'Lost': 'Orientation: Ryan Station' talks 'The Candidate' with special guest Tom Fitzgerald
We're back with another "Lost" podcast for your audio pleasure, y'all. This week, The Chicago Tribune's Mo Ryan and I welcomed one-half of a deadly blogging duo. Tom Fitzgerald from TomandLorenzo.com stopped by to talk about "The Candidate." All Irish podcast, y'all! Good times. Good times.
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Addition, May 7, 7:45 am: One quick note: near the end, we talk in very, very vague terms about next week's episode. No plot points are discussed, just pure speculation, around the 54:00 minute mark. But if you don't want to know who is the center of next week's ep, you can stop right there.
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Glad to hear discussion of "where's Smokey's home?". Surely with Smocke's calculated destruction of Lapidus _and_ the sub, he had no intention of leaving the Island via Ajira or the sub. Maybe he _can_ fly in smoke form off the Island once certain conditions are met. Mayhap he plans on using the donkey wheel. Maybe home _is_ an as-yet-unseen place on the Island. Did Tom spoil the content of next week's episode? Baldies FTW!
oh, i was looking forward to this week's podcast but if it spoils then maybe i will skip it; thanks for the heads up, 9emini. i'm glad i read your comment first!
There's no "spoiler" per say: around the 54 minute mark, we talk about who the next ep is about. But I understand why people wouldn't want to hear that. I meant to put the disclaimer up last night, but posted the entry so late I forgot. It's there now. Until Minute 54, there's nothing to worry about. Even afterwards, the discussion revolves around a topic we knew had to be addressed eventually in Season 6, just hadn't been done so.
Observational tidbit - and probably of little intrinsic value - that Jin, son of a fisherman, almost met his demise at sea on the freighter; did end up dying at sea with Sun.
Also I'm not sold on the belief that this is the final cycle in the Lost story. Still leaning to it being one level of an infinite tower of progressions much like that of the Dark Tower.
Plus I cannot shake the mental image of the closing shot for the series being either A or B sitting on the beach dressed in Jacob and MIB garb:
a) Jack and Sawyer - 'Here we go again.'
b) Hurley and Ben - 'Dude, want a swig of this wine?'
Just a comment on the podcast, which is generally excellent. It would be nice if you had some kind of cough button - it's gross to hear Mo clearing her throat every few minutes.
is there some part of the Temple TMIB can't go to? i know he smoked and swirled around a lot of it, but i wonder if there's some place in there he can't go.
I'm not sure MiB wants to go 'home' so much as spread his influence over the world. For instance if it turns out he's from Iceland I can't see him heading straight there (unless it's to the bottom of a volcano obviously). He wants to be free to do his evil-doer work.
He knows (or thinks) he can't leave the island until Jacob and his potential successors are all dead.
Whether that belief is actually true or not who knows at this time. I'm with Ryan in thinking that MiB is actually playing the wrong game.
Am I the only one who thinks Bernard might be evil in the sideways universe? There was something creepy about his behavior in this episode.
As I re-watched the episode I noticed that Kate is in the cage that Sawyer was in originally, the one with the button and the fish treats. There was no way to climb in or out of that cage. It was the OTHER cage that Kate was in the first time that was open at the top.