I'm not sure the American viewing public is ready for an hour of the camera running around frenetically, stopping only to sniff people's butts and crotches.
Well, maybe if the show were airing on Fox...
I walk. I talk. I shop, I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out. And I don't sleep on a bed of bones.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2005 5:43:30 am PST #5027 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
sfmarty - Jan 16, 2005 9:39:13 am PST #5028 of 10000
Who? moi??
I still want to know how Locke regained his mobility. And what he saw re: the leafosaurus that made him smile. And how he knew that it would rain in 10 minutes, and the guitar, and the..and the...
Just too much.
DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 10:14:19 am PST #5029 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
The mobility could be explained.
His being in the wheelchair could be because of a compressed vertebrae or something else that was too dangerous to operate on to free the spinal cord from being pinched. In the crash, his body was flung about and just happened to undo the pinch or compression so that normal function was restored.
If he's only been paralized for five years, and he's taken care of his physical body and kept up the exercises, adreneline could explain his being able to walk right away afterwards.
Also, we never saw to what extent he was paralyzed, he could have had a severely limited range of motion, that precluded walking, but allowed him to crawl a bit in bed, etc.
Wouldn't it be something if at the height of his plans that he suffered a relapse and was incapacitated again?
Polter-Cow - Jan 16, 2005 10:15:40 am PST #5030 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Wouldn't it be something if at the height of his plans that he suffered a relapse and was incapacitated again?
And he looked up at the sky and shouted, "KHAAAAAAAAAANN!!!"
DCJensen - Jan 16, 2005 10:18:34 am PST #5031 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
And how he knew that it would rain in 10 minutes,
It was one minute, IIRC. He could probably see the line of rain coming towards them earlier, and calculated the speed of the approaching rain line.
and the guitar
The guitar? He probably saw it in the tree earlier, and didn't mention it until he saw an opportunity to work with Charlie.
I'm just using Occam's Razor, mind you....
tavella - Jan 16, 2005 10:41:56 am PST #5032 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
I've been pondering... how would people break out the A and B stories (maybe C, if they have one) of the episodes? I was mentally doing so to see where I'd group the actors in terms of screen time. Mine went something like this:
1x1: A: plane crash and reaction to it, cockpit mission. I guess you could call these A and B, but to me they felt like one storyline and there wasn't really a B plot.
1x2: A: transceiver expedition B: marshal operation
1x3: A: Kate and the Marshal B: Walt?
1x4: A: hunting expedition B: burning the fuselage
1x5: A: Jack's visionquest B: the water theft
1x6: A: Sun & Jin and the watch B: exploring the caves
1x7: A: Charlie and the cave collapse B: the triangulation project
1x8: A: Sawyer, the inhalers, torture B: Charlie and Claire and moving to the caves.
1x9: A: Sayid and Danielle B: Hurley and the golf course
1x10 A: Claire and her fears over the baby B: Hurley and the census
1x11 A: The hunt for Claire B: Hmm, does this really have a differentiated B?
1x12 A: Kate, Sawyer, Jack tussle over the case B: Rose and Charlie? Sayid and Shannon? Not sure which I'd class as B and which as C.
1x13 A: Boone transfers allegiance to Locke B: Hmm. There's Hurley and Sayid/Shannon threads, but it seems like the 'Jack takes a walk down to the beach, checks in with everyone and gets suspicious of Locke' thread is actually more dominant.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2005 10:56:01 am PST #5033 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
If he's only been paralized for five years, and he's taken care of his physical body and kept up the exercises, adreneline could explain his being able to walk right away afterwards.
I'm highly skeptical of this, though spinal adjustment undoing the actual paralysis is a possibility. My dad has very limited walking mobility with a cane, and a couple weeks of confinement to bed in a hospital robbed him of so much strength and steadiness that he needed twice as long undergoing rehab therapy to regain the lost ground. Within days of getting up on that beach Locke was not only going on long hikes, but also dragging a 120+ lb. piglet a considerable distance. I think the restoration of his full function and muscular strength has to be something miraculous rather than an explicable result of the crash.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 16, 2005 11:02:35 am PST #5034 of 10000
What is even happening?
I think Matt's right, unless we take into account that the creative team might not be as married to continuity and sense as Buffistas tend to be.
(And by tend I mean: WE CRAVE IT LIKE OXYGEN AND FANWANK IT'S PRESENCE WHEN ABSENT.)
(Or maybe that's just me.)
('Though I doubt it.)
(ijs)
shrift - Jan 16, 2005 1:58:41 pm PST #5035 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Kat - Jan 16, 2005 3:17:14 pm PST #5036 of 10000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
unless we take into account that the creative team might not be as married to continuity and sense as Buffistas tend to be.
Well. it is a JJ Abrams show.