Category: LOST

The Episode…

Whoa. In between of all the stress with my thesis, at least I can say that when I watched a TV show to relax, I watched a good one. Because, even by LOST’s insane standards and even for a Locke episode, Cabin Fever was still unbelievably awesome. Which you can probably tell by the obscure amounts of italic text I have thrown in over the last paragraph. Read on a for a little pre-finale episode rundown!

It all starts with the song Everyday by Buddy Holly played on an old record player. That’s a great pro – I love that song. It’s great to get a little insight on the little things that made John Locke into John Locke: cast away at birth, being unwanted, never being able to do what he wants to do… But the flashbacks weren’t really about what made John Locke into John Locke, but more like who… because our favourite island knife thrower seems to have met quite the interesting people back in his younger days.

I talk, of course, about Richard Alpert (aka the mysterious ageless island man) and Matthew Abaddon (Mr. “Are they still alive?”). Is that fate? Or just coincidence? It was a nice thing to see both of them again right before the season finale: I have a feeling they might turn out to be quite important to the next episode’s progress.

Meanwhile, on the island, we get a lot of preparation and set-up for the finale. On the freighter, Keamy goes mental, tapes a metronome to his arm and (finally) kills the doctor and the freighter’s captain. Sayid is going back to the island, and I worry more everyday about Desmond’s fate: he stayed behind on the freighter but we haven’t heard whether he made it off the island. This just can’t go well, right? On the island, we have Jack being the usual cute asshole to Juliet, the chopper flying over and it dropping a pack with a sat phone. How Jack made the brilliant “let’s follow them” deduction, I do not know. Maybe the whole reasoning behind team beach will be clearer when I watch all the episodes on DVD, because right now, it really feels as if they want to die.

Speaking of death: it’s finally official! Christian Shephard, the first dead guy on LOST, has reappeared! I think it was quite clear by now – and apparently the writers anticipated that we might’ve already found out he had something to do with Jacob (from the season premiere). So we got an added little mystery: when John turned his torch to the other corner of the room, he saw Claire – who looked unbelievably creepy for someone who isn’t trying to look creepy at all. So, yes, Claire is dead. My guess is she died when the house went boom in The Shape of Things to Come. As for the how and the why… I don’t think we’ll find out in season 4.

The Questions…

We were wrong. Christian Shephard is not Jacob. He is, however, one who can speak for him. Does that mean Jacob communicates with the dead? Other than that, no questions have been hinted at. I do expect, however, that the season finale will answer up quite a bit of questions we had regarding the first flash forward back in Through the Looking Glass.

In all…

I absolutely adored this episode. There was a lot of mystery, a bit of action, some nice character moments (the moment in which Abaddon moves the wheel chair bound Locke in front of a staircase was so nice, and Richard Alpert has never looked this much like the G-man ever before) and a healthy dose of mindfucks.

Speaking of which: move the island. Time or place?

Favourite Quote: Ben: “Because destiny, John, is a fickle bitch.

The Episode…
The first of the post-strike LOST episodes was everything I had expected: compressed, filled with riddles, action-packed and… effng “shock and awe”. In case you’re not the avid fan (or you’re reading this at some point in the future), let me fill you in: season 4 was planned to have 16 episodes. Due to the strike, however, three episodes got dropped, causing thirteen episodes in total instead of sixteen, but with the same storyline (minus some flashbacks). For an already dense show like LOST, this basically means a very hectic, but fun, ride.

And boy, no time was wasted in this episode. About three minutes in, we get a telephone call – the beginning of the end. About three minutes later, redshirts are getting killed all over the place, pump action shotguns are pulled from piano seats, Claire gets blown up and rescued by the heroic Sawyer… and then, in the not-so-distant future, effing Ben wakes up in the middle of the effing desert wearing an effing Dharma parka! Seriously, even you even so much as blinked during this episode, you’re sure to havemissed something.

