So that mark on alterna-Jack’s neck is back and rather more prominent this time. Surely it has some connection to the other universe and perhaps in the next [and last ] episode he’ll get a mark like that?

Desmond’s plan seems to be going pretty well in the alternate dimension; he’s made Ben remember stuff by punching him, just like he punched him before. He also seems to have some recollection of Alex; or perhaps he was simply touched by the thought of being a father-figure.
Hurley is clearly completely aware of the island timeline since he recognized Ana Lucia, and Des has freed Kate, Sayid & himself. I assume he’s getting them to do something before everyone meets up at that concert thingy?

Oh, and Jack’s ex-wife is so gonna be Juliet.

Richard’s probably still alive; he only got thrown a little distance (for tv stunts, anyway) and he’s most likely still immortal.

I appreciated the answer as to why Kate had been crossed off; I had been wondering about that, and why they were there full stop. Jack’s the new Jacob, God complex and all and Desmond is a failsafe (I thought of the failsafe key, myself)… which Lock is gonna use to destroy the island; unless Jack gets in the way somehow…

Something that’s been bugging me though: I can’t help but wonder about the “Rules” between Widmore & Ben. Back in season 4, in the episode where Alex gets shot, Ben visits Widmore’s place and when replying to “Have you come here to kill me Benjamin?”, Ben replies “We both know I can’t do that” and then goes on to say that he’s gonna kill his daughter — Penny; well, he didn’t get around to doing that, and for Desmond’s sake that was a good thing….
But, in this episode, he just kills Widmore? Okay, what he said after made it slightly more acceptable — “He doesn’t get to save his daughter”. Did he just break the “rules” because Widmore already did?

Well, next up is “The End” – on Sunday; 2.5 hours of well, hopefully… awesomeness. And then it’ll all be over.

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Ilana blew herself up!
Desmond ran Locke over!
Michael showed up!
Desmond got pushed down a well!
Hurley blew the Black Rock up!

Sooo…

Quite a lot happened in this episode, and finally, most people are together (although not Sun & Jin).

Desmond’s now down a well…. I wonder if there’s anyone down it too? When Locke went down the well he saw Christian Shephard. Still though, I wonder who’ll be coming to his rescue — Widmore and his people?

I wonder whether island-Desmond can see the future like he could last time he was exposed to electromagnetism — perhaps explaining why he’s so willing to go along with everything? He already knows what it results in…?

Alterna-Desmond is making people aware of their other existences, and perhaps that explains why he ran Locke down at the end. Him being on the ground like that was very reminiscent of the first season or when we saw him on the ground after being pushed out of the window, I don’t remember which in particular.

That weird kid was back from a few episodes ago; looking slightly different, but clearly still bothering Mocke. Desmond & Sawyer can see him, but not Richard…. I wonder who he is!?

The whispers were confirmed as dead people who can’t move on, including Michael who claimed it was because of what he did.

Next weeks is called “The Last Recruit”. Perhaps referring to the fact that Locke only needs Jin to ensure he has all of the candidates? Until then, then.

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Charlie! Faraday! Desmond! Penny!

So, Desmond is special; something we’ve known for a while, but we don’t know why or in what respect really. From this episode it seems as though being special in Lost is having the ability to survive huge amounts of electromagnetism (which he’s done in the past) and that would fry a normal person (literally, as we saw).
Somehow then, when exposed to large amounts of electromagnetism, his consciousness is affected (yet again, we’ve seen this before), but this time his consciousness is sent to the alternate world; a world where he’s Widmore’s best aide but doesn’t have Penny and is instead assigned with babysitting alterna-Charlie.

Whilst there he meets George, the limo driver, who was of course Minkowski; the communications dude from the freighter, Daniel Faraday Widmore; who is a musician in this dimension and yet woke up and wrote some quantum mechanics that gave him the idea that this isn’t their real lives and that he might have already set off a nuclear bomb, and Penny; after Charlie or the MRI machine allowed him to see his love from the other timeline just as Charlie did.

