LOST - Season 2, Episode 1 Review Thread (Mrs-Roo, don't read- spoliers!)

[tuffy109]

I can't wait to watch her and Kate mud wrestle.

ahh, the silver lining.

[Stu Gotz]

Not a bad show last night.

But it seems that the castaways from the other side of the Island don't have to deal with either the Island's defense mechanisms nor its Godzilla like monsters. (An oversight?)

And the quote "We only take the good ones" seems a bit disingenuous when you consider The Others have gone out their way to kill/maim a lot of the folks from the plane.

Sayid vs. Anna Lucia - let's get it on!

[The AD]

I thought last night's episode was a new low. I guess part of it is how reprehensible Ana Lucia is. Why would anyone listen to that bitch? The other thing that bugged me is why couldn't the dude climb out of the pit on his own? How long would it take him to dig a few footholds? He was down there for four days for God's sake!

I could have sworn when the raft survivors first encountered the tail end survivors someone said there were 42 of them. So the Others took three the first night, then nine later, so what the hell happened to the rest of them?

[Elkhound Odin]

Ana Lucia is probably a CIA interrogation specialist. She gets off on torture. Everyone around her acts like sheep. You would act like that too, since anyone that challenged her dominate role ended up dead.

[tuffy109]

didn't you see her boss kate bosworth around in blue crush? i'm sure everyone on the island's at least seen the movie and know what they're dealing with. she's just trying to get them to be the best castaways they can be.

[Grange]

I could have sworn when the raft survivors first encountered the tail end survivors someone said there were 42 of them. So the Others took three the first night, then nine later, so what the hell happened to the rest of them?

The did say that a number of passengers were injured and died as a result of those injuries, but it didn't seem like there were that many injured.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I missed it last night- anything really important happen? I know that the Others were killing off the tail people, and that Analucia figured out there was an insider and whacked him, but beyond that I'm, well......

Lost whooo spooooky...

[The AD]

I know that the Others were killing off the tail people

Not so much killing them as abducting them. The big thing that happened was Ana Lucia thought one of the survivors was actually an infiltrator from the others. She was right there was an infiltrator, but had the wrong person pegged. She put the wrongly accused guy down in a pit for a few days (the same one they later used for Sawyer, Jin and Michael). Ultimately the real spy helped the wrongly accused guy escape from the pit but then killed him when everyone else was asleep. When Ana Lucia found out who the actual infiltrator was she killed him by impaling him with a pointed stick.

[Vinman]

Not so much killing them as abducting them.

right we don't really know that they killed them... yet

[Katie4]

what the heck is on that film??????

[Stu Gotz]

Dad?

Oh snap!

[VTskibum]

Dammit I missed the last 10 minutes!! Stupid fire alarm/smoke detectors in my house going off for no reason!!

[The AD]

Damn good episode. Things are getting interesting again!

[Vinman]

much better episode this week. Clears some things up about Kate and yet again asks more questions.

Like is Walt really alive someplace? And what is the incident? and what will happen now that the computer was used for communication.....

[The AD]

My current theory is the magnetic fields on the island causes strange things to happen to people's brains. For one thing the forces seem to cause visions and these visions can be shared by multiple people. Eventually these effects cause people to go insane (witness Kate last night) and that's what happened to the "Others." The real purpose of the Dharma Initiative was to study the effects the magnetic forces have on people. That's what the hatches were built for. They are bunkers where presumably the effects of the magnetic forces are minimized. All the computers in there are probably monitoring what's happening to the inhabitants on the surface. "The button" does nothing other than ensure the people in the bunker can't leave. It's more or less a placebo. It does nothing, but no one is willing to take the chance of not entering the code every 108 minutes. Communicating through the computer might cause the bunker people to attempt to help the people outside, taint the experiment, and cause the bunker people to also go insane if they leave their post and venture outside.

I think the hatch where the tail end survivors were started out just like the other hatch, but at some point the original inhabitants communicated with the people outside and the hatch was either abandoned or taken over by the Others. This was the "incident" described in the film.

[xboat]

Dad????? wtf!!

that Mr. Eko dude is a super creepy but great actor.

i'm still hoping for the Kate and Ana Lucia naked mud wrestling battle to death. mmmmmm

[Katie4]

walt has to still be alive. Remember the scene in the woods when the others and the children walked by and all you could see was their feet? The little boy with the teddy bear was still there so they have to be keeping the boys alive. But why? and I think that it has to be the others on the computer

[tuffy109]

"The button" does nothing other than ensure the people in the bunker can't leave. It's more or less a placebo. It does nothing, but no one is willing to take the chance of not entering the code every 108 minutes. Communicating through the computer might cause the bunker people to attempt to help the people outside, taint the experiment, and cause the bunker people to also go insane if they leave their post and venture outside.

the film never said anything about leaving the bunker. also, seeing as there is supposed to be 2 people, one person could man the computer while the other one leaves.

as for the computer, i don't think that's Walt. if we can say there's some "higher power" on the island that communicated with the tail section group on the radio, then they can possibly have other ways of communicating. who knows.

great episode last night though, the more freaky the better, next week looks good too.

[The AD]

the film never said anything about leaving the bunker. also, seeing as there is supposed to be 2 people, one person could man the computer while the other one leaves.

as for the computer, i don't think that's Walt. if we can say there's some "higher power" on the island that communicated with the tail section group on the radio, then they can possibly have other ways of communicating. who knows.

Right, it doesn't prevent people from leaving, but it's pretty effective in at least keeping them close. The inside of both hatches were marked "quarantine" so it does seem like they're trying to keep the people who are inside in (or, conversely, keeping the people who outside out.)

I believe it was Michael (when he was on the raft) who communicated with the tail section folks on the radio.

[Stu Gotz]

Things that I am pondering today while the food coma overcomes me.

1. The Black Horse. Is kookiness beginning to set in on the castaways?

2. "Do mistake coincidence for fate." A warning to viewers not to read into everything?

3. Kate's father, "I do not have murder in my heart." Good vs. Evil with the castaways being judged?

4. The blast doors - a last stand?

5. How I can make sweet, sweet love top Evangeline Lilly.

[jibco]

Heads up. I think a new episode is on this week.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Yes indeedy.

Re: "Don't mistake coincidence for fate" and message to viewers- I saw some interview with the producer and he basically said that they are winging it as far as the ultimate outcome (although I suspect the decision not to kill Jack has been made), so that while you can conjure all you want with numerology etc., you're probably wasting your time.

Crushing.

[skiguide]

Heads up. I think a new episode is on this week.

new special + new episode = 2 hours of Lost this week

[The AD]

A couple things that are bugging me about Lost:

1. Why do all the survivors assume they're on an island without civilization? It seems like they've all thought that from the get-go despite plenty of evidence to the contrary (encountering other people, massive underground bunkers, etc.) Everyone just seems shocked when they discover that, wow, there are actually other people on the island with them. Doesn't it seem like they'd at least want to explore around the perimeter of the island to see if there are any villages or even something like a research station where they could get help? Hell, we know the people that abducted Walt have a boat.

2. I can see why Michael went apeshit and went off alone after Walt. No one else seemed all that concerned about Walt. "Oh yeah, your kid was abducted. That sucks. Yeah, maybe some day we'll go look for him, but right now we're too busy sitting around on the beach and entering that code into the computer every 108 minutes."

3. Jack and Anna Lucia are a perfect match. We know she's a bitch and he's increasingly being revealed as a world class jackass. Who made him king shit, anyway?

[Vinman]

Both eipsodes were good lastnight, the re-run of Eko's story and the new one.

I think things are about to get good again, finally