forgot to watch "Lost" last week

[fflo]

John Locke, to his scoundrel father: "You make people think that you're their family, and then you leave their lives in ruin."

Maybe I'm crazy staying late at work on a lovely night to catch up. But at least this episode has stuff going on in it, as TGP pointed out.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

Early on, before we know the (possibly pseudo-)scientists are civilized, they steal away with some survivors, and are called "others." Oh, and there's the fact that the people in the tail section of the plane landed somewhere else and were at first thought to be hostile strangers. Or maybe they really were hostile, cuz they were scared too. Or whatever. Plus there's the mysterious French woman. And at one point a hot air balloon crashed there. And then there was a guy sailing around the world or something... he's psychic now. And the drug-smuggling priests. See, the island has these mysterious powers that draw folk there. We have to watch years of it to find out what/why.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

...and when they reunite with the people who had landed somewhere else, after many many many years of not communicating with the "others," they learn their languages had changed and they sometimes cannot understand each other.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oops---you're ahead of the curve for "Lost" right there!

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i'm thinking these are some dropouts from a phd program in language and literature writing the script and planting these insider jokes. but not bad at all, i say. a surreptitious way to force people to become interested in these sorts of "plots."