LOST - Wednesday 11/9/05 {Spoilers for this ep and previous eps ONLY!}

[KaosDevice]

Locke spent at least half of his time on the island on the hatch and we have no indication he's been hunting since, so no one's depending on him for much of anything.

That's not a very nice thing to say about Locke.

 

[Crothian]

cliff hanger ending...but I thought it was going to be more than four minutes, that just makes me think they are putting in as many commericals as they can and it is causing the show to run over its time slot, sneaky hobbits!

THe cliff hanger already hpapened, the shooting of shannon. Now, they are just going to give us an episode that covers something we probably don't need to know or at least couldn't guess what happened. This way, they can carry the cliff hanger till the new year since I doubt we will get a new episode before the year is out. But I haven't checked the schedule on that and might just be wrong there.

 

[Nellisir]

I'm not sure I take that as a given. Most of the characters are survivors, specific wilderness lore or not. Jack has good instincts; Kate is a natural survivor; Sayid has military training (and has survived on the island on his own already); Sawyer is a packrat and has natural cunning. Several of the survivors have the capacity. What Locke and Echo have that the others don't is specific survival lore. However, without someone like Jack, the survivors are in a bad way...he's the only doctor they've got.

I should've added Sayid to that list. All the rest* might survive the island (people, quite frankly, are much harder to kill than they think they are), but probably not the Others. That's the killer.

I think Jack, like Locke, is helpful but not essential. Other people have medical training (Sayid), and you can survive alot with basic first aid. Jack doesn't have the equipment and medicine doctors in 21st century facilities have, and without those, anyone to whom he's essential is pretty well screwed anyways.

Cheers
Nell.

*and, obviously, by "rest" I mean those we know anything about. Maybe there is a professional hunter or logger or Navy Seal or something mixed in there, but no one has told us yet.

 

[Fast Learner]

By "the rest," I assumed you meant it as in "and the rest," the poor phrasing that was replaced after the first season with "The Professor and... MaryAnn...."

 

[Fast Learner]

It appears there will be new episodes throughout the month (3 more), then on in mid-December, then starting up again in mid-January. Though I'd guess that schedule isn't completely firm.

 

[Taelorn76]

THe cliff hanger already hpapened, the shooting of shannon. Now, they are just going to give us an episode that covers something we probably don't need to know or at least couldn't guess what happened. This way, they can carry the cliff hanger till the new year since I doubt we will get a new episode before the year is out. But I haven't checked the schedule on that and might just be wrong there.

I would think they would give us more than two episodes before going back to repeats.

 

[WizarDru]

I think Jack, like Locke, is helpful but not essential. Other people have medical training (Sayid), and you can survive alot with basic first aid. Jack doesn't have the equipment and medicine doctors in 21st century facilities have, and without those, anyone to whom he's essential is pretty well screwed anyways.

Not essential? I don't agree. How many people can even diagnose an illness? Being able to do triage work is good...but Jack's the only one who can even attempt surgery. He's not at peak efficiency...but Sun's rememdies wouldn't help if Jack hadn't identified the problem. As supplies run out and different issues start to crop up, Jack will become more valuable, not less. He'll have to become more creative, but he's the only doctor the survivors have...and if the early episodes are any indication, Jack's skills healed a lot of problems (mostly off-camera, but it's implied). He's not irreplacable, but he's extremely valuable. I'm willing to bet Sawyer's life is depending on him, right now.

 

[KaosDevice]

He's not irreplacable, but he's extremely valuable. I'm willing to bet Sawyer's life is depending on him, right now.

Not to mention having that whole natural leader/organizer thing going on.