Episode 510 - He's Our You

Oooo, I wonder if we're going to get more insight to Ben as a kid.  He already seems sneaky and keniving (I didn't even come close to spelling that right)

- "The next level" is about the vaguest, lamest threat possible.

- Hmmm, so they're playing the "feel sorry for Ben" card again.  It's going to take ALOT to get me to buy into that w/ all he's done

- Like I said, I can't really feel bad for him: Ben lies to Syid about how Locke died, and even uses his murder to manipulate Syid into working for him again.  Such pure evil manipulation.  It makes me soooo mad!

- The drink Syid is drinking is the "McGutchen" or whatever is the same type of drink that Widmore told Desmond that he'd never be worthy of drinking

- This gal sitting next to Syid, I think she's the one who was sitting next to him on the plane headed back to the island...I think

- Ok, so the Juliet/Kate thing...I have a feeling Kate is going to find a way to get back together w/ Sawyer.  I say that only because everything is off and on

- See?  I told you Ben is still evil.  He's responsible for starting the fire and risking killing/injuring innocent people!  But what's the deal w/ Syid thinking his purpose is to take Ben to the "hostiles?"  Or is his intention to try to kill Ben, I wonder?

- Alright, so now the realy question is: is Ben actually dead?  If Faraday is right, then Ben is going to live thru this somehow (healing power of the Island?).  But if Faraday is wrong, Ben could actually be dead, which would be an interesting turn of events, and I'll be interested to see what results from that.

I would say that this was a thought-provoking episode, but not really many answers, not really any new amazing questions either.  Good episode, though.

Episode 509 - Namaste

- Oh my goodness!  Sun didn't make it back in time w/ the others?!

- And may I say again, IHATE Ben Linus!  "How would I know?"  That's just stupid.  Of course he knows, or at least has an idea.  But what I wonder is if this was something that he expected or not.

- Ah, and I LOVE Hurley.  "Uh, what?"  : )

- I'm not really finding many things to write about, but part of that is because I'm really enjoying seeing some pieces come together, like the Jin Syid encounter.  I gotta be honnest, I also feel kinda' bad for Juliet.  I know the "popular" thing is for Sawyer to get together w/ Kate again, but that's not really what I think I want.  Especially since Sawyer & Juliet have been together for 3 years, I kinda' think that that's what needs to continue.

- Wait, Faraday's not there "anymore?"  What happened, I wonder?  I know we saw him from the beginning of the season w/ the Marvin Candle guy, so this must be after that?

- Ha, go Sun!  Ben deserves every blow he gets, especially the ones to the head!

-Piere Chang, humm, I wonder if that's his real name.  He's had like 3 or 4 so far in all the different orientation videos.

- Did you notice that before Christian showed up that there were the whispers?  I still maintain that the whispers are a part of some sort of transportation/teleportation device.  Because it was Christian, maybe they aren't actually living breathing people that move, but then again, Locke was dead and is alive again, so maybe it is.  The point is that the events around the whispers still fit into my hypothesis.

- No!!  I totally didn't realize that we were at the end of the episode!  I knew that the kid was Ben, but I didn't figure that that's how they'd end the episode!  I guess the real question now is whether Faraday was right that they can't change the past.  If they can't, then Ben's going to be ok, and in fact, the losties being back in time might contribute somehow to him being the way he is later.  However, if they CAN change the past, then all bets are off and they could really do anything.

Yup, I still love this show!

Episode 508 - LaFleur

Ok, so I missed this episode last night and had to watch it on my computer today, so I wasn't typing as I was watching. These are the thoughts I have now looking back on the episode.

- I'm intrigued that the statue of the 4 toe-ed whatever is standing currently. I wonder what its a statue of and why its there.

- Is the baby that Amy has going to be an important character, or is that not the important part?

- Ok, so Horace. I remember that we've seen him before. Was he the guy that Ben's dad originally talked to to get to the island? We've also seen him as his "dead self", I think as he appeared to Locke. The only other person I can think of that he could have appeared to was Hurley, but I'm pretty sure it was Locke, though I can't remember why or what exactly their interraction was. I'm thinking...season 3?

