The O.C. (wait, or was it D.O.C.?)
Emmys for Yunjin Kim and Elizabeth Mitchell! now!
That was some good shit... where to start?
Interesting that Sun doesn't trust Jack anymore. Maybe she could hear the ominous music before he came out of the bushes? i was expecting Vincent, myself. Where's he been? Chasing Nadia thru the jungle... unless the cat blew up too.
That hidden dead mother room was CREEPY... but is the baby really Jin's? Juliet could be playing everyone at this point... if she tells Ben that it's Jin's and Sun survives, maybe that helps her out in some way? Not sure how, but shes been stuck there for over three years trying to solve the problem, maybe she thinks if she can fake a solution for Ben he'll let her go? Either way, i still don't trust Juliet to tell the truth, unless it benefits her in some way. Plus she's such a great actress how would we ever know??
i think this may have been the best Kwon flashback so far, even if it was obvious from the get-go that Jade Fox was Jin's mom. The real question would be if Sun's dad ever slept with the whore... Loved seeing the kick ass take no prisoners Sun at the end there. Daddy's little girl.
Speaking of kick-ass, who knew Jin had that in him? Nice roundhouse kick - Van Damme would be proud a'ya. So Mikhail's alive but everyone is dead? To quote Hurley, "What?"
What happened there? Did the sound fence just incapacitate him? Because if he came back to life, why not Boone or Eko or any of the other dead people? Maybe gunshot wounds to the chest and being exploded into pieces from TNT are too 'final', but Boone was just losing blood and had a fucked up leg, right? The island couldn't fix that? Couldn't fix Eko? hmmmm... it has limitations, but what are they? Cause Mikhail looked pretty damn dead. Kate even checked his vitals, right? Is the island healing people or is it Ol' Smokey? Or was 'this' Mikhail alive all along (see theory # 2 below), maybe somewhere off of the island? Maybe he was just returning with Naomi, the parachute lady?
So there are two scenarios that I can think of, one likely, one not so much. The likely one is a cover-up, perpetrated by whom I don't know... The Others in the real world? Once all these subjects showed up unexpectedly, they used their resources to create an elaborate hoax, so no one would search for survivors and they could do whatever they want to them? What resources? Kinda makes you think that Widmore or Paik would be involved somehow, no? And if it was orchestrated by the Others, there's no way they would have let Michael and Walt (and Juliet and Jack) leave, without knowing there was no way they could ever reach the outside world. Ben's integrity seems pretty dear to him though, so was he lying the whole time, or is he unaware as well? Maybe Dharma is behind it all, hoping that the survivors and the 'hostiles' wipe each other out, so they can get back to their research on the island unimpeded?
The other is that there's some sci-fi explanation; parallel universes, etc. When Des forgot to push the button causing 815 to crash, did it also rip something in the space time continuum - creating two planes at that instant (two planes of existence?), one that went on to crash in the outside world, leaving no survivors, and the other to crash on the island leaving our losties? and now the catch-22 is that they should all be dead... how could they ever return to the world even if they found a way? They're all dead and buried in that reality. The island/nature might be trying to course correct itself, and will somehow kill them all off... when it's not healing them. Goddamn this is like Donnie Darko confusing... which is why although I think it's a much more interesting theory, it's probably more of a cover-up thing going on.
No way it's really purgatory, not after so many repeated denials from the creators. Although Carlton did say Mikhail was really dead in one the podcasts. So are the losties in the 'real' world? Hmm.
...and back to parachute lady, is she who everyone assumes she is? (Assuming everyone is thinking she's part of Penny Widmore's Patagonian Portugese Electromagnetic Anomaly Patrol.) Sure, she had a picture of Des, but Des is relatively new to the others, she could have easily been an Other trying to get back to the island after doing research on him in the real world. After Des turned the key and the sky turned purple, she didn't know that she couldn't get back, and something caused the whatevershewasin to crash when she tried to return. Maybe she was trying to return instead of just faxing the picture because she couldn't get through to Mikhail. She knows a bunch of languages, so does he... they could both be part of the Other's communications team. or not.
Charlie is pretty damn bloodthirsty, huh? I guess being strung up by your neck and left for dead will do that to ya. Desmond had a good point though... who has been responsible for more deaths since the crash, the others or the losties? The look C shot Hurley when he was blabbing to Mikhail was priceless. Then the phone thing... "Uh... like I'd tell you!" And trying to call mom at the end. He's the best... but is he really Jacob?!?!
dun dun dun!
great read about the death of god and how it relates to lost here. This Doc Jensen guy at EW has got it going on.
so i guess i'm posting again, just not the elaborate recaps. It's been so good I have to spout off somewhere!
