Episode - Dave
Weekly LOST re-cap
Episode “Dave”
Air Date: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Note: This episode did not reveal much mythology. My observations and insights will follow the recap.
Hurley exercises on the beach at the request of Libby as their relationship begins to develop. Locke recuperates from the incident with the blast doors as “the Henry situation” heats up. Sayid forces Henry to reveal that he is in fact an Other, but that he will be killed if he talks. “Henry Gale” effectively becomes a prisoner for life (remember that I said this folks).
I don’t think he has revealed he is an “Other”. It sounds to me like he is involved with them somehow, but not part of them. He doesn’t agree with their philosophy. (AP)
O.K. Not revealed as an “Other” but at least in cahoots with them! And I do mean cahoots!!!! (WR)
Hurley admits to Libby that he is “sick” and has a problem with food and shows her his hoard of stolen food from the hatch. Libby convinces Hurley to destroy the hoard but as soon as he does the entire group discovers the pallet of; you guessed it, more food. This causes Hurley to have an “episode”... enter Dave in his P.J.’s.
Don’t you agree this scene was poorly written? To have Hurley destroy food that could be used by other people and that Libby encourages it doesn’t fit the story. I think the writers sacrificed some validity to give Hurley the chance to “have a breakthru”. (AP)
Not only poorly written but last season Hurley was very comfortable with himself and his “condition”. For this episode it seems the writers resorted to having his weight define him. Strange change but again just my thought. (WR)
In a flashback Hurley's time spent in a mental hospital is revealed. As Hurley's food addiction haunts him on the island, so does his “friend” Dave, from the past. It is revealed that Dave is a fellow patient from the mental institution and that he will eventually force Hurley to doubt his own sanity.
I thought it was pretty clear that Dave was not a fellow patient, but always an imaginary friend. Dave says and does the negative and mean things Hurley is thinking. (AP)
Is Dave Hurley’s own inner voice???? (WR)
Meanwhile, Mr. Eko asks Charlie to help him with his construction project but won’t tell him why. Later on, we learn that he may be constructing a church. (Chapel) (AP)
OK, I guess the writers at ABC Lost gave this away in their re-cap section. Eko does not tell Charlie what he is building in the episode but the writers gave it away in the internet re-cap. A slip, mistake? Or done on purpose? (WR)
Locke confronts Henry. Henry confesses that he did not push the button after he crawled through the vents during the lockdown. He also states that nothing happened as a result. Locke now has a dilemma. Is it really necessary to continue pushing the button every 108 minutes or does he trust that Henry Gale is lying?
They shouldn’t trust Henry for a second. He knows exactly what he’s doing. (AP)
“Dave” tells Hurley that the island is an imaginary place in his head and convinces him that the only way to escape it is to jump off a cliff, which will awaken him back in the hospital. Libby talks Hurley out of jumping and Hurley gets a kiss. Libby shows us a strange disturbing look as they walk back to the beach suggesting she knows more than she’s telling. Hmm…
In the last flashback of the episode we see a nurse in the mental hospital giving Libby, a patient, her medication as Hurley gets his photo-op with his doctor in the background. (By far the spookiest scene this season!)
I’ve always felt Libby was hiding something. I thought she was an “Other” until this episode made me doubt myself. If she was a psychiatric patient and not a Psychiatrist that may be what she’s hiding. At the hospital she was looking at Hurley as if she had feeling for him. Maybe that’s what makes her have feeling for him now. (AP)
On the other hand:
I could believe that this is all in Hurley’s head. He won the lottery, he got the pretty girl, everyone likes and trusts him. His insecurities and Dave keep him from imagining all good things for himself. (AP)
My observations and insights:
This is a Hurley intensive episode and as in most of the other episodes raises more questions than it answers:
1. Is “Dave” an homage to Cheech and Chong? I think it might be! Twice Hurley says to Dave, “You’re not here!” which reminds me of the old “Dave’s not here, man!” skit from the 70’s and also revolves around drugs. Dave also speaks street Spanish throughout the episode. Who is Dave? Was he real? He seems to cause physical pain to Hurley, once slapping him, once throwing a coconut. Can the island physically transmute living things? Jack’s dad? Kate’s horse? Now Hurley’s Dave?
