Thursday, February 08, 2007

Not in Portland (S:3,E:7)

1) So Juliet is gifted in sciences dealing with fertility. She impregnated a male field-mouse for crying out loud. Mittelos Bioscience seems to be key to this episode. They recruited Juliet for her expertise. They 86'ed her ex-husband, because that's what she asked for.

2) Update on the Mittelos website: It may not be an official site relating to the show. It could be a site set up by fans. However, looking at the website in the previous post, we see a map of the island. Experiment 108 maps out the "Experimental Island", the "Control Island" and the "Observation Island". Once in there, you get an email from Rachel. In the email is a link to a video (which I cannot see from work due to firewalls...so I might comment on this later). I've read the unofficial transcript. Apparently what Rachel is saying is that Hanso, Widmore and Mittelos are all the same company, or at least, they have a common vision and that they are going to kill Juliet in the process.

3) On the map, it mentions Casimir Studies in the "Observation Island". Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect

4) So Benry has taken Alex as his own child. He's very protective of her, and this could explain why Karl is always held in a cage. I mean...when I have a daughter...no boys until she's 30. So I can see where he's coming from.

5) Ethan keeps surprising me. At first, he came off as a jungle-boy. Then we find out he has medical skills (back when he was treating Claire in the Serpent Hatch). Now, we see he's either a recruiter, or he is gifted at doing dirty-work...like arranging for people to get run over by buses.

6) More biblical references. Isaac and Rebekah had twins named Jacob and Esau. Jacob was a learned man but also a con-man who struggled with Angels and Demons (sounds like Sawyer). Esau is the Hunter (this would be Locke). Genesis 25:29-34 recounts how he was tricked by Jacob into giving up his birthright (leadership of Israel) for a meal of lentils. From this, "Esau" in western religions has metaphorically stood for anyone who is tricked into a worthless bargain. Sounds a hell of a lot like Locke. Even in the womb, Jacob and Esau were locked into a mortal struggle. This goes back to my thoughts that Sawyer and Locke might be half-brothers (or may have a connection of sorts) and that Locke's father is the real Sawyer. Furthermore, on the biblical reference...Rachel (Juliet's sister) is pregnant. Rachel (of the Old Testament) was one of Jacob's wives and she had difficulty bearing children for many years. Together they had a son named Joseph, who was taken from them and sold into slavery by his brothers (older brothers from Jacob's other wives). Joseph had the ability to interperet dreams, earning the title of "Joseph the King of Dreams". Rachel also had a second son...his name was Benjamin (Benry?).

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