And Groucho gets another one.

'Lost' Helps ABC Find Wednesday Win
(Thursday, October 14 08:19 AM)

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2004
With live baseball coverage on FOX and the final presidential debate on the Big Three networks, a true picture of Wednesday night's ratings won't emerge until final nationals are released. The early data show, however, that ABC may take the night.

Fueled by "Lost," ABC led in the fast nationals with an 8.9 rating/13 share. FOX came in second with an 8.4/13, followed by NBC at 7.2/11. CBS was fourth at 6.2/9. UPN, 3.0/4, edged The WB, 2.8/4, in the race for fifth.


ABC also led among adults 18-49 with a 5.0 rating. FOX was right behind at 4.9. NBC averaged 3.8, CBS 2.7, UPN 2.0 and The WB 1.8.
"Lost," 10.6/16, easily won the 8 p.m. hour for ABC. FOX's coverage of baseball's league championship series posted an 8.1/12 for the hour. CBS got a 6.1/9 from "60 Minutes," beating out a "Law & Order" rerun on NBC. "Smallville," 3.5/5, finished fifth for The WB, narrowly beating "America's Next Top Model" on UPN.

In a tightly bunched field at 9 p.m., ABC held a slight lead with the 8.6/12 it drew for its debate coverage. FOX was second with baseball, 8.5/12. The debate averaged 8.2/11 for NBC and 6.6/10 for CBS. UPN aired a repeat of "Kevin Hill" as some affiliates pre-empted it for the debate, but it was still good enough to beat "The Mountain" on The WB.

FOX took the lead at 10 p.m., with its baseball broadcasts scoring an 8.6/14. NBC's debate wrapup came in at 7.8/12, beating ABC's 7.6/12 and CBS' 6.0/9.

Huh, it's a wild thought you had after reading my posts after the two-hour premiere episode...

Unless the producers of the show are flat-out lying when they do press about the show, all the survivors are alive on an island.

Especially since he was wearing white shoes...and after LABOR DAY!

I think that the writers/producers/whoever are full of shit. I really think that when everything is revealed, it will go against what one of them have said already.

besides that, how would they explain the people who died (from the monster and the guy with the shrapnel) if they were already dead

Ahh, the old "you are stupid" joke! Might I be the first to say no duh!

Edited to add: So then, who is buried in Grant's tomb?!

I don't understand what you're saying.

I thought it was just me.

I apologize in advance if this has been covered in the previous pages but spoilers from Wanda at E chat

I was hoping it wasn't just me.

Oh come on. Throw me a freakin' bone here... Bullet points at least??

from tvtome.com:

Walkabout
gs: L. Scott Caldwell (Rose)

Survivors are jolted awake in the middle of the night when wild island beasts invade the beach encampment. Kate and Michael join the mysterious Locke on a hunt for food -- and a shocking secret about Locke is revealed. Meanwhile, some survivors are horrified by Jack's plan for the dead bodies still scattered among the wreckage, and Jack sees someone in the jungle who might not have been on the plane.

Spoilers added to TVTome summary because it's incorrect, and may reveal things that happen in later episodes. - Static

I put this in the "Too late to get into Lost?" thread:

In addition, Jack comforts Rose (the middle-aged black woman), who thinks that her husband is alive. Jack also sees a man dressed in a black suit with white shoes standing on the far side of the beach... when he runs up to look for him, the man has vanished.

Thanks for catching that Static, I didn't even notice

And some minor things:

The hobbit runs out of drugs.
The brother tells his sister she can't support herself (by catching a fish). She uses her femine charms to get the hobbit to do it for her. He tries to get Hurley to do, but Hurley has no luck.
Redneck guy was hiding peanuts, then decides to give them to the pregnant girl.
(BTW, how po'd do you think he is, that we refer to him as "the hobbit"?)


I was wondering if maybe Jack had a companion on the plane, but they weren't able to sit together. Has happened to me. Plus a Dr. in coach? Maybe he got his tickets last minute, and couldn't sit together. Maybe that's why he didn't want to be involved with the memorial, finally coming to the realization that the other person was dead. He's pretty much been non-stop since waking up.

When I first saw Locke wiggling his toes, I was thinking along the right lines. But for some reason, I was thinking maybe he had a prosthetic leg, and his real one grew back. After reading this thread, I started thinking outside the box. Maybe he was never paralyzed. Maybe he was in the middle of an insurance scam? (don't try and bend the spoon, that's impossible.).
I was all over the Helen thing. But, they got me hard with the Colonel thing.

Regarding Locke being or not being really paralyzed... check out this picture:

You can see he has some sort of device with a video screen on it next to his bed. It looks like an electrostimulation machine... something that Locke uses on his legs to keep them from atrophying completely out of disuse, possibly.

Wouldn't he need that even if it was a pshycological thing? Since he still isn't using his legs. Also, the best treatment would be placebo type stuff anyway.

I'm not sure I'm understanding the theory about the island granting wishes. What about the guy who was chasing Kate? His wish was to either re-arrest her, or to kill her (or, at a minimum, stay alive), but that didn't come true.

It probably bothers him... until he checks his bank account and realizes CHA-CHING!

Let's not get ahaed of ourselves, okay? I'm a doctor, have been for a decade and I always fly coach. Cardiothoracic surgeons and plastic surgeons make boatloads of money, but most doctors do not. Most work very hard for a small fraction of what the successful lawyers who go out of their way to sue them (cough Sen Edwards, cough) make. I'm sorta amazed that the myth of the rich doctor persists in this day and age.