Now that Alex is dead (great acting by Michael Emerson by the way), I’m really starting to fear that Danielle Rousseau is truly gone. What a shame. I hope I’m wrong on this, because telling the story of one dead character through others (Libby) is already enough. My hopes are that John and the gang will run into her on the way to the cabin and save her life or something. Or maybe the island? I don’t know.
Apparently, team Darlton have learned something from JJ Abrams’s Cloverfield when coming up with this episode. Smokey, our island’s resident monster, was really, really creepy this time around. It just flew in and devoured everything in sight. So it appears Ben has a certain amount of control over it – I didn’t really see that coming. The monster’s turning into an ever more complicated enigma with every page we turn.
The Questions…
Jeez… nothing!
In all…
Yeah, shock and awe pretty much sums it up. Also, apparently Ben and Widmore are playing a game. What kind of game? Is it like Settlers of Catan? Or more like Risk? …Or Grand Theft Island? Stay tuned for next week’s episode, where Jack… gets apendicitis.
Favourite Quote: Jack: “Were you ever going to get us off this island?!”
Daniel: “…No.”

The Episode…

Have we ever seen a darker episode of LOST? Does it get any worse than this? This episode finally delivered on what the cast list had been showing since Januar 31st: the return of Michael on LOST. How he pulled it off, we found out in Meet Kevin Johnson. Or did we? In the first flashback, Michael’s already back on the island. So, an integral part of the storyline has been skipped: how Michael and Walt sailed their boat home. A shame!

On the other hand, here’s what we did find out: the fact that Michael can’t kill himself as he has unfinished business (and all of a sudden it dawns to me why Michael has to be the man in the coffin – why else would Jack commit suicide, other than knowing he’s finally free?), the fact that Walt is back in Manhattan (but, in fact, he is not), the fact that Sayid is making a huge mistake by blowing Michael’s cover (remember Ben saying “remember the last time you thought with your heart instead of with your gun” back in The Economist?), the fact that Karl (and probably Rousseau) are dead, the fact that Widmore is behind it all and how he did it (or is he?), and the fact that Mr Friendly is gay (“Believe me Kate, you’re not my type”).
I personally loved the scene where Michael pins a note to his chest, gears up the car and tries to kill himself. There’s something about the visuals and the audio (another Mama Cass song) that just works. Kudos for whoever thought that out! I would have liked to have seen more of Libby though; this episode felt like they weren’t really using her to her fullest – but you can’t have it all. Personally, I seem to be kind of a Michael fan whereas everyone else around me seems to hate his guts. I think that he’s just about the most tragic character on this show – and through no fault of his own. You could blame Locke for being to gullible towards Anthony Cooper, but you can’t blame Michael anything pre-island. He’s just a poor guy whose wife made his life a living hell, and when he tries to fix her mistakes, he ends up in the crash. I don’t know why, but I always feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for other characters when I see what they are going through in their  flashbacks… but Michael and his demon wife just always manages to make me furious and sad at the same time. He’s one of the only characters not to have gained anything by coming to the island. On the contrary, the thing he has built up has been entirely shattered.

The Questions…

Another piece of the ever-expanding puzzle that is question one. Yes, Michael got off the island. So did Walt. They’re not part of the Oceanic Six group though. We didn’t find out anything about Walt (question 2) apart from the fact that he was in Manhattan. So how did he get back on the island while growing so fast? We get another look at question 6: Ben didn’t want Jack to place the call because he knew it would lead the freighter to the island. And, seeing those pansies use a submachine gun to fire at projectiles for fun… I can’t really blame him. Question 9 is undoubtedly the most fun question. What’s up with Rousseau. Well… she might be dead, for one. What a shame – I really liked her. I hope she’s still alive. As for question 10: I’m starting to get a sneaky suspicion that it’s Michael in that mysterious coffin after all…

In all…
This episode was heavily criticized by some people on the internet. It didn’t deliver, they said. I tend to disagree: it really delivered, but in typical LOST-fashion. It went a step further than we would have thought. We would have figured that we’d see how Michael and Walt got home, but this step got skipped… meaning, in my opinion, that something really did happen on their trip home. The only thing I didn’t like was the end: I thought Sayid revealing Michael to the ship’s captain was a better cliffhanger than unknown people killing Karl (and possibly Rousseau). I was really disappointed when the episode just ended like that. But maybe that just was because I had a six week’s worth wait ahead of me…

Last but not least, there’s some good news on the horizon. We’ll be getting a three-episode finale to season 4 this year! Apparently, there was simply too much info to divide into two fourty minute episodes. Isn’t that wonderful news? The sad thing is that we’ll have to wait another week for the final two finale parts. But that’s not that bad considering what we’ve gained, now ain’t it?
Favourite Quote: Minkowski: What, you going Nicholson on us?

