Once again, I find myself lost in "Lost"

[Rowdyboy]

This show hypnptizes me. I become totally enthralled and am not entirely sure why.

2nd season off to a good start so far

[DS1]

1. I didn't see the first season, but did see the hour long primer

but so far this new show is as predictable and far-fetched as anything I've ever seen.

[Rowdyboy]

12. My taste in television is absymal....

I also watch a soap opera (Guiding Light-over 20 years now), Star Trek TNG and DS9, and loved Friends and Frazier. I love reruns of Northern Exposure, Bonanza and Bewitched and am addicted to Green Acres.

All they have in common is that they're all predictable and far-fetched so at least I'm consistent.

[mainegreen]

2. I dont see how whats at the bottom of the hatch

in any way relates to those weird word clues/hints people were talking about.

[xmas74]

4. I do.

A word that starts and ends w/ letters that are back to back in the alphabet? Man.

[mainegreen]

5. And the 7 letter word that starts and ends with the same letter?

Or the clue "I started there this morning?".

Their just to weird for me. 'Course, thats why I eat it up.

[xmas74]

6. Some of it.

Think of the guy's name. 7 letters that starts and ends w/ the same letter.

[mainegreen]

8. Ah-hah. Be interesting to see how this all pans out.

Personally, I'm subscribing to the Philip K Dick type their all dead or dying theory.
Walt was whispering something like "There is no one.."
no one.. left alive?

[xmas74]

13. Or no others?

[Fleshdancer]

9. Desmond

Desmond is the man in the hatch that started his morning in the hatch when the episode started.

[Halliburton]

3. yeah very good episode

they delivered this time.

[DawgHouse]

7. Very good! Glad I DVR'd it! NT

[Fleshdancer]

10. did anyone catch what Walt whispered???

that part freaked me out.

[BamaGirl]

11. I missed it

what happened? what's in the hatch? someone please pm me (since some time zones may not have had it yet)!

[Halliburton]

16. abc will probably reair it on saturday night

or right before next weeks episode. they did that a lot last season

[undeterred]

14. black smoke, pirates, polar bears, spinal surgery

torture, mental illness, childbirth, boar hunting, golf

Why aren't these people having sex with each other?

[xmas74]

15. I think that's next.

Gotta have time to get the know the person and all.

[Rowdyboy]

19. I think the pairing off will get serious this season

And its going to get very interesting....

[radwriter0555]

20. He is SO hot.. I swooned over him in "The English Patient"....

*sigh*

[Rowdyboy]

21. I'd watch the show just to see him, even if I didn't like it!

I just can't help myself!

[HeeBGBz]

22. *gasp*

I'm all a flutter.

woof

[Rowdyboy]

24. Another Mississippian! Excellent!

And it is a very, very hot picture

[HeeBGBz]

25. Actually, I'm not Mississippian now

Missouri. Trying to retroflect on my two months in Mississippi waiting for the storm.

And yes, that is a very hot picture.

[Dem2theMax]

31. Hey! He's MINE. Keep your hands off.

OMG. Is that man handsome or what?

I'll just go sit in the corner and drool for an hour or so now.
Thanks for posting the pic. ;)

[xmas74]

39. Oh dear lord.

I love that man.
If you've read any previous posts I love them dark and handsome. Now I have something to drool over.

[Halliburton]

17. you forgot about the invisible dinosaur security system

[undeterred]

18. yeah, I wasn't quite sure what to call that

but you nailed it!

[Dem2theMax]

32. "Why aren't these people having sex with each other?"

I know the answer to this question!

I read an online story yesterday about the show (can't for the life of me remember where I saw it) but -- one of the actors mentioned that since the show was on at 8pm last season (family hour), they couldn't really get into serious relationships. This season, the show is on at 9pm. The person in the article said that "men and women have needs," so I think we'll be seeing a lot more romance.

Just as long as all the women on the island keep their hands of Sayid!
He's mine. LOL.

[undeterred]

40. I can't believe the women on that island

could wait that long to start meeting the needs of some of these guys!

[jackelope72]

47. Actually, that doesn't surprise me...

What surprises me is that the guys, being guys, could last that long without their needs being met. There's probably some serious self-pleasuring going on beneath those blankets every night.

