LOST sneaks for this week

HOLY CRAP! We're getting hard core now...Was that pre-island Locke in that bunk, complete with hair?

random thoughts about LOST

My thought is that Miles is Ben's inside person on the boat and that the 3.25 million is some kind of code to Ben. Notice how Ben looks during their conversation. I have no clue what the 3.25 means but I replayed that scene and it was like Miles was definintely delivering information to him. Just a thought.

More random thoughts from the general public

The absolute *most* important thing Jack said in the courtroom was "Our plane crashed on an island in the pacific".

Really? Because to the general public, your plane crashed in the ocean way far from where you're claiming and was found underwater by a sub.

What changes to allow Jack to say "815 crashed on an island" and have people not say "No it didn't, it was found at the bottom of the ocean!"

The psychic did *not* tell Claire that *she* absolutely had to raise the baby ... the psychic told her that her baby could not be raised "by an other" (we just didn't know what "an other" was yet, so we automatically assumed he said "another")

Forgetful faraday

A thought on the cards Faraday was trying to predict:

I think he was trying to see into the future. As in, he was having Charlotte put the cards on the table WITHOUT him ever seeing them. Rather than memorizing them and telling her what they were, he is trying to peer into the future. Miles is able to commune with the dead and Faraday is fixated on the time/space issues...so I think what we saw of him tongiht was a continuation of his experiment with the clocks.

List of Things You Shouldn't Leave Lying Around Near Kate*

Suitcases Full of Guns
Tiny Airplanes
Abusive Husbands
Your Heart
Your Baby

* as she is prone to kill, break or steal them

LOST live capping

Locke gets upset when Ben tries to manipulate him, and tosses Ben's breakfast off the wall. Why is he mad? Does he want to be like Ben?

Kate and Sawyer have a heart to heart: Kate reiterates her hatred of him, he wants to discuss "the pregnancy". Is it hers? Of course, there going to keep that tease going for awhile.

Flash forward to Kate getting arraigned for her charges post-island. Remember she has a lengthy rap sheet and killed her abusive step-dad. The mean judge won't give her bail.

Just when it looks like we'll get a Jin-Sun plot update, Jack returns to camp and announces Kate is now on TEAM LOCKE. Which she surely is second guessing now, as Locke continues the long, slow descent into weirdville.

Kate goes to talk to the Ghostbuster, she asks if he knows who she is and what she did. He says I'll tell you if you give me one minute with Benny boy.

FLASH FORWARD...Kate is told by her lawyer that the least she can plea bargain for is 20 years. Kate says no, no, no. The lawyer says the only chance she has is if "he" testifies, it may get her some sympathy. No way, says Kate, you're not bringing my son into this. Well, I think that answerrs the pregnancy question, but just how far into the future is this flash forward? I mean the kid would have to be at least five to be coherent enough to testify, right? Unless --- OMG!!! She gave birth to the baby from the e-trade commercials. (DUN-DUN-DUN-DA!!!)

Apparently Locke is cooking up a good old fashioned chicken dinner. Kate seems mortified when Clair asks her to hold her baby. Good thing her baby will be born with a built in income.

FLASH FORWARD -- Kate's lawyer apologizes to her, but he had to do it -- he calls Jack to the stand!!! I'm confused, Jack is Kate's son? This show couldn't get any more weird.

Plus, now I'm scanning the courtroom for clues and other cast members. Anybody see anything?

The judge warns the lawyer that Jack is only a character witness. He tells the court that only eight survived Oceanic Flight 815. Eight? That's a damn lie.

Kate gets upset, she is told to sit down, and the opposing lawyer asks Jack just one question: Does he love Kate? No, says our boy, not any more.

What is up with Hurley and the movie "Xanadu"? Are some questions answered by watching a bad movie featuring bad music from Olivia Newton John and ELO? The movie is about a Greek muse coiming to life and falling in love with a mortal. Is Hurley an ancient Greek muse? Who has he fallen in love with? Locke? Are they planning to open a roller disco. God, I hope so.

Kate approaches Sawyer about busting Ben out so he can talk to the Ghostbuster. She does so while knocking back a glass of Dharma boxed wine. Should she be drinking in the first trimester?

Sawyer and Locke get together for some backgammon and chit chat. Sawyer wants Locke to promise not to mess with Kate. Ever. Then he drops dime on her plan to bust Ben out. But Kate knew he would do that and uses Locke's anger to get the drop on him and Sawyer.

Kate locks them up and takes Ghostbuster to see the Wizard of Ben. He asks Ben if he knows who is he and who he works for. Ben responds affirmative. And then Ghostbuster says he wants 3.2 million dollars from Ben. Ben says "what makes you think I have that kind of money?" Ghostbuster says cut the crap I know you you are and what you can do. Kate says time's up and tosses Buster into the hall.

