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!

Episode 3.6 "I Do"

Ok I figure the best time to do a recap is while my heart is still pounding a mile a minute, so here goes! Wow that was a great episode, and good to see more backstory on Kate. What a surprise to see her open that case and look at a wedding veil, definitely not something I expected from her. Come to find out Kate's getting married the next day...to Kevin...a police officer...who thinks her name is Monica...talk about doomed. She looks so happy at her wedding, it really looks like she loves this guy, his family loves her, and she becomes Holly-Housewife...obviously something's not right.

We see a little of John and the losties at the Pearl giving Eko their last respects. To bury him John says he's going back to camp, which Sayid somehow knew was a lie and they took a detour, but to where?? John gets Eko's "Jesus stick" (thank you Charlie) and while pounding it into his grave, stating that he hopes to find the reason for Eko's death soon, he suddenly sees an etching that looks to be telling John to lift up his eyes and look North...talk about cryptic. Any ideas what that means?

Let me just say how much I love Jack at his most bitter! Telling Ben the disappointment of Jack deciding not to do his spinal surgery is something he won't have to deal with long was GREAT. He knows the power he has now, and he's damn well gonna use it. Above the Hydra Kate and Sawyer are put to work again, breaking and hauling rocks for who-knows-what purpose. Alex breaks into the camp with some Bart Simpson action on the slingshot, and we learn the jackass who hates Sawyer so much is her "dad", so does that mean she thinks Colleen (dead lady) was her mom? I'm guessing she would have no idea who Danielle is or even that she exists. She screams at Kate that "they're gonna kill your boyfriend", which of course made me think which one?? They end up blackmailing Sawyer's life on Kate convincing Jack to do Ben's surgery (jerks). Jack and Kate's reunion was quite touching, you could see how happy they were to see each other, but Jack was not a happy boy when Kate told him why she was there. She decides it's best to try another escape attempt, still not knowing the cages are on candid camera. BTW I loved her calling him James, I think it totally took him off guard. He has to be honest that they can't escape since they're on ANOTHER island...ya think he could have also mentioned they were being taped, but at any rate they share quite a night together.

We also see Kate sharing a life with her hubby, even begging the U.S. Marshall to let her go free to live this new life, but after a pregnancy scare she just can't handle the lie anymore. I really did feel bad for her as she was telling Kevin the truth (after he drank his drugged lemonade of course). You can tell she loved him and that's why she had to leave. Does she really love Sawyer? She never admits it, though he actually tells her "I love you too" which surprised me...made me say aww and I got goosebumps. :)

Jack is let out of his cell (was that Alex's voice on the intercom and for what purpose?) He sees for himself Kate in Sawyer's arms and you just see his heart break. He doesn't trust Ben or Juliet and takes matters into his own hands during the surgery, making a fatal incision in Ben's kidney and bartering his life for Kate's freedom. It's sad that Jack doesn't realize they don't have anywhere to run, though I have to admit when Sawyer saw for himself they were on another island it didn't look THAT far away...swimmable perhaps.

Soooo, questions to ponder for the next few months... One of the big ones was when the annoying guy told his buddy that "Shepard wasn't on Jacob's list." Was Jacob one of their spys sent out after the plane crashed? Was this the list of "good" or "bad" people he's talking about? Where do you think the message on Eko's stick is leading John? Will the eyepatch dude come into the story? Would Jack go through with letting Ben die? Doing this probably screws any chance of them letting him go, so what will happen to him? Will Kate and Sawyer actually escape? Bring on the theories!

Episode 3.5 “The Cost of Living”

Well better late than never. :) Last week’s eppy opens on a flashback with Eko as a boy breaking into someone’s shed to get food for his hungry brother, Yemi. He’s caught by a nun who forces him to confess the sin of stealing, though he feels no guilt for trying to help his brother. We now see Eko in the present is dreaming about this, in addition to some memories we’ve already seen of him using his brother as a priest to help him smuggle out drugs, Yemi getting shot and Eko getting off scot free in his priest disguise. Charlie and Hurley are trying to care for Eko in a tent, when they leave Eko’s called awake by a creepy Yemi holding a lighter, telling him it’s time to confess and that “you know where to find me”. Next thing we know the tent is on fire, which Eko is saved from, but then disappears.

Open scene to Jack doing pull-ups (all the ladies say thank you :) ). Ben enters in his typical annoyingly suave style to take Jack to the shot-lady’s funeral, only to be thrown off by Jack quizzing him about his neck and how he’s feeling. Jack explains that he saw Ben’s x-rays and he has a fatal tumor that needs operating, which Ben denies.

