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I agree with all you said, except the Artz part. He is a throwback to Season 1, where everything was more simple. Besides, it was pretty obvious that he was going to show up. I mean, it was a fucking school.

I forgot how beautiful Alex is. My god.

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I thought that was a great episode. Not as great as Sundown or LA X, but third best of the season so far. Every episode so far has been solid except What Kate Does. I liked how Ben's flashsideways predicament mirrored his choice in season 4 and he made the right decision this time.

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"Recon", 8.5/10

It's always a bit weird watching Lost when there is still light out, as tonights episode aired two hours earlier in Canada. This has been a pleasant surprise as this will be the third or fourth time this season that has happened.



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There had been word that Recon was supposed to be the worst episode of the season, due to early screenings mentioned on some Lost blog. I can say that I thought the episode was better than "What Kate Does" and as good if not better than "Lighthouse". It's a mythologically, story based episode so if you were a fan of "Dr Linus" the episode might not be that spectacular. But it is a pretty good episode.

My thoughts on Recon:

- I had the reveal that Sawyer was a cop in the Alt reality spoiled for me so it was a nice surprise to see Myles was his partner. I think Sawyer & Miles should be a spin off show once the show is done Sawyer has a bit of a Don Johnson vibe going for him

- Kate is attacked by Claire and the scariest thing about it is Sayid looking on with disinterest. I wished that was something that had been touched upon in the episode. That Kate's ally Sayid didn't come to her rescue.

- Sawyer being set up with Charlotte is a neat way of bringing back the actress, but these connections are still a bit corny. I hope they all lead somewhere

- We have the return of FLocke. I'm surprised that Cindy and the others didn't know that he was the smoke monster. Where were they when the temple was being destroyed?

- No Jack and the gang tonight. I saw a preview where the gang are talking at the beach. It would appear that that clip is from next weeks Richard episode

- Kate being caught by Detective Ford was pretty predictable.

- The episode ended with a bit of a weak cliffhanger. They try to make Sawyer's betrayal of both Widmore and FLocke a twist, but it was a bit of an abrupt ending, I thought.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I agree. It was a weak episode, although seeing James on the good side of the law was cool. And yay@Charlie's brother!.

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I thought it was a pretty good episode, I wouldn't say that it "ended right" for Sawyer in the alternate reality, it's more ambiguous than say Jack overcoming his daddy issues and Locke accepting that he was crippled, I think it emphasized how Sawyer is truly a lone wanderer, but how long until he has to make a choice ? VERY interesting !



They really work great together, both are fantastic actors, and even though it's the most insane idea ever, I also have to agree about that spin-off , I can already see them taking down the Crips and Bloods with nothing but heavy duty sarcasm !



I saw similarities with Ben in both cases, it seems that the sickness makes them "childlike", while also removing any conscious guilt they could have, it's very interesting, and I have to say that I was moved by Claire's outburst with Kate



I think it's just shock material for the audience , but it still was great that our favorite redhead came back !



For a moment I thought it was going to be Juliet.

EXCUSE ME !

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The point of the random character crossovers is a way of saying these characters were always destined to meet, whether on the island or "in another life, brutha."

Speaking of which, who wants to bet Desmond's locked up in that room on the submarine?

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I understand that. However it has gone from the odd encounter to them actually being in each others lives. I just hope it leads to something bigger than "their lives were destined to meet".



I honestly don't know. I guess it could be Desmond or some other person. I wonder why they would need to bring them to the island?

Where do you guys think Widmore stands in all of this. We see mini sonic fences are being put up, presumably to keep Smokey out. But is Widmore really against Smokey? I don't know if I find his allegiance with Sawyer to be convincing. Is he pulling a con himself?



It's funny that these guys probably are close friends now. I mean, they've known each other for three years. That's longer than Sawyer has known everyone else on the island. There is a great thread on IMDb that I've taken part of imaging a cheesy, Miami Vice style spin off with the two of them. You'd be surprised how easy it is to come up with cheesy, derivative stuff like that.

