Watching Lost

I feel like they were doing and thinking exactly as the audience. This scene is hilarious, these two pulled it off!

The latest from the Lost Untangled videos…

This is a dumbed down recap of this week’s episode: 316.

If you’re one to limit analysis and theorizing on Lost, then watch this video instead and just enjoy the series!

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DocArtz rounds up Season 4 and has given it grades of A, A+ and C- Excerpts after the jump…

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MILES: I’m surprised you wanna leave.
CHARLOTTE: Sorry?
MILES: It’s just weird. You know, after all that time you spent trying to get back here.
CHARLOTTE: What do you mean, get back here?
MILES: …What do I mean?

CHARLOTTE: I’m gonna stay, Daniel… for now, anyway.
FARADAY: Charlotte… there is no “for now”. If you don’t come with me, “for now” could be forever.
CHARLOTTE: Nothing’s forever.
FARADAY: Why?

CHARLOTTE: Would it make any sense if I told you I was still looking for where I was born?

What she said to Faraday in the final episodes, about finding out where she was actually born, came out of nowhere to me. But it shouldn’t be surprising to learn. Charlotte, since being introduced as one of the freighter folks this season, still remains a mystery to most of us. What her purpose is for becoming part of the team is rather vague. She was working on the deserts of Tunisia, when she learned of the wreckage and was dumbfounded about it. She was digging up skeletons of a polar bear there (a bear with a Dharma logo on its collar)…and those are the closest Lost connection we can relate her to.

So, who is Charlotte for the island? What about her past is part of it? If she was born there, does she have the same abilities as Desmond?

Some theories point to her as Annie, Ben’s childhood sweetheart although it would appear she’s too young to be her. Some even say she could be their daughter. Annie has the same red hair as Charlotte’s, which really doesn’t prove a lot but it does make you stop and think. An ongoing debate about Charlotte is taking place here, if you’re interested to join in the fun.

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Continuing with our finale breakdown…

I have to acknowledge the obvious: Ben is such a complicated character. I really wouldn’t know the motives of his actions and what he is trying to accomplish. If I take the time to sit down and go over his character’s doings on the island in each episode, if I try and make sense of why he did all that, I’d get a headache. I actually did. Not ten minutes after doing so….my brows cringed together and I stopped before my head exploded.

So with Ben, I really have more questions than theories and assumptions.

Did Ben do the ultimate sacrifice when he turned the wheel for the sake of saving the island? He mentioned that he’s the one who is supposed to do the task (even as Jacob told Locke what they’re supposed to do) because whoever does it can never come back to the island. Why would he then want to leave the only place we could consider his comfort zone?

It has been implied that Locke is the “true leader” of the troop Ben was herding and now it seems Locke has fully embraced that, therefore displacing Ben. It felt like Ben was banished from the island and if you look at it that way — it’s kinda sad for him. But did he do this to prove something to Jacob? Can you sense the desperation in his actions? Or was that really his destiny, a plan to correct the course of the future? Is Locke actually the rightful leader?

Did what happen to him (getting off the island, never to return) also happen to Widmore in the past? Is this the reason why Widmore is hell bent on finding the island he claims is his (which meant Ben staged a coup and took something from Widmore….like the leadership of the island)?

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Much has been reported about Harold Perrineau’s exit on Lost, yet again. And it seems the way the actor spoke of it, Michael’s death is his character’s imminent ending. Christian Shepard suddenly appearing to him in the freighter, telling him it’s done, marked that.

Still, there is a theory that we won’t see the last of his character. He could be dead, but like all the others, Michael will reappear to someone.

How he died is seen as a redemption from mistakes he has made on the island in the past (killing Ana Lucia and Libby, betraying the other Losties). There was closure…on that level. There was even closure between him and Jin at some point. But perhaps one of the misses I could consider on this show is that Michael and Walt never got theirs (closure). I think that that would have been a much more important “mission” for Michael.

Does Walt even know his dad is dead? Did Jeremy Bentham aka Locke tell him anything? We are going to see those encounters between JB-Locke and grown up Walt next season, won’t we? And why didn’t the 06ers even try to get in touch with Walt when they got off the island? Why wasn’t Hurley forthcoming with him when Walt came for a visit? Could Hurley have been seeing not just Charlie’s ghost but also Michael’s?

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There’s really no point in convincing myself Jin is still alive… because I know he is! But I base this only for the knowledge that Jin was raised as a fisherman, he’s prepared for risks in the waters (and apart from actually not seeing him die….)

But it is interesting to note the obvious — Sun’s character development will be much more different in Season 5. With her husband left behind, on a freighter that exploded right in front of her eyes, Sun is out to avenge her husband’s “death”. She’s out to get anyone — her father, Ben, maybe even Jack and Kate. (In her flash forward on Ji Yeon, she wasn’t too thrilled about having the rest of the 06ers present to see her baby. It seems she was fine and actually relieved she only had Hurley there.)

