Cabin Fever

You are so right.

This episode was swill. No wait. That would be an insult to swill.

The writers are pulling this crap out their asses, and this is proof there was not master plan all along.

Hate to be a contrary, but I thought this episode was the best of the season. I’ll call out the writers when there is major suck-o-meter action, but this episode was not nearly as bad as the rest of the episodes we’ve seen this season or last season.

So after all his murdering and scheming, Ben is just turning over the keys to the island to Locke? I guess Alex getting snuffed by the mumbling soldier of fortune suddenly changed his raison d’etre from “keeper of the island” to “revenge on Widmore,” but first he will have a quiet, touching moment with Hurley as they share a Dharma Apollo chocolate bar. That was beautiful man!

And I know this has probably been beat to death already, but are they serious with the “Michael can’t die” routine? What would happen if they put concrete blocks on his feet and dropped him in the ocean? Would a magical air bubble appear so he wouldn’t drown? I guess that still wouldn’t address the issue of the bends, but oh well.

I almost changed the channel when Adam Ant appeared in the maternity ward and then showed up at infant Locke’s home to adminster some harebrained test in which Little Locke was forced to choose among a knife, comic book, box of dirt, the Book of Kells(?) and some other random objects. It seemed the only purpose of the scene was to generate Lost fanboy buzz over more “clever” Easter eggs.

Tyler, you should take a page from Spinal Tap and change the suckometer scale so that you can give Lost a rating even higher than 10. For me, this episode was pushing an 11 suck level.

You can’t possibly say this episode was worse than the “release the gas episode” or last week’s appendectomy abortion. If you think this week’s episode was worse than those two, then I nominate this week as this site’s Jump The Shark week. Keep some friggin perspective, people.

Dr. RobbyLove, I don’t know if it was worse that those episodes you mentioned, but it was at least as bad.

It was one of the worst for me, and to prove I’m not just making blanket negative statements about the episodes, I thought that The Constant was a halfway decent episode this season.

LOST is like a Christmas tree with too many ornaments on one side: it can’t stand the strain and just falls over. That’s the effect of running so many stupid story lines in one series. It has just murdered this show. Last week I think I called the episode boring, the week before, painful. This one was ludicrous. Or fucked up, whichever you prefer. What I wonder is how the actors feel about the show these days. You just know they have to be thinking, “What the fuck is this shit? Christ, we’re going to get our asses cancelled and doing Ford commercials next fall!!! Someone get someone in here who can write! We know it’s impossible to save the show at this late date, but can’t there be a form of Creative Hospice where we might at least die a respectful death??? Why does Master JJ prolong this agony? There just simply has to be some TV Kervorkian who can fly over to Oahu and put us out of our misery with kindness — that is to say, one episode where everything makes sense, riddles are explained, nonsense dispensed with at long last, and where the Island fades blissfully away into television history!”

They usually follow a crap episode with a good one, this week not so much. Jack’s dad is dead, right? He was in a coffin and now he’s in the magical cabin with Clair. What the hell was that about? I usually try to look for the positive, but the only thing I gathered was the eyeliner dude either is a time traveler or he’s a ghost or immortal or something. And don’t you think Locke would have recognized him when they chatted on the island? “Hey, aren’t you the guy who put those retarded items in front of me then stormed out when I picked the knife?”

The hole is getting deeper and filled with more crap they won’t be able to explain. Team Darlton, I hope JJ isn’t pissed at you for ruining his great show. Don’t think that you will have 2 more seasons just because you haven’t finished the story.

I agree with RobbyLove on this one. I thought this episode was easily the best of season 4. There were many enjoyable and entertaining scenes and it was great, once again, not to see Jackass but for a few seconds.

The good: Love seeing the Locke kid flashbacks - thought seeing Eyeliner man was very cool. Also enjoyed seeing mysterious bald black man and the conversation between him and Locke. The dream and the trek was also enjoyable. Admittedly, Locke is by far my favorite character, and perhaps the only reason the show doesn’t TOTALLY suck in my opinion, so a Locke-centric episode is a breath of fresh air to me, especially after suffering thru a whiny-Jack horseface Kate episode.

