Lost season 1: A spoiler-free discussion

[cieo]

although it's probably a pointless endeavor. Last time I checked, I was the only breathing person in this old US of A who hasn't been keeping up with Lost, yet another J.J. Abrams creation. I just finished watching the eighth episode of the first season.

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[akdidge]

Lost? Yeah, I am. About the series, that is. I haven't watched a single episode, not that I care to either. Suspense shows are rarely that for me. I tend to, with my analytical thinking (or blatant common sense) see through their most 'veiled' plots and say something akin to, "oh, X does Y with Z, how original." Perhaps it is because most of the American public doesn't bother to read the classics, and the directors borrow liberally from said classics. I personally love to read, and can do so quite quickly when the need arises. As such, there's not too much I haven't read about, plot wise, that'll really surprise me.

-- . As someone who speaks Korean fluently, his accent is like a chainsaw ripping through my eardrums. I can, however, blame the show for their awful translations. They're inaccurate (and trust me, providing correct subtitles would not have changed anything in the show) to the point where I now completely ignore the subtitles. --

Yes, translations can be horrible indeed on any show, but that goes for any language not just Korean. I'd much rather have an exec teach someone with the proper language skill how to act, than to take an actor and force them to learn a language, or worse, "repeat these lines." Nuances loose whatever cultural diversity they had when this technique is used.

-- One of the characters dislocates his right shoulder. In the very same episode (note that each episode rarely spans a stretch of time greater than a day and a half), this man with the injured shoulder wants to beat on another character. Tell me, if your right shoulder was dislocated just hours before, from what side would you be throwing your hooks? --

Well, I'd be throwing my hooks from my left, but that's because I'm left-handed, not because of a dislocated right shoulder. ;)
Seriously, I've seen people with dislocated shoulders before, and all I can say is, "adrenaline." If the span was short enough, the guy probably wasn't feeling anything and felt he could go toe-to-toe with someone, injured shoulder or not. It also depends a great deal on your pain threshold. Mine is extremely high, to the point where if I know something is hurting me I reach up in my mind and hit a switch. Boom, no more pain. I'm guessing this is partially due to my martial arts background or it could just be genetic, as both my mother and father both have an insanely high pain threshold too.

[cieo]

I have a very hard time believing that Daniel Dae Kim had anything more than a passing acquaintance with the language before the show. He's probably heard Korean growing up, but his parents probably forced him to speak English at home.

I don't think you can count adrenaline on this episode. See, he throws the hook, notes that it hurt his shoulder, and then throws another one from the same side. GENIUS.