Lost Talk

Haven't watched it yet! DVR'd it, but haven't watched it. (I'm almost afraid to after last week's previews for it.) But feel free to discuss, the rest of you, and I'll jump in once I've seen it.

Comments

[SarcastiCarrie]

Nikki and Paulo. Really. Really? I mean, come on. Both of these extras spoke again last night. Next week are they going to be involved in a love triangle?

[Kelly]

No spoilers here. Just wondering how Sawyer can be so goddam hot even when looking like a greasy corpse.

[Bethany]

SarcastiCarrie, I thought the same thing. Paulo was really underwhelming. I'm hoping that so many survivors are off island right now, they just needed some fill-ins.

I, too, am going to wait for your post to comment further.

(I'm back by the way. Blogging, that is.)

[Her Bad Mother]

For now, I'll just say this: mmm, Sawyer.

[Ashley]

Damn, I third the hot Sawyer. i was having some major lust issues last night.

[Melanie]

I was hopping mad last night. Another island, small or not, should have been spotted by now. Why weren't the original group out exploring the shore line? How did they even know they were on an island if they hadn't been all the way round?

Second thing - The original Other's Village seen in the first episode of this season can't be on the new prison/zoo island because when Benry saw the plane crash he told Ethan and Goodwin they could run and be there in an hour, right? I doubt either can run on water. So they are using their submarine to go back and forth - but why? The facilites at the prison/zoo planet don't seem all that great. There was another medical hatch on the main island right? Why a new one? Is it a vet hospital? Why would Benry have spinal surgery done there instead of the nice clean village? Why did they clean out the other medical hatch (if that wasn't all just a hallucination of Claire's)?

Third thing - If we are presuming the polar bears were in the cages that Kate and Sawyer are in now then they had to move from one island to the other somehow. How far can polar bears swim?

Fourth thing - Why didn't Kate put her arms in front of Sawyer's face when Pickett was beating the crap out of him? What good were they doing draped across his chest? Seriously - she killed a man and robbed a bank so we were supposed to believe she was soooo tough. I know I'm reaching here because she has really been anything but tough on the island but she could have tried to protect Sawyer's head. I just seemed weird that she didn't.

Last thing - Why is Juliette being a fertility doctor important?

[Melanie]

planet = island

I have no idea why I typed planet.

[Beth]

I'm hoping Nikki & Paulo are being introduced only to be dispatched, Arzt-style.

I loved Sawyer's line to Ben about Of Mice & Men: "You'd like it. Puppies get killed."

[Linda]

The second island thing really bothered me. How dumb. Like they wouldn't notice by now.

I get pretty worked up over inaccurate medical stuff (one of the reasons I love Scrubs) and I was FUMING over the idea that a pacemaker could MAKE YOUR HEART EXPLODE when it beat too fast. There are so many things wrong with that I don't know where to start.

Also, I am over Jack's God complex. You get brought in during that last few minutes of a surgery when everything's messed up and you think you can save her? And don't even get me started on how the heart monitor showed a normal sinus rythym go right into asystole. I think steam came out of my ears. And the spinal xrays: "Who am I here to save?" HOW INCREDIBLY NARCISSISTIC! How hard would it be to have a medical advisor on the show? I would totally move to Hawaii for that.

Yes, Sawyer is hot and I would love to swim naked in his dimples, but is anyone else creeped out by his weird slope-y shoulders?

And go Kate for FINALLY realizing that the bars up top were wide enough apart that she could crawl through them. Wouldn't that be one of the first things you would check: "Let's see, can I squeeze out of my cage somehow?" Wasn't she supposed to be a bad-ass bank robber at some point? The writers seem to have forgotten her back story.

Since Steinbeck is my favorite author (I argued for Steinbeck for a boy's name - I think I could have won, but it's kinda a moot point now), I did like the Of Mice and Men part. Although if Sawyer had read it as thoroughly as he insinuated, he would have gotten the quote immediately.

