There was no Ben, Desmond, Sayid, or Locke in this episode, but still it was pretty good...
On the Beach
1. Amid the Losties arguing with Charlotte and Daniel regarding the fact that the sat phone is broken now (according to Daniel), Jack (ever the annoying optimist) tells everyone not to worry - that when the freighter people come back they'll be waiting and that he told them he'd get ALL of them off the island and he will (the future seems to prove that wrong, but we'll go with it), then he collapses.
2. Jack is not ok.
3. It's his appendix (good thing the "Next time on Lost..." didn't ruined that for us or anything) Juliet says, "I guess we're just gonna have to take it out..." She prepares a list of supplies for Sun and Jin to get from the Staff Station. After Daniel's touching speech about wanting to help out, all agree that he and Charlotte can go along, too.
4. Rose talks to Bernard about being concerned with the fact that Jack (the person who is supposed to save them) has gotten sick... especially now, the day they're supposed to get rescued... Bernard says it's just bad luck, but Rose points out that people don't get sick on the island, they get better. (I think this was the most important scene at the beach this week... the beach story line is progressing rather slowly lately, but Rose made an excellent point that had slipped under the radar -- the fact that only some people get sick on the island... this goes back to the fact that Ben got that tumor, something that Locke pointed out back when Ben was still in a wheel chair. Why did Jack get sick? Who chooses? I assume Jacob and the list has something to do with it since, way back when Jack, Kate, and Sawyer were with the others someone said to Ben regarding Jack, "he's not even on the list..." or something to that effect. It would be crazy if Ben was not on the list at all, but some how hijacked it and didn't let anyone know that... or maybe he was, but he was taken off for some reason and that's why he got sick right around the same time that Locke went to see Jacob with him and Jacob asked lock to help him... dun dun dun...)
5. Jack tells Juliet he wants to be awake for his surgery so he can walk her through it, and it wants Kate to hold the mirror for him to see. (Get over yourself, Jack.)
6. Meanwhile, Daniel, Charlotte, Sun, and Jin arrive at the Staff station to get medical supplies... Daniel says, "Where do you suppose all this power is coming from," to which Charlotte replies, "Add that to the list, Dan." Oh, and it seems like Charlotte can understand Korean.
7. Jack to Kate: "If something happens to me..." (blah blah, I'm so over Jack and Kate.)
8. When the group gets back with supplies Jin lays the smack down with Charlotte in Korean... He tells her that when the helicopter come back her people will take Sun off the island. (Jin is the man)
9. Meanwhile, back at Jack's surgery, obviously keeping him awake was a bad idea, so Bernard and Juliet knock him out and make Kate leave. (duh).
10. After the surgery Juliet lets Kate come in... she tells her about Jack kissing her and that while it was nice it wasn't for her, but rather to prove that he loved someone else... Kate thanks her for saving Jack's life and leaves. Then Juliet says to Jack, "I know you're awake." (I love her)
With Sawyer's Crew
1. As Claire (with Aaron), Sawyer, and Miles head through the jungle, Miles suddenly starts hearing voices, stops, and asks who Danielle and Carl are! He starts digging and there are their bodies! (that was pretty brutal, and sad because I thought that Rouseau might still be alive! But, with Lost, we still never know.) In reference to the freighter folks, Miles says, "They're not my buddies man, I didn't sign up for this!" (Interesting, I think Miles must be one of the folks who is not really a bad guy, but was brought along because of the fact that he can talk to dead people... but I still think that Charlotte is bad!)
2. Sawyer is getting all defensive about Claire (cute... will they end up together, both staying on the island??)
3. The pilot shows up out of no where with his tracking device thing beeping and say that Keamy is coming (how did he survive the smoke monster??) They hide, and get away.
4. Claire wakes up in the middle of the night and see Christian Shephard holding Aaron!!! Her response, "Dad?" (Crazzzy... I always almost forget that Christian Shephard is Claire's dad, and I LOVE IT!)
5. "It's way too early for Chinese." (I love Sawyer, things have been so serious lately that there hasn't been much room for funny-Sawyer, so I like when he peaks out.) Miles tells Sawyer that Claire just walked off with someone she called dad. Saywer goes looking, finds Aaron alone... "Claire!!!"
Jack's Flashforward
1. Jack wakes up in bed, goes into the bathroom and KATE is in the shower. (I kind of wanted it to be Juliet, but whatever... Also, the news paper he looks at places this in 2007.)
2. Kate tells Jack she's happy he changed his mind because she loves seeing him with Aaron, etc... (Changed his mind, I assume, regarding the fact that Jack shut her down after her trial because of Aaron... this must be after that.)
3. Wandering through the hospital at Jack sees his dad! (presumably for the first time since leaving the island... and I suppose this is what drives him insane, or at least part of it) Then the doctor at Hurley's mental hospital calls...
4. At the Santa Rosa, basically Hurley says he thinks that all of the Oceanic 6 are dead and are now in Heaven (I don't think that's really the case)... he tells Jack that everything in his life is just too perfect to be real. He says he was happy too for a while, and then he saw Charlie, who likes to sit with him outside. Hurley says that yesterday Charlie told him that Jack would be coming by and that he should tell him something: "You're not supposed to raise him, Jack." (Aaron - like the psychic said, only Claire is supposed to raise him.) Charlie also said that someone would be visiting Jack soon. (his dad)
5. Jack is sitting in his car staring at the front lawn of Santa Rosa (looking to see if Charlie shows up, I assume)... Then he goes home and proposes to Kate and she says yes (LAME)
6. At the hospital, Jack goes out to check a beeping smoke alarm and his dad is sitting in a chair... right before he can go nuts his coworker walks by and he asks her to write him a prescription for clonozapan (used for panic/anxiety disorder, among other things.)
7. When Jack gets home Kate's on the phone, before noticing Jack she says, "Jack's never home before 8," and that she can stay for an hour (some place)... Kate says it was her friend Noreen from the park and then goes to sleep... once she leaves Jack takes his clonozapan with a beer (the start of his addiction, clearly.)
8. Kate comes home to find Jack looking like a crazy person, home early, sitting in a livingroom... Kate, at first, won't say where she was, but crazy Jack draws out of her that she was doing something for Sawyer... that she made a promise. Jack gets mad (of course) and say that "he's not here... he made his choice... he chose to stay, I'm the one who came back, I'm the one who's here, I'm the one who saved you..." Kate tells him he can't act this way about her son, to which he responds, "Your son? You're not even related to him!" (That made me think that Jack knows that HE'S related to Aaron... interesting!) Aaron appears in the doorway, Kate hugs him.
Well, I can't decide what I think about this episode! I did love a few things:
1. Rose pointing out that people are supposed to get better on the island.
2. Jin giving Charlotte and ultimatum
3. Christian Shephard showing up and taking Claire
4. Kate helping Sawyer with some promise while she is off the island and he is still on it. (I suppose it probably has something to do with his daughter.)
5. The coming attractions for next week when Goodspeed shows up and says he's been dead for 12 years!! (meaning that the purge was probably only 12 years ago, and we'll probably learn a lot more about that stuff this week! -- hopefully a Locke flashforward with him still on the island -- that's what I've been hoping for, forever!)
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Episode 9 -- The Shape of Things to Come
This episode was crazy!! I don't even know what to say about it, so I'm just going to begin!
On the Beach
1. Jack is popping antibiotics when Kate comes up to express her concern over the fact that their friends haven't returned from the freighter yet. In true Jack fashion, he's not worried. A moment later Bernard is yelling from the beach for help as the dead body of the freighter's doctor washes up on shore with a slit throat. (Yeah Jack, nothing to worry about here. I'm SURE that the freighter people are going to save you all.)
2. With some gagets from the plane wreckage, the beach folks fashion a telegraph machine out of their broken walkie talkie and radio the freighter with a message asking about what happened to the doctor. (Of course, Faraday knows morse code and so does the person who seems to be sitting on the other end just waiting for such a message to come through so they can immediately respond. What did the responder, who messaged back 30 seconds after the first message was sent, use to send that message back?? Did he or she just happened to be sitting next to a telegraph machine as well and know morse code off the top of their head??? Nothing is more irritating in television than the random knowledge of mores code among people who would have absolutely no reason to know it. Maybe if they were all in the Navy, but come on.) Good thing Bernard also knows it, because he's able to thwart Faraday's deception that everything is fine and their friends are on their way back, by telling the crew that the return message actually said, "What are you talking about, the doctor is fine." (Why would they say that? Why would they think the doctor is fine? Where they lying, do they not know that the doctor is dead, or is this a time travel scenario?")
3. Jack grabs Faraday and asks if they were ever planning on taking them off the island, to which Faraday replies, "No." (Big surprise, Jack. Get with the program.)
At the Barracks
1. While Hurley, Sawyer, and Locke play Risk, Alex is being blindfolded and dragged up the the security fence by a bunch of guys in military camo. At gun point she is forced to turn off the fence. Upon doing this, a phone up at the house rings and plays the message "Code 14J."
2. Sawyer and Locke go find Ben, who is playing the piano (in excellent Ben creepiness), and tell him what happened. "They're here," he says, and whips his gun out from the piano bench. (I love Ben.) He gathers everyone and brings them to the other house, which is apparently easier to secure. Ben tells Locke that it's very important that he survives what is about to happen so he should stay close by him. (I think he says that Locke needs to survive so they can go to Jacob's cabin together.)