The episode…
Finally! Something I saw coming! I knew from the instance they introduced the flashforwards in LOST that we had not seen the last of the broken line storytelling. And Ji Yeon confirmed my sneaky suspicion: we got a  flashback and a flashforward, and both in one episode. Wonderful! I’m absolutely delighted to see this kind of storytelling. It’s a bit more complicated and it probably confused and infuriated a lot of viewers. But hey, if you can’t handle not being fed what is going on on screen, you shouldn’t be watching this anyway.

So, now we know the identity of the Oceanic Six. I can’t help but feeling a bit disappointed here. This is the list: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun… and Aaron. In my opinion, having Aaron as the last of the Oceanic Six is a bit disappointing: we knew he made it off the island back in Eggtown, but because the writers wanted to keep the suspense going (due to the suspense in this episode) they just couldn’t rub it in our faces. Maybe I’m too stupid for this show too?
In other news, the whole adultery story arc for Sun and Jin has finally come to a close. Thanks, Bernard! Jin and Sun are very touching as a couple, but I am starting to think that Jin’s become a bit too much of a good guy. I mean, he was a demon off-island, but now he’s practically a saint… which, for a strong and confident woman such a Sun, is a bit… stretched. Sun is obviously not without  flaws, but in the end, she got away with it. Am I exaggerating? Or am I right thinking this was all a bit … naive?

So Michael’s the man on the boat. Whoa, what a surprise. I like how they brought Michael back – it was a really nice touch and I didn’t see it coming at the start of season 4, but it’s still a bit of a dodgy execution: Harold Perrineau’s name has been in the cast list since Episode 1. You could see it coming from miles away. But hey, I’ll forgive them – I’m just too curious to see how and why Michael made it back to the island of doctor Moreau… erm, I mean Jack.

The questions…

Question 1 has been answered. We know all of the Oceanic Six. Obviously, there are going to be more people that make it off the island (Desmond wasn’t on the plane, but he’s on the freighter now nonetheless), but we have got the “main list”. Question six (Ben’s motivation) got hinted at again: it has something to do with Widmore. What Widmore wants, we do not yet know. And that’s about it. Slowly, but steadily, we’re getting somewhere. New questions are arising though, so I’ll have to post a new list of questions after reviewing episode eight.

In all…

I really liked this episode. If you watch it a second time, the whole Jin story feels really useless, but just remembering how confused you were the first time around is enough. It was an entirely tragic episode: Jin and Sun are a wonderful couple and I don’t think anyone wants to see them separated. That’s why I’m sure that Jin is still alive! He has to be! Pretty please, Lost Writers?
Favourite Quote: Sun: I’m two months pregnant.
Dan: Oh, you’re… Wow, that’s… Congratulations!

The Episode…

Well, the cat’s out of the bag. Widmore’s the one looking for the island. Last week’s episode, The Constant, already gave us an undeniable hint, but this week just plain out confirmed it – LOST style: with a Red Sox reference. There are a few holes in Ben’s explanations though: I don’t buy his “Virgin Mary Mold” rhetorics one bit. Once again, Ben is telling us two truths and a lie. The second truth (and the truth which should keep me from strangling Locke for being gullible) is obviously the identity of the man on the freighter. We’ll find out next week. Small hint: it’s Michael. (seriously, if you hadn’t figured that out by now, you’re not paying attention).

I like Juliet. She’s a real tragic character, being haunted by her past. What’s up with that Harper woman? I suspect we don’t know half of the entire story – I’m quite sure Harper, at some point in the story, died or disappeared or something. I don’t know, I could be wrong, but this entire episode felt a bit wrong, like the first
flash forward in the season 3 finale. You watch it, you feel something’s wrong, but you can’t quite place it. There’s some important pieces of the puzzle missing. Small, but important pieces nonetheless.

The Questions…

So, right. Anyway. Jack kissed Juliet. Could we give the whole love triangle-quadrangle a rest now? Pretty please? It’s getting more complicated and annoying than my last geometry course. Question seven is really starting to annoy me! In other news, question six got worked on. We already knew why Locke didn’t want Jack to call the freighter. Taller ghost Walt. But why Ben? We know half of the story now: Widmore. Not Penny, but Charles, is looking for the island. We could offer a reasonable explanation: about eternal youth, about healing powers… But I don’t expect that to be the case. I think the answer lies more towards the room behind the book shelf in Ben’s house. Time travel.

