Faraday’s back…. but unfortunately it seems not for long!!!

That was….. interesting.
For the first time this whole season I didn’t expect the end of the episode to be so soon… Of course, it was a natural ending….. Sawyer & Juliet caught out, Faraday DEAD and well…. crazy times..

I really hope that they don’t end up erasing their past which will be in the future… cos that could end with them on 815 landing in LA. That’d be a horrible outcome. Hopefully, since this has been discussed on screen, its unlikely to happen…. So far I don’t see anything to suggest that Daniel’s ‘Whatever Happened, Happened’ doesn’t still apply.

I wonder why Elouise / Ms Hawking for the first time ever, doesn’t know what’s going to happen? That poses the question… How did she know what was going to happen before?

Shot. By my own mother! You bitch.

Also, that scene from back in Season 4, when Daniel was introduced — we still don’t have an explanation for why he seems emotionally connected to Oceanic 815. Something like his him having jumped in time at some point but not being aware of it??

How is it that in the minds of Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Hurley, the plan to simply start again at the old beach would result in them not being bothered by the Dharma folk…? An unrealistic plan, I thought. Good job they got caught already.

Desmond going to the hospital…. It’s not clear to me what the point in showing that was. He seemed perfectly fine when he got up and beat the sh*t out of Ben.

Anywho… Only 3 episodes left, 2 of which make up the finale so I suppose you could consider the next one (“Follow the Leader” — sounds as though we’ll be seeing Ben, don’t ya think?) as the penultimate episode of this season. Unfortunately, Lost-Pedia suggests that after that one there will be ANOTHER recap episode. I hope that isn’t true….. But they’re frequently right.

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Faraday

Spoilers follow if you haven’t seen it…

So….. I’m gonna start off with something from the end of the episode – DANIEL!

FARADAY!

Yes, I probably do go on about him a little too much, but as he said “Long time no see”. I’d say it’s fairly likely that next week’s episode [it's in two weeks time recap week.] the next episode “The Variable” will be a Daniel episode. Episodes in which he features largely have been rather awesome, especially “The Constant”. Thus, I expect good things.

Anywho… So, it was a Miles flashback episode…. That’s his first full episode as he’s only had a brief flashback before with Charlotte and Dan. I thought it was a pretty good episode. Sure, not a great deal happened, but there was at least one answer revealed for us viewers — Miles IS the kid of Pierre Chang / Marvin Candle.

That “Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue” thing from the last episode…. it seems to play a larger part than I expected it to. And, in the fairly regular Lost way, Miles was kidnapped by that dude from last weeks episode [another previous 'coincidental' connection] who crashed on the island with Ajira flight 316.

One has to wonder what made Ghostbuster-dude’s parents move away from the island taking Miles with them… Presumably it was the very same thing that meant Charlotte ended up off the island too. Saying that though, I’m assuming Candle/Chang dies on the island or something… and that’s why he didn’t get to raise Miles.

Long time no see indeed.

Yet again, rather amazingly, it seemed Jack was able to control the volume of his voice…. What, have they been teaching him some acting skillz!? Seriously though, at the moment he’s being rather boring and keeping quiet; appreciatively, that fits in with him not wanting to get his or, their cover(s) blown…. but I’m amazed to say that I miss laughing at his shouty outbursts. I also don’t think there were any Jears in that episode!!

I definitely want to find out about Miles’ power; perhaps his dad has the same ability, and that’s why he wants the corpses taken to the Orchid? Or was that just so he could be buried under a building? It seems as though they’re not aware of the magnetic anomaly that the island has… or that they’re not careful enough about it, as that random guy got killed by his own filling as a result of it.

I’ve gone through this whole post without a mention of Star Wars…. I feel I should at least type those two words…. it did play a fairly large part in this episode and it was another awesome moment for Hurley, in my opinion. Not as good as the Back to the Future bits though.

Two weeks till our next fix of Lost then….

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Oh yeah… the numbers being stamped on the hatch…. surely they knew it was more than a “serial number”??

Spoilers follow if you haven’t seen it…

Well, based on the name of this episode (The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham), I presumed that this episode would be all flashbacks based on Locke off the island up until the point when he died.

You might say that I was partially right; As expected, Locke is alive in the present and on the island  - YAY.

Interesting that it seems he and Ben aren’t in the same time zone as the Oceanic 5 and Juliet, Sawyer, Daniel et al. They seem to be in the time zone of the 316 crash. And my presumption is that the Oceanic 5 et al are in the time of Dharma’s prime.

Anywho… back to what happened in this episode. The person I didn’t expect to see again in this episode was Matthew Abaddon; sure, I expected to see him again but I didn’t think he would play such a relatively large part before being fucking gunned down by Ben!

This episode added further confusion to the Widmore / Ben thing…. Widmore made a good point – Locke could not say that Widmore had tried to have him killed, but he can certainly say that for Ben…. and later in the episode he kills Locke who remains dead for a few hours!

