newphase on 11/10/2006 at 22:38
I have yet to see LOST, is it really good?
Hewer on 11/10/2006 at 23:20
Quote Posted by newphase
I have yet to see LOST, is it really good?
Yes, but start by renting the first season, then the second season or else you'll be so LOST...
sorry guys:tsktsk:
Low Moral Fiber on 12/10/2006 at 02:04
See, now that was a damn entertaining episode of Lost.
[SPOILER]Fucking vague-ass Others. I was yelling like an idiot at Sun to shoot that smug bitch.[/SPOILER]
Gingerbread Man on 12/10/2006 at 02:22
I hate to be Mr Poop here, but what the Christ has happened to this show? Too many sudden characters that I don't give a shit about, plus more to come. Commercial breaks every eight minutes. The main cast appearing in groups of two or three makes me wonder if not everyone could make it back to the set in time to start filming this season.
Sure there's mysterious / nefarious / quasi-sinister shit going on, but you know what? I don't care about any of it. Ooooo big revelation spread out over two episodes Benjamin Linus. Oooooo not much else.
Seriously. This damned show is going to go X-Files faster than X-Files did. :grr:
Luckily next week is Eko / Locke / Smoke Monster, and a brief respite from Difficult Jack and the Emo Koreans.
Renzatic on 12/10/2006 at 03:05
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Commercial breaks every eight minutes...
That's about the only thing I agree with you on. Last season there were, what, 3 commercials per episode? That was tolerable. But now we've got to endure 12 or so before we reach the end of an episode. It's like this nowadays:
*End of commercial segue*
"Hey Jin...dude"
(subtitled) "What is it, Hurley?"
*intense closeup, cut to black, and the "thfooo" noise*
"HEY YOU GOT BAD ACNE HERE IS SOME CREAM."
It's getting on my nerves.
But on a good note, it still does have that interesting Lost vibe. And the writers are doing a good job of rethreatenizing The Others. The fact that they appear calm and normal on the surface, but are actually violent, hellbent zealots working towards some currently unfathomable greater good, is more interesting than the way they were portrayed beforehand.
At the very least, they're doing a good job of fleshing them out and making them seem a little more plausable without demystifing them completely.
Spamlet on 12/10/2006 at 05:53
I admit being worried last week and rather bored but this week's episode absolutely rocked. Packed to the brim with goodness. Excellent use of the flashback story to illuminate what/who the job Jin did from waaay back in the early days of season one. Perfect example of how you deepen characters and relationship.
Shug on 12/10/2006 at 10:48
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Are the cup & saucer levitating in that pic? And why didn't the club include Ben/Not Henry in the meeting? He seemed rather miffed about that.
I found the look on Juliette's face interesting when Ben/N.H. made it obvious that he didn't give a damn if Jack killed her.
Considering the first episode opens up with Juliette being very upset for some reason, and then after the Jack interrogation Ben says to her "you never made me soup", there's clearly an undercurrent or failed relationship
doctorfrog on 12/10/2006 at 18:29
Quote Posted by Shug
Considering the first episode opens up with Juliette being very upset for some reason, and then after the Jack interrogation Ben says to her "you never made me soup", there's clearly an undercurrent or failed relationship
That, plus the "Guess I'm out of the book club" would seem to indicate that. I was also thinking he might mean "You never made me soup when you were trying to break me psychologically," as though once he'd been in Jack's position. Could mean both.
I was very surprised with this episode's revealing of a possible absolute connection with the outside world. I was expecting the island to be isolated in some way from the rest of earth, like L. Fank Baum's land of Oz and its inpenetrable desert wasteland. Perhaps it still is, in a way that will be revealed later. There's definitely more to it, as Ben's statement that he'd lived his whole life on the island seems to indicate. How could there be a physical connection to the outside world if Ben's never left the island? Unless his life on the island caused him to be 'born again' in some way. In which case, this show really is going down the crapper.
I'm also, like GBM and others, rather sad about how disappointingly thin this season is beginning.
Hewer on 12/10/2006 at 19:41
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Difficult Jack and the Emo Koreans.
Now that's a great name for a band.
Renault on 12/10/2006 at 23:18
Every time I hear Juliette talk, I just want to bash her fucking skull in. Is that wrong?
The first two weeks have been sorta quiet (not necessarily in a bad way though), but next week's episode looks badass.