I was kind of disappointed in this episode. I’m a big Juliet fan, but this really failed to “wow” me. It’s like they had some leftover “first half of season 3” storyline lying there, and just needed to tie the interesting parts in Juliets life together – but those ties turned out to be pretty dull. All the actors delivered a great performance (especially Daniel with his wonderful quote – see below), but it all seemed a bit too far-fetched. What a shame! But I’m sure this is once again just a little anticipation for next week’s episode… which proves to be quite shocking. We’ll see!

Favourite Quote: Dan: “Juliet… what are you doing here?”

Wellllll. Whoa. Turns out I was right!

The Episode…

Where to begin? The Black Rock? Charles Widmore linked with Alvar Hanso and thus with the Dharma initiative? Finally seeing George Minkowski? Daniel Faraday’s hair anno 1996? The man on the boat helping our Losties? Which Desmond has a wig – the short haired one or the long haired one? …No. It’s only right to start with the reason why this episode of LOST is as good as it will ever get: Desmond and Penny. I shed a tear. Okay, two tears. This was heart-breaking, and maybe the best moment in LOST history. It’s the new “Flashes before your eyes” moment, the moment that just gets to you in a way you would never think possible. The moment that – without anyone dying – moves you. Kudos to both actors for moving all of us. It just shows that the most interesting love story doesn’t belong to… well, anyone in contact with effing Kate.

But this episode is not the best episode ever just for that. There’s so much in it, so much little subtle hints, so much answers and so much questions… so much Lostness that I can never hope to explain it all in this little review. Instead, I’ll just focus on something very important, something’s been aching in my skull ever since I watched the episode: subconscious time travel. So, basically, here’s what it boils down to: time’s set. Unlike Back to the Future, where your past actions influence your future. In LOST, future is determined. So… does that mean that Desmond always subconsciously visited Faraday in 1996? It’d be subconscious (as we’re talking subconscious time travel), so Desmond himself would not remember. Which raises the question: how does Desmond’s subconscious materialize? How does the subconscious become not only material, but also… well, conscious? It seems like 1996-Desmond’s living a dream in which he visits Faraday. When he wakes up, the dream is gone. But if he’s material, and ergo walking the face of the planet – does that mean there’s two Desmonds running out there? This kind of boggles my mind from a metaphysical point of view. I mean – I can clearly see why it’s his subconscious traveling through time. But… what about the basics of existence? Maybe I’m looking too deep into this, but it’s finally something I can grasp: it’s got two parts this time, physics and existential philosophy. I might not get the physics part (which will undoubtedly explain his materializing) but I do get the philosophy part – and philosophy’s not really that keen on doubling your existence. But then again, neither is physics about time travel. Heh.

Oh, and me and Cake Sensei came up with an interesting theory. Remember the Eggtown scene where Faraday was trying to remember cards? What if Faraday’s trying the Elouise experiment on himself? What if Faraday – at that point in time where he’s playing cards – had already seen the cards? It would explain why they were playing cards. It would also explain why Faraday wasn’t happy with two cards out of three. He’s already seen them before. Does that mean Faraday, let’s say anno 2000, sent his subconscious into the future? Let’s make it a bit more complicated. 1996. Desmond visits Faraday and gives him the numbers (which he got from Future Faraday – paradox!). Desmond also mentions being stranded on an island. Desmond leaves, never to be seen again. Faraday starts experimenting. Through let’s say the Dharma Initiative or the Hanso Foundation, Faraday gets in touch which Charles Widmore (the auction scene confirmed this link). Charles Widmore tells him about Penny and Desmond. Tells him Desmond’s making a race around the world. Tells him he’s lost, on an island. Widmore tells him how to get to the island. Faraday then experiments on himself, and ends up in the future… on the island.

It doesn’t make perfect sense, but I’m quite sure I’m onto something. Faraday had seen the cards before, because he had been there before. Faraday started crying when he saw the footage of the crash… because he knew all the people on the plane. He had been there already. So, as far as time travel is concerned, Faraday’s our key. Along with Widmore – something I’ve suspected since he got introduced, and something that’s almost certain for me right now.

The Questions…

Ehm… Nothing on those. Oops!

In all…

This was without a doubt the best episode of Season 4. I was on the edge of my seat the entire time, and up till Minkowski died, I was really scared that Desmond had seen his final episode. I’m not quite sure if it’s the best episode of LOST so far, but it might very well be. This is LOST at its finest, and ranks up there with the revelation that Locke was in a wheelchair, the light flicking on in the hatch when Boone fell, the hatch’s implosion, Flashes before your eyes and Charlie sacrificing himself. It brought me to tears. It was wonderful.