So strong is her need for vengeance that the scene with her confronting Widmore indicates the submissive, devoted and intelligent housewife, may be going to athe dark side by aligning with Ben’s nemesis. (If we’re to assume Widmore is really the bad guy here…I’m still on the fence about that since Ben is a very suspicious character!)

But if Jeremy Bentham aka Locke was able to round up the 06ers post-island…is it possible he would have told Sun her husband is alive? if so, is her going to the dark side part of the plan? Or is this really a plan that’s just all hers?

By the way, Yunjin Kim should be commended for her playing out Sun’s hysteria over seeing the freighter explode. I had goosebumps watching her face and I think I almost went fetal crying over it.

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The season finale opens with the flash forward, picking up where Season 3 left with Jack and Kate meeting up in the dead of night and him convincing her that they made a mistake leaving the island. It’s a highly emotional scene showing the breakdown of a relationship that should have gone well off the island.

Convincing Kate to return to the island will not be easy for Jack. On top of the status of their relationship, Kate has been warned by no less than Claire that she can never bring Aaron back.

And yet, she receives a mysterious phone call that says she must return. The sound byte to that phone call is inaudible on television, but what the message supposedly said was: ”The island needs you….You have to go back before it’s too late.”

Who will Kate listen to? Will Jack be able to convince her based on that phone call? Or will she honor Claire’s warning? And is she the least bit concerned about what has happened to Sawyer?

Back in the island, Sawyer sacrificed himself by jumping off the helicopter, making it lighter, saving on fuel and thus saving his friends. Before the jump, he plants a long kiss on Kate with Jack clearly in plain sight of it (he showed a range of emotion — disbelief, confusion, sadness, relief). Sawyer also whispered something to Kate, which everyone surmises has something to do with his daughter in Alabama, Clementine. Sawyer did make it back to the island before it disappeared together with him.

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Is the baby, Aaron, going to grow up high strung or what? With all the things happening around him? Surviving two harrowing helicopter incidents, witnessing a freighter explosion from afar, the people around him all panicking and talking at the same time — It’s major trauma alert for the little guy!

And he doesn’t have a baby bottle and formula to replace his mother’s milk. And at his age, he isn’t supposed to take solids yet. So, who the heck has been feeding him all this time with Claire gone?

Should the situation change had Penny and Desmond taken him to safety instead? At least Kate’s “lie” about Aaron being her son wouldn’t have been so much more difficult to carry. As it is, nosy reporters are piecing the facts of her “pregnancy” from the flight back, to the day of the crash, to the day they made it back to mainland.

I do recall that very early in the series, in past seasons, Claire was warned her son must not be raised by “others”. And Aaron wasn’t also supposed to be with Kate. So, to which person does Aaron belong, with his mother apparently in limbo and presumably dead? Jack? The baby’s living blood relative?

Incidentally, Emilie de Ravin (Claire) will be appearing rather rarely in Season 5, as E! Online reports she has a holding contract with the series. The report first came out as a nameless spoiler, but it has now been confirmed:

A series regular who has been on the series since the first season will not be back next season (season five). According to inside sources, this person’s contract has been put into a holding deal and the plan at this point is to have him or her return for season six. It is not Jack or Sawyer. It’s a she.

Lastly, why would Claire appear to Kate in a “dream”, telling her that Aaron must never be brought back to the island, when Ben (and even Locke) all went them back? Don’t they play for the same team?

In the future timeline, Kate has been taking care of Aaron for what appears to be three years since they got off the island.

Tomorrow, it’s Kate, Jack & Sawyer next…

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The morning after the finale, the net was abuzz with this video of Lost’s supposed alternate endings. It was shown in ABC’s Good Morning America. The video had Sawyer and Desmond inside the coffin, the actual intention of which was to supposedly just foil spoilers.

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Jeremy Bentham was the only person who visited Walt when the 06ers got off the island. Apparently, this mysterious guy was also checking up with most everyone, convincing them all to return to the island since things have gone worst since they left. That thought has left Jack feeling very guilty about everything.

Googling for Jeremy Bentham will clue you in on what type of person he is.

Jeremy Bentham is John Locke’s alias. John Locke is a name the O6ers cannot mention so they call him that. Why is he using this? To go with the cover up story, I believe so. Before Jack and the rest left, he strongly suggested they lie about what went on in the island. If he were to use John Locke and with the famous Oceanic Six recognized all over world, someone’s bound to check the flight manifesto and find his name, right? Which would make their original story, their original lie suspicsious.

I believe he’s also the economist based on what the name Jeremy Bentham represents.

We now know the reason why he’s off the island, but how was Locke able to leave?

The name Jeremy Bentham first surfaced on Lost in the Season 3 finale, with the very first flash forward. It was from a newspaper clipping Jack was holding, which detailed that Bentham’s death was a suicide. Neither Sayid nor Jack believe this to be true. Could this be a ruse? Is Locke actually still alive? Did you had an inkling that it was Locke in the box?

Tomorrow…it’s all about Aaron, Claire and Kate.