- Sawyer has gone thru such a transformation from the beginning of the series! He takes charge of the group and instead of lying to Richard, ends up telling him the truth. He knows he has the upper hand as he knows more than Richard does, but I still find it interesting that he tells the truth.

- What about Sawyer and Juliet! I wouldn't have predicted that before this episode. I did see it coming in this episode. I'm sure there are many a Sawyer fan that are not too happy right now!

- Ok, so what happened, what changed so that the babies started dying on the island? When did the problem arrise? Could it be a byproduct of the gas, whatever it was, that Ben released to help kill the Dharma initiative folks? I have a feeling its something that Ben caused, which would explain why he wanted Juliet to fix the problem so badly.

- Of course, the dramatic ending with Sawyer seeing Kate for the 1st time in 3 years, and not telling Juliet that Jack's crew came back to the island. Sparks and tension will be soon coming, I'm sure!

- Ok, and what's w/ the 3 years thing? Even though Sawyer's group has been traveling thru time and Jack & his crew were in the future, they both aged 3 years from when Jack & Co. left the island. Interesting how the Island keeps their time continuity in that way, even though they are in 1977.

All in all a good episode. I wasn't into it as much as some of the previous ones, but it was good to fill in some gaps and to give us an idea where we're going and the issues that will need to be tackled next!

Side Note: I'm now beginning to try to figure out what the last season will be about. I'm wondering if it will be "the war" between Ben & Widmore that seemed to be hinted at earlier this season...

Episode 507 - The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

  Ok, I missed the first few minutes, but I'll pick up where I came in...

- So Widmore found Locke when he arrives back, huh?  Interesting that he remembers Locke from when he came into their camp.

-  Interesting that both Widmore and Ben want Locke to bring everyone back to the island.  They are not on the same side, so they must both have different motives.  If I have to side w/ someone, I'd have to pick Widmore, but that's only because I know for sure how evil Ben is; I don't yet know how evil Widmore is.  :)

- Oooo, Locke has to be in a wheelchair again.  That's got to be really hard for him!

- Sayid's comment cuts to the core of Locke: having no one to come back to off the island.

- I feel lame about this, but didn't actually remember that the Matthew character (the guy from Fringe) was the one who told Locke to go on his walkabout.  I did remember that he was in the hospital and that he worked for Widmore, but not that crucial piece.  So glad this series is written so well!

- When Kate says "Look how far you've come," I'm not sure if she was being serious or sarcastic...sacasm makes the most sense, but her tone wasn't very sarcastic, at leas I didn't think.

- Ok, so I guess I picked the right side.  Ben, yet again, shows how incredibly evil he his.  For some reason he doesn't want Eloise to see Locke (or to have Locke see Eloise), so he kills him!  Right after he talking him out of killing himself.  That means that's an important bit of info, since it changes Ben's plan

-  I have to say, its not often I'm super confused, but the ending of this episode has definitely confused me.  So Locke's alive (which we knew from last week's trailer), and apparently everyone else from the plane also made it to the island, but now there's this other guy reading Dharma files...and I think I missed who is is from the beginning?  So Locke is alive again, but probably not in the same time that Jack & Co. are now in (70s, I think), but Ben (aka Mr. Evil) is there and injured and Locke remember's that he killed him

  Interesting things are afoot!  

Episode 506 - 316

Oh my gosh I'm so excited!  I just watched episod 505 (last week's) in the enhansed version since there's no youth group tonight, so I'm super stoked for this week's episode!!!

- Oh, we're back to the very beginning of the whole show!  The first shot w/ Jack on the Island...except we're not.  Jack didn't go find Hurley drowning elsewhere on the island, he went to be beach.  Is this a dream?  An alternate reality?  Oh gosh!  No!  They actually made it back to the island!  Kate & Hurley are there, so I'm going to assume that they all are back, and now we have to find out how they all agreed to go back...

- Oooo, DHARMA symbol on the door Eloise opened under the church that leads to the pendulum chamber

- Called The Lamppost.  Interesting.  So we're still entangeled in the DHARMA Initiative.  I'm sooo loving this!!

- I wonder why they have to be on that one flight, not any others.  

