Lost: season one (episode-by-episode)
I always promised myself I would catch up with Lost before the final season started, as I explain here. However, with only a week to go, I have suddenly realised I should probably get a wriggle on. Therefore this post contains my notes from Season One. It is, bear in mind, not the most serious dissection of the episodes.
episode one | episode two | episode three | episode four | episode five | episode six | episode seven | episode eight | episode nine | episode ten | episode eleven | episode twelve | episode thirteen | episode fourteen | episode fifteen | episode sixteen | episode seventeen | episode eighteen | episode nineteen | episode twenty | episode twenty-one | episode twenty-two | episode twenty-three | episode twenty-four/five
But you can also go straight through after this jump…
This is what happens: A handsome man wakes up in a forest. Before we have a chance to properly enjoy his strong jaw and eyes like deep tropical pools, he stumbles to his feet and happens upon the burning half-a-plane he appears to have recently fallen out of.
There are dead, dying, screaming and screwed, scattered and bleeding on the beautiful white sands of some unknown land that will probably never attract the luxury end of the tourist market now. Luckily, Mr Hotstuff appears to be a doctor. Dr Hotstuff. Crumbs, this lad’s a real catch.
In a staggered circuit of the ex-air-transportation, we happen upon:
a) A pregnant woman who appears to be in the early stages of labour
b) Another, non-pregnant blonde, snappy, hot, convinced of rescue
c) A large chap that I am already well-disposed to because I like his blog. His real one
d) A father (no idea) and child (Walt), who appear to be looking for a dog. Possibly the one that ran past Dr Jack in the opening sequence
e) A young chap eager to help Jack by fetching him biros to aid surgery. Watching too much ER is not the same as a medical degree
f) A mysterious looking man with a scar over one eye
g) Another man, who smokes, so will invariably turn out to be somewhat naughty
h) The woman Jack was sitting next to on the plane
And the only people we appear to have names for so far: Hot Jack, Doctor of Medicine – Kate, a puzzled-looking woman he shirtlessly persuades to help him stitch his wounds; a young, apparently Mancunian lad named Charlie who claims to be in a band. And Sayid, who has lovely hair and is making a big fire (he must be beware; lucious hair and bonfires do not mix)
Once the most bleedy nearly-dead are cleared up, cleaned up, or otherwise dispatched (or mulched), the quieter survivors sit around a Sayid’s fire. Kate and Jack, clearly feeling some kind of a connection, discuss venturing into the undergrowth sometime to try and locate the cockpit (NB: this is not a euphemism, regardless of sexual tension).
Soon thereafter, there is a great rustling in the undergrowth. Or rather, a godawful cachophany rising out of the forest, with a sound like a big dinosaur with bad table manners eating a giant pile of nachos.
Interestingly, this only spurs Kate and Jack on. They take off into the woods, with the little British bearded chap, Charlie, along as an eager mascot. He reveals himself to be famous. No one cares.
They find the front half of the plane, and several halves of people therein. Luckily, there is also one whole pilot, who says the radio went out and they lost contact before the crash. At that point, the plane is viciously monstered by a monster we never see, and they escape into the woods, eventually happening upon the pilot, who now appears to have been flayed, filleted, and flung into a tree. He’s also dead.
Whatever this monster is, I think to myself, it probably isn’t a giant bunny.
Things what I learnt in episode one:
1.There are very good reasons one should never stand in front of a moving jet engine. It sucks.
2. If your best way of identifying yourself to other people is by popping out a couple of lines of squeaky falsetto, you might want to start considering the benefits of anonymity.
3. If the amateur stitching your wound is threatening to vomit in the gash, do not seek to reassure them by telling them a story about someones guts pouring onto the floor. It is not wise.
4. If your beach holiday brochure promises untouched beaches and exotic far-off peacefulness, always ALWAYS check the small print for monsters.
5. Hot Jack, Doctor of Medicine, likes his booze.
6. Charlie, inadvisable male soprano of Manchester, appears to like his smack.
7. So far then, I think there are 11 recognisable characters, though there were more random screamers who may soon turn into beloved friends, and probably will: I recognised many of them from the articles I’ve tried not to read over the years.
Or ONWARD (they won’t all be this long, trust me, I’m just over excited)
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More of Charming Charlie the Musical Smackhead (soon to be a children’s series) this episode, the opening focusing on his last desperate attempts to get a fix just before the plane went down.
The main focus of the episode was the hike to get far enough up the mountain in the middle of the island to send a message from a radio with about as much battery life as a first generation iPhone.
A small hiking party of around seven go off up the mountain, and after being attacked by a polar bear….
fig.i:
Yes, a polar bear. Hello Mr Polar Bear.
Still, once they have dispatched with the northern-hemisphere polar animal living somewhere in the south Pacific, they carry on upward, and eventually find a place they might be able to send a signal from …
There is, however, already a message on that frequency, and one that has already apparently been playing for a while… in French. Shannon, who has proved herself to be bugger-all use until now, suddenly reveals herself as, handily, having spent quite a lot of time at some point studying her French to English “hostage situation and disaster management phrasebook” (Harper Collins, $3.99)
“Please help me.” She translates “Please come get me. I’m alone now. On the island, alone. Please someone come. The others they’re dead, it killed them, it killed them all.”
Bloody poetic French. If she hadn’t been so busy repeating things dramatically, she could have got a little more information in. Regardless, that is the message that has been repeating on that frequency for more than 16 years.
“Guys!” says Charlie, with a look half amused, half excited, ending off the episode… “Where ARE we?!”
Characters we have definitely met now:
That Dr Jack Hottie: Continues in a heroic, manly, rippling-muscled vein.
Kate: Woman of action, mother of tribe. HOO-HA!
Charlie: Pleasant chap, destined to get less pleasant as his massive sandwichbag of class A
Sayid: Not only has lucious hair and a talent for making fire, but is handy with electronics and once served in the Elite Republican Guard. So he’s starting to sound like as much of a catch as Handsome Jack, Doctor of Love. Not considered as such by many of the other passengers, however, who seem to consider him some kind of potential terrorist. Especially:
Sawyer: That cigarette-smoking bad boy we glimpsed in episode one, who is living up to his first impression.
A couple… Who only seem to speak – I think – Korean. He seems quite controlling. She seems good at pointing. He makes wicked-good sushi out of rock pool bits. She makes, we can only presume, killer shadow puppets of anteaters (and other pointy-nosed things) with her pointing.
Boone and Shannon: Brother and sister, he looks like he used to be in a boy band, she seems painfully selfish.
Claire: Seems to be the pregnant woman.
The man with the gammy eye Who I’m not sure we officially know the name of yet, but I’m going to start calling Locke, because let’s face it, I read a LOT about TV, and quite a lot sinks in.
Things I learnt from this episode:
a) Technically the best way to wake up an unconscious planecrash-survivenot? Shout “Hey! There’s a rescue plane, YAY!”
c) A pair of handcuffs and a marshall’s badge & gun in the detritus led to the suspicion of someone being a federal prisoner.
b) Sayid suspects Sawyer of being the prisoner, because he is a rough gentleman. Sawyer suspects Sayid of being the prisoner, because he is an Iraqi gentleman. No one suspects Kate of being the prisoner because “she’s no gentleman, she’s a stone cold fox” as my old sunday school teacher used to shout at strip clubs.
4) Of course, they probably should suspect her, since she was indeed the prisoner. Doh!
5) There are now officially bears and a French woman on the island. Or at least, there were.
f) While most of the writing in this so far has been mysterious and suspenseful and clever, “Guys, where ARE we?!?” is by no means a good line. It just isn’t.
Right, now we’ve met lots of Losts and know at least some of their names, it’s time to start getting down to business. Notes only from this point on.
And less faffing about in photoshop – although only a little bit less, obviously, because that’s the best bit.
What happened in this episode?
It rained. And that was it.
Oh, ok. People finding out things, mainly. And then not telling each other. The ones who went up the mountain last episode and discovered the Frog of Doom on the radio? They decided it would be against the common interest to pass it on.
Meanwhile, Handsome Jack, Doctor of Hot, discovered early on that Kate had been the prisoner of the US Marshall. And, when she wondered sweetly whether it more be more humane to let him go than suffer unnecessarily, he confronted her with the fact. Admittedly, her humane argument might have been more convincing if the marshall hadn’t just tried to strangle her … and strangle her just after Jack had been worrying that the anti-foot-fungal antibiotics weren’t going to be strong enough to fight his septicemia. Someone on that plane had a hell of a foot fungus. Perhaps it is THAT that has been monstering the island.
I went away with the intention of drawing a picture of that, but then decided against it
Requesting a few last words with Kate, and not in a strangly way, he asked her if she was going to tell people the truth (I think) and then – apparently – asked her to get Sawyer to use the gun on him. Sawyer did, and the bastards STILL wouldn’t die. So Jack strangled him.
Flashbacks
A lot of Kate on the run in Australia. Working at a farm, becoming fond of the old farmer with the prosthetic arm that took her in, then becoming less sentimental when she discovered he’d ratted her out to the angry US marshall. She was inherently good, though, it seemed. She still wanted the farmer to get his money, even though he sold her to the cops. And she still wanted the US Marshall to get his humane death, even though he… no, wait.
What did I learn this episode?
a) They took off from Sydney, and were on the way to Los Angeles.
