5.07: The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

Well this is an interesting twist...so is Widmore actually a "good" guy??

It took me a bit to remember who the woman was questioning Locke on the beach, she was the cop who had Sayid in custody on the plane. So now we know that the 316 plane did in fact crash (because there are wounded survivors) and the Losties actually disappeared off of the jet when the white light occurred. Interesting that Ben is among the injured survivors and did not disappear with them...I guess that the Island only took peacefully the ones it really wanted. Like many of you guessed it would, the Island brought John back to life. It seems he is definitely meant to be there.

In the flashbacks we see Locke rescued by Widmore, who's now being portrayed much more friendly and pleasant than in the past. When Locke can't decide if he should trust him, Charles puts it plainly that he's never tried to kill John, something he can't say about Ben. Locke's interaction w/ Walt was the most interesting to me. Walt forsees in his dreams Locke on a beach in a suit surrounded by people who want to hurt him. I wonder what people those are? I wouldn't think the other crash survivors have anything against him. I'm assuming when he confronts Ben he'll just be like "oh I knew the Island would bring you back to life" or some crap like that.

Anyway, the driver getting shot was definitely a surprise, I figured it was Ben who pulled the trigger. As the scene in the motel room developed I guessed Ben would end up killing Locke, but it doesn't make sense to me why he tried to save him in the first place. And why did John fall for it?? Did he forget how Ben shot and left him for dead in the pit of Dharma corpses? It was an interesting twist though since last week it seemed he went through with the suicide with the note for Jack and everything.

What I'm still trying to figure out, though, is if Ben and Widmore are at war with each other, why did they both have the agenda of getting the Losties back to the island? Why did Ben pick up where Locke gave up and left off?

5.06: 316

Ya know what's funny, I didn't get to see Lost yesterday (recorded it) and was just saying to my coworker today how I enjoy TV episodes and movies that start out in the present/future with a scene and you have no idea what's going on (a la Alias - Truth Be Told), then they take you back and build up to that scene for the rest of the episode. We were chatting about Pulp Fiction which is what prompted that thought...and here again we have another example of this, beginning with the Lost trademark eye-opening closeup shot of Jack. The camera zooms out and we see that yes he is, again, on The Island. I went through that whole scene thinking it was Jack dreaming up until Kate asked "did it work? are we back?" or something like that.

One of the many things that interests me about the scene at the Dharma's Lightpost was that the gray-haired lady never actually admitted to being Dan's mom. She reacted when Des mentioned Daniel Faraday but she never referred to him as her son, she only said that she is "helping" as Dan asked. Might be nothing, just something that struck me...

Funny how both times Jack was tempted by the drink he had some sort of distraction to take him away from it. First was a never-before-mentioned granddad (nice for us Alias fans to see Lauren Reed's dad again ;-)), second was a distraught (but evidently horny) Kate on his bed. So here are the major questions raised from this eppy:

1. What happened to Aaron to make Kate want to go back to the island?
2. What chewed up Ben and broke his arm (did it have to do w/ Kate)?
3. What brought Sayid (who looked to be in custody) and Hurley to the airport and how did they know about flight 316 to Guam (and did it have to do w/ Ben...I'm sure it did...)
4. What happened to the plane and the rest of the non-Lostie passengers?
5. Last but certainly not least, what the hell was Jin doing in the new Dharma van in Dharma clothes?? I'm guessing this means they're back in the Dharma time of The Island...

5.05: This Place is Death

At long last, we see the return of the Smoke Monster! Well sort of...technically it happened in the past...but you know what I mean. I don't remember the last time we saw the SM, do you? Poor Danielle, man did she draw the short end of the stick. Friends being killed and dismembered by SM, then the ones left alive become brainwashed or "sick" as she called them. We definitely know for sure now that she wasn't making that up, since we witnessed w/ Jin her partner declaring his love for her, then trying to put a bullet between her eyes.

The reunion of Jin and Sawyer was cute, that was quite the genuine joy man-hug. :) So we finally got some answers about Charlotte's past, which should have been the tip-off that she was going to die. We never seem to learn any juicy details about anyone until the episode the character dies (remember Shannon?) Anyway, so Charlotte was raised as a child on the island, then ordered to leave and made to think she was crazy and had made up the island by her mom...nice mom. She said there was a "scary man" who told her to never come back or she'd die, and that man evidently was Dan. We know he goes back to Dharma time, we saw that briefly in the season opener. I'm guessing the next time flash will take them back to the Dharma period, and he'll see her as a child and scare the crap out of her then.

The interaction between Locke and Christian was...weird...not sure what else to say about that. Locke obviously doesn't keep his word to Jin by telling Ben that he's still alive and giving him Jin's ring. That was an interesting outburst from Ben in the van, he always remains so calm. I wonder if we'll ever find out "what he's done" to keep our Losties safe...from whom, Widmore? Thoughts?

5.04: The Little Prince

Huh...I totally don't get why this episode was called that, do you? Anyway, I'm in a time crunch and wish I had more time to blog because this was an awesome episode!! Quick comments/questions:
- What do you think is causing the nosebleeds among only some of the Island Losties? We know length of time on the island doesn't cause it cuz the newbies are affected and so is Juliette...
- who is sending people to kill Sayid from Kate's address?
- how awesome was Sawyer, it totally tore at my heartstrings to see the way he looked at past-Kate...
- Was it Robby who knew it was Ben trying to get Aaron from Kate? Awesome foresight there!!
- I/WE TOTALLY CALLED IT THAT JIN'S ALIVE!!! THAT WAS FREAKIN AWESOME!!
- I knew it was Danielle's boat when we saw the writing in French (yeah, dead giveaway)

Ok folks I'm out of town this weekend, have at it!!