Hey All,
After the Thanksgiving holiday, the LOST cast and crew were hard at work again, but this time in Othersville.
Today's set report is via Grant, a LOST fan from Canada that visited the set and provided our good friend Ryan from Hawaii Blog with the details of what they were able to see. No filming was witnessed, but Grant and his lucky wife were able to speak with Evangeline Lilly and some VERY interesting details have been discovered including which cast members were on set and what they were wearing!
They learned that four of the six Oceanic 6 members (Kate, Jack, Sayid and Hurley) plus two on-island Losties Jin and Saywer were on set with Sayid in plain clothes, Kate in a blue jumpsuit and the other four apparently wearing tan Dharma jumpsuits!?
OMG!? Huh? WTF!?
Several other actors and children were a part of the shoot in the jumpsuits and several new Dharma VWs, a jeep, and bikes were also spotted!
So is this all a part of a time jump!? Is it present time and the Oceanic 6 have already made it back to the island!? Is this another confirmation Jin is alive?? Has Dharma been "re-populated"!? For some reason I feel it is somehow part of the time jump, but I am still trying to digest all of this.
So what do you all think is happening!? Below are a couple of pics, but make sure you check out the full set report and more pics at Hawaii Blog.
If you look carefully at the crew eating lunch it looks like you can see Hurley in the Dharma jumpsuit and Sayid in plain clothes.
NOTE: Earlier today we learned that Episode 5x09 is currently being filmed so expect all of this to appear around then.
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It might be a dream...? If it isn't... wow!
It looks like the Oceanic 6 is back on the Island by 5x09 then, which goes along with what Damon said in yesterday's chat about how the audience would be mad if they didn't return to the Island until the end of season 5.
Unless, of course, this is a dream sequence or something, but I don't think it is.
What luck for Hurley that DHARMA thought to bring an XXXXXXXXL suit to the Island... those guys think of everything !
Ok that was too much - I wish I wouldn't have seen that. Ahh the perils of going to spoiler sites!
[Maybe that should have been behind a warning or something?]
I think Jack has a sad face in that shot because he just found his DHARMA jumpsuit says "Work Man."
OK HERE IS A BIG THOUGHT!
[And if I am all over the place I apologize but this is just coming to me.]
Ok so we know the Oceanic 06 need to (and do) go back to the island, with Ben leading them there. They can't find the island so they can't just fly there.
They will have to get back via another Dharma Station (we already know from production there is at least one more out there, off the island). But this will take them to a different time - they will go back in time as they go to the island, just as Ben went forward in time as he left it.
[Now we know what that little detail was all about.]
So they go back in time, to the Dharma Days.
HERE IS THE PROBLEM: Ben led the purge and killed-off Dharma, remember? So if Ben is intentionally leading them down this path...does this reveal that Ben is indeed a "bad guy" and is doing so to extenguish our returning castaways?
Of course our castaways will not be all killed off - they are the stars of the show - so this will alter the purge. To what end, I don't know. That's the mystery of the home stretch!
Maybe Locke and Jack will come together to stop Ben; that's just a projection, though.
What do you think?
GregDean
That's comedy gold.
lol @ Greg's comment.
Man, this kind of opened up a new view on the show for me. The present might be the future in which the O6 are back on the island, but it bounces back to the past (for both the island and the O6).
wow... if they really ARE in Dharma suits... then.... yea.. i just died a little... ok... A LOT... inside... due to an overwhelming level of fucking AWESOMENESS!!!!
well thank you bitches for killing sun off -.-
Aaand this is the moment where I decide to leave the spoiler realm for good. It's been swell you guys. Have fun!
Yeah... see you tomorrow, Big Wee Hag!
Wow, this season truly will be the best one yet. And think about it... we're getting stuff this good yet there's still one more lot of episodes to go after these...how AMAZING is the FINAL season gonna be? We need every fan we can get to turn everyone they know on to this baby so the ratings will soar for its swan song!
My guess is they will show O6 both on and off-Island like before they return and after they return which is basicly FB-FF concept. And of course FF doesn't mean "future". Time will lost its linear form. I don't think O6 will and shoul return to the Island THAT easily.
I think a warning is necessary here...even the caption is too much info
GregDean you wicked man! I finally catch my breath after a fortnight's coughing and you set me off again! LOL! <-- overused but true here :D thanks for the laugh.
*squeee* I'm going to have to get my Dharma suit back out the wardrobe, rack up the beers and host a special viewing party.
