So what did you guys think of the season premiere of Lost last night? I thought it was great! Huge spoilers ahead so stop reading immediately if you haven’t watched yet! I loved every single bit of the airplane and airport scenes. To me, that should have been the entire episode. I mean, I’m sure there’s a point to going back and forth between the two alternate timelines, but I enjoyed the real world stuff way more than the island stuff. But I guess it wouldn’t be Lost without the island. I’m just not crazy about The Others. Never have been, never will be. I’m just so sick of their vagueness and mean attitudes. Enough already! We get it! You’re bad, but good, but bad, but whatever! And the temple stuff never intrigued me either. I did enjoy the smoke monster bit though (and not just because he killed a shitload of annoying Others). I guess the smoke monster slash man in black is kinda like The First in Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Can he only appear as people who are dead? Guess we’ll find out more about him. But I’m thrilled we got a bit more information! Ugh, and poor Juliet! She was one of my favorite characters! And I hate how vague her injuries were. If you’re going to kill one of my beloved characters, at least have her impaled or cut in half or something! I’m sure she was crushed by tons of steel or whatever, but she looked fine to me (besides all the blood of course). Don’t give me false hope people! But I’m thinking she has to come back in the other real world timeline, right? Fingers crossed! So yeah, loved the episode last night, especially the airport stuff and the way people are coming together even if they didn’t get to the island. Kate in the real world is way more interesting than island Kate. And the Jack/Locke scene in the baggage claim area was incredible. Let’s hope the rest of the season knocks our collective socks off!
Lost – Season 6 Premiere
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I’ve never seen “Lost” ever, but wasn’t there a rumor that it was somehow gonna be correlated to “Cloverfield” [feat. "Cloverfield 2"]???
I’ve never seen it either. *shrug* Oh well, I’ll watch the Jetsons.
Does anyone remember when Craig used to put some effort into Puntabulous and it was somewhat entertaining to read?!!! Never thought that I would miss Olivia and her crap-ass posts about working at Subway or whatever it is she used to write about.
Craig, where is the spark? Is it because all these Puntabu-zealots use your comments section as a chat room instead of actually commenting on your posts? Have they killed you desire to be creative?
2 Honorable mentions:
1.) I ‘LOVED’ ‘LOVED’ ‘LOVED’ the LOST Season Six Premiere!!! Just ‘LOVED’ it!!! ;o)
And…
2.) Don’t you want all of your favorite TV-Movie characters to load up on the Crest Whitening Strips or Rembrandt Tooth Whitening kits when: a.) they’re on death’s door, b.) their organs have been crushed by an I-Beam, c.) they’re drenched in blood (hair to toe) after a nasty fist fight, or c.) they’re slowly fading out from a mortal gunshot to the abdomen??? I’ve never seen seriously injured people look so DURRRN Glamorous… ;o)
Spoilery;
Did you notice the two “previously on Lost” voice overs in the beginning, to me that definitely signified the dual universe theory. I have this feeling it may stay this way all season, one showing a resolution to the island while the other shows their lives if they had never gone to the island in the first place. However, at some point it will meet and become singular.
Jacob = Good/God Figure / MIB-Smokey-Locke = Evil/Devil Figure, and that was sorta cemented for me when MIB said “I want to go home” almost making him seem like the banished angel who was “exiled” from his home.
Further backing this, the Sayid drowning, death, and resurrection. Did you notice the Christ pose he was carried in when brought out of the water that they tech were baptizing him in. I’m calling it right now that Sayid is now Jacob and the reason he was brought to the temple was so Jacob would have a place to send his soul. Ironically he pics the dark skinned man with long hair and beard, coincidence, I think not.
So as I see it, Locke is dead and gone, as is Juliet, but both will be vindicated in some sort of way by their respective others, which in my mind would be Jack and Sawyer. All of this will lead to a final confrontation, an all out war of good vs evil. The problem will be that with all this going on and only 14 episodes left, it will definitely leave no room for a lot of the things we questioned for years to be unanswered. Perhaps it’s better that way though, because maybe some mysteries don’t deserve to be solved.
Either way, I’m still hooked and will be watching every episode for the rest of the season with the phone off to make sure I don’t miss a thing. Plus, Justin and I have a Lost discussion thing going on, I gotta make sure I have all my notes in order.
Mark the Calender:
The finale will air on ABC on Sunday, May 23 from 9:00-11:00 p.m, with a recap special showing the hour before.
Loved it!
It was great.
I was in an absolute panic because my dvr must have rebooted during the show and stopped recording after the first 15 minutes! Thank God the episodes were online (and my computer is fast enough to play them) otherwise I would have had to shoot myself, since this is the one show I’ve most been looking forward to.
I agree that it was awesome. I didn’t mind the flipping back and forth between alternate realities (side flips) because it made it clear what had happened and I was dying to find out more about Locke being possessed. I think the show has been having alternate realities all along but this was the first time two seemed to exist (that we’ve seen) at the same time. After Star Trek however it was pretty obvious that they were doing the same thing.
Like Craig, I loved the scene between Jack and Locke at the airport, so touching. The part that made me cry was when the devil/monster was talking about how pathetic John Locke was, what a pitiful person, which is so completely untrue. My greatest hope would be that somehow the real Locke is able to come back (through time travel whatever) and be the one to kick his ass back to hell!
Not sure how I missed this post — I commented on the one that followed.
18 months ago I would have shrugged — or made an ironic, deprecating joke
— like Tam or Josherz. As I *believe* I have probably already said in the echoing hallways of this blog’s comment section, I tend to resist new shows, no matter how much I overhear people talking about how “great” some show is. I was like that with “ER” when it first came out (I remember thinking “Meh; I watched St. Elsewhere; I don’t need another hospital drama); I was like that with Sex & the City (I was like “Meh; I’m not going to start subscribing to HBO just because people are raving about this show; besides, the MadTV spoof was all I needed to see”), and I was like that about LOST (“Meh; they’re just capitalizing on the whole “Survivor” thing and trying to get people interested in scripted TV again”).
In the fall of ’08, however, the SciFi channel started showing re-runs in HD of LOST and I caught a few by accident. I was like “Zoe. Em. GEE. This actually *IS* great.” I then discovered ABC.com had the entire series online for free on HD and I simply watched the entire first 4 seasons end-to-end non-stop (to the point of overheating my laptop a couple of times). By the time I was done, Season 5 was about ready to premiere.
Personally I found season 5 a bit of a let-down except for the stunning season 5 finale. I have been looking forward to season 6 for what seems like EVER.
I thought the season 6 premiere was GREAT. There were a few things I didn’t like: the introduction of new characters is the LAST thing we need with only 14 episodes left, and the Japanese guy and his interpreter (“Crab Man” from a memorable episode of Wings, by the way) was gratuitous, in my view. But otherwise I *LOVED* it. They managed to come up with yet another new original idea I hadn’t expected. I give them props for that.
I’m not entirely sure I buy all of Jay/Para’s hypotheses above, but as always, LOST is good food-for-thought and good debate fodder. Which is why the show is still good