On Apr 25, 3:19 pm, robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Apr 25, 2:11 pm, emptybowl <f...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > robg...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote in news:d6224ed0-09f8-4def-8908-a62d311b7bb5
> > @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > Why did the bandits arrive just after Benry Linus-Moriarty woke up
in
> > > the desert? Convenient 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
> > 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
who did you say it was? just curious since the spoiler is out for
that.
Penni
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