Arrgghhhhh! :smack: Curse my stubborn unwillingness to proofread my long posts…!
As I tell my students occasionally, listen to what I mean, not what I say. 
Maybe Dr. Jack-of-all-Trades has been hand-weaving them out of old surgical dams, ponchos found in the luggage, and condoms.
Judging from some of the significant glances being exchanged around the beach, he might not want to use up all the condoms.
Yeah, I remember thinking, when Jack brought out the tarp, where the hell did he get that? But then, maybe the bunker does have supplies like that in it.
I definitely going to need to rewatch this episode, paying attention to what is going on off camera. I think these types of sleeper episodes often have significant clues burried somewhere. Not that the writers are going to let us know what’s really going on.
Hey, did anyone mention the stuffed polar bears in the DriveShaft diaper comercial? How blatant was that!!
using Jedi mind tricks on self
What DriveShaft diaper commercial? What a ridiculous idea! No such thing occurred in this episode. I would never! These aren’t the droids you’re looking for. We are free to go.
I thought the diaper commercial was hysterical. It showed what depths they had sunk to because of their drug addictions.
I also wait with bated breath the S2 DVD so we can (I hope) see all the outtakes of that scene. I can’t imagine how hysterically funny it was on that set.
If Charlie’s not on drugs, I’m wondering if there’s not something in the food from the hatch that makes people hallucinate…
I thought the same thing. Weren’t they using them right away to catch drinking water?
Maybe it’s all those ranch dressing spores that were released into the atmosphere.
Well, except for the fact that nobody seems to care to figure out how the washer is plumbed? Where’s the fresh water for that and the shower coming from? How much is stored and when will they run out?
The whole disinterest in things like this, as well as an apparent lack of interest in bothering to try to figure out how to get off the island anymore are really starting to irritate me. While on the one hand, it’s nice to see that they don’t overlook showing how everyone is going about the mundane tasks, I’m about fed up with watching Sun hanging laundry every freaking episode. Ok, they do laundry, we get that. Can we see anyone have a conversation about investigating the hatch further, or building another raft or something?
Why doesn’t anyone seem to care that Michael just went off into the woods and hasn’t been seen since? That there’s a band of pirates out there that are armed? That several people seem to have had hallucinations? Where the hell are my favorite couple, whose names I can’t even remember it’s been so damn long since they’ve even shown them (the husband was in the tail section and everyone thought he was dead but his wife)? And if they aren’t going to bother figuring out a way off the island, and the hatch is inappropriate because of the frequent alarms, when are they going to make some kind of effort to build some real structures and not these tarped thingies?
I think I’m about to lose interest and patience with this show.
I don’t think he was overreacting. He doesn’t know how things were from Charlie’s perspective - and he really did deserve it, I think.
Anyways, not too much of an episode. But I have to wonder, what was the deal with Eko’s trees? Marking them for the hell of it seemed kind of weird…
-Joe
My guess is that Eko is marking the trees he wants to fell in order to build a church.
Not a lot happened in this episode. Everytime I think things are not progressing very quickly, I have to remind myself that Island Time is much slower than real time; it’s been a season and a half in real time and less than two months in Island Time. A lot has happened for less than two months time.
But Crazy French Lady stole the baby and Locke didn’t punch her out.
Where is CFL these days? Is she hanging out with the group or did she take off?
Can some kind person help me out here. I may be going crazy. Is it possible that seeing the black smoke monster is causing Charlie to go 'round the bend? Also, in Charlie’s dream (Baptism of Jesus) did the Dove make the monster’s noises when it came out of the sky?
I’m with Shayna. It’s been, what, about 50 days? And none of these people have gotten into the ‘Survivor’ mindset?
As in, there isn’t a Costco over the hill. What you’ve got is what you’ve got – use it well, preserve it, ration it.
No, instead they do things like use giant jars of salad dressing for target practice. (I don’t care if you don’t like Ranch – that was a huge supply of edible oil, and oil is one of the hardest things to find in a hunter/gatherer life style.)
They burn up one plane just to get rid of bodies. Okay, they were still in shock and in the ‘We’ll be rescued in a day or two’ way of thinking.
What’s the excuse for burning up that second plane? Don’t you think sheets of aluminum might make for decent roofs? All the wiring in the plane is valuable for connecting things. There where windshields. Cloth, foam padding, seats… Is NONE of that of interest to anyone?
Going back to the target practice…um, people, you’re knee deep in hostiles, yes? Is there a Gun and Ammo shop near by? Might you not want to save the bullets for when you need them?
They are all acting like such idiots I’m rooting for the Others to enslave the lot of them. :mad:
Fifty people with very little to do should be accomplishing more than gathering fruit and tanning their well-groomed bodies.
“Wait, there’s another six hatches around here? I wonder what we can find in the others. Maybe they have radios. Maybe Hurley’s magic numbers were being broadcast from there…if so, SOMEONE IS PICKING IT UP! We’re saved!”
-Joe
This is the only one I’m willing to give them a pass on. Having all the ammo in the world doesn’t mean anything if you can’t hit shit.
I’m going to guess that Sayid, Locke, Eko, and Anna Lucia are, so far, the only people who have some firearms expertise. Everyone else would just be a target if they don’t get any practice.
-Joe
Locke certainly is the Survivor mindset.
Not “just to get rid of the bodies”, but those bodies would begin to stink to high heaven, and be incubators for disease. Plus, they stripped the plane first.
Eko burned it, no one else. And it was a very small plane.
Also, keep in mind that not eveyone knows everything. Jack, especially, is making sure that info is doled out on a “need to know” basis. I don’t think more than a handful has seen the movie reel.
I am sympathetic to your complaints, but I think you’re exagerating a bit. Still, you do what to just smack them sometimes and say “Why don’t you do…”
Locke never saw her after she stole the baby. Only Sayid and Charlie did.
This is one of my biggest complaints. They need to go get her. Especially if they’re building an army-- she knows a lot about the island and how to set traps, etc. Plus, they should tell her that her daughter is alive (although she’d probably really go off the deep end if she knew).
Not to pick nits, but just because we don’t know about the water situation doesn’t mean they don’t know. They found fresh water pretty quickly on the island, back when they found Adam and Eve, so water storage doesn’t seem to be an issue – they can just go to the waterfall when they need more. The Tailies also know where other water sources are, since it appears their water was coming from a different part of the island. I don’t want to give these people too much credit, because they are dumb as boxes of hair for the most part, but we don’t know what exploration they’ve already done within The Hatch. It doesn’t seem too far-fetched to me to believe that Dharma set up the washer-dryer and shower with a hot water heater and storage tank that fills right from the spring/stream.
Now, what I don’t get is why nobody is asking where in the hell the electricity is coming from. Even a generator has to be fueled by something.
Tidal power, or an underwater Dharma/Hanso facility. Sayeed found that big ol’ cable leading out of the water and into the jungle, before the CFL snagged him.
Not that I don’t agree with all the observations-- I do, especially the Where Is Crazy French Lady part-- but does anyone get the impression that the survivors don’t really want to leave the island anymore? Perhaps it can be chalked up to Insano Island Mind Control/Fogginess, but still… the last time they seemed desperate to either leave or even investigate their circumstances was the raft incident; since then, Michael’s gone into the jungle, and Jin and Sawyer have found lady reasons to stay put and content. So there’s no drive to move on out of that freakshow, which to me partially explains their unwillingness to face up to the Others (except for Grumpy Jack) or do some real exploring.
Seems suspicious. Like everything seems suspicious!
Perhaps I have too much faith in the writers.