Cabin Fever

Cabin fever? I've got LOST fever! This episode was so jam-packed, I have to warn, this may be lengthy.

Locke-centric, the flashback showed Locke from several stages of his pre island life: birth, age 5, age 16, and during rehab after Cooper pushed him out the window. The dominant themes in the FB (as well as in Locke's island scenes) were being chosen, and what kind of man he is.

Born prematurely, under the duress of his sixteen year old mother being hit by a car, in 1956, John's chances were not good. Indeed, the nurse later reports he had all sorts of infections and complications, and he fought through them. He is a fighter.

After Emily Locke makes it clear she can't fulfill the duties of a mother and runs screaming from the room, Mrs. Locke sees someone gazing in through the glass. It is revealed to be none other than Richard Alpert (yay)! She seems both to know him (although she claims not to) and to be surprised to see him. As fascinating as Alpert following Locke from birth is, the idea that he goes back even futher with his family is quite intriguing, to say the least.

Alpert shows up again in Locke's life when he is five, claiming to be interested in John for the school for "extremely special" people that he runs. He notices a picture John drew, which looks very much like Smokey attacking someone. He then administers a test of sorts, showing John several items: a baseball mitt, a vial with some sort of grayish material, a compass, a "Mystery Tales" comic book, a knife, and an old book entitled "Book of Laws". He asks young John which of the objects belongs to him...already.

It's not clear to me if the first two objects he picks up (vial and compass) are choices or whether he's considering them and then rejecting them. Either way, he then appears to consider the Book of Laws, which appears to make Richard happy, but then goes instead for the knife, which makes Richard look disappointed and angry. He tells John the knife isn't his, grabs the objects, and storms out.

He tries to contact John again when he's sixteen through Mittelos Laboratories, with his teacher giving him a brochure and telling John Mittelos is interested in him. John complains that science camp is why he gets stuffed into lockers. His teacher tells him he needs to be true to who he is.

This idea of who he's supposed to be is reinforced by injured Locke's encounter with Abaddon (?!?), who tells him to go on a walkabout to find out who he is.

Who is he? The scene with his teacher shows a new element of Locke. We've always thought of him as the man of faith, not science. Did he turn his back on his true talent? What of the scene with Richard's objects? Is he not supposed to be a hunter? And what would the Book of Laws have made him? Has Alpert or who he represents been waiting a long time for Locke to realize his true destiny?

Who does Richard represent? I assume the island, but then who does Abaddon represent? I have until now assumed he worked for Widmore. Why would Widmore want to influence Locke? Is it possible both factions knew he was key to the island, and both wanted to get him there, hoping they could then manipulate him to their own ends? What will Locke "owe" Abaddon?

I guess Alpert and Abaddon succeeded, although the latter seems to have the most direct role in getting him to the island: Locke's pursuit of the walkabout led to him being on Flight 815. Alpert also gave John help at a key moment on the island, when he gave him Sawyer's file in "The Brig". But John has not held true to his lab boy self, and he has obviously gone for knives in a big way. So why is he still the chosen one?

It would be easy to say the teacher was just wrong. Certainly, in the past, John's familiar outburst, "Don't tell me what I can't do!", has been vindicated. Richard's reaction to the test, however, reinforced the idea that he wasn't being true to himself. And yet, on the island, he has now apparently arrived as the knife-wielding, meat-bringing chosen one.

Which leads us to the scenes with Locke, Hurley and Ben on the way to Jacob's cabin.

These scenes seem to cement the idea that power is transitioning from Ben to Locke. Ben says, "I used to have dreams," after Locke reveals how he knows how to locate the cabin. More interesting is when Ben congratulates Locke on manipulating Hurley, and Locke denies doing so, saying, "I'm not you." Ben replies, intriguingly, "You're certainly not." What does that mean?

Of course the visit to the cabin is the culmination of all these events, where Locke is definitively told he is "chosen". By Christian. With Claire. In Jacob's cabin. I don't think I'm alone in saying, "WTF!?!"

Let's start with Christian.

First off, what is he wearing? No suit with gym shoes? Evene when Hurley saw him in the cabin he was wearing his usual garb. When did he switch to Others-chic? More importantly, what does it mean? And why was he shimmery, Jacob-style, when Hurley saw him, but not now?

