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Tomorrow night (Wednesday on ABC in America) we welcome back another favorite that's been out on hiatus for too long. Lost returns with a clip show to bring us (and any new viewers who've listened to our persistent word of mouth) up to speed on the events on the show, followed by an all-new episode. Number two on my must-see list, right after Galactica.
When my father tried to watch it, he had trouble with the concept from the start: If a jet breaks up in mid-air like that, there tends to not be any survivors. Thing is, just filming some gradually-rotting corpses would be only slightly more entertaining than the "reality" shows infesting the schedules, so (Something) allowed people to survive in the wing section, the tail and even (at least temporarily) in the cockpit.
There's (Something) on the Island that's infringing on Wolverine's and Duncan MacLeod's trademark, too. Locke is suddenly able to use his legs, Rose is similarly cured of a terminal ailment, Jack wakes up some distance from the nearest piece of plane, evidently having fallen out at some altitude- yet suffering only a relatively minor gash. It's not universal- people can still get hurt, get infections... even get killed. Even a central character can get killed. And unlike certain shows that weasel out of it, it's not the easily-curable 24-hour death we see on too many shows in this genre.
The survivors find a mysterious Hatch- not either "Richard," but a subterranean bunker (one of several) set up on the Island by the Dharma Initiative (With additional funding by the Greg Foundation). There's a Button that needs periodic pressing, to prevent some sort of magnetic surge... but (so far) no hint of the (Something) producing the magnetism- or what happened to it once the bunker was destroyed.
Then there are the Others; we don't yet know why they're on the Island, only that they're up to (Something). There's also (Something) that looks as tenuous as smoke, but is able to rip apart trees, castaways, Abrams' insistence that it isn't nanotech-based, etc...
So yeah, we have a few mysterious (Something)'s lurking around the Island. I certainly hope the producers have worked out just exactly what these (Something)'s are already, or else once it becomes clear they're just making weird stuff up at random, the viewers tend to abandon a storyline once even the makers admit there isn't really any story there.
But so far there does seem to be a real storyline connecting these things, and I'm having a lot of fun taking the ride on Oceanic 815...
FOR
CURRENT
SEASON
OF
LOST
BELOW
READ
AT
OWN
RISK!!
Tomorrow night (Wednesday on ABC in America) we welcome back another favorite that's been out on hiatus for too long. Lost returns with a clip show to bring us (and any new viewers who've listened to our persistent word of mouth) up to speed on the events on the show, followed by an all-new episode. Number two on my must-see list, right after Galactica.
When my father tried to watch it, he had trouble with the concept from the start: If a jet breaks up in mid-air like that, there tends to not be any survivors. Thing is, just filming some gradually-rotting corpses would be only slightly more entertaining than the "reality" shows infesting the schedules, so (Something) allowed people to survive in the wing section, the tail and even (at least temporarily) in the cockpit.
There's (Something) on the Island that's infringing on Wolverine's and Duncan MacLeod's trademark, too. Locke is suddenly able to use his legs, Rose is similarly cured of a terminal ailment, Jack wakes up some distance from the nearest piece of plane, evidently having fallen out at some altitude- yet suffering only a relatively minor gash. It's not universal- people can still get hurt, get infections... even get killed. Even a central character can get killed. And unlike certain shows that weasel out of it, it's not the easily-curable 24-hour death we see on too many shows in this genre.
The survivors find a mysterious Hatch- not either "Richard," but a subterranean bunker (one of several) set up on the Island by the Dharma Initiative (With additional funding by the Greg Foundation). There's a Button that needs periodic pressing, to prevent some sort of magnetic surge... but (so far) no hint of the (Something) producing the magnetism- or what happened to it once the bunker was destroyed.
Then there are the Others; we don't yet know why they're on the Island, only that they're up to (Something). There's also (Something) that looks as tenuous as smoke, but is able to rip apart trees, castaways, Abrams' insistence that it isn't nanotech-based, etc...
So yeah, we have a few mysterious (Something)'s lurking around the Island. I certainly hope the producers have worked out just exactly what these (Something)'s are already, or else once it becomes clear they're just making weird stuff up at random, the viewers tend to abandon a storyline once even the makers admit there isn't really any story there.
But so far there does seem to be a real storyline connecting these things, and I'm having a lot of fun taking the ride on Oceanic 815...
Lost Fanatic
Day Break TV
I think the producers said they would give an explanation of the hatch implosion in the second half of the season, but now I can't find my source. And they do keep saying they know the secrets of the island and they're not just making it up. I guess we'll find out soon.
Speaking of BSG...I've forgotten if Richard Hatch survived the execution squad on New Caprica. Will we see him again?
Passionate Apathy
Good- I'm not asking for all the answers all at once. Just good to hear their is a plan, an arc for the series to follow.
On Star Trek: Next Generation (And Voyager and Enterprise) the producers would make up some impossible, doom-intensive season finale... and then over the summer try to dream up some way for our heroes to get out of it. This led to the observation that their two-part episodes had great Part Ones, but then weak and contrived Part Twos.
Yes; he's been seen in the Fleet after the rescue from New Caprica.