Watching Lost

Wow. We’ve got another remarkable episode, yes? So many facets to who John Locke is has been revealed. But the most important question that does matter is — how the heck do you move an island??? I’m jumping ahead a little… so let me get on with the rundown.

FLASHBACK

Tonight’s episode begins with a girl named Emily, who was accidentally (?) hit by a car while trying to run away from her mother in other to meet up with a much older boyfriend. Emily is pregnant and the accident has resulted in her giving birth to a baby boy prematurely. She names the baby John but later decides she can’t be a mother to him.

Outside the hospital room, Dr. Richard Alpert is looking intently at the baby. The nurse assumes he is the father. This was in the 1950’s, and Richard looks exactly the same as how he looked in the island (present).

Several years later, John is in the home of his foster family when Richard comes to see him. He tells young John he runs a school for very special kids and proceeds to give John tests. He lays out several things on the table and asks John to choose which of the items is his. The boy picks the knife from the pack and for whatever reason, Richard is disappointed and leaves their house.

We then see a teenage John Locke stuck inside a locker at his school. A teacher comes to his aid who tells him that maybe he is cut out for science summer camp which is headed by a certain Dr. Richard Alpert. But John tells teacher he’s not into those things.

Still, several years later… a crippled John is doing physical therapy and encounters an orderly. The orderly tells him maybe it’s time to do some self-discovery and suggests he joins a walkabout in Australia for it will “change his life”… to which John sarcastically remarked he can’t possibly ever do because he is 98% crippled. The orderly assures him that the next time they will meet, John will owe him for this. The orderly is none other than Matthew Abaddon who visited Hurley in the mental institution, post-island.

ON THE ISLAND

Locke receives clues in his dreams. He meets a man named Horace who tells him he is the clue to finding Jacob’s cabin. When Locke wakes up, he leads Hurley and Ben to a mass grave and starts checking the remains there.

He finds Horace’s and picks off the clothes he had on. In Horace’s pocket is the map to Jacob’s cabin. (Horace is the man who helped Ben’s father get a job in the island.)

The three finally see Jacob’s cabin but Ben and Hurley opted to stay outside and share a chocolate bar (awww, look how cute they are!) :

Inside the cabin, Locke does not find Jacob, but Christian Shepherd, who tells him he speaks for Jacob. Locke also finds Claire there. It seems she is very contented with staying with her father. Locke asks Christian what he can do to save the island and outside, he tells Ben and Hurley that they want him to move it (island).

FREIGHTER

Keamy and his team return to the freighter after the attack by the black smoke. Keamy vows to fly back and do Plan B of his orders (torch the island) which the Captain didn’t know about.

The Captain helps Sayid get to a boat in order to go back to the Island and tries to save as many survivors. Although, the Captain later ends up getting shot by Keamy when he prevented him from flying back.

Frank Lipidus, unable to also prevent Keamy, flies their team back but also stashes a tracker on his backpack, which he later throws on the beach, for Jack, Juliet, Kate and the rest to find. Jack assumes that it’s a sign they should try and follow where the chopper is headed to.

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Is it wrong to say that I’m the least bit interested with whatever happens to Jack now? This felt like the longest one hour of my life. Sorry Jack, but Ben’s time-travels and Desmond-heart-Penny is what excites me now. I’m not sure I can even gather my thoughts and give this episode a decent recap. I found myself leaving the room in the middle of the episode. I was just bored!

I was, however, scared of this:

Although I knew it was coming, the scene preps you along the way. But like Jack, I think I jumped when I saw his dad appear to him at work (in this hospital…way into the future).

Speaking of the future — Jack, Kate and little Aaron lived together post-island. Like one little happy family, where Jack would read bed time stories to the baby and go to bed with his gorgeous partner afterwards.

The future seemed good. Jack was happy. He told Hurley he was happy. Even as Hurley says all these can’t be happening because they are already dead. Charlie told him so. Apparently, he gets visited by him regularly at the mental institution. Charlie also has a message for Jack. It was

— “You’re not supposed to take care of him” perhaps in reference to Aaron
— and someone was going to visit Jack (see Christian above)

In the future, Jack proposed marriage to Kate…

… but after Jack’s visit to Hurley, and his father’s visit to him, everything changed for the couple and I think the marriage is off the table.

