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First of all, my apologies to Jack. Last week, I complained about how a Jack episode was barely much better than a Kate episode, but I had completely forgotten about Sayid episodes! Oof, Sayid episodes. “I’m a trained assassin, but I’m also a poet, and the dichotomy is delicious” or whatever. It’s funny how people have spent years now debating why Hurley hasn’t lost any weight while stranded on the island, but no one seems bothered by Sayid’s hair’s consistent shininess. Unless there was an episode where Sawyer hoarded all the hair product in a secret hole in the sand, and Sayid traded him a gun for it? That might have been an episode that I just missed. But first let us start in bizarro LA, the epi-center of the multi-verse, where Sayid has just arrived at his lost lover Nadiya’s house, where he refuses to close the front door.
Seriously, could someone please close the door?
No one? I suppose maybe I don’t understand Iraqi-transplants-to-bizzaro-multi-verse-Los-Angeles culture. But wait, Nadiya is married to Sayid’s brother! What?! Oh, multi-verse, YOU HAVE GOT ME AGAIN. THINGS REMAIN DIFFERENT! They eat dinner and catch up about Australia (oh right, Australia) and then Sayid’s brother gets a phone call and is like “I have to take this, it’s business.” OK, take it, jeez. Excuse us, Warren Buffet. But then the children come running in, and they are like, “Sayid, we found a photo of our mom in your wallet.” Hey, no snooping! Someone should lash those kids to a tree and pull their fingernails out one by one! Sayid’s brother is in the other room with a very important business call, but he is like “You better not be talking about secret wallet photos over there or I will be so pissed.”
To be fair to Sayid’s brother, a strong relationship depends on trust that there are not so many secret wallet photos of your loved one out there in all the pockets. And in any case, that night he uses Sayid’s secret wallet photo shame to his advantage, because he wakes Sayid up at four in the morning (or thereabout, you should definitely check with the nerds at Lostipedia to find out exactly what time Sayid was woken up by his brother in the middle of the night, super important) and tells him that he owes some bad guys money. I KNEW IT! I knew his business phone call after dinner was trouble! After watching a few seasons of this show, you just really start to pick up on stuff. Anyway, Sayid is like, I’m not going to hurt someone just because you made a bad business decision, and his brother is like, “I know that you tortured people in Iraq.” Whoa. Uncool, bro. But then his brother is like, “if you won’t do it for me, do it for the secret photo that you carry in your wallet.” Ouchie.
After sending the kids off to school without torturing or assassinating them:
“Much like John Mayer, everything these hands touch explodes.”
Nadiya comes running out of the house with the news that her husband has been attacked. At 7:30 in the morning? Fair enough. This IS bizarro multi-verse LA, anything can happen. “He woke up this morning and his head was on upside down.” No rules. It was supposedly a mugging, but everyone knows better. Nadiya tells Sayid to leave it alone, and not go after the people who did this. Everyone sure loves to tell Sayid what to do (more of that back on the island). He is going to listen to her, but then the bad guys come looking for Sayid anyway. Apparently, they want to cook him breakfast! Hey, maybe we’ve got it all wrong, maybe these guys aren’t so bad after all! But Sayid is like, “I’m not hungry.”
Rude. Maybe the reason they turned to a life of crime is because people are always making them eat alone. Oh, and by the way, the main bad guy is the one who shot Ben’s daughter a couple seasons ago. Whuuuuuuuut! Anyway, blah blah blah, Sayid’s brother, money, crime bosses, whatever, as if we care. I mean, honestly, Lost, I’m sorry, but as far as I’m concerned, these bad guys can burn all of bizarro LA to the ground. It’s not my plane of existence! But Sayid kills all the bodyguards and the bad guy is like “Oh, OK, cool. Let’s just call it even.” He makes his most convincing don’t kill me face.
But Sayid is like, “UNCONVINCED.” And then the bad guy makes his most convincing I’m dying face.
