Negative Zero
First Post
just so you know, if you haven't seen the episode yet, this post will spoil it for you ...
awesome show! the wife and i loved it. i thought it was one of the better pilots i've seen. pilots are always tricky, coz the writers, directors and actors haven't really figured out the characters yet and what works well on screen. still, i felt it was really well done. then again, for 10 mil, it had better be!
i guess i'm weird coz i didn't think there was anything amiss with the scarred-eye-orange-peel guy. he tried to inject some levity into a dismal situation, and sat out in the rain while everyone else ran for cover. i'd have likely done the same things myslef in that situation, i love the rain! although i do conceed that he does seem to be written like the obvious scapegoat for suspicion. all the more reason for him to be innocent of any weirdness. *shrug* we'll see, i guess.
something's deffinitely up with the dog. i like Steve's "island food" idea. as for the creature, i don't think it's what it looks like. i.e. big carnivorous meanie. i think there is sentient intelligent life on the island and something or someone is causing people's fear to be made manifest.
after the first "appearance," the survivors couldn't seem to agree on what the "creature" actually sounded like. the only hint we got was the one lady who lived in the Bronx saying it sounded familiar. it doesn't seem that much of a stretch to assume it sounded like a subway to her. (mechanical, like Dreeble<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_1775972", true); </SCRIPT> said. oh and yeah, Laimbeer did play for the Pistons. man that was an awesome team!
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after the attack on the cockpit, the creature seemed to disappear shortly after Kate did her imitation of Jack and counted to 5 to get rid of her fear. the hole in the argument of course, is the fact that the pilot got killed while standing up through the broken cockpit window, seemingly unafraid of whatever was out there. ... though Charlie and Kate might have had enough fear for all.
also, and i'm not saying it necessarily ties into the the manifestation of fear thing (... though it might), the "creature" only seems to come out at night (... does that make it a freak? Whodini would be proud) or at least in the absence of the sun. Charlie specifically called the change in weather "day turning to night." but in any event, i think there is something/one causing it. dunno yet if it's deliberate or if s/he/it doens't know it's doing it.
there's also deffinitely something up with Charlie. at the very least, he's on drugs, though i dounbt it's as mundane as that. during the flight flashback, he ran past Jack toward the cockpit (we assume the bathroom, coz the black lady makes a comment about him needing to go), and he was being chased by two flight attendants at the time. the crash happened shortly thereafter, so we might assume that they wanted him to go back to his seat, but why would they need two of them for that?
also, he was determined to go with Kate and Jack after Jack announced he was going out to find the cockpit. and when they got there, he promptly disappeared into the bathroom. Kate questiones him about it and he guiltily goes: "What?" in a transparent attempt to deflect the question, and then the "creature" attacks ...
hold up, i just thought a think ... maybe Charlie's doing it all. as i just said, the tail of the palne got ripped off, right after Charlie ran to the bathroom chased by two flight attendants, perhaps an attack by the "creature," and then it attacked again right after he got questioned about what he was doing in the bathroom. ... hmmm ... must rewatch!
i'm very curious to see what's going to happen to the young girl and her now dead baby. lots of potential there, i think.
the only thing i really didn't like (other than the shaky cam, which i didn't think was all that bad) was that i felt like Jack seemed like too much of a super hero. he was so immediately good at everything. which is weird coz i've always tended to prefer superman types to spiderman/batman types. i guess i must be growing up
one final thing. a friend of mine mentioned that he'd read a spoiler tip that indicted that one of the people on the island
!!! dum dum DUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....
~NegZ
awesome show! the wife and i loved it. i thought it was one of the better pilots i've seen. pilots are always tricky, coz the writers, directors and actors haven't really figured out the characters yet and what works well on screen. still, i felt it was really well done. then again, for 10 mil, it had better be!
i guess i'm weird coz i didn't think there was anything amiss with the scarred-eye-orange-peel guy. he tried to inject some levity into a dismal situation, and sat out in the rain while everyone else ran for cover. i'd have likely done the same things myslef in that situation, i love the rain!
although i do conceed that he does seem to be written like the obvious scapegoat for suspicion. all the more reason for him to be innocent of any weirdness. *shrug* we'll see, i guess.something's deffinitely up with the dog. i like Steve's "island food" idea. as for the creature, i don't think it's what it looks like. i.e. big carnivorous meanie. i think there is sentient intelligent life on the island and something or someone is causing people's fear to be made manifest.
after the first "appearance," the survivors couldn't seem to agree on what the "creature" actually sounded like. the only hint we got was the one lady who lived in the Bronx saying it sounded familiar. it doesn't seem that much of a stretch to assume it sounded like a subway to her. (mechanical, like Dreeble<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_1775972", true); </SCRIPT> said. oh and yeah, Laimbeer did play for the Pistons. man that was an awesome team!
)after the attack on the cockpit, the creature seemed to disappear shortly after Kate did her imitation of Jack and counted to 5 to get rid of her fear. the hole in the argument of course, is the fact that the pilot got killed while standing up through the broken cockpit window, seemingly unafraid of whatever was out there. ... though Charlie and Kate might have had enough fear for all.
also, and i'm not saying it necessarily ties into the the manifestation of fear thing (... though it might), the "creature" only seems to come out at night (... does that make it a freak?
Whodini would be proud) or at least in the absence of the sun. Charlie specifically called the change in weather "day turning to night." but in any event, i think there is something/one causing it. dunno yet if it's deliberate or if s/he/it doens't know it's doing it.there's also deffinitely something up with Charlie. at the very least, he's on drugs, though i dounbt it's as mundane as that. during the flight flashback, he ran past Jack toward the cockpit (we assume the bathroom, coz the black lady makes a comment about him needing to go), and he was being chased by two flight attendants at the time. the crash happened shortly thereafter, so we might assume that they wanted him to go back to his seat, but why would they need two of them for that?
also, he was determined to go with Kate and Jack after Jack announced he was going out to find the cockpit. and when they got there, he promptly disappeared into the bathroom. Kate questiones him about it and he guiltily goes: "What?" in a transparent attempt to deflect the question, and then the "creature" attacks ...
hold up, i just thought a think ... maybe Charlie's doing it all. as i just said, the tail of the palne got ripped off, right after Charlie ran to the bathroom chased by two flight attendants, perhaps an attack by the "creature," and then it attacked again right after he got questioned about what he was doing in the bathroom. ... hmmm ... must rewatch!
i'm very curious to see what's going to happen to the young girl and her now dead baby. lots of potential there, i think.
i'm not so sure, before Alias, Abrams did ... Felicity was it? a VERY different show. i'm hoping that he's going to venture into new territory again. like PC said though, the invisible monster could get old fast, but then Abrams has shown that he knows how to flip a story on its end and chage it around completely without changing it's essence, in order to keep it interesting. i have high hopes.Keeper of Secrets said:
the only thing i really didn't like (other than the shaky cam, which i didn't think was all that bad) was that i felt like Jack seemed like too much of a super hero. he was so immediately good at everything. which is weird coz i've always tended to prefer superman types to spiderman/batman types. i guess i must be growing up
one final thing. a friend of mine mentioned that he'd read a spoiler tip that indicted that one of the people on the island
was not on the plane
~NegZ
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