[Skyy]

Originally Posted by brookelyn

what are those?

Isaac, the faith healer's catalogue.

[ThePrude]

What did everyone think of the second-last episode that just played (April 5th) "Dave"? I started getting scared that the whole show was all going to be in Hurley's head....if this is the case, I'll stop watching right now. I mean, talk about insulting the intelligence of the viewer. I refuse to accept that it could be something so simplistic and trite.

So any theories on Libby? Is she stalking Hurley or is it the other way around? Or was it just a coincidence they were on the same plane?

As for this last episode, I liked that we got to see into the past of Rose and Bernard. I guess Rose is the "third miracle" that people were talking about; Locke and Jin being the other two...

[iamaposeur]

Originally Posted by Skyy

Tonight is Rose/Bernard-centric.

http://lost.cubit.net/

it's about time they did some background on them.
& thanks for the link!

[queensappho]

hmmm that was weird....

i believe in faith healing, and its like WHOAHHH.

the next episode is about michael and theres a lot of gun shooting!

http://www.lostlinks.net/

there are trailers there, updated every week

what do you all think about the hatch map?

im still confused :S

think it might be a map of where all the 'hatch's' are on the island, like the one where kate was kept...

[Redeyes]

Originally Posted by ThePrude

What did everyone think of the second-last episode that just played (April 5th) "Dave"? I started getting scared that the whole show was all going to be in Hurley's head....if this is the case, I'll stop watching right now. I mean, talk about insulting the intelligence of the viewer. I refuse to accept that it could be something so simplistic and trite.

So any theories on Libby? Is she stalking Hurley or is it the other way around? Or was it just a coincidence they were on the same plane?

As for this last episode, I liked that we got to see into the past of Rose and Bernard. I guess Rose is the "third miracle" that people were talking about; Locke and Jin being the other two...

Very weird epsiode, but good, reminded me of the Buffy episode, Normal Again! The end, with Libby, will that be explained do you think? Or are we supposed to believe that maybe everything is happening in her head and that Dave really did exist?

Can not believe my source failed about what was going to happen this season I was getting a tad bored of it, and that info made me excited, but having Michael back is even better!

[Skyy]

Originally Posted by ThePrude

What did everyone think of the second-last episode that just played (April 5th) "Dave"? I started getting scared that the whole show was all going to be in Hurley's head....if this is the case, I'll stop watching right now. I mean, talk about insulting the intelligence of the viewer. I refuse to accept that it could be something so simplistic and trite.

So any theories on Libby? Is she stalking Hurley or is it the other way around? Or was it just a coincidence they were on the same plane?

As for this last episode, I liked that we got to see into the past of Rose and Bernard. I guess Rose is the "third miracle" that people were talking about; Locke and Jin being the other two...

Having the entire show actually be Hurley's hallucination is too hokey (think St Elsewhere). Hurley isn't the only one to see people that shouldn't be there: Jack and his dead father, Hobbit seeing his dead mother, Sayid and Shannon seeing scary, wet, drippy Walt-or-maybe-not-Walt, Kate and Sawyer seeing Black Beauty, Locke seeing Boone's nanny, Theresa, Kate thinking that Sawyer was channeling Wayne, etc.

Additionally, too many events have happened without Hurley's knowledge for all of this to a by-product of his imagination. I don't think that Hurley's mental breakdown for which he was hospitalized was organic. He saw himself as the reason those people on the deck died (survivor's guilt, post-traumatic stress, depression) and then after playing those numbers in the lottery, feels like he is cursed. Then he survived a plane crash. I think that all of that would do a number on anyone's head.

I have faith in Lindelof and Cuse being a little more creative than falling back on the Dallas -It Was All Just a Dream cliche.

But that is just my $.02.

[elysium]

Yeah, i can't see it all being in Hurley's head, there would be riots if it turned out like that!

