Weighty things going now. So I’ll take the lighter approach in dive into the world of Lost.
If you are a fan and did not see last nights episode you may want to divert your attention to something else.

I am convinced that Oceanic flight 815 went down at 4.815°N 162.342°E, which appears to be 1,000 miles or so off the flight path between Sydney and Australia. I hold this to be the case.

Last night, wreckage of the flight was “found” in the Sunda Trench in Indonesia. There were newscasts and papers which covered the mystery of the missing flight - but not one of them asked the question that would be circulating over and over in a newscast. “Why was the plane found there? Not only off course but completely in the wrong direction.

Take look by clicking here.

If you look at the link above you will see Australia. Sydney is toward the lower right side of the continent. Los Angeles in off the map to the upper right and the Sundra (or Java) Trench is the dark line about an inch below the word Indonesia. The blue balloon with the black dot is where I insist that the flight went down.

The balloon is off course. The Sunda Trench is the wrong way. Why not a single mention of such a huge problem?

OK, before you go off and tell me it’s only a TV show, let me say “I know, it is ONLY a TV show.” But this is a show in which the writers have paid very careful attention to the smallest detail. Yes, Hollywood takes it’s toll, etc. But still this is not just an oversight by the writers. How can I be so convinced? Well for one thing The Numbers speak for themselves. The location that The Numbers pinpoint. I can go on and on.

Also get this. During the TV “newscasts” there was a phone number displayed (1-888-548-0034) - at 31 minutes 6 seconds into the broadcast. A viewer caught it, recorded it and called it. Guess what? It’s a recording for friends and family calling to get information on Oceanic flight 815. The “easter eggs” cost $$$. Such a small detail was no accident. A LARGE detail such as the plane heading in the WRONG direction would not be overlooked. Why is no one in the Lost TV reality questioning this?

I don’t know how it all fits but then that’s what last nights episode was all about.

My newest theory on the fate of the castaway’s is that the whispers are more than merely a plot device to raise audience tension. If I had to guess I’d say they’re integral to the story. Could the whispers be people from another dimension? We know that Jacob is sometimes in and out of the Losties reality. Could the whispers be others that are in the same state?

What I thought was a rather simple “continuation” episode that did not reveal much new info has started my wheels turning. There were indeed many nuggets to chew on.

Yesterday the family sequestered ourselves indoors; pulled the drapes; unplugged the phones. From 6:30am until midnight last night we experienced as day in the life of Jack Bauer and as they say the “events occurred in real time.”

Popcorn, veggies and other snacks were planned. The hide-a-bed was unfolded. Blankets and pillows were in abundance. 24 episodes of 24 were played back to back with minimal intermission.

We had fun and you know what? We’re all glad we don’t have to walk for even 1 hour in the shoes of Jack Bauer.

Six degrees of separation refers to the idea that, if a person is one “step” away from each person he or she knows and two “steps” away from each person who is known by one of the people he or she knows, then everyone is no more than six “steps” away from each person on Earth.

The television program “Lost” explores the idea of six degrees of separation, as almost all the characters have randomly met each other before the crash or someone the other characters know. There is a game called “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon” which was invented in 1994 by two students at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania, as a play on the concept: the goal is to link any actor to Kevin Bacon through no more than six connections, where two actors are connected if they have appeared in a movie together.

According to Wikipedia.org, some have taken the idea of six degrees of separation to mean that we’re all connected by 6 generations ( about 250 years). Genealogists have shown this to be false and that to link humankind to common ancestry would take about 1,200 years. The obvious meaning is that you know someone who knows someone, etc., etc. and within 6 connections you are linked to anyone else on this big blue ball. It is an unproven, but interesting theory.

We’ve all experienced meeting a friend of a mutual friend in some off the wall city or state. Even if the theory doesn’t prove to be true, the fact remains that there is something to it; if not six degrees, maybe eight or ten.

My mental roadtrip down this topic started in the parking lot of human interaction. Humankind needs others of our kind. Deep down inside none of us were made to go it alone. All of humanity is connected. We have vast cultural, spiritual and economic chasms, yet despite the diversity each of us needs to be connected to others. An important thought to ponder when we consider the things in life that are important.

In the arena of network television it seems a bit unusual to predict a characters demise. I mean, it is assumed if you’re a new character on Star Trek and you go down to the planet that you’re history. But to predict the demise of a main character with the only open question being “how?” is unusual and intriguing.

A little more is revealed in our ongoing series about survivors of a plane crash Lost on an island in the Pacific.

Postulations on the direction of a television show. No need to read on unless you are a fan of the Lost television show.

Has anyone considered that both Claire and Sawyer were under a needle?

In Claire’s case it had something to do with her unborn child.

In Sawyer’s case he was “told” it had to do with his heart - but we later found that to be a fabrication. What did they actually do to Sawyer? Was the story he was given just a distraction so that everyone would forget that “something” was done to Sawyer?

I’m not one to propose crazy Lost theories, but these are the facts as well as the fact that we KNOW a fertility doctor impregnated a MALE mouse.

Was Sawyer impregnated? Would Claire’s child have anything to do with this? A clone perhaps, but regardless there is a case for something happening to Sawyer.

The Hanso Foundation (of Lost TV fame) has done it again. Visit the web site at Retrievers of Truth to see how the yellow lab has super sensory powers.

Our best friends are indeed trying to tell us something.

It’s not just that they’re trying to talk to us, they’re also listening… intently.