Now I want answers! demands our Kate.

I know you are, you're Kathryn Austen and you're wanted for murder. I'd stay here if I were you, he says.

Clair comes to visit Kate in her room, oblivious to anything going on around her. Locke barges in to demand what Ben and the Buster talked about, he then tells Kate she's not wanted around these parts no more, and she has until sunup to get out of town. There ain't enough room here for the both of them.

FLASH FORWARD -- Kate's mom shows up and asks if what Jack said was true. Kate says why do you want to talk now, seeing how you was hating on me last season? Kate's mom says I have should have died years ago, but I've held on for some reason and I don't want to testify against you. I want to see my grandson. Kate says get out, you rapscallion!!!

Kate and Locke are then seen having some business time back on the island.

Charlotte and Farraday are shown playing cards, when Jack comes up and says he eneeds to talk to someone on the freighter. Now. At gunpoint he forces them to call.

Charlotte asks the freighter about Jack's friends, they say what friends?

You know, the ones who came back on the helicopter.

What helicopter? We don't have no stinking helicopter. You have the helicopter. (DUH-DUH-DUN-DAH!!!!!!)

Back to the Others compound where Ghostbuster is paid a visit by John Locke who shoves grenade in his mouth. I'm John Locke, sheriff in these here parts, and we don't take kindly to strangers coming round here causing trouble. No I'm going to come back here in a minute and you're gonna tell me who you are and what you're doing here, ya follow me?

Back to business time with Kate and Jack -- where Kate reveals she's not pregnant. "Oh so that's why you were knocking back boxed wine last night?"

MEANWHILE BACK IN THE FUTURE -- Kate's mom refuses to testify against Kate. This puts the prosecutor in a bind. She offers Kate a plea bargain of probation and time served. Kate grabs it against her lawyer's wishes. On her way out the back door, Jack confronts her. He tells her he didn't mean it when he said he didn't love her. She implies that he lied about Flight 815, and tells him to come over. He says let's grab a cup of joe. She says I don't know why you don't want to see the baby, but until you do, we are not going to see each other.

Kate goes home to her comfortably appointed home and heads upstairs to say good morning to her son. She hugs him and he says I love you, and she responds "I love you too, Aaron."

She somehow wound up with Clair's baby! Did she steal him? Does something happen to Clair??? What did Jack lie about???
Where's the helicopter??? Is there enough room on the island for Locke and Ben??? And what about Naomi?? Oh, she's dead. Nevermind.

LOST RECAP (sorry it's late, but I have a small life)

Sayid is now a slicky boy hit man, knocking off people who have strange foreign accents. Wasn't he the guy who once said he'd never go back to killing people. Does that mean at some point Ben will have Sayid kill himself? And since when does the term "Oceanic Six" invoke fear in people? I thought they were heroes!

FYI -- I'm digging Sayid's future hair.

Farraday the geek, does an experiment: he finds out that the island is off 31 minutes in time than the rest of the world. Is that a constant 31 minutes or is it shifting? Is a few minutes added on every day? If so when did the counting start? This changes everything you realize, don't you? I'm going to have to start watching the show with a stop watch. Now every time someone is thirty minutes late like Elsa was in the Sayid Flash Forward you're thinking, "Ah, she was on the island or he was or... Nevermind.

Did the time shifting start when Desmond blew up the hatch? My brain is hurting again!

Hurley's conscience is bothering him so he confronts Locke, who looks more and more like Creed from "The Office" every day. Locke doesn't really want to hear crap like that so he locks our fat friend in a closet. This leads to the line of the night: "Great, they sent us another Sawyer."


Locke or Creed?

Little did we know it was a set up! Curses on that Creed, I mean Locke, and his evil ways. The drive to become another Ben has overwhelmed our man from Hunt Valley. And why is the house with Jacob/Jack's Dad moving around like that? Is it the portal to another time/space continuum? A link between heaven and hell? Don't look at me, I flunked ninth grade physics. Curses on that Mr. Wickwire (God rest his soul.)

One thing that bothers me is the lackadaisical 'tude of the two "the rescuers" communicate with on the ship, Regina and George. Don't they know the fate of the known world rests on their shoulders? And they just don't seem to care. "Here comes the payload, Farraday." As if they're bagging groceries! C'mon, people, can we play our parts with a little emotion?