Favourite Quote: DESMOND: I love you, Penny. I’ve always loved you. I’m so sorry. I love you!
PENNY: I love you too.
DESMOND: I don’t know where I am, but-
PENNY: I’ll find you, Des-
DESMOND: I promise-
PENNY: no matter what-
DESMOND: I’ll come back to you-
PENNY: I won’t give up-
BOTH: I promise. I love you.

Well. The week went by, and here we are with another LOST review. I’ll keep this one short, mainly because – the last twist aside – nothing really fundamental seemed to have happened. It’s a resolving of the whole pregnancy theme. Now all that’s left is Sun and we can all live happily ever after!

The Episode…

I’m glad we finally saw the end of the whole fugitive storyline. Kate is without a doubt the character I like least of all losties, and all of her flashbacks were not only boring but very irritating at times as well. In comparison, this flashforward was really, really good. We got a nice little plot twist at the end (which kind of screwed Claire – which is good as I’d really have a hard time deciding whether I like Claire less than Kate so it’s good that they decided for me), we got some more Evil Beardless Jack and a little info: eight survived the meta-crash, but two of them died. I smell a double homicide coming up, do you?

Every episode confirms my suspicions: Jack and Locke have both gone off their rocker. For Locke, this is very obvious because we don’t know his higher goals (which are perfectly understandable I am certain). For Jack, it’s more implicit. He has become unbelievably violent, but his ”darkest hour” only shows up in his flashforwards. I like what they’re doing to the two protagonists, it’s just a shame that people seem to think Jack is right and Locke is wrong, because it’s just not that simple. I’m quite curious to see where they’ll take it. Jack will return to the light, but will Locke? I can’t wait to find out!

I have the impression they make the Kate episodes especially for the housewives amongst the viewers. We got a tiny pile of mystery (eight survivers, Aaron, Faraday not remembering the cards, the disappearing of the helicopter, 2.3 million), but most of all, we were given a lot of Sawyer and Kate, Kate and Sawyer – filled with references to good ol’ Jacko. And, frankly, it’s really starting to grow a bit old. In the little world in my head Kate is meant to end up with Sawyer and Jack is meant to end up with Juliet. The other way around just wouldn’t work. Because we all remember that Kate can’t do taco night! It’s not that hard!

The Questions…

More mystery surrounding question the first. Just when we started to find out who got off the island, we know there’s two who supposedly explicitly did not. So… who got off the island just got a bit more complicated. The fourth question (”I’m sick of lying”) also was hinted at again. There’s a conspiracy, and Jack’s the enforcing lap dog. Most importantly: Question 3 has been solved! I didn’t see it coming, but I guess Kate didn’t have to return to Sawyer, a marshall or her exploding zombie father. She had to return to little baby Aaron. The fact that she is not Aaron’s mother aside, I find that very adorable. Question 7, however… I don’t want to go into that.

In all…

I liked this episode. But I’ll like it more when it’s out on DVD, because on it’s own, it was kind of uninteresting. Kind of like ”Stranger in a Strange Land” but with good flashes this time. It’s a nice
episode if you have access to the next one. It relieves your tension for a bit, and you can pay a lit less attention while it’s on. Maybe grab yourself a little bit of grub on the way. Next week’s episode is all about Desmond – so my hunch is right: this less Lostish episode is just a little preparation for something interesting…
Favourite Quote: ”She’s the very definition of a flight risk!”

Time flies by fast – especially if you have seen The Economist, the newest LOST episode. How was it? Read on to find out!

The Episode…

Sayid episodes always make me a bit twitchy. Maybe it’s because I find Naveen Andrews a bit of a disturbing actor (his obvious qualities aside). Maybe because they’re usually very boring (the cat flashback was cute, but insanely farfetched). Maybe because the Iraqi people don’t speak … Iraqi to one another, but English with a funny accent (which bugs me to a great extent, mostly because Jin and Sun never mimick English – English is English and Korean is Korean, what you hear is what you get). This episode, however, was different. And no, that is not just because the flashforward story takes place in Berlin.

