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Thursday, 5/29/08!

There’s No Place Like Home – Parts 2 & 3
 
Awesome 2 hour episode (and season finale!).
 
Flash Forwards:
 
* Despite the evidence from last season that the obit clipping was taken from an April 2007 paper, we discover that it was just a production error and that pill-popping Jack happens sometime AFTER Kate and he split up over the whole Sawyer favor thing.

* We learn the identity of the casket – Jeremy Bentham… of course, at the end of the episode, we see that it’s John Locke.  This confuses me… I don’t understand why the O6-ers would call him by a different name.   Unless he has a double or something, because the dead Locke didn’t look much like Locke in that it looked like his scar was gone.  But I suppose that dead people make-up could cover that up.

* Walt visits Hurley.  That was pretty cool.  We get confirmation that the O6 lying is to protect those that were left behind.

* We learn that Jeremy/Locke has visited both Walt and Hurley.

* If Sayid ever asks you for the time, duck and cover.

* Sayid convinces Hurley to leave with him to go someplace safe.  What does that mean?

* Is Mr. Eko really there playing chess with Hurley?

* Now we get to Sun, who definitely seems divided from the rest of the O6 – since she’s apparently willing to team up with Widmore even though we have so far been led to believe that he’s the ultimate bad guy.  I think she is just hoping to find Jin still alive on the island – somehow?   And she’s using Widmore to help…. Maybe she knows that Ben can’t get back there, so she isn’t looking for help from him.   We don’t know if Jeremy/Locke talked to her.

* “We’re not the only ones who left the island.” – hmmm… I think she’s referring to the fact that Ben got off the island too.  I think she’s going to help him get Ben, maybe in exchange for helping her get back?  Or she just blames Ben for his role in Jin’s death – he could be the #2 that she referenced last week?

* Kate’s phone call dream was seriously the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen on Lost.  Claire was freaky.  And I think it’s very interesting that Claire’s apparition doesn’t want Aaron back, but Jeremy/Locke does want them all back.  I got the impression that Claire & Christian are island spokespeople with Jacob and that they are guiding Locke – so wouldn’t they all want the same thing??  Or be working toward the same goal?

* Ben and Jack together – they all have to go back.  Ben has some ideas to make this happen.  Can’t wait for next season!!! 
 
 
Island – Jungle & Orchid:
 
* The Others’ ambush on Keamy’s team was awesome!  I love that Kate and Sayid were all part of it.  Sayid and Keamy’s fight was the best fight I’ve ever seen on TV.  Sayid is so awesome.

* Kate and Sayid get to leave – with Ben’s blessing.  So, in looking back at what happens later in the episode, it’s a pooper that these 2 actually have to be a part of those that return.  You’d think they would have gotten a pass since they were given the go ahead. Oh well.

* Locke wants Jack to stay.  Locke knows that it’s important. “It’s a place where miracles happen.”

* The Orchid Station (Station #6) is pretty cool.  The orientation video confirmed that time travel is a possibility on the island – even though we mostly knew that.  I loved Locke’s face after Marvin Candle says to keep all metal objects away from the room just as he sees Ben loading it up with every single metal object available in the station.

* Kenny Rogers – hehehehe

* Obviously, Keamy would be wearing body armor – but I was still surprised when he was entering the Orchid.  Ben snaps, stabbing him like crazy.  Ben covered in blood and saying that he didn’t care about the people on the freighter was probably the second most creepy thing I’ve ever seen on Lost.

* So, somehow, loading up that room with all the metal allowed Ben to crawl through a cave to the blue light, where it was really cold.  He pushes the wheel, the sky hums and turns white and the island up and disappears. Whoa.

* But before that – we learn some interesting stuff:  a) Whoever moves the island can never come back – so Ben is gone from the island forever, b) John is definitely the new leader and that the Others will follow everything he says.

* I think that after Ben finished moving the island, he was ejected into the desert that we saw during “The Shape of Things to Come.”  Same parka and I’m pretty sure that he had an arm injury there too.
 

Island – Beach:
 
* Miles totally calls Charlotte out.  Interesting that she’s been on the island before. I’m glad that both Miles and Charlotte are going to stick around on the island.

* Charlotte says she’s looking for where she was born.  But I wonder if she means born in the literal sense, or more like born with some kind of ability or something that she learned on the island as a child or something.  I lean towards the latter because we know about the difficulty in conceiving on the island, although I suppose that it could have happened like Alex and Aaron.

* Sawyer swims up – good thing he made it in time, what if he would have still been swimming when the island moved?  And what happened to Dan and the people he was shuttling???

* Poor Juliet – I so want to know what is in store for her. She’s been such a background character for the last few episodes and it bummed me out.  Nursing her Dharma rum was especially depressing.
 
 
Freighter:
 
* When Sun tells Michael she’s pregnant, it’s pretty obvious that he’s still into her.  He has that split second of sadness and then the forced congratulations.

* Christian showing up to say that Michael can go now – Michael must have fulfilled his duty to the island, served his purpose.