Acting!
I guess the point of this is how Sayid is actually kind of evil at heart? There is more of this on the island, which I cannot wait to get back to, because bizarro LA is almost worse than regular LA, but we’re supposed to think that Sayid is a born killer who ultimately cannot change his violent ways. Personally, I just found that thug’s “don’t kill me face” to be really smug and shootable. It’s a face only a mother couldn’t shoot. Do you remember it? I’ll remind you.
See.
So Sayid is about to leave (peace!) when he hears noises coming from the walk-in cooler. And, as anyone who has just murdered three people in cold blood would, he checks it out.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?! I’m just glad to see that Sun and Jin finally made it through customs at the airport. Apparently! Ugh, get me out of this stupid fucking Sideways Town. BACK TO THE ISLAND! Finally. So, Sayid goes to confront the ninja in his mysterious office. He is like “you tortured me, and I want to know why. But first, I want to know where you got those cheap, particle board bookshelves. Was it Target? Or perhaps Ikea?”
Another new mystery! Anyway, the ninja tells Sayid that the torture table is like a scale for good and evil and that Sayid was definitely a big fat evil. Haha, what? I mean, I’m just saying, what? The self-delusional moral gymnastics required to truly believe that a torture device is how you determine someone’s goodness is ridiculous. But there is no time for that, because suddenly a straight up NINJA BATTLE occurs.
It looks like Sayid is finally going to die (fingers crossed that this death sticks) because the ninja has trapped him in the classic ninja move known as paper-opener-to-neck, but then a baseball rolls off the table, and that is when shit gets REAL intense.
WHAT’S IN THE BASEBALL?! The ninja tells Sayid to leave the papier-mache temple and never come back, and Sayid is like, “done.” But before he can get out, Claire shows up. You know, after all of the secret passages or whatever, it turns out that it is very easy to just walk into that temple!
Later, Kate just walks right in. Everyone is coming and going as they damn well please and it’s almost as if the temple isn’t visible and accessible only to the righteous anymore. Claire says that the Locke Smoke Monster wants to talk to the ninja, and the ninja is like, if he wants to see me, tell him to come in, and Claire is like, no, he wants you to come to him, and the ninja is like, “uh, nice try, Claire.” He knows that if he steps outside of the ring of ash (this show, which I love, is getting SO HARD to take seriously) that the Locke Smoke Monster will kill him. And Claire is like, “then send someone who he won’t kill.” Wait, what? Does he or does he not want the ninja to come talk to him? Because sending someone else is different. You guys really should have figured this out ahead of time.
So now the ninja won’t let Sayid leave, instead he hands him a magic dagger that allows the person who holds it to shift through the sands of time. Didn’t Sayid ever wonder how an orphan child could become a prince?
Just kidding. That was a reference to something else that is ridiculously complicated and confusing.
But so, the ninja tells Sayid that he should go out into the jungle and find the smoke monster who will look like someone that Sayid knows, and he should plunge the dagger into the smoke monster’s chest before he is able to say anything, because if he says something then it is already too late, and so Sayid is like “I am definitely going to do this without asking any more questions.” Perfect. He goes out into the jungle right away, and runs into Kate, but for some reason he doesn’t plunge the dagger into her chest? A rare miss, Sayid. Then he sees Locke and he immediately plunges the dagger into his chest. How does Sayid know to do that? He really should have plunged the dagger into Kate’s chest, just to be sure. It doesn’t really work, though.
Uh oh, Sayid, I think your magic dagger is broken!* Locke Smoke Monster tells Sayid that Dogen (ninja) told him to do that because he knew that it wouldn’t work and that he had assumed Locke Smoke Monster would kill Sayid, and Sayid is like, shoot, I really thought that when he gave me this dagger and told me to go out into the jungle and immediately stab someone in the chest no questions asked that I’d thought this through pretty thoroughly, but it seems there was one tiny hidden loophole that I had not considered. Otherwise, you must admit, my plan was flawless. So now the Smoke Monster Locke convinces Sayid to go back to the temple and give everyone until midnight to leave and join Team Locke, or else they would all die, and again, without really spending too much time on it, Sayid is like, “I am definitely going to just go do this. I just read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, and sometimes snap decisions without any reflection are actually the smartest.”
