A Strange Trip Through "Lost"

S6 Ep17 "The End"

2010-05-23T23:39:00.000-07:00

It's over.

Not quite "Six Feet Under" and not exactly "St Elsewhere" but I did get emotional closure from these people I very recently came to care about.

My take on it:

The events on the island happened. The island was not hell, the island was not purgatory.

The LA-timeline was a sort of purgatory. More like a waiting room for everyone who showed up, whenever they showed up. To take their trip into the beyond.

Kind of like in Titanic, how it took Rose forevvvvvvvvvvver to die but they were all there waiting for her when she finally did pass on.

I don't think that Aaron died as a baby or anything, it's just that's how Jack expected him to look - and this is following Jack, after all.

It reminds me of something said by the priest at my great grandmother's funeral. She was in her 80s when she passed away, but he told us that when we see her in the kingdom of heaven we may not know her immediately on sight because she will appear as she appeared in her heart. She may be a young girl and those of us who only knew her after she was aged will know her when she approaches us to greet us in welcome.

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Nice touches:

"Desmond will be okay." Yeah, he'd better be. I DEMAND that Des & Pen lived a long life together.

Jack sees the shoe in the tree. It is much more worn out than when we first saw it. Much time has passed since the plane crash.

Ben and Locke's scene outside of the church was an excellent wrap up to their dynamic.
"Well if it helps Ben, I forgive you."
"Thank you John that does help. It matters more than I can say."

And the dog. Vincent was the first thing Jack saw when he opened his eyes on the island, and he was there when he closed them. I had to put a pillow over my face I was sobbing so hard.

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This has been an interesting experience and I cannot wait to go back and do it again at a more leisurely pace with the hub-unit.

I can't wait to go through it together.

Moving on.

S6 Ep16 "What They Died For"

2010-05-23T19:13:00.001-07:00

Very good episode.

Wasn't expecting to get any answers but am glad to come away with a few.

It confirmed some of the last episode and Jacob is right that their lives sucked when he found them. Although I don't think he was that helpful at all. Cool stuff with Jack becoming the new Jacob. How he'll stop MIB I don't know.

I like how Jacob explained that he didn't want to choose anyone; that he had never been given the choice for the job. And then Jack steps up to the plate.

Love how things are coming together in LA-timeline. Ben has turned back to the dark side. Figures that would happen although I'm glad he might get a happy ending in the LA-timeline.

I do have some issues though. Did not care for the death of Widmore. I don't think he's really gone - that is so anti-climactic if he is. They built up an intriguing character and then crapped out on him. He says he was redeemed and then is killed (appropriately, by Ben.) What a waste of a character.

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I was actually pleased to see Ana Lucia. For once.

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Hey guys... I DID IT!

As I prepare to hit Publish it is now 20:53. The DVR is waiting for me and the end is near.

Whooo hoooo!

S6 Ep15 "Across The Sea"

2010-05-23T19:12:00.001-07:00

Another excellent episode that goes to show us origin, but it doesn't really answer a whole lot of questions.

I am very glad Jacob and MIB are not biblical. Whew!

MIB and Jacob - twins.

MIB kills mother-sort-of, Jacob kills MIB by throwing him into light and causes him becoming the smoke monster.

MIB and mother-sort-of are Adam and Eve.

The light is a part of everyone and if it goes out everyone dies.

The island is all there is.

MIB is special, not Jacob.

"Take the cup and drink. You and I are the same." Jacob is the new protector of the island. Reminded me of when Jesus takes the cup from his father and drinks - gives his life for all. Sacrifice!

Beginning of the rules.

MIB's mother didn't have a name for him. Guess that's why no one calls him by anything but MIB and brother.

Just WOW.

S6 Ep14 "The Candidate"

2010-05-23T18:43:00.000-07:00

I know there need to be deaths. Not everyone is getting out alive. I can accept that. But damn.

Both Jin & Sun?

I don't believe that Frank the pilot is really dead. Somebody's got to fly them off the island. (hrmmm... LA-Locke has a pilot's license, but am I stepping into red-herring territory?)

I understand Sayid. Atonement for the universe, he has caused a lot of pain & suffering prior to coming to the island, and in alternate timelines. Blah dee dah.

I don't like that it's Sawyer's fault.

In LA-timeline I am still waiting for Juliet to show up. Not that she's my favorite characer or anything, just that she there in somebody's "constant" world. My toes are tapping. Get to it.

I can't even process right now.

S6 Ep13 "The Last Recruit"

2010-05-23T18:21:00.001-07:00

My brain. My brain!

We had an epic Jack/Not-Locke talk.

I was really expecting more character deaths with the episode since we're getting so close to the end.

I thought Claire might shoot Kate
Then I thought Widmore's team would take someone out
Then when the good guys were all on one boat, I thought the boat would go kaboom.
Then I couldn't even enjoy the Sun/Jin reunion because I was screaming, "NO! THE FENCE! THE FENCE!"

I thought Sun might wake up in the hospital knowing English, but recovering her English when she reunited with Jin was cooler. I feel like it means something.

I do not believe Sayid killed Desmond.

In the LA-timeline, everyone's going to end up at the hospital together

S6 Ep12 "Everybody Loves Hugo"

2010-05-23T17:45:00.000-07:00

Musings:

I don't think that was really Michael.

Desmond is everyone's Constant, bringing them together in the LA-timeline.

He runs down LA-Locke to bring him to Jack, perhaps?

They are paired off so that when they touch they remember? Hurley/Libby cetrtainly did!

See Ilana go BOOM! Why hasn't this happened a LOT more often? The TNT is unstable yet everyone just grabs sticks whenever they want, like it's crackers on a shelf.

It took me a while to remember what was in that little bag that Hurley retrieved from Ilana's stuff... but wasn't that the bag containing Jacob's ashes? Is Hurley's plan to get into Locke's camp, catch him off guard, then... I dunno, hurl ashes at him or surround him with them?

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S6 Ep11 "Happily Ever After"

2010-05-23T17:00:00.000-07:00

Okay - I am going to say it:

I totally regret not being in on this show from beginning.

It is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much overload to do this in such a short amount of time, BUT I didn't have to wait YEARS for realizations to come at me.

Unfortunately there is a lot of shit to process in very short amount of time. It's coming at me pretty quick.

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Musing:

LA-Penny's name is Milton. Like "Paradise Lost" Miton. Adam & Eve's banishment from Eden (not that the Island is ever going to be mistaken for Eden,but bear with me.) The island is supposed to end up with an Adam & Eve? Are the bones in the cave Des & Penny?

Desmond saw 2 mirror reflectios - so is this meaning he is aware that he is aware of two universes?
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Cracking up that Des was given a panic button to press in the MRI mashine.

My gut wrenched at Charlie's face underwater again and the hand up to the glass.

I don't like Minkowsky. Something is up with him. Then again I've always found Fisher Stevens creepy.

Very happy for the return of kickass Sayid!

S6 Ep10 "The Package"

2010-05-23T16:27:00.000-07:00

It just hit me with the scene when Jin & Sun are checking into the hotel. Sun uses the surname Paik (It was on the business card she gave to Widmore as well.)

"Kwon" the candidate is Jin.

Something terrivble is going to happen to Sun I think: all of the LA timeline characters have looked in a mirror. But when Sun looked, it looked like she saw something different. Something odd. Something other than her own face.

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Is the show being written by people at One Life to Live? I remember aphasia in the late early 90s being a big ploypoint. Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

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Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy Desmond.

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Can't stop thinking about the Jacob and Man In Black dynamic. I really do think it's more than a good v evil thing, or black v white thing. These two men/beings/entities are more like 2 sides of the same coin. They aren't necessarily polar opposites. They need each other to exist but it's an issue of dominance more than wanting to COMPLETELY eradicate the other.

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Yeah, I'm going to need to sleep for a week after tonight.

S6 Ep9 "Ab Aeterno"

2010-05-23T15:25:00.000-07:00

I want to watch this episode over and over. Many times.

I want to have its babies.

FANTASTIC.

I have been fascinated by Richard since I saw him in the hospital when Locke was born.

I like that Jacob took Ricardo into the water to prove he wasn't dead - like a baptism. This is all getting rather biblical - not so much mythological in this episode.

Is this going to end up being Jacob vs Esau and the whole birthright thing? I'm going to be a little pissyif this whole thing stems from a Sunday school lesson about stealing your brother's soup.

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Ugh. Moving on.

S6 Ep8 "Recon"

2010-05-23T14:43:00.001-07:00

After the finale of the series will there be a spin-off of cop buddies Sawyer & Miles? This is the only time I have liked Miles. Ever.

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I am starting to *really* antsy about watching lots of episodes without mush resolution in them. How in the world are they going to answer ALL the questions from the past 5 seasons with so few hours left?

Or are they just going to cut to blackscreen a la Sopranos?

I'm feeling my wheels spin here.

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Bah! Anyway...

What was up with Sayid? Why didn't Kate get in his face with "What is your problem? Why didn't you help me?"

I liked the end scene when Sawyer told Kate that they were going to get off the island. Although, I wonder how they are going to pilot the sub.

I wouldn't trust Claire either. Not-Locke is right. Claire is crazy.

Why had Widmore spent DECADES trying to find the island, and then he sits in a submarine offshore for-EVER?

When am I going to see Desmond again?

S6 Ep7 "Dr. Linus"

2010-05-23T14:13:00.000-07:00

Musings:

I like that LA-Ben has a good relationship with his dad, and with Alex-who-is-not-his-daughter.

Why isn't she in France with Danielle? How is she in L.A.? Who knows? Does it matter?

Since the island was presumably sunk in 1977 in this timeline, then her parents were never there; perhaps they went to the U.S. instead, or for different reasons altogether.

Jay Leno dude Arzt is teaching at the school now.

For a half-second while it was still blurry I was hoping the Principal was Clancy Brown, but no such luck.

I like that Roger Linus apologized for not making the life that he wanted for Ben. It was very sweet.

I like that maybe if Ben had gotten off the island, he wouldn't be such a manipulative, evil guy.

I also loved the stuff with Widmore, though it's still a bit too cryptic for my liking.

So now Jack is Man of Faith; but does that make Not-Locke the Man of Science? Eh, I'll remain hazy and undedicated to that one for now.

Frank Lapidus was always intended to be on the island. He just overslept. Okay.

S6 Ep6 "Sundown"

2010-05-23T13:38:00.000-07:00

I guess I can say goodbye to the Sayid I knew and loved. Creepy.

Smoke-Locke can take Miles, any time now. Tired of him.

How did it take SOOOOO long for Kate to realize there was something a little "off" about Claire?

We get to see Keamy again. He's evil in whatever timeline he;s placed in, eh?

The look on Ben's face after he spoke to Sayid was classic. He knows evil when he sees it.

I hope the Jin/Sun reunion won't be dragged out much longer.

S6 Ep5 "Lighthouse"

2010-05-23T13:03:00.000-07:00

Musings:

#1
Is LA-Jack's son (David) the Shepard referred to in the cave?

The sign at the Conservatory audtions said "Welcome Candidates" and in his talk there with Dogen about how kids buckle under the pressure. Hmmm...

I'm reading too much into this, because if kids buckle, then an adult would be the true Candidate.

And if that's true then 42 = Sun & Jin.

Ok, I'm letting this go for now.

#2
Jack broke your lighthouse dude - BWAH

#3
Claire = nutbag. For realsies. She's friends with Monster/Nemesis/Enemy, not Locke's carcass.

S6 E4 "The Substitute"

2010-05-23T11:53:00.000-07:00

LA Times:

Locke is with Helen. Yay!

Yay Rose! Nice speech about accepting one’s limitations, however it’s no “Don’t Tell Me What I Can’t Do!!!!”

Helen telling Locke she doesn’t care if Locke never walks again. It’s good to see Locke finding some happiness.

Locke becoming a Sub: metaphor for what is happening to his body back on the Island

Ben Linus - European history teacher. Bwah!

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Island Times:

Loving the Point of View of the Smoke Monster before turning into Not-Locke.

Richard is completely different when he’s being terrorized.

I know I should, but I don’t care about the Temple. Other things are far more interesting to me. Other than Ben’s “eulogy” and Frank’s line about it being the weirdest funeral he’s ever been to, bleargh.

Okay, I want to get to the cave – THE CAVE - because, “that is why you’re all here.”

Jacob’s numbers on the cave:
4 — Locke
8 — Reyes
15 — Ford
16 — Jarrah
23 — Shephard
42 — Kwon

Not-Locke says he’s not sure Kwon is Sun or Jin, but I think it’s either both of them or maybe Ji Yeon, since she was conceived on the island?

Is Shepard a reference to Aaron and not Jack?

Loving Sawyer’s response of “Hell Yes”

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My brain may fold in on itself with all this stuff

S6 Ep3 "What Kate Does"

2010-05-23T11:43:00.000-07:00

Wow. Awesome.

I love that they're honoring Juliet and her relationship with Sawyer. I felt for Kate for her regret, and her realization that Sawyer was not going with her. Let Sawyer grieve instead on jumping back into things with Kate. Thanks, writers.

The Claire story was interesting on many levels. One surprise is that there actually was (at least in this timeline) a couple waiting to adopt the baby in Los Angeles. Sad that there will be no adoption, but there was a family nonetheless.

Creepy Ethan. Ugh. I know he needs to be there, but, ugh. Did Amy leave with him on the sub or did the island not instantly submerge right away after Juliet hit the bomb?

It was also interesting he gave his name as Goodspeed. Was Rom just a lie, because why would he? Maybe Rom was one of the Others who "adopted" him in a way. No matter, it’s still Creepy Ethan. "I don't want to stick you with needles if I don't have to." Ha!

The other interesting part of Claire's story is what it makes me think of Rousseau. I wonder if her team was never sick. Maybe it was Rousseau who was sick all along. It would explain why the Others wanted to kill her. I'm not sure what it means for anything else, though, or how it would have happened. Of course, all this assumes Dogan was telling Jack the truth, and I will never give an Other the benefit of that doubt. I'd still like to think that Claire can be reunited with Aaron and saved.

Loved seeing Aldo again, even if he did get shot.

Josh Holloway killed me. Killed me!

S6 Ep1/Ep2 "LA X, pt1 / pt2"

2010-05-23T10:40:00.000-07:00

So, two timelines, eh? Will they ever converge? Or are those people on the island split off into their own alternat universe and that's why "they can never leave"? And what's up with Christian's body?

I thought for sure that LA-Sawyer would help LA-Kate in the airport. He knows she's in handcuffs and in trouble.

Had to laugh at Jack in the temple acting all on faith. He's sure changed his tune.

Did everyone who was on the island with the bomb blew (that isn't one of our main OLs - "Original Lost" people - including Juliet and Miles) die when the island sunk?

(Did that make ANY sense?)

Great seeing some of the old crew again, like Boone! But where was Shannon?

Do I care where Shannon is? Not really.
Does this mean that the island blowing up somehow altered Shannon's past if she stayed in Australia?

Missed seeing Libby, Eko and Ana Lucia. I guess Jack forgot about their drink?

So if the psychic who put Claire on the airplane lied to her about the adopting family in order to get her on the plane that crashed on the island (if that's what he actually intended), and there isn't any adopting family, what will she do with the baby now?

Poor Charlie, but at least he's alive.

So did Desmond go back to his old seat or was that some time travelling done by Des? I think it was time-travelling.

Why didn't the others at the temple (except Cindy) recognize Jack and Kate? And even she only mentioned them being on the plane. None of the others were on the side island when Jack and Kate (and Sawyer) were taken by the others the first time?

I thought for sure the Japanese other was reading off a list of names.

Can't wait to see how it all works out.

Technical Difficulties - Please Stand By

2010-05-23T09:42:00.000-07:00

I feel the need to post a non-episode-related entry in explanation of the last few hours in my world.

At 2am I was going to hit the hay for a few hours when I started having computer issues as well as loading issues with the blogging website. Decided it best to stay awake and let the hub-unit sleep peacefully. My swearing in the livingroom notwithstanding. Continued watching the shows on netflix and making notes on an electronic document. I planned on chugging through until I finished season 5 and then get some sleep.

Somewhere around 6 am the laptop I had been working on this WHOLE time got glitchy and took a dump on me.

It's the one computer where I don't have my electronic documents hooked into our network.

I am not technical; I'm an H/R paper-pusher. The hub-unit is my networking and software genius/guru.

So I kind of freaked out at the idea that I lost all my notes and would have to relive the past hours to duplicate all my efforts. Ironic, right?

Hub-unit is a hero. He woke up, made coffee for himself and set to work. He retrieved the work and got a crash course in how to post a blog.

He's the one deserving credit for keeping me on track and sane the past few hours. I think I will keep him. :)

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I haven't been reading any of the comments on the entries. I don't want to get sidetracked. I did it early on and discovered I can't roll that way.

I do want to acknowledge that there are people out there interested in this silly project. THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!!! And thanks to Jamie Clay for keeping me sane in the virtual world this whole time. What a cheerleader.

I will finish this tonight and look forward to being able to actually discuss things. I've been alone in this. The hub-unit has not watched along with me, so I haven't been able to bounce theories off him, like we do with every other show we watch. He knows he's going to watch this though, at his pace. And I can't wait.

