It was the kind of episode Lost doesn't usually do, the kind of episode that the series is sometimes criticized for rarely giving us: an episode in which the characters stop and talk about what the hell is going on. The tone was set with Juliet at her soothing deadpan best, shushing up a roaring Sawyer and shooing him away so she could create some safe space — physically and psychically — to softly, gently quiz freaking-out Faraday about the time travel sickness turning Charlotte's brain into runny cherry Slurpee. The abundance of candid info-swapping, soul-baring, heart to hearts — Jack and Kate talking about The Aaron Problem; Miles and Faraday puzzling through the time travel nosebleeds during the Orchid (death?) march; Locke and Sawyer meditating in the necessity of one's past; Sawyer sharing his broken heart with Juliet in the darkness of the beach — imbued the proceedings with a sense of cool quiet and moving intimacy. After three hours and three episodes of confusing quantum leaps and dense mythological downloads, we needed an episode like this to get our bearings. It was like a long sip from a canteen full of cold water offered by a kind new friend after being lost at sea for who-knows-how-long. And yes, that was a Jin is alive! reference. (It just wouldn't be a Doc Jensen recap if I didn't try force a few things.)
Stuff actually happened in this episode, too. The Oceanic 6 portion of the Season 5 saga got an adrenaline shot to the heart. Dan Norton, the lawyer who wanted Aaron's blood, was revealed to be working for Ben, who was clearly trying to destabilize Kate's secure Los Angeles life so as to motivate her back toward the Island. (The beat with Claire's Mom provided for some momentary misdirection.) Sayid survived another abduction attempt by The Tranq Dart Goons. By the end, the whole crew minus Hurley had reassembled, at least for the moment — Kate's WTH?! reaction to Ben's presence didn't bode well for permanent reunion. Neither did Sun lurking in her car with her chocolate-box revolver, preparing to spoil the party by popping a cap into Ben. Meanwhile, back on Record Skip Isle, migraines exploded and master plans unfolded. Charlotte survived her time flash hemorrhage that concluded last week's episode (though showing signs of more memory damage), Juliet and Miles started brain cramping, and Locke found a light bulb blinking over his head. The Man of Faith figured that if they all trekked back to The Orchid — the Island's proverbial engine room — maybe he could play Scotty and put the breaks on this runaway enterprise. Of course he will: My guess is that Locke will discover the frozen donkey wheel and crank it back to the OFF position, which will send the Island into a skid (i.e., come to rest at a certain in space and time) and send him out the wormhole windshield and into his Jeremy Bentham off-Island moment. (I worked much too long on that paragraph.)
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Life Goes On - Recap by Jeff Jensen
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The Numbers are linked to a specific character and once you change one of their pasts, the plane will never crash, and the island will stay hidden and everything will stay kosher.
PLEASE stop with links to the EW website jeff jenson. this was the main reason fans stopped going to www.thetailsection.com.
Seacrest out.
I'll post links to whatever sites I enjoy and think others will enjoy.
I like Jeff Jenson a lot. Mixture of Wood's intellectual prowess combined with nice analysis rather than just symbolism.
It's really very nice. I missed his recap last week (and for some reason couldn't find it online either) so I'm glad to see him back.
Thanks for the post, glad you post from a multitude of sources. Makes the episode that much better.
Here's what I noticed tonight...
1.
The time-skipping record is actually a countdown clock using the infamous numbers as sequences. The 1954 Other camp; Daniel Rousseau from 16 years ago; the off-island O6 who are 3 years into the future; the hatch light 3 months ago; etc, etc.
First the time sequence was in large swings forwards and back; and now, the time sequence seems to be shortening up like an unwound clock pendulum. The quicker the strokes the more deadly it will get for the Freighties.
Some speculations - I don't know if the Black Rock ship will ever be explained nor the 4-toed statue unless it later becomes Sawyer; and the ship, Charles Widmore's first contact with the island through a distant relative, the captain of the Black Rock.
2.
The street intersection was in black-and-white, as were the cars and people's clothing. Also there were 8 pedestrians on the top side crossing and maybe 12 on the other side (4+8).
3.
I'm beginning to think that baby Charles from Des and Penny is actually Charles Widmore who knows his daughter is his mom. That would be wierd but would account for his refusal to interfere with them.
4.
I really, really, really wish that Jin would simply cap Benny and be done with all of his smurfy explanations! He's evil and needs to go. And I think he also has a healthy regard for dear ol' Smokey which is protecting the island from him!
5.
I still don't trust Juliet. Not ever.
6.
Who are the guys trying to catch Sayid? I still think its Widmore's guys so that they can reprogram him to kill Benny.
7.
The Kate-Jack-Sawyer thing is getting old for me. She needs to make up her mind if its either or both!
8.
The Sawyer as Christ figure continues to grower stronger and stronger for me each week. He seems to be the one who will make the ultimate sacrifice at some future date for the good of the island and at his demise.
9.
Could "the eye" in Jacob's hut be that of John Locke's after all? Is John the one trapped in time trying to get out?
10.
Why didn't Locke's group SINK the other outrigger before they left? Probably no time but just think if they had taken the ZODIAC and run out of gas!!! They'd all be dead now.
11.
