Lost: 11-8-06

[Cthulhudrew]

Malcolm Reynolds; he plays Nathan Fillion in real life.

Had to edit this one for you.

 

[Tiberius]

Fair enough.

 

[Grymar]

EH, wasn't the big episode I was looking for. Most of it was someting about Kate being married which was a snoozer. WAs anything important revealed there?

Then the whole jack, sawyer kate triangle. A decent episode, hardly something that makes me passionate about seeing it in February. No big revelations, no big cliff hanger, no complete surgery, ...

Seriously waht happened this episode.

If the whole show is about giving context to characters (why do they act the way they do and can they change), then the flashback was about how Kate runs. That is what she does when confronted with a problem. Even the story Jack told her on the beach just after the crash, Kate says "I would have run."

Now we have seen her twice NOT run, first with Saywer a few episodes ago when she got out but he refused to go with her, and now she doesn't want to run without Jack. She is learning to put down her fight or flight instinct.

Otherwise, we have seen more of how the Others (or just this group of Others?) isn't uniform in what they want or how they want to do it. They are vulnerable and not immortal. They are not the physical manifestation of Cerebus, like one theory states. Benry wasn't lying about the tumor, that wasn't a tool for manipulation.

I'd say we learned quite a bit!

 

[DonTadow]

If the whole show is about giving context to characters (why do they act the way they do and can they change), then the flashback was about how Kate runs. That is what she does when confronted with a problem. Even the story Jack told her on the beach just after the crash, Kate says "I would have run."

Now we have seen her twice NOT run, first with Saywer a few episodes ago when she got out but he refused to go with her, and now she doesn't want to run without Jack. She is learning to put down her fight or flight instinct.

Otherwise, we have seen more of how the Others (or just this group of Others?) isn't uniform in what they want or how they want to do it. They are vulnerable and not immortal. They are not the physical manifestation of Cerebus, like one theory states. Benry wasn't lying about the tumor, that wasn't a tool for manipulation.

I'd say we learned quite a bit!

I understand, but honestly I didnt learn anything about the charachters that previously flashbacks had already established. A good little chrachter piece but hardly the kinda show Lost should have shown if their trying to grab my attention until the next half of the season.

So, 1, we see a story about how Kate likes to run (which we already knew) and now she's not running as much (which we actually saw two episodes ago).

Now we have more about how the others are not that united, which was revealed a couple episodes ago as well. From the last episode we pretty much knew he wasn't lying about the Tumor.

Wheras this episode reinforced previous things taught, it wasn't the kinda show you throw on during a mid end of seasons sweeps month.

 

[Wycen]

I watched this episode mostly to see the clue Locke was supposed to find. Then they spend like 2 minutes on it and it's an obscure whittle on a stick. Not happy. I was glad to see Jack turn the table on the others, but I mostly want to see the why and hows of the island, not the people.

 

[Arnwyn]

but I mostly want to see the why and hows of the island, not the people.

I agree - that's where I derive most of my interest from Lost.

(And same with Jericho - but interestingly, not with Heroes [in which I'm more interested in the people than the overall plot].)

 

[Crothian]

but I mostly want to see the why and hows of the island, not the people.

I agree with that. And from the previews of the last two epsiodes the secrets of the island were to be revealed but we got nothing.

 

[ThirdWizard]

The secrets of the island isn't the point of the show, though. It's an interesting backdrop, but really its just a backdrop for the real point, which is the characters and their interactions with each other. Of course, I've never actually cared about the wild Lost theories or intricate "There's a tatoo on the shark!! It's on the internets!" other than as an interesting sidenote, so I might be biased.

I thought this episode was great, best of the season. I loved how Jack took action there at the end. Apparently he had a plan in the works. Good for him. And was I the only one to sing the porn music during the Sawyer/Kate scene?

Way too short, though. Six episodes? What, are they British?

 

[Crothian]

The secrets of the island isn't the point of the show

Right but to many people it has become a lot more interesting then the characters

 

[el-remmen]

Right but to many people it has become a lot more interesting then the characters

Then I fear they will be sorely disappointed.

It is the characters that make me come back every week, not the X-files-like mysteries that only lead to more mysteries.

If X-files had had more consistantly interesting characters like Lost does, I might be able to go back and watch it these days - but except for a couple stand-alone episodes, I just can't.