Lost


The opening this week showed a lot of promise. Sayid was kicking back on a posh golf course enjoying life when an unknown duffer rolls up and challenges him to a friendly wager on an approach shot to the pin from the fairway. After winning the bet the unknown man, now skiddish because of the reveal that Sayid was one of the "Oceanic Six" attempts to leave but out of nowhere Sayid pulls a gun and shoots him with the jarring words, "I insist Mr Aveline."

Thus the continuation of the Lostian theme of adding more and more questions to an ever growing list of unanswered plots and story threads.

The one part of the episode I took issue with was Locke "capturing" Sayid, Miles and Katie. I did not have the feeling from previous installments that this "war" between the survivors had gone from cold to hot and the fact that Hurley was used as a pawn in the battle seemed at best unlikely. It just goes against his personality. The "sides" issue seems contrived.

The experiment that Daniel ran was quite interesting. There seems to be a time differential between the ship and the island. This is obviously going to prove very important in the future as we have all heard the rumors of time travel being involved with the overarching story. I can't wait to hear the explanation of why radio waves (when Faraday was talking to Regina) and rockets travel at different relative speeds in the Lost psychical environ. One is effected by the island phenomena and the other is not. I guess it is all about bearing!

The final 10 minutes this week were awesome. Sayid was actually getting played the entire time by the "mark" he was trying to get information from. She turned from the sweet innocent girl next door into a cold blooded assassin in mere moments. I was shocked! Thank goodness Sayid was able to get to his gun and kill her before she finished him off, although it was sad to see him so sad. What a tortured soul.

Of course the very, very end was Ben as a doctor of sorts patching up Sayid. We can add about 50 more questions to the hopper from the last 50 seconds of this week's episode. I don't even know where to begin...

Overall I thought this was a good episode although I felt most of the time was spend laying the foundation for the future, and that is problem with 95% of Lost episodes. I am all about good story telling but not giving us enough in the now and dragging out the story is starting to wear on me.

With most shows, it is about what is going to happen next week. With Lost it is about what is going to happen 10 or 15 episodes from now. I wish they would start telling us more about what has already happened (on the island) rather then feed new story elements and open up other infinite realms of possibility.

Sooooo.....What is up with this list? Why is Sayid working for Ben? Who are the two remaining members of the "Oceanic Six?" I think we will get the answer to the latter in the next few weeks and the former in the next *gasp* few years.

This is why I prefer that you take the lead on threads like this, you are much better at starting off the discussion. Great recap!

I think it was a good episode, honestly some of the revelations were just confirmation for some of my theories or suppositions.

One I've always concluded that Ben left the island for business, much like Richard and Ethan.

Daniel's experiment was great to see, nothing exciting in the result that yes there is a time difference. But nonetheless, still interesting to see. I like geeky stuff like that.

I'm thinking Miles mission really is to kill the survivors. But only he and Naomi were assigned that task. Frank, Daniel and Charlotte all have different agendas that relate to their fields.

As for Locke, I'm not sure what to think. Other than he's turning into Ben. I think Jacob's cabin was really there, but he cloaked it. I don't think Locke was supposed to bring the people to him. Jacob uses his messenger to speak to the people and so he hid the cabin. Unless after all this time he's figured out how to cross the salt.

And where's the smoke monster? All these people going through the bush all over the island and not one attack or sighting.

I'm disappointed in our girl Kate, why would she choose to stay with Sawyer when she knows Jack loves her???? Is she staying to play double agent?

Poor Jack.

Back to Sayid, do you think he hears dead people. He seemed to be drawn to Naomi. When he was praying, it was like she spoke to him and he just snapped his head up in her direction and walked to her and then closed her eyes and covered her.

Did you notice his 'mark' had the same kind of bracelet that Naomi had?

I think Ben's cryptic threat was that in order to protect all the people left on the island Sayid must eliminate all those that want to discover the island or a threat to island. Or it could be that the Oceanic 6 did something that the world would view as criminal or so terrible that Sayid is killing people to protect them so the world doesn't find out what they did.

I just got done reading the summation of this episode on Lostpedia. So does anyone have thoughts about what the list is all about?

P.s. A few good theories (episode specific) here.

I totally agree about needing more information about "the now". It's wearing on me too (as I've said in another thread on here...lol)