ISTR there were only four to start with, mind you
Um, no...
That's possibly getting desperate to see a pattern!
Starting to get Lost - cos people keep telling me to
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ISTR there were only four to start with, mind you
Um, no...
That's possibly getting desperate to see a pattern!
Well it was not a picture so much as one of the episode descriptions on the back of the individual DVDs - I forget which episode it was, now. Possibly the one where Shannon loses her inhalers, perhaps.
It might surprise you a little later on. (Then again, it might not be as thrilling.)
And, come to think of it, How long ago was it that Jack operated on Sarah? I forget whether it was 6 months or 18, but either way Desmond has surely been in the hatch longer than that? (possibly up to 16 years if he was anything to do with Rousseau's bunch, or at least if they never opened it up and found him...)
You don't understand. This is Lost. By the end of the series, you're going to be just like this man.
My God, the atomic bomb was dropped on 8-15! And 8+15 is 23. It's all so clear now...
"Adrift" - hang on, we know where the Locke/Kate/Jack stuff is leading - to last episode's cliffhanger!
Michael's story didn't really interest me - we know Brian adopted Walt, and Tamara wossname is a lot better in Bones. Still, it's nice for Sawyer to actually have good reason to be an irritated git, and thus he came over better.
The Desmond stuff is interesting - is this some sort of nuclear bunker, and if so, why is there only one guy in it? Or is some kind of bioweapon test facility, given the question about whether anyone had got sick.
What would have happened if they hadn't put the numbers into the computer and reset the 108-minute clock? How come Locke didn't just take down Desmond, given that he didn't have a clip in his AK? At least he had the sense to slip Kate the knife.
Still, some nice callbacks - the toy polar bear reminding us of the bear in the pilot episode, and Kate being in the vent that Desmond shoots...
Michael and Sawyer seem to have lost their brain cells in the sea (well, obviously, most jokes about redneck shark hunting have the black guy in the water, not the other way round) because when Jin comes running with his hands tied behind his back it surely doesn't take a Universal Translator to work out that he's shouting "Run you fucking idiots, they're right behind me!" or words to that effect...
Overall it actually made me wonder if they intended to have a feature-length opening but recut it into two normal episodes...
Mainly I just wanna know about Desmond - what's he doing here and who's he waiting for (Jack, perhaps? Since they met before)
Michael's story didn't really interest me - we know Brian adopted Walt, and Tamara wossname is a lot better in Bones. Still, it's nice for Sawyer to actually have good reason to be an irritated git, and thus he came over better.
The Desmond stuff is interesting - is this some sort of nuclear bunker, and if so, why is there only one guy in it? Or is some kind of bioweapon test facility, given the question about whether anyone had got sick.
What would have happened if they hadn't put the numbers into the computer and reset the 108-minute clock? How come Locke didn't just take down Desmond, given that he didn't have a clip in his AK? At least he had the sense to slip Kate the knife.
Still, some nice callbacks - the toy polar bear reminding us of the bear in the pilot episode, and Kate being in the vent that Desmond shoots...
Michael and Sawyer seem to have lost their brain cells in the sea (well, obviously, most jokes about redneck shark hunting have the black guy in the water, not the other way round) because when Jin comes running with his hands tied behind his back it surely doesn't take a Universal Translator to work out that he's shouting "Run you fucking idiots, they're right behind me!" or words to that effect...
Overall it actually made me wonder if they intended to have a feature-length opening but recut it into two normal episodes...
Mainly I just wanna know about Desmond - what's he doing here and who's he waiting for (Jack, perhaps? Since they met before)
That's one of my problems with the post season 1 flashbacks; in season 1 they filled in necessary backstory for each of the characters, but later they felt more like the writers filling in the gaps left by the other flashbacks. In season 1 we learned that Jack was married, so in season 2 we learn how he met his wife, and later there will be other episodes about that marriage. In season 1 we learned about Sun and Jin's marriage, in season 2 we learn how they met and the various difficulties they faced. Worst of all (in my opinion) is Locke; he went from having two of my favourite flashbacks in season 1 to having two of my least favourite in season 2, both of which are about a relationship that barely goes anywhere.
That's not to say that all the upcoming flashbacks are meaningless, you still have important flashbacks like the one where you learn why Kate was on the run, or how Locke ended up in a wheelchair. And some new characters show up as the series goes on and we get some interesting flashbacks about them. But when it comes to the season 1 characters, a lot of their flashbacks feel superflous and poorly integrated into the on-island story.
Luckily, in the later seasons they find several innovative ways of using the flashback format to keep it fresh. Honestly, if we told you what's happening in the "flashbacks" in season 6 you wouldn't be able to fully understand it.
those are pretty much the two questions left from season 1 that I'm most looking forward to seeing answered
Well, I figured that would be the case, to fit with the format established in season 1.
Honestly, if we told you what's happening in the "flashbacks" in season 6 you wouldn't be able to fully understand it.
Please, NOBODY understands it!
Speaking of which, did you ever then go back to that corresponding scene in the first episode, "Man of Science..." when the Mama Cass song plays for the final time, and try to listen out for Kate shouting above the music?
