J.J. Abrams Rides Greyhound
By watching the trailer for J.J. Abrams's new show, Fringe, a couple things are made clear:
- J.J. Abrams loves Lieutenant Cedric Daniels.
- J.J. Abrams hates airplanes.
The first clip I saw of this show looked horrible, but this is much more promising. It still looks like an X-Files rip-off crossed with House, but the X-Files was great and people love House. Mostly, I'm just hoping that J.J. Abrams has finally found a format in which he can present wonderful mysteries that are so intriguing, but then actually wrap them up within the hour, rather than leaving them festering and forgotten, like so many broken promises from a negligent parent. Remember that weird injection the Others gave Claire when they tried to steal Aaron? And then when we got in the hatch Desmond was also giving himself a daily injection? What happened to the injection, Abrams? What happened to the injection?
Also, seriously, he hates airplanes so much. I think an airplane hit him when he was a child.
Posted by Gabe at 10:10 AM in Wait For It...
Tags: Anna Torv | Fringe | J.J. Abrams | Joshua Jackson | X-Files
http://en.lostpedia.com/wiki/Injection
Basically, they're both to stop the sickness, which we assume to be the out-of-time thing.
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But I thought the sickness only came when traveling to or from the island by the wrong headings. No one has actually gotten time travel sickness just from being on the island ... and furthermore, why then did Desmond who has a built up amount of the injection in his bloodstream get time travel sickness in the helicopter and not Sayid, who's never had an injection?
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the injection that Desmond was giving himself was totally different then the one Ethan gave Claire after he abducted her. Desmond was brought into the hatch by a Dharma Initiative employee named Kelvin, who lied about the injections and about a disease that apparently inhabits the island so he could keep Desmond in the hatch, afraid of going outside.
Claire's was a serum that Juliette developed to make sure she didn't die during the final stages of the pregnancy.
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Hmm, OK. You make a strong argument for Desmond's placebo injection being a method of entrapment. But if Claire's injection was just to keep her from dying, why the big drama surrounding Sun's pregnancy? Juliette took her to that clinic and examined her and was all gloomy and dramatic when she should have just given her an injection? And also, they gave Aaron injections too. Right? So what were the injections that they gave Aaron?
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Aaron's injections came from the food drop that they received in 'Lockdown' (S2). Charlie found the pneumatic injector and with him being on the outs with Claire at the time, he decided to give it to Aaron. As for Sun... i dunno. Maybe Juliette would have to go back to The Others in order to get more serum and which would blow her cover with the survivors (she was secretly working for Ben during D.O.C. (S3)), maybe she developed the serum on an individual basis, or maybe Juliette decided that getting Sun off the island was more important... I just dunno.
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All the drama surrounding Sun's pregnancy is because she got pregnant ON the island. Juliette said that pregnant ladies only die if they got pregnant on the island. And Juliette had never figured out why, so she didn't have any injection to give her.
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Right, I get the Sun problem, but then that sort of throws a wrench in Alex's argument about Claire needing the injections because Claire was pregnant before she got to the island. So why did she need the injections if she wasn't going to die?
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According to Juliette no pregnant women made it to their third trimester. When Claire crashed on the island she was starting her third trimester. She might have bypassed the danger, maybe she was saved by Juliette's late pregnancy potion, or maybe she gave birth on the island for a reason. Sun is in a much more dangerous time in her pregnancy and like Poody said Juliette hadn't developed an injection that stopped people from dying during their second trimester.
I swear this makes sense.
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