What Kate Does

It took me a minute to process this episode...It's kind of typical Lost fashion to have the second or third episode kind of be a little softer in tone...a kind of "let you catch your breath" story after a thrilling season opener...and this particular story fit the bill... a little bit of action, a little bit of mythology, a little bit of comedy.... while this episode didn't set off any bells and whistles for me, it was still pretty damn good..
Let's start with the title character, our dear sweet fugitive Kate...in the flash sideways world she's still on the run but with a heart of gold...just not for the Marshall assigned to bring her back....she's messed that dude up in every version of the LOST realities... if I was him I'd ask for another gig..

no, Kate saves her love for other people she life threatens, who just happen to be pregnant... if you noticed the biggest thing about this episode is that it's starting to reflect the back stories we've already seen... which makes me think that these people are indeed destined to be together... We've seen Jack and Locke interact, and pleasantly at that...making plans to do some life altering surgeries...maybe some coffee... jenga... and now we see Kate and Claire like some modern day Thelma and Louise...and who's playing the Brad Pitt role in this fantasy? why, it's Ethan!!

How funny was the line where he said he didn't want to stick her with a lot of needles?... Haha...considering that was almost an entire episode back in Season 2 or 3... But now our old friend Ethan is going by his given name, Goodspeed....the son of Horace and Amy Goodspeed, whom, if you'll remember were key members of the DHARMA initiative...but instead of growing up on the island and cavorting with Ben Linus on baby stealing missions, Ethan has grown up to be a nice young man with a gentle bedside member.....but, he's still kind of creepy... but I think it's another sign of what this "flash sideways" is really all about, which seems to be life after DHARMA...
Something happened after Juliet blew up the bomb but I don't know if that's what sunk the island... I think that happened later... so maybe there was some other event that caused the island to sink, thereby destroying the DHARMA initiative... I don't know the answer to this yet, but my brain is cooking something up...
Either way, I think we should expect to see more folks popping up...who knows? Ben might even turn up as an English teacher or something.... Maybe Mr Friendly will turn up as cop.... I'll let that one marinate next to the destruction of the island...so there are 2 pots cooking on the stove for those keeping track...

Back to the episode...Kate on and off the island is trying to do right by Claire and by Sawyer... I feel bad for that rascal...he had a good thing going and that stupid frozen wheel in the Island totally screwed up his life with Juliet....but he was living on borrowed time anyway and he knew it...we found out that he really blamed himself for Juliet dying...and now he's off to who knows where to do who knows what...but hell hath no fury like a man who buried a ring in the floorboards of a house he previously occupied 30 years earlier and then crow-barred open 3 days later after a hydrogen bomb detonated, blowing him back to 2007 and killing the woman he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, that he just buried in a god forsaken jungle.. I mean, that's some real crap....
Along with this whole mind bender is our good torturing hitman kid shooter, Sayid... I've always like Sayid...yeah, he tortured people...yeah, he shot Ben when he was a boy...yeah, he shot some other cats who were trying to kill him...and yeah, he shot some other cats who he was hired to kill.... but come on! To go out like that was kind of weak... and just like Michael, the island isn't done with Sayid, so it brought him back to life..with a twist...
Yes, The Darkness is on its way to claim Sayid's heart... which will turn him into an evil crazed something or another... I Tweeted the other night that he could eventually turn into the members of Danielle's team...remember the "Sickness"?.... yeah, apparently if you experience death on the Island AND come back to life, you are susceptible to possession of an evil Darkness... just another fun layer to add to the LOST mythology...I don't see it as any other function of the story, other than to explain what happened to Claire when her house blew up with her in it...She died and when Sawyer rescued her, the Darkness brought her back to life...this according to Dogen, the island's Last Samurai, who told Jack that his SISTER was infected... someone asked me if Rouseau was Jack's sister...I think this show is so confusing that people forget that Claire and Jack have the same father...and this sort of explains why she was in the cabin with Christian 2 years ago... but not really.. I mean, there's still a LOT of explaining to do... and we'll see what happens with Sayid, as he battles the Darkness...
Jack turned into the hero we've kind of been waiting for... the kind that doesn't have all the answers but still feels the responsibility of his actions and has a leadership role that's starting to become defined...
It was great to see Dogen telling Jack that he was brought to the island, same as the Oceanic 815ers...when Jack said what brought you to the island, Dogen replied "You know what brought you here", meaning Jacob of course... but Jack doesn't really know that so we are probably going to see some more angst out of old Jackie boy... I think we are also starting to make more sense of the hierarchy that's going on with the Others...you have to keep in mind that these folks have been kind of ambling along for 3 years with no leader... as Aldo(that guy from Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia) was saying to Kate, 3 years had passed since they had been there last...which means life was still happening for the Others... hopefully we will get that story sooner than later....
A couple of things I wanted to touch on:

