Lost season 3 discussion.... (1 Viewer)

[Scotian.]

QUOTE=Jason Harbaugh]It's funny, in the EW Lost insert this past week, there was a section by Stephen King who said that the 4-toed foot statue should never be brought up again. Personally I would like to know more about as well. [/quote]

Stephen King is a good one to be offering advice after the way he completely screwed up his own Dark Tower series.

 

[Sam Favate]

I suspect the foot statue will never be explained, or perhaps "it was here when we got here" kind of thing. It simply adds to the island's mystery, just like the Easter Island heads that someone pointed out.

 

[Holadem]

After this interminable wait, you would think the Powers That Be would reward us with a 2-hour premiere hmmmm? Greedy bastards.

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[BrettB]

You talking about them or us?

I'm pretty sure I have the season ender on disc. If I can get home early enough I'd like to watch it before the new ep.

LOST is back! Yea!

 

[Jason Harbaugh]

I have to do a comedy show tonight and I know that all I'm going to be thinking about is Lost and how much time I have left before I can go home and watch it.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Damn, that's a helluva start to the new season...

Evangeline Lilly has been working out, her arms are pretty toned now.

Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) got new boobies.

 

[Holadem]

Yes, but in typical LOST fashion, after that awesome opening, we're at the halfway point, and absolutely nothing of real interest has happened yet...

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[Scott-S]

So far the only thing that has happened is commercials.

In the first 35 minutes, there has been 15 minutes of commercials. Now I know why TV on DVD is getting so popular.

 

[ChristopherG]

WORD!

The number of ads is really astonishing and incredibly annoying - I just told the family that we will be recording this to the hard drive from here on and exercising the fast forward button.

 

[Scott-S]

Yup, I am recording from now on.


BTW, what did Juliet call Henry at the end of the episode? I didn't hear it.

 

[Patrick Sun]

If it weren't for Sawyer providing some laughs, the rest of this episode would have been very ho-hum with all the Jack's anguish over losing his Sarah for being the person he is not.

 

[Joe_H]

I believe that Juliet called Henry "Ben" but I'm not 100% sure.

 

[Holadem]

Yes. Pretty dissapointing premiere. And no, extreme expectations have nothing to do with it. I can think of several episodes that pack more punch, and re-arrange the cards (which is what major epsiode like premieres, finales and 2 or 3 others are supposed to: kick the ant hill).

You know, a man of Jack's means can afford a PI to find out the ID of that guy in like 2 seconds. Heck, let's be cheap, instead of tailing daddy, why didn't he just tail wifey?

A weak and forgetable premiere after that amazing opener, I am sorry to say. Ugh.

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[Scotian.]

I watched the first two seasons over the last three weeks on DVD. Watching this season on network TV is going to be painful.

 

[Greg.K]

The opening was awesome, of course, when they first showed Henry I thought it was a Henry flashback.

I could have done without most of the Jack flashback though. Duller than dishwater.

 

[Joe_H]

I didn't like the Jack flashback either, but I thought it had been pretty much assumed by everyone that Jack's father slept with his wife anyway, and thats why he chose to call Ana Lucia "Sarah" so I was a little surprised when it turned out to not be the case.


Well, what took you so long then? I think I (re)watched the first two seasons over the past 5 days.

 

[Bryan Ri]

Anyone notice that one of the Others was one of Jack's patients on the operating table?

 

[TravisR]

Not a great episode (although the opening was flatout awesome) but I loved the disorientation of being in a new place and having no idea what was happening or who anyone really was. The stuff with Sawyer had a weird Planet Of The Apes vibe. All in all, I think this episode was a neccesary evil just so they could set up more of what's to come.

And as much as I wanted to see Locke, Eko, and Desmond, I thought it was pretty cool that they only focused on Jack, Kate and Sawyer.

As for the commercials, the show's run time is the same but they've got more commercial breaks now. ABC did the same thing to Alias and it's a total diservice to the show to have that many commercial breaks. I guess ABC was thinking "Hey, let's split the show up with even more commercial breaks. We'll only let them write 6 minute acts to make sure that when the audience gets interested, we'll take them out of the story by having a commercial." Great idea!

 

[Joe_H]

Yeah I really loved the stuff with Sawyer too, perfect example of operant conditioning, especially with his excited reaction once he figured it out too. I wonder if he was purposely put in there as a psychological test, or if they just had nowhere else to contain him. With regards to runtime, one of the more annoying things is when they extend the show an extra minute (like tonight) but the show is the same runtime as always, with an extra minute of commercials.

 

[todd s]

Thats exactly what I was thinking...Especially with the music playing as he was being dragged back to the cage.

Elizabeth Mitchell looking as hot as ever.

Finally, when she called Henry "Ben" outside of the cel...Henry looked from a distance like Kim Jong Il.