map
Sorry to back up, but you can see that one of the hatches was scratched off and re-located on the map. So there are 6 hatches. I can make out the Swan, the medical hatch, the Arrow in which the Talies were in is on the top right, and in the circle it says, "I am here."
I better get this wrapped up (I just heard a *ding*). The only screen cap I didn't get was at the Flight Line Motel where Locke meets his father. The plane that flies over supposedly has a Dharma logo/Oceanic logo on the tail. And as always, if I missed anything, please feel free to post. Oh wait... one more thing before I log off. I caught a glimpse of the wall mural in the hatch that we saw a lot of in season one. I wanted to post that cap and compare it to the the season one pic (second picture) to see if there have been any changes to the mural.
I don't see any at first glance. Probably nothing more than a few more wasted minutes in photoshop for me.
Until next time.
posted by Tripp at 10:46 PM
2 Comments:
Great blog, Tripp. I'm gonna download this episode from iTunes when it's ready.
I drove myself crazy (short trip, I know) after the show reading all the theories.
Are all the hatches in the map connected to the center "?", physically?? Like there is some passageways between?? There is some travel possible through the vents?? Plus, there is a future episode titled " ? " . Hmmm...
Also, there was some discussion on the ABC "Lost" boards about Helen. And whether she was in the "con" with Locke's dad for the money. {Great job by Katey Segal !!)
Also, talk about whether Locke's dad was the real, original Sawyer guy that our Lostie "Sawyer" (James Ford?) killed. But I'm not sure of the details - it's another theory. It wasn't obvious to me about the connection between Sawyer and Locke's dad.
I'm waiting for more enlightenment after seeing the episode again.
Susan
Found this on abc's message boards, lots of latin sayings.....
I looked at the map and noticed all the Latin phrases. In case you're interested, the phrases on the map are:
Sursum corda - Lift up your hearts (to God)
Malum consilium quod mutari non potest - It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
Cogito ergo doleo - I think therefore I am depressed
Ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est - The wrath of the gods may be great, but it certainly is slow
Aegrescit medendo - The disease worsens with the treatment. The remedy is worse than the disease
Credo nos in fluctu eodem esse - I think we're on the same wavelength
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