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[US/IRL] 3X10 - "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead" [** SPOILERS WITHIN **]

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    5
    Hmmm. It was better than last weeks offering anyway. In fact, to borrow from the show, it creates hope for the future episodes. I suppose it's been mentioned before, but I quite like how the Lost writers got away with not having to sign contracts with brand name companies - just slap a Dharma logo on everything :).

    Did anyone else first think that the arm that Winston was carrying belonged to Desmond (because the key looked similar to the "fail safe" key)? Now that would have been really interesting and a part of me is disappointed that it wasn't.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    I think this episode made the show as a whole a bit more realistic.
    It gets a bit draining when certain shows are all-serious, all-drama, all-the-time.
    Sawyer was in a great mood, which you ****ing would be after six episodes in a cage! Had he been his surly old self, I would have been disappointed - he just got free, what's he gonna do, mope?

    The fact is, I think, if you were on this island, and there was nothing like the van, the golf course etc. going on, it'd really be awful. Things like this would happen, and imo it was a good idea to show it. Also, we know that we've got Kate, Locke and Sayid hunting down the Others to look forward to.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭cooker3


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    SumGuy wrote:
    I think this episode made the show as a whole a bit more realistic.
    It gets a bit draining when certain shows are all-serious, all-drama, all-the-time.
    Sawyer was in a great mood, which you ****ing would be after six episodes in a cage! Had he been his surly old self, I would have been disappointed - he just got free, what's he gonna do, mope?

    The fact is, I think, if you were on this island, and there was nothing like the van, the golf course etc. going on, it'd really be awful. Things like this would happen, and imo it was a good idea to show it. Also, we know that we've got Kate, Locke and Sayid hunting down the Others to look forward to.

    I agree, while plot based episodes are good, every now and again it is good to have episodes like this which gives more sympathy towards the characters, also good to see jin and hurley again. Not seen Jin since episode 2 so good to re-aquaint with him.


  • Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's good to see Lost is looking back at Season One. I especially loved the part when Sawyer called Charlie a munchkin- a possible nod to the little Hobbit?

    Anyway, an episode doesn't need to move the story on. It was good to show the humor amongst all the death. Hurley is the heart of the Island.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,854 ✭✭✭Sinfonia


    Hurley is the heart of the Island.

    Love the way he laughs whenever Jin does anything.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,241 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    How many new nicknames did sawyer come up with in this episode. Everytime he talked to charlie he had a new nickname for him, more or less the same for hurley and he had about a gazillion(just a rough guesstimation) for roger the skeleton guy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    PiE wrote:
    Worst. Episode. Ever.
    Thought I was gonna be the first to say it!

    An absolute waste in my opinion. The last minute or so was the only part that held any real significance. If you only saw that, you didn't miss anything else. Gee, the lottery brought Hurley bad luck? Could've sworn I saw an episode or two already dedicated to that in the past.
    Maybe it's because I'm watching it straight after a new episode of 24 nowadays (and in comparison it's like watching paint dry) but it's becoming a bit of a drag.

    I think this is the first disgruntled rant I've ever had about the show, but after last week's sub-par episode followed by this pointless filler, I'm losing the faith a little.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,722 ✭✭✭anotherlostie


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    I wonder if Michelle Rodriguez was amused by the site of a crashed car with beer in the boot? Maybe Roger aka Skeletor had been drinking, causing his crash.

    A nice little dig from 'Messers' Cuse and Lindelof?;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,745 ✭✭✭doonothing


    ah whats all the complaining about, that episode was great! i dont mind filler episodes as long as theyre as good as that episode, and theyre a helluva lot more entertaining than something like last weeks...
    9/10!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,477 ✭✭✭newbie2


    PiE wrote:
    Worst. Episode. Ever.

    Sick of Sawyer's one-liners. Sick of Sawyer/Kate. Sick of Hurley's bad luck.

    And as mentioned, was Alex being Rousseau's daughter meant to be a shock?! How the hell can they end an episode with that, when we all bloody well knew it anyway.

    well said. and well asked.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 34,404 ✭✭✭✭~Rebel~


    Thoroughly enjoyed this episode. Why get so hung up on finding out the eventual answers without enjoying the journey? The answers will come, but if you cant appreciate whats actually happening before they do, why watch it?

    At the end of the day when its all finished and everyone has all the episodes on DVD or download or whatever, this would be one among few that i would rewatch for the enjoyment.

    And on the "Is it a shock about Alex" question, no its not a shock. I very much doubt the writers take the viewing public for such fools that we'd have forgotten what has been very clearly shown. Rather then it being a shock i see it as a set up for all the people annoyed at a "filler episode" so they can know action is forthcoming.