• Aldo and the other fella referred to Jin as "one of them"....that statement in itself reminds me of what Sayid called Ben when they first discovered him in the jungle.... and it was a title of another episode, where Juliet joined the Oceanic survivors... I'm curious as to what the "them" means....obviously it's important that Jack and company stay alive, even at the expense of the Others, as Aldo said that Sawyer shot one on his way out... so they will sacrifice their own people to keep Jack and Co. alive....I'll add this to the current cooking pots....
• Kate spotted Jack when she was escaping from the airport...Did she recognize him from the plane or was there a deeper connection, like she recognized him from a past life? Also she gave him a great look on the Island when he told her to be careful...it was the good Jack she fell in love with...not the crazy drug addled drinky jealous Jack who grew that weird beard...


• Hurley asking Sayid if he was a zombie.... I nearly spit up my pop when I heard this line...if you know anything about the behind the scenes writers, they have often jokingly referred to season 6 as the "zombie season"...this was obviously a nod to the die hard fans...
• Sayid's reaction to being tortured..I knew something was up because my man was crying and screaming like a lunatic... I know he was being electrocuted and burned with a poker, but my man has been tortured before... he's a tough ass.. he wouldn't have cried like that, unless he was possessed... by a little baby..
• The killer whale stuffed animal that was packed in Claire's bag was just like the one Kate had for Aaron when he was with her...did Kate recognize it as something she gave him in a past life?
  
• The guy driving the cab played a villain on Heroes...he acted better as the cab driver in the 2 minutes he was on screen than the 5 episodes he was on Heroes....which is proof that a minor role on LOST is better than a starring role on Heroes... quality writing...look it up..

Lastly, I want to talk about Desmond being on the plane... I think we have to assume that Desmond is still "special"... I don't think he appeared on the plane and then disappeared mid flight... LOST has never really been about that kind of magic...but I do think he booked a flight on the plane so that he could still influence these certain people... I think he has become like Faraday's mom, helping people stay "on course"...
Keep in mind that the past we have seen on LOST is not the same in this new flash sideways world... so Desmond would also be changed in that...maybe he still has an interest in these people but he might not be with Penny.... and if he's not with Penny, then he's going to be free to do other things... maybe help others get where they need to go?? And where is that?
I don't know....for now the stove is full of cooking pots... and I'm tired...
See you on the flippidy flip..
EP

LA X

GOOD EVENING, LOSTIES!!!


Let's jump right in shall we? We have LOTS to cover.... last we saw, Jack wanted to detonate the bomb and reset the whole damn thing, as if it never happened. He got all Gap Band and dropped the bomb down the Swan hole and nothing happened... But as we saw, Juliet came through for the team and beat that SOB bomb with a rock and poof.... transported them back to Oceanic Flight 815, mid air....except now, things were a little different...the same but not quite...
For example:
Rose was the one telling Jack to stay calm...
Jack only got one bottle from flight attendant Cindy....
Boone went to get Shannon, but she didn't want to come home...
Hurley was calling himself "lucky" and that nothing bad ever happens to him...
Sawyer actually seemed happy, not at all like a man who had killed the wrong guy...
Kate was still a fugitive...now this one requires a little more back story: At Comi-Con this past summer, they played an America's Most Wanted video of Kate Austin, who had killed an apprentice plumber, when she meant to kill her evil, abusive stepfather...
Sayid appeared unchanged...

So what's my point? Well something worked or rebooted these guys and it goes back to one over all theory: In 1977, Jack was hell bent on blowing up the island and starting over. But that was 1977... there were other people living on the island... as we saw in the Big Reveal, the island had been sunk...

so while the overall themes are still the same(Kate's fugitive, Hurley won the lottery), the details are different. So if they are different for these folks, what does that mean for people like Ben? Or Widmore? Where was Mr Eko? Still on the plane? What about Ana Lucia? Libby?
I think this will play out in what is being referred to as the "side-flash"... not a flash back or a flash forward... a side flash...and the creators are saying that it isn't an alternate reality, because that would indicate that one of the versions we are seeing is not real...no, they wanted to see how both scenarios played out and how they will eventually connect...
There are some slight comparisons that remind of us of season 1...
For example:
Jack is bleeding

