Now I’m really LOST…
I think the script for the Season 6 premiere was written by putting slips of paper with random scenes written on them in a paper bag and then selecting them one by one to write the story.
Despite the disjointedness, LOST was it’s usual awesome head-scratching self. I swear I could’ve watched another hour of it.
As we suspected when we last left LOST in episode five, John Locke’s body has been taken over by someone or something else. I think we can safely say that the “monster,” “man in black,” or whatever the dude in the black t-shirt’s name is, is now living inside Locke. Can we all agree on this? Good.
Moving on, LOST is showing us what would’ve happened if the plane had never crashed side by side with the continuing drama of our LOST comrades on the Island. There’s a bigger message here regarding fate and free will. Despite “not crashing” the lives of the passengers that landed safely at LAX seem to still be intertwined. I expect to see more of this throughout the season with a big statement of how we create matrices of connections between everyone we meet before we are born (my guess.)
The episode was a tad heavy with visual biblical references (I cringed when I saw them carrying Sayid into the water. It was a little too “jesus-y”) and I hope we get more spiritual and scientific variety moving forward. Anyway, here are a few more specific tidbits from our favorite characters new and old. Welcome back!:
Jack is still his usual tormented self and is also still the hero. On the plane back to LA, he saves Charlie from dying. Charlie was trying to swallow his stash of crack in the bathroom. Back on the Island Jack is guilt-ridden because the hydrogen bomb did not get everyone safely off the Island. Don’t send a doctor in to do a physicist’s job is what I say.
Sawyer wants to kill Jack for causing the death of Juliet. The weird thing is, they found her at the bottom of the “SWAN” station rubble and not the “ORCHID.” Hmmmn.
Fake John Locke is on a power trip and morphs into the black smoke monster to crush his enemies. Both Ben and Richard are terrified of him. Has anyone started a twitter account for him yet?
If nothing else is resolved after Season 6 is over but Richard’s anti-aging secrets, I’ll be happy.
Jacob informs Hurley that he is officially dead and tells him to take a dying Sayid to a Temple to get well. Jacob is obviously Fake John Locke’s better half?
Dude, Hurley still rules.
The Asian temple leader is a new character who apparently reigns over the older “Others.” After he breaks the “surf’s up” Christian medallion that was in Hurley’s guitar case, he reluctantly lets the survivors stay in the temple, then drowns Sayid in the pool of water. When he finds out that Jacob is dead he sounds the alarms and everyone gets crazy scared. He understands english but hates to speak it because it soils his tongue.
Sayid dies, but is resurrected at the end of the show. Like I said… a little too jesus-y.
See you next week.
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