Lost

[Brown Jenkin]

It occured to me that with the French transmission there has to be a very good power source on the island. The message has been transmitting for 16 years so there must be some sort of super-battery system, a generator with a massive fuel source or at the minimun a well protected solar pannel.

If the island is in the same dimension as the rest of the world then they realy nead to find the transmitter and change the message. If the transponder has a better broadcast range then thay can recharge the batteries or hook it up instead. Anyone who has heard the old message and ignores it because it is obviously been repeating for 16 years (not worth the effort to track it down if it is old) might perk up if they notice a new message.

I wondered briefly why the transponder didn't have a good battery, but then I thought, it seems that there wern't nearly enough safety inspections of the rest of the plane either.

 

[stevelabny]

you know a show is a winner when people are still randomly speculating in the middle of the week.

this show is probably the best network show since Twin Peaks. Large cast, (potentially) quirky characters, and lots of mysteries.

now we just have to work on quirky music and quotable lines and we'll be ok.

when i was telling my gf about episode 2 and the theories she also picked up on the potential of the island actually being what pulled the plane down.

so whats next...randomly speculating who swings which way and who theyll hook up with? i bet Shannon and Charlie hook up first immediately followed by his death.

 

[Darrin Drader]

The chain smoking redneck

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who shot the polar bear to death

really reminds me of Han Solo. I wonder if that was intentional. And

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I wonder what the letter he was reading was. Judging by his attitude, I get the feeling it was a Dear John letter.

 

[Fast Learner]

Damon Lindelof's comments make me think of "The New X-Men"'s first adventure, where they face Krakatoa, the island that came to life (where some of the first nuclear testing was done).

(Just FYI, in the real world there was no nuclear testing done at Krakatoa. It did blow up on its own very spectacularly in 1883, but that was Mother Earth's doing, not man.)

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Damon Lindelof's comments make me think of "The New X-Men"'s first adventure, where they faceKrakatoa, the island that came to life (where some of the first nuclear testing was done).

It was Krakoa the Living Island, not Krakatoa. Gosh!

 

[fett527]

Due to a screaming 4 month old I missed what seems to be some significant scenes. I looked at the screen captures here and determined i missed the conversation between Jack and Hurley(Big guy) on the beach, the comic book scene between father and son, as well as the scene with Charlie alone. I have read through and seen the comic book discussed, can anyone else add more specifics on these scenes for me (such as what was said on the beach, what the father and son talked about and what Charlie was doing alone)? Thanks.

 

[fett527]

I don't know about anyone else, but I think Vincent's days are numbered.

Dog jerky anyone?

 

[Crothian]

Another okay episode, though I was suprised when the gunshot didn't kill the officer guy. TV usually doesn't do messy deaths like that. I don't recall anything important on theose specific scenes, this episode was pure filler.

 

[soulforge]

I agree to the whole filler episode thing, although I really do love this show. From that interview down w/ some of the writers and creators I don't really think we're going to see the whole stolen from your mind type of thing.

 

[Negative Zero]

i dunno, the ep seemed pretty significant to me. one of hte main issues brought up in the pilot (i'm referring to both hours as one episode), i.e. Kate's crime was addressed and brought to some sort of resolution (at least for Jack) but still left hanging. not an easy feat, i think. also the writers seemed to go out of hteir way to show that Kate is not a bad person.

she not only forgives the man who sold her out and for money! but she saves his life at the cost of her freedom. and even later still has his interests at heart. consequently, it's also implied that the "marshal" is sort of a jerk. i do the finger quotes coz niether me nor my wife are convinced he's a cop of any kind.

i think he's a bounty hunter (my wife thinks he's her (ex)husbnad. he seems too attached to her to just be Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive. he also seems to have been enjoying her capture on the plane quite a bit. moreso, even dying, his first thought when he finally saw her was to try to kill her? not really cop-like behaviour.

i'm beginning to really like Sawyer. don't get me wrong, i still think he's a d**k, but he was the first person to voice what i said from the first hour of the pilot; that they should have just killed the "marshal." although why they didn't just drown him or even just cover his mouth and nose, as opposed to wasting their last bullet, i have no idea.

in any case, so far, he seems like the only one who really gets their situation. ... well, Jack gets it, but he's still trying to act like he's back in the city with all his acustomed comforts. his adherance to his hippocratic oath seemed clearly misguided in a case were he didn't have antibiotics strong enough to treat the wound, nor any anestethetic to do surgery, nor any analgesic to ease the man's pain. *shrug* doctors.

then of course the was little Walt stopping the rain. maybe it is him doing everything. afterall, he did call the "polar bear." although i don't have an explanation for why he would maifest the radio transmission, unless he's not really a kid, but i'm not leaning that way.

and good old Locke. i don't really know what's involved or how hard it is to do, but did it strike anyone else as odd that he just up and made a dog whistle? one that Vincent actually answered??? i mean is it really that easy? mind you, i always say that every question is easy when you know the answer, but still... plus, what was up with the creepy music at the end as soon as he showed up?

also, it might be that i'm already leaning toward the thought/fear manifestation idea, but during the "next week on ..." scenes, one of the lines written during the cut scenes was: "their fears ... are real." a little foreshadowing maybe?

Tabula Rasa certainly didn't have the tension or the drama of the pilot, but then, i'm hoping it didn't cost 5mil like one hour of the pilot did. not to mention that although Lindenlof (who co-wrote the pilot) wrote this ep, Abrams had no hand in it beyond his role as executive producer. no writing or directing.

~NegZ