By now, the repetitions that we have seen across several seasons are coming thick and fast, another Lostie faces a ‘test’ and fails, Kate almost ends up delivering Claires baby, Sayid is strapped to a bed and electrocuted and tortured and we have another woman who comes to the Island pregnant, delivers a baby which is stolen and then she goes a delightful mix of crazy feral. When Kate tells Sawyer she never should have come after him, Sawyer asks “Which time?”. Even the characters are pointing out the repetition.
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Well, Follow The leader was a nice setup episode leading up to the Season Finale tomorrow night which I’m looking forward to. It put everyone in their places so we can start the finale running. Points in no particular order, I’m still not liking the new Locke too much. Before I was didn’t think that Locke knew everything he thought he did, but was choosing to act like he did which is just cocky. Now though, after knowing the time and place of future Locke’s arrival with a bullet wound, I’m not sure. I’ve always believed Richard to be somewhat neutral in Lost. He goes along with Ben, but disagrees with a lot of his ideas, and is fair, non-aggressive. If RIchard is uncertain about Locke’s ideas, then I’m with him. Of course, Richard has proved to be surprisingly unaware of the goings on with the island. He seems as bewildered as the rest of us when the gang turn up in the 1950’s and in the 70’s and Sawyer gives him some time travel hints in LaFleur. He seems totally oblivious to the Island time traveling which I think was a surprise because I think many viewers assumed Richard was not only the man with all the facts, but he was a time traveler himself visiting Locke at different stages in his life without aging.
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In my brief set of lost thoughts, most of which were wrong, I referenced Jacks magically growing beard from the episode “The Beginning of the End”. In this scene, Jack and Hurley play basketball and chat. At one point, Jack mentions that he’s thinking of growing a beard, at which point he misses his shot with a thud. In each subsequent shot of Jack, his beard is growing longer and darker. Near the last shot, he has actual whiskers as opposed to just a shadow on his face. The original video is linked below : Read the rest of this entry »

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I’m going to cover all three into one here since they are all essentially the same piece of the story from different perspectives in that they fill in the details of how the Oceanic 6 ended up on the Island, what happened to Locke when he got off the Island, and what happened when they landed on the Island. These three episodes have been somewhat unsatisfying for me as they haven’t seemed to moved the story along, more a case of filling in the details, although they did give a few nods to unanswered questions (4 toed statue & what got Jack back to the Island) as well as adding some new ones. Since we are at the mid point of the show, I’m guessing it is “The deep breath before the plunge” so they are somewhat forgiven, I just think we could have covered that in 2 weeks, especially coming back after a week’s hiatus to a setup episode like Namaste. I know a lot of people think these were strong character episodes and that is fine. I enjoyed seeing Sawyers transformatin in LaFleur, but it is rare to get 3 such episodes consecutively. If you were going to tell someone the story of lost, exactly how much time would you spend detailing how Locke got them on to the Island, or how Sawyer moved in with the Dharma Gang or how he got Jack, Kate and Hurley in the initiative? Read the rest of this entry »

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Usually, I’m pretty poor when it comes to interpreting art since being a programmer makes me a bit of a literalist. However, the themes in this episode were hammered over our heads so stongly that even I couldn’t miss them. In a word, the episode was about faith. From the title, to the church settings, to Jack’s leap of faith into the water, to Ben’s telling the story of Doubting Thomas, to John Locke guilt tripping Jack from beyond the grave, to final acceptance and belief from Jack. Read the rest of this entry »

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Ok, so Sun wasn’t after Ben which does beg the question of how she knows that Ben was ‘responsible’ for Jins death. What can I say, Sun going after Jack would have been more interesting and disruptive to the group, but oh well. FYI, I am one of those people that think Ben is a Good Guy in all this. He works hard shuffling people along, manipulating them because he has to and because telling them outright wouldn’t work. Poor guy needs a break! Read the rest of this entry »

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Sunnies Got A Gun

My money is on Sun planning to kill Jack as one of the two people who killed Jin (even though he is alive). When they showed the flashback of the freighter, they showed Kate telling Sun to get on board the helicopter, and then Jack pushing Kate towards the helicopter. There was too much focus on that, Kate was genuinely sorry, Sun said she didn’t blame her after which she immediately breaks the moment and asks about Jack. She said to Widmore she is after Ben, but I think this is for the purposes of aligning with Widmore who is the second of the two men responsible for Jin’s death. While the surveillance we saw Sun receive shows logs and photos of Ben, they are really photo’s and logs of Jack’s movements, or at least, a record of Ben’s movements in the knowledge that Jack is hanging around Ben. We just assume it’s for Ben because Sun told us she was after Ben. It’s rather like the twist in X-Men where we think Magneto is really after Wolverine when instead it turns out he was after Rogue all along, Wolverine just happened to be with her everytime they made a grab for her. Read the rest of this entry »

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