Oh, this was much better. Lots of ME tropes - the Golf fakeout, the teaser structure (sayid can look after himself cut to sayid being hoisted) and of course, the fact that Danielle was inches from muttering "Handsome torturer, saved me from the monsters"...
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Jim - Nov 21, 2004 11:03:55 pm PST #2982 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 22, 2004 5:01:10 am PST #2983 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
But there's no such thing as monsters....
arby - Nov 22, 2004 5:04:36 am PST #2984 of 10000
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
mmmmm, Lostfic. Yahtzee made me want to like Boone. thanks Matt!
(still not here)
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 22, 2004 5:21:15 am PST #2985 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I know! Before reading that, I just rolled my eyes whenever Boone appeared onscreen. But now I've been watching him closer, and noticed how he was looking at Jack during the putt scene. And dressing like him. And mimicking his posture and gestures.
Ouise - Nov 22, 2004 5:41:42 am PST #2986 of 10000
Socks are a running theme throughout the series. They are used as symbols of freedom, redemption and love.
Wow. Until Lyra Jane mentioned the meaning of Noor, I never noticed that it was the same name as Nora. Huh. My sister is named Nora, and she gets major double-takes when she is introduced to people from Arabic-speaking countries. It helps that our surname is pronounced the same as the very common Arabic surname "Malik". Which apparently means angel.
I thought the episode was great. My favourite moment was definitely "there's no such thing as monsters".
Kate P. - Nov 22, 2004 6:09:05 am PST #2987 of 10000
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Matt, thanks for posting that link! It is nice to not be so alone in my Boone-love.
Jim - Nov 22, 2004 6:10:57 am PST #2988 of 10000
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
I'm still hoping against hope that there's nothing supernatural at all - that she's just insane to the point of hanging speakers off all the trees to whisper at her as she walks around.
alienprayer - Nov 22, 2004 6:50:47 am PST #2989 of 10000
Conservative, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. -Bierce
Do the voices have to be supernatural? Could just be the rest of the shipwreck survivors, who are also crazy, but without electric beds and broken music boxes for company.
DCJensen - Nov 22, 2004 7:48:34 am PST #2990 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Or it could be a nautural auditory occurance. Either it's a location that echos sounds from farther away, or it's a sound that the mind interprets as whispers.
I have a desk fan that drives me buggy if I place it in a certain part of the bedroom and have it on. My mind tries to interpret it as a radio playing.
Liese S. - Nov 22, 2004 8:26:28 am PST #2991 of 10000
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I'm still hoping against hope that there's nothing supernatural at all - that she's just insane to the point of hanging speakers off all the trees to whisper at her as she walks around.
That would be great! And everything is somehow technically generated by her own devices. And she spends all her time being scared by the not-monsters she's created.
I would love non-supernatural.
Once we introduce the mythology, that's when the writing cheats tend to come in. Right now they have to play (mostly) by the rules, so there's no fanwanking yet. We still believe they can give us good, rational explanations for everything without tachyon bursts. If they could write it all believably, and not supernaturally, I would love them forever and hug them and call them george.