[spoiler]I have to say, this is kind of annoying. A polar bear dinosaur? What the hell is THAT? Is it like some sort of prehistoric-sized polar bear left over from the last Ice Age or something? How is it in a tropical climate, then? Am I trying to be too rational here? Clearly I am.
I’m having a hard time imagining how this monster is going to do anything but make me stop watching… but until then, I’ll guess I’ll see how it progresses. [/spoiler]
I really think the Maxim “spoiler” is incorrect. I think they’re either mixing a couple of elements together or guesstimating:
I’ve heard there IS a polar bear in the next episode, but that is NOT the mysterious killer creature. I think the bear is a curveball, to make us crazy trying to figure out what the angle is, but the true “suprises” won’t be coming anytime soon. .
I’m leaning toward a Bermuda Triangle/alternate dimension theory right now. I don’t expect everything to make sense either scientifically or realistically - I’m totally okay with a weird factor as long as it’s weird and not cheesy.
I just watched part of the pilot again, including that scene with the Korean couple where Daniel Dae Kim’s character tells the woman “don’t worry about the others.”
His manner is very dismissive and domineering toward her. Based on that and the dialogue, I think she’s a mail-order bride, sex slave or drug mule, and the “others” are similar “cargo” who were also on the plane (but died), or were on a different flight.
So, RuPaul?
Barbarian: Hee. Funny site. “You rock my small, self-centered universe.”
The Harry Knowles clone has already mentioned that they need to do something with the b-o-d-y-s. Personally I say they tie the bodies together to make a raft and sail for home (apologies to Alan Moore.)
“Harry Knowles clone?” Come on, be fair! Harry is a redhead.
I have to say, the show has caught my interest, and with the second outing the mystery deepens.
I hope they do well with the mysterious aspects of the show. I’d hate for it to become another X Files…
Anybody notice in the scene on the plane where Handcuff Lady was trying to reach the oxygen mask while the plane was going down, outside her window, there were snow-capped mountains very briefly visible?
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Anybody notice …snow-capped mountains
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Yes, but until you mentioned it I hadn’t yet put it into the “weirdness” catagory.
Also Cervaise, there seems to me morte discusstion on this thread. You might want to repost your question there.
[Bump due to new info from rerun]
Interesting point here. Charlie went on the trek to the cockpit to retrieve his drugs (which he hadn’t flushed because of the sudden turbulence)? I don’t recall that we discussed this yet. I just thought he had more than the one he threw in the toilet. This new interpretation makes much more sense.
I didn’t read all the way through the forum to which you linked (does anybody outside of the SDMB use capital letters or punctuation?), but it was always my interpretation that Charlie had just the one bag of heroin. I believe the scene in Exodus Pt 3, with the hotel room with the junkie groupie, bears this out as well. That one bag was all he had left, but he was headed back to L.A., where I’m sure he had a connection. He was not going to flush his one bag on the plane – it just fell into the toilet when the plane hit turbulence.
One the contrary – I fully believe he was going to flush it because he had a connection in L.A. where he could score more. He didn’t want to be caught with it on the plane – that meant jail time. Best bet: get rid of the incriminating evidence…
Yes, I also think Charlie was going to flush it. He ran past Jack heading for the bathroom right before the plane hit the turbulance - we saw it in the episode last night and in the one featuring Charlie’s backstory. He ran past Jack as he was getting up, even bumped him a little, and the flight attendants were chasing after him. I think one of them knew he had drugs.
I must say, re-reading the entire thread is pretty funny. It’s interesting to read everyone’s speculation and see who was way off (robot pirate monkeys!) and who was weirdly accurate (Cervaise, though still a tad off).
I recall Charlie looked rather deliberate before dropping the heroin in the toilet–he was reaching for the flush when the turbulence hit. He definitely intended to get rid of it.
Oh … well, then, paint me green and call me Gumby.
I had no idea you were that flexible. 
Can I be Pokey? I just really dig the idea of being called “Pokey”, for some reason.
Which gives me faith that he will be able to resist the temptation of a whole plane-load of smack. Be strong, Charlie!
I only read the first page but yes, it was amusing.
Especially the general concensus that the dog was already on the island and that an 8 months pregnant lady wouldn’t have been on the plane.
NItpick: I think they were chasing him because he was acting very nervous and suspicious.
Hindsight being 20/20, the “one bag” theory makes perfect sense, and Charlie becomes a bit less sympathetic - going on the trek solely to retrieve his junk. I just didn’t think about it before - did everyone else already know this? :smack: