LOST: Season 5 Episode 4 - The Little Prince

WOW! Now that's what I'm talking about! Hello Losties, whew, what an episode! Lots of plot movement, a few answers, some more clues to other answers, scenes that aim for the waterworks, non-confusing time traveling, and big payoffs! These are the episodes that tons and tons of setup from previous episodes, even previous seasons can create. Even though there were lots of jumps in time on the Island, the sci-fi was kept to a minimum to just give us an engaging dramatic hour of LOST. Lots to discuss so let's get to it.

First off, the title of the episode The Little Prince got a 4 page diatribe in Jeff "Doc" Jensen's weekly column at ew.com. Bottom line, it's a "French"children's book (or novella actually) about 2 people (or aliens or something) getting stranded in the desert in a damaged aircraft. Really the "French" thing should've been a dead give-away for where this episode was going, but I didn't know until Locke asked us if anyone spoke it! I'm sure there's tons of metaphors and subplots that can be tied to this book with the stories in the episode and with the entire show (for all I know Aaron could be the "Little" Prince!), but I just don't get into that stuff in the recaps, so feel free to read up on it and comment away on your findings!

The story continues to move at a rapid pace as we return to our Oceanic 6 who are getting closer and closer to being in the same place (well the same city at least). Kate is trying to figure out who is after Aaron (turns out one of our primary guesses was correct here!), Jack is still helping Sayid at the Hospital, Hurley is in Jail, and Sun is on a "mission!" And well, Ben is in the mix of it all too. On the Island in the past, the majority of our "left behinders" are together (Rose and Bernard still missing) and Charlotte remains unconscious. This one starts off with a Kate Flashback. Let's dive in:

Off Island Happenings

Flashback

We're back on Penny's Boat "The Searcher" for another discussion that happened on the time between the Island Departure and the branding of the Oceanic 6. It is a discussion between Jack and Kate that takes place before the meeting where Hurley is the last to agree to the "Lie." This gives us insight on how Kate made the decision to raise Aaron.

• Kate informs Jack that Claire intended to give Aaron up for adoption, which is why she was headed to Los Angeles in the first place.
• Kate comes up with the story that she could say she was 6 months pregnant on the Island. I just don't know how the police wouldn't have known she was or wasn't pregnant before she got on that plane. At 6 months, you gotta be showing. Can you even fly at that point? Granted, Claire was flying at 8 months so who cares?! It's a TV show!
• Kate mentions that they lost so many people (Jin, Claire, Sawyer, etc...). Jack ensures Kate that Sawyer is not dead. She agrees but states that he is GONE.
• Jack tells Kate that he needs her to back him up when he tries to convince everyone to lie. She tells him that she's always been with him. And of course, we saw in Hurley's flashback that Jack did indeed turn to Kate first and she backed him up.

Kate, Aaron & Sun -

3 years later (or the new present day), we continue in Sun's penthouse in Los Angeles. Just a couple plot set up points here to mention, nothing big to analyze.

• Kate has decided to meet with the Lawyers and try to figure out who their Client is.
• Sun volunteers to watch Aaron, she gets a delivery. She gets a file complete with photos of Bearded Jack, Ben and a Hearse (Locke? I thought they put him in the Van?). Oh right, and there's a gun in there. Looks like she's out to get her vengeance on Ben.
• Lots of pictures to look at here and sledgeweb goes into more detail about the papers on if they could have "MORE MEANING." I give up when any details need to be looked into THAT much!
  


• Kate meets with Dan Norton (Dad on "My So Called Life" or the lawyer we met in the season premiere). Dan won't give up his client's name. He tells Kate that she's going to lose custody of the boy and that she is in no position for deals.
  

Jack, Sayid & Ben

This subplot continues where we left off in the hospital with Jack and Sayid. Jack is tending to Sayid who was out cold for "42" hours from the equivalent of 3 horse tranquilizers. Jack is catching up Sayid on what's going on.

• Jack explains to Sayid that Ben is on their side. Sayid, having prior experience with the man since they left the Island, can confirm that Ben is only on his OWN side.
• A doctor/nurse interrupts and pulls Jack aside. We find out, as we probably suspected after the season 3 finale, that Jack was suspended from practicing medicine on substance abuse charges.
• Hurley called Jack from the L.A. County Lock-up and asked how Sayid was doing. He told Jack to tell Sayid that he did exactly what he told him to do (opposite of what Ben says to do). You also gotta love seeing Hurley in the Orange jumpsuit!
• Speaking of Ben, then he shows up at the hospital (man, talk about not wasting time!)
• Oh right and then Sayid is attacked while all of this is going on. More tranquilizers involved. Who on earth is attacking them? Since a lot of our assumptions are turning out to be true these days, is it safe to assume that this is Widmore's people? Or perhaps it's Ben's guy too trying to convince Sayid that the only safe place for them is the Island? Naturally, Sayid gets the best of this guy and finds out his next target. 42 Panorama Crest (anyone getting tired of the numbers being dropped everywhere yet? Me either!), Kate's address.
• Jack calls Kate to tell her to get herself and Aaron out of the house. Since they're already out, he finds out where he can meet them. He also finds out that Sun is in Los Angeles too.
• Ben decides to go for Hurley. Sayid holds his stance that he won't let Ben near him. Ben convinces him that they need to get his friends out of trouble and "save the dirty linen for later." Something obviously happened when Sayid was working for Ben that we don't know about just yet. Sayid agrees to go with Ben.
• They decide to rendezvous at the Long Beach Marina Slip "23" (woo hoo numbers!)

Jack & Kate

• Jack meets Kate downtown. She's happy to see he finally shaved.
• Kate explains the situation with Aaron and the blood test. She sees Dan Norton driving off and she plans on following him. Jack gets in the car.
• They follow him to a motel where we see him supposedly going to his "client." We find out that he is talking to Ms. Littleton, Claire's mother! Woaaaa (well, it would've been a shocker if they didn't show her on the "previously on LOST segment") Naturally, they assume she somehow found about about Aaron. Jack decides that their best bet is to explain to Ms. Littleton what happened. And he said his favorite line besides "live together die alone," which is "I can fix this!" This sends Kate to the waterworks because she misses Jack's fixing abilities!
• Jack goes in to meet Ms. Littleton and while he's coming clean he realizes that she has no idea what he's talking about...so he bolts. Apparently, she was in town because she is suing Oceanic and is there to pick up the settlement. I share in Kate's question, from the same lawyer that is looking into Aaron and Kate's relation? Something is a little shady here. (more in this in a second!)
• Jack convinces Kate to go to the rendezvous point.

Ben and Sayid

• Ben asks why Sayid took it upon himself to rescue Hurley. Sayid had to make sure he was safe.
• They pull into a parking garage, Dan Norton is there! Norton explains to Ben that there is no case against Hurley. The death of the man at Santa Rosa happened before he escaped (yeah but what about the 2 at the safehouse??) There will be a hearing in the morning and then Hurley will be a free man.
• We find out that Dan Norton is Ben's lawyer. And once again, the majority of us assumed that Ben was behind the lawyers coming to Kate's house. I did throw Widmore out there as a possibility too, but Ben just seemed to fit the bill with his comment to Jack in the season 4 finale "perhaps I can help with that" or something like that.
• But the wrinkle they added in that we didn't see coming is that this Norton guy is involved with the Oceanic Settlement for Claire's mom too. So that begs the question, does Ben have some role to play with Oceanic too? Does that mean he DID put the fake flight 815 at the bottom of the Ocean? And is he financially backing these settlements too? It made me start to think about Miles's interaction with Ben last season and his demand for 3.2 Million dollars. "you don't think I know who you are?" Hmmmm who exactly is he? I'm sure we're haven't gotten to the bottom of Ben Linus's story quite yet!
• By the way, Ben's Van "Canton Rainier"? It's an anagram for reincarnation. Hmmm, should we be tying this into anything Locke related?
  

Oceanic 6 Reunion Minus 1

Jack and Kate arrive to the rendezvous point. Jack explains to Kate that they need to get her and Aaron someplace safe. Ben and Sayid arrive.

• Jack explains how Ben is with him and how they're going to help all of the people they left behind.
• Kate realizes that it's Ben that is after Aaron. Ben confirms this and tells Kate that Aaron is not her son. I'm not sure if Ben actually intends to take Aaron from Kate or if he was just using it all as leverage to convince Kate to come with them. I guess it could still be leverage to bring Aaron back to the Island to his actual mother. Which of course, reminds us of the dream Kate had where Claire said "Don't you dare bring him back!" One thing we can't forget though is Ben's obsessiveness (or the Others' obsessiveness) with taking young children and keeping them as their own. Ben took Alex and raised her as his own. They took all of the tail-section children who seemed to be perfectly content living with The Others. (and crazy Cindy who seems to have been part of them all along the way she was acting!) Oh right, and they took Walt. Rogue Ethan stole Claire when he found out the 815ers were on to him, but we found out they had a nursery built at the medical hatch for him. So clearly, Jacob or Ben or Christian had a plan for Aaron. Did they have a plan for Claire too? Is that why she is hanging out in Jacob's shack with Christian these days? And is that why Ben is so determined to convince Kate that she shouldn't be raising Aaron? Even the Ghosts gave Hurley that message to relay to Jack. Seems to be all tied together to me! (like how I rambled on in this bullet until I came to some kind of logical conclusion?)
• The other exciting thing about the scene though is when Sun pulls up to the same place with Aaron in the backseat and we realize we are one person away from a full reunion of the Oceanic 6 (well and Desmond is on his way too!). With gun in hand, she gets out of the car and heads towards her old friends.
  

I'm going to guess that no one in this scene is going to get shot next week. Things are shaping up pretty nicely to get everyone back to the Island. There's still some convincing to do with Kate, Sun and Hurley though. And we'll have to see if things continue to go smoothly when Desmond, Penny and child show up too. And of course, there's always the possibility that Ben has ulterior motives!

Island Adventures

Locke's New Plan

Okay, there's a lot more going on here than Locke's new mission, but I thought that was a good way to sum it up. We find out more about Charlotte's "illness" and the dreaded "sickness" in general from our lovely Time Travel Guide, Dan. And Locke decides he knows how to get off of the Island (well John, we could've told you what you came up with last May!) Drama ensues!

