though2544
02-27-2008, 05:32 AM
Ok first, I'm not sure if this has been brought up before. I try to read most of the posts, but I do miss some, so in case it has...my appologies.
I love rewatching old episodes because there is always something that either you missed the first time around or there is something you didn't miss and didn't think much of it at the time, but has to do with something presently going on in the show. I was watching the third episode of Season 2 titled "Orientation" last night and I found something very interesting to me. I haven't really given this much thought and don't really know where I'm going with this, but check it:
In the orientation film that Jack and Locke watch while Desmond is trying to fix the computer, Dr. Marvin Candle enlightens the two of them (and us viewers) what the Dharma Initiative's focus was.
"...imagined a large scale communal research compound where scientists and free thinkers from around the globe could pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and Utopian social [splice]..."
What caught my eye during this was when he said parapsychology, the image shown on the film was a blindfolded woman pointing at one of three colored balls with the DeGroots observing. When she points, Karen DeGroot writes something down and smiles and Gerald DeGroot gives Karen a quick glance.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the blindfolded woman point at one of the three balls was the scene from last week's episode, "Eggtown", where Charlotte and Daniel are on the beach doing the three card thing. There have been discussions on these boards about Daniel having memory loss and that the cards are a memory exercise. There have been other discussions saying that the card scene was showing Daniel's psychic abilities. I wasn't too sure what parapsychology meant or what it encompased so I went to Wikipedia. I bought the "Daniel has memory loss" angle from the get go, but after reading the entry for parapsychology, I had to re-evaluate that card scene:
Parapsychology is the study of ostensibly paranormal psychological phenomena. Phenomena studied include extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, and survival of consciousness after death.
I'm not too sure how psychokinesis plays into LOST unless I'm forgetting something, but survival of consciousness after death? A strange line spoken from Miles in Season 4.02 "Confirmed Dead" comes to mind: "What are you doing? That's not Naomi. That's just meat." And as far as extra-sensory perception is concerned (aside from the posibility that Daniel wasn't remembering the cards, but using psychic abilities to figure them out), Miles and Desmond come to mind. Later in the article it gets into the scope of research involved with parapsychology and two of the ostensible paranormal phenomena mentioned are clairvoyance and precogniton. We have seen that Miles has the ability to somehow communicate with the dead, an example of clairvoyance. And of course we all know of our friend Desmond's ability to use precognition to see the future.
Like I said, I'm not sure where I'm going with this. All I know is that after reading that article on Wikipedia, I find it very curious that the Dharma Initiative was, in a sense, studying the same unique characteristics that we see in Miles, Desmond, and arguably Daniel. If you got anything to add on the subject, please do. I find this very interesting.
I love rewatching old episodes because there is always something that either you missed the first time around or there is something you didn't miss and didn't think much of it at the time, but has to do with something presently going on in the show. I was watching the third episode of Season 2 titled "Orientation" last night and I found something very interesting to me. I haven't really given this much thought and don't really know where I'm going with this, but check it:
In the orientation film that Jack and Locke watch while Desmond is trying to fix the computer, Dr. Marvin Candle enlightens the two of them (and us viewers) what the Dharma Initiative's focus was.
"...imagined a large scale communal research compound where scientists and free thinkers from around the globe could pursue research in meteorology, psychology, parapsychology, zoology, electromagnetism, and Utopian social [splice]..."
What caught my eye during this was when he said parapsychology, the image shown on the film was a blindfolded woman pointing at one of three colored balls with the DeGroots observing. When she points, Karen DeGroot writes something down and smiles and Gerald DeGroot gives Karen a quick glance.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the blindfolded woman point at one of the three balls was the scene from last week's episode, "Eggtown", where Charlotte and Daniel are on the beach doing the three card thing. There have been discussions on these boards about Daniel having memory loss and that the cards are a memory exercise. There have been other discussions saying that the card scene was showing Daniel's psychic abilities. I wasn't too sure what parapsychology meant or what it encompased so I went to Wikipedia. I bought the "Daniel has memory loss" angle from the get go, but after reading the entry for parapsychology, I had to re-evaluate that card scene:
Parapsychology is the study of ostensibly paranormal psychological phenomena. Phenomena studied include extra-sensory perception, psychokinesis, and survival of consciousness after death.
I'm not too sure how psychokinesis plays into LOST unless I'm forgetting something, but survival of consciousness after death? A strange line spoken from Miles in Season 4.02 "Confirmed Dead" comes to mind: "What are you doing? That's not Naomi. That's just meat." And as far as extra-sensory perception is concerned (aside from the posibility that Daniel wasn't remembering the cards, but using psychic abilities to figure them out), Miles and Desmond come to mind. Later in the article it gets into the scope of research involved with parapsychology and two of the ostensible paranormal phenomena mentioned are clairvoyance and precogniton. We have seen that Miles has the ability to somehow communicate with the dead, an example of clairvoyance. And of course we all know of our friend Desmond's ability to use precognition to see the future.
Like I said, I'm not sure where I'm going with this. All I know is that after reading that article on Wikipedia, I find it very curious that the Dharma Initiative was, in a sense, studying the same unique characteristics that we see in Miles, Desmond, and arguably Daniel. If you got anything to add on the subject, please do. I find this very interesting.