Hi Everyone! Welcome back to the fifth season of LOST! I'm excited to write the entry after last night's two hour season premiere so let's get to it! There are two reasons why I will try to make the summary short: 1. I'm sure most of you watched it and don't need a refresher and 2. I'm really
OFF THE ISLAND
The main plot this episode was Ben and Jack teaming up to try and get the rest of the "Oceanic Six" back together and head on back to the island. Sayid, after assassinating someone watching Hurley outside the mental institution, grabs Hurley and escapes to a safe house. Waiting at the safe house are three men and after a brawl, Sayid manages to kill them but not escape a poisonous dart. Hurley grabs Sayid and heads off but not before someone snaps a photo of Hurley with the gun. On his escape he picks up an "I heart shih-tsu" t-shirt and finds a fan in the check out counter girl. He runs away only to get pulled over by the police for shotty driving skills. Surprise it's Ana Lucia, everyone's most hatred character from season two! She warns him not to get arrested. He continues to his parent's house where they try to hid them while they wait for Sayid to wake up. Hurley admits to his mother what happens on the island and she tells him she believes him. Hurley's father takes Sayid to Jack and Jack let's Ben know that he has him. Ben pays a visit to Hurley and Hurley ends up turning himself in to the police in order to get away from Ben, directly disobeying Ana Lucia's orders. Kate is visited by a few Lawyers (aka Claire Danes' father from My So Called Life). They ask for blood samples from Kate and Aaron so their secret client can determine the maternity of the baby. She freaks out and packs her bags. She receives a phone call from Sun and goes to meet her. Sun informs her that it was Ben who wanted the blood samples and that she forgives Kate for not getting Jin off the freighter. Prior to this, Sun had had a run in with Whidmore. He was mad she disrespected him and they bonded over their common enemy of Ben. There was also the scene of the "Oceanic Six" on the boat the Searcher where they all decided to lie to save everyone on the island. Hurley wasn't okay with it but went along with it, so did Penny, Desmond, and Frank Lupidus. And finally after Ben realized his challenge he appeared to Mrs. Hawkins (season 3 Desmond flashback) where she was in a lab doing all sorts of calculations and she told Ben he has 70 hours to get back to the island, and this did not please Ben. So in the end, Ben has Sayid and Jack on his side, Hurley, Kate, Sun, and Aaron all need to be recruited. But we did learn that Hurley was the key to getting back or else "God help us all".
ISLAND
Sawyer and Juliet were left on the island and meet up with the rest of the losties and the scientists. The big picture here is that the purple flashes keep happening every so often launching the losties and the island back and forth through time, and best of all is they can only travel through with the items they were holding/wearing and lucky for us ladies Sawyer couldn't find a shirt. Their camp disappeared and the frazzled Daniel Faraday was trying to figure it out while his beloved Charlotte was suffering from nose bleeds presumable caused by the time travel effect. John Locke finds himself with the others only they disappear once he time travels back to the time of Yemi's plane crash from Nigeria. Richard Alpert finds him wounded from his run in with Ethan the Other and tells him to remind him in the future with a pocket watch and that in order to save everyone he was going to have to die. Faraday meanwhile gets to the hatch pre-explosion and finds Desmond inside. They remember each other and Faraday tells Desmond to find his mother in Oxford. Back on the beach camp lostie is attacked by flaming arrows and Sawyer and Juliet are caught by old Dharma crew. Locke ends up saving the day. Needless to say the island is in some trouble and time keeps skipping backwards and forwards. We see Daniel Faraday appear in many different time periods, perhaps the most important being the past where they are building the island and Dr Halliwax (aka Marvin Candle, aka Dr. Pierre Chang) discovers the donkey wheel next to the magnetic anomaly.
Okay so I tried my best to keep it short, on to the top ten!
1. Wow, my brain hurts. I knew it was time travel but come on people! So the island is skipping through time. Something to think about was how the episode began, Dr Halliwax was in bed with his wife (I totally thought it was Ben at first) and got up to put a record on. The record ends up skipping which is exactly how Faraday explains time travel. But if you remember the beginning of seasons two and three, both begin with music from a record. Desmond and Juliet both begin listening to music. Small coincidence but worth noting. So Halliwax finds the donkey wheel that Ben turned to move the island at the end of season four. The important thing we find out from this scene is that Faraday found his way back to this time to presumably do some research. I'm totally cool with the whole time travel thing, for sure its been a big part of the show, I just don't understand how they can't change anything. Whats the point of time travel then???? Do you think Marty McFly would have gone through all the trouble of time travel if he couldn't change anything? Would he have had to get it on with his mother then?? haha probably not but I think Faraday was lying when he said things couldn't change and if I was Sawyer I wouldn't have accepted it so easily.
