I'm LOST and I'm Loving It!

2 Weeks of LOST Reviews...it needed to get done, eventually.

The first few seasons of LOST, I watched and tried to make too much logical sense out of everything. When I stopped doing so, the show made a lot more sense to me. The past two episodes were two of my favorites (Jughead much more than last night's). They really paid homage to those of us who had watched from the beginning and wanted some answers.

A few observations:

 

-Remember that baby at the beginning of this season? The one born to Dr. Marvin Candle/Pierre Chang(or whatever his real name is--the orientation video guy)? The Asian one? Think that may be Miles? Think that's why Miles is now having the symptoms?

-We've gotten the hints that Charlotte was on the island before (how she splashed in the water, her feelings like she had been there as a child, etc.), but I think the order that people get the bloody nose and the headaches signify the order they were on the island: Charlotte was there first, then Miles, then Juliet.

-Remember that H-bomb? Remember how it needed to be buried in concrete and lead? Remember what was below the original hatch? Remember how they had to feed the beast every 108 minutes? Remember how when they didn't, one of the symbols that flashed was a bomb? Just saying...

-I called Jin was alive. He must have been in the "flash" radius and therefore been going through all those flashes. Finally someone found him. And I loved who they picked to find him.

-I called Widmore being on the island...but I think we're going to need to know more about why/how he left. We also need to know his connection to Mrs. Hawking/Daniel Faraday's mom.

-The show's humor has gone from silly bits on Hurley and Sawyer and such to actually being great, deadpanned lines in the midst of edge-of-your seat drama. Examples: Juliet telling everyone to put their guns away, Locke's "Widmore? Charles Widmore?", Ben's "he's my lawyer", etc. I think it's awesome.

-LOVED that Desmond and Penny's son was named Charlie. A tribute to both Charlie and maybe play on Penny's dad, Charles.

-Remember Ellie who led Faraday (via gun) to the H-bomb? Remember how he said to her: "I know you from somewhere". My guess (which was backed up online) is that she's either Faraday's mom or Charlotte's mom. The former makes sense in that she could be Mrs. Hawking. The latter makes sense in that it would give a reason why Charlotte was born on the island.

-Libby needs to make a return before the show's over. We NEED to know why she was in that mental hospital with Hurley. We NEED to know why she gave that boat to Desmond. She's more tied up in this than any of us can imagine.

-Lostpedia is perhaps the greatest resource ever for a TV show. Think we'll see Ajira Airlines again (and how about their website where their "adventures" are "Australian Walkabout", "Polar Adventure", "Island Adventures",etc.)?

-Think the title of the second episode, "The Little Prince", has some meaning...especially since the only way the boy can get back to his home planet is to die and leave his body behind. John Locke anyone? The "prince" of the Others.

-From Doc Jensen: *Did you see Ben’s van? The words on the side said “Rainier-Canton.” That’s an anagram for…. reincarnation! Is there hope for corpse Locke to rise again?

-I had my mind made up that Ben was the person who sent the lawyer, until they threw that red herring in there with Claire's mom. Glad I was right in the end, but it also brings up the question...what the hell was she doing in LA at this time with that lawyer (BEN'S lawyer)? 

-Speaking of Ben, I think he's the one who has sent these assassins with horse tranquilizer dart guns after Sayid, Kate, Hurley, etc. He NEEDS them to come back to the island any way possible. How about drugging them and making them come back?

-Also...if Ben comes back, does that mean Desmond does also? What about Sun's baby? What about Widmore? Or Lapides?

-My last call (before my big reveal) is that Sun is not after Ben--she's after Jack who she blames for what happened to Jin. Jack told Sun they needed to leave. Jack told Sun that they couldn't go back for him. Jack was the leader. And I think Jin is in LA to kill him for Jin's "death". Speaking of which...how the heck does Ben know that Jin is alive (in the previews)? Has he been back to the island? Is he in communication with someone who knows? Remember, what's going on for the people left on the island is about 3 years behind what is going on for the Oceanic 6 and the rest of the people off of it...so did something other than Locke's death happen in that time? 

 

And, lastly,

My biggest question from "Jughead" was "when the heck is the Desmond story occurring?". This is a huge question. Because if it's occurring in line with the Oceanic 6 storyline, does that mean Desmond is going to come to LA when they're all getting ready to head back? Or does it occur in line with the story on the island? This would make more sense as this is when Faraday actually spoke to Desmond and it was related in his dream. If this is the case, it leads me to my new theory on the time travel. As Faraday said, time travel is linear. Which means the past is actually the past. You can't actually affect what happens in the past. But, if you travel to the past in the future, you can affect the path of future events. What that means for the show is the biggest question. When the Oceanic 6 go back in time, when will they meet the island? Would it be a big surprise if they met the island when the plane crashed? Could they change the course of what happened to the survivors of the flight and the inhabitants of the island by going back? Is that what the whispers are throughout the woods (people traveling in time who can't actually interact with the people on the island, but know something imminently bad is about to happen)? And will we see a lot of characters resurrected?

 

I, however, reserve to change my mind on any and all of this...so no money-back guarantees. This show is so f'ing good!