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- DarkUFO continued my line of thinking Desmond is a bomb-like weapon.
The first improvement on the Fat Man design was to put an air space between the tamper and the pit to create a hammer-on-nail impact. The pit, supported on a hollow cone inside the tamper cavity, was said to be levitated. The three tests of Operation Sandstone, in 1948, used Fat Man designs with levitated pits. The largest yield was 49 kilotons, more than twice the yield of the unlevitated Fat Man.[14]
Eleven years later, implosion designs had advanced sufficiently that the 5 foot-diameter sphere of Fat Man had been reduced to a 1 foot-diameter (30 cm) cylinder 2 feet (60 cm) long, the Swan device. [Wikipedia]
C’est intéressant. Desmond certainly spent his fair share of time locked away in Swan Station.
- “In one week, the conversation is going to change.” [Damon Lindelof on Twitter]
That’s about it until Doc Jensen posts his weekly recap on EW.com. We end tonight’s episode on the verge of battle royale between the forces of good and evil, and despite all my talk of choice and defying destiny, perhaps Sun and Jin aren’t meant to be with one another after all. Sun’s been shot in the X timeline, and the two don’t appear to be any closer to reunion on the Island timeline. We’re now seven episodes (SEVEN!) from the finish line, folks, so I really can’t imagine we’ll see any treading-water episodes from here on out (and tonight’s certainly was not that, in my eyes). Strap yourselves in; we’re in for some chop.
Thanks for the recap Gordo! I can’t wait for next week!
Well, to turn a phrase, I was totally “lost” last night…I couldn’t find any of the hidden messages/clues to which you referred. However, after reading your synopses, ok, I am intrigued yet again..had a busy day, so just now getting to your recap. If you think it was good, then I’m with you! I just gotta look harder, I guess!
1. I don’t understand why Sun and Jin aren’t married yet in the sideways timeline?!!
2. Flashback to when Widmore tries to “buy off” Desmond at the track and has a suitcase full of money….any connections there?
3. I am hopeful for more answers, more conclusions, and less “plot devices”.
Love the scenery, as always!!! Thanks for the write up….
1. I think you’re getting hung up on a triviality — it doesn’t matter if they’re technically married or not; they’re together, that’s all that matters. There are subtle differences between the primary and X timelines, but the general character relationships and attitudes are largely the same.
Go watch the scene in Jurassic Park where Jeff Goldblum is explaining Chaos Theory — that’s how you account for subtle variations in the timeline that can result in less-than-subtle events downstream.
I’ll check it out…thanks!
It also occurs to me that maybe the 30 year difference means that the sideways flashes might be where that leaves off….ie…30 years ago they’re whereever they were, then they go thirty years in the future to where we see the sideways flashes? (and we don’t know what happened to them in the thirty years in between….except for three of them). So, Jacob identifies potential candidates, then thirty years go by, and they either end up on the island, or on the sideways place, depending upon what choices they made during those thirty years…
From this point forward, though, I am done guessing and just going to go along for the ride. My head hurts! Kind of like trying to figure out “Somewhere in Time”!!!
Do you think the hydra (underwater station) has anything to do with the underwater scenes that we’ve seen?…. the submerged plane, the foot of the statue ?
btw, I went to see Alice In Wonderland last night….very interesting stuff….especially when putting it in perspective with the Doc Jensen article as it relates to LOST.