Michael Emerson Interviewed by Comic News Insider
thinbluemime
New interview with Michael Emerson done by the guys at Comic News Insider.
Episode 70 - Original Airdate: January 3rd, 2007
http://www.comicnewsinsider.com/
http://media.libsyn.com/media/cni/CNI70.mp3 <-- Direct Link
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thinbluemime
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> Michael Emerson aka Benjamin Linus, aka Henry Gale...
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> New interview with Michael Emerson done by the guys at Comic News
> Insider.
> Episode 70 - Original Airdate: January 3rd, 2007
> http://www.comicnewsinsider.com/
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> http://media.libsyn.com/media/cni/CNI70.mp3 <-- Direct Link
>
>
Might be Spoil-ish
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Emerson interview begins 14 minutes into podcast.
This podcast with Emerson is chock full of intriging new information.
Whether Emerson is privy to the information or just being cute and coy is
unclear to me. Several times Emerson makes the comment that he must run
through his mental Rolodex, to remember which episodes have aired, and
which haven't.
30 minutes into podcast, Emerson replys to the rumor that Anna Lucia might
return to Lost; "No one is every really and truely dead...on Lost" There
are levels of leaving the show. ..."The terms of the storytelling are so
all encompassing, what with flashbacks, FLASH FORWARDS and MAGIC then the
sky's the limit."
34 minutes into podcast, Emerson addresses a question concerning the
"Others" seeming super physical strength. Juliet's "Jack" knock-out punch,
etc. Cliff climbing with Holloway, Emerson was told during that scene
"This is very hard for Josh, this is very easy for you."
39 mins in: Who is on the chopping block? Emerson is "worried about
Charlie"... and then drops the subject abruptly.
43 mins in: Emerson: "What if the Others are pretty damn nearly human, but
there's one little thing different....Why are they a little stronger? Why
do they seem unwilling to leave the island, although they seem to have the
technology to do so?"
Jay and Jack join podcast at 44.5 min.
48 min: Is Alex Ben's daughter? Did Ben and Rousseau have a child?
Emerson: "You will no longer ask that question in a couple of months"
Jay and Jack leave podcast at 51 min.
51 min: Lightening Round Begins: Do any of the Others work directly for
the Hanso Foundation or the Dharma Initiative.? "NO, not the others we
know."
54 min" Is there more then one group of "Others"? "YES" and Ben's group of
Others KNOW about the other group of Others.
57 min: Lightening Round Ends: Interview ends also. Podcast continues with
Emerson in background.
I highly recommend downloading and listening to this 1 hour/ 22 MB podcast
for yourself, as I only touched upon a few of the interesting high points.
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thinbluemime
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For tdciago...
be sure to check out this podcast if you can. Especially the below quote,
because it was in reference to a fan question requarding CYLONS and Ben.
Depending upon which Cylons (Battlestar Galactica) Emerson was referring
to, the Losties may be having a close encounter with a humanoid hybrid,
possibly a robotic or reptilian race.
> 43 mins in: Emerson: "What if the Others are pretty damn nearly human,
> but there's one little thing different....Why are they a little
> stronger? Why do they seem unwilling to leave the island, although they
> seem to have the technology to do so?"
>
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tdciago
thinbluemime wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 09:14:08 -0500, thinbluemime <thinbl...@tbn.com>
> wrote:
> For tdciago...
> > but there's one little thing different....Why are they a little
> > stronger?
LOL. I love it. My current mythological interpretation of that quote
is that these Others are humans-turned-into-animals or human-animal
hybrids. It would be easier for a bull-man (the Minotaur) to climb the
hill than it would be for Sawyer. If they're Sirian-human hybrids
(mermaids and mermen), so much the better.
:)
By the way, I don't know if you've looked into Mayan cosmology, but the
Maya had NINE underworlds, or NINE hells. I know the producers
mentioned nine groups on the island, so this may be very significant.
tdciago
thinbluemime wrote:
> For tdciago...
> be sure to check out this podcast if you can. Especially the below quote,
> because it was in reference to a fan question requarding CYLONS and Ben.
> Depending upon which Cylons (Battlestar Galactica) Emerson was referring
> to, the Losties may be having a close encounter with a humanoid hybrid,
> possibly a robotic or reptilian race.
I just realized something today, that involves word play and the Dogon
description of Sirius B, which they consider to be the navel of the
universe.
