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Lost: 4.05 The Constant

Yet another enigmatic episode title following last week’s Eggtown and the previous week’s The Economist, but the meaning becomes clear halfway through the episode. This was truly an awesome episode and ties with The Economist as being the best hour of television of the year. I anticipate writing that again for forthcoming episodes as Lost in season four is coming close to knocking The Wire off it’s top spot on the podium.

A time travel story which doesn’t have any paradoxes and doesn’t retcon previous storylines that we know about but in fact serves to fill in the gaps and explain past events.

Penny and Desmond’s phone call got me all misty eyed it was beautiful and played so well.

Confirms time-shift in transiting to and from the island although only physically as electromagnetic waves are unaffected so radio communications are real time. Does this explain why Desmond was in prison because he went AWOL during this period.

Does it explain Jacob? Is he trapped between two times?

Charles Widmore bought at auction the journal of the First Mate of The Black Rock. He definitely knows about the island and did almost certainly set Desmond up somehow so he’d get stranded there during the yacht race.

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Lost: 4.02 Confirmed Dead

Episode two of the new season continues at the same heights of quality established in the season three finale and begins with a great WTF moment – the discovery on the ocean floor of the wreckage of Oceanic 815! Then cut to Daniel Faraday the guy that parachuted onto the Island as the end of the last episode inexplicably crying at having seen the wreckage on the TV news. Presumably this is a flashback.

Locke is acting like Colonel Kurtz – nice one Sawyer.

I think Ben is more of a manipulator than an outright liar as he mostly does tell the truth but spins it in such a way as to make people do what he wants them to do. He is pretty much several steps ahead of anyone else and so it’s never clear what his motives or intentions ultimately are.

It’s only a matter of time ’til he gets us Johnny and he’s already worked out how he’s gonna do it.

Again Sawyer’s perception of others is spot on in my opinion.

Faraday proves to be just what the viewers are seeking as he’s pretty forthcoming as to answering questions and seems pretty knowledgeable. Confirms that the freighter isn’t there to rescue them but is cut off from revealing what their primary mission is by another new character Miles Straum, Ghostbuster. Lost has skirted near to the supernatural before but Miles’s ability to converse with the dead is right in that zone.

Meanwhile the third of the people from the freighter Charlotte Staples Lewis is out of the frying pan and into the fire when having landed badly from the helicopter she’s now discovered by Locke’s party. In flashback we’ve seen her discover in Tunisia a Dharma collar round the skeleton of a polar bear, evidence of multiple Dharma sites round the globe or some freaky dimensional rift thing. “You’ve been living here this entire time?” Is it just me or does her incredulity here suggest that in the outside world a greater period has passed than the 90 days that have passed on the Island.

This might tie up with the fact that it doesn’t seem long enough for Frank Lapidus to have fallen to being a pilot for a Caribbean tours company from having been an airline pilot for Oceanic. But then as he was almost the pilot of Oceanic 815 he might have felt survivors guilt and quit immediately.

Bullet proof vest, guns and Naomi’s “Tell my sister that I love her” indeed being a code heavily suggests that the freighties came expecting trouble. But trouble from whom? They’ve come for Ben and if they have any knowledge of him and the Others then it seems like a wise precaution. But none of them were particularly surprised by the Oceanic 815’s survivors presence on the Island and it has to be remembered that they in their encounters with the Others have proved themselves to be dangerous also.

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Lost: 4.01 The Beginning Of The End

So Lost season four starts and we’re straight back to a recap of events on the island from season three’s finale.

– Not Penny’s boat. Charlie sacrifices himself in order to pass on this most important message to Desmond.
– Locke kills Naomi. After his strange encounter with Walt he’s under the same impression that Ben is that the boat people are not who they say they are.

Great fake out with Hurley’s Camaro crashing through the pile of mangoes as we are no longer on the island we are indeed in another flash forward, but Jack seems less far gone so it would suggest that it’s not quite as far in the future as season three’s finale was.

I’m one of the Oceanic Six!

