Live together, un-die alone

To paraphrase the Oracle, the only way we're going to get through this is together.  So, in that spirit, repeat with me:

That is not Sayid; Sayid is dead.

That is not Sayid; Sayid is dead.

That is not Sayid, Sayid is dead.

That is not Sayid; Sayid is dead.

That is not Sayid; Sayid is dead.

If I'm having this hard a time accepting it, imagine the trouble Jack is going to go through.

So, let's regroup and have a think about who amongst the undead may be working for Smocke.  Since Jacob is also undead and appearing to Hurley, we can't be sure who Mr Eko and Charlie were working for when they appeared to him.

But, Smocke does now have Sayid and Clare.  And he left Kate to act as witness to the others.  Where is Sawyer?  Since he wasn't with Smocke can we assume he is still alive?  Surely next week we have to have his story.  I do hope so.  I miss Sawyer when he's not around.  He still gets all the best lines and he is still the least predictable of the characters.

My ultimate question is this: how are we shaping up the armies now?  Are we going to have Jack, Kate, Hurley, Jin, Miles, Ben, those newbies from the end of last season who seem to know a lot more about stuff than us, and Sun battling it out with Smocke and the Undead?  With Sawyer self-isolating and floating in his own stylish redneck way?  Not that I really know the appropriate use of redneck.

Oh, and special commendation to Michael Emerson for Ben's reaction when he found the change in Sayid.  Very well done, incredibly well done.

That lighthouse set is the fakest ever.  It was supremely unconvincing.  Almost as bad as whatever they have done to Clare in the hair and make-up chair.  Or, at least, it appeared that way on non high def pirate bay torrent.  (Big love going out to twentyforty.  Keeping it real for the non-US region geeks and nerds.)


Can't sleep, so I might watch some season one!  I wonder if it is possible to recapture the awe of not knowing what is going on.  I mean, we still don't know what is going on but maybe I mean the awe of really, really digging it and not just being addicted.  An addiction can be described as a behaviour we persist in after the fact of, and regardless of, the realisation that said behaviour may be counter-productive or worse.  So, yes, addiction in this case.

Jake Gyllsidebar

I would go and see a film about pub darts if Jake Gyllenhaal were in it, but Prince of Persia?  Jury still very much out.  It could be just awful.

Poor wee Richard

I love Nestor Carbonell.  He's always really good in whatever he does, and he has lovely eyes.  I thought he played Richard's confusion and terror perfectly and very affectingly in The Substitute, and stood in for many of us in the audience.


He's been strung along like we have - we don't know what a candidate is in this context; we haven't had many (or any) of our questions answered and we resist going anywhere with Smocke on the dubious promise of "come with me and I'll tell you everything" because we have been down that road before.  The only place that leads is a dead end and an ad break.  Feeling you, Richard.


Also, there's not enough "Nestor" in the world.  People should be called Nestor.  Especially people on tv, and then they'd get called Nessie.  That would be fun, I think.

Still foxy after all these years

Would I be as big a fan of Lost if Matthew Fox were not as close to physical perfection as it is humanly possible to be?  Maybe, maybe not.  We'll never know.  We only know that Matthew Fox is close on perfect.  You can get away with a lot when you are that good looking, people (i.e., me) tend to auto-fill the gaps in your charm with projections constructed from how good looking you are.


That aside, Lighthouse was a study of Jack's new off-island life as an automaton, living in a sterile apartment with a push-bike for company, changing clothes without showering and not enjoying a very sterile relationship with his son.  Yes, SON!  Da da duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.  Too self involved with his own damage and self-pity regarding his lost time with his father and his father's lost corpse to see that his son is a total brat that someone should have talked to a looooooooong time ago.


So, Jack's son, David (father of King Solomon) must have a mother.  Unlikely to be Sarah, as since the bomb she probably never even had her accident and managed to dance at her wedding with that douche Kevin.  So, is it going to be  Juliette?  Part of me would like it to be Ana Lucia, as she is hot and needs a break since Avatar.  I'd also quite like it to be Libby, although if Libby and Jack were together they should have loads of kids and still be together, but likely Hurley and Libby are together in new off-island life.  Maybe Penny?  Who else is there?  David has colouring similar to Jack so that's no help.  