• Charlotte remained unconscious for at least 10 minutes after their last flash and her major nosebleed. People started demanding some answers.
• Dan decided that Juliet would be the best confidant in this information. He seems a little shaky with the information but he describes it that everyone has an Internal Clock (or sense of time), and the flashes are throwing it off. Kind of like really bad jet lag (really Dan? That's the best you can do???) We get more information later.
• Sawyer is completely frustrated in this episode which leads to many quality Sawyer lines. The producers stated in one of their various interviews that they thought as long as they had Sawyer going along for this time travel ride, that the masses wouldn't be turned off from the crazy sci-fi. I love the crazy sci-fi, but man Sawyer cracks me up too!
• Locke explains to Sawyer that they need to return to the Orchid, since that's where all of this craziness started. He explains that Ben was able to leave the Island that way. And he explains his crazy mission to leave the Island and bring back their friends whom Sawyer just assumes are dead. Then of course he mentions he needs to convince them to come back "even if it kills him" almost as a joke, but acknowledging what his mission from Richard is. Man, I wonder if they'll have a Last Supper before he goes on this quest! (get it?)
• Locke continues to try and convince Sawyer by asking him if he wants Kate to come back. Sawyer, remaining in denial says that it doesn't matter what he wants.
• Charlotte wakes up and is disoriented at first not even recognizing Dan. Hmmm was her mind somewhere else for a bit? If it was, she didn't lead on to the fact.
• After Miles makes a lame attempt at a joke (everything is back to normal again! leave the jokes to Sawyer dude), Sawyer storms off towards their beach to grab the zodiac raft and head towards the Orchid. Everyone follows.
• Night falls, Sawyer asks Locke how he's going to convince Kate to come back since she seemed excited to leave the Island. Locke was still formulating his plan.
• Hold the phone everyone, that crazy Hatch Light is lit! We know WHEN they are! We have returned to season 1 on the night Boone died. Of course we also know this as the night that Locke lost faith and banged on the Hatch door and the night Desmond planned on killing himself from losing all faith. And of course Desmond and Locke saved each other when Desmond heard the banging he shone the light up at Locke. Locke thought it was a sign. (granted it took us over a year to get all of that information!) Oh right, it's also the night Claire gave birth to Aaron!



• Locke decides that they shouldn't go towards the light and need to keep moving.
• Locke later explains to Sawyer when they were. He didn't want to run into himself. When Sawyer asks why he didn't go and tell himself to do things differently, Locke tells him what's done is done and he needed that pain. Here's a question, why didn't Locke explain to Sawyer that Desmond turned that light on? I guess it wasn't relevant to the story? I'm sure they're not going with the Time Travel amnesia angle on that one. I just thought it was kinda weird that he omitted that.
• Dan continues to console Charlotte, while we notice Miles gets a nosebleed! uh oh.
• Miles eventually confronts Dan in private about the nosebleeds. We find out a juicy tip that the "sickness" seems to be tied to duration on the Island. Ahhhhh well this would explain Charlotte since we think she was born on the Island. But Miles? Well, we've been tossing around some ideas that Miles has his crazy supernatural sense from his exposure to the Island too. And of course our buddy Pierre Chang (Marvin Candle) had a baby on the Island back in this year's season premiere. It seems safe to assume that Miles is baby Chang! Of course, you have to be careful of your assumptions on LOST!
• Anyway, before a lot of these conversations took place, we hear the infamous "Claire scream." And Sawyer runs to check it out. He gets to witness Kate delivering Aaron. Very sweet moment. Sawyer realizes how much he misses her. Of course, this ties in nicely with the Oceanic 6 portion of the episode with us getting that infamously cheesy (at the time) line of Kate's "This baby is all of ours." I believe I referred to that line last season when we found out Kate was raising Aaron for the first time. Clearly, they wanted us to hear it again!
• Here's my question, Jin and Charlie were hiding behind a few trees or bushes when this all happened too, how did Sawyer not run into them? (I know, there's no mystery here and it was probably a casting thing since Dominic isn't on the show anymore but still!)
• But as Sawyer is enjoying the sweet moment, they Flash again. It's daytime again Sawyer is all choked up. Locke asked who/what he saw and Sawyer continues to be in denial. He asks later acknowledging that they both knew when they were. (see "Locke explains hatch story above")
• Note: Kate and Claire did not notice the flashes, and while we know they were using footage from season 1, this is probably indicating to us that only the ones doing the time jumping are witnessing the flashes.
• Our Left Behinders (thank God someone came up with a term to call these people since they're not all 815 Survivors!) arrive at the beach and the camp is there. But they can tell it's been deserted for awhile. (Sorry, Sawyer - the DHARMA beer is all gone!)
• Sawyer calls out for Rose and Bernard and anyone else that are still around. (at least they acknowledged them!) Locke finds Vincent's leash but no Vincent. Where is everyone? And the Zodiac is gone. hmmmm As they're wondering why their people may have taken the boat somewhere, Miles notices 2 large canoes (Crew Boats? I don't know what they're called!)
• The boats look old, but there is a bottle of water with a new airline label: Ajira Airlines. Well it's only new if you haven't been following along during the off-season with the teasers from the trailer. We've known about the "created for LOST" website since the fall of 2008. Juliet recognizes the brand and informs everyone that Ajira is an airline based out of India but flies all over the world. Is this how the Oceanic 6 get back? Or is it how someone else gets there? Perhaps Charles Widmore? I have some ideas about this which I'll save for the questions section below.
  
• Gotta love Sawyer asking Juliet if the boats belong to "OTHER OTHERS" She is unaware.
• Locke decides that they need to get moving before these people come back. They all get in one of the boats and start heading towards the Orchid.
• Miles is complaining about all of the rowing and the couple hours it's going to take.
• Sawyer confides in Juliet that he saw Kate. They know it was 2 months ago. "Time Travel is a bitch!" Sawyer rocks.
• The conversation gets interrupted by gun fire. They are being chased in the other boat by these new attackers. As Juliet begins to fire back, they begin to Flash again leading to another great Sawyer line "Thank you Lord!"
• They flash into a major storm which leads to Sawyer screaming "I take that back!" Ahh good times. Wait, so the boat went with them? I know the zodiac went with them in the first episode. I guess when Juliet says whatever you have with you moves with you includes things that weren't necessarily with them the first time they leaped. I guess that makes sense since Locke had the compass. But can you imagine being in the other boat and then just seeing the people and their boat just vanish? Hmmm I guess that boat leaving that time period doesn't mess up any future events. crazy.
• They paddle towards the shore and decide to wait until it gets light to move on.
• Sawyer and Juliet finish their conversation. They have a sweet moment. Sawyer says he close enough to touch her, could've if he wanted to. Juliet asks why didn't he? "What's done is done" (what Locke told him) So is this course correction at work or are they really not trying to interact with their past? For now we'll assume the latter.
• Sawyer notices that Juliet is now getting the nosebleed too. Uh oh. It's all making sense with the duration thing, but they better get moving!
• Charlotte notices some wreckage on the beach and that it looks recent. Locke notices a canister with French text on it! The text says "BESIXDOUZE" which is french for B612. Apparently this is the name of an asteroid in "The Little Prince!" Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out WHEN they are and who these people are! wait for it.....
  

Viva la France

We return to the Ocean where there is a liferaft and about 6 unrecognizeable French people on it. In particular, one woman. They come across a man lying on debris in the water and pull him in. Woaaaa

• It's JIN!!!!!! He's a live! Well, we already kinda figured that as most of us voted that he never died in the first place on our Season 4 finale poll. But still awesome payoff! He was rescued by french people! (I know I'm keeping the bigger payoff for a few bullets as if we didn't know who they were already) I wonder if we'll see how he escaped the freighter. And has he been floating in the water all of this time? It's hard to keep track of how much time has passed from the Time Traveler's perspective. And I wonder if he was still on the freighter when it blew but the Island wouldn't let him die? Remember Tom asked Michael if the bullet bounced off of his skull or if the gun just jammed when he tried to kill himself? Maybe this means that Jin could've been on the boat when it exploded!
  


• Anyway when they get to the beach, we start hearing some names being dropped. Among them Robert and Mantaun! (shown here respectively)
  
• Note that we transition from the scene where Sun is about to Kill Ben for Jin's death to Jin being alive and back on the Island.
• Now, I'm sure not everyone recalls hearing those names way back in season 1. But the woman comes up to Jin and determines he speaks a little English. They start asking how he got here. He explains he was here by Boat. Jin doesn't know how long he's been in the water. He explains the boat sank.
• The woman takes off her jacket and we see she's pregnant (okay, is there anyone that hasn't figured it out by this point?)
• Jin introduces himself. And the woman introduces herself as Danielle Rousseau. Woaaaaaaaaaaaaa
  

BOOM LOST!!!!!

Holy crap! I mean, I know I wrote in the blog before that I'm sure our time travelers would run into Rousseau and her crew in the past and that's how we'd get their backstory but WOW! That was awesome! They rescued Jin! How great is that?! And we met Mantaun! You know, Rousseau explains to Sayid how Mantaun lost his arm. I'm not all about gore and violence all of the time, but we need to see that dude lose his arm! What a great 1-2 punch of a payoff with finding out Jin's alive and that we're in the past when Rousseau arrived, still pregnant with Alex! That's fantastic. I'm super psyched for next week's episode!

Okay, before we close up, I have some analytical thoughts from what we saw in this episode.

