A Killer From Birth

Ahhh, a Sayid episode.

We open on an Iraqi village some time in the way past. A father berates a child into killing a chicken, when he cannot another child comes over, lures the chicken with feed then snaps it's neck... there can be only one... Sayid! A Killer From Birth.

Back on Fantasy Island, we see young Ben Linus tell Sayid his story about growing up on the Island, hating it, meeting Richard Alpert, and wanting to join Alpert's Others. Ben relays to Sayid the same message Alpert told him, "If you're patient I think I can help you."

In post-Island escape Moscow, we see Sayid take out another victim by assassination. Ben a la the Third Man, lurking in the shadows tells Sayid that he is done, he has dispatched all of Widmore's men and now he should go on with his life. The sad puppy dog look in Sayid's eyes was priceless... he does not know what do if he has no one else to kill.

Back on Fantasy Island we see Juliet staring out the window at Jack and Kate, to which La Fleur responds, "Hey what's on the TV?" Juliet thinks that Kate's feminine ways will lure James back to her bed, but he is content in new/old otherton/Dharmaville.

Great exchanges between Sawyer and Sayid in the holding cell:
"You try spending three years in the 70s."

"A 12 year-old Ben Linus just brought me a sandwich."

Sawyer cannot convince Sayid to do what he says, so Sayid says he will go it alone.

Wow, Ben Linus' dad is a real prick!

Back in 2007 we see Ben track down Sayid in the Domincan Republic to go after the man stalking Hurley, it's too bad we didn't see a cameo from David Ortiz, Albert Pujols or Pedro Martinez. Ben tells Sayid, "Locke's dead. I think he was murdered." Little does Sayid know it was our little Ben that choked the life out Locke on a dirty motel floor in Los Angeles. Oh, LA how you really are the city of angels.

Sayid tells Ben, "I don't like killing." Hmmm, I guess we'll have to see about that.

Have these people learned nothing?! Ben is the master manipulator.

The Dharma crew want Sayid to talk, because they don't know the truth, especially that Radzinsky guy, jeez what douche. So they send him to see Oldham, who Sawyer informs Sayid is "our you" meaning their torturer. Don't think Sayid doesn't know what that means!

We find that Oldham is a little old science-y guy who lives in a tent out in the jungle. You've seen him before in furturistic LA making robots for the Tyree corporation.

After tying him to a tree, Oldham feeds Sayid a sugar cube, oooh forced LSD trip... nice. But alas, no, it must've been Sodium Pentathol, otherwise known as truth serum.

Back in 2007 we find out how Sayid met the woman who was escorting him onto the Ajira flight. She lures him with temptation but it turns out she was not a Hot Cop at all, but a bounty hunter hired by the family of one of Widmore's men that Sayid killed.

Sayid, all high and tripping balls, spills the truth that he and Sawyer are from the future and they know that all the Dharmies are going to die. "Who is Sawyer?" The look on his face as he paced back and forth watching Sayid blab was awesome.

Since they don't believe him, they vote to execute him, because if they don't make a decision Ann Arbor will. Ahh, the Dharmies are funded by the University of Michigan... "Hail to the victors!"

Finally Sayid realizes that his purpose for coming back was to get young Ben Linus in with the OG Others (Alpert and the gang). Wow, when young Ben walked into the holding cell with the cloak on he was definitely channeling The Emperor.

Possibly the best line of the night, Sawyer's, "Three years on the Island no flaming vans until you guys showed up."

Sayid's patience pays off, young Ben Linus jail breaks him, but as they are fleeing they run into Jin driving the VW. Sayid doesn't want to risk Jin miscommunicating what's going on, so he flips him, knocking him out... because what he actually wants is to SHOOT BEN! "I lied, I do like killing."

Ep. 8 - Three Years Later

This week's episode opens with Locke heading down the well.

After the Flash we see the Losties left behind discover briefly that they are in the distant past with... tah dah!... the first glimpse of the giant four toed-statue, but only from behind and from a distance. We see that it seems to have long hair and pointy ears, resembling something from ancient Egypt?

Then, with Locke's turn of the wheel, it's gone. And the Losties are stuck in 1974.

We see a couple of young Dharma initiates having a good ole time (can you say pot brownies?) with one of them seemingly having brought in his off-island girl friend.

Jimmy from Mad Men shows up and when they discover that their leader Horace is out in the fields drunk with dynamite they run off to tell Mr. LaFleur... who turns out to be... Sawyer! Head of security of course!