2. Okay so was it wrong of me to shout "Yes cut them off! Cut them off!" when the old Dharma people wanted to chop off Juliet's hands? I don't think so but Nicole and Sarah seemed to think it was wrong ... but hey, I'm not ashamed of it, she sucks!
3. Ben is amazing. Still bitter he never won the Emmy but there's still time. So he has these cronies everywhere working for him, people at the butcher shop willing to hold Locke's body, old ladies locked in scary labs, and lawyers to get blood samples from people. This is to be determined because I'm suspicious of Sun. She could have possibly hired the lawyers to scare Kate and put her on the run so she could recruit Kate to help her kill Ben. Sun has something to hide and her act with Kate seemed too fake. Also same with Kate, she asked Sun "What kind of person do you think I am?" Um Kate I think you're someone who blows up houses, robs banks, poisons people, oh and yeah, kills people. So was it really out of line for Sun to ask you that?
4. Hurley Hurley, he turned himself in. Despite that terrible horrible girl Ana Lucia's warning Hurley got arrested. This makes things a little complicated for Ben being that Hurley will now be publicly imprisoned. Gotta say things aren't looking so good for Hurley, looks like you should have kept your mouth shut. I'm not worried though, I think Jack will come to the rescue. Maybe they'll do some sort of prisonbreak episode where Jack breaks into the prison with the layout tattooed to his body and he seduces the prison doctor to get out ... wait, that's a different show. But this complicates things now that Ben only has 70 hours.
5. Nosebleeds. I feel like this episode gave me one it was so confusing! But we all saw what happened to Minkowski when he got a nosebleed. Sometimes the time travel doesn't take. Desmond had them for a brief time but he found his constant - Penny. Now I think Faraday doesn't get them either since he has his constant - Desmond. But poor Charlotte on the other hand has them, and I think it's because she's from the island. And Daniel knows it and he's worried about her. Because they're in loooove :) haha. So I think Charlotte doesn't have very long.
6. Frogurt. Haha I love when they introduce background losties. They know the viewers don't like them so they kill them off immediately. Neil Frogurt has a familiar face but he's just an annoying lostie with no purpose so he had to be a casualty. Gotta love Sawyer's nicknames ... I wish someone called me freckles ...
7. So do all six have to go back or it's the end of the world? Why don't Frank Lupidus and Desmond have to go back? Seems like Desmondo is going to be super important this season - he and Faraday seem like the only two who can successfully travel through time. But if he leaves Penny I swear to God my heart will break, can't someone just have a happy ending?? And what's up with Frank Lupidus? He was supposed to be the original pilot on flight 815 and what, now he doesn't care about it anymore? ps - I hope you all caught the very obvious reference to 815 with the clock in the beginning of the episode.
8. Sawyer and Juliet. Some have hinted to a possible romance between the two but I'm sorry, I won't even entertain this idea. Juliet does not deserve one hot man, Jack, let alone two, Sawyer. I hear rumblings of a supposed death of a lostie lady and one can only hope it's Juliet. Am I too obvious with my hatred of her?
9. Mrs. Hawkins. Okay so she is a character from Desmond's flashback in season two I believe. He went to her antique shop to buy Penny a ring to propose but she knew Desmond would never go through with it and that he had to go to the island to save the world. So when we see her again it was certainly a shock. Silly me I should have remembered that she would be important some day and as soon as I saw the little bit of white hair from underneath her hood I knew she had returned! But we're led to believe that she is possibly Faraday's mother. Now to counteract this thought, according to Faraday she is in Oxford but Ben seems to find her right after Hurley is arrested in LA. So either she isn't Faraday's mother (which I think she is) or she isn't in Oxford anymore and now works in Ben's lab. She is creepy and cool so we'll have to see why she thinks they only have 70 hours.
10. John Locke. So lots of freaky things happened with him. He was with the others then they just disappeared. I think this happened because of the same reason they never age - they're part of the island therefore immune to the time travel effect. But it was creepy when he witnessed Yemi's plane crash. And what is all this mumbo jumbo with Richard Alpert (who i love) and him telling Locke he has to die to save the island. Not exactly sure how that will pan out but I would like to revisit the episode where Locke is a young boy in his flashback and Alpert goes to see him and makes him choose certain objects I think they were sand, a knife, and a pocket watch ... all of which seem important. Oh and my favorite was that we got to see Ethan! He scares the crap out of me but I love me some vintage Others!
Okay so I hope you enjoyed some of the top ten list, hope it got your mind thinking and postulating about some theories and ideas but as always feel free to post your own! See ya next week
xo
Bridget
confused haha.