Perhaps they've all signed up to the new DI...
I'd say is a flashforward. The O6 are returning to the island only at S5 finale, but we'll see glimpses of their return way before that.
Or the island is still unstuck in time by the time the O6 are back. What we see as flashforward (left behinder's POV) is real time for the O6. I mean, our notion of time (past/present/future) will be completely screwed.
Once again this is a SPOILERS page, so with the premiere only two months away, if you do not want to be "that" spoiled, then please do not visit.
We love all of you and appreciate the views and comments, but Dark has clearly stated that warnings will be posted only with episode synopsis and perhaps "death" related spoilers. The "Are You Sure" buttons are only used for a full epi synopsis.
Also, there is a reason why I posted the warning symbol and you are lucky you got that.
We respect all of you that want to be surprised, but there is no way for us to judge an accurate level of a spoiler being too big. So as stated above those are the guidelines set here.
Also another suggestion I would have for those that feel perhaps a title should not be too revealing, please check out the LOST spoilers section in the SpoilerTV Forums, where you can pick and choose what to read.
However, once again, if I posted a title that says filming update how would you know what to read or not!? :)
Thanks
The ODI
ODI, I agree with the "Filming Update" titles.
Those bug the hell out of me. I like to know what the actual post is going to be about before I read it.
Seeing:
Filming Update
Filming Update
Filming Update
News on Jin?
Filming Update
Filming Update
Jorge Garcia Interview
Filming Update
Filming Update
Filming Update
...in my feeds back in early Autumn was enough to do my head in. I like spoilers, so I have the feed in my feed reader and read them. If you don't like spoilers, don't come on this part of the site. Simple..
I think , Dharma Jumpsuit = Annie.
WOW!!! :) This is just awesome!!! :) Looks like the O6 are back on the Island!!! :D Wonder if it's pre-purge, or if it's the new Dharma. ;) SO can't wait for this and to hopefully sort out the confusion. LOL ;)
BTW, love the idea of Jack and Locke preventing the Purge for happening!!! ;)
The 06 being back on-island for 5.09 would be great, momentum wise. I really hope that's what we're seeing here.
Sawyer in a jump suit!? Well, that's something I definitly need to see! :D
Thanks for this amazing set report! The hiatus is over soon, so very soooon!
Id love to see Ben giving them all gas masks and saying something like 'you may want to put these on'
This ALMOST proves that Jack and Kate ARE Adam and Eve, as was suggested WAY back in Season 1.
Stu, what makes you say that?
The O6 either get to the island very EARLY in the season or they are filing a FLASH FWD scene. Both seem equally plausible. And I don't consider this much of a spoiler at all, unlike some of the other comments suggest. We all knew they would be getting back at some point.
The question of how, when and where are all still heavily present.
This does confirm that the island went back in time to when the DI folks were in full swing on the island.
I really hope this is not a FF or something but in fact the O6 being back on the island for real. It's actually not that early in the season for them to be back either. If this is, let's say, a filming set for episode 9 it's only a few episodes left before the season finale.
What, so the cast gets to finish the ARG, and none of us do? That's not very nice.
DARK:
I'm not one to complain, and I know this is a spoilers, section but DAMN man. There is a certain level of spoiler I hold myself too and the mere HEADLINE of this bit just vaulted over that threshhold. Is it possible to not have that big of a reveal in the title?
Thanks.
(...) Kate, Jack, Sayid and Hurley (...) were on set with Sayid
hum... maybe the first "Sayid" is a "Sun"?
And who are the other four wearing jumpsuits? Jack, Hurley and...? Sun? and who? (not Sayid, not Sawyer and I guess not Jin eather)
ah yes. Losties going back in time to reconstitute the Dharma Initiative. Something I have been predicting since the first time I saw Charles Widmore
Again, spoiler site, don't come to the site if you don't want to be spoiled, simple enough.
It's a spoiler site, folks.
Jeez, take some responsibility for spoiling yourself.
If you have bookmarked or clicked over to the "SPOILER" section, then there's no reason to complain. You took the action.
Unbelievable, LOL.
Kris there aren't a few episodes after ep. 9. It's nearly the middle of the season. They have spent so much time for leaving the Island and showed for 4 years that the Island is not a place you can reach easily. I would consider it bad writing if o6 gathered and returned to the Island in 9 episodes while in past much more time have been spent on filler and much less simple Island stuff. It's just bad and imbalanced storytelling IMO. Remember how long it took for them to open the hatch door?? And what would be the important event of Season 6??? With FB-FF and time travel elements it's all pieces from different times now.
