Originally posted by Vanilla Ice:
the Lost writers have committed themselves- it's a given that when explosives are shown onscreen, they MUST explode at some point.
there's a critical time period from the moment the explosive is revealed to when it explodes-
which I shall term the "audience explosion expectation window".
I'll be on the edge of my seat all through this episode I think.
if it's too short then not enough tension will be built up, if too long, then the audience will have got bored, and not really care when the explosion happens.