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A Jack episode, of course, is little better than a Kate episode, but it is a little better than a Kate episode, and fthese days we need to take our blessings where we can. “A Jack episode? Well, Lord, I still have my health, and You, in your infinite wisdom, could have just as easily given me a Kate episode, so I thank You for this.” We start back in bizzaro LA (as if there is any other kind of LA? HOLLYZING!) where Jack realizes that what he needs right now is a nice, refreshing splash of cold water in the face. JACK, LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU!
OR DON’T! NEVERMIND! FINISH HIM! It was very hard to watch the Jack mirror scene without thinking of this. Hold on a second, Jack, look down.
Jack, what is that? Enhance, Jack.
Jack, of course, does what anyone of us would do when we suddenly realize that we have a scar on our bodies that was not there before, unless by before you mean when we were trapped on a magical island after a plane crash and only managed to get back to our normal lives years and parallel-universes later by having a lady fall down a magnet well and smash a hydrogen bomb with a rock: he called his mommy. It turns out the scar is from having his appendix out? When he was seven? In the multi-verse, of course, there is one version of you with your appendix and one version of you without your appendix. It’s called physics, and this show is a professor of it. It’s very similar to how in a world of infinite choices, where time is a man-made creation, and every path not taken becomes an alternate reality, a spinal surgeon can drive around in a piece of shit jeep without putting his seatbelt on. GOOD DOCTOR!
But obviously, the mystery of why Jack doesn’t wear a seatbelt is just one of those classic Lost loose-ends that you kind of just get the sinking feeling will never be resolved. Hopefully Damon Cuse and Carlton Lindelof are a little kinder when it comes to providing answers to the more pressing question of HOLY SHIT, JACK HAS A SON, WHAT?!
Jack’s son seems like kind of a jerk, which I guess is appropriate. The jerk never falls far from the jerk tree, as they say. He is constantly listening to his Zune and giving Jack dirty looks. We are supposed to get the sense that Jack has not been a very good father to him, but because we did not even know Jack WAS a father to him, mostly all we see is Jack trying pretty hard and this kid being like “I’m the 37-year-old twin brother of Haley Joel Osment who sings lead for Vampire Weekend, and get out of my room, daddy.” My favorite part is when Jack finds a book on the kid’s bed and is like, “are you reading this book, son?”
The kid should have said, “no.” Because the kid is not reading that. I’m sorry. I know that we are all THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS NOW, and that Jack is late, he’s late, for a very important date, but some grumpy prep school kid who hates his father is busy trying to build up his connections to become a coke dealer, not reading Alice in Wonderland on his own for fun. Anyway, Jack gets a call from his mommy about his dad’s missing coffin, and his son gives him the Trademark Look that all neglected children give their fathers:
That song, “Cats in the Cradle,” is about how a father never got to know his son because he was always too focused on talking to the son’s grandma about funeral preparations for the son’s dead grandfather after the son’s dead grandfather’s coffin went missing in a paranormal flight from Australia, right? Folk music. Anyway, Jack goes to visit his mommy, and it turns out SHE IS THE SMOKE MONSTER.
Yiiiiiiiikes. WE’VE GOT TO GET BACK TO THE SURGEON! They are rooting around through Jack’s dad’s old office, trying to find his last will and testament. They can’t find it anywhere (until they just find it, like, right there) but this gives them a chance to talk. And to drink some Lost Whiskey.
Jack’s mom is like “you didn’t get along with your father either,” and Jack is like, “that’s because I hated my father, it’s different with my son,” and his mom is like, “did you ever think maybe your son hates you?” and Jack is like “deep thoughts.” When they do find the will, Jack’s mom puts on her will-reading glasses, and is like “did your dad ever say anything to you about Claire?” This is the first, but not last, instance in this episode, where Lost pretends like we did not already know the answer to a mystery. Lost, heads up, we already know that Jack and Claire are brother and sister. Can you get busy on telling us what is up with Libby and Hurley? Or those weird injections that Desmond used to give himself in the hatch to “protect” himself from the island air? Like, OK, SPOILER ALERT, but the very final scene of the episode involves Locke-Monster showing up in Claire’s tent made of hair and human bones, and Jin is like “John?” and Claire is like “That’s not John, that’s my friend,” and the dramatic music swells. Except, again, Lost, please, WE KNOW THAT IS NOT JOHN AND WE BEEN HAD KNOWING THAT FOR WEEKS NOW. Your cliffhanger is a plateau.