He is totally capable of taking my words and not looking at them while he fixed my posts. Mr. Compartmentalization. But he has had to listen to my outbursts and ravings (I'm on headphones) and he has said he can't wait until he knows what in the hell I'm talking about.

That said, I'm back to paying attention to the last season. Just wanted to take a minute to let you all know I didn't fall down the rabbit-hole entirely.

Namaste.

~Kris Strange

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Edited to add:

I realize the last few entries focus a lot on relationship storylines rather than the mindblowing holy crap-ness. In the rewriting/reposting of entries I did have to truncate a bit. There are also episodes from waaaay back where I had theories still too jumbled to adequately write them down without sounding like a complete blithering fool. I'd love to revisit that at some point too, but I'm afraid I'll get too caught up in "what I know now" that it has colored my oringinal thinking too much.

This is all such a mindwalk!

I am not web-girl but it might be cool to enable some kind of chat somewhere down the line to virtually discuss this with people. I'd like that a lot. It will help with my decompressing after all this is over.

~ks

S5 Ep16/17 "The Indicent"

2010-05-23T08:02:00.004-07:00

Thoughts compiled ...

Sayid no!!

Bernard!! Rose!! Vincent! Finally!!! “We’re retired” Dear god could every last soul on that island learn something from them. But that was not nearly enough time for them. They need their own show just hanging out in the jungle...

“His Korean is excellent”

“You got cancer. You watched your daughter get gunned down in front of you. And for your sacrifice you get banished. And you did it all for a man you’ve never met. My question is why wouldn’t you want to kill Jacob?” The look on Ben’s face - nuanced with the dawning realization, and "Well, when you put it like that John”.

Just excellent.

Juliet getting Kate’s back in the sub was a nice turn of events. She kicks all kinds of ass ... although it sucked that she changed her mind. She was noble and got petty ... she’d rather kill everyone on the island so she never has to meet Sawyer and therefore never lose him?

“Nothing in my life felt so right.” Really Jack? That should tell you it’s wrong.

Radinzky cannot die fast enough.

John! You give Ben a knife and then walk in front of him? Are you nuts?

“Tell him I said hello.” Excellent delivery.

I feel Sun was squandered all season, lost in the fog of looking for her husband, even though it means she’s abandoned her family and daughter. Wasted opportunity.

So now I know how Hugo got to the Island. Someone just had to be nice to him, acknowledge he’s not crazy and tell him that the things that seem like a curse could be a blessing. And that it was his choice.

Juliet died?? Like that??

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This has been a lot to take in.

I love the idea that there are two John’s running around.

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Personal aside - I've been having a lot of computer/website loading issues this morning and have to go back and re-post the past 7 entries.

Grumble Grumble Grumble.

ON TO SEASON 6!!!

S5 Ep15 "Follow The Leader"

2010-05-23T08:02:00.003-07:00

So many questions this episode... but mostly, why is Radzinsky so nuts? He's SO determined, why? I realize he made the model for the Swan, and maybe that makes it "his baby", but honestly-- the guy is a nutball.

Why is Richard saying Locke's gonna be a problem? So he's stirring things up, so what... he's doing things a little differently, it appears not being so elusive, sharing with everybody. I love it. I also love Ben's snarkiness. He seemed like such a child in this episode.

WHOO! Tunnel to the underground.

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S5 Ep14 "The Variable"

2010-05-23T08:02:00.001-07:00

Ladies and gentlemen: our first Lost character with Mommy issues.

I can't figure out why she sent him though. If people are the variable, then why couldn't she just opt to let him live out his life with impaired memory? What was the purpose in sending him back to be healed and then die?

And why the hell didn't Miles just tell his dad that he was his son? I thought Miles was supposed to bee the ballsy one. No reason to keep quiet about it...

That look Juliet shot Sawyer right before giving Kate the code to the sonic fence. Priceless! Up until this episode she had no valid reason to think Sawyer would have done anything with Kate. He slpped with the "Freckles" and now he lost some of her trust.

Dear Sawyer - NEVER call your old girlfriend by her nickname in from of your current love. Signed, All Women in the Universe. Kthxbai...

I can't believe Sawyer got nabbed. He seemed a bit quicker on his feet than that. And what the hell was Juliet packing? Her whole closet?

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S5 Ep13 "Some Like It Hoth"

2010-05-23T08:01:00.001-07:00

Huh. Turns out the numbers were just some random serial number.

Go figure.

I'm curious about why Miles could even be in a position to SEE his infant self. Don't the laws of time travel say that you can't be in the same space as your future/past self?

Glad he got to see that his dad really did care about him when he was a baby. I'd be interested to see how his parents ended up separated, and if his mom told the truth when she told Miles he died a long time ago.

Okay, on the whole Ben/Widmore good guy/bad guy debate, I'm starting to think maybe Ben and Widmore are on the same side, just each in their own way. The guy in the van with Miles was the same one with Ilana on the island. Maybe these people might be trying to revive the Dharma thing again in 2007 or something like that. Because if they were on "Ben's side" so to speak, wouldn't Ben know who they were, and why would he have killed Cesar?

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S5 Ep12 "Dead Is Dead"

2010-05-22T21:07:00.001-07:00

Ben manipulating Cesar near the beginning of the episode was hysterical. It was like a cat playing with a mouse before killing it. And that's exactly what Ben did, assuming the gun was actually loaded with live ammunition. Whether Cesar is dead or not, that was an excellent apology Ben gave to Locke, though.

Is it another Ben lie or and Island mystery or continuity problem -
Ben said he didn't know Jack, Kate and Hugo were in the D.I. but he remembered being taken to the temple as a child. All three are legitimate reasons as of now.

Ileana and company came to the island with a purpose, probably on Widmore's behalf.

They can explain that anytime...please... I'm tapping my toe until they do.

Was Charles banished from the island "just" for breaking the rules?

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S5 Ep11 "Whatever Happened, Happened"

2010-05-22T21:06:00.005-07:00

OY, this makes my head hurt. No wonder Hurley can't get a handle on "the rules" of past, present and future.

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Although...I love the way this ep had some totally random reactions. Jack's apparently decided to get really serious about his "not interfering" program, which I find amusing, so thanks Jack.

Ugh ... Kate. I have such mixed feelings about her. Have never liked the sense of entitlement she has in regards to Aaron.

Sawyer and Kate decide that Ben really has to be saved, even knowing that he's not going to die anyway because he never did die. Sayid and Jack will probably get the blame, but I think the two of them made the most conscious choice about the later evil.

I liked both Jack and Kate having people tell them that they're at heart completely selfish people, though I thought Jack was a bit more honest with his "I came back because I was supposed to" than Kate with her "I needed him! I wanted to protect him!" Also Jack cracked me up making sandwiches in the background.

Poor Juliet, too, was so pathetic having to yell at Jack for coming back and ruining her perfect life because she had to put Sawyer and Kate in close proximity. Now she's going to lose her to him.

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Oh, and SQUEEEEEEEE - Locke! ""Welcome back to the land of the living."

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S5 Ep10 "He's Our You"

2010-05-22T21:06:00.003-07:00

Quick thoughts:

I can see this is there where Juliet saves little Ben's life, therefore condemming herself as his obsession. Poor Juliet. she saves Ethan's life and probably Ben's. She's the reason they are alive to torture her and many others.

I cheered when Sawyer verbally cut Jack down last episode, but now, I'm not so sure about Sawyer's leadership skills. I don't remember Jack ever standing by as one of his own got tortured, and I know he never voted for someone's death. Bad showing, Sawyer.

Happy that Sawyer went over to talk to Kate about her reason for being there rather then just being overcome with feelings towards her. But Kate once again is hiding from him. It's too bad she couldn't spit out "I was going to let you die until I suddenly decided to come back and it's still not for you."

Also happy that Juliet's staying away was just her being nice again. Juliet is not the petty jealous type. She's a lot nicer then she should be.

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S5 Ep9 "Namaste"

2010-05-22T21:06:00.001-07:00

A few questions answered and a few more cropping up.

Why wasn't Sun taken in the flash? How did Ilana know that the pilot and Sun took a boat to the big island--they seemed to be alone when it happened, although I suppose they found Ben and he told them what happened. He managed to add the lie about the passenger manifest before he passed out and was taken to the "hospital."

Loved LaFleur's smackdown of Jack, didn't love the lingering glance between him and Kate. Glad they addressed the fact that the people you're living with are mostly gonna be dead, and what are you gonna do about it?

A good cop knows the troublemakers on his beat before long, and I have to believe that Jim's come across Roger Linus, the loudmouth drunk janitor, before. Jim may not have actually chatted with his lonely son, but he must be aware he's there. I can imagine Sayid whispering to him next visit, "Ben Linus came by to give me a sandwich, he's thirteen and already precociously creepy! Can we kill him now, huh, can we?".

Then LaFleur can shake his head slowly and say "Well, it's complicated."

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Time for some shut-eye.

S5 Ep8 "LaFleur"

2010-05-22T21:05:00.002-07:00

Sawyer got some eyeglasses again.

Laughed out loud when Sawyer made the crack about Richard's "eyeliner."

Loved that Juliet was working as a mechanic; always fixing machinery one way or another. How cool was it to see an entire fleet of Volkswagen vans?

Sawyer's talk with Horace was very touching. He's finally got over Kate and bam! Now Kate shows up at the end like a harbinger of death to Sawyer's and Juliet's utopic life. Way to bring us back to their "reality."

S5 Ep7 "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

2010-05-22T21:05:00.001-07:00

Alrighty!

BEN! So evil. That whole scene was so weird. The Jin revelation seemed to turn the conversation, and then the name "Eloise Hawking" seemed to be what made Ben go from "you must live" to "I must kill you now."

Frank took the outrigger? I want to know where the heck the boats came from, but more, I want to know WHEN Sayid and Sun are. If Jack, Kate, and Hurley are in the 70s or so, and the other 316-folk are in the present-ish, are Sayid & Sun then, now, or sometime in-between?

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Hurley's reaction at seeing Locke cracked me up. He was just assuming Locke was dead and being all "What's up - so that's how you kicked it huh?"

S5 Ep6 "316"

2010-05-22T21:04:00.003-07:00

I hope it's explained why, sooner than later, Kate and Hurley had a change of heart. I think with Hurley it was probably Charlie. Hurley must be bringing the guitar for when he does see Charlie, perhaps?

Why Kate made the decision to go back I have no idea. I do think she loves Aaron and whatever changed her mind she thinks she doing the best thing that will keep him safe.

When Ben said he needed to keep an old promise to a friend, I was thinking "No! Leave Penny alone!" It was probably Desmond that gave him the smackdown. Cracked me up Ben is reading the Odyssey.

Theory: How Aaron and possibly Ji Yeon will get back to the island. They may show up on the island as adults. Time will move faster than in the real world and the island. Aaron and/or Ji Yeon wanting to search for their parents will be able to when the next pocket opens up. I know it sounds crazy but with this show you never know. Especially since it looks like Locke may be undead.

S5 Ep5 "This Place Is Death"

2010-05-22T21:04:00.001-07:00

They upped the gore factor. Ripped off arms, bones through legs, close ups of bullet holes in heads and fly-infested corpses. Graphic.

It seems Ben may not have known Eloise is Daniel's mother. His reaction was curious to me.

Could Daniel's warning to Charlotte come at the same time we saw him working on the Orchid station while the Dharma people were building it? I thought that was part of the "moving through time" flashes but now I'm not so sure. Either way how he was there is yet to be explained but it would tie in with Charlotte knowing him as a child.

I got a little claustrophobic when that flash came while Locke was halfway down the well. Just imagining the walls closing in as though the well hadn't been built yet is a bit much for me.

"Say hello to my son for me." Heh heh heh

S5 Ep4 "The Little Prince"

2010-05-22T21:03:00.004-07:00

Jin! Rousseau! Squeeeeee! I'm so pleased to see them again. Jin has been close enough in proximity to the island that he's time-skipping along with them.

The Oceanic 6 plot is mundane compared to the time-travel stuff on the Island that you'd think it would be boring or at least that the episodes would be causing serious mood whiplash, but that's not happening for me.

It's partly because I've grown to enjoy Ben so much, but I think the suspense has been real and earned and watching the characters come together despite being in such different places is really interesting. I mean, they managed to actually significantly alter the Jack/Kate dynamic, in a way that makes me like them both better. Awesome.

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(No, I'm not rambling and I haven't had too much caffeine these past few days. What? Huh? Squirrel!) I crack myself up...

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No, Miles and Juliet are being affected, too! It was bad enough when it was just Charlotte. I don't want anyone to die.

I'm going to admit that the scene of Sawyer watching Kate and Claire made me cry. I don't even know why, but it seriously hit me.

Also, Ben's casual confession of being the one who sent the lawyer after Kate cracked my shit up. "No, She's right. It was me. Sorry." Hee.

S5 Ep3 "Jughead"

2010-05-22T21:03:00.003-07:00

Observations:

1) This is the first time that I've doubted Faraday being a good guy. I find myself questioning if anything he says is true. He definitely seems more assertive now, much more confident and in control, without any particular explanation as to why he has stepped up. He doesn't seem like the same guy who freaked out when he got pushed out of a helicopter.

2) I'm starting to think that the reason Richard is never the leader of the Others is because Richard can't see Jacob. Only the "chosen one" can see Jacob, such as in the case of Ben. Locke went with Ben to visit Jacob, but Locke never really saw Jacob. He only heard his voice. But since Locke is only a quasi-leader at best, that sort of makes sense. Of course, if Richard, the only immortal guy on the island, can't see Jacob, one has to wonder why. Can Jacob appear to anyone he wants? Or only to one specific person at a time? Or is it something more timey-wimey than that? Jacob might turn out to be one of the those who eventually gets trapped back in time? All things seem possible now...

Regardless of all that, my impression is that Jacob is the ultimate leader of the Others, and always has been. But that he can only act through a surrogate (I can only assume that's because Jacob is a dead guy), and that that surrogate is never Richard. My guess, because Richard cannot see Jacob, for whatever reason.

S5 Ep2 "The Lie"

2010-05-22T21:03:00.001-07:00

I like:
* Ana Lucia telling Hurley not to get arrested. Libby says hi!
* Hurley telling his mom the real story. Heartbreaking that he has had to hold all this in.
* How Sayid is tough enough to strangle someone the second he regains consciousness.

Don't like:
* Toddler Aaron. He's annoying even in his limited screentime.

Questions to ponder:
Why Charlotte is the only non-crashee (Boat person?) showing "symptoms"? Wouldn't Miles have them too?

I thought Faraday was the only one with a constant. Am I missing something?

S5 Ep1 "Because You Left"

2010-05-22T21:02:00.001-07:00

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Ok, sooo. Yeah.

Everyone on the island seems to be jumping through time, but remaining on the island.

People on the mainland are trying to decide whether or not they should go back to the island.

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The island is like a record, and it's skipping

Things are not where they should be because they haven't built things or discovered things in the alternate timeline as yet.

Sawyer has a problem with starting over.

Understandable.

S4 E14 "There's No Place Like Home, pt 3"

2010-05-22T17:23:00.002-07:00

Sooooooo much to process. Highlights:

Des and Penny - the second I saw the captions reading "speaking Portuguese" I was in tears.

Sun absolutely broke my heart - more tears over here.

Incredible acting job in the helicopter. So frantic: no sense, no chance to plan, just where you were standing dictated whether you lived or died. (that, and the script)

Jin? Probably dead ... but until I see a body I dont have to fully believe it ...

Michael is “free” now though. When will Walt find out his Dad is dead?

Awww, Sawyer thinks Kate is dead. But he got a great kiss for the road.

Oh and the Desmond drowning fake out? Squeee.

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Lines that killed me:

“You just killed everyone on that boat!”. “So?”

Jack’s “Don’t let him find you Desmond” line.

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OK so “very bad things”

Is Sayid working with Ben to gather the Six for a return to the island? Or is he really taking Hurley “somewhere safe”? Was the man he killed Ben’s or Widmore’s? The wildcard here is Desmond, presumably he’s off somewhere hiding with Penny (hell after all the time that’s past they could be married with kids) but in the “all of you must return to the island” scene he is not mentioned.

And what about Sun? Who is she talking about with Widmore when she said “we weren’t the only ones who left the island”?

Does Sun want to go back or does she just want revenge? Either way she’s awesome. Oh and at best, Locke is only mostly dead.

S4 E13 "There's No Place Like Home, pt 2"

2010-05-22T17:23:00.001-07:00

Short list until the last part of the ep... (Netflix has it in 3 parts)

Who is "Jeremy Bentham" and why do we care about his obituary?

Walt has to be about 27 now

Locke tells Jack that he'd like him to stay on the island. ...Yeaaaaaaaah, that's not gonna happen.

Charlotte is staying on the island. I hope Locke likes her since he can't have Jack.

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"You just killed everybody on that boat."

~So?

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

S4 E12 "There's No Place Like Home, pt 1"

2010-05-22T17:22:00.004-07:00

Flash Forward:

The Oceanic Six land in Hawaii, complete with a PR handler and a press conference

Aaron is being passed off as Kate's

Jack, Sun, and Hurley are all reunited with their families

Kate has nobody there for her, except Aaron in her arms

Sayid is reunited with Nadia afterward

Hurley freaks out when he has the numbers in the odometer of the camaro

At Christian Shephard's wake, Claire's mother introduces herself to Jack and tells him that Claire was his sister.

