One thing I dont get about Lost

musicismylife78

What I dont get is, that alot of the survivors knew one another, or knew some of the hostiles, or whatnot, met them before they crashed. Yet, when they meet on the island, they never seem to be conscious of this fact. For instance, Jack meeting Ana Lucia at that bar at the airport, wasnt it? And then didnt Jack meet Desmond, while they were both exercising? There are more of these, but cant think of any more at the moment.

My question is, why do the characters never talk about this? We only see this through the flashbacks. Desmond and jack, when they met in the hatch for the first time, Desmond didnt say "I remember you, brother"

igotid88

musicismylife78 wrote:

What I dont get is, that alot of the survivors knew one another, or knew some of the hostiles, or whatnot, met them before they crashed. Yet, when they meet on the island, they never seem to be conscious of this fact. For instance, Jack meeting Ana Lucia at that bar at the airport, wasnt it? And then didnt Jack meet Desmond, while they were both exercising? There are more of these, but cant think of any more at the moment.

My question is, why do the characters never talk about this? We only see this through the flashbacks. Desmond and jack, when they met in the hatch for the first time, Desmond didnt say "I remember you, brother"

I think they did recognize each other. Maybe not at that moment.

Who Princess

If there's only one thing you don't get about Lost, you're way ahead of most people.

Cosmo

What happpened to them Polar Bears?

drtyfrnk29

Here's the thing, at least with the Jack/Desmond example.

It was dark, many years ago and in the rain. If I met Megan friggin Fox under those circumstances and then popped in Transformers I wouldn't jump up and say, "Hey, that chick totally taped my ankle!!!"

musicismylife78

drtyfrnk29 wrote:

Here's the thing, at least with the Jack/Desmond example.

It was dark, many years ago and in the rain. If I met Megan friggin Fox under those circumstances and then popped in Transformers I wouldn't jump up and say, "Hey, that chick totally taped my ankle!!!"

I hear ya. But that doesnt really work with the Ana Lucia/jack meeting at the airport bar. They shared a drink, and talked for awhile.

One could I guess say, the trama of the plane crash and all that caused them to forget, but still..

Usually if you do meet someone once, then see them again, you have that feeling that you met them, but cant place them. Its that funny feeling. Jack or Desmond or Ana Lucia never even said anything like "you look familiar"

Black Diamond

musicismylife78 wrote:

drtyfrnk29 wrote:

Here's the thing, at least with the Jack/Desmond example.

It was dark, many years ago and in the rain. If I met Megan friggin Fox under those circumstances and then popped in Transformers I wouldn't jump up and say, "Hey, that chick totally taped my ankle!!!"

I hear ya. But that doesnt really work with the Ana Lucia/jack meeting at the airport bar. They shared a drink, and talked for awhile.

One could I guess say, the trama of the plane crash and all that caused them to forget, but still..

Usually if you do meet someone once, then see them again, you have that feeling that you met them, but cant place them. Its that funny feeling. Jack or Desmond or Ana Lucia never even said anything like "you look familiar"

They did recognize each other right away. So did Desmond/Jack. Others were connected but no directly.

locked

i know its cheesey.. but God I love that show!

IwasBit10

musicismylife78 wrote:

What I dont get is, that alot of the survivors knew one another, or knew some of the hostiles, or whatnot, met them before they crashed. Yet, when they meet on the island, they never seem to be conscious of this fact. For instance, Jack meeting Ana Lucia at that bar at the airport, wasnt it? And then didnt Jack meet Desmond, while they were both exercising? There are more of these, but cant think of any more at the moment.

My question is, why do the characters never talk about this? We only see this through the flashbacks. Desmond and jack, when they met in the hatch for the first time, Desmond didnt say "I remember you, brother"

It's pretty obvious that Jack recognizes Desmond immediately when he first sees him down in the hatch. As for why they don't talk about it at that moment, Desmond has a gun pointed at Locke's head and then goes crazy over the computer shit. Later out in the jungle, Desmond brings it all up and actually does say, "I remeber you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPR6gGE4ssU

I'm pretty sure Jack recognizes Ana Lucia too. But considering the fact they had met 48 days prior in an airport bar, all the shit Jack had been going through with his father at the time, the plane crashing and, on top of it all, Ana Lucia killing a member of the survivors and having another tied to a tree, I think Jack was concerned with other things.

Who Princess

IwasBit10 wrote:

It's pretty obvious that Jack recognizes Desmond immediately when he first sees him down in the hatch. As for why they don't talk about it at that moment, Desmond has a gun pointed at Locke's head and then goes crazy over the computer shit. Later out in the jungle, Desmond brings it all up and actually does say, "I remeber you."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPR6gGE4ssU

Jack should try wearing a do-rag more often. The gangsta look does wonders for him. :thumbup:

libragirl

whoprincess wrote:

If there's only one thing you don't get about Lost, you're way ahead of most people.

lol..that's true.

