Keep your eye out...

For Lost season 4 promos on the big screen. According to buddytv.com, new footage from the upcoming season will be shown in movie theaters nationwide beginning in December. Season 4 is supposed to start airing in Feb. 2008, let's keep our fingers crossed the writers' strike will be over by then. If anyone happens to catch one of the promos, let us know what you think!

The Orchid

Has anyone else seen the Dharma orientation video for station 6, The Orchid, on ABC's site? It's pretty crazy, I don't really know what to make of it. Anyone able to read the little subliminal message that flashes about halfway through? Can you see who's riding the bike??

3.22 Through The Looking Glass

JJ just loves his Alice in Wonderland references doesn’t he? Well let’s dive in, this was a whopper of a finale. Get comfy, it’s a long one. :)

The flashbacks throughout the whole 2 hours show a different Jack than we’ve ever seen. For one, he’s bearded (not a fan personally), we see him doing a lot of drinking, taking prescription drugs, driving when he shouldn’t be and stumbling around. He sees an obituary in the newspaper that upsets him to the point of almost jumping off a bridge, but he’s stopped when a huge car accident occurs behind him and his doctor instincts kick in. He ends up saving a mom and her little boy from the burning wreckage, but does not think of himself as the hero the news and public considers him to be. This whole time we’re never let in on who the obituary was for and what’s pushed him to this brink of depression.

Back on the island our survivors prepare to depart from their camp and set their plan in motion of tricking the Others getting blown to bits. Sayid, Jin and Bernard stay behind as the shooters, and Sayid makes Jack promise to keep moving toward the cell tower no matter what happens. Down in the Looking Glass hatch, Charlie’s beaten for information and reveals that he found out about the underwater hatch from Juliette. The women on duty warn Ben of Juliette’s betrayal, but it’s too late to tell their beach attackers they’re being set up. Two of the three tents are blown up as planned, but Jin couldn’t get a clean shot at the third pile of dynamite and all three end up captured by the surviving Others. Everyone with Jack knows something went wrong when they don’t see the third explosion, so Sawyer and Juliette head back to the beach to see what went wrong (but not before Juliette gives Jack a lingering kiss in front of Kate). You can tell it bothers her, and later when Jack defends Sawyer’s refusal of letting Kate go back to the beach, he admits the only reason for is defense is because he loves her. They keep hiking, Roussoe tells Jack they’re close to the tower, but right after that they’re intercepted by Ben and Alex.

In the mean time we find out, in the most bizarre scene of the episode, that Locke isn’t dead. Yup he’s shot in the ditch, but his eyes open and he finds he’s paralyzed once more. He’s about to shoot himself when (a much older) Walt appears to tell him to get up because he has work to do (anyone else see the Biblical references in that?) Desmond swims down to the LG after coming under fire from eyepatch dude, who also scuba dives down to them. Eyepatch gets orders from Ben to kill everyone down there to prevent the jamming signal from getting turned off, so he kills one of the women, shoots the other in the back, then gets a surprise dart in the chest from a hiding Desmond. Before she dies Charlie convinces the woman of Ben’s betrayal and in her dying breath she tells him how to shut down the jamming signal.

Ben pulls Jack aside and tries to convince him that Naomi isn’t with Penny’s rescue boat as she claims, calling their boat will kill everyone on the island and to bring him her radio. When Jack refuses Ben tricks him into thinking the beach captures were killed from that decision. Jack beats Ben to a pulp, doesn’t tell the group about the “killings” but brings a tied up and bloody Ben along. At the same time Ben admits to Alex that Roussoe is her mother. Back on the beach Hurley saves the day by literally driving over one of the Others w/ the VW van, allowing Sawyer and Juliette to take control of the situation. (When Sayid broke his captures’ neck w/ his feet I seriously said holy sh*t! outloud, that’s hardcore!) Through the walkies the hiking group hears their friends are safe, everyone except Charlie and Desmond. Charlie successfully shuts down the jamming signal, and is instantly connected to a broadcast from Penny. He tells her Desmond is alive and so is Naomi, but she has no idea who Naomi is. Before Desmond can talk to her, Eyepatch appears out the porthole with a grenade (that guy never dies!!). Charlie blocks off the door, but the explosion blows the window and quickly floods the room. He lets Desmond know it’s “not Penny’s boat” they’re trying to call, and sadly Desmond’s vision comes true of Charlie drowning (I’m still in denial about him dying).

