Lost - 4/25/07 "D.O.C." (spoilers)

[Hand of Evil]

What's the monster?
What's the statue with the four-toed foot?
Why did you kidnap people?
Why didn't you just tell us that Claire could be in danger, instead of abducting her?
What makes you think you can go around being criminals and thugs, treating us like cattle?
How do you know so much about us?
Where the BLEEP are we?!
If you like this island so much, and hate us, and you have a boat, why don't you just let us go?!

Six-toed statue. They wanted the castaways to mate, so they could monitor them, they wanted them to be seperate so they did not form attachments (guys producing twice the sperm count...oh my) and to see if it was enviroment. Castaways are freaking lab animals. They are dead to the world anyway, lets run test on them like we are nazis!

 

[Demmero]

Seems to me that Mikhael simply saw the flare Hurley shot off, and probably saw or heard some part of the helicopter crash or parachuting the night before. Easy peasy.

...and just came crashing through the jungle without caution, sans a gun? That's not the Others' S.O.P. Nah, I still think there's more to this than meets the eye.

 

[RigaMortus2]

FYI... The parachute girl (Naomi) said "I am not alone" in Portugese to eye-patch dude.

 

[Fast Learner]

Is Desmond seriously trying to make a point in "The Hostiles" favor? His words, in the quotes.

Point aside, that was really a crappy bit of writing right there. It should have been coming from Juliet, or Sun, or even better from Jack. It felt like the writers decided they wanted to make that point, and shoehorned it into the episode.

I disagree. Desmond is the perfect person to make that observation: he's not a Lostaway and he's not an Other/Hostile. He's the only main character that has any chance of being even remotely objective about it.

 

[Sir Brennen]

...and just came crashing through the jungle without caution, sans a gun? That's not the Others' S.O.P. Nah, I still think there's more to this than meets the eye.

My impression is that he was still a bit woozy and panicked, having been mostly dead all day, and was just stumbling through the jungle, though perhaps toward the flare.

 

[RigaMortus2]

And while I'm on the subject of Mikhael...he definitely was expecting to find only whomever ejected from the helicopter--he came charging through the jungle with none of the usual Others' stealth, lightly armed, and then turned and bolted when he saw the Lostaways. That leads me to believe that the woman (Naomi?) is either an Other or that Mikhael somehow knew that the helicopter was approaching the island.

Well, Hurley fired off the flare gun, so I assumed that Mikhael saw it and went to investigate. I don't think he knew about the Helicopter, it was more of the flare that attracted his attention. Perhaps he assumed it was a friend/someone he knows that fire it, perhaps he was just curious, but one thing I am sure of, he didn't expect to run into the Lostaways.

 

[RigaMortus2]

Six-toed statue.

The stone foot we see at the end of season 2 had four toes.

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

What's the monster?
How did you get here?
How many Others are there?
Tell us about all the locations on the island, like the hatches.
What's the statue with the four-toed foot?
Why did you kidnap people?
Why didn't you just tell us that Claire could be in danger, instead of abducting her?
What makes you think you can go around being criminals and thugs, treating us like cattle?
How do you know so much about us?
Where the BLEEP are we?!
If you like this island so much, and hate us, and you have a boat, why don't you just let us go?!

How utterly and totally QedFT.

Benry has built a cult of personality around him, and he lies and manipulates for the sake of lying and manipulating. There may be some "For The Greater Good " explanation given at some point, but I don't think that upon analysis the actions of Benry and the Others will be consistent with pursuing that Greater Good.

Professioally I have been in communications in some manner my entire life, as a journalist, newspaper editor and as a public relations man. And what I have learned is the only incidator of someone's morality and what they really want and beleive in is what they do. People lie to themselves almost as much as they lie to other people. It is what they do that matters and is revealing of personal character.

The Others kidnap people, kill people, brainwash people, perform medical tests without permission, treat people likes slaves and animals, run inefficient systems relating to island status quo and play cruel games.

Nothing the Castaways can do to the Others can be unethical or immoral, except to surrender and to comply.

The stone foot we see at the end of season 2 had four toes.

It is all that remains of the vast and wonderful monument to... Homer Simpson. It's loss was a great tragedy for humanity and the marketing department of Fox Broadcasting.

 

[Demmero]

It is all that remains of the vast and wonderful monument to... Homer Simpson. It's loss was a great tragedy for humanity and the marketing department of Fox Broadcasting.

D'oh! So simple...and you're right, because it stands up to a tried-and-true Lost test.
D-O-H...which letters of the alphabet are those?

4-15-8...where have I seen those numbers before?

 

[Hand of Evil]

The stone foot we see at the end of season 2 had four toes.

Dang, you right, now I am going to be wondering where I saw a six-toed statue! No, I mean it, it will come to me at 3:30 AM, arrrrrr, hate when that happens!