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I hope everyone is aware that the writers for X-files got alot of their material off the web and on message boards. It’s intersting to wonder who may be reading our comments,

Anyway….re some comments…I too would like to see Anna Lucia/Sayid
grow together and start a relationship. I think ” Henry” is a great character.
Can’t wait to find out who he really is. I miss Desmond.
And…..I think Eko is building table for a feast…..isn’t it time for the Holidays on the island?

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Of course we don’t want the story to be given up in an instant, but every other week (when we do actually get a new episode) seems to offer only a quagmire from which the story cannot progress. The ‘punctilious character study’ defense seems weak, and I’d feel like a credulous apologist for the writers if I accepted the circumlocutions in their narrative along with the meat of the story. The writers are doing so much right; if we can tell them when they’re doing something wrong, maybe they’ll stick to the goods more often?

Kate: So, Jack, Claire led us to this empty medical hatch.
Jack: Wow. Seriously?
Kate: Yeah, and now she remembers what happened to her.
Jack: Really? (pause) We’ll go find it when we figure out what to do with the scary bald man in the armory, I guess.

It would just be another thing they talk about in passing while they try to wrap up that story and figure out if he has anything to do with Walt’s kidnappers. Nobody is talking about Sun ‘s pregnancy, either, but we know it’s going to come up again.

I know what you mean about the X-Files, though, and sometimes I fear the same thing happening, but I think this show is way better in a lot of ways.

Either that it’s definitely NOT a dream, or that it is completely Hurley’s dream. I can honestly live with either one, but damn it’s interesting that they opened this can of worms. It’s completely conceivable that by the end of the series we’ll be saying “Damn, they explained everything in Season 2, Episode 18. Where was I?”.

But I doubt it.

Two words–Twin Peaks. They told us everything we needed to know in the finale of season one. Wanna know what happened in season two? Absolutely nothing. There was no season three because nobody watched season two.

Anybody who is really into this show knows that they’re going to tell us eventually. So we go along for the ride. Isn’t if more fun to imagine the answers to all the mysteries, anyway?

Chew your food and taste it. Don’t gulp it down.

One funny little thing. On the box of non-Oreos that Sawyer was destroying before he was so beautifully pulverized by Hurley were the words “fully hydrogenated.” No significance, no mythology, i htink, just funny. That is the sort of thing I love about this show, the amazing attention to detail. This series has advanced the art of TV writing, driven by and taking advantage of current video recording technology and fans who scrutinize it frame by frame and then talk about it with each other all over the world via the internet. I am old enough to still find that amazing. Of course, sometimes the level of criticism on these boards seems ridiiculous to me (“you know, minute 23 to minute 25.6 was a little slow…”), but it just goes to show how engaged by all of this we are.

I like that the show’s writers seem to be paying attention to the theorists out there and systematically picking apart their speculation. Last week’s episode (e.g. Henry Gale isn’t lying… no, wait, he is) was a great example. This one a little less so as the “it’s all in Hurely’s mind” (my prevailing theory after season 1) gets blow away.

My deep thoughts:
1) How do we know that it’s not still all in Hurley’s mind? If we believe that him seeing Dave (not me) was imagined, how do we know that the whole series wasn’t? (Yes, it’s a reach. But perhaps Hurley has just traded one delusion for another. He did have the comic book — referenced above — with an island under a geodesic dome with a polar bear. Maybe all the Losites are comic book characters.)
2) I am disappointed with the explanation of Hurley’s mental illness. He is apparently psychotic, but was committed to the hospital for catatonia. I was thinking that he would be bullemic (food binging, possibly with the purging, hence the name “Hurl-ey” that is referenced as a nickname with a “long story” behind it in season 1). Oh well.
3) I like the ambiguity surrounding “Henry Gale.” We don’t know if he and the Others are Dharma (running the show), or part of a big Skinner-type experiment (just subjects). His behavior in this episode could suggest either. It’s also completely ambiguous in my opinion as to whether Henry pushed the button (and told Locke he didn’t — he likes screwing with Locke) or not. Could be further fuel for the argument that this is all some Skinner box experiment. Look at what happened when they were rewarded with food and the social heirarchy that developed.
4) The whole Libby in the psych ward thing. I don’t buy it. Libby says she went to med school and dropped out, then became a clinical psychologist. Maybe she had a schizophrenic break in med school, was committed, and then decided she wanted to help people and became a psychologist. Maybe. But I have to assume the training for that is at least 2-3 years. Not that much time went by… maybe Libby is lying about being a psychologist?

