LOST - What IS this island?

[Stevew]

It is big enough to shake big trees, I am curious

[BST]

Tonight's ep was decent, nothing earth-shattering. This was the 5th episode, right? I missed the last 2 weeks so, I feel like I'm starting over a bit. ABC is repeating eps 1 and 2 this weekend. I wish they would add on 3 and 4 so that I could get back up to speed.

[David Kerin]

I'm personally amazed the show is still on. Has a large cast, interesting and compelling story that slowly reveals itself. Each episode so far seems to take time and explore a different character. It's not a reality show.

It is the first time in a while that there is a show on that I make sure I watch. Congratulations to ABC for producing the show, and I 'm glad the audience is there. Maybe the rest of America are as starved for good "scripted" series as I am.

It's also a great series to watch with my children (ages 4 and 10). However the first episode did give my 4 year old a scary dream. Even with that he is still excited for the show in Wednesdays. I wonder what it will be like when we take a plane trip.

[thomas7g]

LOL. Can you imagine David if your kid notices one of the cast members is on the same flight?

Actually if ANY of them are on the same plane with me, I may get nervous.

[thomas7g]

Pete, I think they aaare re-airing 3 and 4 this weekend. Saturday 8 PM EST.

[Gemini1999]

On Wednesday, I was debating on whether to watch Smallville or Lost. I decided to give Lost a go even though we missed a week due to the presidential debate and last week's episode was never aired. Right when I turned on Lost, I saw a crawl message that said they were gonna broadcast the missing episode from last week this Saturday (tomorrow) and they were gonna rebroadcast this week's episode immediately afterwards.

So, I got to watch Smallville (it was just okay...) and I get to watch 2 episodes of Lost tomorrow night....!

Woo Hoo!

Best,
Bryan

[Archangel]

waiting for the double header

[Sci-Fi]

Coming Soon Forums has an ongoing and interesting thread on "Lost".

[Rowan]

'Lost' Gets Picked Up for a Full Season

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...ce/lost_hawaii

[thomas7g]

Yay!!!!!

[skippercollecto]

"Lost" is, in my opinion, the best adventure series ever made in the 60-plus-years history of television. It is well-written, with a great cast, the scenery is stunning, and the element of surprise is better-used than in anything I've ever watched before on the tube.
I am delighted, and shocked, that the series is doing well in the ratings. Never has an action-adventure-fantasy series (I don't want to say science fiction, because I don't know if Lost falls in that category) scored this high in the Neilsons on prime time original Big Three Network TV.
So you'd think I'd want to discuss it endlessly in chat rooms, collect stuff from it, keep a scrapbook, and want to know what happens three weeks down the road. To my amazement, I don't want any of that this time. It may be partly because I've done that/am doing that for so many other shows/movies/celebrities that it's "out of my system" and don't feel the need for it. But I think it's mainly because, again, of the element of surprise. I DON'T wanna know in advance what will happen on "Lost"! I've found that it's kind of fun jumping out of my skin for a second or two one night a week. (I'm not a horror movie fan, so it's really not something that I enjoy experiencing, and I usually avoid watching programs like that.)
The only thing about the show that I am really curious about, and have not yet found (although I've not looked at Lost websites too closely, for the above-mentioned reasons), is a complete cast list of the folks on the island, not just with the regulars each week, but the recurring ones, the ones that have died, and the ones who have had one or two lines but you see them in the background on the island. So if any of you know where to locate this, could you tell me (without directing me to a site that over-analyzes the series and gives away all its secrets)?

Mary

[BST]

This show is definitely growing on me (and that takes some doing).

Last night's ep was good -- glad my wife reminded me it was on!!

[BST]

Originally Posted by skippercollecto

The only thing about the show that I am really curious about, and have not yet found (although I've not looked at Lost websites too closely, for the above-mentioned reasons), is a complete cast list of the folks on the island, not just with the regulars each week, but the recurring ones, the ones that have died, and the ones who have had one or two lines but you see them in the background on the island.

Mary,

Is this what you were looking for?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411008/

[thomas7g]

ACK!!!!