ARGH! I'm just frustrated with all the dangling, inconsistant, and ridiculous plot threads. Maybe I'll head on over to the "Corpses Smell Bad" nitpicking thread at TV without Pity.

[SarcastiCarrie]

Oh, and she's a fertility doctor. I forgot about that, but when she said it, I was just waiting for the medical inaccuracies about ART to spew forth. Implanting embryos in surrogate wombs, anyone?

[Her Bad Mother]

I wasn't bothered by the pace-maker inconsistencies - I think that we were meant to understand that they were just messing with his head from the get-go (especially since we learn almost immediately that they don't have the med expertise or equipment to do basic surgery.) And I'm also not bothered by the second island thing - I think that it's been clear from the beginning that nobody had been *around* the island (they - including Rousseau - had no idea where the Others lived, for example.) Also, it's not impossible that there's more funny business going on - that they're messing with Sawyer's head more (so, not really a second island (a peninsula, maybe? Unlikely, though, given that they were worried about Desmond's sailboat finding them). OR - something mystical (bermuda triangle-y?) No way to sail away from the island without the right co-ordinates, remember (Desmond's experience)?

I'm trusting the show to pull this together, so I'm assuming for the moment that any mysteries are just that - mysteries. Though, I do hate how they're introducing the new characters.

[Linda]

Oh, Her Bad Mother. You have such strong faith. You were obviously not an X-Files fan. :)

[iheartnewyork]

Ha, Linda, I agree on the X-Files. Man that show was soooo frustrating!

I also was really disappointed in the other island thing. I mean, come on! You don't notice THAT?

No one talked yet about Desmond seeing the future again and saving Claire and baby (and Charlie) with his homemade lightning rod. Very cool.

I wondered about the fertility doctor comment -- but then there don't seem to be any kids on the island (other than the ones they've kidnapped) -- maybe the Others have fertility issues?

kirsten

[iheartnewyork]

Oh! And check out this LOST spoiler from Michael Ausiello at TV Guide:

http://www.tvguide.com/News-Views/Columnists/Ask-Ausiello/default.aspx

[Jess]

Can the fact that Juliette is a fertility doctor have anything to do with Sun's pregnancy?

[Moxie]

Sun's baby is super-hot baldie Jae's. I keep telling everyone this.

I am so tired of the Others. I cant' look at Ben's face anymore. And Juliette is just as annoying as Juliette as she was as Kerry Weaver's girlfriend on ER. It makes me tired, this whole storyline. So, so tired.

I'll give it to the end of this story arc, but then I might not be back in the spring.

I had to say that while I enjoyed Sawyer's character, I did not think he was hot. Now, however, I'm a convert. And how awful was that moment when Kate told him she didn't really love him? That was worese than all the beatings and freaky mind-fucks.

Does he really have a daughter named Clementine Phillips? Or was his former conee conning him?

Is it going to be important that the Others' communications are down as a result of the meltdown, or was that just a throwaway and explanation for why they didn't know Colleen was shot right away?

I just read on Ask Ausiello that someone's getting killed tonight?!

[boxing octopus]

Can someone clear up for me where the money for Clementine's bank account was coming from? Was Sawyer getting a cut of the $10 million? (I was embroidering a onesie during the show and sometimes my attention wavered. It happens.)

And there's an interview in the current Entertainment Weekly with the woman who plays Juliette; during the interview, she goes off anf films a scene in which she shoots someone shocking! I'm putting my $$ on Ben.

(Paula Deen's on Martha -- bye!)

[Moxie]

Yes, Sawyer got a "commission" for finding out wyhere the guy hid the $10 million. He asked them to open a new account in Albuquerque in the name Clementine Phillips with no way for her to find out where it came from.

[Bethany]

I read recently that the Lost creators have said that there's going to continue to be questions until it hits a "boiling point" and then the answers will come like wildfire. Some theorize that we're at the boiling point, but I'm not sure I agree.

Some other people have said they think Eko is going tonight. When I heard that I thought "Oh, Moxie is NOT going to be happy about that!"