This reminds me of him discovering his cut in his side, that Kate helped him stitch up... of course it could also mean he was shot with a dart gun and left in suspended animation but I'm getting tired of trying to come up with these larger, more sinister reasons for something as simple as a shaving cut...
Jack saves Charlie

Very reminiscent of Season 1, when Charlie also died of asphyxiation after Ethan hung him from a tree.. the only thing missing was Jack pounding on his chest...all he needed this time was some long fingers to dig out that heroin bag... if you were wondering why Jack couldn't find his pen to perform a tracheotomy, it was because Kate had pick pocketed him so she could break out of her cuffs..more on that in a second... the other eerie thing here was Charlie telling Jack he was supposed to die... Which was Charlie's life story basically... its gotta end tragic...
Back to Kate...when she escaped from the Marshall, she knocked his head against the sink, which resulted in the same bump on his head that he got when the plane initially blew apart... coincidence? I think not...
Boone tells Locke that he's "sticking with him, if we go down"

Weirdly enough I thought this was sweet... it kind of validates that Boone would follow Locke anyway, as he did on the island...until he climbed into the teetering drug plane, resulting in yet another plane crash... but that's not the point.. check out the picture...that's Frogurt, aka Neil, the dude that was killed by a Flaming Arrow after Locke turned the wheel... pretty funny...also good to see Dr Arzt, who had THE best death on Lost...
Moving on, yet staying with the side flash
Claire and Kate together again!!!

Is she pregnant? I think so...is she going to have the baby in the cab and Kate will have to help her? I'd be willing to bet YES... good to old Claire Bear back... I look forward to this one..
I'm not going to comment on Jin and Sun...their pre Island life is BORING to me... I like them a lot better once they had to fight for their love... just remember that Sun was going to leave Jin in Australia but backed out and Jin was going to get them away from her father, which would explain the large bag of cash...
Sawyer meets Kate

I like that Sawyer played a part in Kate's great escape... and he did it with his usual charm...so the question is, is he still a con man with a vengeance? Or just a con man?....
Just really quickly in relation to Sawyer and the bomb working... When Juliet was dying, she said something about getting coffee and "going Dutch"...then she said she had something very important to tell Sawyer...and then she died...which lead us to this happening:

A terrible still shot of Miles reading Juliet's last thought "It Worked"....so my theory is that Juliet saw this "side flash" and I would be willing to bet dollars to rubles that Sawyer will meet Juliet in this side flash and ask her out for coffee... I'm putting it out there now...
Lastly on the side flash thing is my guy, John Locke

Once again there is a parallel to Season 1...remember when Jack went tearing through the jungle chasing after his "dad" and Locke ended up telling him that the Island was special? At that time, jack was pretty receptive to Locke's words of encouragement... and we saw the same exchange last night...Similar to Jack opening the coffin and his dad's body not being in there, in the side flash, the airline "misplaced" Pops... but Locke was there to assure Jack that his father wasn't missing, just his body...
I also liked the fact that Jack said "Nothings irreversible", which is basically the theme of the show... and it seemed like Jack had faith in science... or he was his usual Mr Fix It self... either way, a connection was made...
And give it up for Terry O'Quinn, who played old John Locke and new and EVIL Smoke Monster Locke!!!

I mean, just look at this picture!! Damn!!! Straight up bad mofo!!
Which brings me to the biggest theory that I tweeted about last night... "I want to go HOME"...this implies that the Smoke Monster is not of this world....and Jacob is not of this world...so what world are they from?
I'm proposing heaven and I'm sticking with the movie Dogma as my sticking point... The argument there was that some cast out angels where trying to get back into heaven...their method of getting there was killing the earthly body of God and then walking right back through the gates of heaven...of course, this would mean the end of existence as we know it...
So is Smokey trying to get back to heaven? And what does that mean for the people on the island? If its not heaven and he's just a straight up alien, does he need to hijack the Temple and fly that hooptie back into space?
I don't know...
But I watched Jimmy Kimmel Live and Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were answering some questions...They confirmed that Smokey is now in Locke's body, but they hedged a little on confirming that the Dark Shirt Guy that was on the beach with Jacob is Smokey.. but 2 things are working against them: 1. Jacob told Hurley that he was killed by an old friend who had tired of his company and 2. When Smokey Locke showed up to kill Jacob, Jacob said "You found your loop hole", which referred back to the conversation on the beach with the Dark Shirt Guy...and he confirmed that he did find his loophole....So I think that Smokey and DSG are the same fellow...
But as we know on this show, nothing is cut and dried... but if you find yourself in the presence of a Smoke Monster, make sure you are standing in a circle of ash... always, always carry ash with you! Let that be a lesson... reference poor Bram, who was impaled on some wood... much like Dracula..and who wrote Dracula? Bram Stoker.... WHOA!!!
And lastly, we saw the Temple and the healing spring of life... which was muddied, most likely due to Jacob being killed... but they still stuck Sayid in there and apparently it worked...now the question is: Is that really Sayid? Could it be Jacob in a new kick ass body? What are the consequences to bringing Sayid back to life?