Questions:

• Will the oceanic 6 reappear with Locke's corpse as soon as Island Locke gets OFF of the island? Will spinning the Donkey wheel again move the Island to the point in the future where Ms. Hawking is determing it will be in 70 hours? And does that mean Locke gets sent to the future from his perspective, but in the past from the Oceanic 6's current perspective? How crazy will that be that 3 years would pass for them off of the Island but only a few days would've passed on the Island from the Left Behinder's perspective? What if they bring Aaron and Walt with them and they're super big compared to how old they were before? And will Sun bring Ji Yeon with her? How will she? I think Ji Yeon is still in Korea!
• I rewatched a video on youtube with the producers from December and there was a question about the runway that the Others were building. The question was about if they expected something to land there or take off. Their answer said that the runway will be prominently featured in season 5. Hmmm...I wonder if the Ajira Airlines plane lands there at some point in the future when it's complete? And I wonder who is on that plane? Could it be our Oceanic 6 plus Ben and anyone else? Well then who on earth was shooting at them? Additional passengers on the plane? What about Charles Widmore? Maybe he returns to the Island via Ajira Airways and his crew are the ones shooting at them?
• Will people only remain sick while the Oceanic 6 stay away? Why did Rousseau never get sick being on the Island for 16 years? What happened to her crew? We know they got the sickness and Rousseau killed them. But was it tied to traveling via boat to get there like we previously thought? Or did someone from her crew leave the Island that wasn't supposed to which caused them all to get sick? I find it unlikely that someone left the Island. But this all has to tie together somehow. Speaking of which, were Desmond's nosebleeds of similar nature even though he was consciousness time traveling? He had been on the Island for a long duration too. But then how do you explain Minkowski (freighter communications guy) and his nosebleeds and eventual death due to just being in close proximity to the Island via boat? I wonder about all of this because what if Jack and crew return and they all plan to stay there forever. Will they be worried about getting sick or will the Island return to "normal" because they are back? The OTHERS have been there quite some time and don't seem to be affected at all. Lots of random thoughts I know.
• Oh, and do we think seeing Dan way back in the 70's during the building of the Orchid station is tied to their current mission to get to the Orchid station? I'm guessing that would be an affirmitive!

I think I have lots more questions, but we'll leave it at that for now. Awesome episode, can't wait to watch again. Can't wait to discuss! Hope you enjoyed my ramblings and see you next week! (brush up on your French!) NAMASTE!

Thanks again to lost.cubit.net (AKA Sledgeweb) for always providing fantastic screenshots on your site for me to "BORROW!" My blog wouldn't be nearly as exciting without them!

LOST: Season 5 Episode 3 - Jughead

Hello fellow Losties! Well, I can't lie. That was one crazy episode. But even in the crazy time travel world of LOST, it all seemed to be making sense by the end. And you gotta love an episode of Season 5 LOST when we get to see a QUANTUM LEAP! (I know I know, me calling it that is getting old! I know we are supposed to call them "Flashes"). Lots of juicy tidbits dropped in this one and some nice plot movement. Plus, it was a Desmond-centric story. What's not to like?! Well, for one thing, it's hard to watch the Island story progress with only Sawyer and Locke on the Island from the original cast, unless you count Rose too. (come to think of it, they're the only 2 characters from the original cast featured in this episode). But, it's a necessity to tell the overall story. And we're told, the story does move quickly this season. So we'll just have to see when they are all reunited!

Even with all the confusion going on, I still enjoyed my hour in LOST-Land, and I give the episode a bonafide WOW! (but yeah, only one exclamation mark!)

Let's dive into the story. So the episode is called Jughead, and while he's the main sidekick in the Archie comics, and it's the name of an awful Gulf War movie where the only memorable thing is Jamie Fox saying "Hoo Rah!," we don't find out why the episode is called that until closer to the end of the episode. And it has nothing to do with a person! We continue Desmond's story in this episode after he received the memory and gets his mission to find Daniel Faraday's mother at Oxford (although we already have suspicions on who this might be! Even further confirmed tonight.) And I guess after 2 episodes now, we see how they're going to incorporate Flashbacks this season. Hurley got one flashback to the Oceanic 6's initial moments off the island. Now Desmond got one flashback to what he's been up to since he has left the island. I like this idea. And since they opened with the flashback, it doesn't get confusing with jumping from Present Day to Island Time the entire episode. Speaking of the Island Story, we pick up right where we left off after the flaming arrow attack at some point in the distant past. Here we go!

Desmond

We start off with a Desmond flashback from some point after he got off the Island and was with Penny. Still living on Jack's mantra "Don't let him find you Desmond." We learn that Penny gave birth to a child, and the name is withheld from us until closer to the end of the episode. In the present day, Desmond, Penny and Son are approaching the U.K. in search of Faraday's "Mum." (I had to throw in a little English twang for you!) Penny is worried about her father finding them. Desmond is determined to help his Island friends. He returns to Oxford and there is no record of Daniel Faraday ever working there. He breaks into Daniel's secret Physics lab (ahhh memories from "The Constant") and we get to reminisce on the big scene with Eloise the rat, Daniel with the mullett, and Desmond with the consciousness time travel disease! Some mysterious janitor dude came and basically knew what experimentations were going on in the room (even though he didn't believe Faraday could actually send "brains through time") and tipped off Dez on a human guinnea pig of Daniel's that he put in a vegetative state (Theresa). He follows the lead to Theresa's residence and finds out some interesting developments with Charles Widmore. The rest we'll save for the bullets!

Flashback

• Not much to dwell on here, except we know that Dez and Penny were hiding out in the Phillipines because we had a flash of the flag and the word Mabuhay which Wikipedia tells me is a common greeting in the Phillipines.
  
• As for the time of this event, it must've been soon after they left the Island (like 9 months) because that boy is getting big in the present day! Dez and Penny didn't waste any time!

Present Day

• As they were approaching the "Island" of the Great Britain. Desmond was telling his boy stories of a Special Island that he never thought he'd see again that had Mountains and Monsters, etc... I'm sure it was just meant to draw mini-comparisons. But you have to wonder if Dez is starting to get a little "homesick" about the Island too. He still seems pretty determined to never return to the Island though as he tells Penny.
• Penny doesn't seem to be on board with Desmond's desire to return to the area where Charles Widmore resides, but she loves that crazzy Scot too much to not let him follow his time traveling memories.
• The question was asked, that I wanted to know the answer to, of why Desmond suddenly got the memory 2 days ago. Naturally, Desmond said that he didn't know how it worked. But at least they addressed it, and maybe there will be more on this.
• After the wild goose chase at Oxford and Dez got the tip that Faraday did "bad stuff" to this Theresa, Desmond visited their house and met Abigail and Theresa Spencer. Abigail (the sister) is not a big fan of Daniel Faraday's who skipped town right after he put Theresa in this vegetative state.
  
• Abigail made some interesting comments like Theresa is "away right now." And that Theresa was talking to their father who had died 5 years before.
• Okay, so I'm guessing Daniel zapped Theresa with his violet time-travel taser (the one he zapped Eloise the rat with). So perhaps Theresa is consciousness time traveling as well (and everyone else thinks she's nuts). Here's the thing. Desmond was barely going to last a day when he started going back and forth through time. For Theresa it's been "AT LEAST" 3 years, but when did Daniel flee to the United States before he was recruited for the Freighter? Crazy. I guess this could also be attributed to the effects being different for each individual.
• The other thing is, now Theresa is talking to dead people and she's never even been to the Island. Hmmm Do we think the Ghosts on and off the Island are related to all of this Time nonsense? It's a stretch, but why would they have thrown that line in there?
• Oh yes, and we also learn that Charles Widmore has been funding Daniel's experiments and has been keeping Theresa alive. Does Widmore know how to sustain a person in this condition? Perhaps! But the main thing is, Desmond knows who he needs to confront next.
• Desmond storms into Widmore's office and refuses to answer any questions. To Dez's surprise though, all Charles cares about is keeping his daughter safe. (remember, he was visited by Ben last season, who is on a mission to kill Penny)
• Desmond wants the location of Faraday's mother. Eventually Widmore gives it to him (Los Angeles). Widmore warns Dez that this war over the Island has been going on for a long time and doesn't concern Dez and especially Penny. "Deliver your message and go!"
• Widmore also mentions that Faraday's mother will not be happy to see Desmond as she is a private person. Hmmm, well we speculated that Ms. Hawking could be Daniel's mother. And now that we know Widmore knows her and the fact that she is in Los Angeles, it sure is looking like it's going to be Ms. Hawking. Another thing that ties it together is that apparently in the re-airing of last week's 2nd episode "The Lie" with the clues coming up in pop up text, they provided Ms. Hawking's first name --> Yup, it's Eloise!!! (the same as the time traveling rat!) We will get to more on this in a bit.
• Here's the big concern though, Desmond is running right into a trap and bringing reluctant Penny along for the ride. Because we know who is working with Ms. Hawking, yes it's the very same Benjamen Linus that wants to KILL Penny. Dum dum dummmmmmm
• But, even though Desmond tried to forget about his quest, Penny saw right through it and told him that the 3 of them are headed to Los Angeles.
• The other big reveal? A touching moment when Desmond calls his child Charlie for the first time. awwwwwww That's right, the same Charlie who sacrificed his life to bring Desmond and Penny back together. That was nice.
  
• And I'm only going to write this theory here because I want it noted that I thought about it if the producers ever decide to do something this crazy and wacky (although I don't think they will!). What if this child holds more significance in the scheme of things. And since Desmond is all about the time travel. What if baby CHARLIE is none other than Charles Widmore, who ends up on the Island and grows up to be the so-called evil person that he is today? That is kind of sick and diluted. I would've said what if he is actually Charlie Pace, but we met Charlie's parents! I don't think they'd mess with the storyline that much, but there are lots of Charlie's to go around, so I thought I'd go all crazy theory on you for a second!
• Here's the other thing, IF Faraday's mother does indeed turn out to be Ms. Hawking, what is her relationship to Charles Widmore? If he is still in touch with her, does he know that Ben Linus is also in cahoots with her? Also, who would be Faraday's father? And was he raised in the U.S.? Because he doesn't have a British accent! More on Ms. Hawking when we get to the next topic.
• Update: Forgot to mention that Desmond FORGOT what year he had originally met Dan. Even though he knew before that it was an 8 year difference between 2004 and his current self at the time which was 1996. Is this similar to Charlotte forgetting her mother's maiden name?

Island

Alright, back to the crazy time trippy Island. We're still stuck in a time that seemed to be circa 1950's (which we'll confirm in this episode) based on the military uniforms our captives were wearing. When everyone ran from the flaming arrow attack, everyone was intended to rendevous at the creek or something. Only Dan, Charlotte, Miles and Redshirt show up. They run into a landmine/Rousseau-like trap and Redshirt 815er guy blows up. DUH!!! Saw that coming a mile away. (Really, how many survivors are left from that initial crash?? I wonder if they're keeping track) They are captured by a bunch of the Island's inhabitants for that time, mainly a British woman. Dan assimilates himself into the mindset of that time frame and offers his help to dismantle a "bomb" of the Island's latest visitors. Meanwhile, Sawyer, Juliet and Locke are questioning the 2 men they've captured. They turn out to be "THE OTHERS!" Drama ensues...


