Anybody else's picture freeze for about 30 seconds or more when Jack's dad was talking to John.I missed just about all of what he said to him.I'm on *c

My PVR did not tape the new episode of Lost. Fortunately I got home in time to tape the later feed at midnight eastern time. I have no idea why my PVR felt the need to skip the new episode of LOST at the earlier time. Anybody else have this problem?

Anybody else have this problem?

See posts 58-60 earlier in this thread.

Painter,

I also missed a chunk of that scene. I was watching on Starchoice channel 285 starting at 7PM Mountain time, catching up on the last 15 minutes of the show I paused on my DSR 530.

Were you watching a HD or SD signal?

So...anybody want to actually discuss the show?

Methinks perhaps that baby in the episode Because You Left was, in fact, Charlotte. Could Pierre Chang be Korean, and that's why she knows how to speak it?

... or did Jin pop back in time to entice Charlotte to learn to communicate with him?

... or was the Dharma leader Korean?

Really good epp last night, its getting a little confusing but looks like they will soon all be on the island again. I wonder then what once they are on the island and everyone is united. Where does the story go from there?
Other others? figure out why the island does what it does? Kill the smoke monster? Build a tree house and drink margaritas on the beach every day?

I really liked how they did the part when Locke was going down to the wheel. It was a bit predictable, but still very well done. I also liked when Christian told Locke to say hi to his son, and Locke said "who's your son."

I'm loving it...but i must admit all this time travel does hurt my head (though it's better than getting a nose bleed).

But, it gets confuisng. Why, for instance, when Jin is talking to Russo and then the time shift happens....why is it only Jin that travel through time, but not Russo?

envirogeek I was watching on ch 285 also 8 pm central time start. So we were both on the same channel,it must of been happening down the line on *c then channel 285.It only froze for that 30 second or so time frame.But it looked like something very interesting was going to said.It was about from when Chritian came into the scene until when he told Locke to get up by himself that he couldn't help him and to go over and turn the wheel.

I'm loving it...but i must admit all this time travel does hurt my head (though it's better than getting a nose bleed).

But, it gets confuisng. Why, for instance, when Jin is talking to Russo and then the time shift happens....why is it only Jin that travel through time, but not Russo?

Because Russo died before the time travel started.

But, it gets confuisng. Why, for instance, when Jin is talking to Russo and then the time shift happens....why is it only Jin that travel through time, but not Russo?

Only the people present on/around the island when it "moved" are shifting through time. The version of Russo Jin encountered was from/in the past.

Because Russo died before the time travel started.
I think that only those people who were present when Ben turned the wheel under the Orchid are affected by the shifting time - along with anything they are touching (like their clothes, guns, and the boat they were in). The people in the perimeter of the time displacement are in effect "time travellers" being transported to different times. Everything and everyone else they may meet are not affected.

Yea that's whats happening. All the people from the past/future stay in the same time period they are from.

In the pop up encore of last week's episode when they were avoiding the light coming from the hatch this text came up "Locke is avoiding going by the hatch because he knows that a former version of himself is there and if they meet it wouldn't be a good thing" (or something like that). That follows the same idea as Doctor Who about time travel.

I thought Ben was Alexandras' father..... according to the last episode Rosseau was pregnant with Alexandra for 6 months when they shipwrecked on the island.
The French guy seems to have been the father of Roseau's baby, not Ben ??????

Comments anyone?

Paul

Ben "adopted" Russeau's child - he was not the biological father.

I never believed Ben was the 'real' father to Alex.

I could swear there was an episode where Rousseau tells Ben or Ben says it out load that Alexandra is his daughter.

Paul

^^^ Near the end of season 1, Rousseau tells someone (can't remember who??) that she was pregnant when she arrived and The Others took her baby when she was 1 week old.

Ben was her adopted father, and apparently loved her as his own. Although I hate trying to figure out when Ben is lying and when he is not, I believe the emotion he has shown repeatedly with regards to Alex is genuine.

Only the people present on/around the island when it "moved" are shifting through time. The version of Russo Jin encountered was from/in the past.
But what about Richard Alpert? We have seen how he never ages, which means he is either:

aging at a different rate,
is a ghost like Jack/Claire's father,
or is shifting as well.


Since it appears he had never met Locke before (when at the Hostiles camp earier the season - atomic bomb episode), I really believe it is #1:

When Locke shifted and was shot in the leg near the plane crash (the one that Locke and Boone had found in Season 1), Richard already knew him (but he had visited Locke as an infant in the hospital, and then again as a little boy). But with one of the first shiftings after Ben turns the wheel, Richard and his camp are vanished.
It appears that Jack's father (or at least his ghost) is shifting as well, since he had prior knowledge of Locke's instructions to "move the Island". My assumption is that since it appears the Orchid was constructed after the well was dug, when Locke turns the wheel it must be in the past, as the well has yet to be dug. Remember that anything they are touching shifts with them;... that is why the rope is still in Saywer's hand.
This means Richard and his crew are not shifting with Locke and the rest of the crash victims and the freighter folk, and possibly entities such as Jack's father, even though they were all present on the island when the wheel was turned!


However..... Even if Richard and his camp are not shifting with Locke & company, it is not yet proven that Richard is not capable of time shifting himself in his own way. But based on the reasons above, I still think it is just that he is aging at a different rate, if he is actually aging at all.

Or maybe my logic is flawed....

And some more questions:

When is the Black Rock going to come back into the story? I would really like to know how it ended up in the Jungle.
Is Jack's father and Jacob the same entity?
What the Hell was that temple like place where the Black Smoke Machine took the French dude??