Man, I am lagging on posting lately; sorry.
At least I finally got caught up on Lost; I watched everything up until episode 9 of the second season (which was just on last night). I downloaded that one this morning but haven’t watched it yet. I like it so far; I think it’s about tied for my favorite “watch-every-episode” show on TV, which isn’t saying much since I only watch two regularly.
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improper use of semi-colon.
two improper uses; one proper use.
^^^ not a complete sentence, also improper use!
I really don’t think we want to get into a grammar comparison between our two blogs, but feel free to point out which two uses were incorrect.
I can see the “sorry” one not being correct (although it’s debatable since it implies “I’m sorry”, which is a complete independent clause), but I didn’t really think it through that much. I believe the others are correct.
BTW, you also spelled “semicolon” incorrectly - there’s no dash.
of course not! of course i never made it a stated goal to try to be gramatically correct. anyways, i was feeling snarky and a little boozy last night, so i can’t explain my actions.
re: the dash. my mom is a dash-abuser. she puts dashes any-where she feels they’re needed, even when they’re not. it has taken a long time to un-dash-ify my-self, but some-times it just slips out.
The Brooks just caught up too.
Any theories?
I’ll wait until I watch this week’s to comment more.
I think one thing that’s kind of obvious is the whole number thing; the guy in the institution was obviously previously involved in the project.
I think the monster is invisible and it might have something to do with the magnets. Same thing with the shadow guys and how they can fly.
Forgot to link that flying link:
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~ms322801/lostturbineenhanced.gif
wait, now there are flying shadow people on lost? okay, i’m definitely glad i never started watching it.
No, Dan is making some assumptions. The flying/floating shadows are not necessarily “guys” (or even sentient creatures of any kind), and they purposefully don’t show you enough to indicate whether there are really “monsters” either, whether they be visible or invisible.
It’s my current opinion that neither is the case, unless something was revealed on this week’s episode (#9) that I haven’t seen yet.
This is the really great thing about this show; they show you just enough to make you curious and want to try to figure stuff out, but at the same time they don’t ever give you the info you would need to really figure it out for sure. There are certainly “things” that a lot of people (characters on the show) believe are monsters, and some may even perceive them as such, but the point has been made many times on the show that what people “see” on the island is not always accurate or even “real”.
but is it definitely supernatural or some sort, i mean, that gif clip was definitely supernatural. i’ve never been into supernatural type television. it just seems like lazy writing.
Brooke and I just did a LOST marathon as well, and we got caught up this week. I borrowed Dan’s DVDs of the first season, downloaded most of the 2nd season via iTunes and played them on our TV via S-Video on my new 5G iPod, (looked suprsingly good), and watching the newest episode this last Wednesday in HD on Dan’s TV. And man does LOST look insane in HD. I am really enjoying this show. Also the wikipedia stuff on the show is great too.
Nathan - not necessarily; that clip could be portraying a supernatural event, or just something sufficiently technologically advanced that it appears to be supernatural. There are a lot of things on the show like this, and they purposely don’t reveal whether it’s supernatural or not.
As for that specific clip, I would be curious to go back and look at my copy and see if it was really that way originally. The linked image says “enhanced” in the title, so who knows what that means. The only reason I would possibly doubt it is that that particular event (the turbine blowing up) did not appear to be a very significant event, so I don’t know why the “flying thing” would be involved in it. I thought I remembered something being sucked into it before it blew up, but maybe I’m remembering it wrong, since that was back in episode 1.
I know exactly what you’re talking about with lazy writing relying on the supernatural, but that’s definitely not happening on Lost (even if it does turn out to be supernatural). Also, just remember that supernatural doesn’t always equal lazy; many Twilight Zone shows had supernatural plot elements.
I looked at it and they are there in the real show.
The turbine you are thinking about blowing up is when that poor sap got sucked in because he wasn’t paying attention, this was right after Locke helped pull that guy out.
I also say monster because it is described as that. It could be mechanical (the sound and that dead guy in the tree in E1 was just tor up and not eaten).
Nothing Supernatural going on here.
I closed that bold after “they”.
And yes they could be those things. But I think they are they as in humans.
twilight zone was an often supernatural show, whereas lost doesn’t seem like it is, but i can’t really comment further cuz i don’t know what i’m talking about.
it’s the randomly inserted supernatural elements that gets me, like what i see in the previews for various smallville. you gotta play by the rules you set up or are given.
There are definitely other humans around, but it remains to be seen whether those people have anything to do with the black shadow things or the “monsters”; nothing so far has indicated that. When you said “shadow guys” I thought you were implying that they were people (or creatures of some sort); so I was just saying that’s not necessarily the case.
Re: Smallville, what are you referring too? I haven’t watched it for a while (none of this season), but I saw all of the first few seasons. The supernatural elements in those stories I saw weren’t out of place at all. In spite of the “Dawson’s Creek”-ishness of that show (due to it being on the network it is and trying to appeal to the same crowd), Smallville is by far the best non-animated adaptation of the Superman story, in my opinion. That includes movies and TV shows, past and present. Sure it is difficult to get past some of that teeny-bopper stuff in some episodes, but if you can there are some good stories in there.
PS - Dan, the <b> tag is so late-90’s, try using the <strong> tag, like all good XHTMLers who want to separate content from style. Maybe WP was punishing you for that…
i dunno, like i said, previews only, but there were implicite monsters/vampires/demons/crazinesses i was seeing. i went from talking about one thing i know nothing about to talking about another!
Yes, the Smallville show does (or at least the ones I have) characters that could be considered monsters, but that’s not really out of the ordinary if you consider the comic books as the source material; I think they’re playing by the rules as far as that’s concerned.
It is different than the comics in that 90% of the villains on the show are usually other Smallville kids who have been somehow mutated by the radiation from the kryptonite rocks, but I don’t think it has to be 100% true to the comic to be a good adaptation. Some of the movies have probably stuck a little closer to the comic history than this show, but the ongoing plot lines in this show are way better than any of the movies.