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Episode 4x05 / Re: Dude, that sucked
« on: February 29, 2008, 09:07:42 AM »
I think Writers_Strike disliked it too. As he said, "Phone call = fixed time traveling just ruined it for me."
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...it was the brain collapsing with the back and forth and not being able to deal with it.Oh, my bad. I mistook that for something contrived.
I can understand your frustration ... but that is what makes Lost a show in its own. As I tell my friends who get frustrated for the same reason, if you don't like ... that everything gets resolved by the end of every episode, find a new Drama to watch like ER or CSI.I don't need conclusions after only forty minutes, but I do think three years is more than pushing it.
As far as the hatch... I am going to assume that you are serious in your questions and explain just what happened.Well yes, my question was serious. And that question still stands, because I don't see where the show justifies your conclusion. In Orientation, we learned that "Station 3 was originally constructed as a laboratory where scientists could work to understand the unique electromagnetic fluctuations emanating from this sector of the island." So all we really know is that the island is unique, and that the Swan was a labratory. Anything else—including that the station was "designed to electrically discharge the huge magnetic force"—is really only speculation.
The Swan Station was a station designed to electrically discharge the huge magnetic force that the island generates
The disease is just a front for the purge.It's a decent enough guess, but I don't think it fits with everything else we know. We know Daniel killed her crew because they were infected. But the toxin used in the purge seemed to kill within seconds. That doesn't give Daniel much time to decide that her crew and her husband must all die and shoot them herself. It doesn't fit with the Lost Experience either.
I only ever get left with my jaw unhinged at season finales.I actually think that's the way it needs to be. A show needs to spend some time establishing a status quo, to get the viewers to think they know what to expect. And that's when you blow the expectations. Find the one thing no one thinks you're ever going to do, or the one character no one think you're ever going to kill. (Set 'em up, knock 'em down.) Those are the powerful finales. (But it doesn't need to be just the finale. Two or three of those super powerful episodes per season is about right, I think.)
I think one of the reasons its never gotten to me is that I watched an entire season and a half in 4 days to catch up during season 2 (Pilot through Maternity Leave)... so I never had really had to time to stop and think about things that far backlol... I did almost exactly the same! I came on board to this show when season 2 was just starting to air. I got to watch all of season 1 and a portion of season 2 back-to-back. And those arbitrary cliffhangers I was talking about before (the kind of cliffhanger that's resolved in the first 3 minutes of the next episode, sometimes just finishing a person's sentence) seemed so much more fun when I could go straight to the next episode.
The voices in the jungle were always inferred to be the Others, watching, plotting, deciding what to do next.No offense, but there's no chance those whispers were the Others. There never was a chance. Did you think the Others were hiding in the tree tops like the men of Sherwood forest, whispering to each other? A real whisper couldn't even be heard from that far away. Usually someone whispers to you from within a few feet. So these whispers always seemed to be another supernatural something. Either way, it was a mystery introduced very early and then forgotten about for 2 1/2 years, just like so many others.
I've always thought that the sickness as Desmond and those before him knew it was a hoax - this was shown when Desmond finally left the hatch. The counter-example here would be Rouseau's compatriots.Having both examples and counter-examples means we really don't know what's up with this alleged sickness.
The numbers were explained in the LOST experience last summer. Though you're right, it hasn't happened in the context of the show yet.Yes, the numbers have not been explained in the show, where they ultimately must be. It also doesn't explain Hurley's cursed-ness.
I feel like the Swan station was explained.... The Swan Station was doing what its inhabitants thought they were doing - controlling an electromagnetic abnormality.Abnormality. That's a word we use when we have no clue what something is. What was it before the Swan was put there? What did it do when the hatch imploded? (Something abnormal enough to induce time travel.) What was "the incident"? Why did Walt (or maybe Smoky) say the button was bad?
I think the reason that this debate persists is that, on the whole, the television viewing populace do not turn on the TV to think. They turn it on to relax and shut off the brain. A show that is designed around pervasive mysteries and questions does not fit this norm.You may be right about the viewing populace on the whole, but that's not true of me. My favorite shows have been ones that ask the hard questions and then leave it to the viewers to decided the answer for themselves.