Ok, it has been a couple days now, so I will spare you any elaborate recap and just get to my thoughts on the episode.

I love the way the Sideways world is developing and this was a fantastic next step following the revealatory Desmond episode last week.  Libby and Hurley are the perfect characters to bridge this connection even further and illuminate things while still keeping an air of mystery around what is going on.

The film is also probably the funniest episode of the season so far as well with plenty of humor in both parts of the story.  I also like that Desmond is around still pushing the pieces and hope he stays in this role as the series winds down.  Also, how aware is Desmond of his Island exsistance, i say this as he said he had a soon named Charlie.

I wonder if the Libby reveal back in season 2 at Santa Rosa will some how play out as a sideways world connection.

Loved the scene at the well between Desmond and FLocke though I am having a hard time figuring out what the hell is going on with Desmond and if he has Widmore in his ear or is just trying to get his time with the Island over and done with so he can join Sideways world.

Where was Hugo’s dad though I wonder?  Will we even ever find out?

And what about Desmond running down Locke and Sideways world?  Retaliation for the well toss through the cosmos or is he trying to get him in “touch” with Jack at the hospital?

It was really nice to see Libby again, especially with Cynthia Watros doing such a fine job in the episode.

I do have a couple complaints on my mind though:

-Seriously, that’s it for Illana?  It was surprising that she blew up but not at all impactful because she didn’t do a whole lot.  I bet she comes back in some capacity.

-Also, stop splitting everyone up and can we please get more time with Sawyer we have had far to little after we got a lot of him in the beginning.  And things are just so scatter shot on who we will see each ep and for how long, character distribution just seems a bit out of balance this series and that is my biggest complaint of the season.

Ok, enough for now, see you next week with hopefully a more timely posting.

These videos might be a tad old in internet time, a week or so, but they are new to me and show off the considerable comedic range of both of the male leads, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul.  Enjoy!

Sense of Smell:

Weird: The Al Yankovich Story:

Pretty good, star studded stuff.

So, the Castaways have left the temple!  Sundown, the sixth episode of LOST’s final season, follows Sayid both on and off the Island and MIB/Flocke has made a huge play that has reshuffled the season for the run up to the end.

We will start off the island in the sideways world as usual with these recaps, and I pardon myself early for the brevity because I am a tad under the weather. (Or are you happy to have these shorter?)  Anyways, Sayid heads off to see his long lost love Nadia only to find that she has two kids with Sayid’s brother, Omer, and that Sayid and Nadia seem to have some how missed their chance at love.  Sayid soon finds out that Omer is in some financial trouble as he took a loan from some nasty folks who seem to be for blame the next day when Omer ends up in the hospital after being, “mugged”.  Sayid decides to stay out of his brothers affairs per the pressings of Nadia and his own desire to repent for his crimes in the Iraq war only to have trouble find him.  Picked up by a pair of hooligans, Sayid is taken to a restaurant to meet with the head honcho, a Mr. Keamy (our favorite freighter mercenary), which Sayid quickly flips the tables on them, killing the two guards and Keamy to find Jin locked up in the freezer of the restaurant they are in. Bullet Me:

-Now, this was the first sideways story to be more focused on setting up a multi episode story with than just looking at the castaway’s alternate lives.  I wonder if we will start seeing a more connected story from here on out or a mix of closed off stories and a running of these stories together.

-Sayid’s guilt is interesting here and even though he does fold to the killer inside him at the end, I think that is was more in the interest of protecting Nadia and the kids than a bloodlust that comes out of him in the other timeline.

-I like how Keamy is bad in both universes as well; he fits so well into these gangster shoes though.  Hopefully we get more of him in the Jin episode down the line.

Not much else going on in the sideways world, but it was a solid entry again for the sideways universe and it seems like it is signaling a change in how these parts of the episodes will be handled from here on out and start connecting them on more than simple encounters.

ON TO THE ISLAND!

