DarkUFO, a Lost fansite, has found another instance of backwards speech in last week's episode. "Catch-22," a Desmond-centric episode, featured several of Desmond's psychic flashes. One of these flashes includes a message when you play the scene in reverse. The video clip (sound only) is available after the jump.
Backwards messages have popped up in Lost episodes before. Recently, "Not in Portland" had a scene that contained backwards speech (the Karl brainwashing video). An episode in Season Two is also rumored to include a backwards message from Walt. The backwards message from this episode actually uses dialogue from a later scene. As far as I know, this hasn't been done before. What gives?
When the camping group (Desmond, Charlie, Hurley, and Jin) finds the mysterious parachutist, Hurley says "Hey, can you hear me?" This dialogue is played backwards during Desmond's flash the night before, after Charlie refuses to go into the jungle. The flash happens right after Charlie says "I guess it's supposed to happen without me." Here's the normal version of the scene:
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4-23-2007 @ 4:45PM
Howey said...
Maybe that parallel universe theory isn't as crazy as it seems.
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4-23-2007 @ 4:59PM
Akbar Fazil said...
I think this backwards speech moment was just an effect of Desmond's flashes in his head. I don't see it anymore than that myself.
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4-23-2007 @ 5:45PM
Greg said...
I think I heard Charlie say "Hey, can you hear me?"
But it could be someone else.
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4-23-2007 @ 5:51PM
Yaktastic said...
She's my cousin. Doesn't she look exactly like Laura Palmer?
Kar Stell
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4-23-2007 @ 6:43PM
RedStarRevolution said...
I don't think there's too much weight to the backwards speech. I would put money on that its just something fun they like to add to squeeze out that little bit more of blog talk about it, building buzz, etc
...Hell, it worked here didnt it?
On the other side of the coin, say the backwards speech IS related to an alternate timeline (which i hope to god its not, far too complex for the average viewer to grasp and hang on to) than the whispers in the wind might be related to the backward talk. Alternate dimensions poking through to our own...
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4-23-2007 @ 9:27PM
Melissa said...
un-creative editing?
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4-24-2007 @ 9:23PM
Psyberian said...
Hey Greg...that sounds more like Jim Carrey than it sounds like Cholly...but that is what he's saying. Anyone catch the non-distinct stuff that comes right after?
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