The Beat (and FMB, did you buy your copy of CHOKER yet?) is still on the road and the helper monkey was stuck at work after a weekend at Spring Training, so your Lost analysis will be a little late.
Feel free to use this post as a virtual water cooler to discuss Sawyer, MIB, [name redacted] arriving on [vehicle redacted] and everything else on last night’s episode.
Look for a new Lost post sometime in the afternoon, EDT.
After last night’s LOST episode, I’m rooting for a Sawyer/Miles cop show when the LOST is finally over. THis season has been great and they have outdone themselves.
Beau Smith
The Flying Fist Ranch
Sawyer can’t fly an airplane but he can pilot a sub?
I was thinking the same thing about sawyer, but then i realized it’s probably easier to find someone to pilot the sub. it probably would be a hijacking. it’s not gonna work anyway so i’m not trying to over think it.
I think it’s POSSIBLE that the Dharma training would have taught Sawyer how to pilot a sub since they had one and all. But yeah, that was sort of dubious.
Well as chief of security at Dharma, he had to have some sort of evacuation protocol. Whether that involves pioting the sub itself is questionable. Then again, as a failsafe I’m sure more than one of them would have to know how to work the thing in case the main pilot got picked off by a “hostile”.
I would feel much better at attempting to pilot a sub than fly a plane. Then again, I guess the sub could sink in the ocean as far as a plane could fall… so I’d probably fail in both cases. LOL
Heh, I had the same thought as you, Beau. “Sawyer and Miles cop show?! YEAH!”
The very end was a little awkward. They tried to go out with a typical “OMG!” moment, but it wasn’t really, and the camera lingering on Kate and James’ faces made it increasingly lamer with each passing pointless second. It tripped up the momentum of an otherwise great episode.
UnLocke is a fantastic villain. I have a feeling that it’s going to come down to me picking a bad guy to root for: Ben vs. UnLocke vs. Widmore.
Also, the key to Lost seems to be the folksy wisdom of Charles Ingalls.
“Coming to ABC this fall, Jim and Miles continue their adventures as Los Angeles police detectives in…CONMAN AND NECROPATH!”
Yeah, the cliff-hanger wasn’t as powerful as the music score playing underneath it.
Correct my math if I’m wrong, but Sawyer has been in one submarine that didn’t crash, and he’s been in one plane that did crash. I can see him saying “I like them odds.”
There seemed to be a lot of filler throughout the episode – I had the feeling that the forty minute show could have been condensed into twenty five minutes. Not a whole lot seemed to have been revealed but the Miles/Sawyer partnership was great. But the Sawyer/Widmore interaction was not (to me it seemed rushed and too convenient for the story, not very organic). Any ideas regarding the “Crazy Mother” question or more of Unlocke’s origins?
So was that the LOST-verse version of Liz Lemon we saw introduced last night?
And the apparent pull of the side-flash LA Basin for apparently everyone who’ve ever appeared on the Island continues… Just WHAT exactly are drawing all these people from different walks of life into meeting each other in their ’side’-lives somewhere around the 90210 zip code?? Why do they keep bumping into each other??
My theory: they’re all drawn to The Basin due to some mysterious force guiding their lives. Are they all dead? Is The Basin some kind of Purgatory for the sins they committed on that now-sunken Island? Just where are they exactly? Who are these mysterious ‘Cruse’ and ‘Lindehof’ that seem to move them all around like pieces on a backgammon board?
So many questions…
@Ed–re: Liz Lemon
I thought the exact same thing!!!!
I’m starting to wonder if the “flash sideways” is going anywhere, or if it’s just filler because they didn’t have enough plot for this season.
Surely it’s going somewhere. Right? Right?
I enjoy the Flash Sideways sequences as character pieces that seem to be distorted reflections of the characters on the Island. But what intrigues the hell out of me is the statement from the show runners that it is not an alternate reality and that both story tracks are important and will be woven together. I can’t see any way of doing it but I take them at their word. Waiting for the rabbit to come out of the hat…….
Well, most of the Flash Sideways characters have better lives without Jacob’s manipulations (ironically most of them don’t realise this and are still miserable).
My theory is that at some point the “real” Losties will be made aware of this timeline and each of them will need to make a choice, the one that doesn’t choose the Sideways life will become the new guardian of the island.