Sooooo…. I wonder what Desmond wants the 815 manifest for? And who he needs to show it to? He said “I just need to show them something.” Hmmmm. *See end*

Also, when Desmond regained consciousness (after only a few seconds, apparently), he seemed to know exactly what Widmore’s plan was and wanted to go along with it, but then why did he go with Sayid so willingly?
I assume Widmore’s plan, other than to get rid of the smoke monster, is also to sort out the fact that there are two different realities, and that one shouldn’t exist??

Elouise still somehow knows what the fuck is going on in the other timeline and says Desmond can’t go looking for Penny because he’s not ready yet…. WHA? Also, “Someone has clearly affected the way you see things” she says to Desmond…. and then “This is a serious problem. It is, in fact, a violation.” WTF? A violation of what?

Widmore had a painting of a balance scale with white stones on one side and black on the other, LOL; he’s always had interesting stuff in his office before, but this one was definitely shoved in our collective faces.

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Oh yeah, next weeks episode is called “Everybody Loves Hugo”… there was an ep in season 2 called “Everybody Hates Hugo”, FYI.
*Additional thought* It’s just occurred to me that Desmond is probably referring to the passengers of 815 as “them” and that he’s likely going to show them what Charlie did him — a glimpse into the other dimension? Thoughts?

Initial thoughts: DESMOND!!!!! Yay.

Sooooo, Mocke needs all the candidates with him in order to leave the island!? Iiiinteresting. Don’t see it happening at the moment though.

When I heard Mikhail’s name I immediately thought “I wonder if he has both eyes?”… Well, he did. But not for long lololol.

Sun getting shot… I’m assuming she’s not going to die since there seems to be a balance or something between the two realities. So far most who’ve died on island have died in the other reality too.

And since I’m unable to think of anything else for this episode when there definitely is more to talk about I’ll leave you with my first thought again. DESMOND’s finally back!
Up next is “Happily Ever After”.

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So, in alterna-world, Sawyer’s a cop. That makes it all the more strange that he let Kate go in the premiere episode of this season; and his reaction to seeing her in this one…. Must be that weird non-memory they seem to have of island events? Or at least that Jack seems to be having.

Widmore…. He’s… There to stop Mocke!? Hmmm

So, Locke admitted to Sawyer that he’s the “Smoke-thing” and he didn’t seem bothered at all. He just carried on treading his own path, leaving it unclear to us as to which side he’s actually on, if any, at the moment.

And Sawyer’s not after the plane, but the submarine. Because that’s clearly a piece of cake to pilot.

Locke has mother issues; I suppose that will be touched on a bit more, he made out that it was important to shaping how he is.

Claire attacking Kate… that was sorta expected, but just apologizing and seemingly reverting back to the normal Claire after Mocke spoke with her was very strange.

Well, next week’s episode is called “Ab Aeterno” which apparently means “Since the beginning of time”

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“Very insightful…. For a dead man”

“Well nobody’s perfect.”

Yay, I don’t have to eat a metaphorical-hat — this episode was Ben related

So… Ben and his father went to the island with the DI and came back again! I wonder why?

Alterna-Ben was clearly a complete opposite to the Ben we know. He put Alex before himself! [or Jacob/The Island, whatever he justified it off to].

Locke wants Ben to take over as leader of the island then… I assume that would infact be him taking over the Man in Black position as opposition to Jacob?

Either way, he’s not having it and is happy to be accepted back with Ilana, who I never expected to forgive him. Michael Emerson performed awesomely in that confession scene. He’s very enjoyable to watch.

WIDMORE! Next week should be interesting.

Jack is suddenly the man of faith. I suppose Jacob succeeded in his mission to let him know how important he is then.

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“You a Cyborg?

Vampire?” I note that all the quotes I’ve remembered recently have been from Hurley.

As I expected, this episode definitely had that penultimate / finale lead up kinda mood going on. The finale music score even showed up towards the end.

It looks as though…. Well, I’m not entirely sure how to end that sentence. I don’t read spoilers; it’s much better when you don’t, and therefore I have no idea what is going to happen in next week’s (yes, next week’s [lostpedia was wrong! yay]) finale – “The Incident”.
It’s your standard 2 hour season finale and presumably Jack, Elouise, Richard and Sayid are gonna try and detonate the H-Bomb…
And Locke, for reasons I cannot comprehend at this moment, is off to see Jacob. So he can kill him.

