tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9611352.post3172614167870225756..comments2024-02-19T19:53:01.688-08:00Comments on Cathode Tan: TV Watch: Lost, The EconomistJoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04260309971152360156noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9611352.post-79596569552955712532008-02-16T12:21:00.000-08:002008-02-16T12:21:00.000-08:00You guys are right - I was off by half a mini-seas...You guys are right - I was off by half a mini-season or so. In TV time, most shows get 22 epi's or so a season, so they're chopping two into three. <BR/><BR/>An extended season 5 or 6 would be grand.<BR/><BR/>Island time wise, though - what would we consider "out of sync", though? There was a 31 minute difference between when "Regina" claimed the missile struck and when it actually did (if IIRC the scene right). Apparently advance screening had this at 31 seconds, but whether that was an intentional plot change or simply a prop error is unknown.<BR/><BR/>So spatially, Regina thought that x = x. Temporal wise, it would be x + 31 minutes. The rocket didn't take long for Regina to say it had hit the spot. For the sake of easy math, it would have been about 30 seconds.<BR/><BR/>Here's why I think the time difference is because of the flow of time - Dan measures the difference not with a timer ... but with clocks. Now, the clock Dan has in his hand came from the same place that the rocket's came from. So if the Island existed in a place in time, Dan's clock would be the same as the rocket's. They'd both be, at most, equally out of sync. However, if time flows slower on the island, it would show a time on the rocket's clock which would have the additional time that has been spent outside of the island.<BR/><BR/>Two things break that all apart though:<BR/><BR/>1) Regina didn't see any "slowness" of the rocket. From her perspective, the rocket landed in 30 seconds.<BR/><BR/>2) There's no indication of any kind of odd doppler problems with communications outside the island. Dan's voice isn't moving at a speed different than those hearing him (we might assume).<BR/><BR/>Why does this feel like one of those "if a fly hit your windshield while you were driving at the speed of light" type deals? :)<BR/><BR/>Other factors:<BR/><BR/>The rocket probably did not follow the "safe bearing", which is why Dan thinks to warn the pilot.<BR/><BR/>Still think back to Hurley on the beach listening to the "oldies station".<BR/><BR/>There's the common theme of items being out of time and place - the Black Rock, Tunisian Polar Bear, drug smuggler's plane, etc.Joshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04260309971152360156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9611352.post-20528661197566640662008-02-16T11:12:00.000-08:002008-02-16T11:12:00.000-08:00Yeah, I'm with sterno. What's with the "last seaso...Yeah, I'm with sterno. What's with the "last season" stuff? This is #1 of a set of 3 16-episode seasons, last I heard. I know the WGA strike messed things up, but did it kill 32 whole episodes of the show?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10546761703943819030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9611352.post-21053121734024296792008-02-16T10:04:00.000-08:002008-02-16T10:04:00.000-08:00Oh and as for the time being out of sync, I don't ...Oh and as for the time being out of sync, I don't think it effects them too much. My sense is that the island is continuously out of phase with the world, not that time actually flows differently, etc. It appears that the flash event temporarily brought it back into phase, but now it's back out of phase.sternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02245940881311545520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9611352.post-61456065542164359102008-02-16T10:00:00.000-08:002008-02-16T10:00:00.000-08:00So far as I understand it, they are contracted for...So far as I understand it, they are contracted for 48 episodes. This 48 was to be broken into a few mini seasons. So, this mini season will be shorter than it was originally intended to be, but not quite so short as it might have been with the strike ending.<BR/><BR/>They are apparently planning to make up for the missing episodes by simply adding a few more to the next mini season. I believe each mini season is 16 episodes.sternohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02245940881311545520noreply@blogger.com