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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Negative Zero" data-source="post: 1794081" data-attributes="member: 3794">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</blockquote>

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