Was Danielle Rousseau's science group the original Freighties from Widmore before Daniel Faraday's group? Or, were they sucked into the island like Desmond and the Oceanic Survivors needing to serve some greater "Island"-purpose?
blindeyesnowsee/bens
oh, btw, thanks again to Jeff Jensen and Vozzek69. I always enjoy reading your comments, right, wrong, upside down or rightside up. The show is the show and its nice to be confused along with everyone else.
bens
a couple of things which I've seen from elsewhere:
Locke in the coffin is actually under the influence of the Medusa spiders...
Sun's candy-box gun was sent to her courtesy of Charles Widmore. BUT, neither he nor Ben may kill each other! SO, why the gun? Unless Ben sent Sun the gun to be threatened by her with it in front of the others so that all issues are resolved and the survivors all get together in one big forgive-and-let-live group hug.
Too funny! Goober IS CREEPY! AMEN !
The FDW ending with Locke caught in a wormhole and the "eye" of the cabin could play out for me.... His body's in the coffin while his mind is elsewhere trapped on the island in Jacob's cabin. Forget the spiders, he's time-trapped.
bens
"We needed an episode like this to get our bearings...
Like the book, last night's Lost doted on themes of friendship, loyalty, sacrifice, community, and commitment."
I also felt like there was a comforting feeling about it, which character driven episodes are supposed to bring but rarelly do (specially Kate's centrics LOL).
"''There's candy in the mini bar and over 100 channels on TV,'' she said. Is this how she's raising Ji Yeon? (Cut to: Sun's house in Seoul, where a 300-pound 3 year-old is stuffing her face with Apollo Candy Bars and watching Old Boy.)"
LOL
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that :)
Many fans are questioning the fact that Sun showed JY's baby picture, instead of a 3 years old little girl... I believe it's just a matter of casting. These kids grow so fast that next month they would have to cast another girl.
Ji Yeon is safe and sound in Seoul. Right? Right?
"He (Locke) doesn't want to change one little bit of his history, because if he did, he would lose all of his history... I wonder if there's someone in the Lostverse who is conspiring to make sure he does. Bottom line: Is someone going to try and change John Locke's past?"
While sometimes I say WTH about JJ's wild speculations (not that I don't appreciate them :) I admit this one is quite promissing... Would it be Ben's, our usual suspect, motivation to go back to the Island and try to change it so Alex could still be alive??
Awesome review, thanks!!
so, when I just looked at the number of comments between Vozzek's and Jeff's recaps, I felt disappointed about Jeff's... until I looked at the EW site and saw almost 1200! Wow! Dark, I appreciate all your recappers, so thank you for posting them (and for this awesome site!)
Why does Jensen think that Aaron is "creepy"? Does anyone else think so? I don't.
Well, I'm just curious . . . I don't believe Miles ever had a nosebleed. I think he was lying and used the lie to get info out of Daniel. I have a hard time seeing his bloody nose in the episode. Am I off?
There's a video interview with Jin on the last page of the review Dark, no spoilers but about his reaction to the "death" of Jin last season.
Sorry if this has been mentioned, but the problem I have with the "Ben isn't lying" thing is that he wants to get back to the island too, and knows he has the key to doing it (via O6), and he also manipulated Sayid to the point that Sayid left him. During The Shape of Things to Come, he was clearly manipulating Sayid the entire time to start working for him, and he was probably even lying about Nadi's death & who was responsible.
vertigo: Many fans are questioning the fact that Sun showed JY's baby picture, instead of a 3 years old little girl... I believe it's just a matter of casting. These kids grow so fast that next month they would have to cast another girl.
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I still say Ji Yeon is dead or that something happened. It's just speculation on my part.
But I agree with you the reason they probably did it was to avoid having to cast someone for the part :)
Does anyone else think the age of danielle, 16 when arriving to the island in 1988, and the age of danielle, 32 when the Losties get there in 2004 doesn't seem to go with the appearance of the age of the Danielle we first met? I know she had it rough in the jungle and all, but she really looked like she was in her forties easily when we knew her first in "present time."
Just was surprised by how young she seemed in the last episode from the flash in '88.
Jake said...
I still say Ji Yeon is dead or that something happened. It's just speculation on my part.
I can't remember for sure but didn't Sun talk to her in TNPLH before meeting Widmore?
Lauren,
I also thought that they chose an awfully young actress to play Danielle in 1988. The actress who played Danielle in 2004 was actually 49 years old at the time! Maybe it has something to do with time travelling?
I think all thoughts are thought now, but 2 not:
- Very nice reference to legendary "We're runnin' outta time"-Jimmy Kimmel-jokes from Ben saying it to Jack. Let's say: I loled.
- An unpreventable reference to Yoda's "Change - We need" from unbearded Jack saying he "needed a change" to Kate. (I think all of you now who I mean with Yoda, for those who not: I mean the "Yes we can"-guy, from which I think turns out to be Walt travelled trough time later on...)
Okay, I confirm, this ones are nonsense, but hey, don't you think LOST can be funny as hell? ;)
Lauren said...
Does anyone else think the age of danielle, 16 when arriving to the island in 1988, and the age of danielle, 32 when the Losties get there in 2004 doesn't seem to go with the appearance of the age of the Danielle we first met?
We have not been told how old Danielle was when she arrived on the island, so I don't think she was 16. It was 16 years ago, maybe thats what you mean.
However I do agree that the 1988 rousseau looks way to young to turn into the 2004 rousseau we know 16 years later (who looks to be in her 40's at least)