LOST - Season Premiere Wednesday 9:00 PM EDT

[Taelorn76]

I went over to The Fuselage to look at something...

Apparently during Walt's spooky psychic scene, he's speaking backwards. The general consensus seems to be he's saying 'Don't touch the button. The button's bad'.

When Shannon was alone, I thought I'd hear 'the whispers' but I couldn't hear anything, even though I turned the TV up a little, but apparently they were there. Did anyone hear what they said?

Another connection between the passengers: the man who Sarah crashed into and killed apparently was Boone and Shannon's dad.

Do you have a link?

 

[Taelorn76]

Which, in turn, was the number of their flight. Wheels within wheels.....

I thought their flight # was 815

 

[dravot]

I thought their flight # was 815

It is flight #815 (8 and 15 being two of the numbers)

 

[Rel]

I thought their flight # was 815

YES! And if you switch the order and change the 5 to a 0 then you get 108! Wheels within wheels I tell you!

 

[fett527]

YES! And if you switch the order and change the 5 to a 0 then you get 108! Wheels within wheels I tell you!

I got a link for you if want to play that game...

http://thelostnumbers1.greatestjournal.com/

 

[Rel]

I got a link for you if want to play that game...

http://thelostnumbers1.greatestjournal.com/

Fortunately for me and my sanity, I don't want to play that game.

 

[devilbat]

It's a bit of a weird juxtaposition, with the guy in the hatch seeming almost mundane, but then Walt appearing as a ghost or something, in a place he shouldn't be.

And wet, don't forget soaking wet. I thought that scene was creepy greatness, and if the whispers were backwards, then that makes it even better.

I am so looking forward to finding out what the link is to that dog. Every time it takes off for a crunch, crazyness ensues.

I was a little dissapointed that the guy in the hatch was Desmond. As soon as he tells Jack he'll see him in another life, you knew it was him in the hatch.

Quote of the episode. Hurley spilling the beans about the numbers to Jack, and all he gets was "You were in a Psych ward?". Hilarious

When the episode started, I was trying to figure out who's flashback is was, but I was engrossed with the fact that the guy had both a record player and adult size bunk beds. Sweet.

 

[Ambrus]

My first impression when I saw the guy in the hatch with all his old seventies and eighties technology was that it was a flashback but I couldn't figure out of who. When I heard the explosion of the hatch being opened from outside it suddenly clicked for me. I figured that this guy had a huge underground living complex and had been down there for several decades. It seemed to me that it would require an awful lot of money to have a huge underground bunker built on a deserted island in secret and have it sumptously furnished and stocked with near limitless food supplies, technology and electricity. Suddenly it occured to me that this guy with the hatch with the numbers written on the outside must be like Hurley; a guy who made it rich with the numbers but became an equal menace to everyone around him. I figured he'd used his wealth to buy a deserted island, have the bunker built and stocked with supplies and then shut himself inside to keep the rest of the world safe. That's why I'd figured he'd inscribed the word "quarantine" on the inside of the hatch and hadn't had a ladder that led back up to it.

It made perfect sense until it was revealed the guy was Desmond; a guy Jack had met in the states just a few years earlier. Now I don't really get it...

 

[Belen]

Quarantine was written on the inside. It was also locked from the inside and Desmond was armed. It appears that Demond shut himself away from the island. The island was the quarantine zone. Otherwise, it would have been written on the ouside of the hatch.

 

[Chaldfont]

I have to say, I'm surprised at Jack's non-interest in Hurley's story about the numbers. He's supposed to be a smart guy, yet he doesn't even wonder at the fact that that many numbers in the exact same sequence show up in Hurley's sanitarium and on the hatch?! That's stretching coincidence far too thin, and you'd think he'd realize that...

I thought this too. I just chalk it up to "The Scully Blindspot" which is a concept my wife and I came up with to explain when characters in a movie or TV show don't do the obvious thing so that the writers have an excuse to continue the mystery. It's named for Scully on the X-Files since after 7 seasons of weirdness she still maintained an unexplainable skepticism.

There are a lot of Scully Blindspots in Lost. My #1: Why haven't the characters spent more time exploring the island? There could be a Club Med just a few miles away and they wouldn't even know!

Even so, I'm hooked on this show. My wife and I got DVR just for this and Alias.