All Lost secrets explained!

Didn’t miss much. Oh yeah - another woman got shot in the gut. Seriously.

i missed it too! i’m so proud of myself.

Cliffs: FFWD into Sayiid’s life as a hitman who works for Ben operating out of an animal clinic. His next target was a chick, but decides to bone her and fall for her, ending with a bullet to his shoulder. Yet he manages to jump back and kill her.

Meanwhile, Asian dude, Kate, and Sayiid go after Locke and the other girl, get tricked by Hugo, and hostage. Kate and asian dude stays, locke lets sayiid go back to the choppa with drunkie dude and the guy from x-files lone gunmen. Add the dead girl and Des, and they fly away.

Jack is still a douche.

Overall, a ho hum episode.

Awesome episode

What did you miss? Well, once again, Sayid proved himself to be the worst strategist and tactician in the entire Iraqi army–and that’s saying something. Seriously, how many traps has he fallen into? And getting gamed by Hurley? That’s just sad.

You also missed Gut-Shot Blonde XII–The Return of the Gut-Shot Blonde. She was one of two new characters who were introduced last night only to be killed. Bravo, gentlemen.

On a lighter note, we learned that the science-guy newcomer/rescuer (I can’t keep up with the names anymore), isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. Apparently, the mysterious “rescue boat” has these smart bombs that can seek out an electronic target. So what does science guy do? Well, after the missile is fired, he hangs around the target just waiting for the incoming projectile to land on him. (If he gets off the island in time for the Olympics, he would no doubt want to apply for the job of “javelin-catcher.”)

Back to Sayid for a minute: He tells Locke that he KNOWS these new guys are lying, and yet he still wants to fly out to their boat–you know, the boat where he’ll be completely outnumbered and trapped on somebody else’s turf. Plus, we have that whole “trade” scenario. Sayid tells Locke that he knows he can’t just take Charlotte, so he’s willing to trade for her. This trade involves Miles–who is already being held securely by Locke’s Army (as is Sayid!!). Does this make sense to anyone!? Locke doesn’t need to trade for anything because he already has control of everyone! Only on Craphole Island…

Overall, last night’s epi didn’t make much of an impression on me one way or another. It was pretty weak. Lots of walking in the jungle - Oh no, the cabin is Lost… what do we do NOW? Sayid joins with Ben and gives up his “new leaf” to be a murderer again, although SURPRISINGLY we know not why. Admittedly, I couldn’t even follow the conversation Ben & Sayid were having at the end.

And isn’t it sweet that Sawyer wants to stay on the island and set up house with his precious freckles. Only we know SHE DOES leave the island… so I guess she is just stringing him along again. BTW, L and I were talking last night about Kate. In the flash forward, she isn’t wearing any handcuffs. Shouldn’t she be like in jail or something? I mean they do have her on premeditated, 1st degree murder.

Oh, there was one great mystery revealed. We now know that there is a time distortion on the island. Didn’t we already settle that with the aged Walt? Why the BIG production? BTW, where is everyone else that ‘went with Jack’? Wasn’t there more?

That is all I’ve got. Not that interesting, but neither was the episode.

Mrs. Meister

i’ll bite…

relative to other characters (and other episodes), sayid’s storyline remains one of the most interesting. flashing forward, he’s an assasin…working for ben…!? overlooking all the clumsy, goofy dialogue and the jack/kate/sawyer bore-fest and the usual plot holes and the implausible choices everyone makes…I thought it was ok.

now here’s what I don’t like…

1. sayid seems to recognize the bracelet on naomi on the island, before he knows it has any significance in the future…wtf?
2. i caught the last 5 minutes of last week’s epi, which they re-broadcast in pop-up style with little hints and explanations…the hints are so frickin’ obtuse and explain the least clever references in the history of television that i wonder why i ever thought this show was ‘neat’ in the first place ! (e.g. another character whose name refers to an obscure scientist and time travel, neat !!!)

