Lost - The Mini-Season Decoded
I had the pleasure of doing an episode by episode breakdown of what was revealed in LOST this season. Feel free to tell me what I missed! (I didn’t include Paulo and Nikki because, well, they won’t be with us for too long.)
(I didn’t include Paulo and Nikki because, well, they won’t be with us for too long.)
uhmm… what? are they going to die this season?
if so then why did they even bring them onto the show?
to bug us?
I for one am still irritated by the way they introduced nikki and paulo, but on the other hand if they get some character development and they turn out to be a great addition to the show just like the amazing Elizabeth Mitchell then I will have my peace with it… the actress playing Nikki, Kiele Sanchez is also a great actress so Im curious to what she can bring to the show… if they let her…
that paulo character… I still see no potential in him.
Comment by FrankEE — November 11, 2006 @ 12:04 am
Frank… it’s more wishful thinking
Comment by docarzt — November 11, 2006 @ 12:45 am
The mini season of Lost was AWESOME! There was one slow epsiode but hey if you people want all the mysteries solved watch CSI!!!! BECAUSE THIS IS LOST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by reddiestorm — November 11, 2006 @ 2:28 am
While the mini-season may not have done exactly what the producers said it was intended to do, I still think that it did an exceptional job of setting up the rest of the season. Remember all of the cliff hangers from the season two finale. All of those had to be resolved, and the first episodes of the miniseries did that. Obviously resolution episodes are going to feel slower than climatic episodes. However, this miniseries did one important thing, it set LOST up for the rest of season 3. Look at the season like a chess match. The opening is over and the pieces are in position, its time to get ready for that edge of the seat, nail biting, skip the birth of your first born, action that we all love about this show. And please don’t try to tell me that those last couple of episodes didn’t keep you entertained.
Comment by CD — November 11, 2006 @ 2:54 am
why won’t nicki and paulo be around much longer; they’ve only just been introduced - and i am glad its been done slowly. i hope when they get a flashback and more screen time people give them a chance. introducing characters from the background was never gonna be easy but in my eyes doing it slowly and without big statements of character early on is a more natural flow or background nobody to cast member.
Comment by avon — November 11, 2006 @ 11:36 am
Why won’t Nicki and Paulo be around much longer? They’ve only just been introduced - and I’m glad its been done slowly. I hope when they get a flashback and more screen time people give them a chance. Introducing characters from the background was never gonna be easy but in my eyes doing it slowly and without big statements of character early on is a more natural flow or background nobody to cast member. Don’t write them off already!
Comment by avon — November 11, 2006 @ 11:37 am
the man who wrote this article is so incredibly off. not only did he leave out heaps of details like:
- juliette hints that the others are ex-dharma, but that who they were doesn’t matter at all, meaning what they are doing now likely has nothing to do with whatever dharma was doing. that’s not saying what it is, but at least it’s saying what it’s not.
- the others, who were thought to be super-human or otherwise of another world are shown as regular people who have regular human group dynamics. they have love relationships, they are a lot more similar to our group of lostaways than we thought.
- instead of burying their dead in the name of god, they perform sendoffs and burn their dead. i thought this was pretty interesting because it speaks a little of their beliefs.
at that, the producers never said the others would be explained in the mini-series. they said that the others would be explained in season three. i repeat, they DID NOT say that the others would be explained in the mini-series. i challenge anyone to prove me wrong on that one.
Comment by Fredrik — November 11, 2006 @ 2:30 pm
Ummm I wouldn’t say I was off… it’s not like the information is based on opinion. I just did not consider these things to be that mind blowing. Much of what you put out as ommission is baseless opinion. Juliette did not hint that the others were ex-dharma, she just said it was a long time ago, and it didn’t matter who they were on who they are. That is an a-typical LOST writer tap dancing around the truth. And the producers did insinuate many times that we would learn alot about the others… we didn’t….
Comment by docarzt — November 11, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
i just now realized it was you docarzt who wrote this article. well although i suddenly feel stupid, i’ll stand by what i said. you’re not exactly completely off, but you did leave out a few things. don’t worry, i’ll still love you, but i feel justice must be done. so here’s a few more details about the others [i think] you didn’t mention in your article:
- well a lot is revealed about their group dynamics. i touched on this but i’ll touch it again - colleen and picket have a love affair. interesting. they have a book club in their little otherville where ben isn’t seemingly wanted by juliet. seems as if though she was holding a book club meeting without letting him know. the people who were at the book club meeting seemed to think ben was just missing. i say this because adam says that ben wouldn’t read “this book” on the toilet. we learn that there seems to be some sort of division within the others. trust issues maybe? i find this way more intriguing than, say, the fact that they like baseball lol. because this tells us something about how they function. you can automatically debunk the theories that they are aliens or consist of green goo that has the power to turn into anything. we’ve been given a great sense of how they interact with each other, and i think it’s important that we learn that before we learn about their history.