2. This is the third week in a row where exercise (or at least physical exertion) has started an episode – Ana Lucia running along the beach up to Locke who is sitting by her tent site; Locke riding the stationary bicycle in the hatch (Lockdown); and Hurley and Libby running on the beach (Dave).
3. After watching a little more closely all the food I have seen has the same number/letter combination on the label “DI9FFTR731” and all say “Dharma Initiative” on the labels.
4. During the interrogation of Henry he states that ‘HE” will kill me and there is no doubt that Henry is truly frightened. When Ana says “the bearded guy” Henry yells that he (meaning “Zeke”, the bearded guy) is “no one, a nothing”. Which leads us to believe that there is someone higher up in the chain of command that Henry reports to. (One of the Dharma Initiative creators gone insane) (AP)
5. The 20 Dollar Bill note:
The serial number on the bill is “EF61363822B”
The note from the real Henry Gale reads: “Jennifer, Well, you were right. Crossing the Pacific isn’t easy. I owe you a beer. I’m hiking to one of the beaches to start a signal fire but if you’re reading this I guess I didn’t make it. I’m sorry. I love you Jenny. Always have. Always will. Yours, Henry”
This looks like a plot contrivance to me. Do you think he might have told Jenny that HIS BALLOON CRASHED!!! Of course not, the writers already know that we know this!
Also, this 20-dollar bill is a very current issue. If the real Henry Gale’s driver license expired three years prior to crashing how did he get a $20 bill that was new??? (WR)
6. Leonard has the magic numbers. Leonard, at the mental hospital continuously repeats the magic numbers from the island. In an earlier episode we learned that Leonard was dead and this is the first time we have met him. The Connect Four game he is playing look like the following, where O= open, B= black and R=red:
OOOOOOO
OOOBOOO
OORROOO
BBRROOB
RRBRRBR
BBRBBRB
7. What the heck is closnosopan? This is the drug Hurley was prescribed by his doctor.
And did the doctors credentials (on the wall) state that he graduated from Alvar University? (It was a bit hard for me to see).
The LOST Transmission podcast had a caller who said that closnosopan (spelling?) was a drug used to control seizures and anxiety and for pain management. (WR)
8. We do find that the accident that Hurley talks about was on a deck in which 23 people were standing. When Hurley comes on to the deck it collapses and two people die. Obviously 23 is one of the numbers.
Dr. Brooks says that the deck was made to support 8 people but that 23 people were crowded out onto it. Could this have been the party to celebrate Hurley’s winning the lottery??? Was Locke a guest at the party??? Did he lose the use of legs when the deck collapsed?? (WR)
9. When Henry is revealing to Locke that he did not push the button he says: “The numbers went past zero, I saw hieroglyphics, but I’m no expert, I heard a clunking sound like large magnets and the timer flipped to 108. I never entered the numbers, I did not push the button.” (We saw these hieroglyphics in another episode so Henry must have seen them when he didn’t push the button, or he knew about the button all along) (AP)
OK, if Henry is not an expert on hieroglyphics, this statement implies that he is an expert at something. How would Henry know that a loud clunking noise is the sound of large magnets? This does not make sense. It could have easily been the sound of two large blast doors closing. Or, anything at all. This statement may confirm that magnetism or electro-magnetism is a very important part of this story and that at least some of the information from the blast door map was pertinent and important. Of course, we won’t see the blast doors anymore this season. Can anyone say the Medical Hatch and the cable on the beach? No one has visited these areas since they were discovered. And it seems that no one is interested in finding Walt or Michael anymore either.
Can magnetic fields keep the island hidden from the rest of the world? Magnets are used for healing; maybe they are producing the healing properties. That still doesn’t explain the strange (psychological) things that happen. Are they all being fed hallucinogens?