[jackelope72]

23. All I can say is, Wow.

Very cool season opener. Now we just need to wait until next week to see what happens to the seagoers.

I loved that we got to see that moment of warmth between Jack and his father, when his father wasn't putting him down or deriding him, but simply giving him gentle guidance. I'm anxious to see now what happened that drove Jack back to an "all-science" approach to life, after his brush with the miraculous. Or to see if Desmond has played a part in the backstories of any other characters.

It's almost a tingly feeling: one major question answered, a whole SLEW of questions arising from that answer.

ON EDIT: Desmond can't be that bad a guy. Anybody who listens to Petula Clark in the morning can't be all bad.

[soothsayer]

26. That's Mamma Cass, baby! Not petula...

[jackelope72]

36. Oh. Well, in that case the guy is scum. j/k

[giant_robot]

27. Forgive me if I'm stating the obvious, but...

...isn't the woman Jack saved in tonight's episope the same one he married in a flashback from last season?

[ghostsofgiants]

29. Yeah, I'm pretty sure it is

[6000eliot]

28. Desmond sucked me right back in.

[jayfish]

30. Anyone Notice That (SPOILER)

the the miracle girl is Jacks future fiance? (in my best Katie Couric voice)This episode rocked!

Jay

[underpants]

34. "Carol Vessy" from "Ed"

Yes That was mentioned this morning during the office breakdown of last night's show

[jayfish]

38. Yes, Hot, Carol Vessey(Julie Bowen) .

It also led me to think, today, that Jack may have something to do with Locke's miraculous recovery. There are so many ways this could go.

Jay

[Scout]

33. what's up with word clues?

I hadn't heard anything about the word clues until this thread... did they come from last night's episodes? what did I miss, somebody clue me in!

[LordshipLadyship]

35. spoilers warning

Those word clues come from Kristin, who responds to fans' inquiries with clues (some of which aren't considered reliable), see other spoilers on this site
http://www.spoilerfix.com/lost.php

Also someone was asking what Walt whispered to Shannon. It was backward. Played backwards it says something like Don't press the button, the button is bad

Go here and explore for the sound files(if you have flash on your pc:

http://www.oceanicflight815.com/

click on the bar code at the bottom of the page and type in the blank theislandiswaiting

No idea yet if that's an authentic page from the script, but intriguing, huh? My guess is it isn't authentic, or was rejected

The drug Desmond gave himself was marked with CR then the numbers, and I was wondering if C R meant Cell rejuvenation. Also, Jack worked at St Sebastian hospital, interesting because Sebastian was a martyr pierced with arrows, think about that as an insight into Jack's character
There's a bunch of stuff at that site

LOST is such fun !:bounce:
:scared:....we are all LOST in the Lounge for a reason....:scared:
:D

[Kashka-Kat]

37. wha happened? Missed part of it!

I went away for 2 minutes and when I came back Jack & Locke were in some underground place w/ that guy from the beginning of the show.
What did I miss-- where the heck are they??? I thought it was a long hike between the camp (where Jack was) and the hatch (where Locke was) so how was it that they both ended up in this other place together?

[Fleshdancer]

41. Awesome LOST theory....

I just finished reading this odd LOST theory and thought it was cool enough to share:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/theizzy/157121.html#cutid1

...Its the theory that was devised by a French Mathematician named Marseille Roussau in the year 1988. He used a series of numbers to explain his theory. Now I know you're not going to believe this but here goes.

4 8 15 16 23 42

Let me explain...

The 4 stands for 4 degrees of separation 'not 6 or 7 as commonly stated.) Roussau believed that everyone in the world was connected by four different people. So in theory could meet yourself by using four different people connected to you. Example: Your brother's, boss's, neighbor nephew, knows your mirror. Hard to believe, I know but keep reading.

The 8 stands for the eight continent, or the only place in the world where you could meet your mirror. He calculated it to be somewhere in the south pacific. Now we know its not actually as large as the other contintents but its used figurtively because everyone in all 7 continents could meet there mirror on the 8th universal continent.