I don't know but we won't have to wait long to find out...I mean, they only have 15 more weeks!!!
And finally, Mr Dark Eyes himself, Richard saw a ghost from his past that scared the beejesus out of him...and then punched the beejesus out of him...Smokey is bad dude!!

I look forward to seeing Richards back story this year...the reference to being in chains was interesting, to say the least...
Well that's all from me... I'm worn out... See you on the flip side...
El Prez

PS. I'll get to Desmond next time... that was a whole nother mind bender

The Incident

So I wrote the below blog the night of the season finale... I was really blown away by what we saw and I immediately set out to get my thoughts down and try to make some sense of all of it... and then I didn't post it... I wanted to sit with it for a bit and see if it still made sense a couple of days later...well, as you all know, days turned into weeks... but here it is, un-edited and straight from the mind of a loon... there's a post mortem note at the end.

This very well could be the shortest of all the blog entries. And that may only last a day.... But I have to put this pen to paper and get this out.
Tonight's episode was EPIC. By far one of the most action packed, heart wrenching 2 hours of television. It literally had it all and a giant statue.
But the entire episode, for me, will live in that first 5 minutes.... The reveal of Jacob.
And not just that, the reveal of another character: Dark shirt guy.
You don't have to be a Bible scholar to see what's going on here. You also don't have to know ancient history or know how to speak Egyptian hieroglyphics.... no, the only thing you need to know is this:
Good versus Evil
This show has been about that from the beginning( remember Locke teaching Walt about backgammon? "There are 2 sides: one is light, the other is dark") and now it's all culminating into one final showdown. Or is it?
The scene at the beginning with Jacob and Dark Shirt Guy(DSG) is obviously supposed to remind of us of God and the Devil, Good vs. Evil...
Jacob is wearing a white shirt, an allusion to the light, while DSG, well, he's a little more of a brooder, if you will.
Now let me just set the record straight: I don't mean to offend any religions or beliefs you all might have. My purpose is to explain a show that is truly a mystery but quite possibly, the answer has been in front of us all along. And it has STRONG religious undertones, or in tonight's case and in my opinion, strong overtones as well. It was almost too literal.
SO Jacob brings people to the island, basically to prove a point: That all people are good inside.
DSG doesn't buy into this theology at all:
"Still trying to prove me wrong, aren't you?"
"You are wrong"
"Am I?... They come, fight, They destroy, They corrupt. It always ends the same."
"It only ends once. Anything that happens before that, it's just progress."

It wasn't that long ago that I wrote that the Island is the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve. The Tree of Knowledge, or Good and Evil, whatever you want to call it. God created and the Devil tempted. Ultimately Eve had the choice to eat of the tree and she made the choice. The rest is history.
This conversation between Jacob and DSG is just a continuing play on that dichotomy. This whole episode just screamed free will and faith and love and death and all the crazy things that happen in life.
And tonight LOST finally revealed it's face. The question you have to ask yourself is: Who's right? Jacob or DSG?
Apparently these two have been going at it for quite some time, with Jacob luring people to the island in the hopes that humanity will make improvements and stop fighting one another, stop succumbing to temptation and restore itself back to that perfect creation, living in Utopia, peace, Namaste. In short, Jacob has faith.
But DSG is growing tired of Jacob constantly proving DSG's own point. That man is fallible and will never return to that perfect creation. No matter how many you bring to this Island, they will all fail. They will all fight. They will all destroy. Which one has more compassion: the one who keeps setting these creatures up to fail, or the one who is resigned to the fact that evil is inherant?
That's a pretty deep question for a show about plane crash survivors. And one we may have to explore once again.
Tonight's episode was EPIC. That's really all I need to say for now.
Stay tuned for the FINAL blog of the season.... there was A LOT that happened tonight and we still have to talk about my girl Juliet becoming the hero of the day.
And one last note: surely, everyone noticed that for the first time in 5 seasons, LOST didn't end with the normal black background, white LOST logo. It switched to a white background, Black LOST logo. A change in power?