2) That this CANNOT be any regular flight. I have flown often, and there are always a large amount of really annoying twats on them. While some people here are potentially dangerous criminals, they don’t look the type to fart repeatedly while kicking the back of your chair and coughing, you know?
3: Kate is right handed, Canadian, and potentially very dangerous. But then, who isn’t. Dangerous, I mean. They’re not all Canadian. Unless that’s the twist. Oh, GOD, have I just guessed the end of season six?
d) Mr Locke is that gammy-eyed bloke’s name after all, and he knows how to form crude dog whistles. Meaning that Michael was able to return Walt’s dog, “Waltsdog” (I missed his name).
e) If he can convert the dog summoning device skill into a bear repellent and floatation device skill, we might have this monster thing licked and floating off homeward as fast as you can say “That’s quite unlikely”.
6) Anyone foolish enough to think that polar bear might have been an isolated incident had their minds put to rest when Michael got monstered in the forest by an unseen thing.
7) Seriously, I don’t want to know what kind of foot fungus those antibiotics were treating, but those muddyfunsters kicked GLASS (sorry, I’m trying to do this whole thing without swearing. Much).
What happened in this episode
Polar Bears are no longer the only problem here. As the Lost Family Lostinson discovered when boars came to feast on the corpses in their fuselage.
So they decided to set fire to the fuselage, and the bodies. And in case the smell of passenger-manifest-barbecue was too tempting, they decided to go hunt the boar while they were at it.
Michael spooked a boar, the boar floored Michael, and up to their waists in the sea, Charlie and Hefty Hurley, who I don’t think I’ve managed by name yet – though now I think of it, he does seem to be quite squeamish, so Hurley might be euphemistic – caught one fish between them. Then wasted it on Shannon. It might not have been a boar that floored Michael, by the way. Just another invisible sound-effect-monsters. Heavens their financial backers must have been happy when they came up with that lethal enemy.
For the first time, someone suggested that perhaps the passengers in the tail of the plane weren’t all dead after all. But nothing more was said of that. And then they read some names and smoked them some fuselage. and It was nice to see some sign that they were grieving, suffering from post-traumatic-doodah, stress etc.
Flashbacks:
All Locke. Him at his boring office job, in his beige life, in a sad non-relationship with a sex-phone-lady, dreaming of going on an “Outback Adventure” in Australia.
Jack didn’t have flashbacks this episode. No. He had hallucinations of a man on the beach, but no flashbacks. I’m just not going to start introducing new headlines every time something weird happens. That way, madness lies.
What I learnt watching this episode:
a) Locke used to be unable to walk. Until the plane crash. Let it be noted: Tellywonk does NOT endorse air disaster as suggested treatment for paralysis, particularly on a group theraputic level.
b) The trailers for the new season of Lost that Hulu are running several times in every old episode are kind of spoilery, guys! I mean, I don’t want to be ungrateful, but GAH.
c) Locke has a penchant for strategy board games. They could literally just start up a game of Werewolf.
d) Is there any job in the world that actually demands the use of TPS reports? I always thought that was just an Office Space thing.
e) Boars are very feisty animals. Also hardy. And strong. Is it possible they have taken some of the marshall’s leftover super-power foot-fungal antibiotics? Do boars have feet? If they do, and could be persuaded to wear shoes instead of abusing the antibiotics, might the super-strong boar problem be effortlessly solved, and the sight of a wild boar running toward you no longer be quite so terrifying? And more like this?
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Who knows. We can only hope such a reasonable solution will present itself. And soon.
What is happening this episide
A lack of water, an excess of hot sun, and all the Lost Family Lostinsons getting dehyrdrated, or mad, or both.
Hamana-Hamana Jack, Doctor of the Losts is awoken from a terrifying flashback to be told there was someone drowning out at sea. Luckily, it is only Boone. Unluckily, Boone is only there because he was on his way to save another lady further out. Luckily, he is able to communicate this to Hot-Patootie Jack. Unluckily, she gets deaded all the same.
Luckily, we have no idea who she was and thus no real emotional investment in her death. Sorry sweetheart. RIP and that.
Jack, however, does not take it so well. He’s feeling the pressure to be the leader, the hero and the big daddy. And the good looking one (though admittedly that pressure is mainly coming from outside the television rather than inside the camp). He’s informed that there is very little water remaining by Hurley, who then suggests they hide it. It immediately gets stolen. No one can inform Jack of this because he is following a halloucination of his father into the forest. I don’t like this episode.
His dead father’s ghost, hallucination, whatever – he was an alcoholic, so let’s just call it his spirit – led Jack to some water, and to the coffin he (Jack’s Dad) was being transported back to Los Angeles in. It was empty. Of course.
“We have to start figuring stuff out” said Jack. Because sometimes being the leader is about standing up and saying you don’t mind people saying “Well, SHEAH! No shit, genius! Chinny!” to you, at those important, world-changing moments.
Flashbacks
It was all Jack Jack Jack Jack Jack. Jack and the flashbacks, Jack and the a hallucination of his dad, Jack and possible ghost, Jack Jack Jack Jack.
Things I learnt during this episode
a) It’s all about Jack, who might be hot and nice, but also is a little bit dull. Like many hot people.
b) There is a limited supply of water, yes, and also food.
c) And yet Sawyer’s been free-market-minded enough to devise a barter system for stuff. The system works like this: he’s already gathered all the stuff; now, who wants to barter?
d) The repatriation of family members is less straightforward than I have been led to believe. No one warned me it might involve rabbits.
e) I didn’t like this episode. Luckily, this is the first one I can say that about.
EPISODE SIX: HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
What is happening in this episode
Having found the source of running water and the caves around them, Jack, Locke and some others decide that since no one is coming to get them, they might as well move to a more sheltered, leafy area with great dining opportunities and friendly local watering holes, room for expansion and great local transport (if you don’t mind riding boar, and associated gonad-goring).
Kate, however, who had her heart set on a more airy beach location with expansive views, private (possibly) beach access and unlimited smell of fish, is not so sure. She is even further convinced it wasn’t a good idea by testing out the shower room, and finding that it came with ensuite dead people and hot and cold running ‘Ick’/.
And so Jack and Kate part ways. No sooner has she made her decision to stay on the beach than Sawyer swoops in and makes his move. Wait: all this time Jack was playing wingman to Sawyer in the most carefully constructed play ever?! Man, those guys! That is legen … wait for it …
Sorry, My friend Amy is telling me through the medium of the internets that I am not making the most of “How very hot and awesome Sawyer is”. And certainly, watching the interaction between he and Kate, I can understand that there was a certain heat to the exchange. But at the moment he’s still a little bit like a comic book bad guy. I keep expecting him to twiddle his moustache at her.
…dary.
In other news, Sun beat up Michael for some unintelligible reason, which was then explained through the magic of flashback and Sun actually speaking English after all (that’s not magic, that’s just lessons). It was then explained, but still not very intelligible. Or rather, very reasonable.
Flashbacks
Finally, something about Jin and Sun, and why
a) it might not be the happiest marriage on the planet and b) Jin keeps trying to beat the living palm oil out of his fellow Losts. In flashback, we learn that they were in love, got married, but Jin was from the wrong side of the tracks, or the Korean equivalent of that phrase and forced to take a job with her father, who is evil (to be pronounced ‘eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeviiiiiiil!’) in order to wed her. When, after a short time, Jin started coming home in either blood or something very like it, Sun planned to leave him, and learnt English in order to facilitate that – so Jin doesn’t know.
What I learnt by watching this episode
1) I believe that Charlie’s mardy sarcasm may have been an apparent suggestion of his running out of the good drugs. It, however, feel like the first time he actually sounded like he came from Northern England. And I mean that in entirely the best way possible.
2) In other other news, Charlie’s being set up as the comic relief, which isn’t very easy task when you’re a character with a class A drug habit so…
3) … Locke, who seems to have come to the fast belief that the island is full of spangly magic, swapped Charlie’s for Charlie’s guitar, and now all will be well.
4) Except for a light spot of cold turkey vomiting, which I expect we’ll be getting in the next episode.
5) How do you even get a zippy bag of hard drugs that big on board a plane anyway without swallowing it? Tellywonk is not endorsing the swallowing of hard drugs. Or zippy bags. I mean, we are endorsing zippy bags, they’re very useful. Just not the swallowing of such.
What’s happening in this episode
As predicted at the end of the last episode – see! I’m getting used to how this thing works! The next four seasons will officially be a breeze! Four and thirds, I mean. Ohhhhh balls – this is basically all about Charlie. Charlie’s coming off drugs with the help of John Locke, who takes his stash, gives him his guitar in exchange, then tells him some bunkum about being a moth when he tries to get his shit back.
In an argument with Hot Jack, the Good Lovin’ Locum, Charlie screams out “YOU DON’T KNOW ME! I’m A ROCK GOD!”, at which point a pile of rocks fall on them, a gag which surely walks a delicate line between slapstick and getting your head caved in.
For an addict in withdrawal, the words “I’m a bloody Rock God!” magically bringing down a cascade of rock might cause unrealistic delusions of superpowers. In the next episode, see Charlie, standing on the shore shouting happy Mancunian things like “I’M A GOD OF BLOODY BODDINGTONS AND ALSO OF CHIPS AND BLOODY GRAVY PLEASE, AND ‘AVE YOU GOT A FORK FOR THAT? I’LL HAVE’EM ON ME WAY ‘OME!” before getting glassed in the face by a shower of pint glasses and drowning in a steaming puddle of gravy. With a smile on his face.
