Season 3 has begun

[jfd]

Well that was an enormous let down. They teased that the first five minutes would leave you breathless.  I'll admit, that was the most interesting part of the first episode but I'm still breathing quite well, thank you.

Why do they feel it is necessary to introduce so many new people and ideas at the same time?  I think it takes away from the show.  What's going on on the other side of the island?  Did Hurley make it back?  How about Sun, Jin and Sayid?  Did everyone make it out of the hatch when it blew?  Jack's flashback seemed totally irrelevant to the story.  They should have concentrated on other parts of the storyline.

[Quinn]

I actually think that the peoples past will come in to be very important for the show....

IMO

But I found this to be a great show.  People have to forget about the teasers, it's about Marketing... How many times have we found that the teasers for Survivor did not pan out to be THAT great!

I knew the season premeir was comming but I tried not to pay too much attention to the marketing around it.  They always blow it out of proportion!

I actually found it interesting that we only saw what was happening to THREE of them.  It kept me wondering about the rest!

QUinn

[rose]

Some jotted observations while watching.......

1. So the Others are just members of a Book Club?

2. Is Sarah really anyone we really care about?  She seems to me to be someone who is conversationally challenged

3. Jack's inner torment and obsessive behaviour is getting a bit wearing.  Who cares what his wife's boyfriend's name is?

4.  What "unpleasant" things are going to happen to Kate in the next 2 weeks?

5.  Was Kate raped or otherwise physically attacked?  She looked a bit shell shocked when she was brought to the cage next to Sawyer, and the bruised wrists and all.  

6.  Why did she have to put on handcuffs anyway?  Did she really want a cup of coffee that much?

7.  Did they know so much about Jack because he was drugged and he told them all about his accomplishments?

 Or did they compile all the info from Ethan's "list" that Ben told him to get?

8.  Who was the kid in the other cage?  

9.  Why hasn't Rousseau stumbled into Othersville in 16 years?

10.  Was the guy in the hospital bed  Jack was looking at the weird guy with the beard?

11.  So Jack hears Sarah is happy and he gets all mushy and submissive?   Is she happy because he's no longer bugging her?

12.  That door that opened into the ocean was mighty easy to close again.  Is it that easy to stop a flood of water?

13.  And related to that, what's with the constant repetitive line in Lost..."If you (fillintheblank) we all die."

14.  Fishbiscuits?

15.  Aren't they getting away from the "Lost" notion?  I liked it better when it was about people surviving a plane crash on an admittedly creepy island where mysterious things happened.  Now that we know we're just in Othersville, it's just getting like any other drama.

[Survivor Buff]

Its a good show, opener was good - I liked that they only stayed on the 3.  But good questions Rose, like the boy in the cage.

[Quinn]

That's the beauty of the show keeps you guessing!

Just like Battlestar Galactica!

WOOHOO 2 hour season premier on Saturday!!!


(one day early for Americans on Space network I think)


Quinn

[Strategy1st]

I do wish they'd not have split the cast up so much.  One of the things that irritated me about last season was the amount of time we spent following one set of people (or plotlines) while the others were left hanging in the air.  It seemed to take an eternity to get anywhere.

Plus, the Jack/Kate/Sawyer trio are probably my least favourite dynamic.  I still wish they'd killed off Jack in the first episode like they intended.  He's too cliche.  He's a well-rounded character, yes, but not one we haven't seen before.  Kate is just annoying--perhaps if there'd been no Jack, they'd have incorporated some elements of him into Kate's character, which could have been very interesting.  I do like Sawyer, but not winding-up-Jack Sawyer or mushy-over-Kate Sawyer.

Thank god we're due for a Sayeid, Sun and Jin episode next week.  I was afraid we'd get half a dozen episodes on the same plotline before finding out anything of the other castaways.

By the by.... did anybody else look at the Breakfast on the Beach and think it looked like a reward for Survivor?  '>

[Quinn]

I forgot to ask, but did anyone catch what Stephen King book they were reading?



Quinn

[rose]

It was Carrie.

[march]

I liked it.
I am glad that they styed on Jack, Sawyer and Kate for the whole show otherwise it would have been even more confusing.
I am not worried about the ones on the beach becuse I know there will be eposides showing how Hurley got back there, and we will see what happens to Locke, Eko and Desmond.
The previews for next week show Sayid, Sun and Jin so we know we will see everyone again in due time.

As for last night did anone notice then tension between Juliette and Ben (Henry).  WOW!!!! Something went on there.
Nice little village they have there but why has Rousseau never found it in the 16 years she has been around.
I don't get why they are so upset about the crash survivors being there.  I mean of they are "good" poeple as they keep telling everyone then when the plane crashed why were they not more worried about people's safety and injured from the plane instead of just wanting to get people out there to watch them and pretend they were one of them.

Strange they way they have the three locked up.  Kate gets a shower and a new dress, Sawyer a bears expermental cage and Jack an underground aquarium.

Wonder who Karl really is?  Was is one of the taillies they took? or was he captured from another wreck?

What about the place where they ahd Walt last season, where are those people.  And what is up with wearing the dirty clothes at times.

I know I have many more questions but gotta go for now.

[auntiem]

I had a theory that this show was going to turn into a tv version of Walden Two and this episode seemed to prove it.  http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/walden2/summary.html
I'll have to find my copy and re-read it to be sure.
They pretty much had to start with Kate/Sawyer/Jack, but I'm hoping that since Kate was told two weeks - we will at least not have to see them again until the end of the month - they are my least favorite characters.
I don't think Jack's holding cell is underwater - Rose is right - it was way too easy to close that door.
I think Carl is one of the Others - I think each of them (K/S/J) was "assigned" an other to get them to trust them while they experiment on them to change their behavior.
The whole handcuff thing was stupid.

[rose]

I think a lot of our questions arise because some of the past events have been scraped or otherwise forgotten.  
That makes the whole story seem like something the writers are just making up as they go along.  
The whole idea of the Others having their own little Othersville seems like something that was just thought up...it doesn't jive with what we've seen of them so far.

[Quinn]

Well the village makes me think of a french book called L'ile des gauchers by Alexandre Jardin ("Leftist's Island" would be the title in english I guess)  where people left their lives to live on an "unkown" island to live like they think humans should.

Baisically, they have a "Liberal" view of life and how it should be lived (reason for the title of the book, leftist) so they are very perticular to who gets to come in their "world"/island.

The only thing is that they seem to be more of the scientist type and are studying the new people on the island.  Perfect controled area.

What it seems is that Ben (that leader of ther others) seems to have this God complex.  It's gonna be fun to see how that works out!


Quinn

[TeKnight]

I have to wonder if Ben "Henry" is so smart and controlling, how is it that he was so easily "captured" by the Losties and then kept in the hatch??  Sounds like that was set up too!

[march]

I think the whole Henry capture was a set up as well.  They already had captured Michael by then didn't they?  So they probably wanted to get a better idea of what the rest of the survivors were up to.  I mean they couldn't just send someone over like they did with Ethan as they were onto that trick.

[jfd]

QUOTE

I think the whole Henry capture was a set up as well.

If so, do you think Rousseau was in on it?  Is she an Other?