The bad and the ugly: Combining both these cause its hard to choose. The boat seen was abhorrent. Military Dude going nuts and going to nuke the island with the strange device on his armpit? What the hell? The Captain that we are “not supposed to trust” (see the stupid note episode) is somehow good suddenly and then is dead. So who gives a crap whether he is good or bad? The doc getting killed after they remind the moron viewers about his impending death about 2 seconds earlier. And, once again, we are made to believe we will see Jacob and all we see is, what a surprise, Christian Shepherd - that really sucked.

I thought this epi was entertaing, but it still had so much wrong with it. I thought it was really stupid for Sayid to go off towards the island in his dingy. And what the heck happened to Des? He now doesn’t give a crap about anyone but himself and his precious Penelope. That was just dumb. He’ll let everyone on the island be murdered, because what… he thinks the ‘bad guys’ won’t kill him next. He’ll just remain safe and sound on the boat.

And did anyone else get teary eyed at the scene between Botox and Jack. BARF! That scene was nothing but salt added to an open wound to us out here enduring the remainder of this sess pool of a show.

The cabin scene. Who didn’t think it was Shepherd inside, that’s what I want to know? Do you think they have any Darmha paper towels and Windex? That lantern could sure use a wipe down. I mean, it’s amazing any light at all makes it thru. And why is Jacob, or whoever always sitting in the creepy chair with no lights on. I mean, we know Shepherd can LEAVE the cabin, why not move the chair to the porch? It looked like him and Claire were just chilling… in the dark creepy cabin, which she is now so ‘ok’ with the bye-bee being gone. And she tells Locke, “don’t worry, I’m fine…I’m with him”. Oh, ok then, as long as you’re with HIM, the creepy dude in the cabin. But seriously, what are they doing hanging out in the dark cabin. It is, IMO the dumbest part of the epi. Although, it did have the most appropriate line…”Once the men with the boat are here, all of these questions won’t matter one bit.” There you have it. As if there was any doubt. All the question don’t matter one bit.

The other big surprising moment from last nights epi. Who didn’t know Hurley Duuuuude Hugo was going to pull a Dharma bar from his leg pocket?
But Ben didn’t even say thank you when he got half, after staring at the candy bar, drooling practically. Doesn’t he understand how hard it is for HDH to give up half his candy bar?

And now, they need to move the island. And just how do you move an island? What a set up for more stupidity. I just cannot wait…

Mrs. Meister

I thought the preview was good, they come back. I would bet they won’t cover exactly how they got off, and plus we were promised the answer to who was in the coffin. Maybe it’s Christian again. Maybe he’ll stay dead this time. I actually am beginning to think it’s Michael or maybe even Sawyer. Who knows, I think they just make this shit up over a doobie anyway.

I know it’s an ongoing TV series with the possibility of new viewers jumping on board (seriously?) and others who may have missed an episode here and there, but I don’t know if I can stand any more blatant, previous-episode exposition crap dialogue.

“So this is, like, the mass grave where you shot Locke?” You might as well add, “… in Season 3, dude?”

Not the best episode of season 4, in my opinion, but I think it’s funny how we’ve got so bored with bashing that we’re actually arguing over which episodes are the best.

I hope within a few episodes, they take us back to the funeral home and Jack opens the mystery coffin to find a LOST Season 1 DVD set.

The scene with Locke picking out the items that “belonged” to him was a friggin BLATANT RIPOFF of a scene in the movie Kundun.

Do a search on YouTube for “Kundun” and select Part 2. You’ll wanna puke at how shameless the ripoff is.

Nearly ruined the episode for me.

(Add this to the youtube url) /watch?v=bFwn-tQzGMo

I actually watched parts of it for the first time in ages. I can’t comment on what was going on, because what I did catch didn’t make any sense to me. (I have no idea who anybody on the ship was, for example, nor do I care.)

What I do want to comment on, though, watching Locke, Ben and Hurley traipsing through the jungle (yet again), was how *bored* all the actors looked. They had all the enthusiasm of assembly-line workers who had punched in for yet another day’s work. It was like they were all muttering “different day, same crappy dialogue” under their breaths. Part of me doesn’t blame them, since it’s obviously a great paycheck for such minimal effort, but then again, part of me is starting to blame them for not quitting the show (good on you DM!), for two reasons. One, they are starting to lose their integrity as actors, and two, they are preventing the show from getting the axe that would surely come if all the good actors left. In any case, it is sad seeing good actors like TOQ, and to a lesser extent ME, wasting their talents on this dreck.