There is interest in finding Micheal & Walt. It was alluded to in the preview that Jack would attempt to trade Henry for them next week. (AP)
10. Libby at the asylum with Hurley can be interpreted several ways. She may have met him at the hospital and followed him, or she's part of the Dharma Initiative (and they recruit mental patients who will be easy to condition), or it's all coincidence. Was she undercover? Or hiding in plain sight! Was she observing the patients or one of them? She may have been collecting data for her doctorate degree or a book but she looked pretty rough along the edges for someone doing research. And to be honest, when I saw Libby in the hospital I got those little shivers up and down my spine and my first thought was “Oh, no you didn’t…” Meaning, what are the writers up to and isn’t this an interesting twist?
Conclusion: This episode continues a promising tendency: movement forward, suspense, and character anguish. The island is starting to feel treacherous again.
Phrase of the day: “Skinner box”
Skinners well-known discovery is the Operant Chamber also known as Skinners Box. The operant chamber is an apparatus, which allows an experimenter to observe, manipulate and measure/record an animal’s behavior. Operant chambers have been used when doing behavioral research on rats. An example of an operant chamber for this type of experiment is one in which the chamber has a lever for dispersing food pellets, the rat is 'taught' to use the lever to get food and it's progress is noted by the experimenter. An example of an operant chamber for pigeons is a chamber in which there is a plastic disk at one end, which causes a drawer to open that holds the pigeons seed, the aim is also to 'teach' the pigeon to use the disk to feed itself. The main reason for construction of the Skinner box was to restrict the amount of responses for the animal to use. A rat cannot perform very many other responses besides the one that the experimenter wants him to.
Now, does the hatch resemble a Skinner box??
How weird is this!!!! I just heard today that Josh Holloway (Sawyer) is going to be starring in a movie called “Skinner Box” !!!!!!
The Plot summary from IMDB for Skinner Box: “As Hell Night forces four sorority pledges into an abandoned insane asylum, the asylum becomes the ultimate Skinner Box, treating the students like trapped rats, conditioning them to behave appropriately, or else.... “ (WR)
Next week is a new episode:
S.O.S.
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Writer: Leonard Dick, Steven Maeda
Director: Eric Laneuville
Guest star: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose) , Sam Anderson (Bernard), Donna Smallwood (Aussie Woman), Wayne Pygram (Isaac), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale)
Rose is surprisingly and vehemently opposed to Bernard's plan to create an S.O.S. signal; romantic sparks are rekindled between Jack and Kate when they trek into the jungle to propose a "trade" with "The Others"; and Locke begins to question his faith in the island.
We need to add a weekly feature about Sawyer’s stereotype comments. Pretty fun!!! (AP)
Sawyer stereotypes in “Dave” episode:
Calls Charlie – “Baby napper”
Calls Libby “Moon beam”
Sawyer: “I have enough food to start quicky mart..ya think Siayd needs a job?”
Other Sawyer Stereotypes From the Wikipedia website):
Character Nickname Episode
Aaron "Baby Huey" The Greater Good
Ana-Lucia "Hot Lips" Everybody Hates Hugo
Ana-Lucia "Ponce De Leon" Abandoned
Boone "Metro" Walkabout
Mr. Eko "Shaft" Orientation
Mr. Friendly "Zeke" The Hunting Party
Hurley "Pillsbury" The Hunting Party
Hurley "Jabba" Fire + Water
Hurley "Babar" Unknown
Hurley "Deep-dish" Dave
Hurley "Stay-Puft" Raised By Another
Jack "Doc" Multiple Episodes
Jack "Dr. Quinn" Solitary
Jack "Jackass Do No Harm
Jin "Bruce" In Translation
Jin "Chewie" Exodus Part 3
Jin "Sulu" The Greater Good
Jin "Daddio" The Whole Truth
Kate "Freckles" Multiple Episodes
Kate "Sheena" The Long Con
Kate "Thelma" Maternity Leave
Libby "Shrink" Abandoned
Libby "Moonbeam" Dave
Locke "Daniel Boone" The Hunting Party
Locke "Yoda" Multiple Episodes
Locke "Hoss" Whatever the Case May Be
Locke "Mr. Clean" The Hunting Party
Michael "Daddy" Exodus Part 3
Michael "Han" Exodus Part 3
Sayid "Abdul" Tabula Rasa
Sayid "Al Jazeera" Tabula Rasa
Sayid "Mohammed" Outlaws
Shannon "Sticks" White Rabbit
Sun "Tokyo Rose" The Long Con
Walt "Gazoo" Exodus Part 2
Walt "Short Round" Numbers, Exodus Part 1
Walt "Tattoo" All the Best Cowboys Charlie Charlie "Tattoo" Dave
Charlie "Baby Napper" Dave
New find!
