GREAT quotes from this week

[annsensei]

lapedis: we're not going to guam, are we?

jack: how can you read?
ben: my mother taught me. (someone on another board pointed out that ben's mom died in childbirth. hmmm)

john: I wish you had believed me.


what lines stuck out to you???

[Thor Twain]

When Jack asked Ms. Hawking if Ben was lying and she said, "Probably". Ha ha ha!

[mtj]

A not so great quote is "Promise me you'll never ask about Aaron again."
WTF is that supposed to mean?
I think it is extremely lame on the writers part to pull a stunt like that.
And what?
No one is going to mention Aaron.
He's just going to be the elephant in the living room that no one acknowledges or speaks of?
Again, lame.

[mtj]

Okay, after watching a THIRD time, in order to assimilate the stimulus overload...I have these thoughts.
Probably the most significant lines in this episode came from Ben to Jack in the church.
In which Ben said, "Thomas said to The Others..."
and
"We're all convinced sooner or later Jack."
I'm also intrigued by that very weird painting a Jack's place.
It got oodles of camera time when Jack and Kate were having coffee.
Artwork means something in this show.
It looks like a figure, painted in rear view, in some kind of prison.
And then there is this...
We are led to believe that Hurley bought up all the extra seats on the plane.
I would think, to eliminate unnecessary harm to the innocent.
And yet, there are other people on the plane.
Jack asks Ben what will happen to them.
Ben replies, in typical Ben fashion, "Who cares?"
As nothing is irrelevant in this story, I think those "Others" will come to mean something.
Now, does Jin recognize them or not?
I need to take up Tai Chi or something.
I'm afraid next week's episode may blow all my remaining circuits. :upsideq:

[Thor Twain]

I still haven't gotten to watch it again. Sigh.

I did notice that painting, too, but didn't get a closer look at it yet. It was a woman, wasn't it? Did it look like Kate from the back? I'll have to go and look again when I get the time.

Hurley was late in being convinced to go on the trip. Most of the plane was probably sold out by the time he bought his tickets, so I'm assuming the other people on the plane had already bought their tickets well in advance. How would Hurley have stopped them from getting on the plane? If he'd have said it was going to crash, he'd have been arrested for terrorism, most likely!

I thought Jin recognized them, but maybe he just gave that look because Hurley called him by name.

[mtj]

The painting at Jack's place is abstract.
I could be a woman.
I would have to get a close up screen cap to tell.
After my third watch, I am still in a whirlwind over this episode.

[mtj]

Another thing I noticed after subsequent watchings...
Jack keeps trying to have a drink, and getting interrupted.
At the bar, it was the phone call about Gramps.
At home, it was Kate booty.
I'm guessing the island wanted to keep him sober. :cool:

[Thor Twain]

I don't know about the painting. Do you think it means anything?

Good catch about Jack not being allowed to drink. Interesting.

Why did Jack call his grandpa by his first name? I suppose they just wanted us to wonder who that was for a while. It's kind of like what they did with Kate not answering Jack's question about Aaron.

[mtj]

Yep, I noticed that too, Jack calling Gramps "Ray" instead of "Grandpa".
I think it was just so people would wonder who the old guy was.
Me, I knew, because I read spoiler after spoiler about how we would see Jack's Grandpa.
I wasn't surprised to see Lapidus either, I knew he was going to show up again too.
I'm not sure if the "Jack/drinking/interrupted" means anything or not.
Likewise the painting.
There are still viewers who swear that the "bracelet thing" in "The Economist" meant something.
Even after the writers have said that it doesn't.
But...who believes them? :anon2d:

[ridrfan]

Lapidus looks pretty damn good clean shaven. Who'd have figured...
Where is everyone else after the "crash". Was there even a crash?
I thought "everyone" has to come back to "fix" the island. Isnt Aaron part of the "everyone"?

[mtj]

It wasn't until the actor who plays Lapedius shaved and got a haircut that I recognized him as the actor who played Jobe in "The Lawnmower Man".

[Thor Twain]

I don't know if we'll even find out if there was a crash until next week.

By the way, has anybody seen the theory that Grandpa Ray is really time travelled Jack? Ha ha... that would mean his father is also his son, how weird would that be?!

[mtj]

Oh damn it Thor.
Just damn it.
The whole time I watched that episode (all three times) I was thinking how much Grampy Ray looked like Jack.
"His father is also his son???"
AHHH !!!

[annsensei]

LOLOL, I think thor loves to torture you mtj.

I remember a star trek (I think it was DS9) that mentioned the idea that someone better not sleep with (character name that I can't remember) or he could end up his own grandfather.

on ONTL, they have a similar storyline. a couple of characters traveled back in time (stupid storyline that I didn't really watched closely). one character's father slept with a young girl and she had his baby. since that man had transported back into the role of his father, there are rumors that the former (newly discovered) half-brother could turn out to be his son (even though they're supposed to be brothers).

lol, I can't imagine daytime going THERE, but I can see lost doing it!!! I guess time will tell.

[Thor Twain]

:D