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Whoa! I knew [THEY HAD] TO GO BACK, but I didn’t think they’d actually go through with it! Just kidding, I did. I thought they’d go through the shit out of it. So, Farraday’s mom takes them to the basement of the church where there is a Dharma station to track the island that was literally designed by a clown who didn’t read a book on trying to appeal to nerds, but had one summarized to him. “Definitely write a bunch of math junk on the walls, and, like, make sure stuff says Top Secret on it.” Perfect. She gives Jack the Island’s Trapper-Keeper, which has all the schedules for flights that will pass over the island during the “window.” Really? Because that is so many flights. That island must be very crowded with Losts and plane debris from crashing over 500 planes on it in a 32-hour period. I know that’s not how it works, but I also know that how it works doesn’t make sense.
Jack has to give Locke something of his father’s because Locke killed himself because he knew that someone had to fly in the cargo hold in a coffin or else it wouldn’t work? Smart. Jack isn’t sure if he can do it because it’s “crazy.” Motherfucker was just on a magical island with smoke monsters and hatches and fucking polar bears that disappeared into the ocean in a blip right before his eyes, but he thinks putting a souvenir in a coffin is weird. OK, DOC. In any case, it all works out because we are introduced to Jack’s Grandad out of nowhere who just happens to have put a pair of Jack’s dad’s shoes in a suitcase that Jack just happens to unpack and it’s like a sign from above that Jack should put those shoes on Locke’s feet. It might also be a sign that Jack needs to VISIT HIS GRANDAD MORE OFTEN. The man is lonesome.
Anyway…
Ben gets beat up. We don’t know why. The biggest mystery since the hatch. WHAT’S IN THE CAST? Everyone gets on the plane and now there are two new Losties!
Actually, there are, like, 100 new Losties in ECONOMY CLASS, but as Ben says “who cares?” But these two new faces are too prominent. The island is not done with them. One of them even has a line of dialog, and the other one has a badge, so, you know, big time. Frank Lapidus is also back. Apparently he quit his job at Madame Tussaud’s (he was the wax figure of Billy Bob Thornton) and started working as a pilot for SURPRISE AIR.
But here’s a question: we learned this week that Locke hanged himself, right? Well, let me ask you this: WHERE ARE THE LIGATURE MARKS?
I’m sure that by the end of season 6, all the loose ends about where Locke’s ligature marks went because when you hang yourself there are ligature marks will be resolved, but I AM ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT UNTIL THEN.
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Guam.
We’re not going to it.
I just want to know what the fuck was up with Jin at the end.
Oh, and maybe Ben is all bloody and shit because he tried to kill Penny? Since he told Whitmore that he would kill his daughter?
I liked that Hurley bought like 78 additional tickets on the plane because that at least addressed this line of brilliant logic:
You are going to try an crash another plane into The Island to save about eight people when last time you crashed in a plane it killed more than half the passengers.
But then they showed all the suckers sitting in coach and I was baffled.
Hurley only bought the remaining tickets after they were told to book a flight on that plane. The “who cares” people on the plane must have already bought a ticket. The airport worker was announcing “stand by” passengers because there looked to be empty/extra seats and that’s when Hurley got up and said I bought all the remaining seats – “I’m Hugo…” Since Hurley only takes up 2 of the remaining seats, the airport worker was perplexed and asked why didn’t he want these people to “just get back home.”
Hurley saved the standby passengers, but couldn’t do anything about the people who already booked a flight in the normal 1-2 months in advance.
I’m a little surprised that Sun was like: “I will never see my daughter again as I’m going to this terrible island where there’s a very small chance I’ll see my probably dead husband.”
that was making me crazy. not even a reference to the fact that she’ll most likely never see her daughter again?
ranks right up there with jack’s ‘i don’t care what this crazy bitch did with my half-nephew, she wants to fuck so i won’t ask any questions.’
Jin works for the Dharma initiative in a timeflash, maybe? Perhaps the Oceanics and the (totally) New Losties have arrived in a time in which our heroes (the ones who have been trapped on the island, winging through time) have been chilling for a while, and now they work for the DI? And they’re all like “I hope the purge isn’t soon.”
