DH wrote the episode guide in there!
Jessica! If I send postage will DH sign one? I'm going to try and get a bunch of sigs on those and it would be the cutest thing ever to have his autograph on one.
That's insane troll logic!
Xander ,'Showtime'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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Allyson - Jan 24, 2005 6:55:48 pm PST #5394 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
tavella - Jan 24, 2005 8:00:35 pm PST #5395 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
I'm not bugged by the Claire search ending. There's 48 of them, they don't have detailed maps or communication. Once they've searched the area immediately around the camps, which I figure they spent the next couple of days doing (since the next episode was explicitly said to be 4 days later), it starts to get really pointless. They are far more likely to lose another person either to the Others or an accident than they are to do anything useful; only two of them have any tracking skills at all, the rest of them would have to walk right into the Others' camp to find it. Jack clearly decided to search smarter, not longer, by having Sayid decipher the maps. Which I thought was sensible of him. I'm not one for romantic gestures, and people wandering around in the jungle so that they can feel less guilty would have been that, rather than a practical solution.
However, I agree that they were oddly slack in their attitude towards the jungle. Jack trekking down the trail didn't bug me; I can see him figuring water needed to be transported and that he wasn't a likely target. Kate, she clearly thinks of herself as a tough little wench, so I'm okay with her doing it too. Sayid had a knife with him. But Sun? The incredibly overprotective Jin hasn't noticed that she's wandering away for hours into the jungle? And especially, Walt. Michael, who in early episodes before the kidnapping, was reluctant even to let him go down to the beach by himself with Vincent, is letting WALT take a walk in the forest by himself?
Allyson - Jan 24, 2005 8:09:06 pm PST #5396 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I find it odd that they haven't set up hunting parties and instead expect to be fed. Jin fishing on his own, expecting Locke to get the food, it's all very weird.
The garden made an assload of sense though. How many? 40? 40 mouths to feed.
Everyone poops, so they need to set up a place far from camp for sanitation reasons, and they need a place to wash clothes and themselves or they'll get the prickly heat.
What is there on the island they can use to make bread? Anyone know if anything is there?
tavella - Jan 24, 2005 9:31:56 pm PST #5397 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
What is there on the island they can use to make bread? Anyone know if anything is there?
Well, they have what might be called the Spanish/Portuguese explorer package: things like pigs, guava, and papaya. And they've got bananas, and I'd be very surprised indeed if they don't have the rest of the Polynesian food package; taro, sugarcane, yams, sweet potato, breadfruit. Taro can be dried and ground to make flour, if you don't mind purple bread.
ETA: Poking around the net suggests that pandanus and arrowroot flour would also be likely. They need to take Sun on more expeditions to locate stocks, so she can improve the garden.
Nutty - Jan 25, 2005 4:42:47 am PST #5398 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
What is there on the island they can use to make bread? Anyone know if anything is there?
...and suddenly, everyone is very sorry that the book Boone brought with him is not Swiss Family Robinson. (I learned what cassava flour is from that book, and also that you can make gelatin from seaweed. Dude! If only there were ostriches on Lost Island!!)
But yes, the organizational aspect is strangely still lacking. Hello? A kidnapping, and you don't even institute the buddy system??
Anne W. - Jan 25, 2005 4:50:09 am PST #5399 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
the organizational aspect is strangely still lacking.
Yes. This.
Every now and then, I think about what things would be like if a cadre of Buffistas had wound up on the island. Either we'd have built a four star resort with all the amenties or we'd still be arguing over what to name the island.
Calli - Jan 25, 2005 5:03:17 am PST #5400 of 10000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
we'd still be arguing over what to name the island.
I thought Buffista Island had been in the works for a while now.
Do we have any survivalist experts among us? I know there are a number of good cooks and at least one heavy-duty home repair person.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2005 5:04:21 am PST #5401 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Do we have any survivalist experts among us?
Hikers, campers and climbers are a good start. Got a few of those.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 25, 2005 5:08:51 am PST #5402 of 10000
What is even happening?
Either we'd have built a four star resort with all the amenties or we'd still be arguing over what to name the island.I've got some folding money to lay down on option two, and we have the advantage of knowing things about each other, ahead of time. I can totally believe the lack of planning. I think people are in denial. Not all the information has been shared with all of the survivors. When they start getting hungry (or more start getting dead in front of more witnesses), or are otherwise threatened, I think they'll start getting more serious about organization.
askye - Jan 25, 2005 5:23:30 am PST #5403 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
Michael was making some plans for the water...to make showers and get it from one place to the other. But he hadn't been told about the polar bear...and his question got dismissed. I'm not sure if they really told anyone about the distress signal that's been going on for 16 years. Plus you've got people spread between the caves and the beach (and it looked like the beach people were spread out) so information may not be getting to everyone.