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Whew... what an hour. So much happened that I wasn't expecting at all! I kept pausing the DVR and going back to re-watch bits of action and dialogue. If you saw the show and want a recap of the biggest twists, go to the jump. So it turns out that this premiere episode's FutureHugo is not at the same place on the timeline as the S3 finale's FutureJack was. That Jack is still in the future. (Bear with me here -- but if you watched the show, you know what I mean.) FutureJack at this point may be drinking screwdrivers for breakfast, but he's still functioning, more or less. He told FutureHugo: "I'm thinking of growing a beard." Very bad idea, Jack. Don't do it. Back on the Island, John Locke shows up and tells the gathered Lostaways that he's heading to the Others' barracks for safety. Half of them go with him, including Claire, Baby Aaron, Hugo and Sawyer. Danielle went, dragging a willing Ben; Alex and Karl accompanied them. Did anyone see if Sayid went with Locke, too? He seemed quite suspicious of the Freighter Freaks. Rose and Bernard are staying with Jack, waiting for the "rescue" party to find them. So, of course, is Kate. And probably Juliet, though I would have to go back and check to see if she is shown in that scene. But now the survivors are once again split up into two sides. Somehow it's going to matter which side they chose. FutureHugo tells FutureJack that he's sorry he went with Locke, and then he says that they -- meaning the "Oceanic Six," apparently -- did the wrong thing, and he thinks they should go back. FutureJack says they never will go back, and FutureHugo says: "Never say never, dude." Each seems worried that the other might "tell" something. There is some dark secret, some mutually agreed-upon lie, that is binding these two survivors and Kate, and whoever the other three of the Six might be. Someone was apparently left behind on the Island -- but who, why, how many? The fake Oceanic lawyer had asked FutureHugo, "Are they still alive?" And FutureHugo is seeing visions of Charlie, who says he is indeed dead, but nonetheless he is here to tell FutureHugo: "They need you." And oh yeah: back on the Island, Naomi really has dropped dead at last. But someone from Not Penny's Boat apparently has sent a helicopter, which dropped a parachutist, who apparently is expecting to find Jack. Which he does. And according to next week's previews, he tells Jack: "I'm here to rescue you." But someone else from Not Penny's Boat later tells Jack that their rescue is not really the newcomers' mission. So what is their mission? Somehow I suspect they must be connected with mean ol' Mr. Widmore, Penny's rich and vindictive daddy, who hated Desmond so much. He is (I think) somehow tied to the Dharma Initiative, too. Who else would have Naomi say that she was there to find Desmond, if Penny didn't in fact send her? What do you think? |
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Posted by Darla Atlas @ 10:41 PM Thu, Jan 31, 2008
I liked it. I'm definitely hooked again, but at the same time I'm frustrated that we didn't get a few more answers to the thousands of burning questions out there. Is this entire season going to be a flashback to the night they got rescued? I hope not.
Meanwhile, WHO IS IN THE COFFIN?
Then there's the Oceanic commercial that aired during Eli Stone (we fast-forwarded through the premiere just to watch the commercials). A website, find815.com, flashed quickly on the screen, but we couldn't get on it due to heavy traffic. I eventually gave up. It would only generate more questions anyway.
This show may one day make my head explode. But I'll take the risk.
Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 11:01 PM Thu, Jan 31, 2008
Darla, I've been looking at www.find815.com for a while now...it's a game, sort of like The Lost Experience was, but more accessible. There's a fun story there, too, about a lovelorn Oceanic employee searching for his girlfriend, a flight attendant who was on Flight 815. But don't look at it unless you're willing to get hooked!
My contention has always been that it's Michael in that coffin. I notice that Harold Perrineau, who plays him, is showing up in the opening credits again...so I am sure we'll see Michael in one or more of the flash-forwards.
Meanwhile, I read somewhere that the Lostaways have been on the Island for 91 days when the "rescue" ship shows up. So, considering the 815 crash happened on (I think) Sept. 24, 2004, shouldn't it be about time for most of them to celebrate Christmas now? You'd think we'd hear someone saying: "Oh, I can't believe it! We'll be home for Christmas after all!"
Posted by bhaarat @ 11:12 AM Fri, Feb 01, 2008
I agree. Mysterious "Jacob" was Dr. Shephard after all. Finally we got one of the questions answered. Last clip of the "lost missing pieces" really gave that away though. I had a misunderstanding about the "Oceanic 6" but your theory makes sense. The 6 survivors from the island. But where are all the original 'OTHERS'? Once Locke and other followers reach the barracks, Ben is going to be free again. Love this show.
Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 12:27 PM Fri, Feb 01, 2008
A theory:
Perhaps a few chosen people who have a special connection to the Island, who love it and sacrifice for it, are allowed a certain immortality. Perhaps even if they die, the Island grants them a continued existence both spiritual and corporeal.
Look at Richard Alpert, who is God knows how old, and yet hasn’t aged since Ben was a boy.
Look at the late Charlie Pace, who is "here" -— apparently visible not only to FutureHugo but to others as well -— and yet is, as he admits, indeed dead. He’s a very tangible ghost, one who can slap you and make it hurt.
And what about Mikhail, aka Patchy? Is that why he seems to be, like Rasputin, practically impossible to kill?
Does such immortality also perhaps explain why Christian Shephard’s body vanished from its coffin after the crash of Oceanic 815?