Stranger in a Strange Land Easter Eggs!
What is so special about this kite? Was that what Jack’s tattoos REALLY mean? I’m working on those answers now! To get my progress visit LOST Stranger in a Strange Land Easter eggs revealed! and refresh often! I have approximately six objects of interest. Some minor, some major, all fun!
Nothing too interesting in those. Nice detail with the kite.
ps- If you are a fan of Jack’s/Matthew’s tattoo, check here…
http://www.cafepress.com/tubetops/2583344
Comment by AnotherOther — February 22, 2007 @ 11:41 am
After the last few episodes I think the answers to losts questions are really starting to become pretty clear. What do all the charachters have in common? Regret. The writers of the show have beaten us over the head with examples of all the charachters regret for the last three seasons and now we are finally starting to see why. I mean if you had deep regrets what would be the easiest way to get past it. Go back and change it, hence the time travel. I feel at the conclusion of the show each of the charachters will be given a chance by the others to go back and change the course of their lives (or at least see what could have been). However I feel alot of the survivors like Locke will choose not to, believing in fate over science. That everything happens for a reason and has brought them to where they are in life.
Comment by j — February 22, 2007 @ 12:10 pm
One of the things that this episode made very clear to me was the survivors that the others captured are the “good” innocent people and the ones left (the main characters) were all the people with huge flaws.
Comment by Charlie Lesoine — February 22, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
I think it is funny how people are trying to figure out Jack’s tattoo, and that the writers of Lost incorporated it into the show. Sure Jack has a great tattoo, but how deep can we delve into interpreting what it means? Matthew Fox had the tattoo before he became Jack, so how much of the tattoo is actually meaningful to who Jack is, and how much of it is just to give us an explanation of where he got the tattoo (e.g. after forcing a tattoo artist/fortune teller into giving it to him)?
Comment by Jon — February 22, 2007 @ 2:04 pm
Choice vs. Fate. Very nice. But it seems like its leaning more towards fate controlling everything, no matter your choice.
Comment by AnotherOther — February 22, 2007 @ 2:36 pm
Why in the world did they miss out on the chance to get Sawyer in the background in one of the scenes? A great coincidence that they had foreshadowed in the previous season and it didn’t come to pass!
Comment by Anonymouse — February 22, 2007 @ 3:31 pm
Did anyone catch the symbolism between the kite that Jack was trying to fly and his tattoo? If the tattoo reads “the Eagles fly up on the sky” and refers to the deeper meaning, the question, “who masters fate’s rise and descent?” then the kite becomes a metaphor for Jack and his struggle to master his own fate–another tie into the plot line of fate vs. choice.
Comment by J Feltman — February 22, 2007 @ 4:40 pm
I’m confused about one thing after last night’s episode… Why was Jack’s tattoo in Chinese if he was in Thailand and the fortune teller/tattoo artist was Thai?
Comment by Al — February 22, 2007 @ 9:07 pm
Finally! Somebody else that thought that a little strange. Why would she be doing Chinese Tatttoos? Unless it’s as simple as a lot of the public wouldn’t recognise Thai script? If we’re being honest as well… Chinese looks so much cooler as a tat!
Comment by Matt — February 22, 2007 @ 10:50 pm
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Its your article and this is your site, why not post it here as well?? :s
PLEASE!!!
Comment by Stu — February 23, 2007 @ 5:28 am
‘Who masters Fate’s rise and descent’? A good question for this show, and the answer is, of course, we all do as possessing of free will. Far more meaningful than ‘Eagles fly, cleave the sky’ - or IS it? What that expression may be trying to convey is that Jack, or any person believing that Fate/Destiny can be controlled (the eagle) succeeds on the strength of that belief - but, as Aschara portends, there are consequences, frequently unknown, that come with doing so. If Fate/Destiny is but a flight plan for one’s life that can be rewritten simply when one realizes as much and has some subconscious knowledge of, then following one’s free will can be seen as ‘flying by the seat of your pants’ in comparison - so often we don’t know what the consequences will be but it’s still essential to risk them for a life meaningful to us personally, what we learn about Faith as a result of our choices. Ultimately, faith is knowledge of our true dynamic nature and the universal power available to us all.
