Category — LOST BLOGS

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ABOVE: Today’s LOST crew putting on their best LOST faces, (except Pastor T, who apparently missed the memo! Strike a pose, big guy!) –Oh, and some girl with a HUGE mouth came over and crashed the party, that was kinda weird.

SO WHAT ARE MY TOUGHTS? FUNNY YOU ASK!

THE INFAMOUS EYE: Well we’ve seen many a episode begin with a big ol eyeball, this time it was Locke’s. At last we are back on the other side of the island, finding the fate of our button pushers. Locke is lying in the jungle, just waking up, and sees a crazed, naked Desmond running past him. He has the use of his legs, something some spoilers (or should I say FOILERS foretold he would not have). On the other hand, he has lost his voice instead.

LOCKE AND CHARLIE: Locke goes to the beach camp and tries to communicate with Charlie, but not before tearing apart his tent for supplies to build something else. Charlie, as is his custom lately, was pretty rude and sarcastic towards Locke, maybe even a bit antagonistic. Locke ignores his comments and continues to motion and write out a basic message: He needs Charlie to guard a sweat tent, you know, so he can “speak to the island”. Well okay, so now the roles turn a bit as LOCKE ingests some sort of nasty guano looking hallucinogenic to bring him into his intense dream state in the sweat tent. (Zero tolerance policy, haha, nice Charlie!) In all, Charlie ventures into danger with Locke, and this time his younger companion is not injured. In fact, I might think that the relationship between them is building again?

DREAM STATE: Boone, representing Locke’s spirit guide of some sort, appears in the sweat tent. He has a sort of all knowing way about him, (I guess that’s cause he’s like dead?), and asks Locke to follow him. Of course, Locke will have to use his old wheelchair, because in the dream state, he cannot use his legs. His voice, he is told by Boone, will return when he has something important to say. So as Boone escorts Locke around in his chair, their surroundings turn into the Oceanic Airlines terminal, where Locke has to figure out who is in great danger that he must save. Not Charlie and Claire, the couple with the baby- they are okay, for now; not Hurley, an attendant; not Sun or Jin –Sayid taking care of that, and not Sawyer, Kate and Jack, passengers checking in with the sinister Ben through the security check –though he will help them later; and not Desmond, the pilot. After riding the escalator to follow Boone, Locke finds himself in a pool of blood and Boone, now covered in blood as well, throws him Mr. Ecko’s staff. “Clean up the mess you’ve made” Boone tells him. They’ve got him. Who? A scary growling face beckoning Locke back to reality reveals to him that it is a polar bear who has Ecko. He emerges out of the tent, or more precisely falls backwards out of it in fear, to tell Charlie (with his hoarse voice) that he is going to save Ecko.

*This was a trippy dream scene, the best part of the whole episode. I still find it strange how much Locke has dipped into drugs, from the stuff he put on Boone to his own sweat tent journey, as well as the back flash of tonights epi. He seems to believe that these drugs he had used on Boone and now himself will help “guide” them. Yet he is so against Charlie using any. I dunno about that!

POLAR BEARS: So there are more polar bears than the one killed by Sawyer, and whether they were summoned by a psychic Walt or not seems unclear. Following its tracks, Locke and Charlie find the bear’s cave and, after burning the bear’s face to make it let go of Ecko, do manage to rescue Ecko and get him back the beach.

HURLEY: Before finding the bear cave, they run into Hurley, on his trek back from the other side of the island. I can’t remember, but I don’t think he explained the thing about Michael being responsible for the death of Anna and Libby, but he does tell them about Fake Henry (we now know as Ben) being the leader, and about the capture of their three friends and Hurley’s duty to warn the rest of them. Locke, rather than going after this right away, stays on target with his current plan to save Ecko. Hurley then bumps into…

DESMOND: a naked Desmond, much to Hurley’s embarrassment. Desmond and he exchange a few current events, updating each other a tad on what each one missed. Desmond then says that Locke will save Kate, Sawyer, and Jack, BECAUSE HE SAID SO IN HIS SPEECH. Hurley recalls no such speech. Hurley- strange look on his face.

GETTING BACK TO THE BEACH: Locke and Charlie, dragging along a badly wounded Ecko, make a rest stop. While Charlie is away, Locke takes a moment to say some words of regret and apology to a passed out Mr. Ecko. But Ecko awakes and tells him it is not too late to save them. When Charlie returns, Ecko shows no signs of having just been conscious.