I think Libby was stalking Hurley, possibly because she's after his lottery money and thinks she can seduce him and get hold of the cash when they are rescued. How scary did she look in that flashback, and the look on her face when they walked away from the clifftop

I enjoyed the Rose/Bernard episode, it was nice to have the focus on someone different. I loved Henry's evil smirk when he saw how he had got to Locke

I can't help thinking the Others might be using Michael as a trap, telling him he can have Walt back if he does something for them..It seemed a bit too convenient.

[emanon]

so is this weeks just another one of those 'catch you up' episodes?

[Skyy]

Originally Posted by emanon

so is this weeks just another one of those 'catch you up' episodes?

Yep.

[emanon]

Originally Posted by Skyy

Yep.

so lame. i never bother to watch those.

[Chestylarou]

Lost sucks.

[sassbot]

why put a fucking re-cap in there. i know whats going on.... i think they're stalling.

[sassbot]

well its obvious they are stalling....maybe theyve run out of plotline though.

[Skyy]

Originally Posted by sassbot

well its obvious they are stalling....maybe theyve run out of plotline though.

They were holding off for May sweeps. The television season lasts 36 weeks. Most established series only receive enough money from the network to produce 22 'new' shows. LOST is doing 24 this season. They will end the season during May sweeps to maximize ABC's advertising revenue. This happens on every network television show.

The show wrapped filming over a month ago. I don't think that the creative team just ran out of ideas.

[sassbot]

i know skyy. i know all this but it still pisses me off. i would rather have to wait longer between seasons than wait forever between episodes. and i hate sweeps because it makes it easy to tell when something huge is going to happen on a show like this. it interrupts the natural flow of a show.

i know im holding the art over commerce flag, but in my head there is a world where the art is made and the money flows in regardless. in reality advertising rates should be set by taking an average of the past season's ratings.

[Chestylarou]

May 3, 2006

10 things we want to see on 'Lost'

By KEVIN WILLIAMSON - Calgary Sun





On tonight's Lost, the castaways stumble upon a Wilson volleyball that talks back.

Special guest voice: Lee Majors!

OK, so maybe we haven't achieved critical mass yet, but with the spellbinding ABC castaway saga (at 7 p.m. on CTV, 10 p.m. on ABC) kicking off a final run of fresh freaky episodes heading to May 24's two-hour sophomore season finale, this faithful viewer admits the last several instalments have left him wondering if all the head-scratching coincidences and one-step-forward-two-steps-back plotting is ever going to amount to more than just a big bundle of bananas.

After all, we've already seen the survivors of doomed Oceanic flight 815 contend with smoke creatures, steel hatches, blacklight maps, crazed mental patients posing as shrinks, visions of horses and deceased loved ones, the plane wreckage of long-dead Nigerian drug smugglers, flaky French women, a Bizarro tribe of fake-beard-wearing child-kidnappers who call themselves the "Others" and a basement that looks suspiciously like FemBot headquarters from the Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman crossover of '76.

Oh, and there's the matter of the button you have to push every 108 minutes to keep the world from imploding.

True, all of these divergent pieces could still logically lock together. And, if not for the sluggish storytelling that has bogged down the midsection of Year Two -- the first half of the season was exquisitely spooky entertainment -- maybe we wouldn't be quite as concerned. But we are. And we're not alone.

Lost, like all series that generate a cult following, is a favourite of bloggers and Internet denizens who have no qualms about expressing their frustration with the drama's increasingly-unwieldy plotting and lack of forward momentum.

Is Lost, like other mythology-building shows such as Alias and The X-Files, destined to repeat the same pattern?

Or can it somehow juggle the demands of the audience (they want answers, now!) with the requirements of weekly television (if they answer all the questions, there's no show).

The next crucial month may hint at which path Lost's cadre of creators (including M:i:III director J.J. Abrams, who has been M.I.A. this season while gallivanting around the globe with Tom Cruise) are fated to take.

At first blush, tonight's episode seems a good start -- with Michael, missing since he traipsed into the jungle in search of his kidnapped son Walt, finally returning to camp and conflict with the Others seemingly unavoidable. Here are 10 things we want to see happen:

The blacklight map leads to a disco where Ginger and Mary-Ann toil as Go-Go dancers: Or at least it should lead somewhere. We're not fussy. We just don't want to wait another 12 months before learning the meaning of the mysterious map Locke saw projected on the wall of the hatch during a lockdown. But then what do we know? The map is already the subject of countless websites eagerly dissecting it.

