[Movie] LOST

Originally Posted by Eleo

The fact that she got shot through a pillow just leads me to believe it was set up for her to survive.

I thought about that for a moment, but I think they did it to keep too much blood out of the scene to keep the rating at an okay level (note that you didn't see any blood from Kate either). I just read about a scene in MI3 in Wired where JJ Abrams had to remove blood from Tom Cruise's face to keep a PG-13.

Originally Posted by Eleo

Why did it seem like water was dripping from the ceiling after Libby fell down?

That's the only thing I can think of as a reason for Libby to be alive. The shots werent in the middle, and there's a shit load of stuff in the hatch a bullet can richochet off of.

That and she never got her episode of flashbacks, which seemed kind of neccessary after her being in the mental hospital and all.


It's probably no coincidence that they killed off the two women who were thrown in jail for drunk driving.

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I'd like to know where the fuck the hatch door that crashed on the beach came from. We don't really know what turning the key did, but, as it seemed, metal was being pulled in, not pushed out. Then the key turns and shit starts flying at the beach, but that was the only thing expelled?

Henry has me all confused now. I mean, he's the leader but he gets caught? He's their leader but he still stays behind to help Locke?

I'd still like to see more than the Pearl and the Swan.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

- What happened to Desmond, Locke, and Eko?
- What is the status of the hatch?

The odd thing was...I mean, Charlie was down there with Eko when shit started flying around, and we didn't ever see him leave the hatch, just separate from Eko. So Charlie knows what the status of the hatch is and never said and was being very coy with Claire about the whole thing.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

Another question - How did Pen know to look for a god damn electromagnetic anomaly to find Desmond?

She has a lot of money, that makes it easy to find people.

Honestly, I dunno. Perhaps her father is part of the Dharma project, we never really found out why they had a bunch of money.

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I really like these episodes, they give a lot of balance to the show. Last season all they did was pile secret upon secret on us but the story never advanced.

This year they reveal something, give us a taste of something more, then give us a bit of a break. But the breaks are extremely entertaining. I mean, the episode with the car is one of my very favorite episodes.

Season 1 of Lost was really, really fantastic. Season 2 of Lost was really, really terrible. Season 3 is entertaining...it doesn't have the planning that always goes into a Season 1 (see: Veronica Mars), but I'm entertained every single week. I feel the writers have an idea where the story will end up now (which is why they can spend a week on an episode like this) and I'm happy to be along for the ride.

I don't need the ULTIMATE thrill ride satisfaction every week. That would just get boring.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Tonight wasn't an add-on, though. I mean, consider watching a show like House. Every episode has several new characters, but they don't return. It's not like Nikki and Paulo will be back next week.

The tendency in S2 would have been to stretch out their storyline over a couple weeks and maybe even never resolve it. Tonight's episode was completely non-serialized, that's great!

Consider it this way, they have been on the island less than 3 months. If you focused only on the main story and the few main characters, the show would become boring and the activities that the characters would be doing would be absurd (relative to the Lost universe, anyway). Last year, you kind of forgot that there were 30 or 40 people in the plane crash, it almost only seemed like 5 or 6.

As much as I love 24, it is absolutely ridiculous the amount they get done in one day. I think if people were stuck on an island, you'd see more activities like tonight's murder mystery and the car episodes: the Hurley-centric universe. You can't focus on the Jack/Kate/Locke-centric universe forever without it completely running out of steam. You ever notice how those characters never ratchet down?

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