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Blogging While Watching LOST: Whatever Happened, Happened

by Christina Gleason on April 1, 2009

If Jin hadn’t thrown little Ben in the DHARMA van, he would’ve changed history. Why did he try to save him? Did he buy into Daniel’s bit about not changing the past? If Daniel hadn’t insisted that, would he have still tried to save Ben? Sure, it would’ve created a monster paradox and possibly destroyed the entire space-time continuum, but I would’ve been tempted to leave him there to die.

So now we’re going to see what it is that Sawyer asked Kate to do when she got off the island. Aaron, meet Clementine? Kate is awfully trusting of Cassidy to tell her everything about the island.

As expected, Juliet is working on Ben.

LOL @ Hurley explaining the potential paradox via Back to the Future. Way to go, Miles, explaining to Hurley (and the fans) how Sayid always shot young Ben… but they just didn’t know the whole story until now.

Sawyer comes to fetch Jack the surgeon, and Jack has again decided not to push the button. I mean, he’s choosing to let Ben bleed out and die… and potentially stop them all from existing, as pondered by Hurley and Miles.

Jack has given up on trying to fix things. At least he’s given up the savior complex, but he’s still quite obnoxious. Kate, on the other hand, is going to donate blood to Ben. This is so weird.

Roger isn’t as dumb as he looks. He knows that Ben took his keys. He knows that Ben was the one who busted Sayid out of jail.

I really like the conversation between Hurley and Miles. They’re explaining the things that the people on the LOST-TV forums and elsewhere online have been discussing… and they’re putting it out there for the people who don’t participate in the fan forums so that maybe they can understand what’s going on.

Juliet says that maybe the Others can help save Ben. She would know this because she becomes one of them, so she knows what Richard and the other island natives can do.

I could feel the panic rising in my chest as Kate was running through the grocery store looking for Aaron. I have a 3 year old blond boy myself. I was getting ready to type up how my son would totally change his mind from milk to a juice box mid-store… and probably change it back after I bought the juice boxes… and then I couldn’t tear my eyes away from the screen until Kate found Aaron!

So Sawyer is going to help Kate. I guess he has a few liberties as head of security. He can make up his own story about what happened.

Cassidy’s theory: Kate took Aaron to mend her broken heart?

“No matter what he’s gonna grow up to be, it’s wrong to let a kid die.” Said Juliet to Sawyer. Who is saving Ben for Juliet. Not for Kate. Ouch, Kate.

Juliet has Jack cornered in the shower. It’s become pretty clear that Juliet is right for Sawyer. Jack and Juliet were not meant to be, and apparently neither were Sawyer and Kate. I’m still a total SKATE fan, though.

They’re violating the truce, but Sawyer is demanding to see Richard Alpert. Will we get to see what makes him so special? Why he doesn’t seem to age? How can Richard save Ben?

So Kate got on the plane to find Claire. She went back to find Aaron’s real mommy. But I don’t think she’s right about Claire being alive.

Richard says, “If I take him, he’s not ever going to be the same again… His innocence will be gone. He will always be one of us.” Dude, what are you going to do to the kid? And why should he talk to Elie first? (Eloise?)

It’s the Temple.

It’s Ben… in 2009. Locke to Ben: “Welcome back to the land of the living.”

I saw these words in Ben’s eyes. “Am I in Hell?”

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Blogging While Watching LOST: He’s Our You

by Christina Gleason on March 25, 2009

My first thought… That doesn’t look like a young Sayid. And it wasn’t. Sayid was the younger brother.

And the “Previously on LOST” gave me a revelation. Young Ben taking Juliet duty bringing Sayid sandwiches. The previews showing Sawyer telling Sayid he’s on his own. Sayid has his axe to grind, and he’s going to plant the seeds for what will become the Purge!

What does Horace mean, he’s going to have to take it to the next level? He’s not such a hippy when he talks like that.

Alright. Why wouldn’t Sayid want to join Sawyer’s party in Otherville? Just because of Ben?

Hurley works in the cafeteria. Not a big stretch for him at least. It’s not quite Mr. Cluck’s, but I bet he’ll make the best of it.

Who is this Oldham? Sawyer called him a psychopath, and Roger’s tone of voice made me think of Sayid the Torturer. I’m guessing that’s where they get the episode title from. Sawyer’s going to tell him “He’s our you.”

