[Movie] LOST

Originally Posted by Sepharite

Did anyone see the promo for Episode 3? Did I just see..

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A standing, but rotting Boone?

Yup.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=u9qpSFtq4Qo
http://gallery.lost-media.com/albums...rmal_boone.jpg

Huh, that's a different promo than the one I saw. NBC's promo for episode 3 was more about

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saving Mr. Eko from what appears to be the smoke monster.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Yeah, the two random people acting like they were regulars felt a bit odd, but how else are they going to shift over to the other 35~ people we've yet to really meet? It's not like any of them would be meeting for the first time.

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Wasn't he just talking about how it felt like Deja Vu to hear Locke's speech just the way Desmond described it earlier? I'm really hoping that they aren't actually giving Desmond precognitive abilities, but that dramatic focus on him at the end is worrying. Locke had visions too when Charlie went to get water and he imagined Eko talking to him, so it could still be passed off as a product of the hatch implosion. The three of them caught in the blast were just given visions in their daze or something.

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Originally Posted by RAZGRIZ-4

I'm somewhat curious. Maybe Desmond IS dead, and Hurley (and Locke) were just imagning him. Hurley has the history of seeing imaginary people. He was at that mental hospital thingamabobberer, in Season 1 I think. And Locke, he's always seeing things, especially the last episode in that sweat room or whatever it was called with that "vision" of his. And hence Hurley's "deja vu": maybe, maybe not. Edit: nevermind, not. :/

Also, wouldn't this be Desmond's first time in the village? Wouldn't there have been more of a commotion over this? I'm also trying to remember if Hurley's even met Desmond prior to this. I think he did... I just forget since Season 2 never really held my attention.

Towards the end of season 2 Desmond landed his sailboat on their beach, so everyone in the camp would know what he looks like. That's not too bad of a point though... So far no one but Hurly has actually talked to him I think. The mental hospital bit was in season 2 as well, because one of its twists was that Libby had also been a patient there. She's also the reason that I think they kept Desmond around. Libby gave him the money (or was it just the boat?) to do his race, and she still factors into Hurly's past more than he knew too. Since she's too dead to have her own flashbacks they'll be filling in the gaps for her.

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I'm the same as Rockgamer. I went through the first two seasons on DVD over the summer and loved them both, but what's aired so far of season 3 was disappointing. I don't think it was as horrible as a lot of people are saying, but it wasn't too great either. It's not that exciting for me anymore, but I'll keep watching.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Yeah, I thought the same thing about Charlie's twist. That could partially be because I ended up sitting through Final Destination 3 last week (I don't know why), but the part that bothered me was how Desmond phrased it. Is he having visions or are we supposed to believe that he's travelling back in time several times a day? Most importantly, why did the hatch's implosion take his clothes?

This week's episode was okay, but I just didn't like how it was entirely Desmond's flashback rather than cutting between flashback scenes and activity on the island. That balance kept things interesting.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Oooi vey did anyone else think tonight's episode sucked? Maybe I just really dislike Jack flashbacks, but who the hell cares that he got Ling Bai to tattoo him against cultural faux-pas? "He walks amongst us, but is not one of us." Wooo, what a tie-in, guys!

Jack's flashbacks this season have either been ridiculous or just plain dull. He was fine before, but in season 3 he's been nothing but a pointlessly angry stalker. I think the only flashback worse than tonight's tattoos was Locke growing marijuana on a hippy commune.

That said, I still liked this week's episode more than last week's. At least they actually spent most of the time on the island.

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Somehow a pharmaceutical spam post seems oddly fitting after tonight's episode.

This was definitely one of my favorite episodes this season, and ranks pretty high overall. It helps to make up for Locke's last lame flashback about living on that hippy commune. I was a little sketchy on why Locke went to confront his father, who he already knows doesn't give a damn about him, rather than just telling the police everything after the son turned up dead, but the ending more than made up for that.

