LOST: Final Season Premiere

It's official, the premiere of the final season of LOST has been announced as Feb. 2, 2010 at 8/7c. Looking forward to the discussion that will follow!!

15 Must-Answer Mysteries

EW's "Lost: 15 Must-Answer Mysteries" is a fun little photo article to look at. Harks back to some storylines I forgot about (like Adam and Eve) and reaffirms that other fans are wondering the same thing as me (seriously, eyeliner or what?).

So do you agree on what the other fans voted on? The only one I really don't agree on is #14. I cared when it happened, but I'll live if we never find out what was behind that...

5.16&17: The Incident pts. 1&2

Robetron had it right in the last post's comments, wow wow and WOW that was one hell of a finale!! I don't have time to write up a proper recap but wanted to get the post up here so people could start chatting about it.

Soooo many new questions...now we know Jacob is (was) a real "person" and Locke really did intend to kill him...but who is Locke?!? With his body still in its coffin, how is Locke walking around alive and well? And was he in the first place back on the beach w/ Jacob hundreds of years ago?

We now know the "incident" was not caused by the bomb, the incredible magnetic energy was unleashed before it went off (though Miles made me question whether that would happen). Now that Juliette successfully detonated the bomb, what's going to happen?!?

5.15: Follow the Leader

Sorry for the delay folks, let's get to it!

Right off the bat I'll put my foot out there and say that the 70s Losties are not going to change the future. My theory is based on a couple reasons, but mostly because of what we've seen happen since Dan started trying to alter events. The biggest is him telling Dr. Chang that he's from the future and Miles is his son, thus getting Chang to trust Miles' recommendation to evacuate the Island. We see the only way he can get his wife and baby Miles to leave is to order them (quite harshly) to leave, thus resulting in his mother's hatred of his father and Chang's abandoment of them. This wouldn't have happened in Miles' past if Dan hadn't told Change to evacuate everyone, so I don't see Dan's actions affecting the future. Any Devil's advocates out there?? :)

As for Richard's comment about watching the Losties die, yeah I'm pretty intrigued by that...John saving himself was pretty cool, definitely didn't see that coming. It's interesting how he likes to twist the knife into Ben everytime he experiences something from the Island "what, the Island never told you things Ben?" I'm also very interested to hear why John wants to kill Jacob.

The situation w/ Jack and Kate is hard, Jack's not even thinking about the life he'd be sending Kate back to if 815 lands as planned; convicted and jailed by her own mother. Not to mention the non existance of their relationship, which you can tell really hurt Kate. Juliette's instant wave of jealousy everytime she sees Kate is getting a little old, like on the sub, where's the confident unshakable Juliette we've known the last couple years?

So the finale is two hours which I guess techinically gives us 17 episodes? One word, stingy, but this season is arguably the best one yet IMO, so I guess I can't be too whiny. :)

p.s. hope you like the new layout, the reversed out text was a bit hard to read...

5.14: The Variable

What an awesome episode!! There were many questions answered, but of course, even more were raised. Let's start with what we now know:

Eloise is in fact Dan's mom, I know I was one of the doubters of that being true. She also is the young Ellie we met on the Island in 1954. What I never saw coming is that Widmore is his dad! That was a major surprise, but it makes me wonder where he got the name "Faraday" from...

Dan did some kind of experimentation on himself for his research before he tried anything on Theresa, which evidently caused him to have a memory disorder (think Momento but not as extreme). As Widmore promised, the Island seems to have cured him.

Widmore was the one who planted the fake Oceanic 815 plane at the bottom of the ocean. Do you think his reason for doing that was just so he could make sure Dan got to go to the Island?

Desmond is going to be ok, whew! :)

Dan's further research has led him to believe that you can, in fact, change the past, which could result in changing the present/future. Evidently "humans" are the variable he hadn't considered before, so he thinks that if he can detonate the buried hydrogen bomb (to destroy the immense magnetic energy of the Island), this will negate anything that happened from that point on, including the 815 crash. We haven't seen anything to prove he's right, though, and we know that Eloise knew she was going to shoot her son back in time from what she said to Widmore about sacrifice. She could have easily told Dan not to go to the Others w/ a gun, therefore her past self would have had no reason to shoot him, so why didn't she? And why did he insist on talking to Eloise in the first place?

So now what? Are Jack and Kate going to try and do what Dan wanted and blow up the bomb? Neither one of them looked that excited about the idea of erasing the past. What would happen to them and the other Losties if it worked?

Other random questions, how is it no one ever mentions anything about Richard never aging? You'd think the Others would have realized it, there must be something about him connected to the Island. Why does Dan think his mom was wrong about Jack and Kate and the rest going back to the Island?

5.13: Some Like It Hoth

Blogger Robetron noted that this was a slow episode, which I agree with, but still fairly interesting. I like Miles, I think he's a good character (and well casted) and I liked learning more about him. More kudos are doled out to those of you that guessed Miles is Dr. Chang's son. I like that he knew all this time and didn't tell anyone until Hurley. I figured there would be this big "to do" if that theory of him being the doc's kid was true and he'd find out in some dramatic moment. It was a amusingly unexpected when he revealed the truth w/ the same drama as telling Hurley the weather forecast.

It's obvious from the few scenes we've witnessed that Dr. Chang loves his son and wife very much, so I'm very curious to find out what separates them and causes Miles' mom to hate the very memory of his father.

So who do you think grabbed Miles in the van? If they are against Widmore does that mean they work for Ben? The way that guy talked to Miles sounded like he was trying to sell him on some new spiritual faith or something. Then the phrase from last week comes up: What lies in the shadow of the statue. How would Sayid's bounty hunter lady know that phrase?

And we finally see the return of Dan. I didn't catch what Dr. Chang said about him other than there was a scientist returning. From the way Sawyer referred to him it sounded like Dan betrayed them in some way. Well we have 2 weeks to ponder that...

5.12: Dead Is Dead

Well, I think this is one of the, if not the most, strangest episodes of Lost in my memory. We learned more about Ben's true nature than we've ever seen before IMO. We saw more evidence of him being a pathological liar. It amazed me to hear all of the lies he spewed to so many people, whether it was about knowing John to Ceasar, or telling Sun he had no idea Locke would come back to life. I find it rather interesting that he has a soft spot for children, which is what ended up saving Penny's life. I don't get, though, why he stole Alex when his "mission" was to kill Danielle. I always figured the Others wanted her baby because it was successfully born on the Island, come to find out their leader at the time (Widmore) wanted to kill "it." I can't see how Widmore could ever really be a "good guy" now, he wanted to let young Ben die and wanted to kill an innocent baby, seems pretty cold and heartless to me. 

I don't understand at all why the Smoke Monster would let Ben live. He's the most selfish and conniving character we've seen on the show, and I don't believe his true motive for what he does is for the "good of the Island." The flashes of his life in the smoke were a little cheesy, but he was definitely tortured by the memory of Alex and how his selfishness led to her death. Whether it was her ghost or the spirit of the Island acting through her, I liked her confrontation of Ben's intentions, plus it was nice to see her character again (probably the only other human Ben's ever really loved). Her message proves Locke's importance to the Island, which I found fulfilling in a way since John has been let down by everyone and everything he ever cared about in his past life. It's good to know his belief that he belongs there isn't unfounded.