Anyway, back in Weirdowood, Jack comes home to his apartment to find that his son is missing. He calls his son’s cell phone but there is no answer. So he finally goes to his son’s mom’s house to see if maybe he went there. No one is home, so the mystery of who Jack’s son’s mom is will have to wait for another day. Honestly, at this point, I’m kind of expecting the season finale to be a guided narration taking us point by point through the resolutions to a billion mysteries. Anyway, Jack goes into the house and goes upstairs to his son’s room and finds sheet music. UH OH, SHEET MUSIC! He pauses for a second on a strip of photobooth photos.
Aw. Remember when you two took those? Yesterday? Seriously, there is no way those photos are older than 12 hours. Jack picked him up from school, took him to a photobooth, stopped by his mom’s house to put the photobooth photos in the mirror, and then went back to his apartment for some quality father-son-ignoring-time. Then Jack sees his son’s answering machine has messages on it. Because even though people don’t use answering machines anymore and we have already established that Jack’s son has a cellphone, teenagers in the multi-verse are super into answering machines. Answering machines is their anti-drug.
Jack learns conveniently from the answering machine that his son has a piano recital. I’m surprised the son knows that he has a piano recital. YOU SHOULD CHECK YOUR MESSAGES IF YOU ARE WAITING TO HEAR BACK FROM THE MUSIC CONSERVATORY. Jack rushes over there and is overwhelmed by the fact that his son can play piano. Whatever, I am overwhelmed by who one of the other fathers at the recital is:
Whuuuuuuuuuuut. I’m willing to believe that Ben is a teacher in the Los Angeles public school system, but this guy is a father?! Upside Down Town! Just kidding. But my favorite part is when he tells Jack that his son is very talented, and asks how long he’s been playing, and Jack is like, “I don’t know. Bye.” Good one, Jack. It is a sophisticated social skill to just know when conversations have run their course. So Jack goes outside and finds his son and is like “I will always love you, even though I just found out about you,” and blah blah blah. It all goes back to how his father told him that he didn’t have what it takes, and Jack always hated him for that, but that Jack knows that his son will always have what it takes, and nothing he could ever do would make Jack think that he doesn’t have what it takeszzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Let’s get back to the island. Seriously.
The second chillest Jack after Johnson.
So the guys are all still in the papier-mache temple. Sayid has on his favorite Bullet Hole Tank Top.
Hurley, tired of playing a ridiculously elaborate game of leaf-tic-tac-toe, decides that is finally time to find out where the kitchens are and have a snack. He heads inside, and asks someone down by the magic Death Jaccuzzi where the kitchens are, and I’m just going to tell you right now that the person he asks is Jacob, because that makes it even funnier when I tell you that Jacob TELLS HIM WHERE THE KITCHENS ARE.
Then, of course, he tells him some other stuff. But it is so funny to me that Jacob is being all Moody Broody down by the Death Jacuzzi and goes so far as to keep up his ruse of just being some dude chilling by the pool for way longer than he needs to. “The kitchens are that way, Hurley, but also I’m….wait for it….Jacob.” Perfect. Anyway, he tells Hurley to get a pen, which Hurley manages to do, but not paper. Classic Hurley. But immediately Hurley stops following Jacob’s instructions? Like, he is supposed to get Jack and go down a secret tunnel out of the Temple and back into the jungle, but he immediately decides to just go alone? A rare case of boldness, Hurley. Oh look, there is the hieroglyph!
I think this was etched into the stone around the same era that Jack took those photobooth photos with his son (the yesterdayicine period). But before Hurley can escape, he is double-teamed by the Secret Ninja Other and also by Ghost Jacob.
I love Tracy Morgan, but clearly Secret Ninja Other and Ghost Jacob should have been cast in Cop Out. Ghost Jacob helps Hurley to evade the Secret Ninja Other, but he’s like, you have got to take Jack with you on your mission like I told you in the first place. Ghosts are very strict about their mission instructions. And he gives Hurley a secret message. At first Jack is like, there is no way I am going on a mission with you, Hurley, because I am stubborn and unadventurous when it is convenient to the story. I’m just going to sit here and eat this mango, because I’m a total mangohead.