But it's what he said that's more important than his outfit. He claims to speak on Jacob's behalf, and he apparently knows a lot about what's going on. He knows where Aaron "should" be, he knows Locke has been chosen, and he knows what they have to do.

I have long wondered whether Christian had a previous connection to the island, or whether his image is just being used by the island, since his corpse crashed there. The appearance to Hurley was one thing, but this was not equivocal. He appeared to be corporeal, he spoke, identified himself as Christian, all to someone who had no way of knowing who he was. This wasn't Dave appearing to Hurley, the horse appearing to Kate, or even Christian appearing to Jack and Claire. Now that he's clearly appearing to people who did not know him before, I can't help but think the real, living Christian had some connection to the island.

So why does he need to speak for Jacob? Where is Jacob? Was Jacob trapped and now he's not? And what's Claire doing? Why doesn't she seem to care about Aaron? Is she dead? (BTW, hats off to Emilie de Ravin, who did an incredible job seeming spooky while looking radiantly beautiful.)

Well, I'm going to leave it for now, so as not to explode my head (and I haven't even gotten to Horace or the Kahana, or really delved into the cabin). But I'll leave you with my favorite line of the night: Hurley with a serious look on his face, saying, "Yeah, I'm pretty much OK with you going in alone too." HAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Anyway, let's try to figure this out before Thursday, shall we?

Namaste

Something Nice Back Home

I love the ride that is LOST. This week's episode has been labelled filler by some, but I disagree. I think "SNBH" has many key points of interest, underlying the fact that it was just a damn good hour of TV.

Of course, it answered the question, "Is Danielle really dead," in the affirmative. Contrary to the reasoning that we were promised a Rouseau backstory, therefore she can't be dead, she seems quite indisputably to be so. Of course we know death on this show doesn't prevent characters from reappearing, but a Danielle-centric episode does seem out of the question now. I'm going to reserve judgment on this development for the time being.

As far as the flash forward goes, it was a good episode for Jaters, at least until the end. Beyond that we filled in some gaps.

We know that between the trial and the events of "Through the Looking Glass", Jack and Kate did try to make a go of it. One can only assume Jack's jealous outburst at the end is the reason for Kate's reluctance to see him in "TTLG".

We also saw Jack's daddy issues front and center, in his desperate plea, "Am I really good at this?" This sub-plot also provided an Alice in Wonderland reference, when Jack was reading to Aaron.

But more interesting about the FF was the conversation with Hurley and the appearance of Christian Shephard. Obviously, Charlie has appeared to Hurley several times since the events of "The Beginning of the End". And he seems to be working in concert with Christian. But more on that in a minute.

There was a "No Smoking" sign in the cell where Hurley saw the vision of Charley in "TBOTE". After Jack saw Christian, he explained his actions by saying the smoke detector was malfunctioning. These would seem to be references to the smoke monster, and would seem to lend credence to the theory that Smokey is behind the "manifestations", a theory to which I have always been lukewarm.

But I'm not sure that it matters. Smokey and the manifestations/apparitions are both acting on behalf of the island, or may even be "limbs" of the island, and that connection is probably the important thing. But it does remind me that Locke saw something different once. Maybe it's only the Smoke Monster when it's in revenge mode (or recon mode). Questions about parallels to Christian and/or Hindu trinities also reemerge.

But back to Christian. He's becoming more and more significant. To recap recent appearances, we saw him sitting in Jacob's cabin during Hurley's encounter in "TBOTE", and for those of us who watched the mobisodes, we saw him instruct Vincent to wake up Jack, saying, "He's got work to do." This would have taken place immediately before the first scene in the pilot episode.

So the question is, are ghost-Christian and ghost-Charlie at all themselves? Or are they just Smokey appearing to individuals in the most persuasive form? Christian refers to Jack as "my son" in the mobisode; what does Vincent care? Is this a clue?

But the biggest OMG moment for me was when Claire woke up to see Christian holding Aaron. This was a spooky scene, but it also I think provides an alternative to Claire dying. I for one never expected anything like that, so her death was the only way I could reconcile Aaron being with Kate. Now I can see another possibility, obviously.

Not that I have any idea why Christian took Claire and not Aaron, or why Claire let him. I would guess he's taking her to Jacob, but I don't know why.

More importantly, what does this have to do with the "raised by another" thread? Charlie's message to Jack is, "You're not supposed to raise him, Jack." But Kate is? The island seems responsible for separating Aaron and Claire. Why?

