So...Lost? Random thoughts..

[shadowkat]

Works slow which is making me edgy. I don't do slow well. I like to be crazy busy. Most people just wander about and chat with folks, which I can do a little of...before feeling quilty for distracting them from their work and running out of stuff to talk about. This will be fast since at work.

Anywho...Lost?

Is that a cliff-hanger or what? And now we have to wait eight frigging months?
Also...



Please not Juliet. Just when I was beginning to love the character to pieces.
Also, she appears to be the only one that Jacob did not visit, along with Benjamin Linus. (Yes, I'm a Juliet/Sawyer fan. Also a Bernard/Rose fan. The only two romantic relationships I've seen depicted on a sci-fantasy series that actually are healthy/supportive and work for the long-term.)

Jacob and Conrad or God and the Devil playing Chess in the book of Job - at least that's what came to mind. Seems Conrad finally found his loop-hole to kill Jacob, question is - will what Jack and his companions do in the past undo it all?

This thing can go down two ways - one they reset the dang clock and cause a parrallel universe or two they cause what actually happened.

Kudos to Miles for the best line of the night - "so, has it occurred to any of you that the bomb may actually set off the incident that you are attempting to avoid or change? That by setting off this bomb you may actually set everything in motion? And the best thing to have done would have been nothing at all? Glad to see you guys have thought this through."

So the writers deliberately tell us the two options. 1) they reset the button
2.) they kill everyone on the island and cause the events that happened in the future, ie the plane crash

We may be given a clue by the state that the statue is in - it is destroyed with just a foot. The question is when did it get destroyed? Not sure. May have been before the 1970s.

This season has been really good. Lots to ponder. And last night's episode rocked.

More thoughts later.

Comments

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Lost was awesome, even though a large part of the action hinged on people doing what always bugs me on Lost: listening to Jack. Also the whole love quadrangle is just painful. Oh and I hate Kate. That being said - loved it!

Overall, I'm pretty ambivalent when it comes to Kate and Jack.
Don't really feel much either way. If it had been Kate who died last night? I'd have shrugged. Jack? Same deal. (Dang, wish they killed Kate instead of Juliet...but I knew that would never happen.) The quadrangle was a tad annoying, since it is clear that if Sawyer had to choose? He'd pick Juliet in a heartbeat, unlike Kate, Juliet has always had his back and doesn't judge him. Juliet/Sawyer were the anti-Kate/Jack, hence her death, dang-it. Much more fun to torment us with more Sawyer/Kate/Jack action...ugh.

But, that said? At least it made sense they listened to Jack.
He's the "shepard" after all, so they follow him, with the possible exception of Rose/Bernard who are ignoring him. Poor Sawyer wanted to go against him. (Loved that fight).

I don't think they'll do a reset since that would mean wiping out the present day action on the island, but rather it will be like when Desmond blew up the Hatch and may knock the 1977 crowd back to the future. I'm hoping that might mean Juliet isn't dead but fear that isn't the case.

Agreed. I'm thinking that what they did in the past may release them back to the future. Juliet may end up in the future, wounded. But whatever they did also caused what happens in the future - ie. the plane crash, the button that requires pushing, etc. Which would be ironically amusing. Sayid and Jack creates Ben Linus by shooting him/refusing to operate. Jack causes the plane crash by blowing up the bomb in the past in the hopes of preventing it. Hee. Jack? It was your destiny to crash land a bunch of people on the island and by refusing to operate on Ben, cause him to become who he is. If you'd acted differently, life would be great.


The Locke/Jacob/Ben stuff was so exciting, though I am sad that Locke is dead dead. At least we'll get Not!Locke as the big bad. I wonder if Jacob's enemy is like the First on Buffy and can only take the form of dead people - he could be responsible for Christian Shepherd and Claire.

Agree!

Wonder if Conrad was the guy in the cabin that Lock and Ben visited, who sent everything flying around, and whispered "help me, Lock, help me". It would be ironic if the person Ben was listening to all this time, the one who visited him as his mother, was in fact Conrad. If smokey the monster and Conrad are linked? Sort of like the First, but more substantial and far more manipulative? Also not necessarily "evil"? Just not good?

Ugh. Eight months is far too long. Was thinking last night this is one of those shows, I almost wish I could just have rented or bought all the seasons on DVD.