But then Hurley gives Jack Jacob’s secret message, which is “you have what it takes,” and Jack is like, “that is the most generic thing anyone has ever said, I AM READY TO ESCAPE WITH YOU INTO THE JUNGLE.” Whatever. You have what it takes. “Who told you that, Hurley? How did you know that my Junior High Basketball Coach said that to me once in our game against the Pittsfield Bulldogs?” So Jack and Hurley go into the jungle. They have lots of adventures while they are there. Oh look, Shannon’s inhaler! That was an easy enough way to work her back into the script now that actress Maggie Grace has officially cleared up her schedule enough to make a cameo appearance in the final season. Oh look, there is Kate.
She is going to look for Claire. Bye Kate! Jack and Hurley continue through the jungle until they get to ANOTHER FUCKING BUILDING THAT DIDN’T EXIST UNTIL FIVE MINUTES AGO.
You guys, I don’t know. They need to cool it with this constant deus ex buildings. Always with the new buildings. Anyway, they go up to the top, where Hurley has been instructed to turn the mirrors to 108 degrees in order to “help someone get to the island.”
But Jack notices that his name has been etched into the lighthouse.
Huh. That is strange. Hurley, turn the lighthouse to Jack degrees. Do you see that? What is that?
Oh, it is the house where Jack grew up. That means that Jacob has been watching him for his entire life. Now, it’s hard to understand why, exactly, but this is clearly one of the most magical lighthouses ever discovered by mankind. So you know what we should do? We should fucking smash it.
“I HATE MAGICAL AND INCREDIBLE LIGHTHOUSES!” — Jack
Jack is like, “after all this smashing of wonders, I need to go sit out by the ocean.” Hurley gets in a fight with Ghost Jacob and is like “we didn’t do what you wanted,” not realizing that this was exactly what Jacob wanted. Hurley should seriously watch a couple of episodes of this show, because he would have known it was exactly what Jacob wanted a half hour ago. Also, Ghost Jacob is kind of a condescending dick to Hurley. “Some people you can just get in their cab and tell them what to do, other people you have to make them smash a magic lighthouse and think it was their idea and then have them sit out by the ocean and think about it and eventually they will know what you want from them, but they’re smarter than the cab people, you know? It’s harder with them, more elaborate. Not just like telling them because they are so dumb and easily manipulated and you just know they will do what you want. Right, Hurley? Does my constant knowing smirk make it any clearer?”
“P.S. don’t go back to the temple.”
And then there is Claire. She caught Jin in a bear trap. Ouch. Maybe she should have caught some shampoo in a bear trap instead.
Anyway, blah blah blah, Claire is evil now. She has a voodoo goat baby in a cradle.
Cute baby! What is it’s name? Oooh, we always thought if we ever had a baby, we would name it Koron The Wicked, too!
She is also a field surgeon and a murderer.
Anyway, she’s been in the jungle alone for three years, which she says is because everyone left, but we already know that she disappeared and was in that weird cabin with Jack’s dad? But she does bring up a good point: where IS Baby Aaron? Jin tells her that the Others don’t have him, that he is with Kate, and Claire is like, that doesn’t change the fact that I am going to axe murder. Then he says that he lied and the Others do have Baby Aaron and they should go back to the temple and pick him up, Raising Arizona style. Uh, Jin? And Claire is like, it’s a good thing you told me you were lying, because if I found out that Kate had Baby Aaron I would kill her, and it’s like UHHHH, JINNNNN?! You are really blowing this for us, Jin. And then Locke walks in and we are supposed to pretend like we just learned a secret when we did not learn any secrets whatsoever. We are adults, Lost. Please treat us like some.
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What if dead Jacob is another form of the MIB, you guys!? THIS IS REALLY BOTHERING ME.
Wait. I guess the Chinese boss couldn’t see him in the temple, only Hurley could. So, NEVERMIND.
(I am so bad at this show)
Don’t worry, friend. God is in the connections that we cannot make.
WILL SMITH CAMEO PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZE!!!!
No, I don’t think so. Hurley can only see dead people, and I think that is the difference between Jacob and other figures that MIB is taking.