I suspect we'll learn more about this next week, and I can't wait. Before then I'll try to get a part two out, but until then let's hash!

The Shape of Things to Come, Part 2

OK, first off, I'm aware the last post was a little spacy. It was late at night, and I was tiredly trying to get something up. That's my excuse. I know, I had the whole weekend. What can I say?

Anyway, on to the rest of the discussion.

Let's take a minute to grieve for Alex. She was a sweet kid who helped out the Losties numerous times, and she had a horrible final hour.

This scene was high drama in the best LOST fashion, and Michael Emerson, as always, was sublime. If you didn't have sympathy for Ben before then (see last post), you must have felt something for him there. Even if he appeared to be acting recklessly and selfishly, he still obviously did not expect Keamy to actually shoot Alex. It clearly wounded and shocked him, and he apparently did have reason to believe she was safe, due to...

The Rules!! What are the rules? Why are there rules? Games have been a big theme in LOST, and chess lingo and Risk both make an appearance in this episode. Are Ben and Widmore playing a real life chess and/or Risk game? Is it Mob rules (no family members)? In this case, family seems to be the relevant rule, but are there more? Why can't Ben kill Widmore?

There are many rational reasons for their struggle over the island, especially Widmore's greed and desire to exploit the island, and Ben's desire to protect it (at least, that's how I'm leaning). I'm not sure how an actual "game" with agreed upon rules fits in with those motives. Is it Trading Places? Did they bet a dollar on whether or not a bunch of people "lost" in their lives could find redemption if brought to the island? Are they simply doing everything possible to win, short of (at least, previously) harming family members? I can't believe that the stakes are not more real than that. Besides, Ben doesn't appear to be trying to get people to redeem themselves; he's already made up his mind (or allowed Jacob to tell him) who's good or bad.

In Widmore's bedroom, Widmore says to Ben, "All you have, you took from me." Obviously, he means the island, its resources, the Dharma facilities, and whatever Ben has been able to gain with them. Of course, we've known of a Widmore/Hanso connection, but I believe this is the first relatively direct evidence we have that Widmore was ultimately the one against whom Ben rebelled in the Purge.

It's hard to reconcile the Widmore we know with the hippie/Dharmic do-goodism of the DeGroots, but what if Widmore somehow learned about the island from a history of the Black Rock, figured out the DeGroots knew how to find it, tracked down a descendant of Magnus Hanso (Alvar), had him set up a front company through which Widmore channeled the funds for the Dharma Initiative, with the ultimate goal of acquiring the island for himself? But he didn't count on immortal Black Rock survivors who would find a kinship in a young Dharma boy, who would steal the island out from under his nose? Crazy? Or is it so sane you just BLEW your mind?

But back to the rules. Ben's first action after his daughter is killed, preceded by the statement "he changed the rules" was to, apparently, release Smokey. It seems like it might have been prudent to do that earlier, and the fact that it took a deep, personal tragedy coupled with a feeling of betrayal to instigate this action leads me think that may have been against the rules also. But why? (Have you noticed how many of my sentences end in question marks?)

Of course, the very fact that he apparently at least had the means to summon the monster was a big reveal. Did he lie when Locke asked him what it was and he said he didn't know? Or does he really have no idea what it is, he just knows how to call it? The secret door has hieroglyphs (highlighted here) for which DocArzt has provided a translation. Here's the whole description on DarkUFO.

Well, even though there is so much more to talk about, I think I'm going to have to leave it there for now. Maybe I'll squeeze one more in before this week's episode.

Again, thanks for reading!

Namaste

The Shape of Things to Come

Wow. That was a jam-packed episode. It's taken a few days for me to assimilate it all, but I think I'm finally ready to unpack "The Shape of Things to Come". Let's give it a shot.

Of course, this episode was Ben-centric, and I think it gave us a lot more information about him more than the average episode reveals about its "flasher" (as in -forward, -back, etc...)

Much in the same way Darth Vader is the clear villain of the original Star Wars trilogy, but becomes the protagonist when viewed over all six films, so I think Ben will become more sympathetic and less villainous from here on out. (The comparison ends there, because (I believe) Ben actually has a cause which will likely turn out not just to be good, but essential. Anakin succumbed to evil, without a significant mitigator.)

