Interesting episode, I love Locke.

Happy to see that the hatch operates on emotions. Or tears.

Ugh, that nightmare with bloody Boone chanting was like something out of The Shining. It freaked me out.

The light was neat. I can't imagine it being anything else but an alien ship and this island attracts all sorts of bizarre stuff. Maybe they'll find Amerlia Earhart.

For some reason I cannot access page 14 of the LOST thread. Every time I click on it my internet freezes and closes down. I ahve been trying for the past 6 hours or so.
I can't post a regular relpy either (that way I can scroll through previous comments that will roll through those of page 14's.

It only let's me do the quick reply.

Anyway.....

GREAT episode tongiht (followed by a great ALIAS).
Locke is defintely the most interesting character on the show.
I didn't quite get what the father did.... did he just use him to get a kidney transplant, is that it? Or did he sell the kidneys or something? It still didn't explain why Locke is paralyzed waste down. But it was really well done nontheless.
By the way, it seems as though he got his legs back as he carried Boone all the way back!
the light was amazinf yes.
And I think it has become more than obvious who is going to die and we won't have to wait till the finale.

I also agree that the Sawyer/Jack storyline was a great side-plot, very thoughtful!

However, now we are getting into territory where we dont even see some of the cast-members in every episode.
Claire, Charlie, Walt, Hurley, and Shannon were all missing from this one while Sun and Sayid made a second's worth cameos.
O well... I'm sure we'll see everyone next week when Claire gives birth and someone gest the boot off the island

it seems as though the island paralyzed Locke again so he wouldn't get into the plane. Very mysterious. I think the hatch is where the survivors of the drug smuggling rink are. There couldn't have been just one.

It's not going to take Boone three/four episodes to die, so he'll survive most likely.

They've only been on the island for about a month, give or take a few days. The first season was supposed to be their first 40 days on the island.

Good episode but not one of my favorites. I wasn't fond of Locke or how he acted, he's too into keeping secrets from people which is pretty obviously not the right thing to do on that island. And somehow in his flashback scenes Locke managed to look older not younger.

I wish the show would drop 90% of the mysticism, premonitions, fate, religion, spirituality and other related things. It was better when they were just trying to survive.

The big question is though, did anyone spot another cast member in one of the flashback scenes? I didn't but maybe I missed it?

No.

I love Lost. But I just don't get the network schedule. Why does it take so fuckin long to broadcast a new show?

Early premiere on october when shows like 24 and Alias took till January to premiere. They havent shown a repeat for almost 3 straight months in a row at one point

They wanna save the season finale for May Sweeps.

GREAT episode, Locke is definitely my favorite character. Oh, and personally I think that the heroin was meant to be some sort of foreshadowing involving Charlie, though I'm not sure exactly how so. And they also explained what they'd been doing with the hatch when we saw it all dug up from under. Explained a lot of things I was wondering about, though I'm not actually sure if that IS how Locke lost his legs... can that happen from this sort of thing?

It seemed a bit odd that Boone made an instant judement that there was nothing of interest on the plane. The plane probably had useful things for them and a cargo hold somewhere below. Just seemed too quick and unlikely to write it off as worthless. Who knows what little item might be here or there or under a seat that could be useful.

Notice that when he radioed that he was a survivor the response was that there were no survivors of that crash? I find it difficult to believe that an airline or government would write it off as no survivors without having found almost all the wreckage and they obviously didn't find a giant part of the fuesalage.

I know it's nitpicking but hey, that's part of the fun.

Also, I guess we know Kate will choose Jack over Sawyer now. Unless she wants an STD.

Yep. The guy's near immediate reply was "There weren't any survivors of Flight 815." It makes me think something else is going on.

Locke is my favorite character (I couldn't decide who to use in my avatar, so I chose both Jack Bauer and Locke), but I'm glad we finally got an episode on Locke showing off more of his weaknesses. For a long time now, he's been the "genius", if you will. But, I needed that extra little bit more to Locke that makes him interesting.

He said a while back that if you give something to the island, it will give something back in return. What is this, a living island? Is there like a brain to this thing, or what? So many twists and turns, so little time.

I still don't know for certain who will be killed off. Something tells me it could be Boone (basically most assume it will be), but something also tells me it could come out of left field. The writers kind of slipped in a few hints this week: the obvious being Boone, and the subtle hint being Sawyer thinking he might have a brain tumor. I know it was ruled that he needed glasses, but it's not like it's a certainty, you know? I just refuse to believe JJ Abrams would kill off the least-needed character, and that he'd make it so obvious (by banging him up this week on the plane).

The series starts airing here on Monday

One hour or two hours? In the US, they got the pilot in two parts, but in Canada, they waited a week and showed the first two episodes (which make up a two-hour episode, really) in as one.

The first thought is ok so they are all dead and this is some sort of post death thing, purgatory or whatever. But JJ Abrams was asked that and specifically said they aren't all dead.

So logically speaking, if there were no survivors, and if they aren't dead, then what else is a possibility? What I come up with is that maybe they weren't on the plane. Maybe it's some sort of bizarre experiment to make a group of subjects believe they were part of a plane crash, to study their reactions.

Just a crackpot theory to last us till next episode.

Maybe something had them purposely crash on the island, and created a fake crash site that people found full of no one alive.

http://www.lostlinks.net/audio/we'rethesurvivors.zip

"we're the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815."

WTF, either someone was playing with Boone or the rabbit hole has just gotten a lot deeper.

Last week I thought it was Boone but now I'm almost certain Jack will die tonight.

Or not, heh.

Well, I didn't even like Boone, but that was a fantastic episode.

well Boone is dead. The island gives life and the island taketh away. No Locke is sight, but looks like we're gonna get some answers in the next episode (whenever that may be). It's gonna be a Sayid episode and he's probably gonna be pretty pissed off at Locke, as is Jack. URHGHGHGHHGHGHGHGHGH, can't wait.

note: Tonight's episode was amazing.

another note: Jack is not going to die no matter how much you all want him to. He was originally supposed to die in the pilot, but they decided to give him the lead role instead. So he's gonna be sticking around.

Tonight's episode was hard to watch. The ending was incredibly emotional. The only thing I didn't like was Jack's flashbacks, which were insignificant.

Locke looked like he got shot at the end of the preview.

I really enjoyed tonight's episode, I thought it was really well done. Even if I would have preferred Boone to stay alive. He was probably my 5th favourite character.

There was a lot going on in tonight's episode, but they seemed to pull it off rather easily. The only thing I was disappointed in were the flashbacks, I got what they were doing with them and it made sense but it didn't interest me. Jack's backstory never has. Okay, two things I was disappointed with - Charlie at the beginning with asking Jack all those questions and with a bit of irritation in his voice IIRC. Granted I may just be remembering differently because I would have preferred Charlie to have died but that's what I'm recollecting now.

Loved all the Sun/Jack stuff. First time I actually liked Claire and her baby and am just wondering where it's gonna go from here. The scene at the end with Jack telling Shannon was definitely sad and the best scene of the night. I should have known from the minute he made that red shirt reference that Boone was a goner.