Sayid’s apparently been transformed into Ben’s lap dog. I’m really glad they’re keeping up Ben as the evil mastermind. That’s taking the hard route – the easy route would have been to have him rethink his actions and change his ways. That’s not how Ben is though – in fact, he seems even more evil in season four than he did in season three. I love the little guy (even though he should lose the ridiculous glasses he was wearing in this episode’s final scene). I kind of figured Sayid was someone’s dog, but I thought it’d be Abaddon. Do I see two sides: Abaddon versus Linus?

One of the major revelations, one we had seen coming but was finally confirmed, was the one about time. Finally! Dan (who really seemed insane at a certain point – I’m convinced he’s an autist after this ep) requested a beacon, and when he got is, the clock inside was 31 minutes early. So, if I’m correct (and I’m usually not, because I suck at this reverse kind of logic), time’s passing slower on Monster Island. Could time travel be involved? Could this be why Ben had old pound notes in his drawer – notes that went out of circulation in 2001?

So, there go Sayid and Desmond. I’m surprised to see Desmond on that helicopter. I wonder what’s going to happen there: will he be one of the six? I always figured he wouldn’t be, but I’m open to surprises! The

The Questions…

Well, we now know four people that are part of the Oceanic Six. Hurley, Kate, Jack and now Sayid. I was surprised to see Sayid as one of them – I never thought him to be very interesting (although the last minutes of this episode made me change my mind). Another question that got hinted at – again – was the one about Jacob. While we don’t know who or what he/she/it is, we do know the cabin was gone. Did Locke get abandoned? Also, the Jack-Sawyer-Kate triangle got a bit of a punch: Kate’s starting to doubt whether Sawyer was the right choice. Sawyer wants to play house, Kate’s not interested. Although, she did “stay behind” in the end. But, LOST-style, I doubt that that’ll be the last word we hear about it. Maybe next week?

In all…

Not my favourite season 4 episode. I think it’s my favourite Sayid episode though. Enter 77 had a nice on-island story, but the flashback was dodgy. This one was great all around. Oh, and did I mention it had Berlin?

Favourite Quote: Hurley: “Locke said you were here to kill us. So are ya?”
Miles: “…Not yet.”

Did the week go that fast? It seemed like only yesterday when we saw “The beginning of the End”, the first episode of season 4. And now, after only having watched it again two more times, there’s a new episode already?! Slight hints of sarcasm aside, here’s what I thought about Episode 2 of Season 4, “Confirmed Dead”.

The Episode…

The story has come to a momentary standstill. This is kind of obvious, seeing how there’s not one, two or three, but four new people to be introduced. The victims are Daniel Faraday, Miles Strohm, Charlotte Lewis and Frank Lapidus. With the exception of Charlotte (who will, I think, be vital to the plot development later on) they’re wonderfully interesting. Daniel is a physicist, a “head case” – I think he has the form of Asperger’s (Autism) which causes you to be hyper intelligent but equally antisocial. Miles Strohm is what appears to be a twitchy medium with a foul mouth, very agitated and kind of a crook, but not really a crook. Charlotte Lewis is a postgraduate in archeology, and found aDharma Polar Bear (©1970 Dharma) in Tunesia. Friggin’ Tunesia! She also has a huge forehead. Last on the list is Frank Lapidus – the original pilot of Flight 815 who had to drop out due to… well, due to what actually? He has crazy eyes and a lovely little accent.

Why are they there? They’re there to rescue the losties, but 40 minutes later, we knew that was not the case. On the one hand, there’s Naomi’s picture of Desmond and Penny – so at first we thought it was Widmore. Then, it wasn’t Penny’s boat, so we were kind of in the blue. Then, we saw Naomi with Mr. Abbadon (“There were no survivers”). Ten minutes later, we know why they’re here: Benjamin Linus. Wonderful – I just knew he had more backstory to be uncovered. The question is: why are they on the island? Obviously, the four all had different ideas about it: be it physics, the dead, Dharma and Flight 815. Naomi, who apparently had the picture of Desmond and Penny and contacts with Abbadon, is I think the only one who can answer the question. That, and perhaps Benjamin Linus – the man with the man on their boat. My money’s on Charlotte!

The Questions…

Slow week for the questions. There’s no answer whatsoever. Only more questions: there are now four extra people to be in the coffn at the end of season 3. Poop.