Meanwhile, Kate is back at the temple. She checks in with Miles real quick, because I guess one of the rules of being in the temple is that you have to occasionally make small talk with Miles who will be playing some kind of game. Today: Solitaire! Miles is like, “oh man, Claire.” And Kate is like, “Claire?” And Miles is like, “Claire, definitely.” So Kate leaves Miles after the required two seconds of small talk and goes to find Claire in a pit. At first, they won’t let her in there, but then she smacks a nerd’s lunch tray out of his hands.
Seriously, Kate, like, rests her forearm against that nerd’s neck and he is like “Whatever you say! Will you let me carry your books? I’ll shine your locker, just don’t hurt me.” What a nerd. So Kate goes to see Claire, who is busy putting the lotion in the basket.
Kate tells Claire that she took Aaron off the island, and then basically like any new parent, won’t shut up about how awesome her kid is. I’m sure baby Aaron is a very special snowflake, and bravo to all new parents for being the first people in history to successfully achieve child birth. Meanwhile, Claire is like “SCARY GLARE.” She tells Kate that “he is coming” and that she isn’t the one who needs to be rescued. Yikes. Kate needs to be rescued, you guys. I guess?
So, people are packing up and leaving the temple. Byeee! Sayid has a nice sit down chat with Dogen next to the diarrhea hot tub and Dogen explains that he made a deal with Jacob to save his son’s life, but that he would have to come to the island and never see his son again. That is what is in the baseball. Dogen assumes that Sayid made a similar deal with Smoke Monster Locke to get Nadiya back. Sayid nods, and then shoulder checks Dogen into the pool and drowns him to death**.
“I’m glad we had this talk.” Then the nerd runs up and explains that Dogen was the only thing keeping the Smoke Monster out of the temple, and Sayid slits his throat and throws him into the hot tub. Sayid, no offense, but you’re being kind of a dick right now. Anyway, the Smoke Monster rushes through the temple killing everyone, because it’s midnight, and you know the rules! (I really don’t know the rules!) Tons of shit happens. Lapides shows up? With Ben? And that lady? And they find Miles and escape through the secret tunnel? And Miles tells Sun that Jin is alive and on the island and Sun is like “Oh my gosh,” because I guess she is still catching up with the past few episodes on Hulu or whatever and didn’t know that yet? And Kate is about to get killed by the Smoke Monster, but then she jumps into the pit with Claire and hangs from a rope ladder, because this season it is all about hanging from rope ladders.
When the smoke (monster) clears (boo), Sayid and Kate and Claire walk over the piles of dead bodies and find Locke waiting for them outside of the temple with his new pals. Hi guys! Fun party!
Haha. I bet Kate gets that look A LOT.
So just for the record, we are now six episodes into the FINAL SEASON, there are only 10 episodes left, and I feel more confused than I have ever felt and further from any semblance of a satisfying conclusion/understanding. Yay?
**Actually, as Videogum reader Max Silvestri pointed out, Sayid doesn’t stab Locke until after Locke says hello to him, and for the dagger to work he is supposed to stab before he says ANYTHING. So in fact Sayid fucked up, and Smoke Monster Locke is a liar, which makes sense, because of how jerks often lie. Although I still maintain that Sayid should have stabbed Kate with the dagger. JUST IN CASE.
**Yeah right.
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These days Lost is all like:
And I’m all like:
And you’re all like:
Why is this post automatically at the bottom? When it was clearly posted before half the people above you.
…That was supposed to be a reply to Joefry… I suck at internet.
