Loading ...I know that everyone is thinking that Shattered Prayer has devolved into nothing but “Lost” and comic books in the last few weeks. And maybe it has. But that’s what you get when Che gets very busy. So I apologize for another “Lost” post, but I can’t keep quiet about this.
I have a serious problem with Eloise the rat’s time traveling on yesterday’s Lost.
Maybe I’m just not that smart. And maybe the people who don’t watch Lost (Che, Mojo, tons of other) can help me through my inability to understand the physics involved.
Okay. First I have to set up the premise of Time Travel on Lost for those who don’t watch it.
Apparently, only your consciousness travels through time — your body does not. So if I were on “Lost” and I were traveling through time, I would “experience” something from my future as if it were happening now. After a few minutes, my consciousness would be pulled back to “now.” The major dangers with this form of time travel apparently are confusion and eventual death. If you don’t have a “constant” that exists in both time periods, your brain will be fried and you’ll die. Your constant is a person. Talk to your “constant” in both time periods and you’ll live and not be confused.
Fine. They set it up that way, so I will accept their premise.
So here’s my problem.
Daniel Faraday sent Eloise the rat’s consciousness into the future. When she got back, she was able to run through an enormous maze Daniel had just built moments before she went through time — a maze she had never seen before. According to Daniel, he wasn’t going to teach her to run it until an hour after he sent her through time.
Fine. I accept that Eloise brought back her future knowledge and was thus able to run a maze she had never seen before (and will ignore the fact that the same thing did NOT happen to Desmond when he traveled through time — only one problem at a time, folks.)
So far so good.
Here comes my problem.
75 minutes later, Eloise died (She apparently did not have a “constant” in both time periods — or maybe she just couldn’t talk to Daniel).
So that means the following happened.
- Eloise traveled through time and ran the maze
- One hour later, Daniel taught her to run the maze.
- Fifteen minutes later, she died.
That means Eloise had to learn to run that maze in only 15 minutes!!
Rats just aren’t that accommodating.
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i can’t actually read the post yet because i’m still watching the ep, but… is it just me, or did the casting get progressively weirder through the whole thing?
i mean, i like it. *grin*
and the rest of the ep is shaping up nicely, too. ’cause i like weird like that. and desmond, i like desmond. and daniel is kinda cute in a skinny, uber-geekdork kinda way. and… well… sayid…
aww, long-haired professor daniel. in a suit. awww.
ok, wait. i gotta finished watching it.
Daniel is cute in that skinny uber-geekdork kinda way! I’ve liked Jeremy Davies, the actor who plays him, ever since “Spanking the Monkey” waaaaaaayyyy back in 1994. I can’t believe we are about the same age!
Apparently there is an exorcist named Jeremy Davies — but they aren’t the same person.
And although I don’t usually like beards, Desmond looks 1000 times better in the beard (and long hair — which I usually do like on men. Mojo, however, is not into long haired guys — even though mine was halfway down my back when we met).
I actually watched lost last night, because Supernatural was not on. I mostly found myself not caring much, except when Sayid was onscreen. (Though Desmond does look better with long hair and beard - and when he’s not saying “brother”
. I was also dividing my attention between work and watching, so I wasn’t giving it 100%. I didn’t feel like I had to, since I haven’t been watching it all season anyway.
Most of my viewing came in the form of questions. Who’s that guy? Why’s that rat dead? Why isn’t Sayid taking his shirt off?
I was hoping you’d do another lost post (thanks!), just to explain that dead rat to me. and now I know that it didn’t make any sense anyway.
There’s… um… a google ad asking me to accept christ as my savior.
And long hair - only way to go. Except on me of course. Too much trouble to grow that shit out.
The Google ad obviously is referencing “Long Hair” and linking it to Christ.
And apparently in the 1950s, before those Beattles with their terribly long tresses, “long hair music” meant classical music. You know, because they had long hair.
And Desmond is better looking when he’s not saying “brother.” When the episode first started, I said to Mojo, “Whenever you think that a Kate or Jack centered-show is difficult to get through, they throw a Desmond-centered show at you.” More of Locke putting grenades in men’s mouths!
That’s right, brother.
i dunno, if i’m daniel and i know the rat is going to have to learn this maze and then i’m talking to desmond and he goes all slack-jawed, maybe i look at my to-do list and say, “fuck this ‘teach eloise to run maze at 3:42′ shit. i’m bored, i’m going to start it at 3:08.”
such a rebel, that daniel.
Stefficus, that is the best explanation I’ve heard yet.
Too bad the rat couldn’t say “Listen, mate, I’m dying in 75 minutes. I’d rather do something better with my last hour on earth than run through your fucking maze!”
there’s also some decent discussion of the ep (and some of its alleged inconsistencies) here.