By Heather O.
I wish I remembered more from previous seasons, i.e, who have we seen before. Have we seen Zoe? Have we seen the woman Sawyer arrested? And did anybody else think that Zoe looks like the actress who plays Rousseau? I thought for a second that it WAS her, and that she was time traveling or something. And yes, I realize that when TIME TRAVELING makes more sense than being a survivor of a plane crash, it means that this show has some serious issues.
It was nice to see Sawyer again, but other than the neat little interplay with him chasing down Kate in his alternate reality, he’s pretty much the same guy. Okay, yeah, trying to be a good guy, I suppose, but his revenge scenario is the same.
Flocke was interesting, though, and I got the impression that he pretty much knows what people are thinking. He knew if Sawyer had tried to lie about Widmore, and Sawyer probably knew that. He didn’t try to tell Claire the truth about Aaron, as if he’d known she’d go after Kate and he could get Kate’s trust by protecting Kate when Claire did what he knew she’d do. Interesting.
And did anybody else think Sayid looked like a robot? C’mon, evil Sayid is interesting, tortured Sayid is interesting, and even Sayid being good is interesting. Catatonic Sayid is not interesting. Does he not have a brain anymore? Doesn’t care about anybody? Sitting by watching Claire try to kill Kate—was he rooting for Claire, or just not interfering because he knew Flocke didn’t want him to? Whatever the reason, I found him rather dull.
I’m glad they are at least acknowledging Widmore, even if they had to add new people to do it. But I swear, if they end this show the way they did Alias, with the whole, “We don’t really have an explanation for who this mystical prophet is that we’ve been using to string you along the whole time, and really, it doesn’t matter who he is, what is really important is what he made the characters do.”
Newsflash, J. J. Abrams. IT MATTERS. You’ve got to give us something good, and I mean REALLY GOOD in these last 8 episodes. 8 isn’t very much, guys. C’mon, make us proud.
I know… that is what I was thinking too. My husband used this phrase that I now think works with Lost. He heard someone say “Before I had kids I had 10 theories on how to raise them. Now I have 10 kids and no theories.”
That is how I feel about Lost. Now I just don’t understand what the heck is going on…blah…
No, not blah yuck, but blah AHHHHHh why don’t they just tell me who Jacob is? And for 1 second I thought Rousseau was Flockes mom, but we found out that Alex was her daughter, but how did Ben come to take her? And, do the same things happen over and over and over on the island? Like maybe Flocke is trying to find someone to replace him because if you have a candidate for good, you need one for evil… and that was one giant run on sentence.
Comment #1 by SunshineMarch 17th, 2010 at 5:19 pmSunshine, we saw the episode where Ben is ordered to kill Alex as a baby (I think it was Richard who ordered him to do it, but I can’t remember for sure) and Ben couldn’t bring himself to do it. He took her and said he’d raise her instead of killing her. It was the moment when you realized that Ben actually did love Alex, and that he didn’t take her for some evil purpose, but that he actually was trying to do the right thing. We also know that Flocke has been around forever, because we saw him (or him in some other human form) with Jacob when the statue was a full statue, instead of just a foot.
But I’m getting tired of it all too.
Comment #2 by Heather O.March 17th, 2010 at 6:36 pmOh, that’s right… it’s been so long and so many episodes I can’t remember what is important and what isn’t. It will be interesting to see Richards story, although I have a sneaky suspicion that we won’t really KNOW his story, we will just see more people that we can’t remember and people that don’t matter… Shrug… I guess, I give up. OOOOOh, maybe that’s what he’s trying to get us to do… just give up trying to figure it out because we can’t and IT DOESN’T MATTER!!… (but really it does because, hello, it’s been 6 years).
Comment #3 by SunshineMarch 17th, 2010 at 8:25 pmWhat I don’t understand is how the explosion could have altered the entire reality of the other-verse? How could the plane not crashing have changed Sawyer into a cop? That makes NO SENSE whatsoever.
I’m losing my patience.
Comment #4 by SueMarch 17th, 2010 at 8:54 pmI couldn’t follow LOST without Doc Jensen over at Entertainment Weekly. His theories and connections to literature make it twice as fun.
Poor Sayid. What do you think his script directions said: Sit on a log in a daze. That’s stretching your acting muscles.
And do you think it’s Penny and Desmond in the locked room on the sub? That’s my guess.
Comment #5 by ZinkaMarch 17th, 2010 at 11:17 pmI’m with Zinka, the connections to literature, mythology, and religion are what make LOST so great for me! The plot itself is secondary.
Sue, So here’s my theory about the bomb. When it exploded, it changed the timeline so that Oceanic 815 never crashed, that much we know for sure. But it also changed a LOT more than that - because the Losties who crashed on 815 also later moved the Island and traveled back in time. Daniel telling them to bury Jughead, Locke visiting with Richard, Sayid shooting young Ben, Sawyer, Juliet, et al living with the Dharma Initiative - in the flashsideways, none of that ever happened. Also (and I think this is the biggie) the Losties were brought to the Island in the first place because Jacob visited them and touched them. In the sideways world, he didn’t. This is what their lives would be like without Jacob’s interference.
Essentially we’re seeing a world with Jacob (where 815 crashes), and a world without Jacob (the flashsideways). Or in a typological sense, a world with God and a world without God.
BTW, there is a great post over at BCC about an LDS perspective on LOST. I responded to it on my blog too.
Comment #6 by ChelseaMarch 18th, 2010 at 10:37 amOh, and if you’re mad about how it ends (I’m thinking a lot of people will be, no matter what) try not to be too upset with JJ Abrams, because he hasn’t been involved with the show since season one. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse are the ones to send hate mail to. I just might be joining you.
Comment #7 by ChelseaMarch 18th, 2010 at 10:38 amI looked at Joe when Zoe came out and said, “A NEW CHARACTER? NOW?”
And then I said that she was with Widmore and I was right.
Anyway.
NEW CHARACTERS NOW?
Comment #8 by AzucarMarch 18th, 2010 at 3:43 pm