In the episode “Lockdown” the balloon found by Sayid, Charlie and Ana-Lucia, which brought the real Henry Gale to the island is labeled “Widmore Labs”.
See the website at http://www.widmorelaboratories.com/ Very weird place. There is little content to this site but on the contact page “The Staff” can be clearly seen.
The Food Link states:
“Widmore Laboratories produces a full line of
grocery items. From salad dressings to frozen food
you can be assured of quality, freshness and great
taste. We package under our Infinity label, as well
as supermarket and drug store private labels.
We have also developed specialty line of
grocery products specifically designed for research
facilities and remote locations. We have specially
designed formulas for both Arctic temperatures and
also formulas to withstand the heat and humidity
of tropical locations. They have a long shelf life,
even after opening, but stay nutritious and tasty.”
Other craft that have landed/crashed on the island:
Oceanic Flight 815
“Henry Gale’s” Widmore Labs Air Balloon
Danielle's research boat
Nigerian drug plane
Michael’s Raft
The “Black Rock” slave ship
The Food Balloon
And the “Others” have a boat somewhere near/on the island.
Can anyone think of others??? (WR)
I really liked the psychology perspective; I think there is definitely a connection. Operant conditioning fits into almost everything on the island, I'll show examples:
Operant Conditioning is based on the notion that reinforcers and punishers dictate a subject’s decision, positive (pleasant) or negative (aversive) actions. Skinner once did an experiment where he taught kittens to manipulate a latch (or instrument). Can the button be the instrument and the survivors the subject (kittens)? What’s with the super loud speakers in the hatch?
Is the button a positive reinforcer, or is it a negative reinforcer? Is there a coincidence that the pallet of food dropped right when the button was apparently "not" pushed (Skinner box, button-survival)? Was it really dropped from the sky? No one heard a plane.
I'm thinking everything was plotted from the beginning. The "others" or experimenters brought them there for some reason. The fact that there is a connection between them all may be a factor in the experiment that is somehow connected to ability to survive, just a possible example. This does not fit in with true random sampling of populations though.
Stimuli are presented in the environment according to a schedule of which there are two basic categories: continuous and intermittent. Continuous reinforcement simply means that the behavior is followed by a consequence each time it occurs (the button, hatch, radio frequency, the #'s!!!). Intermittent schedules are based either on the passage of time (interval schedules) or the number of correct responses emitted (ratio schedules). The consequence can be delivered based on the same amount of passage of time or the same number of correct responses (fixed) or it could be based on a slightly different amount of time or number of correct responses that vary around a particular number (variable).
Maybe the Aussie guy in the hatch when they broke in was really an "other" and the negative influence for the group as to what might happen if the button is not pushed. Maybe Henry Gail was caught on purpose with the assumption that he could get inside to pose as a "variable" in the experiment, mix things up a bit. Now the question is, was his identity supposed to be revealed?
Is there a resemblance between that guy who ran off and Henry (lose the hair, add a few years, I wish I had pics, maybe Bill could help)? They both have that creepy feeling about them.
Just some insight to get you all thinking. I will read up on more psychology since it is what I went to school for, glad I'm finally using it!