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DAMMIT WE CAN’T SEE IT!!!!
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So upset that Claire isn’t gunning for Kate right now.
Also, still having problems logging in with Chrome. Bah!
Jack had an on-island appendectomy in episode 4.10, “Something Nice Back Home.” Sometimes I worry you are not obsessing about this show properly.
Yeah, I got the sense that alterna-Jack was just weirded out by the fact that his appendix scar is suddenly alot more prominent. He in particular seems to be the only of the alterna-characters to have noticed that something weird is going on.
I have a hard time with the idea that Jack is the character with the brains, even though they’ve been trying to convince us of that all along.
At first I was like “His scar is on the DIFFERENT SIDE!!,” but then I was like “Mirrors, foolin’ me again.”
“Mom, when was my appendix taken out and replaced with a ghostly image of my childhood home?”
“Oh, when you were seven.”
“Thanks!” Smashes mirror.
I suppose it’s too much to hope that Claire really will kill Kate. You just keep building me up to let me down, show.
Right? I’m not uncrossing my fingers, ever.
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my ninjas.
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Dream scenario:
Kate finds Claire. Claire yells “Where’s my BABY?!?” Kate tells her she kept Aaron safe from the island and is ready to bring Claire to him. Claire axes her and says “Mmm…peanut butter.”
Nightmare scenario:
Claire yelling “Where’s my BABY” and Michael yelling “WAAAAAAAAALT!” or “THEY TOOK MY BOY!” in an endless loop.
Another one: Someone getting a non-fatal gunshot to the torso, a woman screaming while having a baby.
GET IT? THEY DO IT ALL THE TIME. I think you get it.
Actually Claire says, “I AM allowed to have chocolate before dinner”
I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, paper mache sets not withstanding. I don’t mind Jack as much as everyone else seems to, and I’m happy they found Shannon’s inhaler and the two random skeletons, so they aren’t just going to pretend they never existed.
I liked the episode as well. Jack has not bothered me this season at all (looking good, Doc!), and I find the alternate-universe plotlines pretty interesting. That said, kids do need to lighten up. I didn’t have the best relationship with my parents growing up, but I never acted like that, what with the running off to have recitals and all.
I love how Hurley is essentially the in-show Lost Fan Message Board. “OMG, what if these skeletons are us!!1!” In general, I think Lost is about watching Lost. What happens on the show generally tells us how to watch the show–Hurley’s musings, Sawyer’s book reading, bad photoshoping. Meta-television.
I think the reveal at the end isn’t supposed to be that Locke isn’t Locke, but to confirm the fact that the Smoke Monster/Christian Shephard/Claire/Locke are all in one crew. And that the Smoke Monster crew is mos def the baddest crew. They probably sit behind the dumpsters at the movie theater and huff butane on Friday nights.
I agree with you that what Claire was actually saying/implying is that Locke and Christian are the same, but the way she said “this is my friend” was completely Crazy Town Bananas Patrol if you know what I mean (I mean it sounded like something the girl from the exorcist would say right before crab-walking backwards down the stairs(which you should by no means to try to do if you are not possessed by the devil because it is really hard, and painful to mess up – trust me)).
Didn’t she refer to Christian as her dad, though, not her friend?
I believe that she said her dad told her and then her friend told her–so I think we know, or can deduce, that they are the same, but she does not quite realize that because she just got her degree in Crazy Studies from National College.
Seriously, her new “baby”–hello Leatherface!
i upvoted because i like the word “huff.”
Thanks a million for saying this because I agree completely and now we are friends.
Thank the lord that Gabe posts these. I DVR Lost and then read the recap so that I might go in watching it with even the slightest semblance of what is going on… then I’m disappointed when the episode is never as entertaining as the summary.
Also, Gabe, please stop calling a Bronco “a piece of shit jeep.” Broncos are cool. Ok. Look it up. It’s called the internet. These guys know what I’m talking about:
http://bit.ly/9rvODI
Hurley’s comment about Jacob being like Obi-Wan Kenobi solidified my commitment to the show….No it didn’t, but it was the highlight of the episode.
