sentences about Lost

[psocoptera]

Ok, we've all seen the February 2nd two-parter? Ok then. Here we go with what I hope will be weekly Lost blogging!

First, some thoughts: they did a great job of keeping the focus in the alternative timeline tight on the main cast, so that I was thinking "oh no, in this timeline Jin is still a dick! and Locke is still lonely and bitter and frustrated! oh god, Rose's cancer!" and I was not thinking *at all* about the two hundred-odd nameless faceless dead people successfully arriving in Los Angeles. Later on I was like, wait, who cares about the personal development of these schmoes, this should be a miracle-on-the-Hudson victory moment... I would have liked to have seen a couple of happy reunions with arriving loved ones (you know what I mean, dad and kids in the terminal with a welcome-home banner and tons of hugs for mom coming back from her business trip, etc) to remind us of the big picture, except they obviously didn't *want* us to be reminded of the big picture (except insofar as we're supposed to care about people who died *on the island* still being alive - Arzt, Boone, and Charlie), so, hey, nice work, Lost writers.

Also: Stupid Jack and Kate may be having a tough time in the new timeline, but the characters I actually *like* - Sayid and Hurley - seem to be pretty happy, so, hey, go new timeline! (Although, Rose's cancer, wah!)

(On the topic of stupid Kate: jeez, could you move in any faster on Sawyer there? His wife just died, what, like, an hour ago? Maybe I am just so sick of these people and their romantic problems that I'm seeing intentions where there weren't any. But, ugh. Also, seeing as Hurley's girlfriend got shot, Sayid had a girlfriend *and* a wife get killed, Sawyer had a sex partner and a wife get killed, what is Kate doing thinking about being romantically involved with *any* of these people? Doesn't she realize that is the short track to the fridge?)

Given that sexy new Other leader Dogen apparently just speaks Japanese to sound *extra mysterious*, wouldn't it be awesome if, instead, he spoke Korean, which would sound equivalently mysterious to the American viewer, but would mean that later in the season he could have long conversations with Sun and Jin explaining everything that was going on, while all the white people stood around going "huh?" I would just find it hilarious and wonderful if after everything Jin has been through not understanding what's being said, it turned out he was the one guy fluent in Infodump.

Smoke dragon/Locke (henceforth referred to as, uh, Smocke?) saying "I want to go home" was oh so deliciously creepy. Favorite moment for the ep. (Runner up: Hurley telling Jacob "that sucks, dude" when Jacob tells him he just died. Oh, Hurley, you are the best.) Fingers crossed that "home" will remain suitably vague and it will never be spelled out whether he's a fallen angel, crash-landed alien, etc.

There are however some mysteries/plot points I'm hoping to see answered/resolved now that we're in the final season. Here's my list to check off as we go:

- who are Adam and Eve (the bodies in the cave)?
- what happened to Rose and Bernard and Vincent after the bomb went off?
- why did the psychic tell Claire she had to be on that plane? is there something special about Aaron? does who ends up raising him have any bearing on any of the big conflicts?
- what happened to Claire, anyways, after she vanished on the island?
- Walt?
- haha. no, seriously, Walt? do his powers have anything to do with Jacob/Smokelocke? where is he in the new timeline? what made the Others interested in him, and did Ben really let him go because he was too powerful for him to control?
- Libby? (ok, I know a spoiler from Lostpedia, which is that the actress isn't coming back and we're never really going to find out more about Libby. I've always felt like There Had To Be More There, but my mom's insistence that there Had To Be More to Topher Brink on Dollhouse, when I thought it was quite clear there wasn't, has made me very aware that sometimes one can see a gaping unexplained backstory where there just isn't. So, she was in the mental hospital, she gave away a boat, nothing to see here.)
- why doesn't Richard Alpert age? who/what is he?
- why did flight attendant Cindy happily join the Others?
- will Sun and Jin ever make it back home to their little girl?
- I think I'm forgetting at least one plot thread I care about. hmmm.

Comments

[cereph.livejournal.com]

ha. I am sooo happy I get to read posts about current Lost episodes this year. eee!

One of my favorite moments was Desmond showing up on the plane.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

HALF OF WHY I AM POSTING IS TO GET TO DISCUSS THEM WITH YOU

So, Desmond, yes. Does Penny even *exist* in this timeline? I guess she would have been born by 1977, so even if Whidmore died in the bomb, she may be out there somewhere. Desmond presumably never gets unstuck in time though since he never turned the key in the hatch...

[cereph.livejournal.com]

lol.

I hadn't even thought about Penny, oops, though I immediate assumed Desmond was still jumping through time. I'm thinking that since the timeline is now split, maybe Desmond can now not only jump through time, but between timelines as well. So Desmond on the plane is indeed the Desmond who turned the key.

Also, I was talking about the episode with mom, and she's thinking Jacob is now in Sayid. I like that idea.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the idea that Desmond may be able to jump between timelines.

I do not like the idea that Jacob is now in Sayid because THEN WHERE IS SAYID?? WAH!

[cereph.livejournal.com]

...do we know who Penny's mother is?

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

We know that part of how Ben justified kicking him out as leader/kicking him off the island was that he was living a second life off the island and had had a baby, Penny, with a woman off the island. But we don't know who that woman is/was.

[jdh92.livejournal.com]

While I had heard your Lostpedia spoiler before, I've also heard something that says that's wrong, so I think that's still very much an open issue.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I've been waiting for *ages* for Miles to make it down to the beach graveyard and hear something at Libby's grave. (And, you know, let everyone know they buried Nikki and Paolo alive, whoops.)

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

sexy new Other leader Dogen apparently just speaks Japanese to sound *extra mysterious*

I believe it's Hiroyuki Sanada (of Twilight Samurai fame) playing Dogen? Yes, I'm right. And I get you, plot-wise, but I'm a teensy bit uncomfortable with the idea of casting a Japanese actor and then having him speak Korean.

(Disclaimer: have seen maybe half an episode of Lost three years ago.)

(With disclaimer in mind: if I had to cast Dogen as a Korean?... Ask lnherron. I'm not sure. Maybe Choi Min-sik.)

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no, I was more thinking, what if they had made it a Korean guy from the start. I mean, dude is hot, but I'm sure there are a bunch of hot Korean actors too. It just seemed sort of like a missed opportunity to already have a whole language-barrier thing going and then introduce another language barrier. Although I suppose I would have been less likely to think of this if it had been an Egyptian guy speaking Egyptian at the temple, so I think you're right that there was some dubious Asian-lumping in that thought process.

[irilyth]

A major thing I'm interested in is a rundown of the various factions, and which of them we now think are the same, allied, or enemies, that we didn't know before, in light of the new info about the smoke monster and Jacob. And for that matter just to remind me what the hell is going on. :^p

In particular, in the original 2004 timeline, are the people at the Dharma Village, the people at the temple, and the people in the woods / by the foot / wherever the hell else they are, all part of the same group? Or are the Village Others, the Temple Others, and the Woods Others, all different?

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I think they are all the same: Cindy and the kids are kidnapped from the Taillies (by Woods Others) and turn up at the Hydra (being run by Village Others), and then are with the group being sent from the Village to take refuge at the Temple when the freighter shows up, where they seem to still be three years later.