In the present day, on the island —

• Jack is suffering from appendicitis and Juliet rounds up everyone to help. She was going to operate on Jack and she needed supplies from the clinic that she brought Sun before.
• Sun, Jin, the freighter people Daniel and Charlotte all go to the clinic to gather what they need. The Koreans speak to each other about their companions and when they come back to the beach much later, Jin corners Charlotte and tells her he knows she understood Korean. He only wants one thing from her - that Sun gets on that helicopter and back to the mainland.
• At the operating table, Jack was supposed to watch Juliet and guide her through, but the pain was too much to bear, he had to be knocked unconscious. After a successful procedure and while Jack remains asleep, Juliet talks to Kate and tells her Jack kissed her. But it was only because Jack wanted to be sure “he doesn’t love someone else.”
• Sawyer, Claire and Miles sees Danielle and Karl’s dead body on the way back to the beach. They also encounter Lapidus who tells them to hide because Keamy and his team of mercenaries was on the way. Later, Claire goes missing and Sawyer asks Miles where she went. Miles tells him she was not alone, and was with someone she called Dad. Claire leaves Aaron with them. Where could she have gone and was she actually talking to Christian?

Flat, flat episode I think I could do without. Maybe I’ll appreciate it on second viewing….. Nah!

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So we now have the answer to why Sayid has joined forces with Ben (Episode: The Economist). He wants to avenge his wife because Ben told him it was Widmore who is to blame for her death.

We also know that Widmore and Ben’s “war” started years ago, with the claim to the island and now because the rule has changed, their families have also become pawns. We now see a clear struggle between these two. I’m also beginning to see the correlation between fathers and families in this story, a fact that has long been left unexplored.

In the island

A body washes ashore. His throat was slit but none from the Losties recognizes who he is. The freighter people though know that it’s the doctor. But Charlotte and Daniel look just as surprise as the Losties are upon seeing the body.

Using Morse code, Daniel tries to contact the freighter asking what happened to the doctor. When they answered back, also in Morse code, he tells Jack that the freighter didn’t answer the question but there’s supposed to be a chopper coming for them in the morning. Except, Bernard understood Morse code and said that Daniel is lying. With Jack angry at him, Daniel caves and says they were never really planning on a rescue.

Jack has been suffering from a stomach flu the whole time, it seems. (more…)

So, Lost is coming back this week and you still haven’t caught up with what’s going on in the series? Learn what you should know about Lost from Season 1 to the first half of Season Four; all in under five minutes! (SPOILER ALERT)

There are some funny notes to this video, like:

• Kate and Sawyer think they’re going to die. So they have sex.
• They see Jack playing football with Mr. Friendly. Mr. Friendly throws like a girl.
• Sawyer wants Kate to stay and play house.
• Kate wears cool shades when she goes to her trial.

But everything else about this condensed story is pretty legit. I suggest you go check it out and run the play button. And stay glued. The narrator runs it by quite fast.

But of course, this doesn’t replace watching the show in full form. You’d have to be crazy to not want to do that!

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This Australian daily, The Age, has a very interesting article which provides a recap to where we are at with Season 4.

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So, what exactly was non-traditional about this week’s episode of Lost? That most of the story was Michael’s flashback…or forward? I don’t know what it is anymore. I don’t know who is telling the truth. Ben tells Michael, Widmore is responsible for the cover-up. The Captain tells Sayid and Des Ben is. Obviously, one of them is lying and the writers are genius manipulators and we love that we’re so sucked into this.

It was hard watching the episode when I’ve been sick the last couple of days. My headache turned to a full-blown migraine. (Hence the belated recap)…

Moving along….

This week, we finally find answers to what happened to Michael and Walt after they skipped the island in Season 2. We learn that Michael has become suicidal and that his relationship with his son is estranged.

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Alright…because I speculated that it was either Jin or Sun who’s gonna die by the 7th episode, I do not get brownie points at all from any of my guesses. It’s almost a given, anyway. So, I was half-surprised when it did unfold at the end of the story. But what caught me off guard, really? It’s the way the death was told. It had nothing to do with the pregnancy nor the island at all, nothing to do with my guesses. Or at least not yet, anyway (the island). Was it ever established what was Jin’s cause of death?

Before I proceed with the recaps… this was truly a very emotional episode for me. It’s not in the same league as The Constant (which I concede to be a big, big favorite), but I could relate to how much the characters are going through — Sun’s painful delivery, the anger in Sun’s face when she slapped Juliet, the look on Sayid and Desmond’s face upon seeing Michael, and the end at the cemetery.

