In the first Act of "LAX, Part One," this happens:
[The Previously on Lost ends with the detonation of the bomb -
then cuts to the clouds, as the view zooms out to Jack. Jack is then
interrupted by Cindy.]
CINDY: So how's the drink?
JACK: Uh... it's good.
CINDY: That's not a very strong reaction.
JACK: Well, it's--it's not a very strong drink.
[She hands Jack a single Vodka bottle.]
CINDY: Don't tell anyone.
JACK: It'll be our secret.
[As Jack pours the Vodka into his drink, the plane shakes causing him to spill a little. Jack buckles his seatbelt.]
CINDY: [Over P.A.] Ladies and gentlemen, the captain has turned on the "fasten seat belts" sign.
[Rattling stops.]
CINDY: [Over P.A.] Please return to your seats and keep your seat belts fastened.
ROSE: It's normal. My husband said the planes want to stay in the air.
[Jack chuckles.]
JACK: Sounds like a smart man.
ROSE: You be sure and tell him that when he gets back from the bathroom.
JACK: Well, I'll keep you company until he does. Don't worry--
[The plane starts to shake again, this time more violently.
Luggage falls from the overhead compartment and Jack grips his seat,
almost in anticipation. The turbulance ends and Jack breaths a sigh of
relief.]
ROSE: You can let go now.
[Passengers murmuring.]
ROSE: It's okay. You--you can let go.
[Jack let's go and sighs.]
JACK: Looks like we made it.
ROSE: Yeah. We sure did.
[Bell dings.]
In the previous story, the plane does not survive the turbulence and it crashes on the island.
But in this scene, the plane does not crash. It lead to many viewers thinking that LOST was a) jumping the shark; b) introducing another sci-fi element in parallel universes; or c) giving us clues that the what we had previously seen was not true (like reworking a dream over and over again) or d) that the atomic bomb somehow re-set the time line so the plane would not crash.
But in retrospect, there are several key elements in this short scene that have great import in trying to understand the big premise.
What does Cindy represent?
What does Rose represent?
Why are they comforting Jack, who is a man used to pressure situations?
We know that Rose has terminal cancer. She has come to terms with her fate, that she was going to die.
We know that Cindy represents as a flight attendant, a kind person who works in the sky, which could symbolize a guardian angel.
We would learn later that Jack would have his inner demons tear a part his soul in fits of rage, addiction and regret. Perhaps, this is the point in time where Jack actually dies.
Instead of walking into a tunnel of light, Jack is rocked and jolted into "letting go" by a kind and wise older woman who herself is on the ride to the other side.
And so this flight is merely symbolic of Jack and the other soul's journey into the after life (as represented by the sideways world). The transition period of not truly understanding one's own death is the key to inner peace that is required in the sideways world in order to "awaken" one's spirit to move on to heaven.
Showing posts with label Cindy. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Sunday, May 25, 2014
CINDY'S STORY
If there was ever a character who needed a real back story episode, it would be Cindy Chandler.
Cindy was a flight attendant on Flight 815. She appears to be an Aussie. She was the one who gave a nervous Jack a second bottle of vodka (on the house). She was also the person who noticed Charlie's erratic behavior. She was trying to get Charlie out of the first class restroom before the final turbulence began. However, somehow she wound up in the back of the plane when Flight 815 broke a part. (Whether this is a continuity error is unknown; or whether she was part of crash sequence from the beginning.)
Cindy wound up in the Tail Section survivors. She helped Ana Lucia and Libby take care of the wounded. She quickly became the guardian for two children, Zach and Emma (which also lead some to believe that she was an Other, who was charged with gathering any children for the collective.)
When the Others raided the Tailies camp, Zach and Emma and "other" survivors were kidnapped. We don't know if Cindy was kidnapped or voluntarily left with the children. However, we know that she quickly assimulated herself into the Others' camp. She never tried to escape the Others.
In the final season, she went to the Temple on Ben's orders. She chose to go with Flocke (MIB) in order to protect the children from harm. We do not know what actually happened to her at the end of the series; most presume she stayed on the island under Hurley's watch.