3. As people are getting shot left and right, Sawyer makes it to Claire's house just as it's hit by a missile. He finds her still alive and brings her back to the house.
4. Miles then appears at the door with a walkie talkie for Ben to use to communicate with the people outside. He tells Ben that they've got Alex hostage, which makes Ben look even crazier than usual. Ben begins to talk to Keamy, who he of course knows everything about, and Keamy tells Ben to come outside or he'll kill Alex. Trying to buy time and save Alex (I think) Ben tells Keamy that Alex isn't his daughter, that he stole her from an insane woman when she was a baby, that she is just a pawn, and that he is not going to come out of the house. With that, Keamy shoots Alex in the head!!! (Ok, this was horrible, but the one reason I liked it is because it is what would have actually happened. Keamy is a lunatic and there is no way that he would have spared Alex, so in a way, I'm glad he killed her to preserve the reality [yes, i understand how crazy that sounds, but you know it's true] of the story line.)
4. Ben: He changed the rules.
5. Ben disappears into his secret room and emerges a few minutes later, covered in dirt. "Excuse me, James." (classic) He tells everyone the plan to escape as the house begins to shake. Then, out of the jungle emerges the SMOKE MONSTER! (What? Does Ben control this??) The smoke monster annihilates all of the scary men in the jungle and then group gets away as Ben goes over and says goodbye to Alex.
6. After an armed confrontation, Sawyer, Claire, Aaron, and Miles go back to the beach and Locke, Ben, and Hurley head into the jungle to find Jacob's cabin so that Jacob can tell them what to do next. (I cannot wait until we see Jacob again and find out what the heck is going on!!)
Ben's Flashforeword (or whatever it was!)
Part I - The Sahara Desert
1. In one of the most dramatic and confusing openings to a flash scene, Ben wakes up in the middle of the Sahara Desert, wearing a winter jacket with a never before seen Dharma station logo and the name Hallowax on it, and with steam rising off of his body. (My first thought is this is time travel, but one never knows.) Two guys arrive riding horses and carrying guns. They ask each other, in their language, why there are no tracks (i confirmed this on Lostpedia). Ben kicks the crap out of the two guys and delivers one of my fave lines ever.
Guy Number 1: Surrender!
Ben: Oh, so you do speak English (clobber)
Part II - Some town in Tunisia
2. Ben arrives at a hotel and asks for a room. He tells the woman at the desk that his name is Dean Moriarty and he is a preferred guest. She looks scared (this seems to be a common reaction to Ben's arrival anywhere) He asks her what the date is and she says October 24 . He asks if it's 2005 and she confusedly says yes. (So, time travel?? If so, I would love to know what time he is coming from. Or - is there a way for him to travel to and from the island within the same time period, but sometimes it messes up and skips through time?? Is Tunisia one of the dumping grounds for travel from the island? Is that why there was a Dharma polar bear there? Did they send him there during experiments and he died because he was a polar bear in the desert?? Also, while we're on that subject, I think that Charlotte is one of the worst of the freighter people because I think she actually works for Dharma since she uncovered that polar bear. So far the others don't have any real connection to Dharma other than the fact that they were picked by Abbadon's people, who I guess we're assuming are Widmore's people, to be part of the freighter team.)
3. As he's walking away, Ben sees Sayid on TV saying, "I just want to bury my wife." The news caster refers to Sayid as one of the Oceanic 6. (Based on the date, this is only about 10 months ahead of the time on the island, so Sayid has to have gotten back, married Nadia, and had her die. Crazy.)
Part III - Takrit, Iraq
4. Ben is following Sayid. He takes pictures of some guy and then some of Sayid carrying Nadia's coffin. Sayid looks up and sees him and Ben runs away, but is not fast enough. (Of course because Sayid is awesome.) Sayid knocks him down and asks him why he followed him to Iraq, why he is spying on him. Then he realizes it's Ben. Ben tells Sayid that he got off the island using Desmond's boat to reach Fiji and then by chartering a plane. (This is obviously a lie. Why did he lie to Sayid? I feel from this exchange that now that Sayid is on the freighter in real time that he is not going to get back to the beach before reaching home. He seems to be more out of the loop about who Ben is, etc... than some of the folks still on the island with him.)
5. Ben tells Sayid that Widmore's people killed Nadia and that he is here to find the man who did it.
6. As Ben's chase of this man ends and they meet face to face, he tells him who he is (this shocks the supposed killer) and that he has a message for Widmore. Before he can deliver that message though, Sayid shoots the man repeatedly. Ben begins to walk away, but Sayid stops him. Ben tells Sayid not to let his grief turn into anger and that this is his war, not Sayid's. Sayid tells Ben that he has no life now that Nadia is dead and says to him, "Benjamin, who's next?" To this Ben says, "I'll be in touch," and walks away grinning. (Ok, my first thought is that Ben had Nadia killed so that he could recruit Sayid as his assassin.)
Part IV - London, England
7. One of the best Lost scenes ever. Ben arrives at an apartment building looking more like a serial killer than ever. He talks his way past the door man and jimmies the penthouse lock in the elevator. He walks into Widmore's bedroom and says, "Wake up, Charles."
8. (Ok, I had not realized what a kick ass character Charles Widmore is. This was his shining scene of badass-ness, even though I still think he's a bad guy. His voice, his face, everything. Ben vs. Widmore is unreal.)
9. Widmore asks Ben if he's come to kill him to which he replies, "We both know I can't do that." (After thinking about this for a while, I've come to the idea that perhaps Widmore actually can't die. We know that there are certain people who the island won't let die and I'm almost certain now that Widmore must be one of those people. Does this mean that Widmore is really a good guy and Ben is the bad one? Or, is there just more for Widmore to do before he dies? Or, does the island keep people alive as punishment for their sins? Can the island keep people alive indefinitely and prevent them from aging - like Richard Alpert who seems not to age? Is Jacob keeping Widmore alive because he is, in fact, the good guy??)
10. Widmore: I know who you are, boy, what you are. (wow.) Widmore also tells Ben that everything he has he took from him. (During the purge?)
11. Then Ben tells Widmore that he's come to tell him that he is going to kill his daughter since Widmore killed Alex. Widmore tells Ben that he'll never find her. He tells him that the island was his and that it will be his again. (So, if Widmore can't die, and if perhaps he doesn't age??? has he been around for a really long time? Was he actually ON the Black Rock?? Is that why he payed all that money to get the captain's log in that auction - because HE was the captain??? My mind is being blown.)
12. Ben says, "You'll never find it." And Widmore says that the hunt is on for both of them. (Where is Penny? Could she be on the island? If the island was Widmore's before why can't he get back to it? Where is Desmond? Does he have some kind of important connection to the island even beyond what we've seen, and is that why Widmore didn't want Penny to be with him?? YIKES!)
This episode was insane. I cannot wait for next week. Let me know your thoughts!
There are 5 more hours of show left. I think we'll have to get flashes from Locke, Jack, and Sawyer for sure... And I don't know who else. Ah.
Some interesting references:
1. The title is an H.G. Wells book, The Shape of Things to Come
2. Ben's alias was Dean Moriarty, a reference to Professor Moriarty of Sherlock Homles. According to Lostpedia, In the story "The Final Problem", Moriarty pays a surprise visit to Holmes to confront him and both issue ultimatums to the other regarding their continued pursuit of each other in much the same way Ben visits Widmore and they issue threats about their respective searches.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Episode 8 -- Meet Kevin Johnson
Hurray for the another episode of Lost! I'm going to do things a bit differently this time because once I started this entry I realized it was working for me. I'm going to write the little points about each part of the show, but when I have comments or questions I will put them in parenthesis so that it's easier to follow what I'm talking about and what my input is. Sorry, this one is kind of long, but I loved this episode and thought that so much of it was sooo important!
On the Island
1. Locke brings Miles in to a meeting of all his folks where Ben tells them that the freighter people are looking for him and once they have him they will kill everyone else on the island. Sawyer says, "So, he's one of us now?" Ben tells them that Michael is his man on the boat. They Losties say that Michael is a traitor. (tru dat.)
2. Miles explains to Locke that Ben always gets what he wants, and that means he'll get the $3.2 million if it means saving his life. (All of the exchanges between Miles and Ben seem to be building on the fact that these two organizations [whoever they are] have been competing, etc... for quite some time... they are both very familiar with one another, and know just where it's at when it comes to getting what they want from the other.)
3. Ben tells Alex, Carl, and Rousseau to go to the Temple - it's where the other Others are (haha), and it's the last safe place on the island. No one else can come because "it's not for them, it's only for us..." Alex asks if the people on the boat are more dangerous than Ben, to which he simply nods and says yes. (bad ass.)
4. Later in the jungle Carl and Rousseau get shot!!! Alex jumps up and tells them to stop, that she is Ben's daughter! WOW!! (I don't think/really hope Rousseau isn't really dead!)
On the Freighter
1. The captain beats up someone to keep him form leaving the ship, saying it's for his protection... remember what happened to Minkowski, he says.
2. Michael tells Sayid and Desmond, "I'm here to die."
3. Down in the engine room Sayid and Des confront Michael and make him tell them the truth about why he's there and what's going on.
4. After Michael tells his story, Sayid takes Jack pills, freaks out, calls Michael a traitor, and tells the captain that Michael is not who he says he is, etc... (What the hell, Sayid???)
