Comments on: Lost — Season 4 Premiere, Recap

By: Clark

Clark — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:42:39 +0000

I suspect we’ll learn more about Locke in the forthcoming days. I was hoping for more of a Ben/Locke confrontation.

Looking forward to Thursday…

By: BTD Greg

BTD Greg — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:20:25 +0000

Yeah, I think it was implied that Hurley, Sawyer, Desmond and Locke had an off-screen discussion where Locke found out about what Charlie had written on his hand. But Locke is also receiving intel from some other source (the island/Jacob/the black box?). Charlie’s message merely confirmed something for Locke. It wasn’t his motivation.

By: John K.

John K. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:01:37 +0000

Am I wrong? Didn’t Sawyer and Sayid act less than happy to see Locke when he showed up with Hurley. It didn’t seem like they had seen him a few minutes earler and sent him to find Hurley. I seem to remember a “what are YOU doing here?” scene.

By: Clark

Clark — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:43:33 +0000

The presumption was (since it was told from Hurley’s POV) that Sawyer and the others told Locke and Locke came to find Hurley. Unless that was Locke whose face we fleetingly saw in the Window. Then Jacob told him? I don’t know.

By: Brian G

Brian G — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:30:52 +0000

As far as clunky dialogue goes, I think the writers have their backs against the wall in a sense. They have to write very functional dialogue, and are rarely allowed, or allow themselves moments to let a scene breathe. They have to quickly provide a lot of exposition, and I think that leads to a lot of clunkiness.

I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Naomi, even if she is dead.

I want to know if anyone can answer my nagging question about this episode.

How did Locke learn what was written on Charlie’s hand?

By: clark

clark — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:26:02 +0000

The blood trail bit did seem weird. I’ll grant you that one. There’s a time issue there that didn’t seem right.

By: Supergenius

Supergenius — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:51:06 +0000

Clunky dialogue, a few things that didn’t ring true…. but still — this show rules.

By: Brian G

Brian G — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:59:16 +0000

I’m sure this wasn’t a premiere cut in half. Eight one hour episodes were written prior to the strike.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 20:31:10 +0000

I was intially really interested in you guys’ idea that this was only the first half of what was supposed to be the premier (cut into two weeks to extend the available eps due to the strike). But I think we’ll find out next week that it probably wasn’t when the flashforward isn’t hurley anymore.

By: John K.

John K. — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:38:19 +0000

Well, it made a lot of sense to you because you know what you know and to Hurley because he knows what he knows. But he has a Jack-ish streak in him where he is going to make a decision for everyone in which nobody can correct if he is wrong. Blowing up the food, ruining the walkie (when you could have used it for dummy conversations), trying to stop the blowing up of the hatch door because he saw some numbers. I’m just saying I would grow tired of the guy just deciding things. Not a criticism of the show.

Here is a question though. In the minutes between when Naomi was last seen on the ground in a heap and the time they decide to follow the blood trail does she go far enough into the jungle to create a false trail – that runs long enough to divert Jack and crew into nightfall – then backtrack all the way back and start a new trail from the starting point that Kate could find. All with a knife in her back and (obviously) near death.