{"id":852,"date":"2010-01-17T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=852"},"modified":"2010-01-17T14:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-17T22:20:29","slug":"ramblings-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ramblings-iv\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramblings IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Been re-watching <em>LOST<\/em> in anticipation of the final season. \u00c2\u00a0Finished off Season 1, then decided to jump straight to Season 5 presuming these two will be the most relevant to Season 6. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m still impressed with how well the time travel was handled in a &#8220;Whatever Happened, Happened&#8221; sort of way last year. \u00c2\u00a0Biggest hindsight observation from the first season is the all-knowingness that surrounded Locke for the first 18 episodes or so. \u00c2\u00a0The writer in me wonders if the revelation that ended last season was considered early on, abandoned when they mapped out the full arc of the character, and is now being revisited as part of the endgame&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Also <em>LOST<\/em> related: \u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"The Trickshot\" href=\"http:\/\/thetrickshot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">The Trickshot<\/a> posted a 4-part series of &#8220;Lost Vignettes&#8221; during the recent hiatus between chapters, chronicling a time traveler&#8217;s attempts to view the final season early. \u00c2\u00a0Check them out here: <a title=\"The Trickshot Blog - Lost Vignettes I\" href=\"http:\/\/thetrickshot.com\/blog\/?p=181\" target=\"_self\">Part 1<\/a>, <a title=\"The Trickshot Blog - Lost Vignettes II\" href=\"http:\/\/thetrickshot.com\/blog\/?p=190\" target=\"_self\">Part 2<\/a>, <a title=\"The Trickshot Blog - Lost Vignettes III\" href=\"http:\/\/thetrickshot.com\/blog\/?p=192\" target=\"_self\">Part 3<\/a>, <a title=\"The Trickshot Blog - Lost Vignettes IV\" href=\"http:\/\/thetrickshot.com\/blog\/?p=195\" target=\"_self\">Part 4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a title=\"Lala.com - Dinosaurs Were Made Up By The CIA to Discourage Time Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/lala.com\/zIni\" target=\"_self\">Dinosaurs Were Made Up By The CIA to Discourage Time Travel<\/a>&#8221; is an awesome song title, but the music doesn&#8217;t really do it for me.<\/li>\n<li>The upcoming movie <em>Hot Tub Time Machine<\/em> has a pretty cool URL for their website: <a title=\"Hot Tub Time Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/kicksomepast.com\/\" target=\"_self\">kicksomepast.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been re-watching LOST in anticipation of the final season. \u00c2\u00a0Finished off Season 1, then decided to jump straight to Season 5 presuming these two will be the most relevant to Season 6. \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;m still impressed with how well the time travel was handled in a &#8220;Whatever Happened, Happened&#8221; sort of way last year. \u00c2\u00a0Biggest hindsight&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-debris","category-time-travel","tag-lost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-dK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":422,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/there-is-no-time-travel-on-lost\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;There is no time travel&#8221; on LOST","author":"LBDG","date":"March 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"With Season 5 firmly entrenched as \"the time travel season\" of LOST, I keep seeing reference to an old interview where the show's producers said \"there is no time travel\" on the show.\u00c2\u00a0 People end up calling them liars and claim we can't trust any hints they give regarding what\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Time Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Time Travel","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/time-travel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":273,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ramblings-i\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":1},"title":"Ramblings I","author":"LBDG","date":"December 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In the spirit of the early years of the Pearl Jam Xmas Single, here are some tangentially on-topic thoughts not big enough for their own posts: I've been having recurring dreams (and\/or daydreams) where M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel (aka She & Him) cover \"Start Choppin'\" by Dinosaur Jr., trading\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Misc Debris&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Misc Debris","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/misc-debris\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":284,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/constant-craving\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":2},"title":"&#8220;Constant&#8221; Craving","author":"LBDG","date":"December 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortly after LOST aired Desmond's time traveling adventures in \"The Constant\" I couldn't wait for the Season 4 DVD to be released so I could hear the producer's commentary on the episode.\u00c2\u00a0 My wait ended yesterday courtesy of Netflix, and it didn't disappoint. Below are some interesting excerpts, along with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Time Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Time Travel","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/time-travel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Twins?","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/eddie-vedder-300x203.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2845,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/quantum-entanglement-ranking-the-leaps\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":3},"title":"Quantum Entanglement: Ranking the Leaps","author":"LBDG","date":"April 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2022 Quantum Leap revival (Seasons 6 & 7 in my colloquial shorthand for convenience) had 31 episodes before it was canceled too soon. That's exactly the same number of episodes as the first 2 seasons of the original series. (Technically 1 shy if you (nerdily\/correctly) count Genesis as a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Time Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Time Travel","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/time-travel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":400,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/ramblings-ii\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":4},"title":"Ramblings II","author":"LBDG","date":"January 25, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Got a text message from my cousin Adam at around 7pm PT on Wednesday that said \"Are you in time travel heaven right now?\" He was referring to the season premiere of LOST, but forgot that I was 3 hours behind and thus hadn't watched it yet.\u00c2\u00a0 Note to self:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Misc Debris&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Misc Debris","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/misc-debris\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"My Timecrimes sketch.  Crayon on Butcher Paper, 2008","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/timecrimes-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/original-ideas\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":5},"title":"Original Ideas","author":"LBDG","date":"March 4, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"When I made my little joking reference to Lost in the launch post on Friday, I hadn't actually watched the most recent episode that had aired the night before. \u00c2\u00a0(We time shift and are usually a couple days behind.) \u00c2\u00a0So when I got around to watching it on launch night,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Time Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Time Travel","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/category\/time-travel\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=timelpersu-20&l=ur2&o=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}