The 15 stands for the chances of you acually meeting yourself on this place, as in 15 out of 4,815,162,342. Look at the second set "815." Ring any bells? Interesting huh?

The 16 stands for the maximum amount of people that could encounter thier twin all at the same time. Think about the number of main characters.

The 23 is the number of years apart your twin and yourself are. You are not the same age as your twin. By chance and probablity it takes 23 years exactly for the same genes that made you to be connected again to form another you.

The 42 stands for the maximimum number of years your twin and yourself can be alive at the same time. However people do die at diffferent times so thats why everyone isn't dead at 75. For example my twin was born on Sept. 6 2003 b/c i was born on Spet. 6 1980. Now that doesn't mean i will die in the year 2045, I could, but its not set in stone. My twin could die when he is 16, and then the whole thing starts over again.

(click link to read the rest)

[jackelope72]

46. That is a TOTALLY awesome theory!

And it kind of goes along with the ideas I've been having lately, about there being some sort of human cloning experiment going on. Somebody has created a living laboratory so they can enact their own version of Rousseau's theory. Very cool idea!

[Kashka-Kat]

42. Can someone fill me in- pleeeeeeeze!

I stepped away from TV set briefly and its like if you blink you miss 1/2 the story-- towards the end, Jack was in the camp & Locke was at the hatch down which Kate had disappeared. I come back and Jack and Locke were in some weird underground place--where? Down the hatch?Guess I was thinking it was too far a hike for Jack to get there in 2 minutes, but maybe that's where they are. What the heck happened while I was gone?

[Love Bug]

43. Yes, the underground place

was at the bottom of the hatch.

[QuettaKid]

44. bad news for all us LOST fans....

apparently the writers are making it all up as they go along. Did you see this past Sunday's NYTimes? ABC obviously want's the show to go on for as long as possible......there is no grand overall unifying mythology behind the show. Making it up as they go along.

[jackelope72]

45. I don't think that's true...

but if it is, they're doing a damn good job of it.

I can't tell you how tired I get of all these doomsayers who go around moaning, "It's just gonna fall flat on its face in a couple of years...They won't be able to sustain the mystery...It's going to have a really cheesy resolution...It's going to be another Twin Peaks...It's going to be another X-Files...We may as well not get too attached to it because it's just going to let us down in the end..." I swear they sound like people who have had one too many romances gone sour. It's like the television fan's version of "A Boy Like That" from "West Side Story."

As far as I'm concerned, I'm willing to take the ride for as long as it remains fun and intriguing and thought-provoking. If I ever find myself getting bored of it or getting so far ahead of it that nothing surprises me anymore, I'll stop watching. But I'm not waiting for that day to arrive, and I'm certainly not looking forward to it just so I can tell people "See? I told you the show was gonna break your heart!"

[CBGLuthier]

48. writers lie

The best writers are excellent liers.

I believe they are writing each story and fleshing out details ona weekly basis but someone has at least some sort of idea what it is all about and what at least some of the major mysteries contain.

The TV Show Babylon Five was created and planned to run 5 years (which it did). The creator had many things planned and figured out and he made adjustments (cast changes and such) along the way and even allowed other writers to do some of the shows but he still ended up where he said he would all along.

Now X FIles on the other hand, they were making that one up out of nothing. I gave up in the last year so don't know if it ever made any sense. It was a great show but the backing mythos was sloppy.

[QuettaKid]

49. how do you know I wasn't lying when I wrote my post?

;)

[CBGLuthier]

51. Because I read the same statement elsewhere

Nice Try though. :-)

[Halliburton]

50. they do have a tentative blueprint

but they change it depending on how viewers react to aspects of the story. for example, Hurley's lotto numbers weren't going to be a big deal but viewers showed a great deal of interest in the meaning of the numbers so they made it more of a central focus of the story.

[Kashka-Kat]

52. sayid may have the looks but hurley definitely 1 of the most interesting

characters of all of em... was expecting the stereotypical comic fat guy you usually get on tv but nope, pretty multi demensional. I do hope it all hangs together over time and comes to some kind of resolution... that they have created such satisfying characters and minor plot resolutions within the 1 hr. framework gives me some hope that they will do well with the series as a whole.