'Lost': Live chat about 'Dr. Linus' on March 9
Admit it, "Lost" fans: the title of this episode makes you straight-up giddy. I'm not suggesting we all engage in a group squeal, because frankly, that's kinda weird. But history dictates that Ben-centric eps kick unholy levels of booty. "The Man Behind the Curtain." "The Shape of Things to Come." "Dead is Dead." I'll put that trilogy of character-centric eps against the three best of any other character.
When last we saw Ben, he was separated from those that escaped The Temple via Jacob's secret door. Will he spend the episode on-Island in solitude? What is his seemingly mundane life in the sideways timeline all about? What familiar faces might we see recontextualized this week? Join us for a spoiler-free chat starting at 7:30 pm this Tuesday, March 9th. We'll chat about the first third of the season and theorize about the next leg of the show's final season up until gametime.
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The next episode is called "Dr. Linus"?!!! Really?!!!
Man, for the sake of the prospective patients (his skills at the end of "The Economist" notwithstanding), I sure hope the title refers to a PhD in literature, not a medical degree!
I think this episode will serve as a litmus test for how much the writers intend to answer this season. [Edited in case this is a spoiler--Ryan]...we have the potential to see him "lost" alone on the Island, we will see his life as a teacher sans-Island and all that seems to add up to the reappearance of Annie. If Annie (and maybe some other issues like the Purge and volcano) are not rehashed then it appears the writers will have chosen to ignore a once strong storyline--super annoying!
Also, hopefully Ben's storyline will pull characters like Desmond, Widmore, and Eloise Hawking back into the picture. I am annoyed that they have been noticeably absent from this season, especially since the elderly duo were so pivotal to season 5.
All and all, if "Sundown" was the finale of Act 1, "Dr. Linus" should set the stage for a more dramatic second act.
Since most of us were faked out by "Sundown" not being about Sun and Jin, I was pondering ways that "Dr. Linus" wouldn't be about Ben. FakeSpoiler - the doctor in the title is actually OB/GYN Juliet, who is married to Ben Linus in the sideways-verse!
Anyway, I'm really anticipating another Ben episode as well.
I'm hoping you are wrong about Ben being alone on the island, if only because IIlian & Co. have been shafted this season and if they expect us to care about this new character we need to spend more time with her. Also, Jacob's side is already very outnumbered and it doesn't help that they are all split up they need to all get together and make some sort of plan. Including Richard, who if we don't' get some sort of explanation as to why he didn't get to the Temple before Illian, I guess we are just suppose to assume he's the slowest walker on the planet?
Anyways, Ben flash sideways should finally tell us for sure when the new timeline started. If he remembers being on the island, then it probably did start with Jughead, if not, this timeline is something else.
Linus? Good Grief!
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To me the idea of when the sideways timeline "started" doesn't make any sense. So many things are different that it's not like one thing didn't happen (such as the crash). It's as though the characters' parents and their parents' parents made different decisions. It's a world that is so different that the only connection is the characters themselves.
@Not Yet Measured
well whether or not it makes sense really has to do with which theory you subscribe to. If you believe the epilogue theory (which I don't) then it's possible everything since the beginning of time is a little different in the sideways timeline.
If you still believe the bomb created the sideways reality (as I do), then you have to look at at least 1954 as the starting point for that timeline. Since if Oceanic 815 never crashes, the survivors never flash through time and Faraday never tells Richard to bury the bomb in 1954. So it seems likely to me that the bomb went off sometime after DHARMA arrived on the island, causing it to sink to the bottom of the ocean. :)
Personally, I am hoping that Dr. Linus, European history teacher, meets up with Dr. Arzt, science teacher, and that they fire zingers at each other over the coffeemaker in the teachers' lounge!
This week's chat is on March 2nd, Ryan? Is that a signal of time travel or too much Dharma wine?
I'll published the wrong date by accent in the title, but it should have been fixed.