{"id":3684,"date":"2008-05-29T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/theres-no-place-like-lost\/"},"modified":"2008-05-29T10:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T10:08:00","slug":"theres-no-place-like-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/05\/theres-no-place-like-lost.html","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s No Place Like LOST"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div>Tonight will be the season finale of LOST, when we are sure to be <em>wowed<\/em> once again and then left wondering and with a painful sense of withdrawal until the next season.\n<p>There have been multiple allusions to <em>The Wizard Of Oz<\/em>, and the fact that the finale is called \u201cThere\u2019s No Place Like Home\u201d should make us wonder whether, for the survivors on the island, like Dorothy in Oz, the key to returning home was with them all along.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/io9.com\/assets\/resources\/2008\/05\/images.jpeg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"179\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/io9.com\/assets\/resources\/2008\/05\/images.jpeg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/391929\/another-unlikely-potential-explanation-for-lost\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IO9<\/a> translates an interesting theory into language those who haven\u2019t watched <a href=\"http:\/\/4815162342.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?p=1151248&amp;sid=3d0430ebfa9f0acbf01c4443716d0ac6\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Red Dwarf<\/a> can understand. Buddy TV also has some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buddytv.com\/articles\/lost\/lost-five-season-4-finale-pred-19860.aspx\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">speculations<\/a> about tonight\u2019s two hour finale. You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysterytales40.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">read John Locke\u2019s comic book online<\/a> now. Would a show like LOST have worked in the pre-internet age?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been wondering ever since the episode \u201cNot In Portland\u201d aired about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/ew\/article\/0,,20010504,00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">producers\u2019 hint<\/a> that there was an easter egg embedded in the episode that explained more about the island\u2019s timeline and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lostpedia.com\/wiki\/Adam_and_Eve\/Theories\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">corpses<\/a> found in season 1. Most have been content to assume that the easter egg in question is the fact that Mittelos was an anagram for \u201clost time\u201d. Others have noted that one sequence played backwards reveals the words \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.terminally-incoherent.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/only-fools-are-enslaved-by-time-and-space\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">only fools are enslaved by time and space<\/a>\u201c. But no one else seems to have noted that the latter phrase can be rearranged as well, and the results can included the words \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordsmith.org\/anagram\/anagram.cgi?anagram=only+fools+are+enslaved+by+time+and+space&amp;language=english&amp;t=0&amp;d=&amp;include=adam+eve+corpses&amp;exclude=&amp;n=&amp;m=&amp;source=adv&amp;a=n&amp;l=n&amp;q=n&amp;k=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adam Eve corpses<\/a>\u201c!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I\u2019d like to suggest that the <a href=\"http:\/\/thelostelders.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/who-are-adam-and-eve.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">corpses<\/a> are Jack and Kate, and that their finding and touching their own remains is somehow responsible for the anomaly that is the island. LOST fans will recall how keeping the rabbit that has been brought through time from coming into contact with the one in the present.\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thejoshmeister.googlepages.com\/OceanicFlight815CrashLocations.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thejoshmeister.googlepages.com\/OceanicFlight815CrashLocations.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Want a wild speculation? Jack is persuaded that he and Kate have to go back to the island because he has learned that Richard Alpert is in fact their son, and John Locke is their grandson. OK, so that probably won\u2019t happen. But on LOST, anything is possible.<\/p>\n<p>And about last week\u2019s episode: \u201cJesus Christ is not a weapon\u201d has to be one of the greatest lines on television, <i>ever<\/i>. By the way, did you know that Jorge Garcia (aka Hurley) has <a href=\"http:\/\/dispatchesfromtheisland.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/man-this-door-is-cool.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a blog<\/a>?<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Well, we last left the Oceanic Six in very different places. How will they all get together, and get off the island? I wonder whether they will, or whether they will simply have something in common at the moment Locke moves the island, that will move them someplace else. 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