Thursday, April 30, 2009

5.14: The Variable

What an awesome episode!! There were many questions answered, but of course, even more were raised. Let's start with what we now know:

Eloise is in fact Dan's mom, I know I was one of the doubters of that being true. She also is the young Ellie we met on the Island in 1954. What I never saw coming is that Widmore is his dad! That was a major surprise, but it makes me wonder where he got the name "Faraday" from...

Dan did some kind of experimentation on himself for his research before he tried anything on Theresa, which evidently caused him to have a memory disorder (think Momento but not as extreme). As Widmore promised, the Island seems to have cured him.

Widmore was the one who planted the fake Oceanic 815 plane at the bottom of the ocean. Do you think his reason for doing that was just so he could make sure Dan got to go to the Island?

Desmond is going to be ok, whew! :)

Dan's further research has led him to believe that you can, in fact, change the past, which could result in changing the present/future. Evidently "humans" are the variable he hadn't considered before, so he thinks that if he can detonate the buried hydrogen bomb (to destroy the immense magnetic energy of the Island), this will negate anything that happened from that point on, including the 815 crash. We haven't seen anything to prove he's right, though, and we know that Eloise knew she was going to shoot her son back in time from what she said to Widmore about sacrifice. She could have easily told Dan not to go to the Others w/ a gun, therefore her past self would have had no reason to shoot him, so why didn't she? And why did he insist on talking to Eloise in the first place?

So now what? Are Jack and Kate going to try and do what Dan wanted and blow up the bomb? Neither one of them looked that excited about the idea of erasing the past. What would happen to them and the other Losties if it worked?

Other random questions, how is it no one ever mentions anything about Richard never aging? You'd think the Others would have realized it, there must be something about him connected to the Island. Why does Dan think his mom was wrong about Jack and Kate and the rest going back to the Island?

Thursday, April 16, 2009

5.13: Some Like It Hoth

Blogger Robetron noted that this was a slow episode, which I agree with, but still fairly interesting. I like Miles, I think he's a good character (and well casted) and I liked learning more about him. More kudos are doled out to those of you that guessed Miles is Dr. Chang's son. I like that he knew all this time and didn't tell anyone until Hurley. I figured there would be this big "to do" if that theory of him being the doc's kid was true and he'd find out in some dramatic moment. It was a amusingly unexpected when he revealed the truth w/ the same drama as telling Hurley the weather forecast.

It's obvious from the few scenes we've witnessed that Dr. Chang loves his son and wife very much, so I'm very curious to find out what separates them and causes Miles' mom to hate the very memory of his father.

So who do you think grabbed Miles in the van? If they are against Widmore does that mean they work for Ben? The way that guy talked to Miles sounded like he was trying to sell him on some new spiritual faith or something. Then the phrase from last week comes up: What lies in the shadow of the statue. How would Sayid's bounty hunter lady know that phrase?

And we finally see the return of Dan. I didn't catch what Dr. Chang said about him other than there was a scientist returning. From the way Sawyer referred to him it sounded like Dan betrayed them in some way. Well we have 2 weeks to ponder that...

Thursday, April 09, 2009

5.12: Dead Is Dead

Well, I think this is one of the, if not the most, strangest episodes of Lost in my memory. We learned more about Ben's true nature than we've ever seen before IMO. We saw more evidence of him being a pathological liar. It amazed me to hear all of the lies he spewed to so many people, whether it was about knowing John to Ceasar, or telling Sun he had no idea Locke would come back to life. I find it rather interesting that he has a soft spot for children, which is what ended up saving Penny's life. I don't get, though, why he stole Alex when his "mission" was to kill Danielle. I always figured the Others wanted her baby because it was successfully born on the Island, come to find out their leader at the time (Widmore) wanted to kill "it." I can't see how Widmore could ever really be a "good guy" now, he wanted to let young Ben die and wanted to kill an innocent baby, seems pretty cold and heartless to me. 

I don't understand at all why the Smoke Monster would let Ben live. He's the most selfish and conniving character we've seen on the show, and I don't believe his true motive for what he does is for the "good of the Island." The flashes of his life in the smoke were a little cheesy, but he was definitely tortured by the memory of Alex and how his selfishness led to her death. Whether it was her ghost or the spirit of the Island acting through her, I liked her confrontation of Ben's intentions, plus it was nice to see her character again (probably the only other human Ben's ever really loved). Her message proves Locke's importance to the Island, which I found fulfilling in a way since John has been let down by everyone and everything he ever cared about in his past life. It's good to know his belief that he belongs there isn't unfounded.

Thursday, April 02, 2009

5.11: Whatever Happened, Happened

So, yeah, y'all were right that little Ben's still alive. Arg.

I like that we're finding out what led to the Foundies being on that Guam-bound plane. In all my guesses about what happened to Kate, though, I never thought about her willingly giving up Aaron. I liked the return of Cassie's character, her ability to read right through and become friends w/ Kate. That scene with her saying goodbye to Aaron was definitely a tearjerker.

Back on the Island, I never would have expected Jack to outright refuse to save little Ben's life. That seems sort of contrary to his character, though I can understand his reasons. Taking Ben to the Others seemed like an odd out-of-the-blue solution to me. What do you think Richard's going to do to him to make him "lose his innocence" and "become one of them"?

I don't really have much more to say about this episode...it was interesting but didn't pack the punch the last few have. The preview for next week looked quite intriguing though...