WHAT’S GOING ON WITH VIDEOGUM?!!?
I know. The internet has looked into its eye and judged it.
These replies are all not messed up–in another reality!
that is really odd. but I’m committeed to being positive after my negative-fest last night.
my comment was a reply to I Like A Skinny Tie’s (aka Pepper Ann, aka Pepper Andrew, aka a really cool canadian) comment @ 11:56
WHEN IS THE REPLIES!? (i used this joke last week. i know no shame)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030103497.html?hpid=news-col-blog
Sorry to jam this up top… But evidently the producers/writers feel like they don’t have enough time to wrap up all their stupid loose ends! What! Why waste all that time in the 1970s then! That story had better me meaningful or I’m gonna go nuts! So far it seems KIND of like they wrote a whole season that literally got wiped out with a flash of white light.
So dreamy…
What I like about Lost: convoluted, contrived sci-fi fantasy epic that could go anywhere
What I dont like about Lost: lame fake drama. I can accept a contrived premise but not contrived fake drama action with goofy “you’re evil so I must kill you” fake motivations. Also, it’s like they have to have some “shocking reveal” before every commercial break to trick you in to thinking the fake drama parts – will Jack and Sawyer FIGHT to see who gets to kiss Kate? Will alt universe Jack and his son get along or remain distant? Will Sayid get to stay with that pretty girl? – are somehow not totally boring. Voice of John MacLaughlin: WRONG! They are totally boring. Bye bye!
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Fuck my life, I’m done.
“Play him off Duke Silver!”
Thank you.
I’d just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed talking to you guys last night!… No homo, though.
I really enjoyed myself too, though I always felt like I was complaining too much/not enough. Yay for chat!
Uh oh.
Anyway you can get a gif of the exchange of looks that Sayid and Ben give each other near the end of the episode? Where even Ben is thoroughly weirded out by Sayid’s “too late for meeeeee” line? You are the best with these .gifs btw.
You are the best!
Oh man, wait until the barefoot nerd who got his throat slit flashes sideways to bizarro-world and finds out he owns a small construction business in the South and his brother is Kenny Powers. He’s going to be so happy he quasi-died in the murky Hot Tub Time Machine. References!
i hope he finds out he’s a single dad, dating a quirky artist.
Or a fisherman on boat with Marky Mark and Danny Ocean.
I would say “or he co-owns a hardware store with a deliciously taciturn man named Bullock” but i always thought Sol Starr kind of got a raw deal on that show.
True. But that’s still better than working the register at a Texas liquor store that gets blown up by the Gecko Brothers.
No.
Or selling Star Maps to Chris Tucker in front of the Chinese Theater.
“deliciously taciturn” Wow. That is the best. Most apt.
Can someone please dig up a still shot of the awkward quick-cut to Ben when his little posse arrives at the temple, or his “tip-toe tip-toe.. run away!” moment after he talks to Sayid. Both perfect.
and Sayid’s accent.. i think i’ll miss you most of all..
Is it just me or is Sayid’s accent a little different this year? It sounds more British-y than in past seasons. Even in the sideways universe.
This… means something.
Spoiler: LOST is all in Jack’s head. He wanged it pretty hard when he was on break from his gig as Hawaii’s Doodlebops clone and fabricated the whole thing. The truth is far scarier than anythign he imagined:
Sorry, but for me, Sayid episodes are some of the best. At the very least, they’re episodes where stuff is guaranteed to happen.
Also, still having password troubles, and the help desk does not respond to my e-mails! I am so unpopular!
I thought the first half of the episode was a touch “ehhhh.” I liked the alternate LA plot line (Keamy with eggs!), but not Michael Bay’s “Double Dragon” stuff (Sayid and Dogan fighting).
