Lost? I am
Here in Fair Eire (apparently we’ve lost our fada) the telly box has been showing season 2 of ‘Lost’ for the last few weeks. I think at this point we are only about 4 episodes behind the States, unlike the UK where Channel 4 has only just begun to show season 2 and I’m guessing the Aussies are still wondering What’s In The Hatch. So if you haven’t seen any of season 2 you might be better off skipping this entry as it contains spoilers.
So season 2 and new characters… Ye what?
How bloody big is this island anyway? By my reckoning it’s got the following population:
Originals
They started out with um, 42 people, a bunch of extras died, then Boone died and lastly Shannon. It hasn’t been mentioned lately how many are left living on the beach \ cave \ hatch but a guesstimate would put it at about 35.
Tailes
They started out with 23 people. The first night the ‘Others’ took 3 people, then they took 9.
There are only 5 of them left when Jin, Sawyer and Michael find them so where the other 7 disappeared to is not explained.
Others
God only knows, there were 4 of them on the boat and anything from 7 to 14 tromping through the jungle past Jin and Eko’s hiding spot. Then of course there was the big moment when Jack and er, Beardy Bloke come face to face and Jack taunts him that there are only a few of them on the island. Cue massive lighting up ceremony, but we don’t see any other humans so lets just put the Others at a comfortable guesstimate of er, 18. Oh wait I forgot the 12 that were abducted from the tailies group. So maybe 30? Oh yeah and Cindy as well, which makes 31.
Random Wandering Mentallers
As so often happens when you go on holiday with friends, relatives or total strangers who you crash landed with sometimes you just need a bit of ‘Me’ time. And Craphole Island is no different. By my reckoning we’ve got the following peeps stumbling around the island by themselves:
Desmond, after 3 years of pressing buttons and living on the set of ‘That 70’s show’ you would imagine he would be delighted to have someone to talk to, but no.
Rousseau, everyone’s favourite Crazy French Lady, all she’s missing is the cats.
Michael, hopefully by this stage he’s got laryngitis. Either that or he gave the writers a good smack as screaming ‘WALT’ while running through the jungle is not exactly a good way for an actor to get his chops.
Walt, who it would seem has pretty decent wifi coverage. When he’s not chatting to Michael through IRC on a Commodore 64 he’s appearing like Banquo’s ghost just stepping in from the rain for a wee chat, jabbering a load of backwards nonsense.
So that’s another 4.
Other Species
In addition to the humans there also appear to be polar bears, wild boars, Kate’s horse, Vincent the dog and the Smoke Monster.
By my calculations that makes 74 human types and an unknown number of animals.
Now that’s a lot of things on an island to not be bumping into each other on a much more regular basis than they have been. Yet, apparently this lot can wander about freely without ever seeing any indication that anyone else on the island exists.
That’s about it really. Sorry there wasn’t more of a point to the entry, but it was just something I was thinking about there the other day.
Lost lost me when the second episode of the second series was a retread of the first episode of the second series, from a different perspective. I WANT TO HANG ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT, NOT HAVE A CREEPY FEELING OF DEJA VU, DAMMIT.
Comment by Linus — May 4, 2006 @ 12:45 pm
I’ve only been watching on RTÉ2 and not skipping ahead through web downloads or the like so I’m basing this on what you’ve seen. Have you considered the possibility of two tribes of others? The beardy boat bloke and his mates and the other others who travel silently through the jungle complete with child and teddy bear and sent the spies into the camp. Remember that the beardy boat bloke had no idea what Jack was talking about when Jack mentioned Nathan? Maybe the island is the scene for a big game of capture the flag only with children instead of flags. The Lord of the Flies others have the kids from the tail of the plane. The beardy boat others have Walt and the front of the plane survivors have their own baby. It covers mad French lady’s obsession with her own stolen child and Charlies dreams about saving the baby.
Comment by Daragh — May 4, 2006 @ 3:24 pm
Oh god, you mean MORE groups of people?
Anyway I read a comment somewhere that said when Beardy bloke called for Kate the other night in the ‘Circe de Fire Extrazaganza’ that he called for ‘Alex’… As in Rousseau’s son maybe?
Comment by elimare — May 4, 2006 @ 3:45 pm
We’ve only got 2 or 3 episodes left of season 2, and it’s much the same of boring-ass plot for a while and then BAM! something huge happens at the very end. Overall, a weak season, but I still watch it every week.
Comment by Brian — May 9, 2006 @ 7:37 pm