Back at the camp, John says he thinks he can find Sawyer, Jack and Kate because Desmond revealed the hatch computer wasn’t just used for pushing a button, but also for communicating among hatches. He puts 2-and-2 together after Charlie says Eko was murmuring “my brother” that he’s returning to the small plane crash site which just so happens to be over The Pearl hatch. He decides to “kill two birds with one stone” by going after Eko and investigating The Pearl’s assets and is accompanied on his hunt by Sayid, Desmond and two new losties.

We next flashback to after Yemi is shot and Eko returns to his brother’s church, pretending to be a replacement priest. He meets a lady who works at the clinic and her son, the alter boy. Moving to the present, Eko stumbles through the forest and suddenly hallucinates hostile, bloody men, who he moves to kill and suddenly sees the alter boy. Eerily reminding us of Walt, the boy holds his finger up to his mouth to shush Eko, then says something (does anyone know what he said??) before disappearing. Another flashback shows a group of possible drug lords making their every-6-month scheduled stop to blackmail the town for 80% of their Red Cross vaccines. They ask Eko about Yemi, when he claims to not be afraid and turns his back on them, the leader shoots an innocent woman to prove his point. As present Eko stops for water, we see a reflection of black smoke, quickly fading away right before John & Co. show up.

Juliet pays Jack another visit with a homemade cheeseburger, revealing an ease and sense of humor developing between the two of them. They are interrupted by Ben requesting a private convo w/ Jack, in which he reveals their plan to “break him”, get him to trust them using Juliet, who just happens to be a Sarah look-alike, wanting him to feel invested in their group and in the end, wanting to save Ben’s life. He says all of that went to waste as soon as Jack saw his x-rays and figured out Ben is dying. Before walking out Ben reveals that two days after his spinal tumor was discovered, a spinal surgeon “fell out of the sky”, which to him is proof of God.

We return to The Pearl, where John stays with Eko by the plane. John tells Eko he saw a bright light, expecting Eko saw the same, which wasn’t the case. (Anyone else catch a Heaven/Hell reference with that?) Eko enters the wreck only to find Yemi’s body is gone, which John naturally blames on forest animals. In more flashbacks it’s revealed that Eko tried to get in on the vaccine scam by contacting a black market buyer. The drug lords find out and confront him in the church, where he defends himself by brutally killing them all and stumbles out of the church covered in their blood. Down in The Pearl the new lostie-gal discovers from the orientation video their might be other projects going on besides Dharma, and Sayid searches for another TV signal. He finds one looking into a computer room, then suddenly we see a man with an eye-patch on the screen who turns off the camera.

Again we see Jack in his prison room, Juliet enters claiming to be giving him a movie to watch, To Kill a Mockingbird. Jack protests, she compromises by turning down the volume and proceeds to explain how sorry she is and that Ben is “a great man” who deserves to live. The movie starts playing and we see her appear onscreen with a poster saying “Ignore everything I’m saying”. Through the silent posters she reveals that Ben is a liar, a very dangerous man and some of them want a change. She basically tells Jack to go through the surgery, make it look like they tried to save Ben’s life, but to have an “accident”, no one would ever know.

Our last flashback shows Eko leaving the church and it immediately being boarded up. The clinic woman tells him it’s no longer sacred and he owes Yemi a church (now we know why he was building one on the beach). In the forest he sees Yemi again, who leads him away from the plane. Eko confesses that he wants no forgiveness as he has not sinned, that he only did what was necessary to survive. Creepy Yemi then says “you speak to me as if I were your brother” and disappears. Eko runs after him, only to be confronted by the big bad smoke that throws him around like a rag doll, eventually killing him, but not before he can whisper to John that “you’re next”.

It appears Eko was killed in some sense by his demons, that the island made him pay for his past. Jack has a pretty big decision to make…I think his first instinct is to trust Juliet, but how can he after knowing she was part of the plan to manipulate him? And who the hell was eye-patch man?!? Discuss away friends, discuss away…

Episode 3.4 "Every Man for Himself"

The fact that I am lost about Lost is understandable, especially considering the happenings as of late. The stars of the show are being held captive by the Others- Why? Perhaps only the polar bear knows. Either way- the writers better get to the GD point or at least distract me with the most insanely outrageous twist or I threaten to… uh, okay, I will probably watch no matter what- even if space creatures take their turn on the island.

This is Kate- crying- because some Other is messing with Sawyers perfectly chiseled face. She gives in, says she loves him and the Other backs down. Huh, what? Why? Why ask her?

