"Lost" TV Show - Currently Season 2 (US aired)


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Dangit...I thought February was supposed to be Sweeps month?...Are they really taking another huge break after this next week's episode?

Yeah, the 2 hour pilot is on a week from Wednesday, followed by a new one the week after, then I'm not sure.

Yeah, the 2 hour pilot is on a week from Wednesday, followed by a new one the week after, then I'm not sure.

Dangit, ABC sucks...I am glad Fox doesn't pull this crap with 24 and other shows...I think it loses more viewers than anything.

Dangit, ABC sucks...I am glad Fox doesn't pull this crap with 24 and other shows...I think it loses more viewers than anything.

*not just directed at you but everyone bitching about this*

are you people new to TV....have you people never watched a weekly TV series...with the exception of a few shows (24 starting last season & half season shows) they have always done this....does it suck, yes....but why are people bitching like this is some new phenomenon...every single show does this...it happens...i just don't get why people are bitching about this @ every board i go to...people are bitching that they're losing interest, etc....why? i don't see you bitching about every other show on the planet doing the same thing....its TV....this is how it works...this is basically how its always worked....so wtf is up with all the bitching?

most shows start in August/September....they have 22-24 episodes...they need to make those last all the way into May....of course there's going to be breaks....

*not just directed at you but everyone bitching about this*

are you people new to TV....have you people never watched a weekly TV series...with the exception of a few shows (24 starting last season & half season shows) they have always done this....does it suck, yes....but why are people bitching like this is some new phenomenon...every single show does this...it happens...i just don't get why people are bitching about this @ every board i go to...people are bitching that they're losing interest, etc....why? i don't see you bitching about every other show on the planet doing the same thing....its TV....this is how it works...this is basically how its always worked....so wtf is up with all the bitching?

most shows start in August/September....they have 22-24 episodes...they need to make those last all the way into May....of course there's going to be breaks....

like I said, I am glad that Fox is different and doesn't do this mess with 24.

what do people think about the whole "LOST: SPOILED" theory? it seems to have been discredited now. I can't help but watch

Locke closely and interpret his reactions and whether he could be a dharma leader.

To have Lost possible spoiled for you, go here: Lost SPOILED!

what do people think about the whole "LOST: SPOILED" theory? it seems to have been discredited now. I can't help but watch

Locke closely and interpret his reactions and whether he could be a dharma leader.

To have Lost possible spoiled for you, go here: Lost SPOILED!

It was never believable to begin with... Locke was very much out of control of what was going on on the island, like how he got so angry over the drug plane because he thought that he was being shown how to open the hatch.. he's a tool of whatever is controlling the island, but not knowingly. If you look at it this way, finding the plane serves three purposes... to kill off boone, to contact the second group by radio and to find the drugs for charlie...one happened, the second didn't and the third point did happen but charlie didn't use them...thus the island trying to get rid of Boone makes the most sense (espiceally since they made him go up into the plane due to taking away Lockes ability to walk)

It was never believable to begin with... Locke was very much out of control of what was going on on the island, like how he got so angry over the drug plane because he thought that he was being shown how to open the hatch.. he's a tool of whatever is controlling the island, but not knowingly. If you look at it this way, finding the plane serves three purposes... to kill off boone, to contact the second group by radio and to find the drugs for charlie...one happened, the second didn't and the third point did happen but charlie didn't use them...thus the island trying to get rid of Boone makes the most sense (espiceally since they made him go up into the plane due to taking away Lockes ability to walk)

Actually the whole drug plane thing is seemingly just to make Locke look like a fool. Him getting Boone killed made him look like a fool, now Charlie getting revenge for Locke not trusting him. It's like Locke is losing the control he thought he had by trusting the island and everyone is turning on him.

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link to trailer, plotline, preveiw?

lost-tv seems to be down according to my pc.

think it was posted a few pages back....if not its here http://www.youtube.com/?v=3szBu5pxVjs

cheers man that looks good. jack seems to be crazy leting it go to 0. and i thought sayid was never going to torture again?

yeh but its an other and they will probably want to know what he knows so sayid is the only one to get the info and dont forget he's annoyed after shannon died :(

The following is a synopsis / spoiler for ?One of Them?. If you don?t want to know what happens before the show airs then get the heck out of here. Unfortunately this was not as good as last weeks episode in my opinion but it seemed a little flat to me.

We start off in Iraq during Desert Storm. Sayid and some other Republican guards are destroying documents when U.S. troops come in and arrest them.

Too many flashbacks for me to keep track of so I?ll just give the story lines separately. To make a long story short Sayid is forced to torture/interrogate his commanding officer to obtain the whereabouts of a U.S. pilot who went down a few days earlier. He later gets released in the end. He basically blames the U.S. for turning him into a torturer.

The Losties start off with Anna running out of the jungle asking sayid where Jack is. Anna brings sayid into the jungle and shows her Danielle who is walking around with her rifle. Sayid says I?ll deal with this leave now and don?t tell anyone about this.