Actually, I read an interesting theory about Sawyer's Alt time line. The theory is that everything about him being a cop has a phony quality to it, and it is intentionally phony.

- Although we see them as being cops at the beginning, after that it's really just a bunch of scenes with them hanging out with badges on.

- The scenes themselves contain typical buddy cop clichés. The two of them wear those police badges on chains and use a code word, Myles tries to set Sawyer up on a hot blind date, Sawyer says he's trying to score Laker tickets, there is a foot chase at the end, etc. All of this is the corny type of stuff one would see in something like CHIPS or Miami Vice or Magnum PI. There is a certain air of fantasy to it all.

- Supposedly Sawyer has a mug that says "Hollywood" on it. (Hollywood as in that's his nickname? Or Hollywood as this is a subtle hint that all of this is phony?)

So the idea is that all of this is phony and cliché by design. That this is a make believe world that Sawyer has created. And to take from another theory, this is a world that Sawyer, and everyone else, will create by the end of the series. What we're seeing isn't just a what if? What we're seeing is what the Losties chose as their ultimate destinies.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

"Ab Aeterno", 9/10 (first half) 8.5/10 (second half)

So we have come to the episode we've all been waiting for. It's not a perfect episode, which is why I've given it two scores. I suppose I don't need to give every episode a score but I've got into the habit, so there's no turning back. Ab Aeterno is a very good, if imperfect, episode. It starts off pretty strongly, but I found the episode didn't end quite as strongly as I'd hope for, which is why I'm a bit torn on its quality.

My thoughts on tonights episode



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- The episode sort of reminded me of The Fountain in terms of visuals. After so so episodes such as Dr Linus and Recon it was a nice return to season 1 style cinematography

- Seeing the Black Rock in the ocean is cool, epic stuff. It's the kind of thing we don't see very often on this show

- I kind of wished we had spent more time on Richard's journey on the Black Rock. The episode confirms what we've known all along, or at least for a pretty long time, that Richard was a slave on the ship. This is one of the sore points in having the show take its time answering questions as by the time the answer is revealed the audience have already guessed it

- We see the return of the "man in black". Will they give this guy a name? Is there any reason to withhold it? I think there's a possibility that they may never answer it just to keep his identity an enigma

- Hell seems to come up a lot in this episode. It's thought that the island is Hell by Richard and even by Cooper back in season 3. Yet Isabella tells Richard (via Hurley) that they will all go to Hell if Smokey is not stopped. You can pass off Richard's initial idea of the island as being superstitious, but what of Isabella?

- We also get a major reveal into the island's nature. It is a cork that keeps evil in one place. But is that all it does? It is able to heal (Rose of her cancer, Locke can walk again) and Jacob seems to want to give it's visitors the chance of
redemption. Smokey wants off the island, and we don't yet know why that is. What is the relationship between the two?

- The episode started to drag when Richard was in chains. I understand that it was to build up Richard's desperation. But things seemed to come to a halt for a bit. Just a nitpick

- The answer to "how the statue became broken" is a bit unsatisfying. It's also odd that if Jacob brought the ship to the island, why he would immediately attack Richard

- Richard and MIB's interaction seemed to be a mirror of that of Lloyd and Flagg in The Stand. In that book Lloyd was a prisoner left in his cell in the aftermath of a massive pandemic. Flagg finds him and offers him salvation....at a price.

- I thought the ending was a bit weird and kind of pointless. The episode seems like it is going to end on FLocke's face, which would have been a totally appropriate ending. We then flash back to the island and see a conversation between Jacob and MIB that doesn't really reveal much. A cool scene, but not as strong an ending.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I LOVED this episode. I don't want to go out and call it my favorite non-finale episode, but...it was one of the best of the entire series, definitely. Everything about this episode was amazing, from the acting, to the plot, to the answers and reveals, to the character moments.

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This was one of those episodes that I will miss when the series finally end. The quality overall was pretty high, the acting, everything.
Definitely one of the best episodes this season.

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Ricardo for the motherfucking WIN !!!