Stupid election threw me watching schedule off!!!

I didn't watch Lost, West WIng or SMALVILLE!!!!!!

Thank god for people with vcrs!

[skippercollecto]

Yes, that list is more comprehensive. Thanks for locating it.
Now to figure out the folks listed in the closing credits....

[thomas7g]

OH NO!!!!! In the commercials I saw it looked like ...

Spoiler ...Kate was going to kiss SAWYER!!!!! That's the jerkola Hick guy!!!!! NO KATE NO! Stay with the Doc!!! Jack is better for you!!!

[thomas7g]

Oh! And Mary I know how you feel about wanting to maintain an feeling of surprise.

But oh its soooo hard to watch just One little hour a week!

I want MORE and I want it NOW!!!!

And dang it! THere ain't nothing else on that even is half as good!!!!

[skippercollecto]

What moronic TV programmer(s) scheduled Lost, LAX and the second half of Category 6 (A TDAT-like miniseries) all at 8 p.m. next Wednesday (Nov. 17)?! I have only one TV and one VCR! Yes, I can watch one program while taping another, but that still leaves a third show to worry about!
I will have to be sure to take a blank tape to my mother's house this weekend and remember to set the timer on her VCR so that I will be able to watch everything eventually.
What's especially frustrating is that some nights there is nothing on at all to watch...
Mary

[thomas7g]

I'm going to make a quick recap of the various episodes for those who have missed one.

#1- pilot, part 1

Spoiler A plane out of Australia goes off course and breaks apart in midair and crashes on a remote island. There are 48 survivors. At night in the distance, there is a huge roar/moan and trees are seen being shoved to the side. Everyone is very scared. Jack(the doc), Kate, and Charlie head in the jungle in hopes of finding the cockpit and a radio transmitter. They find the cockpit section with the pilot still alive. But suddenly something reaches in and pulls his body out through the cockpit window. They later find his body...on the top of a tree!

#2- pilot, part 2

Spoiler The survivors find a pair of handcuffs. Instantly Sawyer(mean tempered redneck) and Sayid(a former iraqi soldier) accuse each other of being a criminal/terrorist. Unknown to everyone it was Kate who is the fugitive from justice. And the man next to her was an FBI guy taking her back to the USA. But he was heavily injured in the crash. Kate, Sawyer, and Sayid head to high ground to try radioing for help. Shannon (spoiled rich girl) and Boone(her brother) go along. Along the way a bear attacks (A POLAR BEAR?!?) and Sawyer kills it with a gun he took from the dying FBI guy. Not trusting sawyer they take the gun away from him. Reaching high ground they try the radio, but its jammed by another signal. Shannon deciphers the french. It is a message that was repeating for 16 years. A woman saying everyone is dead, please help.

[thomas7g]

#3- "Tabula Rasa"

Spoiler The survivors give Kate the gun thinking she is the most trustworthy. Flashbacks of Kate are shown. Back in Australia she is caught trespassing on an old man's farm. Instead of turning her in or running her off, he takes pity and offers her a job. But after a few months he finds out she is wanted with a huge reward posted. She figures this out while they are driving by the FBI guys in the car behind her. She tries to escape and causes a car crash. But rather than run she saves the man from the burning car and is captured. During flashbacks aboard the plane you see the FBI guy get knocked unconcious. Oxygen masks drop from the ceiling. Kate makes sure the unconcious FBI guy gets air. Later the FBI guy is dying on the beach from his injuries. he asks Kate to kill him. Kate gives the gun to Sawyer who shoots the FBI guy with the last bullet. But he blows it and it don't kill him. And he dies a much more painful death.

[thomas7g]

#4- Walkabout

Spoiler The survivors run out of food. Locke, a mysterious man suggest they hunt the wild boar on the island. Then he shows them his collection of knives!!! Flashbacks show Locke to be a mundane officeworker with a fondness of war games. He gets defensive alot about people telling him what he can't do. He obssesses about going to australia and surviving with a group in the wild living off the land. But his boss mocks him for even thinking of the idea. When he gets to Australia the survival guide tells him he can't go. Locke is angry. They tell him he isn't able to handle something like this and leaves him behind. The camera pulls back for the first time revealing Locke is in a wheelchair. he is a cripple. He angrily yells back in desperation "Don't tell me what I can't do!" Flash forward to just after the crash. Locke flat on his back on the beach, torn debri and people panicking all around him. And he suddenly notices he can move his toe. Slowly he discovers he can stand. And in the midst of all the destruction he can suddenly walk again!

