UConn James

Actually, it would make a stay about 1 1/2 years. But, Desmond did say that Kelvin was there for a while. So, averaging b/w them.... They also never said what would happen to the replacee; how they would get back to civilization or if they would just stay on the island until they died.

That "security system" might not be to keep people out, but to keep number-punchers in. That part of the DHARMA plan to send a replacement.... they never say they'll be sending a boat or something with a willing participant. It would stand to reason that such a person wouldn't need an orientation film on what was happening. Maybe the 540 days are how often the electromagnet or whatever causes a shipwreck with a survivor who will take over, just as Desmond did. Anyone find it strange that Desmond asked what happened to the girl (Sarah)? It seemed like an odd question....

Didn't the film say "Part 3 of 6"? I loved the Locke-Jack quote: L:"Why do you find it so hard to believe?" J:"Why do you find it so easy?" I also think there was a serious connection b/w Locke's need to sit outside of his father's (tho this is questionable -- the guy was rich; he could have found out who was a possible match and devised the con) house and his desire to sit in front of the computer. It's not for nothing that they showed that flashback. Some people, like Helen, believe that he is brooding with anger. That certainly is part of it. But there is an air of Locke wanting to take control back, but the manifestation of which just has him just sitting there in both scenarios. The wheelchair is the perfect euphamism by the writers for the character's personality.

Of course, it changes things a little when you note that I am NOT advocating that he abandon the plan of starting JP. MM's letting the pressure get to him this year. I don't know if the leash was shortened in the offseason in a "you may not be working here anymore" way, but he's caving. He's going to lose control if it keeps going this way, and it's not going to be pretty. At least the rumored fight in the locker room and Rueben's outburst against GW happened in the last game of the season. We're only 4 games thru and the wheels are in motion.

All the respect he built up last year when he told RW to (respectfully) STFU when things didn't start out very well... it's all gone. This is an admission that he didn't know what he was doing when developing the plan, which is bad, or that he has now turned into a cut-and-run artist w/o a spine, which is worse. If there's something the organization needs, it is stability and knowing what course the ship is sailing. We were expecting a letdown while JP was developing, but we got that he was developing. Now MM is chasing the wind and you don't get to your destination any faster that way, only at the end you have no idea how to make things go your way.

Yeah. That guy looked too ominous, and intentionally shadowed, to not be behind some seriously dark stuff.

Yeah, I had grad students like that.... But they were never half as bad as one guy I had in a history gen-ed. Ralph Ferraro for anyone who ever runs into the biggest a--hole alive. I wouldn't be surprised if it is just a teaser.

For the countdown, I was with Jack. The Institute (what was the name for it? DHARMA Institute?) did research in psychology. One of the widely known experiments in that field was to see how far people would go in doing their job according to explicit instructions --- they had to shock people with electricity when they answered a question wrong. The "subject" being shocked would yell, scream, or say they had a heart condition and it was amazing to see how many people continued to shock them at higher and higher levels. For one guy, he kept doing it after a person that yelled and complained of heart trouble fell silent. Perhaps this is a just a big experiment in seeing how far someone who may not know the whole story will go (that countdown buzzer is a classic pressure-inducing variable) when they think they're saving the world or themselves from imminent destruction; and the DHARMA people either set up the electromagnet to pull people onto the island or they set it up on this shipwreck-prone island. They also called this the third one. I think Locke just called the phone lady "Helen" just because he wanted to pretend it was Helen. It wasn't Peg Bundy's voice, and that would be a major error. For Phunix's theory regarding the record player setup, it's weird, b/c this week had the records lined up and the chrome player, not the wood one. I can't offer an explanation other than a goof or that Desmond, in all his spare time while holding hostages and being held hostage, changed his stereo system to accessorize in the current silver TV and kitchen appliance craze. Jokeman, what do you know about Analucia? Label it SPOILER and put it in yellow text. It caught me by surprise that she was a plant. And it also kind of makes you wonder about the "Others" if they even are the same Others that took Walt, which I have doubts about. We're so caught up in them being 'the other' that it seems a conceit by the writers to show that 'others' aren't always evil, just that they're from a different group that is very similar to your own. Is anyone trying to say that beat-downs didn't happen on the beach last season? So Jin can speak English. That puts a change of perspective on everything that happened last season. I wondered last year why a guy would go to America and make no plans for how to get by in language.

Forrest Gump played table tennis by himself by turning the other half of the table in a vertical position.... Who mentioned time travel? If he's still playing records, I doubt he's got a time travel machine. The creators said it would be sci-fi, but a grounded version of sci-fi. I thought he did recognize Jack, just that he wasn't surprised at him being there. Did Desmond somehow collect everyone on the plane? --- Thanks for pin status! but would it be possible to merge the 2.01 thread in with this and simply call it "LOST: Season 2 Previously Aired Ep discussion." Then someone can create a thread for this week's episode, and next week that one can be merged as well? Just in the interest of keeping it neat. I'm going to scour the Internet for Apollo candy bars for this week's LOST party. Someone on this green earth, someone's gotta have a stash they're willing to part with.

Or a Steelers jersey with "Kristacovitchlalinski, Jr." on the nameplate.

Thing is, he looks more like Adam Sandler that way.

Doubtless it was not a mistake. Directors are generally very anal about their set and having it absolutely perfect. That goes doubly so for this show where every single little thing is important and has some purpose. I had originally thought the lava lamps, etc. were just relics that Desmond and/or others had since they were more or less sealed in the hatch. The guy they opened the scene (and the season) with was not Desmond. Probably why they never showed his face. Good find by her. Anyone think that Leonard/Lenny or Sam or both were on duty in the hatch? All we know about Leonard is that he was stationed in the Pacific, which could mean a lot of things. Anyone think that the DHARMA patch might just be a weak front for a military outpost or listening post (I'm starting to think this is connected to the voices in the jungle)?

