Lost "Special" -- 01.19.2004
01-20-05 | 12:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
And while everyone's waiting for the new episode, why not watch The Sawyer Song to pass the time?
Sawyer Song
Sawyer Song
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01-20-05 | 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Jeremy517
So know we know how Michael ended up in the wheelchair. I wonder why he gets sent to Oz though.
I was waiting for him to be in a big spinning box identifying patients by their room numbers.This was probably one of my favorite episodes so far. The Walt backstory was interesting and with the end scene.
Looks like the events of last week really affected Boone as he appears to be loyal to Locke more then he is Shannon now.
01-20-05 | 01:01 AM
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Originally Posted by chanster
For those interested..What does this say about Lost?
Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends Part I - About fifty years ago an alien spacecraft fell to Earth and in the interests of "national security" the Flash (Jay Garrick) and the Green Lantern (Alan Scott) were called in to eliminate the threat. In they're absolute trust of the government (yes there was a time when people trusted the government, hard to believe isn't it?), they never thought that the alien might be peaceful, and attacked unquestioningly. Having defeated it, Flash and GL were pushed to the background, not even thanked. Realizing the mistake they had made, they hid the space ship in a place where no one would find it. Fifty years later, the alien escapes from the government lab that held it prisoner for so long, and he's pissed. Not only was he locked up for fifty years, but the tests run on him gave him an incurable cancerous disease. The first thing he does is kill the man in charge of his incarceration, then finds Jay and Alan in order to retrieve the ship. When the two disappear, their wives contact the most recent Flash and Green Lantern and tell them the story. The boys aren't happy to be working together, but concede that it's necessary to save Jay and Alan. Using his ring, Kyle is able to pinpoint Alan's signature and find the buried space ship. The alien apparently has some pretty powerful psionic abilities and forces Alan and Jay to protect him while he sends out a signal and sets the ship for self-destruct. Kyle and Wally manage to save Jay and Alan, but don't stop the ship from exploding. The boys seem to have saved the day, but the alien's final words hang heavy in their minds, something about it being "too late for all of us."
Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends Part II - After a quick recap of the last issue, we find that Jay Garrick is dying. His hyper-metabolism is actually causing a disease that has been slowly killing him, leading up until now. He has about twenty four hours to live. That doesn't stop him from finishing his duty, which at this point is to stop an alien invasion. The message that Alien X (the name of the alien from the previous issue) sent was an "invitation" to a parasitic race that apparently sweeps across worlds leaving nothing in their wake. Portals have been opening across the world and these aliens have been pouring out. Jay and Wally go back to the remains of Alien X's ship, only to meet Alan and Kyle. The younger pair of the quartet decide to go back through one of the portals and fight the aliens on their home turf. When they arrive, something weird happened, they end up in each other's costumes, thinking they're the other. These scenes are very amusing: Kyle thinking he's Wally making fun of the Green Lantern, and Vice Versa. Eventually with the help of Jay and Alan the boys realize who they are, and start kicking butt. They come across the mother alien and manage to drive it off, convincing it that it's actions are wrong. The alien also gives them transportation off the planet, in the form of four portals. They figure out that what happened earlier with the mistaken identities was because Kyle and Wally went through the same portal, thus the alien offered four portals, one for each of them. Alan suggests that if he and Jay enter one portal at the same time, some of his healthy cells would transfer over to Jay's. Jay suggests that this could work the other way as well and won't let Alan risk it. Alan goes ahead and risks it, and (surprise, surprise) it works, Jay is cured, and there are no ill-effects to Alan. Both Jay and Alan tell the boys that they hated each other when they started out, but became best friends, and if Kyle and Wally can overcome the friction that their relationship seems to be based on, they might just become the best team ever. That's saying a lot considering the legacy, first Alan and Jay, then Barry and Hal. Those are some tough acts to beat. These issues take place around the time of GL #83.
Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends Part I - About fifty years ago an alien spacecraft fell to Earth and in the interests of "national security" the Flash (Jay Garrick) and the Green Lantern (Alan Scott) were called in to eliminate the threat. In they're absolute trust of the government (yes there was a time when people trusted the government, hard to believe isn't it?), they never thought that the alien might be peaceful, and attacked unquestioningly. Having defeated it, Flash and GL were pushed to the background, not even thanked. Realizing the mistake they had made, they hid the space ship in a place where no one would find it. Fifty years later, the alien escapes from the government lab that held it prisoner for so long, and he's pissed. Not only was he locked up for fifty years, but the tests run on him gave him an incurable cancerous disease. The first thing he does is kill the man in charge of his incarceration, then finds Jay and Alan in order to retrieve the ship. When the two disappear, their wives contact the most recent Flash and Green Lantern and tell them the story. The boys aren't happy to be working together, but concede that it's necessary to save Jay and Alan. Using his ring, Kyle is able to pinpoint Alan's signature and find the buried space ship. The alien apparently has some pretty powerful psionic abilities and forces Alan and Jay to protect him while he sends out a signal and sets the ship for self-destruct. Kyle and Wally manage to save Jay and Alan, but don't stop the ship from exploding. The boys seem to have saved the day, but the alien's final words hang heavy in their minds, something about it being "too late for all of us."
Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends Part II - After a quick recap of the last issue, we find that Jay Garrick is dying. His hyper-metabolism is actually causing a disease that has been slowly killing him, leading up until now. He has about twenty four hours to live. That doesn't stop him from finishing his duty, which at this point is to stop an alien invasion. The message that Alien X (the name of the alien from the previous issue) sent was an "invitation" to a parasitic race that apparently sweeps across worlds leaving nothing in their wake. Portals have been opening across the world and these aliens have been pouring out. Jay and Wally go back to the remains of Alien X's ship, only to meet Alan and Kyle. The younger pair of the quartet decide to go back through one of the portals and fight the aliens on their home turf. When they arrive, something weird happened, they end up in each other's costumes, thinking they're the other. These scenes are very amusing: Kyle thinking he's Wally making fun of the Green Lantern, and Vice Versa. Eventually with the help of Jay and Alan the boys realize who they are, and start kicking butt. They come across the mother alien and manage to drive it off, convincing it that it's actions are wrong. The alien also gives them transportation off the planet, in the form of four portals. They figure out that what happened earlier with the mistaken identities was because Kyle and Wally went through the same portal, thus the alien offered four portals, one for each of them. Alan suggests that if he and Jay enter one portal at the same time, some of his healthy cells would transfer over to Jay's. Jay suggests that this could work the other way as well and won't let Alan risk it. Alan goes ahead and risks it, and (surprise, surprise) it works, Jay is cured, and there are no ill-effects to Alan. Both Jay and Alan tell the boys that they hated each other when they started out, but became best friends, and if Kyle and Wally can overcome the friction that their relationship seems to be based on, they might just become the best team ever. That's saying a lot considering the legacy, first Alan and Jay, then Barry and Hal. Those are some tough acts to beat. These issues take place around the time of GL #83.
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01-20-05 | 01:07 AM
#55
Originally Posted by aktick
I was more like WTF?!?!?!?!
When you post anything by itself in all caps followed by an excaimation point, all characters in said word or phrase will be transformed into lower case, with the exception of the first letter of each word.
It's a glitch in the matrix, n00b.
YOU ARE SO HAWT, when followed by exclaimation points, will look like my next post.
01-20-05 | 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by chanster
For those interested..What does this say about Lost?
Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends Part I - About fifty years ago an alien spacecraft fell to Earth and in the interests of "national security" the Flash (Jay Garrick) and the Green Lantern (Alan Scott) were called in to eliminate the threat. In they're absolute trust of the government (yes there was a time when people trusted the government, hard to believe isn't it?), they never thought that the alien might be peaceful, and attacked unquestioningly. Having defeated it, Flash and GL were pushed to the background, not even thanked. Realizing the mistake they had made, they hid the space ship in a place where no one would find it. Fifty years later, the alien escapes from the government lab that held it prisoner for so long, and he's pissed. Not only was he locked up for fifty years, but the tests run on him gave him an incurable cancerous disease. The first thing he does is kill the man in charge of his incarceration, then finds Jay and Alan in order to retrieve the ship. When the two disappear, their wives contact the most recent Flash and Green Lantern and tell them the story. The boys aren't happy to be working together, but concede that it's necessary to save Jay and Alan. Using his ring, Kyle is able to pinpoint Alan's signature and find the buried space ship. The alien apparently has some pretty powerful psionic abilities and forces Alan and Jay to protect him while he sends out a signal and sets the ship for self-destruct. Kyle and Wally manage to save Jay and Alan, but don't stop the ship from exploding. The boys seem to have saved the day, but the alien's final words hang heavy in their minds, something about it being "too late for all of us."
Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends Part II - After a quick recap of the last issue, we find that Jay Garrick is dying. His hyper-metabolism is actually causing a disease that has been slowly killing him, leading up until now. He has about twenty four hours to live. That doesn't stop him from finishing his duty, which at this point is to stop an alien invasion. The message that Alien X (the name of the alien from the previous issue) sent was an "invitation" to a parasitic race that apparently sweeps across worlds leaving nothing in their wake. Portals have been opening across the world and these aliens have been pouring out. Jay and Wally go back to the remains of Alien X's ship, only to meet Alan and Kyle. The younger pair of the quartet decide to go back through one of the portals and fight the aliens on their home turf. When they arrive, something weird happened, they end up in each other's costumes, thinking they're the other. These scenes are very amusing: Kyle thinking he's Wally making fun of the Green Lantern, and Vice Versa. Eventually with the help of Jay and Alan the boys realize who they are, and start kicking butt. They come across the mother alien and manage to drive it off, convincing it that it's actions are wrong. The alien also gives them transportation off the planet, in the form of four portals. They figure out that what happened earlier with the mistaken identities was because Kyle and Wally went through the same portal, thus the alien offered four portals, one for each of them. Alan suggests that if he and Jay enter one portal at the same time, some of his healthy cells would transfer over to Jay's. Jay suggests that this could work the other way as well and won't let Alan risk it. Alan goes ahead and risks it, and (surprise, surprise) it works, Jay is cured, and there are no ill-effects to Alan. Both Jay and Alan tell the boys that they hated each other when they started out, but became best friends, and if Kyle and Wally can overcome the friction that their relationship seems to be based on, they might just become the best team ever. That's saying a lot considering the legacy, first Alan and Jay, then Barry and Hal. Those are some tough acts to beat. These issues take place around the time of GL #83.
Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends Part I - About fifty years ago an alien spacecraft fell to Earth and in the interests of "national security" the Flash (Jay Garrick) and the Green Lantern (Alan Scott) were called in to eliminate the threat. In they're absolute trust of the government (yes there was a time when people trusted the government, hard to believe isn't it?), they never thought that the alien might be peaceful, and attacked unquestioningly. Having defeated it, Flash and GL were pushed to the background, not even thanked. Realizing the mistake they had made, they hid the space ship in a place where no one would find it. Fifty years later, the alien escapes from the government lab that held it prisoner for so long, and he's pissed. Not only was he locked up for fifty years, but the tests run on him gave him an incurable cancerous disease. The first thing he does is kill the man in charge of his incarceration, then finds Jay and Alan in order to retrieve the ship. When the two disappear, their wives contact the most recent Flash and Green Lantern and tell them the story. The boys aren't happy to be working together, but concede that it's necessary to save Jay and Alan. Using his ring, Kyle is able to pinpoint Alan's signature and find the buried space ship. The alien apparently has some pretty powerful psionic abilities and forces Alan and Jay to protect him while he sends out a signal and sets the ship for self-destruct. Kyle and Wally manage to save Jay and Alan, but don't stop the ship from exploding. The boys seem to have saved the day, but the alien's final words hang heavy in their minds, something about it being "too late for all of us."
Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends Part II - After a quick recap of the last issue, we find that Jay Garrick is dying. His hyper-metabolism is actually causing a disease that has been slowly killing him, leading up until now. He has about twenty four hours to live. That doesn't stop him from finishing his duty, which at this point is to stop an alien invasion. The message that Alien X (the name of the alien from the previous issue) sent was an "invitation" to a parasitic race that apparently sweeps across worlds leaving nothing in their wake. Portals have been opening across the world and these aliens have been pouring out. Jay and Wally go back to the remains of Alien X's ship, only to meet Alan and Kyle. The younger pair of the quartet decide to go back through one of the portals and fight the aliens on their home turf. When they arrive, something weird happened, they end up in each other's costumes, thinking they're the other. These scenes are very amusing: Kyle thinking he's Wally making fun of the Green Lantern, and Vice Versa. Eventually with the help of Jay and Alan the boys realize who they are, and start kicking butt. They come across the mother alien and manage to drive it off, convincing it that it's actions are wrong. The alien also gives them transportation off the planet, in the form of four portals. They figure out that what happened earlier with the mistaken identities was because Kyle and Wally went through the same portal, thus the alien offered four portals, one for each of them. Alan suggests that if he and Jay enter one portal at the same time, some of his healthy cells would transfer over to Jay's. Jay suggests that this could work the other way as well and won't let Alan risk it. Alan goes ahead and risks it, and (surprise, surprise) it works, Jay is cured, and there are no ill-effects to Alan. Both Jay and Alan tell the boys that they hated each other when they started out, but became best friends, and if Kyle and Wally can overcome the friction that their relationship seems to be based on, they might just become the best team ever. That's saying a lot considering the legacy, first Alan and Jay, then Barry and Hal. Those are some tough acts to beat. These issues take place around the time of GL #83.
Even better to have a comic tie-in. Even if it is DC.
Now, if we could only see Hal fly over the island, my life would be complete.
01-20-05 | 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by MrX
I thought the same thing I was waiting for him to be in a big spinning box identifying patients by their room numbers.
This was probably one of my favorite episodes so far. The Walt backstory was interesting and with the end scene.
Looks like the events of last week really affected Boone as he appears to be loyal to Locke more then he is Shannon now.
I was waiting for him to be in a big spinning box identifying patients by their room numbers.This was probably one of my favorite episodes so far. The Walt backstory was interesting and with the end scene.
Looks like the events of last week really affected Boone as he appears to be loyal to Locke more then he is Shannon now.
01-20-05 | 02:08 AM
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From: City of the lakers.. riots.. and drug dealing cops.. los(t) Angel(e)s. ca.
Even better to have a comic tie-in. Even if it is DC.
Besides, at that point Hal was bat shit insane starting the whole zero hour events. So it was Kyle that would be flying above
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That's why my life would only be complete if it was Hal.
01-20-05 | 06:35 AM
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Originally Posted by david12
My TiVo cut off one minute early (this one minute longer/shorter shit is pissing me off) and I missed the very "astonishing" ending.
01-20-05 | 06:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
I'm very disappointed that the producers have broken their "everything is scientifically possible" promise. That was either a lie, or they've gotten lazy in the writing and have decided "anything goes."
On the other hand, somebody get that kid a Playboy!
On the other hand, somebody get that kid a Playboy!
Why? Wouldn't that assume Walt has some type of special abilities? I do not, therefore the "scientifically possible" depiction still stands for me, at least until it is proven otherwise.
01-20-05 | 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by dom56
I thought I saw on Claire's diary the words "I HATE HIM" written on the bottom, the scene did'nt stay on long so I don't know who she was talking about.
