Daniel's TV Blog

Yay for LOST on Tueday! Last week was a great episode. Much better than the disappointing second episode. I think I didn't like that episode because it was all about Kate and Jack and those are my least favorite characters. Last week was about Locke and Smokey-Locke. We learned a big deal about why these people are important. The numbers showed up again but no real reason on the power behind them. I have a new theory now on why Sun crashed with Flight 316 instead of flashing to the past like Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid. I think it is because she wasn't the Kwan written on the wall. If Jin had been on the flight, I think he would have flashed to the past. I think that makes sense. Except Kate isn't a candidate so who knows. Either way I hope Hurley is the final candidate.

I'm having a problem with something else said last week. Illana said that Smokey-Locke was stuck in the guise of John Locke. If that were true, why did Smokey-Locke appear as Alex to Ben last season? That was when we were first clued in that new Locke might be Smokey with the great Clark Kent-Superman disappearance of Locke in that scene. "I'll go get some rope"..."What'd I miss?" But I don't think he has been appearing as Jack's dad. Wasn't he in Jacob's cabin with Claire in the 4th season? The cabin is inside the ash line. But he could be him too. I want more of Claire.

Here is what we learned:

• Jack, James, Hurley, Locke, Sayid & Jin (maybe Sun) are candidates to take over for Jacob
• Kate is not a candidate
• Illana, Sun, Ben, and Frank are heading to the Temple
• James is choosing to follow Locke-Smokey
• Richard doesn't know anything about the candidate search. This means none of the others knew until Dogen split open Huley's guitar-ankh.
  

New Questions:

• Who is the blond child Locke-Smokey sees?
• Why can James see him but not Richard?
• Who are the other names on the wall?
• Is "Kwan" Sun or Jin?
• Who or what is Jacob protecting the island from?

In the alternate universe:

• Locke and Helen are engaged
• Locke and his Dad are still speaking (Helen suggested he would be at the wedding)
• Locke and Ben are colleagues
• Rose works for Hurley
• How did Locke end up in the wheel chair?
• How did Ben get off the island?

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LOST is back and I'm super excited. I wasn't exactly sure where they were going with this season after the bomb explosion. I figured they would time flash back to the future. But with spoilers about the 815 survivors landing in LAX, I didn't know who it was going to play out. I had a dream over the summer that the 815 people would land at LAX with all the memories of the previous 4 years. However, then they would have no need to return to the island. The two divergent timelines was unexpected. While the on island story is the most interesting, I'm still interested in seeing where this story goes over the course of the season. Having two timelines is a very advanced SciFi concept, especially for such a mainstream network show.

I'm also noticing a lot of similarities between LOST and Supernatural. In Supernatural, demons and angels need to possess humans to have a physical presence. In non-corporeal form, demons are represented by black smoke. Angels are blinding light. Demons can't cross lines or circles of salt, similar to the ash. But smokey can pick up things and made short work of Ilana's team. Jacob may be more like the angels and can possess bodies too, which is what I think happened with Sayid.

So anyway, here's what we learned:

• Fake Locke is the man is black and the smoke monster.
• The ring of ash seen in past episodes keeps the smoke monster out.
• The others have a magic crap colored hot tub which can heal people. Although before Jacob died it wasn't filled with poo.

Questions from the island:

• Where did Jacob's body go? It wasn't in the fire in the first scene.
• What was on the note inside Hurley's ankh?
• Why was Richard in chains?
• What did the Others want to talk to Jack about and why in private?
• What really happened with Sayid?
• Who is the new Kung Fu Other leader? How does he rank against Ben?
• If they shit pool can heal a gun shot, why couldn't it heal Ben's cancer?
  

Questions from the alternative universe:

• Why did the island sink?
• Why did Jack have blood on his collar?
• Did Jack and Desmond meet in LA? If so why didn't Jack recognize him like he did at the Swam station? Was Desmond really on the flight?
• If the island sank in 1977, then Hurley's friend would never have picked up the transmission with the numbers. So how did Hurley win the lottery? Why did Hurley go to Australia then? Hurley seems to be the only one of the survivors who has a different back story before flight 815.
• Why didn't Shannon return with Boone?
• Why was Jack's father's coffin not loaded on the flight 815?
• Why was Locke's bag of knives not on the flight?
• If the plane wasn't going to crash, why was Claire on the flight? Did the psychic tell her to in the altered timeline.
• And the big question: if the island sank 27 years ago, then the entire course of the world would be quite different. Widmore Industries wouldn't exist. The resources pouring into the Darma Initiative would have gone elsewhere. The Darma people evacuated would have pursued lives and wouldn't have been killed in the Purge. Others recruited (like Juliet) would never have left the mainland. In other words, the entire course of history would have changed and it would have been highly unlikely that any of the the survivors would have been on the new flight 815. So how did they get on it?

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On the ABC website you can watch a fake documentary show about The Dharma Initiatize. It's very well done to look like it was made in the early 80's. No spoilers, just fun.

Watch it here.

LOST starts tomorrow!!!

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