Naomi sees her phone connection is working, and just as she’s calling her boat she gets a knife in the back from Locke. He also warns Jack not to make the call, but the phone connects and it looks like rescue is on their way. Once again we see bearded Jack, at home sitting on the floor surrounded by maps. He makes a mystery phone call to meet someone by the airport. Suspense builds as to who he’s meeting, to my shock we see Kate get out of the car. The sickening truth sinks in that we haven’t been seeing flashbacks, but flashforwards. Jack informs her of the obituary, I can only guess it was one of the survivors who died but we never know who. Jack crazily rants at Kate that they need to go back to the island, they were never meant to get off, she quietly says “yes we were” and leaves him.

So this is the depressing future that awaits our Losties if they get off the island. Obviously Kate and Jack don’t get together, he becomes a drunken bum who flies on a weekly basis hoping his plane will crash again on the island. What happens to make Jack so sick with longing for the life they had on the island? Who is Naomi with, and is Ben right that everyone will die if they come? Can this glimpse of the dismal future somehow be changed?

The end is near...

When Lost returned to the airwaves earlier this year, it seemed there wasn't much interest in the weekly recaps. There have, however, been a few recent requests to bring back our fun recap discussions, so I wanted to let you all know that a recap for the season 3 finale will be posted. It might not happen until later this week, but please be sure to come back and join in on the finale fun and season 4 predictions!
-SRG

Par Avion

This episode is why we watch Lost my friends! We haven't had a lot of traffic on this blog lately and I actually wasn't going to do a recap this week, but I just had to since it was so good! In Claire's backstory we get a look back on her teenage days as a black haired eyeliner-wearing punk. We get another connection involving Jack's dad, but it's extremely unexpected. Get this: Jack's dad is Claire's long lost dad! That's right, Jack and Claire are half-siblings as a result of a fling, but the chances of them ever realizing this are slim since Claire doesn't even know her dad's name. Sadly her dad's identity only came out after a tragic car accident that left Claire's mom comatose and living off machines. Jack's dad tried to convince her that keeping her mom alive that way wasn't really living, but we see Claire visit her mom in the hospital years later right before the Oceanic flight 815 trip, so we know at least as of then her mom was still "alive."

Another interesting part of this episode was Jack's rescue team finding the Others' barracks and getting past the deadly security gate. To test whether the eye-patch guy is lying about the gate not working, John grabs and throws him between the huge sensors, which causes some sort of sonic blast that kills him by a cerebral hemorrhage (coulda done w/o the squirting blood from his ears, ick). The group manages to form a tree bridge over the sensors and come up on the actual barracks. Kate sees Jack running toward them and wants to shout out but is stopped by Sayid. Jack keeps running, but then we see he's actually playing football w/ one of the Others and seems to be enjoying himself. The look of betrayal on Kate's face is priceless when she realizes this.

Next week we FINALLY get to see the John backstory we've been waiting for and find out why he was in a wheelchair, can't wait!

Enter 77

I apologize folks, I don't have the time to write a proper snynopsis of this episode, which for me was quite enjoyable, but I'd still love to hear your comments. Here's a short overview of what we learned:

- Sayid is a chef, who knew? (man it was good to see him and John again)
- The "hostiles" (aka Others) were never part of the Dharma Initiative and were on the island way before Dharma. This makes sense since Ben said he'd been on the island his whole life and he has to be near 40.
- The Others are hiding some kind of huge secret that they're willing to die before telling, which was evident from the lady instructing eye-patch-dude to kill her. It was kinda funny to see Kate clock her a good one before that happened though hehe
- The Dharma people knew about the "hostiles" and therefore built in self destruct explosives into their stations. My question is, why are there still planes flying by dropping off Dharma food if they know their stations were attacked?

