Happy 4th, Losties! The other part of the finale that reminded me of "Planet Of The Apes", was the emergence of Richard, Flocke, and Ilana's group at the base of the broken statue. This scene was of course reminiscent of the finale of the first Apes movie, when Taylor and Nova came upon the remnants of the Statue of Liberty on the beach. We know what happened to the statue on the apes' planet, but we don't yet know for sure what broke the island statue. Although I'd guess that it might have been fairly cataclysmic since there are no pieces of the top remaining on the beach. Did it get blown to bits by the cannons of the Black Rock? Perhaps the indigenous islanders attacked the Black Rock as it approached. Or was the ship's crew just in a state of panic after they accidentally went through a violent vortex, and arrived at the island thinking that they had been attacked?Another interesting note, is that I've heard that the book or tablet that the Statue Of Liberty is holding is called the Book Of Law. We know that's the name of the book that Richard showed young Locke when he visited his house for what we've come to call Locke's Dalai Lama test. The Book of Law is also named in the section of the bible that Mr. Eko quoted to Locke in the Swan station. I'm just sayin'. :o)
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i was thinking that the block rock knocked down the statue when it got pulled into the island due to the magnetic force so the rest of the statue is under the black rock or broken in with the black rock remnants
Awesome!
What if the Ruins are the ruins of the statue? We saw Anthony Cooper strapped to a big tree pillar and that was about it, right? My thoughts on the broken pieces have usually been that they are still off-shore, just pulled away with the tides. (Of course, once it is in perspective, that is one BIG-@$$ statue!) I like Greg's ideas re: the magnetism of the Black Rock.
Capcom, your POTA reference makes me wonder if, at least for the beach journey, the idea of placing Sun in 2007 was so that she'd be "Nova." Think on it, Nova follows Heston, and thats pretty much all Sun does, sadly. (Again, the confines of the show.)
Hi Wayne! Heheh, you're right about Sun. She is the dutiful wife, but now that she owns Paik, she packs a punch. :-) I think that its nice though, how TPTB have more than one good marriage in the show, and don't just continue to use their marriage as a cheap vehicle for conflict, like some shows do (i.e. constantly fighting like Itchy and Scratchy).
Yes, we'll have to assume that either the rest of the statue got pulled into the jungle, or out into the sea. It just seems like there'd be at least an ankh laying around somewhere.
I'll post the better pic that I found after season 3 of Coop tied to the column. It really does resemble the pudgy early Greek style.
I was just riffing on it being the ruins of the statue, mostly because we still don't know where half of everything is on the Island. My thoughts on the statue being at sea is that we've only seen it from, what, north going south. It is a tall statue, there could be a lot of overgrowth for some pieces if it fell on land, but it's easy to believe that if there is a volcanic crater on the Island that there are trenches off shore. Going back to the ruins, though: what were they before they were ruins? A Greek extension of the Egyptian temple? Someone leaked on another blog that we'll get a story on the statue--I'm not blurting out the full spoiler, and I think pretty much everyone knows the staue has to be explained--so maybe we'll see if it was destroyed by a volcano or by magnetism or by a cranky MIB.
Yes, good points. True, the other pieces could very well be on the other side of the small hill there.
As for the Greek structure, I guess that there has to be some reason why there is also Greek on the tapestry, so perhaps a Greek ship(s) landed there as well? Maybe those three vessels in the bottom part of the tapestry are the Greeks arriving?
Good news about the statue info to come! :-D
BTW, while we're on the subject of the beach approach, someone mentioned (maybe over at Yung23's) that as they left the 815 camp, they walked south and hit the statue location, which doesn't make sense according to where Sayid, Sun, and Jin sailed to see it. I'll have to check that out again.
Right, Capcom. We kinda sorta figure out where the Orchid is and then the Statue messes that up. They were indeed walking south, and all that is there is the crater. Sayid would have seen the statue during his self-imposed exile. What would make more sense is if they went south of the science team's landing point, because fairly close to that, you have the Temple, the Orchid, the tunnels. Maybe it will be one of those continuity things, that 815 landed on different parts of the Island depending on which reality loop it is.
You're right, beats me!
IT reminds me of that statue of Sadaam Hussein that the soldiers overturned in one of the gulf wars. I remember watching as they rigged the top of the statue to a tank or something and then pulled until it pitched over and the feet sort of broke off and remained.
I kind of imagined that it was something like that. That some force from the sea grabbed the statue and pulled it into the sea and that the base broke and one of the feet remain.
My other thought was that the statue actually represents the man in black. And that at some point, Jacob and his people topple the statue and Jacob takes over the underground kingdom. It would explain why the man in black is so bound and determined to kill Jacob. . .if Jacob defeated him in some sort of battle. . .
Surely we'll find out at some point.
Oh wow, yes, that is a very powerful image! And true, only the feet stayed put.
Heheh, right, MIB went into the future, saw that Jacob comes out right or as the winner somehow, and was determined to change the outcome. Good idea!
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