LOST: They're back!!!

As we move into the final season of LOST, I'm glad that I decided to stop analyzing and just start enjoying it.

Aw f&$# that! Let's jump into last night's season debut and pick that mother apart, shall we?

Two simultaneous universes? Two seperate realities? Not at all. The bomb worked, as Juliet indicated, so last night's LA scenes were playing out in 2004, while the island scenes were playing out in 2007. Regardless of how they wound up going to back to the island, they did indeed go back there in 2007, although some of them wound up in 1977, where they blew up the island to get back to 2004, right?What is obvious to us now is how miserable everyone was on that original flight, Jack drinking heavily in guilt, Kate looking at life in prison, Charlie riding the white horse, Jin and Sun drinking each other's haterade, Rose looking to die of cancer. Jack wanted to get back to that? What a douchebag!

But the horse had already left the barn and where they were impacted that reality. The tailies were no longer on the flight and apparently neither was Shannon, Ana Lucia, Walt or Michael. Why? Who the hell knows? This show is a ginat f-ed up mess and that's exactly why I watch.
Part of the beauty of it is knowing that the writers are scrambling to make this make sense, and this may be impossible in 16 episodes.

I'm sorry, I really wanted, no needed, Eko and his Jesus whupping stick on the plane. DAMN! And again, let's not read anything into that other than the acotr wasn't available and how weird it would be to have a new Eko or a new Michael. (I never got over Darrin changing to Dick Sargent on Bewitched)

They certainly want you to believe that Jacob is now in Sayid's body, but I'm not buying that. I think the spring contains some life giving magic and Sayid is now in Richard land, where he will never age, and will begin using dark eye shadow and dress like a metrosexual.

I happen to love the occasional use of 60's and 70's stereotypes like the EST-y Dharma people, and now the appearance of a magical hippie, not unlike Dennis Hopper's giddy journalist from "Apocolypse Now". Hippies are a group that no longer really exist so it's easy to make fun of and stereotype them. They're easily held to blame for a lot of our current societal ills because, well, they're really no longer around to defend themselves. (And to make him kind of look like John Lennon: BONUS! And to make him a skittish suck up to a guy who refuses to speak English because it's beneath him: DOUBLE BONUS! And that maybe it's a metaphor for how much we are indebted to China and how they look at us in contempt: TRIPLE BONUS!!!)

Speaking of "Apocolypse Now", how can we not notice how much Locke looks like Kurtz and how they shot the "Locke didn't like himself" scene with his face coming in and out of the shadow like the famous "THE HORROR!" monologue of Marlon Brando.Desmond is a constant for Jack, isn't he? Let's just say yes and move on, because otherwise, I have no idea why he was on the plane.

And on to Hurley -- how many times have we yelled a the TV for him to grow a set. Well, it happened and I love it. New assertive Hurley rocked last night, and he's going to kick some ass in the next few weeks. It's about time.Sawyer seemed lost (obvious pun) on last night's show. He's become a little too sensitive, so that's why his '04 self seemed so refreshing. In '07, he's threatening to kill Jack? Really? He's been threatening to do that for six f-ing seasons. Do it and shut up. Or just keep insulting Hurley. But a sullen Sawyer is not entertaining.

Harold weighs in with this view: "My current (tired and uneducated) thought is that the conversation between Jacob and the Man in Black in the beginning of The Incident ("they come, the fight. . . it always ends the same", "it only ends once, everything else is progress") is referring to many alternate timelines of the same people doing the same thing, rather than a discussion of what has happened throughout history in one timeline, and the goal of Jacob is to get the Losties to choose to stay on the Island eventually." ==> I'm willing to buy that, but who's the other guy in that dialogue? The man in black. Esau? He's never been called that, but it's clear he's the new Locke and the smoke monster.

(Speaking of Smoky, I still want to pitch a sit-com with the Smoke Monster living with his family in the burbs. He comes home from a long day torturing souls at the Temple and he has to deal with his shrill wife, and snotty kids. Maybe they could be a fourth family on "Modern Family". Phil's cousins, maybe?)

Anyway, that's all for now and I haven't even touched on Miles or Juliet's death.

Namaste, erebody!!!