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Delurking to post about LOST. I realized last night that this is the longest I've ever watched a tv show. I mean, I've watched shows that were longer than LOST, but on DVD. The 5+ years LOST has been on is the longest I've ever spent watching a show episode by episode. I feel like I should buy it a commitment ring or something.
So in the history of LOST we've had flashbacks, flashforwards, flashes to somewhere-in-time, and now flashes to an alternative timeline? Cool. Since dead Juliet (aw, but at least we didn't have to wait the whole season to find out what happened to her) said that "it worked" does this mean that exploding the bomb in 1977 caused a new timeline to branch off from that point forward? Did Faraday know that's what would happen? What's the point of exploding the bomb if the Losties on the island don't actually benefit- just other versions of themselves in another universe? Unless the bomb made the island come completely unstuck from time and reality and the two timelines/two sets of lostaways will eventually merge? I srsly need Princess Faraday to come back from the dead and technobabble about this.
I completely forgot about not!Locke and the killing Jacob plot during the offseason. Luckily the really long recap caught me up. So the island is some sort of battleground between good and evil? Or at least between two immortals trying to do each other in? Why could Jacob leave the island and the Man in Black/not!Locke couldn't? Was Jacob his jailer? Is the island a maximum security prison for evil space dudes? The Man in Black is totally Xenu. Or Cthulhu. Ok, looks like I'm going with "evil being from outerspace who has been imprisoned on Earth since before the evolution of humans" as my working theory for LOST now, cause why the hell not? Although I do hope that Jacob and the MiB turn out to not be all good and all evil (despite their black and white shirts in that one scene). I feel like I should have figured out that the MiB was also the smoke monster before now, but I can't remember making the connection. At least that reveal seems to make sense, even though I strongly suspect the writers came up with the smoke monster before the MiB character. I like that LOST is answering some long-standing questions early on and not dragging everything out until a super rushed finale.
The alternative timeline is only mildly interesting right now, since I don't know how it will connect back to the main island story. It was nice to see Boone and Charlie briefly, and I liked that if the plane hadn't crashed it wouldn't have automatically made everyone's story end happily. I really liked the moment between Locke and Jack where Jack is saying how Oceanic lost his father and can't tell him where he went and Locke points out that they only lost his father's body and couldn't tell him where his father went anyway. It was a nice reprise of their whole "man of science vs. man of faith" storyline, but just in a quick character moment and in a non-antagonistic way. I am really not that interested in Kate's escape attempt, hopefully it doesn't take too much time away from interesting island storylines.
Aaand there's a temple on the island no one ever noticed. Full of others who worship? serve? Jacob. And Richard fits into this how? Or is his group of others separate from the temple others? I don't even know. Jacob seems to have a lot of followers, on and off island, witting and unwitting. Why? To what end? I don't think it's safe to assume Jacob is the good guy just yet. (Cheer up, Ben! Maybe stabbing him was a good thing to do!) I guess I'm just suspicious of anyone who has their own pseudo-hippie cult where the common practice for "saving" someone is to hold them underwater until an hourglass runs out and then see if they survive. Oh, and I think that Sayid is totally for reals dead and Jacob is possessing his body. (I wonder if Elizabeth Mitchell hadn't been leaving to do V if Juliet would have ended up being the one taken to the healing spring/potentially possessed. That would have been cool. More super-powerful immortal WOMEN, please!)
Kate/Sawyer better not make a resurgence as a romantic relationship. It's been three years, and his girlfriend of those three years just died. No Kate/Sawyer romance! It would be icky and distasteful! I'd like LOST to acknowledge that relationships grow and change and that the Kate/Sawyer relationship can mellow into a comfortable friendship instead of a hyper-dramatic will-they-or-won't-they love story. Plus love polygons are often a cheap ploy to hook the audience, and by this point I don't really think that's something LOST needs to worry about...
Also, Sun and Jin need to reunite like NOW! They are finally in the same time after three years! We, the viewing audience, have been waiting almost two! Happiness and sparkles, please LOST? No dramatic deaths prior to reunion (and preferably not at all), ok?