* Jin’s dead.  Unless he managed to jump off the boat before it blew and sunk… but even then, he would have been just drifting until he drowned since the island would have disappeared before he could have swam his way back.  The only possibility is that Dan’s raft found him... but then what?
 
 
Helicopter/Searcher:
 
* I think we all knew that Sawyer was going to sacrifice himself for Kate.  Still, it was very touching.

* I was soooo thankful that Desmond survived the helicopter crash – I was certain he wasn’t going to make it.  I was even happy to see LaPidas survive. 
Desmond and Penny are finally together!!!!

* And Penny helps the O6ers come up with the plan to protect the island.   How will Penny and Desmond stay hidden from Widmore???  
 

Thursday, 5/15/08!

There’s No Place Like Home

Nice little Wizard of Oz reference.  I liked the format from last week – so I’m going to stick with it again.  Lots of little answers last night.  This reads more like a summary than anything really insightful.  But I do think that this episode sets us up nicely for the 2-hr finale in 2 weeks!

Flash Forwards:

* The co-pilot rubs his rabbit’s foot – knows that the cargo is bad mojo.  Does it go beyond just knowing that these guys have been in a prior plane crash?

* At the press conference – the Oceanic PR rep says that a raft washed ashore on Day 103.  We’re on Day 100 on the island right now, so there are 3 days to go.  But 8 more days until they leave on the raft.  I guess we’ll see how that actually plays out.

* Now we know why the date on Jin’s tombstone is the date of the crash – that’s the story.

* We know that Kate is claiming to be Aaron’s bio-mom.

* We know how Sayid and Nadia are reunited.  That was sweet.

* The reporters seem suspicious, don’t they?  Or maybe they’re just doing their jobs.

* I was very impressed with Sun!  I love that she bought the controlling interest in Paik Industries.  This may be very, very interesting down the line since I’m pretty sure that Paik is somehow involved in the island.  She tells her father that he is 1 of 2 people responsible for Jin’s death.  I wonder who the other one is???  Widmore? Ben?  Would she reveal something like this to her father when the existence of these guys isn’t part of the O6 story?

* Hurley is quickly coming apart at the seams.  The coconut and the whispers were freaking me out too – so I guess I can’t blame him.  It was nice to see that all the O6-ers showed up (except for Sun – probably too pregnant to fly).  Clearly, they stay pretty tight for a little while at least.

* The numbers on the odometer and trip odometer – even if we don’t know what they mean – was pretty cool.

* Jack gives a belated eulogy for Christian – again, most of the O6-ers are there.  Claire’s mom shows up.  There are two options here – 1) she woke up from the coma that she’s been in for ?? years and was still in on when Claire got on that plane – and even Christian told Claire that she should pull the plug or 2) she died in that coma and her showing up to see Jack was actually a ghost.

* We know how Jack discovers that Claire is his sister – and this has to be what separates him from Kate.

Island – Beach:

* Daniel fixes the sat phone to listen to the other phone and overhears them say the Orchid.  He knows about the secondary protocol?  HOW!?  I feel pretty confident that he is not wanting to destroy the island or kill anyone – so how does he know?  My guess – he remembers this from mind skipping at some point – which is how he has the Orchid logo in his notebook.  And he knows that whatever is going to happen there is BAD.

* Sayid arrives on the island with the raft and fills them in on the real purpose of the helicopter people.  He takes off to bring back Jack and Sawyer.  Kate hands off Aaron.

* Jin & Sun get on the first raft trip out to the freighter.

Freighter:

* Michael fixes the engine, but something is broadcasting and blocking the signal off the freighter.  Oh look, the comm room is stacked with C4.  What a pickle.

Island – Jungle & Orchid:

* Ben shatters all candy-bar camaraderie that formed between him and Hurley when he comments in disgust that the crackers Hurley is eating are 15 years old.

* Ben and the Mirror – who is he signaling to?  What did he signal?

* Keamy and group beat them to the Orchid entrance.  What is there?  What can this station do?

* I love how offended Ben looks when Locke questions him.  And then he surrenders, but not before handing Locke his super bad-*ss baton.

* Richard and the rest of the others take Kate and Sayid!!!!

* Jack and Sawyer are committed to saving Hurley from Keamy’s group.

The episode ends with us having absolutely NO IDEA how the O6 are going to get back together in order to get off the island together.  They are all separated!


Thursday, 5/8/08!
 
Cabin Fever
 
I think I’m going to go about this a different way.  Normally, I go through the show in scene by scene order... but I think that I have to tackle the flashbacks separately.  For me, the show was a bit disjointed since sooo many of the cast members played a role that I feel like going about it that way.  This took me almost all of the morning and usually I proofread it – but I don’t have time.  Sorry if it is especially wordy or confusing – this one is a major mind dump!
 
