Yep, close but not really... Good stuff. I should do what someone above mentioned it and just DVR it, the commercials are pretty annoying
Really weak premeire IMHO. No action, too much Jack back story, etc., etc. I was bored. Oh well, next week looks pretty good.
Damn, Im glad I Tivo'd it, because it sounds like the commercials were out of control. I didn't even gather the thing about the Polar Bear until someone mentioned it on here. Episode could have been a little more upbeat, but I like to look at it like the beginning chapter of a new book, which is always slow. 3 out of 5.
Just before the earthquake when she is arguing with some guy about picking the book she says, "Here I am think that free will still actually exist on - "
Last Season's ratings crash seems to have definitely brought about some changes (expensive shows like this almost always meet untimely deaths when high ratings still can't bring in enough cash): -Increased commercials, for the ad revenue -The already out of hand "Lost Experience" going commercial with that hokey AmEx tie-in -Plans to shorten the original 7-year plan for a total of 5 seasons + a movie -Ending the schedule herk&jerk in favor of 7 fall and 16 spring uninterrupted runs -Rumors that they're going to up the sex & action angle and dumb down the plots to win back mainsteamers As to last night, I agree that the Jack backstory was pretty boring. I wish that they'd start parring down the back stories to no more than a third of each show. They're the biggest reason that it's tough to rewatch shows. I definitely think that the Others are NOT Dharma, but have simply taken over an abandoned facility. Why the airliffts still happen is confusing. "Benry" knew how to get Michael off the island, so it would seem that they could have left whenever they wanted when they still had the boat. Why didn't they? I like the point that maybe they can't have children themselves, hence the obsession. Part of the Island's effect on people? Does that rule out Sun's pregnancy completely from having taken place post-crash? What was Kate injected with, and what happened after breakfast that ended with her wrists so torn up from the cuffs? Evan
If i remember correctly, when Jack was talking to Juliette at the end of the show, he asked her if she worked her for the dharma initiative, and she said that "that was a long time ago". So I think that the others were part of the dharma initiative when it first started and eventually they got abandoned and decided to live there as a community. What my question is, is how did Juliette get all the information on Jack (on his life, his dad, his ex-wife, etc...) and why did Ben say good work when she left? There's no way realistically that they have Jack's life in a portfolio unless this whole thing is some sort experiment done psychologically...
Lost is a great show no doubt about that but I think that the way they did season 2 led to losing a % of its viewers. Unless you were diehard fans, watching season 2 was unbearably confusing. At the end of every episode was another cliffhanger. Nothing ever gets wrapped up. I'm pretty sure this is more of the network's doing that JJ Abrams and his writers' doing though. I just hope we get some REAL answers by the middle of this season otherwise it's going to be very irritating watching a sequence of: 1. backstory 2. commercial for the nine 3. story 4. commercial for the nine 5. confusing plot 6. commercial for grey's anatomy 7. commercial 8. backstory 9. commercial 10. story 11. commercial for the nine 12. cliffhanger ending 13. promo for AMEX
and wasn't that a somewhat evasive answer? She didn't say "we were....but that was a long time ago," just that Dharma was old news.... Evan
I'm waiting for him to call the cops on a Korean store owner for letting him slide on the sales tax. Wonder how many people he turned in for jaywalking.
This will ruin the show. I will stop watching it. I am not opposed to sex and action at all. But when that is inserted and plots are dumbed down then the things I like about the show will be gone. I can get my sex and action from cable, movies, and dvd's. I want intricate interwoven plots with cliffhangers. That is why I watch Lost. It is the essence of the show.
I thought I read some place that JJ Abrams walked away from the show and was in a limited consultant role for last season.. I think it was because he was making a movie..
Yeah he was off shooting MI:3 last season, this season he's suppose to be more involved, read that some where during the summer
Yes for a season opener this was a pretty dull episode with the exception of the book club feeling the electro-magnetic storm and watching the plane crash AND Ben sending the other's on their infiltration missions. Spoiler - (who cares it's not like anyone actually knows anything) I read Jack would have a love interest and "not nescessarily Kate" so I guess that means Juliet. She sure is dicking him around right now though "go sit against the wall". I assume she is some kind of behavioral psychologist. Also if you didn't know, they are going to do 7 episodes and then go away till after the first of the year and then come back with 17 straight episodes. I set it to record on my DVR but watch it live, during the commercials I flip over the Thursday ESPN college game. If i'm late coming back I just rewind a bit. The only problem is that at 9 the DVR cuts off and you have to FF all the way back to the end..that's got to be a programming glitch in the Time Warner DVR,
What's up with this show's obsession with incest? Brothers and sisters sleeping together and now a father and daughter? I thought this was suppose to be on an island in the pacific, not Arkansas.
