it irritates the crap (and the carp, which I originally typed) out of me that no one on this show can tell another person the vital piece of information that should be obvious at the time that it should obviously be said. Everyone talks like gnomic Hallmark cards.
That is EXACTLY why I had to give the show up this year (but I like to check in on what folks here are saying about it). I have to deal with enough piss-poor communicators in my working life. I don't need to waste time watching them on my tv.
Penny's dad was Caleb from the O.C. (Making E and I laugh heartily at the "Newport Beach" on the back of the boat.)
I completely missed the Hume thing, and have been hearing Calvin as Kelvin all this time.
We all remember that Clancy Brown was the CIA agent who used Sayid in Iraq, right?
Why...yes. Yes I did. (No, no I didn't. The problem with not caring very much anymore is that it makes it difficult to pay attention to things the writers seem to think are important.)
Oh! THAT'S where I'd seen him before. (I can't believe I didn't recognize him.)
I remembered about Clancy Brown, because I say "Clancy Brown!" whenever he appears on my screen.
I had fun. ShortHair!Desmond is really striking, much more so than LongHair!Desmond.
We all remember that Clancy Brown was the CIA agent who used Sayid in Iraq, right?
And this is the one who played Kelvin, right (Desmond's first hatch-mate--the one he killed)?
I completely missed the Hume thing, and have been hearing Calvin as Kelvin all this time.
I got the Hume thing, but I'm pretty sure they were saying Kelvin. Off to check imdb, I guess.
ETA
imdb has no answers. They only list Clancy Brown for the episode
One of Them,
and the character's name is Joe Inman.
Speaking of Penny, it just occurred to me how appropriate it is to have a very rich woman named Penelope associated with a secret island base. </Thunderbirds geek>
We all remember that Clancy Brown was the CIA agent who used Sayid in Iraq, right?
Damn, that's right. I'd been thinking he was on the show before, but I couldn't remember the context.
Also, I have no idea about the different survival rates between a fatal height and a non-fatal one. What if they were at 500 feet?
Speaking of Penny, it just occurred to me how appropriate it is to have a very rich woman named Penelope associated with a secret island base.
Snerk! And from the UK as well.
What if they were at 500 feet?
If you jump off a 50 story building, what do you figure your odds are?
They were much higher than that when the plane came apart. The oxygen masks dropped. I don't know exactly what pressure differential would cause that, but thay probably had to be above 5000', certainly, and possibly 10,000' (which is the altitude that WWII crews used to put on their masks). Plus, IIRC, when the tail of the plane came off, you could see clouds below them.
There have been instances of pilots who have ejected from planes surviving water landings from several thousand feet when their chutes failed to open but they had to hit the water just right.
We all remember that Clancy Brown was the CIA agent who used Sayid in Iraq, right?
Thank you, I was trying to remember if we'd seen him before and wasn't sure.