So, as we all surmised, our Losties integrated with the Dharma initiative after they realized they were stuck in the past.

Daniel is despondent about Charlotte dying and her body disappearing. Mumbling, "I'm not going to tell her," presumably meaning he's not going to tell her not to come back because she's going to die.

They come across Dharmies being accosted by OGOs (original Others)
Miles: We're not to get involved, right?
Daniel: It doesn't matter, whatever happened, happened.
Sawyer: Thanks anyway Plato, I'm going anyway.

Great shot of Juliette after she shoots one of the OGOs.

I loved Sawyer's line, "It'll be on the cocoanut telegraph by breakfast." How very Giligan's Island of you.

We discover that the Dharmies have a truce with the OGOs.

We also learn that the Dharmies have a submarine that goes freely off the island.

When Amy the Dharmy goes into labor, we discover that Juliette is now an auto mechanic. Sawyer makes her do the Caesarian section... I hope she washed her hands first.

After three years of intergrating, did our Losties investigate any of the Stations? If not, why? They could've discovered something about what is really going on.

Amy has a boy, who will it turn out to be?

Sawyer spins the story about how they got to the Island to Horace, great tie in with the Black Rock.

Horace, "You aren't Dharma material." Why?

Jin's English is pretty good, he sure learned fast.

I loved the merry go round shot of the Losties at the table as Daniel tells them, "The record is spinning again, we're just not on the song we want to be on."

Oh, look it's Charlotte as a little girl, still as cute.

Richard Alpert makes an appearance, looking for retribution for the death of his two men.
He says, "The fence may keep other things out, but not us." I believe he would be talking about our friend the Smoke Monster?

Sawyer refers to Alpert as, " Your buddy with the eyeliner." Great shout out to Nestor Carbonell and the whole debate about makeup or not. I'm sure he loved that.

Anyone else think that the actor playing the dead Paul is E from Entourage?

He had an Ankh... a connection to our Egyptian statue at the beginning?

Why did the OGOs need to take his body? Creepy a bit.

So after three years Sawyer and Juliette fall in love. Sawyer tells Horace he can't even remember Kate's face... and then the phone rings.

The looks on their faces when Kate steps off the bus, priceless.

Now that the O6 have re-united with the Losties in 1974 where are they going to go?

Ben is going to wake up soon and Locke will want to give him a beat down, making him show them how to get back to the future.

Out there are Penny and Des and Charles Widmore, who will be the difference maker?

Until next time...

Ep. 6 - The Man Who Killed Me

Sorry I didn't do a blog last week. So here's a few words about it now:

Firstly, I believe Ben went to the docks to try and find/kill Penny and got a wallop from Desmond.
Speaking of Desmond, he said to Jack, "They're playing a game and we're all pieces." That's what I'VE been saying (see Ep. 1 recap).
Lastly, they come upon Jin in Dharma gear, driving the VW so obviously they have landed on the Island in the past. But since Locke fixed The Wheel are they going to be stuck there now?

And now on to this week's episode:

We discover that Three Kings man is a guy named Ceasar and he and Ilana (the guard escorting Sayid) are working together. They seem to be well schooled on the Island as he is rooting around in an office looking for stuff.

Ilana mentions that they came upon a man in the suit who has just bought a new car from the profit he's made on your dreams oh wait that's not Steve Winwood, it's LOCKE! Wow, so he indeed has risen from the dead. Can't wait for Jack to see him.

Locke tells Cesar, "I remember dying." We know from Ep. 5 that Locke hanged himself... but why? Richard told him that in order to get the O6 back to the Island he would have to die. And Christian told him, "That's why they call it sacrifice."

We see that when Locke turned the Wheel he ended up in Tunisia, just like Ben. So with all the variables in relation to the Island and the way it works, it seems that anyone who leaves via the Wheel ends up in Africa. Hmmm, a constant for the Island.

So Locke gets hauled into a Tunisian hospital by some locals who snap his leg back into place! Ouch. He wakes up to find none other than Charles Widmore at his bedside, with Abadon lurking in the shadows.

Widmore is amazed to see Locke be the same age he was when they first met 50 years ago. Locke tells him that for him it was only four days ago. He also reveals that indeed when someone leaves the island they end up in the Tunisian desert, because that's the exit. Widmore says that he was the original leader of the Others and was exiled by Ben. So now we know why they are at odds over the Island... the question is why did they not get along?

