nabeel
3201
Yeah, it’s him with a mustache. I thought the episode was pretty cool, though I hate how much of a cocktease it is. It’s like Locke asks what the monster is, and we’re all like “awesome! They’re actually asking asking that!!” And then we don’t get an answer and they’re just saying “HA! Gotcha!” and we’re all like ¬_____¬
I’m pretty sure the picture was of Greg Grunberg but they did obviously go out of their way to kind of obscure that – presumably because he’s become famous for Heroes since the first couple of episodes of Lost aired and viewers might more quickly recognize him as Matt than the pilot from the first episode of Lost (and perhaps get confused).
And yeah, it looks like they are taking the time travel angle… presumably using a multiple timeline/universe plot. I think the other plane isn’t even a “plant”, it is just Oceanic 815 from a different timeline and the two timelines started bleeding together either due to the event that brought down 815 or when the survivors stopped inputting the numbers and the island went all purple or whatever. And somehow the Oceanic 6 end up back in the “real world” on the wrong timeline, not the one they left from, which is why Christian Shepard is alive (Jack’s comment about him being upstairs or whatever in last season’s finale) and why everything is “wrong” for them and they have to go back and such.
Ah. That’s a great one. It also allows them to have them back in the real world, and then head back without breaking continuity.
I’ll support that theory, especially with the Hurley/Charlie episode. “But you’re dead!” “You’re right, I am dead. But I’m here.” I think we’re definitely talking some multidimensional/time space fuckery here.
That is exactly what I thought when Jack said “We have to go back!” at the end of last season. “Back to where?” becomes the optimum question.
[TOTAL SPECULATION]: I think the person waiting for Kate in a world where Christian Shepard is alive is her step-father. The “Oceanic 6” are those people who went back in time to resolve their primal issues they regret, a deal perhaps made with them by Ben or Dharma. The “box where anything they want appears in” steals these things from other timelines. The manifestation that Hurley saw of Charlie was the Black Smoke Monster let loose on the world (or just free to roam the world) after something tears the fence down, which is why he ran. The “others” Dharma was fighting against are temporal, parallel, or planar refugees. The Island heals those there and kills newborns and their mother because it exists outside of the present time stream: nothing new can come in and it keeps “reseting” everyone’s genetic clocks. The baby Aaron is different in some way that lets him avoid this or else why didn’t the Others just bring in pregnant women from the outside world? The sub really didn’t travel through the ocean that far but traveled through time/parallel universes to get there. That is why they were free to let Michael and Walt go and how they will explain Walt being so much older in his visions to Locke. [END SPECULATION]
Whew. I just hope the answers they have in store are worth the wait.
Jazar
3206
Looks like Lost will try to get 13 episodes from this season.
Cuse said he’s happy with the outcome of the strike and can’t wait to go back to his day job on “Lost.”
“We’re going to have to hit the ground running, go from zero to 100 mph in a matter of days to make as many episodes as possible,” he said.
The goal for Cuse and co-showrunner Damon Lindelof is to produce five more episodes this season, a tall order given the time constraints and the scope of storytelling and production on “Lost.” Even with five additional hours, Cuse and Lindelof will be three episodes short of the premapped fourth season.
“We will have to condense some stories,” Cuse said.
Bah! I’d rather wait for more quality episodes than have Cuse and ABC leave shit out and make stuff up just to get 13 episodes out the door this season.
mystery
3208
You’d think, with this obvious deviation from normal scheduling, that they could just make the proper amount of episodes and continue showing them into the “summer” season.
That makes sense to show devotees who’d watch it any time, but ratings are generally low in summer months so networks don’t want to air “the good stuff” if no one’s going to watch it anyway. It might be a chicken and egg situation, but that’s where they’re coming from when they’re reluctant to just extend the season. I hear they may do it, but that’s why it’s not just an obvious solution.
Last season it wouldn’t have been that hard to cut out three episode’s worth of filler. Although doing it from only eight episodes would be tight, depending on how much is supposed to be going on.
Chuck
3211
I loved the last episode, but I really hate the obvious ‘that would never happen moments’. They just pull me out of the story. The moment I refer to is the flashback(?) of the Pilot watching tv, and you see this grisly shot of the waterlogged captain of 815 broadcast on the network news! No way would any station would put that out for the masses, mostly for the enormous pain it would cause survivors of the victims. I know it was there for plot reasons, and to hint at much things, but it could have been handled with a little more authenticity.
But, it’s a minor niggle; I’m loving the new season.
TV news stories on Television are always long, detailed, and utterly relevant to the person watching it.
Still, I agree. You’d expect better from Lost.
graller
3213
Terrific start to the episode. That was an amazing flash forward
Tyjenks
3214
I am just going to pop in once a week and say
I [Heart] LOST.
Hope no one minds.
Jesus fucking christ. So yeah, I was seriously doubting any of the suggestions that the creators were gonna introuduce the possibility of multiple timelines or any of that jazz.
But clearly, there are some rifts in the goddamned space-time continuum.
And clearly, Sayid continues to prove that he is in the top 3 awesomest characters on the show.
Sayid is even more badass as time goes by.
DT1
3217
Well the chances that Ben is in the coffin just went up in this last episode. Congrats to those with their “I told you so” post, poised at the ready.
Also, Mittelos Bioscience (the lab Richard recruits Juliet for) is an anagram for “lost time”. In this episode we see our first evidence of that.
Saw a show on History channel recently about the Dragon’s Triangle (kind of a Far East cousin to the Bermuda Triangle). Lots of references in the show seem to fit the mythology of what has been chronicled there. (This includes the belief that Amelia Earhart was lost there.)
Fun stuff. Hope the extra five episodes have some answers.
Funkman
3218
“What was he… a diplomat or something?”
“Sayid? No… Sayid was a torturer.”
Bad-fuckin-ass.
Man, what awesome characters they have made with and in this show. Sayid, the very polite and proper torturing Terminator.
“What sort of business brings you to Berlin?”
“I’m a headhunter.”
I keep expecting a flat episode, and they continue to surprise me. If they can keep it up then additional episodes, at this level of coolness, are a good very good thing.