Team Faraday

• Before their capture, Charlotte's sickness symptoms seem to be getting worse. She tells Dan that she has double vision and is constantly dizzy. Dan is determined not to let anything happen to her. Hmmm does he know something we don't?
• After "The Others" capture Dan and crew we get some revealing information. Crazy Miles has some run-ins with "Fresh Graves" of 4 U.S. Soldiers, one of which died of Radiation poisoning. The interesting thing is Dan asks if any of them TOLD Miles what year it was. Hmmm, okay, time travel expert asking about Ghosts "talking" to Miles. Anyone else thinking of our new friend Theresa in England? And I guess we have to keep wondering why Miles can sense the dead everywhere. Was he indeed baby Chang that we saw in the season premiere? Time will tell.
• We get to the Other's Camp which is comprised of lots of Tents. I guess this is how they lived before they ransacked the DHARMA barracks. Of course, we've seen them living in tents before when they left the barracks upon John Locke's advice to get more in touch with the Island.
  
  
• Apparently, "The Others" think that Dan, Charlotte and Miles were with these U.S. Soldiers that were doing experimentation on the Island. That's right the U.S. was doing Hydrogen Bomb testing in the South-Pacific in the 50's. We find out that the soldiers left behind an unstable device capable of destroying the whole Island.
• Dan decides their best chance of survival is to play the part and hope that the next "FLASH" happens soon. Which apparently could happen in 5 minutes or 5000 years. (Yikes)
• Dan somehow earns the "OTHERS" trust by saying they were scientists with the U.S. Military and because he is in love with Charlotte and that he'd never hurt her. Yeah, because that would convince me to trust someone with dismantling an H-Bomb! I guess it's no matter because Charlotte at the line right up!
• So, I guess the Island is back in the South Pacific? We know that the Island has moved to at least 2 other locations at some point....off the coast of Nigeria, and somewhere in the Indian Ocean when the Black Rock suddenly was shipwrecked in the middle of the Island. How long they stayed in those locations? We're not quite sure. Oh well, I'm sure they'll touch on this eventually!
• Richard (have I mentioned him yet in this blog?) informs Dan that there was a battalion of 18 U.S. Soldiers. They tried to assimilate them into "The Others" but when they refused they were forced to kill them. Richard mentions he follows a chain of command. Hmmmm Jacob? Or their current leader at the time?
• Update: I totally messed this one up. The Battalion was setting up camp around them and THE OTHERS asked them to leave the Island. When they refused, THAT is when they were "forced to kill the US Soldiers"

Team Locke

• A little bit of discussion happens with Locke/Sawyer/Juliet about "WHEN" they are and have been and Locke almost telling them he got shot by Ethan. But in the good ol' tradition of LOST, Juliet cuts off the conversation to avoid showing all of the characters catch up"ON-SCREEN"
• We find out from Juliet that "The Others" speak Latin. Why? Well, it's "Others 101" of course!
• Juliet tries to reason with "Jones" and "Cunningham" (the name tags on their stolen U.S. Uniforms) in Latin. Even drops Richard's name to try and have a peaceful resolution. Cunningham agrees, and Jones snaps Cunningham's neck and runs off.
• Sawyer tells Locke to shoot, and Locke doesn't. Why? "He's one of my people." That crazy John Locke!
• Anyway, Locke uses his tracking skills to follow Jones to "The Other's" camp. (He's on a mission to find Richard after he got directions from "Richard of the future!")
• Locke asks Juliet how old Richard is. The response - "OLD" Well, that didn't give us many answers. Buuuut, how old is "ooooold?" Could Richard have been with the Black Rock crew? Or even have been there longer? 4-toed statue longer? And why on earth doesn't he age? I want answers!!!!
• Update: After 2nd watch, Juliet said that Richard has "always been here" Always is a lengthy period of time!
• Anyway, Sawyer puts a little bit of humor into the situation dismissing Locke's idea to go walking into the camp and decides to put his faith with "the real person that is going to save us" That's right, Daniel "The Geek" Faraday! He sees him being led away by gunpoint by the british woman.
• Sawyer and Juliet decide to follow them. Locke continues into the Camp.

Jughead

• Jones returns to the camp just as Dan and British Woman are leaving. He informs Richard of the situation. He calls the British Woman, Ellie. hmmmmmm
• As Dan and Ellie begin their walk to the bomb, Dan stares at Ellie and swears that she looks very familiar. Based on the conversation and how Dan spoke of her as if she was a past love, I thought it might be this Theresa girl. I can't take credit for the theory I'm about to share as it was on Sledgeweb's site. But since we know Ms. Hawking's name is Eloise, and now this girl's name is Ellie, and she looks FAMILIAR to Dan.....hmmmm could it be Ellie Hawking?!!! I mean, check out the pictures, and re-watch her mannerisms during the episode. And it would make sense since we know that Widmore and Ms. Hawking know each other AND that he is funding Daniel's "Time-Travel" research. I mean, this could be one of those chicken-egg things because Daniel will eventually tell Ellie that he is from 50 years in the future. Perhaps, this is what gets Ms. Hawking all into Time-Travel in the first place, thus getting Dan into it as well? woaaaaaa
  


• Eventually Dan and Ellie get to to the H-Bomb. And yes, it's called "JUGHEAD!" Apparently, there was a real "Jughead" experiment with Hydrogen Bomb testing. You can read all about it here.
  


• After inspection, Dan informs Ellie what "The Others" need to do with the bomb. Bury it and fill it with Concrete. Hmmmmm sound familiar? Yep, remember the Swan Hatch? (you know the one where Desmond pushed the button). Sayid inspected the hatch and noticed that there was an entire area surrounded by concrete. Perhaps, DHARMA built the station close by to the bomb? They mentioned an "incident" on the orientation video, could it have been tied to this? I figured that DHARMA would've surrounded the bomb with concrete after the Incident. But maybe it went down a little differently. And where does Electro-magnetism come into play? Ohhh...aaaandddd maybe this means that Desmond WAS exposed to Radiation AND Electro-magnetism when the hatch blew (sending him off on his time-travel adventures). I mean, it's way too coincidental not to be hatch related! I mean, think of the sign that said QUARANTINE on the hatch door too. Crazy!!
• Sawyer and Juliet show up to rescue Dan from Ellie who isn't buying into this whole time travel thing. Best line of the night: Ellie - "Are they from the future too?" Sawyer (to Dan) - "You told her????" Ahhh good stuff!

Locke/Richard

• So Locke enters the Others' Camp and tells Richard the magic words "Jacob sent me" Jones still wants to shoot. Richard then calls Jones by his real name......"WIDMORE!!!"
  
• Okay, I know it was pretty obvious, but you guys gotta hand it to me on that one. Once I heard the British accent last episode, I knew we were witnessing a young Charles Widmore! Now we know Charles was with "THE OTHERS!" He also has informed Ben that the Island was once HIS and it will be again. So this goes with my older theory that maybe Charles was the leader of the Others PRIOR to Ben. Although, it does not look like he's the leader just yet.
• Also, this helps with the Ms. Hawking theory as well. Ellie and Charles were on the Island at the same time and appeared to be the same age. That would mean they'd probably be about the same age in 2007 (yep 3 years after 2004). And that fits the bill for Charles and "Eloise Hawking" Ahhh good stuff!
• Anyway, it was great to see Locke's reaction to meeting Charles Widmore. Because it indeed is the first time they have met. Who knew it would be in 1954?
• Okay, so the big discussion between Locke and Richard occurs. The one that future Richard (how far in the future? we don't know) knew was going to happen. Locke gives Richard the Compass, tells Richard that Locke was appointed their leader.
• Richard explains that recruiting a leader is an extensive process that starts at childhood. Locke tells Richard the date he was born. May 30, 1956. NIIIIIICE! We saw Richard in John Locke's birth flashback last year! So Richard then finds out John was telling the truth!
• So remember the theories when we thought Richard was lookin for Locke and found Ben instead because their mothers both had the same name? Emily? I wonder if that can still be in play. But this definitely factors into the Others telling Locke that they've been waiting a "LONG" time for him. Except that it was Cindy (the Oceanic 815 flight attendant) that told him that! Hmmmm....who IS Cindy exactly??
• Anyway, Locke wanted to find out how to leave the Island and Richard refused to tell Locke because it was privledged information. I'm guessing he'll run into Richard at another point in time as well.
• It also is important to note that Richard did not seem to have knowledge on the concept of Island Time Travel at that point in time. For being such an OLD man, you'd think he would have if it happened before. Maybe it didn't?
• Another thing....where did the Compass come from? Richard gives the compass to Locke in the future, but Locke gives the compass to Richard in the past. So who had it first? And does this tie into the other Flashback with Richard and Boy Locke when he lays all of the stuff in front of him, including the compass? He asked "Which of these belonged to you"? Well, Locke did take the sand and the compass...but he also took the knife. We still don't know why Richard got so frustrated with the Knife!
• And of course, before Locke could get any information out of Richard....our Time Travelers FLASHED out of 1954 (they couldn't throw us a Back to the Future bone and make it 1955 could they??!)
  

The Flash

And thus we are whisked away to another time. All of our Time Travelers seemed to be close by to each other. (I guess Dan, Sawyer and crew weren't too far away?) So when are we now? Does the hatch exist at this point? It would be nice to see if they are indeed near where the hatch was built. Anyway, apparently, the flash didn't sit well with Charlotte because she got even worse, and the nosebleed is out of control. She collapses to the ground unconscious and our Time Leapers rush to her side.

BOOM LOST!!!

Well, pretty crazy end for the episode. Here's a question, do we all care enough about Charlotte at this point to be concerned about her well being as a Cliffhanger into the next episode? Or is it more that we want to know about the crazy Island Sickness? Maybe a little of both. So, lots of theories were able to be expanded from this episode (Widmore, Hawking, Hatch).

