I agree. I just don’t get this show at all. It’s slow. It looks thrown together. And it seems to get dumber by the minute. I don’t care about any of these people. And I think it’s time I stopped watching.
And I’m waiting for Claire to pull a volleyball out from under her tank top. That girl just doesn’t look pregnant anywhere except her very round tummy.
Don’t forget that Sun is the Herbal Woman, she probably knows what to chew on to stop that pukey feeling.
“Is that a ginger root in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
And don’t forget that the Island seems to be supplying them with what they need (Eucalyptus for Shannon’s asthma) so don’t say that those type of herbs probably don’t grow there.
If Sun is pregnant I think it would go even farther to explain why Jin is so overprotective of her. Maybe he didn’t want her to eat the sea urchin until he tested it out on the other pregnant lady first to make sure it was safe. 
Thoughts:
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Ethan seemed to have vastly variable powers to fit the plot line. He snuck into a fully alert camp, quietly killed someone and worked over the corpse and snuck out. In two encounters with the Hobbit, he was 2-0 handly pummling him (and giving him a good hanging to boot). He gave Jack quite the smackdown the first time too, and even Locke was afraid of him.
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Yet, he lost track of his prized pregnant Australian. Oops! How did that happen to the lord of the jungle? Was it intentional? Did the Island do it to him? Then he walks right in to their clumbsy and somewhat obvious trap- and can’t run down a very pregnant woman. Then his powers get further “nerfed” and lowly Jack gives him a beat down. What?
He got stupid, much weaker and much less jungle aware in like 2 minutes. Was it just for the plot, or did the island abandon him after he played the role the island wanted- foil for the further control and leadership of Locke. Everytime something like this happens, Locke is invovled and he advances his position on the island. Locke finds the girl, Locke gains the trust of Jack and the other gun team, Locke’s trap just happens to work perfectly. What’s the common demonimator-- Locke. Did the island inspire our little hobbit to find the gun at just the right time too?
Finally, two Hobbit back stories was one too many. This backstory was tired, obvious, and smacked of filler. Worse it lacked the sublety and depth of the previous backstories. Using the time for the backstory of Steve would have made his death a much larger emotional impact, and much less like “the guy you never met died offscreen- oh well”.
Hopefully next week is more interesting then the trailer looked, as romantic triangle with pistols not looking that good.
I noticed there still seems to be something going on between Saayid and Shannon. She was bandaging his arm after the ambush/battle. Does she really like him, or is she just using him like she has with apparently every other man in her life?
For a Brit, Charlie got a very good grouping when he shot Ethan. My first reaction was “Where in the hell did he learn to shoot?”
I am positive Jin and Sun are hiding something. My bet is that Sun is pregnant.
The thought just occured to me that the writers may be mining an old SF standby. Anybody remember “The Gamesters of Treskilion?” :eek:
Some women just have a very fine build. My co-worker who had her baby last summer was built exactly like Claire during the last months of her pregnancy. She’s always been very thin and strong, and aside from the fact that it looked like she had a basketball tucked under her top, her build didn’t change much at all. Skinny little stick legs that went up to a spherical belly. She looked like some kind of Muppet.
Or maybe Claire’s baby will be a pumpkin.
Hey, so the writers seem to keep an eye on the internet (I mean, come on! Some of the jokes look like they’d been reading the Dope!) So if we all start chanting “Kill Boone! Kill Boone!” do you think they’ll write him off the show?
I was sure he was going to bite the biscuit when he fell asleep.
Any other Arrested Development fans have an innapropriate chuckle when Charlie said “Annyong” to Jin? 
I was hoping. He’s the most annoying major character.
Dude, that was Scott.
I was actually hoping Steve would say something at the memorial. I think that was Steve standing behind Hurley and he seemed to shift uncomfotably when Hurley said “Sorry, I kept calling you Steve.”. Maybe Steve realized he came pretty close to being the corpse. Maybe Ethan was after Steve and always got him mixed up with Scott, too?
I do like the fact that, despite his life-changing experience in the jungle, he’s still completely useless.
But of course. When he dosed off, I though “Oh, yay! Ethan is going to kill Boone!” and I squealed with glee, clapping my hands and giggling like a little girl.
Boy, was I disappointed.
Regarding Ethan being Superman one minute and then getting beat down by Jack the next:
We have no proof that Ethan killed – or even seriously tried to kill – anyone. We didn’t see who strung up Charlie, we didn’t see poor Scott get killed (and crushed – maybe by the TCM?), etc. He started to strangle a couple of folks with his bare hands, sure, but there’s a pretty big difference between choking someone a bit and actually killing them that way. We saw him fight with Jack, but it makes sense to me that the next time those two tangled Jack would be able to get the upper hand (in a “now you’ve pissed me off”/“won’t be fooled again” way).
I don’t think Ethan was any kind of super warrior or anything; I think he was doing someone – or something – else’s dirty work. It would explain his seemingly uber-stealth-ness, and might also explain both Charlie’s and Claire’s amnesia regarding their time with Ethan: whatever force is really at work wanted to remain hidden, and let everyone blame Ethan – not that he was just being used, after all he did go around threatening to kill everyone.
Ethan used surprise to take Claire and Charlie the first time, but couldn’t use that again (because Claire was staying in the camp, recovering), so he had to have someone bring Claire to him. I think that Ethan was just a guy, albeit an evil one, so as soon as he was outnumbered – and alone – I fully expected him to lose.
A couple of things:
1). In the pilot episode, Jack asked Claire how far along she was in her pregnancy. Does anybody remember what she said? I thought it was fairly late, and they have been there another month since then.
2). The “bunker door” thing, does anyone think Locke may try and use a gun to shoot the glass out?
And finally, who gets a “flashback” next week? I’m hoping for another Locke flashback.
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Very good point. Ethan made the threat, but we don’t know who or what carried it out.
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At the time of the crash she was 8 months along. Jack thought it was unusual for her to be traveling at that stage. When Jack told her they’d been there a month she started to say “but I’m due” and he interrupted her telling her that the baby was fine and kicking.
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Wouldn’t they have already tried to break the glass with the axe? If the glass can’t be broken that way is it very likely that a bullet could do it?
Locke’s next episode isn’t for a while yet. I think the next one is another Sawyer episode.
Uh…no.
Care to elaborate?
I don’t know. He had Charlie off the ground with ONE hand. That’s Darth Vader territory!
It’s a Star Trek TOS episode. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov (right?) are kidnapped and forced to fight other aliens gladiator-style by disembodied beings who bet on the outcome. IIRC, Kirk gets the girl, and it’s implied that Uhura is raped.