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Monday, March 16, 2009
Second Half Sweet 16
Here we go as the numbers trickle down to the Elite 8, we have some unfinished business to take care of. Here are the second half of the Sweet 16 brackets. Vote either in the comments or on the poll at the top of the blog under the header. For some reason the poll only allows you to vote once but if you want to see your favorite in the Elite 8 you can vote more than once if you so choose. Now on to the contestants:
Sayid Jurrah 2 seed
Richard Alpert 5 seed
versus
Ben Linus 1 seed
Desmond Hume 2 seed
Daniel Faraday 4 seed
Get to voting.
Sayid Jurrah 2 seedversus
Sun Kwon 3 seed
Richard Alpert 5 seedversus
Ben Linus 1 seed
Desmond Hume 2 seedversus
Danielle Rousseu 6 seed
Daniel Faraday 4 seedversus
James "Sawyer/ Jim LaFleur" Ford 1 seed
Get to voting.From Sweet 16 To Elite 8
The first half of the contests in the Sweet 16 round have been decided and here are the folks moving on to the elite 8:
Doctor Jack, the hero, easily moves on over long shot Bernard.
What I would call a little surprising Jin over Hurley by two votes!
Also a closer race than I would have thought in the beginning sees Locke geting only one vote more than Widmore.
The closest contest was between Juliette and Kate. The two ended up in a dead heat. Being as I am the moderator of the blog and have final say in the contest, I had to cast the deciding vote. Juliette moves on by a cheek.
Doctor Jack, the hero, easily moves on over long shot Bernard.
What I would call a little surprising Jin over Hurley by two votes!
Also a closer race than I would have thought in the beginning sees Locke geting only one vote more than Widmore.
The closest contest was between Juliette and Kate. The two ended up in a dead heat. Being as I am the moderator of the blog and have final say in the contest, I had to cast the deciding vote. Juliette moves on by a cheek.
Second set of Sweet 16 conteststants will be posted later today and voting will go until the end of the week.
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Whooooooo Are You? Who?-Who? Who?-Who?
No, CSI isn't coming on, I'm finally ready to make good on a promise I made when I recapped the LaFleur episode, so that can only mean one thing:
With the 1 week lag between episodes this week, I get to go back to the last episode and talk about the four toed statue for a bit. We finally got to see it in all of it’s glory. From the back anyway. Some people say that the reason we see it from the back is because the face is going to be of someone we know i.e. Locke, Sawyer, Juliette, even Vincent’s name has been spread around. All of them have a mediocre (at best) theory to support the claim. Then we move on to the Egyptian Goddess theories. First of all, can we agree it’s a female statue? It appears to be wearing a skirt/dress/robe type of deal and I know that during the time period it would be taken from that some of the males would have dressed in ceremonial robes and could look like this from behind but I’m going with that the statue is of a female. So if this is true we can cut out the Anubis theory right from the start. It ain't him, or it, whichever Nubbi prefers.
So let’s look at a few Egyptian Goddesses that it could be:
Heqet is a possibility and the face of a frog would be a good reason to only show her from the back. She is also the goddess of life and fertility. She is considered to be a child of Ra, funny how there is someone who doesn’t seem to age on the island with the initials R.A. I don’t think I subscribe to the theory that Richard Alpert is Ra in human form tho. But who knows? More on Heqet - She is associated with the later stages of childbirth. Don’t the women have trouble carrying to full term? It is said that it was Heqet who breathed life into the Egyptian God Horus (Goodspeed?) and thus connected her with resurrection. Good thing there’s not a lot of resurrecting going on on this island or it could mean something here. Oh wait. Moving on, Heqet was later associated with the Goddess Isis and even so much as became an aspect of her. So let’s look at Isis for a minute.
