John Locke

IT’S FINALLY HERE: LOST: The Complete Collection

Wow.  What a season premiere we got last night to kick off LOST season six.

If you watched the hour-long primer before the two-hour premiere like I did, then you actually had three hours’ worth of LOST material to sift through last night.

I’m glad I watched the hour-long recap too, because I got to hear one of my favorite lines of all time.

When Frank Lapidus sees Jack on the commercial plane he’s flying, then spots Hurley, Kate, et al. he has the revelation that he’s not in Kansas any more and says to Jack, “We’re not going to Guam, are we?”

Check out the new LOST theme song

As for the season premiere, where to begin?  Here are some season 6 theories to chew on.

SPOILER ALERT – If this is still sitting in your TiVo or DVR and you haven’t watched it yet, better stop reading now.

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse mentioned that they would be using a “new narrative device” this season.  One can only assume that they are referring to the “dual timelines” approach that we saw last night.  This took some getting used to.  For the first 30 minutes, I found myself banging my head against the back of the sofa trying to absorb what I was seeing.

“But….Jack is on the plane.  Now he’s on the island….but now he’s on the plane.  Must…not…hurt…brain.”

LOST in 8 Minutes and 15 Seconds

One timeline seems to imply that hitting an H-Bomb with a rock is really not that bad of an idea and that the gang are going about their lives as if nothing ever happened.

The other timeline is one where the tactic didn’t work and our favorite group of castaways is still stuck on the mysterious island, which now has a nice, four-bedroom, 3 & 1/2 bath crater on it from the explosion.

In what I’ll call the “Life is Good” timeline, some things seem very different.  Jack seemed a little more jittery about the turbulence that the plane hit and Rose was the one to talk him down, instead of vice versa.  Also, the stewardess only gives Jack one miniature bottle of alcohol, instead of two, as was the case in the original pilot.

The stupid Hobbitses A.K.A. Charlie is still a drug addict and almost dies by choking on his own bag o’ crack.  Jack saves him with a pen, which is a tactic he also used to save lives after the plane crash.

Kate is still on the run after escaping from her captor in the airport.  Doesn’t this guy ever watch movies?  When your prisoner asks to use the bathroom…you NEVER let them!  Hurley now seems to be the luckiest guy on the planet, saying, “Nothing bad ever happens to me.”  LOL

Also, Desmond is now on the plane somehow.  Did anyone else think this is strange?  Even if the plane never crashed, wouldn’t Desmond still be down in the hatch playing records and pushing his little button every 108 minutes, or did the “reset” also free him from the island’s icy grip?

In this timeline, the entire island is underwater.  I can’t wait to see what caused that and how it ties into the lives of our main characters, if at all.  I hope they had flood insurance.

Order LOST: The Complete Collection Now

As for the “Sucks to be You” timeline, Juliet is dead.  Bummer.  I thought she was going to somehow pull through, but she didn’t quite make it.  I guess all that time she’s spending on V was just a little too demanding.

Before she died, she told Sawyer that she had something really, really important to tell him, which, of course, meant that she was going to die before she told him what it was.

Rather than leave us in suspense for a whole season like they did with the whole what’s-in-the-hatch catastrophe, the producers decided to answer this question right away.

Juliet was trying to Sawyer that, “It worked.”  Oh great, so they used the old, “let’s answer a question by posing another question” trick.  What worked?

Does Juliet somehow know that there is another timeline that now exists in which everyone is OK and never crashed on the island?  Or is she referring to something else?

We did get some pretty heavy answers, though.  Cuse and Lindelof did say that they would be going into rapid-fire answer mode this season, and it’s about time.

We learned that John Locke’s body is being occupied by anti-Jacob, and that this super bad guy’s alter ego is apparently the Smoke Monster.

“I’m sorry you had to see me like that,” SmokeLocke tells Ben after the Smoke Monster wipes out Jacob’s bodyguards.

So there is a definite case of good vs. evil going on here, with Jacob seemingly representing the good and SmokeLocke seemingly representing the evil.

The guards in the Temple seemed pretty terrified of SmokeLocke once they were informed by Hurley that Jacob was killed.  It’s a good thing they had some bags of dust lying around, because that can apparently stop the most powerful force on the island.

Why does surrounding yourself with dust keep the Smoke Monster away?  Does it have really bad allergies?  Perhaps it just needs some Clarinex.

LOST Plane Crash Minute by Minute

Sayid almost died but we all knew that he would make it.  He is too much of a fan favorite to bite the big one in the first episode of season six, but it was close.

I’m glad Hurley is the one character that acts like a normal person and actually asks some questions when things get confusing.  He had the balls to ask Jacob why his friends wouldn’t be able to see him.  He had the grapes to ask what was on that piece of paper.  No one else seems to ask any questions on this island, which is probably why they’re still stuck there.

So this good force (Jacob) and this evil force (SmokeLocke) have been stuck on this island, probably for centuries, duking it out.  And SmokeLocke wants to go home, wherever that is.  It will be fun to see what this epic battle is all about, and how does it tie in with Ben, Charles Whitmore, and Richard Alpert, who must have the best plastic surgeon in the world.

And what’s the deal with this other timeline?  Is this truly a “parallel” timeline, or are they setting us up for one final bombshell.  Perhaps this “Life is Good” timeline is one that actually takes place in the future, AFTER the events of the “Sucks to Be You” timeline reset everything once and for all.

Fortunately, we only have to wait a few more months to get some answers.  Bring it!

More LOST news on Blippitt

Related articles by Zemanta

Incoming search terms:

Get Blippitt via RSS feed, Facebook, Twitter, Google+,
and be sure to get our Daily Email Broadcast.