LOST 603: The Substitute (SPOILERS)
If you haven’t seen the episode yet, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK! Well, you don’t have to, but I’m going to spoil the crap out of this episode, so be ye warned. Edits are denoted [like this].
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Bryan
Beaker is one of the best Muppets. He finds so many ways to say things without ever saying anything.
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Loading Baby Rausch…
You might be wondering what that strange progress bar is in the sidebar. It’s a Baby Progress Bar! It’s actually a little JavaScript that I put together. You give the script your baby’s due date and (optional) gender, and it creates an updating progress bar, showing just how much baby growing your baby has to do! Blue is for boys, pink is for girls, and a calming green is for genderless children.
I’ll put up a more technical write up later.
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Molly
That is so cool!!! 70% holy cats! You are going to be a papa soon!!! as soon as your’s and Holli’s son is born I will call him champ and he will call me FAM. (It stands for favorite Aunt Molly!)
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Holli
Oh, so you’re assuming the baby’s mine???
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Seth
So… what happens when it hits 100% and there is no baby, or what happens if the baby occurs before 100%. Does that mean you only get like 93% of a child?
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m!les
I’m hoping God doesn’t decide to start using my counter as the literal countdown to Baby. If so, that puts a lot of pressure on my web host.
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seth
And makes a very poor assumption that you have no off by one errors.
Hope your comments support html
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Holli
Technically, though our baby wouldn’t be missing parts, he could be considered less than 100% in gestation. But really, anything in the 90s is still an A, so it’s all good right?
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Sonja
Technically everything from 93 and above is an A… at least in SD high schools.
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Holli
Well, this baby is part Iowan!
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Brenna Rausch
And they DID!!!! =)
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Holli
Happy Birthday. :)
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Brenna Rausch
Thanks Holli!
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m!les
Trophy Unlocked: Level “Interactive Programmer” at Lawrence & Schiller. New business cards, here I come!
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m!les
Night-time Thoughts
Don’t you hate when you walk into a darkened room, and you try to hit the light switch in step with your walking momentum but miss?
There you are, in blackness, your hand flapping frantically against the wall like the panicked gropings of a strangling victim. You try to walk on with dignity, but the mute, invisible furniture knows; the silent, staring portraits of you hold their judgmental looks, which seem to say, “You looked a complete idiot.”
With mixed feelings, you realize that those frozen facsimiles of you are right; you did look a complete idiot. And you vow to never look a idiot again.
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Holli
This is a completely accurate description of what it feels like to miss the light switch and still keep walking.
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Holli 9:22 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink |
Interesting take on Sawyer’s R2 life. I had thought about “what if Anthony Cooper wasn’t a conman?” and how that would affect Locke’s life…but didn’t think about how it would have affected Sawyer’s!
Also, one important question we need answered with regards to Ben, is: In R2, how did Ben get off the island? If we assume the island is under water because of the survivors detonating the atomic bomb, then we know Ben’s childhood in R2 — it’s the same. His mother still died before 1977, his dad still hated him, and we still don’t know where he was at the time of detonation. With the Others? We can assume Ethan was off-island as women and children were ordered to leave. But at that point, we don’t have confirmation that Ben had returned to the barracks. So how did he not die from the explosion and sinking of the island?
Mike 11:32 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink |
Why are we assuming in R2 that all things on the island never happened? They did change some things, yes. So the plane didn’t crash, the people on the planes lives were forever changed. How does that mean Richard was never on the island? That he never rescued Ben? Maybe they only changed things for themselves.
m!les 11:57 am on February 18, 2010 Permalink |
That’s my bad. I wrote this after very little sleep, and I got my timeline a little confused. I’m, personally, assuming that the detonation on the Island sank it, but that the Island existed before that with the events playing out the same way. I’ve editing a couple lines in the post to correct my confusion.
Holli 12:16 pm on February 18, 2010 Permalink |
The whole concept of R2 is interesting — if you believe the island sank and all on it died as a result of the atomic bomb detonation.
Theoretically:
Widmore would be dead (would Penny exist? was she already born or not yet conceived? There’d be no Widmore Industries and no sailboat race sponsored by them)
Richard would be dead
Roger Linus would be dead, Ben is an orphan (however he got off the island)
Eloise would be dead, and Daniel Faraday never born
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etc
All of this is debunked if the bomb didn’t sink the island nor kill all of the people (non Oceanic) on the island at the time.
Mike 3:26 pm on February 25, 2010 Permalink |
R2 seems more than just if the island sank though. Almost seems more like if the island never existed. As things that happened pre-island have now changed. So Roger Linus wouldn’t necessarily be dead, Ben may not be an orphan and he never went to the island, etc.
Holli 9:58 am on February 26, 2010 Permalink
Right, that’s why I said if we assume the bomb explosion sank the island and killed everyone on it.
We have to assume the island existed, as we see it under water, Dharma barracks and all. But I agree that we don’t have to assume it’s underwater because of the bomb.