Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

if they moved the goalposts one more time in the last 5 episodes or something i would just...spit on my own carpet, i guess.

I've been rewatching the series in recent weeks w/ the intention of coming back around, full-circle, to this season's goings-on at around the same time that the show concludes. Anyway, I've just settled in to the drudgery of early S3 & am full-on into all the lovey dovey FRACKLES Sawyer/Kate banter & ... *VOMITS LUNG*

"One more thing - You taste like strawberries." "You taste like fish biscuits."

are you gonna watch the jack tattoo episode again? shudder

xp - Otherwise, the S3 water-treading is a lot easier to take when u don't have to wait a full week or more for NOTHING to happen AGAIN.

I just rewatched S3 and totally agree that it was more watchable the second time when you are not dying to know what the fuck is going on.

I skipped the flashback scenes in Jack's Tattoo

Yeah, I'm going to watch them all. I'll be kickin it w/ Bai Ling, Paolo & Niki all too soon.

lol I totally forgot about Locke's narc/wayward youth sidekick

& hippie-terrorist Hank Jennings!

hey guess what guys it is "taco night"

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sawyer didn't tell frackles they were on a different island why because he wanted her to believe that they had a damn chance.

Karl is trapped in an alternate version of the future as envisioned in 1993 by Billy Idol

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BREAKING NEWS: They've finally announced what the last episode will be titles.

SPOILER ALERT:

It's called The End.

L O S T was secretly a Beatles album all along.

Hurley is the walrus.

your only friend

we're exactly halfway through the season now.

so who's the focus tonight? anyone know? guessing Hurley or Sun/Jin.

Jin/Sun. Spoiled myself on this episode. Big ending. And things should really start happening next week if certain theories are true. But we can wait 90 minutes to talk about that.

Can I just say how much I hate the sound of "Amazing Grace" played on a bagpipe.

Good episode though.

don't see how that was a "big ending" tbh -- as the episode came to a close i kinda felt like i had mostly just watched the show spin its wheels, one or two intriguing things aside

Reading the spoilers, Desmond seemed like a big deal, but as it played out it was pretty anticlimactic, sure. Nonetheless, there's been a lot of speculation that Desmond is going to be pretty key, especially with respect to the alt timeline. So if those theories are true, things could start getting interesting next week.

Anyway, I enjoyed this episode. Didn't like last weeks, so don't know what that says about me.

So was Mikhail's eye just a parallel to the other timeline, or is this the same Mikhail? "The John Locke I knew was par--"

also felt the spinning wheels sensation this episode :/ any quick guesses how desmond's ability is 'the key'?

abanana, that's certainly the question we're meant to be asking... i'm not so sure this is an "alt" or "other" timeline after all. but we shall see.

I'm a sucker for Sun and Jin episodes. Also Sawyer's: "No, 'cause THAT would be ridiculous!"

so nothing actually happened this ep, right? did i miss something?

Desmond's their go-to "unstuck in time and space" guy, maybe he's jumping back and forth between realities like he did in The Constant. Then he could bring messages from one side to the other ("I just saw a magical world where the plane didn't crash! Everyone who's been to the island lives in Los Angeles for some reason!")

Jack's eyes welled up with tears at the end of his scene with Sun, OF COURSE.

Absolutely nothing happened, but the episode was pleasant enough.

who cares about pleasant?!

wtf u guyz this was a good one, a ducks in a row episode. we always criticize when characters don't communicate with each other, don't fill in. but now we know where claire is at, what's going on with sayid, the trajectory of the beach folks. flocke right up at the sonic fence was tight. darts got shot again. room 23.

mikhail getting shot in the eye is big i think, tells us the LA world is going to mimic the island but not how we expect (if we see ethan again he's going to die, right?). and desmond is totally going to connect the two worlds isn't he

sun taking her sweater off was the perfect L O S T mix of hot and lol

^^^so true

Why would Mr. Paik send Sun on the surprise-you're-murdered trip with Jin?

we always criticize when characters don't communicate with each other, don't fill in.

Well, why the hell wouldn't Alpert just say "hey, a few years ago I had a heart-to-heart with Jacob, who told me that we CAN'T let this thing off the island" when he comes back and tells everyone to pack their bags?! Widmore managed to convey the whole thing clearly to Jin in one sentence.

Would REALLY nobody ask a follow up after FLocke ignored Sawyer's "Where'd Sayid go?" question?