So that was it...not a lot of exact details but definitely a simplified theory... you know, The Matrix followed the same themes and a lot of people didn't like the way that trilogy played out but it's hard to satisfy everyone when you are dealing with an epic story.. our minds conjure up a larger answer than some can produce... I feel very comfortable tho, in the fact that the LOST writers will deliver a great ending next season....
That's it for me...I think I'll be handing the reins back to the old man next year, let him finish what he started...besides I have to learn how to walk...
Later peeps!
L Prez OUT

Follow The Leader

Hello, my fellow Losties!
Well here we are, one week away from the finale of Season 5! It's hard to believe that next week is it for this season... but there's no time for tears, as we still have 3 more hours to dissect, starting with tonight's episode, entitled: Follow the Leader.
So who is the Leader? This guy?:

Or This guy?:

Tonight, they were on very specific missions.... Locke, or a thing that resembles Locke, is on his way to expose Jacob, an entity that apparently, no one has ever seen...and by expose I mean kill... so now that begs the question: Why?
Jack is on Faraday's mission to blow up the energy pocket that the Swan is currently being built upon.. By negating that energy, the Swan won't need to have a button that needs to be pushed every 108 minutes and the non pushing of that button won't cause planes to fall out of the sky... again, this is where the time paradox issues arise... I know Jack is technically in his own "present" and Locke is in his own "present"... do these 2 "presents" coincide?
The reason I wonder is because Richard remembers Jack and gang because he saw them die. He tells Sun this in 2007 that he saw them die in 1977. He didn't date it but you have to assume that THAT is what he means..
I can't really dive into more of this time stuff...it literally makes my head hurt...it's like a roller coaster: Instead of enjoying the ride, I'm worrying about how the dang thing stays together and people don't fall out... so in terms of the rest of what's left of this season, I'm going to sit back and throw my hands in the air and just yell "WHEEEEEEE!!"... and with my little baby arms and toothy smile, that will be a cute picture..
Moving on...

OUCH! Jack got a beat down in this episode... we haven't seen Jack this bloody since his tattoo on the beach of Thailand flashback.... some might say this was well deserved, considering Jack's been a big dummy the last 3 years, off island.. by the way, in pro wrestling slang, Jack has the "crimson mask"... Dusty Rhodes was the King Of crimson masks... not to be confused with King Crimson, a progressive rock band out of the 70's....

But a crimson mask beats this, which is just straight up dead.... and dead is dead, right? I have a feeling we will see Miles one more time but only in a flashback of some sorts... perhaps they will dive into what exactly he was up to in Ann Arbor for those 3 years with the DI...

Anyone notice this scene last night? Specifically the hand of Charles Widmore on the stomach of Eloise Hawking? Like Richard said, love is a complicated thing... but I would think shooting your unborn child that has time travelled back to the past is a pretty complicated thing... but whatever..WHEEEE!!!!

Let's eat!! Locke comes bearing gifts... now I don't want to stir a great political debate BUT, isn't it odd that these Others have been following the same rules of protocol for 50 plus years and now this Locke guys comes back from the dead and presents the notion that they as a group have a right to see where their leadership actually comes from.. It's like Mr Smith goes to Washington! Or in this case, Mr Locke goes to Somewhere... do we think the cabin is going to be seen again or is Jacob actually somewhere in a physical state? Is Jacob the answer to "What Lies in the Shadow of the Statue?" Hmmm....

Let's insert a little humor for a second...Anytime Hurley is on screen, I smile... this guy is a terrible liar..which is a great thing...when he said there was no such thing as the Korean War, I peed a little in my diaper..the look on Jin's face was hilarious... And so Dr Chang came face to face with his grown son from the future... WHEEEEEEEE!!!

This isn't humorous at all really... Kate is a big ol 3rd wheel... And Juliet has got to be the most insecure woman on the Island... she's been shacking up with Sawyer now for 3 years!! Come on woman, own your spot!! Don't let that scrub put you out! That's YOUR man, girlfriend!! And Kate is no homewrecker.. she's a home blower upper, as we saw when she killed her dad but we have to trust that she's on a much bigger mission right now and that's to find Claire somehow... So Juliet, get a grip...