Pretty odd, really. As for Juliet & Sawyer; well, it wouldn’t be Lost if there wasn’t some kind of love-triangle/quadrangle/shape going on. So, Kate gets thrown on the sub too.

Of course, those two hours next week will not be long enough…. And we’ll be left hanging; over a cliff, if you must, for many months until the last and final season of Lost comes on next year. Hmph.

So. Will the H-bomb be set off? And the whole storyline be reset to 2004 with them all still on the plane? Will they all die? I don’t think that’s too likely, even though Richard said he watched them all die…. Very difficult to say.

Anywho…. A mere few days until the finale, so until then I’ll leave you to your own predictions. I’ll certainly be writing a post about next week’s episode, that’s for sure.

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Spoilers follow if you haven’t seen it.

That episode certainly had a lot more of things I have been wanting from Lost as of recently namely Locke, Desmond and a dose of awesomeness.

Well, I’m gonna start out with a mention of the episode title: Dead is Dead – As Ben said in this episode; it’s normally true with Lost, and real life for that matter :p….. so why is Locke different? Well, apart from his extraordinary relationship with the island, we don’t know. Personally, I don’t think it matters… Consider how much of a mind fuck it would be if he wasn’t actually alive though! On that note, is Christian Shephard alive??

Moving on…

So, it seems even Ben doesn’t know a great deal about smokey. Just how to summon it, and not really what it is or where it comes from…. Pretty strange, that.

I always assumed that Widmore left as a result of turning the time wheel, for some reason; but him just being sent away actually makes more sense.

As predicted, it was Desmond who beat up Ben by the harbour; though it certainly wasn’t predicted that he was shot right before. Miraculously, since the island wasn’t finished with him, he survived and saved the day. I hope we get to see more of him in the future. Perhaps with Faraday.

One has to wonder as to whether Ben will actually follow the wish of the smoke monster and listen to Locke in future. It would be rather weird if he did, but, it seems if he wants to carry on living, he’ll have to. It should hopefully lead to some interesting scenes in the future.

What lies in the shadow of the statue? – What was that all about? I wasn’t really expecting them to play a big part, that Caesar guy seemed more likely, but he got blown away in a rather awesome manner by Ben. So, what are those guys up to? What’s in the crate? Most importantly: will LaPedus be ok? I hope so.

Next week’s episode is called “Some Like it Hoth”… I have no idea what that could mean, but I’m looking forward to finding out. After that, I believe there is a week break where a recap show is on….

Anywhoo….. That was a gooood episode….. Till next week….

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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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Frankly, this episode was niiice. I thought it was good to be away from the ‘main’ plot of Jack, Kate, Sayid….. getting back to the island for an episode.

Though, I guess I may be in the minority in thinking that. A lot of people, I’m sure would rather have resumed that storyline from last time.

But, this episode offered some interesting revelations:

Widmore. He was on the island! I always suspected this due to his extreme interest in the island, but it’s nice to know more about his past. We still can’t tell why exactly he was on the island — he doesn’t appear to be part of the US military / army who were there to test the H-bomb; especially as it seems that Richard’s people have killed them all off. And it should be more interesting to find out how he ends up off the island with no idea how to go back and a life long desire to do so.

I don’t think Charlotte will suffer the same fate that Minkowski did, and that Desmond nearly did. At least, I hope that she doesn’t. Initially I was unsure about her character, but it seems that she has some interesting stories to tell. Especially with that hint that she may have been born on the island. Also; she seems enough of a major character now to not be killed off so close to her introduction.

Will Desmond meet anyone we know in Los Angeles (Jack? Kate? Ben? — that might spell trouble for Penny). It’s weird, because both Penny and Desmond seem to be under the impression that Widmore is out to get them. Yet I don’t see any reason for him to do so & we know that Ben has more of a reason. Am I missing something?

According to what I’ve read, the ‘enhanced’ version of the Lie (episode 2) which gets shown after the normal showing in the US revealed that Ms Hawking’s [the old woman who knows about time who talked to Desmond and more recently, Ben] first name is Elouise. Sound familiar? That mouse that Faraday had was named Elouise. And, the girl that was holding a gun pointed at Faraday for a large point of this episode was called Ellie!

