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5.2 The Lie Ana Lucia: "Oh yeah. Libby says hi." This episode was worth it for the Ana Lucia surprise ghost cameo alone. And I loved everyone carrying Sayid around, sort of like the Lost version of Weekend at Bernie's. Even Jack carried Sayid. And Jack discovered that waking Sayid is something you do *very carefully*. Hurley's parents were both pretty good parents for a change; they did their bit to earn their millions. I started feeling uncomfortable about Ben being there at the end, though. I hope he didn't do anything to the Reyes'. It was also unfortunate that Hurley chose capture over going with Ben. Before Sayid was shot, he told Hurley to do the opposite of whatever Ben told him to do. Maybe he should have added some caveats, like, not if you're wanted for murder and the only alternative is the cops. Was everyone else creeped out by Sun "forgiving" Kate for leaving Jin behind? I just didn't believe her. We still don't know who the other person is that Sun blames for Jin's death, but it could very well be Kate. The most intriguing bit was Ben and his new, mysterious accomplices. We have Jill the butcher who can keep Locke safe. (In a meat locker?) And there was the time travel jewelry shop woman from "Flashes Before Your Eyes" and "Catch-22." Is she the mother that Faraday told Desmond to find? The accent certainly makes it believable. Plus the fact that she was writing formulas on a blackboard and typing stuff about event windows. Okay, being a physicist isn't an inherited trait. But why would she be working for Ben? And why would their secret headquarters be under a church? Actually, *she* might be the boss, not Ben. She told Ben he only has seventy hours to get all of them back to the Island. Seventy *hours*? I bet it still takes a whole season, though. Possibly two. Character bits: -- Hugo believed that bad things were happening because he bought into the Oceanic Six lie. This seems to be a trait of his, like his superstition about the lottery numbers. -- Jack was sobered up by Ben. That's really funny. -- I kept thinking Ben looked really good. Then I realized it was because he was clean for a change, instead of beaten and bloody. He was beaten repeatedly for two whole seasons. -- Sawyer got something sharp in his foot again. That happened before, in season three, I think. -- Bernard thought he could boy scout a fire. Not so much. Loved Neal, aka Frogurt, and the flaming arrows. Be careful what you wish for, Neal. -- Hurley's father made a caviar and pepperoni sandwich before sitting down to watch Expose'. Must be nice to be rich. -- I noticed that Kate was looking less well-groomed and more like Island Kate: messier hair, no make-up. Life on the run will do that to you. Even if you're just now on your way out of town. -- Headaches and memory loss. Yeah, Charlotte's gonna die. -- Miles can sense the dead. Handy for dead boar finding. If only there hadn't been those flaming arrows. -- Sawyer called Neal Frogurt. He didn't call Juliet anything. Has he ever called Juliet a nickname? Bits and pieces: -- Lots and lots of dialogue about lies and lying, and about how it's not working any more. Because the big lie that the Oceanic Six told is falling apart. -- We have yet another dangerous faction, and this time it's very young, nasty British soldiers who say it's *their* Island. (The leader had a name tag "Jones".) I really thought that Juliet was in serious trouble for a moment there. Locke came in handy. That was a pun. -- I could swear I saw the word "jarrah" on the soda Hurley was drinking when he told his mother the truth. -- Penny's boat was named "Searcher." No kidding. -- Jack's phone number is 323-555-0156. Cheech's license plate was 2HDQ234. And the ticket Ben pulled at Hill's butcher shop was number 342, with 42 emphasized. -- Even though there was an emphasis on Hurley, there were no single character flashbacks/flashforwards for the first two episodes. This is a significant change in the standard Lost method of storytelling. Will it continue? Quotes: Ana Lucia: "What if I were real? What if a real cop stopped you?" Sawyer: "Welcome back, Doctor Wizard." Miles: "I think it's Mister Wizard." Sawyer: "Shut up." Ben: (to Jill) "Have Gabriel and Jeffrey checked in yet?" Gabriel and Jeffrey? Carmen: "Who is Sayid? I thought he was your friend." Hurley: "He is my friend. He's also got this double life where he does crazy ninja moves and spy stuff." Hurley: "I'm a murderer. I killed four people. Three people. However many I did, I killed them. I killed them all." And here, for your reading enjoyment, are the first four seasons of Lost, according to Hurley. Season one: "Okay. You see, we did crash. But it was on this crazy island. And we waited for rescue, and there wasn't a rescue. And there was this smoke monster. And there were other people on the island, we called them the Others, and they started attacking us." Season two: "And we found some hatches, and there was a button you had to push every hundred and eight minutes, or... well, I was never really clear on that." Season three: "But the Others didn't have anything to do with the hatches. That was the Dharma Initiative. They were all dead. The Others killed them. And now they're trying to kill us." Season four: "And then we teamed up with the Others because some worse people were coming on a freighter. Desmond's girlfriend's father sent them to kill us. So we stole their helicopter and we flew to their freighter, but it blew up. And we couldn't go back to the Island because it disappeared. So we crashed in the ocean, and we floated there for awhile until a boat came and picked us up. And by then there were six of us. That part was true. But the rest of the people who were on the plane? They're still on that Island." Okay. I'm exhausted. This was a rough reviewing week, and we just had a minor earthquake here in L.A. Three polar bears, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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