OFF THE ISLAND
The main plot this episode was Ben and Jack teaming up to try and get the rest of the "Oceanic Six" back together and head on back to the island. Sayid, after assassinating someone watching Hurley outside the mental institution, grabs Hurley and escapes to a safe house. Waiting at the safe house are three men and after a brawl, Sayid manages to kill them but not escape a poisonous dart. Hurley grabs Sayid and heads off but not before someone snaps a photo of Hurley with the gun. On his escape he picks up an "I heart shih-tsu" t-shirt and finds a fan in the check out counter girl. He runs away only to get pulled over by the police for shotty driving skills. Surprise it's Ana Lucia, everyone's most hatred character from season two! She warns him not to get arrested. He continues to his parent's house where they try to hid them while they wait for Sayid to wake up. Hurley admits to his mother what happens on the island and she tells him she believes him. Hurley's father takes Sayid to Jack and Jack let's Ben know that he has him. Ben pays a visit to Hurley and Hurley ends up turning himself in to the police in order to get away from Ben, directly disobeying Ana Lucia's orders. Kate is visited by a few Lawyers (aka Claire Danes' father from My So Called Life). They ask for blood samples from Kate and Aaron so their secret client can determine the maternity of the baby. She freaks out and packs her bags. She receives a phone call from Sun and goes to meet her. Sun informs her that it was Ben who wanted the blood samples and that she forgives Kate for not getting Jin off the freighter. Prior to this, Sun had had a run in with Whidmore. He was mad she disrespected him and they bonded over their common enemy of Ben. There was also the scene of the "Oceanic Six" on the boat the Searcher where they all decided to lie to save everyone on the island. Hurley wasn't okay with it but went along with it, so did Penny, Desmond, and Frank Lupidus. And finally after Ben realized his challenge he appeared to Mrs. Hawkins (season 3 Desmond flashback) where she was in a lab doing all sorts of calculations and she told Ben he has 70 hours to get back to the island, and this did not please Ben. So in the end, Ben has Sayid and Jack on his side, Hurley, Kate, Sun, and Aaron all need to be recruited. But we did learn that Hurley was the key to getting back or else "God help us all".
ISLAND
Sawyer and Juliet were left on the island and meet up with the rest of the losties and the scientists. The big picture here is that the purple flashes keep happening every so often launching the losties and the island back and forth through time, and best of all is they can only travel through with the items they were holding/wearing and lucky for us ladies Sawyer couldn't find a shirt. Their camp disappeared and the frazzled Daniel Faraday was trying to figure it out while his beloved Charlotte was suffering from nose bleeds presumable caused by the time travel effect. John Locke finds himself with the others only they disappear once he time travels back to the time of Yemi's plane crash from Nigeria. Richard Alpert finds him wounded from his run in with Ethan the Other and tells him to remind him in the future with a pocket watch and that in order to save everyone he was going to have to die. Faraday meanwhile gets to the hatch pre-explosion and finds Desmond inside. They remember each other and Faraday tells Desmond to find his mother in Oxford. Back on the beach camp lostie is attacked by flaming arrows and Sawyer and Juliet are caught by old Dharma crew. Locke ends up saving the day. Needless to say the island is in some trouble and time keeps skipping backwards and forwards. We see Daniel Faraday appear in many different time periods, perhaps the most important being the past where they are building the island and Dr Halliwax (aka Marvin Candle, aka Dr. Pierre Chang) discovers the donkey wheel next to the magnetic anomaly.
Okay so I tried my best to keep it short, on to the top ten!
1. Wow, my brain hurts. I knew it was time travel but come on people! So the island is skipping through time. Something to think about was how the episode began, Dr Halliwax was in bed with his wife (I totally thought it was Ben at first) and got up to put a record on. The record ends up skipping which is exactly how Faraday explains time travel. But if you remember the beginning of seasons two and three, both begin with music from a record. Desmond and Juliet both begin listening to music. Small coincidence but worth noting. So Halliwax finds the donkey wheel that Ben turned to move the island at the end of season four. The important thing we find out from this scene is that Faraday found his way back to this time to presumably do some research. I'm totally cool with the whole time travel thing, for sure its been a big part of the show, I just don't understand how they can't change anything. Whats the point of time travel then???? Do you think Marty McFly would have gone through all the trouble of time travel if he couldn't change anything? Would he have had to get it on with his mother then?? haha probably not but I think Faraday was lying when he said things couldn't change and if I was Sawyer I wouldn't have accepted it so easily.
2. Okay so was it wrong of me to shout "Yes cut them off! Cut them off!" when the old Dharma people wanted to chop off Juliet's hands? I don't think so but Nicole and Sarah seemed to think it was wrong ... but hey, I'm not ashamed of it, she sucks!
3. Ben is amazing. Still bitter he never won the Emmy but there's still time. So he has these cronies everywhere working for him, people at the butcher shop willing to hold Locke's body, old ladies locked in scary labs, and lawyers to get blood samples from people. This is to be determined because I'm suspicious of Sun. She could have possibly hired the lawyers to scare Kate and put her on the run so she could recruit Kate to help her kill Ben. Sun has something to hide and her act with Kate seemed too fake. Also same with Kate, she asked Sun "What kind of person do you think I am?" Um Kate I think you're someone who blows up houses, robs banks, poisons people, oh and yeah, kills people. So was it really out of line for Sun to ask you that?
