my observations... poor Lars and Hans...

Hi ya'll! Been a long time...

Anywho, Sam, I agree very much just as does Walead with your observations... you've mostly said it all...

Walead, who's this Annie person that Ben's related to? I don't recall this plot line...

I must say it was an overall very satisfying ending to the season (even tho the liars at ABC didn't include ANY new footage to the first of the 3 hrs after they advertised it as so). The reveal was a little weak for me tho... Locke being Bentham?

I think it was really smart to have two improtant relationship milestones occur. The reconciliatory 'chance' meeting of Penny and Desmond, and the last moments of Jin and Sun... they both were very moving moments that played with the strenght of love. So amazing!

Ummm.... what the hell is up with Ben? He is SOOOO damn selfish! IT'S INSANITY! "So" was his reply to Locke's comment on the boat being full of innocent people about to die!!! Damn... he's still got the creepies.

click to see smokey, he's from Newark...

Anywho, on a last note, Please to enjoy Smokey Didas, on a never-before seen interview on his perspective on the island an its newest arrivals... hehe watch it to the end and enjoy!

Gouge away

I was very excited to hear one of my favorite Pixies songs in the episode, "Gouge Away." Jack is listening to it as he drives to the funeral parlor, all drunk and upset-like.

"Gouge Away" re-tells the Biblical story of Samson, who was the strongest warrior of the Israelites but was betrayed by the woman he loved and delivered into the hands of the enemy. Ultimately, Samson saves his people by killing himself - pulling down the pillars of the Philistine's palace, killing their king and all his warriors.

I'd like to believe that this is foreshadowing - that ultimately Jack will follow a similar course of action - that the only way he'll be able to redeem himself (having already refused several shots at redemption - landing on the island, Kate's love, fatherhood to his nephew) and save his friends will be to destroy himself along with the enemies of the island.

Do you think...

... that Jack is going to kidnap Kate and Aaron? I can't imagine them going willingly. Kate is going to have to go through some REALLY MAJOR HORRIBLE SHIT in the course of the next season before she's so hard up that she actually consents to going back.

That was always my biggest objection to the film Aliens. Why the hell would Sigourney Weaver go back to that planet? She wouldn't. They try to give her all these horrible nightmares, and make it like she's got to go back in order to overcome her trauma from the first film, but that's bullshit. She would have popped a damn Ambien and gotten rid of that cat and slept like a baby.

Who's In The Box

So... i must say that i was a little disappointed in the "Jeremy Bentham" reveal. It's interesting to think of Locke turning into Ben, globe-hopping around and sending mysterious letters and tryna fuck shit up BUT Locke is already such a huge character, with so much narrative importance. I was really hoping Jeremy Bentham would turn out to be some really minor character who would ultimately rise to become a central figure - like we're seeing with Christian Shepherd. It would have been fascinating to see Daniel Faraday or Bernard in the coffin - somebody who has had a pretty minor role up to now, and then imagine the narrative arc that is going to transform them into the next Ben/Widmore.

Also? I thought the opening of the episode was AMAZING - cutting from the recap flashback of Jack screaming "We have to go back!" to the exact same point in time, with Kate braking and getting out of her car to be all "what the frack." Really clever.