 
Flashbacks:
 
* Initially, when we were introduced to Emily – I thought we were getting a Ben flashback.  Because his mom was named Emily.  But then it was John’s.  So, I thought maybe I remembered wrongly about Ben’s Mom’s name.  But, I checked it this morning and it is Emily too.  I can’t imagine that this is a coincidence.  There are 1000s of names to choose from, why would you have two back story characters share a name?  I don’t really think that they are the same woman because Ben’s Mom died in childbirth and we saw Swoozie Kurtz as an older woman playing John’s mom – but still… I think it’s odd.  And the possibility that Ben and Locke are ∏ brothers is a tempting theory with lots of implications.
 
* John Locke’s birth and youth – fascinating!  Preemie – youngest to ever survive at that hospital.  Is that what causes Richard Alpert to show up?  (contact #1)  The fact that this little guy survived?  Or did Jacob or some other force tell him that this little guy was born and that they needed to recruit him? 
 
* I wonder why Richard wasn’t able to adopt him right away – or have another “other” or “hostile” do it.  Why even let him get into the foster care system?   Maybe it was just a recon kind of thing?
 
* When John was at the foster home – he was already a fan of backgammon.
 
* He was also quite the artist sketching out Smokey. 
 
* Which of things belonged to you:  a baseball glove, “Book of Laws”, vial of sand/pebbles, compass, “Mystery Tales: Hidden Lands” comic book, a knife?   This was messed up.  What was the right answer?  Clearly it wasn’t the knife.  But I think Richard perked up when he thought he was going to pick the comic book.  WHY?  (contact #2)
 
* Next we see Locke in high school – desperately wanting to be a jock, but stuck in the nerdy science world.  And Mittelos attempts to recruit him (contact #3).   We learn here that Locke is fighting his destiny.  And we get to see him say, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do,” again. 
 
* I have a new Richard theory – it’s not that he doesn’t age – it’s that he’s always time jumping, so the times we’ve seen him, while it has been over a 50 yr span, maybe it’s just been like an average week for him?
 
* Locke likes Geronimo Jackson – throw back to the hatch days in season 2.
 
* Now, Locke is in physical therapy – only Richard isn’t the recruiter this time.  It is Matthew Abbadon – who is a Whidmore employee/follower.   Locke is a swing player in the Lost game.  Ben’s camp got to him first, or at least tried – but maybe they gave up on him?  Thus, providing the opportunity for Whidmore’s people to take a stab at him.  I think they are trying to show us that there is a choice involved.  That it is not 100% fate or destiny. 
 
* The conversation with Abbadon definitely leads me to believe that the people on the plane were hand-picked by someone.  Abbadon put the walkabout in Locke’s mind, he tried to do it, can’t, and has to leave Australia early – putting himself on that plane. 
 
* “I’m a lot more than an orderly.  You’ll owe me one.”  - creepy!  I can’t wait to see him call in that favor!
 
 
Freighter:

* The island is clearly still protecting Michael.  I think Keemy broke his leg.
 
* The secondary protocol had the Dharma logo on it – further confirmation of Whidmore’s involvement in the organization
 
* It was fun to see the freighter get the SOS call about the doctor.  Time differentials are fun.
 
* Sayid is going to try to ferry the survivors back and forth… this is going to be interesting.  I don’t really think he’ll end up making any headway on that.  I think he’ll likely get on the helicopter with the rest of the O6.  Or, maybe the O6 were all he could manage on the raft.  ?  But it will take more than one trip to get them all AND Hurley back to the freighter.
 
* Sayid is definitely aware of Penny’s name and he will know she is Desmond’s honey if/when Ben gives him the order to kill her… it will be interesting to see how he handles that knowledge.  But if it does come to that – I think he’d try to kill her regardless. 
 
* Frank is a cool dude.  He was so excited to hear that Michael was an O815 survivor.  It was like he finally got confirmation of his conspiracy theory. 
 
* Keemy is a messed up guy.  Suicide bomber.  Killing Doc.  Killing Captain.  Heck, by the time the O6 get on the freighter – they’ll be the only ones on it! 
 
 
Locke / Ben / Hurley:
 
* Locke’s eye shot moving on to his conversation with Horace Goodspeed.  The looping dream was creepy and cool. 
 
* Ben’s wistful, “I used to have dreams” – he is just coming apart and he has definitely lost his connection to the island. 
 
* Hurley, “What happened to them?”  Locke, “He did.”  Hilarious!
 
* Horace has the blueprints to Jacob’s cabin – but how does that tell Locke where to find it?
 
* Ben compliments Locke’s manipulation of Hurley – but then Locke seems to indicate that he wasn’t manipulating him with the “I’m not you” line.  Maybe that’s what makes Locke a better protector of the island than Ben??  And why Ben lost his way? 

* “Destiny is a fickle b*&ch” – I love this line!
 
* Ben finally concedes that his time is over – he really does seem totally defeated.  But he somehow becomes his normal confident self in the flash forwards – so I wonder if this is all just another manipulation.
 
* Christian is hanging out in Jacob’s cabin.  There was some talk that Christian was the cabin’s inhabitant when we first saw the it in “The Man Behind the Curtain” – but I don’t think that’s the case though.  I think that Christian is just one of the many forms that the island or Jacob can take. 
 
