Season 4 Recap

Season 4 was essentially the story of what happened between Jack phoning the freighter and Jack and Kate being off the island and talking to each other outside of an airport. Here's a quick recap of all the events...

Locke had thrown a knife in Naomi's back and run off after a confrontation with Jack. Desmond returned from the Looking Glass with a message from the now-dead Charlie who told him that the freighter was "Not Penny's Boat". Ben was still trying to convince everybody that the people on this boat were very bad and were arriving to do some bad things to the island (oh, how they should have listened). While trekking to meet the rest of the islanders, Hurley got lost and ran into Jacob's cabin that somehow has the ability to move. In it, he saw Jack's dead father, Christian, and somebody's eye. After meeting with the rest of the survivors, Locke convinced half of them to join him to go and live in the Barracks so that they could stay safe from the evil freighter people. Sawyer, Rousseau, Hurley, Claire, Ben, and a few others all left. Then a helicopter flew overhead and out parachuted Daniel Faraday...


Then three others got out of the helicopter- Charlotte, the redheaded anthropologist, Miles, the chinese ghostbuster, and Frank Lapidus, the pilot who SHOULD have been flying 815. They were on a mission to find and arrest Ben.

After a little trouble, Miles ended up with Team Locke, Charlotte and Daniel with Team Jack, and Frank flew both Desmond and Sayid to the Freighter. En route, they ran into trouble when Desmond's conciousness started time-travelling back and forth from 1996 to 2004. Luckily he was able to meet Daniel in the past who told him to find and call his Constant, his girlfriend Penny.

It emerged that Ben knew what was going on with the freighter- Penny's father, Charles Widmore, had sent it to find the island for reasons unknown. Charles also planted a fake plane and stole 324 bodies to make it look like they were all dead. Luckily, there was a spy on his boat... Michael. Last seen cowardly boating away with his son after killing Libby and Ana-Lucia. So it goes.

After leaving, Ben had blackmailed Michael into joining the freighter by sending newly-outed Tom to tell him that it was the only way to save his friends. Michael also learned that the island won't let you die until it's finished with you- employing such methods as jamming guns, causing car crashes, and so on.

Back on the island, Ben convinced Rousseau, Karl, and Alex to go to The Temple to be safe- but before they had a chance, Rousseau and Karl were gunned down by the Freighter Mercenaries. So it goes. They kidnapped Alex and took her back to the Barracks, shot and killed countless extras, exploded Claire's house (with her inside), and threatened to execute Ben's daughter in front of him, who did not relent and stayed in his house. Then one of them, Keamy, shot her in the head. So it goes. Ben went into a secret room concealed within another secret room and emerged 20 minutes later covered in ash. The black smoke monster attacked the Mercenaries, and they flew back to the freighter. Team Locke left the barracks, and Miles, Claire, Aaron, and Sawyer headed back to the beach, and Locke, Hurley, and Ben went off to find the cabin.

On the beach, the freighter doctor's body washed up with his throat slit, and Jack started to feel pains in his abdomen. It turned out his appendix needed removing, and Juliet managed to do some surgery to fix it. Christian appeared to Claire, and she vanished into the jungle, leaving her baby in the forest.


Locke had a dream where Horace Goodspeed, one of the victims of the purge, told him that in order to find Jacob's cabin, Locke would have to find Goodspeed's corpse, which was lying in the mass grave. In Goodspeed's pocket, Locke found a map which the three followed to the cabin. In it was not Jacob, but Christian (and Claire. Eep). He told Locke that the mercenaries were coming back, and that to save the island, it would have to be moved.

Sayid went back to the island on the Zodiac and Daniel started to ferry people back to the freighter. Sun, Jin, and Aaron went with him. On the boat, Desmond, Michael, and Jin discovered a whole load of dynamite on board. Jack and Sawyer followed the satellite phone to the Orchid (where Ben, Locke, and Hurley were), and Sayid and Kate ran into a trap from the Others. They killed the freighter mercenaries. Locke told Jack to lie to the outside world about the island to protect it, and he, Sawyer, Hurley, and Kate left with Frank on the Helicopter. Due to a fuel leak, they needed some weight taken off, and Sawyer jumped out (not before whispering something into Kate's ear).

Ben and Locke went deep underground into the Orchid station where they found apparatus for making bunnies time-travel, and Ben killed Keamy who followed them. This set off the bomb. Des, Michael, and Jin were freezing it, but when the helicopter arrived they ran out of gas. Sun, Aaron, Desmond, Kate, Jack, Sayid, and Frank were onboard the chopper just in time to see Jin run towards them. It was too late for him though, and the freighter exploded. So it goes.