I wouldnt necessarily read too much into this. It could just be as simple as they're in a DHARMA station so they have to wear DHARMA clothes. Like how Desmond was always wearing a Swan suit.
Maybe I'm in denial, but I seriously doubt that the O6 will return to the island that quickly. I think that it's going to take the whole season just like their rescue did last season. So with that in mind, I'm going to join the camp that says this scene is part of a dream. Either that, or maybe this done to throw us all off, just like the three different coffin scenes they made for the finale.
If this is a dream sequence, who is the character having the dream? So we've got Sayid as the only one in plainclothes, Kate in a blue jumpsuit and everyone else wearing generic Dharma suits. Sayid having a dream?
Or maybe not. Maybe when the left-behinders go back to Dharma days they find that the O6ers from the future have traveled back in time to return to the island. It sounds so sloppy, though. If they're all going to meet up again in the past I'd rather it be on the plane or something.
Something that has always inrigued me is this...
The extra who played "Steve Jenkins" of the scott/steve duo (Dustin Watchman I believe his name was), is one of the extras on the zodiac raft with Faraday, when the island dissapears...
Now, curiously enough, when Jack and Locke are watching the orientation film in the first few eps of season 2, when they first get in the hatch, "Steve Jenkins" is sitting there with a few other Dharmites being taught by Gerald DeGroot.
Obviously at the time, this was simply just a case of usng extras more than once, but I always thought that it could actually turn out to be an interesting "mistake" if those zodiac raft guys end up back in the 70's.
That is all
Bye!
This brings to mind something I've wondered about ever since the last couple of episodes of Season 4. Twice, when he's talking to Jack, Locke says something along the lines of, "Wait and see what I'm about to do" or "I'm about to do something amazing." We are led to believe that this big event is the "moving" of the island. But why is Locke taking the credit when Ben ultimately is the person who does it? That's bothered me and made me think there's something we don't know.
What if Locke *IS* Ben, in some weird, mythological fashion? What if each of the castaways mentioned in this spoiler as wearing a Dharma suit corresponds to an original Dharma member or island inhabitant? Heck, maybe the identities of Jack, Kate, Locke, Hurley, etc. aren't even REAL and are false memories implanted in Dharma members' minds by movies like the one Karl was being forced to watch?
I guess the question at the heart of the matter, for me, is: Why did Locke say HE was going to move the island, when in fact it was Ben who did it?
gibra, if you re-call, jack and locke's talk happened before locke knew that ben was going to move the island. they were still outside when locke said "wait and see what i'm about to do". the ramifications of the conversation did not hit jack until they are in the raft floating in the ocean. interesting theory, but locke thought he really was going to move the island until him and ben ended up down in the orchid.
Aaron is the reincarnation of Boone, and he's gonna cause his nanny, Theresa (see casting spoilers) to fall down the stairs again!
Once again awsome stuff!!!
I also find it amusing that every year I have been coming to this site, there are always complaints from some about how the spoilers are too "spoilery".
Haha great theory, gibra8! Haven't heard it since season 1! I wonder if some of our old theories from way back will turn out to be true.
Regarding the whole spoiler thing, yeah it is the spoiler area. Even so, I still wouldn't put too much in the title. But I think it would have been worse if it said 'O6 in Dharma Jumpsuits'. Either way, no need to get so uppity, ODI. It's just a tv show. ;)
Maybe I'm in denial, but I seriously doubt that the O6 will return to the island that quickly. I think that it's going to take the whole season just like their rescue did last season.
Well, Damon Lindelof said recently:
All we're willing to say at this point is that if we were to spend the ENTIRE duration of Season Five with the Oceanic Six trying to get back to the island, we are fully aware that the audience would strangle us.
Sooo, one can hope....
The idea of Sayid having a dream is plausible. He's supposed to have a centric around that time so maybe this could be in that episode as opposed to Ep. 9.
I'm still not too thrilled that Jin appears to be alive. Ah well...I'll just have to adjust it seems.
iudmbfan40,
I'm sure you're right about Locke's conversation with Jack outside the Orchid... but where did Locke get the idea to move the island in the first place? And what gave him the idea that he had the ability to do it? (Which, apparently, he didn't after all, since he seemed completely clueless down in the Orchid when Ben was messing with that "chamber.")