"Good Riddance"... right.... I don't buy that for a second... but I had to laugh about Sawyer's plans to become rich.."We'll buy Microsoft and bet the 78 Cowboys to win the Superbowl"... haha...great plan, Biff.

I thought this was one of the biggest Island mysteries of all..at least top 5. The tunnels. We often wondered how Goodwin could have made it to the Tail end of Flight 815 in record time....turns out, he took the subway.
And when Jack asked Richard if they pulled the Bomb thru the under water tunnel, the look on Richard's face was priceless and his response was even better... "Yeah, dumbass, we pulled the most deadly, gigantic weapon of the middle century thru an under water tunnel"... Stick to doctoring Jack and leave the science to real ageless guys... and does anyone else think that Richard wears waterproof eyeliner?

The old ship in a bottle hobby.. I always wondered how this was done... as if it isn't hard enough to build a mini Black Rock replica, Richard has to show off and stick one in a bottle... This is what a lot of immortals do..they always have to take it one step further... That's always been my biggest beef with vampires: They're arrogant.

My boyfriend's back and your going to be in trouble, hey now, hey now Sayid is BACK!! And he's shooting people once more.. this dude is ice water!!!
And where has he been? Eating fruits and berries in the jungle, eluding the smoke monster and improving his ninja skills? Whichever it is, I'm glad he's back in the mix.. and Kate had to put him in his place in regards to shooting kids and that not being cool... it wouldn't surprise me to see a recovered young Benjamin Linus seek his revenge and ingratiate himself into the Others camp by killing our dear friend Sayid... that might be close enough to reality to be a spoiler but who knows...
And finally:

That's right Ben...I'm going to kill the man you've been blindly following ALL of these years... That's got to really get your underroos in a wad, huh? But guess what? You can't do anything about it or else Smokey will come back in the form of Alex and kill you dead.
I just have the feeling that there a million different agendas at work here, a shell game if you will...follow the ball but the ball is constantly changing... I think the overall "war" that's coming is between Jacob and the Island. Everyone that we've seen is going to be divided between the 2 and that's going to be the war.
Think of it this way: The Earth was first, then Man. And since that time, they've been at odds. But the Earth has a natural way of healing itself and returning to it's original state, when left untouched by man. There is no further proof than in our backyard here at Casa El Prez. My dad hasn't mowed in a week and I swear there's a forest that's grown in it's place.
So we could be seeing the same reclamation of power. The Island has had enough with Jacob and his machinations and time is up. Locke swears the Island tells him what to do.... but the weird part is that Jacob asked Locke to help him.... I for one, have no idea how this is going to play out but like I've said before:
WHEEEEEEE!!!
Later
L Prez OUT

The Variable

As promised.... Tonight's episode was beyond fantastic... finally, some answers...and I'll use the word answers loosely because in true LOST fashion, more questions came with some of those answers.. let's jump in, shall we?

Tonight's episode was a long awaited Faraday backstory...I for one, have found Jeremy Davies performance as Daniel Faraday to be truly inspired...He's had to play a variety of emotions and do it in less screen time than Matthew Fox.... and he's had to sell a premise that polarizes the audience...explaining time travel isn't easy when you have people willing to listen...to spring it on them mid series, in a character driven show, quite frankly confuses and distances your story from the masses.. But LOST took a chance here, introducing an element(time travel) that really allowed then to tell the story in a very interesting way...
I'm not sure who here has read any Ann Rice novels, specifically the Lestat volumes... But Rice had a way(much like other writers who created vast, detailed literary worlds) of starting a story from one of point of view but when it came time to dive into some history, she would successfully lead you to seeing it from another characters view.. but she had the luxury of dealing with Vampires, whose immortality allowed them to live for thousands of years...
LOST found a way to tell you the history of the DHARMA initiative through the eyes of people we've come to know and ,in a sense, trust... Seeing Sawyer as a key member of the DI in it's heyday is much better than a flashback which has characters we don't really care about it... By allowing them to time travel(as much of a risk that was) we become invested in the story more...The downside is the paradox that time travel creates and tonight Faraday decided to tell us that Whatever Happened, Happened.... BUT, his science and formulas had never allowed for a VARIABLE, which he said was HUMANS, more specifically the fact that we have something that science CAN NOT measure, which is FREE WILL... but let's come back to that in a second...

This scene was priceless... Faraday had Dr Chang convinced and then Miles had to go and blow it...when Miles pressed Faraday for why he would spill the beans, he told Miles that he just needs to make sure that Chang does what he's supposed to do...which is order the evacuation of women and children.. This will get Charlotte off the Island, which is ultimately what Faraday is trying to do, save Charlotte..

