Everybody Loves Hugo

This weeks episode was called "Everybody Loves Hugo" and gave us almost too much to think about...

Illana found out the hard way that the dynamite was unstable. Looks like she will be joining Artz in the afterlife. They can talk about how they wasted their lives for nothing. I believe she died because she was doing something she wasn't supposed to be doing. Michael told Hurley not to blow up the plane, and as Hurley put it, dead people are more reliable than alive people. She was interfering and had to go... I don't think anyone liked her character anyway.

Desmond furthered his journey off island by destroying John Locke with his BMW. I assume to try and show him his other life. He also steered Hurley to Libby where he too saw his other life. This reminded me of when Desmond touched his constant and transfered to his on island life. Maybe this is related.

We saw our blonde friend FINALLY, who looks to be years older and now has brown hair. Could this be Jacob somehow? Locke suggested we should "ignore him." Sometimes I wonder if this is the writers cleverly telling us what to do. It just seems so ironic, as do many other lines in the show.

Desmond was thrown down the well by Locke and from the looks of the trailer might die next episode... At least in one life. The parallel universes are getting mighty confusing, even for us hardcore fans.

The writers also told us via Michael that the whispers are all the dead people trapped on the island. Although they seemed to tell us they were the "others" in a previous episode when Ben tells Rousseau to run when she hears whispers. I've noticed many inconsistencies with information Ben seems to have known, but now seems not to have known. Who knows if it will all make sense in the end?

Our episode ends with Hurley, Jack, Sun, and Lapidus arriving at Locke's camp. HOW CONVENIENT. He needs Hurley, Jack, and Sun to leave on a plane. They happen to show up together, willingly... oh yeah, and with a pilot. That's LOST for you.

Here's the trailer for next weeks episode "The Last Recruit." It uses one of my favorite vocal samples of all time, from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory tunnel scene! ENJOY it, there will only be 4 trailers left.

Last thought... is it possible the losties are the ones who sunk the island, to prevent themselves from ever finding it in the first place?

LOST The Package

Apologies for last weeks anger. Lost is FINALLY on track. The Package was the best episode this season, offering much more progression than any of the previous episodes. The writers have also shown us that they didn't forget about our previous 6 seasons. Seeing DHARMA room 23 (the subliminal message test room) and Desmond was very nostalgic, as was Jacks speech to Sun in the garden she planted 5 years ago. Things are finally coming together.

Who would have thought the Richard episode would be disappointing and a Sun and Jin episode so compelling?

Let's get down to business. Last week I had plenty of complaints and am still disappointed with the turnout on some of those issues. The writers have now stated that the storm that brought Richards ship in was just "later that day." This is an error on their part for this reason: When their boat is just offshore and it is sunny, they would have seen the statue and the island clearly. When they crash at night the men in the boat shout that they see land and that it is "guarded by the devil."(ie the statue) They would have seen the statue and a giant island sitting just off shore earlier that day. It doesn't effect the plot but the writers need to be more careful next time! We care about these things.

So what happened in "The Package?"

Desmond is back! Finally. It looks as if he didn't come willingly. (Refer to sneak peak # 2 below.)

Widmore is playing against smokey's team.

Jin saw his daughter Ji Yeon for the first time on Suns camera.

Mikhail lost an eye in the flash sideways. Looks like he was never meant to have that eye in any life.

We also see a number of references to "old" events including room 23, Shannon's inhaler, and discussion of electromagnetism and its effects on Locke, reminding us that the writers didn't just forget everything they've told us.

Still want to see our blonde friend again, and would like to see origins of the wheel. No word on "Wallace" either. Maybe these things are being saved for the end, along with the secrets of the statue, temple, etc.

SPOILER ALERT: Looks like we will see Libby and Michael next week! Thank you to the cast list on imdb.com

Next weeks episode is entitled "Happily Ever After." The promo gives us nothing new but is quite moving. I've included it and 2 sneak peeks below.

Ab Aeterno

Tonights episode was called Ab Aeterno. A recap of all the commercials might be more fitting seeing as they had a longer air time than the actual show. This is really bothering me with only 7 episodes left. If they are going to have this many ads we need WAY more information than they are giving us. We found out nothing new until there were only 10 minutes left in the show. "The time is now" my ass...

Seeing as they are clearly not going to answer most of our questions unrelated to Jacob and the Smoke, we might as well focus on these issues. So tonight we are told that the island is sort of a giant cork keeping evil from entering and spreading into the world. Hell was referenced an awful lot considering the writers say it is not biblical.

Besides this, we now know Jacob and the Smoke are in some kind of disagreement over whether or not there is good in people. Jacob believes that people can understand right and wrong without his guidance, where the smoke monster believes people will choose evil over good. Jacob brings people to the island to prove him wrong... and has ended up killing all but a few that he has brought. So who is good and who is evil? Jacob's decisions have gotten tons of people killed, and we've seen many people die at the clutches of the smoke. Neither seems very good.