Awkward, much?

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On the island:

Daniel listens in on Keamy's communications with the Sat Phone. The mercenaries are headed to Orchid.

Juliet claims not to know what that is

Jack and Kate take the satellite phone and head off after the chopper. They run into Miles, Sawyer & Aaron.

Kate takes Miles and Aaron back to the beach, Jack and Sawyer continue to the chopper.

Frank is handcuffed to the chopper. He tells them that if they free him, he'll fly them off the island before Keamy captures Ben. They will kill whoever is with Ben.

Sawyer says Hurley is with Ben, so Sawyer & Jack go to save Hurley.

Sayid arrives on the beach. He's going to ferry people to the freighter.

Kate tells him Jack and Sawyer are going after the chopper, so Sayid and Kate go to find them.

Daniel is now the ferryman

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Meanwhile back on the ship:

Jin & Sun are a little freaked out to see Michael.

The engines are working again, but there's RF interference.

Desmond sets out to find it.

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Meanwhile, back at Orchid:

Ben, Locke, and Hurley head to the Orchid to move the island.

Too late -- the soldiers are already there.

S4 E11 "Cabin Fever"

2010-05-22T17:22:00.003-07:00

Holy crap. Holy crap. Holy crap.

I don't even know what to say. There was so much! Awesome. Just, mind-twistingly awesome.

Destiny is a fickle bitch. But yeah, I think that Locke is there to replace Ben. Locke was probably meant for the island all along (preemie babies in the 50s/60s didn't have a whole lot going for them.) Once Locke became paralyzed they kept Ben in play as the leader - I theorize, at least - until Locke could get to the island.

So, are Alpert and Abbadon two alternate forces working on Locke? Light and dark? Would they really go there? When Abbadon showed up and we hadn't seen his face yet, I thought it might be time-travely Walt, because of the way he called him "Mr. Locke." But having watched Fringe I know that's Lance Reddick and we've seen him before.

Claire at the cabin was so... odd. I'm starting to think that Aaron is Jacob. (nooooooo... this isn't possible, not really. I reserve the right to change my mind.)

Move the island? WTF?!?

I love all the little details. The knife. The comic. The little jar of... volcanic ash? The drawing of Smokey?

Sooooo much stuff to think about from this. My mind is spinning.

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(OOPS - forgot to hit publish on a few entries) My time stamps are off now.

All caught up now on blogging and publishing (had a whoopsie for a few hours) and according to calculations, I should be able to start watching the finale on my Tivo before it finishes broadcasting. I'll even be able to get some shuteye tonight.

S4 E10 "Something Nice Back Home"

2010-05-22T17:22:00.001-07:00

On the island:

I am Jack's appendicitis. Oh that's gotta suck. HARD.

Juliet will do the honors, but she needs supplies from the medical station. Sun, Jin, Daniel & Charlotte head out.

Jin realizes that Charlotte can understand him & Sun when the speak in Korean. He tells her if she doesn't get Sun off theisland he's going to hurt Daniel.

Jin = bad-ass

Jack insists on going through the surgery fully awake to talk Juliet through it

Kate will hold a mirror so he can see what's going on. This will not end well.

Jack = not so bad-ass

Juliet has to knock him out after all. Surgery is a success.

Juliet tells Kate that she thinks Jack hearts Kate.

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Flash Forward:

Jack and Kate live with Aaron

Jack sees Christian at the hospital

Jack visits Hurley, who isn't doing too well at the asylum. Charlie visited and told Hurley that Jack isn't "supposed to raise him"

Why? BOO!

Charlie also messaged that Jack is slao going to get a visitor.

Jack proposes to Kate.

Jack sees his father. Jack starts to implode - suspects Kate of messing around. He starts drinking and popping pills. he's not very smart for a doctor.

I am Jack's paranoia.

Jack wants Kate to tell him what she's up to. It's something she promised Sawyer.

Jack walks out on her.

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Meanwhile on the other side of the island:

Sawyer, Claire & Aaron and Miles get back to the beach.

Sawyer warns Miles to back off of Claire

Claire dreams of Christian holding the baby. WAS it a dream?

When Sawyer wakes up in the morning, Claire is gone.

Miles says he saw her with someone she called Dad.

WTF?!?

The smoke monster didn't get all the commandos. What's a smoke monster for if it doesn't get everybody as intended? Dammit.

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(OOPS - forgot to hit publish on a few entries) My time stamps are off now.

S4 Ep9 "The Shape of Things To Come"

2010-05-22T17:02:00.000-07:00

On the island:

The doctor on the boat washes up on the beach with his throat slit.

Jack tells Daniel to use Morse Code to communicate with the boat.

Daniel says a helicopter is coming in the morning.

LIE! Bernard knows Morse Code.

Jack gets Daniel to admit that a rescue was not in the game plan. Ever.

Jack is in pain and taking meds.

Locke gets a message on Ben's phone: code 14J, a perimeter break

Ben barricades himself, Locke, Hurley, Aaron, Claire & Sawyer in his house

Miles shows up with the commandos & show they have Alex as their hostage

Ben lies and says she means nothing to him and THEY SHOOT HER.

Bad bluff, Ben

Ben releases the smoke monster (I KNEW IT!!!)

Ben sends Locke and the rest away and holds Alex for a moment to say goodbye

Locke pulls a gun to keep Hurley with them to take them to Jacob's house.

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Flash Forward:

Ben of Tunisia! (Lawrence of Arabia's lesseer known cousin)

It's 2005

Ben sees Sayid on TV, and goes to find him in Iraq

Sayid married to Nadya, but she was killed in LA

Ben tells Sayid Charles Widmore hired the man who killed Nadya

So this is how Sayid comes to kill "for" Ben - they are getting rid of all Widmore's associates and henchmen

Ben vows he will kill Widmore's daughter.

NOOOOOO! That can't happen - That's Penny. What anbout desmond and Penny - a love for all time?

Ugh - this is tangled.

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(OOPS - forgot to hit publish on a few entries) My time stamps are off now.

S4 Ep8 "Meet Kevin Johnson"

2010-05-22T15:20:00.000-07:00

On the boat:

Sayid confronts Michael and he tells the story of how he's on the boat.

Ben calls - the bomb can't go off with innocent people aboard.

Sayid turns Michael in to the captain.

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Michael's story:

He told Walt he killed Libby and Ana Lucia. Walt wants nothing to do with Michael.

Attempted suicide.

Sees Libby at the hospital (with blankets!)

Tom tells Michael Widmore faked the wreckage. Michael told to destroy the freighter to atone.

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Meanwhile, back on the island:

Ben gets Danielle to take Alex and Carl to the Temple for safety.

Carl gets shot.

Rousseau gets shot.

Alex calls out that she's Ben's daughter.

(OOPS - forgot to hit publish on a few entries) My time stamps are off now.

S4 Ep7 "Ji Yeon"

2010-05-22T14:45:00.000-07:00

On the boat:

Desmond and Sayid get a meeting with the captain.

Woman overboard!

Why would the captain give that information about Widmore and the fake wreckage so easily?

How do you come up with all those bodies to lay on the ocean floor?

Helloooooooo Michael. Where's Walt?

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On the island:

Sun wants to move to Locke's area.

Juliet tells Jin about Sun's affair. To get her to leave the island??? I hate this woman right now.

Bernard: dentist/marriage counselor

Sun talks to Juliet and will leave as soon as she can for the sake of the baby. Jin returns to be with Sun and promises he'll never leave.

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Flash Forward:

Sun goes into labor and calls out for Jin

Jin buys a big ass panda for an infant - twice

The panda is a gift the Chinese ambassador.

He's been married two months? I hope they didn't split up

Hurley's in a suit!

Oh crap, this is a flashback AND forward.

Jin's gravesite. Poor Sun

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They are seriously overloading my tearducts

S4 Ep6 "The Other Woman"

2010-05-22T13:56:00.000-07:00

(started 5/22/10 14:00)

Blah blah blah Juliet, Goodwin and Harper blah blah

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Widmore sent the freighter to ultimately take over and exploit the island.

Ben's contingency plan, in the worst case scenario is to gas everyone

Widmore somehow knows this?

Daniel and Charlotte have been given specific instructions to go the Tempest in order to disable the gas

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"You're mine" - how very "Sleeping With the Enemy"...

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I keep seeing Perrineau's name in the credits. Is Michael the man in the boat?

S4 Ep5 "The Constant"

2010-05-22T13:16:00.000-07:00

(started 5/22/10 13:10)

Okay, there was waaaaay too much sciencey timeskipping clutter for me to really *get* it, so I've scrapped my notes.

But the last 10 minutes... different story entirely

Very "Time-Traveller's Wife" (the book!) and "Journeyman" (I wish that show hadn't cancelled)... I love the love

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Hanso owned the Black Rock ship way back when? Widmore bidding on the diary even back in 1996. Interesting.

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Personal aside: My hub-unit has always called me his Prime Meridian. Kind of the same thing. It's a Constant.

S4 Ep4 "Eggtown"

2010-05-22T12:29:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 12:29)

First thing's first - OOPS - Juliet did not leave on the chopper with Sayid.

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On the island:

"You totally just Scooby-Doo'd me didn't you?" Hurley slays me.

As a student of languages, it's killing me that Jin is speaking English this well after only about 100 days on the island, considering he really only started trying to learn about 2 months into it. I know, I know...suspend the disbelief...but I have worked for YEARS to learn the ones I do. (grumble grumble) /rant

The helicopter never made it. WTF, indeed.

Locke is responsible for the well-being of the island. Of the ISLAND. Kurtzing out, much?

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Forward:

Kate has a son, which of course begs the questions... Sawyer's? Jack's? Ben's? Locke's? HURLEY'S? Must be Jin's and his supercharged island sperm. (In all honesty, I'm thinking it's baby Aaron, and if that's the case I am already starting to be bummed for Claire.)

IN testimony: Only 8 survived the crash. And 2 perished afterward. This is a helluva alternate timeline or there are some stories going on here.

Why doesn't Jack want to see the baby?

Ahhhh, the baby is Aaron. Jack doesn't want to see his own nephew? WTF dude.

S4 E3 "The Economist"

2010-05-22T12:13:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 11:45)

My head is spinning.

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On the island:

Jacob and the cabin are gone. *poof*

There's a 31 minute timelag / timeshift in getting to the island, from Faraday's experiment anyway.

Hurley was used as bait for Sayid to get captured.

Hrmmm, only Sayid and Juliet are taking the chopper off the island. Why aren't people clinging to the sides of the helicopter like a Saigon airlift?

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Flash Forward (or whatever):

Ben is one of the Oceanic 6, HE made it out?!?

More mindblowing - Sayid is killing people for him?

S4 E2 "Confirmed Dead'

2010-05-22T10:57:00.001-07:00

(started 5/22/10 10:55)

Flash Forward:

Parachutist is not George, he's Dan. He's watching footage on the news of the plane being found on the ocean floor. And crying and he doesn't know why. I feel ya, dude. (why does he have no memory of going to the island? )

These aren't *really* flash forwards are they? It's more like an alternate timeline.

Miles has a special vacuum/ghostbusting kit. Sylvia Browne doesn't need to bring equipment with her.

Nadya is in the desert watching someone excavate a polar bear with a Dharma collar. This definitely qualifies as "WTF???"

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Meanwhile back on the island:

Daniel'[s last name is Faraday - ok writers. This is getting indulgent.

Yay Sawyer calling Locke Col. Kurtz. We're simpatico.

Note to self - in a few years, after you give that kidney to my brother, it's going to be totally ok to get shot in that vicinity - it'll be a through & through wound.

Vincent the dog! I was getting worried he wasn't with either of the groups.

The helicopter gang is looking for Ben. Go figure.

S4 Ep1 "The Beginning of The End"

2010-05-22T10:08:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 10:05)

Flashing Forwards:

Oceanic 6???? Only 6 get out?

AnaLucia's partner interrogating Hurley. How many cops are there in LA and he gets him...

Poor Hurley. He wants to get back to the asylum to get away from the hallucinations.

Agent Broyles from Fringe! My brain is going to melt. The hub-unit says JJ Abrams must have got Lance Riddick on discount for playing the same mysterious govt. type.

Hurley is getting a lot of visitors at the asylum, isn't he? Glad to see at least one of them is flesh and bone.

Okay, so... Hurley went with Locke and both he & Jack made it home - ergo - people from both groups get there. (well, they do have 3 seasons before this ends, so a lot of twists and turns will follow. I have to pretend I don't know this.)

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Meanwhile back on the island:

Danielle is still whacking Ben in the face. Love it.

Phone guy - "How about you put Naomi on?" Mmmm, no.

Peace out, Naomi.

omigod - Jacob is not a Mrs Bates. I would have had to change my pants if I were Hurley. And the poor guy thinks he's hallucinating. Noooo.

Heartbreaking, the look on Claire's face when she's looking for Charlie in the crowd. I keep getting "things in my eye", dammit. The hub-unit is going to think I'm having a breakdown.

I keep thinking Desmond is Eric Clapton.

Rain Machine! You haven't been there in a while now.

Helicopter! Parashchute person. Must be George.

S3 Ep23 "Through the Looking Glass, pt 2"

2010-05-22T09:07:00.000-07:00

(started 09:15)

PCL Jack is a pillhead. "Do you have any idea what I've been through?" hmmm

I suspected this wasn't a flashback, but a flashforward. Buuuut, how could Jack's Dad still be alive? Alternate universe stuff again?

They get golden passes (from the airline, I presume) - I NEED one of those!

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I haaaaaaaaate when people allow themselved to drown. I have a very visceral reaction to that because I've always been a swimmer.

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This is so much to process. Quick thoughts & questions.

As soon as I saw Jack looking years older in that crappy beard, I called flash forward. Important question: is Christian alive in the future, or was Jack just too screwed up in the head to realize what we was saying?

I hope we get a Mikhail flashback next season so we can find out how the Soviet Army turned him into the Terminator.

Yay for Locke being alive, boo to Charlie dying. Why did they have to make him so likable right before they killed him? Also yay for Hurley cranking up the VW bus and mowing down that Other. And Sawyer finally gets his revenge.

"Would you help me tie him up?" Seems like an odd first thing to say to your daughter. (and I loved Danielle's elbow to Ben's face!)

So now, the questions: whose funeral was it in the flash forward? I'm thinking Ben - since nobody showed up for it. It could be any one of them, but I'm thinking Jack would go to Ben's to make SURE he's dead - but the funeral director asked if he wanted to open the casket up and Jack declined...

S3 Ep22 "Through the Looking Glass, pt 1"

2010-05-22T08:26:00.000-07:00

(started 5/22/10 08:30)

PCL Jack with a beard looks like an American Taliban. Seems that while he's suicidal on a bridge someone runs smack into his Jeep. That's awful.

So Sarah will come to the hospital as she's listed as his contact but she won't give him a ride home?

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Hard to imagine, but the plan didn't work - go figure. I thought their ability to make a plan was hitting a plateau.

I wonder how often Ben has had to admit he's not in control of a situation and made a mistake. Probably not very much.

Jack telling Kate he loves her. So we're back to this?

How many hours has Locke lain in the pit with a gut wound?

Walt has had another growth spurt.

S3 Ep21 "Greatest Hits"

2010-05-22T07:33:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 07:35)

Charlie made me weepy, which I hate being right after waking up. My eyes are puffy now. Anyway, that was sweet, especially with baby Aaron and his list.

Rose and Bernard again made an apprearance - yay!!

Charlie met Sayid's Nadia in London while busking. In the same general timeframe where Desmond did.

-sorry so short, I'm a little fuzzy this morning-

S3 Ep20 "The Man Behind The Curtain"

2010-05-22T06:39:00.000-07:00

(started 5/22/10 06:35)

Questions:

Does anyone on this show have a decent father?

Ben met Richard the first time in the jungle and Richard as dressed like a hostile. Did Richard start the purging of the Dharma folks?

Has Ben ever seen Psycho?

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Also, creepy casting in that Ben's mother Emily is played by his real-life wife (Arlene from True Blood.)

S3 Ep19 "The Brig"

2010-05-22T00:51:00.000-07:00

(started 5/22/10 00:51)

Excellent episode. Whoo! There's a lot of bullet points, but I feel most compelled to address this:

I think Ben was setting up Locke to lose whatever tie it is Locke has with the island, in a way. If purity is so important to the Others, Locke's killing his father in order to avenge himself seems too evil to pass muster. He wouldn't be 'one of them' anymore. Good way for Ben to still remain top dog in terms of island-power, but have Locke as a useful tool within the society. Don't they do "eye for an eye" here- that life is so very important to them? Seems like he wants Locke to get punished. Too bad it'll be Sawyer instead.

But Ben was also putting a lot of trust in Locke by telling him of Juliet's mission. Either he was sure Locke wouldn't tell, or he didn't care if Locke did. Something is going to go down, but it must have to do with more than pregnant women.

S3 Ep18 "D.O.C."

2010-05-21T23:57:00.000-07:00

(started 5/22/10 00:00)

Mikhail the Russian made me waste a lot of time doubting my language skills. He said the parachute girl was speaking Italian. I'm fluent in Italian and Spanish (and can read Portuguese) and that was not Italian.

Didn't help either that Hurley said she was mumbling in Spanish - which is pretty close to Portuguese, but it's not Italian. The book cover is also in Portuguese.

