In my book, this is the best TV in about a dozen years. Superb acting, good stories, even the ones that make me homicidal with unrequited curiosity. A near perfect blend of characters that seem at first to be over the top, but get deeper almost by the minute.
Why couldn’t Bergama and Lucas do it like this!?!?!
I’m disappointed that the boat that found Walt, his bad and sayer and Jin was full of Waterworld rejects. I was sure it was going to be Rover from The Prisoner.
BTW, a huge, hearty hand for all the Lost Dopers.
You have made this fantastic show all the more enjoyable.
Thank you.
Now… Locke. (“We’re going to have a Locke problem after this…”)
So, I see two possibilities:
He’s right, and his faith in the island and whatever it brought them there for is going to be the thing to sustain them all.
The island is using him to open the hatch and unleash the forces of darkness, and he has made the grave mistake of blindly placing his faith in the island.
So… which is it?
I tip my hat to you, Rockle – it didn’t hit me until Sayid and Charlie ran into Danielle and Turnip Head at the beachside cookout.
Who’s your daddy NOW, Walt? 
EZ
Annnnnsweeeeeeers! Annnnnnsweeeers! We need juicy, delicious, braaaaai-uh, aaaaaaanswers!
In other words: aaaaaaaaaaaaaah! How many more months are we going to have to wait again?
Fan-tab-ulous capper for an all-around excellent series. I loved the closing sequence on the plane, especially all of the little touches: Jin’s watch, Sayid being watched suspiciously, Hurley reading the polar bear comic book.
It wasn’t you - I thought it was CFL for a moment. Alex could be a girl’s name; does anyone remember if CFL has ever said “my son” or “he”?
Anyone else think the blonde girl who firebombed the raft was Alex? She showed too briefly to get an accurate bead on her age, but I’m suspicious.
As for our trio of sailors–what are the chances any of them makes it back? 15 miles from shore, a burning raft, a fresh gunshot–it doesn’t look good.
“dad and Sawyer”
You know, I was just thinking “Artz is an ass. I would really hate for him to be a regular next season”
BOOM!!!
Maybe I got some of Walt’s powers?
Ok, so if they Others want Walt, why did they kidnap Claire? Are there two other groups? Was Ethan working alone and just wanted Claire? Do they have some prophecy of a child and are not sure which of the kids they want?
And what was Hurley doing with a Spanish comic? Does he speak spanish?
He’s Latino. I don’t remember if we’ve ever heard him speak Spanish but it’s not unreasonable to think he has some familiarity with the language.
Oh, and Locke saying “Hope” was inside the hatch creeped me out completely. Anyone familiar with the Pandora’s Box fable knows what else was kept with hope and no way do I think Locke was ignorant of the implication.
Go ahead and toss these in the appropriate thread. I’ll be cleaning things up sometime tomorrow.
That was cool!
Now what am I gonna do all summer??
He’s Hispanic. He spoke Spanish to his grand dad during the news interview (I think I remember that right…)
I must admit I only got into the show for the last half of the season, so I’ve had lots of ground to make up, but Locke is by far the most intriguing character I’ve ever met. He has the air of a religious man, the skills of a trained killer, the focus of a computer hacker, and the motivation of a desperate man given a second chance. I can’t decide who’s the main character anymore, I think Locke has stolen the show.
I’ve always had a thing for symbolisms of character names, so here are two points I found interesting.
Sayid - Muslim name for “Master” – Could this be from his control of the radio and his overall ability to handle just about any situation. And yet he is not a master of himself. He tortures the guy for the asthma medicine, leaves because of his shame (guilt?), meets CFL, then comes back and resumes kicking ass.
John Locke - Well, he was a philosopher / writer back in the 1600s. Link to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/l/locke.htm
Now that y’all have mentioned it, yes. Alex was – is? – CFL’s daughter, and the Others took her, and now she has taken Walt and killed Kenny. You bastard! Oh, wait … anyway, question which will bug me until the new season starts: If Walt knew that he had to get off the island like he told Michael last week, then how come he couldn’t tell that trouble would follow him? The HELL? Are his powers limited? By what or whom? Aaaaaaargh!
I have this horrible, terrible feeling that next season will begin with the “new regulars” and we’ll start back on Day One, somewhere on another part of the island, and we’ll have to go through this whole same month again but with new people, and we won’t find out what really happened to Walt until the beginning of Season Three. Would they do that? Of course they would … god, I am so this show’s bitch!
Not really a Lost geek (my schedule kept me from watching) but yes, J.J. (and other writers) like to stick 47s everywhere. The tradition started out at Pomona College in CA, and its TV history dates back to Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Arzt was blown up into parzts!
(bad pun time over).
My wife asks “Did you see that?”
Kate replied “Yes, I did see that.”
“Do not hit me again.” “This will not be pleasant.”
Everything conspired in the first half to split the groups up. Everything conspired in the second half to bring them back together.
Yeah, it’s pretty obvious that the boat people were the others. Not only did Rockle call it, but CFL hinted so when she realized the Others weren’t interested in the baby, but “in the boy.”
TV moment! If Kate is so dangerous, why remove the chains from her as they’re boarding. Just keep them on her at all times.
That was the comic Walt was looking at after the crash… the one with the polar bear on the back.
Sawyer ain’t dead - it’s just a flesh wound.
Great episode!
I have a feeling that Season II will start with the BOP people, but will soon pan back to the Locke/Jack group. The numbers say so, don’t you know. Maybe one or two BOP only eps tops, then a mix, but maybe with still seperate groups.
And still no visual on TCM. You never see the demon, til Him comes callin.
Definitely looked female, and youngish. I think you might be right!
Alex is a girl – that was revealed last week, when CFL identified Alex as her daughter.
I was thinking we would get the hatch opened and see our lostaways’ reactions as if we were in the hatch, without showing us anything of real substance. That we saw what was apparently an egress tunnel that extends far down into the earth eases the sting not even a little bit, with the summer stretching out endlessly before us.
Lots of cliffhangers. If Season Two really does shift focus to the tail section survivors, I will grind my teeth to nubs if we don’t get some answers. What happened to Sawyer? Will Locke now go off the deep end? How are the rafters gonna survive out on the ocean? Was that The Others that took Walt? Will Charlie start using again? Is CFL going to go off the deep end and prove a real and unpredictable danger? Is Sun’s father crazy enough to have his own search party composed of deadly killers look for and find the lostaways and/or Jin? Will Kate throw in with Locke and betray Jack at some point, especially if Locke tempts her with something he can provide and she wants?
I echo the poster who thanked all of you for making the viewing of Lost this year a much better experience. Discussion is fun!