[thomas7g]

I'll do more but my god...its late. Must sleep!!!!

[gmd3d]

I remember a show called "Fantastic Journey" in the 70s who can remember that show and is this "LOST" simular?? Fantastic Journey

Episode Information

Episode Number 1
First Aired February 3, 1977
Writer Michael Michaelian and Katharyn Michaelian Powers and
Story Merwin Gerard

Director Andrew V. McLaglen


Guest Stars: Mary Ann Mobley (as Rhea) Mary Ann Mobley (as Rhea) Gary Collins (as Dar-L) Scott Thomas (as Dr. Paul Jordan) Leif Erickson (as Captain Ben Wallace) Susan Howard (as Eve) Scott Brady (as Carl Johanson) Ian McShane (as Sir James Camden) Karen Somerville (as Jill) Don Knight (as Paget) Mike Road (as voice of the source) Byron Chung (as George) Jason Evers (as Atar) Jack Stauffer (as Andy) Lynn Borden (as Enid Jordan)


Synopsis

A group of scientists sailing the Caribbean are shipwrecked after entering a strange green mist. They do not know the island they are stranded and cannot explain why the land holds all kinds of different plants and animals that don't belong together (its like being in a zoo) two of the group tried to get to the shipping lanes in a small dingy to flag down help but died in the attempt they washed a shore the next day. Unknown to the rest of the group they were being watched by an Indian and when they traveled inland the Indian followed. when the Indian made himself know it was to fix a broken arm of the Capt. then lead the group to a cave for shelter where the group found a mummy and hieroglyphic's that don't belong together and also looked freshly painted that morning the Indian left as the group slept but young Scott woke and followed learning that he wasn't an Indian but a man from the 23rd century named Varian and he explained about the island and how he crashed here himself meanwhile 3 of the group Fred, Capt. Ben and Jill were being captured by strange what appear to be sixteenth century privateers, who still believe it is the sixteenth century. Scott's father Paul and Eve met up with Varian and Scott and work out a rescue plan Capt. Ben died from a snake bite while trying to take some of treasure with him but the rest escaped and started to head east and hopefully home

[skippercollecto]

Lost is similar in concept to JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING! It's just that the writing, acting and scenery are so well-done, and there have been so few decent new stories on TV for the past five years or so (ever since everyone started making reality TV), that it seems original.
The two most obvious comparisons, are, of course, Gilligan's Island and Survivor. But those two stories aren't the only ones.
In the course of five minutes, I came up with (I cheated, I did a little research on the dates) Castaway, Fantasy Island, Lord of the Flies (1954), Swiss Family Robinson (1814), The New People (a 1969 series which I never saw about a group of teens stranded on an abandoned military basis in the Pacific), Robinson Crusoe (1719), Gulliver's Travels (1726), Exile (a 1980s TV movie starring one of the Coreys about a group of teens stranded on a tropical isle), and the oldest one of all, The Tempest (1610). I don't remember if there was anything similar in the Odyssey, and that was written at least 2,000 years ago!
Oh, and as for the monster, that's from Jurassic Park/King Kong/Island of Dr. Moreau et al.
One last thing I've noticed: the character of Charlie is very much like the character of Larry in Stephen King's The Stand.

[thomas7g]

I actually was a big fan of Fantastic Journey! Waay back in the day. I remember liking a blond girl in a black dress with some sort of power that I forget. Did she talk to animals or turn into a cat? I also remember Varian had a cool tool thing.

I also thought of Survivor when the show began. Its really hard to make heads or tails of this series cause we don't know what's going on.

