Wot the f is going on?

Whaddaya mean? You watched the first season and want a synopsis of the first episode?

Just watched it and I don't understand it. I mean, there's weird and there's Lost Season 2 Episode 1.....

EDIT: Realised the title was a little abiguous, changed it...

Didn't seem that weird to me.

Well, other than '70s-Man.

What, exactly, are you confused about?

Exactly, what's all that about?

I suppose we'll find out at a later date. An interesting anomaly is that the decor would seem to suggest the '70s, but if Jack saw him even as early as his internship, that couldn't have been more than 15 years ago. So either Lost is not set in 2005 or the inferrence that he's been down there since the '70s is incorrect.

Actually, we do have a name for him: Desmond.

I couldn't put all the questions on here without spoiling things for people still on season 1

So? Label it "Spoilers". And/or ROT13 it.

The fact he's got a pair of Dyson washers puts it in the last 5 or so years.

I think I'll change the title of this thread yet again.

I think it was utterly, totally, completely awesome.

I love how they didn't mess around in the slightest. From the very first frame, they were not cagey in any way, they simply showed us exactly what was going on in the tunnel and who was down there.

I was expecting continued secrecy about the tunnel. Instead, we clearly saw a person, with a computerized control room (albeit with 1970's era technology, which actually makes sense come to think of it). A whole BUNCH of pent-up questions were answered in an instant. Certainly not every question was answered, but those scenes sure knocked down a whole bunch of them.

The hard part is, of course, now that all those questions are answered, there's a whole new set of follow up questions.

Brilliant, brilliant show.

I agree it's a great show, but the most annoying thing is that I downloaded every episode of Season 1 and watched them over a couple of days. Now I have to wait a whole week for each episode, it's going to drive me insane!

Yeah, I did the same thing with West Wing.

Time travel comes to mind as an answer for some things. Like why he seems to be 70s-fied, but has the occasional modern thing. The ages of the weapons might be relevant, too.

Did you notice the bottles of the stuff he was injecting had 'the numbers' written on it?

Don't assume Jack saw him the first time. At least don't assume he saw the real person. We've seen other people "seeing things" on the island. It's not a far stretch to suppose this guy Desmond was never in the stadium with Jack in the first place.

And my guess for timeline is that the stadium and accident scenes were about 5 or 6 years in the past.

Of note (but I haven't confirmed for myself) is that the guy who died (in the car accident from the flashback) has the same last name as Boon (now dead) and his sister.

Brief mention of Alias: The EPG description for the premiere is sounding like another big messy pile of JJ crap. Vaughan suspected of being a double agent. Oh boy. Last season started out a giant mess but got better toward the end. I just want to see a solid story from start to finish this time around, sans fromage.

Back to Lost... Everyone else hear the rumor (supposedly from Matthew Fox) that they're supposed to find additional survivors of the crash? Namely the African American lady's husband and the girl Jack met at the bar in one of the flashbacks from the last episodes last season.

Bruno

I think you're assuming that "he" and "the facility he is residing in" must somehow be chronologically the same. Maybe he just got assigned there, or went there, or some such, and makes do with whatever the facility has got.

It's not uncommon for military facilities to have a mix of old and new technology like that. And it sure looks military to me.

With the bunks aside, it looks quite homely, I've seen a few nuclear bunkers in my time (not saying it's a nuclear bunker), and they're decidedly less comfortable.

Maybe it's an abandoned military facility that's been taken over by eccentrics.

Like those people who live in Silos? Some of those places look really cool.

I think he's the software developer for Duke Nukem Forever.

-Zeke

...and that bloody song has been going round in my head all day!

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...and that bloody song has been going round in my head all day!

And I already forgot what song it was that was playing!

Something about making your own kind of music, then again, I've been playing the underground scenes again to look for any clues.