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The END

The End

The Finale was all it was cracked up to be. In the End it turned out the most important aspects of the show were the characters and their relationships with each other. All the mythology and mystery was background to the real story: Our Losties had some things to resolve before they moved on.

When you think back on it, it all makes sense. The time travel, the suspension of the laws of physics, all of it. It didn't really matter. What happened, happened. They just needed to find peace.

What a wonderful ride.



Posted by vexingmodstwo on 23 May 2010 at 23:17 | LOST RECAPS


Battle For The Island


Battle For The Island

Do you lay awake at night wishing you could be a part of the adventure that is LOST? What if you were Jack? Kate? Hurley? Or even, Vincent? What would you do, how would you survive as your friends were picked off one by one, and danger loomed around every corner? Would you stay in the hatch? Or do you prefer the beach? Perhaps, the caves.

Battlefortheisland.com is proud to introduce the new and improved Battle For The Island game! BFTI is a combination role-playing, strategy and murder-mystery game, using characters and storylines from the hit show LOST. Playing as your favorite Lost characters, participants are divided into Losties and Others. As a survivor of the doomed flight, you must survive the treacherous island, but beware - there are Others who have infiltrated your camps and want nothing more than to have you off their island, by any means necessary. Follow the clues and figure out who the Others are, all while trying to survive on the mysterious deserted island. Form alliances, earn rewards and make your own strategies. Who can you trust? What will you discover? But the most important question is always...

Are you one of them?

Join in at the forums for more details on how you can be a part of the best LOST themed RPG forum game going.

Registration starts March 3rs at 10:00 am CST. The game will begin March 15th at 12:00 pm EST.

For more details click here.



Posted by vexingmodstwo on 01 Mar 2010 at 00:41 | StationZer0 Stuff


OH YEAH!

Special thanks to BFTI Mod Ricardo for this FANTASTIC video.



Posted by vexingmodstwo on 23 Feb 2010 at 20:12 | StationZer0 Stuff


LOST Reaction: The First Three Episodes

The Beginning of the End


Anyone else scratching their heads wondering what is going on?  I am.  I'm not sure how I feel about the direction LOST has taken with these first three episodes.

Did setting off the nuke work?  (Should we be trying to define exactly what "worked" means?)  At first, it looked like the explosion had its desired effect.  All the Losties were on 815 and then BOOM they're also still on the Island. Talk about a total "HUH?" moment.  Dead people were alive (Charlie, Arzt, Boone).  What the hell was Desmond doing there? Was he actually there? I have to say, for most of the first two episodes I was experiencing some MAJOR cognitive dissonance (Google it).

I'm also torn on the whole "antilocke" / Mr. Black / whatever-the-hell-his-name is storyline. Although I do like that we know he's Smokie too, but that creates all kinds of questions for which, predictably, we don't have any answers... yet. I guess I just don't like the fact that John Locke appears to be dead and this... thing... has taken over his body.  That's LOCKE, dammit. Don't hijack his body.

Claire's back, which is nice.  There's the young, pregnant, about to give birth to Aaron Claire and then there's the crazy looking one who saved Jin from the OTHER Others. You know, the Others that aren't part of Ben's group of Others who knocked off the Dharma people and took over their camp. The guys who just brought Sayid back to life only to turn around and try to kill him a couple of hours later.  For once, Jack's lack of faith actually saved someone. (Yes, I do realize that there's a chance Sayid isn't really Sayid anymore.)

And that's really the "thing" right now. Everything we "knew", I mean really "knew", has once again been tossed out the window.  I guess we shouldn't be surprised since they do it every season at least once or twice, but this is the FINAL SEASON. We're three episodes in and I think many of us were hoping they would start wrapping this up in a nice little bow for us. BUT NO! They couldn't just give us a ton of answers to the questions of previous seasons. They just had to feed us a tidal wave of new questions with a fire hose right off the bat.

I hate those LOST writers. And by "hate", I mean I love 'em.  They really know how to stretch the boundaries of the imagination while still delivering personal stories that we can all relate to and connect with.  Genius.

Stay tuned for more as we travel through the end of what has been an amazing ride.



Posted by vexingmodstwo on 10 Feb 2010 at 12:00 | LOST RECAPS


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