The Past Couple Weeks... And new LOST Theories!
The past several weeks have been a continuous extravaganza of family, friends, dogs, and of course, work. In between the hectic days at Christie's, where our sales season is just getting started, I have been graced with the presence of my parents, who were in the city for the Westminster Dog show, which also happens to be the second oldest sporting event in the United States after the Kentucky Derby. This being their 10th year in attending, they had the privilege of an additional 2 tickets, which my girlfriend and I gladly accepted…
Being a regular watcher on TV (Chris and I would take bets on the winners, watching every night in our smoking jackets and sipping on port or cognac) I was more than excited to actually be present at the event. It is a unique opportunity to get up close and personal with the dogs because it is a ‘benched’ competition, meaning that all the breeders, handlers, and dogs are required to be on the premises from 8 in the morning until 8 at night, when the finals begin. Making our rounds in the benching area, Robyn and I were continually “awing” as we moved from breed to breed petting and conversing with the dogs and their owners. I was particularly excited to see a whole bunch of my favorites, the Bull Terriers, and Robyn’s favorites, the Golden Retrievers, which were just incredibly gorgeous this year (although she claims, and I have no doubt, that her old dog Rudy was the most beautiful Golden ever, and would have destroyed these animals in any competition, be it in the ring or at Yahtzee). It was a very exciting two days, capped off with an incredibly tense finale in which our favorite, and vocal, beagle Uno won Best in Show. The next days involved late nights with both my parents and Robyn’s, in celebration of many festive events! For starters, the week before was Robyn’s brother’s final week in the Navy after serving for 10 years and many deployments across the world as chief engineer on several missile destroyers. Additionally, Robyn graduated last week from Sotheby’s Institute of Art with her Masters in American Fine and Decorative Arts (MAFDA), possibly one of the longest acronyms for a degree ever. Throughout the ceremony I was trying to think of all the different things that MAFDA could stand for, but Chris being the pro on those things, I’ll leave it up to him. Afterwards we attended the University Club in midtown, a swanky classy club where we had a private room and not less than three different drinks on the table per person. We then finished up the night at the bar at the Peninsula Hotel with our old bartender friend Juan. Needless to say that work the next day was rather painful. This weekend I am heading down to outside of Washington to stay at Robyn’s beach house and get away from the city. It is a much needed excursion and will hopefully refuel me for a couple more weeks of muggy city weather and crowded streets.
And of course last night was Lost night, full of more questions and more mind!@#$s.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS!
The previous couple episodes definitely have set up puzzling scenarios about the nature of the island, most notably the time questions thanks to Faraday’s experiment. The payload shot from the freighter was 31 minutes late, so does that mean that time on the island is 31 minutes at a steady difference, or does time run 84% slower (but that just makes a lot of things seem crazylike, like the Black Rock, Adam and Eve, but then again we have the new character Charlotte Staples Lewis [um, C.S. Lewis, where in Narnia a few seconds on Earth equals days] or maybe it is just some weird location/electromagnetic disturbance in GPS type things... But then this week we learn at the end that the helicopter hasn’t even reached the freighter after two days. We know Sayid gets off the island, so the helicopter isn’t gone, it’s just, well, ‘gone.’ It might be in a sort of time rift where time seems to pass regularly on the helicopter in this area (such as on the island time seems to flow regularly, but we know it isn’t). It is possible that the time dilation could depend on the mass of the object; radio/light travels instantaneously, the missile, a small but fast object takes 31 minutes, and the helicopter, a much larger and not very fast object takes much longer. The delay could also simply not be linear.
I was very excited about the book which Locke hands to Ben, Valis, by my favorite author Philip K. Dick. One thing that Lost does a great job of is small tidbits, mostly literary, of information regarding their overall plot. From Sayid’s discovery of Ben’s secret room behind a bookshelf of Islamic texts, to the insatiable reading of books by Sawyer (side note: the book he was reading this previous episode was The Invention of Morel, which is a book about a fugitive hiding on an island in the South Pacific), the writers love throwing in cultural references. Anways, Valis is about a man who receives ‘transmissions’ from ‘God’ through purple lasers emitting down on him be an extraterrestrial satellite. Now, how would this relate to Lost… Well, multiple theories purport to the ‘alternate reality’ within which the losties are thrust when they are marooned. Valis is essentially an entire tale of an alternate reality and its blending with what the narrator perceive as ‘real,’ and well, that has something to do with the current situation the losties are in. Basically I was just really excited because I love PKD.
And now for the mind!@#$ at the end: Aaron. So, we have Aaron, Claire’s or Kate’s. Now I’m not sure where I stand on this right now, but there are several clues which push us both ways. Now we have seen Walt’s ability to grow rather fast, and Aaron at the end looks like he, if Kate’s son (through Sawyer), could have garnered that feature of children on the island. That could be a reason Jack doesn’t want to see the child of Kate, who he loves, and Sawyer. It could also be that somehow Jack found out about Claire being his half sister and therefore Aaron his nephew, which might, in some weird way, conjure thoughts of his father which he can’t face just yet. Then again, like typical Lost, we don’t have the whole story. Claire and Aaron could have boarded a helicopter per Desmond’s vision and something simply happened to Claire on the freighter.
NEW INGENIOUS SPONTANIOUS THEORY: Jack’s story about 8 people being alive and 6 surviving through the help of Kate (the story at the trial) in my opinion is what happens AFTER they get off the island. They are ‘rescued’ by the boaties only to be marooned again on another island which can eventually be found by rescue parties. This would make Jack telling the truth and what the cover-up that the O6 are all hiding: all the events before a second island. You heard it here first!
As for the Ben/Miles conversation, that is for another day (secret code anyone?)…