This is an inherently disturbing line of reasoning, as it suggests that resisting Fate is unhealthy - and Jack can certainly attest to that, what with the beating he received from Aschara’s family! But it’s the WAYS and battles we choose to resist Fate/Destiny that are important - some more effective than others, and the most interesting aspect of “Stranger In A Strange Land” is the power struggle between two people for whom control is everything: Jack, like most men of Science, believes that ‘well-informed is well-armed’ and that specific knowledge will give him all he needs to succeed and rise up to cleave the seemingly immutable, eternal sky no matter what the outcome, finally feeling better about himself far above his father’s boozy path. Aschara is very protective of her ‘gift’ because it is a source of power and control over how she views herself as contrasted against the seedy Phuket red-light district backdrop. When Jack forces her to tell him of what she sees and ‘mark’ him accordingly - deny her the pleasure of choosing to give it of her own free will, he in effect steals that power and robs Aschara of her elevated self-esteem, leaving her feeling no better than the desperate, unseemly people just outside her sanctuary. It, and she, have been violated just as surely as if Jack had resorted to sexual assault, which is why she tells her brother and family of the experience and gets even when Jack the Eagle (also a superficial reference to his being American?) is, in a sense, struck down from his sky, his own artificially higher station, repeatedly, but perhaps he was sufficiently wounded by Sarah’s defiance of his hunger for knowing and thus open to what will likely be a huge catalyst for transformative change, just as on the island (the Others have served to remind him in various ways of just who he really is).
NOTE: I seem to recall that Bai Ling was contracted for two more episodes, and suspect that there is much more to this story than we’re told in Episode 3:09…..
Comment by ogam5 — February 23, 2007 @ 7:31 am
To me the clues in “Stranger in a Strange Land” also point to stars. There are many references to stars in this episode.
Isabel: I was just reading your tattoos. The “5″ and the stars are cute. But, the Chinese I find a bit ironic.
The mark on Juliet resembles a star.
Karl mentions the constellation, Ursa Theodorus, which he and Alex called the Teddy Bear.
At the end separately they look up at the stars.
Comment by Gus — February 25, 2007 @ 3:51 pm
The kite’s swirl patterns were modeled after Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’.The name of this kite “Starbird”
A coincidence? I think not!
Comment by Gus — February 25, 2007 @ 8:47 pm
If I recall in a past episod there was a reference to the big dipper being backwards in the sky. I think what the stars are telling us is that we are in another space and time.
Comment by cap10tripps — February 26, 2007 @ 6:28 am
Also a few other examples;
Claire asks the baby’s future adoptive parents to sing the baby a lullaby “Catch a Falling Star”
In the Dharma nursery the crib’s mobile plays that same song.
In “Lockdown” after Locke throws ‘Benry’ back in his cell the camera pans out and the one book on the shelf that stands out is entitled guess what “Stars”!
Comment by Gus — February 26, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Also a few other examples;
Claire asks the baby’s future adoptive parents to sing the baby a lullaby “Catch a Falling Star”
In the Dharma nursery the crib’s mobile plays that same song.
In “Lockdown” after Locke throws ‘Benry’ back in his cell the camera pans out and the one book on the shelf that stands out is entitled guess what “Stars”!
Comment by Gus — February 26, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Along with the idea of stars having some importance in the LOST story I noticed something else. In an episode from last years season 2:19 SOS I noticed something. The SOS that Bernard tried to make was backwards not facing out to sea so to speak. But the imcompleted picture seems to be a clue. When they pan out on the shot of Bearnard and Rose hugging, the stones on the beach make a picture.
Some have suggested that it was a happy face like on Henry Gale’s balloon. But if the SOS was the right way around then the picture looks like an apollo orbiter about to land on a cresant moon with three stars or aseroids one of which looks a white stone in the middle of black stones or perhaps a PEARL in an oyster shell which is right near where Rose and Bernard are standing. It made me think of the Apollo space missions and a tie in with the Apollo Bars. I don’t know if this has been brought up and discussed before. It’s just with all the stars in “Stranger in a Strange Land” It may be a tie in with an important theme or concept.Look at this link for a picture of it.
http://humpys.net/view_pic.php?id=142&season=2
What do you think?
Comment by Gus — February 26, 2007 @ 6:24 pm
I should have said unhappy face.
Comment by Gus — February 26, 2007 @ 6:29 pm
@ Gus
You know SOS is the same upside down right?
Comment by Brian — February 28, 2007 @ 12:24 pm
Yes your right. The benefit of SOS. But if you look at the picture that the rocks make on the beach it looks like a major clue. Another star connection is “Star”la Hurley’s Ex girl friend.
Comment by Gus — March 2, 2007 @ 11:28 am