Seriously, great episode, had issues with a couple of things, like the fact that the episode did seem to drag a little with Richard in chains, or also not finding out anything new about the black rock or it's passengers, at least nothing we hadn't assumed before, still, everything paid out in the end, the scene between Hurley, Richard and Isabella was nothing short of amazing, and once again, the theme about blind faith keeps jumping in, Jacob asks his followers, or the people he trusts, to have faith in his plan, that there is a reason for it, but with Ben and Richard we can see that this is harder than it looks, great stuff !



Didn't the producers said that his name is a gigantic spoiler ?

In any case, it was great to see MIB being played by the original actor, I am having issues with this excuse to keep Terry O' Quinn "playing Locke".



On that matter, I think the producers pulled a good one on the audience

You ask why, I would answer that I thought that we would see Richard walking inside the statue with the knife and Jacob waiting for him in a chair while knitting a sweater or some other bullshit, to which Jacob would proceed to persuade Richard with his l33t persuasion skills.

Instead of that, Jacob beats the living shit out of Richard , honestly, I didn't expect that, as to why he did it ? well, Jacob did say that he didn't intervene, so maybe he didn't expect anyone to come over with a mythical knife to try to kill him.

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"The Package", 8/10.

This is a getting pieces into position type of episode. I'd say it's as good as Recon, but don't expect anything major. The episode moves at a pretty steady pace but it's sort of lacking in the drama department. Some things do happen, but nothing major. Not much else to talk about, so here are a few thoughts:



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- We get to see Sun act sexy tonight with her bedroom scene with Jin. The show needs more sexy Sun!

- Widmore's camp seems like it could easily overtake FLocke's. So what is he waiting for? He makes it seem like he wants to keep FLocke on the island. I don't know if we should take him for his word, though.

- We get the return of one of the most ridiculous characters on the show, Mikhail. Thankfully he's killed by Jin. I never liked this character because he always came off as a James Bond type villain.

- Keamy is alive! Oh, nope, he's dead again.

- The episode went to commercial just as Sun runs into a tree. Kind of abrupt and funny at the same time.

- Sun forgetting English is annoyingly contrived.

- So we find out that Desmond is on the sub. They also had the refer to him as "Mr Hume" just so the audience who couldn't tell it was him because of how dark the scene was knew that it was him. Kind of annoying that they refer to him as "The Package". I know they had to do that so as not to spoil the surprise but it's still kind of dumb. Like when everyone called Locke "Jeremy Bentham" even when in private company.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I don't really have anything to say about this episode, I just wasn't feeling it after last week's orgasm of greatness. But as far as Widmore's group taking on Locke's...what, are they just going to shoot Smokey to death? I think we've seen he's impervious to bullets.

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They don't have to take him down, just everyone else. He needs his people for some reason so that he can escape.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

I am a little concerned that answers aren't being given, not because I am "dying to know" what is happening, hell no, but because I am worried that the show might be a little overburdened by the final episodes.

Still, great episode as always, I am still having a hard time believing that they showed Mikhail's gory bullet-hole, but then again I couldn't believe that the network allowed the scene in which a child (Ben) gets fucking shot ! (Sayid).



Unbuttoned Sun > any Claire.



Seriously, how many times can someone die in one show ?



It is very plausible, and now alone it's hilarious, now Jin is the one who knows english

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I think that is a valid concern. My concern is that when they do answer the questions it will be done very abruptly, or rather mundanely (like how the statue was destroyed, or why the losties were brought to the island). They have built up a lot of these mysteries simply by not answering them for several seasons. The Losties being brought to the island so that one of them may be the next caretaker, for example, I find is a bit unsatisfying.

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

Also:

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"Heard them Walthers like to jump some" "As will you, with one in your elbow."

What answers do you want to know?



From now on, your argument will be invalid. In any topic. Ever.

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Every single one, but that's not the point, the point is that problems may arise with the producers' intentions to answer every single question by the end.



When it comes to Sun and Kate, there is simply no rival, not even the being that results from the fusion of goth claire and jungle claire, nope, not even that.

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