Again, the Egyptian gods and possessed Locke kinda throw that one down the crapper.
This is exactly why I didn’t want get into this show. I wanted to see what the “pay-off” was before watching it. Though this isn’t like *TheX-Files *in that there’s a specific ending in mind, watching *The X-Files *has lead me to reevaluate how I watch all T.V.
It’s an investment.
However, I’ve invested in watching the show because my mom, father, and brother are all hooked. And, because my brother likes to see it on the ol’ man’s HD, why not make the 5 min drive to spend some time with the ol’ gang?
There have been some silly things; (in the first episode, why was the plain engine still running? Not being snide, just asking if there’s a reason I missed). My attention is… well, diverted at times, but I think I have a grasp on everything *IMPORTANT *that’s going on. It’s just, what if the pay-off sucks? If I watched it alone, (I don’t on the ‘off’ Wed. when we can’t get together), I would be pissed if I wasn’t satisfied with the conclusion.
If it ‘blows my mind’, I’m sure I’ll invest more in reruns, or maybe watch their DVDs. If not, family’s still important.
It’s been a while since I watched it, but wasn’t Locke’s body in the box the whole time? It seemed to me that the God didn’t possess him, he just took his form
Yeah, what was with that? I watched the pilot with Mrs. Plant, and that’s one of the reasons I didn’t watch any other episodes.
Eh, it was just a little artistic license. It made the opening scene much more intense. Notice how calm it got after it blew up.
I can tell you this. I’ve seen a youtube video of a private jet that landed in a pond/lake/lagoon. The engines appeared to powered down, the craft was sinking and folks were getting into rescue craft.
All of a sudden, at least one of the engines starts reving back up, the jet starts cruising around the lagoon, and folks are trying to get the hell away from it !
So, apparently post crash engines are capable of strange things.
IIRC, the tail letters/numbers on that jet were OY-VEY , which I thought was funny as hell.
I find that difficult to believe. A cart with batteries is necessary to start them up at the airport.
It says OY-JET.
Thats it ! OY- JET works for me too 
I believe that is steam generated when the hot engine comes in contact with the water as the aircraft begins to sink and Mr. Newton’s Laws of Motion. 
We haven’t seen any Egyptian Gods other than in hieroglyphs, which you can find all over real life Egypt. Locke wasn’t possessed, he was impersonated. We’ve already seen that the smoke monster can read people’s memories and impersonate them after death (Eko’s brother, Christian, Alex). Jacob and his rival are certainly mysterious, and bear some resemblance to more than one myth/religious story, but their origin hasn’t yet been revealed. We do know that they are immortal, as is Richard. We do have some non monster ‘ghosts’ seen by Hurley and ghostly memories sensed by Miles. The former could be delusions, and either could be the sci-fi sort of psychic, reading impressions of electromagnetic waves or whatever. Some of these things might steer into the blatantly supernatural by the end of the series, but for now things have pretty much remained ambiguous.
Hows that gonna work?
Yeah, I figured out the steam part.
My impression from the the video is that you can actually hear the engine spooling/reeving back up and the plane starts moving around again,which implies the thrust levels when from very low to something substantial.
My WAG is than either controls or part of the engine that are damaged in the crash or come in contact (or some combination of all of these) with the water either feed more fuel into the engine or disable some mechanism that keeps the engine from running at full throttle (kinda like a gas pedal that you have to pull up on rather than push down on).
Thinking a bit more about it, you would (might) generally WANT a jet engine to be set up so that the default throttle position is full power (if your throttle control system breaks, the engine runs at full power). If you still need to shut it off, you shut off the fuel to the engine, which could easily be overlooked in a crash.
Patrick Duffy steps out of the shower…
The engine in the TV show is sitting there all by itself without a fuel tank.
That’s what I didn’t get.
I’m not all that…
–“quick witted” or “smart”. So that’s why I questioned if there was a reason *WHY *the thing was still running. I mean, like carnivorousplant, that really turned me off to the series at first. It looked like something Roland Emmerich had a hand in. Like I said; if the payoff is clever enough, it could absolve some of the problems I have with the show. I’m just thinking that there will be a lot of loyal fans that WONT be satisfied, (no matter what).
At least **The X-Files **wasn’t always focused on the recurring story. When I remember the time I spent at my brother’s catching up on the whole first season, I recall thinking how many people were going to invest in the show until the end, and how many of those people will be happy they stayed for the ride. I hope it works out, and the ending is satisfying. Just skeptical.