It amazes me how angry and frustrated people seem to get when Lost continues to be what it has always been: a serial with a logically bizarre but dramatically effective narrative, revealed in little bits and pieces over the course of a long period of time, punctuated by well-written dialogue and performed as an absolute acting clinic by some of the performers (man oh man, Naveen Andrews is a great actor). I like this sort of show. I like the very slow reveal, the very gradual escalation of tension and uncertainty, the periodic but not episodic payoffs, the weird digressions of plot, and the solid (Fox, Lilly, Garcia, de Ravin) to expert-level (Emerson, Andrews, O’Quinn, Kim & Kim) acting.
I can absolutely understand not enjoying that kind of show, but it’s not like the show is billed as anything other than what it is. The willingness of people to keep wasting time watching something that they fundamentally don’t like is terribly strange to me.
My brief two cents:
Very glad to have “Lost” back, even if the episode was a bit of a let down.
Still no explanation for Kate being so anxious to get back to go to prison.
I’m not surprised entirely that Sawyer threw in with Locke - he doesn’t have much to get back to off the island either.
Why didn’t Hurley want to admit that he knew AnaLucia? (that was her name, right?)
What happened to the rest of the others, Ben’s camp followers? Will they be back at their houses waiting for their new leader?
Did Rousseau and her daughter and daughters boyfriend go with Jack or Locke? Who did Juliet go with?
Boy, Jack’s starting to lose it, even before getting off the island, if you ask me.
Charlie’s new look was cool, esp. for a dead guy.
I don’t think he did. He already worked out that Niaomi and her people weren’t who they said they were (hense the knife in the back while Charlie was still at the Looking Glass station).
I know we can’t expect accuracy or realism but instant death from a thrown knife is a bit of a stretch. No crying out, no squirming, no reaching for the knife, just instant, immediate death. Naomi would have to have immediately thought “knife in back, must fake death, then sneak away”. A great plan, while 30-some-odd people are standing around, none of whom check to see that she is alive, dead, needs help, etc.
I believe that the Oceanic 6 are alive in the future having been rescued w/ the story that everyone else died in the crash. This is what Jack is worried about Hurley “telling.” They don’t want to admit that they left a bunch of people alive on the island.
And if you remember, Ana Lucia was murdered by Michael. Denying any knowledge of knowing Ana Lucia sort of solves a lot of “filling in the blanks” issues for Hugo.
I think it’s because season 1 really captured a sense of mystery but more importantly a sense of purpose. You felt like you were watching the setup of what could be a great story - it was slick, and promising, and more mysterious than absurd. There were fewer plot holes (maybe that’s nostalgia) and the characters and stories were more interesting.
Anyway - season 1 seemed like it was setting the stage of something that could be great - but it never came to fruition. Instead, it dragged on. Characters behaved more and more stupidly and irrationally. Plot holes abounded. We got background stories about characters that were uninteresting, irrelevant, and/or covered stuff we already knew. It looked like the writers had no idea what they were doing but were just stringing along people that got hooked by the promise of season 1 as long as they could.
Well, it’s just my interpretation, but it seemed like season 1 implicitly billed it as something greater than some dragged out mystery soap opera. But people were invested enough at this point that they kept watching in case it became the story it promised to be. Some people reached their personal point of giving up on it, whereas some still have some hope for it and since it’s only an hour of their time per week almost grudgingly keep watching. That’s my guess as to why you see a lot of people who still watch the show but clearly have resentment towards it.
Whatever became of the Dr. Marvin Candle/Wickman bit with the bunny rabbits and the implications of parallel universes and doubles? We saw it on YouTube. Should we expect to see it on the show within a few weeks?
And to add to the ever-growing list of Sawyer-bestowed nicknames: “Scotty” for Desmond. Not the most imaginative, but not nearly as insulting as “Jumbotron.”
I loved Hurley’s moment of pure joy with the cannonball.
I was just the opposite; who else would have access to a cherry vintage Camaro in LA? And for some reason I was trying to figure out where I’d seen the detective who interviewed Hurley before until it hit me - Beamer Bob from Grosse Pointe Blank.
So I checked out IMDB for this episode, and am a little confused; they had Harold Perrineau credited as Michael for last night. Did I miss him somewhere?
They announced during the hiatus that Perrineau was coming back as a regular. It was announced around the time of Comic Con 2007, and again during a presentation during Comic Con, which is captured in a podcast, which you can see here
Is this the same island where we left Locke in a ditch with a gunshot wound to the chest and some crazy one-eyed guy who keeps dieing and getting up again?
yeah, but Locke and the Others have special powers. Naomi is just a chick who delivered a telephone. (Actually, Naomi’s role in the drama could’ve just as easily been filled by her dropping the phone from the helicopter.)
btw…Naomi and the new Chief Of Surgery are/were both on NBC’s Las Vegas. Oddly. I was hoping the pop-up during the hospital scene would’ve said something like “Hey…it’s that guy from Las Vegas.”
But you could say that for anyone. Locke was just a dude in a wheelchair before he came to the island, and not all the Others seem to have the quick-heal power (Ben for instance). It’s not inconceivable that Naomi could have it too. However, I was more thinking along your lines that she was just a delivery device for the phone. But now, I haven’t ruled out that her involvement could be more complex. Why not just kill Kate and why lie to the guy on the radio? The “tell my sister I love her” line seems a bit contrived too.
I recognized the new Chief of Surgery (I think his name was Mike on LV) and thought Naomi was familiar but couldn’t place her. Now it makes sense–thanks.
I really hate to chime in here and admit that I again watched this show - more questions, no answers and lots of stupid to go around.
Naomi seemed to heal pretty quick from her parachute injuries, did she not? is that not the best equivalant of “super powers” we have on this frickin’ island?
Of course, she’s dead now - verified by Kate… but I’m willing to bet she’s not.
oh, Charlie - he just became a time jumper - much like his buddy desmond - and that guy from San Fransisco…
I’ll say this much for the writers strike - it gives me the only excuse I need to even bother - tain’t nothin’ else on.
Unless I miss my guess, Michael and Waaallllt were told by Benry that they would find rescue if they followed certain coordinates. Now that the newest people to show up on the island are not, in fact, rescuers, I am doubtful that they ever made it more than a few miles away from the island. I’m hoping for at least a bit of info on what became of them after they went away in the little motorboat.