Not much else to add. Possibly the worst episode since the ping-pong tournament. I’m finding it increasingly difficult to muster interest anymore.

To raptusregaliter’s point above, it was rather amusing that Nerd boy stood around looking up at the sky for the precision “missile”; for a second there, I thought he was going to try to catch it with his hands. As for Sayid, I think he goes willingly because he somehow knows that his life is not in danger. He knows that the would-be rescuers are lying about their purpose for being on the island but has determined (how?) that they are not a threat.

Mrs. Meister, I feel the same way about the epi. I would add that the whole time distortion business is starting to get confusing. In the last season, we were led to believe that the island has regenerative powers and slows aging. Last week, however, it was suggested that Walt had taken a quantum leap into manhood (unless of course he returns as a ghost — which would explain everything — yeah right). Finally, last night, Nerd boy appears to have determined that the island was in some kind of time warp although according to his gizmo, the time differential was a matter of hours not days or years. None of this will every be reconciled into a coherent explanation of course.

My only other comment is that for people who were so desperate to be rescued a few hours ago, I find them all (especially Jack) somewhat lethargic about getting off that F%#@ rock already.

Holy mother of God, does this show ever suck.

Sorry, guys, the comments here are starting to grow so nonsensical and nitpicky that I don’t even have the strength to respond to them anymore. Right when I saw that our first criticism of the episode was that a woman was “shot in the gut, seriously,” I threw up my hands and gave up (by the way, I just counted five males, off the top of my head, who have been shot over the course of this show, and three of them are very prominent characters).

Hate the show all you want. I give up.

In next week’s episode: Sawyer and Kate fuck, while Jack hopelessly jacks off to the thoughts of fucking kate.

I’d add another thing that seems a little strange is how normal all the killing seems to everyone. numerous shootings, dozens of beatings, a knife to the back…even torture. yet most of these otherwise ‘regular folk’ don’t seem phased by it.

I live a pretty ‘regular’ life in a ‘regular’ neighborhood…and if there were than many shootings or beatings going on around me, I’d hope my reaction would be something like “WTF is going on here?! And why am I still standing near this woman who will very shortly be shot in the gut?!?!?!”

I also forgot the thing was on last night.. only to turn it on at the last minute to see part of the conversation with Ben and Sayid. (which didn’t make much sense to me) I wasn’t particularly ‘upset’ though.. but rather had the feeling that HAD I seen the entire thing - It would have left the very same impression on me as having just seen that last 30-40 seconds..

Pretty much sums up the series for me at this point.

I find it amusing that you guys ‘forget’ the show is on. I admit, I look forward to the show. I look forward to the parts worth watching and I look forward to the parts worth mentioning to ridicule. At this point, I’m not sure which brings me more enjoyment. But I actually rush my kids to bed on Thursday night so I don’t miss anything. (yes, that means I haven’t given up hope that there will actually be something to miss)

Mrs. Meister

There is no other show, better than LOST.

I must admit that I thought the fist two episodes where a little better than last season… but now it has got back into full swing… that annoying full swing of frustration and build ups to let downs, etc.

Seems this season all they’ve done really is run around the island in little groups. There is nothing left to explore… no exciting “hatch”, no monster, etc.

Paul.

PS: Why is Hurly still so fat? Surely it is not from eating the Dharma Ranch dressing… it can’t be that fattening.

If nothing else, they have conclusively proven that the flash forwards are the most boring parts of the show - and that’s going over some big, boring territory. I guess all the characters are acting nonchalant about the violence because they’ve gotten used to dead people coming back to life. Also no doubt it is the genius writing team making a statement about all the violence in our world and how it eats away at our souls. ………….. Okay, back again. Had to take a moment doubled over with laughter after trying to sound like a fanboy there. I find myself mesmerized by this show in the same way I watch an Olympic skater who has already fallen four times and still has half their routine to go. Just wonder if they’ll go all the way and end by doing a swandive over the boards into the judges’ section.

Wow I still don’t understand how they manage, that after I watch an new episodem I know less than before ! Fantastic !

