first 2 eps were pretty sweet, heres a gif i borrowed from sa

downloading as we speak. can't wait, tbh. :o

Damn, those episodes were... interesting. And good!

It seemed like the series took a real turn towards fantasy, even more than usual. Lots of time travel, magic island detectors, flaming arrow attacks (they couldn't have made it any more obvious that something was going to happen to that guy at that moment, but I did not expect flaming arrows.), 70 HOURS TO SAVE THE WORLD, plus the standard ghosts and people with super time powers.

I've been watching the first few seasons of Lost while I waited for season five to show up and this series is nothing like it was when it started. Shit those episodes had everything from people getting thrown off balconies and knives getting thrown into assholes, to food getting thrown near Ben.

i approve of this new season so far. crazy shit though, imho.

Seems like their plan was to reintroduce the whole mystery of the island and not knowing what is around you again - the factors that made Season 1 and parts of Season 2 great.

But then they want to mix that with with the developments of the show aswell as introducing the whole "We have to go back!" stuff.

Its a really really good mixture and Im probably wrong but I cant see how this kind of format is going to produce any filler episodes or anything. Seems like there are too many things going on for episodes with little plot advancement to exist.

I was not looking forward to the new season that much and thought the show would go down the wrong route and forget what made it great in previous seasons, but so far its prooved me wrong. :omg:

Just saw episode 5x03 - Jughead

It wasn't the best 42 minutes of television I've watched this year, but it wasn't bad either. The series is a lot better now it's moved past those damn flashbacks, and it was worth sitting through just to see young Charles Widmore smugly proclaiming that John Motherfucking Locke can't track him because he doesn't know the island.

It seems like the poor survivors of Oceanic 815 are getting whittled down to those with a destiny now. Sixteen of them were on the beach last episode, and it looks that half of them are probably now dead. But the story is moving way beyond a group of survivors trapped on an island now. With characters like Desmond, Daniel, Widmore and Alpert around, I can live without Paulos, Shannons, and Frogurts.

5x04 - The Little Prince

I wasn't expecting much from this episode. I definitely wasn't expecting motherfucking Jin and Danielle Rousseau to turn up at the last minute! Maybe he can slip a note into her coat pocket telling her to wear a bulletproof vest.

Overall that was a pretty good episode. The island bits were all good, full of mystery and intrigue, and the LA bits got the mystery of who wanted Kate's kid out the way reasonably quickly, and with a logical answer (Ben did it... and he admits it... and he is possibly very soon to be executed for his sins.) Miles getting the sickness second would seem to hint very strongly that he's Dr Chang's son, which works for me. I'm happier when the supernatural events are definitely caused in some way by the island.

5x05 - This Place is Death

Not a bad episode, though it wasn't an all time classic. Nice to have some extra clues about the monster and the sickness, adventures with ropes and time, and poor Ben finally getting sick of no one appreciating him. The big reveal at the end was a little weird though, it was played up to be a big thing but it's been fairly well hinted at already that Eloise was Daniel's mother. He even named his rat after her...

Getting back to good form.

5x06 - 316

Not a great episode I thought. It had it's moments but overall it was pretty slow. It introduced a lot of new mysteries, but most of them were just things like 'what happened to Aaron, why is Sayid in chains... on his way to Guam, why is Ben covered in blood, is Penny still alive, what was the point in Desmond's mad race around the world to see Ms Hawking anyway?' It was nice to see the time jumps take the place of the Swan station incident in bringing them to the island, pretty dark that they were trying to (as far as they knew) instigate a plane crash though. No one seemed too concerned about it either, except for Hurley, and even he didn't manage to clear the whole plane. And even if they had bought all the seats they'd still be sacrificing the flight crew. Assholes.

What's really creepy though, is if you were to plot all my episode ratings for this season on to a graph, it'd look just like the flight path of a plane crashing onto an island :monocle:

yep it was a pretty dumb ep all around but at least they got it over with. rest of seasons gonna own

this makes me sad. I actually really liked 316. Mind you I was supposed to be in bed, asleep multiple hours before I watched it and was probably not 100% with it because of me being so tired.