So, Jack and Hurley are stuck up at the lighthouse and are MIA this episode but pretty much everyone else is on hand at the temple for the Man in Black’s arrival and he has a bunch of messages for the local Others.  After Dogan and Sayid rough it up in a kung fu fight, MIB sends Claire into the temple to request Dogan’s presence outside the island.  Dogan doesn’t bite, suspecting the MIB will kill him if he leaves the temple, and sends Sayid with instructions to stab the MIB on sight.  MIB takes the stabbing without a hitch and hands Sayid his sword back, calmly explaining to him that Dogan was hoping that he (the MIB) would kill Sayid, and hence trying to get someone else to kill Sayid again.  MIB offers Sayid a chance to have the one thing he always wanted, even if she is dead, if he delivers a message to the Temple.  The message is this, anyone who leaves before sundown is now free, as Jacob is dead, and anyone else left inside will die.  In the meantime, Kate worked her way back into Temple was surprised to find Claire and told her that she took Aaron off the island.  Sayid pays a visit to Dogan after delivering his message for MIB and after a sorrow confession of his past Sayid drowns Dogan in the healing pool and slits Lennon’s throat when he confronts Sayid over his murder.  Then all hell breaks lose as Smokey comes busting in, Lennon said Dogan was the only thing keeping MIB out, and every other that didn’t leave, and a lot left, end up dead.  In the mayhem Ben, Ilana, Sun, and Lapidus show up on grab Miles, heading out of the temple the same way Jack and Hurley did leaving Kate behind with Claire and a gleefully sadistic looking Sayid as they join Flocke and his new following of Others into the jungle.

-Sayid has officially lost it, what ever Flocke told him/or showed him hit home as he scared the shit out of Ben in a brief encounter as he sat looking at his victims in the healing pool, creepy.

-Poor Dogan and Lennon, I don’t want them to go, especially Dogan.

-The show seems to be done with the Temple and we are heading back into the jungle with Flocke and I have no idea what is going to happen next.

-Kate is in quite the tight spot now that Claire knows the truth about Aaron, and what will be the repercussions of Jin lying about Aaron when Flocke and his flock get back to wherever Jin and Sawyer are being held/hiding.

-What is up with The Others being such followers by the way?  They joined the entourage of the perceived evil MIB in quite a hurry.

-Really, Dogan and Lennon are gone? So sad.

-This was another solid episode on the Island and I can’t wait to see what MIB shows us next.

-I am happy Miles got so more face time, but we need to get through these original castaway episodes so we can get more info on some of the great peripheral characters still hanging out on the Island, i.e. Ben.

Ok, I am sick and tired, time to wrap this up.  Not a whole lot of reveals this week but it has pushed the show out of set up mode and we will probably be firmly on our in a classic Lost sprint to the finale as soon as next week.  And it looks like a Ben episode!, show it to me.

Till next time.

So TV Guide is reporting that Terry O’ Quinn (Locke) is shopping around a new series post-Lost that will co-star Michael Emerson (Ben) that would revolve around the two as a pair of hitman that are dealing with family problems on the side. This sound brilliant and you can get the full scoop over at TV Guide.

But lets get the word out on this and hopefully J.J. Abrams helps bring this to fruition.

The Lighthouse, episode 5 of the final season of Lost was not up to par with last week but it was another affective sideways story, this time for Jack, and put a lot of pieces in place for next week, and the season, where it looks like things might finally get a little crazy.

First we will take a look at the sideways world, which takes place two days after 815 landed and follows Jack as he picks up his son(!), David, who is a teenager and we quickly find out the two don’t have the greatest relationship and that they rarely see each other as part of the separation.  Now, we don’t ever see whose Jack wife was in this universe since Julie Bowen was nowhere to be found and we will have to wait and see I guess to see if Jack’s romantic life followed a similar path in this universe.  After helping his mom find his fathers will, whose body is still MIA, the two discover the existence of Claire and Jack returns home to find David gone and Jack goes on the hunt to find him at his mother’s house.  Upon playing David’s message machine we discover that he has a recital that night for a music school and that Jack had been looking to reconnect with him since the loss of his own father.  Jack heads to the recital just in time to catch David play wonderfully and bump into an off island, Dogan (our favorite Asian Other), whose son is also performing at the recital.  Jack gets David to admit that he is afraid to fail in his father’s eye and Jack lets him know that he can’t ever fail and that he will always love him, rekindling their estranged relationship.  Some bullets:

-Jack had a weird moment in the beginning where he didn’t seem to remember getting his appendix taken out, noticing the scar in the mirror.  I thought this was going to be our first major clue towards the two worlds connecting, but Jack’s mom said reminded him that he had it taken out as a child, which he didn’t really seem to buy.  If there is more to this, that is to be determined.

-You have to think that not showing David’s mother was intentional, but I remember the producers saying they weren’t able to get one person back to the show they would have liked to, was this Bowen? Will she show up later or did Jack marry someone else different? Again, TBD.

-This was another satisfying sideways story if you ask me and it was nice to see Jack being to avoid the sins of his father and not follow his path like he does in the established universe.

-Dogan showing up continues a streak of a non 815 islanders showing up in every episode so far and I still have no idea if this will end up meaning anything.