- Ok, so how does Eloise know all this stuff?  My guess: "the man" she talked about who figured out how to get to the island was probably Dan, her son.  Although, I don't know how that works w/ his age and stuff, but since time isn't constant, that's less of a worry.  : )  It could also be Widmore, the "Marvin Candle" character, or someone else we don't know yet

- In a more intellectual level, I'm feeling like the end of Season 4 was the climax of the whole show, as now everything is a result of them leaving the island.  Could be wrong, but I could see that being the case

- How ironic that we see Ben in the position to make it look like he's praying.  He's the last character on the whole show that I'd expect to see genuinely praying

- Ok, so what happened to Aaron?  I thought Ben was the one who sent the laywer after him and therefore the laywer should have backed off.  Then again, maybe Ben still took Aaron, either to make sure Kate went back, or to keep him for himself, kinda' like w/ Alex

- So I wonder if Ben is "supposed" to go back or not.  I'm sure he's going to try, but I'm not sure that he should be included in the group that needs to go back to recreate the original situation (since he wasn't on the original flight).

- BTW: the airline they are supposed to be on to get back to the island is one that was mentioned in a previous episode this season when someone saw an artifact from that airline.  My guess is that, in all the time travel, at some point they group left on the island moved forward to after Jack & crew arrived back on the island again

- I do wonder, however, now that Locke has fixed the wheel that was causeing the time-skipping, what time did the island end up staying at?  IE when are all the people left on the island?

- Oh come one Jack, you gotta read the letter!! I want to know what it says!  I'll be that's the scrap of paper Jack had in his hand when he arrived back on the island at the beginning of the episode

- So, here's my hope: the plane doesn't actually crash, but rather the island magically gets all the right people from the plane onto the island, and that means Ben gets left on the plane w/ the other passengers he doesn't care about.  That would pretty much make my day!

- I really thought this whole season would just be about how they got back to the island.  Since they are back now, I guess I'm wrong

- Well, I guess I got the answer to my question about when the islanders are.  They are back w/ the DHARMA Initiative (I should have guessed that since we already saw Dan back in that time way back at the beginning of the season)

Have I ever mentioned that I love this show?!

Episode 505 - This Place is Death

-I want to know more about this smoke monster!  I can't believe people actually went down that hole after it!

-So, the smoke monster is in fact a security system, and its guarding the temple specifically.  I wonder if that's the same temple that Ben told the Others to go to at the end season 3 as they were preparing for the boat people to come...

-What's the deal w/ Charlotte speaking Korean?  That seems a bit too convienient for the plot problem of no one knowing how to fully communicate w/ Jin

-...althought it is incredibly funny that she also speaks Klingon.  : )

-Wow, Ben doesn't get angry very often.  I think this is only the 2nd time we've seen him genuinly angry.  That means he's either telling the truth about helping them, or he's an even amazingly good liar, even more amazingly good at it than I thought.  Then again, he might be angry not because of what he did to help them, but rather because they are keeping him from doing what he secretly is trying to accomplish

-This season definitly does have the feeling that we're getting more answers than new questions and that we're heading for some closure.  At least that's the feeling I'm getting overall, especially in this episode (probably w/ the revelation of Charlotte having grown up on the island and meeting Dan in the past!)

-Ok, so if Charlotte died on the island, does that mean she'll appear to someone else at some point like everyone else who's died on the island?  Or maybe...some other really good idea that I can't remember anymore

-Eloise Hawking...she must be the lady from Desmond's vision thing that was under the church.  But now, I'm wondering, why did Ben make sure HE was the one to move the island instead of Locke, who was supposed to move it (news to me, that's for sure)

- So, is the wheel that's "off its axis" the reason that everyone who's left on the island is skipping thru time, I wonder...

OH MY GOSH!!! They're just going to leave us hanging like that?!  

-Desmond knows the lady, Eloise, from his vision, but he hasn't said anything yet.  

-She's letting them go back w/o the rest of those who left, apparently, she seems to know more about this whole thing than even Ben does, and seems to be in charge of Ben, which is saying alot

-She's Dan's mother, which is crazy (though I think I guesed that as a posibility already) because its yet another way everyone's interconnected

Wow, even though this episode wasn't quite as exciting during the main portion of it, the last 5 minutes were amazingly great!!

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.