LOSTCasts 62: The Economist and Eggtown
It's a double-header this weekend! In this podcast, we talk about season four episodes 3 and 4 of LOST, The Economist and Eggtown. Matt, John and Robert are back with discussion about Sayid's future gig, the time shift on the island, speculation about the Freighties, new literary references, Locke losing control, Kate's flash-forward and more.
Links related to the podcast:
Wikipedia entry for VALIS
Wikipedia entry for The Invention of Morel
J Wood on Eggtown
J Wood on The Economist
Wikipedia entry for Indonesian Tsunami
LOST links:
PopCrunch on LOST
See you next week! Stay LOST.
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I'll be listening to this at college tomorrow, just finnished watching it, cant wait to hear it guys
Thanks in advance
Posted by: Jon W | February 24, 2008 at 05:57 PM
Greetings from Poland. Another late night with Lostcasts. I was waiting for it for 2 weeks.
Thanks.
Posted by: kunio | February 24, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Wow, just finished Eggtown, now i'm confused! I'm going to see if you've made some sense of anything??? Keep up the great work!
Posted by: Richie | February 24, 2008 at 06:00 PM
number 4 baby!!!!!
can't wait to listen!!!
Posted by: Sam from Oakland | February 24, 2008 at 06:40 PM
I bet Tasha's pussy smells fishy.
Posted by: Johan | February 24, 2008 at 06:45 PM
Thanks, Johan. *sigh*
So the fan forum is great, by the way! Everyone should give it a look-see.
Posted by: Matt Lafferty | February 24, 2008 at 07:24 PM
Thanks lads. You have just made my bus journey on thursday alot shorter, If I can hold out until then that is :)
Posted by: Frankmagnet | February 24, 2008 at 07:36 PM
I hate to admit it, but ABBA was not in Xanadu, the band that was in the movie and had a lot of their songs was ELO (Electric Light Orchestra)
Posted by: Liquidduck | February 24, 2008 at 08:00 PM
All this freckles stuff is a little bit ridiculous. Freckles come and go with the sun - it's silly to expect Evangeline Lilly's complexion to remain constant on the show when she's spending variable amounts of time in the sun in her real life. And her freckleslessness in the flash forward has got to be attributed to her heavy make-up.
I'd say that Sawyer calling her freckles again has more to do with his getting over killing original Sawyer than anything else.
Posted by: Katie | February 24, 2008 at 08:15 PM
They confirmed on the official podcast that the man Sayid shot in the Seychelles was NOT the "Economist", and it happened before the other flash forward scenes. They cut a scene where Sayid said "I just got back from the Seychelles..." or something.
The island isn't near the Sunda Trench, the "fake" 815 wreckage is. We have no reason to believe the island is near the fake wreckage.
Posted by: Eric | February 24, 2008 at 10:24 PM
@Matt Laferty
Dude, just admit you like guys. Nobody talks like that except weird, withdrawn library chicks that can't get a date, and fags. If you're gay (and like a hot sausage) in your anal cavity, that's fine - I won't judge. But just come out of your gay-ass closet and admit it already, you freakin' homo.
Posted by: Johan | February 24, 2008 at 11:57 PM
Well now, that last comment really has nothing too do with at all now does it. Come too think of it nor does this one other than too say you really are a sad bastard johan. Stay lost, except johan you can get lost.
Posted by: Nathan | February 25, 2008 at 12:14 AM
what is wrong with the sound
Posted by: probune | February 25, 2008 at 04:39 AM
Well Im glad the cast clarified who the fuck wit was that banned my IP from the second rate forum and he would be JACKEDUPLOCKEDDOWN. I said the word 'shit'.Seriously matey when you get out of school you will hear that alot more,Although it will be directed at you. Pfft keep your shitty forum! no one could care about it anyway.
Posted by: Benjamin | February 25, 2008 at 06:21 AM
Well Im glad the cast clarified who the fuck wit was that banned my IP from the second rate forum and he would be JACKEDUPLOCKEDDOWN. I said the word 'shit'.Seriously matey when you get out of school you will hear that alot more,Although it will be directed at you. Pfft keep your shitty forum! no one could care about it anyway.
Posted by: Benjamin | February 25, 2008 at 06:26 AM
i thought he banned adam.
Posted by: notmyrealname | February 25, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Abbaddon is not the smoke monster. I rewatched that scene in hd and it is just his shadow. Yes on youtube it looks like Smokey. That's because it's superpixelated. When will you give your soul over to hd and see the world clearly?
Posted by: Staley | February 25, 2008 at 02:36 PM
I thought about the interesting problem, and I have a suggestion: why not use "tantalizing?" Since it's derived from the Greek mythological figure Tantalus, it's perfect for Lost. Tantalus' food was always just out of reach, where he could see it, probably smell it, but could never have it. Guess he should have known better than to piss off the big guy, Zeus, who set this as his punishment. Sort of reminiscent of the relationship between Locke and Ben, no? Of course, there are lots of other great words you might choose, but just thought I'd make the suggestion.
Posted by: MariaM | February 25, 2008 at 02:57 PM
If the Island is behind normal time by 31 minutes, 18 seconds per 20 seconds (roughly, by the rocket's delayed arrival vs. proposed arrival) then by my calculations, for each "day" on the island, 93.9 days passes in the outside world. This would put the current on island events (96 days on island) at 24.69 years off-island time passing.
It would seem unlikely that the rocket time-differential is an all-encompassing phenomena, and perhaps was only relevant to the coordinates/direction the rocket was traveling.
Posted by: idjk | February 25, 2008 at 10:42 PM
**Possible Spoiler Alert**
I have a decent guess on who's in the coffin (Jack referenced the memorial service in the Season 3 Finale, Through the Looking Glass)...and people aren't gonna like it if I'm right (including myself).
Sawyer.
It makes the most sense if you think about it, and if you've looked at some of the spoiler info that's already out there. I just hope I'm wrong.
**End of Possible Spoiler Alert**
Posted by: Jerry | February 25, 2008 at 10:57 PM
@idjk
Check out the forum, there has been some discussion on there about the time diostorion.
Current theory there, which may be totally wrong, is that the button pushing in the Swan was holding time in line and it's only since the failsafe that the time has become distorted. This is largely based on the fact that Danielle has been on island for 16 years and Des has been there 3 and he met Jack just before arriving and Jack is not many years older.
If the 31x time distortion is right then post-failsafe has it's been about 2 years and 200 odd days making it sometime in mid-October 2006 which would jibe nicely with the post-island info (the phome, Aaarons age etc).
Posted by: Mark B | February 25, 2008 at 11:19 PM
Maybe someone can help me with this..
If Oceanic Airlines was bought by The Hanso Foundation and now called HansoAir (after Oceanic decalred bankruptcy as of July 2006), why isn't the airline referred to as HansoAir in the flash-forwards? From what I've seen in the FFs and "comercials", everything looks to be still Oceanic..
Posted by: Jes' | February 25, 2008 at 11:45 PM
It's me again..
The HansoAir site looks like it was made by a fan, as I don't see any ABC links... so disregard for my previous post for now, but don't completely leave it off your radars :)
Posted by: Jes' | February 25, 2008 at 11:55 PM
I think we are all in agreeance the forum sucks ass!!
Posted by: Robin | February 26, 2008 at 01:29 AM
@Robin, I would have to agree with your agreeance.lol. The forum is moderated by what would seen to be the lowest common denominator.Think I will post here and besides you can say any number of words such as pussy,arse,dick and not get banned!lol
Posted by: Drew | February 26, 2008 at 04:29 AM