In all…

The episode felt a bit slow, but really a lot happened. I can’t wait for next week’s episode, where they will finally incorporate the four new guys into the actualy storyline a bit more. I liked the first episode better, though – it showed the current evolution in a less disturbing way than this week’s episode. Current evolution? Well… LOST is starting scare me a bit. Because, in a way, the Losties have become the Others. Locke has a hostage. Sayid shot at Miles and Dan. Locke kills Naomi. Jack tries to kill Locke. They’re slowly becoming the “bad guys” and that’s something I’m finding honestly scary. Is it finally Lord of the Flies time on LOST?

On a lighter note: for those who hadn’t read yet: the strike’s over. Five more LOST episodes are coming!

Favourite Quote: Sayid: “So what do you do, Miles?”
Miles: “I collect soil samples.”

Finally, the day has come. It’s odd, but for me, it felt a bit like I was cheating: not seeing any LOST for nearly 8 months had truely led me to believe – in a shrew, psychological post-traumatic stress disorder kind of way – that “Through the Looking Glass”, the wonderful Season 3 finale, was the end of the series. And, in many ways, it could have been. The first chapter of the series was complete, the only thing that was left now… was The Beginning of the End. On to the review, which will as always be covered with spoilers.

The Episode…
Whoa. Who could honestly not be completely psyched after this episode? We got more flashforwards, we got an exciting new plot development, we got just about everything we wanted from a new LOST episode. I am honestly thrilled to see where this goes. We got what we have been waiting for for eight months: some new insight in the whole flashforward business. A message of mystery: apparently, Hurley was one of the “Oceanic Six”. Six people made it off the island, then. Who else, other than Kate, Jack and Hurley?

Another message of mystery, brought by the last person I’d expect to ever see again: Charlie. “They need you, Hurley”. What has happened prior to Hurley’s return to civilization? Why is Jack visiting Hurley? “Are you going to tell?” …Something’s rotten in those flashforwards, something stinks, and I can’t wait to find out what.

Meanwhile, on the island, we finally got the plot twist I had been waiting for for ages: a group break-up between Locke and Jack. And, honestly, I might be a Locke fan, but I have no clue who I would follow. Jack seems to have started his descent into darkness (a descent which will not stop until he is ready to jump off the flashforward bridge, I think), he keeps on talking about killing people (Ben and Locke, to be precise) and he twitches. A lot. He doesn’t seem to be a hero anymore, he’s slowly turning into a dictator. Locke, on the other hand, whose faith I have always admired, seems to have really gone of his rocker, jumped the shark, gone absolutely stinking mad. Neither of them seems to be the valid option. I’d be torn between Hurley (who I’d follow until the end of the world, I think) or Desmond (who is also a trustworthy person) – because they went seperate ways. Why did Desmond go with Jack? Doesn’t he believe Charlie?

Freaky things happened in this episode – I didn’t really expect this. I expected a very down-to-earth showing of the new plot elements, and that would be it. In that way, I have learned a lot – but also gained dozens of questions. Why did Charlie appear to Hurley? Why was he “dead, but also here”? Who is the freaky black guy who goes by the name of Matthew Abaddon? He’s a guest star, so he should be back for more episodes. Scary, scary person . I mean, look at those eyes! Furthermore, what’s up with Hurley’s visit to Jacob’s cabin? Or: Jacob’s visit to Hurley? We noticed the ash in “The Man Behind the Curtain” and all supposed Jacob was Ben’s prisoner, but this appears to be not exactly true, as Jacob’s cabin apparently fl oats around the island constantly. Maybe he can move the cabin but not himself? Also: there were two people in this cabin. And one of them… was Jack’s father. What?!

The Questions…

You might remember me creating a prediction post for LOST’s season 4. Well… not much has happened. We saw Jacob (question 5)… or something that resembles Jacob. Or whatever. Jacob might be the “it” that wants the Oceanic 6 to return. It might have summoned Charlie. We also heard something about Rousseau (question 9) in the form of “You’re not her father”. But… that doesn’t answer anything. A poor start for my ten questions everyone wanted to know the answer to!

In all…
In all, this episode had great pace: loads of questions, great plot development, nice dialogue… I have got a feeling that season 4 will be even better than season 3 – and I really hope I’m right. LOST could have a great influence on serialized television drama in terms of setting an end date to your story and planning ahead in a way that Lord of the Rings had that influence on serialized movies. Let’s see how it develops.

“I don’t think we did the right thing, Jack. I think it wants us to come back.”