You see, it all comes down to LOVE... Love is all powerful....it's the ultimate leap of faith to put your heart into someone else's hands... we'll return to this theme in a second as well...moving ahead..

Teresa.. she seemed pretty nice..I mean, heck, she put up with Faraday during his crazy hair days... she also didn't seem to be put off by mean ol Ms. Hawking... too bad her brain turns to moosh later in her life.. I'd be willing to bet we have not seen the last of Teresa.. I feel like she needs to be saved... is she ultimately the reason Faraday does what he does? I don't really buy that he had enough time to fall in love with Charlotte but heck, I guess I could say the same for Jack and Kate...they were only on the Island 108 days when Jack told her he loved her... so what do I know?..
But forget all this love talk for a second...Tonight's ep had some explosions!! And a shoot out at the OK Corral, aka the MotorPool...

Jack looked like Jack last night...Jack Bauer, that is.... yep, we've got a time deadline of roughly 4 hours before some massive incident happens at the Swan, which changes it's true intent of just another Dharma station to one where the button is created to disperse the energy of an incredible power source every 108 minutes..
If Faraday can get the Jughead H Bomb from the Others, he's going to blow up the energy source, which basically would end the Island completely in my opinion...
But doesn't this go AGAINST the whatever happened, happened theory? Yes and this is where I have my biggest issue with this show... If they blow up the Hatch before it ever exists, then Oceanic Flight 815 doesn't get blasted out of the sky and they land and no freighter ever comes to the Island and the wheel never gets turned and our Losties never time travel back....
well if that never happens, how do they actually get to that point?
I guess and that is the key word: Guess, that it all hinges on what Faraday said to Jack: This is our present. So Jack can play a key part in saving his own life....
wow..that's even more confusing....
But I like to think that what's happening to Jack and gang in 1977 is simultaneously happening to Locke and his gang in 2007... which means there could be an incredible situation about to take place... but more on that in a second...lets finish up last nights revelations..

The Dynamic Duo is BACK!! Batman and Robin, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Starsky and Hutch, Cagney and Lacey....and now Jack and Kate... I always get excited to see these 2 together... if one of the mysteries of LOST is who Kate is going to choose, I will always keep Jack at the top of the list.... she flip flops back and forth and Sawyer is showing himself as a real keeper this year but come on!..It's Jack.. besides, I much more approve of the Juliet/Sawyer relationship because it seems so mutually respectable, more adult.. you kind of want that one to last...

Another Widmore sighting last night..turns out he's Faraday's dad.. So now the question is when did he father Daniel? Was it on the Island? Was Faraday born on the Island? Did Eloise exile herself to raise Daniel? Did Daniel create the Lampost station so that eventually his mom could find the island so she could send Jack back? Are her actions like Faraday's in that she's trying like heck to keep the Island from time traveling back so that she doesn't make the mistake of shooting her son in the chest?
See? More questions...but one thing is clear: Widmore is the only one who really hasn't lost anything of great importance to him.... Everyone else involved in this "conflict" has lost something: Ben and Alex, Hawking and Faraday(assuming he's dead).. Widmore just seems to be driven by greed and revenge for being exiled....

Tonight's episode gave us another look at Mr Eyeliner... Sawyer's nicknames seem to stick with me and last night he had one that killed: When he called Faraday "Twitchy"... too funny!
So let's return to those points I mentioned earlier:
FREE WILL and LOVE
Where have we seen these 2 elements better demonstrated than with this cat:

Desmond. Just as he was The Constant for Faraday, he is also the Variable. His love for Penny is stronger than fate. And it's my theory that Desmond is the key to this entire thing... he's the only one acting on something pure. Everyone else seems to have an agenda.....I think more is definitely left in this story..

The last thing I want to finish up is the Simultaneously existing theory. I'm sure that there is an actual scientific theory with a fancy name that better describes what I'm about to try to explain. Let me just jump in:

If Faraday can't blow up the Jughead bomb, then everything we've seen so far happens. Which means that the Jughead bomb is still on the island in 2007. In the previews for next week, it looks like Jack is going to try to finish Faraday's mission. It also appears that Locke is back on the beach and headed somewhere.

But IF time on the Island is existing simultaneously, then Locke may be headed to the same place where Jack is.

But IF time is really linear and you can't change the past, then Jack isn't successful because Locke is still on the Island.