The things that aren’t said can be more important than those that are. Dr. Vincent “Wally” Bolé, to the members of Hanso Foundation

The producers of Lost want to keep up busy throughout the summer and into fall when the season 3 premiers. Vincent, the yellow lab on Lost has something to do with the storyline. Now the question is “Is this a red herring or is it something integral to the plot?”. My general feeling is that Vincent is related to the “experiment” but is not the central reason for the experiment. But then we know that we have a physic tie-in with Walt and Vincent was Walt’s dog. Hmmm… at what point did Walt inherit Vincent? I don’t recall except that I think Vincent was Walt’s adopted fathers dog and was given to Walt to make dumping his kid easier on him. As I recall, Walt said, “That’s my dad’s dog” and Michael said he’d get the dog for Walt.

So how does this tie in? Still, what about the bright light at the end of season 2? Well, I guess it was more than a bright light. More like a silent explosion. I have to think about this a little more.

The season finale of LOST IS NOT what I expected. Something more like a cliff hanger rather than huge new DIFFERENT mysteries, was inline with my expectations. I haven’t digested last nights episode enough to know how I feel about the revelations of last night but one thing is for sure… I need to follow this through and see where this all goes.

I have to agree that last nights episode did indeed “change everything”. Now there are 4 months to sit around the water cooler and formulate all new theories, speculate on where things are going and wait in anticipation for what is to come.

Some of my questions:
> Will Michael & Walt get away? Will Michael turn around after thinking about what he’s done.
> Locke now know’s what he’s done, but is it all too late? What’s to happen now?
> What in the world was the flash and sound all about? Was the quarantine door trying to say something to us?
> Why are Jack, Kate and Sawyer to important? Was Hurley’s only function to go back and tell the others not to interfere?
> What are the others up to?
> Why in the world did Widmore’s daugther have the arctic station monitored? She knows a lot more about what’s going on if she knew what to look for.
> What’s in the world is going on with years worth of logs sitting in a pile? Is that every logbook ever completed?
> What’s up with the fake hatch?
> Why are the others dressed like that? What can they accomplish?

My biggest mind blowers:
# 1 - The pile of logbooks - “Didn’t see that coming!”
# 2 - The release of energy - “What actually happened”

I’ve got to think about these questions and a lot more as I can absorb.

What changes everything? I just finished watching this weeks episode and the previews for next weeks season finale said that what happens will change everything. There are answers coming for sure, but none of those answers could possibly have that much impact. The only thing that could “change everything” would be if the Losties were in control of the island and whatever Dharma has going on. Exactly how likely is that to happen? I say not at all.

Tonight’s episode centered around Michael and his struggle to do what it takes to get Walt back. We saw Walt tonight for the first time in weeks. Yes, he has aged a bit for the 2 weeks or so that have elapsed (in Lost time). I did not find it that distracting though. Michael has some incredible determination to keep in generally together in the midst of the crimes he has committed. At least they showed that he is struggling with his decisions as any normal person would. I am glad that Sayid saw through the deception. Could this be how the Losties get the upper hand? Where is Locke off to? What does Eko have to gain by pushing the button? What do Kate, Jack, Hurley and Sawyer have in common? Seems to me that this would be part of the reason that these lives are so closely tied together is only a degree or so of separation.

My current theory is that this is an experiment gone awry due to some kind of revolt.

I have tried to make it a rule not to get into a TV show to the extent that I “had” to watch it.  14 years ago I discovered the fact that my life revolved around not scheduling events when they would interfere with the 5 or 6 TV shows that I watched each week plus the untold number of “filler” shows.  I’d like to say that I was disciplined enough to kick the habit, but I needed the awakening that moving to another state, having a mortgage payment plus a rent payment and no job can give one.  I was not difficult to figure out that cable was a luxury that I actually could live without.   For the next 10 years 3 channels on an antenna were quite fulfilling.

As a job came along and a house sold I could not conceive of why I would want to go back to a lifestyle that robbed me of all the precious time I gained.  There was one staple show that remained in my lineup.  That was the Star Trek franchise.  Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyager, Star Trek Enterprise.  18 years of Star Trek, it was great!  But with the cancellation of Star Trek Enterprise my regular TV viewing came to an end.  Sure there were other shows but nothing that was a must see - at least for me.  I cannot speak for the rest of my family.

Now here we are in May of 2005, the season 2 finale of Lost is quickly approaching and I find myself plotting how to prevent missing a single episode during May sweeps month.  Until 3 months ago I had never seen a single episode.  By late 2005 I began to notice that the cubicle chatter revolved around this show called Lost.  One evening in February 2006  I noticed that the 2 hour series premier was being rerun.  Hey, that’s great filler material, right?  By the end of two hours I was hooked.  A return to the cubicle jungle found that a co-worker had recently purchased the complete season 1 DVD set.  Within 2 weeks I had caught up on season 1, after a few more inquiries I found that another co-worker was able to obtain the 15 episodes in digital format that would catch me up to the present place in the series.  Another 2 weeks of connecting my laptop to the TV and my addiction was made complete.

So now here I am excited about new episodes for the remainder of this month.  The things that attract me to the show are the mystery plus the “real” characters.  I like the variety of characters that have real strengths a weaknesses.  I love seeing the backstories and learning the factors behind what drives each character.  And just like real life their secrets and lack of communication end up causing even problems than they’re trying to avoid.

Now here I am with a few episodes remaining and the mysteries  are getting deeper.

Answers are coming with each episode but new questions are also coming.