I hate this program, but I love that they still have all the bags of douche speculating.
They actually STILL believe that a story line exists! They still can’t admit, or can’t fathom, that they are being twisted for the sake of being twisted. They have been manipulated into a new paradigm that forces them to derive enjoyment from pointless and needless guesswork that each episode forces a viewer to contemplate. It’s a boondoggle. The ABC website is devoted to theories, because this is where the enjoyment comes in for the droolers. They actually get to think and be creative in their relationship with the idiot box.

Ben is a Swiss vet with a clinic in Berlin who uses future Sayid to protect the island and his friends still there. What a revelation. I mean, that was a twist nobody saw coming. What clever writers (smoking monkeys at Crustlyland Studios)! That will have people posting theory videos on the ABC site! That means more web traffic, the new TV medium… ca-ching! $$$$$$

It would be clever if this was the intention and not a mere serendipitous result. I’m impressed that they still have enough stupid people to string along, but then again, look at all the Bush voters. So many stupid Americans put 2 much faith in 2 things: their leaders and TV, no matter how stupid their message.

Fuck!

so naveen andrews said “I’m still proud of the first season; around the third I thought they were winging it; the writing was poor but I’m definitely doing two more years.” during an interview with jonathan ross on bbc one. has anyone seen it?

Well Laurent, it seems you and I are clearly in the minority as those who truly have accepted that there is not and has never been a chance that there is/was an overarching point to the storyline. (Again, i think watching JJ’s speech put it over the top).

After reaching that point, it is amazing how little motivation there is to watch the show, even for the fun of ridiculing it…I mean come on, when there was still the threat of the show having an intelligent underpinning, the challenge of capturing it’s flaws was at least a cognitive exercise.

But at this point, it would be like watching midget basketball and making fun of them for not being able to dunk. Where’s the satisfaction?

That being said, of course I didn’t watch last night. I was just doing other things and forgot. I may watch it online since my wife still wants to watch it but if not, who cares.

So, I watched last night’s episode and aside from shouting things at the screen like “Jack you are such a douchebag!!!” and “Jesus Christ, Sayid got tricked by f*cking Hurley!!!” I saw that both Naomi and The Chick Sayid Bangs Before He Blows Her Away have on similar bracelets and I thought to myself “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this all powerful, all mighty puppet master behind the scenes has a team of “foxy” (their idea not mine, since I’ve always thought of Naomi as “ratstache”) women who do his bidding…” and then I thought about that story that Uma tells in Pulp Fiction about the pilot epsiode she filmed once called “Fox Force Five” because there was five of them and they were foxes… This lead me to wonder if this isn’t the beginning of the ultimate comic book nerd wet dream in which “sexy” chicks do the bidding of an evil “genuis” (an evil “genuis” who makes them wear tracking bracelets) not to mention that it’s a cross over to Pulp Fiction so everyone who gets it can pat themselves on the back for catching yet another pointless tie in to something that exsisted before LOST… Like everything else that’s considered notewothy by all the Fanboys and girls on this “brillant” show.

So what the hell is going on with Ben? He starts off as a kid who comes to the island with his dad, gets raised there and becomes the janitor or something. At some point he gets recruited by the others then turns round and kills everyone he was working with. Now he somehow becomes the leader of the others. Then he somehow starts communicating with some kind of ghost (jacbo). We also find out that the people on the boat have been sent to find him and that he has a secret room stuffed full of cash and false identity papers. Even better in the future he’s running some kind of operation to wipe out all the people who are a threat to the island with Sayid as his personal assassin. So does this make sense to anyone? He’s gone from janitor -> traitor -> cult leader -> mystic -> international man of mystery -> head of a group of assassins. It’s just insane!

Oh and one further rant what kind of scientists decides that the best place to run an experiment involving shooting a missile onto the island decides to not only stand in the expected impact area but has rigged it so that the impact area is right next to the helicopter! Just who in real life is that stupid?!?!