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the last yatto

#15
February 03, 2010, 10:47:28 PM Last Edit: February 03, 2010, 10:49:45 PM by Yatto
Quote from: Hoopla on February 03, 2010, 09:42:50 PM
How is that or Montauk connected?
TWA Flight 800 was a passenger flight that exploded while flying from New York to Paris in 1996. A number of theories for the disaster have been proposed. The plane crashed in the Montauk area. It has been suggested by some that the Montauk Project was responsible. (This one speaks for itself.)

The Montauk Project was destroyed in the early 80's, sabotaged from within by certain key participants who could no longer tolerate what was going on. (Could this have happened on the island as well? Henry claims they are the "good guys". Early 80's timeline would make the computers in Swan contemporary as well if they them moved the project to the Lost island.)
http://theoriesonlost.blogspot.com/2006/07/montauk-project-theory.html


how is what... the plane or multi universes*?


*which there isnt, theres just one... where the cat is dead

Look, asshole:  Your 'incomprehensible' act, your word-salad, your pinealism...It BORES ME.  I've been incomprehensible for so long, I TEACH IT TO MBA CANDIDATES.  So if you simply MUST talk about your pineal gland or happy children dancing in the wildflowers, go talk to Roger, because he digs that kind of shit

Da6s

#16
February 03, 2010, 11:15:45 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on February 03, 2010, 09:42:50 PM
How is that or Montauk connected?



http://nicoleslost.com/theories/the-philadelphia-experiment-lost-theories/


tl;dr
The hatch and all the high powered electromagnetic sci fi.

We appear to be doomed by our DNA to repeat the same destructive behaviors our forebears have repeated for millenia. If anything our problem solving skills have actually diminished with the advent of technology & our ubiquitous modern conveniences. & yet despite our predisposition towards fear-driven hostility; towards what we anachronistically term primitive behavior another instinct is just as firmly encoded in our make-up. We are capable as our ancestors were of incredible breathtaking acts of kindness. Every hour of every day a man risks his life at a moments notice to save another. Forget for a moment the belligerent benevolent billionaires who grant the unfortunate a crumb of costfree cake. I speak of pure acts of selflessness. A Mother who rushes into the street to save a child from a speeding vehicle. A person who runs into a burning building to reach a family trapped on the upper story. Such actions,such moments,such unconscious selfless decisions,define what it is to be human

the last yatto

#17
February 04, 2010, 11:13:38 AM
still havnt seen the lost reference in King's new under the dome
Look, asshole:  Your 'incomprehensible' act, your word-salad, your pinealism...It BORES ME.  I've been incomprehensible for so long, I TEACH IT TO MBA CANDIDATES.  So if you simply MUST talk about your pineal gland or happy children dancing in the wildflowers, go talk to Roger, because he digs that kind of shit

Bruno

#18
February 04, 2010, 12:14:03 PM
You're all wrong.

Lost is actually a spinoff of Star Trek: TNG. John Locke is really an admiral in Starfleet. He brought the Interphasic Cloak back in time to before the signing of the Treaty of Algeron with the Romulans so that Humans could have cloaking technology.

Still not convinced?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw1qR0-w6i0
Formerly something else...

Cramulus

#19
February 04, 2010, 04:47:46 PM
I could barely get through the first season of Lost. I stopped watching because I realized that the only reason I was paying attention was in hope that somebody would die.

I can't stand the suspense-drama format of TV. They provoke your curiosity and create suspense with no intention of ever resolving it. It's not the director's intent to ever satisfy that itch. I don't find it entertaining, I find it frustrating.

Though I suspect my reaction to Lost may be akin to my reaction to Wheel of Time. I finished the first book and said, "That was okay. It left so much unresolved though." to which somebody told me, well you've gotta read the next 9000 pages to get any closure, and by the time you do, you're already distracted by some other dangling plotline which will never resolve. Fuck that, PASS. I just don't have the patience to absorb that much media unless you deliver a goddamn resolution every so often.

Cain

#20
February 04, 2010, 04:51:17 PM
Lots of stuff has been pretty much resolved. 

They let it drag on for so long because ABC wouldn't tell them how many seasons it would run for, which is kind of annoying when you have a pre-prepared plot.  Once it was decided, the show immediately started to get much better.

Incidentally, WoT has gotten much better now that Robert Jordan is dead and a new author is writing the series.  The latest book actually sorted out a LOT of stuff, and bought an end to the interminable "zomg Rand is going insane" plot.

hooplala

#21
February 04, 2010, 05:11:16 PM
Yeah, it started treading water in the 2nd and 3rd seasons, but the 4th and 5th were WICKED, and so far the 6th seems to be as well.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Cain

#22
February 04, 2010, 05:32:47 PM
Season Four was my favourite.  From start to finish, it delivered, and in spite of the writers strike (perhaps because of it) seemed highly focused on sorting shit out.

Five dragged its heels a little in places, though the ending made me go "wat", which I enjoy, but six looks to have potential, from the season pilot at least.

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#23
February 04, 2010, 05:41:25 PM
I agree, six is good so far as was 5 and 4. It seems to me that we're about to get some explanations... finally.
- I don't see race. I just see cars going around in a circle.

"Back in my day, crazy meant something. Now everyone is crazy" - Charlie Manson

Cain

#24
February 04, 2010, 05:42:35 PM
At the end, Jacob turns to Jack and says "you are now number two".

LMNO

#25
February 04, 2010, 06:04:20 PM
Quote from: Cain on February 04, 2010, 05:42:35 PM
At the end, Jacob turns to Jack and says "you are now number two".

:potd:

hooplala

#26
February 04, 2010, 08:45:11 PM
Also, did anyone notice the parallels between the ash used to keep out the Nemesis and Yog "anything for a laugh" Sothoth being trapped by geometric shapes in Illuminatus?  Remember the Illuminati member who is killed by good old Yoggie whilst attempting to redraw the pentagon with chalk after it is partially destroyed?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Cain

#27
February 04, 2010, 08:50:33 PM
Well, the directors are all fans of Illuminatus!....

Bebek Sincap Ratatosk

#28
February 04, 2010, 08:52:43 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on February 04, 2010, 08:45:11 PM
Also, did anyone notice the parallels between the ash used to keep out the Nemesis and Yog "anything for a laugh" Sothoth being trapped by geometric shapes in Illuminatus?  Remember the Illuminati member who is killed by good old Yoggie whilst attempting to redraw the pentagon with chalk after it is partially destroyed?

The protective circle is very esoteric...  a protective circle is used by the 'magician' to keep whatever he's summoned from harming him. Generally, a summoned thing would be trapped in a triangle (or possibly a pentagon ;-) ) so it couldn't do what the Smoke monster did to Bram.
- I don't see race. I just see cars going around in a circle.

"Back in my day, crazy meant something. Now everyone is crazy" - Charlie Manson

Rumckle

#29
February 04, 2010, 08:56:26 PM
I'm confused
I'm lost


I completely agree with Cram though, I gave up after about 5 episodes, when nothing happened, they introduced some intriguing things in the first two episodes, and then nothing happened.

Fucking, follow Chekhov's law people!

If I hear about a giant monster in the first episode, I want to see an awesome battle by the fifth.
It's not trolling, it's just satire.
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