That's because Locke is a failure. He always has been, at everything in life. It's always supposed to be him, but someone else has to always help him out and take care of it.
And please no one get angry by this. I love Terry O'Quinn, ever since I saw him in the X-Files movie. I just think this is how the character is written. Think about it.
Sunil Minnajeb--thanks for posting that quote from Damon! I sure that it was posted here somewhere, but I don't remember reading it. And while I usually try not to put too much stock in anything Damon shares with us (because I think he gets a kick of of misleading us), it's good to know that there is a chance that the return of the O6 won't be dragged out out season.
"I'm sure you're right about Locke's conversation with Jack outside the Orchid... but where did Locke get the idea to move the island in the first place?"
Jacob (via Christian) told Locke they had to move the Island (we didn't see the exchange, but that's what Locke said when he came out). Jacob just didn't tell Locke HOW to do it... Ben knew how though.
I just noticed something about the lunch shot... Josh/Sawyer isn't actually wearing a DHARMA jumpsuit in that shot, he's wearing a green t-shirt. Of course, that's not to say that maybe he was seen wearing a jumpsuit while actually filming or whatever... just wanted to point out that we only actually see in those shots three Losties in jumpsuits, not four.
A few observations thanks to the much bigger versions and more of the pics @ the Hawaii Blog; mainly this one of (New Otherton):
Most interesting to me in this pic is the jeep, but not simply because I don't remember seeing a jeep being used by Dharma before. Look closely at the front left quarter panel, and you'll see what appears to be a new Dharma logo we've never seen before. It looks to be inversed (light bagua outside, dark object inside), and even though it's really hard to tell my best guess is that the centerpiece is fire hydrant shaped. A new station, perhaps?
The other thing that occurs to me is if we can determine the model of jeep might help tell us the timeframe of the scene. Keep in mind, though, that if this is the real New Otherton and not a dream, it almost has to be in the past because of all the damage the mercs from the freighter did in blowing up houses and shooting up the place, and the implication by Ben that Smokey would tear up the place indiscriminately. Unless this is several years in the future, I doubt they could've repaired and reconstructed the Barracks so fast.
And then there's one last thing of real interest in this shot: the banner behind the gazebo. All we can truly see from this angle is that it says "New" on the left side, but there are obviously other word(s) next to it. My guess is that it says "Welcome New Membership" based on squinting and the general length of the banner, but that's just a shot in the dark.
Does anyone have some good software to enhance this image so we can see the banner, the jeep and the Dharma logo better, or superhuman eyesight that can reveal more for us? PLEASE?
~ Keeping Pace
P.S. Dark or ODI, could someone please get permission and post all the pics from Hawaii blog, and give us the larger version where we can click and magnify if we want? That would greatly help in analysis. On Hawaii blog they have the small versions all on the main page of the article, and when you click on them you are directed to individual pages for the small pics, but if you click them again you get the direct link to the large sizes and can magnify them. Thanks.
Jeff,
When I zoom in the new Dharma logo looks either like the radio tower or, maybe, even a volcano. But that's what I see. Here are a couple of links to the pics. I can zoom in even more but it really starts to get blurry, so these are zoomed in at a reasonable median. I don't have a lot of experience cleaning up images, but I did what I could to enhance the black letters for the banner and the dharma symbol. I think your right about the second word being 'membership'. You can see the 'h i' through the gazebo and you can see the 'p' just barely peeking out too. Hope this helps and nice catch!
Dharma Jeep
Banner
It would be really cool to see them back on the Island by episode 9, but considering S3 and S4 finales what would be the BIG cliffhanger of S5?
Volcano? To be back at the time they crashed?
Webbsta said: "Aaron is the reincarnation of Boone, and he's gonna cause his nanny, Theresa (see casting spoilers) to fall down the stairs again!"
LOL
I imagined a lot of bad stuff going on with Aaron, but I never thought about that :D
GreadDean said: "I think Jack has a sad face in that shot because he just found his DHARMA jumpsuit says "Work Man."
LOL
Poor guy... He doesn't even take the time to have a sit to eat... he's taking seriously the thing that he has "work to do" ;)
remember folks, the Carlton Cuse and David Lindelof said that there will be no more FF or FB's...unless thats what they want us to believe.
