If you’re not reading the LOST-TV forums, you’re missing out. But I’d like to sum up some of the points that have been discussed in the new episode thread. It grows so quickly that it’s hard to keep track, and I find it much easier to put it all in one place!
Juliet’s last name was revealed when she was referred to as Dr. Burke. Her ex-husband’s name was Edmund. Edmund Burke is another famous philosopher’s name. (Thanks, SimonO.)
Forum user blondiejam found a link to http://www.mittelosbioscience.org/ - fake or real? Hawksrule found the whois information, which was apparently filled out with fictional contact information (Richard Alpert, Mittelos Bioscience) to make it look real. But as whois info is supposed to be real and verifiable, I think this points to being a fake. It’s actually illegal to supply false contact information when registering domain names. ABC would not risk that.
“Mittelos” is an anagram for “time lost,” as pointed out by stephew and backed up by Entertainment Weekly. I still think it could also have something to do with Mittelwerk.
Dagolu informed us that the Ludovico Technique is what was being used on Karl in his cell. He postulates that Juliet and other island recruits may have been subjected to this technique, accounting for their creepiness and the blatant differences in Juliet’s behavior on-island and off.
Jacob was mentioned again, this time in Karl’s video montage. “God loves you like He loved Jacob.” Hawksrule points out Jacob’s Biblical history, that he was born as a gift to Isaac when Isaac’s wife was too old to have children. Redneck once removed added that Rachel, the name of Juliet’s sister, was the name of one of Jacob’s wives in the Bible, and she was infertile. She gave her handmaid to Jacob to bear him children in her place, which is where Margaret Atwood got her title for The Handmaid’s Tale
, one of my favorite books of all time. Biblical Rachel did eventually get pregnant and give birth to Joseph and Benjamin. (I’ve now got a showtune
stuck in my head. Joseph’s mother, she was quite my favorite wife, never really loved another all my life…)
Truffula, along with other forum users, also saw Gerald DeGroot in Karl’s montage - the same shot used in the Swan orientation video. Truffula also has some amazing screencaps from the episode in his blog.
Softlips suggested that maybe “the room” that Walt didn’t want to go to was Room 23, Karl’s cell.
Lostitute confirmed my suspicion, that the book being read by the Hydra guard, Aldo, was Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time
. Are they just taunting us about the possibility of time irregularities on the island? Or is this a clue?
Vonnegut mentioned that Apollo Candy was on the side of the bus that killed Juliet’s ex-husband Edmund. Apollo Candy bars were found in the Swan hatch and were part of a real-world promotion during TLE (The LOST Experience).
Salspalden provided a screencap confirming that Rachel’s pregnancy test was Widmore brand.
Elsewhere on the web:
“Only fools are enslaved by time and space.” Those are the words in the backwards message played to Karl in Room 23. It’s suggested that the woman’s voice sounds like Bea Klugh.
by the Dave Matthews Band. The first time I heard the song, it made me think of Sawyer. Of course, a good video might not be able to be pieced together until we have another new episode or two to pull material from, but I’m patient! There should be a good Sawyer running scene or two coming up, if recent LOST moments are any indication.
on DVD. Having received 
as a surprise thank you gift from a friend and coworker, I now own all the LOST it’s possible to own at the present time. Merry Christmas to me!