But why would anyone want to "stay" on the island" Cindy had a life and career prior to the crash. She also would have wanted to reunite Zach and Emma with their mother, right? The only reason why Cindy would stay on the island with the children was to protect them from the truth - - - that they perished in the plane crash and they were not yet ready for heaven.
Cindy is a mysterious character that was underdeveloped in the series.
She could have been good or evil.
She could have been an Other whose mission was to kidnap the children. Ben was famous for planting spies in the enemy camp. Or perhaps, she could have been working for Jacob, who recruited off-island people to do his work.
Or she could have been a normal young woman who found it her duty to protect the people in her charge, the passengers on the plane. And she clung to the most at risk, the children.
Or, the island could have been setting her up to repeat its own history . . . . turning Cindy into Crazy Mother 2.0 and Zach and Emma as her adoptive children, Jacob and MIB, in order to reboot the island's mission cycle (whatever that truly was).
The gaps in Cindy's story line were ripe for writer exploitation and intrigue. But alas, we will never know the true Cindy story.
Cindy was a flight attendant on Flight 815. She appears to be an Aussie. She was the one who gave a nervous Jack a second bottle of vodka (on the house). She was also the person who noticed Charlie's erratic behavior. She was trying to get Charlie out of the first class restroom before the final turbulence began. However, somehow she wound up in the back of the plane when Flight 815 broke a part. (Whether this is a continuity error is unknown; or whether she was part of crash sequence from the beginning.)
Cindy wound up in the Tail Section survivors. She helped Ana Lucia and Libby take care of the wounded. She quickly became the guardian for two children, Zach and Emma (which also lead some to believe that she was an Other, who was charged with gathering any children for the collective.)
When the Others raided the Tailies camp, Zach and Emma and "other" survivors were kidnapped. We don't know if Cindy was kidnapped or voluntarily left with the children. However, we know that she quickly assimulated herself into the Others' camp. She never tried to escape the Others.
In the final season, she went to the Temple on Ben's orders. She chose to go with Flocke (MIB) in order to protect the children from harm. We do not know what actually happened to her at the end of the series; most presume she stayed on the island under Hurley's watch.
But why would anyone want to "stay" on the island" Cindy had a life and career prior to the crash. She also would have wanted to reunite Zach and Emma with their mother, right? The only reason why Cindy would stay on the island with the children was to protect them from the truth - - - that they perished in the plane crash and they were not yet ready for heaven.
Cindy is a mysterious character that was underdeveloped in the series.
She could have been good or evil.
She could have been an Other whose mission was to kidnap the children. Ben was famous for planting spies in the enemy camp. Or perhaps, she could have been working for Jacob, who recruited off-island people to do his work.
Or she could have been a normal young woman who found it her duty to protect the people in her charge, the passengers on the plane. And she clung to the most at risk, the children.
Or, the island could have been setting her up to repeat its own history . . . . turning Cindy into Crazy Mother 2.0 and Zach and Emma as her adoptive children, Jacob and MIB, in order to reboot the island's mission cycle (whatever that truly was).
The gaps in Cindy's story line were ripe for writer exploitation and intrigue. But alas, we will never know the true Cindy story.
Sunday, December 22, 2013
MYSTERY OF CINDY
Cindy Chandler was the middle section flight attendant on board Oceanic 815. She has always been one of the most mysterious background characters of the series.
Her big close up is in the pilot when she is flirting with Jack. During that encounter, she gives him two bottles of clear alcohol (vodka), which Jack puts into his pocket. These bottles would later be used to sterilize Jack's severe laceration wounds to avoid a jungle infection. This is the first tie-back that Cindy is not who she seems.
Her next big event was dealing a drugged out Charlie in the first class lavatory. Charlie was getting his fix when the plane began its turbulence and suddenly broke a part. Charlie wound up with the middle section survivors, but Cindy, who was within feet of him, wound up in the Tail Section camp.
There are two explanations for this major inconsistency. First, she was thrown clear of the cabin section and wound up on the other side of the island, but this is highly improbable. As strange as it seems, in the Other 48 Days, she appears relatively quickly during the initial beach rescues. Second, if she did land with the other middle section survivors, but she left or was transported to the tail section beach. This is also highly improbable because it took Ben time to send his spies to each camp. Another explanation is that Cindy was an Other planted on the plane so she knew her mission prior to the crash landing on the island.