And future Ben with his vet hospital, it looks like he's hosting fights with Michael Vick for Pete's sake. I now believe animals are being tested to study the results of time travel & maybe even to play a role in their preservation. I think the polar bear is significant in the sense that we know it is becoming an endangered animal . Another thing Ben is interested in was human fertility . I'm starting to think Ben's main concern is using time or time travel to preserve the planet . If thats the case then Ben's an alright guy .

Speaking of sports, VH-1 has noticed that Roger Clemens steroid dispensing trainer, Brian McNamee looks like Ben, here's the photo:

Vitamin B12 shot anyone?

Daniel reminds Frank to follow the exact bearing they came in on no matter what (and then stresses the point). But this is almost exactly how Ben instructs Michael to find rescue at the end of Season 2. Considering this, if Daniel has never been to the island before, doesn't his word choice (or knowledge of the bearing leading off the island) seem a bit coincidental?

I disagreed with the theory that the Freighter Four are part of Dharma, and I still believe that to be the case. But, it does seem that these four have acquired at least some knowledge about either Dharma or the island, although from where and from who is still unclear.

Whoa! Heavy stuff's a flying folks, so let's take a look at next week's show:




Oh, by the way -- the spy on the ship is Michael, IMHO...



Hurley wants to watch Xanadu? I just lost all respect for the man.

Episode 3 spoilers

Want to know what will happen on this week's show? Go to the comments and I will tell you, but remember, don't whine to me that I ruined it for if you go there of your own darn volition, okay?

Want questions answered

Go here, and as Paul Scheer says, your head will explode. But it's a fascinating theory nonetheless.

Sneak Peeks for episode 3

Recap, ep 2

First of all, I want to thank ABC for making the "enhanced" versions of the shows part of the regular schedule. In case, you didn't hear, the enhanced versions of the previous week's show will run on hour before the new episode every week. The enhanced versions, if you haven't seen them, have a running commentary going on the bottom of the screen, this updates you on all the characters and their motives. It's kind of like the old VH-1 show "Pop Up Video".

Last night, LOST introduced four new characters to the show via flashbacks. I was just saying, "What LOST really needs is more characters! I love having to set up an excel spreadsheet in front of me every week to keep track!"

All four have "special" talents such as angry ghostbuster (complete with some sort of ectoplasmic scam going), pilot, archeologist, and space cadet airhead.

Why these talents are necessary are unclear to me, but the guy who plays the police chief on THE WIRE got together with Naomi and decided that this group of weirdos were the best choice to go pick up Ben off the island of the black smoke.

Ben needs to go somewhere soon, before Sawyer kills him. Ben got punched by our boy no fewer than seven times in two individual sessions. HOwever, he has yet to give Ben a nickname! Why is he exempt? (FYI -- Best nickname last night -- he called Locke "Colonel Kurtz" perfect! Shut up, you don't know who Col. Kurtz is? Search "Apocolypse Now" on the wikipedia, pronto!) Ben's face now looks like a piece of Boarman's sausage. Ben deserves it, though, what with his smarmy "I know more than you do" attitude. Not to mention his penchant for shooting people.

Ben knows the fantastic four are there for him because he has "someone on the boat". I assume he means the freighter they claim they came from, because Mike's boat left a long time ago, although Harold Perrineau's name keeps showing up in the credits, so that boat might be circling back soon so that Sawyer can see that Walt's big now, just like Locke said. Mainly because he's now 25 years old.

I guess the theory is that Locke is the "man of faith", if so, the whole "showing the wounds" thing is right in line, as that plot line was ripped whole from the Bible. (John 20:24). Keeping captives and kidnapping rescuers isn't very God-like, however, so Locke's motives remain very conflicted to me. He faced down Ben, but acts more and more like him every day. I still haven't figured out if he is good or bad. I only know he's made more bad choices than Bill Belichick at the Super Bowl.

Jack, then, is the "man of science", although he rarely acts logical or calculating. He's more governed by emotion than Locke, hoping that his cohorts pick up on subtle things like winks to communicate the fact that there are gun-wielding compadres hiding in the bush. I don't recall Einstein winking his theory of relativity hoping someone picked up on it.

My favorite characters remain Sayid and Hurley. Hurley, the confused observer, reminds me of me. I don't know what the hell I'm doing half the time, but I am bemused by the ongoing choas around me. Where was that cabin Hurley? Back there or up ahead? Did I say cabin? I meant the airplane cabin, that's it, the airplane cabin.

Sayid, the gun toting paramilitary figure, has no horse in this race but his own damn self.Years of being strafed by A-10 Warthogs in the first Persian Gulf War have left him wearisome of the bullcrap Jack and Locke are throwing at him. Don't look for him "thinking of growing a beard" or winding up in a nuthouse, comtemplating going back to the island when he gets back. No, sir, Sayid's going to be living the high life when he gets back, with a posse of women and a penchant for drink. Maybe his partying ends badly and he's in the coffin in flash forward land. After all, how many friends can an Iraqi have in LA?