…So many things going on! We’ve got people in the freighter, the couple in the island, Losties off the island (flash foward) and a flashback…whew!

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The sixth episode focuses on Juliet’s story. In the opening scene, which is a flashback, we see her sitting in the therapist’s office. Apparently, this is a prerequisite for The Others — they need to see a mind doctor since, as Juliet tells Jack, “The Others live stressful lives”. The therapist is a woman named Harper…who has really scary eyebrows.

Their first session is about why Juliet feels uncomfortable with her “celebrity” status in the island (she’s supposed to be a miracle worker, remember?). Mr. Friendly cuts their session off as Juliet needs to step out of Harper’s house. And there she finds Ben with flowers. He is gifting her with her own house in the Barracks. Juliet thinks this is not necessary, since she’s only staying for six months. Ben tells her, it’s for her to feel at home.

Later we see Juliet crying in her lab. She lost another patient, someone she was trying to help carry a baby to full term. Just then, Goodwin appears with a burn on his hand. You may remember him from the earlier seasons (One Of Us). This is their first meeting. And as Juliet treats his hands, Goodwin knows she has been crying and offered a friendly ear, in case she needs someone to talk to. Juliet mentions she is seeing a therapist she doesn’t like and Goodwin tells her, Harper is his wife.

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To be honest, recapping LOST is one trying task. As it is, the story is difficult enough to get in one sitting. Having to write it down while infusing some of your thoughts? Even harder.

But I found a couple of people who make it seem easy…and FUN! If you’re looking for a different take on LOST, head over to these LiveJournal blogs and enjoy their way of re-telling our favorite series.

The first one is from ACK-ATTACK.LIVEJOURNAL.COM. Here’s a sample I took from their recap of The Constant:

So first Desmond’s on the helichopper and he’s looking at this photo and him and Penny and it’s kind of cute and whatever.

And then this guy’s like “PUT. YOUR. HANDS. ON. YOUR. HEAD.”

And Desmond’s like lol yay

And Juliet’s like mmmkay

And Jack’s like aight yo

The other site you need to check is this one:

PRETTYBUTT.LIVEJOURNAL.COM

My hats off to these Lost fans! These really are labor of love.

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As it is, Lost episodes are guaranteed to boggle the mind, so we’re keeping recaps here at Watching Lost plain, simple and hopefully easier to follow.

For the fifth episode of Season 4, there are no flash forwards or flash backs. It doesn’t even tell us if Desmond is indeed one of the Oceanic 6. Instead, we see how Desmond’s mind-traveling, as quickly as one’s eyes would blink.

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For the first time in three seasons, I loved the Kate-centric episode so much, it truly has moved me to tears. It hit close to me and was so well-executed.

Kate’s story opens with a scene from the barracks. Locke is serving breakfast for Ben, whom he has locked away in the basement. Although Ben seems to be the weaker person here, he is so good at getting to Locke and starts by telling him that Locke has no idea what to do anymore and that he’s “more lost than he’s ever been”. Upset by what Ben just said, Locke leaves him and throws away his breakfast at the wall.

Upstairs, Sawyer tells Kate he is welcome to bunk with him and mentions something about Kate’s possible pregnancy bugging her. But Kate would hear none of it and tells Sawyer to go back to his house.

While at the beach, as Sun and Jin make plans for their future once they leave the island, Jack and Juliet arrive with Daniel and Charlotte and told everyone Desmond and Sayid are on the chopper back to the freighter. Sun notices Kate is gone and asks Jack. He only told her Kate has decided to stay with Locke.

Kate is seeking Locke’s permission to see Miles but Locked refuses, prompting Kate to say it’s as if there’s a dictatorship over at Team Locke. When she couldn’t get his permission, Kate tries to trick Hurley into telling her where Miles is locked up, but promises he won’t let him go. All Kate wanted to ask Miles was if he knows who she is and what she has done off the island. Miles promised her he would tell what he knows provided she gives him one minute with Ben.

Kate tells Sawyer this and hatches the plan to bring Miles at the basement to Ben. While there, Miles tells Ben he is willing to lie to his boss if Ben is willing to pay him $3.2 Million. When his minute was up, Kate leads him outside and now demands to tell her what he knows about her. So, Miles tells her that she is still wanted by the FBI for the crimes she has committed.