See fig.iii, below
Anyway, while in the hole, Charlie sees a moth, remembers the metaphorical twaddle of Gammy-Eye Locke, follows it out of the pile of rocks and they escape almost completely unscathed.
In other news, Sayid develops a complicated triangulation scheme that involves people going to various bits of the island, setting off a firework when they get there and then putting up antennae to try and get a signal from the Frog of Doom from episode two. It looks like it just might work… And then someone smacks him on the back of the head with a shovel.
Flashbacks
I do realise this ground was probably covered amply five years ago, but the lyrics to Driveshaft’s biggest hit are something truly special. Not special in a good way. Special in the way you’re not supposed to use the word special anymore. “You all everybody. You all everybody. Acting like you’re stupid people, wearing expensive clothes.” Go the lyrics to the Short Bus Anthem.
Charlie was a good Catholic boy until Charlie’s brother liam got him into a band and then got him into drugs, and then wouldn’t be in his band anymore. Boo hoo.
Things I learnt from this episode
1) There are useful things as yet unmentioned on this island. “Thank goodness for firework smugglers” said Sayid. I hope to look forward to such unexpected
2) Everything is possible if you just believe in moths.
3) Trust in moths, and the world will open its cavehole to you.
3) When in doubt, follow moths.
4) Do as the moth, and be one with where the moth is.
5) Don’t come crying to me with that “I’ve burnt my face on a lightbulb” crap, who do you think I am, your mother?
6) Someone doesn’t want to leave the island. Someone doesn’t want to leave the island enough to risk leaving bone fragments in Sayid’s thick lucious hair.
7) Someone is therefore risking incurring my wrath.
What happens in this episode
Shannon ran out of inhaler stuff, and Sawyer wouldn’t sell them any from his stash. Everyone seemed confused as to why he might purposefully withhold medicine, and neglected to consider the most obvious explanation: because it is Shannon, and she’s a complete waste of space.
Jack and Sayid capture and torture Sawyer to try and get drugs for Shannon. Actually torture him, like, things with his fingernails and everything – they don’t just sit next to him making high pitched whining noises, eating crunchy cereal and farting every ten minutes. It’s serious stuff. I’m putting my serious face on, look:
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Refusing to tell where the drugs for Shannon might be (And rightly so: Courage, mon brave!) Sawyer asks for the attentions of Kate, for whom, he tells he, he will release his secret for a kiss. She gives him a kiss, and he tells her he never had them in the first place.
Then we find out about his childhood. In the meantime, Sue has fixed Shannon with eucalyptus leaves. Oh Piss. I *knew* there was a reason it was better when she was completely pretending not to understand.
Charlie, who is a dear lad, asked Claire what she missed the most, hoping to persuade her to move from the bright, open shoreline and the sound of waves to the dark stinky wet caves that collapse if you cough. She wanted peanut butter. He arrived, announcing he had brought her her much-desired peanut butter… then bringing out an empty jar, and pretending to lick the invisible delicious contents from his fingertip. Which is either
a) A really sweet and loving gesture.
b) Mental torture, to go with the theme of the episode or
c) Proof that Charlie’s found some more drugs.
Sayid, sore with guilt about being a big tortury-torturer, goes off to explore the island, and torture things. No! Wait! JUST to explore the island, sorry.
Flashbacks
Sawyer is a mean man. Sawyer is a mean man, though, because he has daddy issues. His daddy and mummy were tricked by a cruel conman called Sawyer, and then his daddy killed his mummy and then he killed himself, and Sawyer swore that HE would take the name of Sawyer and go around conning people until he found Sawyer, and got his revenge, which is clearly one of the most logical plans ever. So that is what he did, and who he is (was, before he got on the plane) except he never ever does it when the family he’s conning has a little boy. Well isn’t THAT nice of him.
What I learnt watching this episode
1) Sawyer spent quite a lot of this episode with his shirt off, which will be where Amy was coming from on this one.
2) “That was like a … a jedi moment” – said Hurley. Oh what a shocking completely unpredictable-by-stereotype surprise: the large gentleman is a Star Wars Geek. Keep on pushing those boundaries, network television!
3) I learned that treats can come from unexplected places, and in all manner of surprising ways. And for teaching me that, I’d like to present Charlie with an award winning Bannoffee Pie, straight from the fridge and covered in freshly whipped cream.
And here’s a cold, delicious glass of milk to go with it, because you don’t want to end up with a claggy mouth, do you?
You’re WELCOME, darling.
3) Sayid may have lovely hair, but the tortury of a torturer is not a lustafterable thing to watch. I will therefore stop finding his hair lucious until he returns a changed man.
4) The departure of Sayid means that the three horse race for Kate’s affections (seriously, has she got bacon-flavoured nipples? Does her hair smell of football or something? WHAT’s the attraction here, apart from “Not Shannon”?) is now a two horse race. Sawyer, who is the stallion, apparently. And Jack, who is a bit like a donkey.
What happens in this episode:
Sayid, having gone off around the island to find himself, discovers that him finding himself shouldn’t have been as much his concern as other people finding him, once he has been found by Danielle, or The Frog Of Doooooooom whose voice we heard way back in episode two, or, as I call it, the middle of this afternoon.
Having booby-trapped whole swathes of the island’s coastline, Sayid trips on her booby, and soon finds himself plunged deep into the depths of her dark wet bunker, electricity coursing through his veins.
All of which, of course, sounds like a cracking night out in any downmarket seaside resort. But actually, it turns out not to be a euphemism at all: you’ll have heard the saying ‘You are what you eat’? Turns out, the same goes for torturers. Yes: They eat torture.
No, wait, that didn’t even make sense, did it? I think I might be getting tired. One more episode tonight. One more.
Anyway, Danielle tells Sayid that there are a group of islanders called “The Others” who have some kind of disease, and the disease of the others killed the people she arrived with. Also, The Others, she says whisper to you when you walk through the woods.
Of course, having met her, you now imagine that she ALSO believes her socks whisper secrets to her kneepits and is making a whole set of little bee uniforms so that when she finally raises up her bee army and persuades them all to band against The Others they will be properly decked out.
As Sayid walks back to camp, he hears whispers in the forest. Because of course she was right. I mean, I’m not doubting the existence of “The Others”. I haven’t been living in a hole for the last four years…
In other news While Luciouslocks McTorturebum is off having a terrible time with the Frog of Doom and finding out important Doomladen information, what are The Lost Family Lostinson doing to pass the time? They are playing golf. Yes they are.
Flashbacks
The beautiful tragic, only slightly torturish story of Sayid, his mildly tortury ways in the Elite Republican Guard and his childhood friend Nadia, who got killed because he was not brave. Oh, and tortured. She also got tortured.
Things I learnt from watching this episode:
1) The moment you take a position on whether you are on team Hot Hero Doctor or team Toastywarm Naughty Sawyer, like stating, perhaps, you are on neither (but hasn’t Sayid got lovely hair? And isn’t he good with radios? And doesn’t he have lovely eyes?) People start giving you grief. So now I’m not only taking a strong enough stance on Sawyer’s rough charms, I am not, says my friend Tom, making enough of a stand for Jack, the responsible, dependable choice (though he may get a bit whiny after a while). What is so good, he asks, about – and I quote: ‘captain testosterone, who priapically drapes himself all over the place nicking everyone’s stuff and trying to stick his metaphorical brain cock in their ears or whatever to wind them up” and… ah, I see he’s taking this to the comments. Excellent.
2) Weird Locke is developing some weird friends. Who is this Ethan man? Where did he appear from?
3) 16 years in a bunker may make you mad.
Unless you were mad to begin with, in which case it may make you French.
EPISODE TEN: RAISED BY ANOTHER
What happens in this episode:
Claire’s having terrible nightmares. It’s not like that normal one where you can’t figure out what’s wrong, though, with people you haven’t seen in years suddenly turning up at your school assembly and pulling your underwear down and discovering it’s really made of tiny badgers holding hands that suddenly disband and scurry away under the school piano leaving you completely naked? Well it’s not like that one. It’s more like the…What do you mean you don… Oh whatever.
She’s dreaming the same dream every night; someone comes into the camp, the actual camp where she’s actually sleeping, cuts open her stomach, and pulls out a baby. Then Locke tells her it was all her fault (in the dream) and the man runs away with the baby and some Other people.
I don’t know, it COULD be her body’s way of telling her she needs more iron, or it could be that someone’s trying to steal her baby. Let’s face it: it’s that one.
There’s raised security, and Claire loses her maltesers a little, which is completely understandable. She goes off with Charlie, starts having contractions, sends Charlie to get Jack, Charlie happens upon Ethan and asks him to take the message, and then…
In other news Hurley, making himself useful for once, is taking a census, writing down the names of everyone in the camps, and, once he finds the passenger manifest (Sawyer has it, he’s keeping it tucked under his manly torso, apparently) he checks the names off against that. And SOME people, like that bloke from the last episode who looked like a weasel – are not on it.
