For the most part I seem to be following the pilot so far.
But why do I keep getting this feeling that I've seen literally everything this show has thrown at me so far? I completely avoided every second of it when it was still on the air, and until today, my knowledge of it began and ended with "plane crash". But I just feel that I'm predicting every single turn it makes. I have no experience in the genre whatsoever, either. It's just what I'm expecting — of course the dude with the shrapnel in him isn't dead. Of course they find a survivor. Of course they get the broken radio to work. OF COURSE someone dies at the hand of that monster. OF FUCKING COURSE.
Well.
Either you've been on TV Tropes for too long, you've actually absorbed more about the plot through social osmosis than you believe, you're a Time Lord and you don't know it, or you're really good at guessing.
Granted you've only watched a single episode/the pilot so I don't know why you have a sense of precognition here.
edited 17th Jan '17 8:11:01 PM by Soble
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It's just basic stuff. I see a guy who's about to have a piece of plane fall on him; what else should I think besides "Oh, Jack's gonna dive for the guy and save him in the nick of time"? Or, I see a guy with shrapnel in him, who looks dead; what else am I going to think besides "He's not dead, the shrapnel's gonna be taken out of him"? Or they come across the wreckage of the front end of the plane; what fucking ELSE am I gonna think besides "Oh yeah, they're gonna find the pilot still alive inside"?!
tl;dr: When is the show going to surprise me? Why should I care about anything going on?
edited 17th Jan '17 10:03:43 PM by Twentington
Some random thoughts so far on the Tabula Rasa episode:
Backgammon dude: "One side is light, one side is dark."
Me: "SYMBOLISM!"
"Don't trust [Kate], she's dangerous." No shit, sherlock, we saw her in handcuffs in the flashback.
"If we tell them what we know, we take away their hope. And hope is a very dangerous thing to lose." "So we lie." DIDN'T SEE THAT ONE COMING
I think it's really got me now. I kept shrugging off everything as "seen it" but then when it kept hitting me with things, I kept wanting to go on. It was a fight at first, but I'm hooked now.
Lost Exegesis (Pilot Part 1)