* Claire is a ghost – takes on more weight since she’s just hanging out with Christian. 
 
* Christian says that Aaron is where he is supposed to be – this seems to be the opposite sentiment of last week and of “Raised by Another.”  It will be interesting to see what forces are pulling Aaron in his various directions…
 
* Locke has to “move the island” - WHAT!?!?!?!
 
 
Beach
 
* So, Frank was trying to send the guys on the beach a message.  But I don’t think that Jack interpreted it properly.  I think that following them would put them in direct danger of Keemy and I don’t think that’s what Frank wants.  Of all the people that have ever been on this show – I find it the most easy to accept that Frank is genuinely a nice person with the right motivations.  He’s not doing this for Whidmore, Dharma, the Others, the Hostiles – he’s doing this because he thinks that there are survivors to Flight 815 and he’s going to do his damndest to bring them home. 
 
* But he set the sat phone to the tracker setting or whatever, so maybe jack did interpret it correctly and there is a good reason to bring everyone to where Keemy is?  But aside from trying to appeal to Keemy’s emotional side by saying something like, “Look at all these innocent people that you’re about to blow up.” I don’t see what good it will do for them to be there????  Oh wait, just thought of something, maybe he’s hoping that he can save a few before Keemy has the chance to use the bomb.  That actually makes a lot of sense.  It’s so funny when I have a new idea as I’m typing.   It would certainly explain why only 6 get away and why he wouldn’t be able to go back and forth to pick up everyone else because everyone else will die in the suicide bomb.  
 

Thursday 5/1/2008!


Something Nice Back Home
 
 
* And we start with an eye.  This episode is going to be awesome.  Episodes starting with an eye are always great!

* Flash forward is taking place in August 2007 based on “Yankees Bludgeon Red Sox in Series Sweep.”

* I love the Millennium Falcon toy…

* Raise your hand if you were biting your lip, hoping that it was Kate in the shower and then burst into a huge grin when it was her!!!

* Jack was reading “Alice in Wonderland” to Aaron – nice tie back to all the White Rabbit and other Alice allusions throughout the series.

* Anyone still holding out hope that Danielle survived can let go now… but more importantly, I am becoming less and less irritated by Miles, and more and more intrigued by him.  I hope to see more of him.   Especially because in the way he is watching Claire, I think he knows that something bad is about to happen to her.

* Rose saying that people don’t get sick here is a nice reminder to all of us to question why exactly Jack got sick.  Bernard mockingly suggests that he pissed off the island gods – but I think that his illness was the island’s way of making sure that he gets off the island – and Sun. If Jack wouldn’t have gotten sick, Sun and Jin wouldn’t have taken Charlotte and Daniel to the bunker, Jin wouldn’t have realized that Charlotte could understand Korean and he wouldn’t have been able to threaten her to get Sun off the island.  It’s a stretch – but I think it’s something to consider.

* Back to that – I love when we see Jin the bad-*ss.

* Hurley.  Wow – he is messed up.  I really hope that he’s not right and that they’re all dead.  Of course, I don’t think that he is… but I don’t appreciate the sliver of doubt that’s he’s planting in my head.  Message from Charlie – “You’re not supposed to raise him, Jack.” And also that someone is coming to visit him.  “Raised by Another” – I think we may need to revisit this episode from Season 1.  Also, I think it’s beyond obvious that Christian will be paying Jack a visit.   And what is so darn special about Aaron???   To be told back then in S1 and then now that it matters who raises him – it’s got to mean something important.  I’m very thankful that she didn’t name him Damian… because that’s how much this little guy is starting to creep me out.

* Keemy is still alive???  I thought for sure that Smokey got all those guys!  The whole scene made me trust Pilot LaPidas a bit.

* When Jack was camped out at Hurley’s hospital – I believe he was waiting for Charlie.

* Jack is crumbling apart… he clearly hasn’t had his “redemption” moment.  Drinking, sleeping pills, anxiety, paranoia, freaking over the beeping smoke detector (so similar to the hatch), seeing Christian at the office.  Ah, he is so wonderfully flawed.  But I can’t blame him for being paranoid after overhearing the tail end of Kate’s phone call – it was clear she was lying to him.

* My theory for what she was doing for Sawyer is that she was getting together with Cassidy and visiting with Clementine.  Kate already knows Cassidy from “Left Behind” – so, once she found her (based on Sawyer giving her the information), it was probably easy for her to become friends with her – regardless of whether or not Kate explained the Sawyer connection. And I can see that Sawyer wouldn’t want Jack to know about his love-child because he does so much to hide his sensitive side from Jack – and I totally understand Kate being loyal to Sawyer over something like that. Regardless of her love for Jack.

* The Kate / Juliet / Jack scene, where Jack is pretending to be asleep and Juliet basically tells Kate that Jack loves Kate, was bizarre.