Sayid – Hello, lovely! – arrives back just in time to break the news about the others, but it is too late. The Other is already off abducting The Mother.
I was right! It’s Ethan! That man Ethan IS a wrong’un, I knew it from the start.
And when I say “The Start” I clearly mean an hour ago.
Flashbacks
Claire and her feckless boyfriend discovered her pregnancy in their run down little flat in *mumble* Australia. He counts the moments since she took her pregnancy tests, we count the portents of DOOM that surround the whole lot of these flashbacks. Anyway, they’re young, they’re in love, perhaps they can make it after all, they say.
Ah, like bollocks they can, a few months later and they’re split up, and Claire, who’s trying to give the baby up for adoption, is being told she can’t possibly do that by a Crazy Australian psychic, because…
Sorry, that’s a tautology isn’t it? By a Crazy Australian, because he… Sorry, that’s not really much better. By an Australian, because of course, he can see the future.
No, that STILL doesn’t sound right.
Wait, hang on, what’s the rule? ‘All Australians are crazy, all psychics are crazy – therefore, all Australians are psychics?’ Oh, no it does work. I’ll do a Venn in the morning to check
She ends up agreeing to take the baby to some magical perfect parents in Los Angeles, where it will be safe. From. Um. SOMETHING
Things I learnt from watching this episode:
1) BE PRECISE. If your girlfriend asks how long it has been since she pissed on her pregnancy test, and it has been six minutes and sixty sixty six seconds, DO NOT tell her that. Because it’s only going to sound like a really evil portent when (sorry, sorry, IF) she ends up on a dessert island full of magic and guns and golf and polar bears and death. Yes! GOLF! I know! Anyway, how do you know it was EXACTLY 6m66s? Did you time from the tenth of a second she started peeing, the second she corrected her aim and hit the correct part of the stick, or when she stopped? Was it a proper stop, or was there an extra little bit at the end? Which did you time from? You know what I’m saying, Claire’s doofus ex-boyfriend, be precise.
2) Never trust Ethan. Either that Ethan, who looks like a weasel, or any other Ethan. Or anyone else who looks like a weasel. Or any combination of the two. Easels? Never. A Wet Seal? GOD no. Wheels? Yes!…(if you’re STUPID!) And so on.
3) The others not only want to whisper in your woods, they want to steal your babies. They want to rumble in your jungle. They want to usurp your uterus, fiddle with your fallopians and leave with your loinfruit. And there’s no evidence that they intend to say please OR thank you for this. Ingrates.
4) I thought that ten episodes on my first day was going to make me all tired and rambly! I can’t believe I so grandly overestimated myself. I was rambly by the middle of episode one! YAY!
I’m going to bed, reconvening with episode eleven as soon as I wake up. Though I might go back and think about some more pictures first. Man what a stupid episode to stop on. I really want to know what happens now.
EPISODE ELEVEN: ALL THE BEST COWBOYS HAVE DADDY ISSUES
Ah, no statement truer except for ‘cowboys’, replace ‘men’, ‘women’ and ‘children’ (‘and occasionally whole societies’) and for ‘best’ read ‘bloody’. But then, that’s what happens when everyone who writes your best TV and Films live in Hollywood and think spending six hours a week is normal. ANYWAY…
What happens in this episode
Blaming themselves for the disappearance of Claire (who is sick of Hot Jack alternately oppressing and not trusting her) and Charlie (who is basically a human labrador by this point), two seperate groups of Losts head out into the woods.
POTENTIALLY IMPORTANT LOST CLUE! “Claire” and “Charlie” have almost the same letters in, apart from the letter ‘h’, which looks a little bit like a chair. Let’s bear that in mind, people.
It WAS their fault, of course, so they were right to go. Locke, Boone, Kate and Kiss-Me-Jack, Doctor of No-Don’t-Talk-Just-Kiss, go off to the north, Michael and Hurley are spurned as help by Locke. Desperate to prove that they are independent and just as good as Locke (and perhaps hoping that if they show him that, maybe he will love them) they go off to the south.
Walt plays blackjack with Hurley, and wins. As they play, Walt talks about his love for his OTHER daddy (in Australia? “Not Michael, my other dad”), and warmly about Locke, who is, clearly, a father figure to him. Hurley, who finds competition with another man (even a small one) intimidating and frustrating, promises to pay his losers debt to his father – SORRY, Walt, and spins off the game in search of food, or Charlie and Claire (if these are not, one day, the same thing).
Kate, suddenly demonstrating her abilities as a tracker, spots a potential fake (or real) other track, and she and Jack wander off down it, taking time to discuss their relationship and trust issues on the way. We do, however find out how she knows how to track. She was taught. BY HER FATHER.
But OH NO! Jack falls down a cliff, is leapt upon by Ethan, and tussles with him in the mud. Though, when she comes and finds him knocked out, Kate won’t believe him (what’s the ish, Kate? Perhaps dependable male in a somewhat authoritative role has lied to you before? Did he let you down? It’s ok to cry, Kate, it doesn’t make you any less of a man). They race off after the possibly-inviible Ethan anyway, eventually finding lovely Charlie hanging from a tree.
In an actually nailbitingly horrible few minutes, particularly for anyone who’s ever known someone die this way, they lift him up to try and keep him breathing, cut him down and thump him on the chest until his heart restarts and he breathes once more.
He’s a bit shook up after that, though.
Oh, and Locke and Boone – who sound like a terrible 70s Irish folk act – find some kind of metal box or lid in the ground (and there’s Whiskey in the Jar-oh!).
Flashbacks:
More for Winsome Jack, Doctor of Blue Steel, and his drunken surgeon daddy, who once killed a pregnant patient on the table. Which is awful. The fact that Jack dobbed on him seems to have ruined their father-son bond forever. Which is, of course, worse.
Things I learnt watching this episode
1) Danielle KILLED all the other members of her team! Yes, granted, this was something everyone else learned in episide nine, when she said it, but I think I was making cornflakes at the time. Just thought I’d drop that in. Why did she do it? Well, I think it’s safe to say there MAY be some issues of paternal affection in their somewhere. In there, buried among the Batshit Insanity.
2) The only person on this island who DOESN’T have daddy issues is Ethan. Ethan ate your daddy.
EPISODE TWELVE: WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE
What happens in this episode
Kate and Sawyer happen upon a beautiful waterfall and pool, and go swimming together, their lithe arms and strong legs tangling in the clear water in a glittering ballet of ‘Isn’t-Your-Pregnant-Friend-Still-Missing?’, and it’s all filled with sexual frisson … until they happen upon some decomposing bodies still stapped into their seats. At which point it’s STILL loaded with sexual frisson, if not more so.
Which is just plain wrong.
Kate spots a case under the water. She wants it. It is hard to see why, because it clearly just looks like any other ordinary suitcase.
Sawyer gets it. She says it is hers. She can’t open it. He takes it. He can’t open it. He tries. He tries again. She steals it. He steals it back. Kate Tells Jack. Jack says something boring and reasonable about opening it together. Kate agrees, lyingly, like a big lying liar. They dig up the marshall, get the key, she steals it, he gets it back, she pouts, he pouts, they open the suitcase and find a small metal plane.
“It belonged to the man I loved. It belonged to the man I killed” says Kate. It belonged in a much shorter secondary storyline, possibly in the background of more interesting people who don’t all POUT so damned much. Seriously, watching Jack and Kate is like watching the ten o’clock fish news on a quiet fish-news day.
In other news Shannon, who has spent most of her time up until now sunbathing and being useless, is upset because people seem to think that she has spent most of her time up until now sunbathing and being useless. However, when Sayid asks if she will help translate some documents he stole from the Frog of Doom, she does, brilliantly, and becomes magically softer and more attractive in the process.
Flashbacks
All about Kate. Again. So that’s Jack twice, Kate twice and Hurley, Michael (and Walt), Boone and Shannon … and Rose? Was that her name? And surely some others… never.
Anyway, Kate was a bank robber, and blah blah blah… that doesn’t change the fact that Kate and Jack are currently bogarting the flashbacks.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) There’s a certain kind of suitcase that’s absolutely unopenable without a key. I’m hoping this was just product placement and not a clue, because I’ve got too good at blocking out product placement now, so don’t know what it was.
2) The Frog of Doom’s documents are a repeated notation of the song La Mer. This is bloody lucky, because it is one of the only three songs non-French people know, and the bunker of a Batshit Crazy Mass Murderer doesn’t really seem the fitting place for Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, and I’m sure they would have used Frere Jacques if these was any way of making ‘Ding Dang Dong’ sound like a Portent of Doooooooooom.
3) While everyone else has forgotten her, Charlie spent most of the episode thinking about Claire. Until Rose (is it Rose) persuaded him to stop thinking about the abducted pregnant lady and talk to Jesus instead. This just doesn’t seem like the correct solution, but whatever.
4) Locke and Boone (Ah, Begorrah!) have taken to sneaking in to the woods and secretly working on the uncovering of their underground box. Right now they’re rubbing off the section they initially became excited about, and seem to be working their way outward from there.
EPISODE THIRTEEN: HEARTS AND MINDS
What happens in this episode
Locke and Boone (top o’the mornin’ to yis!) are still waking early to plunge deep into the forest and try and break through their mysterious hatch with rocks and sticks and a tin whistle and a shillelagh and a fiddle so they can cut another couple of traditional Irish Folk tracks for their Driveshaft tribute album “Ye Aaall Everybody! (Sláinte!) Wearin’ yer fancy clotes! Lookin’ loik stupid peeeeeeple!”
