LOST in wonderland!

The producers acknowledged the significance of the Backgammon reference in the season 1 pilot quite a long time ago. And to fully understand this allegory we must look at its inspiration- So before we get back to LOST and Backgammon lets look at where this allusion came from- Don’t let me lose you we [...]

The Lighthouse Questions vs. Answers The tally is in- and its suprising!

After last week we entered the Lighthouse. This weeks tally comes in at… ::Drum Roll::
Answers: 10 Total with 3 Juicy ones…….
Questions: 16 Total with 4 Juicy ones….
Interestingly enough the smaller amount of answers doesn’t matter at all, This was a great episode and the literary perspective of it was amazing- I am loving the [...]

The Lighthouse: Key Spoilers and JACKFACE

HOLY SHIT!
Best episode of the season so far…and that promo for next week? Frickin awesome!
Now, here is my theory of what is going to happen soon:
The one coming to the island is none other than…WIDMORE. Why? Well, you know, Ben-centric episodes coming soon, and he said “I’ll find it again.”
Flocke is the good guy…or they [...]

Preliminary Thoughts on

“The Lighthouse” definitely rings some literary bells. First, it recalls To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, which is divided into three parts, the last section titled simply “The Lighthouse.”  The novel depicts the changing dynamics of a large family, the Ramsays, over the course of a ten-year period during which time many characters die and [...]

Reviewing the Lit: Of Ladders and Loneliness

Okay, folks. Here’s a quick review of the literary allusions from last week, before we move on to tonight’s episode and its bookish Easter eggs.
It has been suggested that the two ladders we saw in “The Substitute” represent the two time lines or parallel realities. Will one of them break or become unstable? Will the [...]

The New Sanatorium LOST Bookstore!

We know it can get lonely in that padded cell…. So here is our remedy…
The official LOST BOOKSTORE IS OPEN! We will be adding weekly the books featured in LOST and offer them up for sale on our site for everyone as obsessed about LOST as we are!!
So far this season 3 books have been [...]

Answers Vs. Questions (The Substitute)

Even with all the satisfying answers we got, we still have what makes the show great, awesome questions, many answers are new questions themselves, the tally clocks in at
Answers: 19 Total with 6 Juicy ones…….
Questions: 20 Total with 12 Juicy ones….
THE WINNER IS QUESTIONS —— Look below at the judges table JUICY [...]

Wow, talk about a good episode. Yeah, so for anyone who saw last nights’ episode, you will realize that there were NO Jackfaces, simply because there was no Jack. But man, that was one heck of an episode. This is gonna be a giant spoiler post so you have been warned.
Well, it has been confirmed [...]

The Good, the Bad and the Abstract (Small Spoiler)

Immediately after “The Incident” aired, several friends and I had a lengthy discussion about who, or what, Jacob and the Man in Black are. We considered the possibilities. On the one hand, Jacob has been portrayed as the “good guy,” while the Man in Black is the “bad guy.” We also considered the possibility that [...]

The Careful Balance of Free Will and Predetermination

In “The Substitute” we finally get to see The List, a source for all of the speculation about a grand scheme. Presumably, Jacob has acted as the god of Fate for all of the chosen castaways. He spun their threads, measured them out, wove them together and, most likely, decides when each thread of life [...]

The Mystery of the Ashes

Remember that you are dust and to dust you shall return. (Common utterance during the ritual ash-marking of Ash Wednesday; origin: Genesis 3:19)

Slaughter old men, young men and maidens, women and children, but do not touch anyone who has the mark. Ezekiel 9:5
I’ve been thinking about the protective [...]

What Kate Does...and why I don't care: Jackfaces from Season 6 Episode 3

OH MY GOD! It snowed 3 inches last night so outside my house it looks like the season 5 finale of LOST.
Anyways, I haven’t gotten around to last weeks Jackface for one reason only…THERE WAS NOT ENOUGH JACK! Oh, I also hate Kate episodes.
So this week, you will probably have plenty more, and definitley episode [...]

LOST Screen-cap contest! Win A Free

The winner of TheSanatorium

screencap contest will win an Official DRAMA INITIATIVE T-shirt
(From http://www.mustaphawear.com/) as seen worn by good ol Hurley and Locke courtesy of some fine photo-shop work…
The Winning screen-cap will also be used in our next contest which will be to add a funny caption to the winning screen-cap.
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for more information!
Thanks [...]

Dying to Follow the Man in Black (Small Spoiler Alert!)

As the Man in Black builds a following, the number of infected grows. But here’s the question: to catch the Sickness, do you need to be alive or dead?

LOST in the many faces of Jack

Hello readers, I am not who you think I am.
I am a new co-blogger. I go by masat01. You will usually find me blogging at my site www.thejot.wordpress.com.
Anywho, I will be recapping each episode of LOST and Fringe in my own way, both here and my site. Not only that, but on this site only [...]

Through the Looking Glass and What Kate Does There

So far, in the flash sideways scenes, we have seen Claire going into labor with Kate at her side, Ethan Goodspeed monitoring the progress of mother and unborn child, John providing Jack with a more spiritual understanding of the universe, Kate running, tracking (Claire) and escaping “capture,” and Jack rescuing Charlie from near-death. What else [...]

S5 Easter Egg: The Epic 'Red Rug'

Hello all,
I’m Keeping Pace, a new LOST author here at the Sanatorium.  I won’t spend a lot of time introducing myself here, since if you read my material you’ll get to know me and how my brain works quite well.  I don’t want to pigeon-hole myself, but I’ll probably be sticking with theories — I [...]

The Theological Smoke Monster: Rejecting the

The season premiere’s most intriguing bit of dialogue is the exchange between Ben and MonsterLocke, following Jacob’s murder and the slaughter of Ilana’s team. The absurdity of the setting (inside of the four-toed statue) and the somber tone of the discussion create a mood of fantasy and postmodernist dissonance—Waiting for Godot meets Alice in Wonderland. [...]

Daniel Dae Kim to star in

That’s right- Our beloved Jin will be reprising the role of Chin Ho Kelly in the upcoming remake.
Perhaps Kim wanted to stay in Hawaii close to his burger joint… The reboot will be brought to us by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci from Fringe Fame and also from CSI NY.
It is too soon to speculate [...]

Stretch Armstrong to the big screen???

Thats right, Universal has decided to adapt some pretty strange movies coming up… Universal partnered up with Hasbro, and a few strange movies are in the works because of it. There will reportedly be movies based on “Candyland”, “Monopoly”, “Clue”, “Ouija”, “Battleship”, and Where’s Waldo…
Aside from the latter im not sure how good any of [...]