Lost: Whatever Happened, Happened

Tonight's episode made up for last week's Sayid is a killer episode. If you haven't watched this one yet, please stop reading now. Initial thoughts:

1. Poor Kate. Sawyer is in love with Juliet, Jack has become the man of no action, and the only available bachelor who is interested in her is Roger Linus. Ew...but it would be interesting to see what kind of step mommy she would be to Ben.

2. I loved the scene between Hurley and Miles. I think this was the writers way of explaining what is going on before we all get too frustrated. Not sure it helped. So, the past and future already happened, but when Ben turned the wheel, 1977 is their new present. "This isn't a straight line for us anymore." When Hurley tells Miles this is all confusing, he says, "Well, get used to it." O.K. writers, I will try to get used to this, but please don't start people fading away.

3. We found out what Sawyer told Kate in the helicopter, to take care of Clementine. I thought Kate was going to leave Aaron with Cassidy, which I thought was a bad idea. She seems like a bitchy friend that always makes you feel bad. Plus, two women cannot be friends if they have slept with the same man.

4. I'm glad the old Kate is back even though she is checking out Ben's Dad. I thought she was coming back to the island for Sawyer, but we learned tonight that she wants to find Claire.

5. I don't like the new laid back Jack. "Maybe the island just wants to fix things itself...maybe I was just getting in the way." So, he refuses to save Ben, tells Kate she didn't like the old him, and makes Juliet mad while he is naked. His reason for returning? Because he was supposed to, but he is not sure what he is supposed to do. So for now, he is going to be a janitor and make sandwiches.

6. Kate and Sawyer take Ben into the jungle to meet the Others and Sawyer tells Kate he wasn't fit to be a boyfriend or a father. He tells her he is helping Ben for Juliet and Kate seems annoyed. I know some of you like Sawyer and Juliet as a couple, but I don't. Sawyer should be with Kate and Juliet should date Ben's Dad. I'm not sure who Jack should be with yet, but the love triangle/quadrangle story is getting old.

7. They find Richard with a new shirt on, and he tells them if he takes Ben, he will never be the same, he won't remember what has happened (how convenient), he will lose his innocence, and he will always be one of us. He takes Ben into the secret temple...probably to do some ritual with the smoke monster and make Ben evil. I'm curious if Ben returns to Dharma after this and if Jack would have just saved him, would he have in turn saved everyone from Ben's evil deeds? Is he going to come back like the cat or Gabe in Pet Sematary; a little off?

8. Ellie and Charles are in charge of the Others at this point, but Richard says he doesn't answer to them. Does Ben become the spoiled child of the island and Ellie and Charles tolerate him because they have to? She seemed to have a poor opinion of him when they were back on the main land in the church, like he was an annoying fly.

9. At the end it seems just as Richard is saving Ben, the older Ben wakes up to see Locke, who welcomes him back to the land of the living.

10. Next week Ben tells Locke he returned to the island to be judged because he broke the rules. It appears he is going to release the smoke monster and see if it's his time to be punished. I hope Ben stays on the show, it won't be the same without him. There are flashes of Ilana hitting Frank with a gun, Ben tripping on old rocks, Ben threatening Russo, and Ben on a pier with a gun...please not Penelope!

I was going to put together a little Lost giveaway for the season finale, a package to survive without Lost for the Summer. To enter, you have to answer three questions. If you get all three questions right and no one else does, you win. If there is a tie for questions answered (or no one gets it right), then I will put your names in a hat and pick the winner. You have until April 15th to enter -

1. What is the incident?
2. Who will die?
3. Who will Sawyer be kissing at the season finale?

The title of the season finale this year is "The Incident." The incident was mentioned in one of the orientation videos - it happened soon after experiments began at the Swan. It is the reason for the button pushing. The big mystery is what is the incident? Did the Losties try to return? Did Ben try to set the island on fire? Did Jack walk away from a burning building because he couldn't be bothered? Did Daniel lean down to look in a Swan hole and his tie was sucked into a time vortex? So, question #1 is your version of what happens.

Comments

[kristin]

there is no. way. i can answer these.

i read these posts like cliff's notes for lost.

i think i need to spend the summer watching the first seasons instead of asking my husband, "should i know who that is?"

[Alexis]

I'm going to think about those questions for a while, but as for number three, it had better be Kate, because they have such good chemistry and I don't believe that he is really in love with Juliet!

Were you the one who told me about Hurley's blog? It's so delightful!

[Rebecca]

Ben does go back to Dharmaville, remember he's older when he gasses everyone out & kills his dad. I blame Jack for Ben being Ben because he didn't do the surgery.