Considering the fact that Dajhail picked up on a lot more things that I didn't....im assuming that was the case. heh.


I have a lot of things floating in my head right now, but I'm going to keep them under wraps until the next episode because me being spoilerish makes for an angry Dajhail. :lol:

5x07 - The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham

After last week I was a little concerned about how this would turn out, but I liked it. After all Locke's badassery so far this season he really didn't achieve much of anything off island, but I found myself sympathizing with him much more than usual. For the last four years, Locke has come across to me as the crazy selfish bastard of the island, not really caring about anyone else unless it helps him and the island in some way and only ever telling people what he needs to manipulate them. But in this he was entirely honest and decent. He didn't rant at anyone, drug them, throw knives in their back. He only went to see Walt because he cared, and he actually stayed away from Sun despite being told he had to bring her back.

* Locke's alive (and still in the present), and so is everyone else from the plane pretty much as Frank is only pilot on Earth skilled enough to land things on that damn island. I can imagine that Locke is a little confused why his friends decided to bring down an airliner full of people onto the island just to get back, then disappear off the plane before it even lands. Or maybe he's just feeling left out that he's not allowed to go time travelling with the Oceanic survivors any more.

* Ben and Widmore trade places on the scales of good and evil. Which is to say that Ben is now probably an evil manipulative bastard, and Widmore is probably an evil manipulative bastard too, only less so. I guess Widmore directly preceeded Ben as leader of the Others, and is the one who started the purge that killed the Dharma Initiative. Which happened, by coincidence, around the time Jack, Sawyer and the others are trapped in.

* Abaddon died! :o I honestly did not see that coming at all.

* It's getting very hard for me to sympathise with Jack and Kate now. I understand that poor Jack is alone and on drugs to stop his 'hallucinations' at that point, and Kate is struggling to bring up Aaron on her own, and that they're traumatised by their time on the island, but damn...

actually im pretty sure that the purge happened sometime in the 90s and time travel krew is currently in the 70s, according to the captions on the rerun of 316 last night. hope this helps

Really?

Damn, that's taken all the danger out of it. They can just relax in the DI for 20 years now, with all the Dharma beer they can drink, driving around in Dharma vans, and pestering Alpert.

Seems that those who use the donkey wheel are 'reset' into real time and dropped off at the opposite side of the world. Locke and Ben weren't taken by the flash on flight 316 for this reason.

Ben killed Locke because he wants to go back to the island. It was the mention of Miss Hawking that triggered the switch, my thoughts are that Ben wanted to be the go-between and when he realised that Locke could actually do this without him, he killed Locke so as not to run that risk. In fairness, he DOES bring Locke back to the island. It's another one of those almost 50/50 good/bad decisions that Ben takes on alot, with some deeper rationale that always adds up but leaves a bitter taste in ones mouth.

Thought it was quite convenient that, at his lowest moment, Locke was ready and willing to give up as much information as possible. Ben must have been thinking its his birthday. Jin's alive? Aha, what will Sun say! He doesnt want Sun to come back? Ill need some leverage. He gave you his wedding ring? You're dead mango, fish!

Im pretty stoned but it strikes me now more than ever that Lost is so appropriately named as a show. Thinking generally about the paths these characters have taken and looking at where they are likely to lead, everyone is lost in their own way.

If the still-Losties are in 70s times, there are to be plenty of satisfying treats heading our way. See Kate raising white horse pup, Faraday installing swan button system, DI polar bears and rabbits pairing off in a casimir-showdown! And perhaps something a bit more farfetched... Locke's father, a DHARMA man?

Stay High <3

I think it's more of a 100% bad decision in this case. Ben does bring Locke's body back to the island, but the way he said he'd miss him makes me think he had no idea he'd come back to life. He just wanted to increase his chances that the plane would make an unscheduled landing on the island.

Also Locke was pretty forthcoming to everyone in that episode. He was nothing less than honest and open for the whole thing for a change. Well, apart from neglecting to mention Widmore's involvement and Michael's probable death.