Isis is another Goddess of fertility. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife. Ah, good a woman that knows her place. D'oh! The matron of nature and magic. Hmmm, a magical island surrounded by, well, nature. Considered the friend of slaves but only if they are not shackled on a ship. Isis and Heqet are both good theories but take a close look at the island statue and notice that there is what appears to be ankhs in both hands. Isis and Heqet only have one ankh. Let’s move on.
There were a few others that were interesting including Meskhenet (pictured above) who is also a goddess of childbirth and she is associated with Ka (the life force) and fate. Hear that word a lot on this show, do we? Only problem with this being a statue of Meskhenet is that she is shown with a cow uterus on her head. Now the island did have cows but I don’t see a uterus on this statues head.
Where have we seen this symbol before? But the houses' money is being laid on:
Now on to the best bet in the theory race, Taweret. She is often depicted as having the face of a hippopotamus (a good reason for TPTB to hide her face from us), she is also often shown as holding two ankhs. Many depictions also show her as being pregnant. So make your connections there and also add other facts as well. The other things connecting her to the statue and the island is she is described as “The Great Female”. The ancient Egyptian goddess of maternity and childbirth, protector of women and children. She was both a fierce demonic fighter as well as a popular deity who guarded the mother and her newborn child. She was thought to assist women in labor and scare off demons that might harm the mother or child. Because hippos are denizens of the fertile Nile mud, Egyptians also saw them as symbols of rebirth and rejuvenation.
In the Book of the Dead Taweret, the 'Lady of Magical Protection', was seen as a goddess who guided the dead into the afterlife. As with her double nature of protector and guardian, she was also a guard to the mountains of the west where the deceased entered the land of the dead. Many of the deities relating to birth also appear in the underworld to help with the rebirth of the souls into their life after death. One last connection to LOST; Taweret is considered to be the Goddess of the Northern Sky in that her constellation covers almost the entire northern horizon. What was on Eko’s stick? Something about looking to the North?
With the 1 week lag between episodes this week, I get to go back to the last episode and talk about the four toed statue for a bit. We finally got to see it in all of it’s glory. From the back anyway. Some people say that the reason we see it from the back is because the face is going to be of someone we know i.e. Locke, Sawyer, Juliette, even Vincent’s name has been spread around. All of them have a mediocre (at best) theory to support the claim. Then we move on to the Egyptian Goddess theories. First of all, can we agree it’s a female statue? It appears to be wearing a skirt/dress/robe type of deal and I know that during the time period it would be taken from that some of the males would have dressed in ceremonial robes and could look like this from behind but I’m going with that the statue is of a female. So if this is true we can cut out the Anubis theory right from the start. It ain't him, or it, whichever Nubbi prefers.
So let’s look at a few Egyptian Goddesses that it could be:
Heqet is a possibility and the face of a frog would be a good reason to only show her from the back. She is also the goddess of life and fertility. She is considered to be a child of Ra, funny how there is someone who doesn’t seem to age on the island with the initials R.A. I don’t think I subscribe to the theory that Richard Alpert is Ra in human form tho. But who knows? More on Heqet - She is associated with the later stages of childbirth. Don’t the women have trouble carrying to full term? It is said that it was Heqet who breathed life into the Egyptian God Horus (Goodspeed?) and thus connected her with resurrection. Good thing there’s not a lot of resurrecting going on on this island or it could mean something here. Oh wait. Moving on, Heqet was later associated with the Goddess Isis and even so much as became an aspect of her. So let’s look at Isis for a minute.
Isis is another Goddess of fertility. She was worshipped as the ideal mother and wife. Ah, good a woman that knows her place. D'oh! The matron of nature and magic. Hmmm, a magical island surrounded by, well, nature. Considered the friend of slaves but only if they are not shackled on a ship. Isis and Heqet are both good theories but take a close look at the island statue and notice that there is what appears to be ankhs in both hands. Isis and Heqet only have one ankh. Let’s move on.
