Lost Megapost lol
Alright, so, jesus what an episode last night. Right now I'm just going to skip over the main OMG and move straight into "THIS SHOW IS FUCKING BRILLIANT."
Remember alllll the way back in Season 3, when Kate and Sawyer were in the cages on the Hydra Island, and they were doing some sort of chain-gang labour, which Juliet flippantly threw out would be a runway?
And remember last night when I couldn't figure out where the hell the survivors of Ajira Airways flight 316 (which was, I may add, expertly landed by Frank Lapidus) were? They were totally on Hydra Island.
EXPERTLY LANDED WITH THE HELP OF A SEMI-CONSTRUCTED RUNWAY OH MY GOD.
And regards last night's moment of FUCKING AWESOME INTRIGUE:
a;skldjroaeudsWAT
I will admit that I wasn't entirely sober while watching last night's episode, and my reaction to this scene came slowly. At first I was like "Oh FUCK I KNEW IT BEN'S A LYING LIAR THAT LIES." And then I was like "Wow, though, I really wasn't expecting it like THAT." And then I was like "OH GOD I am surprisingly conflicted about this I'm just going to cling to the idea of Juliet next week because if I think about this my brain will break." AND THEN I WAS LIKE "WHAT DOES THIS MEAAAAAAAAN?"
But then at about 1:15 last night I walked downstairs to find my dad rewatching "Lost," and upon second viewing, I discovered that the sequence actually cemented Benjamin Linus as one of my favourite characters AND reaffirmed my complete dedication to Team Locke. By the end of the episode, I was practically smiling at the screen because I now knew that John Locke is fucking besties with the Island. As long as I stick with Team Locke, it's going to be a frolicking adventure with Smokey, Jacob, and Jack's Dad.
PARTY TIEM.
Sorry, Ben/Widmore. The Island is just not that into you anymore.
Now, regarding Ben. It shouldn't have been that much of a surprise, because:
1. Ben's a murderer yay! How many times has he tried to kill Locke? I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love the dynamic between these two because somehow everyone manages to forget that Ben sees Locke as a threat to his leadership on the Island, and yet they're total besties omg.
2. Locke gave information to Ben. Seriously, information on this show is like fucking 1-ups - Ben knew to use his sparingly, Locke didn't play the game right on that one.
3. Locke was pretty much working with Widmore. And in case you happened to forget,
Widmore did send a freighter full of explosives and orders to kill EVERYONE ON THE ISLAND THANKS.
The reason I was so distraught about the scene before rewatch was because I had bought into Ben-as-a-good-guy from pretty much the beginning, and as a result, my view of Ben was skewed into "Okay, yeah, the dude has some pretty shady moral values, but that's okay because whatever he's doing, he's doing for the Island!" However, since Jacob's "help me!" that view has slowly been disintegrating into "Nope, he's just a Napoleon, but that's okay because he's so fucking unapologetic about it." With the scene last night, any impressions that he's working for the Island are blown, and he's totally the Island's creepy stalker ex-boyfriend and I fucking LOVE it.
In fact, now that I think about it, Ben has the same relationship with the Island as he does with Juliet, and John Locke is the Island's Goodwin. Which would make Widmore the Island's ex-husband that Richard Alpert ran over with a bus? Oh god, I am running all over the place with this analogy. Seriously, though:
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THE ISLAND WILL END YOU.
GODDAMN this got really long. Okay, just a few more notes.
-All this being said, Ben, if you really did blow up Penny's boat, I am breaking up with you as a character.
-HELEN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
-Kate's a total bitch. Seriously, what happened to Season 1 Kate? I kinda liked her. She was always climbing trees and now she's just kidnapping babies and manipulating Jack with sex and emotions.
-Jack's baby failbeard! "My father is DEAD." "Lol, no, he's chillin' with Claire and Jacob on the Island. We're gonna meet for canasta later, actually."
-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT! At least we got some fucking closure.
-So wait, why did Sayid suddenly return to Los Angeles then?
-Did the Deus Ex Machina dude get the rest of the passengers together too how did they know the plane was going to crash how did they know to build a runway oh MY BRAIN HURTS.
