vilakins | Mostly Lost

Things seen lately include:

The HHGTTG clip (in painfully slow-to-load Flash). Zaphod only has one head and everyone but Arthur Dent seems to be American, but--Martin Freeman! Yay!
The third ep of Lost, on which I shall comment below as it had some more SF-y clues.
The first ep of season 3 of Kath and Kim, an Australian comedy which has the wonderful Magda Szubanski in it. I saw this the same night as Lost, hence the strange crossover drabble below.

Thoughts on Lost

I'm impressed with how well they concealed Locke's condition in the flash-backs. The fact that he was healed before waking up on the beach after the assumed crash lends strength to my speculation that aliens abducted the lot of them and chose them somehow for an experiment or maybe a zoo. I don't think they're on Earth any more, and there's definitely a discontinuity between the break up in mid-air and them ending up on an tiny island in a huge ocean in almost one piece, all right, three. Maybe Rose is right--the tail section's out there too.

And ooh, lots of questions! What did Locke see? Why didn't it kill or hurt him? Why did it kill the pilot? Who killed the pig--Locke or the thing? I can't help but wonder if it's one of their captors. Maybe it didn't want to hurt its experimental subjects, but the pilot wasn't part of it and survived when he wasn't expected to.

Who does Jack keep seeing?

I don't go in for disaster or survival stories (Greg does and loves this) but I'm really enjoying the complexity and unexpectedness of the characters. None of them are what they seem at first.

Silly crossover drabble (Farscape/Lost)

Furlow came in low over the island. Intriguing: the wreckage seemed to be similar technology as Crichton's Farscape module. Were the people she could see on the beach from his home world?

She landed and climbed out onto the sand. Several people were running towards her, shouting and waving, but close by a man was wading in from the sea with an improvised spear. His wet clothes were plastered to his perfect body. Furlow's pale eyes widened and her breath caught.

He was beautiful.

"Well, hello gorgeous!" she said, licking her lips.

"Dude!" said Hurley. "You know how to fish?"

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Hooray for Hurley! :)

I love Hurley. He's my favourite.

Hurley is awesome. Though I'm a Locke girl myself, but I didn't enjoy his backstory as much as you did.

I'm still getting to know them. How much have you seen?

Hee! Don't know who Furlow is (I'm still on season 1 in my Farscape viewing), but still, loved the drabble! Hurley's one of my favourite characters in Lost.

I believe I've seen everything that's been shown here - I just finished watching episode 16 about half an hour ago. The eps have been mostly very interesting so far.

He is mine.

Furlow is a very memorable mechanic you'll meet in S1. She's wonderful. Some people hate her because of what she does when she returns in a later season, but I like her very much.

And ooh! Now I recognise your icon!

Is Sayid Muslim? As the main food available now is haram, I'm curious to see if it becomes an issue. Perhaps he'll join the Korean(?) couple in some seaweed.

Will we ever find out what Kate did? I'm guessing not.

Sawyer should have aimed for the marshall's head. Perhaps he did ;)

The whole Locke story was very well done, and I think Rose is right to hope - I don't recall anything so far that states that the tail section was destroyed.

Oh, man, now I'm going to have to watch this show, if you're writing crossover drabbles! I have no idea who this Hurley person is, but I think I like him already. :)

Yes, I thought that about Sayid too. So 'haram' is 'treyf'? I guessed that couple were Korean too, and Greg said they are according to a site he went to--I'm avoiding anything where I might read spoilers. I imagine they'll figure out a good way to catch fish soon, and there must be other things to eat--coconuts, and probably pineapples. I'm sure they ran through a pineapple plantation in ep 1.

I think Kate must have killed someone to have been tracked to Australia and extradited. If it was theft, would the marshal have said several times that she was dangerous? She also told the farmer that she didn't trust anyone, so she might have been in an abusive relationship. For some reason, women killing abusive men really frightens the law.

You mean Sawyer wasn't familiar with guns and didn't take the recoil into account? He looked like he knew how to use one. Maybe he was squeamish about brains.

I wouldn't be surprised if the tail section is intact and on that island. I think they were all carefully placed there. Planes don't stay in big pieces like that unless they fail at take-off or landing.

You'll love him! He's cool.

So 'haram' is 'treyf'?
Haram is the term for foods that Muslims may not eat, as well as other forbidden activities, so I think it is analagous to treyf. I only have a passing knowledge of Islamic dietary restrictions, but the "no pork" rule jumped out at me when they carried the carcass back to the beach.

If I recall correctly, the woman in the photos Sayid was looking at was veiled, so that could also support the assumption that he is a Muslim.

I imagine they'll figure out a good way to catch fish soon
I would have tried to make a net, maybe out of torn clothing or fabric fro the plane seats (if it hadn't already been burned). The spear fishermen would have got on better if they'd remembered about refraction, and started their strike with the spearhead in the water.

I think Kate must have killed someone...
I think that's most likely. Also, the whole car chase with the farmer was odd - if he was turning her in, why didn't he just pull over? Perhaps he was having second thoughts.

You mean Sawyer wasn't familiar with guns...?
I meant Sawyer would have had a better chance of a merciful kill if he'd shot the marshall in the head. The thing about the torso being a better target doesn't apply so much if the victim is lying still on the ground! Sawyer might well have been squeamish, about brains or about shooting the marshall in the face. He said he aimed for the heart - well, the heart is a lot smaller than the brain, and not as far off centre as most people think.

Planes don't stay in big pieces...
True. If we assume that there is some outside agent driving all this, it will make it easier to explain away little inconsistencies, as well as big ones like that :)

Damn, I wonder if this show's going to be out on DVD? I'd rather start from the beginning than jump in now.

I think you'd have to. And I'm sure it'll be out; it's very popular and even critically acclaimed.

Yes, Sayid's woman is veiled. I assumed he was Muslim from his name anyway.

My remarks about Sawyer were based on your 'Perhaps he did [aim for the head]'. But it does seem the obvious thing to do. I wouldn't trust myself to hit someone's heart. You seem to know a lot about it. [grin]

I'm certain there's an outside agent. The writers have thought it all through too well for these things to be mistakes.

You seem to know a lot about it. [grin]

;) One picks up a bit of anatomy on the way to a biochem degree.

'Perhaps he did [aim for the head]'
I was trying, a little clumsily, to evoke the classic line :)

Sayid also said that he was in the Republican Guard, which might inform any conclusions about his religion, if not his adherence to its strictures.

Yes, I remember that bit. I'm looking forward to his backstory. He seems a nice guy who regards women (Kate, anyay) as equals.

[smacks head] Sorry, didn't get the allusion at all. Duh.

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