SO, it's my assumption that time is occurring simultaneously on the Island. WHAT IF Jack and Locke both get to the Jughead at the same time and blow it up at the same time?

Boom... I just blew my mind...

That's my time...

L Prez OUT

Some Like It Hoth

This post is going to be down and dirty....It's all Quick Snippets....if you don't know what the concept of Quick Snippets is, it's very simple: I pulled pictures from the show and I've added my quick snippet. Mostly it provides me the chance to say snippet a lot. I am already sick of that word, so I can only imagine how you, the faithful, must feel...on to the QS!!

This is Miles, age 17? When I saw this on the show I IMMEDIATELY drew the following comparison:

This is Rufio, from the motion picture HOOK, starring Robin Williams as Peter Pan, all grown up. What do these 2 have in common?
Just one crazy arse theory, provided by yours truly....
Let me set it up by reminding everyone about the Flashes of Light. When the light flashed, Sawyer and crew shifted time dimensions. Sometimes it was 1988, 1977, 1950, sometime when the Statue was still in tact.... well if Sawyer and crew were doing this, so were Bernard and Rose, right? Even though we haven't seen them... based on how they arrived on the island and the fact that they were not indigenous, they would be flashing thru time as well....
Ok, so with that being said, there were children on Oceanic flight 815, right? We haven't seen them at all. We believe that they are with the Others and Richard. Well Richard knew about the time travelling.. WHAT IF: after settling in 1977, Richard worked out a deal to send the children BACK to the real world, finding them homes or giving them a place to stay(possibly that gifted camp where he was trying to recruit Locke as teenager)? Now these kids grow up and start a new faction, led by this guy:

What lies in the shadow of the Statue? The frozen wheel does... and these kids have grown up, along with Charlotte and Miles and any other kid who was born on the island and then taken off to live back in the real world, and have every intention of reclaiming the place that made them "special"... WHAT IF: Jack and Kate and Sawyer and Hurley were all also born on the Island, or to people who had been exposed to the Island? Whatever flows through the Island, flows through them....It's in their blood.... think about it....
The Rufio picture inspired me to think of the Lost Boys, Peter Pan's group of boys, lost by their nannies and therefore "adopted" into Neverland..

So perhaps Miles is a Lost boy.... just a theory... and really the crux of this post... I like it so much I don't want to expand on it further, in the event that is true,thereby becoming a spoiler for some....

Faraday sure seemed to be well rested..Ann Arbor in the late 70's must have been trippy... I can only imagine... The place was probably wild considering this interesting piece of VIDEO
....enjoy it, you dirty Wolverines!!!

Ahh.. the birth of the Swan station. Technically it should have been called the Ugly Duckling station at this point... zapping dudes fillings out of their teeth and whipping it through their brains... Death Magnetic, indeed....

Look closely at what Jack is about to erase from the board: Egyptian History 101! Maybe Ben could bring his new friend Richard Alpert(the Sun God RA) to class for a little show and tell....

And now we see why Miles wanted 3.2 million dollars..It was twice the amount Widmore was going to pay him... I love the fact that Widmore knew there were dead souls on the island that would surely give up Ben's location... I feel slighted by the writer's strike because I feel like there was more to this story that we don't get to see because they had to cut last season short... They introduced these guys but it never felt complete... Which is why not a lot of people shed any tears when Charlotte died... oh well..

Please forgive me for what I'm about to write:

"That douche is my dad"

I'm not sure if there has been a funnier line on this show than that right there. As Larry the CableGuy would say: I don't care who you are, that's funny. He would aslo then make a fart joke, followed by some inaudible Southern slang..which is odd because he's from Nebraska... go figure..

Uncle Rico drinking a beer? I wish he had said "See those mountains? I could throw a football over those mountains"... have I used that joke before? maybe... maybe I should just refer to him as Lazlo Hollyfeld.... I'll let you guys figure that one out...

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure has nothing on these 2... it's nice to see Hurley get a buddy, even though it's an unwilling, sort of a jerk of a buddy.... And I applaud Hurley's decision to re-write Empire Strikes Back but seriously, that was the best one.... Maybe he was going to have Luke accept the fact that Vader was his father and let that be the end of the series.... Who knows? Maybe we would have been spared Jar Jar Binks... sorry...I'm letting the geek flag fly right now...

That's it for this recap! Back to the real thing for the next episode, number 100!!!!

The Variable is a Faraday tale, with some big explosions... get out the popcorn and put the kids to bed, it's gonna be a barn burner!!

Later!

L Prez OUT