Is Locke the new Christian? I dont mean in the sense of a replacement, more that these time games cause 'cycles' of visitors to come and go. Locke died in that hotel apartment. He is as firmly dead as Jacks father.

If Christian was involved with the island before, perhaps having been to it, it would be a nice prelude to the drink problem. When Jack gets back to LA as part of the O6 he goes off the rails, would be a nice father-son parallel.

Perhaps Christian cannot go and hang out with Jack during earlier seasons because of some technicality regarding timeline correction and constants. In which case, I get the feeling Locke wont be seeing the O6 again. Just evidence of their influence on the island from the past.

a collection of screencaps of bad quality.

I'm always amazed by Locke's scar makeup, it's entirely convincing.

Though they could have gave him a matching one on the other eye after his second place crash.

La Fleur, 5x08...

Seemed more like just filler to me until the end, then it all just came together. Lots of stuff happened making me say "WHAT?" a lot...


Spoiler'd incase people haven't watched last night's episode yet (like Dajhail probably):
I'm kind of not really surprised about Sawyer and Juliet, although I'm interested to see what happens with Sawyer and Kate now. Why haven't we seen Sun yet? And wait....the baby AND the mother survived?

You are literally the only person that does.

That was a good episode I thought. Nothing mind blowing, but it was quietly interesting and helped fill in some gaps in the story.

* It was nice to see Sawyer take the leadership role and put his con man skills to good use, managing to save his group and keep up the truce. Makes a change from him appearing like an idiot. He seems much happier with the DI than he ever was off island too.

* Sawyer and Juliette seem to make a good match. The two of them have been drawing closer together all season, and they definitely seem to get along better than Jack and Kate have. Which is a shame, because now they've found happiness it's probably all downhill for them now. Starting with him keeping secrets about the old friends Jin's just run into.

* Jin speaks English! Fucking awesome. Also Juliette has now been part of the DI as long as she's been an Other.

* I wonder why Alpert was so keen on getting all those dead bodies. I'm getting the feeling it probably wasn't just to give them a proper ceremony.

* Jack and Kate had better be on the path to redemption now, because I can't stand them being miserable, whiny and useless any more. I don't care who ends up with who in the end, I just hope they start justifying their existence in the story.

* What the hell happened to Rose, Bernard, Vincent, and the other poor survivors of Oceanic 815?

* I totally didn't realise that Amy was the same actress as Michelle Dessler from 24 until I saw the credits.

I'm having lost withdrawals....

There's is a gaping hole in my soul where Lost should be this week. It's absence brings a shadow upon my heart, a longing which shall not find relief until come late next Wednesday.

My only hope is that this next episode does not betray my anticipation...

I heard a spoiler that Kates gona fall over and die of shock

Finally, a new episode, 5x09 - Namaste.

It was pretty good I thought, I liked it. Though I can't help but feel sorry for poor Sawyer, seeing as the life he's built for himself over the last three years is going to inevitably come crashing down and shatter into splinters onto the ground. Jack no doubt wants to start bossing him around and being self righteous again as soon as possible. He is after all chosen by fate to be on the island for a purpose far greater than janitorial duties.

* Sun didn't get to time travel, which seems unnecessarily cruel of fate/the island/Jacob whatever. Now she's in the right place to find her husband, but thirty years too late. Still she's with Lapidus, (the only man manly enough to ever land on the island without crashing) and being sent on a journey by Christian, so things aren't all bad for her. Nice to see that she trusts Ben about as far as she can throw him with a smack to the head, listening to that guy never gotten anyone anywhere.

* Jack is concerned that someone is reading a book in a crisis for the second time in the last two episodes he's been in properly. The guy needs to learn that you can only be a successful liar, manipulator, and leader if you're well read.

* Poor Hurley. He magically teleported off a plane, he's stuck in the 70's, Jin can speak English now, and people keep saying Namaste to him without explaining what it means. Nothing in his world makes sense anymore. Plus his job in the DI is probably going to be to record creepy messages to play on a loop at the radio tower, and scratching numbers into the side of the Swan Station hatch.