Locke tells Boone he needs to let go of his relationship with Shannon, and with all other things, and connect to the island. When Boone tells Locke he wants to tell Shannon about their secret, Locke smacks him on the head, ties him up and drugs him with hallucinogens.
He has a drug addled adventure in which he saves, protects, and finally lets go of his relationship with Shannon. Which is good … because he can now move on and be completely detached from all human relationships, and slavishly obsessed with the Island, just like Locke. Brilliant!
In other news
Hurley has diarrhea. There’s a beautiful unbalanced quality to the light-relief storylines in these episodes. It’s like that bit in the first Sex & The City Movie where Charlotte suddenly shat herself.
As Jin is apparently still pissed about the fact Hurley spurned his Sea Urchin goop on the first day, and will not give him fish. Hurley tries to fish, fails to fish, steps on another urchin and bonds with Jin through piss and vomit. Jin gives him fish. Hurley likes fish. Hurley likes Jin. Jin likes Hurley. The End!
Flashbacks
Finally! Some of the previously untouched characters get a go, and we get to understand the strained relationship between Boone and his sister Shannon. Aaaaaaaand then wish we’d got some more boring Jackdaddy issues instead, because at least they’d not risk bringing up breakfast.
Boone is a very rich little man. Big in the wedding industry. Shannon summoned Boone, her – wait for it – STEP BROTHER to Australia to save her from an abusive boyfriend. He got there, tried to save her by going and finding an Australian police station and talking to a British policeman there, paid off her husband, saved Shannon, found out it was all an extortion scam. And then they had sex. Which was kind of icky. And then they got on a plane. The End.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) There MAY be other ways of releasing urchin poison than pissing on it, but if there are, they don’t seem to be any less palatable.
2) Even if there is no blood relationship between Boone and Shannon as stepsiblings: it was still desperately icky.
3) Speaking of icky? The brother/sister rumpling all over the cover-pane of that hotel bed? THAT, my friend, is precisely why you should be wary of those. Because they don’t get washed, you know.
4) A growing suspicion of Locke. He might know lots of things, but what can I say, the repeated bludgeoning of people who disagree with his Island view kind of rankles a little.
5) Boone saw Sawyer at the police station. Took a good hard look at him and everything. Has he ever acknowledged this? Have they all met before? Is this like the most awkward dinner party ever, or what?
What happens in this episode
When Michael finds he has mislaid Walt – again – he discovers him out in the woods with Creepy Locke, who is teaching him to throw big knives.
Michael is suddenly infused with a need to prove his manliness and fatherliness and derring-do by building a raft. There is a tussle for the affection of Walt between Michael and Locke, and when Walt runs away, they both go to look for him. They find him getting attacked by a polar bear. And then they save him. This is a bonding moment all round, no piss or vomit required. Well, there might have been a little bit of piss, but it is more incidental than anything I’m sure.
Anyway, Waltsdog (people keep telling me his real name, but it won’t stick and I don’t particularly care) runs away again, so Locke and Boone (“Moine’s a point’a Guinness!”) look for Waltsdog. But find Claire. And she doesn’t look very pregnant anymore.
Not much else to say, so here is my first attempt at guessing what these monsters of the island look like. fig.viii
As you can see, he has been grossly misunderstood, and is merely hoping to make friends. He just wants love, and doesn’t understand why everyone runs away (Just Like His Father Did). No one yet knows why he is wearing a beret, but it is thought to be AN IMPORTANT CLUE.
In other news
Charlie discovers Claire’s diary to be missing and suspects sawyer to have taken it. Sawyer is affronted at the accusation that he steals anything, then produces it. This show is a lot funnier than people led me to believe, you know. he reads it. She likes him.
Flashbacks
Michael was very excited about the birth of Walt, and then his mother went off to take a job in Amsterdam, and Michael was sad. When he heard she had taken a lover, he declared he was coming to take his son back … then immediately got hit by a car and spent the next few years recuperating and not allowed to see Walt. He wrote letters, but they were never shown to Walt. It’s these that he gives Walt when they return to the camp.
When Walt’s mother died, his adoptive daddy came to Michael, and told him the boy was now his. Because, frankly, he was weird.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) The Spanish comic book Walt was reading, and Michael burnt, seemed to have pictures of the island. And polar bears. This may have been a mistake.
2) Walt seems to have the ability to make birds fly into windows when he gets angry. It’s an impressive one, but reasonably difficult to imagine how it might best be utilised on a desert island.
3) You’re allowed to give children back if they’re weird! Well, that makes me feel a lot better about considering motherhood.
4) Claire’s writing is so girly it’s a wonder there are no heart shapes over the ‘i’s. Why are girls all supposed to write like that? DO girls all write like that, except me? And 98% of the women I know? Or is that the difference right there.
5) Even monsters have daddy issues.
6) I think Ethan eats monsters daddies.
What happens in this episode
After Claire, with no memory of where she is, who she is, or who all these funny looking people with pouts are, returns to the cave, Ethan comes looking for Claire (who IS still preggers, regardless of what I said last time), and demands that Charlie bring her to him, or one person a night will be killed.
They try their hardest to protect the perimeter, but that very night, one of the Lost Family Lostinsons IS killed.
Luckily, it is one of the semi-named shipwrecked redshirts that we didn’t really know. He was always either Steve or Scott to us. Now he is dead, we will keep the memory of Scott-Steve, or Steve-Scott, in our minds for ever, even though we didn’t think him important enough to mention until now. And it was Scott, apparently, for sure. Let us take a moment.
Oh Scott, we barely knew ye.
And when we did, we knew ye as Steve.
Using Claire as bait, the Losts catch Ethan, but before he can answer any questions, Charlie shoots him four times in the chest. and then he can’t answer any questions. Apart from the question: “Ethan, are you dead?” with the answer ”     ”
flashbacks
Sometimes, Charlie hasn’t been such a nice boy. Between his band being inconcievably popular the first time around and whatever ‘comeback’ he and Liam were currently planning, he diddled a posh bird out of some family silver to furnish his smack habit, like a cad. Oh no wait, this site was supposed to be where I could sell myself to an American readership, wasn’t it.
Well, who was I kidding?
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) Jack does trust Locke. You can see it in his face.
2) Something about how Locke talks about Ethan “We’re on his turf”, “He bested me”, smacks of mancrush. I’d not trust him either.
3) The Island weather system only really has two settings. Rain OFF, and Rain ON. Rain OFF is represented by clear skies, burning sun, and low humidity; Rain ON by the whole place looking like I will be adding a useful weather map for it, later.
5) IF, as posited in the last episode recap, Ethan was not only a danger to Losts, but to Losts daddies, to YOUR daddy, and, alarmingly, to monsters daddies, does that mean, now that Monsters are no longer on daddy-eating-alert because Ethan is dead – the Losts and the Monsters can soon be friends?
4) I realise I never mentioned you before, but here’s to you, Steve, and all the memories we could have had, but won’t now, whatever they were. N’t. But could have been. Oh, sorry: Scott.
What happens in this episode
Sawyer whose flirtation with Kate has been heating up, week by week, is awakened by a dark-haired visitor in the middle of the night. Intrigued by the snuffling, munching and noises of excitable disturbance, he flicks on the light no doubt expecting that to be Kate. But no. It is a bore – but wait, what is Jack doing there?! Ah no, wait! Sorry, typo led to Jack-error. It is a BOAR.
Sawyer is angry that the big fuzzy pig ate his stuff. And stole his tent. And, even angrier when he goes to try and retrieve his tent, and gets run over by the fuzzy pig.
Because yes. The fuzzy pig is representative of Sawyer’s psyche (and of course, almost certainly, his Daddy). So Sawyer goes on a hunt for his psychepig.
In the jungle, mid-psychepighunt, Sawyer reveals that he’s been stashing the miniature bottles of alcohol from the aeroplane.
Now, granted, the point of this game is always, on the part of the game-proposer, to get off with someone else in the room. But these two are barely pretending. Frankly, it’s such a sham of a game it’s a waste of good liquor.
After a mere couple of questions, they’re into “I was never in love.” “I have never had a one night stand” “I have never…” Oh, get on with it, will you?
Eventually, we learn that they have both killed a man. And we learn that because Sawyer has failed to play the game properly. He could of got the same information AND had sex by now if he’d just come out and said things directly… Oh, boys, so terrible at communication. Particularly this one. But that’s what happens when your dad is dead, and there is a pig in your head, and the pig in your head is your dead dad.
Anyway. Finds the pig, faces down the pig, Mano e Piggo. And then after much consideration, does NOT shoot the pig.
In other news
Charlie was suffering from PTSD, but he isn’t anymore.
Michael’s raft is coming along nicely, thanks.
Claire is still bloody pregnant.
Flashbacks
Sawyer, again. He went to Australia to kill the man who killed his daddy. He’s been told where to find him by a fellow conman, who knows this is his goal. He tracks down the man, gun in hand, and then, at the last minute, gives him a retrieve.
Then he meets Jack’s dad in a bar. Jack’s dad, who secretly loves Jack, but can’t tell him, tells Sawyer to do the things he planned to before it is too late.
