Why are people saying next week’s episode looks good, from 30 seconds of promos? The one story line I can’t bring myself to give a crap about is the “Will Kate Choose Jack or Sawyer” one, and that’s what it appears they cover next week.
An interesting thing about that flashback is we see Locke much like he is on The Island. In all the other flashbacks, he’s portrayed pretty much as a self-doubting loser. Maybe his loss of grace in the eyes of the commune leaders sent him back into the self-doubting mode he’d been in before. Everytime there’s a Locke flashback I keep thinking-- is this when we find out how he got paralysed?
Are y’all forgetting about Desmond predicting that the surgery, Jack was going to perform on his future wife, would be successful?
If it weren’t for that, I would just figure that the Island made him phsycic.
True, but his psychic ability didn’t do him any good for 3 years locked in The Hatch.
Hell, it didn’t even help him remember what happens if you don’t push the button.
Charlie was kinda deaf, John was mute. I’m guessing Eko’s going to be blind.
Didn’t that weed operation look a little small-potatoes to anybody else? If you can fit your swag into a couple briefcases, unless you’ve got the Best Weed Ever, that’s not going to get you very far.
I loved how Charlie was all, “You dissed me for being an addict when I wasn’t using, and now you take drugs???”
I don’t know if this has been posted in any of the other LOST threads yet, but:
Transcript of J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse interview on “Nightline” Oct. 17. They talk about character motivations, some backstory, Internet speculation, and selling the show to the network. There don’t appear to be any spoilers, but I’m not especially paranoid about that sort of thing.
The sobering part is Lindelof’s comment: “But the pragmatic reality of the network television business is we don’t own the show. We don’t get to decide when the show ends. […] it will no longer be great when it’s been going on too long. So there is almost an inevitable moment that will occur when the show should have ended and didn’t.” The sad truth there is that how they want to end the show, and the way it might actually end, could be two vastly different things.
So, it’s the type of psychic power that comes and goes, when the plot needs yet another little WTF moment.
But I only mentioned it because it appeared that the surgery prediction had been forgotten.
I still have to ask… with as little as we ‘know’ about the island, what in the hell could they do in episode 6 to change everything we thought we knew?
Maybe it’s not really an island at all, but attached to a mainland somewhere.
Maybe it’s not on our planet – but rather an island on the planet of Kang and Kodos.
Maybe it’s the only landmass on a flat world being carried on the backs of 4 elephants which are standing on a giant turtle.
Maybe we’ll find out that Locke is really actually truly the bad guy of the series, and Benry Linus-Gale is the Messiah – that he actually IS the good guy.
Maybe the island is a big virtual reality environment being run by machines that are using humans as batteries in the 23rd century.
I’m sure there are a lot of WTF things they could throw at us. But I hope it’s not one of the commonly-predicted lame ones (everybody’s dead and it’s purgatory, it’s all a dream, etc etc)
Last night was a tough blow for Lost fans. I think it might have been the episode that pushed away the more casual fans.
I was disheartened, but I am not going anywhere.
My wife, a much more casual viewer in that she would never get inside scoop on the internet or go to the websites, described the show as getting old.
I describe it as sloppily dense.
Density is fine. Complexity is a beautiful thing.
But this seems like dense for density sake.
Last night was the first night I got an OVERWHELMING sense that this is ahodgepodge plot.
Well, for one thing we think it’s an island… 
BTW, I was reminded last night that some of these “backstories” seem almost like flashbacks or dreams rather than a strict retelling of what happened. That commune just seemed waaaaay too idylic to be real-- all that filtered sunlight and just-ripe peaches and saccarine sweetness that turned to bitterness on a dime. That may also explain some incorporation of Island elements into the backstories/flashbacks.
Lines I would have liked to have heard:
“YOU BLEW UP THE HATCH! You idiots! What about all of the food! How are we going to do our laundry?..”
Yeah, but that doesn’t explain the rest of the stuff that they are being deliberate assholes about. I can understand a couple of multi-season mysteries, like
- What made the plane crash?
- Where did the “Others” come from and what is their motivation?
But hell, man. It’s season three. It’s getting to the point where there are so many mysterious things going on that you just KNOW there’s no way they will ever get resolved to anyone’s satisfaction, ever. I was getting tired of the unresolved crap in season 2, and it’s doing nothing but getting worse. The others are near-perfect and never make mistakes. The stupid losties never talk to each other. People’s intelligence and ability seem to fluctuate WIDELY based on the plot needs. It’s poor planning and poor writing, and I think I’d rather watch Heroes.
The Others never make mistakes? How many casualties have they suffered-- Ethan, Goodwin, the one(s) that Eko killed, the guy that Kate shot, and now (maybe) Colleen. And don’t forget that Benry came an inch from dying himself.
Who did Kate shoot again?
Well, a lot of the food has been moved to the “kitchen” out on the beach – especially food from the air drop.
But yep, the laundry machines are toast, as are the other appliances, dishes, and the shower. I guess it’s back to banging your clothes with rocks in the ocean again.
I’m wondering if this means that there won’t be any more Dharma food drops – since there would appear to be no more hatch-dwelling-button-pushers to feed.
Back in the season 2 finale – when some random “Others” appeared stalking our party in the woods – somebody spotted them lurking, and Kate shot one as they tried to run.
We never got a name; it was the last ep of last season. They were marching into their trap and Kate, crafty native guide that she is, spotted the otherwise-unspottable Others moseying along through the jungle, so she shot one in cold blood.
Then they went ahead with their master plan to walk into the trap.
Surprisingly, nobody seems to hold this against them…
Yeah, I assume it was Kate, but it might have been Sawyer. He was an Asian Other, right? I notice that The Others are quite multi-ethnic, although it did seem that there were a lot of Blacks working in the field with Kate and Sawyer. Maybe The Others are a remnant Civil War population…
Not sure – I barely even remembered that incident from last season, until somebody in last week’s thread mentioned something about “the guy Kate shot” – then I had to think for a minute to recall when that was.