Can't wait for next week.... (PW)
Episode “Dave”
Air Date: Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Note: This episode did not reveal much mythology. My observations and insights will follow the recap.
Hurley exercises on the beach at the request of Libby as their relationship begins to develop. Locke recuperates from the incident with the blast doors as “the Henry situation” heats up. Sayid forces Henry to reveal that he is in fact an Other, but that he will be killed if he talks. “Henry Gale” effectively becomes a prisoner for life (remember that I said this folks).
I don’t think he has revealed he is an “Other”. It sounds to me like he is involved with them somehow, but not part of them. He doesn’t agree with their philosophy. (AP)
O.K. Not revealed as an “Other” but at least in cahoots with them! And I do mean cahoots!!!! (WR)
Hurley admits to Libby that he is “sick” and has a problem with food and shows her his hoard of stolen food from the hatch. Libby convinces Hurley to destroy the hoard but as soon as he does the entire group discovers the pallet of; you guessed it, more food. This causes Hurley to have an “episode”... enter Dave in his P.J.’s.
Don’t you agree this scene was poorly written? To have Hurley destroy food that could be used by other people and that Libby encourages it doesn’t fit the story. I think the writers sacrificed some validity to give Hurley the chance to “have a breakthru”. (AP)
Not only poorly written but last season Hurley was very comfortable with himself and his “condition”. For this episode it seems the writers resorted to having his weight define him. Strange change but again just my thought. (WR)
In a flashback Hurley's time spent in a mental hospital is revealed. As Hurley's food addiction haunts him on the island, so does his “friend” Dave, from the past. It is revealed that Dave is a fellow patient from the mental institution and that he will eventually force Hurley to doubt his own sanity.
I thought it was pretty clear that Dave was not a fellow patient, but always an imaginary friend. Dave says and does the negative and mean things Hurley is thinking. (AP)
Is Dave Hurley’s own inner voice???? (WR)
Meanwhile, Mr. Eko asks Charlie to help him with his construction project but won’t tell him why. Later on, we learn that he may be constructing a church. (Chapel) (AP)
OK, I guess the writers at ABC Lost gave this away in their re-cap section. Eko does not tell Charlie what he is building in the episode but the writers gave it away in the internet re-cap. A slip, mistake? Or done on purpose? (WR)
Locke confronts Henry. Henry confesses that he did not push the button after he crawled through the vents during the lockdown. He also states that nothing happened as a result. Locke now has a dilemma. Is it really necessary to continue pushing the button every 108 minutes or does he trust that Henry Gale is lying?
They shouldn’t trust Henry for a second. He knows exactly what he’s doing. (AP)
“Dave” tells Hurley that the island is an imaginary place in his head and convinces him that the only way to escape it is to jump off a cliff, which will awaken him back in the hospital. Libby talks Hurley out of jumping and Hurley gets a kiss. Libby shows us a strange disturbing look as they walk back to the beach suggesting she knows more than she’s telling. Hmm…
In the last flashback of the episode we see a nurse in the mental hospital giving Libby, a patient, her medication as Hurley gets his photo-op with his doctor in the background. (By far the spookiest scene this season!)
I’ve always felt Libby was hiding something. I thought she was an “Other” until this episode made me doubt myself. If she was a psychiatric patient and not a Psychiatrist that may be what she’s hiding. At the hospital she was looking at Hurley as if she had feeling for him. Maybe that’s what makes her have feeling for him now. (AP)
On the other hand:
I could believe that this is all in Hurley’s head. He won the lottery, he got the pretty girl, everyone likes and trusts him. His insecurities and Dave keep him from imagining all good things for himself. (AP)
My observations and insights:
This is a Hurley intensive episode and as in most of the other episodes raises more questions than it answers:
1. Is “Dave” an homage to Cheech and Chong? I think it might be! Twice Hurley says to Dave, “You’re not here!” which reminds me of the old “Dave’s not here, man!” skit from the 70’s and also revolves around drugs. Dave also speaks street Spanish throughout the episode. Who is Dave? Was he real? He seems to cause physical pain to Hurley, once slapping him, once throwing a coconut. Can the island physically transmute living things? Jack’s dad? Kate’s horse? Now Hurley’s Dave?
