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Let’s move this island outta here
So is Abaddon the creepy orderly really Jacob? I’m probably wrong, but that’s what I got out of that scene when he gave Locke the walkabout advice.
Locke episodes never disappoint, but “Cabin Fever” might be the best one yet. It was like a banana split smothered with toppings to give us a sugar rush and an ice cream headache. It will take too long to cover everything but I’ll hit the important stuff.
We find out Locke has been under the watchful eye of the island ever since his premature birth. (His mother listened to Buddy Holly, continuing the trend of “Lost” using music from artists who died in plane crashes, such as Glen Miller and Otis Redding.) Turns out Locke is a very bright kid who makes all the wrong choices and blows his potential. He makes his first bad choice when he fails the test from Richard Alpert to pick the object “which is his already.”
About that test: What little boy wouldn’t pick the knife? Or the comic book, or the baseball mitt? Maybe the purpose of the test was to see if he would go beyond childish things and pick a more meaningful object. I guess a vial of sand is more meaningful.
Locke fails his second test when he is given a chance to go to a science camp run by Mittelos Bioscience (remember them) but turns it down because chicks don’t dig science nerds. He wants to hunt and play sports. (I loved the play on words when Locke says he wants to box, meaning fight, but his destiny is to work for a boxing company.)
We get back to the theme of life completely sucking if you go against the island. Locke goes the wrong way, and his future consists of a series of dead-end jobs, losing a kidney to his evil father, and getting pushed out of an eight-story window and becoming paralyzed. But, like Michael, he can’t die because the island won’t let him. Then Abaddon (or Jacob) tells Locke about the walkabout, which finally leads him to the island where he belongs. And for the second straight week, the narrative takes us back to season one. Loose ends are being tied up, sort of.
And now Locke has to move the island, which adds credence to a popular theory that the island can move around. How will he move the island? I have no freakin’ clue.
Anyway, we also have a whole other story with the crazy freighter people but I’ll worry about that next week.
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Locke and Claire enjoy night at home
Not many photos have been released of the upcoming episode, but check this one out. Is that Claire in the background? Looks she’s just kicking back, reading the newspaper while Locke sits and stares at something. Maybe he’s watching “Grey’s Anatomy.”
I do know the rumor for tonight is we get to see Locke as a kid, so that should be interesting.
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Trying to save their people
In this “Lost” sneak peek of the episode “Cabin Fever,” Desmond and Sayid get understandably concerned when one of the group of commandos is returned worse for wear from Smokey’s beating.
I wonder why the captain is so anxious to hide Desmond and Sayid from Keamy? Myabe he thinks he can’t keep anyone safe from a ticked-off Keamy. Things look to be pretty unsettled on the ship.
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Where’s the scar?
As you can see from the above photo, Jack doesn’t have an appendectomy scar. That could be a continuity error, but it seems they deliberately shot Jack from the right side so we would notice this. They could have shot him from the left side or given him a shirt. In fact, I wish they would have given him a shirt.
He also has no body hair. Not that I’ve been checking Jack out. I got that from Jimmy Kimmel.
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Pieces fall into place
Ken and I are behind today, probably because it’s Friday. And “Lost” is on too late now. And we have real stuff we have to do before this. If I could make “Lost” the top priority in my life I would. And that would be really sad.
Anyway, I really liked last night’s episode, and we got some little nuggets to give us an idea of how these characters end up with messed up lives in the future. Here are the things that stood out to me:
Aaron and his mommy issues: Remember way back in season one, when Claire was told she must raise this baby or else there will be dire consequences? We finally got back to that idea. Jack is told be Charlie via Hurley that he isn’t suppose to raise the child. My guess is Jack already knew this, which is way he stayed away from Kate initially. But the lure of playing house with Kate got the better of him.
Aaron is an orphan because Claire went … away … somewhere: According to the promos, the island claimed Claire as “one of its own.” Not sure what that means, but one theory going around the Web is Claire was already dead, and Christian Shephard came to take her away. Bolstering this theory is the fact that Miles, the ghost whisperer, is very interested in Claire, and not for the reasons Sawyer thinks. Or maybe Miles is interested in Aaron. And not for the reasons you think, pervert.
Jack knows he is Aaron’s uncle: When Jack tells Kate she isn’t even related to Aaron, I take that as a pretty clear indication Jack has found out Claire is, or was, his sister. It could be a misdirect, but I doubt it.
Sawyer choose to stay behind: So, were people given an option to leave? With the exception of Locke and Rose, why would anyone opt to stay? Speaking of Sawyer, I’m sure the request he had for Kate was to find his daughter, the darling Clementine. At first I thought Jack was a little irrational for getting mad about this, but his other wife did cheat on him, and Sawyer and Kate have a history that goes beyond holding hands, so his jealousy is warranted.
Jin is probably alive: Jin’s request to Charlotte suggests that Jin willingly stayed behind to ensure Sun gets off the island. To me, this boosts the odds the Jin is alive.
Next week’s episode, “Cabin Fever,” already looks like a classic. I better not get my hopes up too high, but Locke episodes are usually a slam dunk.
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Jack going downhill
The title of tonight’s epsiode is “Something Nice Back Home” and let’s hope that’s true for future Jack (though I doubt it) since it doesn’t look like things are going well for our doctor on the island in this “sneak peek” for the show.
I think the producers are going to give us some sense of why future grizzly-bearded Jack has taken to popping pills and wanting to kill himself. I wonder if he’s ill from something he’s contracted or it’s the pressure of not being able to fulfill his promise about getting everyone off the island. It looked like his back was giving him trouble last week.
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Jack takes on Jin
The episode on Thursday is “Something Nice Back Home.” It’s a Jack episode. If your main interest is what is happening with Locke, Ben and Hurley, you’ll have to wait until next week, as they sit this one out.
Once again all I have is the photos, so I’ll use those to try to piece together what will happen. In the above photo, it’s clear Jack needs to prove his manhood so he challenges anyone and everyone to a fight.
Jin takes the challenge and clocks Jack.
Everyone crowds in to see if he is OK, but even Juliet can’t get Jack up.
Jin brags to Sun: “Did you see how I knocked Jack on his messiah-complex butt? And my English has improved dramatically.”
Meanwhile, Sawyer has gotten over Kate and is trying to woo Claire. Claire’s look says: “Seriously, how long do I have to pretend to like this?” And where did the guitar come from?
This scene has trouble written all over it. I’ve never had a hostage, but I’m guessing falling asleep with your gun next to you isn’t the best way to keep watch.
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You must have fallen from the sky
Did you wonder what those bedouins said to Ben when they ran into him in the desert? Well wonder no more. According to Lostpedia, one of the bedouins wonders why Ben doesn’t have a trail. The other then says “Where did this guy come from? Did he fall from the sky?”
So obviously, Ben didn’t use Desmond’s boat to get off the island. But we didn’t need a translation to figure that one out.
Ben is wearing a parka with a Dharma logo from the Orchid station. (You remember the Orchid station from this video.) This adds fuel to the theory that Ben’s magic transporting box is found in the Orchid station. Supposedly, we will be visiting the Orchid station soon, so hopefully we get some answer.
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Charge of the Smoke Brigade
After six weeks off we needed a great outing from “Lost,” and I’d say we got it. It was fast paced, lots of action, and we got more cryptic clues that don’t seem to add up to anything yet. Just what we want in an episode.
We may never get to the end of all the secrets Ben has. It seemed like even he didn’t know much about Smokey, but then sure enough, he summons it from the bowels of the island to get some payback on the guys who killed his daughter.
On a side note, remember way back in the finale of season one when the smoke monster grabbed Locke and tried to drag him into a hole before Jack stopped it with dynamite? Was that Ben’s first attempt to retrieve Locke?
Ben’s reaction to Alex’s death may be the first time we’ve gotten behind his lying eyes. He was genuinely crushed by his daughter’s murder, a murder that “broke the rules.” So what are these rules? It seems one of the rules is Ben and Widmore can’t kill each other. Was another one no harming of family members? No using the smoke monster to do your dirty work?
“The Shape of Things to Come” is an apt title, even if that shape is a little blurry. We at least get a sense of how the Ben/Widmore conflict will inform the next two seasons. We know Penelope gets dragged into the tussle, which naturally draws Desmond in. Will Ben have Sayid go after Penny? And where the hell is Desmond in the future?
As for the dead body on the beach, it further muddles the whole time anomaly thing. When are Faraday and Charlotte going to do something? I know the writers’ strike is to blame, but they haven’t done much beyond hanging out on the beach looking unconcerned. I suppose we get more from them in season five.
So, was this the best episode of the season? What do you think of the new mother-hen-like Sawyer? And how did Claire live through that blast?
