Emotions
So, I made it past the finale and chortled with the cliffhangers that would have left me furious for the months after if I had followed the series live. Glad to see Jin made it out of the drink, was worried there for a tic or two. I like that the writers are playing with 108 and other Asian cultural artifacts like the symbolism of the Book of Changes, Tao Te Ching.
Musings
- Did the writers use Tao Te Ching hexagrams in the classical way (indicating the eight cardinal directions) for the Dharma project or do those hexagrams reveal something else? (I want to look elsewhere online but I’m not gonna!)
- I’m guessing that Desmond had no intention of coming to the Island during his race around the world and despite his having quite the regular workout routine has just encamped himself in the Dharma bunker.
- It appears that the “illness” is real and not a figment of Danielle’s murderous mania, but Desmond seems a little crackers too.
- The Others have a thing for kids (not pedophilic, I’m sure) and it could be because they have newer DNA, stem cells, whatever.
- I wonder why the Dharma project initiators (who used Apple II’s apparently and data tape banks) would require someone to “reset the clock” every 108 min?/hr? Now that I think on it, could it be that for whatever the Dharma project was for the participants needed to be inoculated regularly? But then why did Desmond have Locke do the number key entry to reset the clock?
Hmm…