After that, they flew back to the island. However, Locke became the leader of the Others, and Ben exploded a tunnel and crawled into a frozen chamber with a wheel that, when turned, caused the island to move. The helicopter crash landed, but they managed to get aboard a life raft and ran into Penny's boat, who saves them.

A week later, they concoct a lie, and Hurley, Sun, Jack, Kate, Sayid, and Aaron all sail to Sumba. A press conference reveals the story- they were the only survivors, Kate is Aaron's mother, Jin died in the crash, and they get away with it. Kate is put on trial for her numerous past crimes but gets off scot-free. Sun gives birth to her baby and names her Ji Yeon. Hurley starts to see the dead (Charlie, Mr Eko), as well as Jack, who after finding out that Claire is his half-sister, becomes an alcoholic and has a vision of his father. Sayid rekindles his love with Nadia, but she is killed by one of Charles' men. So it goes. After turning the wheel, Ben wakes up in the middle of the desert and convinces Sayid to become a contract killer. Sun takes over her father's company and meets Charles, telling him that they have "common interests"- Ben also visits him and threatens to kill his daughter, Penny. A man named Jeremy Bentham starts to visit survivors and tries to convince them to go back to the island- however, he kills himself, and Jack and Ben visit him in the funeral parlour, where it is revealed that to save the islanders everyone who left must go back, including Jeremy, who is actually John Locke. So it goes.

Back LOL

I haven't blogged on here for ages just because I haven't been arsed, but Lost is coming back soon and I feel like starting to blog about the new season. After all of the island-moving, coffin-opening, freighter-exploding fun that we had at the end of season 4 I'm pretty sure that Lost is going to be even more difficult to follow, making it much more necessary for every single fan to blog about every scene- riiight?

Anyway, I read through my stuff for last season (two entries LOL I'm such a lazy bastard) and it was pretty interesting what I wrote about the Polar bear in the desert and so on. And I was right- I totally thought Desmond would get off and he did. Epic win.

So yeah. LET'S GET WATCHING <4

So, How About "Lost" This Morning?: Confirmed Dead

Hey guys. First off I went to see Cloverfield today. Cool, right? But the last showing hadn't finished, so I saw the last 10 minutes without anything else. Brilliant. They couldn't refund my ticket but replaced it so I saw Juno instead, which was really lovely and nice. I liked that a lot, and it had a nice ending. Aww.

Let's crack on with the DEEP ANAL YSING. :P

1. So we're underwater, looking at rocks. They haven't found anything yet, but people are talking. We go to a different viewpoint, and we start to notice weird things at the bottom. And then we see a plane. Oh my God, it's Oceanic 815! We're then watching a TV News report, and the guy from last week finds this very upsetting. And he doesn't know why... SUDDENLY we're in a helicopter and everything is breaking. He gets pushed out, lands, checks his gun, and there's Jack and Kate. He takes off his helmet and tells them that he's Daniel Faraday, and that he's here to rescue them. CUT TO TITLES!

So the ROVs were looking for the Black Rock in the Sunda Trench, just off the coast of Bali. This storyline was covered in the internet sensation www.find815.com. A man named Sam Thomas got a weird message from a group named Maxwell, telling him to go aboard the Christiane I. At the end of the ARG they found the plane, all intact. Back to the episode- they found the plane, with all parts intact- including the cockpit that we saw last week. Clearly someone (Matthew Abbadon, perhaps?) has a lot of money and managed to create a plane with all the bodies in it. Somehow. Anyway, the guys chatting to each other and we hear one of them say that they got the coordinates off some guy's map. They weren't terribly specific. Naomi said last season that they sent in little robots to salvage the plane, and her info sticks to this story. Hmm. At Daniel's house, he tells his wife (as evidenced by her wedding ring) that he doesn't know why he's crying. Lies, obviously. I reckon he knew someone on that plane- Libby, perhaps? In the helicopter, the other freighterers are having a whale of a time. English chick Charlotte tries to find her vest, but is given angry Miles'. Lucky, huh? She would have been worm food without it. But why did she need it? And why do the whole team need guns? I would guess that upon hearing Naomi's highly coded message (tell my sister I love her) they decided that the 815ers were more dangerous than they thought.