And now we find out why Sayid was on Ajira Flight 316. Ben came to tell him that he thinks “someone” murdered John Locke. Funny he would think that, since he’s the one who did it. The “same people” are sitting outside Hurley’s mental institution. So it was Ben’s people out there. He’s orchestrated an awful lot of crap.

What is Oldham giving him? Some sort of truth serum? This doesn’t bode well for our heroes.

Sayid’s drinking a $120 glass of Scotch with the  woman who’s going to have him in handcuffs in a day or two. And not in a fun way. What do you think, she’s playing coy with him to get him to confess to murder? Yeah, that’s gotta be it. She’s a detective or something.

“Ask Sawyer.”
“Who’s Sawyer?”
There’s a close one! Good thing he’s going by LaFleur now. Phew.

“Maybe I should use half a dropper.” LOL! Sayid on acid is pretty amusing. At least he was hopped up so they might just think he was talking nonsense.

Sawyer just voted to kill Sayid. Under duress, but he did it. So how is he going to get Sayid out of this one? He’s going to have to orchestrate an elaborate escape that doesn’t make it look like he did nothing of the sort. He needs to save Sayid without compromising himself and the rest of his friends.

Aha, she’s a bounty hunter. That’s why she’s bringing him to Guam instead of some other location. The guy he killed on the golf course. That was the first one we saw him kill in his flash forwards.

Now Sayid’s getting all philosophical about his purpose. He’s starting to sound like Locke.

Umm… burning DHARMA bus? Whose house was that? Hoodie Ben got beat down by his daddy, and he set a bus on fire to create a diversion to bust Sayid out of the slammer before he has to walk the green mile.

Sayid’s purpose is to deliver Ben to the Hostiles? Oh dear. Seems I was right.

… and it seems I was wrong. He tried to change history by killing young Ben. But that can’t happenn or it will cause all sorts of paradoxes. So the island won’t let the kid die. What’s it going to be, a book in his pocket?

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Who Does Juliet Look Like?

March 11, 2009

Harper once told Juliet that Ben has a thing for her because she looks just like an unnamed ‘her.’ Could it be that she looks just like…?

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Blogging While Watching LOST: 316

February 18, 2009

Liveblogging this week’s new episode of LOST: They had to go BACK! Lots of exposition, scientific mumbo jumbo about windows, and no waiting. They ARE back.

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Blogging While Watching LOST: Cabin Fever

May 8, 2008

Record players again. Who is this chick? Emily? Is that Locke’s mom? It is! And he was born like three months premature. Was Emily crazy before she got hit by the car, or because of a traumatic brain jinury from the car accident? And man, those ’50s chicks sure knew how to hide a pregnancy! [...]

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Did Ben flash forward? Or time travel?

April 26, 2008

Okay, I don’t think time travel is as much fun as my own pet time theory, but I now have to seriously consider it. When we saw Ben land on his back in the middle of the Sahara Desert in Tunisia, was it a flash forward? Or is that where he went when he ran [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: The Shape of Things to Come

April 24, 2008

Jack still has quite a store of medication left in that suitcase! I wonder if the drugs are still as effective after sitting out in the heat and direct sunlight for so long. Vincent and Bernard have discovered the body of… is that the doctor from the Kahana? Okay, thanks for that Dan. “We’re all [...]

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Karl to Alex: I’ve got a bad feeling about this

March 21, 2008

It’s not just a Star Wars quote any more. Not that Karl has ever seen Star Wars before. Karl was right. Ben was playing them. He sent Alex off to the Temple with the two people who are the biggest thread to his relationship with her – her mother and her boyfriend. He arranged for [...]

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Blogging While Watching LOST: The Other Woman

March 6, 2008

Look at that, a flashback! It looked like a building out of New Otherton from the first shot, so I did suspect. I knew not to make any snap judgments, though – this is LOST. Juliet’s seeing an on-island therapist. That’s kinda funny. And Tom had a mustache! Has he lost weight since filming his [...]

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So who was in the coffin?

December 26, 2007

It drove me crazy that we never got to know who was in that coffin. We never got a really clear shot of the obituary that Jack ripped out of the newspaper. Well, that’s not entirely true. Some clever folks with TiVo and hi-def grabbed some screencaps to try and make sense of it all. [...]

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