It is so great having Lost back again. And three hours in a row of Lost (I always watch the recap) was a great way to begin. I am not going to attempt to completely dissect and review the full episodes of Because you Left and The Lie. My plan is to list the most interesting parts of the episodes, the questions, quotes, etc. Please comment with any you feel I missed.
1. Best line of the night - Hurley to Sayid: "Maybe if you ate more comfort food you wouldn't have to go around shooting people".
2. The record skipping at the beginning foreshadowed the Losties skipping through time. The song playing is Shotgun Willie by Willie Nelson.
3. The clock read 8:15 as the show began.
4. Daniel was in the Dharma station with Marvin Candle in the 70s. Did he find a way to travel there to help save the Losties on the Island?
5. Why did only Charlotte have a nose bleed when they were all time skipping? Had she done so before, so that maybe it was getting to be too much for her?
6. Only the Lost survivors moved through time, not Richard Alpert and the Others.
7. The Lostie character Neil, that was complaining that they couldn't make fire, was hit by a flaming arrow. He was wearing a red shirt.
8. Sawyer had some great new nicknames. I especially like Ginger for Charlotte since Ginger was from Gilligan's Island, a television show about people stranded on an island.
9. Could the island whispers be related to the time jumps
10. I assume the reason that the rules don't apply to Desmond (as Daniel told him) is because of everything that happened to him since he turned the switch and blew up the hatch. Since then he skips through time on his own, and that is probably why Daniel said that he is special.
11. Does anyone else think that Daniel's mother, the person he asked Desmond to find in Oxford, is Mrs. Hawking? Mrs. Hawking was the woman that told Desmond that time always corrects itself in the Flashes Before your Eyes episode in season 3. She was also the women that Ben met with at the very end of The Lie. If so, looks like the study of time travel runs in the family.
12. If was fun seeing killed off characters once again. We got to see Ethan because Locke traveled back to when Ethan was still alive and Ana Lucia because Hurley hallucinated her. I'm looking forward to more of these visits. Hopefully we will get one from Boone.
13. When Sayid first took off with Hurley he told him to never trust Ben. That was still in Hurley's mind at the end of The Lie when he gave himself up to the police rather than go with Ben, even though Hurley was the biggest proponent of going back to the Island all along.
14. Who hired the lawyers to see if Kate was really Aaron's mother?
15. Who was the woman working at the butcher shop that Ben spoke to? She seemed to be in on everything. It seems like the Others do have people working in the real world.
16. Hurley's father was watching Expose, the TV show that Nicki starred in.
17. I don't know if this meant anything, but when Jack asks Ben why he has to keep Locke's body safe since he is dead, Ben pauses and then doesn't answer. Although I think Locke really is dead, could it be that because Locke was so special to the island that he can be healed when he is brought back?
18. Big laugh when Ben startled Hurley and he threw his hot pocket.
19. Sawyer was shirtless for the entire first episode.
20. Who are the military men that tried to kill Sawyer and Juliet?
Please let me know what you think of the above. Did you have any other revelations that I missed?
How about the line by Hurley's mom-"Why is there a dead Pakistani on the living room couch?"
That was a great one. Hurley was great last night.
Great list!
#1. I loved Hurley's line about the comfort food too! Some of my other favorite lines were Sawyer saying he was the ghost of Christmas future, Miles saying that chick really digs me, Hurley's mother asking why there was a dead Pakistani on her couch, and the exchange between Locke and Alpert: What does the compass do? It points north, Locke.
Great observation on #2 about the skipping of the record foreshadowing the skipping of the Losties through time. I hadn't thought of that!
On #17, I definitely think it's significant that Ben didn't answer when Jack asked him if Locke was really dead.
On #19, where Sawyer was shirtless for the whole first episode -- and no one would give him a shirt! -- I thought the writers were playing with us, saying to us, in effect, ok, you viewers, you always say you want to see more of Sawyer without his shirt -- well, we're going to take that to a ridiculous extreme!
Thanks for commenting Ms. Terri. I can't believe I left off the line about the compass. That was one of my favorites also.
I also just remembered about last year's episode when Richard visited Locke as a child and asked Locke to pick an object. When Locke picked the knife, Richard yelled at him and said he should have picked the compass!!!
"it points north"
I was thinking maybe Sun (sp?) was the one who hired the Lawyers asking for DNA samples, because it was pretty coincidential that she was in town and called Kate right after it happened. Obviously she really IS still pissed at Kate for leaving Jun behind.
I just had another thought on who might have hired the lawyers that approached Kate. I think it was Ben, but just as a way of getting Kate to want to return to the Island. What else could make her agree to bring Aaron to such a dangerous place other than the fear of losing him.
I LOVE Lost and have missed it so much. And Hurly was just absolutely awesome!!! Thanks so much for sharing this blog!!!
GREAT observations - you've got quite a few up there that I hadn't noticed myself. I'm with Jennifer - I think Ben hired the "lawyers" to approach Kate so she'd agree to come back to the island. Can't wait for the next one!
What about when Hurley's dad comes back from talking to the police and says "you killed 3 people??" and Hurley says, "I didn't, he did", pointing to Sayid, and his dad goes "Oh, ok". That was my favorite line.
finally watched it last night oh it was amazing...read your post beforehand and was nice to notice the little things i might have missed on my own thanks... but anna lucia sending libbys love to hurley....ooh it made me tear up
'Ginger' was not only a character on Gilligans Island, but was also the term used in SouthPark to describe 'red-haired' kids.
So I guess one will interpret the remark depending on their generation. I didn't even make the Gilligans Island connection. I just thought red head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNifi2O7oQ&feature=related
LostFan, I didn't even realize that, although I'm surprised my sons didn't mention it as they are big South Park fans. I used to watch South Park when they were younger and we watched together but stopped when I had to watch it alone.
Something else...
Remember when Desmond and Locke blew up the hatch? We watched as Desmond turned the switch and then the screen went white. The show never explained what happened and the guys just ended up returning to the island. I remember Desmond making the statement (to Ecko I think) that all of a sudden he just found himself out in the jungle.
Could it be that the time traveling started at this point? The effects of blowing up the hatch and moving through time seem to have very similar characteristics.
Anyone else think that this could explain how everyone escaped?
Definitely has to be Ben who hired the lawyers... to force her back to the island. I do find it interesting that "Claire" doesn't want Kate to bring him back. So much foreshadowing to think back on, especially the stuff about how Claire has to be the one to raise the baby, no one else.
I can't wait for next week! Hump day is the best day of the week!
Anyone notice ... the orientation film that gets interrupted is for The Arrow, the station whose film is "edited" by Radzinsky, and placed in the Bible? i.e. the scene that follows (Dr. Chang going to the orchid site) is a hint at what that missing piece was about?
South Park got it FROM Gilligans Island