One thing that does seem to make sense is why Jacob let Ben kill him. He said in this episode he can't interfere with people's sins. He would have been interfering had he gone all kung fu on Ben like he did Richard in tonights episode. Jacob wants people to "help themselves" and choose the "right" path on their own, thereby proving smokey wrong.

What does this all mean in a larger context? It is clear that Jacob and the Smoke are not the highest powers, but we can assume that little blonde boy may be. Unfortunately they would rather show us commercials than any info on this. I'd like to think the Smoke somehow escaped from Hell but the island is acting as some sort of purgatory with Jacobs powers keeping him out of the real world... or maybe until he proves to Jacob there is good in him.

Final note. There is a major inconsistency in the show, but the writers couldn't have screwed up this bad, could they?
When Jacob and Smokey are sitting on the beach in the season 5 finale, the Black Rock is drifting slowly in the ocean and it is a sunny day. In tonights episode we see it crash on the island at night during a thunderstorm, smashing the statue. This one completely escapes me. I hope this is intentional or I think all Lost fans will be very angry with the lack of attention paid by the writers.

Hopefully next weeks episode gives us something worthwhile instead of trying to please "new" viewers that haven't invested 6 years of attention into the show. Suddenly ignoring all the details in a show which has survived on continuity and thick plot construction just to gain new viewers is bull shit. I hope that ABC realizes what they are doing.

No trailer or sneak peeks yet, but it's probably better that they don't bring our hopes up just to let us down.

Lost Season 6 (Recon)

This weeks episode was called Recon and provided some interesting info. First I'd like to point out that they are making quite an effort to make Locke seem "good". I think they are just trying to show how convincing he is. Hopefully we don't have to decide who is good and who is bad in the end. After 6 seasons of holding back answers and only 8 episodes left, we better get hard facts soon.

So what's new from this episode?
Sawyer is planning to leave the island, presumably with his friends while "Locke and Widmore are busy dealing with each other." I can say pretty comfortably that this will fail, or there wouldn't be much story left to tell. They spent so much effort and time trying to get back. Why would they turn around and leave? Also, if Widmore knows anything about the smoke, he certainly knows he can't kill it, so what is he doing on the island?

Ignoring the flash sideways, that is about all we got from this episode. I am more concerned about all the questions they raised at the beginning of the season, only to ignore them for the next 4 episodes. Again, who is the blonde boy in the woods? Who is "Wallace" as seen on the dial at the lighthouse? What is the wheel and who built it? What was going on when Walt used to show up in the woods with water pouring out of his mouth? Where is Desmond and what did it mean when he turned the fail safe key? Why was Libby in the mental hospital with Hurley?

I don't see how they will possibly tie all of this up, not to mention the hundreds of other questions they ignored for seasons on end. On the bright side, next episode is the first ever Richard episode. Our favorite character who we know virtually nothing about despite 6 seasons of story development. If we don't find out something groundbreaking I think we will all be very disappointed.

Trailer and "sneak peak" below. I put quotes because it's info we've known all season. See you next week.

LOST Episode 6 SUNDOWN

The Pickup Game Begins

The losties finally started picking teams this episode. Claire, Kate, and Sayid are all with the "dark" team. Sayid has a lot more blood on his hands after killing Dogen, Lennon, and essentially letting in the smoke which killed plenty of others. Jacob's team looks like it will have many more people we know including: Hurley, Jack, Miles, Ilana, Linus, and Lapidus to name a few.

It looks like we won't be seeing Hiroyuki(Dogen) anymore but he still has some importance. Lennon noted just before Sayid slashed his throat that Dogen was "the only thing keeping it out." It being or old friend John Locke. This seems like a video game reference where the smoke can't enter the temple until he defeats the temple master. Knowing the writers,JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof, this could all be part of the "game" being played.

Where is Sawyer? He is not with the rest of his apparent "team" at the end of the episode, and he's been gone since we last saw him with "Locke" 2 episodes ago in The Substitute. Richard is also missing, and hasn't been seen since he talked to Sawyer then ran into the woods. He said he was going to the temple, so where is he? Jin is also missing.

Other questions remain... Who was the blonde boy the smoke couldn't seem to interfere with? The game master? He made it very clear that "there are rules." What is the significance of the alternate reality? Time will tell. Although as Daniel Fairaday put it in season 4, "Time is sort of a relative term." Unfortunately for us, time is running out for the show and based on the final episode titles I don't see a lot of older questions being answered.

For example: What really happened to Desmond when he turned the fail safe key? What was Ben doing when he drained the water in the tunnel and said "I'll be outside"? At the time we were led to believe he was summoning the smoke, but it's clear now that he had no connection to it whatsoever. Also, who built the wheel that moves the island? These and many other questions remain. The good news is we are finally starting to get some answers.

Next weeks episode is called Dr. Linus, there is a preview and sneak peak below.