Lost on Lost

03 Feb 2010 1 Comment

by Nathan Maxfield in John Locke, Locke, Lost, Sayid, Season Premier, Television Tags: Ben Linus, Hurley, Jack, John Locke, Julia, Kate, Locke, Lost, Sawyer, Sayid, Season Premier, Televison, TV

Let me start by saying I have watched Lost since the beginning. I have seen every episode, some more than a few times. Knowing that we were embarking upon the final season added to the anticipation of last night’s episode which was only helped by the fact that there were months between last year’s finale and this year’s premier! Needless to say I was very excited to see what last night’s premier held!

Last year we were left with more questions (what’s new?) and very few answers. Was Locke dead? Did Juliet’s detonation of the bomb cause Jack’s plan to succeed? Who exactly were Jacob and his mysterious friend in black on the beach? Were they the yin and the yang of the island? Finally, why did the Lockelganger want to kill Jacob?

Last night I tuned in for answers. Though there were a couple that were answered, for the most part, in typical Lost fashion, we were only left with more! First let’s address what was answered, albeit only partially.

1) Locke, or the Lockelganger as I refer to him as, is also the smoke monster??? Locke is now Smocke???

We find this out after some of Jacob’s bodyguards from last season enter the giant foot statue and find that Jacob is nowhere to be found. This of course makes them shoot at Locke and they are either worse shots than Stormtroopers and COBRA soldiers combined, or Locke is now bulletproof! Well Locke disappears and the black smoke enters and proceeds upon killing all of the bodyguards.

Of course it’s not really Locke, John Locke’s body is on the beach. John Locke was murdered by Benjamin Linus last season, strangled as he contemplated suicide. Or perhaps that body is fake??? Of course the smoke also took on the form of Ben’s dead daughter last season basically telling him to follow Locke’s orders which lead to stabbing Jacob. Buy why did the smoke kill Echo a few seasons ago? Why didn’t it kill Locke? Was it saving him for later? Will we ever find out??? That odd cracking sound you hear is my brain slowly crumbling to pieces…

2) The hydrogen bomb, that the spinal surgeon decided would reset time (I always go to spine surgeons for my time traveling needs) and send everyone back to their original lives having never arrived on the island worked… sort of… I think. While we see Jack on board Oceanic Flight 815 we get an underwater shot as the camera pans the ocean floor. Then we see a miniature version of the mysterious island as well as the foot that was once the size of a giant, now the size of a fish! What… the… hell?!?

So apparently we are calling these scenes, flash sideways. We see all our favorite passengers and what would happen had they never crashed on the island. Jack lost his father’s body but is still the same old Jack as he saves Charlie from suffocating on a bag of heroin, something that couldn’t be done when Charlie drowned. Locke lost his knives but regained his wheel chair. Kate is in handcuffs but eventually escapes from Edward Mars, who happens to still be alive – good for Edward! Hurley lost his bad luck, Sayid seems less troubled, Rose & Bernard seem happy, Boone, also alive, is there bonding with Locke on a certain level and we later see Claire in a cab in which Kate jumps in to make her escape. Jin & Sun seem to still be suffering through marital problems, Jun perhaps running into some legal issues as well. Desmond was on the flight as well (or was he as he seemed to disappear) which made no sense since Desmond was on the island years before the original crash. Of course the island is now able to fit in an aquarium so it would make it rather difficult for Desmond to be there…

Now you have to think back to last year, when we learned who Jacob had contact prior to the crash – Jack, Kate, Locke, Sayid, Hurley, Jin and Sun. Was this because Jacob saw something special in these people, or was it perhaps he knew that they were the ones most likely to want to stay on the island, due to pathetic lives off the island, in case something unfortunate happened to him? Think about the conversation between the Lockelganger and Ben, after Jacob was killed. The thing that made Locke different from the rest of the survivors, was his desire not to go home, recognizing that his life outside the Island was, for lack of a better term, pathetic. It’s what the rest don’t recognize… yet. A few seasons back, during the conversation between Eloise and Desmond Eloise tells Desmond “You cannot change fate. What’s meant to happen will happen. You don’t stop things from happening; rather, you just delay it.” So those people on the flight who are still alive, odds are you guys are SOL! I suspect in the end, the flash sideways will be what it takes to show the rest of the survivors that their place in life is on the island. Now how will that affect them since they are still on the island as well, somehow? I have no idea, not yet!

Back on the island, in perhaps a different time-line things have gone from bad to worse. Juliet survives momentarily only to pass right after she tells Sawyer “I have something important to tell you.” Now does that suck or what?!? Luckily for Sawyer he has a buddy named Miles who just so happens can talk to dead people. Miles finds out that what Juliet wanted to tell Sawyer before she died was “It worked.” Sawyer, has no idea what Juliet is talking about. The rest of us thankfully can figure out that she is talking about the hydrogen bomb. How does she know that it worked considering she is still on the island with Sawyer? Ohhhhhh who cares! I can’t take trying to figure that one out! The question is, will she be able to get in touch with them all to let them know about the impending lizard invasion???

Oh wait that’s another show… never mind.

So now we have Miles, Kate, Jack & Hurley taking Sayid to the temple because the only way to save him, according to Jacob’s ghost who Hurley happens to talk to, yes Hurley not Miles the guy who is known for talking to dead people, is to take his body to the temple. Little did we know, but it was the temple of DOOM! Upon arriving to the temple, our friends are ambushed by these guys -

Or at least they looked like those guys… Of course the men in turbans were led by this guy -

Who of course isn’t a samurai in Lost, he just dresses the part.

So these guys in turbans take the survivors to the samurai and right before the samurai’s men gun down the survivors Hurley screams “Jacob sent us!”. This gets the attention of the samurai who then finds out that the proof Hurley has that he spoke to Jacob was the guitar case. Inside the guitar case is a wooden ankh which the samurai breaks open and finds a note. Apparently the note lists the names of the survivors who Jacob touched previously. I swear I am getting tired just writing this… Anyway, the note also says that if Sayid dies, they are all in deep sh- … errr… trouble! So the samurai’s turban wearing men take Sayid into a fountain and drown his last breaths from him. After pulling him out their efforts at healing him via the age-old method of drowning has sadly failed. Sayid is dead, all is lost (get it?) right? Well of course not! This is Lost after all! Is anyone ever really dead on Lost? It seems like the answer is no!

Before we find out Sayid’s fate though the temple is spreading dust around its perimeter and apparently preparing for an invasion. The samurai also launches a giant bottle rocket into the air which freaks Richard out. Before Richard can do anything the Lockelganger hits him in the throat and then follows that up with an elbow drop taking Richard down and out! Locke picks up Richard and carries him away.

At this point the samurai’s lackey comes in to tell Jack that his presence is requested for a private conversation. Jack decides that they can’t make him leave (because Jack always makes the best judgments and knows he can take an army with machine guns if he decides to) which leads to a struggle. Before we get to see Jack get a well-deserved ass kicking, Sayid comes back from the dead! And that closes, the premier of Lost.

All in all it was a good premier. At this point I don’t hope for any resolution on any particular episode of Lost. I go in armed with the knowledge that my brain will be hurting by the end of the show and of course, I cannot wait for more!