Sawyer goes and shoots the man. The other man is just someone that owed Sawyer’s conman buddy money. This was not the revenge Sawyer was looking for.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) “I have never” is no where near as subtle a game as I believed it to be back in college.
2) It takes a MUCH shorter time to build an impressive raft than it does to have a baby.
3) See? First Boone and Sawyer, now Sawyer and Jacksdad, and doubtless there are billions I have missed as well. How are they all connected? This is getting silly now.
4) When settting up a duel situation, it is natural that the camera will cut between closeups of the contenders. But this is not quite so effective in some cases, it turns out. Like here:
Shot one: Sawyer’s eyes, the deep, dark limpid pools of a tired wounded, angry man, coursing with resentment, desperation, and the hunger for love.
Shot two:
The Psychepig’s eyes, the pig-eye-coloured, pig eyes of a piggy, piggy PIG, coursing with nothing, pigthings, the vague idea of eating, satisfaction at the involuntary release of its bowels, pigstuff, and, again: nothing – Because it is a pig.
EPISODE SEVENTEEN: “…IN TRANSLATION”
“You got a dad?” Walt asks Locke.
“Everyone’s got a dad” says Locke.
Yes. And don’t we know it.
What happens in this episode
After spotting Jin treating Sun roughly, Michael steps in to help: and recieves a slap in the face from Sun to make up for it (but only, she says later, to protect him from Jin, who is a big mean meanie, even though she ruves him)
Michael finishes his raft. There is room on it for him, Walt, Waltsdog, Sawyer (who has bought a seat) and one other. It is looking like a very good, very accomplished and nicely finished raft. Until that very night, when someone sets the bugger on fire.
Jin turns up with a burnt hand. Michael blames Jin. Sawyer hits Jin. Michael hits Jin. Everyone shouts at Jin. As we were all know by now: It wasn’t Jin. Of course it wasn’t.
In a tense exchange, Sun must decide whether to translate for Jin and risk him knowing her ‘I was going to leave you so I speak English’ secret, or not translate, and see him punished for it. She speaks out, and saves him.
He doesn’t want to speak to her anymore.
It was Walt who set fire to the boat. Because he doesn’t want to leave, but finds it difficult to communicate with his daddy.
Jin and Michael start building the boat together.
Flashbacks
It’s all about Jin and Sun, again, but this time from Jin’s point of view – and explains the whole ‘coming home covered in blood’ thing. He had beaten the crap out of a man in order to save him from Sun’s father who is, let us not forget: eeeeviiiiiiiiil. But Sun never knew this. But then, when your father is eeeeviiiiiiiiil, you have enough things to think about. It is an ISSUE.
Jin returned to see his father (who Sun stated, at their wedding, was apparently dead. What’s that, you say? Jin has Daddy Issues). Who told him: “Go to America. Save your marriage.” Sadly, they only got as far as here.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) Who could possibly think that Sawyer and Dr Jack would be a good couple of boat buddies?
2) Slowly, one by one, Locke is severing ties between people, does he not? I don’t trust that man as far as I could see him coming – which is not very far at all, unless he was on an icesheet in a clown outfit. Or I’d had the chance to polish his head and he was walking toward me on a very sunny day. Then I could.
3) Sayid and Shannon are now getting it on. Now, I’m not going to say anything about anyone’s relative level of taste in this merging, but still, it does make you realise that regardless of the amount Jack and Kate and Sawyer have flirted, nothing MUCH (apart from a kiss that was presented as the only alternative to torture) has actually happened. They should get on with that now.
4) It’s funny, everyone said this show would give me funny dreams, and while it’s not done that as yet (although admittedly I’ve only been asleep once since starting), I do start to wonder whether we all speak to our dads enough…
What happens in this episode
Searching for a mayday transmitter for the raft, Jack and Hurley go to ask Sayid for help. He is preoccupied with the charty things that he found at La Chateau de Frog au Doom, and, when it is suggested that Danielle herself might be able to help out with a transmitty thing.
While they’re talking about that, Hurley looks at the documents Sayid brought back, and starts fixating on a row of numbers repeated again and again and again. Where did they come from, he wants to know? Sayid doesn’t know. But Hurley has the bit between his teeth.
And sets off to find the frog of doom, alone.
Doesn’t get there, of course. Before he does, he’s found by Charlie, Hot Dull Jack, Doctor of Slow Progress – and Sayid, who is showing them where to go. Hurley piles through the booby-traps, the hazards, and the terrain. He’s on a mission, and he’s quite the different man when he’s on a mission, apparently.
He found her. Asked where the numbers were from: she didn’t know. It was the numbers that brought her here too, she said. And then everything went wrong. They talk for a while and – man, I wish we saw more of Hurley. Hurley is a good man. Plus, he’s just suggested that the monsters in the jungle might just be pissed off giraffes. Which is entirely, completely plausible. (as shown in fig.ix, right)
flashbacks
Hurley’s flashback, based on the fact that the same numbers he won the lotery with are the ones on The Frog of Doom’s charts. He played them in the lottery because a man he spent time with in a mental facility used to chant them over and over again.
He used them in a lottery and he won! And then his grandfather died. And his brother’s wife left him. His mum broke her ankle. Their house set on fire. The numbers were cursed. He travelled far and wide, and found other people who had used those numbers. They’d all died, or other such bad things had happened. But everyone he asked said he was mental to call the numbers cursed. All he needed was someone to say it wasn’t a comepletely insane idea. And that person was the Frog of Doom.
Vive La Doom!
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) Hurley owned the box factory that Locke worked at.
2) 4 8 15 16 23 42 – don’t use these numbers to play the lottery. Or in general. They open the box, you know.
3) But they are, it should be noted, on the side of Locke and Boone’s hatch: so that’s the end of the rainbow. Oh! Begorrah!
4) Where ARE they getting these Australians? All the Australians sound English (or, in the case of Mrs Tooey this evening, like Dick Van Dyke having his nipples wired up to a toaster oven and made to do his Mary Poppins voice at the same time), and all the English people sound Australian. I’ve heard of crazy stunt casting, but that’s a very odd way of going about it.
EPISODE NINETEEN: “DEUS EX MACHINA
What happens in this episode
Locke is completely losing himself to the island, it seems. So they’ve found the hatch at the top of their big metal box, correct? Well, I may not have mentioned, it but Locke and Boone’s box? As well as numbers on the side (the bad numbers, the numbers of doom) there is also a hatch in the top, and they’ve been trying to get in.
After an accident there, where Locke puts a pokey stick straight through his leg by mistake, he realises he has no feeling in his legs. He has various ways of discovering this, none of which are very attractive.
In a dream that night, though, he sees signs – Boone saying something moronic (or MORE moronic than usual, so as to differentiate it as a sign) a plane flying overhead, his mother chanting, him pointing.
He follows the signs (and in the meantime we find out that the things he heard Boone say in the dream were true to Boone’s childhood, which is odd…) and finds his sign! It is a crashed plane up a tree! And it contains… lots and lots and LOTS of heroin. and a radio. Boone tries the radio, causing the plane to fall out of the tree, and Boone to get hurt.
Locke carries him back to the camp, dumps him there then staggers off into the woods, to batter on the hatch shouting “WHHYYYYYY! WHHHHHHHYYYYY?!!!? I DID EVERYTHING YOU ASKED OF ME!” until … suddenly … a light comes on under the hatch.
You know, I know Jack’s got other things on his mind (Sawyer had to get reading glasses this week, for example, and I don’t doubt someone in the camp needs some antihistamines, because they have an itchy knee or something) but surely someone’s noticed that Locke’s relationship with the Island is getting just a tidsy bit codependent? And not, perhaps, in a “healthy” way?
flashbacks
Locke has another flashback: further back this time, to when he was not the 50-something man we see on the island today but a very different man. A man whose legs work. Like, um, like they do now. But when they worked the first time around. So yes, that’s quite similar: it’s all quite similar, in fact, apart from the hair. John Locke: one of the prime examples of how putting someone in a wig doesn’t automatically create a younger version of themselves.
A man, anyway, Whose estranged mother came to him (oh! a mother! Mummy issues?!?) and persuaded him to meet up with his estranged father, who then conned a kidney out of him (oh. No. My mistake: it’s daddy issues), and made him sad.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) There is more heroin on the island! A lot more! This could explain a lot if it has, say, worked its way into the water system or something.
2)But no one should tell Charlie. Although why not? It’s not like they’re ever getting off there, they might as well get off their faces WHILE there.
3) If this show doesn’t start moving away from this ridiculous daddy issues kick soon into the second season: or perhaps just go as far as introducing a powerful, proactive female character (and don’t come at me with that ‘Kate’ rubbish. “Hm, should I pick the handsome bad boy, or the lovely doctor? Or should I just help Sun in the garden, for that is ladylike! Oh no, I killed a man once; please kiss me and tell me it’s going to be ok?”)
4) The light has come on! Soon we will climb into the hatch! Yes? Please?
“Boone is in love with me. Do I feel the same about him? No. But we’re here for God knows how long: and so is Boone.” - Shannon
Or… as it turns out: maybe not so much.
What happens in this episode
Boone, after falling from one aeroplane to the ground from about 36,000 feet and being absolutely fine, falls from another aeroplane to the ground from about 36feet, and is comprehensively b0rked.