"The starting point of creation is the star which revolves round Sirius
and is actually named the 'DIGITaria star'; it is regarded by the Dogon
as the smallest and heaviest of all the stars; it contains the GERMS of
all things. Its movement ON ITS OWN AXIS and around Sirius upholds all
creation in space. We shall see that its orbit determines the
calendar."
- Marcel Griaule and Germain Dieterlen in African Worlds
Digitaria is the Latin name for the grain the Dogon call Po. They've
named Sirius B after Po because its seeds are the tiniest things they
know. That's why I believe Sun's dog represents Sirius B (The Pup);
his name is Bpo-Bpo. Some forms of digitaria are also called finger
grass, but another definition of digit is a NUMBER. What if Hurley's
numbers are a sly reference to Digitaria?
We understand the Dogon use of the word "germ" to mean "the earliest
form of an organism; a seed, bud, or spore; or something that may serve
as the basis of further growth or development." But another definition
of germ is "a minute organism usually producing disease." One might
need a VACCINE or QUARANTINE to protect against disease.
More interesting stuff:
1) Sirius B is INVISIBLE to the naked eye.
2) The Dogon description of the landing of the Nommos' ark is very,
very close to the sights and sounds of Flight 815's crash.
3) After the Nommos landed, a four-legged creature appeared.
4) "Sirius is the one consecrated to Isis, for it brings the water."
- Plutarch
It was suggested by Hurley that Vincent could find water.
5) The word Nommo means "to make one drink" or more simply "water."
Shannon said that Vincent was always thirsty.
6) "The predynastic Egyptians worshipped the feminine principle, the
great mother goddess [Tuart] represented by the seven stars of Ursa
Major and her child Sirius the dog star, or Set. Sirius was also
represented by the same symbol as his mother, whom he is supposed to
have fecundated."
- Peter Tompkins, The Magic of Obelisks
Ursa Major is, of course, a bear; Ursa Minor, her son, is the Pole
Star. There are polar bears on the island.
7) "The Order of the Silver Star is thus the Order of the EYE of Set,
'the Sun behind the Sun.' ...The Silver Star is Sirius."
- Kenneth Grant, Aleister Crowley and the Hidden God
Eyes are a major theme on the show, and the nursery mobile displayed a
silver star.
8) "George Hunt Willamson, a flying saucer Contactee, claims to have
spoken to natives of Sirius who use a language containing some to the
same words as the 'Enochian' or 'ANGELIC' language used by such
magicians as Dr. John Dee and Crowley. Williamson also tells us a
secret order on Earth has been in contact with Sirius for thousands of
years and that the emblem of that order is the EYE of Horus."
- Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger
Charlie dreamt of Claire and his mother as angels.
9) The Nommo are called the Masters of the Water or The Monitors.
In Javi's little film, his dog telepathically says that one day Javi
will call him Master. In the Swan bunker was a computer MONITOR.
10) The Nommo was crucified and resurrected. This is a similarity to
the Egyptian god Osiris. Isis, his wife, was connected to Sirius A and
Osiris to Sirius B. There have been several references to being
crucified on "Lost."
11) The light/dark theme on the show is similar to the light/dark theme
of Sirius A and Sirius B.
12) "The earliest Egyptians believed Sirius [Sothis] was the home of
departed souls, which the Dogons also believe."
- Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery
There is a great deal of evidence that the island represents the
underworld.
13) The Babylonians believed that amphibious beings came to Earth for
the benefit of mankind in an egg-shaped vessel. The Dogon believe that
Sirius B was the cosmic egg. The Swan Hatch has obvious implications
about an egg.
14) The meteorite that Gilgamesh could not lift is thought to be a
symbolic reference to Sirius B, which is small but incredibly heavy and
dense.
15) The dog in _Bad Twin_ is repeatedly described as circling and
wobbling. It was the wobble of Sirius A that alerted astronomers to
the presence of Sirius B. (Wobbling is also directly associated with
precession of the equinox.)
16) In Greek mythology, Phaeton, son of the sun god, drives his
father's chariot erratically, and is knocked out of the sky by Zeus,
falling into the River PO. Phaeton is compared to a falling star. His
friend Cygnus grieves for him and is turned into the constellation
Cygnus (The SWAN).
Quotes obtained from
http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/sirius.html