2. In Tunisia, Charlotte and her french-speaking friend read a newspaper proclaiming "815: Retrouvé!" with a picture of the fake plane covering the rest of the page. A french-speaking man asks them to leave, and Charlotte hands him a wad of cash. She walks over to a skeleton on the floor- an Ursus Maritimus skeleton. Her friend says "Ursus? As in 'Bear'?" Charlotte tells her it is a Polar bear. The plot thickens when she digs up a collar with the Hydra Station logo on it. She smiles and the flashback ends.

WOOOAH. This part made my head pop. How can a Polar Bear be in the desert? However, we've seen them on a tropical Island. Maybe the Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications (The DHARMA Initiative) were altering their genes and trying to make them live in a hot climate. And the desert is pretty hot, right? Another theory is that the Polar Bear fell into a wormhole. Whatever floats your freighter.

3. Final scene I'll analyse: Four pictures are placed on a table. Naomi (dead) talks over the images of the four Freighter people we've just met. She's talking to Matthew Abbadon, the rather creepy man who was last seen in Hurley's future, asking "Are they still alive?" Naomi tells him that the "mission" will be hard enough without having to babysit a headcase, ghostbuster, anthropologist, and a drunk. Naomi wonders if there were survivors- Abbadon flatly denies this.

So Naomi is some sort of FBI person? And more importantly, why did Abbadon try and fool Naomi into believing that there were no survivors when there clearly were? Why were those people chosen? And how come Abbadon is sooo creepy? And also, first flashback of a dead person. Maybe we can finally get some of that Libby stuff that needs answering- but even if not, I'll bet that Daniel knew her.

So what did we learn this week? That DHARMA didn't just work on the Island, that the Freighterers are looking for Ben (who may have left the Island- see the picture below), that Ben doesn't know what the Smoke Monster is, and that Locke put a lot of trust in Taller-Ghost-Walt.



See you next week for "The Economist". Fun tymz!

So, How About "Lost" This Morning?: The Beginning Of The End

So I caved in this morning and watched Lost's fourth season premiere, and am about to write what I thought about it. (It was totally AWESOME). There you go, you can stop reading now. I will analyze three key scenes and talk about WTF was going on.

SPOILER ALERT. If you HAVEN'T SEEN EPISODE ONE OF SEASON FOUR, "THE BEGINNING OF THE END", THEN YOU SHOULD STOP READING NOW.

So, here we go.

A bunch of fruit by the beach. Except the sea isn't moving- because it's a painting. But before you have time to realise this-BOOM! A car drives through it, pursued by the police. And then we're in an apartment somewhere and someone pours themself a drink and switches on the news. This person is Jack! And he knows who's in the car. And he's a little cheesed off. After a long chase, the car crashes and stops. The police point guns and ask the person to get out of the car with their hands up. And, oh, yes, it's Hurley. He tries to make a break for it but is slammed against the wall by the feds. But then he says something:

Stop! Stop! Don't you know who I am? I'm one of the Oceanic Six! I'M ONE OF THE OCEANIC SIX!

Stop. What? Time to analyze.

So, the car that Hurley is driving is a 1970-1981 Chevrolet Camaro, one that he was trying to fix with his Dad last season. If you remember the episode where they found a van in the jungle? Well, it was in that flashback. Dig out the DVDs or something, I dunno.

The moment I realised it was a flashforward was when it switched to an apartment. Flashbacks don't have stuff happening at the same time, they just go with the one thing. Magic! In the apartment, Jack only pours a LITTLE alcohol into his drink. He isn't addicted to Oxycodone yet, and he doesn't have a beard. So this is before last season's finale flashforward. So something happens inbetween the two and ruins his life. Was it guilt finally catching up with him?

And do you remember Hurley and Locke's boss, Randy? He bullied them both in Seasons Two and One, respectively. He can be spotted videoing the crash, and will presumably sell it to the tabloids, because Hurley's famous now.

And the biggest question of them all: WHO are the Oceanic 6?

Presumably they are the six people who left the island. Out of all the people on the island, only six left? It's obviously Hurley, Jack, and Kate. But will Walt and Michael be included? We know they left, but not what happened to them, but if that theory's correct then clearly there's only one character left. I know, WTF? I bet that they aren't one of the extras who run around in the background. I'm fairly positive that the Freighter people will kill all of them (they just stand there and look average) because... well, just because. But I think it's possible for Juliet, Desmond, any of the Others, or Rousseau to get back. Because they aren't Oceanic.

After the titles, Hurley's in a prison room with some guy from Ana-Lucia's past (who I can't remember), Big Mike. Hurley lies to him about knowing her and when he leaves to let Hurley watch the tape of before the car fun, the one-way mirror turns into an aquarium and someone Charlie-like swims towards Hurley and breaks the mirror. Water pours in, Hurley slams on the door, and Mike walks in. The aquarium and the pouring water vanish and he asks Hurley if he wants to go to a Psych Ward. And he does.