Many LOST fans still regard him as evil, but I myself have never believed he was a pure villain. From the moment he first uttered the words, "We're the good guys", I figured there was something to that. He's obviously human (his possessiveness of Juliet, eg), but I believe he's on the right side, and Widmore is on the wrong side. TPTB will probably make a fool out of me, but that's my reading as of now.

Of Ben's many actions, interactions, and settings this epi, we may as well start with something that wasn't that big of a surprise. Namely that Ben is multi-lingual, and that he can kick ass! Seriously, did he not exhibit pwnage in the desert with the two Bedouins?

That was fun, but more important is how he got there. I don't think it's any stretch to say time-travel was involved, since he had to ask what year it was. The Dharma parka he was wearing had two notable aspects (other than the fact it didn't belong in the desert): it bore a specific logo as yet unseen, as well as the name Halliwax. Check it out. And here's a close up of the logo.

Now, for those of you who still haven't seen the Orchid film, now would be a good time to do so. I'll wait.

OK, so now we all know that (Edgar) Halliwax is the "name" of our favorite atmospheric lighting scientist (Marvin Candle, Mark Wickman, Edgar Halliwax...lolz) for the purposes of the Orchid Station's orientation film. And we also all now know that the Orchid has something to do with time travel. So.

What does this mean? When is he leaving for these trips? Is it close to current island time? My guess is, yes. Maybe this is part of what Jacob's instructions are to be? Too soon to tell, but we know he goes to 2005, a year and a month from the time of the plane crash. He's either going into the future from close to "CIT", or he's going into the past from a reasonably distant future point.

My money's on the former, because we've been told by Ms Hawkings as well as Faraday that you can't change the past. Of course TPTB's rules have been shown to be somewhat flexible. Nevertheless, I suspect we'll see the beginning of his journey before the season's out.

Questions like, "Why is he wearing Halliwax's jacket?", and, "Why did he wear a a parka at all for a trip to the Sahara?" are not readily answerable at this time, but it's worth remembering both the polar bear skeleton in Tunisia, and the Arctic station (or was it Antarctic?) from the end of season two. Did he detour through polar bear habitat? And what happened to his arm?

I think this portion of Ben's activities poses the most new questions; let's go nuts in the comment section! As for the rest, I had originally planned on a comprehensive single post, given my tardiness. But it's late and I have to work in the morning! So Alex, Sayid, Smokie and Widmore will have to wait until tomorrow. I promise I'll come through!

Thanks for wading through my ramble! Until tomorrow,

Namaste

Meet Kevin Johnson

Well, Michael as the mole might not have been a surprise to the hardcore fans, but "Meet Kevin Johnson" was a fantastic "missing pieces" type of flashback that answered the much harder question, "what happened to Michael between leaving the island and meeting Sayid and Desmond on the freighter?" Of course we still don't know how they were rescued, but that may just not be significant. Clearly, what happened to Michael after he got back is.

Distraught over what he's done, he confides in Walt, who subsequently wants nothing to do with him. This drives him into a deeper depression, leading to his suicide attempts. These suicide attempts lead to two reunions of sorts: Libby and Tom.

Libby is an interesting case, especially the first time, in the hospital, because it could easily be explained as a guilt induced dream. The fact that he sees and hears her again when he's wide awake on the freighter leads me to believe that even if he was asleep or unconscious in the hospital, the vision was still "sent" by whatever force was at work during the freighter appearance.

But what is that force? Now, I have generally assumed that the apparitions are working for the good of the island, or maybe even manifestations of the island itself, but for the time being, I'm going to assume that not all "apparitions" are on the same side nor from the same source. Libby says, "Don't do it, Michael," when she appears on the freighter. If she is speaking on behalf of the island, that means that the freighties are the good guys, and Ben the bad guy, right?

Ben might be selfish and possessive, but I don't believe he wants any harm to come to the island. It's also very difficult to believe that Widmore wants anything other than to exploit the island. So for whom is "Libby" speaking, and why does that entity not want Michael to set off the bomb?

The question of who is the good guy, Ben or Widmore, has been hotly debated for a while now, and of course TPTB are deliberately keeping us guessing. We now have the two sides explicitly blaming the other for the freckage. Who to believe?

In "Ji Yeon", Captain Gault tells Sayid and Desmond that Ben is responsible for the freckage, and the fact of the 324 dead bodies that were necessary is part of why they want to talk to him.