So once that was out of the way... it leads to an abbreviates synopsis on my end.

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Kate helping Sun determine the conception date. I know she's a plant, but I really hope she did this for truly altruistic reasons. That she truly wants to give her good news, and not just because she will eventually need to interlope as an Other.

However, Juliet did leave Sun while she ducked back into the hatch to make a quick report to Ben.

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Oh yeah, how did Mikhail live through the giant electric pole fence thingie? Was that a big fakeout?

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How is it possible that back in the real world they have a plane from flight 815? I've been watching too much Fringe because all I can think about is The Other Side.

S3 Ep17 "Catch 22"

2010-05-21T23:02:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 23:05)

Desmond and the Destiny Dilemma again.

Why does he keep trying to keep Charlie alive when he knows the universe is eventually going to get him anyway? Because it's what God would want him to do. The story of Isaac is the perfect metaphor for the situation.

Desmond finds a copy of Catch 22 and his photo inside with Penny, but does he notice it's in Portuguese? Did Penny have a library of Portuguese books laying about?

But when he thinks Penny is there and needs to be rescued he abandons that post, so to speak, and focuses on that. And still, in the jungle when the deja vu starts creeping up he saves Charlie again.

They reach the fallen parachutist she says "Desmond."

Most likely, she was sent to scout around the suspected location of the Island by Penny... so that's why there would be a photo Desmond and Penny used as a bookmark. She would know what Desmond looks like if she found people.

The timeline has it as approximately (?) 3 weeks or so in show time since the snow Russians received the signal. Wouldn't that be a decent amount of time to ready ta team for a search and rescue effort in the Pacific?

Now, how did a helicopter get there? They aren't as long-range as a plane. It must have taken off from a ship some ways off in the distance. So if a helicopter goes missing, wouldn't someone come after it relatively soon?

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Also, Kate needs to get a grip on her feelings. I;m sure Sawyer doesn't mind the action but he shouldn't have to be the also-ran to Jack. And Jack was eating oatmeal with Juliet for cripes' sake, not mounting her around the campfire to make Kate jealous.

High school...

S3 Ep 16 "One Of Us"

2010-05-21T22:20:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 22:20)

Juliet is going to be witness to and be on the receiving end of group dynamics. She is brought to the beach by Jack, Sayid and Kate, but not with an exactly warm welcome.

Only Hurley takes an interest in her. He tells her about Creepy Cruise Cousin Ethan being buried over yonder and how he had kidnapped Claire, so that's why people are going to be leery of interlopers. Jack insists Juliet can be trusted. He's protecting her and only it's his word that is giving her an iota of trust from everyone else.

Something is wrong with Claire. She's having a reaction or has contracted something.

And Juliet is at the root of it. She admits to their program of sampling Claire's blood and taking her to ensure she did have the baby. Claire is the only woman on the island whose pregnancy didn't kill her, and they needed to know why.

But they all begin to trust her after she saves Claire's life.

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Flashbacks of Juliet show us Ben's cruelty toward her, and his manipulations and machinations. She's told her sister's cancer is back and she's going to die. He has kept her there much longer than she agreed to. She has to work around CCCEthan daily. That's the worst part of the package, IMHO.

Oh, and I get to hear "Downtown" again as they replay the plane crashing into the island. Yay for me!

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But Sayid and Sawyer absolutely don't trust Juliet. With good reason.

Claire is sick because of an implant. Claire being saved was planned.

Juliet wasn't left behind - it's all by design.

The Others are muuuuuuuch better at creating gameplans.

S3 Ep15 "Left Behind"

2010-05-21T21:31:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 9:30)

Hurley tells Sawyer there has been talk around camp about Sawyer because of his previous unsavory dealings. There's the possibility of a vote for banishment. Hurley tells him he needs to make amends to people, which he refuses at first, but relents and starts making the rounds. It's awkward and almost endearing.

Turns out Hurley hustled Sawyer into being a nice guy who made people happy. The swindler got swindled. And Sawyer realizes he kind of is a de-facto leader in the absence of Jack, Locke, and Sayid.

Congrats to Hurley.

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PCL Kate on the lam, but now with extra Cassidy action. Cassidy of the Sawyer long con has turned out quite nicely. They could have been a new version of Thelma and Louise. Cassidy helps Kate so that she gets a moment with her mother, who still hasn't forgiven her for blowing up Wayne.

Cassidy almost tells Kate her conman's name, but does tell her she's pregnant and she loves him. It's not like Kate and Sawyer don;t have 27 aliases - how would she have known it later on?

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At the Others Barracks Kate is gassed and wakes up in the jungle handcuffed to Juliet. It's just like the movie with Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as prisoners on the run - The Defiant Ones. Except that this was written probably to make the male audience hope there's girlfights and mudwrestling in the jungle.

And there is.

But there's also an appearance by the smoke monster. Juliet states they are aware of it, but don't understand it either. Oh, and Juliet has a key to turn off the giant electrical fenceposts.

In between scrappn' and rasslin' and smoke monsters Juliet does tell Kate that that Jack saw the her and Sawyer together on the monitor screen.

They make it back to the Barracks to find Jack and Sayid were left behind as well. They decide the only option is to make the trek back to their beach. Jack insists on bringing Juliet, even though Kate and Sayid are against it.

S3 Ep 14 "Expose"

2010-05-21T20:43:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 20:45)

Nikki stumbles onto the beach and drops to the ground in front of Hurley and Sawyer at the ping-pong table, muttering. Sawyer and Hurley gather up some folks to solve the mystery. They rush into the jungle only to find Paolo lying in the middle of the path, dead with his eyes open.

And this episode is going to be Murder She Wrote, because there's no CSI lab.

They take us back through all the days on the island, dropping them into scenes we all recognize. It's a little more Forrest Gump than Rashomon.

The upshot is that they are thieves who have killed Nikki's old man boyfriend after he gave her diamonds. After the plane crash they spent all their time looking for the carry-on bag with the diamonds.

I think that's why we didn't notice them before.

Anyway, Nikki gets a spider from Jay Leno guy and poisons Paolo with his bite, which causes paralysis. But she gets bitten too, because the island wants it that way. And they've actually been alive the whole time, just paralyzed. Comeuppance!.

And they are buried on the beach. Alive. So this is more like Tales From Crypt than Murder She Wrote.

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P.S. - after seeing Shannon in this episode I wonder how she wasn't put out of her misery long before Ana shot her. Girl was annoying.

Sorry Sayid.

S3 Ep13 "The Man From Tallahassee"

2010-05-21T20:04:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 20:00)

The previouslies might finally answer the wheelchair question.

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Jack playing football at the Others Barracks. Shaking hands with wheelchair Ben. The Rescue Party watches from the bushes to make their move. Kate goes in and is immediately captured. Jack is being monitored (well duh, would-be rescuers!) so they are on to their plan the second she steps through the door. Sayid is captured as well.

Locke makes his presence known in Ben's room. He wants the submarine. Ben tells him he knows all about the wheelchair history. More manipulation and psychological probing on Ben's part. Alex affirms that he's a master manipulator and that's his M.O.

Jack and Juliet are actually being prepared to go home. Like "home" home, not "onto the another" island home. But Jack swears he'll come back for Kate. It's hard to tell if she buys it, though. He walks out the door and she's captive in handcuffs.

Locke gets his information and blows up the sub just as Jack and Juliet are about to board it. They are not happy about this twist of fate. Ben, however, is pretty delighted. Maybe Locke can stay and be his new BFF.

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PCL Locke gets a visit from a young man comes to see him who tells him Locke's crappy dad is going to marry his mom,and dad has a new name. John tracks him down, and confronts him. Twice. We finally learn how Locke got in the wheelchair. Daddy dearest pushed him out a window 8 stories up.

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Locke does not regret his decision of blowing the submarine up, despite his imprisonment. Besides, he and Ben are going to be BFFs, and he gets to stay on the island forever and never be hurt by his father again. Remember he thinks the island gives him his mojo. He'll be safe there.

Hey now - guess what? Daddy dearest is on the island.

No Fricking Way.

S3 Ep 12 "Par Avion"

2010-05-21T18:35:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 18:35)

Sayid, Locke, Kate & Danielle are bringing Mikhail the Russian with them across the island. Danielle tells Kate she doesn't want to know about her daughter in the Others camp. Mikhail revels in superiority and tells them they cannot understand why they are here because they are not on The List. The reason they are not on The List is because they are: Flawed. Angry. weak. Frightened. He recognizes the name John Locke but the John Locke he heard of was para-

Oops. Interrupted by Danielle finding the row of super electrified poles creating a perimeter line. Then to demonstrate how it works, they push Mikhail into the line of fire where his ears bleed and he foams at the mouth.

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Charlie is trying to do nice things for Claire, guessing because he knows his time is limited. He tells her he wants to take her on a picnic, but Desmond thwarts it, strongly urging that today is not a good day and "Hey let's go hunting."

Claire sees a flock of migratory birds and it gives her and idea for hopes of a rescue plan. If they send messages tied to the bands, the scientists counting the birds will know to come get them. Desmond shoos them away and faces the wrath of Claire. She then turns on Charlie in frustration and wants to know the truth about what's going on. Then threatens to withhold access to the baby because he;s lying.

She's a little one-sided and definitely immature. Later she spies Desmond catching a gull and confronts him, and he tells her finally that he's trying to keep Charlie safe.

Charlie and Claire write a message for the gull together. She tells him he's going to be okay and they'll get through this together.

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PCL Claire has black hair and is in a car accident with her Mum, which leaves her in a coma. Her bills are being paid by an unknown benefactor who finally shows up and turns out to be... Dr. Christian Shepard, Jack's Dad. Claire's Dad.

Dude gets around.

MOre of a mystery is how PCL Claire was able to get black hair dye back to blonde in one day. And being pregnant to boot. That's a lot of chemical treatment in under 24 hours.

S3 Ep11 "Enter 77"

2010-05-21T17:51:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 17:50)

First there was the 2-hole golf course, now a ping-pong tournament is in the works, but they have no ball. The table came from the hatch. Where to find a ball? Sawyer has one. Of course he does.

He challenges the entire island to a ping-pong competition in order to reclaim his stash. What does everyone else want if they win? Sun comes up with it - no nicknames from Sawyer for a week.

Hurley wins, not just because he's a hustler, but because Sawyer doesn't have glasses.

Kate, Locke, Sayid, and Rousseau find an isolated house in the countryside, complete with a cow and kitty. Rousseau takes off, letting them know she has been able to survive on her own this long because she doesn't bother other folks. She's out of there. What they find is the the one-eyed man from a the monitor screen Sayid hooked up at Pearl Station. (Hopefully somebody will give him the glass eye they found there - that'd be a coincidence if it was NOT his.)

His name is Mikhail and he claims to be the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative, who has run this communication station since leaving the Soviet Army and answering a classified ad. Sayid doesn't believe him, he believes Mikhail is an Other, and is certain he is not alone.

Locke can't refrain from the siren call of the computer chess game to concentrate on watching the Mikhail passed out on the floor. But it actually unlocks the Hanso menu of communication selections. No sonar, no satellite, but 'enter 77' if there has been an incursion by the hostiles.

And then the house blew up. So there's that.

S3 Ep10 "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"

2010-05-21T16:53:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 16:55)

Kate and Sawyer stumble back to camp and have a happy reunion with everyone. Except Sawyer is pissy about where his stashes are. Jeez dude, are they supposed to let it sit around forever? They had no idea you were coming back.

Hurley finds a VW bus full of Dharma Beer and its skeletal driver Roger. He brings Charlie along to cheer him up, also Jin & Sawyer, to get it working. They push it into a clearing and get it going. Male bonding sequence! It's a joyful scene and Hurley looks like he believes he's starting to make his own luck. Stop looking like such a sadsack.

Kate has gone in search of the Others encampment. She will single-handedly bring Jack home. Sayid and Locke do meet up with her and join in, so she's actually not doing it alone.

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PCL Hurley and more of his bad luck litany. A meteorite hits the Chicken Shack he purchased, killing the tv reporter and crew that are doing a puff piece. But his long lost dad comes back (presumably and obviously for his money) and nothing happens to him. It's Cheech, so it please don't let anything happen to him. Even if if means doing Hurley's mom after a 17 year absence. She has needs..

S3 Ep9 "Stranger In A Strange Land"

2010-05-21T16:04:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 16:05)

Bai Ling is not allowed on my television.

I do not grok.

That is all.

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At least we saw Cindy and the kids. The rest was utter crap.

We meet the Sheriff, who is investigating a death caused by Juliet. Eye for an eye. Punishment is scarification that looks like an asterisk. For shooting someone Danny?

Is Alex supposed to be 16, according to Danielle Rousseau, because I don't see that at all.

Carl tells Sawyer and Kate they don't live on the prison island, it's where they work and do projects.

S3 Ep8 "Flashes Before Your Eyes"

2010-05-21T15:16:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 15:17)

Desmond saves Claire from drowning.

Hurley believes that Desmond can see the future. He and Charlie get him drunk but he reacts negatively and walks off into the darkness.

When he was knocked out by the hatch implosion, he flashes back over a great deal of his life, all to do with Penny. It's more than a flash, because he's very in the moment, like he's reliving it. Except that he's aware of his time on the island. Maybe this is happening because he was unconscious, except after he woke up naked in the jungle, the future flashes keep happening.

He meets Fionnula Flanagan from The Others (the movie - HA!HA!) who knows everything going on with him, past present and future, who instructs him that this is all about course corrections. Now matter what he does to change the future, the universe will right itself on its intended course. (And we find out his middle name is David - so yes, he's definitely there for the Hume Destiny Fork dealio.) Sadly, the universe says it isn't in the cards for De and Pen, and he breaks it off with her. She of course doesn't understand this, or accept it, apparently, as we find out later from the Russian guys in the snow.

So his odd behavior on the island is now about him trying to change the future to prevent bad stuff from happening. You can't change it, he cries.

Desmond needs to save Charlie, and he tells him this: Charlie dove in after Claire to try and save her, and Charlie was supposed to drown. If Des hadn't put up a lightning rod on Claire's place, the lighting was going to hit the roof and electrocute him. The universe wants to kill Charlie.

He says he can't hold it forever. But then why is Desmond continuing to do this? He knows the future can't be changed, so why does he keep preventing it? The universe will have its way, after all it's course-correcting.

He can't stop it forever. Cheer up Charlie. It'll be over soon. Maybe you can start up with the smack again to make it easier on yourself?

S3 Ep7 "Not In Portland"

2010-05-21T14:33:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 14:30)

Juliet calls Jack's bluff that he will let Ben die. She also let's him know they are on a different island.

Kate & Sawyer are on the run and are aided by Alex (Rousseau's daughter?) Jack amends his demand to include a boat to get K&S off the island.

Flashback : Juliet has a sick sister she administers injections to. She also has a weasel of an ex-husband. Why does Zeljko Ivanek only play bad guys anymore?

Juliet is researching impregnating things that should be able to get impregnated. Like male mice, although it hasn;t successfully carried through yet. Turns out the injections she's giving her sister result in pregnancy. This may not end well.

Ben is a miracle patient that can be cut intop and come out anesthesia without screeching pain. He managess to carry on conversations and make decisions when he probablt should be passed out.

Flashback: Juliet tells her ex-husband of the success of her sister (thus far) and he promptly gets hit by a bus. What?

On the beach, Danny tries to stop Kate & Alex, but Juliet shoots him. Kate tlaks to Jack and relays the story of him from day one

By the way, Ben is Alex's father. Alex is upset that she couldn't leave on the boat. This is not going to go well. But the surgery did.

There's more, but the upshot is that Juliet is essentially a prisoner on the island as well. But now she will be able to go home.

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grr... too much filler and backstory that we probably won't ultimately need

S3 Ep6 "I Do"

2010-05-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 13:45)

Squeeeeeeeeeee! Captain tightpants in a cop uniform. Mmmm. Was that out loud?

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Jack refuses to perform Ben's spinal tumor surgery. The matter should drop. And there's not really any point in torturing someone that you want to have cutting on you. Then again maybe you don't want to piss you off in any form if they want you to mess around with someone else's nerves and all that. Maybe it's just me?

Kate is brought to Jack to beg him to perform the surgery or they will kill Sawyer. Jack doesn't believe them. Sawyer doesn't believe this will happen either. Kate does. Boy she does. Kate gets herself into Sawyer's cage for the sexytimes. She could escape, but no. She thinks they're going to kill him so she sleeps with him. Perfectly reasonable. Sawyer tells her they are on a different island before the sex, so that's good news. He's getting better at prioritizing.

Ever so conveniently, Jack is able to get out of his cell only to find Kate & Sawyer together on a monitor. Oh Ben, you know how to win a guy over. So will he agree to the surgery to make Kate happy or is there another reason?

Jack gives himself an insurance policy when finally does start the surgery: he makes an extra incision on Ben that just may lead to him bleeding out, in the event that Kate & Sawyer aren't safe. And he lets them know this. Also, Danny avenges Colleen's death by attempting to shoot Sawyer (because, you know, Sawyer and Kate didn't kill her but SOMEBODY has to take the blame.) Jack tells Kate by radio to run and when she gets to where she's safe to re-tell the storyhe told her on the beach the first day when she stitched him up.