I can't wait for it to come back on. I'm guessing it will come back in January?

Better Dan

My question is this: Since Richard Alpert met all the Losties in the past, why does he seem to make no mention of this to Ben or anyone else? Did he know they would eventually go to the past and was just waiting for that to happen? But then again didn't he seem surprised when Locke time traveled?

I'm thinking about it now and I think there was an episode that showed Richard was off island when the flight crashed. We first see Richard in season 3 and that's around the time the others want Locke to be their leader. It could be because Richard remembered Locke telling him in the 50s that he would be the leader and now that Richard was back on the island he tried to make it happen. Does any of this make any sense?

dimitrispearljam

Black Diamond wrote:

They did recognize each other right away. So did Desmond/Jack. Others were connected but no directly.

exactly

tybird

Cosmo wrote:

What happpened to them Polar Bears?

They're dead, Jim

Hammerdonkey

It's a TV show. They're prior familiarity wasn't written in the script for them to acknowledge, maybe?

Sincerely,

Captain Obvious

musicismylife78

Hammerdonkey wrote:

It's a TV show. They're prior familiarity wasn't written in the script for them to acknowledge, maybe?

Sincerely,

Captain Obvious

i know what you mean, but this isnt some regular tv sitcom. Lost is arguably the most complex and comprehensive and challenging tv show of our generation. 5 seasons in and as you can tell by that one posters response, that many people dont understand the show at all. Familiarity between characters may seem a trivial point, but this is Lost we are talking about. This show has consistently been written in a almost David Lynch type style, where the viewer is left to judge about what is going on, at every single point. The flashbacks, the flashforwards, the non linear way the episodes are told, and the fact that little is every explained about anything, make me think this wasnt something the writers just forgot to add!

Hammerdonkey

Yeah, but how many people on earth picked up on that? Probably an oversight by the writers or it'll be tidied up later. I would imagine writing something with that many characters and back stories and all that stuff is going to have some things that get missed until they get pointed out and then the writers brilliantly put those in the story later to clean it up. Probably not a big deal though.

Who Princess

musicismylife78 wrote:

Hammerdonkey wrote:

It's a TV show. They're prior familiarity wasn't written in the script for them to acknowledge, maybe?

Sincerely,

Captain Obvious

i know what you mean, but this isnt some regular tv sitcom. Lost is arguably the most complex and comprehensive and challenging tv show of our generation. 5 seasons in and as you can tell by that one posters response, that many people dont understand the show at all. Familiarity between characters may seem a trivial point, but this is Lost we are talking about. This show has consistently been written in a almost David Lynch type style, where the viewer is left to judge about what is going on, at every single point. The flashbacks, the flashforwards, the non linear way the episodes are told, and the fact that little is every explained about anything, make me think this wasnt something the writers just forgot to add!

There are several Lost sites and if you really want to look at all the details of the show episode by episode probably the best place to start is Lostpedia. It's a good reference to everything about the show and cross references everything about each episode, character, theme, symbol, etc. It also points out when the writers have made a mistake or discrepancy that they haven't accounted for yet.

Who Princess

DS114969 wrote:

My question is this: Since Richard Alpert met all the Losties in the past, why does he seem to make no mention of this to Ben or anyone else? Did he know they would eventually go to the past and was just waiting for that to happen? But then again didn't he seem surprised when Locke time traveled?

I'm thinking about it now and I think there was an episode that showed Richard was off island when the flight crashed. We first see Richard in season 3 and that's around the time the others want Locke to be their leader. It could be because Richard remembered Locke telling him in the 50s that he would be the leader and now that Richard was back on the island he tried to make it happen. Does any of this make any sense?

Yeah, it makes sense in a Lost sort of way!

Richard is kind of an ambiguous character, since he's been around for so long, he never ages, he's been the leader, now he isn't but he doesn't seem to mind as far as I can tell. His relationship with Jacob is what sets him apart. Since we're going into the last season that means we're going to have to learn about Richard at last. I think when they flashed back to the 50s Juliet told Locke that Richard had "always" been there. I honestly don't know what to think about Richard and what his story must be but something tells me it's going to be a good one.

BTW everybody, if you haven't noticed a thread for Season 6 has been started: http://forums.pearljam.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=118329

haffajappa

jack did recognize desmond, didn't he?

The Champ

musicismylife78 wrote:

What I dont get is, that alot of the survivors knew one another, or knew some of the hostiles, or whatnot, met them before they crashed. Yet, when they meet on the island, they never seem to be conscious of this fact. For instance, Jack meeting Ana Lucia at that bar at the airport, wasnt it? And then didnt Jack meet Desmond, while they were both exercising? There are more of these, but cant think of any more at the moment.

My question is, why do the characters never talk about this? We only see this through the flashbacks. Desmond and jack, when they met in the hatch for the first time, Desmond didnt say "I remember you, brother"

This is just a case of you not paying attention again. As many have already stated, Desmond and Jack clearly did acknowledge their prior meeting..