This doesn't ring true to me, for a couple of reasons. One, Widmore definitely does not strike me as a humanitarian. I doubt he cares about people being killed or dug up. And even if he does, why is it his business to track down the perpetrator?

On the other hand, can Tom be believed? He at least has documents to back up his claim that Widmore is behind the freckage, but a picture of excavated graves proves nothing, and the purchase order for the plane could easily have been faked by people with the Others' resources.

The bottom line is they both have the same motivation: keeping other people from finding the island. However, I am still more likely to believe Ben over Widmore. Ben has demonstrated some sense of morality, whereas Widmore hasn't.

Miles also didn't deny that the orders were to capture Ben and kill everyone else. Even Daniel, the most trustworthy of the freighties, has indicated that rescue of the Losties is not part of the plan. If the 815 survivors are not worthy of saving, or even keeping alive, then why would Widmore care where the bodies on the freckage come from?

I think at this point, Ben is more trustworthy than the freighter folk, excepting Ben's "innocent people", which I'm guessing includes Daniel and Frank. Therefore, for the time being, I'm going with the freckage being planted by Widmore, although the "trustworthiness" of Ben doesn't really disprove that he was behind it. However, we are supposed to know for sure by the end of the season!

This leads me back to Libby. Why does she say, "Don't do it"? Is it possible that her appearance on the freighter is just a guilt induced hallucination? Some people have reported hearing the whispers right before her appearance. I've watched it twice, and I don't think you can really hear whispers, which as far as I'm concerned would prove a relationship to the other apparitions. You do however hear the Mama Cass song that was playing on Michael's car radio when he crashed.

I think it makes more sense that she is an apparition, but I have no idea why she tries to dissuade Michael.

In other news, we finally get confirmation that Tom "Kate, you're not my type" Friendly is the gay character TPTB told us about. Not that important, but definitive answers are hard to come by on this show. ;-)

Also, the Temple is apparently another Dharma station? I guess (and I know I'm not alone) I originally thought the Temple was really a temple, not necessarily used as such by the Others, but maybe by the creators of the four-toed statue. But on the map, the spot is clearly marked with a Dharma logo, although the picture isn't clear enough to make out the station-specific picture, and I haven't seen any enhanced screencaps or anyhting to shed light on that particular detail. Nevertheless, it now seems like the Temple might be a sealed environment, safe from the gas that might have been released from the Tempest.

In the OMG department: They shot Danielle! Is she really dead? Carl, we don't care about so much. He seems nice enough, and we're sorry for Alex, and we'd like to know why he was in room 23 and what happened to him in there, but ultimately, not a central character.

Danielle, on the other hand, has always been kind of mysterious and definitely interesting, and we've always wanted to see her backstory. So far, dead characters have shown up as apparitions, in dreams, or in flashbacks, but none have ever been fleshed out any more than they already were when they died.

And yet, TPTB promised us a Danielle flashback. Were they lying? I suspect she's not really dead. We saw Carl's wound; we didn't see Rousseau's. That doesn't necessarily mean anything, but I have one word for you: Mikhail. How many times did he "die"? And what about Locke and his gunshot? We know the island heals, we also now know that it prevents the death of anyone with "work to do". (Locke, Jack, Michael, and maybe... Danielle?) And plus, we were promised a flashback! She can't be dead!

So anyway, we now enter the five week hiatus, during which we will have a lot to discuss and disseminate. So I'm going to leave it there for now, but as always,

Namaste!

Ji Yeon

Well, another great episode, some more twists, a dose of OMG moments, and of course, more questions.

New to this week's entry in the LOST canon was the mix of one character's (Sun's) flashforward with another's (Jin's) flashback. This seems to be in the pattern of new uses for this device this season (see Confirmed Dead). Observant viewers will have been tipped off first by Jin's ancient looking cell phone (much like Jack's Razr was a clue in "Through the Looking Glass") His behavior on the street certainly pointed to the old Jin, but the proof positive came when he told the nurse, "I've only been married for two months". Even the mention of Mr Paik had me wondering at first if he was off the island, back to working for his father-in-law, and therefore "unredeemed", as Sayid seems to be.

But the point, now that it's established, is what does it mean? There has to be a point, other than just to trick us (although that was cool). My first thought was to reintroduce Mr Paik (I still believe he is significant on roughly the Widmore level). But even that doesn't seem enough. Does it have something to do with why Jin is not among the O6? One would have to believe it does, but I confess, I don't what.