Ok, on to the island.  Jack lets Sayid in on that fact that the Others want him dead and that what they think is happening to him, happened to Claire.  Meanwhile, Hurley runs into Jacob’s ghost again and he instructs Hurley with a list of things to do, and that he needs to do it with Jack.  After a bit of convincing, Jack and Hurley head off to an unknown destination through a secret exit of the Temple and run into Kate along the way.  Kate is on the hunt for Claire, maybe heading back to the beach, and shows no interest to join the two of them on their little adventure.  What Kate doesn’t know is that Claire is firmly entrenched in the jungle, mending a rescued from a bear trap Jin and holding Justin, the surviving Other when we last left Jin and Claire, captive and threatening him for the location of Aaron.  Justin tries to convince Jin to untie him so he can kill Claire who claims she isn’t alone, spending time with her “friend” and her father.  Jin chooses to trust Claire though begins to doubt the crazy eyed Claire when she starts threatening Justin’s life if he doesn’t give up the location of Aaron.  Jin, in an attempt to save Justin, tells Claire that Kate “took” Aaron and raised him off the Island which gives her a distressed pause before plunging an axe into Justin’s gut.  Claire steps out to get some air and when she comes back in she asks why Jin would ever say Kate took Aaron?  Jin, who is now terrified of his fellow castaway, takes back what he said about Kate and says he has seen Aaron at the Temple and that the Others have him.  Claire lets us know that this is good news for Kate, as she would kill her if she were to have taken her baby and then FLocke/Man In Black shows up and Claire introduces him as her friend.  Meanwhile, Jack and Hurley continue their trek down sentimental lane and stop by the caves from Season 1 and reintroduce us to the Adam and Eve skeletons.  The two then shoot the shit, Hurley reminiscing how this is just like old times, before reaching their destination, a lighthouse, that Hurley is supposed to use to help guide someone coming to the island per Jacob.  Upon reaching the top, Jack discovers that there are names written on every degree and they line up with the numbers in the cave and are crossed out all the same as well.  As Hurley tries to set the mirror into position, Jack begins to see images in the mirrors as it moves and he forces Hurley to move the mirrors to degree 23 – Shepard.  After it is in place, Jack and Hurley see Jack’s childhood/parents house and beings to push Hurley to ask Jacob why he knows about this, why he is manipulating him.  Hurley is unable to help Jack since Jacob is nowhere to be seen which leads Jack to destroy the mirrors and huff off by himself.  Jacob then shows up again to Hurley, saying this is what Jack needed, and wasn’t to bummed that they didn’t set the lighthouse properly.  He also lets Hurley know that he has also successfully moved them away from the Temple which is no longer safe as a bad man (MIB) is heading that way.  Some bullets:

-The trek up to the lighthouse yielded very few tidbits and seemed a tad too trip down memory lane if you ask me, but at least Hurley was funny and I am sure the things they are alluding to will come back into play

-Hurley was great in all of his scenes, with some great humor, and bouncing off Jacob extremely well.

-Claire is bat shit crazy now and I don’t know what to take from her, Jin was right to be scared, but this story didn’t do a whole lot to move things forward, just more or less set some pieces for the coming battle

-I wonder if Sawyer is going to be outside Claire’s tent with Flocke and I wonder if Jin’s flip flop will hold up after Sawyer and Jin start talking about Kate?

-Now that there are two spots on the Island that have the names and numbers, who’s is whose place? In meaning between the lighthouse and the cave do the MIB and Jacob consider one of them their lairs, do they share them?

-Who is coming to the island? Desmond? Widmore? And is anyone really coming or was that all talk to get Hurley and Jack up there?  Jacob seemed to allude sincerely that someone is coming in the end.

-If the mission to the lighthouse was to be successfully carried out, why 108 degrees?  And does this mean that they started with 360 candidates and are now down to the 5 left in the cave and on the compass?

-Dogan didn’t not seem happy when Hurley pulled the candidate card and I really won’t to know why this made Dogan give up so easily; isn’t he supposed to protect the candidates?

-Also, what do you think is going through Jack’s head looking out onto the ocean?

-51 Austen is not crossed out at the Lighthouse?  What does that mean?

And with next week it looks like all of our stories will collide.  Ben, Sun, and company will probably show up to the Temple early in the episode, can’t wait to see Ben and Dogan interact!, followed by Richard Alpert, and then Smokey and company.  Will we get our Jin/Sun reunion?  Will Kate get caught in the mix? And will Hurley and Jack make there way back in time to help/save people or will they be there for only the aftermath.  Until then, happy thinking!

And make sure to tune in every Friday night on HBO!  Your life will be a bit brighter now that Karl Pilkington is in it.
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So true. And it is Ok to use the word retard because it is on a satirical program.
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I like this, its true in every way. Samberg rocks here by the way.
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Ok, so maybe it’s just the new digital short on SNL, but it is fantastic!
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Laser Cats 5!!!