Lost: Season Three

[HoopyFrood]

Oh my God, Eko DIES?!!!
Sorry, I'm eagerly awaiting the arrival of lost in the backwoods of the UK ( ) ....so why am I here? I think I mentioned it earlier, that I don't mind finding out what happens, but I NEED some kind of Lost info because I'm going mad waiting for it, I need lost, I need lost, hurry up and get Lost in the UK...ARgggghhh! *Breathe*
I can't believe Eko dies...*walks away mumbling*

[Brown Rat]

Jack shouldn't kill Ben. Jack isn't a murderer, and he has no reason to trust the woman who wants him to kill. (Her willingness to have Jack kill Ben in a sneaky way doesn't inspire me to trust her. And Sawyer's assessment of her as being the most dangerous adds to my mistrust.) But I'm not entirely convinced that this whole "kill him" scenario isn't part of the Jack-breaking that Ben described; after all, if Jack chooses to operate and doesn't kill Ben, then Jack has done what the Jack-breaking was designed to do, according to Ben: get him to choose voluntarily to help Ben.

On another topic: I keep thinking about Locke's instruction not to mistake coincidence for fate. Dunno why. It just sticks in my head.

As I watched the episode, I felt a bit like I was playing a video game. I'm not saying that I think the island is a big video game--I'm just saying that I was experiencing the sort of feelings I get from a game like Myst. We keep going back to a location we've been to before and looking at the place more closely, pushing a new button or moving an object, and discovering more turf to explore. For example, we go back to the hatch under the plane, connect a TV cable, and discover there's a eyepatch-wearing guy in another place who's watching us. So now we have to go explore that new location. Does anyone else get this feeling?

[dwndrgn]

I'm with you Brown Rat - that chick gives me the creeps and I couldn't help but think it was some other sort of trap she was trying to pull him into. But, what a decision - kill the man who has you imprisoned or save him? That's a tough one for sure.

Someone said earlier that maybe all these people had issues in their past lives and needed to resolve them - perhaps that is what the island is attempting to do, be their judge. Eko refused to repent and acknowledge that he had done wrong so the island judged him to be evil and needed to be killed.

I keep going back to not Locke's comment but to the fact that the leader of the others (I can't remember his name, Bob?) said that 'we have to have that boat' and it didn't seem as if it was just to get it out of the hands of the flight victims. It seemed as if they needed that boat for something, but I can't imagine what. Don't they already have one?

[TK-421]

I would not trust Juliette either. She clearly has an alterior motive, but when you are captive and someone offers you a glimmer of hope, you can easily believe it.

I also don't know why they wanted the boat. They obviously have the ability to communicate with the outside world. I mean they have information on ALL of the survivors. Very detailed information that you couldn't get from a passenger manifest or anything like that. I remember Jack telling Ben that he thought they were stuck on the island as well to which Ben smirked and turned on the World Series. The only other boats I have seen are the one they gave to Michael and Walt and the one they used to capture Walt. Both fairly small boats and not made for ocean voyages.

The eye-patch guy was creepy...wonder who he is...and where the hell is Rousseau in all of this. She kept warning people about the others and that they were going to die. We also have not seen any of the other survivors, especially the children that the others dragged off. Where are they being held and why? Walt was obviously very scared of the others when he was reunited with Michael last season and said they were bad people.

If the island is judging people, then what does it make of the others? They seemed somewhat of a cult in their white clothing when they set Colleen out to sea for her funeral. I could not hear what Ben was saying. But what judgement has the island passed on them. I do not think that Eko was evil and killed for that reason. It also struck me when Ben told Jack that he believed in God when 2 days after he found out about his tumor, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky.

[climacus]

A couple of thoughts on last night's episode:

First- To me Echo's death was disappointing. That "thing" that killed him looked so stupid and fake.

Two- I loved the literary reference when Julie entered that tape in. She said it was "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Three- That was creepy when that man with a patch was on that tv screen.


Climacus

[HoopyFrood]

*choke gasp*....need Lost....Kah!

[dwndrgn]

HoopyFrood: go to onlytv.com for your fix...

[ambershadow]

Don't forget eko's last words - you're next -
I think that Julie is part of the set up and not to be trusted.

[Ian8781]

Originally Posted by Mouse

I'm from the uk too, I just watch it online!!
Thought Charlie was funny in the last episode, when he said to Locke about is he going to be repeatedly punching himself in the face! And 'devolve into a monkey!' He was very sarky in that ep. Loved it.
Next weeks one looks brill!