Widmore goes on to reveal that the reason Locke needs to return to the Island is, "There's a war coming and if you're not on the Island, the wrong side will win." Whoa, war is coming? Between who and over what?

Widmore tells Ben that Abadon will take him anywhere he wants to go en route to convincing the O6 to return with him.

We discover Sayid in the Dominican Republic building houses for charity. Locke lies to Sayid about Widmore manipulating him. (Again, why are these people STILL lying to each other?!) If they would tell each other the whole truth about what's going, they would discover that Ben and Widmore are jerking them all off and they can do what they want or turn the tables on them both.

Locke finds Walt in NYC (as we knew from the previous season) but Walt tells Locke he's been seeing him in his dreams back on the Island in a suit and people are trying to hurt him. (That seems to be resurrected Locke tangling with the 316 survivors?) Ben seems to be always lurking in the background.

Locke then goes to Santa Rosa (hey that's near me) to visit Hugo. Great line when Hurley says, "Now you're dead?" Hurley also exclaims to Locke that Abadon is evil and starts to freak out, making the orderlies take him back inside. (Since he ended up on the Ajira flight can we assume it was Charlie who convinced him to go?)

Abadon tells Locke, "I help people get to where they need to get to," for Widmore and that Locke's path, "leads back to the Island."

Then all of a sudden BANG! Abadon takes three in the chest, Locke freaks out, drives away and gets in a mad car wreck. That had to be Ben, no?

Locke wakes up to a bearded Jack and freaks him out even more when he tells him hi from his dad. Locke gets all depressed and decides he should hang himself.

Just as he's about to, Ben bursts in and saves him... awwww. Not so fast Lazurus... Ben chokes him to death instead.

Ben, "I'll miss you John, I really will."
My girlfriend, "No you won't you asshole!"

Back on the Island Cesar asks the resurrected Locke to explain how the O6 disappeared from the plane when they went through the Flash. Locke plays dumb, of course. We find out that some of the 316 got hurt, including Ben, who is lying unconscious.

Locke informs Cesar that he knows him because, "He's the man that killed me."

Awesome!

So the O6, now in contact with Jin, should soon be reunited with the other Losties. Locke is now stuck with the 316 and a pair of mysterious folks who seem to be working for someone, presumably Widmore, who would've known that Locke failed to convince Sayid to go, so he had him arrested.

But are they ALL stuck on the Island in the past and if so, who will they run into?

And as for that war that's coming, again this smells like a game.

Speaking of which, can you smell Penny and Des returning to save the day?

Stay tuned.

Until next time...

Ep. 4 - The Well of Light

Let me preface my review by stating that I watched this episode on my TV that has been taken over by aliens... the picture is all F'ed up and I could not see clearly everything the whole time.
That being said... awesome episode! Lots of new and interesting reveals.

The episode opens with Sun implying that after she gets rid of Ben, she will be bringing Aaron back to Korea to be her daughter's playmate. Whoa, Sun what are you up to? Gonna get Kate out of the picture too?

We hear the broadcast of the numbers and find out that Rousseau arrived on the island in 1988. Her husband? is Robert, but who is he really? Some have said that the voice on the recording sounds an awful lot like Hurley, which would make sense but somehow I doubt it's him.

A Frenchie named Nadine goes missing and hey it's the return of the Smoke Monster... holy shit! That guy just got his arm ripped off! Awesome! Totally Awesome. That beats Sayid's kitchen knives to the back routine easily. But methinks that someone is controlling it, the way Ben did at the end of last season when he disappeared into the back room and came back with black soot all over his hands.

We see where Rousseau got her famous rifle she's been toting around forever.
Jim jumps through time, but not the Frenchies, interesting. Ultimately he catches up with Sawyer and the gang in the "present" or "past" or past participle, I don't know.

Best line of the night, possibly the series: Jin speaking in Korean, Sawyer turns to Miles to translate...
Miles, "He's Korean, I'm from Encino." I'M FROM ENCINO!!! I love it!

Charlotte knows Korean? She also says she knows Klingon. A nice nod to J.J. Abrams, who is the director of the upcoming Star Trek movie.

Down goes Charlotte! Is there a three-knockdown rule in effect on the island? She starts speaking in toungues or at least regressing to childhood/former life and babbling about Hannibal etc. She tells Jin, "Don't let them bring her (Sun) back! This place is death." Whoa nelly.