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Changing the rules
Last night’s episode of “Lost” sure gave us a big heaping helping of Ben, perhaps the most fascinating character on this show. He’s on the island playing piano. He’s waking up in Tunisia in a Dharma parka. He shows up in Tikrit, Iraq, as Sayid is burying his beloved Nadia. And lastly, he has a “chat” with Charles Widmore in London, telling him that because Widmore “changed the rules,” he would avenge his daughter’s death by killing Penny.
Poor Desmond. We’re all hoping that Ben can’t make good on that promise.
I thought the scene of the guys playing a game of Risk was a great metaphor for the show. It’s a game on a mighty scale with the island being something desirable to possess, much like a player tries to control the board in Risk.
And Risk is a war game, and the war definitely came to the island. Three of the island’s “background castaways,” those whose names we’ve never been given, met their ends in the hail of machine-gun fire by the freighter “security” team. Amazing that Sawyer didn’t at least get winged by a shot. Then again, how in the heck did Claire survive the explosion when the house she was in was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade?
When it first happened I thought, “here’s why Aaron is one of the Oceanic Six,” but then I had a nagging suspicion that it was a big tease and Claire wasn’t headed for the Great Beyond, at least not yet. Those “Lost” people are jerking us around.
I, for one, was glad to see Smokey return, though a bit concerned that Ben appears to be able to summon it. I’m not sure, though, that Ben can control it. Smokey seems more like an angry dog that once he’s unchained goes willy-nilly through the countryside. Did Ben go down to Smokey’s lair and unchain him?
I’m still bothered by the “He changed the rules” comment from Ben after Alex was killed. He talked as though there was some sort of gentleman’s agreement with Widmore that was suddenly breached. I’m wondering what that’s all about and why Ben tells Widmore that they both know he can’t kill him.
There’s much more to this Widmore relationship that I’m sure will be explored. But probably in the show’s own good time.
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Where’s my stinkin’ screener?
OK, so I thought ABC was going to post a review screener of the return episode of “Lost,” but they never did. But they always post a bunch of photos, so I’ll review the episode based on those.
We start with Hurley and Sawyer playing a friendly game of Risk. Their domestic partnership seems to be going well.
Then Claire drops off the baby so she can go do whatever it is she does. The baby starts eating the Risk pieces, ruining the game (try getting replacement pieces on the island). Sawyer is once again thrilled Kate isn’t pregnant, and he goes outside to get away from the baby.
Locke gets a phone call from Ben. He says “Hey, come over and help me re-design my house.”
Locke goes over, and they start moving stuff around, but they get too careless and trigger one of Ben’s booby-traps.
Ben’s house blows up. That’s the end of Ben and Locke. Although we know Ben is alive in the future so that works out somehow.
Sawyer stares in disbelief, but then remembers Kate isn’t pregnant, so that cheers him up.
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Strap yourselves in, Lost fans
The show we love resumes Thursday night, albeit an hour later because of the return of “Grey’s Anatomy.” And from the promo shown here, it looks like a full-blown gun battle as we’re going to learn how the Oceanic Six got off the island. Well, probably not in this episode, but before the end of this season. Check it out:
And while we’re at it, this one shows more action and begs us to ask again: “Do you trust Ben?”
Looks pretty intense to me. Are you ready for some “Lost”?
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Lindelof and Cuse spill the beans (not really)
“Lost” producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse answered reporters’ questions in a teleconference today. Click here to listen in.
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Extra hour confirmed
So ABC has granted “Lost” an extra hour, but to enjoy that hour we’ll have to wait a week. The finale was scheduled for May 22, but to fit in a two-hour show, it was pushed back to May 29. “Grey’s Anatomy” fans benefit was well, because with “Lost” out of the way the doctors-who-can’t-keep-their-scrubs-on show will get a two-hour finale May 22.
Read all the info here.
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One more hour of ‘Lost’?
Rumor has it we might get another hour of “Lost” this season. At least the producers are trying to get it worked out. I don’t see why ABC wouldn’t want another hour, unless they don’t want anything interfering with their precious “Grey’s Anatomy” (I hate that show).
Anyway, read the details here.
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Say “What?”
First, I must give credit to my co-worker and “Lost” compadre Chris Oliver for finding this gem. Second, I have to offer a shoutout to whoever did the editing on this video. You have to be seriously obsessed and have a lot of time to put this together.
I tried counting and think I got 253 “what’s” (including those in other languages), but they came so fast. I can’t imagine anyone going through every episode from the first three seasons to compile this, much less the painstaking effort to edit those scenes for the video.
And how did someone even come up with this idea? Did someone just come to the conclusion that the actors seem to say “what?” a lot on the show?