While with the Tailies, Cindy was one of the women allegedly kidnapped by the Others. There was no apparent reason to take Cindy from the camp, except that she became close to the children, Emma and Zach, the real prizes. From the point of her abduction, she made no moves to leave the Others or seek rescue with her fellow 815 survivors. This leads credence that she was different than the other passengers and crew aboard Flight 815.
If she was a plant on the plane, then that would mean that she had some forecast with future events, i.e. giving Jack the alcohol to treat his wounds, or getting to the Tail Section to secure the children for assimilation into the Others community. This would mean that there was an evil intent behind the plane crash, and that it had some "control" over the life and death of certain passengers and crew members. It would also mean that Desmond's failure to enter the alarm numbers into the Hatch computer did not cause 815 to crash. It was a convenient coincidence that the island used to guilt Desmond into staying on the island in order to use the fail safe key.
One bothersome aspect of Cindy's character was her appearance. On the plane (above) she had short, reddish hair. But during the island time, she quickly is seen with long, black hair. Her hair length would not have grown that much in the time shown on the island. And why would she wear a wig in a hot, tropical climate if she was not hiding from anyone. It was one of these little things that does not make sense either for the character or in the context of the whole story line.
When MIB turns into Flocke and begins to terrorize everyone on the island, Cindy is at the Temple with Zach, Emma and another young boy. When it came to a decision to follow Flocke, Cindy took the children with her and left the Temple. Clearly, she took it upon herself to insure the safety of the children.
Which brings into play a similar parallel in island history. A stranger comes upon two children without parents. This stranger then adopts them as her own. Cindy's behavior after the plane crash mirrors Crazy Mother taking control over Jacob and MIB. In an odd footnote, could Cindy have been Crazy Mother? As a smoke monster, she could travel instanteously about the island, taking whatever shape shifting form she chose to adopt.
During the final episodes treks across the island, and the waiting, we lose track of Cindy and the children. Where did they go? They did not go to the Barracks because they were not seen during Widmore's final confrontation with Ben. They would not have gone back to the Temple, because Cindy would not want to have the children see the deadly carnage left behind by Flocke. She never went to the Hydra Station because everyone on the island, except candidates, were killed off by Widmore's men. So where did Cindy hide? Again, this is like what Crazy Mother did with young Jacob and MIB - - - hiding out in their own camp and telling them not to be involved with the Roman villagers.
One aspect of Cindy we do see is that she appears on the flight that lands at LAX (in the sideways world). But we don't see Zach or Emma. If everyone in the sideways world is dead, when did Cindy die? On the island?
There are some who believe that after Flocke's death, Cindy and the children joined the Island's new protector, Hurley, in living out his new era on the island. Except, we have no evidence of that happening. We only get a vague tip-of-the-cap from Hurley that Ben was a good island second-in-command. If Hurley was in charge of the island, why wouldn't he make sure that Emma and Zach were reunited with their parents in LA? Hurley had a strong bond with his family so why would he doom the children to stay on the island? Unless, of course, he could not change what they had become, i.e. spirits in the after life.
Or is it more reasonable than none of the people left on the island ever left the island. They would have stayed there as the next cycle of guardianship would unfold. Perhaps, Cindy took over for Hurley - - - to train Emma and Zach as the next candidates to take her place. But, that does not answer the real mystery of why the island needs a guardian in the first place.
I think from the circumstances, there is more to Cindy than just being a flight attendant who survived a plane crash. Her ability to stay out of the line of fire was uncanny. Her sudden devotion to the children was overprotective. She never once tried to leave the Others once she was allegedly kidnapped. She knew that following Flocke was the only way the children would survive, but then she took an opportunity to hide them away. Cindy seemed to know a lot more of what the island was and what was happening than the average castaway. But who or what Cindy was will remain a mystery.
Her next big event was dealing a drugged out Charlie in the first class lavatory. Charlie was getting his fix when the plane began its turbulence and suddenly broke a part. Charlie wound up with the middle section survivors, but Cindy, who was within feet of him, wound up in the Tail Section camp.