I think it worked well as two separate episodes. They both cover different ground, the latter focusing more on The Odd Couple All At Sea™ which might have ended up as neglected and forgotten about if it was a feature-length opener.
"Orientation" - ooh, this is a good one. I like Desmond already, and Terry O'Quinn gets plenty to do. He looks better with the shaved head though, than with some hair in the flashbacks...
The Dharma Initiative/Hanso Foundation film is interesting - I'll have to watch it again. They're still not telling us what'll happen if they don' put the code in, I notice. And the "Swan" station didn't start the island's weirdness, but got adapted after the personnel noticed the EM field that was already there? Yay, more Polar bears in the film too. I also wonder where the "front door" comes out.
Locke is more sympathetic here, but also going more off the rails when it comes to decision-making, or lack of the ability to do so. Interesting. He really should just fucking kill his shitbag dad though. OTOH,... Locke has had Peg Bundy? That's just too disturbing for words. Maybe it's Turanga Leela who'll put him in the wheelchair...
Speaking of guest stars, Michelle Rodriguez. Not a bad catch. The captors here don't look like the rejects-from-The-Fog who took Walt, so I don't think they're the same. I think they're, as she claimed to be, the survivors of the tail section, and that they think our guys are the Others.
I've actually been expecting more survivors to turn up since the old black woman was sure her husband was still alive there - and when Boone sent out a radio message (from the crash drug plane, that got him killed) that got the crackly response "we're the survivors of flight 815" I was certain their appearance would provide the season 1 cliffhanger. Obviously it didn't, though.
Anyway, yeah, liked this a lot.
The Dharma Initiative/Hanso Foundation film is interesting - I'll have to watch it again. They're still not telling us what'll happen if they don' put the code in, I notice. And the "Swan" station didn't start the island's weirdness, but got adapted after the personnel noticed the EM field that was already there? Yay, more Polar bears in the film too. I also wonder where the "front door" comes out.
Locke is more sympathetic here, but also going more off the rails when it comes to decision-making, or lack of the ability to do so. Interesting. He really should just fucking kill his shitbag dad though. OTOH,... Locke has had Peg Bundy? That's just too disturbing for words. Maybe it's Turanga Leela who'll put him in the wheelchair...
Speaking of guest stars, Michelle Rodriguez. Not a bad catch. The captors here don't look like the rejects-from-The-Fog who took Walt, so I don't think they're the same. I think they're, as she claimed to be, the survivors of the tail section, and that they think our guys are the Others.
I've actually been expecting more survivors to turn up since the old black woman was sure her husband was still alive there - and when Boone sent out a radio message (from the crash drug plane, that got him killed) that got the crackly response "we're the survivors of flight 815" I was certain their appearance would provide the season 1 cliffhanger. Obviously it didn't, though.
Anyway, yeah, liked this a lot.
She's aged well, I think. She looks better to me on Lost than she did on Married with Children.
Rodriguez had a short scene in last season's finale. She was the girl who was going to have a drink with Jack on the plane.
And did you recognize Cindy? She was the stewartess from the pilot episode.
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I always liked the first few episodes of season 2, finishing with "What Kate Did." It is quite a decent set of episodes, on reflection. 
That may have something to do with the Peg wig she had. And the Peg fashion sense...
She looks good in Sons Of Anarchy as well.
Didn't notice her!
No - which one was she in this episode? Too long since I saw the pilot, obviously.
It's also amazing how much new stuff there is to assimilate in these first few episodes...
Desmond told you; if they don't push the button the world will end.
I don't see why you'd have a hard time believing that.That part always felt silly to me, the front door couldn't have been more than a hundred meters away from the hatch, but in all the time that Locke spent excavating the hatch he never searched the area for another way in? That's just one of those things you have to buy into. Locke and Boone didn't find the regular door into the hatch because it was covered in vines, or something.
You probably didn't notice this, but Katey Sagal's character has the same name as the woman he spoke to on the phone in Walkabout (who was likely a phone-sex operator). Cuse and Lindelof confirmed that they're two separate women, so you can create your own fan theory about why Locke was infatuated by a woman with the same name as his ex.
Desmond told you; if they don't push the button the world will end.
I meant more specifically - the nukes go off, Godzilla is unleashed, the plug is pulled on the Matrix....
Desmond told you; if they don't push the button the world will end.
I meant more specifically - the nukes go off, Godzilla is unleashed, the plug is pulled on the Matrix....
All of the above...and none of the above.
It was a quick flashback to Jack getting a drink. Rodriguez comes up to him, says something about seeing him on the plane. I forgot about that scene until season two when she showed up again and my girlfriend said, "I wondered what happened to her!"
She gave Jack a couple drinks on the plane, told him not to tell. Hmmm, I'm seeing a pattern here involving Jack and drinks.
There are fan theories about that?
I thought it couldn't possibly be more blatantly obvious that Locke had named the phone sex operator from Walkabout "Helen" after his ex girlfriend, which probably happens a lot (I imagine she must have had a lot of clients before who asked "Can I call you [insert name]"). But never underestimate the tendency of Lost fans to endlessly debate and make complicated theories about the simplest things!Nukes break Godzilla's leash, and he then trips over the Matrix's cord.
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