Maybe “The Creature” is a really smart carnivore who knows how to maintain a wind farm. Or maybe the transmissions aren’t coming from the island. Maybe they’re getting magic rays from space or something. In any event, they’re all just assuming it’s coming from the island, but they haven’t done much exploration yet, so who knows?
Hmmm…
French radio transmission oddly phrased running for 16 years, things inhabitting the island, tropical setting, unrevealed secrets…
Nuclear test site? Nuclear batteries could last a long, long time. Island of Dr. Morreau? Some weird group of scientists (who happen to be French because we all know the French are more likely to cold ass weirdos, doncha know…) running some Nimrod type of experiments. (Nimrod = hunters of men, in this usage).
The jack ass Korean is trying to make up for being a jerk, realising that “we all have to work together.” He will still be a jerk, but not so totally selfish.
No more character deaths til Sweeps, I just betcha. But, someone’s gonna get banished. Yoiu watch. And then, banishee is gonna comeback and save someone, maybe almost naked girl.
No insider stuff, just guesses.
that baby is for sweeps.
Also…
Isn’t “Iteration” a French word? Anglicised like gasoline or gagrage?
even if it is, he wasn’t saying it with a french accent, and the numbers he was saying were english.
Universal Translator?
:dubious:
DeHusband and I were theorizing about exactly what is growling in the jungle. If this were written by Michael Crichton, dinosaurs; Stephen King, zombie dinosaurs; Morgenstern, rodents of unusual size; Python, Killer Rabbit With Big Pointy Teeth; but it’s on ABC so we’re betting **Lost ** as in “Land of the”. Cue Marshal, Will and Holly!
But if something humongous is out there snarling and snorting and knocking down trees willy nilly, wouldn’t it leave a trail? And you could get a good look at it rather than just looking “deer in headlights” at the nearest treeline.
And they really need to do something about those bodies soon. Ewwwww.
About the bear: Has the mountaineering party even come back to the camp yet? If they haven’t then they could still drag the bear back as proof that they aren’t crazy and there was a polar bear on the island. Of get a party of people to come back with them for the meat. Have faith!
The quiet guy that they show opening the case of knives (the one who was playing baccarat) seems like he’s going to be the Supreme Hardass in the group. Looked to me that he threw a knive hard enough to stick through a piece of plane wreckage. I’d let him hunt for me! I just hope that whatever he is staring at in the trees doesn’t eat him. It would be a shame to lose him so soon.
I really like this show! It’s one that I really look forward to seeing, so far.
I loved the closing line where Charlie says “where are we?”, and then the closing title “Lost” appears in the center of the screen.
Well done.
But I say you’re wrong and the U.S. Marshall is going to die next week, since he’s clearly in such bad shape and also because the actor who plays him was credited as a “guest star” and not a regular in the opening credits
Speaking of which, did Jack handle that wound the way he should have? He yanked it out quickly without even looking at it. Seems to me like it would have been prudent to pull it out slowly, to minimize the shock to the affected tissues, and also to mark the spot where it emerged from the skin, so he could tell how deep into his body it had gone. IANA physician, but that’s my layman’s guess.
Damn, this is a fun show!
… after first divulging all the information he has about Kate to Jack. Same mistake the pilot made. If you tell all you know, then you die. The James Bond Villian Theory of Life and Death.
You mean backgammon, right? Because I didn’t see a casino, so I don’t know how he could be playing baccarat. 
About the English iteration count mixed with the french message.
I assumed that the iteration count was a programed feature of the emergency transmitter and that a French speking person just happend to leave the last message.
I think we’ve been given a hint as to what the Big Thing is. When the kid asked if the polar bear was what killed the pilot, Charlie said “No, this is a small small version.”
I think we’re going to find out, and I am predicting this right here, that the island is the lab of some mad scientist, perhaps Terry O’Quinn’s character, and that he is experimenting with animals. And the Big Thing is a mutated polar bear.
But did Charlie ever actually see the Big Thing? I think he was just making the assumption, correct or not, that it was something big that attacked them before in the woods, this polar bear is something that’s now attacked them in the woods, so this must be a smaller version of what they ran into before. On most shows, that would probably be a safe assumption, but I’m not so sure here.
My conclusion of what Charlie said and meant is yet a third alternative to what RikWriter and duality suggest.
The other characters were claiming that this polar bear was the thing that was causing all the noise and commotion. Charlie said something along the lines that this couldn’t be It, because whatever It was that took the pilot is a lot bigger than the bear.
I don’t believe he was suggesting that it was simply a bigger bear.
Re: the polar bear. Maybe a ship filled with zoo creatures wrecked on the island?
I think it’s been confirmed by JJ Abrams that one of the “survivors” we’ve met wasn’t actually on the plane. So now we have to guess who. I’ve tivo’d the two episodes, and in any case they’re on again on Saturday night, so I can check my guesses later. First, the way it was phrased, it sounded like “one” survivor, i.e. not two or more. So that rules out everyone flying in pairs, like the brat and her brother, the father and son, the Korean couple, etc. Here’s who I think might be the infiltrator, going only on my memory of not having seen them actually on the plane:
–The fat guy, Hurley
–The redneck A-hole, Sawyer
–The pregnant lady, Claire (thus explaining how she was allowed to fly in the first place)
–Sayid (aren’t there terrorism watch lists that you’d think would catch a former member of the Iraqi National Guard?)
Yeah? Where’s this?
<Smacks head> *Never use the phrase “I think it’s been confirmed” on The Straight Dope, people here actually make you back it up . . . *
OK, it’s not confirmed (as the original source for my claim is . . . uhh . . . another message board), and I can’t find a definitive cite. But I will steer you to this AICN interview with series cocreator Damon Lindelof:
I might have to stop digging, I’m finding lots of juicy stuff . . .
I’ve stopped paying too much attention to spoilers ever since George Lucas went on record as saying that The Phantom Menace wouldn’t live up to everybody’s expectations.
wait a minute…
Anyway. I’m also curious as to whether the empty seats in the first-class section of the plane means that there’s another group of survivors out there ignoring the huge plumes of smoke from the signal fires they’ve got going, because after all, that’s the business class survivors. :rolleyes: