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LOST Recap & Review (5.16 & 5.17)

S e a s o n   F i v e   F i n a l e

THE INCIDENT

Episodes 5.16 & 5.17


A three-hour presentation of LOST always puts me in a tough place…really tough.  At what time is it safe for me to start drinking my Dharma beer (warm) while still being certain I’m conscious enough for what is sure to be a dramatic and important ending to this season?    Maybe now would be good.  Shhhh, it’s on…

We see a man at work at a spinning wheel under a dancing firelight.  He’s making a large tapestry which includes many, many threads he has put in place by his own hand—there’s a cool design on his rug, as well.  Outside, at the site of the four-toed statue, he enjoys an old-school fish taco while watching a mighty sailing vessel (the Black Rock?) on the near horizon.  Another man joins him, hatreds and threats are exchanged and we come to find that our thread-weaver is none other than Jacob.

Holy-freakin’-mo-ly.







Posted by Will on 14 May 2009 at 17:05 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap & Review (5.15)

FOLLOW THE LEADER

EPISODE 5.15


Nobody likes it when the end of the season is within site.  Still, the episodes do tend to get a bit better, a little more intense and generally more revealling.  Shhh, it’s on…

This episode opens with a reliving of Faraday’s unsuccessful mission into the Other’s camp.  Jack and Kate are captured by a cool horse-riding guy (Widmore) after Ms. Hawking back-shoots her son.  Faraday looks pretty damn dead.  Eloise seems to know that there is something more than meets the eye with their jumpsuit wearing guests and the Charles Manson look-a-like sprawled out in front of her.

The inscription to her son in her own handwriting probably gave her a clue.

Thirty years later, Locke walks into the Others’ camp and gives Richard a massive pig.  John has a purpose now.  Sun and Ben stroll into camp to join the festivities.  Sun wants info from Alpert in regard to Jin and the 70s. 

Bad news: Richard watched them all die.

Good news:  It’s Wednesday night.







Posted by Will on 07 May 2009 at 09:11 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap & Review (5.14)

THE VARIABLE

EPISODE 5.14


Most of us who watched last week’s “clip-show” liked it more than we thought we would.  Although, most of us believed in Santa at one time in our lives, as well.  Watching the same previews for the 100th episode over and over again for two weeks has made me a bit cranky.  Shhh, it’s on…

Desmond is being rushed down the halls of an hospital with a terrified Penny at the bumper of the stretcher.  Baby Charlie is with her in the waiting room when creepy Ms. Hawking shows up to babble.

Thirty years earlier…Daniel Faraday is back on the island with his time travelling island buddies.  Faraday and Miles pounds Jack awake and wants info from Jack about his trip back to the island.  Daniel reveals some disturbing news about his lovely mother.

Something tells me Ms. Hawking is gonna have a big night.







Posted by Will on 30 Apr 2009 at 09:26 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap & Review (5.13)

SOME LIKE IT HOTH
Episode 5.13
 
 
 
Ice planets, Yoda, light-sabers, Carbonite statues: If any of these elements are included in tonight’s episode, I shall declare this night the greatest Wednesday night ever. Shhhhh…it’s on!
 
The microwave says 3:16. Finding a good, premonition-free apartment is proving interesting for a young Miles and his mother. Tonight’s opener shows us a young boy communing with the dead to the point of tantrum. Flashing to the present, Miles is working with Sawyer to hide the transfer of the wounded baby-Ben into the questionable hands of the Others.
 
Horace sends Miles on an important “I trust you mission” into Others’ territory. There’s a body-removal that needs to happen. Miles is gonna be a hearse driver to a bullet-ridden Dharma dude that actually turns out to be the victim of extreme magnetic dentistry.
 
Before departing with the departed, Miles asks the Dharma-corpse, “what really happened?”
 
The answer is pending.
 






Posted by Will on 16 Apr 2009 at 09:55 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap and Review (5.12)

DEAD IS DEAD
Episode 5.12
 
 
 
It’s been a lot to digest—this season. For eleven weeks, we’ve been given the answers to many of the deepest questions which have arisen over the last four years. This week’s title has got to be a bit deceiving—it reminds me of a Zane Grey novel that was never published. Shhhhh…it’s on!
 
Charles Widmore is a very, very cool dude in the 1970s. So cool, in fact, Ben wants to run away from happy Dharma camp and become “one of you.” In my mind, I know that Charles’ favorite band is The Beatles, his favorite color is fluorescent pink and he looks too much like Russell Crowe to be healthy and sane.
 
“Welcome back to the land of the living,” Locke tells a grown-up Ben, fresh from a healing sleep. Ben is recoiling in the presence of his most recent murder-victim. Eventually, he tells John, “to believe is one thing”…but to see it happen. 
 
“My God.” 
 
If I were Ben, looking at a living and breathing John Locke two feet from my face, I probably would have said, “Oh, God.”






Posted by Will on 09 Apr 2009 at 01:31 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap and Review (5.11)

WHAT HAPPENED, HAPPENED
Episode 5.11
 
 
 
My week has been spent trying to reconcile Sawyer’s lack of stones. I’ve concluded he may have to kill ten hardy-men and one hell-bent Smoke Monster tonight to grow them back. Shhh! It’s on…
 
Jin is fresh from getting knocked on his ass by Sayid…a wounded baby Ben in front of him. Horace tries to rally the troops to find the fleeing Iraqi. Roger Linus makes yum-yum eyes Kate until Jin pulls into camp with bloody little Ben and Roger pulls his attention appropriately away from Freckles.
 
Next, we’re back in the real world with Kate unloading Aaron from the car. Kate is running errands like all busy moms do. She’s not working from a list like most single moms might do.
 
Sawyer sent her on this very special errand—and then jumped out of a helicopter.






Posted by Will on 02 Apr 2009 at 07:45 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap and Review

HE’S OUR YOU
Episode 5.10
 
 
 
 
It’s five-minutes ‘til another Wednesday night of wondrous brain-gasms…then, a brandy-induced time-flash takes me to 8:00 o’clock…
 
Chickens in Iraq is how we start tonight.
 
Little boys with butcher knives and bait and one of them has neck-cracking skills! There is a very unpleased Saddam-like father who ends up congratulating his non-son for a quick and efficient kill—little Sayid.
 
In the 70s, baby-Ben is ready to serve grown-up Sayid more sandwiches. Gentle-Ben wants to know if Sayid was sent by Richard Alpert. The kid spills his guts about the Others/Hostiles and vows to help the Iraqi captive, as long as Sayid is “patient.”
 
Even as a child, Ben is such a wonderful, helping person.






Posted by Will on 26 Mar 2009 at 07:33 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Recap and Review

N A M A S T E
Episode 5.09
 
 
 
 
Flight 316 is in the air on its’ way to the island. Frank is piloting the plane as the first signs of a storm rattle the passengers. We witness the crash and the apparent time distortion/displacement/disaster that removed the Oceanic 6 passengers from the plane and plopped them backwards in time. Surprisingly, Sun didn’t join them on their trip. Ben seems less than surprised.
 
We join Kate, Jack and Hurley reuniting with Sawyer—who manages to keep his jumpsuit zipped during a smiley-face hug with Kate.
 
Good news, dudes—you’re trapped in 1977! Sawyer catches everyone up in time for Jin to take off in a jeep in search of his beloved Sun.
 
Back in Dharma-town, Sawyer is frantically packing clothes and explaining to Juliet that “they’re back.” Juliet has mixed emotions while Sawyer is super-pumped about the return of his friends. Juliet wants to put Kate on the afternoon sub.
 
Me too.






Posted by Will on 19 Mar 2009 at 07:50 | LOST RECAPS


Lost Recap & Review (5.08)

LaFLEUR
Episode 5.08
 
  
 
This episode takes us back to the island. Sawyer’s holding tightly onto the rope that leads into the naked ground. Alas, we glimpse the controversial giant statue—from behind—no toes visible. Locke is underground among the relics of the donkey wheel when we experience our first (and last) time flash.
 
The well is back—kinda. The group is relieved to be seemingly rid of “constant disease.” 
 
Three years later, a Dharma station is witnessing an unexpected visit in the middle of an old-fashioned hoe-down. Our old friend Horace has popped in with a fistful of dynamite and is ‘sploding up the landscape. The Dharma workers run for their boss, Mr. LaFleur—aka, our pal, Sawyer.
 
Along with his Dharma-jumper, I assume he finally has shoes.






Posted by Will on 05 Mar 2009 at 09:40 | LOST RECAPS


LOST Reactions - 5.08 LaFleur

WHAT?


Seriously, I don't know how to even begin to explain all the problems this latest time traveling excursion is going to bring up regarding the story arc of this frustrating, mind-boggling, amazing show.






Posted by vexingmodstwo on 04 Mar 2009 at 22:24 | LOST Discussion


LOST Reactions - 5.07 The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

I've said it before and I'll say it again:  Locke-centric episodes never disappoint.  I'm a fanboy and have yet to watch an episode I didn't like at some level but Locke episodes are my favorite.

Maybe it is because Locke is such a central part of the story arc and I feel that his episodes really move things forward.  Maybe Locke is just a great character.  Whatever it is, I'm always left with a feeling of satisfaction after them.  Last night was no different.

As usual, the answers we were given added more questions but after all that time traveling stuff, it was nice to finally have a chance to reset and get a glimpse of what is going on.





Posted by vexingmodstwo on 26 Feb 2009 at 21:22 | LOST Discussion