ABC has announced that Lost Season 5 will premiere on Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 8/7c. Hope to see you all here then for all the fun discussion and speculation!**UPDATE** we've started chatting about the premiere in this thread so beware of spoilers in the comments if you haven't seen it yet!
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We are stoked! We're going to start re-watching season 3 this week in anticipation of 4 coming out on DVD in anticipation of 5 starting!! :)
Yeah, I'm jazzed about it too. I might not start back at season one, but I will have to find time to re-watch 3 and 4 soon. The whole, "Let's move the island," thing is an intriguing new element, and I'd like to know how the saved Losties will find their way back, and I wonder how well they will be received by the ones they left behind. There are just so many great plot lines! Claire is hanging out with her dead, estranged father, Jack's dad... John Locke being the dead guy in the coffin back in the world... Kate raising Claire's boy as her own... etc., etc.
Man, I had forgotten how much I looked forward to the show. Woo hoo!
Yay glad to see some on y'all are still checking in on this blog! Looking forward to the premiere! :)
Only a few days more! eeep!
Man, I wish I had Tivo!
hehe I know, exciting! My old-school VCR is set, though I'm hoping to be home to watch it when it airs...
Caution: some spoilers!
It may be just me, but it has a much more "ALIAS" feel to it this season. From me, that is a huge compliment.
Yeah, those two hours were great, except they went by so fast. I wanted more, more, more.
Unfortunately, I had four more episodes to watch from last season to get fully up-to-date. I had totally forgotten about Ben showing up to talk to a drugged up Jack. I don't recall what set Sayid against Ben, when last I saw, he was assassinating people associated with Widmore. (Don't remind me. I'll watch and remember before next Wednesday.)
I had forgotten that Sayid had broken Hurley out of the mental hospital. I was caught off guard by the revelation that what Sun had "in common" with Widmore was that they both wanted to kill Ben. I guess it sort-a makes sense, but I took the comment as a reference to relatively unlimited resources (since she obtained control of her father's business) - like, a thinly veiled threat.
I was not, on the other hand, surprised to see a return of the feisty old woman from the jewelry store who guided... oh, what's his name? ...the original button-pusher... during his memory re-visitation. The actress has too big a name in Hollywood to take a one-time part.
Theory: I think she is probably the mother of Dan, whom he sent ole-whats-his-name to find by creating the new memory (which was a very cool idea by the writers, by the way).
We all knew (thanks to the previews) that they all had to get back to the island. How interesting that Benry only has 70 hours in which to get them together and convince them to trust him. Talk about insurmountable odds!
I just watched the episode earlier today where Alex was shot, and Ben came back to the group covered in dirt. I suspect we may see her again, but it is nice to see that the horror of it is still affecting Ben, rather than shrugging it off as a past-plot line. That was such a huge moment, as he sat at the window, walkie in-hand, and absolute disbelieving, nerve shaking, stun on his face.
The one thing I can foresee: All of them finally agreeing to go back to the island after a great deal of scrambling, but they forget about JiYeon. Conceived on the Island, she was still one of the group that got away... a stow-away among the "Oceanic 6" (making it 7).
I have to admit, the whole "what's going on" question back on the island is getting tiresome, even though it is about new events. The time-traveling events are very interesting, but people screaming the question a dozen times until the one who knows something finally relents from a purposeless withholding of information... that's irksome. People do not naturally do that. In fact, people volunteer information a little too much in the real world.
I'll wait to see what else you Others might have to say about the premier before saying much more. In keeping with the tradition of the show, I'll hold my peace when a great deal more could, and maybe should be said.
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-R.
Yeah I watched the one-hour recap too, so a total of 3 hours of Lost in one night, whew! This may just be wishful thinking but when they were doing a character review of Sun the commentator specifically said that she "thinks" Jin was killed or something to that effect that makes me wonder if he really is dead...
It was an interesting change for the flashes to go between present day and "Three years earlier." I got a little bored w/ the Hurley/drugged-Sayid storyline toward the end, though I do wonder how Ben found out that Hurley was at his parents' place.
I also remembered the white-haired lady as the one that Desmond had contact w/ in the past and that she was some sort of fortune teller? Do you remember what she told him?? And what about the butcher chick, was it Jill? She's new, though seems very involved and in-the-know about Ben's plot to get back to the island...
My boyfriend pretty much said the same thing as you Robby about the annoyance of characters withholding info. for the sheer purpose of drama until the very last minute when they spill the beans, a little too soap opera-ish IMO.
I think I'm still digesting everything that happened, it seems Charlotte is suffering from the same time-travel-brain-squishing problem Des had, I don't remember how he overcame that, anyone else? I remember it was a little too easy, like he just had to see something from the past or present or...
Good call about Sun's daughter, I forgot she technically was a stow-away survivor. I wonder who's going after Kate and Aaron, I'm guessing they want him because he's the only baby born successfully on the island?
