LOST/Eggtown

[glueandglitter]

Why was it called Eggtown? I don't get the title.

HERE'S THE BECKHAM CUT FOR A CERTAIN SOMEONE WHO "LOST" TRACK OF TIME TONITE AND COULDN'T MAKE IT TO WATCH. GET IT?? "LOST?" TRACK OF "TIME?"

Comments

[meropa]

NOOOOOO KATE AND SAWYER MUST LOVE!

[glueandglitter]

Ick but Sawyer grosses me out. That neck!

PS

[meropa]

From Lostpedia...

Egg-town is a pejorative term that refers to the days of bartering. A traveling salesman would have to barter his candy or tobacco or shoelaces for different commodities. A poor exchange would be for eggs, a relatively common item that is also highly perishable. Nobody wants to trade for eggs from a traveling salesman because they have their own, so the salesman who accepted an egg in exchange was forced to accept a bad deal. Salesmen would use the term like "If I were you I would stay away from Bogart. That's an egg-town." Of course, the lack of trust among salesman was also high, and it was likely that one salesman would lie to another about the quality of a town's customers to keep them for himself. Invariably, the second salesman ventures into to Bogart only to find it is truly an egg-town. He is either persuaded to not visit a town that has good customers or is tricked into visiting a town that can only offer eggs. The term "egg-town" represents a deal with undesirable outcomes in either case.

Re: PS

[glueandglitter]

Ooooh! Now I really want to rewatch! Thank you so much! I'd never heard that term before.

So....do you think Milo only thinks he knows about Ben? Maybe Ben doesn't have the money? Who else was making deals in that ep? It seems like there has to be more....

Re: PS

[meropa]

Hmmm... hard to say. I see some serious stuff going down soon!

[lilbrigid]

As for the baby thing, we have a couple of theories:

1. Claire dies, so Kate takes Aaron to raise as her own. Maybe Jack doesn't want to see the baby because it's his fault that something happened to Claire.

2. For whatever reason, Kate has a baby (with Sawyer, and that's why Jack doesn't want to see him?) and names it after Aaron just to honor him or whatever. Maybe something happens to Claire and her Aaron?

I had forgotten about what the psychic said about the baby, though. That adds another layer of crazy.

[glueandglitter]

1. That sounds pretty solid to me!
2. OMG but this would be totally awesome!

[lilbrigid]

I just read something another place I forgot about: Jack and Claire and half-brother and sister! Maybe that has something to do with him not wanting to see Aaron, who is actually his nephew!

[glueandglitter]

ACk! I totally forgot about that! Brilliant!

[codymc]

My friend Steve pointed out an interesting tidbit from the credits -- 2 year old boy played by William Blanchett (sp??) -- soooo we know this is 2 years into the future!!!!!

[glueandglitter]

Ooh fancy!

[prettylikeme]

What happened to, "Never let another raise this baby!"??
Good call! I forgot about that!

[glueandglitter]

Thanks! I hope it's relevant. I love when superold things come back!

[mathslut]

Found the script -- SO CREEPY.

Psychic: I can tell you, this is important.
Claire: Okay.
Psychic: It is crucial that you, yourself, raise this child.
Claire: You, you mean with Thomas, is he -
Psychic: No the father of the child will play no part in it’s life, nor yours.
Claire: So what exactly are you saying?
Psychic: This child parented by anyone else, anyone other than you...danger surrounds this baby.
Claire: Danger?
Psychic: Your nature, your spirit, your goodness must be an influence in the development of this child
Claire: Look, if, if Thomas and I don’t, you know, get back together I, I’m putting this baby up for adoption. I just, I just wanted to find out what would give the baby the happiest life.
Psychic: There is no happy life. Not for this child - not without you.
Claire: I don’t...
Psychic: Look, there can’t be another. You mustn’t allow another to raise your baby.

[glueandglitter]

Yowza! That is totally creeptastic!