Well the plane they were on didn’t crash. They just happened to be over the island when a jump occurred. And I’m guessing that excluding the castaways and the two new characters the rest of the people on the plane are fine and just kept on flying to Guam. The only reason 815 crashed on the island in the first place was Desmond not pushing the button. And I guess Locke is gonna be Jakob’s new proxy. I guess.
Isn’t the plane now short a pilot?
Commercial flights have 2 pilots in the cockpit – the Captain and the First Officer.
gabe, you must be hell to watch TV with. is there anything you like besides 2 minute youtube clips and movie trailers?
Well, I like THIS SHOW, for example.
Pay attention. I can’t spell everything out for you, krup.
sometimes it’s honestly hard to tell. but i promise i’ll pay closer attention in the future and, when we time-jump, in the past.
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Hurley brought a guitar to represent Charlie and the original crash conditions, but how he knew to do that is beyond me. I think Sayid beat up Ben just based on what he said to both Jack and Ben before (“If I see either of you again, it will be very unpleasant for all of us”) and based on the look they gave each other while Ben was boarding the plane. I hope he beats up Jack next. But the thing with Kate and Sun and their respective babies is the most confounding and interesting question.
“I think Sayid beat up Ben just based on what he said to both Jack and Ben before”
Ben said he had an errand to run, a promise he made to an old friend. That “old friend” was Widmore, and the promise was he was going to kill Penny. And he was calling from the waterside (and Penny and Desmond are on a boat). So some bad shit went down between Ben and Desmond and Penny for sure.
Yep! You’re absolutely right.
Des and Penny sailed to LA from London?
Desmond and Penny are in LA. He delivered the message from Faraday to Eloise Hawking in that pendulum room.
I know that Des and Pen are in LA, but what I’m asking is that they sailed there? I know that at some unspecified point in 2008 Des “remembered” to go to Oxford to locate Eloise Hawking, which directed him to Widmore in London, which directed him to Los Angeles. But if this all happened in 2008, and he knew of the urgency of reaching Eloise Hawking in time, why would he sail to LA and not just fly there? Point being that Ben wouldn’t be calling from the docks after killing Penny on their boat because it isn’t feasible that it’s there to begin with, given the short amount of time (70 hours) for all of this to get done. Just a thought.
Charlie (the ghost that chills out at the mental hospital Charlie) told Hurley and probably advised him to bring the guitar.
Kate gave the baby to Claire’s mom, who was still in LA (they wouldn’t have made such a big production of finding her hotel room last time)
Sun doesn’t understand cost-benefit analysis.
The rest of the people on the plane will not come, because via already discussed videogum “flash-rules” an original lost-er has to be touching the thing he or she brings with them through the flash. Thus Sayid was handcuffed to the cop, so she is in and someone must have been touching the other first class guy. (and the guitar and coffin represent people, so they are grandfathered in)
Notice how Ben got up to give Jack “some privacy” and seconds later the crash started….yeeeeeeah.
I also like that the only people who can be cops on the show are hot Latina women.
I spent the entire Lightstick/Lighthouse/Yardlamp/Whatever the fuck that room was called scene just waiting for someone to get smashed by the pendulum. I was like, “C’mon, the island, let it happen!”
Lamp post. LIKE NARNIA.
Thanks, DAPH.
The real reveal to this episode is how disturbing Jeff Fahey looks sans beard.
ACCESS DENIED
Locke’s ligature marks could have been covered up when he was embalmed for the funeral viewing. No?
If everyone has to go back, where is Walt?
Why the eff does Frank Lapidus get to go back and not Walt?!
GIVE ME BACK MY WALT
Also, Ben reading Ulysses in which the final chapter is titled “Penelope”!
Oh yeah…there is something there.
I’m also of the opinion that Ben got knocked around quite a bit killing Penny. But he had to kill Penny don’t you see? That way, Desmond has to go back to the island to settle the score. He’s on the plane right behind them. We’ll see him killed yet!
I hate it when Wise Old Ladies start explaining bullshit to me, like I’m some sort of a dummy.
but i love that the wise old lady was the wise old lady in the film “The Others” — nice little inside joke (and man, this show needs all the humor it can get these days. good thing hurley made the flight)
Actually there would be no ligature marks. Clearly Locke’s been made up by a mortuary technician/artist. They can (and do) cover those marks up with makeup.
Wasn’t Hurley in jail for murder or something to that affect?