There's definitely going to be a revelation about the whole babies being born on the island thing. I mean, when Ben says to Kate "Aaron is not your baby." Is he implying it's the island's baby?

Speaking of which, where the hell is Claire?

Great moment back in the van in LA, Sun and Jack are debating who will kill Ben if he pulls a fast one, when suddenly Ben slams on the brakes and admonishes them, "I'm helping you and your friends, so if you want to shoot me go ahead." Ben don't take no shit. Great exchange:
Sun, "You said it would take half an hour to get there."
Ben, "I didn't take into account the traffic."
That's such an LA insider line and the reason why I left LA... I hate the traffic.

We discover that Charlotte was born on the island, moved to England and has been searching for it ever since. However she claims that a scary man told her never to come back otherwise she would die and that that man is Faraday... whoops. And there she goes. I will miss her beautiful red hair and blue eyes... farewell my lovely.

Locke goes into the well of light falls, snaps his leg and the rest of the Losties are left holding the rope to a sealed hole.

Locke is greeted by Christian Shepard, who is "there to help you the rest of the way." He tells him that he must find Eloise Hawking (a nod to Stephen Hawking?) the woman in LA who will help him get back with the rest of the O6. We discover that the island is flashing because after Ben turned it, it slipped off it's access. So because that wheel had been frozen for so long, that's why the island was stable all those years. But what the hell is it connected to that makes the island skip through time?

Oh, hello Desmond welcome back. "So you're here to find Daniel Faraday's mother too?"

Once again Ben manipulated the truth about Jin and the wedding ring to convince Sun to go back. Despite Jin's insistance Locke does not let her come back.

And Ben only brought back some of the O6, not all of them, so what will happen?

By the time this episode was over I think I slipped into another dimension, my damn TV is giving me seizures from all the flashing and I don't mean in the show.

Time Travel's a Bitch

Ep. III

We open back on Penny’s boat during the rescue with Jack and Kate discussing Aaron.

We discover that it was Kate’s idea to say Aaron was hers.

Jack on the lie, “I need to know you are with me.”
Kate, “I’ve always been with you.” …. Awwww how sweet.
I want to believe you Kate, but what about when you were humping Sawyer? Were you secretly wishing it was Jack?

Anyway…

Sun receives files with pics of Jack and Ben and a nice box of chocolates, what’s inside? Mmmm a Glock, they’re the tastiest of all.

Meanwhile back on the skipping Island we see Charlotte still unconscious from her seizure and Sawyer is beginning to freak out more than usual while Juliette keeps her even keel. There is definitely something behind her calm ‘tude. Like she knows something, even though she keeps asking Faraday to explain what’s going on.

Kate goes to the lawyer’s office to find out who wants Aaron and comes to find out that, “She will lose the boy.”

Back on the Island Locke says that they need to go back to the Orchid to try and make the time skipping stop. He tells Sawyer that he thinks he can do it even if it kills him, telling Sawyer, “Don’t you want her to come back?” Sawyer definitely has a soft spot for Kate and everybody knows it.

Charlotte wakes up from the seizure and at first doesn’t recognize Faraday.
Miles, “Hooray everything’s back to normal.”

Back at the hospital in LA Jack and Sayid discuss Hurley and Ben.
Sayid, “The only side Ben is on is his own.” Why won’t anyone listen to Sayid? He’s the one guy who has military training and has a clue about human behavior.

Gotta love the shot of Hurley in LA County Orange. “No one can hurt me in here.” Oh yeah? We’ll see about that. I can’t wait for the prison brawl.

Uh-oh Sayid is at it again. He beats the crap out of the fake orderly, shooting him before he even answers, I love it!

Ben tells Jack to hurry getting Kate because, “We’re running out of time.” Methinks that if they don't fix this mess soon, time will run out... literally and everything will implode.

Back on the Island the Losties comes across a mysterious beam of light.

Faraday, “Do you know when we are?” Locke is still the master of keeping info to himself that is actually critical to everyone. Why at this point are they all still lying to each other?! For Christ's sake shouldn't they be trying everything in their power to fix their sitch? Why wouldn't they all tell the group everything they know. I mean for crying out loud, Faraday is still not honest with everyone about what's going on.

We here blood curdling screaming coming from the forest. Sawyer goes to investigate and discovers Kate and Claire when she was delivering Aaron.