There were a few others that were interesting including Meskhenet (pictured above) who is also a goddess of childbirth and she is associated with Ka (the life force) and fate. Hear that word a lot on this show, do we? Only problem with this being a statue of Meskhenet is that she is shown with a cow uterus on her head. Now the island did have cows but I don’t see a uterus on this statues head.
I wouldn’t mention the next goddess if it wasn’t for one thing that sticks out at me, and I will tell you what that is in a second. Nekhbet is a Goddess of the underworld and the protector of the Necropolis or the City of the Dead. She is also called The Mother of the Mothers. She is considered to be the creatrix of the world. Although she is called a mother, later in her evolution she was said to be unable to have children and was forced to adopt in order to become a mother. Now I haven’t even gotten to the important part yet. She is often depicted in hieroglyphics as a white vulture, sort of like this:
Where have we seen this symbol before? But the houses' money is being laid on:
Now on to the best bet in the theory race, Taweret. She is often depicted as having the face of a hippopotamus (a good reason for TPTB to hide her face from us), she is also often shown as holding two ankhs. Many depictions also show her as being pregnant. So make your connections there and also add other facts as well. The other things connecting her to the statue and the island is she is described as “The Great Female”. The ancient Egyptian goddess of maternity and childbirth, protector of women and children. She was both a fierce demonic fighter as well as a popular deity who guarded the mother and her newborn child. She was thought to assist women in labor and scare off demons that might harm the mother or child. Because hippos are denizens of the fertile Nile mud, Egyptians also saw them as symbols of rebirth and rejuvenation.
In the Book of the Dead Taweret, the 'Lady of Magical Protection', was seen as a goddess who guided the dead into the afterlife. As with her double nature of protector and guardian, she was also a guard to the mountains of the west where the deceased entered the land of the dead. Many of the deities relating to birth also appear in the underworld to help with the rebirth of the souls into their life after death. One last connection to LOST; Taweret is considered to be the Goddess of the Northern Sky in that her constellation covers almost the entire northern horizon. What was on Eko’s stick? Something about looking to the North?
Now here's my theory on what happens to the statue itself and how it connects many theories together. If all the theories are connect and all of them have the statue being an idol for fertility and motherhood, let's say that at some point the statue is destroyed. Obviously it is but let's say it is destroyed by either the U.S Army, Dharma Initiative or some other people arriving to the island. I do not think the "Hostiles" would have been the folks responsible for destroying the idol or statue. They know the power it holds and they used it. At some point visitors to the island learn the power of the statue and destroy it. The power I am guessing the statue has is that it allows the Hostiles or "The Others" to have children. If you think about it we have only seen women who belong to Ben's people die while pregnant. We haven't seen any of the DI die during pregnancy. Claire was fine and now I believe Sun would have been as well. All the women Juliette dealt with were part of Richard Alpert's family tree. Destroy the statue, destroy the guardian, destroy the Hostiles by eroding them away little by little by not allowing them to make any more. It's called a war of attrition. Genius and it only applies to them because believing is half the battle. And believe they do, too bad one of them, at least, doesn't seem to age.
Favorite Couple
Even with all of the "This poll is fixed" mail and comments i got (yes, I know they just shoved Sawliette down our throats but I like this pairing better than Skate or Jate so all you shippers out there settle down it's just a poll and the winners are:
Wouldn't they make some purdy babies????
Wouldn't they make some purdy babies????Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sweet Sixteen First Half
OK, now it starts to get interesting. Everybody should have been expecting it with this show and the cast of characters we have seen through the years. Lots of great main and supporting characters and loads of red shirts. This contest was filled with all of those but the cream has definitely rose to the top and we have a pretty awesome Sweet 16. I guess I could have easily started with just 16 they would have been easy to pick, but where would the fun be in that? Now don't forget this isn't my Sweet 16, this is OUR Sweet 16. You get to vote and decide the outcome of the contest. I get one vote, that's all i'm giving myself and I break any ties if need be but otherwise this is up to you. Make a comment with you votes on the following four battles and the next 8 contestants will be up soon. You can vote as often and as many times as you want, I am allowing anonymous comments for the contest. Now on to the contestants- Edit! Look up top there under the picture from this coming weeks episode and you see a poll. You can vote for all that apply. Make sure you vote for one in each pairing. The voting will go on for five days and sometime Monday or Tuesday I will post the other half of the Sweet 16.