Danielle leads Sayid to a captured man who she believes is an Other. Sayid releases the man and Danielle shoots him in the back with her bow as he runs away. She convinces Sayid not to trust him until he is interrogated.

At the hatch Locke and Sayid talk as Jack mends his wounds. The man claims to be crossing the pacific with his wife in a hot air balloon when they crash landed 4 months ago. She got sick and died three weeks ago. Claims to be from Minnesota.

Sayid secretly asks Locke to change to combo to the armory so that he can interrogate the man without interference from Jack. Locke agrees to this. Sayid asks questions about the balloon and other things. He asked the man about his wife. How she died, where she was buried, how deep was the grave? The final question the man answered that he wasn?t sure. To this Sayid lost it having dug Shannon?s grave and placing her body in the ground. He insisted that the man would know exactly how deep and all those small details he starts to beat him.

Jack anxiously trying to get in to stop him as Locke is refuses to give the new combo. He says to Jack you started an army, why? They exchange some dialogue. Ultimately Jack puts Locke up against a wall and the timer goes off. Jack will let the timer run out if Locke doesn?t open the door.

Locke opens the door and lets Jack stop Sayid. Locke runs to the timer enters the numbers. Again he screws up he types 16 twice. Backs up continues to type He doesn?t make it in time the Alarms blaring and the clock flips like crazy you see flashes of red and black.

Then the forth one stops on a penguin (I think it was a penguin) the last stops at a red missile then the third on a different type of missile. The first two are still flipping and he hits the execute button then the clock resets to 108. This by far was the biggest jip in Lost series ever. But that was just my opinion.

We finish off with Sayid on the beach telling Charlie that he is certain that the man is one of them. Jack and Locke would never be able to understand how Sayid knows it. That?s where it ends. The only other thing that happened is Sawyer discovers Hurley eating from a secret stash of food he was hiding. Sawyer promised not to tell anyone if Hurley helps him capture some Tree Frog that was croaking and annoying Sawyer. Ultimately they find the frog and Sawyer Squashes it in his hand. ( I don?t get the point of this but)

I didn't read the spoiler above by laz45, but I wanted to post my conjecture on the clock running to 0. Maybe it's a dream like thing similar to the Hurley dream while he was in the hatch and Jin was talking in English but told Hurley that he was actually speaking in Korean. Maybe it doesn't really go to 0 afterall. Just an idea.

like I said, I am glad that Fox is different and doesn't do this mess with 24.

Actually, Fox is no different. They did it, either Season 3 or 4 with 24...I forget which season it was, but I remember being ****ed because of this. :laugh: Anywho, I'm looking forward to tonight's show!

The following is a synopsis / spoiler for ?One of Them?. If you don?t want to know what happens before the show airs then get the heck out of here. Unfortunately this was not as good as last weeks episode in my opinion but it seemed a little flat to me.

We start off in Iraq during Desert Storm. Sayid and some other Republican guards are destroying documents when U.S. troops come in and arrest them.

Too many flashbacks for me to keep track of so I?ll just give the story lines separately. To make a long story short Sayid is forced to torture/interrogate his commanding officer to obtain the whereabouts of a U.S. pilot who went down a few days earlier. He later gets released in the end. He basically blames the U.S. for turning him into a torturer.

The Losties start off with Anna running out of the jungle asking sayid where Jack is. Anna brings sayid into the jungle and shows her Danielle who is walking around with her rifle. Sayid says I?ll deal with this leave now and don?t tell anyone about this.

Danielle leads Sayid to a captured man who she believes is an Other. Sayid releases the man and Danielle shoots him in the back with her bow as he runs away. She convinces Sayid not to trust him until he is interrogated.

At the hatch Locke and Sayid talk as Jack mends his wounds. The man claims to be crossing the pacific with his wife in a hot air balloon when they crash landed 4 months ago. She got sick and died three weeks ago. Claims to be from Minnesota.

Sayid secretly asks Locke to change to combo to the armory so that he can interrogate the man without interference from Jack. Locke agrees to this. Sayid asks questions about the balloon and other things. He asked the man about his wife. How she died, where she was buried, how deep was the grave? The final question the man answered that he wasn?t sure. To this Sayid lost it having dug Shannon?s grave and placing her body in the ground. He insisted that the man would know exactly how deep and all those small details he starts to beat him.

Jack anxiously trying to get in to stop him as Locke is refuses to give the new combo. He says to Jack you started an army, why? They exchange some dialogue. Ultimately Jack puts Locke up against a wall and the timer goes off. Jack will let the timer run out if Locke doesn?t open the door.

Locke opens the door and lets Jack stop Sayid. Locke runs to the timer enters the numbers. Again he screws up he types 16 twice. Backs up continues to type He doesn?t make it in time the Alarms blaring and the clock flips like crazy you see flashes of red and black.

