These few weeks before the LOST Finale have been CHOCK full of interesting Easter Eggs. However, I'm happy to report that after teasing us for over a year, CHUCK has finally come through with the Mother Of All Easter Eggs.
Keep in mind that AMY'S entire theory of LOST assumes:
- NOTHING on LOST takes place in a physical world.
- This world is like a directed dream state, and it can be manipulated.
- The flashes -- back, forward, sideways (to a certain extent) -- our losties experience work like repressed memories for them (they are subliminal experiences recorded in the subliminal mind).
- The flashes do NOT take place in the past or the future. Events in the flashes work like they do for Desmond's flashes in "The Constant." The scenes as presented on the show ARE the timeline of events for our LOSTIES.
OH, CHUCK IT
If you don't know CHUCK, the premise goes something like this: A brilliant but bumbling college student stews at a thankless job as a computer repair guy in Burbank, CA, five years after he's expelled from Stanford. One day, his college roommate sends him an email. It zaps his brain, and he passes out. Come to find out, that email actually uploaded (through visual stimulation) something called The Intersect, a database of all CIA and NSA intelligence information, into his brain. And guess what? Chuck's brain now has the only copy of all that information.
[You know, once you think about it, it's not difficult to imagine the U.S. government doing something this dumb. Hm.]
Chuck only has access to information in the intersect when he "flashes," or sees an image that triggers the information download. Now Chuck is high priority because they can't extract the information from his brain. They can't let anything happen to him or let him fall into the wrong hands [the bad guys, AKA The Ring].
Eventually, Chuck gets the girl, becomes a spy, blah, blah, blah, but along the way two important things happen: 1) he discovers his FATHER (a squirrelly and paranoid guy in general) is the one who created and built The Intersect, and 2) he uploads the 2.0 version into his brain voluntarily because "he's special" and he wants to help people (aka get the girl). Before Chuck could only gain facts from his flashes. However, the 2.0 has a nifty new function that will download useful information, like martial arts, bomb defusing, stuff like that when he needs it. Bummer is, he doesn't get to keep that information. It goes away after he's done with it.
So far, things have been going fine for Chuck this season, [and Team CHUCK has had a blast bludgeoning us with LOST clues, jerkys!]. However, in the past two episodes, Chuck's hit a snag. Turns out, although The Intersect 2.0 has some cool apps (like downloading martial arts skills as needed), it has some not so cool side effects.
CHUCK YOU CHARLIE!
Chuck begins to have these really "vivid dreams," and they work like his flashes from The Intersect, except they seem to be trying to "tell him something." In CHUCK v. The Tooth," The Intersect shows him the who, what and where of a pending assassination attempt.
Get it? The Intersect in his head is trying to give him a message. That is, it is problem solving, making predictions and sending Chuck the information. However, it can't just relay the info. Instead, it creates "dreams" using images -- memories highly charged with emotion, which, in this case, is the memory of when Chuck shot and killed a fellow spy turned double agent named Shaw.
Problem is, the human subconscious is not very orderly. AND The Intersect can only use the information it contains and memories in CHUCK'S MIND to create its "messages" for him. The messages it creates are a mish mosh of Chuck's memories and only follow dream logic. Eventually, though he is able to interact within the message (the FLASH he has in his SUBCONSCIOUS mind while his CONSCIOUS mind is asleep). He asks for clarification, and the "dream" provides answers either through images, sound-bites, OR someone he knows gives him a verbal message.
Another problem is he sounds like a crazy person (he thinks the database in his brain is fabricating symbolic messages to him to help him do his job (prevent assassinations, etc), and then feeding them to him when he is asleep). He ends up in the looney bin -- the special looney bin for former spys because being a spy is a very stressful job. [CHECK OUT the Connect Four Game! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Eventually, he is proven NOT crazy, but it's entirely possible The Intersect will overwhelm his mind and leave him "hopelessly insane."
[Now, where did we just discuss something like this -- Ah HA! We talked about something very similar to this in "Total Recall," didn't we?]
Check out the clips I pulled out of "Chuck v. The Tooth."
Will our Chuck circle the mental drain, lose his job as a spy, lose the girl and basically be completely screwed? Maybe! Lucky for him, his dad's a super genius. We find out there's hope for Chuck in the very next episode, "Chuck v. The Living Dead."
In this episode, his father turns up (for various reasons), and is suspicious that Chuck has rejoined the CIA after he promised he would quit. In the end, however, all is well, and Chuck's dad shows up to give him the good news! He's got a "fix." It's a watch. A big silver watch with a big, ole linked wristband. And he's gonna make one for Chuck. He calls it "The Governor."
Watch This [HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]:
Chuck's dad:
"I call it the governor because it sort of, governs The Intersect. I've realized through the years that, just like a computer, the intersect can overheat...Your brain is like a circuit. When you flash, it releases a certain amount of electrical energy. If it's not controlled, it can cause dementia and insanity -- maybe even death. But I've been working on a fix. This is the closest I've gotten to one. [shows him the watch] It governs my neural network and helps control the power of the intersect. Almost like a pacemaker would for the heart.
Chuck's pop hasn't made it yet, but he will. Plus, as a bonus, he's embraced his son's wish to be a spy.
"You're my son. You downloaded the 2.0 for the same reason I created the original: To help people. You want to be a spy, and I'm gonna do whatever I can to help you be the man you want to be."
WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP
This relates to LOST SPECIFICALLY because the the island IS an "intersect." However, instead of a database of filed information, this intersect is the actual memories and/or minds of several different peeps. AND once our losties were plugged in [however it works, I still can't tell you], their minds became vulnerable the same way Chuck's mind did.
We'll go into more of that later, but the other thing to notice is the SILVER WATCHES. Our losties are divided into two groups: Those WITH silver watches (or bracelets or necklaces OR HANDCUFFS) and those without. Most of those without have on BLACK watches or wristbands or necklaces. In "Happily Ever After," Charlie has a black band on each ankle.
What do these silver watches mean on LOST? I dunno yet. HOWEVER, I know that Team LOST has been trying to get us to notice them for a while. Case in point: the "SLAPDOWN" series of videos. Check any of them out, and you'll notice a lot of hand waving and huge silver watches.
Oh, yeah. Those videos were created with the same intention as the podcasts. They are full of clues! Team LOST WANTS us to figure it out!
Two things:
I can only think of ONE lostie that's worn BOTH a black band and a silver band (handcuffs) at the same time: KATE. We see her wearing both of them in "The Incident" when she's on the sub with Juliet and Sawyer.
After umpteen Slapdown videos put out with peeps sporting huge silver watches, this popped up on LOST Slapdown Part 14.
Can you see it? :)
One more set of clues from FRINGE, and we'll be ready to explain the island, the "war," and WHAT (TF) is GOING ON ON LOST! WOOT!
CHECK OUT ALL SLAPDOWN clips at ABC. Look for the shortcuts at the bottom of the page. FYI: There are a TON of clues in those Slapdown videos. Definitely worth looking into.