Michael's Flashback/Story telling (Most of the episode, which was cool.)
1. Michael is off the island, tries to commit suicide, but survives and wakes up in the hospital where he sees Libby!! -- (Ok, it's not really Libby, but that gave me the heeby jeebies.) Obviously, he's not dealing with his murder very well (though he doesn't seem to see visions of Ana Lucia anywhere, perhaps cuz she sucked.)
2. He goes to his mothers house, where she tells him he can't see Walt (So, THAT'S where Walt is!) until he tells her what the heck is going on -- Walt wakes up screaming, everyone thought they were dead, now he's back and won't tell her what happened. Michael leaves, rather than tell the truth, and sees Walt in the window.
3. Then he goes and trades Jin's watch (!!!!) for a gun and bullets, and just when he's about to shoot himself TOM shows up!! (Wow.)
4. Tom tells Michael that no matter what he does, the island won't let him kill himself (ok, I thought that was an epic line! The island also didn't let Jack kill himself, I suppose, by sending that car accident his way.)
5. We find out that Michael is freaking out because he told Walt about killing Ana Lucia and Libby and now I suppose Walt doesn't want to talk to him. (The whole feel of being off the island and dealing with what happened on the island is really interesting/creepy... Michael's story in particular really did a good job of juxtaposing the two worlds -- the world of the island, which exists almost as a different reality because it is so far from the rest of civilization, and the real world where everyone on the island believes they can escape to and find peace... but, Michael's story builds on the idea that you can't really disconnect from the island... even when you are back and you think you will be able to move on... you can't escape it. That, I think, is a major theme of the flashforwards, and in this case flashback.)
6. Michael leaves Tom, who give him the address where he is staying. At home, Michael sees news footage of Flight 815 being discovered in the Sundra Trench (that's what it's called right?), and decides to go back to see Tom. (Ok, so, lets think for a minute... in the flashbacks of the freighter people, we also saw them seeing the footage of this wreckage for the first time. This means that the plane was found some time during Season 3, and the Freighter people left soon after it was discovered... I don't know what that matters yet, but by showing Michael watching the news off the island it was definitely helping aid in the creation of some kind of time line of events... I'll think about that more later.)
7. Tom says that Widmore put the boat down there (so, one side says it was Widmore and one said says it was Ben), dug up corpses in Thailand (yikes), and put them far enough down that no one would recover them. He says that the black box will probably never be recovered either. (Ok, so my question at this point is -- why does the captain of the Freighter have the black box? If he claims that Ben put the wreckage there, how did he get it? Who were the people who found the wreckage in the first place, do we know that yet?)
8. Tom tells him that Widmore's people some how found the coordinates to the island (When Desmond made the hatch implode, I'm assuming) and are going there to kill everyone on the island. Michael can redeem himself for his sins if he kills everyone on the freighter and prevents them from getting to the island.
9. In Fiji, Michael - equipped with his new passport making him Kevin Johnson - arrives at the freighter and meets Minkowski, Naomi, and Frank. Frank asks Michael if he's heard of Flight 815 (har har) and says that the wreckage was not real and that's why he signed up (I think that Frank is a good guy, and is in over his head!)
10. The package that was left for Michael turns out to be a bomb... when he goes to set it off, with the infamous Execute button, a note pops up that says "Not Yet" (creepy, and wreaks of Ben!)
11. Michael gets a call from Ben (it looked like he was in his secret room with all the passports??) who tells him he won't kill innocent people and that some of the people on the boat are innocent... He tells him to get a list of all the names, disable the radio, and then disable the engine so they can't get to the island... "Then you can consider yourself one of the good guys." (I just got this crazy thought that maybe the people/company/whatever that Ben works for is called the good guys, and that is why he always says that... not because they are actually good. I know that is an odd long shot, but with Lost, you never know! I had this image a sign or a van or something with a logo that says "The Good Guys" on the side of it, with a cartoon picture of an island... :)
Sooo, that's that. Please post your comments!! I really liked this episode a lot!!
On the Island
1. Locke brings Miles in to a meeting of all his folks where Ben tells them that the freighter people are looking for him and once they have him they will kill everyone else on the island. Sawyer says, "So, he's one of us now?" Ben tells them that Michael is his man on the boat. They Losties say that Michael is a traitor. (tru dat.)
2. Miles explains to Locke that Ben always gets what he wants, and that means he'll get the $3.2 million if it means saving his life. (All of the exchanges between Miles and Ben seem to be building on the fact that these two organizations [whoever they are] have been competing, etc... for quite some time... they are both very familiar with one another, and know just where it's at when it comes to getting what they want from the other.)
3. Ben tells Alex, Carl, and Rousseau to go to the Temple - it's where the other Others are (haha), and it's the last safe place on the island. No one else can come because "it's not for them, it's only for us..." Alex asks if the people on the boat are more dangerous than Ben, to which he simply nods and says yes. (bad ass.)
4. Later in the jungle Carl and Rousseau get shot!!! Alex jumps up and tells them to stop, that she is Ben's daughter! WOW!! (I don't think/really hope Rousseau isn't really dead!)
On the Freighter
1. The captain beats up someone to keep him form leaving the ship, saying it's for his protection... remember what happened to Minkowski, he says.
2. Michael tells Sayid and Desmond, "I'm here to die."
3. Down in the engine room Sayid and Des confront Michael and make him tell them the truth about why he's there and what's going on.
4. After Michael tells his story, Sayid takes Jack pills, freaks out, calls Michael a traitor, and tells the captain that Michael is not who he says he is, etc... (What the hell, Sayid???)
Michael's Flashback/Story telling (Most of the episode, which was cool.)
1. Michael is off the island, tries to commit suicide, but survives and wakes up in the hospital where he sees Libby!! -- (Ok, it's not really Libby, but that gave me the heeby jeebies.) Obviously, he's not dealing with his murder very well (though he doesn't seem to see visions of Ana Lucia anywhere, perhaps cuz she sucked.)
2. He goes to his mothers house, where she tells him he can't see Walt (So, THAT'S where Walt is!) until he tells her what the heck is going on -- Walt wakes up screaming, everyone thought they were dead, now he's back and won't tell her what happened. Michael leaves, rather than tell the truth, and sees Walt in the window.
3. Then he goes and trades Jin's watch (!!!!) for a gun and bullets, and just when he's about to shoot himself TOM shows up!! (Wow.)
4. Tom tells Michael that no matter what he does, the island won't let him kill himself (ok, I thought that was an epic line! The island also didn't let Jack kill himself, I suppose, by sending that car accident his way.)
5. We find out that Michael is freaking out because he told Walt about killing Ana Lucia and Libby and now I suppose Walt doesn't want to talk to him. (The whole feel of being off the island and dealing with what happened on the island is really interesting/creepy... Michael's story in particular really did a good job of juxtaposing the two worlds -- the world of the island, which exists almost as a different reality because it is so far from the rest of civilization, and the real world where everyone on the island believes they can escape to and find peace... but, Michael's story builds on the idea that you can't really disconnect from the island... even when you are back and you think you will be able to move on... you can't escape it. That, I think, is a major theme of the flashforwards, and in this case flashback.)
6. Michael leaves Tom, who give him the address where he is staying. At home, Michael sees news footage of Flight 815 being discovered in the Sundra Trench (that's what it's called right?), and decides to go back to see Tom. (Ok, so, lets think for a minute... in the flashbacks of the freighter people, we also saw them seeing the footage of this wreckage for the first time. This means that the plane was found some time during Season 3, and the Freighter people left soon after it was discovered... I don't know what that matters yet, but by showing Michael watching the news off the island it was definitely helping aid in the creation of some kind of time line of events... I'll think about that more later.)
7. Tom says that Widmore put the boat down there (so, one side says it was Widmore and one said says it was Ben), dug up corpses in Thailand (yikes), and put them far enough down that no one would recover them. He says that the black box will probably never be recovered either. (Ok, so my question at this point is -- why does the captain of the Freighter have the black box? If he claims that Ben put the wreckage there, how did he get it? Who were the people who found the wreckage in the first place, do we know that yet?)
8. Tom tells him that Widmore's people some how found the coordinates to the island (When Desmond made the hatch implode, I'm assuming) and are going there to kill everyone on the island. Michael can redeem himself for his sins if he kills everyone on the freighter and prevents them from getting to the island.
9. In Fiji, Michael - equipped with his new passport making him Kevin Johnson - arrives at the freighter and meets Minkowski, Naomi, and Frank. Frank asks Michael if he's heard of Flight 815 (har har) and says that the wreckage was not real and that's why he signed up (I think that Frank is a good guy, and is in over his head!)
10. The package that was left for Michael turns out to be a bomb... when he goes to set it off, with the infamous Execute button, a note pops up that says "Not Yet" (creepy, and wreaks of Ben!)
11. Michael gets a call from Ben (it looked like he was in his secret room with all the passports??) who tells him he won't kill innocent people and that some of the people on the boat are innocent... He tells him to get a list of all the names, disable the radio, and then disable the engine so they can't get to the island... "Then you can consider yourself one of the good guys." (I just got this crazy thought that maybe the people/company/whatever that Ben works for is called the good guys, and that is why he always says that... not because they are actually good. I know that is an odd long shot, but with Lost, you never know! I had this image a sign or a van or something with a logo that says "The Good Guys" on the side of it, with a cartoon picture of an island... :)
Sooo, that's that. Please post your comments!! I really liked this episode a lot!!
