Finally.
After so much teasing and so much leading up to it, we've finally got some major intersections that really indicate what we all know - the sprint is on for home plate.
First, we've got the paths of the Earth 2 Losties increasingly coming together and overlapping. You know that in an episode or two we're going to have the scene of everyone - or at least the candidates - standing around sort of looking at each other, wondering what the heck they do next as they remember their lives on island. I imagine it being in a warehouse.
Second, we briefly had a shot at having all the Oceanic survivors finally back together until Jack jumped ship.
And thirdly, we had the loooong Sun/Jin separation storyline finally come to a bit of an awkward end - I expected a little more emotional resonance with the thing. Though maybe that's how real life would be anyhow - a bunch of people standing around awkwardly while two people embrace near a sonic pylon.
We got some good solid answers on the Smoke Monster Impersonation deal, that he can only take on the form of dead folks. So that was him as Christian Sheppard. And that was him as Yemi, talking to Eko. Interestingly, that was NOT Smokey as Walt in those times we saw the Walt sightings around the island.
And I can't take credit for this insight, I read it online, but now we see why it was important, according to the psychic, for Claire to raise Aaron - here we had been going along thinking it was for Aaron's sake. But really it was for Claire's, as she's gone relatively batpoo insane. Though there also might be some hope for her redemption, it seems, as she's going along with the Losties instead of Locke. (And credit for best line of the night, as usual, goes to Sawyer: "Who the hell is Anakin?" Game, set, match, Lost writers).
So Smoke Lock promised he'd return dead Nadia to Sayid? We know Jacob said he cannot raise the dead - he told that to Richard back in the 1800s. So either A) Smoke Locke and Jacob have very different abilities (which seems somewhat likely since we have no reason to believe Jacob could also become a deadly cloud of smoke) or B) Smoke Locke is lying to Sayid with the thinking that 'hey, once I get off the island, none of what I promise these doofwads matters.' Which seems likelier.
Meanwhile, I'm increasingly convinced that Jack must be the likeliest Jacob replacement. If all the Losties are needed to get off the island, why has Smoke Locke taken a particular interest in Jack, going off into the jungle to talk to him specifically (in a nice parallel to the constant confrontations that were going on early in the series between Jack the Self Appointed Leader Who Was Having None of This Faith and Numbers Entering Crap and Locke.
And did the Widmore folks pull guns on the Oceanic crew because Jack was not there? Or was the whole "Deal's off" thing just how it always was going to play out? (On a side note - I'm really looking forward to the point when Widmore's henchwoman Dirty Tina Fey gets shot or kicked in shin or something. She's a jerk).
Your thoughts?
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Dirty Tina Fey is a mouth-breather. I don't think I've seen her close her mouth for anything other than some consonants.
Boy, that's mean. I hope she doesn't read Lost Talk. I'd feel bad if she saw that. But it's totally true.
Last night’s LOST washed over me like the ocean over Jack who, as I watched him jump off of Sawyer’s stolen yacht into the ocean while still wearing jeans, a backpack and a pair of Timberlands, wondered if he’d sink to the bottom like a stone. I don’t know what I was thinking, because he was able to swim the mile or so to shore with nary a loss of breath.
Yeah, Jack found out that Claire was his half-sister in the Earth 2 reality, but he couldn’t digest this because he had to run out of the reading of his father’s will to save Locke who was plowed over like a speed bump by Desmond last week. Jack studied the x-rays of Locke’s spine, which looked a lot like a pile of Jenga blocks, and said simply, “I got this.” Wow. It takes me more time to decide if I want steak or chicken when I look at an Applebee’s menu.
Jack Shepherd: A leader on the island, a wizard in the operating room and a terror on the swim team. Too bad he can’t get what he really wants, which is a Freckle sandwich, hold the angst.
And Sun and Jin are finally back together and Sun can now speak and they gave pilot guy – the guy who always looks like he’s staring into the sun – the Hallmark line of the night: “Looks like someone got their voice back.” All that was missing was the slow clap.
Side note: Please, for the love of Jacob, will somebody kill Sayid.
Random thought: Series now closes with Jack taking over as Jacob, and nothing really getting resolved, as he and Fake Locke sit on a beach watching another new plane crash, as Jacob and Smokey watched the ship arrive.
Cut to LOST logo, end of series.
Maybe the other losties get to go back to their lives. Maybe they all die.
Rick - you forgot the best moment of Jack jumping off the boat. He's on all fours on the beach, acting breathless, and someone walks up to three feet away from him in the foreground of the shot. I don't know what it is about having your head down in Hollywood that it instantly negates your peripheral vision and hearing so people can get right up in your grill instantly. Must be something in the water.
I keep waffling on how I feel about Dirty Tina Fey. She used to be all "I'm just a geophysicist, I dont know anything about guns, don't put that guy in that electromagnetic chamber." Now she's becoming Tom Friendly, the menacing Other.
I like Evil Tina but I'm partial to gun toting crazy chicks wearing smart glasses. I'm picturing her in a California Starbucks. "Gimme a skinny chai latte (CLICK-CLICK) NOW DAMMIT!!!!!
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