Injections for what though? Shaft said innoculations, but against what? And on a regular basis? Something fishy going on there. If only there was a doctor on the island, maybe he’d be able to figure it out.
Or what Trion said :smack:
I doubt it. Depending on what the labels say (assuming they’re telling the truth!), he might figure it out if there was a list of drugs or something.
Otherwise, though, without a hell of a chemistry set and some reference books I can’t see how anyone (and remember he’s a surgeon, not a chemist) could identify anything - except maybe sugar water.
Two medical questions, here.
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I assume there’s something that can be used as an injected placebo. What is it? Any easy way to identify it? Something tells me sugar water in the veins isn’t a good idea.
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We’ve seen those “painless” pneumatic injectors on TV for decades now. Do they work? Do they work well? If so, why am I still being jabbed by needles?
-Joe
Well, does your husband have proof that there are no mysterious corporations who mastermind plane crashes, tree crunching monsters, Nigerian plane crashes, psychic dogs, backwards speaking children, magical medical care and rock bands with diapers? Yeah, I didn’t think so! 
Yes, no, and they hurt and are expensive. Unless you have to deal with a large number of people at a time getting the same dosage of the same medicine, hypos are easier, cheaper and more painless in the hands of a decent shooter.
A lot of things (mentioned above) bothered me about this episode, but this has to be the biggest one:
CH: Here, Claire, I found some injectable drugs. They say ‘vaccine,’ so without having any idea for what or why, might as well start shooting up yourself and your weeks-old infant daily. Kbye.
CL: Oh Chahlie! My hero. :melts:
Just fucking unbelievable.
Saline solution would be my guess.
Here’s my question: what’s the connection between Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Hurley? Why do the Others want those four in particular?
And they might just spread Hepatitis B.
Two possibilites:
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Something we don’t know yet.
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Something we don’t remember yet.
Assuming it’s not #1…
Is there any place the four of them have been that nobody else has? Since Hurley is on the list, that should help restrict things nicely.
I think all four have dead fathers - I know the first three do…Hurley’s father was absent, was he dead? Remember it was his grandfather that had the heart attack on TV, not his father.
Typically, anything exciting that happened with Kate or Jack had Locke along - the Black Rock, getting into the hatch. Sayid has dealt with Danielle, so that’s not it.
Has anyone met Bluebeard besides that group? Only other ones are Walt and Jin on the raft. Jin doesn’t speak the lingo, so they might not be able to get any use out of them (although I imagine Hanso Group could come up with a Korean interpreter), and Walt they already have.
The dead fathers and those who have met Bluebeard are the only connections I can think of, and the Bluebeard is pretty feeble because of Jin…
-Joe
Watch for Kate to get caught in a net with Hurley next.
Oh, and when Vincent dropped the virgin statue at Charlie’s feet, my viewing companion and I looked at each other and said, “We knew there was something hinky about that dog!”
(As mentioned in previous threads: The dog was the first thing Jack saw when he woke up at the beginning of the pilot; we’ve seen it sitting off in the bushes observing people’s activities in a very un-dog-like fashion; and other wacky stuff. There’s something up with it, I’m telling you. The statue retrieval seals it for me.)
Oh, yeah…
If I were to give an adult-sized does of an immunization to a ten-pound baby will there be any negative effects due to the fact that the dosage was meant for a 200 pound adult?
-Joe
What the four on the list have in common:
Since arriving on the island, they’ve all had visions of things that probably weren’t there.
Jack saw his dead father, Kate and Sawyer saw the horse, and Hurley saw Dave.
I saw that last night and immediately said to my husband, “Cool-so those ARE real!” and then immediately realized that Lost isn’t real itself. :smack:
I understand Charlie’s motivation behind disposing of all the heroin, but it seems pretty stupid when the drug could have possibly been useful in some form, as with Libby when she was dying. Dude, turn it over to Jack along with the mysterious vaccine!
And in the preview for next week did I hear
The Tree Chomping Monster?? :eek: Is that what Jack was shooting at?
And what about using the pneumatic injector on the baby? Wouldn’t you have to adjust the pressure? And yes, vaderspal made a good point about the vaccinations. I think you’d at least ask the doctor in the group before you did anything, not to mention the fact that I’d be suspicious of anything like that on the island.
Lost has gone the way of 24 – too many morons.
Characters on this show are just way too stupid and willing to charge off half-cocked. It’s okay to watch people like that for a movie or two, but for two fricking years? Forget it.
The only characters I have sympathy for at the moment are Sayid, Jin and Sun – and Sayid’s the only one who stops to think!
I’m not clear on what Jack was using the heroin for with Libby. Was it to ease her pain, or do euthanize her? She seemed rather agitated at the end, when she said “Michael.”
In the Jeep ad from the “Let Your Compass Guide You” site, there is some interesting imagery. Most interesting is a statue of the Buddha, which has had the words “The Mouth Piece” added next to it (not part of the original ad). There’s also a guy spraying something out of a long nozzle onto a zodiac disk, between Virgo and Leo.
IMHO… just a very bad pun… especially given the spelling from a later post… just a LOL moment in my book, and poor writing.
I see a couple of easy possibilities:
1.) They didn’t know it was him AND he pulled a gun on them… they did afterall just ‘wing him’.
2.) Getting Walt was the higher priority at the time. Now they can have both.
Even without Walt saying “they’re pretending”, the night shot of the Others’ hut village confirmed it for me. Those tents are not put together with sticks: their pattern’s too regular. Those are fold-out metal huts covered in skins and fabrics to make them look more jungly.
The List Of Four is interesting. I’m not sure if those are supposed to be “good” people who are to be brought back for testing, or “bad” people who need to be eliminated. If the connection is the hallucinations, as RikWriter mentioned, then why not Sayid, who saw ghost Walt? And Charlie’s babynapping incident?