However, from the moment that Sayid stabbed the Man in Black in the chest with the dagger from the Golden Child, it was pretty great. The showdown at the Temple was, unlike most of the action on Lost, actually exciting. That was some apocolyse-style stuff. Crazy Claire and Bad Sayid and Undead Locke are creepy and the smoke monster scared me for the first time since Season One.
But seriously, where did Frank, Sun, Ben and Illan come from? Did they just pull up in a cab?
They took the 103 Express eastbound and got off at the Temple stop. It’s a long ride but the people-watching is pretty good.
Monorail!
They had all day and night to get to the temple from the Losties beach camp. I’d say at least 8-9 hours of running through jungle. They just hoofed it really hard. Illana knows what’s up.
Why didn’t Sayid stab Kate in the jungle?!?! So many missed opportunities!
Because Dogen said the Man In Black would appear to Sayid in the form of someone he knows, but more importantly, someone Sayid knows is dead.
Sayid didn’t know for a fact Kate had died since the last time he saw her, but he did know that Locke had died.
I don’t think Sayid killing the mercenary (Martin Keamy…lostpedia!) is indicative of him being evil. I mean Sayid may well be evil, but no matter what reality he’s in, that dude NEEDS some killing.
Also, Sayid may have been doing Keamy a huge favor. In yet ANOTHER reality, Keamy ate WAY too many eggs while extorting money out of people, and wound up looking like this (please work):
“What did Uncle Sayid say about snooping in my duffel bag of death? Keep your grubby hands out of my stuff, you damn kids!”
“Kate, jump into my hole.” – Claire
TWSS
BNPG: Awful Sex Talk
Is that happening? one can only hope; by the way, conquered the TWSS last night in chat!
And we were so proud!
The whole show lost its luster for me when Locke died. I get that the same actor is still in the series, but I thought the whole POINT of the show was the “Man of Science, Man of Faith” split. Now Locke’s just a vessel for a ghost that didn’t exist until the beginning of Season 5 or something.
I will finish this out, but in the last 6 months or so I went from recommending that people watch the whole series to recommending that people avoid the whole series. I don’t think there is any way this can end that will even be interesting, let alone satisfying.
Like, what if the final 2 hour conclusion is Jack and Jacob’s ghost staring down Locke/Smoke Monster? Who cares? I never actually wanted them to go to war over the right to be President of the Island. That’s… awful. I mean read the completely plausible scenario in the first sentence of this paragraph again. What is the point of watching this!
Agreed.
geez, have some FAITH.
THIS is what I’ve been thinking about these days! I am not sure how to feel about the whole Jacob/smoke monster opposition thing being a symbol of, I don’t know, the struggle/balance between good and evil, because, seriously, the smoke monster man might be bad, but also, Jacob is an asshole! I mean he better have a pretty good reason for basically just fucking with all those people’s lives on that lighthouse compass of discontent. I will seriously kick something if the MYSTERY ends up being: 2 ghosts, who are both assholes, play Battle Royale with people on a ghost island because they are bored (or maybe they have a bet).
My feeling is that the final conflict (both physical and emotional and thematic) is not going to be between Jacob and the Man in Black (aka Good v. Evil), but instead is going to be the People v. Jacob and the Man in Black (aka Man v. God; or Man v. the Universe). It will all be about human transcendence and moving above our beastial nature.
Heh, I saw someone somewhere describe the Smoke Monster Locke as “Smocke.” That made me giggle.
Sadly, I did check Lostpedia this morning and did find out that Sayid’s brother woke him up at 2:30, which is important because one of the numbers is 23 and the first two numbers of that time is that number. I am basically that nerd from last night and Gabe is basically Kate and he is basically pushing me against a wall right now with shame
The best part is that Sayid was SLEEPING a second ago,but when his brother wakes him and goes, ‘Sayid, chill’, Sayid was like ‘it’s 2:30 in the morning.’ Sayid is so badass, his internal clock is literally a clock. He knows exactly what time it is in all states of consciousness.
