LOST - bad season, or terrible season?

[Descartes]

I agree it was a little strange about the sub being so deep in so short a time. Not sure the water would be that deep so close to land but then I remembered what a friend of mine said about SCUBA diving. Going down you can hold your nose and blow out your ears to equalize but coming up you have to go slower and wait for your body to equalize.

I don't think a sub would work quite the same way but maybe whoever wrote the scene did.

 

[Fast Learner]

Descending in a sub is quicker than rising -- when descending you effectively just open your ballast ports and let water in and air out. Poof, down you go. When rising you're pumping out the water and filling the space with compressed air, which definitely takes longer.

Don't have enough knowledge to know whether it makes as much difference as dramatized on the show, but it's definitely faster down than up.

As to decompression, it's an issue but that's not what they were portraying in the show. If so then it would have been a choice between ascending quickly and everyone possilbly getting the bends (which could be deadly but probably wouldn't be at the depth they could have reasonably achieved in the allotted time) or having the sub blow up. Not a difficult choice.

 

[Felon]

So they killed off all the non-white characters? Way to go.

As someone who as often lambasted some BBC shows for their ham-handed, paternalisitic approach to ethnic diversity (for Pete's sakes, Merlin takes place somewhere around the 6th century), I hold up Lost as a show that did it in a naturalistic way and should be commended. To condemn a show when something bad happens to a member of a minority group seems to be a rather blatant catch-22.

Jack, Sawyer, and Kate are the main characters. The cast is dwindling down to them. Sawyer will probably sacrifice himself, Hugo will be the chosen one, and Jack and Kate will get to ride off into the sunset together.

 

[Asmo]

Hugo will be the chosen one, and Jack and Kate will get to ride off into the sunset together.

On a black horse, no doubt!

Asmo

 

[Felon]

No doubt!