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Thank God!
This last bit of a recent interview with Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof made me happy!!
The one thing that Carlton and I are steadfast on saying over and over again, and that we're not lying about is that the show is not all a dream. It's happening in the real world, there are real stakes, you're not going to get to the end and cut to black and suddenly realize that this was all sort of a fantasy. That's the only thing that we sort of need to get out there in the world, because it does diffuse a lot of wacky theories. (read the full article here)
I mean, I never really agreed with people who thought this way,
but its nice to know (sort of for sure) that we're not gonna find out that Hurley is experiencing hallucinations in the mental hospital... I kind of knew that the writers were too sophisticated to pull that, but phew. We can rest assured that the ending will be far more bad ass than a dream, etc.
What are some of your thoughts on how the show might end, the big picture issues, and answers to the island mysteries?
Also, here is the Orchid Video mentioned in the interview.
The one thing that Carlton and I are steadfast on saying over and over again, and that we're not lying about is that the show is not all a dream. It's happening in the real world, there are real stakes, you're not going to get to the end and cut to black and suddenly realize that this was all sort of a fantasy. That's the only thing that we sort of need to get out there in the world, because it does diffuse a lot of wacky theories. (read the full article here)
I mean, I never really agreed with people who thought this way,
but its nice to know (sort of for sure) that we're not gonna find out that Hurley is experiencing hallucinations in the mental hospital... I kind of knew that the writers were too sophisticated to pull that, but phew. We can rest assured that the ending will be far more bad ass than a dream, etc.
What are some of your thoughts on how the show might end, the big picture issues, and answers to the island mysteries?
Also, here is the Orchid Video mentioned in the interview.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Episode 7 -- Ji Yeon
Wow. That's basically all I could say when the end of this episode arrived and I realized that we had been watching a Sun flashforward and a Jin flashback. That was pretty trippy, and great TV by the writers!
I'll do my brief synopsis and then get into what I think about this episode -- it will be easy to write these now, in real time, rather than going back and doing them. I will do a summary for the last episode, but I want to get this one out first.
First,
On the Freighter
1. After being told by the scary Keamy guy not to be late from something, Frank goes down to give some cans of lima beans to Des and Sayid -- apparently all there is after some incident in the kitchen. It is also inferred that Frank was NOT the person who left the door open for the guys.
2. There is banging coming from somewhere and Sayid, being the expert, knows it's a person and not a machine - creepy.
3. When Sayid and Des wake up, someone slips a note under their door that says "DO NOT TRUST THE CAPTAIN."
4. When the two go to meet the captain, the helicopter is gone, and Regina - one of the crew members who had been reading her book upside down - throws herself off the side of the ship, wrapped in chains. Sayid and Des are the only people who seem to care.
5. The captain appears surprisingly young and put together - i don't trust him, though! - and shows them Flight 815's black box, explaining that fake wreckage was place in the Sundra Trench. What kind of person - Captain Gault asks - can find 324 dead bodies to put on the bottom of the ocean? -- touche, Captain... Though, he is suggesting is was Ben, which I'm not so sure about.
6. Later in the evening Sayid and Desmond are taken to their new room - bullet through the mouth stain and all - and "Kevin Johnson" is called over to clean it up. Who, you ask, is Kevin Johnson? That would be everyone's favorite turn coat, Michael! Acting on their feet, Sayid and Desmond keep cool and behave as if they have never met him. Hmm. Where's Walt?
On the Island
1. Sun begins to grow distrustful of Juliet after learning from Kate that she had lied about the function of the Tempest station. She is also becoming worried about the prospect of rescue at the hands of Daniel and Charlotte.
2. When Daniel says rescuing the Losties is not his call, Sun makes the decision to move to Locke's camp, tells Jin, and begins packing - only to be stopped by Juliet who warns her she will die if she remains on the island.
3. Kate draws a map to the barracks, explains how to get there, and tells Jin and Sun she will wait as long as she can to tell Jack - Before they leave, though, Juliet interrupts and pleads with Sun not to go, finally telling Jin that Sun had cheated on him! Wow, Juliet - Bitch.
4. Bernard interrupts Jin and Sun's fight to ask Jin to go fishing with him. While they are fishing they discuss the idea of karma - when you are good, good things happen to you; when you are bad, bad things happen. Jin knows this is true. Bernard tells Jin about Rose's cancer and says, that even though they will not leave the island, the did not go with Locke because he is a murderer (forshadowing?)
5. Jin goes to Sun and forgives her, saying that he knows the man he used to be and that whatever Sun did, she did it to that man. They cry and Sun assures Jin that the baby is his.
Ok... now it's time for the flashback/flashforward, which I did not figure out until the very end! Though, I don't feel too bad, because some of my friend didn't figure it out at all. I think it was fantastic!
Off the Island
Sun: She's totally pregnant, and all of the sudden she's in pain and calls the hospital.
Jin: He is running frantically through a toy store.
Sun: She is identified as one of the Oceanic 6 as she arrives at the hospital.
Jin: Everything is going wrong for Jin as he tried to make it to the hospital with his giant panda, which is soon driven away in a cab with somebody else. He runs back to the story and pays the man a whole lot of Korean money to get another panda that is on reserve.
Sun: Sun is in labor and the doctor and nurse are reeeallly shady to me - taking her ring, etc... it's also not her actual doctor which makes me a little bit worried.
Jin: He finally makes it to the hospital for us to find out that he was not going to see Sun at all, but a friend of her fathers... AND it's only 2 months after they were married, making this a FLASHBACK for Jin. WOW.
Sun: Hurley shows up at the door -- what? -- and they go to see Jin's grave!!! Which says he died on 9/22/2004 -- um, the day of the plane crash. What's going on?
Well, well, well. I have begun thinking that I might stop reading the blog about Lost that I used to read because the person who writes it is just so critical of the show. He actually said he thought he was starting to hate this episode after thinking about it for a while. I can't believe people think that way. If the show makes you so mad, then don't watch it.
I thought this episode - as always - was huge! I think the fact that Jin's date of death was the day of the crash means that he is either dead for real, alive on the island, or alive in Korea (assuming that's where they were) but has faked his own death so that he will not be killed by Sun's dad. Depending on what the whole made up story is (that Jack started telling in court) they could have included in it that Jin did not make it, meaning his grave would list 9/22 as the date of his death. It would also make sense that if this is the case Sun knows she's being followed and watched and so showed up at the grave site to play the part of the grieving widow with a new child.
I also think that because there was some shadiness with the doctor and nurse at the hospital that perhaps they were people working for her dad (and possibly Widmore, et al.) who expected that if Jin is really alive that the one place he would certainly show up would be the birth of his child.
I suppose that if Sun is the last member of the Oceanic Six (since they said the last one would be revealed in this episode) that Aaron does count as one of them... which I suspected. That would also mean that Jin could not have gotten off the island as part of the group that is officially recognized as survivors. So at the very least - if he is still alive his death is being faked. Lets hope he's still alive, because I cried a little before deciding I think he might not be dead.
As far as the rest of the episode goes, I would say that Michael being on the boat is the other big thing. I may need to admit defeat in my ranting about Michael not being the man on the boat - but, I will wait until next week to confirm this. Just because he's there it still doesn't mean he's the man on the boat. (though, it looks like he just might be.) It was definitely slick on Desmond and Sayid's part to play along with not knowing who Michael was, and it definitely added to the great creepy feel of the show. I'm hoping that next week will be a flashback of Michael, showing what happened after he left the island in the boat... And, where is Walt, by the way?
Final thoughts:
- I don't trust the captain.
- Do you think Ben will also end up to really not be one of the "good guys" after all? Was he, in fact responsible for the planted wreckage of Flight 815?
- Will Desmond and Sayid contact the beach to tell Jack about Michael being on the boat?
- Where did the helicopter really go?
- Why are people killing themselves on the freighter?
- If Ben doesn't want these people to get to the island, why would he have his man on the boat destroy the engine room and ensure that they would be stuck in such close proximity? (that question courtesy of my friend Cordelia)
DISCUSS!
I'll do my brief synopsis and then get into what I think about this episode -- it will be easy to write these now, in real time, rather than going back and doing them. I will do a summary for the last episode, but I want to get this one out first.
First,
On the Freighter
1. After being told by the scary Keamy guy not to be late from something, Frank goes down to give some cans of lima beans to Des and Sayid -- apparently all there is after some incident in the kitchen. It is also inferred that Frank was NOT the person who left the door open for the guys.
2. There is banging coming from somewhere and Sayid, being the expert, knows it's a person and not a machine - creepy.
3. When Sayid and Des wake up, someone slips a note under their door that says "DO NOT TRUST THE CAPTAIN."
4. When the two go to meet the captain, the helicopter is gone, and Regina - one of the crew members who had been reading her book upside down - throws herself off the side of the ship, wrapped in chains. Sayid and Des are the only people who seem to care.
5. The captain appears surprisingly young and put together - i don't trust him, though! - and shows them Flight 815's black box, explaining that fake wreckage was place in the Sundra Trench. What kind of person - Captain Gault asks - can find 324 dead bodies to put on the bottom of the ocean? -- touche, Captain... Though, he is suggesting is was Ben, which I'm not so sure about.