Now, obvioiusly, that sounds like a line from the Alanis Morissette song “Isn’t it Ironic”. Don’t you think? But actually, it’s just the plot of this episode.
When he arrives, Cleancut Favourite Doctor Jack, Doctor of Record promises to fix him, and they do try very hard. Jack hooks himself up to Boone’s arm – as the only person on the island (that we know of, anyway) with the same blood type.
Boone wakes enough to croak out the fact that there’s a hatch, that they’ve been trying to open it, and that Locke told him not to tell anyone about it. He’s bleeding internally – they try and stem that by taking his leg off with a cargo hold. But it is no good. It’s a sorry slide into mystery. Into, a different mystery, I mean, than the one he was already in.
And so, we say good bye to Boone: explorer; hatch-finder; brother; lover; sisterfucker; woodchopper; swimmer; pengatherer, two-time-aircrasher and, forever more, a proud member of the Lost Family Lostinson.
But in other, better news:
Claire had a baby! Finally!
YAY!
Flashbacks
Jack not getting married to that nice woman from Modern Faimly. she’d been a patient, he’d been a surgeon, he’d promised to fix her, then
“I’m not good at letting go; or maybe I’m afraid of what would happen if I fail” – Hot Jack: officially the worst writer of vows in the history of the world.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) I’m really enjoying it now – I just wanted it say that, in case it was ever in doubt. Some of the characters are annoying me, but the story’s got me locked in, good and proper.
2) You can cut off someone’s leg with a cargo hold. You know, it’s a shame they didn’t keep one of those jet engines around, because they could have got the other leg, some arms, and a nice even spiral-slicing of everything in between as well. Although possibly that wasn’t the point.
3) I wonder if Claire’s going to call the baby Boone. I hope not. Because, god rest him and all of those things, but it’s a REALLY stupid name.
What happens in this episode
There is a funeral for Boone. Jack, still missing 9/10ths of his blood, if we are to judge from the fact that he is the colour of an 3-week-old ham sandwich, and from the looks of it, twice as smelly. He is also overtired. After all, there has been a lot of antibiotic dispensing of late. AND: that thing with Sawyer needing glasses. Terrible times. Terrible. Locke arrives at the funeral, Jack is cross. They scuffle. Then Jack gets some sleep (because Kate crushes sleeping pills into his drink).
Locke apologies to Shannon for her brother being dead. Shannon immediately goes to Sayid and asks him to ‘do something about Locke’.
Sayid and Locke go for a walk to see the little smack plane. Locke confesses to bopping Sayid on the head when he tried to find a signal the first time around. They scuffle.
Shannon finds the gun locker, and steals the key from Hotter-When-Sleeping Jack, Doctor of Bed-me Manner. Then she tries to kill Locke. There is a scuffle in the forest, and she tries to shoot him, missing – partly because Sayid knocks her out of the way, partly because rain on Lost Island is like no other rain on earth. It is like standing under a funnel while someone tips an olympic-sized swimming pool out on your head.
In other news
The only thing that can make Claire’s baby TurnipHead (not my name, blame Charlie) stop crying is the sound of Swayer’s voice. It’s either the slightest secondary story EVER, or that’s going to become AN IMPORTANT LOST CLUE later on.
flashbacks
It’s a horrible one. Horrible. Sayid is taken to Australia in order to infiltrate a terrorist cell. If he can find out the location of the bombs, he’ll get Nadia (from the last flashback). The contact in the cell doesn’t want to blow people up. So Sayid offers to turn him – but without the explosive, the terror squad don’t care. He has to decide between this guy and all the people they could kill, and Nadia, who they will arrest. Man kills himself anyway. To claim his body and give him a proper funeral, Sayid changes his flight to the next day. By the time they crashed on the island, then – he should have been with Nadia already.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) That I’m quite seriously addicted at this point.
2) Just how many people are there, in the tribe. How I could pick out Ethan when there are so many of them I couldn’t identify in a line up, unless it was titled ‘Pick Out The Most Forgettable Faces’, and I was allowed a few wrong answers first. The Lost Family Lostington might only be made up of the ten people we see most often, but I’m beinning to consider it most impolite how they never involve ANY of the rest of them in a conversation.
EPISODE TWENTY-TWO: BORN TO RUN
What happens in this episode
Well, firstly, we’re meeting a new character. Meeting him for the first time, around four episodes from the end of the season. His name is Arzt, but I think we should just call him Deadguy. Deadguy is a high school science teaher, they say prominently, and has made his presence known now so he can declare his scientific knowledge: they have to launch this raft tomorrow, or monsoon season will come.
Wait. This place has a Rainy Season?! yeah
There is a game of musical chairs with the seats on the raft. Sawyer, Jin, Michael & Walt (and Waltsdog) are on it so far. Kate wants on. Sawyer won’t let her. Michael might. Someone poisons Michael. There is a scuffle: Sawyer outs Kate as a prisoner, and Sawyer is back on the raft.
Locke shows his hole to Hot-But-Dull Jack, Doctor of ALL Holes, and Jack is suitably impressed. He is eager to blow whatever needs blowing to mean they get into the hole with ease, but Locke tells him how hard he and Boone (God rest his soul, Ah, Begorrah etc) were trying just that. Sayid is not keen on the hole full stop.
Walt admits to his dad that it was him did the poisoning, and only because he didn’t want to leave the island. But now he does.
And why? Because Locke came to talk to Walt, and touched his arm – and without knowing anything about Lockes’ Hole, or ever having seen it (thank heavens) he begged Locke not to open it. Actually no. It wasn’t begged. It was more of an instruction. And Locke doesn’t seem like a man that pays much attention to instructions.
flashbacks
Kate and more of her troubled life.
We see the man she loved/killed. He was a doctor, and helped her to get into a hospital to see her dying mother (Mummy Issues!) … but then got killed on the way out.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1)Kate used to be blonde. Even looked like a natural blonde. But then, that seems unlikely. She has no roots. In so ways. Man, that’s deep.
2) How does Walt know things? I know his step father said he was a very strange – sorry, ’special’ – kid, but then, Locke’s mother said he was special too. And Locke is creepy-special, while Walt is huggable-special.
3) While I am really appreciating the ramping up of tension and excitement and narrative here – and I really am, I’m literally on the edge of my seat – I’m dying for some more boring episodes to come along. I need to have time for drawing some pictures. Which series is it that’s going to be particularly good for spare time. Three, right? Is that what I’ve heard? Maybe I can do that one ALL in pictures.
EPISODE TWENTY-THREE: EXODUS PART I
What happens in this episode
Just when you thought you had to take a special road trip to commune with the Frog of Doom, the Frog of Doom comes to you! Bringing DOOM!
No, really, that’s what she’s doing. In fact, is that one of the official Lost produce items you can buy? a little weeble alarm clock that wobbles into the room on wheels looking portenteous and waking you up by bleating “Oh-hee-ho-hee-haw… The udders are comming! The udders are comming! You are all gone to DAHHHH. You weeeell DAHHH on zeee bitch! The udders are comming!!!!” in a gently ludicrous French accent.
Anyway, that’s what she does this day, to the Lost Family Lostington. Apparently they’re all going to die, because the others are coming – history is repeating itself.
See, when The Frog of Doom first came to the island sixteen years ago, she was up the duff. She had a baby on the island, and had it with her for just a week until the Others came and stole the baby away.
So that frightens the bejeezus out of everyone, obviously. The ones going on the raft get that stuff moving even quicker, and The Frog Of Doom agrees to take a small party to the Black Rock to pick up some boom-boom sticks to try and pop open Lockes hole, which is still currently fastened tight shut (though he’s shown it to her, and she was very impressed too)
So they go off to the Black Rock, and take with them Deadguy, who wants to show them how to use explosives. Yeah. THAT’S why he’s going.
And then the raft sets sail, and, Walt having explained to Shannon that it would be best if she could care for his dog, Waltsdog, while he’s gone, Waltsdog bounds along after the raft, swimming as far as he can before turning back.
Boone? Scott? I’m sorry. I cried not for you.
But the parting of Walt and Waltsdog?
Bawling.
flashbacks
Lots, Jack met an attractive lady in the airport lounge, called Ana Maria, or Ana Lucia, or some such – but she said she was going to be in the back of the plane, so he might have got laid, but his lady, apparently, got toasted.
We see Shannon and Boone (Top of the Rest In Peaces to you) arguing, Jin and Sun, arguing, and Sayid being led through security by the feds. In a good way.
It’s mainly build up. Let’s get on with part II.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) That I wanted to get to the next episode. And then to bed. Crikey blimey. This was a RIDICULOUS idea. The show is too gripping! I have no time for drawing pictures!
EPISODE TWENTY-FOUR/TWENTY-FIVE: EXODUS, PART II
What happens in this episode
An Exodus!
No, I don’t know where, it’s just started.
Firstly, The Bombgang – John Locke; Sizzling Jack, Doctor of BOOM!; Kate; Hurley and Deadguy, otherwise known as Arzt – a high school science teacher rarely seen before in these parts, but suddenly a prominent, pivotal character.
They go to the Black Rock, which turns out to be not a black rock, as you might have idiotically supposed (well, not YOU, because you’ve seen it before and/or you’re clever than me). It is an old pirate ship, marooned deep in the woods.