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I actually didn't mind this episode. It wasn't great, but it was amusing to see the writers kill off the two people they tried and failed to incorporate into the show as regular characters this season.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Juliet may not know that Alex isn't Ben's real daughter since she was taken long before Juliet came to the island. If you looked at the walls of Ben's house in the flashbacks there were several photos of her. It was only about 3 years prior, and Alex was taken as a baby.

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I dunno, it doesn't seem too far-fetched to me.

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After having ghosts and magical healing since season 1, why is another ghost that actually has physical presence so hard to believe? I'm sure Locke will survive somehow too. With their ratings already slipping this season, the last thing Lost wants to do is kill off the guy who's always been the most popular character. Especially not when there are still 50 episodes remaining.

One thing I took note of, and I may be reading too much into this, was Horace. He seemed to be the man in charge of the Dharma Initiative, or at least had a lot of power. With a simple spelling switch to Horus, he could be interpreted as ruler over the land of the living while the Hostiles have close ties to the dead. I don't think this is the last we've seen of him.

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I don't know, I thought season 2 was much, much better. I saw it all on a friend's burned DVDs though, so I didn't have to deal with all the breaks I heard they took between new episodes.

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The finale was pretty good, although I wasn't crazy about the very end. It was an interesting twist, but it makes me worry about how season 4 will go. Honestly I was kind of hoping that Ben was right and they'd all have to make a run for it.

The only real disappointment about this episode was Charlie's death though. There was no reason at all for him to lock himself in that room and drown. None. If they're going to kill off one of the best characters then they should have his death at least make sense. Penny's statement didn't even prove anything. Is a (theoretically) high-ranking person supposed to know the first names of every helicopter pilot on every freighter?

Oh, and Hurly hitting that guy with the bus was the best moment all season. I couldn't stop laughing at that.

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Originally Posted by Sepharite

Lost apparently has 3 more seasons to go... and about the Finale.

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So Jack's father is still alive? Remember when doped Jack said to get his father up here -- see if he's more drunk... I'm thinking this is a lame alternative reality.

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Jack had just finished doping himself up on even more oxycodone, so he was probably just out of his mind at the time. The line was probably just thrown in to keep anyone from figuring out the truth too early.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

At the same time, Christian Shepard (Jack's dad) wrote an oxycodone prescription for him - which I believe requires you to, you know, be an actual doctor. I could be wrong, though. ^_^'

Also: I was under the impression that spoilers aren't needed in the thread?

The prescription was only signed as Dr. Shephard though, and Jack didn't want them to confirm it. That seems to indicate pretty strongly that his father is still dead.

I thought spoilers were necessary in a thread for a day or two at least since the thread title doesn't have "SPOILERS" in it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Not to disagree or anything, but I am kind of glad it was without emotion. I think the emotions were just far too strained all along, and that "I love you" from Jack was essentially him letting go of Kate.

Notice she didn't tell him she loved him back. (I really hate Jack, so I am a little biased here ;_; )

Now that you mention it, that seems really contradictory to the direction they've taken Jack lately. He's been built up as some crazy, angry stalker by every one of his flashbacks this season, yet he just let's Kate go like that? Seems like he should be harboring a lot more of a grudge still.

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Originally Posted by Sassafrass

Why would you think that? (That wasn't meant to sound as rude as it does in text ;_; ) After all he did in Ben's surgery to help Kate and Sawyer escape?

I think he was a really big man for that, no matter how much I dislike him. I was worried that he may take a turn for the worse there, but he didn't. I think Jack is much more afflicted with saving people - maybe Kate has been saved in a way?

True, his actions on the island support that. It just leads me to question even more why they've shown us all this stuff with Jack hounding his ex-wife, turning to alcohol and painkillers (past and future), stalking and having wild flings with random asian tattoo girls, and generally being an unlikable bastard to everyone but his patients. Usually the flashbacks have some link to the episode, but Jack's never seemed to in the third season.

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Originally Posted by rockthepartay

Am I the only one who is wondering why Kate wasn't arrested after being rescued?

That was my second thought after she showed up. I was still too pre-occupied with how scary-looking she was to give it too much thought, though. I don't know if they were trying to show that Kate had aged or what, but eesh.

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