Let me get this straight the plan is to move the island, seriously is that the best they could think off? With the others and the plane crash survivors they outnumber the commando guys like 10 to 1 and they do have guns. You know what a better plan is - mount up and kill the commandos with some help from smokey.

Now for the weekly criticism:

1) Once again to put try and get the viewers interest they kill a few more people. Surely there running out of guys to kill, somewhere on that island there is a sign saying ‘no murders in the last 40 minutes and proud of it’
2) The entire which items belong to you scene. For god sake stop ripping stuff off. This is nothing by some hokey religious hook up with the way they associate the next incarnation of a budah by getting him to choose from items some of which belonged to the last incarnation. Lame so very, very lame. I pray this doesn’t end up as the search for the reincarnation of Jacob, you know big twist Locke is Jacob.
3) Again no explanation for Claire abandoning baby in middle of forest.
4) Someone mentioned the ‘we have a plan story arc type thing’ the writers are meant to be doing. Well that worked out so nicely for the French woman. French woman - dead, French woman’s daughter - dead, boyfriend of said daughter - dead. Yep there’s your proof non of this is thought out, it’s simply the garbage the writers projectile vomit onto the script week in week out.
5) That damn dramatic music they use every time some big secrets is about to be revealed only - wait for it - the secret is never revealed.
6) Move the island, more chance of Hurley actually loosing weight. This will be one of those ‘oh I lied’ Locke moments.
7) Locke’s mum, pregnant and run over whilst on way to meet boyfriend. Was it just me or did she not look in the least bit pregnant. No bump = baby of only a few weeks old = no chance of survival.
8) Commando’s looking to kill everyone and they don’t bomb the nice bonfire lit beach. You telling me not one of them thought ‘pass me a grenade please’?
9) Jack up and about already, please you have an incision in your gut you ain’t going nowhere for a while. Mystical island healing thing be damned!
10) If any lost fanboys have actually read this far down without bursting into tears, do I make you mad well do I?

They oughtta just fast forward to the part where they move the island to Disneyland. It would make a great ten minute ride where you come out all dizzy and think that it must have been really good even though you can’t for the life of you remember much of anything about it.

Yikes.

Remember the first/second season when, for example, they discovered the hatch and you could not wait until next week to see what was in it? What the hell happened… this season is so awful that it hurts me to watch. Now they keep adding more sub-plots, more characters, more loose ends, it’s getting more and more confusing. I give up.

Paul.

I think your suck-o-meter is off. Compared to some recent episodes, I wouldn’t say this was the worst. Filler, yes, but not horrible.

This website kind of sucks.

We all suck, for still watching this crap.

Oh well, I fell off the wagon, I had a relapse, I watched this episode after being dry (insert diaper joke here) for the previous two. I did notice when Ben and Hurley shared the candy bar that neither one of them had a clue either. I liked this episode although I have no idea why. But, when Locke found Claire and Admiral Doenitz in the cabin it did suggest paaaaarrrrttaaaaay to me. I did find the whole “Batman at the Orgy ” thing to be somewhat offensive.

I can honestly say I forgot that Lost was on last night. I ended up watching old episodes of the simpsons and king of the hill which aired at 10 and 10:30. It wasn’t til i flipped through the guide later that i noticed lost was on. Just shows how much lost has dropped. In the past I couldn’t wait to see the next episode and i would die of anticipation… now I really don’t give a crap about this garbage. I’ll be waiting next to hear about its cancellation.

Most of the episode was retarded like Locke’s mother not looking pregnant at all, the captain pointing a gun at several armed bloodthirsty psychopaths then looking away, Desmond suddenly being a whiney bitch like Jack and not wanting to help.

Why is Michael the only one who can repair the engine? That’s totally illogical. Breaking stuff is a lot easier than fixing it.

The Horace scene was dumb.

We were again let down by the fact that they didn’t show Jacob.

Locke asked an idiotic question, which received an idiotic answer, as somebody pointed out. The question should have been “What the fuck is the island?”

However: After the first few episodes of the first season I had a feeling that Locke knew something about the island that the other survivors didn’t.
I don’t know whether it is just coincidence that they now revealed that he did indeed know stuff, or all planned. Probably the former because there was no indication he recognized Richard Alpert when they first met in the second or third season.