My blog title is just about as creative as last night’s episode – not one of our favorites. Let’s start by referring you to the tvguide.com blog. Thank goodness our regular writer is back. Not only does she give a complete synopsis of the episodes, she likes to make it interactive by posing interesting questions to the viewers: https://community.tvguide.com/blog/Lost/800062566
And, as a bonus this week, tvguide.com had a really interesting Q & A with some of the Lost cast members. It wasn’t just interview-type questions either; it was cast members asking the producers questions about what’s going to happen in the show. I think I learned more from this Q & A than from last night’s episode! Check it out here: https://www.tvguide.com/news/lost-questions-answered/080304-01
Keep in mind that since this is a synopsis of last night’s episode, there will be SPOILERS ahead, so don’t read if you don’t want to know what happened!
When the episode opened last night, we see Juliet in makeup, which tells us this is either a flash-forward or a flash-back. My first thought (and likewise with the tv guide blogger it turns out) is that it’s a flash-forward and Juliet is one of the ‘Oceanic 6’. We soon find out that this is not the case; it’s actually a flash-back, and BOOM – here are 2 new characters for us all of a sudden, Harper and her husband, Griffin. Later in the episode, we find out that Griffin has met his demise already, so at least we only have Harper as a new character to contend with. I don’t know about everybody else, but I don’t remember Griffin from previous episodes. They showed him when the Others saw Oceanic 815 fall from the sky, and the tv guide blog mentioned him interacting with Ana Lucia, but I personally don’t remember him. If I wasn’t worried about being reminded of a thousand loose ends that haven’t been tied up, I would go back and watch the episodes with Griffin in them. And speaking of Ana Lucia, her name has come up a lot lately for someone who has been dead for awhile. During the preview for next week’s episode, they mentioned that we will “see a face you never thought you’d see again.” Please, please do not let it be Ana Lucia! Luckily, I think Michelle Rodriguez was too much of a liability for the show to ever resurrect her character – I hope. Didn’t like Michelle Rodriguez (couldn’t she afford a taxi or better yet, to not get drunk at the Lost party rather than drive home? She ruined her up-and-coming career – what a moron), and I didn’t like Ana Lucia one bit. And speaking of coming back, tonight’s episode marked the reappearance of the eerie whispering in the forest, along with the numbers (there was a safe on the wall behind a painting, how corny, but the combination to the safe was some of the numbers that played such a major part in seasons 1 and 2 – haven’t seen them much since). The eerie whispering and the numbers are two things I really hope they will explain someday… And speaking of questions, here are my questions after watching tonight’s episode:
1. Locke says to Ben, “There is just one more thing I want to know.” WHAT? There is really only ONE more thing Locke wants to know from Ben? I would have a million questions for that guy!
2. Why does Ben say something about kids asking for their mother? Are the Zach and Emma he is referring to HIS kids?
3. Do Farraday and Juliet know each other? In tonight’s episode they seemed to, but before this, they didn’t.
Also tonight, there were 2 interesting quotes which I will leave you with:
1. Ben pulls a video tape labeled Red Sox out of the safe, and says, “I taped over the game.” I found it kind of cheesy, but my husband thought it was funny. Cheesy or not, it was pretty funny to hear Ben say that in that calculatingly evil tone of his.
2. Juliet says, “It was very stressful being an Other, Jack.” I guess you had to see it, but it was a very entertaining and intriguing line, hearing it after all we’ve been through, especially when the Others were so mysterious for so long. The tvguide blog mentioned this line too; it was very noteworthy.
I was disappointed after this week’s episode because again, there are more new characters and less answers than ever. The cast Q & A they had on tvguide.com helped to cheer me up a little though; it gave me hope that the producers and writers do have some idea of where they’re taking this show because I do have my doubts that they know what they’re doing or where they’re going. I just hope next week’s episode is better.