So last night I realized that although I am enjoying this season, this is totally not what I’ve been waiting for. The first 5 seasons were about the survivors and Ben vs. Widmore. That was a clear path. And now all of that has been dropped and everyone has been reduced to pawns in Jacob vs. Smoke Monster battle royale. This is not what the show has been building towards, I don’t care what Cuse and Lindeloff say. Also, the final scene felt like The Devils Rejects or something. All the bad guys slowly walking towards their leader ready to butcher people or something. Very unLost-like. All that was missing was a Rob Zombie song.
Do I have jam on my calf?
Thank you for pointing out the door thing. That was the least believable part of the episode to me.
Maybe Sayid is so mad because he was raised in a barn?
They always do this in shows/movies it drives me crazy!! It’s almost used exclusively when people are about to have sex.
It would be a lot easier if every character remembered their ABCD’s!
ALWAYS BE CLOSING DOORS!
Ninja vs. Iraqi Torturer who wins? Isn’t that a show on Spike?
I don’t know guys. I think, for me, LOST is like pizza: even when it’s not the best, it’s still pretty damn good.
….when you’re drunk.
also, i thought that the phrase was “monkey was in the basketball,” not “memories of his son are in the baseball.”
I had a dream about the diarrhea hot tub last night, and there were four old people in it and I’m pretty sure they were to blame for the gross water.
Can we please call it the Poopool? Can we make this happen? I want to make “poopool” happen.
After fighting it hard, I have finally come to accept the fact that we will not be getting any answers.
Oops! I haven’t watched any Lost since the season premiere. …and I don’t miss it?
I keep planning on watching so I haven’t been reading these recaps or comments…but I dunno. Maybe I just need to read the last chapter of the book (the last episode) because I can’t really handle the week-to-week stress.
I don’t think that comment deserves downvotes.
thanks. i’m a big monster. i can take it.
Okay, so, I know that Lost is not actually as thinky or profound as some people (writers of Lost) like to pretend it is, but color me kind of bummed that they seem to really be going for a flat out, bog standard (next week’s reveal: the island has a bog) Good vs. Evil thing here. I mean, ho hum, right? I had hoped for something a little more nuanced. It just bugs me that when you overlay Good vs. Evil atop the other conflicts they’ve set up, i.e. Faith vs. Reason, Fate vs. Free Will, Reason and Free Will line up with Eeeeevil, and that is so hacky and tired (I have already read The Stand!) and, frankly, insulting to my principles. Respect my principles, ridiculous teevee show about a magic island full of jerks!
(Also, I would like to introduce some of these jerks to the concept of ‘follow-up questions.’ Because come on.)
…Whoops, looks like I mistook Videogum comments for my Livejournal! I’m sorry, floating baseball. Anyway, I don’t want to be on Jacob’s side because I think he’s a dick, basically, is what I’m saying.
I’ve been thinking for a while now that it’s a case of evil vs. evil. Jacob just seemed(s) to be all “I am the puppet master!” and in my book that totally blows.
I would be cool with evil vs. evil, or This Supernatural A-Hole vs. That Other Supernatural A-Hole. I am on Team I Hate Jacob’s Stupid Smug Face. All this puppet master stuff just makes me realize I’ve been watching marionettes this whole time, and it makes me care about the characters less. So when Damon and Carlton insist it’s “all about the characters”, I’m all, who, these easily manipulated, credulous supermodelquins?
I think it is more complex than you are giving it credit for. While good and evil are certainly themes, I don’t think that is really what eth show is about. It is less about “good” and “evil” and more about the conflict between serving the self and serving others. Since Season One, the lines of conflict have been more along the lines of “are we going to stick together and help each other” or “are we going to go every person for her self?” Think about the opposition between Jack and Sawyer at the beginning, and how Sawyer developed, or gave into, his more selfless side. Think about the Man in Black: he doesn’t try to get people to do evil things, but selfish things. He says that you’ve been duped, just do your own thing.
