HOLY LOST 4/3

Back for another Lost review is Mos Jeff, enjoy:

I feel like Brad Pitt. Not so much physically, but the part in Fight Club when he first meets Ed Norton on the plane and he says, "I get it. It's very clever. How's that working out for you? Being clever?"

In this case, the writers of LOST are the Ed Nortons. When did they start thinking they were so clever that they sit around in a little pow-wow and giggle to themselves about their clever ideas. They probably think they're as clever as the first dude who showed up at Madison Square Garden in the 90's with that clever Defense sign...the one that was a giant letter D and then a small cut out of a white picket fence. Now that was clever.

Case and point: "Catch a Falling Star." I know this popular tune from the movie Love Actually (an English flick) when the little kids dressed on stage, one as Spider Man, sing this tune. Later, and more importantly in my life, Season 1 of Lost Claire asks the potential adopted parents (Australian) of Aaron to sing that song to her child. Kate is American. Catch a Falling Star doesn't seem, in my estimation, to be an American classic. Claire definitely never had a chance to ask Kate to sing it to her son. So the clever writers decided, "Oh how fun would it be to tie up this loose end. We're so clever. We eat cheese and do cross word puzzles in pen and understand the economy." Yes, Kate could have heard Claire singing to Aaron on the beach in the past, but I like my tirade better.

Keeping the ball rolling on this, I think last night's episode had more nominees for worst line of the night rather than best line. Hence:

"Sawyer broke your heart. How else were you going to fix it?" - Cassidy

"He'll forget this ever happened and his innocence will be gone." - Richard

"Welcome back to the land of the living." - John Locke

As I delve into last night's hour I'll explain why those quotes irk me. But first, how incredible was the Myles-Hurley conversation? I feel like I've had that very same talk, including the Back to the Future II reference, with many of you out there. In fact, my favorite line of the night was Hurley's, "Ha! Then your theory is wrong!" But then I should probably lump that in with the writers being clever, and sneaking in a little insult to the viewers about them (me, us) being so wrong about everything. And why didn't Ben remember Sayid shooting him? (Which A. Myles wasn't on the island yet to know about and B. Ben never reveals to anyone)

Because of a stupid fucking explanation from Richard. I get it. Ben was brought in those first couple of episodes and that was supposed to be it for that character. Except he was so good that they had to keep him around and expand his role. However "he'll forget this ever happened" is such a cop out, man. It's on par with the end of Four Brothers. I still don't understand why they killed that poor woman.

This (forgetting it every happened) means that Sayid and young Ben will never be in contact again. Either Sayid will be killed or he'll time jump back to the 2000s. My guess is he gets merked because his arc seems to have come to an end. Although Ben doesn't recognize any of our other Survivors, nor do they get gassed in the Purge, so they might all jump out of his life.

Cassidy's line - I wasn't under the impression that Kate was heart broken at all. Her decision to keep Aaron wasn't about being alone, it was about protecting the island. Isn't that the point of Kate's character? To be the female hero of the show? Or maybe I couldn't hear her sobbing because her mouth was stuffed w/ Jack's apparently unimpressive (my understanding based on Juliet's lack of expression in the shower scene) "little surgeon." And was the handing over of Aaron to his grandma enough motivation to have her go ahead and sleep with Jack? Not so clever, writers. Not so clever. In addition, we all knew this is what Sawyer whispered about before, doing the opposite of what Schwarzenegger suggested, jumping off the choppa'.

Kate has no freckles.

And regardless if no one told her to do it, she's preggo. No one told Ben to show up last minute for the plane (like Hurley did.) But this show is based heavily on fate - and someone had to get knocked up.

The Richard line at least gave out some other clues -- Ellie and Charles both being the heads of the Hostiles. Yet Richard also claimed he didn't answer to them. Hopefully this power struggles is cleared up in Ben's back story. More importantly for right now, if Charles is on the island still, in 1977, Penny was almost definitely born on the island. Might be the offspring of Widmore and Ellie. Might be Kate and Jack's baby that Widmore takes with him (similar to what Kate did) when he is tricked off the island by Ben. No matter whose kid she is, she was born there and just like Desmond, Aaron and Walt, must go back to the island.

Kate and Sawyer are responsible for Ben's innate evil streak? Hardly. Blame the Doc with the shrinkage. If he hadn't been so stubborn as usual (the new him, apparently is just as stubborn as the old him) and saved Ben, the ginger kid wouldn't be personifying a Don Henley song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4cuEAU9mXM

Similar to Russo's friends losing their innocence.

Richard's Ouija Borad-esque skills, or potential molestation implications--you know how they love the Christianity references, in the mysterious Temple raise some questions. Did he do this with Locke? Probably not since Locke specifically remembers how he dies. He was healed by the island before that too when he was shot by Ben. He rises and kills Naomi, not so innocently. But he remembers being shot by Ben too. So these miracle cures clearly reenforce the fact that Locke is special.

Did Richard resurrect Christian? More possible than Locke. Eko's brother? Maybe. The point is Richard isn't clear if Ben won't remember any of his past or just the bit about his death.

The love square gets more complicated as Juliet doesn't knock on the bathroom door before entering and Sawyer tells Kate he loves the blonde. Two of the four will die, forcing the remaining two to be forcefully E-Harmony'd with each other.

Other thoughts: What if Ben, and our other old friends stuck in the time of Caesar and the Bounty Hunter Broad, can't go to the 70's because they'd encounter older versions of themselves. Ben is clearly around. But what if we were wrong about the AVD's asian baby? What if it's not Myles at all and it's actually Sun? I don't remember if they specified if the child was a boy or not. But even if they said it's "your son" that could've easily been written "your Sun." The counter argument is that Locke jumped to the same time where the beam of light shot out of the Hatch so jumping to the time of your former self is quite doable. And then a counter argument to that is that those time jumps occurred before Locke turned the donkey wheel.

Roger should hit on someone closer to his level. If Kate's a 9 or 10, Roger's like a 5? He should be looking more in the Rose hotness-scale level. Or Russo post 16 years of craziness and deterioration.

Is the Ben resurrection the "incident" they all speak of? I think that when Richard/Hostiles return Ben to the DI, with side effects or specific demands, that will be the incident.

Again, a pretty black and white episode. Keep hope alive.


"too many questions"
mos jef

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