All the while Sawyer was with Locke and was playing backgammon with him. Eventually, he confesses to Kate’s plans and they reach them just in time and Locke is clearly mad at Kate for this. Later on, he tells her he wants her gone by the morning, but not before asking her what the whole Ben and Miles businesses was about.

Kate goes to Sawyer’s house and lets him know Locke is asking her to leave. Sawyer lets her stay the night in bed with him. But apparently nothing has happened. Sawyer again insisted this was probably because of the pregnancy, but Kate is sure she is not with child. An argument takes place between them and Sawyer tells Kate that she will surely come around after a week, when she finds something to be pissed at Jack.

Meanwhile, Locke has Miles tied and locked up again. And worse, he’s got a live grenade in between his mouth, which Locke shoved in him. The only thing that’s stopping the grenade from explosing is if Miles grits his teeth tightly at it.

Back at the beach, Jack has been trying to reach the freighter through the satellite phone and Charlotte helps him by dialling the emergency number. Regina answers this but was surprised to learn the chopper was not in the island. Now, no one knows what happened to Desmond, Sayid and Frank.
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There something about Sayid-centric episodes that don’t seem to hook me in as much as the rest. I have always felt his flashbacks (and in this episode’s case, flash forwards) were dragging at times. But while this episode was the weakest among the three stories already aired, I can’t deny I loved the last part of it.

The Economist opens with Sayid studying the remains of Naomi, while, a few feet away, Miles and Jack are thinking about how they can rescue Charlotte from Team Locke. Sayid notices Naomi’s bracelet and removes it from her wrist. Inscribed on it are the words: “N, I’ll always be with you. R.G” Sayid then says to Miles and Frank he can bring Charlotte back, provided he gets to ride on the chopper back to the boat. For this operation, Miles joins Sayid, and Jack suggested Kate come with them, too.

While the were gone, Daniel conducts some tests, which Frank tells Jack, he does a lot on the boat going to the island. Daniel has a tripod with what looks like a beacon. There’s also a clock attached to it. Using Frank’s phone, Daniel calls a Regina and asks her to send a payload. Regina begins the countdown but the payload does not arrive as expected. Rather, this was delayed some 30 or so minutes later. Daniel thinks this was “beyond weird”.

Meanwhile, Sayid, Miles and Kate reach the barracks where The Others used to reside. They find Hurley tied up and locked inside a closet and Hurley tells them Team Locke has left him behind when he suggested they let Charlotte go. Hurley tells the three, he thinks the rest of the Losties are heading towards Ben’s house. They snooped around the area and Sayid finds a secret room inside Ben’s house. It has a number of passports (all Ben’s) and some money or notes in different currency (and probably in different years). Before they could check the area further, Sayid, Miles and Kate are cornered by Team Locke. Hurley suddenly appears and apologizes for lying.

Kate is in Ben’s room with Sawyer to stand as guard. Sawyer wonders if she really thinks the rescuers will be able to get them out of the island. She wonders why Sawyer doesn’t want to go home and he sort of tells her his life is better where they are. Miles is whisked off somewhere, too, while Sayid is brought to the game room, where Ben is also locked up. Locke apologizes to Sayid for the deception, but explains it was a precaution since Locke doesn’t believe in the freighter crew. Sayid tells him he believes the same, but it was necessary to bring Charlotte to them so that he could find out more. Locke tells Sayid about Ben’s man on the boat but Ben refuses to say anything more. Sayid trades Miles for Charlotte from Locke.

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As much as I loved the episode tonight, I had to really check my watch for the time…did an hour of TV watching really just went by? I felt the episode owed me some more. I cannot wait for next week! I welcome the introduction of the four new characters. No one knows who they are yet; if they are with the good guys or with the bad guys. But I can tell you now — I love them all.

The episode opens with a news report. Oceanic 815 has been found in the bottom of the Sundra Trench, somewhere in Bali, with all the passengers confirmed dead.

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Daniel Faraday is crying as he is watching the news on television. His companion asks what he’s crying for and Daniel replies that he has no idea.

Charlotte Lewis, an archaeologist, is in Tunisia, when she picks up a local newspaper detailing the story of Flight 815’s recovery. Her companion wonders why she is reading every single paper on it. At her digging site, she finds bones of polar bear…when Tunisia is a desert land. She also found a collar with the logo of Dharma Initiative.