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PCL Kate has had about 87 identities. She must about 56 with all this time she's spent in various places. How could she ever believe she could stay with a cop for any length of time? Hello.

She drugs and leaves him. For better or for worse.

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Meanwhile, Locke, Sayid, Nikki and Paolo the Useless have a burial for Eko. No need to drag him back to the beach for everyone to participate. That beach is getting mighty full anyway. Locke sees something carved on Eko's walking stick about looking to the north?

S3 Ep5 "The Cost of Living"

2010-05-21T13:00:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 13:00)

Eko isn't doing so well. He's recovering from the blast, from the polar bear penitentiary and from being dragged back to camp by Charlie and Locke. He's having dreams, visions and memories of his childhood in Africa and of his brother Yemi the priest.

Locke mounts an expedition to go to Station 5/Pearl bunker where they can use the computers to communicate with the Others. Here come Nikki & Paolo - yay! Maybe we'll get to know them?

They finally arrive after Paolo proves himself to be an idiot who should have stayed faceless in the background. Sayid works out a feed to one of the monitors, and we are able to see a screen full of of the electronic equipment and some eyepatch-wearing dude. Who turned the camera off. I think he knows you're there.

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PCL Eko in the aftermath of the shootout at the airstrip when he last saw his brother. He takes over Yemi's church. Militia come to try and strongarm him on vaccine supplies and Father Eko kills them. Don't anybody try to strongarm this guy, ok? Have you seen the size of him? He also has a big old machete in his paw.

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So Eko was building the church on the island as penance for losing the church his brother built? Even so, he stopped building the church some time ago.

He's ready to go, but asks for no forgivenness. He won't apologize to the visions of Yemi for his past actions. Eko says did what he did to survive. It's hard out here for a pimp, dig?

But that isn't Yemi, dawg. WTF???

The smoke monster makes itself into a HUGE fist surrounding Eko, and he looks a little like King Kong holding Fay Wray. He gets thrashed around and thrown to the ground. Hulk smash! But Eko calls out to Locke "you're next"(collectively) before he passes away.

Seriously, a smoke fist??? WTF

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Musing -

So... I had thought the dynamic between Eko and Locke regarding the number sequencing issue was an argument of faith over science. Eko had been able to stare down the smoke wisp when it visited him before because he had great faith, I thought (that, and he's bad-ass.)

Still forming a theory about this, just wanted to get this down to reflect on later.

S3 Ep4 "Every Man For Himself"

2010-05-21T12:00:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 12:00)

People on this show aren't very good at coming up with Master Plans For Escape. Sawyer wets the ground with is waterpipe his plan is to make himself get shocked by electrical current and reach out to a guard at the same time. Sawyer knows how much current he can take since he got tased, but the guard won't have that going for him. Really? That's what you come up with?

Of course Ben knows because of the monitors. So the next day when Ben comes by it doesn't work, because they have turned to electricity off in the food bin. Wha wha whaaaaa. At least now Sawyer knows that the Others are watching them.

They install a pacemaker on Sawyer that will kill him if his pulse rises above 140. Or if the bus goes below 65. Where's Sandra Bullock when you need her?

Colleen, who got shot by Sun, is dying on the operating table and Juliet brings Jack in. He can't save her either because their crash cart is not working. Jeez people. How's a man supposed to work here?

Danny beats the crap out of Sawyer afterward, and because of the pacemaker he doesn't fight back. Kate can't understand why. I'm guessing that your pulse still rises when you're getting whacked in the face, whether you are defending or not. He stops only when Kate admits she loves it. It took way too long for her to do that too. If somebody is beating a guy and asking me if I love him I'll say Yes even if I never laid eyes on him before. It's about keeping the dental work. Too expensive.

Jack tells Juliet he thinks he's been brought there to save someone. He saw xrays in the clinic and somebody's got a too-mah. Hopefully they have the medical equipment up to snuff by then.

The pacemaker is a fakeout. Ben brings Sawyer to a lookout point to show him they are on a different island and there is no escape. No matter - Sawyer can make a good plan to save his life anyway, remember?

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PCL sawyer is in prison. He helps the warden rip off another prisoner to lessen his own jail time. Sawyer also received a visit from former con victim Cassidy, who tells him he has a daughter in New Mexico. Sawyer takes his cut of the proceeds from the warden and has an account set up for the kid he won't publicly acknowledge.

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Ben sounds like Kevin Spacey and hearing his voice in my headphones but not seeing him while I write is a little unnerving. I expect to want to buy a Honda or get Gwyneth's head delivered to me in a box.

S3 Ep3 "Further Instructions"

2010-05-21T11:15:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 11:15)

I still think that Locke has the potential to Kurtz-out, and am happy the writers have made his character grow a lot beyond the "I'm here for an adventure - don't tell me what I can't do!" mantra from the first episodes of the show. I don't like that they've made him mute suddenly as a result of the hatch imploding.

He decides to turn Eko's church-frame into a sweatlodge and go on a vision quest. People die in those, dude. And his guide is Boone, who still has a bone to pick with him from the beyond. Locke goes looking for Eko. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before now? Bunker goes BOOM - go look for people who are missing from camp. Come on now.

Charlie comes along with him. They encounter Hurley making his way back from the Others, and he tells them about the events of the past few days there. Hurley keeps heading to the beach and finds Desmond, who is disoriented and naked.

Oh come on now - Eko has been detained by a polar bear and taken to a cave. Locke rescues him and the bear runs off into the jungle.

WTF? Indeed.

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PCL Locke is living in a commune, with a sweatlodge. He picks up Eddie the hitch-hiker who is actually an undercover cop interested in the pot farm. Why would Locke bring him there if they need to be secretive about this endeavor? Oy.

Locke takes Eddie hunting, presumably to kill him and make him into crop fertilizer, but he can't go through with it. This can't be good.

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Also, back on the beach, Nikki and Paolo speak up. Who the hell are you? Have you been hanging out there the whole time but waited to season three to say anything? No, we just haven;t been paying attention I guess. Locke knows them.

S3 Ep2 "The Glass Ballerina"

2010-05-21T10:31:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 10:30)

Sayid's plan was weak for someone with military intelligence in his background. He assumes that no matter how many Others come out to get them, he and Jin will be able to take all comers. (Does he know if Jin know martial arts like ALL asians are supposed to, from birth?) How does he know they won't be able to see the sailboat and make a beeline for that instead of the fire he's setting?

Sun is relegated to the boat. One of the Others (Trixy from Deadwood) discovers her aboard the boat, and Sun shoots her in the gut. Did Sun get those kinds of lessons too" Sun makes her escape. The Others get away with the boat, and Sayid, Sun, and Jin are stranded.

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PCL Sun gets discovered by her father in the hotel room with Jae and he dispatches Jin to do some dirtywork, and Jin doesn't know the real reason why. Sun doesn't tell Jin about the affair (remember she swears this when she tells him of the miracle pregnancy on the island).

Jin can't bring it upon himself to kill Jae (he'll never make it as a thug) but instead he scares the crap of him, leaving him with the warning to get out of the country. Jae jumps out the window.

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Meanwhile back at prison, Sawyer & Kate are made to break rocks and push around dirt. Sawyer creates a diversion by kissing Kate. He manages to get a gun, but he's tasered. When commiserating the details to Kate through the wall, Ben sees it all on video surveillance, so Sawyer has already tipped his hand on this.

Ben tells Jack he has been on thie island his whole life. He gives him an update on current events from the outside world. Jack will not believe him that the Red Sox won the world series, so he shows him a playback. (Damn, he and Dad can't use that phrase anymore.) He plays Let's Make A Deal with Jack. If he cooperates he gets to go home. Not a whole lot of details are given.

S3 Ep1 "A Tale of Two Cities"

2010-05-21T09:45:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 09:50)

Did this have to start with "Downtown" by Petula Clark? I always end up on a tangent in whatever I am doing when I hear this song. On our honeymoon in London, the hub-unit and I went to this basement-dwelling Spanish restaurant where this tiny Indian man set up his keyboard and proceeded to play the meekest set of ambient dinner music ever, in the middle of a loud bar section. It was like he snuck up on the microphone every time he approached it. By the third song we were pretty much wetting our pants in laughter, yet we couldn't make ourselves leave, for fear we'd never hear such an 'amazing' set of music again in our lifetimes. He had a way about him that was mesmerizing. Call me sometime if you want to hear the audio version of this anecdote. Will be pleased to oblige.
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Welcome to the Bitterville Book Club, where we see Henry Gale, who is really named Ben. They are "discussing" a Stephen King book when there's a rumbling from the sky. Outside, the Oceanic plane is crashing into the island. We see that other people in this community include Creepy Cruise Cousin Ethan and Goodwin the Peace Corps guy, who Ben tells to scatter to different parts of the wreckage and to pose as survivors and make a list.

The camera pans back and we see a neat, orderly subdivision, pretty houses and yards. These people are wearing regular clothing, not the crazy monochromatic Polyphonic Spree garb we saw at the season 2 finale.

So, they changed into rags and burned their houses down to live in huts? Good Subterfuge.

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Present day Kate, Sawyer and Jack are shown in captivity. Henry has a particular liking for Kate wearing a dress. She is warned that the next two weeks will be difficult for her. Sawyer lives in a bear cage and doesn't take direction well - go figure. And Jack spends a lot of time with Juliette the Book Club leader. Jack tried to escape and gets clocked by Juliette.

The Others are back to wearing civilized clothing at least. No more terracotta.

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PCL Jack is determined to find out who Sarah is seeing, even thinking it's his father at one point. He has crazyeyes.

S2 Ep24 "Live Together, Die Alone, pt 2"

2010-05-21T08:48:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 08:45)

Eko's a big dude. And kind of off-kilter in his reasoning about the button-pushing issue. This is not a good thing. Especially when he has dynamite and REALLY wants to get in the blast doors.

Meanwhile, inside the blast doors Desmond and Locke are playing a "what if" game about whether or not they should be continuing to push the button. Can I just interject here that I find it funny/interesting they have these two dealing with philosophical matters and they are named Locke and Hume? Locke and his personal identity issues with a mind-body connection (the formerly wheelchair bound) and Desmond's Fork of Destiny (are things random or predetermined?) Yeah, I took Philosophy, writing staff.

I can't start thinking about these themes right now or I'll never finish this episode. What does Kelvin being named Kelvin mean? And Danielle's is Rousseau...

***Now I CAN'T concentrate on anything but the names. Dammit.***

Why does the giant foot of the statue Sayid sees from the boat only have four toes? Is this a "Planet of the Apes" thing too? Or something out of The Odyssey?

Locke is in the hatch when the zero-moment comes and the lighting goes bright along with a terrible nose, making all inhabitants cover their ears. The island doesn't explode, but there is a giant fireball. Desmond has made a sacrifice of himself? And Locke admits he made a mistake. He was wrong about the button.

Michael is reunited with Walt, but at what expense to the rest of the Oceanics? And they get to take off in a boat, lah dee dah. Why isn't Walt a little freaked out that J/S/K are tied up on the dock? Has he become inured? And Henry Gale is the leader of the Others, officially.

Hurley gets to return to camp to tell them about the Others capturing them, but Jack, Kate & Sawyer must stay. Captives.

So the button pushing magnetic re-setting has something to do with causing the plane to crash? It was a system failure on Desmond's part.

Meanwhile in a remote frozen land, we see two people at a monitoring station gets beeped. They pick up the phone and call...Penny, Desmond's woman.

I know I'm leaving a lot out, but there's a lot in this episode. Mind blown.

S2 Ep23 "Live Together, Die Alone"

2010-05-21T07:58:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 08:00)

When asked why he came back Desmond tells them he had been sailing due west and this was supposed to be Fiji. He tells Jack they are stuck in a snowglobe.

Great, the old snowglobe analogy. This better not end up like the finale to "St Elsewhere" or I'll be pissed. But at least I'll only have invested 4-1/2 days and not yeeeeeeeeeears. Seriously, I'm starting to think the island is a form of cosmic purgatory. Or a giant science experiment of the Gods.

Desmond meets Libby of all people in a coffeeshop and she gives him her dead husband's boat. Score! Good thing he showed up at the beach right as they finished her funeral, isn't it? She might have been pissed that he shot the boat up in a drunken stupor.

Eko kicks Locke out of the bunker. Locke and Desmond outsmart him and take it back. Eko gets Charlie and will attempt to oust Locke because he wants to keep pushing the button. Eko saw the same Orientation film at station 5 that Locke did, but Eko isn't getting that it was a behavioral experiment? Oh, the powerstruggles.

Michael and his posse are going to the Others by land, and Sayid, Sun & Jin are going by sea, unbeknownst to everyone but Jack. Michael gets confronted by Jack that the Others have been warned and Michael admits he is doing their bidding in order to get Walt back.

Oh and Clancy Brown is back! He's the guy who was locked in the hatch with Desmond.

S2 Ep22 "Three Minutes"

2010-05-21T07:09:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 07:10)

We learn what happened to Michael while he was searching for Walt. As inferred, he was captured by the Others and he made a deal with them to exchange Walt for Henry. In my opinion, writing staff, the audience didn't need the whole episode for this exposition, we kinda figured it out when Michael turned the gun on himself, then sat around skulking and trying not to look guilty before Libby died.

The Others camp is made up of huts and tents - they aren't much more "permanent" than the Oceanic folks considering they've been there a lot longer.

Miss Klugh comes to Michael and pretty much interrogates him for information about Walt's growing up and point blank says that for being his father he doesn't know a whole lot about him. Michael is given three minutes (hey look, it's the ep title!) to talk to Walt.

And Michael looks like he's aged a few years in a short time. I know it's that the child actor has had a growth spurt, but it distracted me nonetheless. Walt sounds like he's being held by Scientologists; they made him take tests! He is panicky and kind of freaked out and cries out for Michael to rescue him as they cart Walt off. Miss Klugh states that Michael has to free Henry, and then bring Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, and Jack back to the Others. Subterfuge will be acceptable means. Whew.

Once back with the Oceanic folks, and after the panic of the shootings in the bunker, Michael presents his plan to take the Others. Why doesn't this seem suspicious to that Michael ONLY wants those four people to assist? Why is Sayid the ONLY one who can see this? Why wouldn't Michael WANT Sayid on the team, being that he has, you know, mission/battle experience?

Sayid figures this out and presents it to Jack, saying how he thinks Michael is "compromised." Jack wants to know how Sayid knows this, and remarkably, Sayid does not say, "well, duh."

In other news, Locke's leg is healing enough to where he removes the leg splint, Eko stops building the church, and Charlie throws away the heroin. I still think that some should be kept around "under safe keeping" for medicinal purposes, but Charlie's a junkie and knows his limits since he has a sober brain and is in the right place right now. There has to be some stashed somewhere that will be revealed later...

Oh yeah, and they have the funerals. Sawyer does tell Jack he had a sexromp with Ana; too bad he doesn't say it at the funeral for full impact on Jack. But Sawyer is still Klassy with a K.

Off in the distance, a boat approaches.

S2 Ep21 "?"

2010-05-21T02:03:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 02:05)

Upshot - Ana is dead (I can't say that enough) and Libby is dying. Michael faked that someone broke in and shot him then spirited Henry away. He has to hope that Libby doesn't come around and spill it that he shot everyone.

Poor Hurley. He was just trying to have a first date with Libby and she got shot trying to get some blankets for a picnic. No doubt this is another notch in his bad luck filofax in his head. And then Libby passes away. Poor Hurley.

Eko & Locke go tracking. They find another of the hatch bunkers. This one is Station 5, a monitoring station for observation in the Dharma Initiative. There is is videotape of Orientation, not an 8mm film this time. They can see in to the other bunkers, as they see Jack walking around. He doesn't know they are watching, of course. Hopefully there's a way to get the recording back to show Michael's treachery.

Also -pneumatic tubes connect the stations. Whee!

We spend some time with Mr Eko faking it as a priest in his PCL.

How many times are they going to go find a new hatch? This is going to get old and redundant.

Locke is understandably upset at finding out the sequence execution is all for observation sake - rats in a maze he calls it. He feels deflated at the idea that he wasn't doing something important after all. He rails that nothing in his pathetic life is important, and the Mr Eko tells him that isn't so and the experiment meant something. I don't really get his rationalization, but it calms Locke down for the moment.

I am out for the night. My eyes are tired.

S2 Ep 20 "Two For the Road"

2010-05-21T01:13:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 01:15)

Another AnaLucia-centric episode. Grr.

She tries to get Henry to talk or eat, or perhaps some of each. She leans in to hear him muttering and he strikes out at her, grabbing her by the throat, throwing her up against the wall and chocking her. Why didn't he finish the job? Because Locke whacks him with his crutch.

We find out that Ana was a traveling companion to Jack's father when he left for Australia. Jeebus, is there anyone who didn't drink with this guy and see him prior to his death? Well, Jack didn't, we know that much.

She goes along with him when he stops off at a house in the suburbs. Standing in the rain arguing with a woman on the porch, you can barely make out the conversation, but it sounds like Jack has a half-sister.

Back on the island she sexes it up with Sawyer, taking a gun in the process.

She ambushes Henry in the bunker, to retaliate on his assault of her earlier. But she can't kill him. Later she tells this to Michael, who offers to kills Henry for her. They're animals as far as he's concerned for taking Walt from him.