There are two explanations for this major inconsistency. First, she was thrown clear of the cabin section and wound up on the other side of the island, but this is highly improbable. As strange as it seems, in the Other 48 Days, she appears relatively quickly during the initial beach rescues. Second, if she did land with the other middle section survivors, but she left or was transported to the tail section beach. This is also highly improbable because it took Ben time to send his spies to each camp. Another explanation is that Cindy was an Other planted on the plane so she knew her mission prior to the crash landing on the island.
While with the Tailies, Cindy was one of the women allegedly kidnapped by the Others. There was no apparent reason to take Cindy from the camp, except that she became close to the children, Emma and Zach, the real prizes. From the point of her abduction, she made no moves to leave the Others or seek rescue with her fellow 815 survivors. This leads credence that she was different than the other passengers and crew aboard Flight 815.
If she was a plant on the plane, then that would mean that she had some forecast with future events, i.e. giving Jack the alcohol to treat his wounds, or getting to the Tail Section to secure the children for assimilation into the Others community. This would mean that there was an evil intent behind the plane crash, and that it had some "control" over the life and death of certain passengers and crew members. It would also mean that Desmond's failure to enter the alarm numbers into the Hatch computer did not cause 815 to crash. It was a convenient coincidence that the island used to guilt Desmond into staying on the island in order to use the fail safe key.
One bothersome aspect of Cindy's character was her appearance. On the plane (above) she had short, reddish hair. But during the island time, she quickly is seen with long, black hair. Her hair length would not have grown that much in the time shown on the island. And why would she wear a wig in a hot, tropical climate if she was not hiding from anyone. It was one of these little things that does not make sense either for the character or in the context of the whole story line.
When MIB turns into Flocke and begins to terrorize everyone on the island, Cindy is at the Temple with Zach, Emma and another young boy. When it came to a decision to follow Flocke, Cindy took the children with her and left the Temple. Clearly, she took it upon herself to insure the safety of the children.
Which brings into play a similar parallel in island history. A stranger comes upon two children without parents. This stranger then adopts them as her own. Cindy's behavior after the plane crash mirrors Crazy Mother taking control over Jacob and MIB. In an odd footnote, could Cindy have been Crazy Mother? As a smoke monster, she could travel instanteously about the island, taking whatever shape shifting form she chose to adopt.
During the final episodes treks across the island, and the waiting, we lose track of Cindy and the children. Where did they go? They did not go to the Barracks because they were not seen during Widmore's final confrontation with Ben. They would not have gone back to the Temple, because Cindy would not want to have the children see the deadly carnage left behind by Flocke. She never went to the Hydra Station because everyone on the island, except candidates, were killed off by Widmore's men. So where did Cindy hide? Again, this is like what Crazy Mother did with young Jacob and MIB - - - hiding out in their own camp and telling them not to be involved with the Roman villagers.
One aspect of Cindy we do see is that she appears on the flight that lands at LAX (in the sideways world). But we don't see Zach or Emma. If everyone in the sideways world is dead, when did Cindy die? On the island?
There are some who believe that after Flocke's death, Cindy and the children joined the Island's new protector, Hurley, in living out his new era on the island. Except, we have no evidence of that happening. We only get a vague tip-of-the-cap from Hurley that Ben was a good island second-in-command. If Hurley was in charge of the island, why wouldn't he make sure that Emma and Zach were reunited with their parents in LA? Hurley had a strong bond with his family so why would he doom the children to stay on the island? Unless, of course, he could not change what they had become, i.e. spirits in the after life.
Or is it more reasonable than none of the people left on the island ever left the island. They would have stayed there as the next cycle of guardianship would unfold. Perhaps, Cindy took over for Hurley - - - to train Emma and Zach as the next candidates to take her place. But, that does not answer the real mystery of why the island needs a guardian in the first place.
I think from the circumstances, there is more to Cindy than just being a flight attendant who survived a plane crash. Her ability to stay out of the line of fire was uncanny. Her sudden devotion to the children was overprotective. She never once tried to leave the Others once she was allegedly kidnapped. She knew that following Flocke was the only way the children would survive, but then she took an opportunity to hide them away. Cindy seemed to know a lot more of what the island was and what was happening than the average castaway. But who or what Cindy was will remain a mystery.
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