2. This is the third week in a row where exercise (or at least physical exertion) has started an episode – Ana Lucia running along the beach up to Locke who is sitting by her tent site; Locke riding the stationary bicycle in the hatch (Lockdown); and Hurley and Libby running on the beach (Dave).
3. After watching a little more closely all the food I have seen has the same number/letter combination on the label “DI9FFTR731” and all say “Dharma Initiative” on the labels.
4. During the interrogation of Henry he states that ‘HE” will kill me and there is no doubt that Henry is truly frightened. When Ana says “the bearded guy” Henry yells that he (meaning “Zeke”, the bearded guy) is “no one, a nothing”. Which leads us to believe that there is someone higher up in the chain of command that Henry reports to. (One of the Dharma Initiative creators gone insane) (AP)
5. The 20 Dollar Bill note:
The serial number on the bill is “EF61363822B”
The note from the real Henry Gale reads: “Jennifer, Well, you were right. Crossing the Pacific isn’t easy. I owe you a beer. I’m hiking to one of the beaches to start a signal fire but if you’re reading this I guess I didn’t make it. I’m sorry. I love you Jenny. Always have. Always will. Yours, Henry”
This looks like a plot contrivance to me. Do you think he might have told Jenny that HIS BALLOON CRASHED!!! Of course not, the writers already know that we know this!
Also, this 20-dollar bill is a very current issue. If the real Henry Gale’s driver license expired three years prior to crashing how did he get a $20 bill that was new??? (WR)
6. Leonard has the magic numbers. Leonard, at the mental hospital continuously repeats the magic numbers from the island. In an earlier episode we learned that Leonard was dead and this is the first time we have met him. The Connect Four game he is playing look like the following, where O= open, B= black and R=red:
OOOOOOO
OOOBOOO
OORROOO
BBRROOB
RRBRRBR
BBRBBRB
7. What the heck is closnosopan? This is the drug Hurley was prescribed by his doctor.
And did the doctors credentials (on the wall) state that he graduated from Alvar University? (It was a bit hard for me to see).
The LOST Transmission podcast had a caller who said that closnosopan (spelling?) was a drug used to control seizures and anxiety and for pain management. (WR)
8. We do find that the accident that Hurley talks about was on a deck in which 23 people were standing. When Hurley comes on to the deck it collapses and two people die. Obviously 23 is one of the numbers.
Dr. Brooks says that the deck was made to support 8 people but that 23 people were crowded out onto it. Could this have been the party to celebrate Hurley’s winning the lottery??? Was Locke a guest at the party??? Did he lose the use of legs when the deck collapsed?? (WR)
9. When Henry is revealing to Locke that he did not push the button he says: “The numbers went past zero, I saw hieroglyphics, but I’m no expert, I heard a clunking sound like large magnets and the timer flipped to 108. I never entered the numbers, I did not push the button.” (We saw these hieroglyphics in another episode so Henry must have seen them when he didn’t push the button, or he knew about the button all along) (AP)
OK, if Henry is not an expert on hieroglyphics, this statement implies that he is an expert at something. How would Henry know that a loud clunking noise is the sound of large magnets? This does not make sense. It could have easily been the sound of two large blast doors closing. Or, anything at all. This statement may confirm that magnetism or electro-magnetism is a very important part of this story and that at least some of the information from the blast door map was pertinent and important. Of course, we won’t see the blast doors anymore this season. Can anyone say the Medical Hatch and the cable on the beach? No one has visited these areas since they were discovered. And it seems that no one is interested in finding Walt or Michael anymore either.
Can magnetic fields keep the island hidden from the rest of the world? Magnets are used for healing; maybe they are producing the healing properties. That still doesn’t explain the strange (psychological) things that happen. Are they all being fed hallucinogens?