* So then Christian shows up on the island with Aaron.  WHOA!  Miles sees him, but that does nothing to prove to me that he is actually standing there since I think that Miles sees beyond reality.   But what is “Christian” up to?  Is Claire gone forever?  Was it all part of the island’s intentions of giving Aaron to Kate?   Then again, I think the psychic made it pretty clear that the child needs Claire’s influence in his life… so “Christian’s” interference here cannot be a good thing.

* And then it all goes in the pooper when Jack says, “You’re not even related to him.”  Was it just me, or would the words to follow that line be, “but I am!”  That’s how it seemed based on the emphasis put on the “you’re”… which makes me wonder when/how Jack ultimately finds out that Claire is his half-sister.  Maybe Miles helps him with that since Miles could see the “Christian” when he led Claire away and Miles heard her call him “Dad”?  Still, I think Jack needs more that a ghostbuster’s description to make him believe that Christian is Claire’s father too.  


Thursday, 4/24/08!


The Shape of Things to Come


Lots of groundwork being laid in this episode (duh – look at the title):
 
* I immediately recognized the doctor from the boat.  I can’t wait to find out who slit his throat.  I’m going with Sayid.  Or Michael.

* When they were forcing Alex to turn off the fences – I was like, “Oh no, smokey is going to get into the barracks!”

* Ben wakes up in the Sahara.  Is he transporting himself somehow?  I think that’s a theory for how the polar bear ended up in the desert in Charlotte’s story.  You don’t just wake up in the desert wearing a parka.  And then to have to confirm the date and year…  And to boot, Ben is a bad*ss with that little black baton thing.

* The name on his jacket is Halliwax or Hallowax.  It doesn’t ring any bells for me.

* Ben’s alias in Tunisia:  Dean Moriarty is one of the protagonists in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road. Dean grew up in Colorado with a hobo / bum for a father, for whom he searches on many occasions. Dean's fanatic personality races from journey to journey and pulls other people along. His various fixations include drugs, women, intellectualism and finally, his father and family life. His marriage and divorce with Camille and Mary Lou, and his last affair with Inez, are a few examples of his romantic entanglements.

* Sayid is clearly being stalked by the paparazzi infatuated with the O6.  I’m happy that he reunited with Nadia – but ultimately very sad that she died, especially since her death was likely the result of her relationship with Sayid.  But I don’t understand the motivation of why Widmore would want to take her out.  Unless he just wants Sayid to be part of the “game”?  Or did Ben actually kill her, put the blame on Widmore in order to recruit Sayid?  Regardless, we now know what caused Sayid to start working for Ben.

* Ben’s bluff got called – big time.  He’s clearly not used to that.  Tragic that Alex was just shot like that.  Death count is rising rapidly.  A couple of random survivors, Carl, Danielle… Regardless, it was nice to see some real emotion from Ben.

* Ben says, “He’s changed the rules.”  Makes it definitely seem like a game now.  Anyways, he goes into that secret room.  And when he comes back – he was dirty, right?  I think that secret room is a major key to what is going on.

* Now – Ben comes out (all dirty) and then gives everyone a warning, meaning he knows what is about to happen and then BAM – smokey comes in and takes out all bad dudes.  So, does Ben control smokey?  Or does he know how to trigger it?  Or what to do to provoke it?  Did he actually go somewhere when he went into that room… in order to get it there?  Last season, Juliet said that they didn’t know what smokey was – and I believed her because she seemed genuinely freaked out when it seemed to take pictures of her.  Was she lying, or does just Ben know?  Or does he not really know, but he knows enough to get it to come?  AHHHH – my head is going to explode!

* Okay – so the doctor (who is dead) is still alive on the boat.  Awesome little time problem.  So, we will definitely see who slits his throat and tosses him overboard.   How awesome is Bernard that he understood the Morse Code!?! 
What does Jack want Bernard to do?

* Ben goes to Widmore.  We now know that they can’t kill each other.  But they really, really want to.  Revenge – Penny.  OMG.   More talk about the rules and who owns the island.   Is there something to Widmore’s comment about drinking, “When the nightmares started”?  Wonder what that is all about… what nightmares? 

Other thoughts:
 
* When did Sawyer become everyone’s protector???  He risks everything to get Claire and then he totally defends Hurley to Locke.

* I thought that Widmore’s voice sounded like the Emperor from Star Wars.  It was super creepy.

* Is Hurley’s “Australia is the key to the whole game” exclamation a clue for us?  Does it mean more than just something for Risk?

* I’m worried about Jack’s hints at illness.
 

Thursday, 3/20/08!


Meet Kevin Johnson

* It's about time that Locke hosted a townhall meeting to bring his people up to speed.  As much as I'm not really liking Miles - each time we see him, I just want to learn more about him.  I felt that in the few tiny scenes he had - he owned them.  I think he is becoming our next big manipulator!  Sidebar - when did the grenade get taken out of his mouth?

* Michael clearly attempts suicide to deal with the guilt of killing Ana Lucia and Libby, and also probably the idea that he sold out Jack, Sawyer and Kate in the process.  Of course, we learn the biggest source of his guilt is with Walt.  Seriously, what kind of parent tells his 10-yr-old kid that they committed murder to save him???

