2nd Season Lost - Three Minutes - 5 star poll

"Three Minutes"
5-17-06 Lost

pv+usenet...

3.5. Whether this score is too low or too high will have to wait until next
week when I see how this pays off.

5 stars (6-4-42)

0-1 stars (6-28-14)

Steven L....

June 1942: Air raids, battle of Midway
June 1914: Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, which led to World War I

Alex W...

A good bridging episode. 3.75 stars.

Michael had a lot of lines tonight. Or rather, he had the same line,
repeated over and over again throughout the episode.

BTR1701...

I was disappointed that Hurley decided to go with him. It's one thing to

Brian Thorn...

Maybe Hurley figured out Michael's secret and is planning revenge.
Afterall, how in the heck would Michael have known Hurley's real name
was Hugo? No one knows that except Jack. Even Sawyer (who seems to
know everything that's going on) was baffled "who the hell's Hugo and
how did he get $250 million?" But Michael suddenly knows Hurley's name
is Hugo? I hope Hurley picked up on it.

pv+usenet...

Didn't that incident happen on the boat, with Michael THERE at the time?
And it seems to me that more people have been calling him Hugo lately. By
the way, was "Hurley" ever explained? *

Kim...

Wow - I just posed that same question upthread (or downthread).

But Locke knows Hugo's name, as well. He calls him "Hugo" a lot of the time,
the way he will call Sawyer "James" - I guess Locke just isn't into
nicknames.

bllbickel...

Michael recognized Hurley's real name as soon as he saw it on the list,
so he must ahve already known it -- either because Jack or somebody
told him, or by scriptwriter fiat.

Fred Furia...

I guess he learned it in his brief time between his return to the
Losties' camp and his foolish solo mission. Didn't Sawyer say on the
boat (while reading the bottled letters) "Someone named Hugo is worth
$86 million" or something like that? I don't remember Michael reacting
to that.

Default User...

We didn't see the list, I don't believe. The could have written:

BTR1701...

Yes, we did.

Default User...

So I've heard. There's no emoticon for "he said in a dry voice" that
I'm aware of, or I'd sure use it there if I had one.

ANIM8Rfsk...

Yeah, we saw the list. Big fat close up of it. Didn't say Hurley.

Hugo Reyes (Hurley)

When I first typed the above, I had "Huge" Reyes. I'm almost sorry it
didn't get out. You guys would have laughed . . .

Fred Ellis...

Maybe you didn't see the list, but I sure did. I even paused my DVD
recorder so I could read it. Here are the names as they appeared on the

Default User...

Oh well. Another bright and lively theory shot out of the sky by cold
hard fact.

list:

Jack Shephard
Kate Austen
Hugo Reyes
James Ford

Fred Ellis

l1z3tt3$_$p3culum...

Dude, How'd you get on the list?

Bill Bickel
http://www.crimepundit.com

keep Sayid from going using the (somewhat lame) excuse about keeping the
party small and quiet, but I was really wondering how he was going to
make the case that Hurley should go. I mean, what's Michael going to say
when Hurley says "Why don't you take Sayid instead? He's a soldier, a
better tactician and a helluva lot more physically fit." What does
Michael say to that? What believable reason could he come up with to
justify the position that Hurley *has* to go but no one else is allowed
to come?

BTR1701...

Because in this case we're assuming that Hurley doesn't want to go
along. Michael has to come up with some reason to insist that Hurley go
while at the same time forbidding anyone else from going. That would
have been fun to watch. Alas, it was not to be.

I was looking forward to seeing Michael weasel his way out of that
conundrum and then the writers copped-out by having Hurley just up and
decide to go along after all.

Kim...

4.5

:sigh:.........more questions.....

1. So can Walt astrally project himself? Is that his superpower?

shawn...

Seems like that is at least part of his power.

2. Why did they take blood from Michael - I guess not for a paternity test,
since they had to ask if he was Walt's biological father....

shawn...

My guess is they are looking for the genetic marker that makes Walt
special.

3. Mrs. Klugh? Is that a "clue"?

shawn...

Heh.. I just thought she was going for Miss Clue. So you knew it was a
fake name from the beginning.

4. When Michael, Walt, Jin and Sawyer were on the raft, Sawyer read Hurley's
note and wondered out loud "who is Hugo Reyes - he has $150 mil to leave to
his mother...." Michael didn't offer that Hugo was Hurley - why did he seem
to know *now* who "Hugo Reyes" was? I didn't think anyone outside of Jack
and Locke were aware of Hurley's real name.

5. What kind of tests are they making Walt take? Those "tell me if it's a
star, circle or square" kinds of tests?

shawn...

I got the feeling there is more to it than that. I wonder just how
smart Walt is supposed to be. The questions about when Walt started
talking make me think there is more to him than that.

Jim Shaffer...

Maybe they're looking for the reincarnation of someone.

copeab...

Dear God! They are Scientologists and they think Walt is L. Ron
Hubbard!

6. I thought Kate was the "closest thing to a friend" Sawyer had. But I
guess guys don't talk to their female friends about how they screwed a girl
then she died kind of stuff.

shawn...

that would kind of mess with his mojo. It's kind of hard to come on to
a girl successfully when you just finished talking about the last girl
you screwed.

7. Wooooahhh......was that Desmond's boat?

shawn...

I don't think that was the one they had last time.

8. I guess no one knew Libby's last name, either.

9. I like that Charlie gave the vaccine to Claire and Aaron, but shouldn't
they adjust the dosage for the baby? And sorry, but I wouldn't be injecting
my kid with nothing that came off some creepy pallet from the sky along with
Dharma-O's and boxes of Mac & Cheese.

Gina...

Thank you! I was thinking the same thing.

shawn...

I would definitely want to know what was in those vials before trying
that stuff. No one should be taking it before knowing what it is, and
if it is viable.

10. Which station were the "other's" guarding - do we know? I couldn't tell
wht the symbol was from the brief time it was shown.

shawn...

I couldn't tell, but I would guess it is the central station. That
would make sense to me.

Ian J. Ball...

With it right on the coast like that?!

No way is that one the central station...

cloud dreamer...

4.65

A great episode setting up the season finale.

Fred Ellis...

I give it 5 Stars. Now we know what happen to Michael after he left to
find Walt.

Fred Ellis

Zombie Elvis...

9.0210

pv+usenet...

I get what you're doing here, but I don't get how it represents a 0-5
scale. Both are kind of low points - the start of a WWI and one of
the bloodiest battles of WWII. *

copeab...

Midway is generally considered the turning point* of the war in the
Pacific, so is really only a low point for the Japanese.

* The Battle of Coral Sea was really the turning point ;)

Mark...

OK, I'll bite. How can you consider a minor skirmish, where the Japanese
lost one light Carrier, the turning point of the war? While at Midway they
'Lost' four heavy carriers and the bulk of their carrier fighter pilots. The
Coral Sea was a prelude, which made Midway possible. But it was far from the
decisive, war turning battle that occurred at Midway.

copeab...

Until the Battle of Coral Sea, the Japanse had been having things their
way in the Pacific. At Coral Sea, the Japanese were stopped in their
tracks. Coral Sea maked the end of any significant expansion in the
Pacific for the Japanese.

Steven L....

What I would have suggested for this poll analogy:

5 stars (December 17, 1903)
0-1 stars (January 28, 1986)

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