Also, can I just say, Mrs Shephard?  That will was RIGHT ON THE SHELF BEHIND THE DESK.  Could someone not have made that a little harder to find, please?  She was like bleating on the phone and getting her son to rifle through boxes.  Lazy directing from someone.

Half thriller, half filler

Well, my last blog post was 14 days ago* - can you tell why?  Why might that be?  Because there isn't much to hook into yet with the new season?  If we are going to get any real answers or conclusions - which, especially with this show, is a pretty big if in the first place - they're going to be coming pretty fast and heavy in the last half of the season, it seems to me.


"What Kate Does" was pretty good, even for a Kate episode, which I was not crazy about.  I don't like Kate.  I don't know why not, really.  Maybe because I don't like some of the choices EL makes as an actor, but I don't even think that is it, really, I have never liked the character.  I wish I could put my finger on it but there you go.  But in terms of an episode which could kick off a new direction for the mythos - I don't really know if I am using that word correctly, I have started hearing it recently, I'm not sure what it means actually - there were a lot of "big audible gasp" moments.  Ethan, for one.  That was pretty amazing, didn't see that coming.  Sawyer crying; Sayid being electroshock therapy-ed; Jack taking the pill, and of course the wonderful emergence of Clare with the rifle and the awful perm.  


And Kate pulled a handgun on pregnant Clare.  That is hardcore, Kate.  Unless it is possible to overlook the person you are carjacking is really, really, really pregnant until after the fact.  Do we believe that or do we believe that Kate is hardcore?  Whatever, but we do know now categorically that Kate cannot be trusted under any circumstance and the tears don't cut any ice with me, sister. I have FIRED people - crying?  Red kryptonite to me, baby.


"The Substitute" was quite dull.  I'm not a big fan of off-island Locke, his hidden depths don't interest me.  I want the depths out in the open.  Either that or you need to be a whole lot hotter and younger.  No offence.  And, again, it didn't really progress any of the pre-existing questions we have.  However, Sawyer and Smocke (if it were Jacob infecting Locke then it would be Jocke, but I don't know who he is, only that it is the same entity as the black smoke, so he is Smocke) are good together and the cattywompus with the cave names at the end was pretty phenomenal.


Long story short - if it's not too late for that - I am glad Lost is back but it's not as kick-ass as I was expecting or hoping for.


* and that wasn't even about Lost.

In our maker's image

Hi


So, Jacob is a shape shifter and is able to take the form of bodies once their normal occupants have shuffled off.  So, were all the Dead Losts that have appeared over the course of the story been Jacob?  I don't think so, as if he were able to appear to Hurley as Charlie then why would he need help to get off the island?


But, so, on the island - Christian was Jacob, as was Ana Lucia?  But not Walt, as he is back home safe with Gramma.  Who else is there?  Eko's brother?  Locke, obviously.  What about Clare?  We don't know that Clare is dead, but then how did she turn up at casa del Kate?


My point is this.  We have been taken from pretty customary character-driven action and adventure to the deepest time travel science fiction.  Is it possible that we have another gear change to come, are we going to be taken into theology?  Is Jacob actually, erm, Satan?  I know this is, to be frank, rather far fetched.  But.  This little theory of mine is based on something I read recently about how our gods appear to us.  A god, a supreme being, will appear to one of us in a form that will not only be the most persuasive, but also the least distracting from the message the god wishes us to hear.  This choice can also camouflage the impossibility of a god appearing to us at all and in the first place.  If we're all busy and headtripped from having our god appear to us, then how in the name of all that is holy (gold star for that one) can we hear the message?


So, we take it that Jacob Locke is not a good god, and that he is infecting and claiming people from here til Sunday, so then is he Satan?


So, now, if you come back to life from death, you need to have electric shock therapy to make sure you don't turn into a pillar of black island monster smoke?  Fair enough, but it seems as with pregnancy tests you can get a false negative but never a false positive?  Whatever, all I'm saying at this point is that if Jacob has possessed Sayid, or using his shape, then Jacob is one heck of an actor. 


Also, I love Miles.  "We'll be in the food court..."