I thought the pilot was dreadful--boring and stupid--but I did laugh at the Princess Bride allusion with the 6-hours thing. Scott's not really dead until 6 hours have passed, "He's only MOSTLY dead!"

That they didn't introduce the "pattern" until 75 minutes into the show was an absolute crime of pacing (rather than Pacey). I was already bored.

And Anna Torv really needs to find some other way of conveying emotion besides knitting her brows.

But they can do what they want--I won't be back.

I think the show will be canceled before we get any answers, besides if he is dead or not because he clearly isn't.

The ratings weren't that good, so unless word of mouth is amazing for Sunday I don't see this show getting a season 2 unless there is a strike.

Sorry for two posts but I forgot to add this point in my earlier one. I think the symbols stand for "projects" developed initially at the Harvard laboratory and then perfected by William Bell @ Massive Dynamics. We know that they can communicate with the comatose or anyone dead less than 6 hours. So we got a glimpse of the Massive Dynamics official laboratory for communicating with the dead. Hopefully when we learn about new "technologies" we'll find the corresponding symbol at MD.

Did anyone else notice when Olivia was in the graveyard in the dream/coma questioning tank that there was a tombstone behind her that said, "He's Not Dead". I wonder if that's going to come into play later on.

I think we learned that the Leaf symbol stands for the questioning of the dead. Its where the orderly took the body when she said "question him". I know its an assumption but it seems to make sense to me.

Did anyone else notice the little strange add-ons to those
symbols like the hand having an extra finger & the apple core with two fetuses.

I think the shadowy figure running across the screen behind Olivia was meant to imply a hidden facet of Scott's mind. The deception behind her back. Or maybe not so symbolic and it was a little monkey butler cleaning up the evil deeds.

I thought the symbols were also seen in the Massive Dynamics building, so their use as interstitial titles didn't seem remarkable, though it may have significance. The "Question him" also didn't seem remarkable because they had already referred to the ability to communicate with someone dead if it was soon enough after expiration.

What I want to know is why Joshua Jackson's character would find it useful to speak Farsi in Iraq, and why the other two men who had some official capacity with the pipeline project were speaking it.

Sorry for the double comment!

I was wondering what those symbols meant. With anything he does, JJ never makes it easy. I'm interested in this series, but I'm not jumping full speed ahead into the craziness yet.

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I was wondering what those symbols meant. With anything, JJ is never easy. This show is interesting, but I'm not sure if I'm jumping right into the complete craziness surrounding it yet.

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