The "Lost" theories of L.P. -- week seven
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 16:06 EST
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Butler has been snubbed twice this decade by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men’s basketball tournament selection committee. The first snub occurred in 2002 when Butler was left out of the NCAA Tournament. The second snub occurred this year when Butler was awarded a seventh seed in this year’s NCAA Tournament.
End world hunger! Save Darfur! Stop global warming! One can imagine a picket line with people chanting and waving colorful signs or a street filled with people marching side-by-side holding banners up high when any number of these subjects are brought to his attention. Everyone wants to make the world a better place in which to live but after all, I am just one person… I can’t change the world. Then stop trying. Set your sights at a local level and save your community before you save the world.
I’ll use Indianapolis, our community, as a model. I’m well aware that National Lampoon's Animal House and the Dean’s List do not go hand-in-hand. However, I’m sick of the bad reputation Greek life possesses when it comes to academics.
Those of us who are affiliated are not a bunch of half-wits majoring in toga parties. Yes I admit, with all the things going on in college, sometimes we can forget why we’re here. Greek life alone is a huge commitment, and at times it can seem like a world of its own. But if the whole “getting an education thing” in college is cramping your style, don’t blame it on your fraternity. Butler’s spring break is fast approaching, and the common questions on campus seems to be “what are you doing,” “where are going” and maybe perhaps “what reading assignment will you be attempting to do?” The recess, commonly referred by universities as “reading break,” truly is a great opportunity to catch up or work ahead in school work; however, many take the opportunity to travel home or abroad.
I’ve come up with a concrete top 10 things to do.
It’s not that I’m a cynic. It’s just that I kind of have to cherry pick alleged truths from less than reputable sources on “Lost” -- Ben or the freighter people. This week, we learned that Michael is Ben’s spy on the freighter. We can only assume that Michael is the one who slipped Sayid and Desmond the note warning them not to trust the captain, but not trusting the captain (hence, the freighter people) means that I’m putting all of my trust eggs in Ben’s basket, which I don’t think I am ready to do yet.
I am rather torn between these two opposing viewpoints, but in this struggle there is at least one agreed upon truth -- that Charles Widmore is the man behind the boat. All we know from Ben is that Widmore wants to exploit the island, but our captain’s input makes me wander. According to the captain, ol’ Chuck paid an arm and a leg to get ahold of the Flight 815 black box. The captain also said that there was a staged recovery of the flight, which means that somebody had about 300 dead bodies at his disposal (which is what the freighter people want to talk to Ben about).
So, maybe Chuck does want to exploit the island, after all he is a business man. But maybe he has some other vested interest in the island, like, say Oceanic Airlines or Dharma. Could Chucky be in cahoots with Dharma, or does he just want to earn a few pennies selling admission tickets to the island?
The other issue of the week is between Jin and Sun. Those tricky writers wanted us to think that Jin was wandering around Seoul buying toy pandas while his wife was giving birth, but they didn’t fool ol’ L.P. I knew Jin’s segments were flashbacks and Sun’s were flash forwards. So, is Jin really dead, and if so how did he die?
Well, it seems to me that a major part of this week’s episode had to do with karma. Bernard and Jin had quite a conversation about karma, and knowing the writers, I doubt it was for filler. Perhaps the Fates wove Jin a future in which he is punished for his old life of being an enforcer for Sun’s father. But the episode was almost too full of foreshadowing for this to be the case (e.g. Jin telling Sun he’ll never leave her, and where she goes, he goes; karma conversations, etc). Part of me thinks Jin needs to evade some troubles when he gets off the island and must play dead.
My biggest questions of the week: Why stage a recovery? Where can a person find 300 dead bodies? Is Justin Timberlake right when he says that what goes around comes around? When I find out, you’ll be the first to know. Until then, I’ll be busy watching “Lost.”
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