PS- Hi Desmond, bye Desmond! See you in another timeline, brotha! (Is Desmond time traveling? Was he "really" on the plane? Does he get his happy ending with Penny in the alternate timeline? Is LOST going to retcon a happy ending?? Nooo...)
So in the history of LOST we've had flashbacks, flashforwards, flashes to somewhere-in-time, and now flashes to an alternative timeline? Cool. Since dead Juliet (aw, but at least we didn't have to wait the whole season to find out what happened to her) said that "it worked" does this mean that exploding the bomb in 1977 caused a new timeline to branch off from that point forward? Did Faraday know that's what would happen? What's the point of exploding the bomb if the Losties on the island don't actually benefit- just other versions of themselves in another universe? Unless the bomb made the island come completely unstuck from time and reality and the two timelines/two sets of lostaways will eventually merge? I srsly need Princess Faraday to come back from the dead and technobabble about this.
I completely forgot about not!Locke and the killing Jacob plot during the offseason. Luckily the really long recap caught me up. So the island is some sort of battleground between good and evil? Or at least between two immortals trying to do each other in? Why could Jacob leave the island and the Man in Black/not!Locke couldn't? Was Jacob his jailer? Is the island a maximum security prison for evil space dudes? The Man in Black is totally Xenu. Or Cthulhu. Ok, looks like I'm going with "evil being from outerspace who has been imprisoned on Earth since before the evolution of humans" as my working theory for LOST now, cause why the hell not? Although I do hope that Jacob and the MiB turn out to not be all good and all evil (despite their black and white shirts in that one scene). I feel like I should have figured out that the MiB was also the smoke monster before now, but I can't remember making the connection. At least that reveal seems to make sense, even though I strongly suspect the writers came up with the smoke monster before the MiB character. I like that LOST is answering some long-standing questions early on and not dragging everything out until a super rushed finale.
The alternative timeline is only mildly interesting right now, since I don't know how it will connect back to the main island story. It was nice to see Boone and Charlie briefly, and I liked that if the plane hadn't crashed it wouldn't have automatically made everyone's story end happily. I really liked the moment between Locke and Jack where Jack is saying how Oceanic lost his father and can't tell him where he went and Locke points out that they only lost his father's body and couldn't tell him where his father went anyway. It was a nice reprise of their whole "man of science vs. man of faith" storyline, but just in a quick character moment and in a non-antagonistic way. I am really not that interested in Kate's escape attempt, hopefully it doesn't take too much time away from interesting island storylines.
Aaand there's a temple on the island no one ever noticed. Full of others who worship? serve? Jacob. And Richard fits into this how? Or is his group of others separate from the temple others? I don't even know. Jacob seems to have a lot of followers, on and off island, witting and unwitting. Why? To what end? I don't think it's safe to assume Jacob is the good guy just yet. (Cheer up, Ben! Maybe stabbing him was a good thing to do!) I guess I'm just suspicious of anyone who has their own pseudo-hippie cult where the common practice for "saving" someone is to hold them underwater until an hourglass runs out and then see if they survive. Oh, and I think that Sayid is totally for reals dead and Jacob is possessing his body. (I wonder if Elizabeth Mitchell hadn't been leaving to do V if Juliet would have ended up being the one taken to the healing spring/potentially possessed. That would have been cool. More super-powerful immortal WOMEN, please!)
Kate/Sawyer better not make a resurgence as a romantic relationship. It's been three years, and his girlfriend of those three years just died. No Kate/Sawyer romance! It would be icky and distasteful! I'd like LOST to acknowledge that relationships grow and change and that the Kate/Sawyer relationship can mellow into a comfortable friendship instead of a hyper-dramatic will-they-or-won't-they love story. Plus love polygons are often a cheap ploy to hook the audience, and by this point I don't really think that's something LOST needs to worry about...
Also, Sun and Jin need to reunite like NOW! They are finally in the same time after three years! We, the viewing audience, have been waiting almost two! Happiness and sparkles, please LOST? No dramatic deaths prior to reunion (and preferably not at all), ok?
PS- Hi Desmond, bye Desmond! See you in another timeline, brotha! (Is Desmond time traveling? Was he "really" on the plane? Does he get his happy ending with Penny in the alternate timeline? Is LOST going to retcon a happy ending?? Nooo...)