- we learned that they have a sub-marine. that means they would have to have a sub-marine dock of sorts on “our” island too, right? which opens up for the possibility there is an underwater facility on both the small island and the big island. okay that’s speculation, but okay then, we know they have a sub-marine.
- we learned in the first episode that they have something to hide. why benjamin would send goodwin and ethan off to infiltrate the two crash camps immediately like that tells me they either need something, or are VERY suspicious. or they are protecting something.
- alex called picket “daddy”. either danielle lied, or the others pose to be the parents of the children they kidnap.
- they made karl apologize to sawyer for including him in his getaway, they let kate have a nice breakfast with a nice dress on before she had to start working, ben wan’t trying to persuade jack into operating him, he was trying to make him WANT to operate him, obviously they have some sort of moral standards. this, together with the fact that they perform sendoffs in white robes, the statue with four toes, living up to their word, “we’re not killers”, and the buddhist dharma logo can make you speculate on what form of civilization these people have. this would be too speculative to put in your article anyway, i think, i just wanted to mention it.
- something you could even have mentioned for people who maybe just haven’t thought about it is that while the mini-series has sort of led us astray, this whole kidnapping thing and the tumor is not what the others are about. this is merely one tip of many icebergs. i myself forgot about that until i was done with the sixth episode.
- the others’ interest in the jack/kate/sawyer love triangle is nothing but puzzling. i don’t know how you would incorporate that in your article, but it does puzzle me.
- now i got tired of typing, but i could have found more.
Comment by Fredrik — November 11, 2006 @ 3:12 pm
oh, and one VERY interesting thing i would like to mention. didn’t the people behind Lost say that Benjamin wanted the failsafe turned or something? because when sawyer wakes up on a table before they stab him in the chest with a syringe, you hear tom saying “it’s been two days since the sky turned purple, our comms are out and i can’t get them back up…” indicating that he didn’t know what happened. maybe ben trying to persuade john to let the timer run out was an attempt to heal himself or something. either way, i find it interesting that tom doesn’t know what it is. at the end of episode six he seems very emotionally attatched to ben when jack is threatening to let him die and wants to talk to kate on the walkie talkie.
this has nothing to do with your article, it just came to me and i wanted to type it up before i forgot about it.
Comment by Fredrik — November 11, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
fredriks right, the producers said we would know who the others are and what they are doing by the end of season 3, not by the end of the mini season.
however alex clearly calls pickett DANNY which is his name
but yes the producers did make a lot of promises about the mini season that they didnt keep. Where was the fantastic, jump the shark, game changing, change-the-viewers-whole-perception of the show moment at the end of episode 6? where was the explanation as to why the others didnt just take jack, kate and sawyer when they had them in the hunting party? where was kates choice between jack and sawyer? (i know some people will say she has chose sawyer, but she seems very vague as to her true feelings for him, not saying she loves him when he asked, not wanting to leave without jack)
how did they try and humanise the others and create sympathy for them with the viewers? by having colleen killed trying to kidnap sun without explaining to her why they werent the bad guys? then having pickett get all upset and blame “them” (the 815 survivors) like they are some big bad conspiracy out to get the innocent Others, and then decide it will make everything better if he kills sawyer?
Comment by joel — November 11, 2006 @ 5:27 pm
Alex called Pickett “Danny” not “daddy”. That’s his name. Though along the same lines, why did Ben ask Juliette if Alex asked about him? To me that’s very strange.
Comment by Bunny Suction — November 11, 2006 @ 6:36 pm
All great points Frederick, but again extrapolatory and not within the task editorially. (remember I was given about three hours to summarize six episodes for the major ‘facts’, not enough time to give airtime to all the wonderful possibilities.)
Comment by docarzt — November 11, 2006 @ 7:07 pm
Im still wondering why no one is interested in the fact that jul is a fertility doctor. There has to be something to that.
Comment by Cuffs — November 11, 2006 @ 8:24 pm
Yes Juliette is a fertility doctor - and remember Ethan seemed to know stuff about obstetrics, while Clair was pregnant. May be a connection. Too hard to say.
Comment by Deborah — November 12, 2006 @ 12:37 am
the jump-the-shark moment is coming shortly after the show returns. first what they described as a “character-bomb” in the first three episodes after the break, then a “game-changer” shortly thereafter. also, they didn’t say they would reveal why they didn’t take them in “the hunting party” during the mini-series, they only said that they had an answer to that question that they thought people would find satisfactory.
but yeah i guess the miniseries could have had more info.
Comment by Fredrik — November 12, 2006 @ 5:47 am
I think Cuse is lame. He says “we definitely have a plan for season 3″ But then in the next sentence says that “we might get back to the Michael/Walt story, maybe not” Sounds totally contradictory to me. If you have a plan, you have a plan and you know what the story arc will be….To say we might or might not is a sign that they don’t really know what they are doing in the long run, waiting for fanboy web comments and trying to react. I predict the show ends up like a pot of eintopf (a little bit of everything without any clear taste of anything….)
Comment by biarritz — November 22, 2006 @ 4:54 am