Lost review for March 6, 2008
You know - in the old days, Lost worked like this: You would watch for 3-4 episodes to get one - one small, tiny, cool nugget of coolness. That one nugget would hold you for 3-4 more episodes until another nugget was doled out. This year they've turned that around and it seems every episode is chock full of goodness, even the episode last week that I didn't care for so much. So once again, here is what I took from the show, in no particular order.
1) The Whipers. The whispers were a big deal "back in the day", I think in season 1. I remember people recording and figuring out the words and it was pretty interesting. But it was one of those threads that were kind of dropped. Now they have returned. They seemed to involve both the arrival and departure of psychologist lady. I'm sure someone will transcribe the whipers, but I wonder what they mean?
As we know, Ben helped kill Dharma. Yet a bunch of people (the Others) are there. We know some are normal (Juliet), but we know at least one is something else (the Latin guy who appeared to young Ben and was one of the Others in current time). If the Others are ghosts/spirits (again, some Others), then the whispers may be involved.
2) Juliet referred to herself as an Other. Did you notice that? Was "Others" ever actually used in the show itself? I think maybe - but never by the people themselves. Maybe that was just a mistake on the writers part though.
3) When Ben asked if the bunny had a number on it, I lost it. Great line.
4) I think Scott said the guy on the boat working with Ben was Walt (is that right? I mean the father of the black kid). I definitely think that's right now, especially with the promo for next week talking about a face you thought you would never see again.
5) So we now know how the opposing forces (boat people) are - the work for Windore. (Widmore? Whatever. Names bug me.) And we have a motive. Greed. I buy that. If the Island is a miracle cure, I can easily see a corporation wanting to take care of that - and I can see the Island (remember, I still think the Island is some kind of conscience force) fighting against it.
6) Boat Chick - Ok, she is an archeologist, right? How did she get so comfortable with a gun. If you gave me a gun and asked me to knock someout out, I'd probably shoot myself. Seems out of place. Then again - we have Kate being such a good tracker she can note two sets of tracks and the time difference. So maybe I just need to let it go.
7) Ok, Jack likes Juliet. But why in the hell didn't he sit her down and debrief her. Like, "Tell me _everything_ about the Island." There shouldn't be any more surprises.
8) The scene with Ben walking past Hugo and Sawyer? Priceless. That man, and John Locke, have really made this show I think.
I'm done with Locke asking questions and getting excited thinking we will learn the answer. Two important questions from him go unanswered: What is the smoke monster and who is your man on the boat. Knuckleheads.
Overall - this episode was just ok for me. Other than Ben getting out, I didn't learn a whole lot that I couldn't live without.
and Indiana Jones was an archeologist.
As for the man in the boat - we know for a fact we will find out next week, so I'm not concerned about that.
Scott - you sound like you think we _arent_ getting answers, but it seems to me that this season, we have gotten a lot!
But you are right - I do want to know about the smoke monster. That's a question since S1E1 (before we knew what it looked like).
While I would love for it to be Michael or Walt, which would mean I called that at least 3 weeks before we find out who it is, I am starting to think that maybe, even on the slimmest of chances, its someone we thought was dead.
Who shot the video of Widmore? How did Ben get a hold of it? In terms of the timeframe, the video had to have been taken after mid-October of 2004.
How did Harper disappear so quickly in front of Jack and Juliette. I thought she was a 'vision' to Juliette, but Jack saw her as well. How was Ben able to tell her to go meet Juliette? For some reason I have this Hogan's Heroes vision in my head, like as soon as Locke leaves, Ben leaves through a tunnel and can go anywhere on the island.
'See you guys at dinner' was one of the best lines of the season.
As far as Ben's man on the boat, I'm almost certain that it's Michael. Of course, the reason for even having that suspicion makes me irritated with the producers. Harold Perrineau's (the actor who plays Michael) name has been in the credits every episode this entire season even though he hasn't had any screen time. That means he's going to pop up somewhere, and on a boat seems to be as good a place as any.
As far Juliet calling herself an "Other", Jack and all his pals refer to the groups as a whole as "The Others" all the time. They continually refer to individuals as "an Other". So I'm sure she just picked it up from talking to them and was calling herself that to point out how silly it sounds.
BTW, it's hard for me to look at Nestor Carbonell (the guy who plays Richard the Other) and not think of Bat Manuel from the live-action Tick TV series.
Right now I think my #1 question is (outside of the smoke monster) - what REALLY are the Others comprised of? Juliet is normal (as far as we know) but Richard's has to be a ghost of some kind.