Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Episode 504 - The Little Prince

Ok, so I missed the first half, so I'll update those after I watch those tomorrow...

- So, those other guys w/ the boats that Locke & crew took, I wonder who they are. I'm gathering that we're now in the future. I would venture a guess that it's people somehow connected to Widmore, just 'cause he wants to get back. I am intrigued by the name of the Indian airline water bottle thing, though. Did another plane crash? Did they drop out of the sky? How did they find the island since it moved/is moving?

- Claire's mom is the one who's trying to get Aaron! How does she know its her granddaughter, I wonder? I would venture a guess that either Ben or Widmore is involved in her knowing somehow...

- Hmmm, so Claire's mom doesn't actually know, and the laywer is actually working for Ben. I knew it was conneted to Ben/Widmore somehow...

- Wait a minute...that was Jin. Is he still alive, or are we in the past somewhere? I originally thought that this was the french mission that Ruseau was on (and it may still be), but if that's the case, is this Jin in the past somehow, or is it Jin from the boat that blew up, but he didn't actually die, and he's moving thru time w/ the rest of everyone and that's how he got there?

- Ha! I was right, it is Ruseau!!

Now I need to go watch the first half that I missed and update w/ any other pieces of interest. Oh, and I have to go to work in the morning too.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Episode 503 - Jughead

Alright, so this week I'm actually set up. I'm on my laptop watching TV, so you're getting the play by play as I think of it, not just after the show's over. Here you go!

- Oooo, they are back in time w/ the young "others". I think that's really cool! Of course Richard is still the same age by whatever weird way that works which we still don't know. But I'm assuming that this is old enough that Ben isn't around yet, though we don't know yet. Locke seems to know when it is based on the gun, but got cut off. Hmmm...

- Interesting that Juliet knows that Richard will be there, even though its in the past.

- Locke thinks the others are "his people," huh? Wow, he's taking on the whole leadership role thing pretty seriously, even though its in the past.

- It's pretty convienient that the flashes/time shifts are not happening as quickly now, now that they need to spend more time with these people and gain more info. : )

- Anyone else notice the painting on the wall of Widmore's office? A polar bear. : )

- You gotta' love Sawyer's line "Aw, you told her?!" : )

- Oh my gosh!!! Charles Widmore was on the island in the 50s!! He WAS there way before Ben. So the question now is: is he a good guy? Does he actually have more right to be on the island than Ben? I would guess that they are both bad. Maybe they met when Ben met Richard and agreed to help the others take down the Dharma initiative. If that's the case, there's much more to their back story than we'll find out quickly.

- Oh, Desmond & Penny named their son Charlie. That's really cool. I also admire his committment to Penny, willing to give everything up for her, and Penny's understanding and willing to support him in his weird endevor.

- Hmm, I wonder what's gong on w/ Charlotte. Her blood thing came right after they "flashed" through time again. Obviously its tide to that somehow, but why her and not any of the rest of them I'm still baffled.

- I wonder if Daniel's mother is the creepy lady from Desmond's time experience and the one Ben consulted w/ the giant pendulum. Not sure, but I think it might be the case. It'd make sense, I guess. I could also be totally off base.

To sum it all up, I'm really enjoying this season. I'm not quite as jazzed as season 4, but it's still great and I'm enjoying the time travel aspects quite alot. Can't wait for next week!

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Episode 502 - The Lie

I realized one of the reasons I'm not quite as long winded this season: I'm not taking notes while I watch. Yes, I realize that sounds silly, but I did take notes while watching last year. This year, at least this week, I just don't have the energy for it.

So now, here are my meager thoughts:

- I'll start w/ the end. So the lady in the church is the lady from Desmond's time travel experience way back when. At that time I didn't think she was real...well she is! She seamed pretty ominous too. And down in her lair she had a pendulum going and the marks it was making looked like what happens as the earth spins on its axis.

- As much as I know the way the writers on LOST work, I still don't trust Ben. Not that I think Widmore is better, but as Ben was trying to convince Hurley to go with him, I couldn't help but be glad for Hurley's choice...except for that's exactly what Anna-Lucia told him not to do

- Which, btw, is kinda' freaky. What's with the dead people. Are they maybe not really dead? That's what seems to be implied about Locke. And Anna-Lucia says that Libby says hi. Does this mean that there's hope for Hurley to get together w/ Libby sometime in the future of LOST? That'd be cool.

- As a side note, the whole thing w/ Hurley being able to see dead people and they tell him things he needs to do, but no one else really sees what's going on reminds me of a friend of mine, Carl. I know that sounds weird, but he knows what I mean. : )

- Sawyer and his shirt. I don't remember if this came to me in this episode or the previous one, but I think him not having his shirt and wanting one so desparately symbolizes his vulnerability and his desire to be able to put up some of his defences again. I think this came to me when Sawyer had Dan gripped and was talking about how everyone he cared about was on the boat/chopper.