* Radzinsky appears in the flesh! And he's got a little model of Swan Station. Poor guy has no idea he'll be decorating the ceiling of it with his brain in a few decades. OR WILL HE? (he probably will). I love the irony that all the genius Dharma scientists are trying to solve the mysteries of the universe and control time, while half of their mechanics, security, and janitors are secretly time travellers from the future.

My dislike for Kate is growing.

I don't want her to play Susie-Homewrecker with Juliet and Sawyer. Fucking whore.

Just finished watching "He's our You"

I missed the first 15 minutes or so, not 100% sure what went on. It personally wasn't that exciting for me, but it was nice to have a bit of info on Sayid. I knew a lot of it was coming, it was very predictable...but the ending was nice. Even though I know that it wont be the end of Ben...

I just finished watching it myself, and DAMN that ending was a mind fuck. They spend the whole episode talking about how good a killer Sayid is, then have a twist ending where he completely fails to kill someone. And he was really trying too!

Though I suppose it could be magic resurrection at work...

Either way I thought that was a pretty good episode. Not an all time classic, but far from unwatchable.

5x10 - Whatever Happened, Happened

It was a mildly watchable episode. The events on screen weren't exactly captivating, but it gave me stuff to think about.

* This episode was a welcome step towards redeeming Kate. It's good to know she's not running from anything, she didn't abandon anyone, she did what Sawyer asked, she told the truth to Claire's mother, and she has given herself the noble goal of saving Claire. Of course she probably stranded a whole bunch of other parents and kids on the island with the crash of 316, plus she hasn't even ASKED anyone about Claire yet, and she has left Aaron without a mother while she returned to a dangerous island she only barely found a way off last time... but her heart's in the right place!

* New Jack is a cold bastard, though to be fair he was apparently entirely right. Whatever happened, happened, and he knew that if he made a sandwich and took a shower instead of saving Ben, the kid would survive regardless and he'd end up clean with something to eat.

* Sayid, Kate, Sawyer and Jack are all learning their roles in the predetermined story of Ben's descent to the dark side. Everything they do is based on their own personality and their knowledge of what Ben will become, but they're all coming from different directions. Sayid thinks he can kill Ben to save him become a monster, but fails. Jack takes no action, he knows he can't alter the future. Sawyer and Kate know that Ben will live and turn into a bastard, but as they don't know how it happens they can't just sit back and let the kid suffer now, so they do what it takes to save his life. It's a shitty situation to be in, they have free will to do whatever they want, but whatever they do will lead to the bad ending.

* I loved Hurley and Miles' discussion on time travel. Miles knows basically how Lost time travel works but does a really shitty job of explaining it, and Hurley just ends up even more confused. I'm sure a big chunk of the audience has been in one of those conversations themselves. Maybe next week we'll get to see them try to draw charts.

* Elle and Charles aren't the boss of Richard Alpert, apparently. I hope that line means we get to see the two of them again soon. And hopefully find out if Elle is short for Eloise.

* "Welcome back to the land of the living" was an awesome way to end this episode. I hope this means we're getting more of witty, confident Locke (as opposed to smug self righteous Locke or emo Locke).

LOST tomorrow oh yeah baby!

Just finished watching the episode for this week.


Random thoughts:

* WAY TO GO DESMOND!!

* Egyptian?

* so, out of the smoke came his dead daughter? things keep getting weirder and weirder.

* Of course it let you live, it would be a stupid way for someone like you to die.

Haha, your poor avatar seems confounded by your gif.

5x11 - Dead is Dead

Damn that was a good episode. Not a massive surprise though, considering it was a Ben episode.

* We get to see Alex being taken, Widmore being banished, and Desmond beating the shit out of Ben. Which is nice. It kinda ruins my 'Widmore turns the wheel and teleports out at the end of season 5' theory though, seeing as he's still leader well after the seventies.

* Wait, did Ben just kill Cesar?

