OK. I Get a map of The Island, plus the Alcatraz island and a 3rd island called the observation island (supply, security and casimir studies), and the link in the e-mail has some trippy message about Mittelos and Hanso all being the same.
Password = Rachel.
All right, wait. Why do I recognise the recruiter from Portland? What show was he on and why can’t I figure it out with IMDB? 
The recruiter was played by Nestor Carbonell. He was on “The Tick” and “Suddenly Susan.”
He was Batmanuel on “The Tick.”
alright, I know I’m gonna sound so cliched right now (and btw, the getting hit by the bus thing was more Mean Girls than Final Destination), but this show is just pissing me off. Season 1 was great, season 2 started even greater but then tapered off, but season 3 has sucked. I was all set to completely forget the show ever existed (I’d read a summary somewhere down the line) after that god awful fall finale, where absolutely nothing happened, unless you count spending a whole hour getting Ben onto an operating table, interweaved with a completely useless Jack flashback (but aren’t they all…), but then I happened to be reading the TV Picks for the Week section of Entertainment Weekly, where the Lost summary was “You know how you said you were done with this show, how it was going down hill? Well, forget what you were thinking and just watch the returning episode tonight. It’s good. Very good. Season 1 good. Trust us. Just watch it” and I figured ‘what they hey…maybe the producers realized just how many former fans they’ve alienated and are finally making the show good again.’
Tonight’s show was total disappointment. I turned it off about halfway through. This show is getting X-Files-Sunday-night-era bad. Are we really supposed to get that shocked and go “OMG that was ETHAN in the hallway!!!..and he’s fat!”? or “OMG, Juliet has been to MIAMI!”? I’m not one of those people who gets bitchy by thinking how they need to give us more answers, or the show should have been more like Cast Away – I just want actual substance. I watch shows like this to be entertained, and this show isn’t doing it, and apparently it’s not going to. Goodbye.
So I was right in post #51. Thank you.
How did Sawyer know Karl? Where have we met him before?
Obviously any reason they give for not being able to treat Ben “stateside” is garbage because Juliet has been promised she can leave. She would know if that wasn’t possible.
When he was first put in the gorilla cage, Karl was in the other cage.
Did anybody besides me happen to look up “Edmund Burke” on Wikipedia last night, and see that in the article, the letter combination “the” was replaced with the letter combination “poop”? {Examples: instead of “the Roman Catholic Church,” it said “poop Roman Catholic Church,” and instead of “mother” and “father” it said “mopoopr” and “fapoopr.”} No? Just me? Never mind then.
I cannot provide a cite for this, because the article has since been corrected and is currently (mostly) making sense.
ADDENDUM: Hmm. The word “poop” is still part of this article, but I have no idea what it’s supposed to be referring to now. So, um, if you’re trying to figure out what the crap (heh) the name “Edmund Burke” has to do with anything, you might want to look it up elsewhere.
Red
During the surgery when Tom is helping Jack, Jack asks why they didn’t take Ben off the island for treatment. Tom says, “Ever since the sky turned purple…” at which point Ben’s artery starts squirting across the room and everyone gets distracted.
Sawyer knew Karl from the bear cages.
As for Juliet “obviously not being able to leave”, it could be something a little more strange than “nobody can leave”. Maybe, as has been speculated before, nobody can RETURN. So, Ben could go to the mainland and get fixed…but then what?
Finally, when it comes to having kidnapped Jack and the others before worrying about the surgery, well, who says that’s the MAIN reason they wanted everyone? That may have been a bonus.
-Joe
Good ep. I agree that it was possibly the best this season, they’re reclaiming some of the momentum that was lacking in the first half.
Tonight’s big reveal: At least some of the “Others” are unwilling prisoners, not just stranded (albeit with slightly better living conditions than our crew) and unable/unwilling to leave.
When he said the sky turned purple, he could have been talking about when the Losties’ plane crashed, not when the hatch exploded. A similar meltdown was going on then.
(Can I just say that I love being back in the U.S. and being able to follow these threads in real time, instead of searching for them and reading them months later? I’ve read every word of every other Lost thread, but this is the first one I’ve been able to contribute to!)
Ben needed to be treated right away. Juliet might be able to leave but not right away. The reason doesn’t have to be garbage, the effect might not be permenant. Maybe it fried some of their equipment and they are waiting for parts. I don’t know. But one thing does not invalidate the other.
Well… it sucked me back in, but I fear the worst…
Rule number 1:
When escaping from armed folks that intend to kill you, you do not simply knock them out. If you don’t have the cajones to kill them, atleast break their hands (so they can’t carry a gun) and/or break their legs so that they cannot chase you. Also, as a side note, take BOTH of the guns.
Rule number 2:
Never play the bluff game with Kate… she will kneecap you. (Sawyer, on the other hand, won’t)
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Other than that, it was a better episode than most of the early part of season 3, but I think all they are setting up is more of a “war” between the islands… really doesn;t matter… atleast they are willing to kill charectors off.
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In the “Lost Survivor’s Guide”… the producers pretty much ticked me off… its an “extra ordinary island”… pretty much means they’ll make wierd things happen for no reason and no explanation just to create a scene…
Just so you know, this was a fake site created by a fan.
Well, my main question was answered…it’s Oregon, not Maine.
That’s it, I’m good for now.
Yes all has been revealed.
Ok in the earlier thread that was started (the one that was basically “nah nah nah I got to see it before you”) the OP said there was some important hidden anagram. What was it?
He sometimes confuses me because he often has a thick accent. Looking on his IMDB entry it shows that he was born in NYC. It’s funny, IMDB doesn’t have him listed for Lost.
so was Alex’s boat a sailboat (it had a sail), a canoe (it was small), or a catamaran (it had a stabilizer)?