Back to the future, or Season 1 rewatch

Wow, amazing! That could be considered an eastern egg?

Yesterday I saw the first 6 episodes of season one in a Lost Marathon on a spanish TV. It was about four years ago when I saw those episodes for the first (and last) time, and it was really amazing to see them with all the things I know about the plot.

The most amazing thing were the SOUNDS of the monster... They were the same creepy sounds! Nothing has changed, including those metallic "sub-sounds".

It was pretty funny to see how the plot has evolved... Sort of "Oh my God... A POLAR BEAR!".

I'm writing this assuming you've seen Season 2 and mobisodes. If not you might want to stop here. But it looks like Ethan went rogue on the Others. If you remember, when the Others watched the plane crash, Ben sent Ethan and Goodwin to investigate and told them to "listen, learn" but "don't get involved." Ethan blew the last part, and Tom scolded him in the medical hatch when he found Ethan there with Claire, and asked him, "What am I going to tell him?" meaning Ben. So Ethan appeared to be acting on his own when he took Claire and began treating her, without the Others' blessings. The mobisode revealed that Ethan had lost his wife and baby to the same island curse all the other women suffered. So that might have affected his loyalty to the Others and his judgment.

My take is Ethan was just misguided, and it cost him his life oddly because Charlie also acted on his own. Everyone else had agreed to take Ethan captive, but Charlie joined the capture in the middle and shot him out of revenge, so Jack and the rest were about as happy with Charlie as the Others were with Ethan.

The Mobisodes were a set of 10 or about 1 to 3 minute minifeatures that provided additional info or just a bit of "Lost" between Nov. 2007 and Feb. 2008. Here's the ABC site for them. Looks like they're still available for viewing.

thanks Mythic! Found them at Lostpedia!

Coincidence as in Michael is from Cedar Rapids (actually a small town near) or that Rebecca was away? Don't know, but I don't rule out too much to coincidence.

well, not to beat a dead horse (which sounds heinous, BTW)

I'm coming back here to talk a bit about Deus Ex Machina. I'm doing the LostRewatch thing, and this is one of the eps in the week ending July 5.

Well, This was always a sort of odd episode for me. I never really liked it much based on my understanding of the term, which dates to my Lit class in high schoo. I had a hard time making it fit. So I looked it up on the Merriam-Webster site and found this (bold texting is mine):



Now THAT helps explain things. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why Locke would send Boone up into the plane teetering precariously on the cliff's edge. Why not take a few moments, day or two even, to figure out how to bring it down and THEN look inside. Granted you could say it was people acting spontaneously without thinking, but Locke and Boone having been working secretly for weeks, being very sly about what they're doing and then all of sudden they go all Tweety Bird, and throw caution to the wind? I always had a problem with that.

I mean I got the idea that Locke losing his ability to use his legs might have been a sign from the island that he's going in the wrong direction, but he's still all ablaze about letting the island tell them what to do but then just carrying on oblivious. I suppose the flashbacks were a way of showing us that this is guy, in addition to be chosen by the island, is also part-bumble head. Which is maybe why he's chosen by the island.

I like that now in Season 5, we get the explanation via Locke that that business with the light coming on what just coincidence. The writers have been telling us all along not to mistake coincidence for fate. Still kind of a dumb ep though. But I suppose they had to move on to the next big thing: The Man in the Hatch.

Where did they get all that rope for the trebuchet? And how did he know it exerts a half a million pounds of force. As I read somewhere else, for a guy who never made it past Webelos, he sure is savvy about living off the land.

We learned from Desmond (in the season 2 finale) that he was sitting in the hatch getting ready to commit suicide when he heard Locke pounding on the hatch window (after Locke had brought Boone to Jack). Des realized he wasn't alone in the world and then went and turned on the light to show whoever was pounding that he was there too. Desmond said Locke saved his life so he in turn could save his by turning the failsafe key. If Locke had not pounded on the window, Des would have gone through with his suicide and the Swan would have imploded and ended the world. Definitely not coincidence that the light came on or that Locke was at the window to pound on it and plea with the island.


Locke was getting ready for a walk-about. He had taught himself everything about surviving alone on an island (Australia). We also saw how he played war games on his computer.