Plus, I don’t think the show has lined reason and free will up with evil–it is the Man of Faith, Locke, who is now the personification of ‘bad’ on the island. Jacob, at the end of season 5, was the one who argued that people, through their free will, could break out to of the cycle of depravity.
Oh, I’m sorry, I thought this was the bus to serious town. I’ll get off here.
Those are good points! Perhaps you are right. Maybe my balance of Thinking Too Much About Lost/Not Thinking Enough About Lost is out of whack. Hook me up to the ol’ torture machine so we know for sure!
hold up, i’m getting on the bus to serious town!
i don’t think it’s good v. evil as much as choice. remember, jacob says you always have a choice! even after you’ve made many, many bad choices. even if it seems like you’re being given the choice of no choice.
jacob’s tactics in recruiting seemed to be coming to people when they were broken in their lives (whether physically or emotionally) and giving them that little push they needed. in contrast, the man in black is promising the characters what they desire most if they help him first. (sawyer – juliet, sayid -nadiya, claire- aaron) looks like kate is on the cusp since she really wants her freedom.
i bet the people the man in black recruits were SO not on the list in season one. i bet they’re good/evil scales tip toward the dark side. this island doesn’t really get that lost characters contain multitudes and they can act however they decide.
Yum, the guy who played Ash on that episode of SVU is (was?) on Lost? I’ve been missing out..
I noticed last night that the “candidates” alternate lives are dramatically different, but the non-candidates alternate lives are pretty much the same (if they crashed on the island or not).
Example: Kate, a non-candidate, is still a fugitive on the run in the alternate LA, same for Claire, still a timid pregnant girl planning on giving Aaron up for adoption. Of the candidates alt-lives shown so far, Sayid’s love is married to his brother, Hurley is the luckiest man in the world, Jack is the father of a teenage son, Locke is still with Helen, etc.
That said, can we please learn something new? I dunno bout the rest of you, but I’ve been pining for the Richard Alpert back story episode….also, notice that he hasn’t appeared in the alternate time line at all….
totally. i buy this. i think that Jacob affected everyone somehow. he influenced them by watching? i don’t know. something.
Well, they were all candidates at some point, and Kate is still one. Her name on the lighthouse thing wasn’t crossed out.
The plot is the bug, we are the frog
Great gif.
I’m still totally digging everything that is happening on LOST. I shit bricks last night when Sayid went psycho. It seems totally insane, but at every part of this series people were like “This is too crazy” and then in retrospect, they were like “oh I always liked it from the beginning”.
It’s still better than 99% of TV out there, and I LOOOOVE it.
“Oh, and by the way, the main bad guy is the one who shot Ben’s daughter a couple seasons ago. Whuuuuuuuut!”
So like, at this point I’m just confused… like, is that guy SUPPOSED to be the guy who shot Ben’s daughter, but just playing a role in bizarro world? Or are they just running out of bit-part actors in LA?
It’s supposed to be the same guy. Because their lives are all connected because fate and destiny and somesuch.
I’m glad to know that I wasn’t the only one hoping Sayid would stab Kate in the face.
I like reading Gabe’s LOST recaps more than actually watching LOST. By quite a large margin, too.
That’s how I feel about Gossip Girl. Only I guess it’s different since people legitimately like Lost…
I legitimately like Gossip Girl. These are my confessions!
I wish Jenny would go away. Haha.
Ok, I agree with everything in the recap. But I hate Kate. I make no secret of my disdain for her “I’m hot and can therefore be a total bitch to the men who love me” shenanigans. But last night I was all like “Kate no! Wait for Jack! don’t leave with the crazies!” as if I wasn’t begging Claire to gut her 10 minutes before. The changes this show puts me through!
I’ll be somewhat sad if they leave the papier-mache temple behind as I can NOT get enough references to the diarrhea hot tub.
