That, and "It only took the bears two hours." Somewhere, Stephen Colbert felt a great disturbance in the Force.

Hee!

God, I'm caring and I don't know why. Damn you JJ!

Exactly.

The one thing I will say for this show is that, however slowly, it does always keep moving forward. There's never a chance that things will reset and we'll be back to a "normal" episode next week.

HOWEVER, the psych experiments were really annoying to me -- they're prisoners of the Others who are either Hanso or ex-Hanso, OF COURSE THEY'RE DOING PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS ON THEM. I felt like we got the only "reveal" in the teaser, when we saw Other!Suburbia. And then...Henry's real name is Ben. Ooooooooooooooooh.

I just hate feeling like I'm a part of the psychological experiement. How long can they keep us watching without telling us shit--that's the real experiement.

Cindy, Danielle was the crazy lady who tortured Sayid and stole Claire's baby.

Oh. Rousseau, right? I never stopped thinking of her as Rousseau.

I've basically taken the view that I just don't care that much about the extra stuff. As I said to G last night, if it's not onscreen, it's not important to me. I'll be damned if I'm gonna go to ten thousand websites to get some "information" which really doesn't matter in the long run.

I completely agree, Sheryl.

The opening was interesting, but yeah, WTF? Why are they pretending to be living in huts when they've clearly got electricity and blah blah? And the question about Danielle is really valid -- why let her run around the island when they could clearly capture and keep her?

Maybe she's one of them. Maybe it doesn't suit their purposes.

I was intrigued by how fluidly things went into action when they saw the plane coming over.

Yeah, THAT was fucking freaky. Henry Gale is a freaky motherfucker. FREAKY FREAKY FREAKY. It was clear they already had plans in place for things like that happening.

How long can they keep us watching without telling us shit--that's the real experiement.

Heh.

I'm also starting to accept that they're totally making shit up as they go along, however much they had planned in the beginning. Because with every new direction, things in the past start making less sense.

I don't, however, care so much as long as they make shit up smoothly. I do understand that improvised storylines happen on television all the time, and they can be really cool. These guys like to shake things up a lot.

I wonder where are all the children?

Also, it occurs to me that the Others may also be part of a Hanso psychological experiment. Juliet, at least, doesn't look particularly happy about playing her part.

I remember reading about a psych experiment where one group of people were supposed to play "prisoners" and one group was supposed to play "jailers", and the "jailers" thought they were helping run the experiment, but it was really an experiment to see what BOTH groups would do. (The "jailers" got abusive really quickly, which was scary and unexpected, so they stopped the experiment early.) Hanso may be experimenting on the Others, too, to see how long they'll continue to play their parts. If nothing else, Hanso may have a hold on them, to keep them acting right. They control the food and other goodies, and maybe they won't let the people off the island until they've successfully completed a "tour of duty". That might explain why the Others are willing to risk death and murder to keep the game going.

It's actually a pretty interesting experiment. Riley Finn and I are pleased.

The "jailers" got abusive really quickly, which was scary and unexpected, so they stopped the experiment early

I saw a documentary about this in college. Truly frightening how fast the authoritarianism took hold. I've been thinking about it a lot the last few years (I wonder why...).

It's actually a pretty interesting experiment. Riley Finn and I are pleased.

Well, it is the Dharma Initiative after all.

I just hate feeling like I'm a part of the psychological experiement. How long can they keep us watching without telling us shit--that's the real experiement.

This, exactly. Until the audience knows what the island is supposed to be testing, we're just as much lab rats as the characters. And that, to me, is not interesting.

I don't suppose anybody Tivo-ed or taped last night's episode???

My cable got shut off (forgot about the bill for a bit, been busy), and I couldn't even tape it. If you did, please e me at my profile addy about possibly sending me a tape.

Sean, I did, insent.