Could that be Faraday’s mother? After all, Desmond was told that she was in Los Angeles — where Ben is, with Ms Hawking [the old woman :p]. At this point, it’s looking fairly likely!

Thought it was nice that Penny & Des’s boy was named Charlie.

Anywho…. that’ll do for now, I’m sure that I’ll think of something more to put here later.

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As usual, spoilers follow in this badly ordered post if you are yet to see this episode…

So…. Ben and Widmore are playing some sort of weird game then….. a game in which they have rules that they can’t kill each other and their daughters. Presumably Ben saying that he stole Alex allowed that guy to kill her within the ‘rules’. Or perhaps the guy thought it was the only way to get Ben to pay attention.

Anywho, what happened after that was coool – Ben attacked them with Smokey! I really hope we get to find out what it is especially since he knows what it is. Ben turning up in the middle of the desert was interesting and he seemed to have been shot / hurt his arm [some sort of link to that bloke who always has different names in the Dharma videos? He has a prostetic arm and was involved in the time travel station]

It’s interesting that he ends up in October 2005 – the ‘present’ is in December 2004.

Michael Emerson is a really good actor. He exposes his emotions very well and is a great watch.

What exactly did Widmore mean by “that island’s mine Benjamin…”?

I really thought that Claire was going to die in this episode from the trailer… but from the Lost podcast, what happened to her in that episode ‘set’s up her story for the next few episodes (or years)’ if I recall correctly…

The freighters’ doctor washing ashore was weird and further adds to the WTF about time and the island if. And I wonder what is wrong with Jack?

Ben killing Penny would be very bad for Desmond and the lovely long distance relationship they’re in

Till next week then.

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Oh yeah… Is Roussoeu dead then? I really hope not; I think she has a good story to tell and I hope we get to see it.

Spoilers follow if you haven’t seen it yet…

So…. there certainly is a cliffhanger. Did Ben know that would happen to Rousseau, Alex and Karl. I don’t think so. So who shot the two of them and could shoot Alex? Could it be the freighters who have returned to the island on the helicopter…. Who knows.

Tom’s gay. I think we knew that since whenever he said to Kate “You’re not my type”.

And the island is keeping Michael [and presumably Jack, now I think about it] alive using its mysterious, gun-jamming powers. Michael’s back story was pretty interesting. Did he survive getting run over in the past in order to get to the island? [or is that too detailed of an explanation? perhaps it was just so he could have a backstory... ]

Was Sayid doing the right thing turning in Michael to the captain? Probably not I-MO, Widmore now seems worse than Ben(ry).

And, speaking of Widmore, the logistics of faking a plane crash must be horrible – how come no-one has found the paper trail of that plane he bought? Presumably Ben prefers it that way too – it is better for the public to think that the plane lies at the bottom of an ocean rather than it being missing – it prevents more people from looking for it.

Well, I think that’s all that was interesting from that episode.

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Happy Easter btw.

Only 32 / 33 / 35 days from today until the next episode (depending on how you watch it).

*Goes to look for trailer fot next episode*

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Ooooh…. coool.

So, this episode was about Juliet and, it was a flash-back.

Another episode, another poke from the Lost producers / writers in an attempt to make you ask “Who is Ben’s man on the boat?” It is now feeling as though we won’t find out until the finale / mini-finale-cliffhanger episode (that’s number 8…) I’d like to think that it isn’t Michael, but as the season goes on, it does seem likely that it is going to be him [especially since Harold Perrineau's name has shown up at the beginning of every episode so far this season [some silly contractual issue that is, in a way a spoiler]]. Though, with Lost, there is always a twist – perhaps it is too obvious for it to be him? Surely the majority of people are thinking that it is Michael.

Anyhoo… Widmore just got a little more interesting – How does he know about the island? And presumably Ben too. Did he know that Desmond would end up on the island, or is that another coincidence? [I'm inclined to think the latter]

The fact that Jacket / Jackilet / Jack & Juliet both saw the Psychiatrist woman in the jungle is pretty weird – was Ben really the one who sent this ‘message’?

The flashbacks in this episode didn’t seem to serve that big of a purpose except for the fact that Juliet is Ben’s…[?] Perhaps he will kill Jack at some point in the future… lol.

Lots more questions as usual, but I do hope some more get answered.

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