Miles Straume appears to be a ghostbuster who has just listened to the news of the recovery before heading to his next house call — a grandmother who wants to find peace for her murdered grandchild. We see that Miles’ abilities are real, he can communicate with the dead.

Frank Lapidus is watching television, when he saw the clip of the ill-fated plane’s pilot, who was a colleague of his. He calls Oceanic hotline saying he’s got information. Frank believes that the dead body shown on TV was not his friend. And he was supposed to be the one flying that plane that day.

Naomi (from Season 3’s finale) and Matthew Abbadon (who appeared in last week’s episode) are the people responsible for pooling these four characters. Naomi doesn’t believe they have the proper training, as this is supposedly a dangerous mission, especially if there are survivors. But Abbadon tells her they are there for specific reasons and that he is certain no one survived from the crash.

They label Daniel a headcase, Frank a drunk, Miles a ghostbuster. They call Charlotte the anthropologist.

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Where the show last left off, there was tension everywhere. Locke has stabbed Naomi when the Losties were counting on her to help them get off the island; Ben is helpless under Jack, who ends up capturing him; and we lost Charlie who has made one sacrifice before drowning to his death, by relaying a message to them to not trust the people coming to rescue.

After all those times we’ve waited, it is finally here. And while they await the rescuers, everything that seemed alright, now wasn’t.

Kicking off Lost’s Season 4 with a solid episode entitled “The Beginning of The End”, was a Hurley-centric episode…which is great. I don’t think we’ve seen much of his story last season, didn’t we? It opens with a flash forward — something the show has surprised us with at the end of last season (with Kate and Jack). This time, the flash forwards are of Hurley’s, as we slowly see him driving himself with madness. Has he really gone crazy or are those hallucinations real? He is being chased by the police in a future event and was brought in for questioning. What was he running away from? And when the police ask if he would he want to go back to the nut house? One would have thought to say no, but Hurley was actually glad to be back in there.

At the mental institution Hurley is visited by a mysterious man who says he’s from Oceanic airlines and is offering Hurley a room upgrade. But something he asked made Hurley very upset. “Are they still alive?” that man asked. Who was he pertaining to? And why was Hurley so upset about it?

Back to the present timeline, in the island, everyone’s in high spirits. They had made contact with the rescuers and they could be enjoying a decent meal and bed space before the day is over. Hurley even did the cannonball by the beach. They were that hopeful. But while everyone was anticipating with hope, Ben tells Danielle to take their daughter away because he doesn’t think it will be safe with the “rescuers” arriving. Daniel does not believe him.

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Have you had the chance to watch the Missing Pieces video on ABC? If you haven’t, there isn’t actually anything much to miss. But for those who would like to know what they were about here’s a summary:

Episode 1: “The Watch”

Timeline: Jack about to marry Sarah. He receives a watch from his Dad, which was originally his grandfather’s. Jack’s dad never wore the watch because his own father didn’t like his choice of wife. Jack’s dad tells him to be a better father.

Episode 2: “Hurley and Frogurt”

Timeline: In the island, before Hurley and Libby’s planned first date. Hurley is talking to Neil, whom he calls Frogurt. Frogurt was telling him to give it up, since Libby is out of his league. But Hurley insisted he’s seizing the moment with Libby. But then, a few minutes later, she is shot.

Episode 3: “King of the Castle”

Timeline: Jack as prisoner in The Others’ turf. He and Ben are playing chess and Ben tells him something about leaving the island but wanting to come back. He tells Jack: “If that day comes, I hope you remember this conversation” and beats Jack at chess.

Episode 4: “The Deal”

Timeline: Michael with The Others. He meets Juliet for the first time and she talks to her about helping them free Ben from the Losties’ Island.

Episode 5: “Operation: Sleeper”

Timeline: Julie among the Losties. She tells Jack the truth about still working for Ben and the pregnant women and she is worried for Sun (who is pregnant). She tells Jack they have to get off the island.

Episode 6: “Room 23″

Timeline: At The Others’camp. Ben and Juliet have a heated argument over Walt, who Juliet implies Walt may be dangerous. But Ben wants to keep him and is not threatened by a child. Juliet insisted and shows Ben what Walt has done and there they realize he has powerful abilities.

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