It looks like from the previews Sawyer says he sees Kate. So we might start to run into the 815ers after they crashed. Perhaps we'll get to revisit Boone, Charlie, Shannon, etc... at some point! Is Dan right about not being able to alter the future? Will we be putting it to the test? (from the Producers' comments, it sounds like that might be the direction we're heading)

One thought to leave you all with. Where on earth are Rose and Bernard? Even if the majority of the 815ers bit the dust, I'm sure we need to find out where they are! Granted, we know the 2 actors that play them are only recurring characters and not full-time. But come on! At least explain it. I have faith that they will.

So I guess that's it for this week. Lots of great comments and new readers last week. Keep it up! Let's get to discussing and I'll see you next week! NAMASTE!

Thanks again to lost.cubit.net (AKA Sledgeweb) for always providing fantastic screenshots on your site for me to "BORROW!" My blog wouldn't be nearly as exciting without them!

LOST: Season 5 Episode 1 - "Because You Left"/ Episode 2 - "The Lie"

Welcome back Losties! Is it me or did it seem like forever since the season 4 finale? The craziest thing is that the length of time between season 4 and 5 was a few weeks less than that between season 3 and 4! And you would think that me talking about TIME between seasons is pointless. But my friends, TIME takes on a whole new meaning in the world of LOST! As we have suspected and feared for quite some time now, LOST has headed into the dangerous world of Time Travel! I've always feared that this is where the masses were going to get confused and too frustrated with the show. We've been treated to some time-related episodes in the past couple of seasons through Desmond's stories ("Flashes Before Your Eyes" and "The Constant" which are 2 of the best episodes of the show!) as well as Ben ("The Shape of Things to Come"/ "There's No Place Like Home") but now everyone on the Island is dealing with the effects. I guess when you're dealing with a confusing show such as LOST already and you're heading very close to the END GAME, then all bets are off! The story needs to be told and there can be no more dancing around! So naturally, my head is already spinning and I have tons of questions. But, that's why we have a blog here folks! Everyone brace yourselves because we're in for quite a ride! As for the first 2 episodes of the season? WOW!!!! LOST is back!

The new format of the show is pretty much how we assumed it would work at the end of last season. Since we have characters in two different locations (and times), we keep going back and forth from each storyline. So, this is a shift from the character-based stories of the past where each character would get their own episodes to shine. But, I wouldn't necessarily rule out the character driven stories from this season just yet. Let's get into the episodes. I've recapped both episodes individually as best as I can below!

Episode 1 - Because You Left

The season 5 premiere, like the season 4 premiere, doesn't waste any time picking up right where we left off. (Credit this to the defined end date and shorter seasons where as in season 2 and 3 premiere's they milked this stuff into 3-6 episodes!) We find out what happened to everyone on the Island after the Oceanic 6 left and we continue following the Oceanic 6 in events following where we last saw them in the finale. But first things's first, it wouldn't be a season premiere without some trickery in the opening sequence!

Opening:
We open up on a clock turning from 8:14 to 8:15am. We follow a man around his home very similar to following Desmond around in season 2 and Juliet around in season 3. We see his wife and child. He plays a Vinyl Record that begins to skip (sorry kids I don't know the song, but that's what the comments section is for! Updated: Willie Nelson's "Shotgun Willie"!! ) And before we know it, it is revealed that the man is none other than our favorite DHARMA Orientation guy, Marvin Candle (or take your pick of every other name he goes by).

• First of all, who didn't catch on that it was him? I'm not complaining, I still loved it! We went way back in time for this one.
• FYI - Marvin's other names are Mark Wickmund and Edgar Halliwax all representing some kind of part of a candle. But at this year's Comic-Con there was a video with him revealing his real name was Pierre Chang. Also during that Comic-Con video, I read somewhere (I think ew.com) that we should listen to the camera man and we might be able to hear a familiar voice! (hmmmm I wonder if we'll be seeing the filming of this video this season with a certain someone we saw back in that time period!)
  
  
  
• Notice I said that we saw Chang's Baby. Does this mean the baby was born on the island? Remember that crazy storyline about women conceiving on the Island would meet their doom before childbirth? Perhaps this was a recent development. I believe we had discussed this before, but this seemed to confirm it. Unless Chang took his wife off of the Island for some time.
  
• We learn in the Orientation Film for The Arrow (AKA the station where the Tail Section made camp and where Sawyer, Jin and Michael were eventually taken to meet Bernard) that the purpose of the station is to develop defensive strategies and gather intelligence against the island's hostile environments. Smoke Monster anyone? The Natives/Others perhaps?
  
• The video filming is interrupted because there is an issue at the Orchid Station, which is still being constructed! How awesome was that?! Anyway, some mining dude, down in the "DEEP" (as Ben referred to it) Depths of where the REAL Orchid station would go, was telling Chang how they found some kind of ancient wheel (the frozen donkey wheel!). Apparently the drill melted when they got near it. If you recall in the season 4 finale, the Orchid Station blocked off the path to the Donkey Wheel with the video giving explicit instructions to NOT put Metal in the Space/Time chamber. Chang seemed determined to not mess with that wheel as they wanted to harness the energy of the island to maniuplate time. Nice joke from Mining guy about wanting to go back and kill Hitler. All to reinforce the point that there are Rules that can't be broken. So perhaps we know for sure now that the Rules that Ben/Widmore have referred to are TIME-related. Killing Alex was against the rules. Perhaps even the reason some people cannot die yet has to do with the rules of time. If the energy is released for any reason then Chang gave a line that we hear at the end of our 2 episode onslaught. "GOD HELP US" I can only assume that we were intended to make a connection between the two scenes (and we'll get to the other scene at the end of the blog!



• So during this whole scene between Chang and Mining Dude, they kept showing distinct holes in wall. Maybe I missed them explaining that behind those holes was the crazy Donkey Wheel. But I'm guessing they're of some significance.
• Ohhhh right, Daniel Faraday is hanging out back in time with mining gear on! We're not quite at the Islander's storyline yet, but I'm gonna guess he's on some kind of mission to get to that wheel to "FIX" something!
  

The Oceanic 6 and Ben

Jack and Ben
As stated before, events continue off-island right where they left off in the finale. Jack is still staring at Jeremy Bentham/Locke in the coffin. Ben is working on getting Locke into the van and Jack is sitting around feeling sorry for himself.

• Jack states that none of the other 5 are his friends anymore and wonders how this happened. This gives Ben the opportunity to state the episode name "It happened because you left Jack" Well....correct me if I'm wrong, but Ben was the one that LET them leave in the finale! Perhaps, he knew then that getting the 6 back on the Island was his ticket back onto the Island. He told Locke that you can never come back if you move the Island. I'm inclined to think that he may have told another classic fib.
• Their first man to recruit is Hurley because he's in the institution, they'll find out soon enough that may be more difficult than they first thought!
• The next scene shows Ben and Jack in a motel room (well that sounds worse than I intended it to!). You may have seen this scene as Teaser Clip #2 a few weeks back. Jack shaves off the beard (darn, I hope we get to see more of Awful Fake Bearded Jack!)
• The intended order of pick-up was meant to be Hurley, Sun, Sayid then Kate (and Aaron)
  Jack states that he changed his mind because Locke told him that Sawyer, Juliet and everyone else on the Island would die if he didn't come back.
• Oh and when Jack indicates that Locke didn't tell Jack what happened when the Island moved, what on earth does Ben mean by "Then I guess we'll never know"? If Ben's intention is to get back to the Island, don't you think someone would catch them up on what's been going on? (Assuming they arrive at the right time on the Island and all) You would think that is a throwaway line from Ben, but since their whole mission is to go back and save them, I'm not so sure I get it!
• The only other scene with Ben and Jack in episode 1 was with them seeing the news that Hurley fled the Mental Institution and is a suspect in the murder of the man parked outside (the one that Sayid killed). Oh boy!

Sayid and Hurley

We continue with Sayid and Hurley after they make their run from the Mental Institution to the safe-house. For some reason, Sayid did find time to get Hurley some food from the Rainbow Drive-In.

• Sayid mentions that he killed the man outside the Institution because he's not taking any chances after Bentham/Locke died.
• Loved Hurley's "I need a codename" line!
• Then we get to Teaser Clip #3 that was shown during the re-airing of season 4's finale last week. Sayid tells Hurley that he worked for Ben doing awful things and warned Hurley that if he ever ran into Ben to do exactly the opposite of what he tells him to do (FORESHADOWING!)
• Then the big fight sequence with Sayid throwing a man over the ledge of the 2nd floor motel/apt. balcony, then fighting the other guy in the room. It seemed Sayid had the dishwasher set-up for such an occassion with loads of sharp knives pointing upward. For even after Sayid got show with a tranquilizer, he was still able to take the guy and shove him down on the knives.
• Of course, Hurley gets seen holding a gun outside on the balcony in front of another dead body which raises his suspected Murder Tally to 3!
• And when you hear Hurley state that "we never should've left the Island" you get the false sense of hope that he will be an easy recruit for Jack and Ben.

Kate and Aaron

Teaser Clip #1 for season 5! The first 2 clips have been sitting on the Lost Addicts Blog homepage since December! But alas, I will sum up. Kate and Aaron are in their home. Aaron watching cartoons (any significance to the choo choo train? I'm not looking into it!). The doorbell rings.

• Why it's Dan Norton from Agnostini & Norton! They claim to be some crazy law firm who wants blood samples of Kate and Aaron to determine relation. They would not reveal who their client was. (any guesses? Ben and Widmore come to mind naturally. Maybe ol' Matthew Abbaddon who is moonlighting on FRINGE!)
• Bottom line, Kate finds a way to defer the blood samples and requests them to bring the sheriff with them. She gets her hidden stash of money, packs a bag and goes on the run with Aaron. I don't think we see Kate leave California in the first 2 episodes, but I wonder if this will come into play since part of her court settlement was to remain in the state for 10 years. I mean come on, they wouldn't have made that part of her settlement if it wasn't going to play a part!

Sun


We catch up with Sun at the airport booking an Oceanic Flight to Los Angeles. She's probably using that Gold Pass they got from the Oceanic Settlement. However, before she can get too far, she is brought into a room for anothe run-in with her new buddy.

• For all you numbers fans you can hear 8:15 over the PA in the first clip of Sun walking in the airport.
• Here's a shot of Sun's Passport for anyone to analyze. I got nothing!


• So the man who summoned Sun was none other than Charles Widmore who was a little peeved at Sun approaching him in broad daylight and in public. "I will be respected!"
• Sun reveals that their common interests are in killing Benjamen Linus! Looks like Sun did pinpoint the correct person to blame for Jin's "supposed" death. (Judging by our season finale poll, and Daniel Dae Kim's casting status this season (Season regular)...the man has to be alive! just has to!) I'm guessing that ol' Jeremy Bentham must have come to Sun and explained to her how the freighter blew up. Ben viciously stabbing and killing Martin Keamy even though he knew it would kill everyone on the freighter. Sun mentioned to her Dad that there are 2 people she blames for Jin's death. I assumed one of them was Sun's Dad, which it probably still is. But they led us to think something else in episode 2 for a second!
• Anyway, I'm guessing recruiting Sun won't be very easy considering Jack is working with Ben! And what if Jack is the other man Sun blames? I'm guessing not, based on what we find out in episode 2. But I have my own RULES to follow! We'll talk about that later in the blog!

Time Trippy Island happenings
(Starting at 3 Years ago)

Okay, I put this off as long as possible. Get ready to blow your mind! Once again, our Island tale resumes immediately when Ben moves the Island. When the crazy Island glow subsides, we see everyone looking exactly how they appeared a few seconds before, but their surroundings have changed (kinda). Sawyer notices that freighter smoke is gone. Locke is no longer with his fellow others but still in the same location of the island. Oh and the CAMP is gone!




Sawyer and Crew

• Sawyer goes ahead and catches Juliet up on why he left the chopper and they assume that anyone on it died in the freighter explosion. Sawyer clearly is torn up about Kate supposedly biting the dust but he does mention "all of his friends that ever meant anything" at some point in the 2 episodes. So he may even be upset about Jack as well. I'm guessing if Jin IS alive, he may get to tell them that the chopper left the freighter giving them some sense of hope. Or maybe Locke will break that news to them. I'm not so sure Jin would have been in the "RADIUS" of the moving Island.
• Speaking of Radius, we did see that Dan on the Zodiac Boat WAS within the Radius. And thank the Lord, Frogurt was on the boat!
• Before you cry Nikki/Paolo on the Lost writers/producers, Frogurt (Neil) actually has been a mentioned character since season 1 (oops Season 2 - Here's some history of Frogurt.) And while he never was shown in an actual episode of LOST before, he was featured in one of the MOBI-SODES prior to season 4. I mean, can you blame the producers for putting them in there? They took 7 of the characters we know and love off of the Island this season (and 8 if you count Locke's dead body!). I'm guessing we'll see more of Rose and Bernard on the island too because we need to see people on the Island we know or else what's the motivation to come back and save them??!
• So we eventually get a reunion of the 3 remaining Freighter folk, Sawyer, Juliet, Rose, Bernard, and the rest of the survivors represented by Frogurt. By the way, Sawyer never interacted with Daniel before so this led to some entertaining spats. Oh and yes ladies, Sawyer was shirtless for the entire 1st episode, and you can thank Daniel for that since he wouldn't give up his shirt. (okay...why on earth would Daniel take his shirt off and give to Sawyer? Wouldn't that just make HIM shirtless? Oh well...still funny.)
• Before we get to complex stuff...love the new nicknames from Sawyer -> Wiz Kid for Dan, Ginger for Charlotte.
• Okay, so the LOST Team isn't treading on this time travel stuff lightly. Dan will serve as our guide through these trials and they will beat into us how Time Travel works on LOST (even though they did beat this into us in various episodes before) There are some new wrinkles though. After Dan gets slapped by Sawyer after claiming he couldn't explain the situation to another Physicist let alone him, Daniel decides to try and explain.
• Daniel tells the crew to picture the Island as a record on a turntable, but picture it skipping (kinda like it did with Chang literally in the beginning of the episode). He said somehow when the Island was moved they may have become dislodged from time. woaaaaa huh? He then goes on to say that either the Island is moving or THEY themselves are actually moving through time. I guess we are to assume that they themselves are the ones moving. Is the Island moving too? or did it just move once? (we know it disappeared!) I'm just not sure how the people would move back and forth through time and STILL have to deal with SPACE as well. The environments on the Island are changing to how they were during the TIME that our time travelers were. The people that were on the Island at that time are there too. So I'm confused to how the Island could be moving WITH our time travelers since it had to be wherever it was at that time. Does that make sense? But at the same time, the Island DID disappear from the spot that it was in the season 4 finale, so it did move at least once! Where did it move? WHEN did it move? I'm sooooooo confused!
• Anyway, for some reason, it's only the Oceanic Survivors, Juliet and the Freighter 3 that are moving through time. Like I stated before, the people that were surrounding Locke stayed put. So this is bizarre in itself. I'm sure it has something to do with these people's destiny's and how they're not able to die yet until they accomplish something at some point in time. Perhaps it even will attribute to the various whispers we've heard in the jungle as the our Time Travelers are trying to avoid running in to themselves in the past!
• Okay, so Dan is using his trusty notebook and needs to figure out WHEN they are. He wants to find something Man-Made. So Juliet takes the crew to where the Swan Hatch used to be. Before they get to the hatch, I think they shift times to the future where the hatch is still non-existant. So they were on the Island at some point AFTER the Crash and the Hatch imposion. The Time Traveling crew is caught up to what Desmond was doing down there for 3 years before the Oceanic Crew took over.
• THEN the Island flashes again and the landscape changes (love when we catch Sawyer saying "Son of a....." while they are changing times!). The Hatch door is back (the one that Jack, Locke, Hurley and Kate blew open in season 1! (ahh memories!) So now they're at a time probably BEFORE the 815 crash.
• Sawyer immediately looks for the door to get some DHARMA supplies. This was a funny sub-plot as Sawyer didn't want to start over, making fires, hunting boar, etc...
• Daniel warns Sawyer of the reprecussions of running into Desmond who hasn't met Sawyer yet. Once again I'm confused. Didn't Desmond intentionally go to see Dan 8 years prior to them meeting, on Dan's request? Isn't the future supposed to course correct itself? So why would it matter if Sawyer ran into Desmond? I guess with Dan saying that the Island won't let Sawyer run into Desmon, that's supposed to be the explanation. Which would explain why Desmond in the yellow radiation jump suit didn't answer the door until they all left and Daniel tried alone.
• Daniel first consulted his notebook though...and I can only guess that he was looking at the page that said "If something goes wrong Desmond will be my Constant!"
• Quick sidenote - at some point Miles and Charlotte have a quick conversation to if Widmore is going to try and find them again. Miles notes that it took Widmore 20 years to find it the last time. I wonder if it had been 20 years since Charles Widmore has LEFT the island. And I wonder if that means we'll run into a younger Charles Widmore ON the Island during all this crazy time tripping. This also reminds me that this could be another way to get Rousseau's backstory since the Time Traveling crew may see it first hand!
• 2nd Sidenote - Charlotte is getting nosebleeds! Uh oh! Last nosebleed we saw was Desmond and Communications Guy on Freighter who died! (why am I forgetting his crazy name?) Dan looks concerned but comforts Charlotte into saying she's okay.
• Okay, so Daniel knocks on the hatch door and yellow suited Desmond answers. We get the classic "Are you him?" and a bunch of "brothaaaa"'s from Desmond. Meanwhile Daniel tells Desmond that he is the only one that can save them. He said that the "RULES" don't apply to Desmond (hmmmm). He gave his name and said to Go to Oxford and find my mother (I have a theory on who the Mom might be but stay tuned for the end of the recap)
• We'll get to the other end of this sequence after Locke's story!
  

Locke's Journey

• Okay so as I was saying earlier, when the Island initially moves, all of the Others that Locke is now in charge of disappear. I've lost track of how many times the Island or the Time Traveling crew moved, but Locke wandered around for awhile looking for some answers.
• So in the initial time after the island moved Locke witnessed the crash of the Nigerian Plane carrying Yemi and the Heroin! Woaaaaa
• We got an Answer to how did the Nigerian Plane ended up on the Island when the Island was in the south pacific? Because the Island moved to that location AND time for it to happen I'm guessing. Of course, I'm still confused at how only certain people are moving through time and if the island is moving locations at the same time, but I've already discussed that! But what if the Island moved once to off the coast of Nigeria, and then the Survivors + Other + Freighter 3 somehow got dislodged in time while the Island stayed put after the move? I know it makes no sense, but if Dan can't explain it to anyone, how am I supposed to?!
• Locke checks out the plane crash and it's back up at the top of the cliff over the Pearl Station, right where it used to be (anyone else think of Boone?)
• Locke began to climb up but then got shot down by none other than ETHAN! woaaaa Locke tries to explain that Ben put him in charge of the OTHERS and Ethan doesn't believe it for a second. And before it even matters, time changes again!
• This time we're at some point in the distant future (I'm guessing AFTER the Oceanic 6 have left). The plane was on the ground and Locke went inside of it. Richard comes to find Locke. Dress his wound and doesn't waste time explaining the following: At some point prior to that moment Locke is going to tell Richard that he's going to get shot and that Richard needs to come and fix him. Richard also informs Locke that he needs to leave the Island and bring back the people that left. It's the only way to SAVE the island. And to do this, he's going to have to DIE. Huh???? Are we getting into some Christian Motifs here? Well, that would make sense considering the last dead man in a coffin to come to the Island and walk around is "Christian Shepard!" (I think I made that sound terribly more ingenius than it really is!)
• Richard also gives Locke a Compass. It sure looks like the Compass that he showed Locke as a Boy when Locke took the knife. Now why would Richard give Locke a compass? Remember in season one when we found out the Compass didn't point North as they thought it would? I wonder if we need to keep that in mind going forward? Or if we already resolved that one with the large Magnetic presence on the island? Anyway, Richard said that the next time he runs into Locke he will not recognize him. Richard asked Locke to give him the compass when they next meet. Now what this has to do with the "Which of these BELONGED to you" scene when Locke was a boy? No idea.
• Time shifts again while Richard is talking and Locke is back in the past again with the Plane in the tree. (Anyone starting to get a Quantum Leap vibe here? Man I loved th show!