That's all I can think about for now. Perhaps I'll post more as I think about more. Hope you enjoy.

Episode 501 - Because You Left

Sorry for the delay in posting, I had something more important than LOST come up last night.

I don't have a ton of thoughts from the 1st episode of season 5, but here's what I do think:

-I'm still really enjoying LOST! Truthfuly I've been a bit afraid that season 5 won't live up to all that season 4 was. While there's still much left before I'll know for sure, this first episode gives me a good feeling.

- I love that they're still doing time travel stuff, and actually more intense now! It seems that they're taking a deterministic approach (which they hinted to previously w/ Desmond), which I do find a bit more interesting story-wise than the Back to the Future model where you can change the future. I'm interested to see how it all ends up, though.

- So my current hypothesis relates to the very beginning of the episode w/ the Candle/Hanso guy. When he was talking about all the energy stored behind that wall and that if it was released it would cause issues or whatever; maybe that's why Alex was able to be killed and Widmore was able to break "the rules;" because perhaps when the hatch blew up it released that energy. On the other hand, it could also be what Ben did that released that energy and that's why Dan is all concerned that they need help.

- Last thought: can I just say that Hurley isn't very bright in this episode? I mean, why pick up the gun in the first place, and then to hold it and look over the side at the dead guy? Really, common, that's silly even for Hurley.

Those are my thoughts for now, I'm going to try to get the other one watched tonight before bed, if I can stay up that long.

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Episode 412

My thoughts on the 3 hour season finale...

- When Sun is talking to her father about taking over his company, she says that there are 2 people responsible for Jin's death. The first one is her father, but she doesn't mention the second person. Who might it be?

- I LOVE the way they started this episode! The picked up right where they left off at the end of the season 3 finale. Its really clever and gives us lots more info, like...

- So the guy in the coffin at the end of season 3 is Jeremy Bentham. But who the heck is he?!

- They've been off the island for 3 years! That's much longer than I thought.

- Kate helps save Ben. That was a bit of a surprise. She must really want to get off the island to stick her neck out for him. But I didn't think she wanted off since she's still wanted.

- We know that those on the island are still alive: Hurley suggests that when talking to older Walt, saying that the Oceanic 6 lied to protect those still on the island (though there may be some people who are dead)

- So it seems that having the Oceanic 6 lie about what really happened was actually Locke's idea, and thereby Jack's suggestion to the 6. That's totally not what I thought.

- I love that we have confirmed time tavel! Yes, I'm geeky, ok?

- Ben really doesn't care about the people on the boat, he cares more about his revenge. Yet another confirmation that he's evil and I hate him.

-Charlotte is looking for where she was born? So she thinks she was born on the island? I wonder if she's a bigger piece to this story than we think...

- Wow! What a switch for Sawyer! He sacrifices himself for the others in the chopper. He totally wouldn't have done that in the first season. I wonder what he whispered to Kate? I think it probably has something to do with what Kate was doing for Sawyer in an earlier episode that made Jack all upset when she wouldn't tell him what she was doing for Sawyer.

- So Jeremy Bentham isn't actually his name; it must be someone else that we actually know...

- Ok, I'm officially not happy... it looks like Jin is actually dead. Not only that, but Sun had to see him still there left on the boat and then the whole thing blow up! That's horrible!! And for the icing on the cake, The icky, nasty Christian was there at the end w/ Michael. Have I mentioned that I don't like Christian?

- I'll bet several of you figured this out earlier than I did, but when John talked about moving the island, maybe he was talking about moving it in TIME not in SPACE. That could explain why Ben sorta' blew up the "vault" which appears to be the time machine.

- Whoever moves the island can never come back...is Ben telling the truth? Can he really not ever come back to the island? I have trouble believe that. I wonder if its another half-truth Ben's so good at.

- And I'm a bit frustrated that we don't actually get to see how Ben gets off the island. Darn! But seeing Ben "move the island" is really interesting. His comment to Jacob that he hopes he's happy seems to fit the idea that Ben & Jacob haven't exactly seen eye to eye on how to run things. Also the expression on his face, almost looks like sadness, and I'd think we're supposed to think its because he knows he's leaving the island. We'll see.

- Oh my goodness, the island actually disapeared. This season is definitley way more sci-fi than any previous season.

- Penny & Desmond reunite!!!! That's so freaking cool! It's horrible that Jin dies, but its balanced in many ways by the reconnection of Penny & Des.

- Jeremy Bentham is LOCKE!!!!!!!

- And they have to ALL go back in order to get back to the island? Really? So is the next season going to be all about the 6 + Locke trying to get back to the island?