Ladies and gentlemen, the REAL next Bush president, and his running mate. They stand a much better chance than Jeb.

It is at this point where I become befuddled. A while back, there was a story of a woman whose son get caught B&E, drugs, etc. who worked two minimum-wage jobs and she got utterly lambasted, drawn and quartered here for not being there to teach her son the proper personal reponsibility and the rules of society. Oh. Wait. Now that I think about it, I see your logic now.... It's airtight. "That's different" is the phrase we all need to learn when talking about pols. What could I have been thinking!

I love girls who dress like total effing sluts and then wear a cross going right down into their cleveage. The unreconcilability of it all.... As Otto says in jibber-jabber Italian in "A Fish Called Wanda": "Les doué couplé grandé catedral de Milano!"

You think you're kidding, but yoga is more about the mind and internal focusing than physical movements. I know a chick who works up at one of the more renowned centers. I don't know what's more relaxing, tho; the breathing methodology or the tight spandex and firm mammories and posteriors all around you.

T-minus 12 1/2 hours. Can't believe this thread slipped off the front page. Would it be possible to pin it, anyone who's in the know on that? I would suggest combining the threads from the already-shown eps into one thread as "LOST - Season 2 Discussion ; for previously aired eps" then creating a new thread for 2.03.... Really. It's very discombobulated, and imagine in the current style what it's going to be like by episode 20. SDS, you watch and read? Git-R-Done and there's a Jim Kelly autographed plaque for the TBD fund auction if I ever get up to a tailgate.

Seigfried and Roy? (I'd guess, Dems and Repubs).

J.P. aka "Big Cat, For all of the people who are ripping you on this site, there are still some of us who want to believe in you, who root for you to do well and develop your skills. The season hasn't gone amazingly well for you so far, but neither has it been amazingly bad. Don't let the naysayers get you down. Find out what is causing you to overthrow your receivers. I think it might be a case of overzealous nerves and jumpiness. Find a way to relax before games rather than listening to hardcore music trying to pump yourself up. You need to have the game slow down for you. Visualize yourself telling your OL to protect your 6 or else. Visualize yourself checking off all of your receivers. Visualize yourself throwing the ball deep right to the spot and connecting with Eric Moulds or Lee Evans. And lastly. Get a haircut. I think you may be the anti-Samson. I'm not talking crew-cut if that's too drastic (you did look like a little kid in that NFL draft photo so I think I see what you're doing, but you're overcompensating). Maybe go for the #2 cartridge on the clippers. Sincerely, UConn James

And the cocaine crisis in his nuclear family. Jeb is so tainted it's not even funny and "It's a private matter and we wish the best for them blah blah blah" doesn't calm the nerves of people who see he can't even be a leader and role model in his own family. If they run him, they will lose. Then there's the whole, My state can't incarcerate or even keep track of our child rapists and sexual predadors. The case where they had video of the guy leading the girl off... he used a handgun in the commission of his previous crime. Five year mandatory term. MANDATORY. He walked in three. That's some nice governing there.

That mascara was on thick yesterday. But I suppose it's enough that she doesn't use that deep blue eye shadow that is so favored among Southern conservative women.

Agreed. When an issue is before the SC, it is usually of a very broad scope and not dealing in the minutia of "well, a California probate court ruled that blah blah blah." The comprehensive knowledge factor? Meh. It's nice for a judge to have it, but I don't think it's necessarily a requirement to judge individual cases. That's why the justices have law clerks --- to do comprehensive research on the issue's past and to flesh out the arguments of each side. Ms. Miers is going to have a lot of night table reading to catch up and I don't envy the row she's going to hoe, but I don't see why she's inherently a bad choice b/c of this.

Well, I wrote it the way I did b/c the "Privacy clause" for many generally refers to the 9th Amendment, which some people have a problem with b/c it is in itself vague. But the language of which harks back to the section that says barring federal or state laws, (or the unconstitutionality of such) decisions are left 'to the people'. This is what RvW was decided on; that federal or state law banning abortion should not exist b/c it's an issue that falls on the individual to decide. Some might call it roundabout, but that's what the high court's opinion was (I forget, was it written by SDO?) and it would behoove people to realize that these things DO. NOT. CHANGE. EASILY. so why all the caterwauling from the right who refuse to accept the law? And, more broadly speaking, there is privacy inherent in the Constitution, just that Jefferson did not specifically spell it out that "no person shall snoop, skeeve or otherwise interfere in another's personal matters" in its own seperate amendement. And that's the problem we have with people who MUST have everyone's morals and worldview be exactly like their own, kooks who think it's all right to use their telephoto lenses, etc. The Roberts court is going to be defined, I think, in how it rules on issues of privacy in our modern world and with our modern technology; in a word, continue down the path Brandeis and Warren started w/ that law review article.

Maybe someone should clue in the anti-choice crowd, b/c it's their constant shouting about a matter of SETTLED LAW that 30 years ago was deemed covered by the "reserved to the people/privacy" clause of the Constitution. This wrangling is what prompts Dems to vocally defend RvW, in a similar way that the NRA (life member here) vocally defends the rights of gun owners. Maybe then we could get on to the whole governing thingy about issues that matter.

I wasn't aware we have microphones powerful enough to pick up vocalizations that are muffled from one's head being up one's ass. Did he pout, stormily pick up all of his Legos and run home this week too?