Lost!

[Ghoulish Delight]

Yeah, I heard that. They seem to do that a lot, mix some component smokey sound in. Could be meaningful, could be just to mess with us.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

On the topic of old Smokey, it seems the images he projects and the sounds he makes derive from the personal lives/demons of those he is targeting. I've always thought this to be the more awesome thing about it, inferring that he gets his power from the environment around him. Innocuous noises could seep in there as well.



iSm, I believe there has been some back and forth as to which episodes are entertaining and which have not, but I'm not going to dig for quotes. Not everyone is hating this season, and I daresay no one is hating it as much as you are. Even if this is filled with "curtain calls" I'm enjoying them quite a bit. It's going to be a bummer when we no longer see these characters anymore!

As for "nothing happening", it seems to me the story has always moved along at the pace of the character development. The plot has never moved much quicker than the flashbacks. Come to think of it, much of my favorite parts of the show have been the flashbacks. Remember when the questions were "who are these people really?" and the flashbacks slowly leaked answers for us? How is this season any different? Learning what these people might have been is just as fascinating for me, as it reveals more and more of who they are, really.

I'll say this until I'm blue in the face - big answers are not what LOST is about. When the answers come, I bet that most people who are counting on them to make their 6 seasons worthwhile are not going to be happy. It's not the destination, it's the journey...

[Frikitiki]

I heard that too! Could Widmore have brought a smokey with him?

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

... but this is unacceptable to me for the final season on a show like Lost that must now prove it is not the 21st century version of Twin Peaks.

But Twin Peaks was an entirely different show....I mean, yeah, some of the names are the same........Cooper, Desmond, Roger, Ben, Hurley, James, Jacob(y), an eye-patched character and a Black "Lodge" instead of a Black "Rock", characters bodies being occupied by evil spirits etc.

Where Twin Peaks went wrong is that it did answer some of the biggest questions before the final season......Lost, mad as it makes me sometimes, hasn't made that mistake

Of course there is one big scary similarity between the two shows...scarier then even the similar character names.............Bob Iger

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

ETA: Of course, there could be a reason that they chose a sound that would be familiar to her, but it seems it doesn't sound like it's going to turn out that she had encountered the smoke monster before, just that the smoke monster incorporated something familiar to her.

REDSHIRT: It didn't sound like an animal, not exactly.

ROSE: That sound that it made, I keep thinking that there was something really familiar about it.

REDSHIRT #2: Really? Where are you from?

ROSE: The Bronx.

REDSHIRT: Might be monkeys. It's monkeys.

REDSHIRT #2: Technically, you know, we don't even know if we're on...

The problem I have with that theory is that it has made this same sound on several occasions when Rose was no where around...most recently last week right before FLocke approached Ben. We also heard it make those Taxi-cab like sounds when it was spying on Sawyer.........so only we the audience heard it, none of the Islanders.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Well, I was figuring more that smokey collected sounds and that's the noise he makes. Not so much that he produces specific sounds for different people, just that by his nature the sound he makes might incorporate aspects of all the lives of people (or a subset of people) who have been brought to the island.

[innerSpaceman]

I think I'm having more problems with the "flashback"-type thingies in this season because I just can't buy that the sideways characters are the same people as the Losties. Maybe it's just because I don't like what's going on in most of those stories. I liked the Ben story best and thought of him as Ben ... but all the others seem like phantoms to me. I don't know how better to explain it than that.


But it comes down to pretty much what CP said. The flashback-forwards-time-different things off the island have always been the cool parts to me ... but because they were cool. I'm not liking most of them so far this season. Ben's great. Sayid's ok. The rest - meh.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Well, I was figuring more that smokey collected sounds and that's the noise he makes. Not so much that he produces specific sounds for different people, just that by his nature the sound he makes might incorporate aspects of all the lives of people (or a subset of people) who have been brought to the island.

I see, that makes sense.

[bewitched]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

As for "nothing happening", it seems to me the story has always moved along at the pace of the character development. The plot has never moved much quicker than the flashbacks.

I agree. I have to say I would be disappointed if, for the sake of the endgame, that the show all of a sudden started throwing things at us left and right. I maintain faith that, as for most of the last 5 seasons, the producers know what they are about and have planned accordingly. Answers will be forthcoming. Maybe not all of the answers I want, but I am confident that come May 23rd, I will walk away satisfied.

I would add that satisfaction comes on many levels. As I've said many times, for me, the best outcome would be one where May 24th leaves me plenty to continue to talk about and ruminate on.

[sleepyjeff]

HAPPY LOST DAY!!!



Tonight should be a good night for answers......but I bet we'll probably have more questions too