4.9: The Shape of Things to Come

Whoa! That was my reaction to this episode, very mind blowing. I'm not going to do a "recap" really since they can be rather lengthy (not to mention boring at times), so I'm just going to point out the events I thought were most interesting and my reactions, so I'd love to hear yours!

Kate being Ms. Flirtypants w/ Jack again doesn't surprise me, but was does is Jack's inability to diagnose his own health problem, which according to the next eppy's trailer, is appendicitis. There's some definite weirdness with them finding the freighter's doctor w/ his throat cut but back on the boat they claim "the doctor is fine", huh? We finally see what they're capable of though, bombing Claire's, shooting random people, but I never ever thought they'd actually kill Alex. I had the same reaction as Ben, jaw dropped, wide eyed, complete shock. That poor girl! Turns out we were all wrong thinking Ben planned the murder of Carl and Danielle, it really was the crazy freighter people, and they are just as dangerous as Ben claimed they were. Oh, and I give some major hero props to Sawyer, who rescued Claire and stood up for Hurley and his curly head, bravo!

Getting to the flash forwards, we don't see how Ben ends up in the middle of the Sahara desert, but it sure looked to me a lot like when Des has his time traveling spells. He seemed to just appear out of no where w/ an arm injury and waring a Darma jacket, but he's definitely resourceful and seems to be able to get around no matter where in the world he is. We finally get the picture of how Sayid comes to work w/ Ben, wonder why the Widmore crew decided to murder his wife though. The thought just occurred to me that maybe Ben set all that up, just to get Sayid to be his assassin, what do you think? The episode ends with Ben confronting Widmore and declaring he's going to murder his daughter the way Widmore murdered his...bad news for Des and Penny. :(

So what did we learn in this eppy?
- Ben knows how to control and call the smoke monster
- The freighter people never intended to rescue the 815 survivors and are cold hearted murderers

What else gang?

Yay and yawn

Lost returns this Thurs. Apr. 24 (yay!) at a new time, 10/9 central (ugg). I don't know about y'all, but frankly that keeps me up past my bedtime, so probably watch the episode on Fri. evening. Please visit after that for a recap and discussion!

Season 5 rewind

I'm posting these observations on behalf of our loyal blogger Robetron. Some very interesting points to muse over in our Lost hiatus! -SRG
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I just went back to watch this seasons first and second episodes. I noticed some things that I didn't catch before.

A. There may be a problem with the "different reality/ nightmare" scenario. In episode 1, we are shown on a TV screen that someone was in a high-speed chase in an old orange camaro (which, we eventually find out is Hurley because this is his flash-forward). What we only get a brief glimpse of is that the watcher of that TV is Jack, it is early in the morning, and Jack is making himself a Screwdriver with orange juice and Absolute Vodka. He begins to nurse the drink before noticing Hurley's antics on TV. This would damage the view that Jack was "just fine" in Hurley's flash-forward, as opposed to his own flash-forward where he was a raging drunk. I think Hurley's flash-forward was further back in time than Jack's, and that Jack was only in the process of his alcohol-induced problems.

Later, when Jack pays Hurley a visit in the mental institution, they discuss whether or not Hurley would "tell." I think they made it off the Island, but left everyone else alive on the Island and swore never to reveal it. This also is when the idea of "going back" was introduced to Jack. Hurley was way ahead of him, and suggested it. I don't know why, but it does seem to be the moment when Jack started to think about it, which of course, made him drink more, bringing him to the point of near lunacy and suicide.

B. Later, in Hurley's flash-forward, a thin black man claiming to be a lawyer for Oceanic Airlines paid Hurley a visit. We do not discover much about him, but we get the sense that he is lying throughout the interview, until he reveals himself to believe that the rest of the Losties are still alive on the island, and Hurley freaks out about it. Then he disappears. Weird and mysterious, but not enough information for us to really think about it.

Come forward into episode two where we get to know how the crew on the helicopter came to be a part of their "expedition." Naomi is protesting the selection of an untrained crew, and the guy who is convincing her is none other than --

--the guy who so disturbed Hurley in the mental hospital. He was working for (as we know now) the man who is funding the ship and the craziness of trying to capture Ben Linus as well as locate the island: Mr. Widmore. now there is an unexpected twist. Mr Widmore was having his lacky interrogate Hurley in the future to see if the other Losties were still alive. That means that somehow, the "Oceanic 6" got back to the real world without letting anyone on that ship know anything about the other Losties, or the location of the Island. Maybe they forcably took Mr Widmore's ship away from the captain? I dunno, but this is very revealing!

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I will continue to watch the new season's episodes and make more observations if there are things I missed the first go-round.

-R.

And the verdict is...

Lost makes a pretty good showing in Empire's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, coming in at #5. Sadly all of us who are Alias fans can agree with the comment that "Only time will tell whether it's as clever as it seems," but it's nice to see the show so highly placed.