tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post3443156153192932082..comments2023-10-29T03:18:11.093-05:00Comments on Schmoker Sense: Early Reaction to Lost: "We have to go back, Kate!"Schmokerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03985960616299425129noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-19454654079773896212010-04-12T20:20:01.363-05:002010-04-12T20:20:01.363-05:00Thanks, Jan. Please come back. You and all your ...Thanks, Jan. Please come back. You and all your friends.<br /><br />One thing you should know about Lost, it's just gets better with repeated viewings, which is what puts it so high on my all time list. I am watching again right now, after not having seen many of the episodes for years, and they are almost all better than I remembered. And I remembered them all as being pretty damn great in the first place.<br /><br />This is the third time through for me, but the first in several years. I'm really glad I did it again, and it is making this final season all the more enjoyable for it.Schmokerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985960616299425129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-76262909814643881822010-04-12T09:02:32.514-05:002010-04-12T09:02:32.514-05:00I really LIKE your blog. I got here from Ryan'...I really LIKE your blog. I got here from Ryan's blog. which I love. but which has me going in circles sometimes.<br /><br />I didn't start watching Lost til the third season so all my knowledge of the first two has been gleaned from reruns and watching online. A lot of the recent stuff is lost on me because I don't associate it with anybody, but I'm trying!!<br /><br />The one thing that has happened to me this season is that I can't get ENOUGH. I'm afraid to read most blogs for fear of spoilers but I like yours and I like your sense of humor!<br /><br />Thanks for letting me in without jumping through a bunch of hoops! :)JanHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-4306303511455156712010-04-02T02:28:17.199-05:002010-04-02T02:28:17.199-05:00Interesting thoughts. You have a lot of thoughts h...Interesting thoughts. You have a lot of thoughts here. Concerning Jin and Sun I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't end up happily ever after. But Sun as the next MIB? I dunno, she would have to develop a real hatred and disgust of mankind as Smokey does now. Her character is still caring and trusting people since she still trusts Jack. You hinted that this might be a set-up for a Jack/Jacob betrayal but she would have to commit an awful offense before he would turn on her like that. <br /><br />I am hoping that the series will end with finality. Not a an ending that says "and we start all over again". That would seem like a cop-out on the part of the much hailed Darlton.inkydognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-79447453579329576532010-03-31T23:12:32.542-05:002010-03-31T23:12:32.542-05:00Yeah, Barb, keeping it all straight must be crazy....Yeah, Barb, keeping it all straight must be crazy. I'm just glad I recently rewatched S1 and S2. Hadn't seen them since they first aired, and having them fresh in mind is really making so many things leap out at me this season. Nothing more so than Jin and Sun, who have been out of the joint spotlight now for years. Having just watched their episodes from the first two seasons really let me dive deeply into their love story last night.<br /><br />I mean, Richard and Charo last week paled by comparison. <br /><br />Maybe you are right and they wind up the skeletons, but I see them as being destined to be separated in the end (which would explain why fate and the writers have conspired to keep messing them up all through their lives---because, as Keamy said, some people are just not meant to be together, no matter even if they love each other). <br /><br />It's going to be sad. Last night really made me feel Sun is either going to die or end up being the new Smokey to Jack's Jacob, while Jin ends up going back to care for their daughter.<br /><br />If there is a world and daughter to go back to, that is. But I think there will be. I think the Sideways World Losties are going to have to change things back somehow, then Jack and Sun are going to have to assume the white and black thrones to keep things going.<br /><br />Or maybe not. That's what I think today. Ask me again tomorrow when I do a post about how the Sideways World could end up being a by-product of finally defeating Smokey--sort of a take-the-good-with-the-bad kind of epilogue. <br /><br />Man, I love this show.<br /><br />By the way, Jin understood a hell of a lot more English than he ever did in Season's one and two. That was apparent all throughout the episode, from his interaction with the desk clerk to his saying, "Free," to Sayid.<br /><br />I wonder if he is the one hiding his knowledge of English in the Sideways World? I think his thank you to Keamy was meant ironically, because what Keamy did not know was that Jin was grateful to Keamy for yapping and letting him know just what the real situation was there in the freezer. Watching the episode again, Jin's facial expressions reminded me of the ones I just saw from Sun in the Season 1 episode where Kate figured out that Sun could speak English.<br /><br />I think Jin's "no English" rap was all about trying to manipulate people into dropping their guard around him.Schmokerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985960616299425129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-78931989340285647232010-03-31T14:26:58.422-05:002010-03-31T14:26:58.422-05:00It was great seeing the Sun & Jin storyline fr...It was great seeing the Sun & Jin storyline from a different viewpoint. I think they're going to end up being the 'Adam & Eve' that were so talked about at the beginning of this tale. They're the only ones who have conceived a child on the island. In Sideways Land, I'm not sure how that's going to work out with Sun being shot.<br /><br />Every comment I read gives me something new to think about. The 'Bible' for this show had to be amazing to keep the continuity straight.U.P. Barbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-60304749581932662632010-03-31T13:53:20.266-05:002010-03-31T13:53:20.266-05:00This is a new blog, and this post has received mor...This is a new blog, and this post has received more page views than all my others combined. Please let me know what you think of it, good or bad, here in the comments section. <br /><br />Comments are completely open, with no moderation, so it's easy to put one up. Give me your theories, agreements, or disagreements, because I am always perfectly willing to be dead ass wrong when it comes to Lost. And I often am.Schmokerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985960616299425129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-38827254860770750172010-03-31T00:27:33.634-05:002010-03-31T00:27:33.634-05:00Did anyone else find it impossible to read Sun'...Did anyone else find it impossible to read Sun's notes with that damn V countdown clock in the way? Must I personally go down to ABC and start taking names?<br /><br />Sayid and Claire made me sad, Schmoker, but this episode made me happy. I also felt they were clicking here, bringing all the story elements together in a thrilling manner. By the time they got to the Desmond reveal, it wasn't that surprising, but that was the only thing that wasn't. We got halfway through the commercials after the Widmore/Smokey scene before I went thought, hey, they hate each other. <br /><br />I need to go watch it again.<br /><br />Sun and Jin completely in love at the time of 815 was the sweetest moment yet in this season, and totally unexpected after watching him tell her to button her blouse in the premiere. It was also the saddest if, as you think, they are being set up for permanent separation. That's going to break my heart.<br /><br />Bad, Darlton, bad. But also good, Darlton, good. I'm as split as Jacob and Smokey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-16184013393217422602010-03-31T00:01:59.587-05:002010-03-31T00:01:59.587-05:00Oh, and I will be back in a day or two with a more...Oh, and I will be back in a day or two with a more detailed recap, including some expansion on all the above, as well as a few other nuggets that I'm too tired to mess with tonight. <br /><br />But let me ask you guys a question. Did tonight look to you like perhaps the beginning of a sad ending for Claire and Sayid?<br /><br />Is death the only thing that will release them from their agony?Schmokerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03985960616299425129noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18174368.post-12489021701804949242010-03-30T23:48:35.887-05:002010-03-30T23:48:35.887-05:00I'm there, too, Schmoker (what kind of name is...I'm there, too, Schmoker (what kind of name is that?). <br /><br />Sitting through each commercial break was excruciating during this ep. I just wanted to get to what happens next. And then what happened next just made me want to see what happens next again.<br /><br />And now I just want to get to next Tuesday.<br /><br />Can someone please turn a frozen donkey wheel and send me to next Tuesday?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com