Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 900 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT John 3:16
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2009.02.18
Once she's center stage, Hawking begins her back-story. The Lamp Post was constructed years ago over a unique pocket of electro-magnetic energy that connects to similar (hot) pockets all over the world, but the people who had it built were only interested in one -- you guessed it -- Craphole. How did they know about it? How did anyone ever get there and back before there were magical rooms and frozen donkey wheels and Locke's Dad-In-A-Box? Well, Hawking says they'd "gathered proof that it existed" and "knew it was out there." That's all fine and dandy, but HOW? How did people even know about the Hot Pockets to begin with?
Hawking says "a very clever fellow" (Daniel? Pierre Chang? Charles Widmore?) constructed the pendulum mapper on the theory that they should stop looking for where the island is and try to figure out where it was going to be. Desmond's looking on, thinking that he's just going to ignore his time travel dreams from now on, because this is whack, yo. Meanwhile, Jack's all what the flying frick are you talking about, lady, so Eloise explains that the clever fellow theorized that the island was always moving, and he turned out to be right, which is why the Lost-aways were never rescued. And on one hand, I get that. That's how the Black Rock ship ended up in the middle of an island, and probably how the island ended up with polar bears on it, and whatnot, but...but...but...I thought Ben moved the island, and that that was a last resort, but if it was already moving...then...so...HUH? It is not large with the sense making.
So yeah...while the island movements seem random, the clever fellow made up math (yes, I said "made up math" and I meant it; math and I have issues) to predict where the island will appear at a certain point of time. Then she says something about windows and I'm pretty sure that's a product placement for Bill Gates, but who can tell? At any rate, the Escape-aways have to find one of these Hot Pocket windows and un-re-defenestrate themselves in order to get back to where they once belonged. Hawking says the escape-aways' window closes in 36 hours as she hands Jack her binder.