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).

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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

Hi Mari

I do not mind the medical stuff, except certain things which upset me. In those cases (there are a few in LOST) I turn the sound low and don't watch and wait till the scene is done. In reading a transcript, I skim through/past it.

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It has been almost 3 years since we watched LOST last....WE are watching lost again season 1 disc 3 ....LOVING IT!
bizi

Do you have a favorite season?
I hated season two and some others that I cannot remember right now.

I still love Des and Penney.
and
Sawyer and Juliet.

Have you seen the actor playing Sawyer (Josh Holloway) in his new T.V. show Intelligence? I do not think it is a good part for him.

He is in a new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie (Sabotage).
I hope it works out for him.

Mari

no I have not seen the new series.so far I am loving season one.
bizi

Tonight we finished watching lost for the 5th time...my memory was terrible almost like watching it all over for the first time. WE watched it off and on for over 6 months.
WE really enjoyed it.
bizi