His [Ben's]  justification: Widmore was just using you to get back to the island and then he would have killed you.

Hmmmm…… well, there’s no point in me even trying to say which one should be trusted because Lost doesn’t make it easy for you to call it.

The beginning scene was quite well disguised — I thought it was a flashback or something.

It seems as though we know who was shooting at Charlotte, Daniel, Juliet, Sawyer, Miles & Locke a few episodes ago…. the 316 survivors…. Who evidently crashed on the other little island that was a large part in season 3.

Locke’s attempt to kill himself was a really emotional scene… it was done really well.

It’s surprising that Ben seemed to know about Elouise [Ms] Hawking and yet he needed Locke to tell him before it clicked in his head that this was the way he would be able to get back…. Once Locke had revealed that information, in Ben’s eyes he was no longer needed and it seemed that Ben genuinely thought he wouldn’t see Locke again. I await his reaction when he realizes he is still alive (and when they realize what time zone they are in etc.)

More to say, of course. But time constraints and a lack of organised thoughts leave me, and this post here. Next weeks ep is called “LaFleur” and after that there’s gonna be a one week break.

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Spoilers follow if you haven’t seen it

I can’t think of a great deal to say about this episode….. and I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or not. It was an ok episode…. but it definitely had the feeling that it’s leading on to bigger things.

Charlotte’s dead! I’m sure lots of people don’t care. But I had warmed to her character, especially with Daniel’s feelings for her…. it’s a little sad. And she confirmed that she was born on the island.

Still… there’s every chance that she’ll be seen again since it’s Lost.

As for Ben…. he’s one step forward, but two back. He’s got Sun on his side but now he’s lost [pun not intended] Kate & Sayid… and he is yet to go after Hurley.

Ben’s little rant in the van was good; Michael’s an amazing actor in my opinion; and you’re never sure of his intentions as a character.

Desmond had a small role in this episode…. but he’s now found Faraday’s mother…. and found out that it’s that old woman who told him about ‘course-correction’ waaay back in season 3!

Now that Locke has moved the wheel (or put it back on its axis)…. do you suppose they are stuck in whatever time period they were in last? That could be interesting….. perhaps explaining Faraday in the first episode being in the same time as Dr Candle when Dharma was in full swing?

Anyway… since I can’t think of anything else though I know there is more, I’ll leave you with this:

“Say hello to my son.”

“Who’s your son?”/

Spoilers follow if you haven’t seen it…

I’m glad I hadn’t noticed that Daniel Dae Kim’s [Jin's] name had appeared at the beginning of the show because I really didn’t see that coming unlike last season when Michael turned up. My reaction was something along the lines of “Holy Fuck” when I saw Jin.

It’s good that he’s still in the show. He’s a nice character. And he’s returned 16 years in the past!

As for what else went down in this episode…..

I think they pretty much confirmed that Charlotte was born on the island. But they also hinted that Ghost-buster dude Miles had at very least been on the island before.

My suspicions from the premiere was that we would know who Dr Marvin Candle’s baby was in the future…. Chances are high that it’s Miles. Don’t ya think?

Charlotte just waking up was weird. Not what I expected at all. Perhaps there’s more to come… And that it’ll now happen to Miles and Juliet.

Who was shooting at Locke, Juliet, Daniel etc.,? Based on the water bottle found on the beach, this is after the Oceanic 6 had returned to the island (google Ajira Airways if you want to know why).

The name on the van that Ben was driving was CANTON-RAINIER….. This is an anagram for Reincarnation — Referring to Locke?

What’s Ben up to? At first I thought he had hired the lawyer to go after Kate in order to get her to have a reason to want to run away [what better place than the island? :p ], but the fact that he told her that he was responsible negated that possibility. So I don’t really see why he was doing it.

Sun killing Ben? Likely? Me thinks not. But it should be interesting — if she did, would she be able to get back to the island? Not that she want’s to at the moment, but we know that Jin’s there!

At the moment it looks as though the Oceanic 6 will be able to get back to the island pretty soon — they’re all together other than Hurley, and it seems as though Ben will have that sorted; he does always have a plan, after all

Till next week then…

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Oh yeah…. What exactly was the episode title “The Little Prince” referring to? It wasn’t particularly clear.

It has to be said, it looks like it’s gonna be an EPIC season of Lost.

I’m glad Desmond features heavily in it; I was wondering how much we would see of him (even if the bits in the trailer seem to be old footage).

I’ve seen a theory that events on the island in that trailer (Juliet uncovering a window in the ground & Daniel being confronted by a guy in a yellow suit with a gun) could be that the island has ‘reset’ to a time in the past and therefore that the window is the hatch (from season 2), and the guy is Kelvin.

It’s possible for Lost, I suppose. But I don’t know how likely it is…. especially as Lost is often far from predictable.

52 days

Your thoughts on the trailer? (including The Fray)…

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