Long story short- Kate loves Sawyer (she doesn’t… or does she?) and she is small enough to fit through the bars of the cage. Sawyer got the crap kicked out of him- twice- and the Others tricked him into thinking they planted a heart-blowing pacemaker in his chest. In flashbacks we learn Sawyer cheated his way out of prison and oh yes, he has a daughter- named Clementine. So, they put the thingy in Sawyers ticker (apparently) and just before I am ready to take a nap, because really- Ben/Henry Gale takes Sawyer for a little stroll. PEOPLE- there are 2 islands! TWO! One, where the others live and one that lays house to all the crash survivors. WHAT? The thought the Others lived on the other side of the island! No wonder they needed to get the boat away from Jin, Sun and Sayid. Hmmm, but I still don't understand the point of showing Sawyer. Help!

Jack scrubs in for surgery on the Other who was shot by Sun last week. She dies on the operating table and Jack gets a glimpse of some X-rays- someone’s got a spinal tumor and I will give you one guess who- he’s smarmy and wears plaid. HAHAHAHA!

Back on the beach, Desmond is in need of a padded room. This dude is bonkers. Nuts! Seriously! After asking Claire if he can fix her roof- which isn’t broken- he borrows a golf club from the new guy (hot!) and rigs up some sort of experiment. Lightening strikes and a large bolt of electricity zaps the club. But what is the GD point? WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN!!???

Locke and Eko were no shows- but Charlie said something about Eko being blown to bits by the hatch. Hello? Was Charlie not with Locke when he rescued Eko? Why would Charlie say that?

Next week the new kids on the island discover one of the observation rooms and someone is clearly observing them.

PS. Blogger sucks! I cannot load anymore photos for some reason! ARGH!

Episode 3.3 "Further Instructions"

YAHOO!! Locke is back! Oh, how I missed T O'Q. Missed. Him. But, um, kay, I’m Lost (pun intended). What the sam hell is going on? Locke is launched out of the hatch when it implodes (you should have pressed the GD button) and wakes up without a voice. He stumbles back to camp and begins building a sweat lodge. I am telling you, Charlie is not the only one confused here! I expected chanting and whispers of the dead and by gollie- I got it! Once inside the lodge (and after eating some mashed up yuckiness) Boone appears. YES! Dead Boone! Boone whisks him away in a wheel chair and shows him shadows of his many island friends. Locke has gotta find out who to save and how to clean up the mess he’s made. I loved the return of Boone! I loved the trippy dream at the airport, but what does it all mean?

Locke emerges from the sweat lodge on a mission to find Mr. Eko. He has to make things right, and right would mean saving the man who was right all along. Charlie decides to tag along. In and out, we flash back to Locke’s life before the ill-fated crash. We see him driving an old pick up truck and pulling over for a hitchhiker. The young hitch is looking to escape from an abusive father, so Locke takes him back to what I can only describe as a cult compound. There we meet John’s “family.”



Setting off to save Eko, Locke is positive that the polar bear has him. Why? How does he know this? Because of his meeting with Boone? Wandering through the jungle, Charlie and Locke stumble upon Hurley, who is returning from the Other’s camp with the message to stay away. John instructs Hurley to go back to camp and give everyone the message. On the way, Hurley runs into Desmond, whose clothes have been blown off by the hatch implosion. Hilarious! HA! Desmond is able to coax Hurley out of a tie-dye shirt and the two hightail it back to the beach. But not before Desmond can reveal a small clue. When Hurley asks about saving Jack, Sawyer and Kate, Desmond is sure Locke will be off to save them next- he’ll even mention it in a speech. HUH? WHAT?

Back to Locke’s past- So, it looks like the compound houses a bunch of fruit-picking, free-loving hippies and it does (complete with a greenhouse dedicated to a certain illegal bud). Locke’s little hitchhiker wants in on the pot production, but the compound “parents” discover that the hitch is actually a cop. Crapper! Locke has endangered the whole operation. To correct the problem, he lures the hitch-snitch out to the woods and plans to shoot him, but Locke can’t pull the trigger.

Charlie and Locke pass by a dark cave on the hunt for the preacher, and Locke is certain that Eko is inside. He rigs up a torch and heads in. Sure enough, Locke finds the bones of several
other sacrificial islanders, and there is Eko! Just has he is about to be snacked on, Locke burns the bear and gets away with a wounded Eko. Back at camp, we find two newcomers (Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro) who are oddly interested in Locke’s return and the realization that Jack, Sawyer and Kate are missing- not to mention Sayid, Jin and Sun. And then- THEN- Locke gives a little SPEECH about going after the love trifecta. This freaks Hurley out and calls into question Desmond’s position on the island. Is he an Other? Perhaps he defected?

