Lost Season 6 - RE: LA X

the situation is....MURDER

totally into keamy, dude is killing that role

i blame this episode on the director Paul A. Edwards, who hasn't made a great episode yet, and has made some real stinkers. Here's the episodes he's done:

"What Kate Did" (but I can't blame him for getting stuck with Kate episodes)
"Two for the Road" (aka Ana Lucia And Libby Get Shot For Drunk Driving)
"The Glass Ballerina" (where he fucked up jae lee's death)
"Par Avion"
"Cabin Fever"
"This Place Is Death"
"The Variable" (another one that should've been better)
"What Kate Does"
"The Package"

how are those potatoes?

DEAD

But isn't The Variable widely considered the greatest episode?

You're probably thinking of "The Constant".

oops, you're right.

i thought that episode was pretty crappy but it had to happen
good points:

- return of the drum + bass room
- sun running into a tree
- return of mikhail
- DESMOND (wans't really a suprise but....DESMOND!)
- jack promising to get everyone off the island (YOU ONLY CAME BACK ON A MAGICAL PLANE A FEW DAYS AGO WTF)

oh yeah the tomato was so lols too

during the episode i was outraged by the sun forgetting english thing. i mean wtf what a ridiculous way to waste an episode. but reading what u guys are saying that it could be related to the two timelines bleeding into each other is kind of cool.

Kinda cool but also the sort of shit I make up on the hoof. It's probably more likely to be a plot device that will later stop her imparting a piece of vital information at a time of crisis.

Thought Jin teaming up with the Widmore guys was probably the more significant bit. That and finding out Smokey needs all the candidates together to leave.

Didn't mind the Sun forgetting English thing so much, it's exactly the sort of Lost contrivance we've come to expect, and it was an obvious callback to her Season 1 days.

Needing all the candidates together to leave (or die together) is a cool idea, reflecting the Ajira return.

- return of the drum + bass room

The answer to the D&B room's purpose was so hilariously offhand. "Yeah, subliminal messages or yawn anyway here's my boss."

Live together, die alone, amirite?

Sun also formed an alliance with Widmore off-island so maybe this is what reunites them?

didn't the video have "jacob" embedded in it the first time we saw room 23?

god how long has the show been talking about fricken jacob. i hate this guy.

Flocke is a dick for not asking Widmore how he found the island. Also how did Widmore's crew pick up Kate's useless banter with Swayer that easily? Good ep.

that said i forgot that the last time we saw Mrs Faraday she was talking to Widmore outside that church so probably gave him the same info about the "window" that the Ajira flight took

Also that giant pendulum thing that detects the Island, I don't think that one's even a mystery.

The explanations for all the Dharma stations are great, it's always like "ah some stupid experiments, who cares?" The Swan and the Looking Glass are the only interesting ones.

Also, Miles was unfunny for the first time ever this week. Are they keeping him and Lapidus round for any reason other than that it's useful for plot reasons to have a pilot and a guy who talks to dead people hanging around?

Don't believe mib needs all the candidates together to leave, whoever said he just wants to kill them all otm.

Is the fact the monster tried to pull Locke underground in s1 significant at all? I mean as opposed to murdering him?

lapidus is so hammy in his acting that it's really distracting

Is the fact the monster tried to pull Locke underground in s1 significant at all? I mean as opposed to murdering him?

"He's only got one kidney - perfect!"

i don't think we are giving Jack enough of a hard time for "I GUESS NO-ONE TOLD IT IT WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE" btw

I just roll my eyes at everything Jack says.

Not much of a gardener, but do tomatoes really need continual, periodic human intervention to grow anyway?

pretty sure they need an island without a feral pig population

Really, they can't grow if there are predators around?

I don't know enough to say. You might get a few self-seeding stragglers, but fewer every year probably. I've had a couple of amusing experiences with tomato plants coming up in difficult circumstances. My question is, where did Sun get the original tomato seeds to plant?

I really think that the pigs would take care of any untended tomatoes. And pigs have extremely efficient digestive tracts -- tomato seeds wouldn't pass through undigested to self-seed where the droppings landed.

oh i see. thanks.

Didn't mind the Sun forgetting English thing so much, it's exactly the sort of Lost contrivance we've come to expect, and it was an obvious callback to her Season 1 days.

Instead of that being a stagey callback to S1, I'm starting to buy the idea that her forgetting English on the island since she never learned it in the alt is an indicator that the two realities are affecting each other. (Though since the show always maintains ambiguity either explanation could be true.) It's going to get really weird if the two timelines merge.

well considering we've already seen signs of the island reality manifesting itself in the ALT it seems very likely it's going both ways

oh the reason sun ran into the tree is because her head is so large

Lapidus' hamminess was kind of awesome though - it made me want the actor to get a post-Lost gig as some sort of 1980's grizzled TV private eye type who lives on a boat and has a robot or a helicopter helicopter and gets people out of jams every week.

maybe in the alt hurley becomes a bird and then he goes back in time to say his own name to himself

a fried of mine who listens to that podcast shit said the creators are going to explain the bird thing so I'm just getting my bitchin in while I can

oh ffs really? it's actually a thing? please no...

srsly how many times have u brought up the fucking bird already

the bird was just a joke on the viewers who try to read too much into this show. Hurley's always played the "voice of the audience" role. See: all those people insisting Keamy said "island" instead of "to ya." (Even Vozzek insists it was island!)

the horse was definitely Sawyer tho. FYI.

Best thing about this season: ThinkGeek brings the April 1 joy

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/dharma-alarm-clock.shtml?icpg=Carousel_DharmaClock_5

oh my god I would give up the iPhone SleepCycle app for that in a heartbeat. <3

lol i just tried buy it

last year's Tauntaun Sleeping Bag was enough of a hit that it eventually made it to production, so ya never know...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0MX6oqJBno

ha ha i did think Keamy said something about the island, for a few seconds

Yeah, I clicked back & listened to it again.

I wonder if Flocke stole Sun's ability to speak English.

Sun bumping her head and then not speaking English provoked the exact same reaction in me as 24 Season 1 where Jack's wife falls over and forgets everything.

i.e. FUCK YOU
although quite liking the 'bleeding realities' theory so I'll give her a chance.

I'm starting to buy the idea that her forgetting English on the island since she never learned it in the alt is an indicator that the two realities are affecting each other.

this is definitely what's happening. Keamy may have said "island", I dunno. I do think that there are people in the alt who are aware of what's happening in every timeline (Widmore, maybe Hawking).

also really interested in the idea that the flashbacks weren't really flashbacks, but something else (i.e. another alt). hoping this gets fleshed out soon.

there's a consistent theme of people being in the WRONG timeline, like when Desmond walked into the jewelry store. I think that is especially relevant to the alt timeline and why Desmond has appeared on the island.