* His suicide attempt doesn't work - and it clearly should have.  Then Tom shows up to tell us why - "You have more work to do."  I believe these are the same words that Walt said to Locke right after Ben shot Locke and he was lying in the mass-Dharma grave.  So, apparently, the island can keep you alive until you achieve redemption.  Or maybe the island has a mad sense of self-preservation and will keep you alive for that.  But given the themes we keep seeing, I think it's the former.
Another Sidebar - maybe the grenade fell out of his mouth - but Miles also has "work to do" and the island saved him.

* Speaking of Tom, how the heck did he get off and back on the island?  We've been led to believe that the hatch explosion destroyed the underwater beacons ability to tell the submarine how to arrive back on the island.  Ben said that once the sub
left, it wouldn't be able to return.  So, he's got to be lying.  No big surprise.  Of course, Tom makes the comment that "some of us" can come and go - so maybe certain people in the hierarchy of others don't need the beacon to come and go.  Maybe there is an alternative to the sub?

* I kinda guessed that Tom was gay after he told Kate that she wasn't his type.

* So, as soon as we think that Ben staged the crash - we get undisputable information that it was Whidmore.  Dug up bodies.  Gross.  Of course, better than the alternative...

* Do you think it was important that the freighter's name was painted over during the loading stage - but that it's clearly visible once they are out on the water?  I just thought it odd... and there has to be a reason for it or why show it like that?  Maybe the name of the freighter is more important than we thought?  Kahana or Kahala.

* Again, Miles has a cool little scene when he pulls out his sixth sense and calls out Michael for not using his real name.  Very cool.  I want to know more!

* Frank is definitely not in on the true mission as he clearly thinks it would be great to find survivors - doesn't seem to know that the ultimate mission is to find Ben.

* Not sure if the code for the bomb (sweet little care package) is 71776 or 77176 - but they aren't our numbers so it probably doesn't matter, but I still wanted to mention it.

* Ben, again, what a punk for putting Michael through the agony of setting that bomb - only to have it be fake.

* I'm not sure if I understand Sayid's rationale for selling out Michael to Captain Gault.  Then again, Sayid has been off the island and isn't aware of the growing doubt surrounding the freightee's true mission.  Still... you would think that Sayid would have figured out that Michael was their "friend" on the freighter who opened the door when they were locked in the sick bay.  Not that leaving a door open can rebuild the trust after killing 2 people and swapping 3 buds for a kid - but it's a start, right?  :-)

* OK - so, Carl gets shot.  And then Danielle too (hint - when on the island, never tell someone you love them for the first time).  I'm not a huge Danielle fan - but she is sooo interesting, I'm really bummed that she's probably dead.  Anyways, at first, I totally thought that Ben set them up to keep Carl from getting Alex preggers and also to take Danielle out of the parental role.  But, now I'm guessing that Frank's return to the island was to bring some sharpshooters with him.  But even with that theory - how would they have known about the sanctuary and how would they have known that people would be on their way there????  Unless, some of the freightees are ex-others that have been cast out by Ben?  Or maybe some ex-Dharma people that knew of the existence of the sanctuary and instructed Whidmore's crew to stake it out as eventually, Ben would attempt to go there?

* Alex in a hostage situation will be very interesting.  We'll definitely learn more about Ben as his daughter is about to be used as a wicked pawn.

* So - in the end - what are the fates of Michael and Alex??


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I AM SOOOO P****D THAT THEY ARE CONSIDERING AARON ONE OF THE O6.    It makes me think that Kate is going to actually try to pass him off as her biological child that was on the flight with her.  Still, I believe that infants are logged onto the manifest even if they don't have a ticket.  When we flew with Roy last month, they definitely typed his name into the computer.  I think it's cr*p to consider him a passenger if he was in utero for the flight.  Maybe it's just something I'm going to have to get over, but it's going to take some time!!!


Thursday, 3/13/08!


Ji Yeon

* We meet Regina – finally!  She’s reading the book upside-down… is it because she’s distracted by her guard duties, or is she going a little loopy?

* What’s the problem in the kitchen?  Why would it have been necessary for Michael (YES – confirmation that he is the “spy”) to sabotage the kitchen?

* Sun’s the next of our O6 and I absolutely LOVE how the writers tricked us into believing that Jin is one of them too!  But I have to admit that I was a little suspicious about the panda purchase… in my mind, I was thinking – pandas seem much more a Chinese thing than a Korean thing.

* We also should have suspected that something was up when a) he wasn’t recognized by the shop owner – so far all O6-ers have been very recognizable, b) he was willing to miss being in the delivery room for this panda and c) the last year of the dragon (shopkeeper tried to provide the dragon alternative) was in 2000 – 2004 was the year of the monkey.

* I didn’t realize that the Tempest Station was just about the poisonous gas – I really did think that it was also a power station.  Oh well.

* Was anyone else hoping for a “check yes, no or maybe” type of note on the freighter?