The Constant

So, as Dan is talking to Desmond on the Island, he begins to shift time and then we follow Desmond to the Off-Island future. He wakes up. Penny is there. He says he was on the Island. Apparently Desmond was suddenly infused with the memory of his conversation with Dan. (Does this mean that when Desmond talked to Dan in the past at Oxford he was suddenly infused with THAT memory?) And why would Desmond get the memory at THAT exact moment? They have been off the island for 3 years at that point? Oh well...it's a TV Show, I'm sure they have their ideas! I can't worry about it too much, because it was AWESOME! We find out that Desmond and Penny are living on a boat off the cost of somewhere nice. Must still be in hiding (remember Jack telling him "Don't let them (or him) find you" Anyway, Desmond tells Penny that he HAS to help his friends and that they're going to OXFORD!

BOOM LOST!

Great first episode, and it would've been enough to satisfy me for one week, but we still have another hour to go! (this one shouldn't be "AS" complicated to recap)

Episode 2 - The Lie

Oceanic 6/Ben

On Penny's Boat

We open up with what I guess can be considered a Flashback of the Oceanic 6 (before they officially became the Oceanic 6) discussing the plan on Penny's Boat "The Searcher."

• Basically this scene was to add more weight and explanation to the whole "LIE" that they kind of rushed into the season finale last year. Jack explains that while they are protecting the people left behind (from Widmore and goons who sent people there to kill them all) they also are protecting themselves from being seen as CRAZY. Who would believe in a land full of smoke monsters, others, word saving 1980 Computers, and disappearing Islands?
• Penny adds that there will be no way to call her father off the search.
• Frank makes an appearance! He says he'll go with the flow with whatever they decide.
• Everyone ends up being on board but Hurley is the last one they have to convince. Sayid does the convincing. Hurley tells him that he's going to remember this and someday when it's needed, he will not help Sayid. (Poor Hurley, he can never turn his back on a friend in need!)

Hurley (with knocked out Sayid)
Hurley is on the run and trying to figure out how to get Sayid conscious again (remember the tranquilizer?). He's driving them somewhere and gets pulled over by a cop (or so he thinks!)

• The cop is Ana Lucia! Yet another Ghost visiting Hurley. She gives instructions to Hurley on what to do. Get new clothes, get to someone you can trust. Oh and Libby says hi! Wait, so do these ghosts all gather somewhere to hang out? I'm guessing we won't get an answer to the visions until the final season. And I imagine it will be as bizarre an explanation as the Time Traveling Island and Inhabitants!
• Hurley pulls over at a convenience store, pops some shades on Sayid and heads into the store. Gets him an "I Heart Shiht-zu" T-shirt (yep can't spell it...but I always think of Dumb and Dumber when I think of that dog!). The cashier recognizes him and Hurley is on the TV as a 3 murder suspect. Not much here except suspense!
• Hurley takes Sayid to his parents' house and tries to get Cheech (errr Hurley's Dad) to help. The pressure of the lie begins to build on Hurley as he wants to confess.
• btw...Hurley's Dad is watching Expose' The favorite show within a show on LOST
• Hurley is too paranoid to take Sayid to a Hospital (See: Godfather) so he asks his father to take him to Jack. Stay tuned!
• Meanwhile Hurley stays behind with his mother and confesses the whole truth about the Oceanic Crash. Smoke Monsters, Others, Moving Island and all. And just when you think he'll be dismissed as truly crazy, Hurley's mother believes! Woaaaa...this happening to the same dude that whenever he said he had bad luck, everyone dismissed it!
• One more scene with Hurley, but we'll hold off for a sec!
  

Kate and Sun

Kate is in her car looking at a map and we see her looking into Beverly Hills or something. (I guess she wants to go see how Dixon is doing with Choir practice...man that reboot 90210 show is awful!) Anyway, she wants to call Jack but can't bring herself to do it (awwww). Instead she gets a call from an old friend. I was beginning to think it was Sawyer's Baby-Mama Cassidy, but nope...it was Sun, whom Kate goes to visit.

• Sun shows a picture of Ji Yeon and we find out that they must not have spoken since the Press Conference, as Kate didn't even know the baby's name.
• We get some pseudo flashbacks (aka clips from the finale) where we see Kate going after Jin, but then ending up back on the chopper. Right when we think Sun is going to name Kate as the 2nd person she blames for Jin's "Death" she says that they all probably would have died if she continued to go after Jin. She tells Kate she doesn't blame her. But then asks how Jack is! Now if you recall, Jack is the one that grabbed Kate and brought her back to the chopper. But again, I think Sun blames her father and Ben for Jin's "Death" And I wonder if when Sun encounters Ben and is ready to kill him, that Ben will have knowledge of Jin's whereabouts. He is always 10 steps ahead of everyone!
• ADDED -Whoops, forgot to mention that Kate told Sun about her issue with the people asking for the blood test. Sun stated that whoever it is does not want to expose the LIE. They want the baby! Hmmm....who could it be?

Jack

We begin with Jack and Ben packing up at the motel. Then they go their separate ways eventually.

• Ben tells Jack that he dumped his drugs. Loved that exchange "I was going to do the same thing" "Well I figured you were!" Great stuff!
• Ben tells Jack to go home and pack anything that you want from this world because you're never coming back to which Jack says "GOOD" Wow....Jack has really done a 180 since his quest to get everyone off of the island.
• Eventually we get to a point where Hurley's Dad brings Sayid to Jack. Cheech tells Jack to stay away from his son as Jack doesn't have Hugo's best interest's at heart. So Jack calls Ben and tells him about the situation!
• 1 Oceanic 6'er recruited - Jack revives Sayid and after some choking they are fine. Jack catches Sayid up to what happened with Hurley. Sayid asks if anyone else knows about the situation. Which I'm guessing leads to Jack totally catching Sayid up with the Benjamen Linus business. But this is the last we see from these 2 for this episode.

Ben

Ben is on a mission to put Locke's Corpse in storage until they're ready for it. He goes to a Butcher Shop and this is where we continue his story.

• Ben's Ticket at the butcher was 42. oooh numbers! Love me some numbers!
• We meet Jill the Butcher. She apparently knows Ben and knows who Locke is and what purpose he is to serve. Does she have any relation to the person at the end of the episode? Maybe. Anyway, she is going to watch Locke's corpse (I guess stick him in the meat locker?)
  
• There is also mentions of Gabriel and Jeffrey....hmmm who are they? Anyone we've met yet? But they're in on the plan too.
• The next we see Ben he pays Hurley a visit (after Jack's phone call). He explains to Hurley how they want to go back to the Island. He tries to convince him by telling Hurley that he'll never have to lie again. But Hurley remembers his friend's advice to do the opposite and he turns himself into the police admitting to the 3 murders. He does this with a smile on his face. And thus, Hurley becomes the most difficult person to get! (This show better not become PRISON BREAK!)

Island

We continue on the Island where we left off in the first episode with our Time Traveling crew settling into their new ways. They are back in the past with no camp. So we see them setting camp and trying to light fires (all to Sawyer's disgust!)

• We find out, as Sawyer puts on a shirt, that all of their belongings that they had with them are time traveling too. Huh???? This one I thought was kind of silly. But, hey whatever works. I'm not questioning the show at this point!
• Dan arrives back at the camp and says he needs to calculate where they are in time.
• There is more Frogurt to go around for everyone to enjoy!
• Charlotte's condition worsens as she gets continual headaches and is having trouble remembering things like her mother's maiden name. She suspects that Dan knows what is happening to her.
• At some point Miles went out to look for food and I think he brought a dead Boar back to feast on. He knew the boar was dead for 3 hours (probably more of his ultra-sensitivity to the Dead and Ghosts at work).
• Anyway, Neil/Frogurt starts flipping out and thankfully a flaming arrow strikes him in the heart. GOODBYE FROGURT! We hardly knew you or missed you!
• Of course, then a barrage of flaming arrows come their way. When exactly are they? It can't be too long ago, because I thought the plane was still on the cliff during the last LEAP (yep, I'm going with Quantum Leap terminology now). Anyway, there is a new threat on the island for them to deal with and we're not quite sure who they are yet!
• The last scene we see is Sawyer and Juliet in the jungle (I smell a new budding romance!) running into some military folk who are ask them what they're doing on THEIR Island. hmmmmm who are these people? My first guess would be whoever Charles Widmore was with back in his hey dey. But I'm still confused to WHEN they were if the Nigerian Plane was already on the island! (Commenters help!)
• Anyway just as we think all hope is lost for Sawyer and Juliet, Locke shows up with his knife and slaughters the two dudes. Ahhh and everyone is reunited again. UPDATE: After rewatching this, it looks like Locke didn't kill everyone. In particular, the man that was doing the talking was captured not killed. I'm even more convinced now that this guy is either Charles Widmore himself or that these military dudes are in some way related to Widmore.
• I think I've done enough time travel theorizing for one day and I'm sure we'll have plenty more to chew on in a 1 hour episode week!

Mrs. Hawking and Ben

Well, I guess we still have ONE more Time Travel subject. Back in the "PRESENT DAY" (or Oceanic 6 timeline), we see a cloaked woman typing on a computer, and watching a pendulum swing and mark some kind of crazy axis. She's writing formulas on a chalboard. We see a screen that says "EVENT WINDOW DETERMINED"

• And we find out it's none other than MRS. Hawking! (the woman from the Jewlery store who confronted Desmond in his "Flashes Before Your Eyes" episode, and also pictured with the Monk where Desmond studied to be a BROTHAAAAA!!!!
• So Mrs. Hawking DOES have a big role to play in this unwinding story. We always suspected she would!
• Anyway, this little techno/ancient area is in the basement of a Church where she has a discussion with ol' Benjamen Linus! She informs Ben that he has 70 hours to get them all back to the Island. Ben asks what if he can't get them ALL to go back at one time. Then she says the line that we opened up this 2 hours with "Then God Help Us All!"

BOOM LOST!!!!

