Yes, the idea of Purgatory works for a little while.

The monster is "seen" in the pilot show when it kills the pilot in the plane and sends him up the tree.
In Season 1 Episode 3 "White Rabbit" Locke sees the smoke monster --- sometimes it is smoke and sometimes it manifests other ways:
"I looked into the eye of this island, and what I saw was beautiful."


I think Eko's was different from other deaths (from the smoke monster or otherwise). I remain confused about him.
Often people like Shannon die after they work out what they came to take care of (I guess that is how this is a kind of purgatory.)

Mari

W:



========
That is what I get for being obsessive and clicking on ob-la-di, ob-la-da over and over again.

I guess it took me two years and LOST before I re-experienced the song again.

I digress.


M

Dear Mari

I read the whole post before you edited. It was fine, but it's fine also that you edited - whatever you are more comfortable with.

I'm sorry about what you went through... and that rewatching LOST with me ended up bringing these things up for you. I have to say I thought the function you described was really nice. Good for you for taking care of that, I know it must have been hard. I know that entire chapter was and is still very tough for you.

I hope you are not too shaken and that you will be "ok."

Take care. Lots of hugs.

~ waves ~

Thanks, Waves,

It helped to write it out.

Those are sad memories but I also have good memories.

I am cool with LOST.

M

watched the last episode of downton abby....sigh is all I can say, looking forward to season 4 NEXT YEAR!!!!!
bizi
we will be watching the whole series again shortly.

Bizi,

I saw that episode too.

I liked Season 1 the best. I can go back to that over and over again. Have fun.

Mari

Waves,

Have you seen these two episodes? What did you think?


Season 3 Episode10 Tricia Tanaka Is Dead Day 76

I like this episode because Hurley tries to change his luck. Also, I like the song, Shambala. I am bored with the father issues of many of the characters.

Where is Sayid? I feel that since Desmond showed up we see less of him. Also, if they are both around, they are not often together.

Both of Hurley’s parents are creepy, his father more than his mother.

Sawyer is teaching Jin English:

• I am sorry.
• You were right.
• Those pants don't make you look fat.

Kate, Sayid, and Locke encounter Rousseau on the way to find Jack.


Season 3 Episode 11 Day 77

We have three plots going on again.

The ping pong game is cute. We might not have expected Sawyer to get hustled. Why does Sawyer care about keeping stuff?

I noticed the cats in the Flame and Paris segments.
I was not sure how Sayid's flashback gave us any information about Sayid or LOST except about how much pain was in Sayid's life. We do see him as the sensible one in any of the pairings / groupings.
Locke is goofy at the Flame ---focused on the chess game, even to the point of assisting in blowing the station. Locke expecting the others to follow the compass directions on Eko's stick is pretty cool in a way. I guess no one else had better information (before they encountered Rousseau or Mikhail Bakunin.)
Mikhail somewhat explains the purge -- Darma group taking out the original people on the island (the Others).
We probably learn some mysteries here at the station. Sayid is happy to have a map.
===============================
Next time I intend to respond to your comments up thread.
Mari

And Charlie's destiny. I loved loved loved the scene with the van. It was infectious to see Hurley so happy, and the others joining in after their initial skepticism was overturned by fact. i loved seeing the van go around and around... it was like a dance.

Indeed. There are too many: we have a murdererous abusive daddy, a murder-suicide daddy, an alcoholic-abusive daddy, a conning-narcissist daddy, an alcoholic-narcissist daddy, and absentee daddy, and a mafia-controlfreak daddy. maybe i even missed some.

I think we are supposed to be creeped out, but I find them more ordinary... a bit kooky, but overall saner than the other families.

This was really funny... and so Sawyer-esque.

~ waves ~

I loved the ping-pong game, especially what Sun & Jin thought up about Sawyer having to give up nick-names for a week if he lost. Sawyer really didn't lose anything, but he had to exercise some constraint, besides it gave everyone else a bit of reprieve from his constant verbal darts. Hurley looked reaaaaal serious at the start of that game. He had a look of determination not present in other circumstances. I had a suspicion of the outcome when he asked about the 11-0 rule.

There was no trickery by the others. It was game - a gamble... Sawyer didn't see it as a gamble, only because he didn't consider that somebody else could be good at ping-pong, let alone better than him. That's pretty arrogant. Sawyer saw it as a hustle but I didn't see it that way, not really. If anybody did any hustling - Sawyer did it to himself. Hurley knew his own skill, but I didn't see anything to make me believe he had the same ridiculously arrogant certainty of winning that Sawyer did.
I never thought it was about the stuff per se. I saw him going for power. His gathering stuff was just a means... the stuff provided bargaining power - leverage to use with anybody else, as needed. There are a few things he cares about. He likes reading. However his attachment has limits - he refuses to take back his girly magazine back when he sees the guy is holding a toilet paper type thing behind it. He gets grossed out. As much as he hated them, he cared about the glasses and was glad when he got those back. He needed those to read.

I like Sayid a lot. He has a lot of integrity. I feel badly that he seems to get "compromised" by a painful loss later on. (I am a lot further along in the transcripts than I am in the show).

=================================

You don't have to if I got too into the philosophy stuff for your taste. I will try to avoid carrying on like that from now on.

One thing I do not like about this show is the amount of "action" guns and violence. There is enough of that as to make it hard to watch, but now I've started I'll watch it to the end. I like the mysteries, the symbolism, the philosophy and psychology. Later there is more some sci-fi. I like that too.

~ waves ~

I do not mind the guns as much as the medicine stuff but the guns are not good either.

The sci-fi-type stuff picks up soon.

The philosophy stuff is good. That is what makes the show fun --- otherwise it is just a show with guns (and medicine).
M