On Fri, 20 May 2005 23:12:32 GMT, "Steven L."
wrote:



PBM wrote:

That SEA LION evokes a much earlier era than BLACK ROCK. The extremely
high sterncastle is more like a galleon, say, 16th century. BLACK ROCK
is a relatively modern ship. My wife and I initially thought the
deadly and mysterious "others" must be the descendants of stranded
pirates.

WRT the show itself, I imagine that the BLACK ROCK's cargo will be
revealed to be at least partly composed of exotic animals. I can't
wait to find out how polar bears managed to reproduce on that tropical
island for over a century.

BTW, the "monster" on the island is an ELEPHANT!

No it isn't.

In the premiere episode, the pilot was yanked *upwards* out of the
cockpit of the plane, as if something grabbed him from above. And there
was certainly no elephant's trunk seen. The pilot's body was then
impaled atop a tree. We saw Locke face the "monster" and look upwards
at it, at an angle that indicated it must be some 20 feet high at least.
Which is consistent with the way it's able to shake whole trees. And
the footfalls of elephants aren't loud enough to be heard from hundreds
of feet away. Elephants don't do all that.

Elephants don't make the type of sounds we're hearing. The sounds we're
hearing are definitely mechanical.

Sounds like this guy has never seen or heard an African bull elephant.

Later,

Tom