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Here’s an account of where everybody is at, at the moment….

OFF THE ISLAND

• The Oceanic 6: Jack, Kate, Sayid, Sun, Hurley, Aaron.
• Desmond, who reunites with Penny
• Frank Lapidus, last seen staying behind Penny’s boat
• Ben, who cannot go back to the island since he moved it
• Jeremy Bentham, Locke’s alter ego

IN LIMBO

• Daniel Faraday, who was on the raft with unimportant Losties, supposed to be boarding the freighter
• Jin, who may or may not have survived the freighter explosion
• Claire

IN THE ISLAND

• Sawyer
• Juliet
• Charlotte
• Miles
• Rose
• Bernard (although not seen in a couple of episodes including the finale)
• Locke (before the flash forwards)
• Richard Alpert and The Others

DEAD

• Michael
• Jeremy Bentham, aka Locke.
• Keamy

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Sayid and Keamy face-off: Man, that Sayid…he is short! I don’t know about you but as much as I love his character’s background, sometimes I think Sayid’s too short to play “action hero”. (I’m a really short person myself standing at 5″, so I don’t mean this as an insult…just an observation). To his credit, the scene with Keamy was one of the few moments that made me jump up my seat and clap because the other times I’m just sitting quietly with a big question mark over my head.

Walt grows up: We finally see him. They finally have use for him again! And I’m sure we’ll see more of grown up Walt next season.

Cameo by Eko and Christian: The sudden appearance of Mr. Eko and Christian freaked me out. Christian always does that to me. And Mr. Eko didn’t even have to be there, I still had goosebumps! I’m not so fond of these freak-out moments.

Charlotte is an island girl? The cultural anthropologist was sent to the island for a purpose, along with the freighter people. But she’s staying in the island for a different reason altogether — the island may have been her birthplace.

Daniel Faraday and his skinny ties? Inseparable. He has not taken his tie off. Ever.

CPR on the raft: Is that even possible? With Jack pushing harder down on Desmond, he would have pushed him onto the water, wouldn’t he? Or is the raft made of steel and stones?

Sawyer with his shirt off. Let’s have a screen shot of that:

He should have taken off his pants, too. Coz really, those are heavier in the water! And was Juliet giving him the has-Sawyer-always-been-this-hot look?

Desmond and Penny meet again! I’m so glad they didn’t have us waiting for this longer. I was almost not expecting this because they spoke nothing about a reunion in most pre-finale interviews. It’s a nice gift from the writers; a really nice surprise.

Three kisses! Which one was spectacular for you?

• Charlotte planting one on Daniel’s cheek?
• Sawyer liplocking with Kate?
• Penny and Desmond’s reunion kiss?

So? - is an intimidating two-letter word. Ben’s delivery of it will make me scramble off my feet and get my butt moving. And if Ben had told me, “Sorry I made your life miserable….” I would probably say, “All this? Phew…it’s nothing. It’s a cake walk. I had the best time in the island, all thanks to you.” Because it’s the all-mighty Ben, I wouldn’t want to cross him.

Did you also chuckle when Ben said they ALL had to go back, which means they have to drag along Bentham’s lifeless body? A lot of people are probably thinking the same thing:

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I’m not quite sure where to begin discussing about what went on in the season finale. It has been a couple of days, I know. If you’ve read my last entry, I said that I had to attend to family members visiting us over the weekend, it was important to de-list Lost from my mind for awhile.

Though every chance I could get, I had to steal time and look at my notes on my mobile phone. I was hoping I could organize my thoughts so I could have something coherent to write here. But I don’t think I can do one big, long post so quickly. The finale was massive…in every sense of the word.

So here’s the plan: this week, it’s going to be all about the finale. The rundown for the two hour recap will be broken down and shall be tackled in installments. How does that sound?

To start with, let me just say that we’ve got a bit of everything last Thursday, didn’t we? A shootout between The Others and Team Keamy; a square off between Keamy and Sayid; a bumpy helicopter ride…two bumpy helicopter rides, in fact; Sawyer diving and going shirtless; a freighter going boom and Sun nearly losing her mind upon seeing that; the spectacular kisses; a Dharma training video; Ben’s rage and remorse; an actual frozen donkey wheel!….where does it stop?

The best thing about it though, I felt that the symphony that is Lost is almost winding down (yeah, sure… what with two seasons left). The picture is definitely getting clearer and clearer. There are new questions, as always and as usual (not surprising after four finales; this is Lost anyway), but nothing really so mind-blowing that waiting for answers for eight months will seem like torture. I know, I know — John Locke in the coffin!? I’m not too eager getting immediate answers to that one. I want the whole experience, the whole story to unfold beautifully in Season 5, so to me — it can wait.

Tomorrow, I’ll list down the things we have learned from the episode’s finale and then will tackle key characters in the days following this.

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Confused about the fast forwards on Lost? Here’s a video that puts together all of it in chronological order, as posted on YouTube:

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