Who else noticed that one of Charlie's greatest hits was getting THE RING? Hilarious.

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LMAO

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i doubt that was a LOTR reference, but it deserves a little chuckle. :)

now if Dom had played Gollum or Frodo, it would be hilarious. but Merry never really cared. aaaaaaaaaaaand done. ;)

It's worth a chuckle. I liked learning that it was not actually a Drive Shaft ring originally.

Wow, I didn't pick up on that. Excellent catch!

Do we have background on the guy the group was named for? Little grey cells in my head aren't pulling up the info.:frown:

Charlie's brother mentioned "Dexter Bloody Stratton". The way the first born has been handed down for generations, I'm guessing it was an ancestor ....

I haven't been able to find anything on the name. I wonder if it's an anagram?

That ring didn't look old-fashioned at all!

It's worth a chuckle. I liked learning that it was not actually a Drive Shaft ring originally.

I enjoyed this little tidbit as well. I wonder if TPTB took an existing prop and gave it a back story or if this had been planned for awhile.

Yeah, I definetely think it was a little nod to The Lord of the Rings. Especially when Liam said "I need to know that it's safe...", which is quite similar to Gandalf's "Keep it secret. Keep it safe."

Yes I laughed out loud when charlie wrote down 'the ring'!

I thought the Lord of the Rings reference was Charlie's, "Now you're on the boat" line to Desmond. The whole Frodo on the boat thing at the end, I mean. I suppose I don't see Dominic as eternally in the role of Merry, though, because I didn't once think of the Driveshaft ring as paralleling the One Ring. Anyway, a mystical ring is a common motif in fiction, both in the distant past and the present day.

I thought the Lord of the Rings reference was Charlie's, "Now you're on the boat" line to Desmond. The whole Frodo on the boat thing at the end, I mean. I suppose I don't see Dominic as eternally in the role of Merry, though, because I didn't once think of the Driveshaft ring as paralleling the One Ring. Anyway, a mystical ring is a common motif in fiction, both in the distant past and the present day.
The Hurley/Charlie scene was also very Sam/Frodo in the river at the end of FoTR.

There actually were quite a few nods to LotR, but the biggest was starting with the fellowship at the beginning (everyone trekkin' to Danielle), and the subsequent split into 3 groups at the end: 1) Jack and the radio tower, reminiscent of Aragorn and the Rohans; 2) Charlie and Desmond, reminiscent of Frodo and Sam; and 3) Sayid, Jin, and Bernard. That's the only one I"m not too sure of.

The Charlie/Desmond plot also reminds me a lot of Return of the Jedi.

The Hurley/Charlie scene was also very Sam/Frodo in the river at the end of FoTR.

There actually were quite a few nods to LotR, but the biggest was starting with the fellowship at the beginning (everyone trekkin' to Danielle), and the subsequent split into 3 groups at the end: 1) Jack and the radio tower, reminiscent of Aragorn and the Rohans; 2) Charlie and Desmond, reminiscent of Frodo and Sam; and 3) Sayid, Jin, and Bernard. That's the only one I"m not too sure of.


Schoff, you are quite right with these observations. I also thought of Frodo & Sam leaving for Mordor when Charlie & Desmond took the boat for a dangerous mission.

(I have explained this in another thread: http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=83253 (http://www.thefuselage.com/Threaded/showthread.php?t=83253))

I don’t know what’s going to happen in season 4, but we were left with this feeling of three different groups (the ones at the Tower, the ones on the beach, the ones in the underwater station) where each group feels fear for the other groups and some close friends, relatives or couples have been left separate. The most important mission, almost desperate, is the one none of the others (members of the fellowship/losties) know anything about: the mission to Mordor / to the Looking Glass. When Frodo gets to Mount Doom and destroys the ring his friends can finally tell because of the change of some environmental conditions, when Charlie stops the jamming of the underwater station Naomi, Jack and company also get to know it because of the new ability to use the sat-phone, but in both cases they do not know for a while if their friends survived the mission.

That feeling of having the group separated for different missions and having to suffer distance and worries for each other has a lot in common with the separation of the Fellowship. I would say that Sawyer, Juliet and Hurley coming back to the beach for Sayid, Jin and Bernard is a similar case to Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli looking for Merry and Pippin. In both cases we are led to believe for a while that the prisoners are dead. Well, I won’t push the similarities further, I would just say that there is some new fabulous epic feeling in the finale that Lost did never have before and that I like it a lot.