You get what you pay for…
jeffd
2743
Is there any reason to suspect Kate is pregnant? Other than the fact that she’s boning Sawyer?
I’d presumed that Jack and Juliet’s whole “SHould we tell her?” bit was about their secret plan to screw over the Others (which I assume they have).
Huh?? I pay for my cable which pays network rights fees and I’m exposed to commercials which fund the programs.
Look,it was not that long ago when we got 8 months of new programming and four months of filler. I don’t know why everyone is trying to convince me it is a good thing to have it the other way around.
The networks don’t care about having less episodes to provide a better product, it is just cheaper,so that they can better compete with cheap reality crap.
And they wonder why the viewership of network TV is at an alltime low…
It wasn’t “filler” it was “repeats”. There is more original programming now, not less.
You may not like the other stuff, but it’s not repeats.
Lloyd, that “8 months of programming” was an illusion. Networks have had a pretty standard 24-episode season since at least '93, and that’s just as far back as I remember.
Those 24-episodes were spread over 7 or 8 months, with lots of filler reruns and fill-ins. You were never getting 8 months of original content. Are you telling me you liked clip shows, or tuning in at the right time only to find out your show wasn’t new this week, or even on at all?
Viewing habits have changed though, and people seem to appreciate neither reruns nor fill-ins. In this age of DVRs and DVD-box sets and syndication, people want new stuff non-stop.
Clay
2747
Yeah, that sounds like a good reveal for the season finale. They’ve given us quite a bit of reason to believe that Juliet hates them as much as the 815 survivors do. They’ve sort of set her up to be a bad person, but she might be plotting alongside Jack. Then, after the finale, Jack is the hero again and not some limp weasel.
Well, I’m pretty sure I can remember 32 and 28 episode seasons before that.
How is 16 more than 24, let alone the 32 or 28 there used to be??
BTW,reruns=filler.
jeffd
2750
They pretty much have to have Juliet plotting something with Jack. Otherwise they ruin Jack’s character.
I’m guessing that Juliet knows about the Others’ plan to raid the camp for pregnant women and she and Jack are planning on turning the tables on them with some sort of ambush. The only reason I’d credit them for not telling the rest of the 815ers is that Juliet might believe there’s a spy in their midst and they don’t want the knowledge getting back to the Others. Though how that’s possible I can’t imagine since NO ONE SHARES INFO ANYWAY.
sluggo
2751
Got any examples? Series going as far back as All in the Family, Happy Days, MASH and Three’s Company have all operated under the 22-25 episode/season schedule.
DrDel
2752
Wow. I never thought of that angle. Nice ideas, lets hope the writers use them.
You should write for the show.
walTer
2753
I’m gonna say in this day and age, 16 eps might not be bad especially if it kills the filler episodes that we get.
I am leaning towards Juliette still working for the others-after she left the taped message, she said “I hate you”- I took that to mean that while she may not WANT to be working for the others, she is angry that she is being forced.
Still if she is, Jack is gonna look like a total moron. He might already tho.
I think Juliette telling Ben she hates him was just her remaining in character… Either way she is actually swinging now, Ben knows she’s a reluctant accomplice, so it fits. I think she’s already told Jack everything she knows because in the previews where Sawyer reveals the tape, Jack walks into the situation too calmly to be out of the loop up until that point.
Soapy shows like Dallas, Dynasty, Melrose Place, and Beverly Hills, 90210 routinely had seasons with 30-35 episodes. Twenty-six episode seasons were common too, e.g. some years of The Cosby Show and Cheers, and it was the normal length for the modern Star Trek shows.
Well, maybe not… but, I wouldn’t be surprised if someone besides Sun is pregnant. Just the way they talked about raiding the camp to get the pregnant women. I can’t remember the actual wording, but it definitely left it open to more than just one, and they never even mentioned Sun by name, I don’t think.
Well, in that episode where Juliette and Sun go to the medical center place Juliette mentions that on the island, men’s sperm counts go way up… so far up that Jin, who was practically infertile in the real world, got Sun pregnant pretty quickly on the island. Presumably regular sperm-count guys like Sawyer should be super-fertile on the Island and I doubt they have access to condoms.
Of course, that doesn’t mean anything if Kate wasn’t ovulating around the time they hooked up, but it isn’t too far of a stretch to assume that she was all emotional and horny for the S-Dog in part due to it being prime baby-making time.
Those are all comedys,I’m pretty sure dramas had more.
Just checked Wiki for Star Trek TOS as an example,first season was 29 named episodes,Wild Wild West was 28, so my memory is not completely off.
I thought she clearly shuts the tape off before she tells him she hates him…
I haven’t seen the episode since it aired, but IIRC she shuts the tape off, thinks about it for a second, then presses record again and adds the “I hate you” bit at the end.
