Lost....What is up with the "Others"?

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

I'm losing interest in this show. Nothing ever gets resolved, nobody ever gets sick, food is plentiful, the characters rarely interact, etc.

This show is moving at a snail's pace.

[Extra Stout]

I'm losing interest in this show. Nothing ever gets resolved, nobody ever gets sick, food is plentiful, the characters rarely interact, etc.

This show is moving at a snail's pace.

The original plan, I think, was to have the show last 5 seasons total.

But, since it was a hit, of course ABC execs want to stretch it out as long as possible.

So the plot starts to implode and people stop watching.

Once people stop watching, ABC reacts by advancing the plot to try to get people watching again.

Allegedly, the producers and writers met with ABC to demand that they be allowed to wrap up the plot by the end of Season 5.

This happened to Alias too. The show went back and forth, speeding up and slowing down. So many questions went unanswered that the plot imploded. They tried to reinvent the show in more of a serial format. Nothing worked.

The show ended with an all-encompassing, very weak ending that tried and failed to answer all the questions. Lost likely will meet a similar fate. The writers are not given the freedom to do their job, and the executives eventually kill the golden goose.

[Extra Stout]

3 clues they say are revealed next episode, but I am not holding my breath.

Great. There are 1,000 unanswered questions. After next week, they will be down to 997.

[Extra Stout]

Great. There are 1,000 unanswered questions. After next week, they will be down to 997.

No, scratch that. They will raise 30 new questions, so we'll be up to 1,027.

The writers on that show are so full of crap now. They really don't have any idea where they are going, and the answer to every question is, "Well, you'll just have to wait, watch, and see."

And payoffs are so rare, that they actually have to tell viewers when they are going to answer questions. Ooh, whooptey-doo, they're going to answer 3 questions lingering from Season 1! It only took them two years to pull some contrived answer out of their asses!

The show is a fraud.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

I'm still pissed about the Walt thing. Why did he have those powers? What were they exactly? Why did they take him? And then, poof!, he was gone. We had to hear Michael cry about looking for his son in, at least, 10+ shows and then they answer zero questions?

Great plot line.

And why can't they have a decent back story/flashback AND a decent on-island story in the same episode?

[Burn531]

I'm still pissed about the Walt thing. Why did he have those powers? What were they exactly? Why did they take him? And then, poof!, he was gone. We had to hear Michael cry about looking for his son in, at least, 10+ shows and then they answer zero questions?

Great plot line.

And why can't they have a decent back story/flashback AND a decent on-island story in the same episode?

During the summer I read an interview with the producers and according to them *****SPOILER!!!******








Michael and Walt come back in the last few episodes of this season

[Spurminator]

I don't care about Walt and Michael. At this point they're no longer a part of the story. Given that the island is ed up, it's understandable that Michael and Walt would be affected by it somehow... but I don't think it's essential to have a complete story arc for every character. In fact, I think that would get very convoluted.

Imagine if David Lynch tried to answer all the questions raised in some of his films. Would they be as good? Is it as fun to discuss something that answers all of your questions for you? I don't think so.

[Mr. Peabody]

I don't care about Walt and Michael. At this point they're no longer a part of the story. Given that the island is ed up, it's understandable that Michael and Walt would be affected by it somehow...

Yeah, but Walt had some form of telekinetic powers before they got to the island. And, he was something special because the Others were performing tests on him. I'd like to know the story behind that.

[AFBlue]

So I had to DVR lost this week (22 Feb) because I went to the ATL/SA game, but I watched it last night...

What three questions got answered? Because I'm at a loss for that one...

Also, the fact that Jack's tatoo says "He walks among us but is not one of us", when it was supposed to say "leader of men, lonely, and angry" or whatever...what the does that mean?

Also, why does that old chick say "it's ironic" when reading the tatoo? Is it because "he walks among us, but is not one of us" describes the "others".

Funny that the predicition before this week's episode was that it would answer three but raise another 30...seems to have done exactly that for me.

Can anyone help?

[Spurminator]

Yeah I wasn't sure what was answered either... Unless one of the questions was Jack's tattoo, which I never really cared about.

Weak episode.

[Burn531]

Weak episode.

[AFBlue]

Yeah I wasn't sure what was answered either... Unless one of the questions was Jack's tattoo, which I never really cared about.

Weak episode.

Here's another thing...

The tattoo that it showed only had the Chinese characters on it, not the large symbol that was placed above the writing....was that just some random "art" or was there more to the story, more to the tatoo?