There is interest in finding Micheal & Walt. It was alluded to in the preview that Jack would attempt to trade Henry for them next week. (AP)
10. Libby at the asylum with Hurley can be interpreted several ways. She may have met him at the hospital and followed him, or she's part of the Dharma Initiative (and they recruit mental patients who will be easy to condition), or it's all coincidence. Was she undercover? Or hiding in plain sight! Was she observing the patients or one of them? She may have been collecting data for her doctorate degree or a book but she looked pretty rough along the edges for someone doing research. And to be honest, when I saw Libby in the hospital I got those little shivers up and down my spine and my first thought was “Oh, no you didn’t…” Meaning, what are the writers up to and isn’t this an interesting twist?
Conclusion: This episode continues a promising tendency: movement forward, suspense, and character anguish. The island is starting to feel treacherous again.
Phrase of the day: “Skinner box”
Skinners well-known discovery is the Operant Chamber also known as Skinners Box. The operant chamber is an apparatus, which allows an experimenter to observe, manipulate and measure/record an animal’s behavior. Operant chambers have been used when doing behavioral research on rats. An example of an operant chamber for this type of experiment is one in which the chamber has a lever for dispersing food pellets, the rat is 'taught' to use the lever to get food and it's progress is noted by the experimenter. An example of an operant chamber for pigeons is a chamber in which there is a plastic disk at one end, which causes a drawer to open that holds the pigeons seed, the aim is also to 'teach' the pigeon to use the disk to feed itself. The main reason for construction of the Skinner box was to restrict the amount of responses for the animal to use. A rat cannot perform very many other responses besides the one that the experimenter wants him to.
Now, does the hatch resemble a Skinner box??
How weird is this!!!! I just heard today that Josh Holloway (Sawyer) is going to be starring in a movie called “Skinner Box” !!!!!!
The Plot summary from IMDB for Skinner Box: “As Hell Night forces four sorority pledges into an abandoned insane asylum, the asylum becomes the ultimate Skinner Box, treating the students like trapped rats, conditioning them to behave appropriately, or else.... “ (WR)
Next week is a new episode:
S.O.S.
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Writer: Leonard Dick, Steven Maeda
Director: Eric Laneuville
Guest star: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose) , Sam Anderson (Bernard), Donna Smallwood (Aussie Woman), Wayne Pygram (Isaac), Michael Emerson (Henry Gale)
Rose is surprisingly and vehemently opposed to Bernard's plan to create an S.O.S. signal; romantic sparks are rekindled between Jack and Kate when they trek into the jungle to propose a "trade" with "The Others"; and Locke begins to question his faith in the island.
We need to add a weekly feature about Sawyer’s stereotype comments. Pretty fun!!! (AP)
Sawyer stereotypes in “Dave” episode:
Calls Charlie – “Baby napper”
Calls Libby “Moon beam”
Sawyer: “I have enough food to start quicky mart..ya think Siayd needs a job?”
Other Sawyer Stereotypes From the Wikipedia website):
Character Nickname Episode
Aaron "Baby Huey" The Greater Good
Ana-Lucia "Hot Lips" Everybody Hates Hugo
Ana-Lucia "Ponce De Leon" Abandoned
Boone "Metro" Walkabout
Mr. Eko "Shaft" Orientation
Mr. Friendly "Zeke" The Hunting Party
Hurley "Pillsbury" The Hunting Party
Hurley "Jabba" Fire + Water
Hurley "Babar" Unknown
Hurley "Deep-dish" Dave
Hurley "Stay-Puft" Raised By Another
Jack "Doc" Multiple Episodes
Jack "Dr. Quinn" Solitary
Jack "Jackass Do No Harm
Jin "Bruce" In Translation
Jin "Chewie" Exodus Part 3
Jin "Sulu" The Greater Good
Jin "Daddio" The Whole Truth
Kate "Freckles" Multiple Episodes
Kate "Sheena" The Long Con
Kate "Thelma" Maternity Leave
Libby "Shrink" Abandoned
Libby "Moonbeam" Dave
Locke "Daniel Boone" The Hunting Party
Locke "Yoda" Multiple Episodes
Locke "Hoss" Whatever the Case May Be
Locke "Mr. Clean" The Hunting Party
Michael "Daddy" Exodus Part 3
Michael "Han" Exodus Part 3
Sayid "Abdul" Tabula Rasa
Sayid "Al Jazeera" Tabula Rasa
Sayid "Mohammed" Outlaws
Shannon "Sticks" White Rabbit
Sun "Tokyo Rose" The Long Con
Walt "Gazoo" Exodus Part 2
Walt "Short Round" Numbers, Exodus Part 1
Walt "Tattoo" All the Best Cowboys Charlie Charlie "Tattoo" Dave
Charlie "Baby Napper" Dave
New find!
