Before the episode airs tonight, I thought I should post my thoughts on last week’s:
I am a bit nervous about Juliet joining the original Losties group on the beach, just because I think it might strain the whole “not asking questions when they should be asked” thing too far, beyond the breaking point in my opinion. The show has always had that frustrating aspect where people don’t share information with each other or ask enough questions when any normal people in those situations would, but I can put up with it to some degree since it’s necessary to maintain the suspense / mystery. However, Juliet going back to camp with them is too far IMHO.
At the end of that episode, Sayid (one of my favorite characters) SHOULD have said “No, actually we’re not going back to camp yet. If you are honest about being a part of our group, first we’re going to sit down and you’re going to tell us EVERY SINGLE THING YOU KNOW about the island, the others, etc. since you’ve been here with them for years.” There’s no logical reason why this conversation shouldn’t happen, and if it doesn’t VERY soon, I’m going to be disappointed.
The other credibility issue for me (and i don’t remember whether this was last week or the week before) was Sawyer falling for Hurley’s “nice guy con”. I knew that’s exactly what was happening the minute Hurley started that conversation, and to say that Sawyer fell for it when he’s supposedly a grade A con man is not believable.
I’m still spoiler free leading up to tonight, and looking forward to the episode. Not even watching the “next on Lost” previews has been one of the best decisions in watching this show. I think I would have enjoyed the last several episodes much less if I had seen the previews.
um… guess you missed that part when eko got killed.
I didn’t see the monster “flying” then either. I’ll have to rewatch it.
Actually, Vance, I was assuming you were commenting on my post about the monster being tied to the ground. If so, I can move these comments over there. If not, I don’t see what you’re commenting about in this post. (I’ll go ahead and move them later tonight unless you say otherwise).
OK, I just went and watched it, and there’s no part of that scene that suggests the “monster” isn’t anchored to the ground the whole time.
I’m not saying it definitively CAN’T fly, but that certainly would explain why it couldn’t go over the barrier. Anyone’s welcome to point out a segment where we do see the monster “flying”. I’m not counting frame-by-frame only references or fleeting passing by of what appear to be smaller versions either (since I think most of those are still pretty close to the ground, even if the whole cloud isn’t touching the ground).
There are two main points where the monster isn’t tied to the ground. When it clearly flew through the air in the first episode (I’ll replay it for you tonight but your right they could go back on that) and the other would be when the monster pulled that guy from the plane, that plane was pretty high. I also remember when the monster came out of the ground last week it went higher then the fence. It broke out of the ground and collected together.
Also in the first episode the top of the trees were ruffled.
My theory is there are multiples and they collect into one. It doesn’t make sense that they could fly but they need to explain the intances were it wasn’t.
I do think it’s tied to the ground and is mechanically controlled from something in the ground. That’s why it pops out of the ground and tried to pull Locke down.
I still don’t see any cases when it definitely wasn’t tied to the ground.
It certainly could have been touching the ground when it pulled out the pilot, just like it appeared to be when killing Eko (see link above) - it just looked like an arm coming up from the ground, even though it reached very high.
Same for the top of the trees, etc. - it can reach very high, but not totally disconnect from the ground, which it would need to do to clear that fence.
Getting back to the original point of this post, I’m glad to see they addressed my concerns above (regarding Sayid demanding some answers) pretty specifically in this episode.