Quick LOST Thoughts

Okay, I saw the first two episodes of the new season (“Because You Left” and “The Lie”)… Let’s break it down…  what I liked and didn’t like.

Liked

• Opened with the Dharma Training Video guy (yes, I can find his name on wiki if I want to), was  a great… ooohhh this is going to be good if they’re starting here.
• The conversation between Sun and Kate, was really creepy and could go in 100 different ways.  I like that. 
• Rose and Bernard return.  They are a delight on the show.  If these two are killed in a meaningless way, I will be very disappointed.
• The images of the flaming arrows was really really good.  It was either a good special effects technique or CGI, and I couldn’t tell.  That’s fairly impressive.
• The big reveal, even though you knew a big reveal was coming, that the Hawking Lady from Desmond’s time travel adventure, was the one helping Ben.
• Cheesy, but I liked Hurley’s mom (who I really haven’t liked in the past), say to Hurley… after his big recap:  “I believe you.  I don’t understand you, but I believe you.”  That was really touching.
• I did like Sayid choking Jack before realizing who he was.
• The image of the Foucault’s Pendulum (someone mentioned it’s name on the Pop Candy Blog).  Such a cool image. 

 Didn’t Like

• Okay Jack is on Ben’s side, but then it turns out that Sayid is no longer on Ben’s side, and Hurley is caught in the middle between them, and Ben seems to be on the good side, but then seems to be having his own agenda, and he still can’t let Jack in on the truth… I like the character of Ben, but this is getting old, the weaving of multiple threads and getting caught in them.
• The island moved.  If only the people were moving through time, then the island would still have been there for the chopper to land.  If the island moved and the people are shot through time, then when they get to the present they will be in the water. 
• There’s just no way, someone comes to your door, says they have a court order for a DNA test between Kate and Aaron, but they don’t have to divulge the client’s name.  Total bull.  I could see a lawyer coming and asking for a blood sample, and threatening with a future court order.  I could see the cops ordering it, but if so, a crime would have to be connected to it.  I didn’t like it, and it reeked of a ‘writer device’.

Questionable:

• Farraday suddenly becomes mister take charge guy, and Charlotte is the one who can’t remember things. That’s fine, but there should be an explanation and not just that the script demanded it.
• This is a warning, I really want the people on the island to have gone through three years of time passing, and not just have the island arrive three years after they were rescued. That would be very lame. If Locke is showing up, but still has no better idea of what is going on on the Island, I’m going to be pissed.
• There was a moment when Ben looked down at the ticket in the Deli, where he saw two of the number (412 I think), and I thought I saw a sigh… like… these damn numbers follow us everywhere.  If the numbers actually tie into the Island myth, and Ben knows about it, then this is a positive. 

Overall, I liked the episode, but I’ve lost that thrill of the first two seasons, and I guess I’m never going to get it back.  It’s still a very good show, but it’s just a show now. 

Cheers!

Robert