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Jim_TX

"So I wonder if they're like the remnents of the Dharma project, and they're stranded b/c everyone else forgot about them? "

I'm not so sure that they have been 'forgotten'. Wasn't there a 'food drop' in season 2 - where the survivors came upon a large parachute with a wooden crate attached - with provisions inside?

That would make it seem that there were still regularly scheduled shipments of goods to the island - to support the people still on the island... from somewhere.

I love the show... it takes intense concentration though... and one must also watch the 'background' as there are things and people there that need to be observed - as they may have a bearing on the crash survivors.

They seem to play on the '6 degrees of seperation' - where everyone's past history is linked to the other... through some common thread.

Regards,

Jim TX

Satanus

Daystar

I hope you are right

S

Bryan

XJW...

Actually, the writers did a great job. They gave you a few bits of info, pissed you off, and hooked you... all in one hour!

Also, I believe the story line is set for the next 5 years.

Bryan

XJW4EVR

I know, Bryan. I guess it's like being a Cubs fan! Just when you think you'll get some completion. Steve Bartman screws it up for everyone. LOL.

I guess my issue is that there are so many details & questions to keep track of that has sapped some the enjoyment I used to get from Lost. It's just seems like it is becoming work to keep up with it, and I don't want to work when I watch TV. I guess that's one of the reasons I didn't care for the X-Files.

However, the writers have created great characters. I think the main and secondary characters are some of the most interesting ones that TV has had in a long time.

Satanus

Also, I believe the story line is set for the next 5 years.

Maybe i will wait for the readers digest condensed version

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free2beme

Here is my theory on last nights LOST

I think what we discovered on this island is a group of rogue scientist who are doing experiments under the direction of this man. They are below the radar, as they are on this island and no one knows about them. They have obviously done experiments on other animals, thus the cages. They saw the plane crash, and sent people to get these people controlled. They did not want their existence to become too public. At the same time, I do not think they are 100% aware of everything happening on the island. As that sailboat was a shock to them and yet it was docked near the island for some time. I think that Sawyer saw that man in the cage across from him, as a lesson, they staged an escape under a controlled circumstance. So that they could stop him, and discourage him from doing it again. The same with the doctor, they knew he would do that with opening the door. That is why the woman knew exactly what button to push to stop it. It is not even under water. I think the two weeks he said to Kate, that would not be pleasant, was brainwashing to get them to be one of them. After all, they are about controlling humans and they know how to get these people under their control. Better yet, under the leader of the others control.

That is my thoughts on last night episode.

Good Girl or Bad Girl?

I haven't read the other comments yet (stuck at work and gotta actually work, DOH) but I finally watched this last night on my friend's TiVo and I have to say, the scene where Kate is taken out to the beach to sit with Henry Gale and have breakfast and it looks like it's this luxury beach resort and there's all this food, including COFFEE!!

Well I sorta felt like that could be a metaphor for what it felt like to come out of the JW's. I mean, Kate and her co-airplane crash survivors have been seriously roughing it - and all of a sudden there's this whole other world out there and it sure looks better (in some ways).

What is going on? It's just nuts. Nuts, I tell you.

Good Girl/Bad Girl

Good Girl or Bad Girl?

I kind of expected to see Jack, Sawyer and Kate separated and isolated.
It's fascinating to watch manipulative mind control techniques creeping into the Others' repertoire of skills:
Juliet does not leave food for Jack unless he is willing to comply and stand in the cell with his back to the wall;
Juliet produces a massive file of information that they have acquired about Jack and his life;
Kate does not get to wear her own clothes - they must know how she liked going to the hatch to shower and "feel more civilized" in the previous season;
Kate has to put on the handcuffs and they must be sufficiently tight, otherwise "Henry Gale"/Ben will not give her coffee;
Sawyer is put in a cage and seems to have an ally in "Carl" (I think this was a set-up, myself) but the two make a "failed" (orchestrated?) escape attempt, only to have Sawyer back in the cage with the food and water dispensing machinery, with "Carl" being dragged off and being "made an example" to intimidate Sawyer;
Kate gets put in a cage opposite Sawyer and Sawyer starts immediately assuming a protective role of her (offering her the food he had just worked for several hours to get).
Each of these characters showed strong leadership qualities in the first two seasons - and now the Others' have taken on the task of putting them through a psychological breakdown to make them compliant with the Others' agenda.
Michael experienced a similar "compromise" of his personality last season when he was captured by the Others.
It will be interesting to see where this goes.

Veerrrrrrrrrrry good, Scully, this was just fantastic to read; thanks for articulating it. Yes, that's a big part of it, I think, isn't it? Kate, Sawyer and Jack were selected because they were all very strong-willed leader types. So to further the agenda of the "others" they needed to be broken. It sure looks like that's what they are doing to them. They are on their way to break Jack, that's for sure. They've made him a bit more human with the flashbacks from the premier, haven't they? And Hurley, it makes sense that they wanted him because he is one who always wants to please everybody, so his role was to go back and give a warning to the rest of the survivors. Man, the first 30 seconds I was HOOKED big time. THAT SUCKS. Only cuz it's time consuming and I'd rather be doing other things. But I gotta get my Lost fix - been there since Season 1. Actually Season 1 I was going to meetings so I didn't watch it from the beginning. But then they did this genius thing: they reran it from the beginning. I bet they got a ton more folks with the second running of it. It was a Thursday night when I had a sh*t day at work and succumbed to staying home from the meeting. Flipping through channels.. and the rest is history. Hey I also want to point out that I think it was very demeaning to make Kate wear that dress. But she did look good in it.

Oroborus21

I found Lost pretty interesting the first season.

But now LOST is cocktease television at its worst.

I am sorry but it is hard to have any sympathy when the baddest guy, next to Locke, (and maybe the main bad guy), namely Sawyer, stops and stares open-mouthed at some chick while mid-escape and gets himself tasered. And that Jack, a medical doctor, can't figure out how to administer a sleeper hold or some other knock-out when he has a chance to subdue his captor and then gets himself punched out by the same girl!

Lost is like a cross between Gilligan's Island meets Hogan's Heroes meets Twin Peaks that the writers seem to have concocted after a long night of binging on pina coladas and guacamole.

-Eduardo

ps: it pretty much started going down hill when they killed off the most beautiful girl on the island

Good Girl or Bad Girl?

-Eduardo
ps: it pretty much started going down hill when they killed off the most beautiful girl on the island

Is that Ana Lucia or Libby?

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