The Official "Lost" the series discussion

[Deberg_1990]

I figured I would start a thread for this and see what happens....there seemed to be quite a few viewers on the board for this show the past few weeks.....I like the direction the show is taking so far......episode 3 tonight at 7 central on ABC....

[MOhillbilly]

after watching season one over the summer i wondered how they were going to lace everything up and not have it come off gay.

[oldandslow]

I don't know...

it beat the hell out of the televsion that I watched on Monday night!!!!

Seriously, I do not mind that more questions than answers are given each episode. To me, it is what keeps the show intriquing. If they answer everything, why watch?

It is X-files on an island and if you don't need immediate gratification (which X-files really never gave you either) it is worth an hour.

This is, of course, jmo.

[Brock]

Originally Posted by KCTitus

There was nothing revealed, in fact, last nights show was the same as episode one in a different perspective. While I can appreciate that as it also touched on the 2 on the raft, but dammit, nothing new happened until the last 2 minutes of the show and NOTHING was revealed.

I thought that was this show's formula for success.

[chagrin]

Originally Posted by oldandslow

I don't know...

it beat the hell out of the televsion that I watched on Monday night!!!!

Seriously, I do not mind that more questions than answers are given each episode. To me, it is what keeps the show intriquing. If they answer everything, why watch?

It is X-files on an island and if you don't need immediate gratification (which X-files really never gave you either) it is worth an hour.

This is, of course, jmo.

Well, I hear ya on that, but I wasn't even intrigued last night. So far, the show had been VERY, VERY interesting and intriguing but last night left me bored to death and wondering why I was watching.

By the way, WTF is so interesting about the raft storyline? Watching those two argue about who's fault it was...yawn. The mutant shark thingy was somewhat interesting.

Bottom line for me is that until now, the situational drama was good, last night they made zero progress and didn't keep it interesting, or dramatic, etc.

Then again, if the storyline is in fact going to be "that deep" it has to slow downa nd be boring as hell for a while so they can tell it.

[Chiefnj]

I wasn't the least bit bored watching Kate crawl through the air duct.

[KCTitus]

Originally Posted by Brock

I thought that was this show's formula for success.

I guess...while I was disappointed at the 'bait and switch' of the episode, it did offer more substance on the first episode.

I guess, given the ads about next week about the 'others', we'll probably get a show from the perspective of the rest of the survivors waiting in the caves for Locke, the doctor and Kate to come back from the hatch--a 3rd perspective on the same night.

[Kclee]

Is it just me or do they show a commercial like every 6 minutes? The show starts to go somewhere then... Pop'en Fresh wants to sell me his new biskets.

[chagrin]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj

I wasn't the least bit bored watching Kate crawl through the air duct.

I sit corrected, nod

[oldandslow]

Originally Posted by Kclee

Is it just me or do they show a commercial like every 6 minutes? The show starts to go somewhere then... Pop'en Fresh wants to sell me his new biskets.

It just seems that way. They do 44 minutes of show per hour, just like every other hour long drama. Twenty two minutes of that hour are commercials.

[ct]

Originally Posted by OmahaChief

Did anyone else notice that when they showed the shark just before Sawyer attempted to swim to the other part of the raft, the shark had that emblem that was on the lab coat that Desmond was wearing. very interesting as to why a shark would have that emblem. Wasn't Rouseau and her gang a bunch of reseachers? Maybe genetically altering animals and sea life. Who the hell knows but I know for sure that shark had that emblem.

Thank you! I saw something on that shark, but it was too quick to catch. We didn't tape the show, don't have tivo/dvr, so had no way to go back.

[ct]

Not discussed yet, but here's what I found most interesting last night(other than the 'brand' on the shark):

Desmond asked Locke, 'Are you him?' Combine that with Desmond's lack of surprise, almost an expectation, of Jack's arrival.

Also, while Desmond was talking with Locke, he recants 'So you were flying from Sydney to Los Angeles. So it's all still there?' This ties together many things - Desmond 'almost' becoming a Dr., expecting that Jack the licensed Dr. will arrive for thier next life meeting, the illness discussed by Danielle and brought up again by Desmond to Locke ("Are any of them sick?"), the inside-out Quarantine hatch, Desmonds medication (and again the numbers). Desmond thought this illness should/could have spread worldwide?

Again I wonder aloud (sort of) if Desmond recruited Jack to begin with, but mostly if he left the island specifically to do so, then returned? Or if his race around the world just left him there somehow. The race around the world might explain all of his supplies, but not the materials necessary to build this hatched bunker, where did that come from?

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by coryt

Thank you! I saw something on that shark, but it was too quick to catch. We didn't tape the show, don't have tivo/dvr, so had no way to go back.

Here's a screen capture of it that I found. It's not exactly the same as the logo found in the hatch. It has a straight line in the center as opposed to the curved "Ying/Yang" center of the other logo. Very interesting though, and I never noticed it while watching last night.

[oldandslow]

Several things peaked my interest...

1. The emblem on the Shark's tale...and everywhere else.

2. Executing the numbers changed the countdown to 108, which, of course is the sum of the numbers...

3. I still suspect "him" to be Walt...Desmond obviously has no idea who or what "him" is supposed to look like.

4. Apollo candy bars - google it - it comes up with a Candy Bar made in Asia several decades ago...I think the island must tie in with Jin's mysterious adventure.

5. Ana-Lucia had a gun stuck in her pants in the preview for next week. Where the hell did that come from????

[mitchbade]

does anyone think him could be hurley? you have to hear me out, but it is just a guess ya know. hurley was in a mental hospital with a "guy" and remember the guy was always repeating those "numbers" that hurley won the lottery with. also if anyone remebers in season one hurley told a joke about what did one snowman say to the other snowman. and when locke possed as "him" desmond asked locke "what did the snowman say to the other snowman"

[KevB]

Originally Posted by oldandslow

Several things peaked my interest...

3. I still suspect "him" to be Walt...Desmond obviously has no idea who or what "him" is supposed to look like.

Along these lines, I read somewhere that one of the cards Michael sent Walt had two snowmen on the front, with the joke about what did one snowman say to the other (answer: Do you smell carrots too?).