Shiiiiiiit :o

* Ghost Alex/Smoke monster is pissed off that Ben is still trying to murder Locke. How can he not see that the island really REALLY doesn't want this guy dead, and every time he tries it, it doesn't work.

* Locke is finally back on form, being a smug bastard and annoying/scaring Ben. Ben's pretty on form himself, lying to or murdering everyone he meets. Unless they've got a child. It's interesting that Alex's abduction was actually Ben trying to do the right thing.

* Penny's alive! :D After pointing a gun at Desmond's wife and child, I think Ben got off lightly. No wonder he was in a hurry to leave the country.

* Was anyone on flight 316 except Lapidus actually planning to go to Guam? It seems like every survivor we meet has an agenda on the island. The bounter hunter's group even has a secret code phrase and a mysterious box. I wonder if they're Widmore's people, that would seem to fit with him helping Locke and friends get back to the island. Either way it seems safe to say it was one of her group shooting at Sawyer's boat.

fun fact: the guy that ran up to warn lapidus is named Jed

Some Like it Hoth

Hurley and Miles need more episodes like this, the two of them together are great. Dr Chang can tag along too.

* Nice of them to not fuck around with the confimations this week. 2 seconds into the episode they'd already confirmed that Miles was Chang's son. The pit in the ground that was obviously The Swan, was confirmed 5 seconds later with the hatch (and the numbers being put into it just to wind up Hurley). And the scientist arriving from Ann Arbor barely gave you time to realise it must be Faraday, before revealing that he was Faraday. I have to admit, I was worried for a second that he'd not recognise Miles, and would turn out to be Faraday's past self from 30 years ago! Who looked the exact same age :o
But it was our Faraday, and all is well.

* Damn, I was so focused on wanting to know more about Miles' special ghost power that I totally forgot Hurley had been talking to ghosts too. Though apparently Miles can't actually talk to the dead, and needs to be near the body to hear their thoughts, which doesn't seem to fit how he was introduced; talking to a ghost in it's room.

* Sawyer's fragile house of cards is starting to collapse around him thanks to Miles and Kate not erasing crucial video evidence and being nice to a worried parent. Which is a shame I think, because it was a very nice house. He's handling the catastrophe well though.

* If only that crazy bastard Radzinski knew he'd end up a stain on the ceiling in that station he was building. I hope one of them tells him.

* The title got me worried, but I thought the Star Wars reference actually turned out to be pretty clever. I know the first thing I'd think of if I was thrown back in time to 1977 would be 'oh wow, I could watch Star Wars at the cinema', (if anything else interesting happened that year, I've forgotten about it) so it makes sense it was on Hurley's mind. And I though they way they tied it in with their dads was nice, with Hurley maybe hoping to change Empire's script so that Luke and his father sorted things out earlier like he wishes he'd done in his own life.

* The 'shadow of the statue' people don't seem to be with Widmore, and they're probably not with Ben... maybe they're an ancient enemy of The Others? Or a splinter group of Others. Or the Dharma Initiative! Or maybe all three.

really liked that ep, it was like a tricia tanaka is dead part 2 but with more plot development.

Damn, I never even thought of that. It had Hurley in a Dharma van, Roger Workman, Dharma beer, daddy abandonment issues and everything.

The Variable

Damn, life really shit on poor Daniel Faraday. And by life, I mean his mother. First she bans him from doing anything not related to physics. Then after he graduates university she keeps pushing him until he finally gives himself and his girlfriend serious brain damage with experiments. Then when he finally has a chance to sit down and play a little piano, he's sent off to an island to get shot. All because fate and time demand it.

Good episode though.


* Poor Sawyer and Juliet. They lost everything just because their old friends decided to drop by. Somehow I'm feeling more sorry for them than I am for Daniel.

* Daniel really shouldn't have picked up that gun. Both times he waved it around he ended up getting shot. Also, breaking into the Other's camp waving a gun and demanding nuclear weapons was probably not the smartest thing he could have done.

* Though I expect Jughead's going to be making an appearance by the end of this season.

* Six hours until the incident? Damn the next 2 episodes should move fast.