6. Later in the evening Sayid and Desmond are taken to their new room - bullet through the mouth stain and all - and "Kevin Johnson" is called over to clean it up. Who, you ask, is Kevin Johnson? That would be everyone's favorite turn coat, Michael! Acting on their feet, Sayid and Desmond keep cool and behave as if they have never met him. Hmm. Where's Walt?
On the Island
1. Sun begins to grow distrustful of Juliet after learning from Kate that she had lied about the function of the Tempest station. She is also becoming worried about the prospect of rescue at the hands of Daniel and Charlotte.
2. When Daniel says rescuing the Losties is not his call, Sun makes the decision to move to Locke's camp, tells Jin, and begins packing - only to be stopped by Juliet who warns her she will die if she remains on the island.
3. Kate draws a map to the barracks, explains how to get there, and tells Jin and Sun she will wait as long as she can to tell Jack - Before they leave, though, Juliet interrupts and pleads with Sun not to go, finally telling Jin that Sun had cheated on him! Wow, Juliet - Bitch.
4. Bernard interrupts Jin and Sun's fight to ask Jin to go fishing with him. While they are fishing they discuss the idea of karma - when you are good, good things happen to you; when you are bad, bad things happen. Jin knows this is true. Bernard tells Jin about Rose's cancer and says, that even though they will not leave the island, the did not go with Locke because he is a murderer (forshadowing?)
5. Jin goes to Sun and forgives her, saying that he knows the man he used to be and that whatever Sun did, she did it to that man. They cry and Sun assures Jin that the baby is his.
Ok... now it's time for the flashback/flashforward, which I did not figure out until the very end! Though, I don't feel too bad, because some of my friend didn't figure it out at all. I think it was fantastic!
Off the Island
Sun: She's totally pregnant, and all of the sudden she's in pain and calls the hospital.
Jin: He is running frantically through a toy store.
Sun: She is identified as one of the Oceanic 6 as she arrives at the hospital.
Jin: Everything is going wrong for Jin as he tried to make it to the hospital with his giant panda, which is soon driven away in a cab with somebody else. He runs back to the story and pays the man a whole lot of Korean money to get another panda that is on reserve.
Sun: Sun is in labor and the doctor and nurse are reeeallly shady to me - taking her ring, etc... it's also not her actual doctor which makes me a little bit worried.
Jin: He finally makes it to the hospital for us to find out that he was not going to see Sun at all, but a friend of her fathers... AND it's only 2 months after they were married, making this a FLASHBACK for Jin. WOW.
Sun: Hurley shows up at the door -- what? -- and they go to see Jin's grave!!! Which says he died on 9/22/2004 -- um, the day of the plane crash. What's going on?
Well, well, well. I have begun thinking that I might stop reading the blog about Lost that I used to read because the person who writes it is just so critical of the show. He actually said he thought he was starting to hate this episode after thinking about it for a while. I can't believe people think that way. If the show makes you so mad, then don't watch it.
I thought this episode - as always - was huge! I think the fact that Jin's date of death was the day of the crash means that he is either dead for real, alive on the island, or alive in Korea (assuming that's where they were) but has faked his own death so that he will not be killed by Sun's dad. Depending on what the whole made up story is (that Jack started telling in court) they could have included in it that Jin did not make it, meaning his grave would list 9/22 as the date of his death. It would also make sense that if this is the case Sun knows she's being followed and watched and so showed up at the grave site to play the part of the grieving widow with a new child.
I also think that because there was some shadiness with the doctor and nurse at the hospital that perhaps they were people working for her dad (and possibly Widmore, et al.) who expected that if Jin is really alive that the one place he would certainly show up would be the birth of his child.
I suppose that if Sun is the last member of the Oceanic Six (since they said the last one would be revealed in this episode) that Aaron does count as one of them... which I suspected. That would also mean that Jin could not have gotten off the island as part of the group that is officially recognized as survivors. So at the very least - if he is still alive his death is being faked. Lets hope he's still alive, because I cried a little before deciding I think he might not be dead.
As far as the rest of the episode goes, I would say that Michael being on the boat is the other big thing. I may need to admit defeat in my ranting about Michael not being the man on the boat - but, I will wait until next week to confirm this. Just because he's there it still doesn't mean he's the man on the boat. (though, it looks like he just might be.) It was definitely slick on Desmond and Sayid's part to play along with not knowing who Michael was, and it definitely added to the great creepy feel of the show. I'm hoping that next week will be a flashback of Michael, showing what happened after he left the island in the boat... And, where is Walt, by the way?
Final thoughts:
- I don't trust the captain.
- Do you think Ben will also end up to really not be one of the "good guys" after all? Was he, in fact responsible for the planted wreckage of Flight 815?
- Will Desmond and Sayid contact the beach to tell Jack about Michael being on the boat?
- Where did the helicopter really go?
- Why are people killing themselves on the freighter?
- If Ben doesn't want these people to get to the island, why would he have his man on the boat destroy the engine room and ensure that they would be stuck in such close proximity? (that question courtesy of my friend Cordelia)
DISCUSS!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Boat People, Friends or Foes -- Part 1: Frank Lapidus
I thought I'd take a few minutes to expand upon some questions my friend and I were discussing. I feel the the people on the Freighter are an interesting bunch. So far, we've been led to believe that they are the bad guys - both from people like Ben, and the writers of the show who suggested that those people mean business. However, I believe that each individual came with their very own goals and based on individual motives. This doesn't mean that the are good guys, buy just that they may not be exactly how they appear and they may not all be 100% loyal to whoever is in charge of their operation -- Charles Widmore?
Let's look first at Frank Lapidus. What we know about him so far is that he is an ex-Oceanic pilot who was scheduled to fly Flight 815 but was then replaced at the last minute by Sam. He had moved to Bermuda some time after the crash and seemed to be rather disheveled. The first questions that come to my mind are:
1. Why was he replaced? -- To me, this marks back room deals and conspiracies.
2. Why did he end up living in Bermuda? Did he quite because of what happened to Flight 815 or was he fired before he could learn the truth? Did he leave because of guilt over being the person who was supposed to be on the flight rather than his friend and fellow pilot Sam Norris who had a family? Was he fired for some reason? Why did he have the Flight 815 manifest memorized?
3. How and why was he chosen to be part of the freighter team? Was it so they could keep him under wraps after finding out that he had called Oceanic hotline to say the pilot in the footage wasn't the right person?
4. Why did he accept the job when he clearly didn't trust Oceanic, and most likely the people running the operation? Did he want to become a spy and keep an eye on what was going on? What personal interests could he have in taking the trip to the island?
5. Is he on the Losties' side? Is he the one who opened the door for Sayid and Desmond?
Stay tuned for a look at the rest of the sketchy freighter people! And, please leave your thoughts and comments!
Let's look first at Frank Lapidus. What we know about him so far is that he is an ex-Oceanic pilot who was scheduled to fly Flight 815 but was then replaced at the last minute by Sam. He had moved to Bermuda some time after the crash and seemed to be rather disheveled. The first questions that come to my mind are:
1. Why was he replaced? -- To me, this marks back room deals and conspiracies.
2. Why did he end up living in Bermuda? Did he quite because of what happened to Flight 815 or was he fired before he could learn the truth? Did he leave because of guilt over being the person who was supposed to be on the flight rather than his friend and fellow pilot Sam Norris who had a family? Was he fired for some reason? Why did he have the Flight 815 manifest memorized?
3. How and why was he chosen to be part of the freighter team? Was it so they could keep him under wraps after finding out that he had called Oceanic hotline to say the pilot in the footage wasn't the right person?
4. Why did he accept the job when he clearly didn't trust Oceanic, and most likely the people running the operation? Did he want to become a spy and keep an eye on what was going on? What personal interests could he have in taking the trip to the island?
5. Is he on the Losties' side? Is he the one who opened the door for Sayid and Desmond?
Stay tuned for a look at the rest of the sketchy freighter people! And, please leave your thoughts and comments!
Episode 5 -- The Constant
This one was certainly a doozey! ... One of the best episodes of the series I think, and certainly more of a "game changer" than the Season 3 finale (I think). This one will have to be a bit different since the time travel thing made things a bit more confusing.
Helicopter, 2004: Desmond gets disoriented and wakes up in the Royal Scots Regiment in 1996, when he jumps back he doesn't remember where he is or who anyone is, including Sayid, but sees his picture of Penny and calms down.
Freighter, 2004: new guy named Keamy who sort of looks like a murderer, tells Frank he shouldn't have brought them there.
Military Base, 1996: Des goes to call Penny after remembering her picture from 2004.
Freighter, 2004: In the sick bay Sayid and Des meet a man who is strapped down to a bed and says, "You have it, too."
Beach, 2004: Daniel tells Jack and Juliet that their perception of time on the island is different than time experienced off the island and that if Frank doesn't stick to the bearings he gave him there could be "side effects."
Freighter, 2004: Sayid notices that they left at dusk, but now it's midday. He trades Frank his gun for the phone and calls Jack to tell him what's going on. Daniel asks if Des was exposed to radiation or electromagnetic energy. The doctor examines Des.
Phone booth, 1996: Penny doesn't want to talk to Des.
Freighter, 2004: Des tells Daniel it's 1996 and he's supposed to be on the base. Daniel tells Des to take the train to Oxford and find his 1996 self.