FINALLY BACK ON THE BEACH: Claire, Hurley, and new characters Nikki and Paulo (two emerging full-time characters, fellow Losties, played by Kiele Sanchez- of WB’s Related- and Rodrigo Santoro –of Love Actually) gather around the returning rescue crew. Locke quickly steps in to delegate, followed by a short monologue about his intents to find and free Jack, Sawyer, and Kate. Hurley appears shaken about this, looking back and forth between Locke and Desmond (who is wearing an XXXL tie-died t-shirt tossing rocks into the ocean). De ja vu, he mentions to Charlie when he says, “that was quite a SPEECH”. Could it be our little Aussie Desmond has achieved super natural powers of foreseeing the future during the hatch implosion? (Funny, Hurley could have these powers to, as he first asked Desmond if he was going to turn into the Hulk or something now!) I think this is an interesting twist, however maybe a bit unrealistic and sci-fi for a show attempting to be more scientifically based.

THE FLASHBACKS: The show was a Locke centric, although the flashbacks were not all that revealing. Locke picks up a hitchhicker, befriends him and allows the young man to come be a part of a little farming commune. This seems to be Locke’s new substitute family. The new friend, named Eddie, stays for 6 weeks and at last asks Locke about the guns in the back of the truck the day they met, as well as the large greenhouse no one can enter where large supplies of fertilizer travel in each day. Locke goes in to speak with the leaders of the communce about letting Eddie in on everything, only to find them frantically packing the evidence of their MARIJUANA GREENHOUSE because new information has revealed that Eddie is not some aimless wanderer, he is undercover FBI. Locke, faced with losing his new family, urges them to let him fix it. His idea of fixing it is to shoot him while they are out hunting. Instead, he confronts him at gun point, asking whether or not he had been picked. Eddie confesses that he was, and that he knows Locke won’t shoot him because he is a “good person”. He walks away, and the last we see if Locke taking a breathe and lowing the gun a smiggen.

FINAL WORD: I really thought we might see how Locke lost the use of his legs in this episode, but alas, we are left wondering. Darn. I can’t help but imagine why in the world these flashbacks were all that significant. And will we see Eddie some where else? Like maybe Kate’s ex-husband? Hmmmmmm

Found a cool trinket:

Lostpedia- a wikipedia for all things lost- has a good article on the interactive game The Lost Experience, worth reading as it reveals some clues about the backstory of the Others/ Dharma, the hanso foundation, Paik Heavy Industries (Sun’s father), Widmore Industries (Desmond’s girl Penny Widmore’s father), and so on.

http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/The_Lost_Experience_revelations

You can also follow any of the hyperlinked words for more and more threads, or search if you want comprehensive info on a certain person or idea.

Viv’s Zaany Re-Cap:

Sun’s backflash: As a young girl, she breaks the glass ballerina, then lies about it to her father, even when the maid will be fired for it. As an adult, she is sleeping around (finally, they reveal it!) with Jae Lee (something like that?). Who’s at the door? Mr. Paik! Sun’s crazy-ars father! Busted Sun! But will you ever tell Jin? Nope. Rather let your father force Jin into “delivering a message” to this man who shamed the family. Jin doesn’t go through with it, though DANG that Jin can fight!. Back in the car, Sun’s lover’s body falls onto Jin’s car. Did he jump, was he pushed? Will we ever know? Jin is learning more english, back on the island. He seems to know when Sun is betraying him. Does he know, has he known all along, about her affair? (He did tell her lover to leave and never make contact. Sounds like he knew to me.)

On the island:

Juliette: your soup tastes like crapola so shove it up your bootie or go give it to Ben! As he said, you’ve never made him soup before! I don’t trust this chica one bit. Sawyer is right – she wouldv’e shot Kate. She looks all sweet but she ain’t. She is like that to get Jack to cooperate, that’s it.

Jack: poor guy, he really looks like crud! But ol’ Ben has a little convo to convince him that they still have contact with the outside world, showing him a tape of the Red Sox winning the world series. He does this why? So that Jack will begin to change his “ad…perspective” (what was he going to say originally???) Ben needs Jack to think of the Others as real people, good people, friends? Why? So that when the time comes, Jack will cooperate. With what? Oh, I can only imagine. One thing is for sure -Jack might begin to think about helping them with the promise of being brought back “home”. Will he be a leader and ally for the Others so that the losties will trust them? Or to overtake the losties? Jack, the one every one depends on, will he join forces with the OTHER side???

