If you haven’t been watching Lost this season, you’ve been seriously missing out.
Last season, the run started off a little rough. This time around, there was none of that.
That’s probably a good thing, with the long lull between last season and this season. Any faltering would have lost them a lot of viewers.
Tonights episode was one of the subtle ones… (more behind the cut)
Tonights episode was one of the subtle ones. A sweet Sun and Jin story that managed to answer a lot of questions, give us what we want from those two characters, bring in a nice plot point (though one that we were all expecting) and then totally blow our minds in the last five minutes.
We now know all six of the Oceanic Six. Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and Jin. Aaron, who’s in Kate’s care, isn’t being counted (and I’m OK with that). I think we can also safely assume that it was Jin’s funeral we saw at the end of last season.
Perhaps most importantly, though, we learned exactly why Widmore is out looking for the island. He found out that the recovered plane was a fake and wants to get his hands on the man with the power to pull that kind of wool over everyone’s eyes. Given what we know about Widmore (just from the show, not even delving into the back-story provided in the alternate reality games), there’s a good chance he wants that power for himself. At the absolute least, he doesn’t want the competition to his far-reaching grasp.
We’ve also had it confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt that the area the island is does very bad things to people who aren’t immediately on the island. There’s some sort of massive distortion field around it that slowly (or not so slowly) just drives people crazy. And Widmore’s ship has been sitting right on the edge of that for a while. It’s really kind of amazing that more of the crew aren’t dead.
And speaking of that crew… looks like they have a former island resident on board. I don’t know who didn’t see this coming. We all knew Michael would be back at some point. He’s definitely looking older and a little worse for wear. I’m guessing he and Walt deviated from the course on their way off the island and lost a couple of years to the Limbo that surrounds the island. The question with him–brought up in spades in the coming attractions for next week–is did he come back because he felt guilty or is he Ben’s actual inside man?
Yes, this show has returned to the place of quality it once had. Even better in that we’re getting long overdue answers. Information from the alternate reality games is finally being filtered in, other questions are being addresses, character arcs are moving (I expected Locke to split off with half the survivors two seasons ago!) and the chains of “just the present and a flash back” have been lifted to the point where we can get both a flash-forward and a flash-back in the same episode.
And that, my friends, is what good, thought-provoking, entertaining TV is all about.
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