This episode threw me for a loop! Where are they taking us? What is going on? How will the newcomers play into the plan to rescue Jack, Sawyer and Kate (who I have decided to call JSK)? In regards to Locke’s past- perhaps the compound is raided- perhaps there is gun fire and Locke is hit, hence the wheel chair? I can’t wait to see what happens next, I just hope it doesn’t give me a headache!

Tick Tock...

The countdown is on, one week to go!!!

Lost Season 2 DVD

Amazon.com has posted the release date for season 2 on DVD. Drum roll please...

October 3rd!!

So, click on the DVD link and pre-order your season 2 today!!

Episode 2:21 "?" by SRG

I love how inter- related Lost and Alias have been the last couple weeks, this episode could have totally been called "I See Dead People" too. Let's get right to it!

I Dream of Yemi
Seems like Eko's brother is in everyone's dreams! We start out with Eko getting a sort of psychic dream where he sees Ana shot and dying telling him to help John (this is before anyone knew she was dead btw), followed by Yemi in the hatch telling Eko to help John find the question mark and bring his axe. Upon waking up he immediately sets out to find John and meets up with Sawyer, Jack and Kate on their way back to the hatch. A shot Michael bursts out of the hatch claiming when he woke up that Henry had a gun and shot Ana, Libby and himself. Shocked, everyone rushes into the hatch to find Ana dead. They assume Libby is as well until she suddenly spits up blood (anyone else reminded of Kill Bill?), which freaks out Michael. Eko volunteers to go after Henry and asks John to come because of his tracking experience.

While in the jungle Eko asks John about the question mark, head butts him for "being difficult" and finally gets John to relay the story of the "?" diagram he saw on the hatch door. Eko believes the drawing to be a map and they end up following it back to the crashed plane Yemi died in. They make camp for the night and John dreams he's Eko being lead up the cliffside by Yemi to something at the top. When John awakes Eko can tell he had a prophetic dream which John describes, so Eko promptly climbs his way to the top of the cliff. At first he sees nothing, then looks down at John and realizes a sort of crop circle "?" is etched into the ground with the plane covering the bottom. After pushing the plane out of the way and digging, the two find the entrance to another hatch, "Station 5: The Pearl", a monitoring facility for the other hatches. The Pearl's orientation video reveals the work in the other hatches to be nothing more than a psychological experiment, a truth that breaks John's faith in the Island, but increases Eko's. From the flashbacks we learn of Eko's time pretending to be a priest and how he was assigned to investigate a supposed "miracle" of a girl coming back to life. I think he started to believe the miracle was true until the girl's father dismissed it as mistaken hypothermia and doctor negligence. It wasn't until the girl found Eko at the airport before Oceanic flight 815 took off and told him about a message she had for him from Yemi that he started to find his faith. Knowing the dreams he and John had led them to The Pearl increased his sense of purpose for being there and thinking there is a reason for all of it that will eventually be revealed.

Meanwhile Back At The Hatch...
Jack knows he can't save Libby and puts Sawyer on the spot about giving up the heroine Mary dolls to make her comfortable, thus revealing where he's also storing the guns. Kate goes with him and discovers that Sawyer has been hiding everything under his shelter the entire time. On their way out they run into Hurley who asks if they've seen Libby...Kate has to break the harsh news about the shooting. Jack injects Libby with the heroine to ease her pain and she suddenly wakes up looking worried. She manages to say "Michael", to which Jack and Hurley assure her Michael's ok. This only makes her more frantic and she dies with her eyes and mouth open in a frightful panic. The episode closes on a slow zoom-in on Michael, looking very evil and creepy.

Interesting Tidbits
Anyone else recognize the father of the "miracle" girl? Yup, that was Claire's psychic who told her she must raise her baby and made her take flight 815. With her flashback story he seemed pretty legit, but he told Eko that he made his living as a fraud, that he dug up dirt on people and used it to exploit them. So how did he know Claire taking flight 815 would force her to raise her baby because of the crash?

"Rats in a maze with no cheese", I thought that was a great quote from John after he learned the Dharma Initiative was nothing more than a mind game. Anyone else check out www.sublymonal.com?

Something to ponder...we saw that The Pearl had monitoring videos of The Swan's hatch, does that mean there's video evidence of Michael shooting Ana and Libby? Also, if the monitoring station is Station 5, what is Station 6?