01-20-05 | 07:03 AM
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From: Sesame Street (the apt. next to Bob's)
Originally Posted by Roto
I think they hit him with the car just to put him in a wheelchair. Typecasting bastards!
A prediction: If they do Hurley's back story during sweeps next month, it will be the highest rated episode so far.
01-20-05 | 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Charlie Goose
I'm thinking the kid's dog might be the wizard. He has shifty eyes.
Maybe we'll get a closer look at one of these beasts tonight.
Yay for Wednesdays!
Maybe we'll get a closer look at one of these beasts tonight.
Yay for Wednesdays!
01-20-05 | 07:12 AM
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I liked the way Michael gave away the stepfather's dog to Walt.
That scene of Michael getting hit by the car looked real as hell. How do they do that and not get the person getting hit really messed up? CGI or careful staging and collision speed?
That scene of Michael getting hit by the car looked real as hell. How do they do that and not get the person getting hit really messed up? CGI or careful staging and collision speed?
01-20-05 | 07:18 AM
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Hmm, Walt's dads. One white, one black. And, the penguin.
Sure, we got Claire back, but doesn't anyone care about Vincent?
Sure, we got Claire back, but doesn't anyone care about Vincent?
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01-20-05 | 07:19 AM
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Another vote for a great backstory. Maybe the flashbacks were telling the story from Walt and Michael's pov.
Not sure what is now up between Michael and Locke. Are they gonna be OK?
Seems that the children are the key - Walt and Claire's child.
Almost seems to point to some type of otherworldly explanation.
Maybe we will know by the end of the season. Gonna be a long three weeks.
Not sure what is now up between Michael and Locke. Are they gonna be OK?
Seems that the children are the key - Walt and Claire's child.
Almost seems to point to some type of otherworldly explanation.
Maybe we will know by the end of the season. Gonna be a long three weeks.
01-20-05 | 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
I'm very disappointed that the producers have broken their "everything is scientifically possible" promise. That was either a lie, or they've gotten lazy in the writing and have decided "anything goes."
On the other hand, somebody get that kid a Playboy!
On the other hand, somebody get that kid a Playboy!
big enough for this post. I was a big fan of this show from the beginning, but I'm really starting to get pissed. Every time a paraplegic walks or a kid makes a frigging polar bear appear with his mind, I just start the countdown to the episode where we find out it's all been an autistic boy's fantasy world.Abrams said on more than one occasion that everything in the plotline was 100% feasible within the realm of science. Somehow I think he's strecthing the boundaries of feasibility with this. I'm wouldn't normally be against these sorts of devices and I like the show otherwise, but it just completely goes against the rules we've been expressly given by the creators.
01-20-05 | 07:53 AM
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Originally Posted by thenetstud
When I saw them placing the french woman's map together and saw the triangle I thought maybe they crossed over the bermuda triangle and that made them crash.
01-20-05 | 07:56 AM
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From: Pataskala, OH
How about a Magnolia theory -- where everything that happens is just a strange, unplanned coincidence.
Another random thought:
I recall reading that the creators of Lost base a lot of characters/stories on the book/miniseries "The Stand" by Stephen King. I actually noticed this prior to reading the article. Anybody remember Mother Abigail in The Stand? Anybody remember her saying that "you'll feel right as rain" at various moments in the movie? Jack is certainly a "Mother Abigail" character, and used the words "right as rain" in a recent episode (which simply made me think more about the Stand).
Another random thought:
I recall reading that the creators of Lost base a lot of characters/stories on the book/miniseries "The Stand" by Stephen King. I actually noticed this prior to reading the article. Anybody remember Mother Abigail in The Stand? Anybody remember her saying that "you'll feel right as rain" at various moments in the movie? Jack is certainly a "Mother Abigail" character, and used the words "right as rain" in a recent episode (which simply made me think more about the Stand).
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01-20-05 | 07:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Jackskeleton
Ethan ate the baby. I guessed it first!
01-20-05 | 08:06 AM
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So if Walt has some kind of special powers, did he make the plane crash?