    For me, i'm quite happy with the odd well written episode where not much happens but we see that these people are actually human and not machines driven to discover the great secret. We get to see a bit of natural human interaction rather then tense panicked reaction. A very nice (and i would imagine deliberate) change/contrast to the situation Kate and Sawyer have just left. Its nice to know they still have their humanity, as L31mr0d very rightly said.

    In my own opinion of course.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 459 ✭✭csk


    2
    Thought it was crap myself so gave it a three.

    Most of the humour seemed forced although there were a few good one liners. The whole episode was filler for filler sake, the only thing worse would have been a sitcom style clip show. Why they can't provide a feel good episode AND move the plot forward is beyond me, surely the basis of good writing would be to do this ?

    Also does anyone else think the false backs are fast becoming redundant at this stage ? All they seem to do is re hash everything we already know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Thought it was a very poor episode, the sort of stuff I wouldn't even add to the extra's of the DVD. If this had come on the back of a quality episode then maybe I may have just let it pass. But the show is beginning to wane and I think the large decline in US viewers is testament to this. They really need to get a better balance in the episodes between progress and enertainment/humour and have more interaction between the various character stories instead of focusing on just one... something like how Hereos does it. They really need a big episode next week and I hope they pull it off, it's still one of the best shows in years!


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 18,339 Mod ✭✭✭✭slave1


    7
    Accepting the fact it was a filler, I thought it was very enjoyable, never laughed so much with any previous episode, once I got over the amazingly bad continunity in the beginning where HobbitMan's shaving cut disappeared blood and all, it settled to a fine episode with some great one liners
    Suppose we're just past the halfway of this saga - assuming 5 series - so we're on the way home.
    Also amazed noone has listed the reasons why that van could not have ran after so long "idle", just goes to show we accepted it as a light hearted ep and not core to the series
    Please please lets see more of Locke and Siaid

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,311 ✭✭✭✭Bard


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    That was great craic... I've never laughed so much at an episode of LOST as I did at that one - particularly the bit where they get the van going.

    8/10


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,122 ✭✭✭✭Nalz


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    so - what did we learn?

    Some Tv reporter died in a chicken joint that Hurley owned.
    They found a van with beer.
    Koreans are gonna try conversate in English.
    Kate went to Rosseau for help.
    Hurley was thin when he was younger.


    bla bla bla. crap episode. A 5 for me. Next week will be better though!


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 9,051 ✭✭✭fitz


    This episode wouldn't have been given such low ratings if it had been in season 1 or 2.

    It was a pretty good episode, but the problem is that with such ropey episodes prior to it, supposedly advancing the plot, viewers, including myself, are damn frustrated with the lack of answers and the constant addition of more bloody questions.

    So when a non-plot episode comes along, it doesn't matter if it's any good, people are just gonna think "great, another episode where we learn nothing."

    The writers need to start answering questions. Quickly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭lowdenclear


    7
    Trilla wrote:
    so - what did we learn?

    Some Tv reporter died in a chicken joint that Hurley owned.
    They found a van with beer.
    Koreans are gonna try conversate in English.
    Kate went to Rosseau for help.
    Hurley was thin when he was younger.


    bla bla bla. crap episode. A 5 for me. Next week will be better though!

    We also learned that Hurley likes chicken?! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭fobs


    6
    Enjoyed this episode so much more than lst week. Any episode that concentrates on Hurley and has more than just Jack and Kate in it have to be good. Like Hurleys one-liners "red...necked...man" and the way he looks at Jin when he trys to communicate with him are hilarious. Enjoyed this more than episodes with so much symbolism in them you can't just sit back and watch it without disecting it to the bone...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,646 ✭✭✭cooker3


    6
    We also learned that Hurley likes chicken?! :D

    And that is mother is emn very passionate :eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


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    It's good to see Lost is looking back at Season One. I especially loved the part when Sawyer called Charlie a munchkin- a possible nod to the little Hobbit?.

    Exactly what I was thinking when I heard him say that :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,026 ✭✭✭Killaqueen!!!


    Very enjoyable filler.

    That there says it all. It is a filler but it at least focusses on more than Jack/Kate/Sawyer. It's one of those great season1 type episodes at the beach. And anybody who is seriously p1ssed about this episode needs to look at themselves and ask why are they getting so worked up that no answers were given if it was an entertaining piece of television. Seriously guys - it's taking it too far. If you hate Lost that much please don't watch it.

    Loved the van scenes - Hurley is a great character and we saw his want to lighten everyone up again (remember the golfcourse). His flashbacks didn't really tell us much but with the story as it goes any of his flashbacks will be great if it uses more of the bad luck humour that we always get.