There, while they’re finding out the location of the boomboom-sticks, Deadguy rants at Hurley about how the ‘In crowd’ don’t talk to anyone else, and how unfair it all is (it is brilliant. Really) Anyway, Deadguy gives them a lesson on proper boom-boom-stick management before giving the ultimate example to his students: how NOT to handle explosives.
BOOOM!
So! Once dead guy is dead, the rest of the Lost Family Lostinson go about – well, firstly picking bits of Deadguy out of their hair – and then handling the boom-boom-sticks.
It is the kind of long, tense, silence-driven scene that was clearly invented with liveblogging in mind, and which one can only dream of recapping:
“Jack picks up a stick, and passes it to Locke, who puts it down. It looks like it might explode. But then it doesn’t. Jack picks up another stick. It looks like it might explode! It doesn’t. He passes it to Locke. He puts it down. Jack picks up another stick. He passes it to Locke. It looks like it might blow up.”
“And then it doesn’t.”
Classic internet-driven feature stuff, I am sure you’ll agree.
Look – some movement of boom-boom is going on. That is all we need to know.
On the beach
The Frog of Doom arrives at Claire and Charlie’s tent, and screams she needs Sayid. Charlie runs to find him, and then, alone in the tent, Claire realises from the scratches on The Frog of Doom’s arms that they’ve met before: that this was the person who tried to take her to the Others.
The next thing we see, Sayid and Charlie are running their little legs off, hair moving in the breeze – one threadily, the other flowingly.
On the raft
Things go a little pork-up, when something falls off, and then they find it again. Otherwise it’s mainly bonding moments.
On the bitch:
Sayid and Charlie are chasing through the forest. Needing a moment’s rest, Sayid leads Charlie to the Little Smack Plane, showing him exactly what it was, and how much smack was in it.
Does Sayid know about Charlie? Was that done on purpose? If so, why? Why, Sayid?! WHY!?
They carry on. Smackless? I cannot tell.
On the Boom-Boom trail
Locke and Jack have a very big, very important conversation about destiny, and why they’ve landed where they’ve landed, and why they’ve landed there together.
Locke believes the Island has brought them together and is keeping them together; that everything that happens there, the people that die, the things that fail – happen for a reason … to bring the people that survive to where the Island wants them to be.
Jack does not. He believes they are fighting against the island that wants to kill them.
On a boat
Suddenly, when doing a random check of the radar and signal jobby, a beep appears. There is a craft near the raft (this rhymes).
On the bitch…
Sayid and Charlie reach the root of the black smoke, some fires on a beach. No one is there. No Others, whatever The Others might look like. The Frog of Doom is there though, hiding in the bushes with the baby. She comes out, disappointed too, that she she couldn’t swap this baby for her own.
She gives him back to Charlie though. And goes off mumbling that The Others said they were coming for ‘The Child’, and ‘The Boy’.
On the Boat
We find out which boy.
(and then cry)
The nearby craft almost misses them, but they called it back so it can save them. It nears, says some friendly words, and then a killer:
“The thing is: we’re going to have to take the boy.”
And they take him.
On the trail of the boom-boom-sticks
They blow that hatch wide open. Even though, in the closing seconds that they still had a choice, Hurley tells them not to. But Jack doesn’t understand, and Locke doesn’t want to. All he cares about, at the end of the day, was that his hole HAS to get blown.
They blow it.
flashbacks
OH GOD, just so many. More than half the episode.
Basically, all the Lost Family Lostinson getting on the plane. Seeing how they are now, compared to the people they were beofre they arrived on this island? It’s a transformative experience.
It makes you realise that no matter how much you thought you might not like some of them now, you would have REALLY disliked them in the few hours before they crashed.
Apart from Hurley, who rushed and rushed and rushed to make this flight. Poor bad luck bear.
Things I learnt while watching this episode
1) The Frog of Doom is even more Doomy than first supposed.
2) The invisible characters, all the other survivors of 815 – they might make an appearance now, yeah? The nice looking man with the beard? And the kids?
3)Those Others? They’re reet shifty.
4) The Frog of Doom’s baby was called Alex. Just in case we meet her/him/them later on.
5) Hurley’s spotted the numbers on the hatch. I’ve said it before, it was just important to say it again.
6) Charlie brought some heroin back.
7 Locke’s hole is wide open.
8) ABOUT A BILLION OTHER THINGS.
9) But now I need to go to bed.
10) But I don’t want to!
11) Oh god, the conflict.
12) What would a moth do?
Well, there are occasionally moths in my bedroom, and so that’s probably the way to go. Brilliant. Thanks, moths.
Tomorrow? SEASON TWO!
But I’d like to dedicate the whole post above to Dr “Deadguy” Arzt, to Steve, and to Boone.
Rest ALL of you Losts, in lost.
Shit!
SCOTT! I meant Scott!
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I’m delighted that you’re doing this. I’ve been watching Lost since early on, and (somewhat unusually) I’ve actually stuck with it. Hugely excited about the final series, and this is the perfect way to recap! Keep ‘em coming!
Comment by Anna F — January 26, 2010 @ 3:00 pm
watch them faster! i want to read the rest
Comment by cal — January 26, 2010 @ 9:17 pm
“Sun keeps trying to beat the living palm oil out of his fellow Losts” – you mean Jin
Comment by cal — January 26, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
I did! Yes. And now I’ve changed it. Thank you. See? That’s what happens when I try and go faster for you.
Except I wrote that before you said it, so, you know…
Comment by Anna — January 26, 2010 @ 9:55 pm
I want to make it clear that your decision to situate yourself in the Sayid camp is only slighly more insane than Amy’s obsession with throbbing man-cock and Davidoff model, Sawyer. What kind of dicktwat decides to name himself after a man who caused his family to combust. Makes no sense. He only gets bearable seasons down the line.
Clearly Camp Jack is the place to put up your tent. Everyone knows that. Serious, grumpy, tortured, doctor boyfriends are so obviously the future.
Comment by Tom Coates — January 26, 2010 @ 11:29 pm
I would like to order one packet of Bacon-Flavoured Nipples, please.
Comment by Rod Begbie — January 27, 2010 @ 12:42 am
I discovered on Lostpedia yesterday that when you hear whispering in the woods, that if you have cunning magical computer things, you can actually make out what people are saying, and people have and they’ve transcribed it, and it’s actually plot-relevant.
Comment by Tom Coates — January 27, 2010 @ 8:07 am
Loving your work Anna, the perfect way to get excited about the last season of Sawyer being shirtless on my tv – that’s unless I stick a Davidoff poster on it.
Comment by Amy Sawyer Hammond — January 27, 2010 @ 10:47 pm
Where are the gays on the island. Are they all in the background? Fucking typical. Background gays. Or maybe the island hates the gays and they all got killed by the Others? I think this is a homophobic island that only likes straight people.
Comment by Tom 4 Jack Coates — January 27, 2010 @ 11:46 pm
There’s at least one gay person on the island, but it’s not revealed until later in the show.
Comment by jaymc — January 28, 2010 @ 9:38 am
Am I being particularly dim but I can’t find anything on this site apart from comments. What am I doing wrong??
Comment by IckleMini — January 28, 2010 @ 10:39 am
IckleMini – You’re not the first person to have said that, but I can’t for the life of me work out why it is for some and not for others. Very new site, though, and still full of bugs! Will look into it though. Thanks!
Comment by Anna — January 28, 2010 @ 11:21 am
Ahem. You may see some “explosives” again. If and when you do, compare and contrast with the delicate handling and tension that you so brilliantly describe above.
Comment by Anna — January 28, 2010 @ 12:03 pm
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Not working for me, sadly. I look forward to when you’ve got the site fixed though, so I’ll keep checking back
Comment by NickyB — January 28, 2010 @ 2:05 pm
Can someone for whom this is not working let me know what browser they’re using or link they’re coming here from? I’m having trouble reproducing the problem, and hopefully it might help work out what it might be –
thanks!
Comment by Anna — January 28, 2010 @ 2:15 pm
Anna, the site works fine in Firefox and Chrome, but doesn’t work in MSIE (mine is version 8). This is on a PC.
On my Macbook it works in Firefox, Chrome and Safari.
Comment by Caroline — January 29, 2010 @ 3:24 am
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Hi, still can’t see anything and I’m using MS Internet Explorer 8 too. I linked to this site from Littleredboat. Hope you get it sorted soon :-)
Comment by IckleMini — January 29, 2010 @ 10:42 am
Hey – sorry about the continued problems for people looking at the site in Internet Explorer. Apparently it’s a bug that happens all the time and it is fixable, and we are trying…
Well, I SAY we, my technical support-boyfriend is currently wrangling it.
VERY HARD. And I know that, because he is swearing.
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Hey Anna – Loving the site. My wife and I are actually in the same boat as you: watching Lost hard-core for the first time to get caught up before season 6 starts. So it’s great to be able to read and enjoy this while things are still fresh in our minds. Can’t wait to read the rest!
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Woohoooooo – I can see clearly now! Cant’ wait to catch up with what’s been going on, three series to go and counting. Well done on getting technical issues sorted
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Inspired stuff. I wonder why I bothered with the full 5 season rewatch when I could have just laughed my socks off at you reviewing it, as I did tonight
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