Oxford, 1996: After some convincing, Des gets Daniel to believe what he says. It took the statement, "I know about Eloise," to do it. Daniel says you can't change the future. Daniel doesn't protect his head from the radiation (foreshadowing?). He says your consciousness travels to the future.
Freighter, 2004: The guy in bed is the infamous Minkowski, former communications office. He tells Des that Penny used to call sometimes and they were forbidden to answer (by her dad, perhaps?)
Daniel's office, 1996: Eloise (the mouse) died because her brain short circuited from time traveling and now having a constant to help her differentiate between past, present, and future. Daniel doesn't know if this will happen to Des, but suggests he find himself a constant.
Freighter, 2004: Des realizes he has to call Penny and make her his constant. Someone left the door open in the sick bay, to which Minkowski says, "you must have a friend on this boat."
Auction Hall, 1996: Charles Widmore bids on the journal from the Black Rock! What?! He later gives Des Penny's new address.
Freighter, 2004: Minkowski says the time travel started when he and his friend Brandon were bored and started heading for the island. Now Brandon is dead, after having the same thing happen to him. Minkowski jumps out, starts to regain consciousness, and dies saying, "I can't get back."
Penny's flat, 1996: Des convinces Penny to let him in, and tells her she has to give him her phone number because he needs to call her in 8 years. Finally she does so.
Freighter, 2004: Desmond remembers Penny's phone number, Sayid, of course, fixes the phone because he's badass that way, and Des calls her. She answers and they have their tear inducing conversation in which Des tells her he's been on an island (he remembers where he is! ). She says she knows about it island and has been looking for him for 3 years. Des thanks Sayid, who he know remembers, as well.
Beach, 2004: Daniel flips through his journal to find a page that says, "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume is my constant."
I don't even know where to start with this episode. I thought it was huge! The time travel introduces an entirely new aspect to everything we've seen so far and all that is to come. For me, it gave me the idea that perhaps Ben has time traveled and is, in fact, his own man on the boat.
The fact that Hanso's family owned the Black Rock is also important, as is Widmore's connection to it. Are Penny and her dad warring over finding the island first? Does Charles Widmore know that Desmond is there? When Daniel was picked to go to the island did he remember his meeting with Desmond from 1996 and know that he would be there?
Now, this is my theory of why Ben might be his own man on the boat:
BEN is Ben's Man on the Boat!
1. People time travel (so that means it could happen to anyone)
2. Time traveling appears to be a "side-effect" of coming and going from the island (it seems to be the case that Ben has left the island because of his passports, etc, but even if he hasn't, he came to the island when he was a child. Could the time travel have started for him then. Is that why he decided to join with the others?)
3. If Ben has/does time travel he could have found out about the people on the boat a long time ago and, thus, would have known for quite some time who they are and what they were planning to do.
4. If that is the case, it would follow that he would do everything in his power to stop them from coming, i.e. blocking transmissions, etc.
5. It would also make sense that he knows about things in the future beyond the boat people arriving, and his exploits with Sayid are also attempts to stop things from happening in the future (or at least stave them off, since it is not possible to change the future.)
(Aside: The sometimes mentioned idea of "saving the world" that the DHARMA people talked about could have been related to figuring out a way to change the future)
6. If Ben has known bits and pieces of the future, he may have known that Jack would arrive to operate on him. He may have known that Locke would blow up the submarine, making it a safe bet for him to make such a deal with Jack in the first place (knowing that he wouldn't be able to get off the island in the sub anyway.)
7. He knows enough about the future to not mind biding his time being dragged around with Locke and beat up once in a while.
Helicopter, 2004: Desmond gets disoriented and wakes up in the Royal Scots Regiment in 1996, when he jumps back he doesn't remember where he is or who anyone is, including Sayid, but sees his picture of Penny and calms down.
Freighter, 2004: new guy named Keamy who sort of looks like a murderer, tells Frank he shouldn't have brought them there.
Military Base, 1996: Des goes to call Penny after remembering her picture from 2004.
Freighter, 2004: In the sick bay Sayid and Des meet a man who is strapped down to a bed and says, "You have it, too."
Beach, 2004: Daniel tells Jack and Juliet that their perception of time on the island is different than time experienced off the island and that if Frank doesn't stick to the bearings he gave him there could be "side effects."
Freighter, 2004: Sayid notices that they left at dusk, but now it's midday. He trades Frank his gun for the phone and calls Jack to tell him what's going on. Daniel asks if Des was exposed to radiation or electromagnetic energy. The doctor examines Des.
Phone booth, 1996: Penny doesn't want to talk to Des.
Freighter, 2004: Des tells Daniel it's 1996 and he's supposed to be on the base. Daniel tells Des to take the train to Oxford and find his 1996 self.
Oxford, 1996: After some convincing, Des gets Daniel to believe what he says. It took the statement, "I know about Eloise," to do it. Daniel says you can't change the future. Daniel doesn't protect his head from the radiation (foreshadowing?). He says your consciousness travels to the future.
Freighter, 2004: The guy in bed is the infamous Minkowski, former communications office. He tells Des that Penny used to call sometimes and they were forbidden to answer (by her dad, perhaps?)
Daniel's office, 1996: Eloise (the mouse) died because her brain short circuited from time traveling and now having a constant to help her differentiate between past, present, and future. Daniel doesn't know if this will happen to Des, but suggests he find himself a constant.
Freighter, 2004: Des realizes he has to call Penny and make her his constant. Someone left the door open in the sick bay, to which Minkowski says, "you must have a friend on this boat."
Auction Hall, 1996: Charles Widmore bids on the journal from the Black Rock! What?! He later gives Des Penny's new address.
Freighter, 2004: Minkowski says the time travel started when he and his friend Brandon were bored and started heading for the island. Now Brandon is dead, after having the same thing happen to him. Minkowski jumps out, starts to regain consciousness, and dies saying, "I can't get back."
Penny's flat, 1996: Des convinces Penny to let him in, and tells her she has to give him her phone number because he needs to call her in 8 years. Finally she does so.
Freighter, 2004: Desmond remembers Penny's phone number, Sayid, of course, fixes the phone because he's badass that way, and Des calls her. She answers and they have their tear inducing conversation in which Des tells her he's been on an island (he remembers where he is! ). She says she knows about it island and has been looking for him for 3 years. Des thanks Sayid, who he know remembers, as well.
Beach, 2004: Daniel flips through his journal to find a page that says, "If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume is my constant."
I don't even know where to start with this episode. I thought it was huge! The time travel introduces an entirely new aspect to everything we've seen so far and all that is to come. For me, it gave me the idea that perhaps Ben has time traveled and is, in fact, his own man on the boat.
The fact that Hanso's family owned the Black Rock is also important, as is Widmore's connection to it. Are Penny and her dad warring over finding the island first? Does Charles Widmore know that Desmond is there? When Daniel was picked to go to the island did he remember his meeting with Desmond from 1996 and know that he would be there?
Now, this is my theory of why Ben might be his own man on the boat:
BEN is Ben's Man on the Boat!
1. People time travel (so that means it could happen to anyone)
2. Time traveling appears to be a "side-effect" of coming and going from the island (it seems to be the case that Ben has left the island because of his passports, etc, but even if he hasn't, he came to the island when he was a child. Could the time travel have started for him then. Is that why he decided to join with the others?)
3. If Ben has/does time travel he could have found out about the people on the boat a long time ago and, thus, would have known for quite some time who they are and what they were planning to do.
4. If that is the case, it would follow that he would do everything in his power to stop them from coming, i.e. blocking transmissions, etc.
5. It would also make sense that he knows about things in the future beyond the boat people arriving, and his exploits with Sayid are also attempts to stop things from happening in the future (or at least stave them off, since it is not possible to change the future.)
(Aside: The sometimes mentioned idea of "saving the world" that the DHARMA people talked about could have been related to figuring out a way to change the future)
6. If Ben has known bits and pieces of the future, he may have known that Jack would arrive to operate on him. He may have known that Locke would blow up the submarine, making it a safe bet for him to make such a deal with Jack in the first place (knowing that he wouldn't be able to get off the island in the sub anyway.)
7. He knows enough about the future to not mind biding his time being dragged around with Locke and beat up once in a while.
Episode 4 -- Eggtown
Alright, a lot of people have been talking smack about this episode, but I think they are full of it. No, there were no jungle whispers or Locke induced explosions, or new hatch discoveries, but lets take a look at that HUGE information we were given! As always, I'll start with on the island, though I think the most important info definitely came in Kate's flashforward.
On the Island
1. Ben plays mind games with Locke, as per usual, telling him he's more lost than ever
2. Jin and Sun discuss their post island plans (foreshadowing?)
3. Locke makes it clear that he is not running a democracy.
4. Kate brakes Miles out to meet Ben, Miles asks for $3.2 million in exchange for telling his boss (who Ben apparently knows about) that he is dead.
5. Miles knows all about Kate and what she did before she got to the island.
6. Locke kicks Kate out
7. Daniel can't remember more than 3 playing cards
8. Locke sticks a live grenade in Miles' mouth
Ok - now for the big time!
Off the Island
1. Kate is charged with fraud, arson, assault and murder, to which she pleads not guilty.
2. She refuses to bring her son to testify about her character.
3. Jack comes to the stand and tells a CRAZY lie about what happened to the plane, on the island, etc... Only 8 people survived!? ... Kate helped all of them onto the shore and treated them!?
