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Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery  

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Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 4:20:21 am PST #254 of 5968
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Am I the only one underwhelmed by last night's episode? We didn't learn anything new. Not really.

I'm not feeling the love.


Frankenbuddha - Nov 17, 2005 4:28:47 am PST #255 of 5968
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Am I the only one underwhelmed by last night's episode? We didn't learn anything new. Not really.

At this point, I'm watching for the actors and/or the characters - even if I don't learn anything new about them, I enjoy watching (several of) them.

I gave up on expecting anything new in terms of the mystery with the season finale. If I actually GET something new, it's icing as far as I'm concerned.


Amy - Nov 17, 2005 5:08:21 am PST #256 of 5968
Because books.

I didn't love last night's episode, either. Yadda yadda, they're marooned, yadda yadda, the Others are after us, blah blah.

I'm interested to know why the Others wanted nine of them, and if the reason they were successful in taking them was because the group of Tailies was so much smaller than the Front Enders (or whatever they're called).

And I think now that they're going to be integrated into the main cast, we'll get backstories, but we won't have to get as many -- Cnythia is conveniently gone, we don't really need Bernard's backstory, so we'll get Ana and Echo and Libby.

I'm still enjoying watching some of my favorite characters, but I am less and less convinced that this is ever going to wrap up neatly. Where's Rousseau? Who has Walt? The Others? Or *other* Others? Why is Walt magical thinking boy? What's the deal with the hatch? What's the deal with the second hatch the Tailies found? What's the significance of the numbers? What's with the magical healing (Locke) and the coincidence of everyone's lives overlapping pre-crash? And that's not even every question you could ask about this island. Huge thumping mechanical dinosaurs, anyone? Whatever happened to them?

Right now, I'm just itching to see Sayid go off the deep end.


Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 5:12:03 am PST #257 of 5968
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

What's the deal with the second hatch the Tailies found?

It was a Dharma Initiative thing, but it was a different logo than Desmond's hatch, right? Desmond's was the swan, and the Tail-section's hatch had (I think) an arrow.


Cashmere - Nov 17, 2005 5:22:12 am PST #258 of 5968
Now tagless for your comfort.

Of course now I want to go back and check out the logo on the shark's (?) tail from the episode Adrift. I know it was a Darma logo (but I couldn't tell if it was a swan or an arrow). Has anyone seen a screencap?


Amy - Nov 17, 2005 5:25:32 am PST #259 of 5968
Because books.

I know it was a Darma logo (but I couldn't tell if it was a swan or an arrow).

I'm fairly sure everything from the first logo episode was a swan, but I thought it didn't actually *say* Dharma on it. Could be wrong, though.

My question about the second hatch was a little vague -- I meant, is this a hatch the original experiment participators knew about? It looked almost like an emergency safehouse -- blankets, Bible, etc. Although how a glass eye is helpful is a little beyond me.


Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 5:28:11 am PST #260 of 5968
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Although how a glass eye is helpful is a little beyond me.

You say that now, but if somebody poked one of your eyes out, I think you'd be grateful to have a spare on hand, missy!


Amy - Nov 17, 2005 5:29:55 am PST #261 of 5968
Because books.

True.

[mom voice] "It's only fun till someone loses an eye!"


Steph L. - Nov 17, 2005 5:34:36 am PST #262 of 5968
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated

Shark screencap: [link]

It doesn't look like the swan, but it also doesn't look like the arrow.

t edit Here's the arrow logo from Hatch #2: [link]

So, shark has logo #3.


§ ita § - Nov 17, 2005 5:39:53 am PST #263 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I liked this episode, but I'm an Ana Lucia fangirl.

There was a wee bit of information--it's the first conversation with the Others that's happened right? I mean, actual conversating.