This episode might have been ridiculous but it was Jack-free and there are strong hints of harm coming to Kate. Throw in Sayid killing people in multiple versions of reality- what more do you want? Plot, explanations, Claire to wash her hair?
I think Sayid has gone bonkers town because he’s missing his right hand man. Six episodes in and we’ve had maybe a few seconds of Desmond. Now that is worthy of a – WHUUUUTTTTT?
I actually started getting verbally angry at the TV once smLocke decided he was hungry and started eating his dinner and the rest of this motley crew showed up. It seemed like they we’re almost done writing the script, and then some guy’s like, “Hey guys…don’t we need ben and sun and everyone inside the temple for the next episode?”
When the Final Boss was telling his back-story, and got to the part where he drank way too much, I totally thought he was gonna be like “dude, next thing I knew I was here!”
I’m starting to think….I don’t know…
All of our LOSTies have lost something (no pun intended. or maybe the pun is very intended by the writers) or someone and get them back in the alt verse.
Locke did not lose Helen, Jack did not lose the chance to be a father, Sayid did not lose Nadiyah.
and back on the Island, The Smoke Monster promised Claire to help return her lost son.
There’s no KILLING in BASEBALL!
oh, i so failed at posting this picture.
I noticed that in alt LA, although he was wearing a grey shirt, it had a spot on it in exactly the same spot as the hole in the island black tank top (from the bullet). What does it mean? Will we ever have any answers?
Re Hurley – I live on Oahu, and was in line behind Jorge Garcia at the Kailua health food store. He is much smaller IRL than on screen. Not thin by any means, but not as big as he looks on screen. He was, however, buying a bunch of chocolate bars and some “healthy” cotton candy. He and his female companion decided at the checkout that they didn’t like the candy, so left it there. I was too shy (aka respecting boundaries) to say “Dude! I love your character!” but not too shy to ask for the cotton candy. I ate Hurley’s cotton candy! (It sucked. But it was Hurley’s!)
I always suspected that Sayid found Michael’s suitcase full of Soul Glo after the crash and was using it in order to passive-aggressively get back at Michael for yelling “WALT!” all the damn time. His hair got so nasty at one point that I thought he must have been secretly siphoning Hurley’s DHARMA ranch dressing and using it instead, but I had to discount that theory after never seeing Hurley lick Sayid’s head. With only 11 episodes remaining, I’m afraid that we may never know why Sayid’s hair is so preternaturally greasy. DAMN YOU DARLTON! WE WANT ANSWERS!
“Otherwise, you must admit, my plan was flawless.” LOLz!
Every season is more confusinger than the previous one. Last season, Ben suddenly was the mastermind of a gang of international assassins and ran Sayid all over the world to kill people, and somehow Charles Widmore was a Bond super-villain. It was suddenly morphing into “Alias.”
Now hopefully we never see Widmore again. Instead, we get the Ninja and his Ikea bookshelves. I kind of liked the John Lennon hippie. Where is Desmond? What about Pinnay and Farraday’s mom? WTF. FTW.
The best season is still the first one (is this obvious?) because the numbers mystery was awesome: on the lottery ticket, the serial number on the Hatch, and the code the two polar explorers on a ship were calling out on a radio that eventually became Rousseau’s message (? I am confusing myself now). Remember that cliffhanger, when Locke dropped the torch in the hatch and it goes down and down…? Awesome. Then in Season 2 there is a “secret” back door to the Hatch behind a shrub. That is just some lazy-ass laziness (the worst kind).
I’ll take a Sayid episode over a Bernard and Rose episode though, yikes. Why, oh why, did the writers of LOST never come up with a VINCENT episode? Yes, Vincent the Golden Retriever. Think about it. 10 episodes left, writers, don’t fuck this up.
TEAM VINCENT.
Do the gifs blink for anyone else, or am I having a flashback?
I reckon Ninja and his nerdberger assistant will spring back to life. they did fall into the magic jacuzzi after all…