Lost
April 19, 2007 on 1:03 pm | In conversations, entertainment |Every Wednesday night we join a small group of friends and watch Lost. The whole group has seen all the episodes, we’ve all overanalyzed each episode, we’ve all got our theories about what will happen next. Last night a couple joined us who knew nothing of the show. Nothing. Hadn’t seen a single episode. So we attempted to give them a crash course during the commercial breaks. It went something like this:
The group: So the people on the island were in a plane crash and all these supernatural things started happening to them… Polar bears… Black smoke… Oh, and they were being kidnapped by the Others.
The couple: The others? Were the others on the plane?
TG: No, they were already there because… Well, nothing is certain on this show, but from what we know, they were trying to form this utopian society.
TC: Why can that guy see into the future?
TG: Oh, he’s been able to see into the future since they stopped pushing the button and there was this magnetic field explosion sort of thing…
TC: ?
TG: Oh! And that blond girl is an Other, but she’s acting like the Others rejected her to gain their trust because that’s what the leader of the Others told her to do. Only we don’t know why she’d do that, because she’s been screwed over by the Others, too. Maybe they’re still promising her that they’ll let her go home. And she’s a fertility doctor, and women who have babies on the island die.
TC: So the others can go home?
TG: Well they could, but then that magnetic explosion thingy happened, and some guys in Antarctica picked it up on their sensors, and since then they haven’t been able to get back. Oh, and John exploded the submarine.
TC: ?
TG: Oh, and that guy is Sawyer. He’s the island stud horse.
The couple then decides that they aren’t so much into Lost. Either that or they were just plain lost. Probably both.
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Pingback by Dead Yet Living » Stud Horse? — April 19, 2007 #
It was the stud-horse comment that did them in.
Comment by The Dane — April 19, 2007 #
See, I would have thought it would be that comment that won them over.
Meh, go figure.
Comment by Wendy W — April 19, 2007 #
Most couples are adverse to horse references. Now a stud-bullfinch? That really wins them over. Unless they’re tired and old couples, the kind who barely speak to each other and sleep in different rooms. Then it’s all about the stud seahorses. It’s the addition of “sea” that makes all the difference.
Comment by Th? Dane? — April 19, 2007 #