Ben/Juliette/Colleen: Collen, a new character, walks in on the other two talking. “Am I interrupting something?” Hmmm, sounds a bit jealous. Love triangle? We know Ben and Juliette are over, and we see Colleen peck/kiss “Boss” (as Sawyer liked to call him while working), so what is this all about? Well, Colleen is now shot by Sun. Though she probably won’t die because… SPOILER ALERT

***Colleen is said to have her own backstory, as a security gaurd***

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Sayid: I knew you weren’t dumb enough to camp on the shore! Setting up a trap, good one! Too bad they snuck COMPLETELY past you and took over the boat with poor Sun (though her lying self isn’t my favorite character by far) in it.

Jin: Have you known of the affair? Are you sure this is your baby? Why are you so “I am man, you must obey”? Hmm? Hmm? But thanks for not killing Sun’s lovebug, cause you are a GOOD PERSON!

Sawyer: Stop looking at Kate’s —! Ha ha! Was the kiss for real, or were you just sizing up the fighter’s of the group? Good move, though.

Waiting for a mistake: I almost thought Sawyer was getting an upperhand until sure enough, he and Kate’s convo is being displayed before Ben (?) on monitors. They hear everything. That means they heard Carl’s escape attempt before he did it. Hmmm

 Carl/Alex: Alex appears behind the bushes to talk to Kate without the others seeing her. She asked Kate about Carl, saying “you weren’t even suppossed to be in that cage.” Perplexing. Was Carl an Other? A Decoy or a rebel? A tailie? Strangest theory I have heard is that he is the little boy from the tail section, Zach, haven undergone a growth experiment. Supporting details point to his shirt being the same and too small? I don’t know if this idea holds water, but its there. (By the way, Carl is the one who was in Sawyer’s adjacent cell last episode, attempted an escape, and we have not seen again.)

 As for those (unnamed) persons who would like to claim that Lost sucks now because they aren’t answering ANY questions ever, I will cut and paste from username “filextv” on the ABC message boards:

“They have been [answering questions]: how the plane crashed (not pushing the button), is the button pushing really doing anything (yes), where is alex (with the others), where was clare taken (medical hatch), how the beechcraft got there (nigerian drug smugglers), are they visible to the outside world (normally, no), can you sail off the island with knowing exactly where to go (no), what happened to the tail section (answered), goodwin and ethan are others (yes), and on and on”

Anyway, tonights epi was fabulous and got the plot moving along. Next week, we go to the other side of the island, where Locke, Ecko, and Desmond emerge from the hatch. (I hear Desmond’s necki!)

Tonights episode, a Jack centric in regards to back story, actually opened with a different character’s flashback. In a very season two premiere-esque way, we see Juliet, a soft spoken, doe eyed blond (who interestingly enough has an intense right swing), wake up, play a CD, the song “Downtown” attempting to cheer her up as she struggles to hold her composure while staring in a mirror. Then the beep, but this time it’s not Desmond’s computer counting down – it’s, it’s, oh, it’s just the oven timer. The muffins, however, are burnt, so the timer is a bit off.

What proceeds in the first segment of tonight’s show is a gathering at Juliet’s home of about 8-10 people in the living room discussing a Steven King book (Carrie), which every one keeps saying if Ben were here they would not be discussing this book. Juliet interjects that this is her favorite book, and Ben is not there, and “don’t we have a free will even though we are” – she gets cut off by rumblings, major ones, and shorter after, every one runs outside. The setting is a closely set suburban community, very very Big Fish ‘s little town called Spectra meets The Truman Show. Anyhoo, the rumblings were, of course, the Swan hatch timer counting down, setting off the magnetic anomaly  which shook the island and caused the plane crash. The first thing we see is Fenry, (the leader of the Other’s, posing as Henry Gale), come out of an adjacent home, along with several, (maybe 30 or so?) other well-dressed suburban looking people. (Aside- the man under Juliet’s house attempting to fix her plumbing emerges as none other than the notorious Ethan of the first season.) The “village people” look in the sky to see Flight 816 going down in the air above them, the tail section and fusel lodge breaking off. Ethan and Goodwin are called out by Henry, who remarks on the various locations each segment of the plane will likely have landed, telling them to go and live amongst them, make up a story, and get him “lists” in three days. They run off into the woods. Fenry looks at Juliet, inspects the book she has in her hand (Carrie), and says, “I guess I’m not in the book club anymore”. Looks like Fenry has a name, Ben, and a little background- the ex-relationship of Juliet? (Side note, I’m seeing the message boards calling him Benry!) 

Must I remind you that LOST season premiere airs Wed. 9 eastern on ABC. Countdown: 3 days, 20 hours, 20 minutes.

Who you callin’ fanatic?

The offical one week countdown has begun until the season premiere of LOST Season 3! Had you been watching ABC tonight at 9 eastern time, you would have seen a special entitled, A Tale of Survival.

