Lost: Season Premier. Tonight

[LightPhoenix]

It was about par with last year's start.

The only complaint I would have is that it seemed to have more commercials than usual.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. I'd love to know the actual run-time of the show.

It was okay... Sawyer was by far the best part, and I'm looking forward to more Tom/Sawyer interaction. "The bears did it in two." Heh.

Kate, eh. Ben, who will always be Fenry to me, eh. Juliet, eh.

Jack doesn't need any more flashbacks. Seriously. Of course, the only person that also doesn't need more flashbacks (

Spoiler

Sun/Jin

) gets them next week. Grumble.

I'd give it a 5/10. Not awesome, not awful. Tom/Sawyer pretty much saved it from being a snooze fest. Also, props to JJA for actually opening the door in the same scene it was mentioned.

 

[BlueBlackRed]

Either they're breaking the law with too many commercials or...they've sucked me in again

 

[EricNoah]

The opening before the credits did blow me away. Everything else was pretty typical for Lost, which in my book means it was pretty entertaining.

 

[EricNoah]

Oh hey -- did anyone catch what book was being discussed at the book club -- I noticed Stephen King's name, but no title. Anyone have a good guess? The only book I can think of that might somehow be an appropriate fit, themewise, is The Stand (sort of a society-in-a-bottle story).

 

[Ambrus]

I loved the intro! It answered a question that I'd been asking since I first learned that Goodwynn and Ethan were others; did the others have people standing-by ready and able to leap onto the beach and pretend to be plane crash survivors at a moment's notice? The answer is a resounding YES! Wow, those guys are scary organized!

Oh, and I hate Juliette! Anytime either Sawyer or Jack got within arms reach of her I wanted them to lunge out and kick her in the head. I felt a surge of excitement when Jack charged across the room and attacked her. Just a shame that he started dragging her about while trying to escape. I would have slammed her head into a wall and DEMANDED SOME FREAKIN ANSWERS!!! "NO I DON'T WANT YOUR CRAP-ASSED GRILLED CHEEZE SANDWICH! I WANT TO KNOW WHAT PLANET YOU WACKOS ARE FROM!!!"

 

[Jamdin]

Oh hey -- did anyone catch what book was being discussed at the book club -- I noticed Stephen King's name, but no title. Anyone have a good guess? The only book I can think of that might somehow be an appropriate fit, themewise, is The Stand (sort of a society-in-a-bottle story).

The book appeared to be one of King's thin books. I would guess that the book is Carrie since most of his books are pretty thick.

 

[David Howery]

Okay, the series is getting seriously weird now.... as we've suspected, the Others aren't grimey refugees, but live in suspiciously modern surroundings... they have access to the outside world... so, the theory that the island is some kind of huge psych experiment seems to be gaining ground....

 

[The Grumpy Celt]

There were several King books in evidence, but the book they were discussing was not named and it might not even be a King book. King is a fan of the show and the writers are a fan of King, s the books may have just been a shout out, so to speak. I thought the brief bickering was funny and probably a way the writers had of flipping off critics of the show.

The entire episode was an homage to the Prisoner; the village where all the participants leads a pseudo-normal life, the remains of a larger project around them, that so much of it is just a complicated psych-out for people. It just needed someone yelling “I'm not a number.”

I loathe the Others and Benry (Ben + Henry). They are nothing more and nothing less than a cult of personality who make everything they touch and do more complicated and painful that it has to be because they can and they justify their actions through misappropriating faith. Let every one of them die. Let every single Other be fed to their pet shark.

People keep telling Jack to “let go” when he or they face the least resistance. If he had done that a larger number of people would be dead, including Charlie.

No word on Sayid, Jin, Sun, Locke, Hurley or the people back on the beach. Based on the commercials we learn about Sayid, Sun and Jin next week. We will have to wait for the week after that for more of Eko, Locke, Hurely and the people on the beach. Or for that matter an episode to reveal anything about what happened to Michael and Walt once they sailed about in the S.S. Minnow.

I still want my Vincent flashback.

 

[Crothian]

Okay, the series is getting seriously weird now.... as we've suspected, the Others aren't grimey refugees, but live in suspiciously modern surroundings... they have access to the outside world... so, the theory that the island is some kind of huge psych experiment seems to be gaining ground....

Especially the way each of the three were treated. It seems to be they are all going to be part of the experiment, and they probably have been for a while.

 

[Crothian]

No word on Sayid, Jin, Sun, Locke, Hurley or the people back on the beach. Based on the commercials we learn about Sayid, Sun and Jin next week. We will have to wait for the week after that for more of Eko, Locke, Hurely and the people on the beach. Or for that matter an episode to reveal anything about what happened to Michael and Walt once they sailed about in the S.S. Minnow.

Of course we will, it is the formula for the show.