On Apr 25, 2:11=A0pm, emptybowl <f...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Why did the bandits arrive just after Benry Linus-Moriarty woke up in
> > the desert? =A0Convenient timing, huh?
>
> Well, it is a STORY, remember? They have 44 mnutes a week to transmit
> information to us, and who would really want to waste a bunch of time
> showing Ben just sitting in the middle of the desert, or wandering
around
> aimlessly? It's called MOVING THE PLOT.
And I suppose the only way you can think of indicating the passage of
time on TV is to actually show it pass in real time.
> If you'd like a more specific reason, perhaps, given the the relative
"hot=
> spot" of Tunisia regarding Dharma (remember the polar bear skeleton
found
> by Charlotte that I'm sure you'll argue is fake?), perhaps the area is
> patrolled regularly?
By horsemen hoping to capture a polar bear for their collection? What
do you think has been coming thru there that brigands would want to
intercept?
> or maybe there was some sort of visual spectacle when =A0
> Ben arrived?
Must've been a visual that lasted for hours and ended just as the
scene opened, to get them way out there.
> > Why did Benry ask the date, including the year, at the hotel desk?
>
> Um, because he was unsure, and it's a good way to indicate that fact to
us=
,
> the viewers?
And he would of course wish the desk clerk to know of his unsureness,
because he absolutely positively has to know that very minute?
> Sure you could just show Ben looking at a newspaper or a
> calendar,
Hell, they used a subtitle, "Sahara Desert", and then one for a
location in Tunisia. They didn't have Benry ask WHERE he was.
> I'd hardly call what Ben did at the hotel desk "making a scene".
He was injured and disheveled, asked a very strange question (even
perseverated on it), and was probably caught on security video.
> I was thinking about this last night, my dead robgood: Really, what the
> **** would it take to convince you you are 100% wrong with your
ridiculous=
> theory.
The end of the show. The last word. There are some other things that
COULD do it, but they'd be much too unsubtle for "Lost".
> I'm sure after the show is done, you'll sit, hunched in your dark living
> room, pouring over the DVDs and still finding small nuggets that prove
to
> you that everyone else "just doesn't get it".
No, I'll be collecting my bets. I just made another over who was in
the coffin at Hoffs Drawlar.
Robert
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