Wow, so I totally loved seaons 4. Its my favorite by far so far. Just so sad that we now have to wait until next January, over 6 months, before the next episode.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Episode 411

Just a few thoughts on this last episode (I don't have much steem this week)

-Interesting that Michael still can't die: when the soldier guy on the ship trys to shoot him in the head, it doesn't work

- Horace, the Darhma Inititive guy that John sees in the dream says "Hello there" just like John does. I know I've seen the Horace character before, but I don't remember exactly where. I wonder if he's somehow related to John

- Richard finds John right after he's born! That's pretty interesting. Though he seems to be frustrated that John isn't what he's supposed to be, which is too bad. However, the big tall black guy that wheels his wheelchair later, the guy who works for Widmore and organized the whole ship expedition back to the island, he finds Locke and recognizes that he's important...

- ...though he also says that John is going to owe him, which concerns me

- Not significant, but funny. When Hurley askes what happened to the Darhma guys, Locke says "He did," referring to Ben. : )

- Oh yeah, and Widmore's man is the one who gave John the idea of a walkabout. Interesting, and the interconnections continue!

- I'm actually a little annoyed that Christian Shepherd (Jack's dad) is around, not dead, and claims to be speaking for Jacob. I want to see Jacob and find out what his deal is. Christian just bothers me, and that Claire trusts him bothers me too. Though her trust in him is probably why she's willing to let Aaron go.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Episode 409

Ok, so I have to be honnest, I LOVED this new episode of LOST!!! It's so nice to have the show back on again, and tonights episode did not dissapoint (unilke the last episode).

Here's my thoughts on the episode, as always, also posed on the google group.

-As the LOSTies are playing the game of risk (which I guessed, btw), you couldn't have missed the reference to Australia and how its "the key to the whole game." I can't believe that that's just referring to the game. It probably has some veiled meaning/connection to the actual country and why the LOSTies came from their before crashing.

- In the first flash forward, we see Ben's jacket (in the desert, which is interesting, yeah?) with the name Halowax on it. Edgar Halowax is the guy in the orientation videos. Interesting connection, yeah?

- Also, I think Ben used the transportation device we've yet to see to get to the desert, the same one used to transport the polar bear to Tunisia we saw earlier in the season.

- When I saw the missile hit Claire's house, I wasn't convinced she was dead...at least not yet. If she does die, I think it'll come later, possibly next season. Jury's still out on whether she'll actually die, or just be prevented from leaving the island w/ Aaron.

- The date Ben arrives in Tunisia is October 24, 2005, over one year after the plane crash. Interesting that he has to double check what the date is. This is either a reference to time travel, or a time envelope that surrounds the island. Something like that, I'm still not sure on the details (though very intrigued)

- The name Ben gives to the hotel clerk is Moriarty, probably an allusion to Moriarty, the arch nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. The LOST writers are VERY well read!

- I think its interesting to watch the story of Sayid unfold...he finds Nadia, marries her, then she gets killed, and that's what initially intices him to kill for Ben. Though again, Ben is the master manipluator and is really pulling the strings there.

- So I'm confused: was it Ben or Widmore who staged the fake crash of Oceanic flight 815? I originally thought it was Widmore, then Ben, and now it seems to be Ben again. Though I do realize that Ben is a liar, so he may not be telling the truth here. I'll need to re-watch the episode where the captian talks to the LOSTies about it.

- As much as I'm sad that Alex gets killed (she's about the most innocent person on the island), I have to say I get mild satisfaction that Ben, the master manipulator, loses control and his manipulation doesn't hold up. He was betting on the shooter to give up, but he calls Ben's bluff instead.

- Which leads to another interesting point/comment, when Ben remarks that "he changed the rules." I wonder what the rules are. We later find out that Charles Widmore is the "he" that changed them, but why can he do that? Does he have some form of control on the island, even though he can't find it?

- With the black smoke, first, that's the nastiest we've seen it so far. It was huge, and it was mad. Second, did Ben actually call it in the sense of being in control of it, or did he do something to anger it or motivate it to attack those guys? Ben always wants to appear in control, but I'm wondering if maybe he's not perfectly in control. I dunno

- Also interesting that Sawyer cares so much for the other LOSTies. He goes after Claire, he sticks up for Hurley. Its quite a switch. It'd be interesting to see if it could be traced back to him killing Locke's father; if getting that emotional baggage taken care of has freed him up to care for those around him. Either way, he's definatly a leader now.

-Why can't Ben kill Widmore? Is it because he wants to kill Penny first? Is it part of "the rules?" So many new questions!

I loved this episode! There were answers and new information, as well as new questions. The perfect balance of the two that keeps me both satisfied and wanting more!