Whew, I'm tired! That's a lot of writing for a short amount of time. Anyway, looks like even Ben has someone to report to. So who exactly IS Mrs. Hawking? She apparently can track the Island, and that computer looked eerily similar to the DHARMA computers. But is she the one responsible for bringing all people to the Island? Also, could she be Dan's mother that Desmond on his way to find? Only issue is, she's in Los Angeles, and Desmond is going to Oxford! I'm sure we won't get all of the answers quite yet. But this was one crazy scene and I'm dying for more!

But for now, I'm going to let that be it! I'm glad to be back blogging about the best show on TV, and I hope you're excited to keep reading and commenting! We're back folks! And what a way to come back. Blowing our minds into Yesterday (or Tomorrow!!) With that, I take my leave. See you next week and comment away! NAMASTE!

Thanks again to lost.cubit.net (AKA Sledgeweb) for always providing fantastic screenshots on your site for me to "BORROW!" My blog wouldn't be nearly as exciting without them!

LOST: Season 5 Sneak Peak Video 2

Whew, another video is finally here! Thanks to EW's Doc Jensen for referencing it. Gotta love this clip with all of the Jack/Ben goodness. But the clip is exactly what it sets out to be...a tease and nothing more. The major reveal in the clip has to do with the fate of Future (or present) Jack's Beard. What do you guys think? DISCUSS! (and enjoy!) 34 more days!!

LOST: Season 5 Sneak Peak Video 1

Get Excited! Discuss! There are more to come so stay tuned. 49 days to go!

LOST Season 5 Promo, Premiere Date

Thought I'd share the new trailer for LOST! It looks as awesome as ever! Apparently the video keeps getting pulled, so if this doesn't work try this link .




LOST Season Five Official Trailer #1 - video powered by Metacafe


The worst part about the trailer is when the text says "Died For" and who they show afterwards. But I'm not convinced until we see season 5 for sure!

Hope all you LOSTIES out there are doing well during this hiatus! Anything else significant that I find, you can be sure I'll post it! Otherwise, make sure you check back after the first episode airs! See you then and NAMASTE!

11/7/2008 - This just in, Lost Season 5 has it's premiere date! Wednesday January 21st 2009 8:00pm Eastern Time. It will be a 2 hour premiere, but I'm guessing the 1st hour will be a recap. However, it does sound like they're considering airing 2 episodes back to back! (ugh for me blogging but exciting nonetheless!!) So it's still to be determined whether the regular airtime will be 8:00 or 9:00pm. But I, for one, am glad to have it back on Wednesday nights! Check this link for more info.

11/10/2008 - Here's TV Guide's entry which suggests a 1 hour recap followed by the first 2 episodes. Blogging nightmare but still very exciting!!

LOST: Comic-Con 2008 Panel!!

Hey Losties! How's it going? Well we are about 2 months into the long hiatus and as usual we have an update from Comic-Con! I posted these video clips from Youtube yesterday, but also promised I'd fill in this blog with some more info after I digested them. These clips are just excerpts from the panel with Team Darlton (Exec Producers Damon Lindeloff and Carlton Cuse ). But they are highly entertaining, as always! I also posted some links below to articles from our most reliable entertainment news sites. Once the podcast is available, I'll add the link to it in this blog posting. Look for my thoughts after the information below!

8/1 Revised: Here's the link to the Podcast!

There is also a link to download it on iTunes there too. Also if you go to lost.abc.com they have a few new videos from Comic-Con including a better quality version of the Marvin Candle video, and an interview with Matthew Fox. Enjoy!

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Marvin Candle DHARMA Video (added 7/28)




Articles about the panel:

Entertainment Weekly
TV Guide

Okay, so what did we learn from this year's comic-con?

• Locke and Jin will still be part of the cast in some form or another. They were very careful to tread lightly on the topic so that we didn't know who was alive or quite where/when or how the story would be taking place. They mentioned something like "dead is a relative term on this series." Funny how that's changed since season 1 hasn't it? When they said "when you're dead...you're dead!" Of course, I think what they mean is that even if you're dead, there are still flashbacks to be told, and ghostly appearances to happen. Plus whatever is going on with Christian Shephard on the Island as well as eventually ol' John Locke when he undoubtedly returns!
• Mr Eko's story arc was cut short because Adewale (the actor) was tired of Hawaii! My my how that story has changed over the years!
• Video 1 above was talking about the greatest episode of season 4 (possibly of the show) "The Constant" Dez's Time Travel crazy episode. They looked to establish new rules for time travel that haven't been in previous stories...main point they made as always - Flash Forwards are written in stone and can't be changed by meddling with the past. (sidenote: LOST received their Emmy Nod for BEST DRAMA based on submitting this episode! Well deserved!! Can't forget Michael Emerson's nod for his outstanding BEN performances this season!)
• Matthew Fox showed up as a surprise at Comic-Con but apparently didn't really contribute much to the panel. Hey, I guess after a box office bomb like Speed Racer, you need to go to events like this and get crazy applause to reassure yourself that you're not a failure!
• Lindeloff insists that the island did not move in the finale. (hmmmmm Joke? or hint?) (7/29 - After seeing part of the panel, I think this was in reference to the season 2 finale not season 4 finale, so my 7/29 revised section below).
• There is yet another Marvin Candle video that was shown at Comic-Con and this one seems to be moments before the purge. He admits his real name is Chang and a professor at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Based on the EW article, it seems ol' Chang does not survive the purge. But the reason for the video is to insist that the Island research was valid and insist that the DHARMA Initiative be reconstituted. hmmmmmmm (video is posted above)
• (7/28) Just watched the video. Woaaa...that stuff was intense. Candle makes references that people will not view this video for 30 years. Then he mentions the president will be George W. Bush and that there is something called the internet. He urges the reconsititution of the DHARMA initiative in order to go to the past and save them. huh? Also, I could've sworn Ben was a little older when the purge happened (translation: it wasn't the 70's). But I guess with the Time Travel stuff going on, it's tough to know when the Island was when Ben was the age he was during the purge! Craaaaazy!
• Rousseau's story will be told in season 5! (finally!!)
• Vincent will return in season 5 (and might possibly be the first confirmed to survive the entire series)
  
  

7/29

Oh man, for a brief moment this morning the full video of the comic-con panel was available and I posted on the blog. I got through parts 1 and 2 of 5 and was on part 3 and then they removed it all! I guess we'll have to wait for the podcast! Here's additional information I found out.

• Question: When the hatch imploded and the sky turned purple, did the island move through time then?
  Answer: No
  Gift: DHARMA brand bottle of water.
• Question: A local news station told me season 4 won't begin until february and that there are only 2 seasons left, is this true?
  Answer: Ummm yeah where have you been? We made that announcement in season 3!
  Gift: LOST Calendar (ba dum ching!!)
• Question: What are your favorite episodes and seasons?
  Carlton's Answer: Favorite episode - Season 4's "The Constant" Favorite Season - 1
  Damon's Answer: Favorite episode - Season 1 Finale (loved writing it) Loves seasons 1 and 4 but mentioned that fans that stuck with the show will be rewarded and hopes that if this question is asked again in years to come people will say Seasons 5 and 6 are their favorite. They have a lot of "cool" things planned, he says. (consider me psyched!)
  Gift: Eh I forget!
• Question: The guy told the producers "Shame on them" for tricking us in the Sun Flash Forward/Jin Flashback episode. But Congrats on season 4! Then asked about the Season 4 Promo with the cityscape underneath it.
  Answer: Carlton says we have been looking too much into it. The promotion meant to reflect that part of season 4's story would be told in the real world (the Oceanic 6)
  Gift: For slapping the producers around a bit, they gave the Questioner a Heroes Season 1 DVD. That's hysterical!
• Some of that DHARMA video made a little more sense too as the guy with the grey hair is a DHARMA Recruiter for the Octagon Global Recruiting Campaign. This was that commerical that was aired near the end of the season 4 finale. I'm guessing this will have something to do with the fall marketing internet campaign for the show to keep us occupied. He mentioned a website http://www.dharmawantsyou.com/ I haven't checked it out yet and am not sure if it's the same website we were given during the finale. (too lazy to look at my blog obviously!)

Stuff I've read lately, theories I've heard lately totally unrelated to Comic-Con

• I did read somewhere that Team Darlton stated something like season 5 deals with how the Oceanic 6 plan to get back to the island. But at the same time they stated that fans become restless if the core cast is separated for too long so they have factored this into their plan. Take that however you like!
• I posted a comment in the Finale blog about Christian Shephard and Charles Widmore. Apparently the actors John Terry and Alan Dale are signed on for recurring roles in season 5, but rumor has it that they are signed on for FULL-TIME in season 6. Hmmmmmm! I mean, that kinda makes sense based on how things are going right now. But it does leave a lot of room for questions doesn't it? And it also sets things up for a nice father/son reconciliation between Jack and Dad. And considering we know what happens when you've reconciled and fully redeemed yourself...does this mean that Jack will bite the big one in the end? Hmmmm I'm starting to think about this stuff as we're winding down. And right now I'm thinking in the end....Sawyer or Jack will sacrifice himself for the other's benefit allowing Kate to be with her True Love (whoever this ends up to be!). Sappy I know! But LOST does sappy pretty well!
• Okay, someone else told me about this idea...I'm not sure what I think of it. You know how in Kate's finale dream how the phone conversation says in reverse that the island needs them to come back and all? And then Claire hovering over Child says "Don't bring him back!!!" ? Well, she never actually mentions Aaron's name I don't think. She says "DO NOT BRING HIM BACK TO THE ISLAND!!!! DON'T YOU DARE!!!" (yep, I checked the trusty finale blog!) So theories are starting to go around that maybe Claire means John Locke (aka Jeremy Bentham)! I dunno, it seems like a stretch to me, but it could make sense! Who knows? It could mean Ben too! But considering she was hovering over her child and Kate said "get away from my son" I think it's safe to assume that she meant don't bring Aaron back. Still, fun to theorize isn't it?

Well, that's all I have for now, keep checking in though because if I find anything else out from Comic-Con, I'll be adding it to this post. I'll make sure to add a Revision Date to where I add information.

It's been awhile since everyone has chatted, so I'm interested to hear everyone's thoughts on the show as you've been in hibernation! Hope this helps fill the void of the long LOST OFF-SEASON! I'll be sure to post another blog after the next significant update is given to us. See you then and NAMASTE!