I have read so many posts on the Lage where people are asking "Why don't the Losties tell each other anything"? We would never see information sharing. Kate would discover something and nothing was ever mentioned. Jack would see something he couldn't explain, nothing was ever mentioned. There are so many posts griping about this lack of communication. While I still think that there is a decent amount of stuff that they are telling each other, something that Hurley said proved that they do share information with each other.

While talking over the "corpses" of Pikki, Hurley said something like:
"remember that Eko said "you're next" to Locke"...

They all knew what he was referring to when he said that. At some point in time Locke shared that information. Proof positive that some information sharing does happen off camera.

Just wanted to try and answer the question of why they never tell each other anything

I have read so many posts on the Lage where people are asking "Why don't the Losties tell each other anything"? We would never see information sharing. Kate would discover something and nothing was ever mentioned. Jack would see something he couldn't explain, nothing was ever mentioned. There are so many posts griping about this lack of communication. While I still think that there is a decent amount of stuff that they are telling each other, something that Hurley said proved that they do share information with each other.

While talking over the "corpses" of Pikki, Hurley said something like:
"remember that Eko said "you're next" to Locke"...

They all knew what he was referring to when he said that. At some point in time Locke shared that information. Proof positive that some information sharing does happen off camera.

Just wanted to try and answer the question of why they never tell each other anything

I agree. It would be boring to watch characters tell each other about things the viewer has already seen, so we have to figure they talk about it off camera. ALthough, interestingly enough, Paolo and Nikki seem to be the biggest offenders of the Not Telling policy...

I think some of the gripes have to do with the fact that what we DO SEE is usually the characters withholding information or being deliberately ambiguous. I don't doubt that a lot of stuff gets talked about "behind the scenes," but there's also not a lot of evidence that the REALLY IMPORTANT things are being spread around.

I agree. It would be boring to watch characters tell each other about things the viewer has already seen, so we have to figure they talk about it off camera. ALthough, interestingly enough, Paolo and Nikki seem to be the biggest offenders of the Not Telling policy...


Can you imagine where the story would be if they did?
We might have just now found the swan.

So yay for the writers not doing that.

Can you imagine where the story would be if they did?
We might have just now found the swan.

So yay for the writers not doing that.

Could you even imagine? I got a funny mental picture in my head of everyone sitting around a fire and yelling at each other what they had discovered that day, with nobody hearing what anyone else was saying.