* Any possibility that the pipe-banging was Morse code?  Or is there another crazy person on the boat… maybe Regina?

* Juliet really takes it to a whole new level to keep Sun at the beach so that she can leave the island.

* OK - back to Regina – she Virginia Woolf’s herself and jumps overboard.  The Captain – who we’re not supposed to trust (if we trust Ben), comes out shortly after her.  This leads me to believe that he had just talked to her.  So, what I’m wondering is if HE put her into some kind of trance-like state and convinced her to jump, or if she really had this “Cabin Fever” from being close to the island and decided to commit suicide.  If it is the “Cabin Fever” – I think that it is different than the mind-jumping.  The upside-down book reading becomes much more interesting after this scene.  Is she nervous and preoccupied about her future because the Captain is possibly going to be cleaning up the loose ends of his crew before returning to the “real world” or is she just going batty?

* Captain Gault – wonder if his name is Roger, Rick or Randy?  Probably not Randy since we already have a Randy in the Lost-verse.   Maybe Roy.  :)  (this is a reference to the R.G. inscription on Naomi’s bracelet)

* I’m pretty sure that we confirmed that the boat was there on Charles Whidmore’s orders – but the Captain definitely confirmed this for us.  The Captain also confirmed that the Flight 815 found at the bottom of the ocean was staged – but we pretty much already knew that.  What we were never sure about was WHO did the staging – and it sounds like it was Ben’s doing.  Not surprising since he would know that the rescue/recovery missions may have found the island if they had to keep looking for it.

* Who was the man in the hallway when Sun had her baby?  Maybe a spy for her father – who I would imagine she is estranged from after returning from the island.

* Nice blood splatter in the freighter… and nice cockroaches too.  NASTY!!!  I hope we find out who got their brains blown out during a Michael flashback.  Michael = Kevin Johnson.  Next week??  The look on Sayid’s face when he “met” Michael was fantastic!

* I have to say that the pay-off of this being a flash forward for Sun, but a flash back for Jin, was the payoff we needed since we already knew that Michael was going to be the spy.  Well done.|

* Jin’s redemptive moment was realized when he both acknowledged his sketchy past and forgave Sun for having the affair… maybe that will have something to do with why he stays behind.  I liked that Bernard played a role in it.

* I loved when Hurley showed up to see the baby – who by the way is soooooo adorable!  I don’t understand why he said, “good” when Sun told him that no one else was coming… it made me think he was going to start making out with her… a feeling that I didn’t like at all.

* So – the gravesite.  This part was awesome because it shows the date of his death as 9/22/04 – the date of the crash.  I thought at first that he was going to be one of the “Eight Survivors” that Jack referenced at Kate’s trial.  Otherwise, how does Sun explain her due date?   The date of conception was at the beginning of November.  So this part is interesting.

* In the end, I don’t think that Jin is dead – I think he is still on the island.  As I said before, I think that Sayid’s efforts are to protect the people that remain on the island, and that Jin is one of them.

* I think we still have 1 more O6 to go – I really, really hope they’re not counting Aaron.


Thursday, 3/6/08!

The Other Woman

 
* Harper Stanhope was a super bizzo to Juliet from the get-go. I was really surprised by how cold she was at the onset? Was she immediately viewed as a threat at just 1 week on the island? I suppose that the marrying pool is somewhat limited on the island, so maybe a new woman is always tempting to the men… but c’mon lady, get a grip. Granted, in the end, her initial instincts were right since Juliet didn’t seem to waste any time getting it on with Goodwin. But maybe Juliet wouldn’t have ever gone there if she had become friends with Harper.

* It was totally creepy when Harper showed up in the whispers and again disappeared into the whispers. I think she was hoping to kill Juliet by sending her to the Tempest station. I will be very interested to find out if this order truly came from Ben (who was imprisoned) or if Harper was acting alone. Neither one would surprise me, but I would love to find out how Ben did get that message out if it was a directive from him.

* The Tempest – electrical station that powers the island. Clearly, it is also a chemical site. I think that it is likely where Goodwin worked when he was still alive given the chemical burn when he first met Juliet.

* What was with the look between Kate and Charlotte? Kate totally looked like she recognized her – but they haven’t met yet, right?

* Charlotte is crazy violent. First knocking out Kate and then really getting into it with Juliet at the Tempest station.

* I think we all suspected that Ben and Juliet had some degree of a romantic past – but it is nice to have it confirmed as unrequited affection. Ben has been on the island too long and his moves show it. The longing stares while looking at cells under a microscope with the small brush of fingers is so passé.

* Unfortunately for Goodwin, Ben is just way too perceptive and can totally see through the whole, “just thought she might like a sandwich” line. Goodwin is so screwed. I hope we get to find out what Ethan may have done to piss off Ben to be the man selected to go to the lostie section of the plane.

* Since every book placed on the screen relates to the storyline, the fact that we’re seeing “Valis” again only emphasizes how important this particular book is to the show. I might have to order it.