4. Hurley Hurley, he turned himself in. Despite that terrible horrible girl Ana Lucia's warning Hurley got arrested. This makes things a little complicated for Ben being that Hurley will now be publicly imprisoned. Gotta say things aren't looking so good for Hurley, looks like you should have kept your mouth shut. I'm not worried though, I think Jack will come to the rescue. Maybe they'll do some sort of prisonbreak episode where Jack breaks into the prison with the layout tattooed to his body and he seduces the prison doctor to get out ... wait, that's a different show. But this complicates things now that Ben only has 70 hours.
5. Nosebleeds. I feel like this episode gave me one it was so confusing! But we all saw what happened to Minkowski when he got a nosebleed. Sometimes the time travel doesn't take. Desmond had them for a brief time but he found his constant - Penny. Now I think Faraday doesn't get them either since he has his constant - Desmond. But poor Charlotte on the other hand has them, and I think it's because she's from the island. And Daniel knows it and he's worried about her. Because they're in loooove :) haha. So I think Charlotte doesn't have very long.
6. Frogurt. Haha I love when they introduce background losties. They know the viewers don't like them so they kill them off immediately. Neil Frogurt has a familiar face but he's just an annoying lostie with no purpose so he had to be a casualty. Gotta love Sawyer's nicknames ... I wish someone called me freckles ...
7. So do all six have to go back or it's the end of the world? Why don't Frank Lupidus and Desmond have to go back? Seems like Desmondo is going to be super important this season - he and Faraday seem like the only two who can successfully travel through time. But if he leaves Penny I swear to God my heart will break, can't someone just have a happy ending?? And what's up with Frank Lupidus? He was supposed to be the original pilot on flight 815 and what, now he doesn't care about it anymore? ps - I hope you all caught the very obvious reference to 815 with the clock in the beginning of the episode.
8. Sawyer and Juliet. Some have hinted to a possible romance between the two but I'm sorry, I won't even entertain this idea. Juliet does not deserve one hot man, Jack, let alone two, Sawyer. I hear rumblings of a supposed death of a lostie lady and one can only hope it's Juliet. Am I too obvious with my hatred of her?
9. Mrs. Hawkins. Okay so she is a character from Desmond's flashback in season two I believe. He went to her antique shop to buy Penny a ring to propose but she knew Desmond would never go through with it and that he had to go to the island to save the world. So when we see her again it was certainly a shock. Silly me I should have remembered that she would be important some day and as soon as I saw the little bit of white hair from underneath her hood I knew she had returned! But we're led to believe that she is possibly Faraday's mother. Now to counteract this thought, according to Faraday she is in Oxford but Ben seems to find her right after Hurley is arrested in LA. So either she isn't Faraday's mother (which I think she is) or she isn't in Oxford anymore and now works in Ben's lab. She is creepy and cool so we'll have to see why she thinks they only have 70 hours.
10. John Locke. So lots of freaky things happened with him. He was with the others then they just disappeared. I think this happened because of the same reason they never age - they're part of the island therefore immune to the time travel effect. But it was creepy when he witnessed Yemi's plane crash. And what is all this mumbo jumbo with Richard Alpert (who i love) and him telling Locke he has to die to save the island. Not exactly sure how that will pan out but I would like to revisit the episode where Locke is a young boy in his flashback and Alpert goes to see him and makes him choose certain objects I think they were sand, a knife, and a pocket watch ... all of which seem important. Oh and my favorite was that we got to see Ethan! He scares the crap out of me but I love me some vintage Others!
Okay so I hope you enjoyed some of the top ten list, hope it got your mind thinking and postulating about some theories and ideas but as always feel free to post your own! See ya next week
xo
Bridget
3 comments:
Wasn't one of the objects Alpert gave the young Locke a compass, which he gave him again last night?
Thanks, Bridget. Great review! You cleared up a ot of questions that I had. And, i did not know that Ben sent those men to Kate. I find the show very confusing - too much back and forth between time warps. The thought of Sawyer and Juliet(can't stand her either) getting together is really offensive to me. He belongs with Kate(sorry!). Aunt Nan
I totally agree that Sun has something up her sleeve and that Charlotte is merely biding her time. I kind of think this season will be all about the newbies: farraday, charlotte, and the asian guy that sees dead people (miles?). The only thing that bothers me is that even though they have now sort of "teamed up" with the others, why aren't they asking all the questions they've always wanted answered? Like why did they steal cindy and all the children away? why do they dress up like jungle people? What is the smoke monster?WHAT IS GOING WITH THE ISLAND? I still want answers :) :)
still confused...mkb
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