4. Kate interrupts and says she can't list to it anymore.
5. Jack says he doesn't love her anymore.
6. Kate's MOM is still alive and says she won't testify against Kate.
7. Kate accepts a plea deal that gives her 10 years of in-state probation, so she won't be leaving California for a while
8. Jack tells her afterwards that he didn't mean what he said (and still loves her), but he won't see the baby.
9. Kate says she's seen Jack tell his story so many times she thinks he's starting to believe it!
9. Kate goes home to her big house, goes up to her son's room, the son says, "Hi Mommy," and Kate says, "Hi Aaron." !!!
Alright. The made up story about 8 people surviving and Kate trying to save them all, is out-of-this-world! And, Kate has Aaron! Talk about a big deal episode. I find that these two things put together have begun to draw a picture of just what might have happened when the Oceanic 6 got off the island, and it doesn't feel good. I thought this episode had an overall feel of creepiness and foreboding. For Kate to have Aaron, something bad had to have happened, either at the hands of the Losties or the freighter people or any number of people we may not have met yet. Where is Claire? Why did they make up that story? Was it to cover up something dreadful or was it just so that Kate could get off the hook?
These findings also support the notion that there are still people on the island that may or may not be in danger. Why were they left behind?
I don't know, but I thought this was one of the most depressing episodes, despite all the huge information is provided us with.
On the Island
1. Ben plays mind games with Locke, as per usual, telling him he's more lost than ever
2. Jin and Sun discuss their post island plans (foreshadowing?)
3. Locke makes it clear that he is not running a democracy.
4. Kate brakes Miles out to meet Ben, Miles asks for $3.2 million in exchange for telling his boss (who Ben apparently knows about) that he is dead.
5. Miles knows all about Kate and what she did before she got to the island.
6. Locke kicks Kate out
7. Daniel can't remember more than 3 playing cards
8. Locke sticks a live grenade in Miles' mouth
Ok - now for the big time!
Off the Island
1. Kate is charged with fraud, arson, assault and murder, to which she pleads not guilty.
2. She refuses to bring her son to testify about her character.
3. Jack comes to the stand and tells a CRAZY lie about what happened to the plane, on the island, etc... Only 8 people survived!? ... Kate helped all of them onto the shore and treated them!?
4. Kate interrupts and says she can't list to it anymore.
5. Jack says he doesn't love her anymore.
6. Kate's MOM is still alive and says she won't testify against Kate.
7. Kate accepts a plea deal that gives her 10 years of in-state probation, so she won't be leaving California for a while
8. Jack tells her afterwards that he didn't mean what he said (and still loves her), but he won't see the baby.
9. Kate says she's seen Jack tell his story so many times she thinks he's starting to believe it!
9. Kate goes home to her big house, goes up to her son's room, the son says, "Hi Mommy," and Kate says, "Hi Aaron." !!!
Alright. The made up story about 8 people surviving and Kate trying to save them all, is out-of-this-world! And, Kate has Aaron! Talk about a big deal episode. I find that these two things put together have begun to draw a picture of just what might have happened when the Oceanic 6 got off the island, and it doesn't feel good. I thought this episode had an overall feel of creepiness and foreboding. For Kate to have Aaron, something bad had to have happened, either at the hands of the Losties or the freighter people or any number of people we may not have met yet. Where is Claire? Why did they make up that story? Was it to cover up something dreadful or was it just so that Kate could get off the hook?
These findings also support the notion that there are still people on the island that may or may not be in danger. Why were they left behind?
I don't know, but I thought this was one of the most depressing episodes, despite all the huge information is provided us with.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Episode 3 -- The Economist
I thought this one was a doozey!
On the Island
1. Naomi is wearing a bracelet that says "N - I'll always be with you. RG"
2. Locke does not find the cabin (Hurley was right) and Ben says that Locke is looking for someone to tell him what to do next (i.e. Jacob).
3. Sayid makes a deal with Frank to get off the island in return for Charlotte back from Locke.
4. Daniel conducts an experiment that shows that time on the island is 31 minutes behind the time off the island!
5. Sayid finds Ben's secret room full of money and passports
6. Locke catches Kate, Sayid, and Miles
7. Trade Miles for Charlotte
8. Sayid, Desmond, and dead Naomi leave with Frank
Off the Island
1. Sayid flashforward - and he kills someone on a golf course within the first few minutes!
2. Makes contact with Elsa, whose boss he is supposed to kill
3. The boss finally contacts her, she shoots him, and he kills her.
4. She's wearing the same bracelet as Naomi
5. Sayid meets Ben in a vets office to get his wound cleaned up
6. His is working with Ben to protect his friends
7. "They know I'm coming." - Sayid "Good." - Ben
WOW. Ok - so first of all, the most important two revelations in this episode clearly are (a) Time is 31 minutes behind on the island, and (b) Future Sayid works for BEN!
My thoughts - Ben is clearly some kind of international man of mystery based on his collection of foreign currency and passports. My first assumption is that Elsa's boss must be a member of or the leader of whoever the people looking for Ben and the Island are (Widmore??).
Next, the bracelet. I am assuming that RG is some kind of big timer in this creepy organization that is looking for the Island. The seemingly sweet message of "I'll always be with you," is not what it appears to be. After seeing that Elsa was wearing the same bracelet, I took the meaning to be - Watch yourself, and don't forget that I'll always be with you (watching).
And, Sayid works for Ben. What can really be said about this?? This fact, and the fact that they are working to protect his friends hearkens back to episode one and all that "they need you" talk. So, Ben is leading a group of ex-Island freedom fighters against the forces of evil?? Perhaps, perhaps.
After asking Locke to "Help Me," why is Jacob ignoring him?
On the Island
1. Naomi is wearing a bracelet that says "N - I'll always be with you. RG"
2. Locke does not find the cabin (Hurley was right) and Ben says that Locke is looking for someone to tell him what to do next (i.e. Jacob).
3. Sayid makes a deal with Frank to get off the island in return for Charlotte back from Locke.
4. Daniel conducts an experiment that shows that time on the island is 31 minutes behind the time off the island!
5. Sayid finds Ben's secret room full of money and passports
6. Locke catches Kate, Sayid, and Miles
7. Trade Miles for Charlotte
8. Sayid, Desmond, and dead Naomi leave with Frank
Off the Island
1. Sayid flashforward - and he kills someone on a golf course within the first few minutes!
2. Makes contact with Elsa, whose boss he is supposed to kill
3. The boss finally contacts her, she shoots him, and he kills her.
4. She's wearing the same bracelet as Naomi
5. Sayid meets Ben in a vets office to get his wound cleaned up
6. His is working with Ben to protect his friends
7. "They know I'm coming." - Sayid "Good." - Ben
WOW. Ok - so first of all, the most important two revelations in this episode clearly are (a) Time is 31 minutes behind on the island, and (b) Future Sayid works for BEN!
My thoughts - Ben is clearly some kind of international man of mystery based on his collection of foreign currency and passports. My first assumption is that Elsa's boss must be a member of or the leader of whoever the people looking for Ben and the Island are (Widmore??).
Next, the bracelet. I am assuming that RG is some kind of big timer in this creepy organization that is looking for the Island. The seemingly sweet message of "I'll always be with you," is not what it appears to be. After seeing that Elsa was wearing the same bracelet, I took the meaning to be - Watch yourself, and don't forget that I'll always be with you (watching).
And, Sayid works for Ben. What can really be said about this?? This fact, and the fact that they are working to protect his friends hearkens back to episode one and all that "they need you" talk. So, Ben is leading a group of ex-Island freedom fighters against the forces of evil?? Perhaps, perhaps.
After asking Locke to "Help Me," why is Jacob ignoring him?
Saturday, March 8, 2008
Episode 2 -- Confirmed Dead
On the Island
1. The Freighter people are carrying gas masks - yikes
2. Naomi gave a code to tell her people she was killed
3. Miles chants over Naomi and finds out Kate didn't kill her
4. Locke can't find Jacob's cabin and he and Ben seem concerned/interested when Hurley blurts out that they are going the wrong way
5. Miles calls Juliet a "native" and reveals that they are all there looking for Ben and they have a picture of him off the island!
6. Ben knows everything about the Freighter people and that they are after him because he has a "man on the boat."
Off the Island
1. Flight 815 wreckage - wow!
2. Daniel: Cries when he sees the footage
3. Miles: Talks to dead people in a house where the picture frames change from one moment to the other
4. Charlotte finds DHARMA polar bear fossils in Tunisia and is carrying around a newspaper about Flight 815
5. Frank is lives in Bermuda, sees the footage, calls Oceanic and tells them that the pilot they are showing is not Sam Norris, and that he (Frank) was supposed to be the pilot on that flight.
Well, well, well... looking back on this episode now I realize that - WOW - it revealed a lot of really good, juicey things!
First, on the island the most important info, I think, is the fact that the freighter people are looking for Ben, and that Ben knows all about them because of his man on the boat. Also, Locke beginning to realize that maybe the island is just not that into him anymore, will definitely be important.
This episode, though, was all about the flashbacks, where we learned SOO much!