She gives him the combination to the lock, he shoots her in the chest (~ Oops! Edited to correct gender). Ana's dead! Libby hears the shot and comes walking in 'Michael?" He is startled, spins around and plugs her twice.

Michael opens the locked room, and stares in at Henry. Is he going to plug him too? Michael turns the gun on himself and fires. Looks like it's going to get him in the arm or shoulder.

Damn. Final two minutes gets all the action. Is Michael shooting himself to set up a get away for Henry? Is this a trade for getting Walt back from the Others? It can't be a suicide attempt - Michael knows Walt is still out there.

But if it was not 2am I would be doing the serious happy dance right now. Ana is dead. I'll still have to see her in flashbacks, I'm sure. But at least she is not advancing in the plot anymore.

S2 Ep19 "S.O.S."

2010-05-21T00:28:00.000-07:00

(started 5/21/10 00:30)

Right off the bat, Henry pushes Jack's button today by taunting him, matter of factly. After Jack goads him about his plan to go meet at the line of demarcation and offer a trade with the Others, in order to get Walt back. Henry responds flatly that they'll never let them have Walt. All Jack can go is stare at him.

Interesting.

Later Locke goes nuts pounding on the door trying to get Henry to respond to his questions about whether he really entered the sequence. Henry sits quietly on the other side of the door, smiling to himself at his handiwork for getting Locke into a frenzy without even saying a word.

Manipulator.

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Dear sweet misguided Bernard. You know why leadership doesn't work for you? Because you're the guy from that episode of Friends when Phoebe gives birth. You're the doctor obsessed with Fonzie.

But bless your heart for trying to find a cure for Rose, although she seems to be doing fine on the island. It's a place of miracle cures for the inhabitants.

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Jack and Kate get netted up from a booby trapped babydoll laying in the jungle. They end up shooting their way out by piercing the rope. Crackshot.

Rain machine. Jack yelling out to the Others to come talk to him. Hours later in the dark they spot movement in the bushes and out stumbles Michael, practically unconscious.

S2 Ep 18 "Dave"

2010-05-20T23:41:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 23:40)

WTF Hurley? I get it that you are freeing yourself from the burdens of your secret food stash, and your hoarding addiction. Do you have to waste the food in order to do it?

Because as his punishment, the camp wants him to be in charge of the NEW food supplies, the items with parachute found the night before. Hurley refuses, then runs off as he sees a guy in a bathrobe across the clearing, who he knows from back at the asylum. It's Dave!

BTW Sayid is back to torturing the fake-Henry prisoner guy. I've watched to many seasons of "24" because Sayid is not nearly as effective as Jack Bauer, this is taking too long to get the truth out of him.

Meanwhile, Dave is Randle P MacMurphy-lite. He gets frustrated trying play basketball with theother patients, coerces Hurley to start skipping his meds and plans on breaking out. As long as Billy Bibbit doesn't end up committing suicide, it's all okay with me. Does this mean Hurley is Chief and he has to lift a water fountain/spray hose stand to bust out?

Later Locke speaks with Henry. Henry tells him about what happened during the number sequence he helped with. Nothing happened after the clock wound down and the res'black pictgrams danced for him. The clock re-set to 108. He never entered the sequence into the computer at all. But he could be lying, you know.

Turns out - Dave is truly Hurley's imaginary friend. At the asylum he isn't a patient, he's entirely in Hurley's head. In his subconscious. Dave tries to convince Hurley that the island is all in his head. He never left the hospital, never won the lottery, never took a plane to Australia.

Libby gets Hurley to accept he's a real boy after all. Howefver, at the very end in a flashback we see she was also a patient at the asylum. Ooooh.

This episode ended up feeling like it was three hours long!

S2 Ep17 "Lockdown"

2010-05-20T22:53:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 22:55)

Aw damn, there's a balloon after all. I was almost hoping that Ana would get ravaged by Henry's group - maybe they would be cannibals or zombies to boot. Not that I want Charlie or Sayid to get eaten.

The thing about Henry is that I have known people like him, worked with a few, am related to a one, lived with one - who are instantly able to read the dynamic between two people and push their buttons to pit them against each other all day long. It's not fun to watch, and I'm thankful I was never on the receiving end.

Locke is experiencing glitchy things in the bunker. There's the static-y speaker system, a woman whispering, the electrical system is flickering, and the blast doors close up, and he get shut in with Henry. More importantly, everyone else is shut out.

Back at the beach, Jack and Sawyer are playing poker for the medical supplies and to win their pissing contest.

Locke is stuck under the blast door now and needs Henry to help him with the sequence execution. Has Henry not heard the alarm bell since he's been down there? He has to have asked about that sound - he asks about everything else. Or makes observations unsolicited.

Henry ends up being trustworthy - this time. The sequence gets re-set and he comes back to Locke after being in the airshafts But not before the place goes into blacklight, revealing a day-glo map of the bunker/storage/hatch system on the island (I'm presuming?) Also Locke must now realize that he owes Henry something. And it probably won't be long before he's asked to reciprocate. It's going to be a big time favor, you know it.

Jack and Kate are in the jungle and see a flickering beacon light. It's a parachute with Dharma food supplies. Charlie, Sayid and Ana come upon them at that moment. They all go back to find Henry out of the locked room in the bunker.

They let Henry know they did find the balloon and the grave. It's all how he said it would be. Except they found an ID for Henry Gale, and his picture shows that he's African-American.

S2 Ep16 "The Whole Truth"

2010-05-20T22:03:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 22:04)

By the way, where in the blazes is Michael? No updates on his progress at all.
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I couldn't get into this episode much at all. Don't like seeing Jin being heavy-handed with Sun, even if he's just trying to protect her. She finds she's pregnant but through their backstory we see it's been a struggle.

The other storyline involves Ana, so no wonder I don't care so much for it. She grates on me.

She interviews Henry Gale, after being brought in by Locke, gets him to draw a map to where his balloon is and where the wife supposedly is buried. Ana, Sayid and Charlie set out trekking to other parts of the island to find said balloon.

Problem is with Sun, she is afraid to tell Jin because he is the one that makes it impossible to conceive. Well, let's remember they are on an island where a paralyzed dude can now walk. It's a miracle, and when Sun does tell Jin he accepts when she swears she has not been with another man. He has already told her how he needs her - he can't understand anyone but her - literally. Maybe he'll stop being quite so frustrated and treat her better and with more care now.

Henry (using the old supposition method) reveals his plan to Locke and Jack of sending Ana and the balloon party straight into an ambush by his people. He does this quite nonchalantly over breakfast cereal. As suspected, he used the ego struggles of Jack & Locke to start driving a wedge, he's a manipulator - that one.

S2 Ep15 "Maternity Leave"

2010-05-20T21:14:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 21:15)

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Anyway... Baby Aaron has a fever. Locke gets Jack to go to Claire's place. While she's waiting Danielle approaches her and declares the baby is infected.

When Jack arrives he passes it off as nothing to worry about, suggesting it's Roseola, which babies get at Aaron's age. But is Roseola is it spontaneously naturally occurring or would he get it as a virus? If nobody is sick in the camps how would a baby come down with something? I am not a pediatrician.

Claire asks Libby to help out with recovering her memory from when she was kidnapped. She seems to remember when they were pushing a needle at her belly that her captors said it was a vaccine.

Under hypnosis she realizes that Ethan the Creepy Cruise Cousin was treating her during her captivity. In a nice OB style room.

The also had a nursery set up for her. The Santa Claus dude is talking to Ethan (without the bushy hair and beard) about the list.

Claire's flashbacks show that Ethan was actually nice to her and he insists they are good people and a good family for her and her baby. They are giving a vaccine, but there's only enough for the baby.

They eventually find the bunker where the hospital clinic and nursery are, and of course it's vacated. Kate finds a closet with a case on the floor containing spirit gum and a fake beard. Santa Claus!!!

It's a little murky as to what seems real since Claire was on drugs and she's reliving memories spurred on by hypnosis. It's possible this ALL is one giant false recovered memory. The upshot is that Danielle was the one who took her back to the Lost camp as close as she could to save her from having the baby removed from her by surgical means. Claire was about to stay with the Others, she was calling out to Ethan.

Danielle can go lurking back into the jungle alone now. She causes confusion for me.

Mr Eko goes to see Henry Gale, which by the way is definitely a fake name. That's Dorothy's uncle in the Wizard of Oz. And he got there in a balloon?

Eko does a great job of intimidation by telling a completely unrelated story about killing some guys when he first got to the island and showing Henry a gigantic knife and cutting his beard doodads off. Bravo Mr Eko. Henry is going to need a new pair of pants.

Claire is back with the baby and telling him how much she loves him. Fever is broken and he's in the mend.

Henry's going to be a wedge. He's conniving and he just got some insight the relationship of Jack and Locke without even trying. Manipulator in the midst!

S2 Ep14 "One of Them"

2010-05-20T20:29:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 20:30)

What does Danielle want now? Oh, she has someone captured in a net. One of the Others. Who may be one of my fictional relatives (my maiden name is Gale, rather coincidental.) And she nails him through the shoulder by crossbow.

PCL Sayid finds himself face to face with Clancy Brown! The Kurgen.

Does Hurley need a friend that bad that he'll continue to put up with Sawyer's incessant fat jokes? Did he not see last week's episode where Sawyer says he not a good guy?

Sayid brings Locke in and then Jack to treat Henry Gale so he can continue his interrogation. Jack removes the arrow, while Sayid convinces Locke to change the lock combo on the door. Sayid wants privacy while he finishes the interrogation unhindered.

Locke seems to be doing everyone's bidding at changing that lock combo rather often. And repeatedly not including Jack in his decision-making. Jack's gonna blow up at some point. Locke better not need Jack's help any time soon for realsies.

Sawyer killed the frog right after Hurley said he'd take him away. Let's squish Sawyer's head soon.

Sayid might not want to interrogate when he's still grieving. This isn't going well.

The sequence needs to be re-set. Jack won't do it and he wants Locke to open the locked door. Locke opens the door and runs back to the computer to enter the numbers. We finally see what happens if the clock runs down - the numbers turn to black and red hieroglyphics of some kind. Locke hits the Execute button and the clock resets to 108 again. Hmmm...

PCL Sayid came away from Clancy Brown (and Kate's Dad) with a new skillset, which Sayid swears he will never use again.

But he just did.

S2 Ep13 "The Long Con"

2010-05-20T19:31:00.000-07:00

(5/20/10 19:40)

Whew - I had to take an hour break. Started to feel a little spacey and full of tunnel vision. Food break, and called my mom to wish her happy birthday. Then got pissed off hearing about her bad day at work. Some jackhole customer is messing with her and her company won't do much to help out the situation - heaven forbid they do the right thing and turn away a customer's business for the sake of an employee's safety and well-being.

Pardon the personal asides. On with the show.
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PCL Sawyer. You new girlie wants you to show her how to con others. Really? This will end badly.

It's a good idea to have two people have the combo to the guns, but Locke still seems heavy handed in execution, even when he's talking to Jack.

Sawyer lost his glasses on the raft. too bad - they were mighty fashionable. And he's rather pissy about his pain meds. Somebody have a problem they have been masking?

Can 40 people or less really be called an army?

I don't believe Ana is kidding about not really wanting the combo. She wants that control.

Rain machine time. Sun gets attacked and a hood. I swear that is a rain machine the way it stops & starts so quickly.

PCL Sawyer. She HAS to be playing you. Or she's really stupid. Why would you learn about different con jobs and not smell it that it could and will happen to you? Oh yeah, because he lurves you...

Ana is conveniently making herself available to participate in activities involving the possible use of firearms. Was she involved in Sun's attack? And now Kate is thinking like me - that zoom in was a little freaky, but I'll accept it.

PCL Sawyer - the girlfriend now wants to do a long con, so how does it work? Really? And he plays right into it by telling her "It's getting someone to ask you to do something likes its their idea, but its not their idea, it's your idea." And in the next breath she conveniently tells you how she has $600K (that he must already know she has.) Where did you find this girl?

Considering the actress playing Cassidy (loved her as Joanie on Deadwood) I think Sawyer's getting the short end on this one. Maybe in the next few episodes we'll see that his partner is in on this and he'll end up with all the money and Sawyer's too.

So now we don't trust Jack? What gives, Locke? And where did he move the guns to?

And now Sawyer is the gunlord. He's doing everything he can to be the bad guy and disliked in camp, isn't he? Doesn't want to be beholden to anyone for anything. Sawyer is no Al Swearengen, let me tell you.

Kate confronts Sawyer on his actions. I'm with her - he just wants people to hate him.

Sayid and Hurley should dance to Moonlight Serenade. They really should. It's quite the romantic song.

Charlie was Sawyer's partner in stealing the guns. Charlie's gone over to the darkside because he wants to humiliate Locke.

Sawyer is just not a good guy. Put that on the epitaph.

S2 EP12 "Fire + Water"

2010-05-20T17:48:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 17:50)

Charlie can't seriously be thinking that Locke is trying to horn in on Claire.

And now he's sleepwalking with the baby. Having vivid dreams while sleepwalking. Something flew into the trees behind Claire and his mother and emerges as a dove. And he's not even on the drugs at the moment. Sounded like a prop plane but looks like a smoke plume.

The commercial - for diapers. Really?

Baptizing the baby will stop the dreams. But WTF Charlie? You're obsessing. Not making things easy for yourself in camp.

Does Locke see benefit in possibly using heroin for pain med or something in the future? Why wouldn't he just burn it up?

S2 E11 "The Hunting Party"

2010-05-20T17:01:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 17:00)

Wow, note to self - don't start reading comments. While I'm making notes to reflect on my first time viewing of this I am not satisfying people who have been thinking about this for years now. Sorry not to have entertained you enough. Mate.
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Why is Jack's father allowed to be a cheating louse but is trying to c-block him? Even if Jack was looking at nailing the daughter before the father died it seemed that Jack's dad was rationalizing that doing this sort of thing is okay for some people but not others. Do as I say and not as I do.

Sun doesn't want Jin to go on the hunting expedition for Michael since she spent all that time while he was gone as a worried sick woman. She's already ruining his gameplay.

The patient died. The daughter kisses Jack. Of course she does. She tells him it's ok, but Jack backs away saying he can't. Keep it in check buddy. And Sarah leaves him for another man anyway. Sucks to be Jack.

In the dim light it looks like a the leader of the pirate band is dirty Santa Claus.

How were the crash victims supposed to know there were people there before them? Is it mandatory spend an exorbitant amount of time thoroughly checking for signs of life before you pick fruit off the branches to survive?

Jack wants to train an army?

I'm in a cranky mood now. Fatigue.

S2 Ep10 "The 23rd Psalm"

2010-05-20T16:14:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 16:15)

PCL Eko was some kind of child soldier in Africa. Started killing rather young. We see him grown up and a drug warlord. He's pretty ruthless and still kills rather easily and competently.

Claire has conversation with Eko about the religious provenance of baby Aaron's name and Claire lets slip that Charlie has a religious statue, Eko's entire demeanor changes when she shows him the statue, which he promptly smashes and grabs out the heroin. He finds Charlie and demands he take him to where the statues are in the planewreck. Give this guy a wide berth and give him whatever he wants. He's a powerful man. Eko spies a sideway smoke plume - another smoke gnat.

PCL Eko goes to see his brother the priest and proposes using the statues to take the drugs out of Nigeria, while the brother can still get money for his church. It's a win-win. What's the problem? Other than it's, you know, drug-related.

Charlie and Eko go to find the plane. Charlie climbs up a tree to get a better view. The smoke plume swirls around Eko, who stares it down. That's how badass Eko is. He makes the smoke monster disperse. Don't know if it's because he is supremely badass or has no fear or strong faith, but he's not playing around with the smoke monster.

PCL Eko shows us it was his plane that was taking the priests, the statues, the drugs and everything including his brother the priest. Eko was disguising himself as a priest as well. The military show up, there's a shootout. The brother is shot and the plane takes off without Eko.

With Charlie in the jungle he verifies this body is his brother by the cross that he wears, takes the cross and places it on himself. Eko is not going to be a priest, in penance of he previous acts, it seems.

MEanwhile back at the beach, Claire rejects Charlie for keeping the drugs nearby and tells him she doesn't want him around the baby. He packs off alone and finds a stash of the statues in the jungle, and sits there contemplating.

Nooooo Charlie. This can't be good.

S2 Ep9 "What Kate Did"

2010-05-20T15:24:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 15:25)

Jin and Sun emerge from their hut the next morning, after the lovin'. Sun sees that Sayid is off yonder digging a grave for Shannon.

Sawyer wakes up and druggily tells Jack he loves Kate. Kate sees a horse in the jungle clearing.

So what PCL Kate did was apparently blow the house up with drunken stepfather in it? This is her original crime, I presume. She stops in a the diner her mom works at and hands off the insurance policy for the house that she took out in her mother's name. Apparently stepfather was a drunk and abusive on a few levels. Says goodbye and she's out the door.

Kate stays with Sawyer at the bunker while Jack goes to Shannon's service. Sawyer wakes up and grabs Kate by the throat asking why did she kill him. He must be thinking she's Ana, or he has REALLY mixed emotions for Kate. Jack finds Sawyer on the floor and Kate nowhere to be seen. Locke hits the sequence with a second to spare. Thanks Kate. Your flashback almost killed everyone the island. Take a timeout.