Also, Jin with the improv skills! As soon as he gets to the Temple, he’s going to say to all the Others, “Okay, I need an occupation, a location, and an alternate timeline for this next scene. Just yell them out! Did I hear European history teacher, the back of a taxi cab, and a world where the plane never crashed? Let’s go with it!”
That wasn’t Sayid at the end asking “John?” It was Jin. Not sure how you could confuse those two, but I would have understood if you had mistaken him with a plank of wood or an inanimate doll.
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Thank god you were here, I was going to call the police.
I think the bigger problem than the constant discovery of new buildings (which is obviously a big problem) is how quickly they use up all the new buildings plot relevance. I mean the hatch storyline (the discovery, then the button within the hatch, and then the eventual destruction of the hatch) lasted more than a full season, and as a result it was really cool. We wanted to know what was up with the Hatch because we had discovered it and inhabited it for as long as the characters (longer actually since they’ve only been there for like a week at this point).
At this point they are just adding buildings that are getting discovered, understood (or at least used to their purpose), and then destroyed/abandoned in the span of 10 minutes in one episode. There is no curiosity because there is no time for it. Its always just like NEW REALLY WEIRD THING this and NEW REALLY WEIRD THING that BWONG discordant Lost sound and Cuse and Lindeloff thinking they are so clever – Did we blow your mind? – and introducing new garbage instead of developing the old stuff we actually care about. This show is actually getting on my nerves.
If we don’t get a Desmond or Ben (you know, the good characters) episode soon I’m really gonna be pissed.
Does it make a difference that the writers acknowledged this when Jack said, “How have we not seen this before?”
I hate when the show does that! Hurley’s answer “Maybe we weren’t looking?” drove me up the wall. That is not how eyes work Hugo!
Hurley should have turned to the camera and given a Jim from the office look after saying that…
It is how magical lighthouses on magical islands work, though. Don’t tell magical lighthouses on magical islands what they can’t do!
NOBODY puts magical lighthouses on magical islands in the corner.
I totally accepted that as reasonable and valid. Obviously. How could I not?
I kinda figured the Lighthouse moves around, like the cabin. Because magic.
Thank you for also agreeing that we need some Desmond in this season, immediately. I thought that his name must be candidate 108, because of the 108 minutes for the hatch button that he spent so much time pressing, so hopefully that means he’s on his way to the island now?
I thought so too, but then Lostpedia ruined my theory (Lostpedia always ruins my theories). Number 108 is some person named “Wallace”, which is Scottish, but not Desmond…but maybe Desmond?
Obviously it’s David Wallace, now that he no longer works for Dunder Mifflin.
This is perhaps the best possible substitute. I can’t wait to see how the Losties react to the “Suck It”!
“If we don’t get a Desmond or Ben (you know, the good characters) episode soon I’m really gonna be pissed.”
Indeed! Although I didn’t mind the Jack episode as much (as Gabe wrote, better than a Kate episode). Wikipedia says we’ll get a Ben episode (yay) in two weeks, and a Richard episode (!!!) in four, so I’m stoked for those…
Sayid and Jin are two different people, Gabe! Quit being such a racist!!
This was a hilarious read. Claire’s motto: ABX Always Be Axing.
Pretty sure thats probably The Situation’s motto, too. (Axe Body Spray. Get It? You get it.)
I think answering machines were still okay in 2004! (Still doesn’t explain why he had his OWN answering machine, but yeah).
I’ve heard of rich kids who have their own phone lines. I know, mind blown.
Fix yo wig, Claire!
Inscribed above the lighthouse reflector: seus siyd dadru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi. Read backwards, it says “I show not your face but your daddy issues.”
I said this in the chat last night, but I’m saying it again: LOST makes me stress eat.
A couple of observations:
1) Claire’s hair looks painful.
2) You would think a spinal surgeon would not only wear a seatbelt but also have headrests in his car.
3) Does anyone on the set of Lost know what an appendectomy scar from the 1970′s-80′s looks like? 4) Jack’s mom is Angelina Jolie in 10 years.
Jack’s mom is a bit like “Rocky Dennis got some really good plastic surgery after Mask” amirite?
i don’t understand why all of a sudden everyone is like “what? this show is just making things up now.” It’s always been pulling stuff out of thin air. i think we also just need to relax and hope that the big HUH?s are answered but not expect the little hmms to be explained–otherwise people are just going to be pissed.
