LOSTCasts 39: Every Man for Himself

This latest podcast focuses on season 3, episode 4 of LOST, Every Man for Himself. In the podcast, we've got some great listener comments to start things off. We discuss more about Desmond's psychic abilities, Sawyer's backstory and interaction with the others. We also talk about Jack's questions about who's in charge of the others, as well as his surgery and the mysterious x-rays. The revelation of the two islands is also talked about, and we revisit the mural in the swan hatch to bring some perspective to this discussion. We also talk about a few easter eggs that viewers have found, and of course, have plenty of LOST links and spoilers for you. As a note, we edited out a portion of the podcast, due to a dull experiment that we don't want to subject you to...

Download podcast #39 here

Links related to the podcast:
General reactions on The Fuselage
Wikipedia entry for Of Mice and Men
Wikipedia entry for Alcatraz
Wikipedia entry for Angel Island
Post on The Fuselage about "comms down"
Post on The Fuselage about intercom audio
Mural post on The Fuselage
Detailed images of the mural
Screencap of "eyepatch" in episode 5 promo

LOST Links:
Entertainment Weekly article about Heroes/LOST
Nobody's Watching LOST sketch (this got edited out)
Bo! In the USA LOST sketch

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Comments

[matt beale]

Cool! Saturday Podcast!

Not finished last weeks one yet!

Longest one since S2 Final - thanks!

[DAVEjr]

The name of the monster located on Hoth was the Wampa.

[Mike in the Box]

link for survey leads to "survey closed" page.

[SmokeMonster]

http://gallery.lost-media.com/displayimage.php?pid=78210&fullsize=1

[Tommy]

you guys can't be that nerdy if you can't remember the Wampa.....

[Cihan]

1] Nice observation of the Others and their subtle military or intelligence vibe. Kelvin did work for the CIA, maybe there's a connection there.

2] Cartoons. Nice continuation of the 'Others are Pot farmers' theory!

3] Do you think Sun should name her child Moses, so him and Aaron can be buddies and then join forces to battle the Others a couple decades from now?

4] I did Film Studies (in the UK) and didnt get to see La Jetee. :(

5] Who's tumour? Alvar Hanso? I wasnt too into the Lost Experience, but vaguely remember reading Alvar was ill or something.

[Cihan]

Alcrataz. Interesting, one of you said the unique thing about that island was just how close to civilisation it was. If the same is of our Lost island that would be very cool. So Ben sending off Michael wouldnt be that crazy, our resident traitor might have found civilisation an hour later or something, but the island being cloaked and all, nobody would know where he came from.

Ok, probably not, but I would love it if the island was somehow really close to civilisation, the look on the Losties faces would be priceless.

[Matt Lafferty]

Nice solid podcast boys! Incedentally, as an anti-spoiler person, I appreciate that you all say a quick goodbye beofre you start the spoilers. After blabbing on here, reading the comments of others, and listening to the podcast, I feel better about the episode. Keep up the great work!

[kristenS.]

hey guys, i havent listened to the podcast yet so i dont know if u talk about of mice and men. i just read it in my english class, and after i write this comment i have to do an essay on it :( anyways i found that the ending of the book (book spoiler warning!) in which a man (george) kills his best friend (lennnie) could possibly have a connection to the others trying to turn jack into one of them. george kills lennie because of the other poeple george was with would have killed lennie anyways, george kills lennie out of mercy. if the others turn jack they may have him kill one of the losties because the others consider the losties "bad" just as george finds out that lennie is "bad" well thats my rambling theroy of the day, bye guys, stay lost

[Sarah]

@ Cihan, Kelvin was in the CIA? I thought from Sayid's flashbacks he was just way up there on the whole army line thing.

Hey, great podcast... I liked it a lot. Here are some things I wrote down while listening to it that I wanted to point out...

-I read Flowers for Algernon (is that the right name?) in 8th grade!! lol I heard yall say that and was like WOAH memory lane attack!
-The survey thing wasn't letting me vote because it led to a Survey Closed page, but I vote yes for message boards! That way people won't get all pissed about spoilers, and some stuff in the comments I don't neccessarily want to read and with a threaded message board I can look for the topics I want to read about.
-SPOILER: Well, not really, but involved the spoiler section of this podcast. Okay, so there was Dharma Surf box, right? Well, I've listened to a lot of stuff with Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) and he says that he learned to surf while shooting The Lord of the Rings in New Zealand and has tried to convince the writers to have Charlie find a surfboard along the beach (with LA and Sydney both being prominent surf spots)and trying it out. So maybe that box is for Charlie?