Charlie finds Kate on the path and she tells him about the horse in the jungle.

PCL Kate gets caught in the bus depot by the US Marshals. Her mother turned her in. I thought blood was thicker than water. Dang.

Locke shows the DI orientation film to Michael and Eko. Michael asks about the missing sections of the film but Locke thinks there are only a few frames missing here and there. Ah....there's something think about now. Eko walks away. He's mulling something over too.

PCL Kate being driven by the Marshal. They wreck in the car and she gets away.

(OOPS - hit Publish by accident)

Eko returns and tells a biblical parable to Locke. He has a book they found in their storage area in the locker. It has a hidden cutaway section with film coiled inside.

PCL Kate on the run. Goes to see her father, an Army recruiter. Oh snap. Kate;'s stepfather was really her father. And now she's getting turned in again. She has crappy parental units all the way around.

In a nutshell Kate has a lot of mixed feelings about the step/father Wayne.

And Sawyer woke up. He's more lucid now. He thinks he's been rescued and they won't admit it to him. Kate takes him outside to prove it to him. The horse is there too.

Ana on the rocky part of the beach sharpening a stake. Jack brings her tequila, but no tonic.

The spliced filmed newly restored, the missing section warns sternly against using the computer for communicating. It will jeopardize the integrity of the program and could lead to another incident. Hmmm....

Michael gets pinged in the computer with a "hello?" It's supposedly Walt.

S2 Ep8 "Collision"

2010-05-20T14:39:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/0 14:39)

Aftermath of the Shannon shooting.

PCL Ana is a cop and shs's just returned to the force after an officer involved shooting. Her mother is her superior officer. MMMmmm, not unless you're in Mayberry and there are only two cops on the payroll.

Sayid wakes up and they've tied him to a tree. Eko picks up Sawyer and slings him across his shoulders. He defies Ana and tells her taking him to his camp.

Ana's a headcase and controlling. I'm tired of her story already - past or present.

What is pissing me off most is that Bernard-of-the-Tail-Section is in her group. Doesn't she realize that the raft refugees told her that his lovely and EVER faithful wife Rose is back at their homestead? Ana should use reuniting Bernard and Rose as a bridge to bring the groups together, rather than hide out in the forest keeping Sayid captive. And if I were Bernard I'd be making tracks with Eko to my lovely wife.

Screw you Ana.

Eko appears to Jack with Sawyer, they get him to the bunker and the shower to help break his fever. Eko sees the Dharma Initiative logo on the walls, so he gets that it's all relative.

Bernard implores Ana to let him go to his wife. She tries to hold it over his head that she's kept him alive thus far. She makes an agreement for them to bring back half the ammo to her and she'll let Sayid go free.

PCL Ana is brought in to look at the guy they believe shot her up. She dismisses that it is him. I'm starting to root for her shooter. Maybe she deserved it somehow. Headcase.

Locke talks to Eko about how many are in their group. Eko tells them they can't come to camp, and Locke offers to go to them. Also he finds out about Shannon getting shot and Sayid being held there.

Kate gets Sawyer to swallow. Better bedside manner than Jack, but then again there's a whole different dynamic there.

Bernard tells Ana he's leaving to go to his wife. The others go with him, save Sayid, still tied to a tree.

Jack gets crazy eyes and gun-happy to get out to where Ana is in the jungle. Eko asks that no guns go, that it was a mistake. They move out.

PCL Ana stalks her shooter and kills him. She had been pregnant when she was shot. You know, this character not having children is not such a bad thing.

Sawyer wakes to find Kate at his side.

Ana lets Sayid be free, and he goes to Shannon's body. Back at the beach, Jin, Libby and Bernard walk out to be greeted.

Bernard reunites with Rose. I'm a mess.
Sun and Jin reunite. I'm a mess.
Sayid brings Shannon out of the jungle.
But after all, when the families come visiting on Survivor I turn into a mess.

Jack sees it's Ana from the airport lounge who has done this.

S2 Ep7 "The Other 48 Days"

2010-05-20T13:45:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 13:45)

I presume we get to now catch up and see what the Tailies group has endured up to now.

Mr Eko and Ana save people by pulling them out of the water. Libby uses her year of med school training to set broken legbones.

The teddy bear isn't Walt's. There are other children here in this group.

At night, they are stalked. Mr Eko ends up bloodied in an attack with something unseen. The next morning there are people dead among them who are ragged and shoeless who weren't in the planewreck. They were in the island before they crashed. One of the flight attendants survived and tells them how they had been flying with no radar and in the wrong direction. They won't know where to look for them.

Days go by. People are dying of infection. Mr Eko seems to be taking it hard that he killed one of the attackers. Libby tells Eko he was just defending himself.

At the campfire one night, the kids and a few others are taken. Nine total. And in the pocket of a dead "native" they find a list of those who were taken: their names and what they were wearing.

Is there a second manifest list or something? Oooh, psychic listmaking!

Some dude named Nathan is suspect to Ana. She has dug a pit and thrown him in there. It's the jail they later but the raft boys in.

He's not as creepy as Ethan the Creepy Cruise Cousin, but he is from Canada, so he must be an infiltrator. Blame Canada!

Peace Corps tries to reason with Ana a few days later, stating that we aren't savages, but Ana won't hear of it. She wants a confession and to know where the kids are. She made promises, y'all.

That night Peace Corp gets him out of the pit. He gives nathan meager provisions and sends him toward the beach. Then he snaps Nathan's neck. Oh noes!

Day 27 they find a storage building with some blankets and a glass eye. Just what everyone has on their wishlist for Christmas! And a radio.

Peace Corps wants to go by himself to get radio reception in the hills. Ana goes with him, and they share some fruit together. A cat and mouse conversation and Ana trips him up in his story. Something about the list has to do with who was good? So the good people are being taken or the good people are being left? Whichever way you slice it, they were picking them off. They fight, roll down an embankment and she impales him. Kills bugs dead.

They hear someone on the radio but Ana is convinced it is the Others trying to trick them.

Day 40 - Ana cries. Mr Eko talks.

Day 45 - Jin washes up on the beach and they tie him up. He breaks free and runs to the beach, where Michael and Sawyer just landed.

Quick montage of the next few days that we've already witnessed. Thanks montage guy.

And Shannon's shot dead.

S2 Ep6 " Abandoned"

2010-05-20T12:56:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 12:55)

Sayid sets up a hut for Shannon. She sleeps there with him. He goes for water and there's watery Walt dripping in the corner. And she KNOWS what she saw, get it? Stop talking about her.

PCL Shannon is a ballet teacher. She doesn't like her stepmother.

(I have just been handed a note, so to speak. Common jargon of the series followers notes that Ana's group can be known as Tailies. Whoo, thanks!?

Shannon is using the dog to try and track Walt. This can't be good.

Claire is lamenting that everyone there knows what her baby needs more than she does. That's why we use the phrase "it takes a village" you goober. Wrapping baby in a blanket is not uncommon. Really? But Locke learns that Charlie has a Heroin Mary statue.

PCL Shannon and Boone at Dad's wake.

Ana tells Michael about the timeline of losing their compadres. A few here, then more later. "They took a lot of things."

PCL Shannon gets a letter being accepted for an internship in New York. Then gets a call alerting her that she has money problems. Wicked stepmother informs her there is no money left to her by daddykins. She's on her own.

Locke is the only one who looks like he's turning into a leather handbag after over a month in the elements.

Sawyer's passing out. He's not doing so well. Infection, dehydration, exhaustion. But Ana wants to press onward. Michael asks Mr. Eko to help him make a litter. ana snots that he's going to have to carry him. Hey lady, did he ask you to carry him> No I don't think so.

But she helps lift him up the hill anyway. And now Cindy is missing. Can't stray away for a nanosecond or they'll snatch you up. It's like the stories my grandma used to tell me about child abductors. Don't blink.

PCL Shannon and Blake discussing her finances. He's trying to help her but she turns on in and won't accept his help, twisting it in her eyes that he's giving her charity.

And standing in the rain her inferiority complex rears its head again with Sayid. She insists he's just going to leave he the second they get out of there. He tells her he loves her. She is distracted by the whispers of the jungle. They turn to see Walt. Sayid says he sees him, Shannon runs in further to chase him. Sayid tumbles. Just out of sight we hear a gunshot.

Ana shot Shannon. Not a good way to meet.

S2 Ep5 "... And Found"

2010-05-20T12:12:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 12:10)

Another play on words, thanks writers.

Sun can't find her wedding ring.

PCL we find Sun was considered a spinster by her mother and was getting help from a matchmakers. We see Jin has a friend with a Destiny Book, and Jin will know his true love by her wearing orange.

AnaLucia is going to wear on my nerves. Quickly. Stop trying to be so badass already. Jin can out fish you be throwing his net. Fish clamor to die at his behest. Deal with it. He's
a provider, so don;t boss him around.

PCL Jin is getting a job above his expected station in life.

Michael takes off into the forest the first chance he gets. Jin shows the big African he's a scrapper,then heads off into the jungle to find Michael & bring him back. Is he ingratiating himself or turning on Michael? Must be the former.

Hurley has Sun waiting to see if the dog ate her ring. THAT kind of waiting. Mmmm, no. Just no.

Jin and the African in the jungle. They find a dead guy. Jin asks if the Others did this. So I'm confused. Are the Others the other planecrash survivors or Danielle's Others? I think that;s the latter. I need to call AnaLucia's group something else now.

Sun is taking her frustration out on the garden. The vegetables didn't so it, sweetheart. Locke calms her down by having a quiet talk.

PCL Sun has been seeing a man set up by the matchmaker. While he wants to continue seeing her, he admits he is in love with an American and plans to move there to be with her. Sun is not pleased and takes her leave. She has been meeting him for lunch at the same hotel where Jin is the doorman. I smell destiny coming on...

Meanwhile back in the jungle the African and Jin see some people being force marched. They are dirty, shoeless in raggy clothing and one of them has a teddy bear. It must be Walt.

PCL Jin gets a stern talking to by the hotel manager about letting in the riffraff. It's one of those "you people" conversations. He quits on the spot.

The African has a name - pleased to meet you, Mr. Eko. Jin sees Michael by a stream. He's hollering for Walt. Mr. Eko tries to explain that Michael needs to come with them, that he doesn't understand what the pirates/Others are capable of. But the three of them press ahead anyway.

Kate is lamenting that she didn't get to say goodbye to Sawyer. Kate finds Sun's ring when they are unburying the bottle of messages. Big music crescendo!

PCL Jin passes a girl wearing orange in a riverside walk, as he turns back from looking at her while wondering if that's his destiny, he bumps into Sun. There's your Destiny Book prophecy. Just not exactly how you expected. It all works though.

S2 Ep4 "Everybody Hates Hugo"

2010-05-20T11:24:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 11:25)

Have a cluckety cluck cluck day, Hurley. Don't fall asleep on duty at the computer, dude. The dreams are weird.

People keeps asking Jin to pee on them. Hurley and his urchin issue. Sawyer and his bullethole. He must think causcasians have a shared fetish.

PCL Hurley passed out when he won the lottery. $114M, I would too. And Jesus called him to see what color car he wanted.

Dear writers, why is it we still haven't met all the castaways? There still random faces strolling about in the background, like on soap operas, mouthing "rutabaga" in fake conversation. We got the names Steve and Scott at one point, but then Steve was killed. Are you afraid to tell me any new names for fear I might grow attached and forget about main characters?

Hurley brings Rose to the bunker. They are going to inventory the food stores. Rose knows Bernard is fine. Don't ask her to stop using the present tense.

Claire finds the bottle full of messages on the shore.

PCL Hurley ate a lot of chicken. And gave out a lot of napkins. Those things cost money you know?

Charlie feels left out of the loop and complains to Locke about it.

Sawyer gets out of pit jail to join his raftmates. AnaLucia has a bad attitude. But you know what? She's a drunkdriver in real life. But so are a bunch of the actors on the show. Does Hawaii have no cabservice or something? Everybody got pinched for a period of time in the 5-0 state.

Charlie puts pressure on Hurley to give him peanut butter from the stores. Poor Hurley, he can't handle being The Man.

PCL Hurley asked out his crush before he collected his winnings. That's a smart guy right there. Get them hooked on the loving before they find out your true net worth. But given his bad luck issues, she probably gets run over by semi or something.

AnaLucia brings the captive trio back to the Others lair. They had said there were 23 of them from the flight. There are only a handful left. Wha'happened?

Hurley is worked up about becoming the bad guy in everyones' eyes. Why is he unwrapping the TNT? Don't even think about blowing the place up to get out of bring the pantry manager. That's weak.

There was an Outsiders reference. Hurley's PCL buddy telling him to "Stay Gold, Ponyboy" has me guffawing.

Seriously Hurley is attempting to blow up the storage room. Just know that if you get off the island $100+ million buys a lot of therapy, Dude.

Instead he talks to Jack. They open the storehouse to all. Charlie brings Claire peanut butter, which I hope in their new world means they're engaged. It's a sweet scene.

Still, there are a lot of faces "rutabaga-ing" the background. Remedy this, writing staff. Pronto.

Meanwhile, back with the captives, we meet Bernard. And I'm a puddle. I knew it was coming, but it's still very sweet.

We see Rose with his ring on her necklace.

S2 Ep3 "Orientation"

2010-05-20T10:36:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 10:35)

I started this project on a whim 24 hours ago. I have watched 21 hours now (3 hour break in the wee hours of the AM) and have viewed 27 episodes so far. My mother will be so proud. And it's her birthday today. It's all for you Mom. No, not really.

PCL Locke is in anger management. Well good for him. Katey Sagal is in the class too. Hubba hubba. Glad to meet you Helen.

The rafter trio are thrown into a pit in the ground for holding by the Others.

Desmond's computer got shot in a dust up. He declares they are all going to die now. There was no "brother" so you know he's for serious. For reals.

PCL Locke likes Helen and promises to call her as he leaves before breakfast. Kidney-thief Dad is into Stalker-Locke's car, asking him what he wants. And to stop stalking him.

My kidney, of course. Give it back, now. No, Locke just wants an answer why he did it. Dad tells him "There is no why." And to get over it. Sign that man up for Father of the Year, along with the convict who skipped out of jail when he went to donate an organ to his needful son. Asshattery in excellence.

Kate tells Desmond that Sayid can fix the computer. She leaves to get him.

Desmond crashed some years ago while on a race around the world. Some guy named Kelvin appeared out of the jungle and brought him to the dome room, pressed the button and saved the world. And this is what he does now. Number sequence, press the button, save the world. Great career. I'll look into it.

The jailed trio get a new roommate - a girl.

Locke and Jack are treated to a fillum - The Dharma Inititave. Station Orientation. I see polar bears are part of the inititaive. Yay. There can never be too many polar bears on this show. The upshot of orientation is that every 108 minutes the sequence of code and execution must happen. Namaste.

PCL Locke gets a key to Helen's place. But he has to agree to stay the night if he "stays the night." Agree to it dude. You options are pretty limited for nookie. He also has to agree to not stalk his father any longer. Decisions, decisions.

The jailed roommate is the girl from the bar with Jack. She was in the tail section. AnaLucia. I don't believe she's been on her own. But Sawyer is dense and going to play hero with a gun the next time the grate is opened.

Desmond fries the computer a little more, shouts that "it's over!" and packs up to leave. Brother-saying is back. Jack's leaving too. Locke is left alone, gets angry and yells at the air about what is he supposed to do.

How long till his legs start becoming atrophied again? There has to be a correlation.

PCL Locke is getting schooled by Helen. He needs to take a leap of faith and move on with her.

Kate returns to the dome room with Hurley and Sayid. Hurley goes looking for a breaker box, and finds the food storage area instead. Great. Now he's never going to lose any weight.

AnaLucia gets the gun away from Sawyer and hollers up to be let out. Which they do. Of course she's an Other.

Jack chases Desmond down. How long until Jack tells Desmond he met him before. Oh that's ok. Desmond tells him he remembers him. Desmond asks Jack whatever happened to the girl they discussed. Jack angry cries that he married her. Sarah must have died or ran off with all his money and the dog with Scut Farkis for him to be that upset about talking about her. I'm guessing it's the first option. Desmond takes off with a "laters" over his shoulder.

The sequence is starting again. Press the button people. See what happens. Accept your fate. Arguments about believing and leaps of faith. Do it or don't. Get all Yoda about it. Come on. That noise is bugging me.

S2 Ep2 "Adrift"

2010-05-20T09:39:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 09:40)

Sawyer comes up from the water and the raft is on fire. Walt is screaming for Michael. (How did Shannon see him then? Must be time out of order. Never mind.) Sawyer drags Michael aboard some raft wreckage and revives him. Where's Jin?

PCL - Michael is being schooled by Saul Rubinek the lawyer in filing injunctions to preserve his parental rights. Saul plays lawyers a lot.

Locke is making his way into the dome lair. Ooh. Lava lamp. I love those.

Note to self: when someone is point a rifle at you and asking "Are you him? Are you here to help me?" always respond in the affirmative. Yes I am. I'll be your huckleberry.

Michael and Sawyer are arguing on the piece of raft. And getting knocked about from underneath. Great. Now we have a shark? Or it could be a polar bear. Maybe it's Sawyer's boar.

