sandbox LOST thread

It was...on Thursday night. They usually rerun the newest ep on Fridays but not this past week for some reason. Oh okay I am busted as also a GA fan.

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Nick, if it makes you feel any better, GA employes a comic booky guy on their production / writing staff, just like Heroes & Lost.

we know he is "special"
we know he has some "power"
we know he was put into a "room"

when was the last time we heard anything about him?

it's the same thing (if you want it to be).

no-one gets the one tv station that shows it (fx); i would say it only just 'broke' in the media with the dvd of s03 a week or two ago. every critic says it's the best thing ever etc but it's still practically art-house cinema, audience-wise.

I've been avoiding it but will probably plough in soon (ditto Balactica - oh daers). also pending are The Wire, 24 from 4th season on and the entirety of Mahabharat.

2. of all the man-candy on the island, he is the Great Romantic,

It's true. Not only did he make himself a little relationship with Shannon, he just has teh sadness suffusing everything he does. Him and Hurley both. I would watch a show where Sayid and Hurley fought crime together.

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The people I am interested in: Libby (admittedly, dead), Juliet, Sayid, Hurley, Locke, Alex, Desmond and Benry.

People I like but don't need to know any more about back story from: Sun, Jin, Charlie.

People I don't care about either on the island or before it: everyone else.

as far as survivors go it's still Locke at #1 and the story of his crippledom which they're dragging their feet on (arf) forever, plus the general 'belief/i'm special' thing. Hurley/Libby thing right behind, then probably Claire! so they are the three future flashbacks i'm looking fwd to most (bar Others) now.

xxxxxp yeah, we just need MORE OF IT. less kate, less jack, who gives a shit? i still think eko stole sayid's thunder.

i hate this show

Claire flashback really soon (3 weeks I think?). According to Emily de Ravin it flashes back to a much younger Claire.

There are still a lot of gaps in the pre-island backstories of a bunch of original 815ers that have been talked about but not touched upon:

Sayid - apparently his father was some kind of Iraqi war hero or something, also all that moving around looking for Nadia

Hurley - THE DECK COLLAPSE and WTF LIBBY obviously

Sawyer - "The Tampa Job", a (possible) daughter!

Also they need to do some more childhood flashbacks - we've seen Jack, Sun, and Sawyer as children (albeit briefly), surely a super distant past flashback could be awesome.

new horrible show is on with scary david puddy(sp?) from seinfeld

It makes me so sad to see him (Patrick Warburton) on such a shitty show - he is one of the highest-profile cartoon voice actors out there right now, plus he has been really good in other things (the live action version of The Tick esp).

Dr. Invisiwho and his unlaming of Peter will probably push me back into Heroes when I have time to sit down and rewatch the three eps I saw + everything else.

Yeah. I'm getting a little tired of all of the ponderous Jack/Kate/Sawyer action. If the Bai Ling ep is as bad as I suspect it will be, it might be the time I finally tune out.