Looks like next week Michael manages to convince everyone they can take on The Others and rescue Walt and the bearded crazy guy is back. We still don't know if Michael is brainwashed or just fullfilling some sort of deal...now I'm thinking the latter, but that just makes me more angry with him. I feel weird saying this since I hated her in the beginning, but I'm actually going to miss Ana a little bit, and I definitely feel sorry for Hurley that he lost Libby. Will he ever find out she was in the same mental hospital as him? Guess we'll have to wait and see!

LOST Night

Michael is in charge! After last weeks shocker- I have no idea what to expect tonight- aside from more SHOCK! Stay tuned for an episode recap!

Two for the Road by SRG

I don’t know about you guys, but the shocker endings of both Lost and Alias caused me some major problems trying to fall asleep last night! Here’s a little summary of the events surrounding the characters:

Anna Lucia Flashbacks
Covering her tracks well, Anna made the murder of her attacker practically anonymous, but her mother/Captain knew otherwise. Scared that her mom knew her secret, Anna runs away to Australia with a guy she met at the bar…a guy who just happens to be Jack’s drunk of a father. He claims he needs her “protection” for a task he needs to do over there. Whether or not they were lovers is unclear, I’m thinking they might have been drunken lovers, but they had separate hotel rooms, what do you guys think? She drives him to a house where he confronts a woman and claims he wants to see his daughter…who knows what that was about. Anna decides she’s had enough of her time with him and wants to go home, so she leaves him at a bar (where he eventually meets Sawyer) and books Oceanic Flight 815 to fly home. Does anyone else notice a theme of Jack’s dad being involved with many of the characters?

Locke
John wakes up to the sound of Henry attacking and trying to kill Anna. He saves her life by hitting Henry over the head with one of his crutches. Later on, John is perplexed as to why Henry tried to kill Anna when he could have easily hurt or killed John when he was trapped under the door. Henry claims that John is one of the “good ones” and his mission was to bring John back to his people. You can tell John is very intrigued by these words, but isn’t able to ask Henry more about it because Jack and Kate shout for his help as they bring in Michael unconscious.

Michael
After waking up, Michael claims that he found the Others and they’re living worse off than the crash victims. Other than having their own hatch, where he believes the children including Walt are being held, he says they’re basically defenseless and would be easily defeated. Later on he gets up from resting to find Anna upset holding the gun she stole away from Sawyer by seducing him. She explains that she couldn’t bring herself to shoot Henry and Michael says he’ll do it, so she gives him the gun and the lock combination for the cell door. It’s the last thing she ever does…Michael says “I’m sorry” and shoots her in the stomach. Unfortunate Libby walks in on the scene as she’s getting wine for a picnic with Hurley, and in his shock Michael shoots her as well. He opens the cell door, looks at Henry, and shoots himself in the shoulder. THE END

Extremely shocking turn of events at the end, I was totally blown away (no pun intended)! At first I thought Michael killed himself, but from the previews for next week, it looks like he shot himself to make it look like he was also a victim and frame Henry for the shootings. There are at least two possible theories about why he did this…first he could have been brainwashed by the Others to turn on the crash victims. It’s possible that he’s leading them into a trap by saying the Others are defenseless and they should take them. OR he’s fulfilling some kind of deal he made with the Others to get Walt back. He looked extremely shocked at what he had just done when he shot Anna and Libby…if he had been turned evil you’d think he wouldn’t have looked so disturbed by his actions. Some questions I’ve come up with are why they would reveal Libby’s truth about being in the same mental hospital as Hurley and then kill her? Or that Anna was only in Australia because of Jack’s dad, then kill her? It was like finding out Jack was basically responsible for Shannon’s dad dying, then she died too. They seem to be revealing interesting plots from the characters’ back stories and then promptly ending them with death, which I don’t understand. What do you guys think??

Welcome

Hi All,

If you have ventured from Let's Talk Alias, then you are well aware of my obsession with intelligent television. You know I am a seeker of truth, an English major on a literary mission to turn all those who merely enjoy LOST, into well equipped, clue-collecting viewers. And if you are new- then you will soon learn all this about me.

Welcome to Let's Get LOST, the very near and dear sister of Let's Talk Alias. When Alias (the love of my life) is laid to rest in the ABC graveyard, I, and my room mate Amanda, will have plenty of time, energy and insight- which we will be focusing on JJ's current hit, LOST. I may not know enough about it now to comment on any particular theory- but I plan to "desert" my friends and family, become "stranded" in my home with the DVD's, take the "crash" course, not give in to the pressures of "Others" and become an A1 bonafide encyclopedia of LOST.

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