Which begs the question which six people made it off the island? Jack, Kate and Hurley for sure, but as Kate is a fugitive perhaps her presence off-island in the future is not widely known. So Kate cannot be confirmed as one of the six.

The detective that’s interviewing Hurley is Ana-Lucia’s former partner and has no idea that she survived the crash, Hurley claims not to have known her at all. The implication here is that the outside world thinks that other than the Oceanic Six everyone on the plane died in the crash and for some reason the six that made it back are not telling the truth.

Hurley’s having visions and wants to return to the nuthouse. Charlie is telling him that ‘They need him’, which they is it the other survivors who are left on the island?
Hurley’s cannonball is one of unparalleled joy and by the look of the flashforward is the last moment of happiness for poor Hurley. Not sure why he thinks all his money will be gone upon his return though as he’s only been missing a relatively short period of time and so couldn’t have been declared dead yet.

Naomi’s not dead!

Matthew Abaddon looks evil from the very moment that he smiles and waves at Hurley and learning what his name is just confirms that suspicion. Though he claims to be a lawyer for Oceanic I have a feeling he’s not but if not then who does he work for. No business cards just seems like a signal to the audience that he ain’t what he claims to be surely because all the major players certainly have the resources to fake a few business cards. “Are they still alive?” Who does he mean?

Given Hurley’s character I’m sure the only reason he’d not tell the truth about the crash would be so he could protect those who were left behind on the island.

Nice caring moment with Sawyer checking on Hurley to make sure he’s okay but the Hurley gets good and lost on the trek from the beach and we get some spooky shit with the whispers in the jungle and Hurley encounters Jacob’s cabin. Is that Christian Shephard in the rocking chair?

“Tell my sister that I love her” is surely as coded message from Naomi to the freighter for “These crazy Oceanic survivors have killed me!”

How does Locke know about Charlie’s message and death? Has he been tracking the beach party and eavesdropping on them.

Charlie finally catches up with Hurley at the nuthouse and he isn’t merely a hallucination as another patient saw him. He is dead but he’s also here. Is Charlie a creation of the Island? And if he is then the Island has an ability to project well beyond itself. He has a message for Hurley he needs to return.

Jack would have killed Locke had the gun been loaded.

Powerful moment when Hurley rejects Jack’s leadership to join Locke and in doing so he initiates the split in the group and Sawyer joins Locke too. This is interesting as we know that members of both groups make it off the island but it is only Jack’s that intends to meet with the people from the freighter.

The final flashforward reveals a lot as Jack says he’s thinking of growing a beard and at the moment does not want to ever return to the Island even though Hurley does since receiving Charlie’s message. So this flashforward takes place before that of the season three finale and consequently something significant has to happen to Jack other than the growing of a beard to see him start drinking heavily again and to want to return to the Island.

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Lost: Through the Looking Glass

Wow the finales to my favourite TV series are just getting better as the week goes on. Heroes was great but I felt a little let down by the rather lame confrontation of Sylar. Veronica Mars was really bloody fantastic but was tempered by knowing that we’d not be getting another season.

Lost takes the prize though. This was an unbelievable double length episode to finish the third season of the show.

I don’t know how but I had an inkling that the flashback was really a flashforward right from the very start with Jack on the plane. Either that or the presence of the beard is an indicator that we are in the Star Trek mirror universe which I guess would fit as the finale was titled “Through the Looking Glass”. Which leads us to Charlie and the events in the Looking Glass station.

The bits in the Looking Glass were excellent. Charlie get beaten by Bonnie and then freaking out both of the women when he explains what he’s doing there and how he’s gonna die and then when that unkillable bastard that is Mikhail turns up he sows dissent between them. I had a feeling that he wasn’t really dead when Desmond shot him with the speargun after Mikhail’s shooting of Bonnie and Greta. Then Charlie died a strangely noble death killed by the bastard Mikhail who I hope has survived the explosion to make it back to the mainland just so Sayid or Sawyer can torture him to death.

What were Bonnie and Greta really doing there? As it was pointed out the station pretty much ran itself without their input!

How and why was Penelope transmitting to the island? Who was she trying to reach? Has her Brazilian team from the second season finale pinpointed the location of the Island?

