Lost!

[RStar]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I was hoping we'd see Charlie too, perhaps at his bottom asking his brother to take him to rehab. I am curious why his brother was in LA.

I saw him on channel 5 news this morning, and he hinted that he will be on at some point, perhaps the last ep.

Originally Posted by JWBear

I know a lot of guys who would actually prefer him that way!

Ewww....

[scaeagles]

Interesting thought.

[innerSpaceman]

I had an interesting thought yesterday. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED this entire season, more than half over.

Cough*Cough*Bullsh!t.





(As I've observed, other seasons seemingly meandered through nothingness for their first halves ... 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.)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

I had an interesting thought yesterday. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED this entire season, more than half over.

You're kidding, right?

[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

[Gn2Dlnd]

Loved how we refer to Ol' Smoky as "the smoke monster," but UnLocke, when asked what happened to the people who stayed behind at the temple, called it, "the black smoke." And conveniently left out the information that it was himself. Wondering if Jacob could manifest as white smoke.

Want to know about Adam and Eve. Want to know about The Island at the Bottom of the Sea. Really want to know why Rose, in the first episode, recognized the sound of the Smoke Monster. Want to know about the healing spring inside the temple, and what was wrong with it. Want to know about the Hurleybird, the whispering in the grasses, the baby's mobile with little airplanes they found in the Dharma maternity ward, want to know about Walt and Aaron, want to know if Vincent is Jacob, want to know who or what Christian is, want to know about the whole island electromagnetic thing.

Is the MiB a Djinn? Is that why he couldn't kill Jacob? Would that explanation be beyond stupid, or does it fit in with antiquity of the Island, and the occasional references to Alice and Oz?

I really, really want to know why Rose thought she recognized the sound made by the Smoke Monster.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Gn2Dlnd

I really, really want to know why Rose thought she recognized the sound made by the Smoke Monster.

From Lostpedia

During the DVD audio commentary on "The 23rd Psalm", the producers talk about the moment in the pilot where Rose says the "Monster" sounds familiar. They reveal that while searching for monster sounds for "Pilot, Part 1", they came across the sound of a New York City taxi fare printer, and decided to use the sound for the "Monster." This sound would obviously be familiar to Rose, as an inhabitant of the Bronx.

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.

[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.

[innerSpaceman]

And, no, I'm not kidding. A bunch of sideways slice-of-life stuff is not moving the plot along as far as I can tell yet. I'll give that time, but as I've posted - it seems more like giving each character their curtain call in orderly turn rather than storytelling.

On the Island - 8 episodes to reveal the names at the cave and the lighthouse? Other than that, endless waste of choosing-sides time which could have been accomplished in 20 minutes. And should have been. In fact, the whole season seems to be taking Episode I lessons.

Except for the excellent Ben Linus episode week before last, it doesn't seem like anyone posting in this thread is much more enthralled with this season than I am - so I really don't feel like my criticism is out of left field - but in any case, that's how I feel.


With the proviso, that I'm used to having things move along at a greater clip via watching the episodes one after another on DVD. Maybe it's just seeming too slow to me on a weekly basis.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Speaking of Smokey sounds, in Recon when Sawyer discovers the Ajira plane on Hydra Island, you can hear birds chirping that sound (to me) exactly like one of the component sounds of Smokey. Watch it again, it's around the 40 minute mark, IIRC.