Just a note: Technically speaking, I don’t think this necesarily implies they have two-way contact with the outside world. The world series (and Bush’s re-election, and Christopher Reeves I guess) would’ve been on satellite TV.
Life Rule #472: If someone is pointing a gun at you, never say “You won’t shoot me” or any variation thereof.
Things I am SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO SO sick of:
Our guys ALWAYS get completely perfectly outmaneuvered no matter what. The other guys NEVER fall into a trap, NEVER get snuck up on, NEVER make any mistake of any kind at all. At least when it comes to confrontations, ambushes, etc.
People being randomly secretive for no good reason.
Things I enjoyed:
Ben. What a great character.
Trixie from Deadwood. Yum. And an excellent actress.
Things that I fear we will never find an answer to:
How Ethan was so supernaturally strong when we first saw him. After all, we’ve now seen a LOT of people in what we KNOW is Ethan’s group, not to mention quite a bit more of Ethan himself, and they’re not superhuman at all.
Remind me; Why is Ethan regarded as so strong?
I seem to remember that Scott/Steve was torn apart, but that could have been done by his faithful trained killer polar bear.
After all, a few slugs from the gun of our favorite recovering addict did him nicely!
If you’re talking about hanging Charlie whilst controlling Claire, I don’t believe that we know for sure that he had no accomplices…do we?
There was a point where he picked someone up by one hand and pinned them against a tree. Charlie, I think.
Also, we saw Alex. I guess her and Carl have been excommunicated for some reason.
I think that’s a case of the writers making it up as they go along. Frankly, I think they’ve forgotten most of the backstory they gave the Others in season one. After all, what happened to the kids? The Others took the kids, but there are no kids among that group we saw at the start of this season.
I gave the writers the benefit of the doubt the first two seasons, but now I am getting pissed: I think they’ve contracted the early stages of Chris Carter Syndrom.
Well Sayid did really screw the pooch tonight. I guess his thought was that the Others would just come bustin’ out of the forest along the path they were guarding. Neither one was looking behind them or towards the boat. The others probably didn’t even need their boats. Could’ve just walked up the beach to the dock to the boat.
Do we know that’s Alex? I thought the same thing, but with all the red herrings we’ve seen, it could be someone else. Has anyone called her by name? She looks the right age, but then again, it’s hard to tell how old any of these fishbiscuitin’ Others are supposed to be anyway.
They called her alex in a previous episode.
Because so far the episodes have felt more like filler for far more interesting plot lines than the stuff that should be dragging us into the next season. Season one started with a great hook and dangled mysteries. Season two started with answers that raised more questions (hard to believe we didn’t know anything about Dharma until season two) and by the end of the second episode we had an interesting central conflict set up that would run the length of the season. So far, season three is spinning its wheels.
The Others (at least the ones we’re seeing now) are boring. They’re bland, lifeless charactures. If we were getting some real hints at a bigger game being played then it might be tolerable, but the head games are so subdued that they aren’t interesting. Yeah, they think they’re the good guys… how about showing us a little bit of WHY they think they’re the good guys. That might get my attention for a bit. Also, I’m already at the point after the finale of season two that I am taking nothing that anyone in the Others camp show to Jack, Kate, and Sawyer at absolute face value. I’m starting from an assumption that everything is a trap and they’re lying unless it would be something impractical from a dramatic standpoint to be fake. That just adds the feeling that nothing that has happened in the Other’s camp so far actually matters.
Our three castaways don’t really have a whole lot to do and they’ve been the center of the first two episodes. It feels like they’re just going through the motions.
I do have my fingers crossed for next week when we’ll be getting to the questions that I actually wanted answered from the end of season two.
I’m still of the opinion that Benry’s little suburban sadists are only one of several groups of “others.” The ones that took the kids may be different Others - IIRC, Jin and Eko saw a group of filthy, barefoot people, one of whom was dragging a teddybear on a string (the same teddybear owned by one of the abducted Tailie kids). If it’s true that there are the civilized Others and the feral Others, then Benry’s repeated assertions that they’re The Good Ones means “as opposed to the Other Others, who are the Bad Ones.”
And what about Rousseau?
And why isn’t Benry named after a philosopher?
Linus isn’t a philosopher? Happiness is a warm blanket.
Perhaps it’s a reference to Linus Pauling.
I guess that could make sense given that part of the Dharma Initiative’s motives were to prevent global destruction and all that fun stuff.
I loved that Trixie The Whore from Deadwood is playing Colleen. I literally bolted up from the couch yelling “Yay! It’s Trixie!” Why yes, I am a dork. Why do you ask?
Regarding Jin and Jae, I agree that Jae thought Jin knew about the affair and that Jin thought Jae believed he was there because of the “stealing.” Jae jumped because he lost Sun and his honor was also destroyed.
I love that Jin knows more English than he lets on. However, I’m getting sick of everyone on that island lying to everyone else. Jeeeez.
Help me with something, which hatch is Jack being held in? I know there is an aquarium but the room that Benry walked into looked like the room in the hatch that Locke and Eko found. It’s been so long I forgot which hatch which was which and the alleged layout of our “Island of Discontent.”
Duh, I almost forgot. Linus, son of Apollo in Greek mythology.
The Hydra.
I agree that these two episodes feel like wheel spinning. I’m starting to just not care what happens. Especially when the writers have people act like idiots to preserve a story arc or “island mystery”.
Would anyone who still likes this show please come over my house on Wednesdays so my wife has someone to watch it with?
I’ll be doing more interesting things, like scrubbing the toilet.
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RikWriter, you’re familiar with “Report This Post”, yes? Next time, use it rather than trying to start a brawl in CS.
Please keep politics OUT of this forum.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled Lost discussion thread.
If he didn’t know before he attacked him, I think he figured it out during the beating. When Jin told Baldy that he should have “no contact”, that said to me that he knew. On the beach, when Jin says that he knows Sun betrayed him, I thought we were supposed to interpret that to mean that Jin knew. I thought Jin made the statement to Sun intentionally ambiguous, but that we were supposed to know which way he meant it.
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