Lost season three - right around the corner

[scaeagles]

The episode isn't even over yet, but this is exactly what this season needed - a great Hurley episode.

The scene with Sawyer teaching Jinn English was just priceless, and Hurley was great. What a hysterical episode....while I haven't been as annoyed as most with the last few episodes, this was just was was needed.

[sleepyjeff]

No questions answered but a boat(or vw bus) full of new ones:

1) Was that a map Sawyer had in his hands?
2) How is there still air in the tires?
3) What killed Roger WorkMan in the first place?
4) Where are they going to get gas once that miraculously still-full tank runs out?
5) Cars on an Island? Since we have never seen anyone actually circle the "Island" yet how are we sure this even is an Island?

I liked this episode(any episode that isn't Jack centered is better than those that are) ok, but I would like even more to have at least a few questions answered for a change.

Also:

Did the writers just pull a fast one on us? Is this their way of getting away from having to figure out a way to explain the numbers?

If so then what other big mysteries will be "answered" with similar brush offs?

[cirquelover]

I'm pretty sure it was a map of the island.

I want to know why was there gas, air in tires and the battery was still charged? I've never seen an engine full of plants startlike that!!

I don't understand what you mean about the numbers being answered?

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by cirquelover

I don't understand what you mean about the numbers being answered?

Just the whole thing about the numbers being just luck...good or bad. I fear that a connection between Hurleys numbers and the hatch numbers will never be explained....and that this episode, in a way, was the writers way out from ever having too.

[Stan4dSteph]

It was a blueprint or schematic, but serves the same function as a map.

Can't wait to see more about the creepy eyepatch guy next week. Also, Locke does stupid things with a computer AGAIN!

[Ghoulish Delight]

The episode was good, but when it started, I was hoping for more of the island weirdness of old. But I still liked it, nice to have a fun character piece as a break from the plot that wasn't going anywhere anyway. Loved the meteorite/asteroid moment. I think I vaguely remember there being a TV on in the background of someone's flashback in a previous season that mentioned it in passing, but I could be wrong.

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

The episode was good, but when it started, I was hoping for more of the island weirdness of old.

Sky Blue VW.

It's the Libyans and their after the Flux Capacitor




Hope that was weird enough for you

[Ghoulish Delight]

They were just after their plutonium, no way they knew about the FC.

[RStar]

I have a car in my driveway that I have not used for 4 years. I start it every year or so. I hvae not put air in the tires or gas in the tank. I do have to charge the battery before I start it. So if the van had only been there for for 4-6 years, it's possible. But since the 70s? doubt it. Of course the island does have Polar Bears. And a tall ship in the middle of it (Dude, how does that happen? ).

Oh, and the van had a dead battery, that's why they had to jump start it down the hill. The 8 track was a cool touch. And Cheech Marin as Hurley's dad? Priceless.

Did you notice the checken hitting the ground after the asteroid?

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

They were just after their plutonium, no way they knew about the FC.

That was back in time....now they want the FC




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Everything that happens to Hurley may be a self-realized prophecy....

1) He was worried something bad would happen to Ms. Tanaka and bam, a rock from outer space hits the place.

2) He's hungry and food falls from the sky.

3) He tells Charlie "death finds me" and Vincent shows up with a dead mans arm.

4) He didn't believe the car would start and it didn't.....when he did believe it did.

5) He was worried that Libby would leave him and she did...so to speak.

6) He was worried that his friend would leave him and he did...after winning a lottery that he must have thought, at least a little, he might win

Maybe Hurley does make his own luck.

Maybe this is what Juliete meant at the book club about free choice.....do some of the others have the ability to make things happen just by wanting(or fearing) them to happen?

Like making a bus hit your ex-husband or a plane with a spinal surgeon on board crash nearby