Kate Austin 2 seed
Charles Widmore 5 seed
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes 2 seed
Bernard Nadler 5 seed
Start voting!
Kate Austin 2 seedversus
Juliette Burke 3 seed
Charles Widmore 5 seedversus
John Locke 1 seed
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes 2 seedversus
Jin-Soo Kwon 3 seed
Bernard Nadler 5 seedversus
Jack Shephard 1 seed
Start voting!
Monday, March 09, 2009
Lost Music
This week we have a little something different for our music selection. Thanks to Locke333 we have a nice Sawyer video compilation set to the Killers "Change Your Mind" a very well done job of editing here. Please to enjoy ~
Round 2 Second Half
This will put a wrap on the second round and the sweet 16 will be set. Let's get on with the bungle in the jungle-
Jack Shephard 1 seed
Nikki Fernandez 13 seed
Jin-Soo Kwon 3 seed
Vincent 7 seed
John Locke 1 seed
David Reyes 13 seed
Juliette Burke 3 seed
Ana Lucia Cortez 7 seed
Jack Shephard 1 seedversus
Aaron Littleton 8 seed
Nikki Fernandez 13 seedversus
Bernard Nadler 5 seed
Jin-Soo Kwon 3 seedversus
Matthew Abaddon 11 seed
Vincent 7 seedversus
Hugo "Hurley" Reyes 2 seed
John Locke 1 seedversus
Penny Widmore 8 seed
David Reyes 13 seedversus
Charles Widmore 5 seed
Juliette Burke 3 seedversus
Christian Shephard 6 seed
Ana Lucia Cortez 7 seedversus
Kate Austin 2 seed
Who moves on to the Sweet 16? Here are the winners this round:
Jack
Bernard
Jin
Hurley
Locke
Charles Widmore
Juliette
Kate
No upsets which means some heavy duty contests in the next round and the winners of the Sweet 16 rounds are all up to you!
Sweet 16 round will be posted on Wednesday and voting will be allowed in the comments. You can vote more than once if you vote as anonymous which, yes I am going to allow anonymous comments for the Field of 64 contest. Let's get ready to rumble!
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Round 2
It's time for us to get it on once again here we go with the first set of matches in round two. The favorites that zipped right through may find it harder going this round. Let's see if we have any upsets.
Daniel Faraday 4 seed
Michael Dawson 3 seed
Miles Straume 7 seed
Benjamin Linus 1 seed
Walt Dawson 4 seed
Sun-Hwa Kwon 3 seed
Ethan Rom 10 seed
James Ford 1 seed
versus
Frank Lapidus 8 seed
Daniel Faraday 4 seedversus
Rose Nadler 5 seed
Michael Dawson 3 seedversus
Danielle Rousseau 6 seed
Miles Straume 7 seedversus
Desmond Hume 2 seed
Benjamin Linus 1 seedversus
Libby (unknown last name) 8 seed
Walt Dawson 4 seedversus
Richard Alpert 5 seed
Sun-Hwa Kwon 3 seedversus
Mr. Eko 6 seed
Ethan Rom 10 seedversus
Sayid Jurrah 2 seed
Not much in the way of upsets but it is beginning to give us a clearer picture of who the sweet 16 will be. Moving on to the next round will be:
Sawyer
Daniel (barely)
Danielle (barely)
Desmond
Ben
Richard (barely)
Sun
Sayid
I guess you could call Danielle beating Michael and Richard beating Walt upsets but not that big in my opinion.
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