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

This show is starting to suck. And Bai Ling is damn sexy.

[Burn531]

This episode just got me interested again in the show. I don't know why cause we didn't really learn anything new about the old unanswered questions. The ending with Hurley and then the French chick was great.

[AFBlue]

Enjoyed this last episode about Hurley. I know it didn't do much for story development until the end, but it resolved some issues with characters (Hurley, Charlie) and prevented the cheesy love story from happening w/ Kate & Sawyer. Good episode....

[AFBlue]

BTW.....Cheech looks old as balls.

[dg7md]

Anything happen the first 10 minutes of the episode?

Nothing really major, just a few scenes with Charlie/Hurley/Vincent finding the car keys, and before that, the began with a young/thin Hurley talking to his dad before he leaves him for I believe was 17 years, promising a roadtrip to the Grand Canyon and giving Hurley a candy bar before he went off.

[AFBlue]

Nothing really major, just a few scenes with Charlie/Hurley/Vincent finding the car keys, and before that, the began with a young/thin Hurley talking to his dad before he leaves him for I believe was 17 years, promising a roadtrip to the Grand Canyon and giving Hurley a candy bar before he went off.

You did forget about him buying the Chicken joint and it getting blasted by a meteor with "Trisha Tanaka" inside...

[DirkAB]

Worst episode of Lost ever, what a waste of time. I'm really beginning to lose faith in the show.

I don't think that they really knew where they wanted to take the show after last years great season, either that or they knew exactly where they want to take it and that is into eternity like the X-Files.

They continue to create far more questions than they answer, and they are writing themselves in circles. Continuing to introduce more characters 3 seasons into it while they haven't given answers about the existing characters. If they insist on introducing new characters this late into it, at least spend the episodes giving the back story on them instead of additional pointless back story on the main characters that we already know about. Like Jack and Hurley the last 2 weeks.

Did they feel that they had an episode to waste on Hurley? It had nothing at all to do with the plot, and it was completely cheesy. They revealed more plot in the preview to next weeks episode than they did in this weeks episode in its entirety.

[Vizzini]

Worst episode of Lost ever, what a waste of time. I'm really beginning to lose faith in the show.

I don't think that they really knew where they wanted to take the show after last years great season, either that or they knew exactly where they want to take it and that is into eternity like the X-Files.

They continue to create far more questions than they answer, and they are writing themselves in circles. Continuing to introduce more characters 3 seasons into it while they haven't given answers about the existing characters. If they insist on introducing new characters this late into it, at least spend the episodes giving the back story on them instead of additional pointless back story on the main characters that we already know about. Like Jack and Hurley the last 2 weeks.

Did they feel that they had an episode to waste on Hurley? It had nothing at all to do with the plot, and it was completely cheesy. They revealed more plot in the preview to next weeks episode than they did in this weeks episode in its entirety.

[DisgruntledLionFan#54,927]

I'll give this episode one thing, there were some good one-liners. After that, mehhh...

At least we learned what Jack's Party of Five tattoo meant and that Hugo wasn't born fat in the last two weeks.

It hasn't been flushed yet, but it is certainly circling the bowl.

[shyne]

Good episode tonight from start to finish. Still not sure whats up with the eye patch guy?

[Burn531]

I'm just enjoying this show as a viewer now. I try not to get into all the crazy twist that they throw at you. I want answers to a lot of questions but I know there'll come sooner or later. I have patience.

[AFBlue]

I have yet to watch the episode yet, but will weigh in later on tonight (DVR). I ing hate living in the Eastern Time Zone! I have to get up for work at "0 dark 30", get off at 6:00 and I'm tired as . I go to bed at 10 to keep from falling asleep at work the next day and miss out on all the cool shows.

Thank God for DVR!

[AFBlue]

Agree with other posters, it was a good episode. My thoughts....

How did Locke become the mistake-prone dumbass all of the sudden? Who leaves a tied up "other" to go play a game of chess and then gets the station with the satellite blown up? Totally out of character for him....

I wanna know what the the black lady and the russian said to eachother. I can only guess, but I'd say she told him "they've figured out that you won't kill them, you have to kill me and yourself so they don't find out more about us".

I like how the back-story tied into his final decision to let the russian live.

I didn't like how the station got blown up, because it could have clearly answered several more questions (like why/how the food drops occur, etc.).

It's crazy how the Dharma Initiative knew about the hostiles.

I'm sure I'll think of a bunch more , but that's the stuff off the top of my head....