They blow up the hatch: Don't get us wrong. We love that the island has a rumpus room. We love that it used to be the hub of a para-psychological experiment fronted by an organization known as the Dharma Initiative. We even love the Dharma-brand cereal boxes. What we don't love is the locale's enigmatic dread being vacuumed away by having blase characters saunter around like there's nothing ominous about it. Hey, it's just an abandoned laboratory in the middle of the jungle, right? Worse recent line of dialogue: "We found another hatch," Kate tells Jack, like it's as much an everyday occurrence as the fetching fugitive stripping to her skivvies.

They get Walt back: The return of Walt's dad Michael would seem to signal this is just around the corner. But don't be too sure. While Lost unfolds in near-real time (the characters have only been stranded for about two months), the actor who plays Walt has already hit puberty and to bring him back (short of recasting the role) would require explaining why he's aging so rapidly.

Desmond pushes people's buttons: Desmond, you'll recall from this season's premiere, was the last occupant of the hatch. Shortly after being discovered, he went skipping off into the jungle and hasn't been seen since. (He also, as flashbacks revealed, previously met Jack at a crucial point in the troubled doctor's life.) But fear not -- the writers haven't forgotten about the mangy mystery man. He'll apparently return prior to the season finale -- in the flashbacks of another of the castaways. (Do we detect a pattern?)

The island's murderous monster is revealed, Scooby Doo-style, to actually be Mr. Rourke: First, it rumbled like a dinosaur or some other breed of prehistoric beastie. Then it started to hiss and clank like a giant, cantankerous steam engine. And since then, the island's resident, fear-inspiring monster has been revealed to be ... Puffy The Magic Dragon? (The aforementioned blacklight map makes mention of a "Cerebrus," referring to the mythical watchdog of Hell. Draw your own conclusions.)

No more reruns!: ABC should consider the abbreviated season template pioneered by Fox's real-time thriller 24. True, you have to wait until January for the new season, but once it begins, it airs every week like pulse-pounding clockwork until the finale. Following 24's example would mean Lost wouldn't lose its narrative momentum due to reruns and preemptions.

Jack and Kate play hide the coconut: We realize romantic tension is key to the majority of dramatic stories. We also realize they've only been stranded for eight weeks, give or take. But we're increasingly less teased than bored by the stop/start/stop again Jack/Kate/Sawyer triangle. Like the show's writers, Kate needs to make a decision and stick with it. (At least until next year.)

Hurley and Libby play hide the ... ewww, never mind: We forgave the worst moment of this season thus far -- rotund Hurley and his newfound love interest, the inexplicably attractive Libby, overturning vats of ranch dressing so he wouldn't eat it -- when it was revealed Libby is a mental patient from the same hospital Hurley was formerly institutionalized in.

Ana Lucia comes across crazed Latino-cop-eating cannibals: We gave the show's scribes the benefit of the doubt when they had surly Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) accidentally gun down blond tart Shannon (Maggie Grace). And while we appreciate any excuse to have sullen Sayid (Naveen Andrews) turn torturer, we can't help but wish it had been Ana Lucia on the wrong side of the barrel.

Cull the tribe: We're not suggesting knocking off Jack, Kate, Locke, Sawyer or even Charlie. We just mean one of the many extraneous characters we couldn't care less about (Libby, Ana Lucia, Mr. Eko -- take your pick.) Word is we might get our wish -- the season finale purportedly features at least one significant demise, although there's no word on whose tribal fire gets snuffed.

[Kurdt_Kobain]

One word somes up this latest episode the best!

WOW!!!

[GoldDustRock]

whoa i know big bombshell...im still shocked

[ThePrude]

can we not put in spoilers?

I wonder if they punished both actresses for their DUI arrests...

Shit man, I wanted a Libby flashback episode.