Then the forth one stops on a penguin (I think it was a penguin) the last stops at a red missile then the third on a different type of missile. The first two are still flipping and he hits the execute button then the clock resets to 108. This by far was the biggest jip in Lost series ever. But that was just my opinion.

We finish off with Sayid on the beach telling Charlie that he is certain that the man is one of them. Jack and Locke would never be able to understand how Sayid knows it. That?s where it ends. The only other thing that happened is Sawyer discovers Hurley eating from a secret stash of food he was hiding. Sawyer promised not to tell anyone if Hurley helps him capture some Tree Frog that was croaking and annoying Sawyer. Ultimately they find the frog and Sawyer Squashes it in his hand. ( I don?t get the point of this but)

Wow that's not as cool as:( thought it could be. :(

The following is a synopsis / spoiler for ?One of Them?. If you don?t want to know what happens before the show airs then get the heck out of here. Unfortunately this was not as good as last weeks episode in my opinion but it seemed a little flat to me.

We start off in Iraq during Desert Storm. Sayid and some other Republican guards are destroying documents when U.S. troops come in and arrest them.

Too many flashbacks for me to keep track of so I?ll just give the story lines separately. To make a long story short Sayid is forced to torture/interrogate his commanding officer to obtain the whereabouts of a U.S. pilot who went down a few days earlier. He later gets released in the end. He basically blames the U.S. for turning him into a torturer.

The Losties start off with Anna running out of the jungle asking sayid where Jack is. Anna brings sayid into the jungle and shows her Danielle who is walking around with her rifle. Sayid says I?ll deal with this leave now and don?t tell anyone about this.

Danielle leads Sayid to a captured man who she believes is an Other. Sayid releases the man and Danielle shoots him in the back with her bow as he runs away. She convinces Sayid not to trust him until he is interrogated.

At the hatch Locke and Sayid talk as Jack mends his wounds. The man claims to be crossing the pacific with his wife in a hot air balloon when they crash landed 4 months ago. She got sick and died three weeks ago. Claims to be from Minnesota.

Sayid secretly asks Locke to change to combo to the armory so that he can interrogate the man without interference from Jack. Locke agrees to this. Sayid asks questions about the balloon and other things. He asked the man about his wife. How she died, where she was buried, how deep was the grave? The final question the man answered that he wasn?t sure. To this Sayid lost it having dug Shannon?s grave and placing her body in the ground. He insisted that the man would know exactly how deep and all those small details he starts to beat him.

Jack anxiously trying to get in to stop him as Locke is refuses to give the new combo. He says to Jack you started an army, why? They exchange some dialogue. Ultimately Jack puts Locke up against a wall and the timer goes off. Jack will let the timer run out if Locke doesn?t open the door.

Locke opens the door and lets Jack stop Sayid. Locke runs to the timer enters the numbers. Again he screws up he types 16 twice. Backs up continues to type He doesn?t make it in time the Alarms blaring and the clock flips like crazy you see flashes of red and black.

Then the forth one stops on a penguin (I think it was a penguin) the last stops at a red missile then the third on a different type of missile. The first two are still flipping and he hits the execute button then the clock resets to 108. This by far was the biggest jip in Lost series ever. But that was just my opinion.

We finish off with Sayid on the beach telling Charlie that he is certain that the man is one of them. Jack and Locke would never be able to understand how Sayid knows it. That?s where it ends. The only other thing that happened is Sawyer discovers Hurley eating from a secret stash of food he was hiding. Sawyer promised not to tell anyone if Hurley helps him capture some Tree Frog that was croaking and annoying Sawyer. Ultimately they find the frog and Sawyer Squashes it in his hand. ( I don?t get the point of this but)

Man, this show is really letting me down this season...I was hoping this would be a great episode.

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Just a note, if you want to enable everything, press "Enable all" in one tab, then hit save at the bottom of the page, then do the next tab, and so on. If you press "Enable all", then do that in each tab, and then save, nothing will stick. When I had just some of the search engines enabled, I searched “define nefarious” and results came back with the definition of “define” - obviously that was a sucky result. However, when I had everything enabled, it found dictionary pages for the word “nefarious” and even had an inline definition on the sidebar, which is quite nice too - that was delivered by WolframAlpha for anyone wondering! Probably the worst thing about this meta search engine is that the engines you select are saved with a cookie, so you must enable them on every new device you use SearXNG on, including if you decide to go into incognito mode with your web browser. 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Even if you don’t want to use it as your daily driver, keeping a bookmark handy that links to it is a good idea if you ever feel like doing a deep dive into a niche topic where other search engines are just failing to bring up any good result, due to the amount of sources it looks on. If you’re interested in radical user control over the software you use, installing SearXNG locally can also be a good idea, but be prepared to be temporarily blocked from sites if you trigger bot sensors without a VPN. Personally, I’ve opted to use a public instance, rather than install it myself. If you want to use it via a public instance, head over to searx.space to find a provider. Let us know in the comments if you have used SearXNG or its predecessor, Searx. What do you think about the quality of the results?
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