That was some good shit... where to start?
Interesting that Sun doesn't trust Jack anymore. Maybe she could hear the ominous music before he came out of the bushes? i was expecting Vincent, myself. Where's he been? Chasing Nadia thru the jungle... unless the cat blew up too.
That hidden dead mother room was CREEPY... but is the baby really Jin's? Juliet could be playing everyone at this point... if she tells Ben that it's Jin's and Sun survives, maybe that helps her out in some way? Not sure how, but shes been stuck there for over three years trying to solve the problem, maybe she thinks if she can fake a solution for Ben he'll let her go? Either way, i still don't trust Juliet to tell the truth, unless it benefits her in some way. Plus she's such a great actress how would we ever know??
i think this may have been the best Kwon flashback so far, even if it was obvious from the get-go that Jade Fox was Jin's mom. The real question would be if Sun's dad ever slept with the whore... Loved seeing the kick ass take no prisoners Sun at the end there. Daddy's little girl.
Speaking of kick-ass, who knew Jin had that in him? Nice roundhouse kick - Van Damme would be proud a'ya. So Mikhail's alive but everyone is dead? To quote Hurley, "What?"
What happened there? Did the sound fence just incapacitate him? Because if he came back to life, why not Boone or Eko or any of the other dead people? Maybe gunshot wounds to the chest and being exploded into pieces from TNT are too 'final', but Boone was just losing blood and had a fucked up leg, right? The island couldn't fix that? Couldn't fix Eko? hmmmm... it has limitations, but what are they? Cause Mikhail looked pretty damn dead. Kate even checked his vitals, right? Is the island healing people or is it Ol' Smokey? Or was 'this' Mikhail alive all along (see theory # 2 below), maybe somewhere off of the island? Maybe he was just returning with Naomi, the parachute lady?
So there are two scenarios that I can think of, one likely, one not so much. The likely one is a cover-up, perpetrated by whom I don't know... The Others in the real world? Once all these subjects showed up unexpectedly, they used their resources to create an elaborate hoax, so no one would search for survivors and they could do whatever they want to them? What resources? Kinda makes you think that Widmore or Paik would be involved somehow, no? And if it was orchestrated by the Others, there's no way they would have let Michael and Walt (and Juliet and Jack) leave, without knowing there was no way they could ever reach the outside world. Ben's integrity seems pretty dear to him though, so was he lying the whole time, or is he unaware as well? Maybe Dharma is behind it all, hoping that the survivors and the 'hostiles' wipe each other out, so they can get back to their research on the island unimpeded?
The other is that there's some sci-fi explanation; parallel universes, etc. When Des forgot to push the button causing 815 to crash, did it also rip something in the space time continuum - creating two planes at that instant (two planes of existence?), one that went on to crash in the outside world, leaving no survivors, and the other to crash on the island leaving our losties? and now the catch-22 is that they should all be dead... how could they ever return to the world even if they found a way? They're all dead and buried in that reality. The island/nature might be trying to course correct itself, and will somehow kill them all off... when it's not healing them. Goddamn this is like Donnie Darko confusing... which is why although I think it's a much more interesting theory, it's probably more of a cover-up thing going on.
No way it's really purgatory, not after so many repeated denials from the creators. Although Carlton did say Mikhail was really dead in one the podcasts. So are the losties in the 'real' world? Hmm.
...and back to parachute lady, is she who everyone assumes she is? (Assuming everyone is thinking she's part of Penny Widmore's Patagonian Portugese Electromagnetic Anomaly Patrol.) Sure, she had a picture of Des, but Des is relatively new to the others, she could have easily been an Other trying to get back to the island after doing research on him in the real world. After Des turned the key and the sky turned purple, she didn't know that she couldn't get back, and something caused the whatevershewasin to crash when she tried to return. Maybe she was trying to return instead of just faxing the picture because she couldn't get through to Mikhail. She knows a bunch of languages, so does he... they could both be part of the Other's communications team. or not.
Charlie is pretty damn bloodthirsty, huh? I guess being strung up by your neck and left for dead will do that to ya. Desmond had a good point though... who has been responsible for more deaths since the crash, the others or the losties? The look C shot Hurley when he was blabbing to Mikhail was priceless. Then the phone thing... "Uh... like I'd tell you!" And trying to call mom at the end. He's the best... but is he really Jacob?!?!
dun dun dun!
great read about the death of god and how it relates to lost here. This Doc Jensen guy at EW has got it going on.
so i guess i'm posting again, just not the elaborate recaps. It's been so good I have to spout off somewhere!
posted by karmacomedian at 2:55 PM
