"Catch-22" brought a new character to the island and gave fans plenty of new Easter eggs to discuss. Some clues were conventional, others were a bit unusual. Desmond-centric episodes are always good for a few Easter eggs, so let's get started!
Backwards Speech: Check out this post for a sound clip that features a backwards message. In one of Desmond's psychic flashes, you can hear Hurley saying "Can you hear me?" in reverse.
A Familiar Language: Naomi, the mysterious woman who landed on the island, had a Portugese copy of Joseph Heller's Catch-22. This could be an indication that Naomi works for Penny, since the two men who called Penny in "Live Together, Die Alone" spoke Portugese.
The Numbers: Hurley's lucky numbers made yet another appearance last week. During Desmond's flashback, Brother Campbell mentioned that the monastery produced only 108 bottles of wine each year. 108 is the sum of the numbers.
Error or Clue? This could just be a mistake, but the dates on the wine bottles and wine crates were different. The bottle's labels were dated 1995, and the crates were dated 1989. Is this a hint at Desmond's special sense of time, or were the old crates simply reused?
Character Connections: An important figure from a previous Desmond flashback popped up in "Catch-22." As Desmond was being fired from the monastery, we got a glimpse of a photograph of Brother Campbell with Mrs. Hawking. It's interesting that Brother Campbell brought Desmond and Penny together, while Mrs. Hawkins convinced Desmond to break up with Penny. Brother Campbell led Desmond away from marriage, and was sure that he was not meant for a religious life. Does he have the same powers as Mrs. Hawking?
Happy hunting for this week's episode, "D.O.C."!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
4-23-2007 @ 7:57PM
Blair said...
Cabernet is usually aged for a few years. It's likely that the 1989 is the vintage whereas 1995 is the year of sale.
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4-23-2007 @ 10:21PM
jeff said...
It's 108 cases, not 108 bottles. Changes the math.
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4-23-2007 @ 11:04PM
Steve Shickles said...
LOL
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4-24-2007 @ 12:01AM
Akbar Fazil said...
You are correct Jeff. Also, it wasn't that the monastery only bottles 108 cases a year, at the time Desmond had drunk most of the bottle they had only done 108 so far.
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4-24-2007 @ 12:05AM
Akbar Fazil said...
You are correct Jeff. Also, it wasn't that the monastery only bottles 108 cases a year, at the time Desmond had drunk most of the bottle they had only done 108 so far.
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4-24-2007 @ 12:34AM
David said...
I think everyone is looknig a little too much into the whole wine thing.
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4-24-2007 @ 4:53AM
Bash said...
Oh wow, 108 is the sum of the numbers.
Anyway, there are obviously easter-eggs added in in post, so I can finally understand why this post is popping up every week. The picture on the monk's desk looked so totally fake and added-in digitally that it almost popped out of the TV when I saw the episode (like one of those 3D distortion-images it almost felt like the added image of the medium was hovering).
But the numbers... again, taking all mentioned values in an episode and chewing on them just long enough to produce ANY kind of reference to the numbers is just ridiculous. And every time you don't get any numbers at all during an episode you folks just give up and tell us "the numbers weren"t mentioned this week". I say WRONG. The numbers are mentioned EVERY week. You are just not chewing long enough. I bet if you count the times everybody says "one" and "two" as well es "too" and "to" you can somehow get to any of the numbers in that silly number-sequence. And if it doesn't work just calculate the sum, the square-root, cube, square or whatever. You'll get there. Whereever "there" is.
Ah well. Yes 108 is the sum of the numbers. Just forget about the stupid numbers unless the whole sequence is mentioned. ALL of the numbers themselves in an episode, in sequence. Maybe not in a whole sentence and next to each other but over the course of the episode. But everything else is no mention at all. I mean come on how ridiculous is it to count room numbers and dates or floor levels. Just stop it. Please.
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6-12-2007 @ 6:47PM
António Matos said...
Just to be picky: Naomi actually has got a Brazilian copy of "Catch-22". The book is called "Ardil 22" in Brazil (which was the one shown on the show), but "Artigo 22" in Portugal. So that would make the men on Antartica Brazilian, not Portuguese (which is actually pretty clear from their accent, if you are familiar with the language...).
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4-24-2007 @ 7:14AM
Doug said...
Bash, I agree that the search for the numbers can go too far, but 108 does refer to the time reset in the hatch.
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4-24-2007 @ 8:51AM
Ian said...
So Brother Campbell "fired" Desmond, because the latter had a "higher calling" of some kind. i.e. Campbell found out that Desmond was needed on the Island in the future.
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4-24-2007 @ 2:33PM
Gordon Werner said...
Brasil is closer to where the island probably is than Portugal is.
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4-25-2007 @ 11:56AM
Gordy said...
According to my Social Studies classes of yore, Brazilians speak Portugese, so, what are we going for here?
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4-25-2007 @ 11:54PM
wfc7 said...
Well, I am new to these posts and I am sure this topic has been debated, but from the beginning of LOST, I have thought they are in an "in between" earth and heaven place. Yes, I know the producers said it is not Purgatory, but that still leaves MUCH room for other possibilities. Ever read CS Lewis' The Great Divorce? It speaks of Heaven and Hell in different terms. People do not know they are in either place until they "grow" or "diminish" which is a painful process. Considering the parachutist said all people in Oceanic flight died at the end of tonight's episode...of course, she could be a plant to throw our "hero's" off, but I don't think so....
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4-27-2007 @ 2:08PM
Bogie said...
Something that I just realized is that just about every vehicle shown on or near the island crashes. The flight 815 airplane, the raft getting blown up, the sub, the Helicopter with Naomi, Ecko's brother's plane, the VW van. Even Ben's made-up balloon. The only one I can't remember wrecking is the Other's boat that Tom and crew used to steal Michael (And blew up the raft with). Could mesh with the C.S. Lewis premise above of people being "judged" before moving on to eternity.
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