Calling Doctor Brown, Dr. Emmet Brown please come to the Island right away. These guys need to hear that, “If you alter the past you will mess up the space time continuum” speech he gave Marty.

Another Flash and Kate and Claire are gone. Wait a minute, why wouldn’t the girls see that Flash too? It’s as if Sawyer was looking into a window into the past from another dimension. And while he could’ve interacted with them if he wanted, he thought better of it, “What’s done is done.”

Back in LA, Kate follows the lawyer to discover who his client is that wants Aaron.

On the Island Sawyer asks Locke if he wants to fix things so he can avoid all that pain. To which Locke responds, “I needed that pain to get where I am now.” Much like the pain Jesus felt on the way to becoming the Messiah?

The Losties discover their camp and the first thing Sawyer looks for is beer. Is this guy all-American or what? They find mysterious rafts with bottled water from an Air India plane. On who might’ve brought the rafts, Sawyer says, “Other others?”

As they paddle out to the other part of the Island they are shot upon by mysterious ocean others. On not knowing what’s going on Sawyer says, “Time travel’s a bitch.”

Miles on the barrage of bullets, “I think they want their boat back.”

After another Flash saves them from the hail of gunfire, Sawyer says, “Thank you Lord!” then upon being sent into pouring rain, “I take that back!”

Jack and Kate discover that the lawyer is meeting with Claire’s mom, who they now assume is the one after Aaron. Kate begins to squirm about the situation to which Jack says, “I can fix it. Aaron is my family too.” Oh Jack is there anything you can’t fix?

We discover that in fact Claire’s mom is not after Aaron at all and doesn’t even know he exists.

We see the lawyer is working for Ben, hmmm what could that mean?...

Back on the Island Juliette’s nose bleeds after she tries to get Sawyer to open up abut how he felt seeing Kate. Too bad no one brought Kleenex to the island.

We see a group of Frenchies on a raft in the water… could this be Rousseau in the past?

They pull a guy off a plank floating and it’s… JIN! Hooray he survived the explosion on the freighter… but wait, he survived the explosion but was sent to the distant past, hmmm.

Back in LA the O6 minus Hurley convene and Kate discovers that Ben is the one after Aaron. Kate, “Why won’t you leave us alone? He’s my baby.” Ben, “Because he’s not your baby Kate.”

Sun lies in wait in the car, pulls out her Glock and presumably will go shoot Ben.

Back on the Island somewhere in the past we see Jin realize that he is with Rousseau, wow he must really be confused. He’s the only one who hasn’t been a part of all the time travel explanations because he’s been passed out on a raft.

So Sun is about to kill Ben because she blames him for killing Jin and she doesn’t know that Jin is actually alive, living as a blacksmith in the old west… oh wait a minute that’s not right.

Can Marty please roll up in the Dolorean already and fix this mess?

Until next time…


ed. note - This episode wasn't particularly exciting despite another Sayid fight and a great shot of Hurley in the orange jumpsuit. We discover that Jin is alive, which is great, but he's stuck in the past for now and his wife might just about be on the verge of committing murder in vain. Ben is up to his old tricks and Sawyer is pining for Kate. Locke wants to go turn the wheel and Juliette, well she just keeps on keepin' on.

Episode 2 “Flux Capacitor”

Before we get to the new episode, I wanted to mention a few things about Ep. 1:

What is Faraday’s instrument? (to determine their place in time) That thing looks awesome, but how does he read it? It's nice to see that the writers are making him a key element to the story.

The music when Hurley walked into the convenience store to buy the Shih Tsu shirt was “The Dream Police” by Cheap Trick. Hmmm, all this talk of time travel and memories vs. dreams makes me think this whole experience is in a collective unconscious.

Event Window = Island will be stable enough to find for 70 hours otherwise it’ll be gone forever?
(because someone in a coma will die in three days? more on that later)

Ep. 2 – Thoughts and theories

Penny has a boy (we find out later they named him Charlie, a very sweet moment)

Nice POV shot from the girl’s rifle. Who is that girl anyway?

To Faraday: “You just couldn’t stay away.” Faraday has been to island before. Methinks he’s been time traveling a while now. He was an original Other that learned of the Island’s special properties and was banished or got left behind when it moved previously?

The Others know Latin, as does Juliette. Secret languages are always an intriguing mystique.

