To be fair, this show isn’t exactly going to win an award for realism. Anyway, how do we even know how long the van was abandoned? Put a real van in a real jungle for a couple of years and the thing will be more overgrown than that one was.
Seriously. The guy in the wheelchair is walking around and everyone is bothered by the fact that the car is in remarkably good shape.
No, because once the car is running, all the electronics run off the alternator.
Not that that makes the likelihood of roll starting a thirty year old van in a jungle any more plausible.
Why was it necessary for the van to start to avoid the rocks anyways? I know it is harder to steer a car with power steering with the engine off but it’s not impossible and I would be surprised if the van had it anyway. On the other hand, trying to apply logic to anything on this show is itself illogical.
On another note, anyone else hoping the two new Losties buy it? I found both their attempts at their meager parts rather lame. I feel more pointless flashbacks coming on soon.
To be fair, they had to give them some lines at some point - they are in the opening credits after all.
Seems like the writers don’t know what they’d planned to do with them once they got them, though.
-Joe
Yeah, my thoughts were pretty much along those lines. I guess that getting the van going was similar to Hurley’s attempt, in Season 1, to introduce some fun to the Losties with the golf course.
Hurley’s mom got the best lines this time. She was great. I also liked Sawyer’s comment about only getting one TV channel in his “trailer”.
Some of the characters are starting to look noticeably different… in particular, Claire, Sun and CFL all seem to have a different “look”. Maybe it’s just the 2 1/2 years of age IRL as opposed to what should only be a few months of Island time.
Yes, but Hurley’s golf course didn’t involve grenades or having to outrun polar bears. What’s next, bungie jumping with some jungle vines because “it’s gotta work”?
-Joe
loved this ep. ! don’t watch for realism - watch for fun, well done tv, which it certainly was.
am bummed about the rift between Sawyer (not James anymore?) and Kate…I knew she’d break his heart.
Not to mention his unabashed admission that his stash included porn!
I wonder if it was Dharma porn.
Hey, if the island can magically heal paralysis, it can sure as hell heal a broken down VW van. All it takes is a little hope.
Maybe people should start wishing for a satellite phone and a GPS then!
-Joe
Speaking of nicknames, didn’t Sawyer refer to Kate as “Kate” at one point, though not to her face? Is that not the first time he’s used somebody’s real name?
At least they are actually sharing information now! Pre-captive Kate would have just said, “We’re going after Jack” and not told anybody anything about it. This time, she actually told people about Other-traz and how they supposedly live on this island. AND she shared the info with Danielle – “Hey, there’s a chick over there that might be your daughter.”
Other characters have encountered Alex before – like Claire… and peripherally Locke, Jack, Kate, and Sawyer, pre-capture, in the forest encounter with Bluebeard (“Bring her out, Alex!!!”)
But this is the first time anybody’s bothered to tell Rousseau about it.
Not going to spoiler this since it has no real information. In the recent EW interview the producers said that Paolo and Nikki (I think thats their names) will be revealed to be very important. When that happens they predict that everyones perception of the the characters will change. We’ll see.
The producers said in that interview that they would return to Walt and Michael in some way. Next season
I loved this episode. Good writing. Good acting. Laughs. I don’t care about getting answers every week and hate when I hear the whining. I joined in with the whining last week because even if I don’t need to get answers every week, if you are going to promise big giant hairy answers for a week in every commercial you better deliver.
Shut up Redneck…man!
Touche.
We’ll get that later.
I don’t think Claire got her name… and even if she did, she hadn’t met Danielle and didn’t know she had a missing daughter (remember how nobody tells anyone anything). As for the forest encounter, I don’t know that anyone got a close enough look at her to make the connection. Alex is a popular enough name, and the darkness in the forest made it hard to tell her age and appearance.
But yes, the information-sharing is refreshing.
Loved this ep! not alot of story development, but good clean fun stuff. not that I want to see this every week mind you, but once in a while it is nice to watch people just be people.
Right – and it’s a big incident (in dramatic effect, if not overall importance) in the whole “cursed numbers” pattern that develops around Hurley. And that theme is worked on this episode with Hurley trying to get a victory out of it.
Not too far from the truth, considering that he seems to figure out lots of stuff with that hallucinogenic paste he made and smeared on Boone (and himself more recently).
I was thinking the same. In fact, no need to crash if it fails to start – after all, they do have brakes, right? And you can still hit the brakes if you’re just rolling in neutral. Sure, harder to steer, but the steering wheel will still turn.
Maybe they just should have aimed at a different angle down the hill to start with – you know, one that didn’t head straight for the rocks (or a tree)!
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Steve, I mean Scott O:
I don’t care whether or not they actually appear, but such a big deal was made of Walt’s “specialness”, and his kidnapping was a major driver of plot for the entire second season. If whatever explanation is offered for all the goings-on doesn’t somehow include Walt, they will have dropped the ball in a major way.