Benny the Guard on 29/9/2005 at 18:11
Going back to the posts about timing, what if [SPOILER]the execute button was to bring the plane down, then a few minutes later the boom was the plane. But that would not explain the missing roomate in the bunker....[/SPOILER]
But if indeed the island is [SPOILER]some sort of cold-war military base, its conceivable that they are doing genetic mutations, like Renzatic proposes. If that is the guy in the bunker could be a clone, and the other one he met could be his brother. I guess we'll just have to watch.[/SPOILER]
My concern is how long can they keep this intrigue going? You have to answer some questions or people will get bored. Answer too many and you run out of story arcs. But I guess people said the same thing about X-Files and it had a long run.
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[SPOILER] Who's willing to bet that the people we see running towards Michael and Sawyer at the end of the episode aren't The Others, but rather the survivors from the tail section?[/SPOILER]
Totally agree, it was alluded to by the scenes from last season, with the older woman saying [SPOILER]that her husband was not dead, and they are probably thinking the front group was dead.[/SPOILER] also [SPOILER]the only reasonw e think they are dead is because there is no way they could have survived, but the same is true of the ones we know about.[/SPOILER]
Rug Burn Junky on 29/9/2005 at 18:52
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Lets recap, shall we?...
[spoiler]There's Desmond, a man who looks and acts like he's been isolated for years in what seems to be a bunker built during the height of the Cold War. During his conversation with Locke you find out he's surprised to learn that beyond the island civilization is going on as usual.
Yet he and Jack crossed paths only 2 years ago...at most. Either it's a different person who happens to look and sound exactly the same (clone?), or he's experienced some traumatic experience during his "race around the world".[/spoiler]
[spoiler]It's got to be more than two years, by a fair margin, I would think. That talk was just after Jack's fiancé's car crash, which was two years before their "wedding," which was presumably a couple of years before the crash. Off the top of my head, I would put the original Desmond meeting at somewhere between 4-7 years, and could easily imagine it being longer rather than shorter.
Heck, the bad wig that Jack was wearing alone suggests a longer time.[/spoiler]
Renzatic on 29/9/2005 at 20:09
Quote Posted by Rug Burn Junky
[spoiler]It's got to be more than two years, by a fair margin, I would think. That talk was just after Jack's fiancé's car crash, which was two years before their "wedding," which was presumably a couple of years before the crash. Off the top of my head, I would put the original Desmond meeting at somewhere between 4-7 years, and could easily imagine it being longer rather than shorter.
Heck, the bad wig that Jack was wearing alone suggests a longer time.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]You might be right about there being a couple of years between Jack meeting his future wife in the hospital and their marriage. But I still think that everything that happened afterwords, the marriage itself, Jack altercation with his dad, and his dad flying to Australia to drink himself to death afterwords, all happened within a fairly short amount of time. So maybe 3-4 years...but I wouldn't think it's as long as 7.[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I'm also beginning to think that the story is something like a House of Stairs type situation. Locke believes they're not there by accident, and he could be right...though for different reasons than he believes. They might've been planted there for some strange social/psychological experiment.
Think about Locke for a second. The show makes it seems that he came to immidiately after the crash and was surprised to find that he was no longer paralized...kind of points toward something supernatural, but it seems that everything that happens has at least a semirational explanation behind it. It's possible that either he isn't who he thinks he is (this could apply to everyone else on the island as well), or the passangers were worked on while they were out cold.[/spoiler]
Taffer36 on 30/9/2005 at 01:38
An entirely spoilerfied discussion! :joke:
Hello! I have watched the show on and off. One thing that I'm wondering about everyone else out there, what do you all think of that mystery element that they spend a lot of time on?
Sometimes it is done very well. Like with the whole deal about explaining each character's past, it is excellent. But with those polar bear/dinosaurs/panda things it is starting to get on my nerves. Just show us the creatures already!!!
Does anybody else think this way?
Benny the Guard on 30/9/2005 at 04:45
There was some discussion a few pages back about the spoiler tags. I think its a bit ridiculous at thi spoint. If you don't want spoilers why would someone be reading this damn thing. Can we all agree the spoiler tags are done in this thread?
thefonz on 30/9/2005 at 08:26
Locke is actually a female - we find this out in episode 3.
yup; i'm done with spoiler tags
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Scots Taffer on 30/9/2005 at 08:54
An interesting episode to be sure, but it goes no further to dispelling questions... in fact, it raises so many more that I've decided to give up asking and just watch.
P.S. Arrested Development Season 3 rules.
Fafhrd on 30/9/2005 at 15:31
As far as the the timeline between Jack meeting Desmond/his wife and the plane crash: We know it was two years between her car crash and their marriage, Jack was also apparently a junior resident at the hospital when they met, some amount of time passes and they got divorced, Jack's father becomes a hardcore alcoholic, Jack moves up somewhat in the hospital hierarchy (senior resident?) and Jack's father and himself have a major falling out, Australia, plane crash. So yeah, I'd agree with RBJ's assumption of 7 years or more.
Scots Taffer on 30/9/2005 at 15:57
And Renz: why do you say the sharks had the logo on them? I didn't see it.