Very interested to hear other's thoughts...
Desmond encountered the gray-haired lady while trying to purchase an engagement ring for Penny. She was the proprietor of the jewelery store and refused to sell it to him. Then she went for a walk with him, explaining that the universe tends to be self-correcting.
He was traveling mentally through time, and stopped the progression to an aneurysm by getting in contact with his "Constant" - in other words, the person about whom he cared about greatly (to remember in both times), and who existed in both times. It acted as a stabilizer for his consciousness to attach to the real "present."
It was really quite complicated, and an interestingly thoughtful way to resolve a time-travel problem.
I don't know what to think about Jill, yet. I do not recognize her, so I don't think she ever showed up before last night. As much screen time as they gave her for that relatively innocuous conversation with Ben, we can be certain she will play a greater part in the story.
I too caught that statement that Sun "thinks" Jin is dead. I liked Jin, so I'm glad for the hint that he will be back.
Yesss thanks for the refresher on who that lady was. Why wouldn't Dan tell Charlotte about needing to have a Constant if it could save her? Maybe that will come up in the next episode, from the looks of the preview she doesn't look so hot...
I'm pretty sure we've never seen Jill before, and it does seem like she could be a new character this season, though it doesn't seem like there's much love lost between her and Ben from how she talked to him.
Just a random musing of mine... Weird how Ben's new mission seems to get all of the survivors BACK to the island when the Others' initial reaction to them was to get them OFF of their island...
I don't mean to be argumentative, but I don't think that was their initial reaction. They all seem to have an understanding that, if people make it to the island, they were meant to be there... or something like that.
Anyway, the only reason they were able to leave the island is because the Others gave permission to leave... which would lead one to believe that it was not something easily obtained. Had the others wanted them all off the island, they could have just put them all on the boat Michael and Walt took back to the mainland.
It is interesting that Ben is becoming so familiar with the Oceanic six. I just watched the last two episodes from last season, and I never before noticed how often they referenced Locke's alias that he was using to visit the six, "Jeremy Bentham." Apparently, John had been visiting them, pleading for them to return to the island before ending up in the coffin. It looks like he may make a come-back, according to the previews... though, I have been avoiding the previews, so I might be mistaken.
Like you and me, Dan is probably unsure of why Charlotte started a nose bleed. Nose bleeds are not unusually events, and Dan has never experienced bodily time travel to know for certain.
As I mentioned, I watched the last two episodes of last season, and it reminded me that Charlotte decided to stay behind on the Island when they were ferrying them to the freighter on the little zephyr boat. She said she was staying on the island because she was still looking for the place where she had been born.
Stuff like that is never said on LOST for no reason. I don't know it, but is it possible that Charlotte was a child of someone who escaped from the Island in some other series of events? How that connects to her nose bleed, I just cannot say, but it surely seems relevant.
You all have already written so much, but I have one theory to add.
I think that Ben is the one "coming after" Kate and Aaron. His thinking is that by scaring her into thinking someone is investigating her and Aaron's connection - she will be easier to convince into coming back to the island.
There was also something in the conversation with Jill and Ben that makes me think that the body of John Locke isn't really him - or he isn't really dead in other words... I can't remember why - but I said outloud at that point in the show "he's not dead".
I also think Jin isn't dead. We never really see what happens to the freighter after the explosion. It is feasible that he (and others) may have survived.
I personally am loving the time-travel aspect of this season. Last season - the Desmond "Constant" episode was by far and away my favorite of the whole series. (thus far).
Ooo interesting theory Tammy, it never occurred to me Ben could be trying to Scare Kate into going back to the island. I was thinking she would be the hardest to convince, but it looks like Hurley may be, even though he wants to go back, because he doesn't trust Ben (smart guy).
I'm a little disturbed by the coldness of Sun, she seems to have hardened quite a bit since the "death" of Jin. Her confrontation of Kate's guilt was pretty harsh, even though she made it seem like she admired Kate's strength and credited her with saving everyone else's life. Was kind of cool that she held her own when confronted by Penny's dad (blanking on his name).
I also forgot it was revealed last season that Charlotte was born on the island, thanks for the reminder!
Tammy, that was my first thought when the lawyers refused to tell Kate who their "client" was. Ben was manipulating her, appealing to her natural instinct to "run away." It will come out just as she and the group are well on their way back to the island. I'm pretty confident in this one.
SRG, (BTW - welcome to the Firefly-watching joy). I'm not at all certain that Charlotte was in fact born on the island, but "looking for the place" where she was born was the reason she gave for staying on the island. One never really knows things until the characters come right out and say something plainly.
I am totally kicking myself. I have been so conditioned to think "there's nothing on TV on Wednesdays" that I casually thought I'd give "Lie to Me" a watch. About 3/4 through the hour, I remembered LOST was on ABC. Rats!
I'll have to wait to catch it online in the next few days.
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