5.24.2007

Newspaper Clipping

8 comments:

Saffie said...

What am I on CSI? After staring at this thing until my eyes bled, I realized that if the first name started with J, the visible rest must be the last name, not Jonathan. Also John Locke and Sawyer, Juliet (the J names) aren't from NYC...but Michael is.

Walead said...

As for who's in the coffin, Locke, Ben, and Michael are all good theories. Hell, the "J-" could be for Jacob, for all we know. Does Jacob get off the island, only to die in L.A.?

The newsclipping seems to say the person is from NY, no?

j u a n c y said...

umm... i never saw this screenshot. Never! AND i watched the episode like 3 times!!! i don't believe it can be taken as a valid piece of evidence or clue!

Saffie, Tina, Sam, i have to let Wawa and Sarafina know about my dearest moment in the show: the Alex and Rousseau reconciliatory meeting. one caress and a 'wanna help me tie him up?' was priceless!

i liked sam's comment on the phone-pow-wow about how their mutual hatred for creepy manipulative ben brought them together, even though they never met.

this was an amazing episode and a great way to leave us hanging without torturing us too much with a cliff-hanger of terror (thanks saffie), or nonsense (thanks sam's four-toed statue).

question, whoever agrees that Mikhail should have been thrown unconscious into the moon-pool, please raise your virtual hand.

anyone besides sam have a theory as to why Bonnie wanted to beat the living hell out of poor little fate-determined Charlie? Sam's silly-ass theory centers around her desire to destroy something beautiful so it couldn't hurt her anymore... bah-humbug. By the way, i thought that he chose to not change any part of the vision Desmond had to assure that Claire and the baby would be rescued definitely.

Why was it so easy for Locke to kill Naomi when he couldn't kill his father or shoot jack?

Tina thought that FF>>Jack was too hopped-up on goofballs to know that his father was dead... did anyone else besides Sam, Saffie, and i believe that the way Jack was referring to him made it seem like he was somehow alive? of course this could be a device to keep us blind about the fact that it was a foward-flash (just as the identity and gender of the person in the casket was).

i also liked what Sam said about the conversion of a silly non-sequitor fun episode into a functional agressive device: Hurley's van discovery violently saves the day!

Now the Losties have killed via a bus just as the Others did!!!

i forget if anyone said this, but did anyone else get the impression that the Losties have to keep away from each other? why isn't Kate in jail?

Sooo many questions! So much fun!
W, i agree with the melancholy take of the series approaching an end... what shall we do? and don't get me started on the crappy anti-climactic attempt at a finale Heroes went for... a shame.

anywho, this is Kent Brockman, saying, goodnight Springfield!

Walead said...

Wow, someone with better CSI skills than the lot of us was able to decipher this:

"The body of John Lantham of New York was found shortly after 4 am in the 4300 block of Grand Avenue.

Ted Worden, a doorman at the Tower Lofts complex, heard loud noises coming from the victim’s loft.

Concerned for tenants’ safety, he entered the loft and found the body hanging from a beam in the living room.

According to Jaime Ortiz, a police spokesman, the incident was deemed a suicide after medical tests. Latham (sic)

is survived by one teenaged son.

Memorial services will be held at the Hoffs-Drawlar Funeral Home tomorrow evening."

The newspaper article was from April 5, 2007 (anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide, hence the Nirvana song on Jack's radio), which means the flash-forward was approximately live time. Really, then, the island events (in 2004) are the flash backs.

As for "John Lantham," we don't know the name, so it's either someone on the island who goes by the name "John Lantham" off the island, or it's someone we don't know yet.

The name could actually be "John Latham," which might be a reference to an artist/scientist named "John Latham" who had some theories on the physics of time (and continues the Lost writers' love for allusions to thinkers and space-time theories).

In any case, season 4 will begin next January (Christ, that's a long time away), and they are only doing 16 episodes a season for the last three seasons, but they will run uninterrupted.

Walead said...

2 quick points:

(1) The person was survived by a teenaged son, and he was from NY, and the funeral home was in a black neighborhood -- all reasons to suggest it was Michael. Maybe once Michael got back to civilization, he changed his name? I think there's actually a pretty good chance this "John Lantham" was Michael. And we know Michael and Walt make some appearances next season, so their story hasn't ended.

(2) The doorman heard "loud noises" before rushing in and seeing John dangling from a rope. Who makes loud noises before committing suicide? It was Hanso! They tracked him down and killed him but good.

Trinidad Pena said...

Wow, I thought no one commented on my newspaper clipping and come to find out, the code has been cracked! I don't know if the person is to be commended or shamed for the time and ingenuity it must of taken to crack it.

All I gotta say that it doesn't matter if Michael was from NYC. It says that's where the body was found, not that's where he was from. Anyone can relocate. It actually stands to figure that the person is from Cali, because why else would the body have been flown out there and who flew out the body but didn't attend the viewing. Very interesting.

Walead said...

Tina,

The clipping says "of New York" to mean that the person was from New York. The body was found in the "4300 block of Grand Avenue" which is in L.A., so I think the person was a NY-native who apparently lived (and allegedly committed suicide) in L.A.

Assuming it's Michael, it makes sense to me that he'd end up in L.A. after boating away from the island (assuming the island is in the Pacific). If he changed his name and is staying under cover, then it makes sense that he didn't return to NY, but rather attempted to start anew in L.A.

It might not end up being Michael, but he still gets my vote until there's a better candidate. It makes sense that Kate would say "why would I go to his funeral?" while Jack would be upset that Michael died (Michael's the only person who knows how to get off the island, so he might know how to get back on).

Trinidad Pena said...

OMG! W, you are so right.