First - the fact that there is wreckage of Flight 815 is really quite staggering - it means that someone took the time, money, and effort to plant an airplane with dead bodies on the bottom of the ocean to stop any kind of search that may have been going on, and it explains why Naomi told Charlie that everyone thought they were all dead.
Next, I think the most important stories were Naomi's, Charlotte's, and Frank's. Obviously the fact that Miles can talk to dead people is a big deal, but not enough was explained to bring on any huge revelations or big questions, expect maybe - who's house was he at? This, I'm sure, will be returned to at a later time.
Noami's flashback, though, brought up a lot of questions for me. Chief among them was - Why did she ask Abbadon if there would be 815 survivors on the island? For this question to make sense at all, she would have to (a) know that the wreckage on the news was fake, and (b) know a lot more about the island than she let on when she landed there (which has already become obvious)... What I'm getting at is - Why would she even think it possible for 815 survivors to be there? What connection would they have to the island in her mind? This makes me think that these people have been watching the island for some time and knew from the start that the plane ended up there. Why do they know this? What was their involvement?
Charlotte's story was also huge. What does she know about DHARMA? Was she looking for that polar bear because she knew it belonged to the DHARMA people, or was she surprised to see the collar. I tend to believe it's the former. Then, what was a DHARMA polar bear doing in Tunisia? Did they once conduct their experiments and have stations around the world, before finding the island? Do they still operate elsewhere secretly? Why was she interested in the discovery of Flight 815 wreckage? All things that will prove important in the future!
Finally, Frank's flashback brought many a question to my mind. The biggest for me was - Why was he replaced by Sam Norris as pilot of Flight 815. This fact reminded me of an idea I had a while ago, that the pilot was somehow involved with whoever wanted the Losties to end up on the island. The fact that he replaced Frank at the last minute smells of conspiracy. It's not hard for me to believe that when he told Jack and Kate that they had gotten off course and were heading toward Fiji that he was actually lying and had purposely flown them to the island. Why did the smoke monster pick him to kill first?
Basically, all these people seem to know a lot more about the 815 survivors than they should and seem to be connected to some not-nice folks, maybe DHARMA, maybe the Others, maybe people we have yet to meet. What is the connection between Flight 815 and the Island? What kind of powers that be were involved in their arrival on the Island? Who wanted them there, who wants them dead, who wants to protect them. All things to consider!
1. The Freighter people are carrying gas masks - yikes
2. Naomi gave a code to tell her people she was killed
3. Miles chants over Naomi and finds out Kate didn't kill her
4. Locke can't find Jacob's cabin and he and Ben seem concerned/interested when Hurley blurts out that they are going the wrong way
5. Miles calls Juliet a "native" and reveals that they are all there looking for Ben and they have a picture of him off the island!
6. Ben knows everything about the Freighter people and that they are after him because he has a "man on the boat."
Off the Island
1. Flight 815 wreckage - wow!
2. Daniel: Cries when he sees the footage
3. Miles: Talks to dead people in a house where the picture frames change from one moment to the other
4. Charlotte finds DHARMA polar bear fossils in Tunisia and is carrying around a newspaper about Flight 815
5. Frank is lives in Bermuda, sees the footage, calls Oceanic and tells them that the pilot they are showing is not Sam Norris, and that he (Frank) was supposed to be the pilot on that flight.
Well, well, well... looking back on this episode now I realize that - WOW - it revealed a lot of really good, juicey things!
First, on the island the most important info, I think, is the fact that the freighter people are looking for Ben, and that Ben knows all about them because of his man on the boat. Also, Locke beginning to realize that maybe the island is just not that into him anymore, will definitely be important.
This episode, though, was all about the flashbacks, where we learned SOO much!
First - the fact that there is wreckage of Flight 815 is really quite staggering - it means that someone took the time, money, and effort to plant an airplane with dead bodies on the bottom of the ocean to stop any kind of search that may have been going on, and it explains why Naomi told Charlie that everyone thought they were all dead.
Next, I think the most important stories were Naomi's, Charlotte's, and Frank's. Obviously the fact that Miles can talk to dead people is a big deal, but not enough was explained to bring on any huge revelations or big questions, expect maybe - who's house was he at? This, I'm sure, will be returned to at a later time.
Noami's flashback, though, brought up a lot of questions for me. Chief among them was - Why did she ask Abbadon if there would be 815 survivors on the island? For this question to make sense at all, she would have to (a) know that the wreckage on the news was fake, and (b) know a lot more about the island than she let on when she landed there (which has already become obvious)... What I'm getting at is - Why would she even think it possible for 815 survivors to be there? What connection would they have to the island in her mind? This makes me think that these people have been watching the island for some time and knew from the start that the plane ended up there. Why do they know this? What was their involvement?
Charlotte's story was also huge. What does she know about DHARMA? Was she looking for that polar bear because she knew it belonged to the DHARMA people, or was she surprised to see the collar. I tend to believe it's the former. Then, what was a DHARMA polar bear doing in Tunisia? Did they once conduct their experiments and have stations around the world, before finding the island? Do they still operate elsewhere secretly? Why was she interested in the discovery of Flight 815 wreckage? All things that will prove important in the future!
Finally, Frank's flashback brought many a question to my mind. The biggest for me was - Why was he replaced by Sam Norris as pilot of Flight 815. This fact reminded me of an idea I had a while ago, that the pilot was somehow involved with whoever wanted the Losties to end up on the island. The fact that he replaced Frank at the last minute smells of conspiracy. It's not hard for me to believe that when he told Jack and Kate that they had gotten off course and were heading toward Fiji that he was actually lying and had purposely flown them to the island. Why did the smoke monster pick him to kill first?
Basically, all these people seem to know a lot more about the 815 survivors than they should and seem to be connected to some not-nice folks, maybe DHARMA, maybe the Others, maybe people we have yet to meet. What is the connection between Flight 815 and the Island? What kind of powers that be were involved in their arrival on the Island? Who wanted them there, who wants them dead, who wants to protect them. All things to consider!
Episode 1 -- The Beginning of the End
On the Island
1. Jacob's cabin appears to Hurley and Christian Shephard is inside!
2. The Losties split up into 2 camps led by Locke and Jack. (Claire, Hurley, Rousseau, Alex, Carl, and Ben go with Locke; the rest go with Jack)
3. The first of the Freighter people reach the island in their tumbling helicopter
Off the Island
1. Hurley is off the island and a member of the "Oceanic 6" (presumably in addition to Jack)
2. He tells the police officer that he never met Ana Lucia
3. The idea that some survivors are still on the island and something sketchy is going on, is presented by Charlie ("They need you"), Jack ("Are you going to tell?"), and Abbadon ("Are they still alive?")
4. Something happens that makes Hurley believe he should have chosen to go with Jack's group rather than Locke's)
What is Important About this Episode?
I think Christian Shephard being inside Jacob's cabin will probably end up being pretty important. He's flown under the radar every since he stopped appearing to Jack in the jungle, but it's pretty important that we don't forget he showed up on the island dead in a coffin and hasn't been seen since season 1. So, if he's wandering around making friends with Jacob, that's a pretty big deal. But, without any more information to go on, we'll let that one lie for now.
Hurly being part of the Oceanic 6 is a big deal as well, especially because he seems to be going nuts again now that he's reached home. He says in the beginning of this episode that once he gets home he'll be free since all his lotto money is most likely gone, but as we can see his off-the-island life is anything but relaxing now that he's put himself back in a mental hospital and is ever-tormented by the idea that he should never have left the island in the first place.
Finally, the beginnings of a conspiracy are taking root as we are given hints that perhaps there are some secrets being kept about what really went down on the island, some people referred to only by "they" are still somewhere and in need of help, and this Abbadon dude certainly doesn't seem to be very friendly.
1. Jacob's cabin appears to Hurley and Christian Shephard is inside!
2. The Losties split up into 2 camps led by Locke and Jack. (Claire, Hurley, Rousseau, Alex, Carl, and Ben go with Locke; the rest go with Jack)
3. The first of the Freighter people reach the island in their tumbling helicopter
Off the Island
1. Hurley is off the island and a member of the "Oceanic 6" (presumably in addition to Jack)
2. He tells the police officer that he never met Ana Lucia
3. The idea that some survivors are still on the island and something sketchy is going on, is presented by Charlie ("They need you"), Jack ("Are you going to tell?"), and Abbadon ("Are they still alive?")
4. Something happens that makes Hurley believe he should have chosen to go with Jack's group rather than Locke's)
What is Important About this Episode?
I think Christian Shephard being inside Jacob's cabin will probably end up being pretty important. He's flown under the radar every since he stopped appearing to Jack in the jungle, but it's pretty important that we don't forget he showed up on the island dead in a coffin and hasn't been seen since season 1. So, if he's wandering around making friends with Jacob, that's a pretty big deal. But, without any more information to go on, we'll let that one lie for now.
Hurly being part of the Oceanic 6 is a big deal as well, especially because he seems to be going nuts again now that he's reached home. He says in the beginning of this episode that once he gets home he'll be free since all his lotto money is most likely gone, but as we can see his off-the-island life is anything but relaxing now that he's put himself back in a mental hospital and is ever-tormented by the idea that he should never have left the island in the first place.
Finally, the beginnings of a conspiracy are taking root as we are given hints that perhaps there are some secrets being kept about what really went down on the island, some people referred to only by "they" are still somewhere and in need of help, and this Abbadon dude certainly doesn't seem to be very friendly.
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