1 soldier dead from radiation poisoning… can you say atomic testing?

We see early Other settlers …Hello Richard. Juliette tells us, “He’s always been here.”

I liked the music when Des was in the physics lab at Oxford

Faraday experimented on a student/his girlfriend with time travel (he tried it on rat’s brains too)… so he experimented on people, theorizing they could experience time travel without actually leaving the present? [that's what's happening ... they are all in a group experiment and when one leaves, it messes with the whole deal?]

Faraday is in love with Charlotte… who wouldn’t be? She gets my vote for prettiest Islander. (what you don't know about me is I have a thing for red heads)

Wow! What kind of man breaks his friend’s neck? (Oh, that man would be Charles Widmore.)

Locke is becoming an Other. Even though he didn’t know that was Widmore, he didn’t kill him. What would happen if you killed someone in the past after the future has already taken place? Man that would really F up the space time continuum. Yikes, where’s Doc Brown?

Widmore funded Faraday’s research to find a way back to the Island. But how did Widmore get the boot from the Island? Stay tuned, dear readers we will soon find out.

Faraday left the girl in a coma. Whoa, that’s not cool at all dude.

Best Shot: C.O. of Charlotte’s blue eyes

That little Other girl’s got moxie.

Bomb hanging called ‘Jughead’… a special meaning or just a reference to the comic book of the 50s?

The agro soldier turns out to be Charles Widmore… now there’s a surprise… NOT!
It’s nice that they’re tying shit up quicker these days. A few seasons ago, they would’ve dragged that out for weeks.

So it’s 1954, the U.S. army has been doing H Bomb testing on this remote island in the South Pacific. Faraday realizes that they need to bury the bomb in a lot of cement (which is what Sayid mentioned when they first went into the Hatch) However, is the bomb the source of the unlimited energy that “Candle/Wax” refers to in Ep. 1?

We see Locke tell Richard to come and visit him when he’s a little boy, thus affecting a future event after it has already taken place.

We realize that Others have been living on the Island for a long time… perhaps as far back as the Black Rock?

Charlotte collapses… oh no! If Charlotte is Faraday’s mother, “God help us all.”

I still think there is something going on here outside of all of them, like they are all books in a library or characters in some bigger story.

What cannot function without all it’s parts?

They need to get Locke back to the Island because he is a savior? But Claire said, “Don’t you dare bring him back.” I agree with others that she was referring to Locke and not Aaron. Ben and the mystery lady and the meat shop lady all have some sinister plan to convince the O6 that they need to get back to the Island, but perhaps it is all a ruse for some other plot of theirs.

Richard told Locke that he would need to die to get the O6 back. Presumably because his resurrection will convince everyone of the Island’s special properties… since no one knows he was a cripple before he got on the plane and I don’t think anyone knows that Rose had Cancer.

We will see.

Until next time…

Ep. 1 - "God Help Us All"

LOST Season 5 Premiere Episode Review

Intro:
This season, I will be recapping each episode and handing out awards each week in different categories.

Such categories might include: Best Line, Funniest Moment, Best Musical Cue, Best Fight, Performance of the Week and Best Shot.

I look forward to discussing theories and making predictions.

So here we go... ladies and gentleman I give you Episode One of Season Five of Lost on ABC:

The episode opens with a shot of a clock that turns to 815 (the flight number, how cute)...
The record skips... foreshadowing, anyone?
It is revealed that the man to be known as Halliwax,(the man in the Dharma station information videos, which they are shooting, presumably back in the early 80s or late 70s ) introduces himself as Marvin Candle.


The shot of the wheel from the sonar

Key Fact: The island possesses a pocket of limitless energy

The rules can't be broken (in regards to manipulating time)

Candle says if the energy is released, "God help us all."

We see Daniel Faraday, known to us in the present... so was he there originally or is he traveling back in time?

Thank Christ they got rid of Jack's horrible beard quickly.

So, everyone will die if the O6 doesn't go back to the island... why?

We see Locke move back in time, but by himself... why does everyone else move together?

Looking back on when Ben turned the wheel, we now realize that the island folks went back in time, but apparently he went to the future where he landed in Tunisia.

What is the wheel connected to... it could be a metaphor for a body part, as if they are inside someone's mind. The island flashing, like eyes blinking?