I found one site which allowed me to watch a very badly distorted version of Episode 1 from Season 3. What site do you use - could you post a link please.

To a free website if pos!

[TK-421]

Originally Posted by Ian8781

I found one site which allowed me to watch a very badly distorted version of Episode 1 from Season 3. What site do you use - could you post a link please.

To a free website if pos!

Go to the main site:

ABC.com Lost: LOST Wednesdays 9/8c

[TK-421]

So, that's it for a couple months. What will Kate do??? Is she saying she can't go because Sawyer is being held at gun point (although I think she could take him with her) or because they are on a seperate island and have nowhere to go? I think the later.

I'm very curious about the words carved on Eko's Jesus stick: "Lift your eyes and look north". What the hell does that mean? The reason why he died? Charlie will be angry that he wasn't at Eko's funeral I am thinking.

[Trey Greyjoy]

Well, after being a rabid fan for two plus seasons Im afraid Im moving closer toward the "who cares" camp.
Seriously, I just dont know if I care anymore. Im not sure the writers have any sort of "exit strategy"
If I have to watch Sawyer getting beat up one more time..........

[TK-421]

Originally Posted by Trey Greyjoy

Well, after being a rabid fan for two plus seasons Im afraid Im moving closer toward the "who cares" camp.
Seriously, I just dont know if I care anymore. Im not sure the writers have any sort of "exit strategy"
If I have to watch Sawyer getting beat up one more time..........

Ok, to each their own. But an exit strategy? Certainly not now. They are planning at least 2 or 3 more seasons.

Here's what has been said about this season recently by the producers:

11/08 - Cuse and Lindelof revealed: We have a very clear plan for this season, and I don't think we'll get back to Michael and Walt's story this season. Harold Perrineau's story is not finished. He is not on the show currently, but I think everybody is very curious to know what happened to Michael and Walt, and we hope to get back to that story. That character is still out there in the Lost universe. I think there are some upcoming episodes — after the break in the spring — that will answer a number of the open questions. We certainly plan to tell the audience this year how Locke got in the wheelchair. We'll be getting a lot more detailed about what happened to Locke, Eko and Desmond following the immediate aftermath of the hatch exploding, imploding or potentially doing something else. We're doing a flashback story where you'll find out how Jack got his tattoos. And we'll begin peeling back layers of who the Others are, how long they've been on the island, what their origins are. That's really the sort of uber-plot of Season 3. "What's the nature of this island? Where is this island?" The overarching mysteries of Lost remain unanswered. But those questions have to remain unanswered until the show ends. [Eko might be back and it] might not necessarily be a flashback episode. [What happened immediately after the hatch exploded] might be a flashback, but we're not going to tell you how that information gets relayed. That island isn't necessarily where [the Others] live. It's not necessarily the same place where we saw those guys in the beginning of the teaser of the season premiere this year. I think that would be a very reasonable explanation as to how Goodwin and Ethan could run from the Others' home camp to the crash site [in about one hour. The guy with the eye patch is going to figure prominently this season.] The fact that the island may have been seen [by the outside world] is pretty much the entire story arc of the second half of the year. There are two bombs being dropped [during the second half of the season], one of which is a character bomb, and that will happen within the first three episodes after the break. And the other is a more significant story bomb, a game-changer, as it were, and that will happen shortly after.

Also, for the next two episodes, the Feb 7th one is Juliet-centric, including flashback Ethan will appear and she appreantly shoots someone not in her flashback, someone on importance to the plot and the Nov. 14th one is Desmond-centric who will have an encounter with Charlie in a flashback in London .

To me, the character development is as interesting if not more at times than the unraveling of the mysteries. We will know who and what the others are (I hope).

[dwndrgn]

I'm leaning in your direction Trey - I'm a bit annoyed with all of this. I think I'm mostly annoyed at the bits with the Others, perhaps I've decided that we should know something about them by this time and I'm tired of trying to work it all out. I sigh with relief when we go back to Locke and Sayid and the rest. As far as 'look north' that is probably how they'll find that there is a separate island and that it is most likely where the Others are (if that is indeed true and not just a hoax on Sawyer.

Where's crazy French lady? I've missed her bloodthirsty self.

[Brown Rat]

Lucky Kate. She got to marry Nathan Fillion. (OK, a cop named Kevin, played by Nathan Fillion. But, still.)

What's the connection between Ben and the young woman who broke into the Other's compound in this week's episode? Is she the French woman's daughter, who helped Claire get her baby back? Could she also be Ben's daughter?