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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1803760" data-attributes="member: 151">My big question about the polar bear would be: how did it survive?  A polar bear is used to living at really low temperatures in arctic conditions.  This is a jungle, in the tropics.  From answerbag.com, for example: "Polar bears are wonderfully insulated; their insulation is so effective that when viewed with infrared (heat) camera they are barely visible. Only the pads of their feet emit detectable heat. They start to overheat at temperatures above 50°F (10°C) though, and need cold water to cool down."Now, that may be an excuse for why it was relatively easy to kill....or not.  Is it possible it wasn't a polar bear, but an albino kodiak or some other breed?The trick, here, is to find a way to separate the mcguffins from the factual.  As long as things are kept vague, there's no way to tell where supernatural starts and misdirection begins.  We have no framework, and they're doing a masterful job of it.I really like how the characters are complex, not just caricatures.  Hurley is a funny, nice guy...but not pure comic relief or parody.  Sawyer didn't strike me as creepy, at the end, but remorseful.  It's easy to say you'll kill someone, but I think the reality of actually doing it struck him hard...especially since he didn't do it correctly.  That tells us volumes about Sawyer as a character, and even more about who he ISN'T.  Jack killing the marshall was, to me, creepier by far. It's also nice to see the many 'genre' actors at work.  Terry O'Quinn's character of Locke is a riddle wrapped in an enigma....which is typical for him.  Daniel Dae Kim gets to play a jerk again, but I'm curious to see where Jin and Sun are headed, as characters (poor, poor Crusade).All in all, I'm thrilled to have a show on television again that I actually WANT to watch.</blockquote>

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