Thanks for all your hard work putting out these podcasts. Hopefully all the technical problems will be worked out soon and we can hear the rest.

I appreciate your insight into and explanations of the different scifi aspects. However, I am a fan of BOTH the mythology and the character stories and in particular Jack and Kate as individuals and as a couple. I may be in the minority here among your listeners, but in case not, I hope that you and your other listeners will give them fairer consideration. Also, I want to clear up a common misconception and perhaps prejudice a lot of fans seem to have about “romance” and fans of it. Just because I like romance doesn’t mean I like soap opera. I know a lot of shippers who are also sick of this love quadrangle–whatever and how the writers have been handling it and in particular, Kate’s character. I, like a lot of people, like a little melodrama, but to carry it out this long is exhausting. I think the writers are beginning to realize this–hopefully! I get the impression from a lot of fans, however, that those who like romance (unless it be the couple of the moment, like Desmond and Penny or now, Sawyer and Juliet–both of whom I also like, btw), are silly, immature, superficial, and of course, female. I for one, am only one of those things (though I can be silly too–as can many a Lost fan)!

Sigh.

However, with a little more link clicking I was on a site called mefeedia.com, where lo and behold I could stream AND download the show in its entirety!

Insert “Rocky” theme here.

When I came here to recount my final success and let those still trying know where they could download the mp3, I spotted Ryan’s last link, tried it, and now have two (count ‘em!) compete, 70mb, one hour and 17 minute Transmission 200903022s. Yay!

Thanks again, Ryan, for taking the additional time and effort to make this episode available for all of us — going, as you and Jen always do, above and beyond for your listeners.

I am still bugged by the definition of Dharma material for the recruits
What could be their criteria for choosing janitors?

1) The people in 1977 are not the people on Ben’s list. How would Ben know that Sawyer/LaFleur is James Ford?

2) Someone commented on how Pierre Chang assigns Jack to be a work man but Kate’s assignment is not there yet. Crazy thought: what if the two people who backed out of the Dharma Initiative’s sub ride were Christian Shepherd and someone else? So Chang assumes Jack is Christian (maybe a nickname?) Shepherd. Jack takes Christian’s place on the island, Jack needs to get back to the future in 2004, he brings Christinan, the universe course-corrects, and hey presto we’re all good.

(Or maybe Jack’s grandfather was the one who backed out… he seems to enjoy running…)

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.libsyn.com/media/hawaii/lostcast20090322b.mp3

Thanks guys,
Mark

Finally so desperate to hear what you had to say I decided to give in and see if iTunes (not a fan) would work, which it did, though what I got was the enhanced AAC version. So I opened the program I use all the time to convert AAC/m4a/mp4/etc. files downloaded from the web into mp3 format for my not-an-ipod player…but to no avail. Am guessing there’s some proprietary Apple thing that brought forth the technical error message and only allowed about 6 minutes to be converted.

Then I gave my good old Juice podcatcher a whirl, but your feed address (http://www.hawaiiup.com/lost/feed/) doesn’t work — or at least, that is, Juice can “see” the last several podcasts and lists them, but can’t download them.

So I opened up iTunes again, tracked down the plain old mp3 Transmission, clicked to download…and got the first 19:46 minutes of the show.

I’m so sad.

And now much later than I should be to start getting ready for bed.

And without any time left over to post my two cents about the “mystery woman” (or should I do that in the previous discussion?)

So I’m hoping that with your technical genius, Ryan, you’ll have an idea as to why the mp3 version is still not downloadable past the first 25% or so of the show, and be able to fix it without much more hassle for yourself. And if not, could you pretty please send it to me at the address I left in the field required for posting? I miss me my Ryan and Jen!!!

Hoping to be able to hear all the Transmission-y goodness tomorrow, I remain now and forever—

— Your friend and fan, Sandy in L.A.

Keep up the great work. I can’t digest a show without the two of you and Darlton! Great work, guys.

http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/media.libsyn.com/media/hawaii/lostcast20090322.mp3

The woman behind Sun is definitely a production person. She’s wearing headphones and looking at a monitor. And she is wearing a shirt with a logo on it.

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1097608

Jorge Garcia posted on the Fuselage the day (or maybe two days) after the ep aired. He says he saw the person, too, and looked at his copy of the script to see what the deal was. There is no mention of the person in his script, BUT he also says that doesn’t mean anything because things are always getting changed/added/moved around at the last minute.

How about renaming the segment “You All Everybody” to “You All Everybody and John from North Carolina?”

I know, get my own podcast…. LOL

Seriously though, I wonder if Sun remaining with the crashies has more to do with her the goal she has in common with Widmore, killing Benjamin Linus.

To the folks that think she didn’t flash because she can’t occupy two spaces at the same time, recall that Sawyer and Locke were both on the island with their past selves when the island was skipping.

What is the significance of Christian using a flashlight? Recall Jacob gets violent around such devices.

I have another theory along these lines, however. I wonder if perhaps all of the pregnancies that don’t make it happen because the baby that is to be born already exists in that time. A surviving baby would break this rule so they don’t make it through birth. This then of course gets into head-hurting territory, but it’s a theory.

Namaste.

http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1097608

I haven’t downloaded the podcast yet, but will do later today and hopefully listen to it afterwards.

I just had a flashback and wanted to confirm it with you. Isn’t Radzinsky the same guy who keeps repeating the numbers in Hurley’s mental institution? I think he’s called Leonard.

Just a thought and since we know Radzinsky was working in the Swan model, there might be some connection. Will have to check the episode later.

Cheers!

1. We loved that Frank Lapidus gave a Jack-esque “we need to stick together” speech to the Ajira Airlines survivors… just before he ditched everyone to follow Sun.

2. The smoke in the Dharma processing center as the door blew open was great. But the woman in the darkness some spotted behind Sun? Our vote is “production error.” A pretty bad one, but… they’ve messed up their 16:9 frames before.

3. Hurley’s line about missing Sawyer’s nickname was sweet. But his other lines, like, “Uh, what?” and “Nama-what?” seemed a bit flat. He deserves better from the writers.