I would think it’s the fans more likely to be saying “What?” with all the plot twists this show delivers. I’m counting down the days to April 24 for new “Lost” episodes and “what” do you think happens to Michael now that Sayid has exposed him to the freighter captain?
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Hating ‘Kevin Johnson’
I thought “Meeting Kevin Johnson” would turn out to be one for the “Lost” hall of fame. But it didn’t turn out that way. I gave the episode a B+, but others were much harder on it. One blogger called it the worst “Lost” episode ever.
I’ll point out some of the issues people had with it and add my two cents:
Not enough time — Many people grumbled that in the time frame available, Michael wouldn’t have had enough time to get back to New York, assimilate himself into society, get depressed enough to kill himself, heal from the car accident, and then get back to Fiji.
This was definitely a problem for me, but not enough to ruin the show. Besides, time is a tricky thing in “Lost.” We really don’t know if any time-bending things were going on. Maybe the bearing Ben gave to Mike sent him back in time a few weeks.
How did he get to New York? — Another complaint was we weren’t told how Mike got from the boat to his home. What kind of story could he tell to explain being out in the Pacific on a short-range boat? He wouldn’t want to say he was on Oceanic 815, because he wouldn’t want anyone to find out he was a murderer.
Well, the producers have recently said they will revisit this in another flashback. It makes sense that they couldn’t get to everything in one episode. This suggests Michael will be around for awhile (unless his story is told in the finale and we find out he is in the coffin).
How did he get the job on the freighter? — This is the one that bothers me the most. It seems that Widmore would vet anybody wanting a job on that boat. How could the Others swing getting Michael on? Tt doesn’t seem like Widmore would just put out a “help wanted” ad.
What’s with ‘island power’? — This seems to be the biggest complaint. How does the island have power over people off the island? It feels like the producers are making up rules just to fit a narrative.
To this I don’t have an answer. It doesn’t bother me because we don’t know where the story is going. Maybe it makes sense, maybe it’s a weak contrivance to keep Michael alive.
The cliffhanger was sub par — This one I can’t blame on the producers because it wasn’t intended to be a midseason cliffhanger, it was intended to be a leap into action. But the strike screwed that up.
So what did everyone else thing about ‘Kevin Johnson’? Was it love, hated or somewhere in between?
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Grading the season
Since we have time off and really nothing to blog about, I’ll use that as an excuse to look back at the episodes we’ve seen so far and grade them. Overall I’d say the season has been pretty sharp with a slight downturn in the last few episodes.
The Beginning of the End Unlike season three, we got off to a fast start. Hurley is back in the mental home, Jack should be in one, and Locke decides to secede. Best bit: Christian Shephard sitting in Jacob’s chair. Grade: A
Confirmed Dead The Freighter Four fall to the island. We get our first in a series of surprise endings with Ben telling everyone he has a man on the boat (I bet it’s Michael). Best bit: A polar bear in Tunisia has a Dharma collar. Grade: A-
The Economist Sayid is part of the Oceanic Six and a finely coiffed assassin who works for Ben. Best bit: Daniel’s time experiment. Grade: A-
Eggtown I wasn’t crazy about this episode at first, but it wasn’t bad. We found out Aaron was part of the Oceanic Six, but we didn’t know it. Best bit: Jack’s phony testimony. Grade: B
The Constant “Lost” fandom went ape for this episode featuring Desmond unstuck in time. Best bit: Widmore has the Black Rock log book. And Desmond’s phone call with Penny. Grade: A
The Other Woman Juliet episodes are usually good, but this one broke the streak. Best bit: Ben shows Locke the tape of Widmore. Grade: C
Ji Yeon Sun has her baby in the future, and Jin shops for a panda bear in the past. Best bit: Juliet spills the beans on Sun’s affair, and Regina takes a dive with chains on. Grade: B+
Meet Kevin Johnson Not quite the slam dunk I thought it would be, but it was good to get filled in on Michael’s trip home. Best bit: Michael’s phone call from Ben. Grade: B+
The next episode is called “The Shape of Things to Come” and airs April 24. It is rumored to be either a Sayid- or Ben-centric episode.
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Island voodoo magic keeps Michael around
I can’t seem to get past the notion that the island holds this much power over Michael to keep him alive for a return visit. Wow. Kind of chuckled when Tom comments that Michael traded one island for another (Manhattan).
We finally got answers about who faked the Oceanic 815 crash (unless, of course, those are faux documents). You figure that’s the same information Ben gave to Locke in that folder to prove he was telling the truth?