Faraday, "We have no time"

Someone find out for me which orchestra is used for the music. I always give great kudos to Michael Giacchino. (oh, it's the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra, thank you Wikipedia)

I know, I know the ladies loved Sawyer running around shirtless for the first few scenes. I found it funny that he kept trying to get a shirt from someone.

Sawyer's back, "Shut it, Ginger or you'll get one too."

So the Island is dislodged from time. Either the island is moving or the people are moving back and forth.

The Island is a bit of a giant magnet, pulling down two planes and a boat (the black rock will come back to importance)

Did anyone ever see Time Bandits, I'm thinking more and more about that map.

Locke runs into Ethan but it is unclear how much in the past it is.

We see that Sun and Widmore are up to something, namely plotting to kill Ben.

It's been twenty years since Widmore was on the Island previously, what happened there?
Who is Widmore, really?

I like the pairing of Hurley and Sayid.

Sayid is all business. Tells Hurley to do the opposite of anything Ben ever tells him.

Sayid putting that guy on the knives in the dishwasher! Dang, that was hard core.

So apparently ever since the O6 left, the Losties on the Island can't stop from moving back and forth in time. But why?

Richard is the Island's Constant. He keeps coming back because the Island keeps him perpetually young.

The Island heals...Locke's wounds, Rose's cancer etc. it is also a place for redemption from their sins. If they choose, they could live the rest of their lives on the Island in peace.

Desmond pushing the button was saving the world. But that was coming from Juliette, so... speaking of Juliette I like her laid back 'tude so far.

Faraday, "You can't change the past!" yet they travel to the past.

Someone find me still shots of the pages of Faraday's book.

What did he read to make him react that way. He is one of the keys to this whole thing. Locke being the other. But in many ways they are all keys, because without them all together everything will disappear. It's as if someone is playing a game with pieces missing... the game won't work right until all the pieces are on the board.

Why don't the rules apply to Desmond? Time travel doesn't affect him the same, he sees things as real memories, not dreams. like somekind of special game piece.

Who is Faraday's mother? (keep your eye out for the lady in the hood with the pendulum)
There are rumblings that Charlotte (the red head scientist may be related to Faraday, some even are suggesting that she is his mother from the past)

Penny, "There's no calling off my father." He the devil or something?

Welcome back Michelle Rodriguez! She looks great, doesn't she?

Ana Lucia, "Libby says hi." Messages from the beyond. Hurley sees dead people.

Sawyer calls Neil "Frogurt."

Is Sawyer, the new Jack?

What was Ben hiding in the vent? Looked like an oversized book... a bible perhaps. The book of rules to whatever game they're playing.

Hurley wearing the I Love My Shih Tsu tee shirt... hilarious!

Ben says if they make it back to the island they will never come back to present day LA.

Who is Jill and how does she know Locke and Ben?

Ben still lies to everyone.

Neil takes a flaming arrow to the chest, harsh!

Mrs. Reyes, "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"
Hurley, "He's not dead."
So funny. I love the fact he doesn't correct her about Sayid being Iraqi.

Aaron is the other key. The mystery men don't care about the lie, but they want Aaron. There's a bunch of familial connections going on here. Whidmore, Penny, Jack, Aaron, Claire, Faraday, Charlotte... very biblical.

Sun gets to Kate to get to Jack to get to Ben.

Locke appears out of the forest as their saviour.

Ben has 70 hours to get the whole crew back to the island... that's less than three days. Hmm, what else happened in three days... someone we know came back from the dead I think.

Can you say Locke is Christ?

Because if he doesn't come back, "God Help us All."


The theme of this season's LOST will be the necessity of the return to the Island by the Oceanic 6 plus Benjamin Linus.

The question's are: Why is it that the Island is Skipping back and Forth through Time Without Them? and What Happens to the Losties stuck back on the Island While They're gone.

It seems as if everyone everwhere will die if those seven people don't get back to the Island before Widmore gets control of it.

The Island represents something... which is not whole without those six people. Like a body missing vital organs. Or a machine missing key parts.

Funniest Moment:
Mrs. Reyes, "Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"
Hurley, "He's not dead."
So funny. I love the fact he doesn't correct her about Sayid being Iraqi.

Narliest Moment:
Sayid putting that guy on the knives in the dishwasher!

Best Cameo:
Michelle Rodriguez

I give it 5ive Stars for great action, plenty of good funny moments and dropping very intriguing hints. Keep the audience interested otherwise you'll lose them.

Until next time...