Here’s a tip for all of the characters on Lost:
When someone asks you, “Do you know what he/she will do to us?,” the answer is always “He/she will kill us.” But don’t worry, because you won’t have to wait longer than a second for that person to answer his/her own question.
every time i see your icon i get that song stuck in my head for days.
I was just frustrated that Hurley didn’t get to see what was in the magic mirror when it was pointed to his name before Jack smashed it up. What a jerk!
Yeah, no sense turning the dial and maybe finding some things out, Jack, right?
And did you notice how Jack outfoxed Jacob, by moving from that house when he was still a little kid? Take that, smarty-pants Jacob. So Jacob has been watching the front of Jack’s childhood home for 30+ years, thinking, who the fuck are these new people?
Oh Lost. I love you and I hate you.
And Pepper Ann remains convinced them landing on the island was all a dream.
a combination of MYST and this episode of The Cosby Show: http://ow.ly/1aP6z
Whose name was at 108?! No one bothered to check before Jack got all smashy-fingers and stormed out.
I realize it’s a moot point because Jacob never gave a shit, really. He just wanted Jack to see what he saw and do what he did, but MAN-
As soon as I saw the names corresponding with degrees or what-have-you’s, and with Jacob previously mentioning bringing someone to the island, I was like, “Who’s at 108?! 108! 108! 1-0-8!”
And… nothing. Oh well.
There was a picture of it I saw somewhere else. It was the name “Wallace” and it was crossed out. I’m going to steal a joke and saw that I hope it means Rasheed.
Also, in other sad news, 51 on the wheel is “Austen” (as in Kate) and is not crossed out. Lots of neat names on that the wheel including Linus, Rousseau and Friendly. Good times.
So Kate is number is 51?!
That’s official news that correlates with the cliffside cave names.
Good eyes!
Are you serious that 108 was Wallace?
Yes, completely serious.
I won’t take credit for having good eyes, someone else got a freeze frame. WHERE WALLACE AT STRING?
Actually, forget what I just said. If I want to seriously geek out about LOST, I’ll do it on the appropriate boards. I just stopped by Lostpedia and all the prudent info was available, including the name Austen being 51 on the cliffside cave walls and at the lighthouse. (being only a last name, people are also theorizing it could be her Dad, who had met Sayid and Kelvin before in Iraq).
Let’s get back to LOST jokes. I apologize for the breach in VGum protocol.
Too late!
last night’s episode was also LOST’s 108th episode.
Also, Wallace is a brand new character name. It’s a crossed-out name, but a new one nonetheless.
not Ben?
this was ep #108…so I think it was just a joke
Are you my flash-sideways me?
This thread section is giving me nosebleeds.
What now? Huh? You see an image of your old house and your first instinct is to smash the shit to pieces? Not, you know, look and see what other images you might be able to see? Jack can really be an asshole at times.
The kid in the alternate timeline was a bad plot device. We don’t know enough about Jack pre-paralyzed Julie Bowen to make an educated guess about where this kid came from. But no matter. The whole Alter-universe thing is about how the Island was not able to affect the character’s lives if it was destroyed back in the 70s. Next they’ll be letting me that Charlie and his brother’s band was all about the Christian rock because the island never put that piano his mother gave him for Chrstmas on sale so she gave him and tambourine.
God, I just typed it and I can’t believe how much more of a geek this show has made me.
what’s this show about again?
It’s a competition to see how can survive on the island the longest for $1,000,000 or something like that.
one of my friends thought this was a reality show for the longest time. it was only when i mentioned people dying that she even thought to ask whether it was real or not.
There WAS a reality show called “Lost,” though! It dropped people into the middle of nowhere in some random country, and they had to make it to the Statue of Liberty first. I think they only did one season.
Now if THAT’s not geeking out, I don’t know what is.
Vampires.
Was the black Other with the axe in his chest a The Shining reference?
Was he a LOST analog for Scatman Crothers?
All work and no play make JACK a dull boy?!
OMG!
Dark times are ahead. And hedge mazes. Which are fun.
Actually that’s totally a Shining reference. Claire is corrupted by evil spirits just like Jack Torrence. Dur.
Corn mazes are also fun and terrifying when you get lost in them.