* Harper said something about how Juliet “looks just like her.” I’m sure that this is a reference to Annie (“The Man Behind the Curtain”). I’m sure we’ll be finding out what happened to her soon.

* "Rabbit today? It didn’t have a number on it, did it?"   HILARIOUS!

* Yippee to all of us that agreed Whidmore is behind the freighter, assuming that Ben is telling the truth. And in this case, I believe him.

* Ben really tried digging into Juliet with the whole Goodwin passionate about Ana Lucia bit. Dude, you better just stop because your moves aren’t going to work!!!   But, he really crossed the line when he actually took her to his dead body. That was super gross and I can only imagine how bad it smelled since it had clearly been a couple of days. I think that before this, we had never seen him be downright cruel (unless you count gassing his own father-hmph).

* Ben saying, “You’re mine,” was way creepy.

* So – do we believe that Charlotte and Farraday were disabling the system to release the toxic chemicals?

* Between Day 27 and Day 94, Juliet really recovered from losing her boyfriend… is she just playing Jack or is it genuine?

* I think we’re starting to see why Hurley will regret his decision to go with Locke – he and Sawyer were pretty ticked to see Ben walking around the barracks. 


Thursday, 2/28!

* “N, I’ll always be with you, R.G.” Who is R.G.?

* Sayid is an O6!!! Yippee!!! I had hoped he would be one of them!

* I noticed the change in Mr. Avellino’s face immediately when Sayid identified himself and was wondering what freaked him out so much… until Sayid shot him. So, I guess his apprehension was warranted – but why did Sayid kill him?

* I like that Sayid called himself a “Head Hunter” when he introduced himself to Elsa.  Hahahaha.

* Locke can no longer find Jacob’s shack. The protective sand circle was still there – so where the heck is the shack? Maybe it’s there and we just can’t see it in the daylight?

* So, Faraday sets up the beacon and wants to call the boat to talk to Regina (possibly the “R” in R.G.?), Frank tells him to go ahead but to hang up if “McCowsky” answers the phone. This McCowsky person was mentioned already – but I don’t remember the context. Can anyone else remember?

* Thirty-one minutes later the payload shows up! Whoa!!! But the island isn’t delayed from the outside world since Faraday and Regina had a real time conversation with each other… it’s just the travel time that is messed up. Remember in 'Not in Portland' when they tell Juliet that the trip is “a little rough.” I’ll say…

* Hurley is a bad, bad boy for tricking Sayid!

* “Awesome. The ship sent us another Sawyer.” – Hurley, love it.

* Nice secret room in Ben’s house. Creepy with all those suits, cash and passports.

* Interesting that Kate’s reaction to Sawyer was to NOT trust him.

* Sawyer made an excellent point to Kate about returning to regular life and how she’ll end up in jail. But then, I’m guessing that when Kate returns as one of the O6 – she is regaled as a hero and pardoned. Maybe she spends a few days in jail while they work out the pardon, but then she’s let go.

* Anyways, I love knowing that while for now she’s going to “play house” with Sawyer – something happens to make her leave anyway. It’s like, when we saw Hurley I thought to myself, “and now he’s reunited with the O6.” Which is exactly what they wanted us to think – only the big event that ultimately separates him from Locke is still coming. And I wait with much anticipation!

* I did not see the Elsa playing Sayid thing coming. Clearly, we all knew he was working her to get to her boss, but I had NO CLUE that she was trying to find HIS boss as well! That was awesome!

* When Sayid said, “His name was on a list.” I totally got the chills and immediately suspected that he’s working for Jacob – the king of lists.

* Elsa had the same bracelet as Naomi. Clearly, they worked for the same boss. It made me think of Charlie’s Angels.

* Faraday and Charlotte both stay behind… is it because the island is intriguing to them or because they really want Ben. I get the feeling from these 2 that they are more scientist-y and care more about the bizarre island than in tracking down Ben. Miles really seemed to be the only one who was interested in that. Faraday stresses to Frank to follow the exact heading that they came in on. Probably something to do with the time issues/delays; maybe a portal.

* Total craziness – Ben is Sayid’s boss! Or maybe it is Jacob through Ben. Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap! I am so pissed that he is still around and still manipulating people! “Do you want to protect your friends or not?” was what he said to keep Sayid in line. I’m thinking that the “friends” he is referring to are the people STILL on the island because these people are still trying to find the island. He could be referring to the other members of O6 – but I think it has more to do with the people still on the island.

* And in the end, we still don’t know who “The Economist” is, even though it is the title of this episode. Maybe Charles Whidmore? Abbadon?

* I think we can add Ben to the possibilities of the “him” Kate referred to in TLG - which would really freak me out!

* Even though Sayid & Desmond left the island – they have to be coming back at some point. Or I supposed that just the helicopter needs to go back… either way, I hope that we get scenes on the boat. To see Michael again (Kate & my theory to Ben’s spy on the boat)! 


Thursday, 2/7!

Confirmed Dead

On my walk to work this morning, I had a theory about one of the O6.  If Desmond’s vision is right – Claire has to be one of them!


Here we go: