I know, I know almost a week and no blog!!! You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink. I have approached writing the blog several times the past few days. But I needed to get back in the mood. After just re-watching the season premier….I’m in the mood!
So welcome all to Season 5 of LOST. I am your host, Joanna, here to take you on a magical journey each week of the best show on tv. Oh there may have been others that stole pieces of you heart during the 8 month hiatus…but LOST is back! Better than ever.
I want to thank those who came out o the Yelp event to help celebrate the season premiere. It was a nice change of pace seeing the show out in the real world and I loved those nachos! If anyone is interested in doing smaller group viewings of the show during the season, let me know. TALKERS need not apply!
With that said…on to the show!
Summary
As mentioned before, the show as no longer going to focus on flashbacks or flash forwards. Clear your mind of thinking in those terms from now on. Now it is shifts a time to watch for. One thing to know, when they move to the past, its during the daytime. When they move to the future, its in the past. So when we left off in episode 2, it was nighttime when Sawyer and Juliet met up with Locke. Time still unknown.
I was confused about having 2 episodes back-to-back but it made sense after watching them. The Lie, ep 2, would have felt like filler had we had to watch it this week on its own. I like the dynamic between Sawyer and Miles. I think they are both tough, think mainly about themselves, but have a soft center. I look forward to them being paired more and more.
Best lines:
Alpert giving Locke the compass. Locke, “What does it do?”. Alpert, “It points North.”.
Sawyer refers to Farraday as “Dr. Wizard.” Miles correcting him, “That’s MR. Wizard.” “Shut up!”, snaps back Sawyer.
Connections
The alarm clock read 8:15. The stuffed giraffe with the baby on the island is the same giraffe in Aaron’s room. Hurley’s dad was watching Expose. Ben pulled ticket 342 at the butcher shop. Neil was wearing a red shirt (there was a mention earlier that in Star Trek, the crew member that was going to die always wore a red shirt). Hurley is again visited by a ghost (first Charlie and now Ana Lucia). We see Ms Hawkings at the end with Ben. She is trying to plot coordinates with a pendulum. They have 70 hours or else they will all die. She says “God Help Us” just like Pierre Chang in the orientation video.
Some key themes are:
- You can go forward and reverse, but you cannot create an alternate direction. If you try, time will course correct.
- If it didn’t happen, it can’t happen. You can’t change the past. (This point I missed. Sawyer knocking on the hatch for Desmond to answer. Desmond would never answer because they never met in the past. But when Farraday did it, he did answer, because they did meet before in the past and had a connection).
- There are rules that can’t be broken. But…the rules don’t apply to Desmond. (It also seems like Locke as well. He is shot in the past and is still wounded in the future. He dreams of a plane and discovers it with Boone. He now sees the plane land in person. Just like Farraday planting the message with Desmond and him remembering it now. Was it a dream or a memory? Another point about Locke that I just read, if he was shot in the future, then we he discovers the plane with Boone in the past, he has a sudden loss of feeling in his legs…perhaps from the gunshot wound? That is why Boone climbs up and is killed instead?).
My head hurts. There’s still more!
Questions
- Ms. Hawkings seems as if she is the time gate keeper off the island. First with Desmond, now with Ben. Does Alpert play that same role on the island?
- Was the baby really Pierre (Marvin Candle) and his partner’s? Was the baby brought to the island or was it born there? Can mother’s not conceive there due to the time shift?
- How is Farraday able to shift so easily through time? When was his trip to the mine as they built the Orchid station? Was it after Ben turned the wheel or does he know so much now as a result? Is Ms. Hawkings Faraday’s mother?
- I always believed that the whispers were people on an alternate plane of time. I believe more that they are the natural inhabitants of the island. Or maybe its them but they are shifting forwards and backwards. But check this out…what if the visions of the dead people are really those people in an alternate time as well. They are still dead, but either before or after a shift. So they cannot prevent their death, but they can interact with the living?
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- Who is trying to take Kate’s son (Ben to use her as bait back to the island). Who is trying to kill Sayid and capture Hurley (Widmore because he wants Huley’s talents). I think both Widmore and Ben are moving the Oceanic 6 like chess pieces on a board.
- What happens in 70 hours – 3 days? Is there another anomaly and they have to be in the exact same place to be transported back to the island? What happens if they don’t go?
- Is Ben course correcting for something he did before? He didn’t have to let them off the island in the first place, now to have to run around and bring them back. Was he trying to kill them when he killed Keamy? But they were on the helicopter, outside the radius and survived? Ben broke the rules. That is why Widmore had his daughter killed. Which ones did he break and how did he do it?
- Why harness this power at all? Marvin Candle knows he is close to a limitless energy source that can manipulate time. If you cannot change the past, why use it at all? Wouldn’t using it to go into the future, learn and bring that knowledge back effect the past as well? I guess my question is, what is the purpose of the island? See you in another year and a half for the answer to that one!
Conclusion
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