Woot, you get bonus points for working in a Heinlein reference!
Does anyone know if they are going to rerun the episode sometime this week?
That 48 is post-crash. Buck up; if the show runs 100 episodes, if somebody dies everybody other episode, then there’ll be nothing but a peaceful, deserted island for the last four epidodes.
My DVR didn’t pick up any other airings of “Lost.” Rats!
I hope not. I hate to think that ten or twenty episodes down the road we’ll still be referring to them as the pregnant lady, the fat guy, the guy with the kid, the middle eastern guy, the Japanese couple, the old black woman, the lifeguard dude, the girl in denial, and the weird bald guy. Let’s just say that at this point there’s ample room for growth in character development.
My guess is that the thing in the jungle is some kind of mechanical vehicle. I’m wildly speculating here, but I’m guessing there’s a secret base on the island for some illegal organization that the crash survivors will have to confront.
He had finished his exposition and realized he had nothing to live for.
Aha! It must be Dr. Zin–and he’s got the Invisible Monster working with him!
Boring. Stupid. I’ll watch it. Guy needs stitches. Girl stitches. Falls hopelessly in love. Invisible dinosaurs.
Ok, my roommate said “it’s not invisible dinosaurs!”
I said, “anything else would just be stupider.”
But I’ll watch it. Damit.
We were hoping that the thing in the bushes turns out to be the rabbit from Donnie Darko. He’s evil, but in a goofy fun sort of way. Could be a hit…
My first thought too!
Or maybe it’s a physical manifestation of the passengers’ fear, and the more scared they get, the worse it gets, till they all die of fright. (Wasn’t that an X-files episode?)
I’m not condemning it yet, although I have to say I’m not very impressed. I’m going to give it another couple of weeks to convince me it’s worth watching.
Did you see the season premiere of Third Watch? :eek:
I have a bad feeling that the “thing in the woods” is going to turn out to be mechanical, kind of like how the big, bad growling beasty at the beginning of Jurassic Park turned out to be a forklift. Didn’t the black lady say she thought it sounded familiar, and that she grew up in Brooklyn?
I thought it was interesting enough to watch for the next few weeks, to see if anything good pans out. Personally, I would be least interested in just a bunch of people surviving a plane crash. Human drama does little for me, as I’ve experienced quite enough in real life. I prefer the far out, supernatural-type stories, so I’m hoping this doesn’t turn out to be something mundane.
About the dog, there was some between the father and son that made me think the dog was theirs. I didn’t Tivo it so I can’t go back and check, but is was something like this.
(scary noises)
Kid: Maybe that’s <name, possibly Victor>
Dad: I don’t think it’s <name>
Also, I think he had a collar, which would imply he came with the plane.
My Tivo lists a showing of the first 2 episodes on 10/2 at 8. You may want to check your listings, though.
This is a show you have to watch for the silliness, like Alias or Xena. Plus, I like shows where you can go that’s the guy from Party of Five/Alias/Angel/LOTR/Alias.
Yes, I was also under the impression the dog belonged to the little kid.
We hatessss the fat one.
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I agree with Cervaise (good post). There’s a lot to be worked out of people being stranded on a deserted island with no boats, no lights, no motor cars, nary a luxury.
I only hope the creators realized this, and decided that a big scary thing in the woods would IMPROVE upon the natural drama that would come from humans being human.
No it wouldn’t. The use of collars is common, even among dog owners who don’t fly on planes.
If you lived on a tiny island, why would you collar your dog?
I missed what the kid and his father were saying but I remember wondering if the dog was their’s. If he was on the plane he sure got lucky escaping without a mark or even a limp. Then again those air kennels may provide some protection.
As for the people saying that if he were a dog used to people and had been on the plane he would run to the first people he saw. BZZZT! Wrong! A dog, even a friendly dog, isn’t necessarily going to run to perfect strangers. Add in to the fact that he went through a major trauma and he may even be reluctant to approach his owners. I’ve heard of enough instances where a dog was hit by a car and still ambulatory and ran off, even running away from it’s owners. I have also tried to coax a seemingly friendly dog out of a busy street so it won’t get hit by cars, only to have it prefer to take it’s chances with the scary cars other than go to a stranger.
Bolding Mine. Weird Bald Guy gets my vote for “guy who wasn’t on the plane” if that is a plot possibility.
Yep. I watched him start to climb out, then stop to put down the transceiver, and I thought “Dude, you are so dying in the next few seconds…”
I think the thing in the forest is a giant robotic monkey.
They better start scavenging clothes and stuff from the bodies and the wreckage or they’re going to be really screwed. If they wait for more than a day or two, then, several episodes later, everybody has several changes of clothing they took off of bodies that had been sitting in the sun for three days, I’m calling foul.
I was thinking the same thing. They do seem to have an eye for detail though. For instance, sterilizing the woman’s hands and the wound before the sewup job. Then, in a flashback, they showed us why he had the extra bottle.
But, someone has to realize, “we might be here for a while. Let’s get these clothes, and let’s bury some bodies.” I expect mass burial next week.