Anybody watching?
The biggest question I have after the season 2 premiere is how the little bird managed to survive being buried in a box, or was it raised from the dead?
Did anybody else keep checking their DVR info for the first ten minutes of the premiere, thinking that their provider was running the wrong show?
I thought I was watching a remake of “Clan of the Cave Bear.”
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[li]catastrophic earthquake leaves lone survivor[/li][li]woman gives birth alone[/li][li]woman has claw marks on her thigh[/li][/ul]
Okay, so not quite Clan of the Cave Bear, but similar enough.
It was a breath of fresh air. I don’t miss the smoking. My guess was the bird came back from the dead. A secret a few in town know about and guard it well. It explains the improving nature of the preacher’s wife. John Murphy is one scary fire
fighter.
I am going to miss those three kids that got sucked down that giant garbage disposal.
That just might be the oddest episode of any show I’ve seen.
But a very good odd episode. Very cool idea focusing on the new family over the folks we already know.
I liked this episode, and like the direction that the show seems to have taken. It was weird in a number of ways, and set up a few cute little mysteries:
Why were the girls running naked through the forrest?
Who cares?
The mom is basically deaf - she can only hear with hearing aids.
I agree. Both my wife and I just kind of sat there and when it was over said at the same time what a “weird but entertaining episode”.
It looks like from next weeks preview:
future episode will focus on what led up to the original characters relocating.
The slaughter of the goat in the restaurant…? And nothing more than mild annoyance by the customers and the waitress?
In the opening scene with the cave woman, where did the second woman (who picked up the baby) come from?
And when I first heard about this season focusing on a town in which zero people disappeared, I figured that it’s possible that, assuming the disappearances are random, it’s reasonable that there might be a town in which no one disappeared. But this episode is suggesting that there’s something unusual about the town. I don’t know what to make of it.
I saw an interview with one of the producers in which he said that the show will never, ever explain the disappearances. That’s probably for the best, but will some of this other supernatural stuff be explained?
Probably from the village the first woman was trying to bring her baby to.
Just watched the premiere, and here’s my question.
So, the premise of the series is that 2% of the world’s population vanished. Jarden is special because no one from that town disappeared. But at just 1,961 people, is the actual probability of such a town not losing anyone all that low? Anybody with better math skills than me care to do the calculation?
I think the population of Jarden Texas was 9,261.
Yes, I can imagine that if the departures were random, it’s plausible that there might have been a town with none. But we don’t know if the departures are random and neither do the people in the show. In the second episode of the second season, some scientists from MIT have a theory that the departures were based on location. If they are correct, then Jarden isn’t necessarily a fluke. And note that there have been hints of other supernatural aspects of the town.
After seeing the first two episodes of this season and all the little mysteries presented I got this sinking feeling. I knew I had heard the name Damon Lindelof but wasn’t sure where. When I checked IMDB my sinking feeling was confirmed. It’s the dude that co-created Lost. I’m now wary of the show and not gonna get attached to any of the mysterious story lines because 3/4 of them will go nowhere. That guy has Chekhov’s gun superglued to the mantle and I hate his style for it.
Except that he learned one lesson from Lost; The Leftovers will never, ever explain the departures. (One of the reasons that Lost is hated now is that the ending did such a poor job of wrapping things up and explaining the mysteries. So I think the approach they’re going to take now is never to explain the mysteries.)
I actually don’t need the departures explained. It’s the little mysteries that annoyed me about Lost. They were similar to the apple pie in the last two episodes of The Leftovers. They keep focused on it multiple times implying that it may have been poisoned by the palm reader guy but it will probably go no where.
Has everyone given up on the show but me? Two episodes chock full of weird shit have passed with no comments.
It’s been two quite fantastic episodes. This is one of the best shows on TV at this point.