-NEXT WEEK LOOKS LIKE AWESOME.
NOW WITH PICTURES BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT.
Remember alllll the way back in Season 3, when Kate and Sawyer were in the cages on the Hydra Island, and they were doing some sort of chain-gang labour, which Juliet flippantly threw out would be a runway?
And remember last night when I couldn't figure out where the hell the survivors of Ajira Airways flight 316 (which was, I may add, expertly landed by Frank Lapidus) were? They were totally on Hydra Island.
EXPERTLY LANDED WITH THE HELP OF A SEMI-CONSTRUCTED RUNWAY OH MY GOD.
And regards last night's moment of FUCKING AWESOME INTRIGUE:
a;skldjroaeudsWAT
I will admit that I wasn't entirely sober while watching last night's episode, and my reaction to this scene came slowly. At first I was like "Oh FUCK I KNEW IT BEN'S A LYING LIAR THAT LIES." And then I was like "Wow, though, I really wasn't expecting it like THAT." And then I was like "OH GOD I am surprisingly conflicted about this I'm just going to cling to the idea of Juliet next week because if I think about this my brain will break." AND THEN I WAS LIKE "WHAT DOES THIS MEAAAAAAAAN?"
But then at about 1:15 last night I walked downstairs to find my dad rewatching "Lost," and upon second viewing, I discovered that the sequence actually cemented Benjamin Linus as one of my favourite characters AND reaffirmed my complete dedication to Team Locke. By the end of the episode, I was practically smiling at the screen because I now knew that John Locke is fucking besties with the Island. As long as I stick with Team Locke, it's going to be a frolicking adventure with Smokey, Jacob, and Jack's Dad.
PARTY TIEM.
Sorry, Ben/Widmore. The Island is just not that into you anymore.
Now, regarding Ben. It shouldn't have been that much of a surprise, because:
1. Ben's a murderer yay! How many times has he tried to kill Locke? I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love the dynamic between these two because somehow everyone manages to forget that Ben sees Locke as a threat to his leadership on the Island, and yet they're total besties omg.
2. Locke gave information to Ben. Seriously, information on this show is like fucking 1-ups - Ben knew to use his sparingly, Locke didn't play the game right on that one.
3. Locke was pretty much working with Widmore. And in case you happened to forget,
Widmore did send a freighter full of explosives and orders to kill EVERYONE ON THE ISLAND THANKS.
The reason I was so distraught about the scene before rewatch was because I had bought into Ben-as-a-good-guy from pretty much the beginning, and as a result, my view of Ben was skewed into "Okay, yeah, the dude has some pretty shady moral values, but that's okay because whatever he's doing, he's doing for the Island!" However, since Jacob's "help me!" that view has slowly been disintegrating into "Nope, he's just a Napoleon, but that's okay because he's so fucking unapologetic about it." With the scene last night, any impressions that he's working for the Island are blown, and he's totally the Island's creepy stalker ex-boyfriend and I fucking LOVE it.
In fact, now that I think about it, Ben has the same relationship with the Island as he does with Juliet, and John Locke is the Island's Goodwin. Which would make Widmore the Island's ex-husband that Richard Alpert ran over with a bus? Oh god, I am running all over the place with this analogy. Seriously, though:
=
THE ISLAND WILL END YOU.
GODDAMN this got really long. Okay, just a few more notes.
-All this being said, Ben, if you really did blow up Penny's boat, I am breaking up with you as a character.
-HELEN NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
-Kate's a total bitch. Seriously, what happened to Season 1 Kate? I kinda liked her. She was always climbing trees and now she's just kidnapping babies and manipulating Jack with sex and emotions.
-Jack's baby failbeard! "My father is DEAD." "Lol, no, he's chillin' with Claire and Jacob on the Island. We're gonna meet for canasta later, actually."
-WAAAAAAAAAAAAAALT! At least we got some fucking closure.
-So wait, why did Sayid suddenly return to Los Angeles then?
-Did the Deus Ex Machina dude get the rest of the passengers together too how did they know the plane was going to crash how did they know to build a runway oh MY BRAIN HURTS.
-NEXT WEEK LOOKS LIKE AWESOME.
NOW WITH PICTURES BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT.