{"id":3529,"date":"2005-10-06T00:51:55","date_gmt":"2005-10-06T07:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/05\/lost-s02e03-orientation\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:30:11","slug":"lost-s02e03-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/06\/lost-s02e03-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost s02e03: Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7010,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000684&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Scribbled notes while watching last night&#8217;s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000684&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get 'Lost' on the iTMS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Lost\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/FC101205\/lost_468x60.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#8216;prison&#8217; ditch is handmade&#8230;not part of the bunker complex.<\/li>\n<li>Locke&#8217;s counsellor &#8212; Helen &#8212; was that who he was on the phone with before going to Australia back in season one?<\/li>\n<li>Quite a nice arsenal down in the bunker.<\/li>\n<li>Oops &#8212; no more &#8216;puter!<\/li>\n<li>So Desmond was part of a race, then essentially got &#8216;drafted&#8217; into the bunker job.\n<ul>\n<li>He&#8217;s been &#8216;saving the world&#8217; for three years, at no more than about 90 minutes rest at a time.<\/li>\n<li>So it&#8217;s been around three years since Jack saved his wife&#8217;s life. Within that three years she recovered (enough to dance at their wedding), they fell in love, got married, and&#8230;something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>An orientation film? That logo&#8217;s on the film canister.<\/li>\n<li>New character &#8212; Anna Lucia &#8212; the same girl Jack met in the airport bar.<\/li>\n<li>The orientation film:\n<ul>\n<li>The Dharma Initiative<\/li>\n<li>The bunker is Station Three &#8220;The Swan&#8221; &#8212; that&#8217;s a swan in the middle of the octagonal logo.<\/li>\n<li>DI created 1970 by Gerald and Karen Degroot.<\/li>\n<li>Research compound: psychology, biology (polar bears&#8230;and sharks?), parapsychology, more.<\/li>\n<li>Station 3 had a 540 day rotation (about 1.5 years).<\/li>\n<li>Set up to study &#8220;unique electromagnetic emanations&#8221; in that quadrant of the island.<\/li>\n<li>2-man team to work in rotation resetting the countdown timer every 108 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Doesn&#8217;t say <em>what<\/em> will happen if the timer runs out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>No tail section after all? Anna Lucia says she woke up on her own in the ocean.<\/li>\n<li>Locke&#8217;s breaking down.<\/li>\n<li>Hehe &#8212; Hurley found the pantry.<\/li>\n<li>Oooh &#8212; that&#8217;s <em>not<\/em> the others&#8230;it&#8217;s the people from the tail section!\n<ul>\n<li>Is that big black guy (&#8220;Shaft&#8221;) the black woman&#8217;s husband?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jack&#8217;s wife: divorced or dead?<\/li>\n<li>So now we have Rousseau and Desmond running around the island on their own.<\/li>\n<li>Hurley almost let Locke key in the wrong code&#8230;I kind of wish Jack hadn&#8217;t come back.<\/li>\n<li>Dammit Jack! I want to know what happens (or doesn&#8217;t happen) when the countdown runs out!<\/li>\n<li>Are Jack and Locke going to be stuck in the bunker now?<\/li>\n<li>From the preview for next week:\n<ul>\n<li>Apparently more people are coming to the bunker too.<\/li>\n<li>WTF: Jin speaks English?!?!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scribbled notes while watching last night&#8217;s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[202,8],"class_list":["post-3529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-lost","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}