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Lost: The Man Behind the Curtain

Just WOW! Best episode ever! The last few episodes of the season better be this good.

We’re gonna be having some kinda of showdown between The Others and The Flight 815 survivors for sure when they come for Sun.

I hope we get the explanation for who or what Jacob is too. Also how the fuck does Richard not appear to have aged in 30 years?

I think Jacob in the very brief glimpse that we saw of him looked like Locke but with hair and a bit of a beard. Although given my theorising about what’s going on that is probably wrong and it’s not Locke at all.

I think that Ben became the leader of the Others because Richard recognised he had a special affinity with the island when he learnt that Ben was able to see his dead mother there and by that also have the ability to communicate with Jacob (who or what ever he might be).

I think Ben was able to summon his mother there in the same way that I believe Locke summoned his own father.

Ben fears that the Others may choose to replace him with Locke who seems to have a greater affinity with the island than Ben currently does. Richard undermined Ben’s plan to remove Locke from the group by giving Locke the means to kill his father through Sawyer.

Perhaps Richard is the real man behind the curtain.

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We’re the good guys, Michael – Review: Lost Season 2 finale

So we reach the end of season two of Lost and again we have had some revelations and questions answered but new questions are raised by it leaving us eagerly awaiting the new season.

The Skinner Box is not a Skinner Box!

I seem to have been a step ahead of John Locke on this throughout the season. I figured it wasn’t real and was just a psychological experiment in the first episode of this season when Locke thought it was real. Then upon the discovery of The Pearl Locke lost his faith but I started to wonder if The Swan was not as I had first surmised a Skinner Box but was in some fashion real.

The Others are not as we were led to believe a bunch of barbaric survivors who had been stranded on the island in some incident many years ago. What are they hiding by pretending to have been reduced to a Lord of the Flies like savagery?

Danielle has been on the island for 16 years now and the Others pre-date her arrival, have they only recently adopted this false front following the Oceanic 815 crash or have they been doing it for many years? Kelvin tells Desmond about the Hostiles that live on the island, was this a reference to the Others?

Also the Faux Henry Gale tells Michael that they are the good guys when he asks who the hell they are.

They seem quite sophisticated and the fact that they are hiding their true nature would lead me to believe that they are quite possibly scientists working for the Dharma Initiative studying the behaviour of various groups of castaways and who must pose as yet another of these groups in order as to not jeopardise the results.

The way that the Faux Henry Gale was able to manipulate the Oceanic 815 survivors particularly Locke would suggest that he had extensive psychological training. Is he perhaps one of the scientists employed by the Dharma Initiative to study the participants in the Swan/Pearl observation experiment.

What the hell is the four-toed foot of a destroyed statue all about?

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Review: Lost season 1 finale

I was thrilled but also a little disappointed by the final episodes of Lost last night.

We got to see a little more of the nature of the monster in the jungle and yet it is still a mystery in fact more of a mystery now as what I had thought that it was was proved not to be accurate.

We finally got to see The Others and they appear to be just yet another group of survivors but separate from those of Flight 815 and Danielle’s crew. In fact the island seems to have attracted many different groups of people over the years what with the Nigerian drug smuggling priests and then The Black Rock which appears to be a very old ship that somehow ended up 2 miles inland.

So The Others appear to be just a group of survivors that have been on the island for longer than even the 16 years of Danielle. Yet they are are armed and have a boat with a motor plus they seem to posses knowledge about Walt’s abilities.

I was left feeling there wasn’t enough resolution to plot threads and yet more questions have arisen in my mind. But I’m gripped enough to make the wait til spring for the start of season 2 seem almost unbearable at the moment. But I’m worried that due to the nature of US television we’ll never get that final resolution, it will just be dragged out for years and years and then the series will get cancelled.

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Lost

Best night of television in months, the beginning of Lost was brilliant and engrossing. Many mysteries including a Polar bear on a Pacific island and a repeating message in French which is calculated to have been playing for 16 years. The first revelation of the series is that Kate is the prisoner that was being returned to the United States, but why is yet to come.

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