Category: Lost (Page 26 of 29)

Yippee! Sun is pregnant! But wait a minute, is it or isn’t Jin’s baby? The flashback of the couple trying to get pregnant seemed to indicate that Jin was impotent, and I was under the impression that Sun got down and dirty with Young, Rich Hotel Boy before leaving Australia. But when she tells Jin the big news, she ensures him that she never cheated on him (not even once) during their time together. So is this just another “miracle” set into motion by the island, or is Sun pulling a fast one on poor, old Jin?

I guess we’ll just have to wait another couple months for a new episode of “Lost” – that is how often they air, right? – because despite being a long-awaited Sun/Jin episode, a good chunk of the show was centered around Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie’s trek to locate the mystery survivor’s hot air balloon, which may or may not be for real. And to think I was just starting to believe this guy. In fact, if ever there was reason to kill this guy, it’s now. Seriously, on a scale of 1-10, how creepy was his little monologue about setting a trap and getting rescued by the Others?

This is what happens when the writers have no idea what they’re doing. The first half hour of tonight’s episode has to have been the most revealing portion of the series thus far. If that holds true, however, then the second half hour was the least revealing of the season. Here are the facts: Claire’s baby Aaron is sick, and Rousseau thinks he’s infected. Claire is also having flashbacks of her time spent with the Others, so she runs to Lizzie the psychiatrist for help, but the only thing she can seem to remember via hypnosis is being in a faux hospital room with Ethan giving her a mysterious vaccine shot into her tummy.

With everyone else too busy to help her (where do these people go for days at a time?), Claire enlists Kate’s help to go searching for the place where she was taken, but when they finally find it, the hidden bunker is completely vacant. What I found more interesting than any of this is what Kate discovered while exploring the bunker: a beard? Does that help explain why Zeke had a beard during their first encounter with him, and why he didn’t have one in Claire’s flashback. Or were they just planning ahead for the upcoming stage production of “Annie Get Your Gun”?

I’m really starting to grow tired of this routine that “Lost” writers Damon Lindelof and JJ Abrams have seemed to fallen into. You know, the one where they answer a single insignificant question in trade for a slew of much larger ones? We need answers, and now. If they keep this up any longer, I don’t know if people will still be around to tune in.

Is it just me or are the Sayid flashback episodes always some of the best of the season? Tonight’s episode wasn’t even that great, and yet I was still compelled to soak in every minute of the character’s back story. This time around, we finally get to see Sayid during the war (the Gulf War, I suppose), as he’s captured by the Americans and then trained to become a Master of Torture. And while Sayid thinks back on his first torture victim ever – his commanding officer – Crazy French Chick tracks him down on the island and takes him to a man she has captured and believes to be an Other. Sayid is most obliging in aiding the investigation, and though we never discover who the man really is (I didn’t, anyways, because my TiVo cut off the episode after it ran over the hour mark), we’re to believe that he was telling Sayid the truth.

Meanwhile, as Sayid beats up the stranger after locking him away in the armory, Jack and Locke have a brawl over the decision to give Sayid full reign. As Jack tries to convince Locke to open the door, the countdown clock goes into alarm mode. Locke, who’d rather not find out what happens if the clock counts down to zero, gives Jack the combination and rushes to the computer before it’s too late. Well, it’s too late, and the five white panels switch over to black and red ones that revealed four symbols. Note: this is the best I could decipher with the help of my Pause button – a bird, an arrow, a mallet-shaped object and a screwdriver-shaped object. One panel was still switching over before Locke hit “Enter,” and so it seems that everything is back to normal. Overall, it was a bit upsetting. I was really hoping to see what happened, but it doesn’t look like the creators are ready to show us everything just yet.

By the way, shame on you Sawyer for crushing that poor little tree frog to death. I mean, you’re already on everybody’s shit list, so there’s really no point in playing the bad guy role all over again.

Last week’s teaser for tonight’s episode already prepared us for the attack on Sun, but who could’ve guessed that Sawyer was behind it all? Personally, I found it quite fitting that Ana Lucia would do something like this – she is, after all, trying her darndest to form an army – and though it seemed a much too easy, it felt right. On the other hand, it was nice to see Sawyer’s true genius come to fruition. Ever since his first flashback episode, the audience has known very little about his work as a con artist, but now we know just how good he really is. Oh, and in case you were wondering, he’s really good.

For now, Sawyer seems to have jurisdiction over the other survivors – he is the only one with a gun, but I really don’t see that lasting much longer. Jack and Locke are far too imposing to let Sawyer get away with his little game of Sheriff for very long, and I’d expect some sort of coup d’etat in the coming weeks. More interesting is the slow demise into darkness that Charlie has taken over the past two weeks. With that hood draped over this head, he looks more like evil Anakin Skywalker than a heroin junkie looking for a fix. In fact, he even refused to take the Virgin Mary statues when Sawyer offered them to him at the end of the episode. Just what exactly is going on with him?