I'm trying to figure out why these Others would have been willing to let Michael, Sawyer, and Jin die out in the water. On the one hand, they seem benign, but they obviously aren't.
Wash: I'm not leaving her side, Mal. Don't ask me again. Mal: I wasn't asking. I was telling.
'Out Of Gas'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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le nubian - May 18, 2006 4:47:13 pm PDT #2000 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Topic!Cindy - May 19, 2006 2:04:53 am PDT #2001 of 5968
What is even happening?
I can't see taking babies, children, and pregnant women as benign. I don't know what the purpose of the head games are. I just still can't get a sense of any actual plot. I enjoy watching Lost a lot, but most of it feels to me as if it were made up as they go along.
le nubian - May 19, 2006 3:55:10 am PDT #2002 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Benign is probably the wrong word...but at times they seem content to let the survivors alone. Then they show up and half-kill people and take children. I don't get it.
All the kids must have powers.
Topic!Cindy - May 19, 2006 4:09:48 am PDT #2003 of 5968
What is even happening?
I find myself wishing the show would come clean about whether or not there are supernatural elements. It seems likely there are, but not definite. I have no feel for Lost mythology, or even if I should be looking for mythology.
§ ita § - May 19, 2006 4:17:42 am PDT #2004 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I will be irritated if they try and rule out supernatural elements. Mocking if they fail, gobsmacked and still irritated if they manage to pull it off.
le nubian - May 19, 2006 4:19:32 am PDT #2005 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I decided that I'm along for the ride.
BTW, I think viewers "missed" part of the conversation between the woman guarding Walt and Michael. She said something like "it doesn't matter what you tell them, they will be angry no matter what" is this only in reference to Henry being freed?
I'm still trying to figure out why Michael shot A-L.
Frankenbuddha - May 19, 2006 4:53:16 am PDT #2006 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I'm still trying to figure out why Michael shot A-L.
Right. They didn't give him a time limit, so I'm not sure why he felt he needed to be in such a hurry.
I guess you could surmise that he was afraid A-L might eventually work herself up to capping "Henry", so he needed her out of the way, but that's a large assumption.
Jars - May 19, 2006 4:56:50 am PDT #2007 of 5968
I don't understand why he didn't just hold the gun on A-L and let Henry out. Everyone would have forgiven him for letting him go if he'd told them the Others said they'd give back Walt.
le nubian - May 19, 2006 5:05:19 am PDT #2008 of 5968
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
well, right.
-t - May 19, 2006 7:28:07 am PDT #2009 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yeah, but he'd have to follow that with "in addition to Henry, they want Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer" and I don't see that going over well.
He panicked.