    Hurley: Shut up....red...neck...guy
    Sawyer: Touche

    Brilliant! :D

    I was really really hoping that Kate and Sawyer would tell everyone what happened because I feared that it would be another stupid bit where nobody asked questions but at least Sayid and Locke seemed interested. In the last scene it was very obvious where they were going with it but I'm glad they got that done at the end of the episode so they don't have to do it next week.

    I was a bit worried that Sawyer and Jin didn't try and stop Hurley and Charlie any more than saying 'It's your funeral' - I mean at the time if I was standing there pushing them down the hill I would think that they were gonna die. Also, Hurley didn't ask ANY questions about what happened to Sawyer when he got back! What the hell?

    Nice bit with Sawyer teaching Jin English.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 62 ✭✭Spiritus Mundi#


    I'm prob in a minority of one here, but is it possible that most of you guys are dismissing these type of episodes as "filler" a little prematurely? I accept that in a multi-layered storyline, any episode that doesnt do much to advance the story in the overall scheme of things is bound to be greeted with a lot of scorn.

    Having said that, in retrospect when Lost has run its course (maybe a rather over-extended course) we might look back on these episodes and find they were a little more than filler. Take this episode - does Hurleys back story need another episode detailing his bad luck? Probably not. Was it an excuse to get a Hurley-centric episode in due to his popularity? (would be cynical but Possibly....)

    But for me i always look at the overall picture - i would be completey amazed and disappointed by the end of the show if these episodes were all for nothing. I'm gonna keep some faith here and hope that all these flashbacks - Kate's backstory, Jacks troubles with his dad and ex-wife, Sawyers childhood, Sayids army experiences......i just think there is more to it than just fleshing out the characters.

    Back in season 1 and even season 2 before it started focussing on Dharma/the hatches/the others, what intrigued me then still does now. What is this island? Why are they there? With so many different storylines and subplots developed since then, sometimes its easy to get frustrated by the lack of progress..... im just gonna keep faith. I cant see myself quitting Lost until the very end either way, but i hope the writers are smarter than a lot of us give them credit for and in 2 or 3 years on a wet weekend i can gorge on all 5 seasons and not feel it was for nothin!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    It was a good episode I thought, I was dissapointed though that they didn't kill Charlie off. Will they just go and do it already?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 654 ✭✭✭DS


    Can anyone explain to me RTE's tagline for this episode?

    "Kate is dead. Or is she?"

    Did they just read the title and change it into something stupidly controversial?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    yeah i thought that was stupider than the episode itself


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    One of, if not the worst episode ever. I'm surprised so many people liked this episode. It featured around two of my favourite characters, Hurley and Sawyer, but still I thought it was rubbish. There were a few funny parts - but there are in nearly every episode Sawyer is in.

    I wouldn't have thought this episode was crap if the ones preceding it were not. What I mean is if we had proper developments in the episodes prior to this I would welcome a "filler" episode, but because this series is utter cack that is not the case. I think it's becoming more obvious that this season will end with the guys on the Island trying to rescue Jack. I just wonder what "delays" we'll have up until that point. The third series is basically 2 people escape from The Others, go back to camp, get the beachies and go back to get Jack. The end.

    I think the writers have alot to answer for. If there are not any major developments in the next two episodes my faith in the writers will have gone down hill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭Crucifix


    7
    DS wrote:
    Can anyone explain to me RTE's tagline for this episode?

    "Kate is dead. Or is she?"

    Did they just read the title and change it into something stupidly controversial?
    I know! I was waiting for her to get hit by the van or something. I'd guess that's a peek into a further off episode.

    I enjoyed that one. Sure there wasn't much exposition, but I don't mind.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    3
    I want some answers!
    Yes, this was an amusing episode, I laughed, but come on, it's time for some answers!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,787 ✭✭✭prospect


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    I enjoyed this episode, it is long overdue that they balanced this series with a light hearted and humurous episode. Then again, I am patient enough to wait and ride out the show and get the answers when they are due. I agree with alot of the previous comments, it really felt like a season one episode.

    Remember, the sooner the answers start being revealed, the sooner the outcome of the whole show can be predicted, and then it would become boring.

    A few points:

    My fav line was when Sawyer called Hurley 'Snuffy' which I presume is a reference to 'Snuffleupagus' the hairy mammoth in Sesame Street. Classic.

    I missed one or two episodes, so did not understand the reference to MrEko and his staff. Also someone mentioned earlier in this thread about MrEkos gift to the losties???

    What happened the van that it ended up on its side, with the driver dying in the drivers seat. Also, why didn't his darmha colleagues come find him?


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