Lost 5x07: "The Life And Death of Jeremy Bentham"
And that's why you don't trust Ben Linus with anything, Locke! JEEZ.
So at the beginning of this episode, we are introduced to a group of castaways who survived a plane crash, currently stranded and forced by circumstance to band together on a strange tropical island that's already turning out to be more than it appears...
Wait. Haven't we done this already?
Seriously, it simultaneously makes me want to laugh and cry, that after all the seasons of this crap we've been put through, we're suddenly back on an island with a group of stranded airline passengers. I don't know whether this is supposed to be an homage or somebody is blatantly mocking us.
Nice to see that the New Crashaways are continuing the proud Island tradition of being generally shifty and everybody having a fucking secret, though. Cesare is already clearly up to some form of no good, and Law And Order Chick is probably not far behind, considering she's paranoid enough already not to trust him.
Other thoughts this episode, in no apparant order:
- Seventeen-odd years in crazy Island time-jump = four days for on-Island travelers = three years off-Island. Yeah. You just try to do that math. I dare you. Stupid effin' time travel...
- I don't even know who is generally shiftier or more of a lying bastard sneak-fink-weasel any more: Ben or Widmore. At least we know one random Island Connection folk is finally gone for good. So long, Abadon. We hardly knew ye.
- Um, does think this mean Christian might actually be alive, then, at least in some sense? Since clearly the Island was able to somehow resurrect Locke. Of course, Christian has apparantly also become "one with the island" and/or Jacob or something, so...yeah. I got nothing.
- Speaking of, Locke: don't go around scaring the new kids with all this "I was dead and in a coffin" stuff just yet. At least give them a couple days of seeing horses and creepy smoke plumes uprooting trees and whispering voices in the jungle. You know, let them be broken in a little to the sheer levels of Island Crazy they are about to enjoy.
- Random woman who stole boat and ran off with pilot = Sun? I mean, we already know Kate is with Jack and Hurley at the lagoon. Now that just leaves Sayid unaccounted for.
- I love how Sayid was building houses with Habitat For Humanity to try and work off his epic blood-debt that was being Ben Linus' personal murder bitch for two years. What's the exchange rate on that, a house per dead body?
- ...I completely forgot about Walt. Does he even fall under the "everybody's gotta go back" umbrella? I mean, Michael bartered for his passage seperately. In blood. I frankly thought that whole necessary returns thing applied directly to The Six, anyway. (Which raises all sorts of things about Aaron, again, but...eh.)
- I swear, Locke figured out that Jack had to be Christian's son the instant Jack started smack-talking him and telling him he wasn't special and didn't have what it takes. I see that the down-talking clearly runs in the family.
- I love how Hurley was more freaked out by Locke once he found out he was actually there. Hee hee hee. Oh, Hurley and his dead ghost people. ♥
- I'm sad Helen died ;_;
- Wait, I just remembered who the bigger manipulative psycho-ass freaky-deek is: BEN. FREAKING BEN. Mister Benjamin "I'll pretend to save you just to pump you for info and then STRANGLE YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS" Linus. I mean, my god. ...Well, he told us he was hardcore.
- So, not only did the two randoms in first class survive, but evidently quite a few of the coach people too. Good...for...them...? Not really. Frankly, if I had to choose, I'd rather die in a plane crash. At least that would make some fucking sense. Anyone want to start a pool on how long it'll take the Island to start knocking 'em off?
Next Week: A lot of flailing around and shrieking! Oh, and we're on an Island. And water is wet. Just so you know.
So at the beginning of this episode, we are introduced to a group of castaways who survived a plane crash, currently stranded and forced by circumstance to band together on a strange tropical island that's already turning out to be more than it appears...
Wait. Haven't we done this already?
Seriously, it simultaneously makes me want to laugh and cry, that after all the seasons of this crap we've been put through, we're suddenly back on an island with a group of stranded airline passengers. I don't know whether this is supposed to be an homage or somebody is blatantly mocking us.
Nice to see that the New Crashaways are continuing the proud Island tradition of being generally shifty and everybody having a fucking secret, though. Cesare is already clearly up to some form of no good, and Law And Order Chick is probably not far behind, considering she's paranoid enough already not to trust him.
Other thoughts this episode, in no apparant order:
- Seventeen-odd years in crazy Island time-jump = four days for on-Island travelers = three years off-Island. Yeah. You just try to do that math. I dare you. Stupid effin' time travel...
- I don't even know who is generally shiftier or more of a lying bastard sneak-fink-weasel any more: Ben or Widmore. At least we know one random Island Connection folk is finally gone for good. So long, Abadon. We hardly knew ye.
- Um, does think this mean Christian might actually be alive, then, at least in some sense? Since clearly the Island was able to somehow resurrect Locke. Of course, Christian has apparantly also become "one with the island" and/or Jacob or something, so...yeah. I got nothing.
- Speaking of, Locke: don't go around scaring the new kids with all this "I was dead and in a coffin" stuff just yet. At least give them a couple days of seeing horses and creepy smoke plumes uprooting trees and whispering voices in the jungle. You know, let them be broken in a little to the sheer levels of Island Crazy they are about to enjoy.
- Random woman who stole boat and ran off with pilot = Sun? I mean, we already know Kate is with Jack and Hurley at the lagoon. Now that just leaves Sayid unaccounted for.
- I love how Sayid was building houses with Habitat For Humanity to try and work off his epic blood-debt that was being Ben Linus' personal murder bitch for two years. What's the exchange rate on that, a house per dead body?
- ...I completely forgot about Walt. Does he even fall under the "everybody's gotta go back" umbrella? I mean, Michael bartered for his passage seperately. In blood. I frankly thought that whole necessary returns thing applied directly to The Six, anyway. (Which raises all sorts of things about Aaron, again, but...eh.)
- I swear, Locke figured out that Jack had to be Christian's son the instant Jack started smack-talking him and telling him he wasn't special and didn't have what it takes. I see that the down-talking clearly runs in the family.
- I love how Hurley was more freaked out by Locke once he found out he was actually there. Hee hee hee. Oh, Hurley and his dead ghost people. ♥
- I'm sad Helen died ;_;
- Wait, I just remembered who the bigger manipulative psycho-ass freaky-deek is: BEN. FREAKING BEN. Mister Benjamin "I'll pretend to save you just to pump you for info and then STRANGLE YOU WITH MY BARE HANDS" Linus. I mean, my god. ...Well, he told us he was hardcore.
- So, not only did the two randoms in first class survive, but evidently quite a few of the coach people too. Good...for...them...? Not really. Frankly, if I had to choose, I'd rather die in a plane crash. At least that would make some fucking sense. Anyone want to start a pool on how long it'll take the Island to start knocking 'em off?
Next Week: A lot of flailing around and shrieking! Oh, and we're on an Island. And water is wet. Just so you know.