I'll give the questions my best shot - what a fun idea!

1. the 815ers disappearing
2. Hurley (I hope I'm wrong!)
3. I don't like Kate so I hope she's kissing Roger LOL. Sawyer should be kissing Juliet but if it can't be her then Hurley, but not in a manlove kind of way. They're BFF's

[Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom]

Can I just say, you were pretty much dead-on with your prediction last week about Juliet saying that they hadn't needed saving?? That made me laugh. :P

I'm excited about your giveaway! Very fun... Only I'm mildly confused about what you mean by "the incident" -- did somebody refer to this in the episode and I just didn't catch it? It seems like Lost is a succession of "incidents", lol, so I wasn't sure. Let me know and then I'll give my best guesses!

Do you really hate Juliet so much that you want to stick Ben's dad on her? I don't care what "soft side" we saw of him this week... he's such a jerk, I wouldn't wish him on anybody...

[Anne]

Sarah,
How can we deny love to Roger Linus? Maybe he has a super sexy body?

I don't hate Juliet, but she is an Other...

Alexis - Tracey from Paper Dolls for Boys was the one who sent me the link for Hurley's blog - it is a fun place to visit.

[Rina]

My answers (and PS I love your Lost recaps):

1. The incident was a leak at the Swan; the button must be pushed because the electromagnetic charge builds up before it gets too big.

2. JULIET. At least I frickin' hope so.

3. KATE. Again, I really hope so. She and Sawyer are perfect for eachother. Jack is annoying, LOL.

[Jen]

I enjoyed reading your comments on the latest episode. Reading blogs about the latest episode has become one of my favorite Thursday evening rituals! Ok here are my guesses to your questions.

1. Someone sets that bomb off that was buried in an earlier episode when they were back in the 50's.
2. Miles
3. Kate (although I am in the minority here and actually like Juliet and Sawyer together)

[Anne]

A friend of mine came up with an interesting theory about next week...what if the island is evil and Ben is being judged for doing good - helping the Losties return, um, um, and other stuff. She thought the island was hell and Ben had sold his soul, if you are good, you leave the island if not, you are allowed to remain. So maybe Ben has to prove that he deserves to stay?

[Lenetta]

1) They buried the bomb but it continued to leak and they had to re-contain it somehow.

2) All the Dharma people.

3) Yeah, probably Kate.

Fun! I was really happy to stumble across RIMD's Lost posts - I always need a debriefing after Lost and the message boards take too much time. Thanks!

[Ashley B.]

I thought Kate would leave Aaron with Cassidy too! And I was super close to bawling when she finally left Aaron to come back.

I'm horrible with predictions. But I totally have a feeling about who's going to die. Hubby and I debate about it all the time.

[Tracy]

I don't know how I'm going to make it through the summer without LOST. Geez, I don't think I can answer those either, with any accuracy whatsoever.

1. the incident.... I guess some kind of electromagnetic burst, maybe caused by someone turning the wheel, or maybe because those two rabbits got near each other in the Orchid that time. maybe that was the incident?

2. I think Miles is a good bet. He's disposable. oooh, or Sun. No, Sun needs to reunite with Jin.

3. eeney meeney miney mo... Kate or Juliet. I think Kate.

[Hope]

I love reading your recaps!

1. The incident occurs when the losties try to return to present time.

2. Sayid

3. Juliet, but I really hope it's Kate :)

[Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom]

Ok, answers:

1. The incident is something that blows the cover for Sawyer, Juliet and the rest with the Dharma-ites, right as Ilana and her cohorts attempt to attack the settlement, having discovered their objective at the bottom of the statue and trying to get to the submarine to return to Widmore.

2. Ilana dies, as does Horace & Amy... leaving young Ben holding little Ethan and becoming his protector.

3. Kate tries to throw herself at Sawyer in a last-ditch effort to get him back, but he rushes to save Juliet and kisses her as they reach safety moments before the episode ends.

And we're left with a cliffhanger, freaking out that we have to make it through another six months or whatever with no Lost... :P So curious to see what really happens lol... very fun!

[Sarah Eliza @ devastateboredom]

Ok, I just noticed the additional paragraph talking about what might be "the incident"... are we assuming that the incident happens during the building of the Swan? Because right now its still the theoretical model that the hyper dude was stressed out about Sayid seeing / knowing about, right?

Hmmm that makes me curious how much time will pass in the chronology of the Dharma Losties before the end of the season... I guess the incident could totally be them hitting some kind of energy source during the construction of the Swan that from then on needed to be "vented" with the button... intriguing!