Lost http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:42:29 -0500 10 Picking Up Transmissions: Speculation With Spoilers http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3119603
So here's the Speculation WITH Spoilers thread, where we can flock to after reading the most recent spoilers in order to wildly speculate to our hearts' content.

I'll get us started: casting calls and absence at media events has led some, including Wanda over at E! to speculate that Clair, the pregnant chick, will kick the bucket soon. Remember, though, that 1x10 has a casting call for Clair's boyfriend. So she'll be around until midseason at least.

I personally just don't want her to die. She's my favorite chick.]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:59:59 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3119603 <![CDATA[**SPOILERS** and Spoiler Speculation: You're Gonna Die, Brotha.]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3118603 Here's the cast.

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Jack wakes up in the middle of the jungle (he blacked out during the plane crash) to see a dog next to him (later, we find that this is Walt's dog). He finds his way to the crash site, where dozends of dazed (and some wounded) survivors are milling about the wreckage. He recruits Hurley to help him get the very pregnant Claire away from the wreckage, and Locke to help him move another wounded man. A survivor wanders too close the still-running, beached jet engine, and is sucked inside, causing a massive (and final) explosion. Claire falls on her stomach, and her baby is silent until over 24 hours later.

Later, Jack digs through some recovered luggage to find a sewing kit, and gets Kate to help help stitch up a laceration on his upper back. They bond, becoming the focus pair of the episode. That evening, everyone is startled by some loud rumbling and tree-shaking coming from the edge of the jungle.

The next morning, Jack, Kate and Charlie set out to find the cockpit of the plane, hoping there is a viable transciever they can use to send a broadcast signal. They climb inside the steeply-angled nose of the plane, and they startlingly wake the unconscious pilot (Greg Grunberg). After helping them find the transciever, there's another loud growl from outside the cockpit. While Charlie secretly recovers the bag of cocaine he left in the airplane's bathroom, the pilot looks out through the broken cockpit window - and is pulled out and fatally mangled, splattering blood everywhere. (Had this been Jurassic Park, a Tyrannasaurus would have been the monster, but we don't actually see the culprit.)

Charlie, Kate, and Jack freak, and escape the plane nose with the transciever. After a bit of "who's not going to make it?!" we find that all three survived, but no one saw the monster.

Meanwhile, Walt is out looking for his lost dog (from the beginning of the episode), and he and his father Michael find a pair of handcuffs. Later, back at camp, Walt and Locke bond over a recovered board game, and Sayid and Sawyer get into a fight (Sawyer calls Sayid a terrorist and blames him for the crash).

Later, Sayid repairs the slightly broken transciever. Once it's fixed, Sayid, Charlie, Kate, Jack, Boone, Shannon, and Sawyer head out to find higher ground to broadcast. As they move through the forest, a rumble rushes toward them. Everyone runs but Sawyer, who whips out a gun and starts shooting at the sound, stopping it. Sawyer says he got the gun off of the body of a US Marshall, and everyone in the group soon believes that he was the prisoner held in handcuffs. Through flashback, we find that the real criminal is... Kate, who was being extradited to the US (from Australia, where the plane took off from). As the rapid descent begins, a suitcase falls and knocks the Marshall unconcious - Kate uses that time to undo her handcuffs so she can grab an oxygen mask.

As this happens, Jack and Hurley are trying to save a man with a piece of shrapnel in his gut. As they work the man wakes up and says, "Where is she?!" - it's the US Marshall.

Oh, that rumble that Sawyer shot? It was a POLAR BEAR.

Finally, they come to an area where they're able to broadcast, but their signal is being overpowered by an existing transmission. Translated from French, the message says (paraphrase): "Please, help - I'm all alone. They're all dead now. It killed them all. I'm alone now." Following the message, an automated voice says: "Iteration 17294532" - and the message repeats, followed by "Iteration 17294533." It's a looped distress call, and Sayid calculates that the message has been repeating over and over again... for sixteen years.]]> Mon, 30 Aug 2004 00:04:22 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3118603 Lost Is Its Own Monster: The Bitterness Fiesta http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3120925
Most of it is due to the over-reliance on flashback as a way to drag out the A-story to daytime-TV-level slooowwwness. Can we recap the information we have about this Island?

- Transmission sent for 16 years by a woman looking for her 'child.'
- Unspecified 'sickness' on island.
- 'Monster' on island.
- Island 'makes' Locke's legs work.
- At least one polar bear live(s/d) there.
- There is a 'bad guy.'

After TEN WEEKS. Meanwhile, each week I learn tons of information about what one of the principal characters was up to in the months before he or she got on the plane. This relates to anything how? I'm not sure, but the creators think we need about 22 minutes of backstory per episode.

For example: Sawyer has a complicated backstory involving confidence man operations and lots of money, and I'm-gonna-kill-yous, and he's so hurt because of something that happened with his father, waaaa. Now, he did not change his on-island behavior due to remembering this story in slow-motion. He did end up changing his behavior a little when Hurley made the golf course and Kate was nice to him. Every character is like this. Their backstories are irrelevant.

Remember the beginning, everyone? When the plot moved along, when pilots were getting flung into the air, before the writers forgot that Hurley was totally there when they read from the passenger manifest and so obviously knew about it except his amnesia was important for ensuring that the big reveal of the Bad Guy would come hilariously timed with the Bad Guy staring scarily at the Former Oasis Member and Irrational Pregnant Psychic-Believer?

I feel like the show has become Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead and every character is playing Questions: "Who are you?" "Why do you want to know?" "Don't you know about the girl?" "What girl?" "Is it OK if I go now?" Scene. Gems like 'rape cave' keep me around, but I'm really getting worried. Share the disappointment with me. Wallow in our collective misery and deep, dark bitterness.]]> Thu, 02 Dec 2004 19:24:14 -0500 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3120925 Media Mentions: Lost is Found http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3118601 Media-y! Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:42:43 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3118601 Lost Online: Virtual Clues or just more confusion? http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3127338 AI and Alias, as well as that Push, Nevada thing...)]]> Thu, 26 May 2005 23:41:01 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3127338 <![CDATA[Speculation Without Spoilers: Don't Forget the Sunscreen]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3118609 Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:46:04 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3118609 Sawyer: Why He So Angry? http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3119187
1. He needs to take a chill pill.

2. Josh Holloway, who plays Sawyer, is hot.

3. He really needs to take a chill pill.]]> Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:45:17 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3119187 <![CDATA[3-22: "Through The Looking Glass" 2007.05.23]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3154431
Best line ever: "Come in Others!"

Saddest hobbit loss ever. Damn the Charlie haters.]]> Wed, 23 May 2007 22:57:10 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3154431 Corpses Smell Bad: Nitpicking Lost http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3119408
For instance, last night-the bodies have been there three days. I'm thinking the smell would have been so bad Jack & Sawyer wouldn't even have been able to get in the plane without puking. At the very least, they should have needed to tie handkerchiefs over their faces or something.

Don't try to fool me, Lost writers. I watch Six Feet Under.]]> Thu, 07 Oct 2004 12:31:38 -0400 http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3119408 <![CDATA[2-23: "Live Together, Die Alone" 2006.05.24]]> http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3141248
"Live Together, Die Alone"
SEASON FINALE
After discovering something odd just offshore, Jack and Sayid come up with a plan to confront "The Others" and hopefully get Walt back. Meanwhile, Eko and Locke come to blows as Locke makes a potentially cataclysmic decision regarding the "button" and the hatch, on the two-hour season finale.
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