Overall I liked the episode and am psyched for next week. I’m also curious what Eko is building…

The sticker on the camera says “Santa Rosa”, by the way.

Now I’m definitely going out!

LostHSV: I went back and freeze framed both scenes with the keys in and I don’t think they’re the same keyring. In the shot where Ethan unlocks the medicine cabinet the keyring spins around and has the same logo on both sides. The keyring on the psychiatrist’s table was definitely plain black on one side and looks like the other might have been polished metal – maybe a car logo or a compass.

Now I think I should stop being so obsessive about Lost and get some fresh air :/

We have the reason for Hurley to be in there (deck collapse; 23 and 8 – the numbers).

The fake Henry reveals some info about the Others and that he “may not be one of them”, but knows about them. Q-is he one of Dharma, like the girl who let Claire free? (maybe the French woman’s daughter? He reveals about the other (man) voice, who is head dude of the Others (scene with Claire in the island med clinic; man without beard talking to him). He tells Locke that “he never pushed the button”. You could see that this shock Locke’s faith in the hatch and the button.

All in all, a LOT of good information and twists to the story line.

I agree with Paul’s comment that we can’t assume Libby is not a psychiatrist, just because she is a patient in the psych ward herself. Even psychiatrists can lose it now and then.

I don’t know that we can assume anything about Libby. Who’s to say she’s not a psychologist or an other. Who better to pose as a psych patient than a psych professional. It’s a great way to be able to get inside and observe Hurley if they were trying to manipulate or study him before directing him to the island. Maybe Libby is D.I. Field agent assigned to Hurley. Hey LostHSV, are you able to get screen caps of that camera or the keys? Did you notice a logo on his keys?

Also there was something written on the top of his camera but I had a hard time making it out.

They almost completely ignored the “Henry Gale” story and they failed again to interogate him to great length. What are they waiting for before they get him to tell them something?

I really hope they pick it up again next week.

L8R

Neither Hurley nor his imaginary friend, Dave, were with Jack and Desmond when Desmond made his remark to Jack for the second time, “See you in another Life.” The first time was when when both Jack and Desmond were running together in Los Angeles. I’m doubltful if Hurley actually saw “Vanilla Sky,” since the Film didn’t do all that well at the box office (plus Hurley wasn’t much of a go out of the house kinda guy–he prefeered to stay home, watch TV, and stuff his face.:)

Also confirmed how a decent looking woman (like Libby) would have to be crazy to fall for Hurley—this makes perfect sense now since we learned that Libby was actually another mental patient in Hurley’s ward.

It’s strange how Hurley’s imaginary friend, Dave, said “see you in another life.” I’m at a loss on how Hurley, through his imaginary friend, Dave, knew about that expression.

Finally, our captive Other (formerly known as Henry Gale) lets on that the Others have just as little information about the nature of the island as our Losties do. (Well maybe a little more at best).

I wish they would have focused some more attention on Henry and the hatch, but I understand that they only have 42-45 minutes per episode and there’s a lot of information to over in that short amount of time.

I can’t wait to find out more about Libby as the Hibby relationship is explored, haha. (Or is it Hurleby?)

And what of Dave? Was he a possibly generated hallucination, like Jack’s father, etc. or is Hurley losing it. And if he is, why has he not been seeing things earlier?

Another EXCELLENT clue we got was Henry’s talk with Locke. God nor the rest of the world can see the island? Reminds me of the comic book…

For what this episode lacked to me in depth, it made up for in suspense.