Anyways...love the podcast. Can't wait for Wednesday!
Stay LOST.
Sarah

[Cihan]

Sarah, I'm 80% sure Kelvin is from the CIA. Need another Lost geek to confirm this!

I'm also 50% on having a forum here. I mean it would be a natural evolution of this site and would organise our comments into threads which will be better, but I feel like I will be overwhelmed by a forum or something and not post much, becoming a lurker as a result. If you do make a forum, dont have a billion sections like the Fuselage, that place is like a maze. Just keep a LostCasts message board very simple: forums for each lostcast (spoiler and non-spoiler sections) and I guess an obligatory 'off topic' forum and I wouldnt feel too lost. Also: black background is a must.

Also, my last time defending the new Losties: There is simply no way new characters belonging to the survivor group could be introduced to the audience seamlessly, no matter how they're introduced; it would be jarring, because we've never seen their faces before. Fans moaning that the new characters needed to somehow introduce themselves to our main cast are not making any sense, we're to assume these characters have gone through everything the main cast has gone through and that everyone is on first-name basis now after 60-some days. So you know, considering the problems involved in introducing new characters from an established group in a short amount of time, I think the writers did the best they could. I'm actually glad the 'sex' scene was cut, it sounds very un-Lost-ish.

[Ben Rigas]

I thought the new look at the mural was interesting. One thing that I haven't seen mentioned was the blue arrow in the middle looks like it's pointing at 325 degrees... which is the heading that Ben said Michael and Walt should take to get out.

[Ben Rigas]

Here's a picture that shows the angle of the line on the mural http://www.atomspark.com/images/mural-325.jpg .. pretty darn close to 325 degrees.

[Matt Jones]

Wampa! (Slaps Forehead)

[Jack+Sayid=DurtyIslandLuv]

This looks funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WQq_anEz7w

[Tommy]

If it makes Cihan post less, than I am all for a forum....

[Michael.]

Does series regular mean those actors that were there since season one?

[RyanPT]

Guys, I'm only about 38 minutes through this edition of the podcast, so if you've said anything about it later on, sorry if I'm a little late, but the cartoon that Jack is forced to watch isn't a Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

As far as I can remember, it's either a Daffy Duck cartoon or just a random no-name Warner Bros character and it involves a big vulture.

This seemed a lot more pertinent when I clicked the comments link. Oh well!

Stay Lost!

[Cihan]

If it means keeping po-faced trolls away I guess everyone's all for a forum Tommy.

Michael: I would assume 'series regular' means anyone on the main credits, so Desmond would count.

About the mural: I'm under the assumption that Ben and co arent too knowledgable about the Swan bunker, so could this mean that whoever drew the mural was not of his group then? I've always had a feeling that it was drawn by a kid (maybe a child of a Dharma scientist) and all the small details, such as the 108 and houses is knowledge the kid absorbed during his/her stay in the bunker (perhaps the Hydra among others too considering the fish biscuits), and the two faces at the top being his/her parents, perhaps 'Adam' and 'Eve'. Didnt their skeletal corpses have a black and white stone with them? Eerily corresponds with the black and white faces on the mural.

Havent seen this discussed much but I got the impression from Ben that Sawyer is only needed for a limited time before he can be discarded, i.e - killed. Cant find a transcript for the episode yet but I'm sure he said something to this affect to Tom.

[Bune]

Cool, downloading now, will post impressions after listening.

[Sarah]

Oh my gosh, I think there's a very good chance Sawyer is the one with the tumor! In 1x19 Dues ex Machina (I don't know if that's spelled right) Sawyer has headaches and tells Jack, "It's not like it's a tumor or something," and then later on says, "My uncle died of a brain tumor." I'm pretty sure tumors involve genetics, so what if Jack tries to do the surgery on him and can't remove it or messed up Sawyer? (Just pointing out the next few sentences are spoilers so no one like Tommy--seriously dude, get a life--is a complete freak to me.) What if Sawyer is the one who bites the dust in 3x05 The Cost of Living? There's not much else you can say about Sawyer's backstory...

Anyways, I'm watching that episode now so that's the reason for this random-type post.
Stay LOST.
Sarah

[John]

Survey is working now...

[Lost1]

The survey is not working.

[Lost1]

Nevermind.

[Justin]

"chinks in the armor"

best lostcast line ever.