I was sad and a little shocked to see Rousseau killed. Karl, I pretty much expected his time was running out. One of the “Lost” columnists I regularly read had pretty good odds on Karl’s demise in his “Lost” deathwatch. I figured there was more backstory to Rousseau to be explored. Maybe not. Then again, with “Lost” you never know.
So Michael wants to atone for the deaths of Ana Lucia and Libby, but to do that he needs to kill everyone on the freighter? Don’t see the karma in that, even if that is supposed to save the rest of Oceanic’s survivors and the other inhabitants of the island.
What do you think the freighter captain plans to do with “Kevin Johnson” now that Sayid has exposed him? He doesn’t do well with deserters; what would be the punishment for a saboteur and spy? But then again, he seems intrigued by the idea that there are survivors from the flight. He might want to find out more from Michael, especially about Ben Linus.
MIchael may have some painful interrogation sessions ahead.
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Dear Michael, this is the island, please come back
Rousseau is dead! Karl is dead! Michael is exposed! Tom is gay! Or was gay. No wonder Kate wasn’t his type. He preferred Arturo.
So “Lost” finishes the run of episodes with the war starting. Apparently Frank’s mystery errand was taking the roughnecks to the island for some shooting. Poor Rousseau lives 16 lousy years on the island, then just when things start looking up she gets shot. I’m not sure how we are going to get that Rousseau flashback now, unless the producers were just lying about that.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. The real story is all about Michael. No time travel shenanigans going on with him. He made it back to New York and has a case of the suicide blues, just like Grizzly Jack gets when he goes home. But even though he left the island, the island didn’t leave him, and it won’t let him do the deed.
Tom shows up, and tells Michael the fake Oceanic 815 was put there by Widmore. This contradicts the freighter captain, who said it was Ben. I’m inclined to believe Tom’s story. It makes little sense for Ben to fake the crash, but Widmore would benefit from taking the search for the flight away from the island. I think. Maybe Ben and Widmore really are working together on some fiendish scheme.
Speaking of Ben, he sure is a lousy guy to have as a friend. He seems to enjoy opening old wounds. I liked when he told Michael he doesn’t kill innocent people, and Michael counters with Libby and Ana Lucia, and Ben says “No, you killed them. But thanks for that because you totally helped me out. But, still, you are murderer.” No wonder Michael wants to kill himself.
We got to see more of Minkowski, and it’s too bad he died because he was a really decent fellow. And he gave us another in a long line of Stephen King references, telling Michael he was like Jack in The Shining. There’s probably some significance to that but I’m too tired to think about it.
Oh yeah, Libby returned, which amounted to a whole bunch of nothing. I suppose some day we will get her story, but probably not this season, thanks to the strike.
Well, I guess that’s it. In April we’ll find out more about the other Others at the temple, how the Oceanic Six get off the island, if Miles gets his $3.2 million, and if Jin and Claire really are doomed. Thankfully, “Battlestar Galactica” is starting up, so I’ll have that to fill the “Lost” vacuum. I also recommend “The Riches.” And I’ll be watching “Dancing With the Stars” because my wife makes me (yeah, that’s it). Although whatever you do, don’t watch “Dancing” on high-def. The glitter will scald your retinas. For real.
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Richard Alpert is coming back
I stand by my Adam and Eve theory. I’m right until I’m proven wrong.
Good news if you are a Nestor Carbonell fan, and bad news if you are a “Cane” fan: Nestor is returning to “Lost” for at least one episode this season. So we’ll see how the ageless Richard Alpert is doing when “Lost” returns in April.
To fuel speculation that Michael did some time traveling, Libby is making an appearance in Thursday’s episode. So either Michael goes back in time and runs into her, or she is one of those apparitions like Charlie and Jack’s dad.
Michael might become a ghost himself. In TV Guide, Harold Perrineau says his pregnant wife is still living in L.A. while he shoots in Hawaii. She’s due soon, so that could be why she stayed behind. Or maybe Harold isn’t going to be in Hawaii long. We’ll see.
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I think this just supports the Island’s healing powers. It would have been weirder if Jack had a scar. The weirder thing is that he got appendicitis in the first place.
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I’d put The Shape of Things to Come at number two so far this season, behind The Constant. I think we got some answers. We found out how Sawyer and Ben got together (even if we don’t quite know why yet). We found out a little more about Smokey.
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It blew my mind when the Captain killed Alex. She seemed to be all the leverage he had, but there must be something more that they have than we know about yet. If Widmore’s a businessman (and I think he is), then he wouldn’t just waste an
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