So, let's look at this week's bullet points --

-- Clearly, Penny's dad has sent those folks to get Ben because he crashed the Dharma experiment. He could care less about anyone else on the island, crash victims or not.

-- I keep thinking that this whole thing might be in Hurley's imagination in the nut house, and that would suck big time.

-- The plane in the sea is a fake because the pilot was taken by the monster back in season one. Plus, a plane bound for LA from Sydney would not wind up south of Indonesia, would it? "Maxwell", the group that found the fake plane is part of the Widmark Corporation, I'm sure of it.

-- Miles Storm (the ghostbuster) sounds an awful lot like "maelstrom". Maelstrom is a Marvel comic character who's a brilliant genticist. Other names of the new characters: C.S. Lewis, and Farraday. Lewis wrote the Chronic (WHAT?) ticles of Narnia, and Farraday was a well known physicist, known for his experiments in electromagnetics. Are these fake names?

-- What was a Dharma polar bear doing in Tunisia? Was he on vacation? Or is global warming going to be worked into the plot. If this whole thing turns into an Al Gore lecture, I'm going to be bummed.

-- Call this number 1-888-548-0034. It flashed on the screen last night.

-- What was the deal with the cow? One of Mikhail's no doubt. Why don't the polar bears eat it?

-- Charlotte's from Essex, England, Dan's from Essex MA! Now that's SCARRRYYYYYY!!!!!

-- Where is Desmond?

Any and all of your takes are always accepted in the comments section...See you next week!!!

More LOST nonsense...

ABC has posted a Sawyer nickname generator...My name is "Sticks" (?)...I was hoping for something a little more pop cultury like "Whitesnake"...

A LOST feature has popped up on MySpace. They call themselves "Previously on LOST", and they recap the show every week in song, kind of like "Larry The Lost Guy" (who I have to assume is dead). This week's song is kind of plodding and annoying, but here's hoping they reach the level of Larry and his "Gilligan's Island" take every week.

ABC sneak previews

Locke interrogates one of the "rescue" crew:




Jack does the same with a different crew member:

This week's sneaks

EW has posted some sneaks for this week's show...Locke apparently has some powers, Hurley lies to Locke about the cabin and Kate is confronted about Naomi...

Sawyer...is he one of the six?

Another plane?

That's what Whoopi Goldberg revealed on the VIEW this week, and i give her creedence because ABC produces both shows and I wouldn't put it past them to slip her some inside info to help their ratings.

LOST recap for 2/1

What can I say? It was a long time coming, but it was worth every second. I think since they set a time table for the show to end, it has stopped meandering around and the show is now focusing and heading toward a conclusion.

Thoughts on last night's ep:

1) Was that Christian Sheppard (Jack's dad) that Hurley saw in Jacob's chair? It sure looked like him and the actor Christian was listed in the closing credits. But so was Harold Perrineau and Michael wasn't in the episode. At any rate, I think it's worth noting that Hurley could clearly see someone, where as Locke couldn't. (Screen captures of Christian in the chair are at : losteastereggs.blogspot.com.)

2) Who are the Oceanic Six? Hurley, Kate and Jack are locks, and I'm willing to include Sawyer, but who else? Are Six going to get off soon?

3) What are they hiding? Jack asked Hurley if we told anyone what happened.

4) Jack was willing to kill Locke. Or was he? Could he tell if it was loaded? I still feel Locke will be killed before it's all over.

5) Was it just me or did the guy at the mental hospital who pointed out Charlie out to Hurley look like the guy who hijacked the Oceanic Air commercial and web site? And to that end, the parachutist who first met Jack looked like Charlie (he had the same hoobit-like features).

6) Annie in our office has thrown this at me: The Oceanic 6 are Jack, Kate, Hurley, Rose, Claire and the baby. Rose dies (she had cancer in the real world) and is the person in the coffin, since she had no children. They are rescued by Naomi's people, and they tell them they are the only survivors because they have doubts (thanks to Locke) about whether they are here to help. It turns out they are able to send them back, but Jack harbors guilt about leaving the rest behind.

But then again, when Jack was asked at the funeral home if he was friend or family to the "person in the coffin" he responded "Neither." I felt he was friends with Rose, not close, but he would have acknowledged knowing her.

Several spoiler sites are revealing the Oceanic Six to be: Kate, Jack, Hurley, naw I can't give that information out...E-mail me if you want to know...

That's all for now, the comment section is open for your take on it all.........
See you next week...

LOST fan