PCL Michael is getting beat up lawyers in a custody deposition.

Sawyer is badass. He pulled a bullet from his own shoulder. And asked for a band-aid.

In the dome, Locke responds jut like I told him to. He's Desmond's man. And Kate's with him. But Desmond realizes that Locke isn't the one he's looking for. Damn.

Locke gets Desmond to agree to put Kate in a closet for safekeeping. He slips something in her pants as he shuts her away.

PCL Michael is being urged by Walt's mother to let him go. Give up parental rights. Little does she know - Michael's masterplan involves infecting her blood to kill her years later. Mwahahha. Oh wait. That was probably genetic.

Kate finds an energy bar in the closet. Whoo hoo. Sugar rush. And she's in the air ducts. Someday I hope to crawl inside and air duct. Everybody does it in film and tv at some point.

Desmond questions Locke about how many are in his group. How many have gotten sick. Great. The radar beep sounds. He makes Locke enter the number sequence into an old-timey computer (I only know it's a green DOS-looking screen) and press Execute.

Here comes Jack. Desmond really likes saying "brother" about everything. Ugh.

Sawyer starts padding toward a pontoon section. He falls through the bamboo. We get an underwater angle looking up at him, Jaws style.
Shark fin! Michael shoots a bunch of shots, Blood in the water. Shark-0, Michael-1. They make it to the pontoon eventually.

PCL Michael is saying goodbye to toddler Walt. Did his mother always dress him in those oversized polo/rugby shirts? How about a little change-up once in a while, lady?

Michael vows to Sawyer to get back his son from the pirate. Well that's a gimmee. They make shore, where Jin comes running at them.

Others.

S2 Ep1 "Man of Science, Man of Faith"

2010-05-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

(started 8/20/10 08:55)

Somebody is up and doing their waking routine. A listening station of some sort. Bad wake-up music. Making a shake. Riding the exercise bike. Muffled boom. We see up the laddered shaft and stare into the faces of our heroes.

Jack and Locke argue about going exploring any further without daylight. The doorway says Quarantine. That's not good.

PCL we see Jack in a bad wig in the ER. This is where he meets car crash Sarah, his future wife. She needs to dance at her wedding. A girl's gotta have goals.

Shannon. It's all about you. Still. Walt is going to be upset you can't find the dog. So upset you run into him in the forest. He's dripping wet and shhhhing her with a finger to his lips.

I guess the pirates are on the island. Great.

The TNT gang returns to tell the tale about the bunker, the hatch and the shaft. Jack wants to wait to move everyone there since the ladder seems inoperable. He's going to get left in the dust - the tribe wants to move out. Now.

PCL we see bad wig Jack. Sarah was already engaged when she had her accident. Her fiance seems like he's not hep to wiping her up for the rest of his life. I;m sensing he's about to bail. Bad form dude.

Locke and Kate are in the process of lowering her down the shaft. She slips, the flashlight drops and she sees a door open below. A bright beam of light illuminates and the cable goes slack on Locke's end. Kate's gone.

Jack arrives at the shaft and finds neither of them.He starts to descend. Don't do it Jack.

PCL Jack is running around a stadium and sprains something. An Irish guy is there to help out. Maybe he's Scot - it's a bit muddled for me right now. He's another "brother" saying dude. The world is apparently full of them. It's not just for Hulk Hogan anymore.

His name is Desmond and he bid Jack with "see you in another life" as he leaves. Prophetic.

Jack makes his way down the shaft and finds himself in the nerve center of the bunker. A geodesic dome ceiling, older computer equipment and reel to reels. Locke's there too. Where's Kate?

PCL bad wig Jack breaks the news to Sarah that she's going to be paralyzed, that the surgery didn't work. But she can wiggle her toes. Yay. He's so happy he decides to marry her right there and then. Well, no he doesn't but he may as well have.

Guess who is in the dome with Lock and Jack? Desmond, the brother-sayer. Because of course he is.

S1 Ep25 "Exodus pt 3"

2010-05-20T08:06:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 08:05)

The "Previouslies" just reminded me that Charlie now knows there's heroin inside the Beechcraft. Great. This is not foreboding in any way, shape or form.

Locke is having a staredown with Invisi-Roar. He's badass like that. It comes close to him, and we finally see fear cross Locke's face.

Jack sees Locke being dragged backward through the jungle. I guess it's not and invisible monster, per se, because it looks like a towrope is on Locke's ankle. Jack dives on him before Locke gets dragged own a shaft in the ground. Locke looks very sure of his odds and tells Jack to let him go. Down the rabbit hole. It's all about you, isn't it, Locke?

They throw in a stick of TNT. It blows, and a small black cloud hovers briefly and darts away.

Darts away? What is it, a smoke gnat?

On the raft, Michael gives Jin back the watch he found that Jin punched him out over. So glad you're getting around to making amends. Hardheads.

Claire never looked up babynames apparently? Isn't that what you do for 8 months of a 9 month pregnancy? Aaron means "mountain" little lady. I've been pregnant - it's what you do. The More You Know. Oh, wrong network.

Sayid puts gunpowder on Charlie's headwound (presumably to cauterize it) - ouch. This is the guy you punched. You let him creat a mini explosion on your cranium. That's trust.

PCL: We're once again being shown the bad luck Hurley has. It seems to be more like a case of poor planning on a lot of fronts. He missed his original flight, got rebooked and had to purchase an extra seat because of his curves, then has to hightail it to the international terminal to where it's already boarding. He commandeers (with $$$) a Rascal scooter to get to gate, only to find the jetway is closed. He begs, Amazing Race style and gets to board after all.

It's his lucky day. Right.

Locke tells Jack each one of them was brought to the island for a reason. And the island was what who brought them there. It's destiny.

Locke needs to talk to Claire about fate and destiny. They are on opposite ends of this belief system.

Locke thinks Boone was a sacrifice to the island. Great. Is he going to start Kurtzing again?

PCL we see Locke getting himself loaded onto the flight. I just flashed on a crash scene - was Locke one of the people who flew up out of their seats and smacked the ceiling? That could reverse your paralysis. I may be misremembering.

On the raft the radar starts beeping. Something's out there. Impossible! It's only an ocean, for crap's sake.

Sayid and Charlie find Danielle and baby Aaron. She insists she heard the Others whispering about coming for the child. Charlie calls her a nutjob. Good call at the moment.

Hurley sees the numbers on the side of the steel bunker. He wants to stop them - the numbers are bad. He tries to stomp out the TNT fuse. Didn't work. It blows.

On the raft, Sawyer and Michael argue about whether to fire a flare in response to the beeping. The beep moves away and after they fire the flare, it returns closer. They see something in the dark - a floodlight shines on them. It's a boat! Full of child-trafficking pirates, apparently. They only want Walt.

They speed away with him.

(edit)

oops - I hit publish too quickly. Charlie has a heroin-filled Mary statue.

PCL we see our islanders in the boarding process pre-flight. We see them acknowledging one another as they stow their carry-ons.

Hurley, Jack, Kate and Locke check the bunker to see if the TNT opened the hatch. It did, and we see inside is long shaft with a ladder.

Season One - down!

S1 Ep24 "Exodus pt2)

2010-05-20T07:21:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 07:20)

Claire is an exhausted and whiny mess. Charlie asks for a gun from Sayid to stay behind and protect her.

Yeah right they're going to give you a gun. You plugged Ethan 4 or 5 times practically point blank. Not that he didn't deserve it, but Charlie will waste the ammo with overkill.

Arnzt (I'm sorry but he is the Leno Guy as far as I'm concerned) doesn't want to explore the Black Rock ship, so he sits outside with Hurley bitching and giving a litany of perceived slights in his life.

Seriously, why hasn't Hurley lost any weight? It's been a month. He should be down by 50 pounds. Richard Hatch did.

And hello? Dynamite sweats nitroglycerine when it gets warm. That's why people keep it in the freezer.

Boom!

Arnzt is blown up. Bye bye Leno Guy.

PCL: Jin finds out int he airport bathroom that his father in law has someone following them and knows he's planning on running away with Sun. Let me guess, the dude tailing them will be sitting in the back of the plane. With Bernard and AnaLucia, I presume.

Sawyer sings Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" while back on land Sun watches the horizon. Music swells.

Shannon is a packrat. But a grieving packrat. Sayid tried to reason with her. I hope he's realizing she's a headcase and regrets their dalliance. But no, he assists her. Don't do it Sayid. She's going to end up on "Island Hoarders."

Hurley, just no. Leno guy didn't blow up because of your curse. Hurley is not the center of the universe. Or is he?

Jack and Locke are playing a game of Operation with the dynamite. Whee!

Claire is left alone with Danielle, who is in camp raving about needing Sayid. Charlie takes of to get him. Danielle wants to hold the baby (which Claire hasn't fricking named yet?!? WTF Claire?)

Claire sees scratches on Danielles's arms and flashes back to her captivity. Great. Danielle would be a babysnatching Other, wouldn't she?

Charlie comes back to Claire screeching that the baby is gone. He punches Sayid and blames him for bringing Danielle into the camp.

Hello? She walked herself onto the beach, Charlie. And don't punch Sayid anymore. Dude probably can kick your ass and kill you 14 ways. At least.

Sawyer's only written one letter in his lifetime? Not even to Santa Claus? That's kind of sad.

Charlie promises Claire he'll being Aaron back. Congrats to the baby, who finally has a name!

Michael is letting Walt hold the rudder on the raft. What could possibly go wrong? Oh yeah, they lose the rudder. Sawyer jumps in to swim to it while Jin drops the sail. They get him and the piece back onboard, but Michael looks a little pissy to discover Sawyer has a gun. Hello? It's for the sharks. Chill out, dude.

Sun wonders if they are on the island as punishment for their past. Claire states there is no such thing as fate. Get Claire in touch with the writing staff - she's out of the loop.

Hurley and Locke are trekking along. Hurley thinks there are twinkies inside the hatch/bunker. He would.

S1 Ep22 "Exodus pt 1"

2010-05-20T06:33:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 06:35)

Good morning. Guess what I dreamed about? Oddly enough, NOT jungles, planes, or polar bears.

Danielle has walked onto the beach and announced that the Others took her baby after it was born, and that they'll be back. Claire must feel pretty secure now.

Later the beach crew is attempting to transport the raft to the water. It falls off the rails, Michael and Sawyer argue. This is going to be a great trip with the two of them onboard.

In the distance there is a giant black plume of smoke. Danielle tells them they'll need a place to hide 40 people; that being in the jungle won't save them. Where to go? Oh wait - there's the steel bunker. If they can get in. Danielle has dynamite.

Pre-Crash Life (from now on abbreviated as "PCL"): Jack meets an AnaLucia at the airport bar. She's obnoxious in her inquisitiveness. And will be sitting in the back of the plane. Row 43. She must be out hanging with Bernard these days.

With Jack and a band of folks going to Danielle's after the dynamite, and the raft imminently embarking, Sawyer takes a moment to tell Jack goodbye. Reveals how he met Jack's father in the bar. Jack is appropriately touched.

Aw.Sawyer scored a good guy point.

Charlie is collecting messages to loved ones from the people not going on the raft. Kate isn't going on the raft after all, and is trying to find Sawyer to say goodbye.

The Jay Leno guy (Arnzt) is a high school science teacher. And a weenie. He was in the party going to Danielle's for the dynamite but wusses out when learned someone on her crew lost an arm way back when. He decided to head back, but hears the Invisi-Roar and starts booking in the opposite direction.

Rain machine full effect.

Danielle leads everyone into a tree thicket and Locke tells them to hold still. Invisi-Roar quiets or makes noise in another direction. Daniele explains it's a security system to scare people away.

PCL: Shannon proves she is a snotty bitch just a little bit more by snotting off to Boone at the airport.

Danielle gets them to Black Rock, which is a wooden ship completely aground. Looks to be intact too.

Sun gives Jin a going away present - flashcards with seafaring words so he understands his raftmates better. They say their sorry. He says he's going to save her.

It's just past 7 in the morning and I'm teary. Oy. But it's getting close to the end of the season, so the writers are doing their job. That's all.

The raft gets in the water. Vincent jumps in the water to follow Walt, who yells for him to go back. He does. They begin to sail away - the raft is actually seaworthyish.

I'm a mess now with the hopeful soaring music from Michael Giacchino. Stupid dog contrivance.

S1 Ep22 "Born To Run"

2010-05-20T02:29:00.001-07:00

(started 5/20/10 02:30)

Okay, one more episode tonight and I'll get some shuteye.

Charlie is certain that his records sales went platinum when word got out he died in a plane crash. MMkay.

What is certain is that Kate is screwed when they do get rescued, as she is a fugitive. Unlike Charlie, she doesn't need the press.

Random dude tells everyone that they should have left yesterday on the raft because it's now monsoon season. Don't believe him - that guy played Jay Leno in the telemovie of the Late Night War (the first go-round) with Letterman. He is not to be allowed judgement calls.

Well looky there. Locke revealed the hatch to Sayid and Jack.

Michael is looking ashy. With good reason - now he's doubled over. Did somebody give him spiked water? Appendicitis? Tapeworm?

Somebody slipped him a mickey. Jack finds residue in the bottom of a bottle. It was probably Sawyer. He did call him Mickey earlier.

Hurley wins the prize for blowing open other peoples' secrets. Don't tell him anything in the future...

Walt knows that Locke shouldn't open the hatch. Precognition. Great.

Sawyer exposed that Kate altered dead-Joanna's passport. Okay, but it doesn't mean she poisoned Michael. Not necessarily.

Yes, she did manage to get her childhood sweetheart killed in Pre-Crash Life. Poor MacKenzie Astin. She did not, however, poison Michael.

Sun did it. Damn. There's a bunch of misguided people on this island.

Sawyer and Kate - just do it already. I'm becoming bored of you two and your tension.

Walt admitted to Michael he burnt raft 1.0 - and that he has to get off the island. It must be the hatch thing.

S1 Ep21 "The Greater Good"

2010-05-20T01:45:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 01:45)

Jack needs to follow blood bank donation guidelines. Nothing strenuous. I'll bet he hasn't had juice and cookies at the canteen either. He's traipsing about the forest looking pale, clammy and like he's about to pass out.

At Boone's burial Locke comes back to tell the story of Boone's bravery with the plane in the jungle.

And Jack attacks him. Get a grip.

Charlie finally gets Claire to agree to let him watch the baby so she can sleep.

Shannon asks Sayid to do something about Locke since she believes he killed her brother. Great.

Kate drugged Jack to force him to sleep. I'm sensing a theme with people not getting enough sleep.

(I'm feeling it too, on a personal level while watching this. I'm knocking off for the night after this ep.)

Hurley thinks yell/singing at the baby will get it to quiet down. How's that working for you?

Locke brings Sayid to the plane, fully aware that Sayid is interrogating him. Locke admits he was the one who whacked Sayid in the head while triangulating the signal.

He doesn't, however, admit to the hatch when asked about it. Liar.

Shannon is being blind to the possibility of Locke telling the truth about Boone's accident. Yay grieving.

Is that raft going to be able to float? Seems heavy.

Sawyer's voice is soothing the baby. That's a riot. The opposite to that lady years ago who would have epileptic fits at the sound of Mary Hart from Entertainment Tonight.

Jack blames Locke for the missing key to their gun case. Except that it's Shannon. Jack dislikes and distrusts Locke as much as I do, apparently.

Shannon shoots at Locke but Sayid intercepts, tackling her and changing the aim of gun. Locke gets grazed in the forehead instead of taking a shot in the chest.

The first permanent building they set up on the island needs to be a jail. These people are violent.

S1 Ep20 "Do No Harm"

2010-05-20T00:59:00.000-07:00

(started 5/20/10 01:00)

Boone is at Jack's makeshift hospital, getting his lung punctured to re-inflate it. Yum.

In Pre-Crash Life we see Jack getting ready for his wedding rehearsal dinner. And he's hanging with Scut Farkus from "A Christmas Story." He had yellow eyes, I tell ya!

Sun has not only an amazing grasp of the English language, she is a quick study in the medical field. She knows medical knowledge in English now.

Kate finds Claire in a clearing, having contractions. Fantastic.

Sun is the MacGuyver of the episode. Sea urchin spines for needle. Creative.

Jack can't go with Jin right now to help Claire, he's transfusing Boone. With his own blood. It's a busy day at Jack's Trauma Center. He sends Charlie with instructions for Kate.

This will end badly, I fear. Ugh. Jack won't forgive himself it it does, will he?

Water broke.

Boone gives up the info on the plane. He NEEDS to tell him about the heroin so he can get some for pain meds.

Shannon tells Sayid that Boone is in love with her. Why would you do that?

Oh Jeebus. Jack is going to amputate Boone's leg with a cargo door? Ew.

Claire has turned into a whining mess blathering about how the baby is going to know that she didn't want it. Somebody please slap her. You are not the first woman to ever birth a child and you won't be the last. Zip it with the self-pity crap.

Is Jack really going to guillotine the leg? No, because Boone woke up to tell him not to. It's ok to let him go.

Baby creature! It's a trade-off, because, goodbye Boone.

And as Shannon comes strolling back with Sayid, Jack gets to break the news to her. Yeah, you'd better break down and cry. Bitch.

Jack is trippin'. He thinks Locke murdered Boone? Get a grip.