smacky and bucky

• Ana Lucia said the others took a total of 13 of the tailies over the first and second night, including all the kids and the stewardess (if she really was taken. She could have quietly slipped off just before Shannon was shot.) Those 13 people have been held somewhere for about a month now in island time. Where? And we also know that the others (Ben's others) are the ones that took them, because of Goodwin's comments to Ana Lucia just before he died: "The kids are fine...".
• I understand introducing new mysteries to keep people interested, or to draw in new viewers, but at least reward longtime viewers by answering something. Like Crazy French Lady? Where is she? Is she telling the truth that she's never seen the others in her 16 years on the island? Did she really capture Ben, or did they plot it together? If the others don't know what the bright light meant when the hatch imploded, why did Ben lie and convince Locke the button didn't do anything? Is he just a compulsive liar? We know now (if it's true) that Ben set up his capture to work the fake trade to capture Jack so he'd operate on him. Kudos for longterm plans, Ben. Sorry you had to be tortured to get what you wanted.
• Now we'll never know how the Nigerian plane got to the island. No point in exploring that now that the only person with a connection to it is dead.

No wonder Locke was giggling to himself last night when he said "Guess he'll be expecting us now." It's getting ridiculous. Just pile on another mystery. And Eko's last words: Locke said they were "We're next." But Eko must have said "You're next" and Locke took that to be the plural "You." Since English doesn't have unique words for the singular and plural forms of "You" (unlike French, for example, which has "tu" and "vous"), how does Locke know he didn't mean Locke specifically ("You're next, you bald bastard.")?

And yes, the acting of the "others" is good, but it's getting really old every time Ben says "We're the good guys." I guess he subscribes to the Punisher's concept of good guy, where it's okay to beat people and manipulate them to kill Ana Lucia and Libby to get what you want.

Please have the writers (or some interns, I don't care) sit down with the series DVDs and a thick pad of paper, and have them write down each mystery, each unanswered question, from each episode. Between episodes, put check marks beside ones answered. When they reach episode 6 of season 3, I think they'll be surprised the items that were raised and then dropped.

# posted by smacky @ 10:07 AM