In the episode “Lockdown” the balloon found by Sayid, Charlie and Ana-Lucia, which brought the real Henry Gale to the island is labeled “Widmore Labs”.
See the website at http://www.widmorelaboratories.com/ Very weird place. There is little content to this site but on the contact page “The Staff” can be clearly seen.
The Food Link states:
“Widmore Laboratories produces a full line of
grocery items. From salad dressings to frozen food
you can be assured of quality, freshness and great
taste. We package under our Infinity label, as well
as supermarket and drug store private labels.
We have also developed specialty line of
grocery products specifically designed for research
facilities and remote locations. We have specially
designed formulas for both Arctic temperatures and
also formulas to withstand the heat and humidity
of tropical locations. They have a long shelf life,
even after opening, but stay nutritious and tasty.”
Other craft that have landed/crashed on the island:
Oceanic Flight 815
“Henry Gale’s” Widmore Labs Air Balloon
Danielle's research boat
Nigerian drug plane
Michael’s Raft
The “Black Rock” slave ship
The Food Balloon
And the “Others” have a boat somewhere near/on the island.
Can anyone think of others??? (WR)
I really liked the psychology perspective; I think there is definitely a connection. Operant conditioning fits into almost everything on the island, I'll show examples:
Operant Conditioning is based on the notion that reinforcers and punishers dictate a subject’s decision, positive (pleasant) or negative (aversive) actions. Skinner once did an experiment where he taught kittens to manipulate a latch (or instrument). Can the button be the instrument and the survivors the subject (kittens)? What’s with the super loud speakers in the hatch?
Is the button a positive reinforcer, or is it a negative reinforcer? Is there a coincidence that the pallet of food dropped right when the button was apparently "not" pushed (Skinner box, button-survival)? Was it really dropped from the sky? No one heard a plane.
I'm thinking everything was plotted from the beginning. The "others" or experimenters brought them there for some reason. The fact that there is a connection between them all may be a factor in the experiment that is somehow connected to ability to survive, just a possible example. This does not fit in with true random sampling of populations though.
Stimuli are presented in the environment according to a schedule of which there are two basic categories: continuous and intermittent. Continuous reinforcement simply means that the behavior is followed by a consequence each time it occurs (the button, hatch, radio frequency, the #'s!!!). Intermittent schedules are based either on the passage of time (interval schedules) or the number of correct responses emitted (ratio schedules). The consequence can be delivered based on the same amount of passage of time or the same number of correct responses (fixed) or it could be based on a slightly different amount of time or number of correct responses that vary around a particular number (variable).
Maybe the Aussie guy in the hatch when they broke in was really an "other" and the negative influence for the group as to what might happen if the button is not pushed. Maybe Henry Gail was caught on purpose with the assumption that he could get inside to pose as a "variable" in the experiment, mix things up a bit. Now the question is, was his identity supposed to be revealed?
Is there a resemblance between that guy who ran off and Henry (lose the hair, add a few years, I wish I had pics, maybe Bill could help)? They both have that creepy feeling about them.
Just some insight to get you all thinking. I will read up on more psychology since it is what I went to school for, glad I'm finally using it!
Can't wait for next week.... (PW)
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