While that was certainly an enjoyable finale, chockful of stuff that was just plain “cool,” I’m not sure it did much to advance the story, instead just filling in some of the holes created by the season three finale a year ago. In a broad sense, this episode served to highlight the transformations some (but not all) of the characters have undergone since we first met them in 2004. I’ll get to the “cool” stuff in a minute, let me handle some old business first.
Category: L O S T
Bad Mojo
Almost four years ago, in the early days of Lost yore, it would not have have been a stretch to imagine the show’s final episode containing a scene of our castaways finally touching down on the mainland, reunited with their families and loved ones and at last free of the harrowing trials and tribulations of an extended stay on a mysterious, deserted and deadly island. Although we’re only a third of the way through Lost’s fourth season finale, some imagination revision might be in order.
Pre-Lost Blog Post
In order to make the wait for tomorrow’s episode less interminable, check out this sweet link to a Lost theory that has a lot of potential: click here.
After you’re done with that, this is required viewing for all Lost fans: click here.
note: if you feel dissatisfied with this post, please direct complaints and death threats to the all-new Wayward Cynic Complaint Department!
Locked In
In “The Shape of Things to Come” two weeks ago, Ben’s confrontation with Charles Widmore hinted at the concept of a temporal chess game in which the two of them have specific parts to play while adhering to a certain set of rules or standards. Widmore “changed the rules” of the game by killing Ben’s adopted daughter, as if to say Charles didn’t follow the script laid out for the players. Knowing what we know from the many flashbacks, flash forwards and sheer coincidence that brought all the castaways together, can we infer everything that’s played out in four seasons of Lost was all preordained, to a certain degree? Are all of the characters locked into a destiny decided for them long before they ever took their first breath out of the womb? Tonight’s episode certainly wouldn’t dissuade one from thinking just that.
Ghosts of Lost-mas Future
After last week’s slam-tastic Ben-centric show, it’d be hard for any subsequent episode to compare, let alone one focusing on the now-interminable love affair between Jack and Kate. I know, ladies, you love it, but wouldn’t you rather see giant clouds of black smoke violently uprooting trees and tossing commandos through the air whilst a middle-aged megalomaniac looks on in grim satisfaction? Wait, don’t answer that.
Some time to kill
Now we’re talkin’. Much of the hiatus since Lost’s last episode a month ago were spent without much thought about the show, something I think was precipitated by the inconsistent quality of the season thus far. I’d almost forgotten there was a new episode until this morning, my interest had waned so much. Well, give all due credit to the brain trust behind Lost, because after tonight’s payoff-of-sorts, I’m back to firm footing on the grounds of Lost fandom, counting the minutes until next Thursday’s episode. I’m all for understated character development most of the time, but it’s nice to get explosions, gun battles, black smoke freight trains, time travel, and a towering hurricane of wanton death and destruction every once in a while too.
Hell yeah!
Lost: Via Domus
With the show on hiatus this week, I feel obligated to fill this space with some sort of Lost-related post. Since there’s no real relevant news concerning the show itself, we must turn to other mediums. So, having just received a copy of the XBOX 360 videogame tie-in, entitled “Lost: Via Domus,” it feels like an opportune time to review the game here.
It sucks.
Thanks for tuning in this week. See you next time!
No More Secrets
Welcome to the last pre-hiatus recap on this first day of Spring (a 30° day, mind you). Tonight’s episode–almost entirely flashback–didn’t do much for me, other than further some theories we’ve discussed each week. At this point, the intimations that Widmore’s behind the conspiracy, the “rescue” team is going to kill everyone, and that Michael is Ben’s “man on the boat” aren’t anything new. Tonight’s episode was a heap of the status quo with a sprinkling of Michael’s suicidal spiral of despair after having betrayed the rest of the castaways to rescue his son, and then losing Walt because of those very actions. No surprises here.
고민에서
You should know I spent about 20 minutes trying to translate a hilarious post title phrase containing the word “panda” into Korean…and failed. So instead, I went for “In Distress.” Just assume the translation is accurate. Don’t let that divert you from the true importance of the panda(s) Jin so desperately needed, though…the stuffed panda might actually be the best evidence yet of what this show is truly about–it’s the ultimate metaphor for the island’s true nature and its relationship to our castaways.
Anyway, instead of analyzing the symbolism inherent in stuffed pandas juxtaposed with the birth of a child, I shall leave that for another day and move swiftly to…
Center of Attention
You’ll have to forgive my brevity, as I’m a bit under the weather with influenza at the moment. No thematic discussions or exhaustive, pseudo-scientific analyses this week.
You can’t get shots like this on a soundstage
Read on for the Quick Hits.