[thomas7g]

#5- "White Rabbit"

Spoiler Flashbacks show Jack as a young boy getting beaten up when he tried to help another boy getting beaten up. His father rather then take sympathy gives him a lecture on how he should NOT be a hero. "You just don't have what it takes." Jake meantime on the island is having hallucinations of his father. And chases after him. Everyone else on the island deal with running out of drinkable water. Flashbacks show how Jack, much older doesn't want anything to do with his father, but his Mom pushes him to get him back from Australia where he has fallen into alcoholism. Jack reluctantly goes. Only to identify the corpse of his dad. He then escorts the coffin on a fateful airplane... Jack thinks he is going crazy chasing his father illusion. but Locke tells him the island is magical and things can happen. And he urges Jack to continue to find whatever it is he must. Jack searches through the jungle. He finds the coffin in a cave. Only the body is missing. Jack throws a fit and breaks apart the coffin. But in the cave is a waterfall of fresh drinkable water.

[thomas7g]

#6 - "House of the Rising Sun"

Spoiler Jun (the korean girl) is a Korean socialite in love with a humble Korean waiter, Jin who brings her a flower. They fall in love, but Sun fears her very scary (mobster?) father. Amazingly he allows them to marriage. But Sun is horrified when Jin agrees to work for her father. Slowly the gentle Jin becomes darker, angrier. It looks like Jin is muscling people for her father and comes home with blood on him. She eventually decides to leave. She plots to fake her kidnapping at an airport. But just as she is about to leave, Jin gives her a flower. She choses to stay at his side. They board an airplane... Charlie, a musician of a famous band, is running low on his drug stash. Locke realizes Charlie is an addict. Locke tells him that the island will give Charlie back the guitar he wants back dearly, but the island demands a price. Charlie hands over his drugs. Locke tells him to look up. The guitar is on the cliff above them. Meanwhile the survivors are split. Some want to stay on the beach waiting for a rescue ship/plane to spot them. The others move to the cave where Jack found water. Kate does not stick with Jack.

[thomas7g]

#7- "The Moth"

Spoiler Charlie is going through withdrawals. He begs Locke for his drugs. Locke refuses. But says he will return it after Charlie asks for it three times. This was one. Charlie is shown in flashbacks to be a good devote Catholic boy who wants to give up a band because if its sinful life. But his brother talks him into sticking in promising to drop out if things get bad. But his brother gets into the sex and drugs lifestyle. And drags Charlie into it. On the island, a cave in traps Jack. But rather than help, Charlie goes to Locke for his drugs. Locke shows him a moth in a cocoon. Its struggling to get out. Locke could help with a snip of the knife and free it, but then it would be too weak to survive. The struggle strengthens the Moth. Locke then says this is two. The next time he will get his drugs. The survivors manage to build a small dangerous path to Jack, but he is pinned inside. Charlie volunteers to go in. And he saves Jack's life. That night Charlie asks for his drugs again. Its the third time and Locke hands the drugs over. Charlie then tosses the drugs in the fire.

[thomas7g]

#8- "The Confidence Man"

Spoiler Shannon (the spoiled girl) runs out of asthma medicine and can barely breathe. Jack and Sayid(the Iraqi) decide the only way left to get Sawyer(the mean redneck) to give up the medicine he is hoarding is to torture it out of him. In flashbacks we learn that Sawyer when he was a little boy saw his mother have an affair with a con man who stole his father's money. Which drove his father to kill his cheating wife, and commit suicide. He vows to hunt the con man down. Years later, Ironically Sawyer ends up a con man himself. He's schemes with a woman to trick her husband out of all his money. And just as he has the money in his hands... their little boy appears. Hating himself, he leaves the house. But the damage is done and the marriage is ending. He then takes an airplane flight.... Back in the present, Sawyer is screaming from Sayid's torture. But he won't give the medicine up. Not unless Kate kisses him. She gives in. But he admits he never had the medicine to begin with. Luckily the Korean woman helps uses a herbal medicine to help Shannon. Sayid is filled with remorse for his actions. He packs his stuff and exiles himself from the rest of the survivors.

[thomas7g]

That's it so far!