posted by Amy on March 6, 2009 at 03:40 PM in Pop Culture, Television
I am coming out of blogging hibernation because I am just bursting with (curiosity? frustration? annoyance? skepticism? joy?) about certain things that are not making sense to me on the show LOST.
Yes, I am one of those sheeple who have been completely duped and insist upon constantly blathering nonsense about smoke monsters and polar bears and some guy who never gets old and wears eyeliner, and NO, not those others, the OTHER others. In my defense, I did not watch the show from the beginning. I too was an eye-roller whenever any of the LOST-fans in my life began to squee about the most recent episode. I mean, come on, TV SUCKS.
But then on a Friday night, my husband and I, with the super awesome social lives that we have *snort* found ourselves at Blockbuster, glassy-eyed, wandering aimlessly up and down the aisles, drool beginning to ooze out the corner of our mouths. I don't know about you, but this is what going to Blockbuster does to me everytime, because it seems like as soon they get wind that I am on the way to the store, they hide all the good movies. Either that, or there are very few good movies in the world. (Discuss.) Anyway, we found ourselves in the TV shows aisle, and with the use of grunts and hand gestures, we decided to rent the first season of LOST just to see what the hubub was all about.
Life changed for me that night.
Ok, that is of course hyperbolic, but I doubt I can convey to you the magic and the wonder of those first few nights of watching LOST. I am not being ironic. My husband and I did spend the next few weeks watching 1 or 2 (or 2 or 4 or 7) episodes every night until we had caught up in time for the Season 4 premier. And that show, episode after episode, left us freaking speechless. Everytime you thought you understood the scope of the show, despite not really getting the details, you realized you were just looking through the wrong end of a telescope, and things got much HUGER. Despite being far-fetched (to say the least) and despite the cheesy dialogue and sometimes mediocre acting, compared to any other show I had ever seen, this show was just amazing.
Until lately. I mean, the first few episodes of Season 5 have been a mixed bag. The last 2 episodes I thought were finally back up to LOST standards, but I was getting worried. One of the worst things about this season so far? Eloise Hawking. Seriously, that actress drove me banana sandwich. She sounded like she was an amateur storyteller in a children's library. Which is weird, because I have seen her in other films (like a movie called THE OTHERS! *dun dun dun* Coincidence???? Probably.) and she was fine. Anyway, I have always had unanswered questions about the show, because DUH that is the nature of the show. However, I am starting to have questions that I am worried aren't just mysteries, questions that I am worried either won't get answered, or are perhaps mistakes. I don't know, I am obviously going to give the show the chance to play itself out. But, if any of you are LOST watchers and have any insight into these things, well, let me know.
My questions:
1. The Compass - where the heck did the compass that Richard Alpert gave to Locke come from? Because Richard Alpert gives it to Locke and tells him to show it to himself as some kind of proof. But then Locke gives it to Richard Alpert back in the past. Do you see the problem? It is a circle - the compass went from Alpert to Locke, but Alpert got it from Locke. WTH?!
2. Is the Island always moving? - Eloise Hawking tells the Losties that the Island is always moving, and that someone (Dharma I think) did research to find out how to find the Island by probability, and by building a huge pendulum apparently. She then tells the Losties that they have to get on flight 316 to be in the right place for one of these chances to find the Island. OK - well if that is the case, how in the world is it that Dharma and then later The Others were able to get on and off the Island with submarines on a regular basis?
3. Speaking of flight 316 - all that nonsense about recreating the circumstances as closely as possible just sounds stupid. Um, and impossible? Only a few of the Losties get on the plane, and then there are folks like Ben who don't belong on the plane. Why the crap would recreating the circumstances make any difference at all? Also, is that why Jack made the idiotic choice of wearing a suit and tie when he knew he was going to the Island?
4. How did Sayid and Hurley make it onto the plane? And why didn't they talk to each other on the plane about such obviously interesting and incredible circumstances? And what the heck did Kate do with Aaron, and why was Jack so quick to promise never to ask Kate about what she did with HIS NEPHEW?!
5. So if Sawyer, Jin, Daniel, Juliet and Miles are back with the Dharma Initiative, where is young Ben? Are they in a time before Ben got there? Also, how come babies can still be born? What is going to happen to change that?
6. What was it Sawyer asked Kate to do when she went home? Did she do it? (I am hoping this will get answered in the next episode now that the the love triangle, which is now a love square, is all back together.)
7. And then the various unanswered questions from the whole show: Where did the Others come from? Who or what is Jacob? Why doesn't Richard Alpert get old? What is the deal with The Numbers? Who were Adam and Eve? What is up with Walt and his special powers? Who are Ben and Widmore and what is the nature of their fight? What is the sickness, or did Rousseau imagine it? What is the Smoke Monster? Who kept dropping supplies on the Island? What is up with Miles psychic powers?
And one final question - WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON?
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