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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
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| Just another one of those "everybody connected to everybody" deals.. look at the TV when Kate walks into the Army recruiting office when she goes to visit her dad... |
I'm going by by memory alone, I don't have any episodes downloaded, and I didn't catch the tv in the recruiter's, what was on it? Don't leave me hanging here, I know that- deep down- you couldn't be that cruel to a person...
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Sayid was on the TV.. Don't exactly know why, but it seems strange that a former Republican Guard is shown on the TV in a U.S. Army Recruting office.. |
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Eunoia
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: In a seedy karakoe bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus
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| Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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Well, we'll all have lots of time to dowload and review the entire series and discuss endlessly our theories and observations... The next new episode isn't due out until Jan. 11.   |
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Eunoia
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: In a seedy karakoe bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:04 am Post subject: |
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| In episodes 1 & 6 (season 2) when Shannon sees Walt, he speaks to her backwards. Does anyone here have the ability to isolate the track and reverse it to hear what he's really saying? |
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blunder1983
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| Something like "the others are close" or "the others are coming" standard stuff |
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mindmetoo
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| I'd like for that theory to be right, but wouldn't that mean that the writers assumed viewers actually had a brain? |
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Newbie
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 5:41 am Post subject: |
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Dang I love mindmetoo's avatars.....
and Lost is good too. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| peppermint wrote: |
| I'd like for that theory to be right, but wouldn't that mean that the writers assumed viewers actually had a brain? |
They're already assuming viewers have patience, which, judging by the critical beating (perhaps mild pinching would be more accurate, but fanboys have a tendency to hyperbolize) the series has taken recently, was a tad presumptuous.
I think the writers have a very solid idea of where they want to go, and it probably involves some hard thinking. It remains to be seen, however, whether the ABC/Disney brass will let them tell their story as faithfully as they've imagined it. If the ratings slide, that probably won't happen -- if past sci-fi on network TV is any indication.
As for the theory: it's intriguing, but it begs the question "what will the eventual conflict to this revelation be?"
Sparkles*_* |
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huck
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: |
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If the ratings do start to slide, I think the main reason is the long hiatus they have between new episodes. I mean, I realize that it's not sweeps week every week, but it's ridiculous how many breaks they've already had this year. I wish that sweeps week would be like a pop quiz, so then the networks would always be showing new episodes, instead of only during the times when the ratings "matter".
Of course, compared to Prison Break's 4 month break..... |
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mindmetoo
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| Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:24 pm Post subject: |
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| huck wrote: |
If the ratings do start to slide, I think the main reason is the long hiatus they have between new episodes. I mean, I realize that it's not sweeps week every week, but it's ridiculous how many breaks they've already had this year. I wish that sweeps week would be like a pop quiz, so then the networks would always be showing new episodes, instead of only during the times when the ratings "matter".
Of course, compared to Prison Break's 4 month break..... |
Most series, especially ones with a story arc, tend to take a break over December and New Years. Less people are in front of their TVs because they're busy with travel and shopping. I remember way back Star Trek the Next Generation did this. It was probably one of the first series to do the winter break. Since most viewers were old enough to remember Battlestar Galactica (the original series) and how it mysteriously went into repeats for a month, coughed up a couple episodes, and then died, many thought this winter break was a sign TNG was about to go belly up.
People were in a panic. |
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Hobophobic
Joined: 16 Aug 2004
Location: Sinjeong negorie mokdong oh ga ri samgyup sal fighting
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 11:21 pm Post subject: |
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| On a nerdy-note...when Sawyer and Kate come out of the bunker and he spots the horse you can see the gloved-hand of an animal trainer on the right of the screen... |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 8:36 am Post subject: |
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I saw the new episode last night here in Miami.
It is two hours long, and the first hour is spent on a disjointed, non-chronological rehashing of old episodes. Perhaps watching that a second time might reveal some logic to it, but that isn't possible, as I watched it on the television, not as a download.  (Watching TV in the States, of course, includes an endless parade of commercials.  )
The second hour is a new episode, and I will just say that we learn a lot about Echo. They succeeded in re-engaging interest in the characters. I would say it was one of the better episodes.
Okay, no spoilers. Just watch it (I will be interested in what people make of the first hour).
Oh, and it is about 25 C here in Miami today, under clear skys with a little breeze off the ocean.  |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:49 am Post subject: |
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Yeah it was, good. And the first hour worked for me because- as you point out- it was not done chronologically by episode but by events, thereby spelling out exactly which mysteries have been answered and how. Very helpful for people like me who haven't seen every episode (for example plane and the radio conversations now make perfect sense).
I found the Mr. Echo flashbacks, or rather parts of them, a little hard to swallow, but it was certainly an interesting episode. |
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SarcasmKills
Joined: 07 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
I found the Mr. Echo flashbacks, or rather parts of them, a little hard to swallow, but it was certainly an interesting episode. |
I find parts of his flashbacks VERY hard to swallow.. one main point in particular.. which I'll bring up after more people have seen the ep... |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Likely that we're on the same wavelength here... |
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