There's aguy with an OceanicAir logo on his shirt also...hmmm
i meant Damon..oops
mmmmm....the O6 again...pffff...but wait! Sawyer & Jin? Together with the O6! Now...it's have any interest to me.
"remember folks, the Carlton Cuse and David Lindelof said that there will be no more FF or FB's...unless thats what they want us to believe."
They never said that, are you retarded? People just inferred that based on the fact that SOME episodes will (apparantly) not feature the flash device.
Here's a theory: maybe the Oceanic Six arrive back on the island around mid-season... from the islanders' point of view? Maybe they'll still be back in the real world until the end of the season, while concurrently "already" being on the island. Remember, the island is about thirty years in the past anyway, so time is completely relative at this point. We might be seeing the Oceanic Six on-island in the 70s AND trying to get back to the island in the current decade, all in the very same episode.
like the theory that ben has brought them back to the days of the DHARMA wonder what would happen if annie was the daughter of two of the O6??? Just popped into my head so sorry if it's complete rubbish
Spoilers get sweeter each time! :D
found the excerpt, it was from Comic Con...by the way i am not retarded. Freakin relax...lol..sorry i said there wasnt going to be any FB or FF's. We will get something different though...
Cuse----You will see definitively [learn] this year Rousseau’s story, but to use the word ‘flashback’ might be disingenuous. There will still be flashbacks and flash-forwards on the show, but we’re going to do something different this year.”----
They never said that, are you retarded? People just inferred that based on the fact that SOME episodes will (apparantly) not feature the flash device.
THANK YOU! lmfao @ some of these people that clearly cant read... or read between lines that arent even there.
There is a really cool faux documentary on the Oceanic 06 at Doc Arzt's site:
http://www.docarzt.com/2008/12/03/the-oceanic-6-hoax-documentary/
I am watching it now. It lasts a little over 20 minutes - quite an appetizer!
I watched it all and WOW! When you watch it and the sneak peek, it really sets up part of the new season. REALLY good stuff!
Darlton have stated that Season 5 is the story of the return of the Oceanic 6 to the Island.
Darlton have also stated that we'd kill them if it took them all season to get back.
This is their clever way of making both of those happen, through clever interweaving of storytelling.
In the same way that in Season 4 the O6 saga showed us the future of what was going on on the island, in Season 5, it will flip so that the Island story shows us the future of what's going on with the O6. It's just pure genius on their part that it's actually happening in the past. Genius!
tie this into S03E20 "The Man Behind the Curtain"
wasn't there a rumor of the return of child actor as "young Ben" - at least the reference...what if the 06 go back with "Ben" ...
Ben has a few ideas about how it (getting back) is to be done
... when he is 11-12 / there was the rumor of Horace Goodspeed returning as well...strange twist as the 'the Hostiles' also attack (escape?) whispers, visons, etc...yike
damn you 'darlton'
I guess this will be a post-reunion scene. I would have prefered to see the groups split for the entire season only because the non O6 characters had gotten the shaft in season 4.
Dharma Suits ?
wow :)
I think some DarkUFO hangman games are in order! Any plans for those this year Dark?
As far as I can tell, both the Jeep and the VW's are from the mid to late 70's. Perhaps the 06 are posing as new Dharma recruits and working with Ben to prevent the purge?
I think that when they return The Island, they will return on the wrong bearing and end up in the 70's.
I agree with howey...When Ben said you all have to go back, Ben is meaning back in time (to prevent this whole mess from happening). Season Six last episode will be the plane ariving in LA as if the crash never happened.
@sjl
With all due respect, I think that ending would be a complete copout.
Everything to this point has suggested that there's a reason they came to the Island, a reason for their connections to each other.
That ending would basically suggest that the reason they came to the Island was to give them a way to eventually come back and prevent ever coming to the Island, which makes no sense to me.
It could very well play out that way, but if it does, it will ruin it, for me.
@sji
Naveen Andrews said that the last scene of Lost would be on Island, I agree with comans it would be just as bad as it all being a dream.
"Remember, the island is about thirty years in the past anyway, so time is completely relative at this point. We might be seeing the Oceanic Six on-island in the 70s AND trying to get back to the island in the current decade, all in the very same episode."
^
I've believed this all along.
Think about it - it's only the same as in S4 when we saw the O6 on the island (in the 'present') and off the island (in the 'future').
But, to me, as soon as we saw the O6 off the island, that became the 'present' to me anyway. Everything else became the 'past'. On-island stuff was the recent past (seeing as it was set in 2004 anyway), whereas traditional flashbacks were in the distant past.
