I hate to even think about this, but I read in the newspaper that Lost had dropped in the ratings. Please tell me that it’s not possible that my favorite show is in danger of cancellation just when things are heating up. Please?
Acc. to Nielsen, it was the #1 show of the evening.
Things have been “heating up” since the start of the show, and that’s probably how it’ll always stay.
TV Guide said that the season 3 premiere was down 20% compared to the season 2 premiere.
Which certainly must have been Desmond’s “System Failure” moment, when he just got back to the hatch and got it stopped in time. (i.e. the “earthquake”).
Gotta agree with that. Flashback Jack was being an asshole. His situation sucked – wife cheating on him and leaving him for another guy. But she clearly doesn’t want you anymore – let it go and move on.
As for Jack in the prison cell. Yeah, I’d be pissed, too. It seemed pretty clear that Jack was going to jump her when she opened the door that first time. Although, as somebody else insinuated, maybe that was the idea…? The whole shared-life-and-death situtation (the water). Hadn’t thought about it from that angle before.
Well, at least we know what Jack’s mom blames him for, and why she was able to guilt him into going to Sydney. Except they’re both wrong: no one can make an alcoholic relapse.
So does anybody think we’ll start getting flashback episodes on the main “Others”?
They’re at school, in Kidnapping class. That’s 4th period. Then they will break for lunch. Following that – 5th period. Which is Taser Target Practice. After that, Recess. Then Captive Clubbing and Pistol Whipping to round out the day.
When they took a blood sample from Michael last season, I don’t think it was the inside of the elbow. (Don’t know about this one, didn’t catch that close enough). The guy just came up to Michael and jabbed him in the arm with the needle – didn’t even look for a vein! Heh. He’d make a great intern… 
Don’t think I remember that, specifically… when were we told this? I do remember that when Jack went back to “the line we’re not supposed to cross”, he chose Kate to go with him. When she asked him why, he said it was because the Others didn’t want her (or him). They’d already had her captive (the confrontation at “the line” the first time) and didn’t keep her. When he told her this, she said, “Damaged goods, huh?”
Apparently, the Others have changed their mind on that regard.
This kind of thing is an idea I’ve been toying with, too. Jack’s Dad seems to come back to the forefront in a lot of the backstories, including those of other characters (Ana Lucia, Sawyer…) I think he may be more central than we realize right now – even if he is dead by the time of the plane crash – and I also wonder if maybe he isn’t actually dead.
It was from episode 1x16, “Outlaws”. This was the one with Sawyer’s flashbacks, from when he went to Australia and ended up killing the wrong guy (that Hibbs had set him up to kill). The “shooting the wrong guy” flashback was right before he confronted the boar in the present. The boar gave him a knowing look. Almost seemed like the boar somehow represented the guy he killed. Coming back to make him confront his memories of the incident or something.
Maybe Zeke prefers the company of men. (or maybe he only digs 16-year-old French chicks… :D)
Nope – that was my first thought, too, when he finally sat against the wall and she went out the door. I thought, “she’s leaving! She just totally bent him to her will!” then I realized that the other door must not be accessible from the area she was in.
I read an interview with Matthew Fox, way back just before the premiere of Season 2. (Deatails magazine, maybe?) The interviewer said he was told in no uncertain terms that the tatoos were Fox’s, they had great meaning only to him and not to the show, and the meaning was none of anybody’s business. So you’re not going to find out what they mean, but don’t lose any sleep over it.
We may not find out what they mean to Matthew Fox, but they may well be assigned some meaning to Jack that we well all obsess over like rabid pavlovian dogs.
That actually seems pretty likely at this point (although I am very often wrong in my predictions). Way back in the first season, Jack finds his dad’s coffin in the jungle, broken apart. I never really caught the significance of that scene, and just chalked it up to the body being flung somewhere into the jungle, but it’s quite possible Jack’s dad was never in the coffin in the first place. If he’s linked with the Others, the visions Jack had of him in the early episodes could be chalked up either to Jack hallucinating or his dad using remote viewing or whatever it is Walt does.
Who you calling rabid? (ears perk, head tilts to side)
But the makers of the show have decided to show us the tattoos. (They can use makeup and other tricks to hide tattoos, right?) Its hard for me to believe they have decided to make something so prominently noticeable about a character on their show without planning for that thing to have some significance to the show.
-Kris