So let's talk about Jin apparently being dead. I say apparently, because, as many of you will have noticed, the date of death on the gravestone is 9/22/2004. (Here's a better close-up.) The date of the crash. In other words, a lie. So why say he died in the crash, when we know he didn't, and does this mean he's alive?

I think the date on the stone certainly is part of the lie that says 8 people survived the crash, 6 of those survived long enough to be rescued. Jin is obviously not among the six, and apparently not among the eight. I am one who assumes at least some who didn't make it off the island are still alive (the "they" in Charlie's "they need you" warning to Hurley). Presumably some or all of them have gravestones with the same date. So do we have any evidence Jin is alive or dead?

Unfortunately, there is some indirect evidence that he is really dead. On LOST, redemption is a strong theme, and it seems that when characters complete their redemption process, they die, like Charlie. While he's the best example of this, the same could be argued for Shannon, and maybe Boone. This could have been the point of the flashback, showing us the old Jin, threatening to rip someones head off for taking his cab, and the new Jin, who forgives his wife's affair, and even takes some responsibility.

It's depressing to think that characters who manage to find redemption are paid in death, and I'm not really sure that that is what's happening. It's just all I have to go on. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what happened to all the non O6ers.

On island we had the Jin/Sun/Juliet drama. It probably wouldn't have occurred to me to take the step Juliet did, no matter how much I thought they needed to stay, but I can't argue that it didn't work. Since apparently it didn't ruin Sun and Jin's marriage, I guess it worked out for the best. It was still cold.

Sun's flashforward was notable mostly at the end (save for Expose being on the TV at the beginning). Of course, there was the OMG graveside moment. But most mysterious to me was the almost throw-away line by Hurley when he comes to visit Sun. When informed no one else is coming, he says, "good!" Not in relief, I don't think (some have suggested he is feeling guilty and doesn't want to see Jack). At first I couldn't help feeling he had designs on Sun. That really didn't seem to be it, either, so what was it?

I guess the main other thing to address is the identities of the O6. According TPTB, we were supposed to know by the end of this episode. Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, and now Sun can be counted for sure. But who is the sixth? The only real possibilities, by any stretch, are Aaron, Ben, or Michael. It's obviously not Jin, Juliet, or Desmond.

I assume the O6 are comprised (at least nominally) of people from the manifest. Most of the above don't really fit this, but as I've pointed out before, either Michael or Ben could be using a false name. In fact, we know they both are. Kevin Johnson, however, is almost certainly not taken from an 815 passenger; it wouldn't be a good move for a spy in Michael's particular position. Ben obviously has plenty of identities at hand; why would he risk pretending to be from 815?

Even though Aaron wasn't on the manifest, it would be realistic to expect him to be born prior to rescue (always depending on what the stated timeline turns out to be, and who his mother is supposed to be), and it seems like he would naturally be included in the survivor count.

Of course, there are just too many holes right now to draw good conclusions about a lot of this stuff, and as far as the O6 goes, I'm basing my belief that Aaron is counted on Cuseloff's statement that we would know by now. If they're messing with us, all bets are off. But for the time being, that's my list and I'm sticking to it!

OK, I think that's all I have for now. Contrary to previous statements, they will be showing Episode 4x08 next week. Then a long wait till Apr 24. But hey, at least we're getting a (mostly) complete season! Yay!

Namaste!

Blog Changes

As you may have noticed, I added a LOST widget from ABC.com. It consists of short video clips of various kinds, including previews, recaps, and vidcasts. Navigation is easy: simply roll over the widget to show skip and play/pause controls. The first clip is the main promo for the upcoming show, the next two clips show important scenes/excerpts from the most recent episode, one the flashback/forward, the other the real time events. A couple more previews, and the most recent Official LOST Vidcast round it out (at least that's the case this week, it's new to me too).

Anyway, the preview is there if you want to see it (if you don't, just be ready to hit the skip forward button), but the recap clips are great for reviewing scenes. If you don't already subscribe to the Official LOST podcast, you might enjoy the vidcasts as well. It also has a nifty little countdown to next episode.

I added a poll, so please vote to tell me whether it's worthwhile or not (feel free to leave comments as well)! Of course, I know there's only about four people who read this, and only half of them watch the show the night it's broadcast, so it will take a while to be meaningful, but humor me! I'm trying to spice this thing up!

Thank you for your time,

Namaste!