Why does Hurley lie about not knowing Ana-Lucia?

Because of THIS:



Because I think that to get off the Island, Jack, Kate, Hurley, and the other three had to make a deal to lie about leaving people behind. And "They" are the rest of the survivors, who have obviously made a mistake by staying. But so was leaving. Talk about a Catch-22.

Back on the Island, later in the episode, a distraught Hurley, Sayid, Juliet, Jin, Bernard, and Sawyer are trekking through the Jungle. Hurley makes the mistake of hanging back and then the wind starts blowing, the whispers start talking, and Jacob's shack appears in front of him. A light goes on inside and fades away. Hurley says Uh-Oh. He steps up and looks through the window to see an empty chair, which is suddenly filled by Jack's father. And then someone jumps up and we only see their eye. Hurley runs off, scared shitless, but turns around to find the shack in front of him. He counts to 5 and then it vanishes. And then Locke appears.

Now, a lot of questions here. I listened to the whispers and am pretty sure they were speaking in Spanish and possibly some french, but it's unclear and I haven't studied it very hard. Hurley speaks spanish so that's probably why they were. What was Christian Shephard doing in Jacob's shack? We all know about the Smoke Monster's body-stealing abilities. So are Smokey and Jacob having a chat about the people coming to the island? Are they in cahoots? Jacob's eye popping up was spooky. Maybe he makes himself visible when he feels like it. And can move his house.

Ben said last season that "Jacob is a man who summons you"... and this seems like that summoning. Creepy.

More Lost-related MADNESS next week!

So there's this show on this week

Yes, the time has nearly arrived. LOST is back on Thursday for all of you Americans. I was going to download the episode on the Friday afterwards (High Definition .avi file) to watch it because I don't have Sky. But my friend who lives nearly next-door has it. And while MSNing her we agreed that I would go round on Sunday night and watch it on her TV with her friend.

So basically, NO SPOILAZ! Comment me about the episode on like, Sunday afternoon (american time) if you want to communicate.

I'm not going to go on Facebook until I've watched it so on Sunday at 10 I am going to blitz the computer and go on Lostpedia and listen to Podcasts.

I think that this will ultimately be a very good decision for me and the self-restraint will be almost IMPOSSIBLE to cope with. But I can do this! Don't ever tell me what I can't do, ever! This is destiny. This is destiny. This is... This is my destiny. This... I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can't do!

Twitter is Shitter

than I thought it was. It forgot I made an account. Either that or I changed the password/username in my sleep.

Speaking of sleep, I had a dream I had a terminal illness. I also had an EXTREMELY severe case of blackheads on my arm. But I got blackhead removal cream and they went. I love my dreams. Except the ones where people die. Aren't they just the worst?

I'm off to go and watch The Sixth Sense. Unfortunately I already know the twist but I haven't seen the film... so I'm SO annoyed! I guess it would be like rewatching a film but forgetting most of the details. Oh well.

P.S. Amy Winehouse is the best- fuck her public personality, her music is awesome. She's just living up to the Tortured Singer thing- she's like our Edith Piaf.

Oceanic flight 815 was shot down by a...

Is it just me or is American Tv much better than UK Tv at the moment? The only British TV shows I watch at the moment are Coronation Street and Hollyoaks. But I'm watching Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, 30 Rock, Chuck, and Heroes. Because nothing else is on! So I'm wasting away the hours downloading and watching Chuck (which is actually well good. It's just a great mix of comedy and action) and other American shows.

Desperate Housewives
So they aired the last ep filmed pre-strike and it was pretty good. I just really need to know what actually happened in Chicago.

Ugly Betty
So all the Fey Sommers stuff is over- is it just me who thinks she's not dead?

Heroes
It was OK I suppose. I hope that Irish eyebrow chick is stuck in a fake future forever, she was annoying. And it took far too long for anything to happen. Hiro was in ancient Japan forever. And why the hell did they explode Niki??? P.S. Nathan is sooo not dead. Peter will just give him blood and he'll be fine. It's freakin' obvious- I have this show all figured out.

Chuck
I'm on episode two. Awesome so far- apparently it gets even better?

Lost
Time must go faster! I need my fix and the Missing Pieces haven't been doing it for me to be honest. And I have to go on the spoiler website to get them. Leading to me finding out stuff I don't want to know. But I don't know too much, so don't tell me anything or I will hunt you down and kick your ass.