It's the same.
We'll see the O6 on the island, in the 'present' (in terms of their own minds' chronology, not in terms of actual dates, as I'm sure this'll be in the 70s, ie - after they went back in time). We'll also see the O6 off the island, in the 'recent past' (ie - in 2008 before they went back in time).
We'll ALSO see lots of other random times in the island's history (past and future of the 70s) in 'time-bleeds', which are like 'real fantasies' which the Losties watch and can interact with to discover even more secrets of the island (the crash of the Black Rock before the 70s, Alex's birth after the 70s, etc). I'm betting these time-bleeds will include events in late 2004, such as the Beechcraft crashing down onto the Pearl with Boone in it and maybe (in the finale)...the Oceanic 815 crash itself?!
By the way, when I say the 815 crash, I do not mean they will prevent it.
I mean they will be in it. Part of the bleed will be their minds flashing to when they were on the plane.
They will be able to change a tiny little thing about the crash, but they won't prevent it.
What I am guessing they will change is - the survivors of 815 (including all those who have died since) will commandeer the plane and enact the safety procedures and be the first off that inflatable slide thing, with Cindy's help.
This explains why they survived and everyone else died (in reality, almost everyone would die, or die soon after the crash due to SEVERE injuries).
It will be an ATTEMPT to prevent everyone from dying on 815, but will, in an ironic twist of fate, serve to explain to the survivors HOW they survived and everyone else died. Kinda a downbeat ending to S5.
It will then flash back to 'normality' out of the time-bleed, where Ben explains that while they can change the past, it will have absolutely no effect on the present, and will actually be what caused the present to be how it is in the first place.
It won't be a massive reveal, but it will give them the chance to come up with a new tactic in S6 and use it to finally end the series...
^^^ AWESOME!
@ Andrew Sparkes:
This bugs me, because they've already sufficiently explained how some of them survived the crash when they revealed that Des was responsible for it... they just didn't actually show it, and so the viewer needed to use their deductive reasoning to piece it together.
The way that some of them survived a crash from such a high altitude is that they WEREN'T that high up when they crashed. When Des allowed the Swan station to go into SYSTEM FAILURE, the huge electromagnet beneath the hatch began pulling all sorts of metal objects toward it (as we see happening in the flashback, as well as when Des has to use the failsafe, both in 'Live Together, Die Alone').
This would mean that the plane was being attracted to the Island probably faster than terminal velocity, and thereby got a lot closer to the Island than it would've in a regular crash (which, in and of itself, would've probably killed everyone). But then Des got back to the hatch, input the Numbers correctly after a few tries, and the magnet rebooted to building up it's pulse to the 104-108 minute mark again.
This, in turn, stalled the plane from how it was being pulled down to the Island, and it again went into free fall. But by then the magnet had pulled it much closer to the surface of the Island, so that when 815 crashed it was as if they hadn't fallen from the altitude they'd been flying at, and some people survived. Des simultaneously was responsible for crashing their plane and saving their lives :)
~ Keeping Pace
No no, Jeff, I think you have my theory wrong.
I wasn't actually trying to explain why some survived and some lived.
What I was trying to do was show that the time-bleeds can let those experiencing them change the past, but only so much in that they change the past - not the outcome of it in the present.
Which then means they must try something new with the time-bleeds (as opposed to overtly changing things) in S6 to finally end the show.
IE - they think they have it solved (changing stuff in the time-bleed), only to have sand kicked in their faces, giving them new information with which to actually succeed as the series finale draws close.
I also see a guy wearing an Oceanic T-shirt... I wonder if he's just film crew or an in-character crewman.
I agree that Lost is very Oedipal. But there won't be any emergency crash blow-up slides that the Losties inflate by the doors. Come on.
I'm rewatching 'Enter 77' as I speak, and just saw something that may be pertinent to this film report. When Kate goes looking down in the underground portion of the Flame station, Ms. Klugh ambushes her from behind a rack of blue Dharma jumpsuits that have the Flame logo on them (even though Mikhail's is standard beige).
Therefore, perhaps Kate's blue jumpsuit mentioned here is from the Flame? Either that, or maybe Dharma wasn't as dead set on the old beige/white color scheme as we've been led to believe, and allowed all their hatch monkeys to wear blue on casual Fridays...
~ Keeping Pace