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Lost (TV show)
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The plane crashed because Desmond failed to enter the numbers into the computer on time because he was off bashing the head of the other hatchie into the rocks, as best I recall anyway. There was a magnetic release that caused the plane to break apart midair.
What about Sun's pregnancy? Isn't she a size 0? She should be showing quite soon. They've been on the island for three full months by now.
Ben mentioned that saying they knew the risks of getting pregnant. (This was when he was with Juliet on the rocks near the sea.)
I had forgotten about that. This is certainly going to get interesting...
Yes, true, but there needs to be more to the story than this.
My main question is not who or what caused the crash but how could anyone survive this kind of crash? Unharmed. And not only one survivor, but an entire group.
I think that's why they made the point of showing the plane at such a low altitude in the opening sequences of Season 2. As difficult as it may be to believe, people have fallen farther than that distance and walked away with barely a scratch.
That's low altitude? I live a good 20-30 miles from Manchester Airport and when your up on the moors you can see people in the windows! I actually noticed how quite high up they were in the Series 2 opener. The others village must be at least 10 miles from the crash site. The plane didn't nose dive after all, it glided in... just in a bunch of pieces.
My guess at least. For whatever value the distance holds.
Well they were also flying over the island when the plane broke apart and they should have crashed going away from the beach, but the crash scene has them crashing toward the beach.
Hell this is lost, maybe they turned around when they realized they overshot the island?
I thought Ben himself gave a possible explanation in a past episode-- didn't he say that he was unique in having been born on the island itself as opposed to being brought to the island?
That's what we were led to believe, but Lost isn't always known for it's direct and simple answers. The magnetic anomaly may have been necessary to actually get the plane to the island (some sort of magnetic field to hide/protect the island maybe?
I had posed a theory early on in the series that the crash had been planned and most (if not all) of the survivors came from specially reinforced seats to ensure that the people they wanted to survive.
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This only holds true if everyone knows that he's one of them. If he's known only to a select few that he's part of the camp (maybe he's even "the great man") it could very well be that no one other than possibly Ben knows who he really is and the others have only been told of "the great man."
Of course I'm stretching here but they have a fracking "smoke monster".
You guys are thinking too hard. The answer is much simpler:
The survivors survived because without them, there couldn't be a Lost.
The survivors survived because without them, there couldn't be a Lost.
Loved the episode and liked that it did not end with more totally unanswerable questions/mysteries.
I think Juliet still wants to go home, that's where her real loyalties are at. She could be playing Ben just enough so that he might not recognize right away.
I think Juliet still wants to go home, that's where her real loyalties are at. She could be playing Ben just enough so that he might not recognize right away.
Yeah, but no one is supposed to. The island (or something) is actually supposed to cure it or keep it away. Ben was surprised he had it, and Juliet called him on it. That was just his guess as to why he could get it, when he shouldn't be able to.
I was mostly just replying to Dis.
Yes, hundreds of feet. Do even a bit of research, and you'll find stories of U.S. Air Force pilots that have fallen TWO MILES and survived. I know my math fails me at this time of the day, but two miles translates into 10,000-plus feet.
The human body is an incredibly resilient force of nature. Do not, under any circumstances, dismiss the will to live. Or have you never pondered the blossom that makes its way through the tarmac in the coldest climate to bloom and proclaim: Here I stand. I can do no other.
You, of course, make a great point. When I was arguing with my "sympathy friend" after "Lost" aired about what a poor episode it was, I remembered yet again that we must surrender, to some extent, our disbelief and enjoy the show.
My creeping problem with "Lost" is a lack of trust. Seasons 1 and 2 made for incredible television. Season 3 leaves me feeling jerked around -- none of the action advanced the story, and the only "cool" things about the season were Sawyer asking "Who?" about Nikki and Paulo and then watching them get what they deserved.
For all the people wandering how the "losties" survived the crash-landing, why is no one asking about what happened to Rose and her husband? Hasn't it been 17-plus episodes since we've seen them?
It usually isn't even the landing that kills you, it's the fall. The cause of death from people who've fallen great heights is actually usually a heart attack. You are actually scared to death. Plus, a lot of them landed in the water and/or had cushioning from their seats. We don't even know how fast the plane was going (maybe the magnet screwed up gravity), or where it broke up enough for them to come out of it. People have survived plane crashed before.
That, and it's just a TV show about a mysterious island with a smoke monster on it.
That, and it's just a TV show about a mysterious island with a smoke monster on it.
Hitting water at a significant speed is no different the hitting concrete.
...Close to 50 people are killed every year jumping off of the Golden Gate Bridge at a height of around 200 feet.
You're right. Then the tailies should have been really hurt. Wonder why they weren't.
Oh yeah, it's fiction.
Everyone knows water is soft. So is sand. And trees. 
Seconded! Sayid's stock certainly went up in my book for dealing with one of my pet peeves. Mind you Juliette's explanation about Ethan and Clarie shouldn't ring true to the Losties... it's just not how you'd handle the situation if you didn't have anything sinister in mind.
I got that idea too, when Claire got sick and Juliette told her story to Jack I was thinking 'then how did Rousseau survive?' But at the time I assumed she had been kidnapped by the others too and had just escaped when she was better.
Finally.. a decent episode! I don't want to say it was a surprise.. it wasn't completely. The "implant" was, but not that it was a set up. I wonder what they want? Claire is my guess.
But overall that eposide was Season 2 good.. I hope for the shot at Season 1 good episodes as Season 3 winds down.
But overall that eposide was Season 2 good.. I hope for the shot at Season 1 good episodes as Season 3 winds down.
Sayid and Sawyer shouldn't have let Juliet off the hook so easily. They aren't being the moral police as she claimed. They are protecting their own skin from someone who may be an enemy and could give them information to keep all of the Losties safer.
Jack keeps saying people should trust Juliet because he trusts her. Nobody had the guts to tell Jack they don't know whether to trust him anymore.
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Jack keeps saying people should trust Juliet because he trusts her. Nobody had the guts to tell Jack they don't know whether to trust him anymore.
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Side note, but is it more or less assumed that the tumor that was growing on Ben's spine was cancerous? Because, generally speaking, tumors are not always malignant.
Does the list have something to do with all of this?
Someone mentioned somewhere in this thread about Kate and Sawyer using protection. The others gave her the boot, maybe she can't get pregnant.
I would think Sun is their next target...
It would also lend a little irony to the situation if Sawyer came to her rescue since she seems to despise him.
Someone mentioned somewhere in this thread about Kate and Sawyer using protection. The others gave her the boot, maybe she can't get pregnant.
I would think Sun is their next target...
It would also lend a little irony to the situation if Sawyer came to her rescue since she seems to despise him.
yes, i think the list, the crash, who survived and for what reason...all these things are interconnected. at least i hope so
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