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I really liked this episode a lot. I liked the fact that it was Boone who died, not because I dislike him, but it would have been unrealistic for Jack to save him under those circumstances.

I also thought that Jun was amazing this episode. His interaction with Sun was great, but I almost died laughing watching his facial expressions when he holds back Charlie when Claire was giving birth.

Like another poster said, by killing off Boone, it makes me kind of think that no one is safe and anyone could go. I realize that there are some characters that can't die, but in too many other shows, the main characters are protected by the "magical shield of plot device" and I'm glad to see that Lost is willing to push the envelope that much further.

Can't wait till the next episode.

Anyone else besides me who kept thinking that Locke would show up at the last minute with some magical item from the Hatch and save Boone?

Me neither - and I've donated blood at least two times.

Just to echo, great episode. I really enjoyed seeing Michael become sort of protective of Jin - wanting him to get something to eat. I really liked how when trouble was around that Jin and Sun were able to disregard their differences and work together. Maybe thay can reconcile and she can begin teaching him English.

Charlie just seemed like the stereotypical tv "dad" who is to nervous to do anything, comedy relief.

Maybe Sawyer is trying to "make nice" to find more ways to accumulate stuff or maybe he is changing and is starting to realize that the survivors are a community. People have to respect some type order or their is total chaos.

The death of Boone, while not a suprise due to his injuries, was important as it gave us more insight into Jack. Jack does what is expected of him, not what he wants to do. Maybe now on this island, he is finally able to true to himself. "Everyone gets a fresh start on this island."

Waiting eagerly for the next batch of new episodes.

Regular blood donor here and it took me 2 years to learn and remember what my blood type is. (A+)

I've read a lot of posts in this thread complaining about the predictability of Boone's death. If you hadn't heard the rumors that a main male cast member was going to die, would you not have been surprised by his death? Especially after the writers 'cried wolf' twice before with Charlie and Shannon supposedly dying?

Actually, I read about a cast member dying right around the time Ethan did and forgot about it after that. So, the rumor didn't cross my mind again until you just said it.

I thought Boone was an interesting character, one of the most complicated characters on the whole island. Smart to pair up with locke to find out how to survive on the island. Killing him off killed me on the show. I'm done with it. The show is not going anywhere, literally and figuratively. I know the rest of you will yell at me now but eventually you'll see it too. This shows rating are going to die in it's second season. Like i said i'm done with it. I hope smallville comes back on the air with new episodes.

I don't know my blood type either.

I thought this episode was great! I figured there would be a small chance Boone would die but I figured they would somehow save him miraculously.

With the way everyone loves Locke so much, it makes me think more and more they might kill him off to screw with everyone.

My mother knew the 'surprise' about The Sixth Sense about 10 minutes into the movie, and she's the type of person who has a hard time following the plot of Mork and Mindy. I guess my point is that some people pick these things up easier than others (you obviously being one of them). When Charlie 'died' I bought it hook, line, and sinker. I never thought they would knock off a major character like that. Then of course he came back to life. When Shannon 'died', I was a bit skeptical, and of course that wasn't real either. So had I not known that a major character was going to die, I don't think I would have believed Boone wasn't going to make it.

I do think stretching his death over two episodes minimized the impact it would have had if he would have died at the end of last weeks episode though.

You are entitled to your opinions but I disagree with you. I thought his whole purpose was to enhance the characters of Locke and Shannon.

I have to look at a card in my wallet to tell you my blood type.

the pilot was not part of the original number of survivors.

I don't know my blood type either. Donated blood at least 4 times.

The writing followed the proper, logical path by having Boone die.

It really just would have been too much of a leap to believe someone with his injuries could have survived under the comparatively primitive conditions on the island, but even expecting it, I was still sort of stunned when it finally happened.

It's going to be a long wait until May 4....

Scott or steve.

I totally thought boone was a red herring. He was so the obvious choice to die after last weeks episode..that I thought they would shock us.

Oh well.

two shows in a week where you are thinking red herrng..and you get predictiable (24 with AFone getting shot down)

major spoiler:

On the May 4th episode,

At first I was ticked that they took the obvious route and killed Boone off after he was injured (which is very un-J.J. like if you've watched Alias), but in hindsight I'm in favor of it. I do like that they are trying show that the major characters aren't invincible, and in the context of the story, I liked how they drew out the parallels between Jack's past and his present.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Jack's wife say that she caused the accident? Did she say she fell asleep at the wheel? I do remember her say that she flipped and crossed the median, smashing into oncoming traffic...

If the accident tied in, I would say she smashed into Locke's car, putting him into a wheelchair.

@ guesswho


"dude, you're lookin' kinda goth"

Great! So now I have to pull out the Series 1 Tivo from storage for this? Oooooh, I HATE network TV schedules!

I don't watch the previews or read spoilers, but as soon as they showed Claire going into labor, I knew Boone was dead. It's the oldest clichι in the book. I can just imagine the writers patting themselves on the back over the whole "Juxtaposition of Life and Death" thing, when in reality this sort of thing is Fiction 101. Yawn, very predictable.

What does everybody mean by a "special" episode on April 27?

You have a Tivo and haven't been using it???

I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet, but Jack didn't have any tattoos in the flashback where he was trying on his tux.

I thought this was a great episode! Boone dying was necessary, imo. Of all of the cast members, I think he's the only one who could die and not affect the story as much. I mean, what was he really bringing to the story, other than following Locke around and being in love with his sister?

Here's a good article from the NY Post about Boone finding out he would be the one killed:

http://www.newyorkpost.com/entertainment/23023.htm

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April 7, 2005 -- THE actor who plays Boone, killed off on last night's "Lost," isn't happy about becoming the first casualty on one of TV's hottest new shows.
"Pretty devastating," Ian Somerhalder tells Entertainment Weekly. "The week [before] I got the call [telling him the bad news], I started looking for a house in Hawaii.

"Now I'm looking for a house in Venice Beach."

Boone died last night from the injuries he suffered after the small plane he was investigating fell out of a tree.

Somerhalder, who played the preppy trust-fund baby, tells EW he understands why "Lost" creators J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof killed off his character.

But he also says they "boxed themselves into a corner" by revealing that someone was going to die — making him and his castmates anxious about which one of them might be the one.

"We really didn't appreciate that. They already fooled the audience twice," he says, with the apparent deaths of Shannon — which turned out to be a dream — and Charlie, who was revived using CPR.

"It's like 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, I'm going to stop watching your show.' "

Somerhalder, 26, tells EW he was on a wine-tasting weekend in California last January when he got the bad news from Abrams and Lindelof. "Thank God I already had four glasses of really good pinot in me," he says.

His angst is understandable, considering that "Lost," along with ABC stablemate "Desperate Housewives," is the season's most-talked-about new series.

It's been averaging around 16 million viewers a week and becoming the watercooler show in telling the tale of survivors of a plane crash fending for themselves on a mysterious island.

But "Lost" executive producer Carlton Cuse tells EW that killing off Boone was a necessity because it will affect Locke (Terry O'Quinn) — Boone's father figure — and Jack (Matthew Fox), the island's doctor.

"It was a narrative imperative that we kill Boone," Cuse says. "It sets in motion a chain of events leading to the season finale."

Fans of Somerhalder can take some solace that Boone isn't completely gone — he'll appear via flashback in the two-hour season finale May 25.

"I'll always have a place in Hawaii," Somerhalder says. "Trust me — life is great. And you know what? This show has made it that much better."

EW's story on "Lost" hits newsstands tomorrow.

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