Spoiler Alert: The following post contains spoilers only for the latest episode of Lost. If you didn’t watch it yet, you really should not read this post. I do not know or care to know spoilers for anything beyond what has already aired, please refrain from inadvertently posting them here. Thanks!
I don’t know, Ben. How are you going to stop John Locke?
Wow! That was a WOW episode, easily one of the best of the season. You know the finale is coming when you get all these chess pieces moving around. I loved that everyone got a tiny bit of action and that we were jumping all over the place in time and space. It was a great, intense hour of television. Here’s my highlights – though really you could just assume it’s the entire episode. I loved this one:
1977 – “Who’s the President?”
- Seriously, Radzinsky is an annoying character and I cannot wait to see him blow his brains out.
- Poor Suliet! Sawyer was really taking a beating there. I did jump when that weasel guy hit Juliet but he’s right, that’s a good way to get Sawyer to talk.
- I cannot believe that Sawyer sold out his peeps to get himself and Juliet on the sub! That was really unexpected. I kept waiting for the twist and it never came! BWAH!
- Kate coming down into that sub was one of the highlights of this whole messy quadrangle. God, I love this island!
- Hands down, the funniest moment of the season if not the series was Dr. Chang questioning Hurley. That was priceless.
- Dr. Chang seems to be a decent guy, no? That was touching, his little moment with Miles.
- They sure did evacuate quickly. Makes me think they’ve been ready for this kind of thing.
- WHERE THE HELL IS ANNIE?!!!!
1977 – “No, not through the water”
- Though she did seem a little shell shocked by killing her own son, Ellie sure did recover quickly didn’t she? She’s all business that one, making her extremely dangerous and untrustworthy.
- For once, I actually agreed with Kate. This plan of Jack’s to follow through on Daniel’s idea of, ahem, blowing up a hydrogen bomb sounds to me like a bad one. Good for her that she left.
- Sure, it’s nice to see Jack with a purpose again but I really don’t think he should blow up this bomb. And I really think he’s going to.
- Loved, loved Sayid’s reappearance to the show. FTW! And his line to Jack at the end was your typical, tortured Sayid just wanting to do something, even if it is wrong.
- I’m going to save the Richard stuff for later, though his snarky line about Widmore and Ellie bickering because they’re in love was…interesting?
- So there are tunnels underneath the island, you gotta assume connected to where Ben was visiting Smokey. How did they get that bomb down there?
You can break Lost into two stories: the Losties and how they deal with being on the island and the mythology of the island. Jack has always symbolized the one and, to me, Locke and Ben have always symbolized the other. What I love about this season is the two sides of this show are literally separated by 30 years. Fantastic.
2007 – “What’s he doing here?”
- Okay, what the hell was Richard doing with that big ass ship in a bottle? That was either really funny or something we don’t get yet. But wait, more on Richard at the end.
- If I thought I loved the character of Benjamin Linus (and of course Michael Emerson) before last night, I found a whole new level of appreciation during this episode. Ben playing the reluctant, wise ass second to Locke is only overshadowed in hilarity by the scene with Dr. Chang and Hurley. I said it last night, Terry O’Quinn and Michael Emerson need to have their own spinoff after next year. The Locke and Ben show.
- Must have been very uncomfortable for Ben to go back among his former people as a subordinate to Locke. Poor guy.
- Sun has never been more annoying than she was here. Every line she had was a variation on “Find Jin!” Understandable but really, really irritating.
- One of the flashes from the season premiere was to 2007 island shortly after the O6′ers came back. Locke was the one to tell Richard to save him. Mind officially blown. You know, to Locke, all of the past three years has happened in the course of what, a couple months?
- Why did Ben look genuinely astonished during that night jungle scene. More than astonished, he looked scared. And so did Richard.
- The speech to his people Locke gave was quite a turn of events, was it not? He’s becoming such a leader…?
- “I’m going to kill Jacob” – might be one of the greatest WTF? endings to a Lost episode, very much akin to Locke last season saying “He wants us to move the island.” This obviously deserves its own post, to come shortly.
- As Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have stated, when in doubt, end on a close up of Michael Emerson. Think he looked shocked to the core? Uh, yes!
- Much more on all this later.
“I’m starting to think John Locke’s going to be trouble” – Eyeliner Man FTW!
- Ugh, there’s just so much to cover here.
- I think it was fairly cemented that, at least to the Others/Hostiles, Richard is an advisor that has been on the island a very long time…without aging. Gee, think there’s something we’re not being told there?
- Why does Richard take orders from these people so easily? First Ellie then Ben then Locke? He gives in way too easy. Why? WHY?!
- There was a strong rumor floating around that last night’s episode would be Richard centric. Not really the case but we got more of him than we ever have before.
- Richard isn’t taking to this new and “improved” Locke, is he? So much so that he’s going to Ben with his concerns. Are Richard and Ben in cahoots to take down Locke?
- I thought Richard didn’t know where Jacob was? Or was that just another Linus lie?
- Really, what’s up with that ship?
- And the kicker: “I saw all of them die.” Richard saw our Losties die. My guess? He survived this crazy plan of Jack’s to blow up the hydrogen bomb, thus seeing all these ‘77 peeps kick the bucket. This all leads me to…
CRAZY THEORY OF THE WEEK/SEASON: My mother has already informed me this is far-fetched but I don’t think it is. Prediction for how this season is going to end: Jack will succeed and that bomb is going blow, “killing” all of our Losties. And I mean, killing them. They are gone. They are dead. And that is how Season 5 ends. ETA: And I’m not the only one who thinks so. The Fuselage has a thread on it. I think this would be very, very cool. So cool in fact, that I’m going to do another post on it.
There will be a separate post for all of the “I’m going to kill Jacob” stuff cause that’s a really big issue that can’t fit here. Man, what a fantastic episode. What a fantastic show!