This episode had some really clunky dialogue - e.g. FLocke's "A wise man once said war would come to this island... well, I think it just did" or whatever. And I sort of wanted Jack's cringe-tomato to explode in his hand.

Why would Mr. Paik send Sun on the surprise-you're-murdered trip with Jin?

Probably to teach her a lesson about sneaking around behind his back with checking accounts and boyfriends.

generally liked this episode but I wish they had started the flash-sideways plot at the point where Sayid finds Jin in the meat locker, since we didn't really learn much new from that plot, other than that Sun's dad was going to have Keamey kill Jin and (maybe) that Jin and Sun aren't married in alt-world (or did we already know that?)

However I find Jin and Sun a lot more palatable than Jack/Kate/Sawyer and the dude who plays Keamey is a lot of fun to watch.

However I find Jin and Sun a lot more palatable than Jack/Kate/Sawyer and the dude who plays Keamey is a lot of fun to watch.

This is true. Not a lot happened, but it was enjoyable enough.

the dude who plays Keamey is a lot of fun to watch

i found him way hotter in this ep than ever before

creepy

Funniest line of the night: the intentional Sawyer "Cause That Would be ridiculous" vs the unintentional Whidmore "It's time to see my package."

I mostly enjoyed the alt stuff this episode. The on island stuff was mostly boring and uninteresting to me, especially the stuff involving the Jack, Hurley, and Ilana group. I think that's been the pattern for me all season though. I Did enjoy Desmond and Sayid's wtf interaction.

But frankly this show has more or less been kind of a bore to me since the end of season 4, literally the moment after Ben moved the island, but if I'm grading on a curve, relative to what I've come to expect from this show, I liked this episode enough to call it a good episode.

this might've been the best Jin/Sun-centric episode ever for me, although i've never been a big fan. sweater scene was O_O though.

i'm liking the on-island stuff a lot more now that they're out of the paper mache temple.

maybe... on-island stuff STILL boils down to:

This week on LOST, [jacob/smocke/richard] tells the Losties to go here, or here, or maybe here, and some stuff happens.

I watched an s2 ep of breaking bad last night sometime after lost and was like damn lost really sucks now

inertia is the only thing making me watch the show

I wish Widmore wasn't such a dick to his son-in-law

You know you're living your life to the fullest when you watch a TV show because of inertia.

I know dude I know

maybe... on-island stuff STILL boils down to:

This week on LOST, [jacob/smocke/richard] tells the Losties to go here, or here, or maybe here, and some stuff happens.

fixed.

Desmond's their go-to "unstuck in time and space" guy, maybe he's jumping back and forth between realities like he did in The Constant.

Since Zoe's looking for the exotic matter pockets I'd imagine that they're going to toss Des in there so he can pop out in the alt, yeah

I didn't see this so much as a marking-time ep as just setting up the pieces for the shitstorm to come. Seems like MIB needs the candidates in one place to depart the island (more 'we all have to go back'/'it has to be all of you' stuff - why?), and everybody else is expendable (like say Kate once she gets Jack and Sawyer on the plane)

what's her face was the bank agent, but she had no accent, that was weird.

I think Flocke wants to get all of the candidates together so that he can kill them. Though apparently he can't do this directly himself because of what that weird little kid said? And once all of the candidates are dead, he can leave the island.

Last night's episode got me thinking that Keamy could have been one of this show's all time great villains, maybe not quite up there with Linus, but still up there. Which also got me thinking, who was season 5's villain? Radzinsky? lol. Either Ben or Whidmore or both I guess. Ultimately it turns out neither maybe.

I never would have thought that I would like the off-island stuff more than the on-island stuff until this season. And I guess thats because at this point only the off-island stuff has had forward moving plots, with characters I'm familiar with doing stuff that matters to them.

On island has been in this weird back-story filling, mystery answering mode for the bulk of two seasons now. And Ive come to realize that I never cared about the answers to any of these mysteries. If they had ended this show at the end of season 4, with the losties who wanted to get off the island getting off the island and those who didn't, staying with Locke and moving the island, I think that would've been perfect for me.

I don't necessarily mean I don't care about the answers to any mystery, but I really don't feel like I learned anything new about the dharma initiative, the french team, alpert's backstory, or anything else where I had pretty much already filled those gaps in my mind, only to have the show refill those gaps with official, canonical, unnecessary yet-not-very-compelling versions. The story of the black rock was a whole lot less interesting to me than what I had pieced together in my mind about it. Same is true of the dharma initiative, and probably other stuff I can't think of at the moment.