Also, DEAR JEFF:
I am sorry I yelled at you in chat last night. I didn’t mean for it to be so flat-out angry, more playful angry. I’m over it. No Spoilo.
Hearts,
Asa
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You nailed him.
how come sometimes i can upvote/downvote myself and sometimes i can’t. is it because NEW DESIGN BUGS?
I am so frustrated that they introduced such a cool lighthouse, and then just smashed it up. WTF? It’s like when they killed Darth Maul right off the bat. So much investment in a cool character only to have it destroyed.
Aaaaaand my transformation to social misfit is complete.
With all the dried up sketelons and carnage, hawaii seems like the perfect place for filming Lost. It’s saving ABC a lot of money when you’ve got the props laying around already.
They did give a logical explanation for the lighthouse.
Jack “How come we’ve never noticed this before?”
Hurley “I guess we were never looking for it.”
DUH
I see a lot of people (here and elsewhere) being upset by the new things that the show keeps introducing. But they need to introduce new things in order to explain the mysteries! If we already knew all the components to the mysteries, they wouldn’t be mysteries.
Also, keep in mind that the island is pretty big, and they were only there for a few months (except Sawyer and friends who joined Dharma, but they lived in Dharma-ville.), so it is entirely plausible that they did not notice a few buildings. It’s not like the lighthouse is 1000 feet tall and can be seen from anywhere on the island.
It all makes perfect sense now. Everything.
Pretty sure Jack’s gonna smash all the mysteries from now on. That way we don’t have to worry about them cause they’re smashed.
i think “smash all the mysteries” should be on a T-shirt
Sometimes you just gotta let an overemotional 37 year old crazy man stare out into the ocean.
I can’t wait for a few episodes from now when they go “Oh, sorry Jack! The ‘Shepherd’ we were referring to is your DAD. We figured you knew – I mean, after all, it’s his house that we showed in the mirror!”
“How did a pickle get more fans than Nickelback?”
via Jack Sheppard’s deep thoughts
Then Jack pondered:
“Only a Hero can save us, I’ve got what it takes not to get in the way” Nickelback has the answers. Pickles don’t have answers. Facebook groups are stupid, yet they make the 6 o’clock news…
I heard somewhere (probably here) that they weren’t going to go into Libby’s character anymore, admitting that not everything is going to be explained.
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No.
Don’t tell Gabe Locke what Gabe Locke can’t do.
Broncos from the ’70s still only had lap belts, not shoulder belts. So, technically, he probably is wearing his seatbelt. And vintage Broncos rule!
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also, sorry for being all analgum but this was episode 5 wasn’t it? the first was a double ep?
I stop watching Lost for 2 seasons and suddenly there are all these new characters?
Lost – the only show where if you miss 2 entire seasons it doesn’t matter to either your understanding or to whether you actually care about these people. Hurley, of course, excepted.
You are probably less confused than those of us who have watched every episode religious- I mean obsessively.
At this point, new characters and dead characters appear and disappear and die and resurrect – why bother trying to keep up? I give up.
As always, the Lost recaps here are the best, but this week’s needs slightly more whaaaaaattt.
OOOOH LOOOK!
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? By posting the 109th comment, I just smashed the mirror.
Goddamn it. This:
Never mind. There were 108 comments. I took a screen shot of it. Then I failed at posting the image. Then Jacob was all like, “Maybe you were supposed to fail.”
Did you notice how hardcore tough guy Jin is/was? Claire punched that nail through his inch-deep wound and he didn’t even flinch, no anaesthetic, no booze, nothing.
So… when they took Rousseau’s baby, she (Rousseau) became a survivalist, but when they take Claire’s baby she (Claire) becomes a dreadlocknest haired freak. And wasn’t Aaron a magic baby? Didn’t he make the mobile turn with his mind? He’s magic like Walt is/was magic too.
Question: if you want someone to go to the island, why do you have to get them all on the same airplane and then crash it (but have the pieces land in fair to middling shape) right at the moment someone in the future/past will forget/refuse to hit the reset button? How did the submarine get there every time no problem but…
Please, I like the idea of the series finale to just be a guided tour of explaining shit. Please.
with the Locke episode, I really thought they were stepping shit up. but then this felt like a step backwards. ughhhhh losttttt