Tricia Tanaka Is Dead

As one of my friends who is a fellow Lost fan put it, this was a filler episode. Really the only important event happened at the very end. There's not much to reflect on with Hurley's continued backstory, though it was kind of funny to see Cheech as his father. We found out his dad left him around the age of 10, introduced him to forbidden candybars (bastard) and only returned after Hurley won the lottery. Vincent led Hugo to finding a flipped over Dharmamobile which he somehow knew would give him hope if he could get it running. Sawyer, who had his share of humorous quips throughout the eppy, Jin, Charlie and Hurley all bonded after pushing the van down a hill toward rocks and it miraculously starting up at the last possible moment. Meanwhile Kate is determined to rescue Jack and goes off on her own only to be followed by Sayid and John. They catch up to her right as she enters Danielle's dwelling, who is stunned when Kate tells her a 16-year old girl named Alex helped her escape the Others. Next week it looks like we get to see who the dude w/ the eye patch is, and John evidently does something crazy (wouldn't be the first time). That's about it, short and sweet. :)

Stranger in a Strange Land

Ok so I ended up watching the episode last night after all. We learned the source of Jack's tattoos and the weird form of a judicial system the Others have, but not a whole lot else. Here's a summary:

- Jack had a relationship while on vacation with a woman who claimed to be some sort of tattoo-fortune teller. For some reason tattooing Jack was against "her people," so after he made her mark him as "he walks amongst us though is not one of us," he was basically kicked out of the country.

- Kate feels guilty about sleeping with Sawyer, he thinks she only did it because she thought he was going to die, drama/tension ensues...

- Everyone the Others have kidnapped (to have a "better" life as Carl says...wonder if that comes from the brainwashing) is healthy and happy. We see them staring at Jack in his cage like he's a zoo animal. One of the flight stewardesses is there and says they came to "watch"...watch what?? The kids are there too, all dressed well and weirded out by Jack yelling at them to leave. I'm hoping they explain what they've been doing all this time someday...

- The Others' law system follows the "eye for an eye" mentality. Juliette helped Kate and Sawyer escape by killing Danny, so she goes on trial where the end result would be her execution. It's obvious Jack cares about her because he agrees to be Ben's beck-and-call doctor in order to save her life. The show ends (with honestly quite a cheesy slow-mo montage) of Kate and Sawyer making their way back to camp and Jack and Juliette boating their way to where the Others live. I wonder if we'll get to see that next week...thoughts??

Not In Portland and Flashes Before Your Eyes

Hi folks,
Sorry for the lack of posts recently, it seems GS and I have been very busy and haven't been able to provide recaps since Lost returned. I'm very interested to hear other people's thoughts though, so here's a basic rundown of my questions/important points from last two eppies:

NIP
- So this private research facility really wants Juliette, sounds like it's Dharma, but did they really kill her ex-hubby so she would work for them?
- Why did she imply that she was also a prisoner of the island and not allowed to leave unless Ben said she could?
- Why was she trying to impregnate her sister when it appeared she was suffering from cancer?
- Why was Carl being brainwashed and who else on the island has been in the past?

FBYE
- Wow, trippy episode, is Desmond really traveling back in time?
- What's with the creepy jewelry store lady and how does she know everything?
- Is Charlie doomed?

Alright, let's hear it, what are your thoughts??

It's Baaaaack!!!

That's right folks, our long hiatus is finally about to end. Lost returns tomorrow with "Not in Portland" at a NEW TIME, 10/9pm Est/Cen and so will our awesome blog. Looking forward to reading everyone's thoughts and theories!