Narrated by the voice of Michael Emerson, who plays the Others leader known as Henry Gale, the one hour episode recapped, chronologically, the story told so far of the survivors and their island. Towards the end of the show, the focus played heavily on the romantic triangle between Jack, Kate, and Sawyer, as well as Charlie and Claire’s budding reconnection, which leads me to believe this could very well be a major premise of the next few episodes.

In addition, I saw the first season three promo for next week’s all new episode, the premier, which gave glimpses of where we now find Sawyer, Kate, and Jack, who were taken into the Others captivity at the ending of last season. I couldn’t recognize Kate’s surroundings, but she definitely seemed to be in despair, holding her face in her hands in one scene and appearing to be shocked or puzzled in another. Sawyer is behind bars, in some sort of man sized metal hampster type cage. Jack is in an interrogation room in seems, talking back and forth to a loud speaker that is telling him they know exactly who he is. Then there’s the end of the promo, where Jack turns the wheel to a large concrete door, which blows him backwards as rushing water floods the corridor.

You can watch tonight’s show on abc.

Also reading lots of spoilers lately, which could be totally wrong, but if your interested, scroll down…

• Kate ends up “choosing” Sawyer because they escape but Jack is left behind.
• The magnetic “healing” power of the island is now gone, so Locke loses the use of his legs, and having regained his “faith” in the island, he views the loss as punishment for his disbelief. Also, Rose’s cancer comes back, which some say leads to her death this season.
• The Others are Dharma Scientists, who believe they are the good guys in that they believe the end justifies the means, that they are doing these experiments for the greater good. All those captured have been undergoing experiments this whole time.
• The numbers represent in months and years the end of human life. They use this information to experiment with their test subjects, to see reaction to this information.
• There will be two new hatches discovered. Desmond will have a dream and lead him to discover the Flame hatch, which studies meteorology. The other one will be the Hunter, which studies zoology.
• The Others know who is “good” and who is “bad” because of the “smoke monster” called Cerebus something, which scans people’s brains for memories.
• The four toed foot statue is from a pre-Others island inhabitant, its an egyptian god.
• Character hook-ups; Kate and Sawyer, Jack and a new character, an Other, named Juliet, Charlie and Claire, and a new couple who are other castaways.
• Claire is Jack’s half-sister, a product of an affair Christian Shephard had with Claire’s mother Lindsey. The Dharma scientists have Jack’s fathers body for experiments.
• The real Henry Gale was an associate of Penny Widmore who she sent on a mission to find Desmond

Like I said, these could be totally false, but some ya ya’s on the forums are posting this stuff with various claims of know-how. Take it with a grain of salt, but hope it wets your appetite for a GREAT season!

See you Friday!

I meant to have a great synopsis of the main characters this week, but as I have been out of town and catching up on everything I couldn’t do while out of town, so instead I will link you to a great page with the main characters: http://www.lost-media.com/modules.php?name=Characters

 For those of you who don’t know, either because you were abducted by aliens prior to September 2004 or you are completely oblivious to the coolest things happening in the world, LOST aired on ABC two years ago and is approaching it’s third season. Since I will be blogging on Wednesday evenings about the show, I thought I’d catch every one up in the next few weeks.

Season 3 will begin on Wednesday, Oct. 4^th. Season 2 DVD’s will be available to purchase in stores on Tuesday, September 5, and you can pre-order yours today on Amazon too.

In the coming weeks I will fill you in on the main characters, major plots, and best theories floating around in Lostland. Then, on the 27^th, I will tell you everything I can find out about Season 3, and then the countdown begins.

The series began with a pilot script written and created by J.J. Abrams (creator of the TV series Alias and Felicity, as well director and co-writer of Mission Impossible III and writer of Armeggedon.) and Damon Lindelof. The pilot episode was the most expensive in the network’s history, costing between $10 and $14 million dollars.

The show follows the survivors of the crash of fictional Oceanic Flight 815 from Sydney to  Los Angeles. As the pilot, whose life on the island is short-lived, tells the others, “We were six hours out of Sydney when we lost communication. We turned to head towards Fiji. We were two hours off course when we crashed. They won’t know where to look.” (Paraphrase).

To make matters worse for the survivors, it turns out this is no ordinary island. It’s an island with a mysterious “smoke monster,” kid-napping “Others” who appear to be scientists dressed as savages, and a variety of back-stories that link each character’s sordid past to another’s.

That’s the basics, for now. I’ll introduce you to the main characters next week. In the meantime, there are character, season, and episode synopses on Wikipedia, Lost-Media, and ABC Lost, among others.