Best quality, that is. This was posted in a few places: DarkUFO, BuddyTV, and Doc Arzt.
Here are the changes that I noticed:
You know who hasn’t been added? Walt. Apparently Vincent ranks higher than Walt.
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First of all I should say SPOILER ALERT. I personally don’t think that anything that happens at Comic-Con is a spoiler but some people do. So you’ve been warned.
Secondly, you should probably check out these videos from Comic-Con:
Now on to the analysis:
Episode:Jack finds these two skeletons in the caves. He says the clothes indicated they have been dead for 40 or 50 years. He also discovers a bag with a Black and White rocks inside. Locke later gives them the nicknames Adam & Eve.
So that was fun(ish).
I’ll try to start on a positive note. Jacob was awesome! Who knew he would be so likable. I kinda expected him to be quite distant and cold. But he was great. And that storyline that they started with Jacob and his nemesis was pretty epic. It’ll make for some great conflict next year (provided history isn’t erased, hahaha). New “Locke” is going to make for a very interesting villain.
That was a pretty epic reveal. It was all for shock value, it didn’t serve any real purpose except to confirm our suspicions about this new “Locke”. But really, it surprised me, and really raised the bar.
Uh oh I’m running out of nice things to say. Damnit, why did Juliet have to die? I’m back to having no one left to like anymore. This is going to be season 1 all over again. The only people I like are guest stars.
The flashbacks in this episode were slightly interesting, but they didn’t really hold my attention. The two good ones were Hurley’s and Ilana’s. The other ones were just filler. (Especially Juliet’s, what the hell was that?)
The one thing about this episode that I liked was the discovery of this new part of the story with Jacob, his nemesis and that new world. That will give me a lot of fodder for theorizing over the break. I could live without the rest of the episode. So where does that leave us? How much should I give the finale that I was almost completely unimpressed with? It can’t be less that 5, that’s not giving Jacob enough credit. but it’s definitely not more that 8.0. I’d say 7.0/10.0 A disappointing end to an epic season. (Jump to the bottom for more discussion on the score, I know many of you will be surprised/pissed about the score.)
How is Season 5 going to end? As we draw closer to the finale that is the question on everyone’s mind.
I’ve had many mini theories about the ending during the season , I’ve discarded most of them. I must admit that I knew pretty far in advance what the episode was called, “The Incident”, so that was a big hint. I remember thinking very early on in the season that the it would end with the Oceanic 6 coming back, the skipping stopping and a big reunion. This season moved way faster than I expected, I was completely shocked when the Oceanic “6” came to the Island in episode six. After Jughead aired I expected the season to end with a large hydrogen bomb going off. I discarded that theory an episode after Jughead (and apparently that was too soon). After that I just got caught up in the story.
So here we are. The finale starts tomorrow, what do we think will happen? Will Jack change the past by blowing up Jughead? Will Locke kill Jacob? Will the Third Party succeed in it’s…plan? Will Sawyer and Juliet get off the Island and live happily ever after? Will anyone die? What will the cliffhanger be? What will season 6 look like?
(I’m going to try not to start every revlysis with the word wow, or whoa. It’s tempting but it’s going to get repetitive.)
Yowza! That was intense. So we spent about eight months debating whether the island went forward in time, back in time, or moved in space, it turns out we were aiming way too low. It seems as if the people on the island are just taking a tour of the islands history. They are moving in time (and sometimes space) and experiencing different eras on the island. (Just for you’re reference, I’m going to call that skipping.)
This episode stated with a Desmond-like flashback, this time with Pierre. We see Pierre’s baby, and we see what a typical day in the life of the Dharma boss is like. We get a great reference to the Frozen Donkey Wheel, showing how Dharma found it. And Daniel shows up, seemingly in the past.
That leads into what happened immediately after Ben turned the wheel. Simply put, the people on the island moved in time. First they were sent to the time when Yemi’s plane crashed. Ethan shot and threatened Locke, and that was that. Then it skipped forward to an unknown time, after the Hatch was blown up. It could have been after 2004, or it could have been during seasons 3, or 4. Richard visits Locke and tells him that he has to bring everyone back to the island. They skipped again to a pre-crash time period. Daniel visits Desmond and tells him that Desmond has to go visit Dan’s mother in Oxford. And that’s the end of that.
Back to the Oceanic 6 storyline. Ben and Jack continue preparations to go back to the island. Kate get’s served with papers which demand a maternity test (is that right?). And Sayid and Hurley have an adventure. Sayid has apparently gone rogue, doing the opposite of what Ben wants, he tells Hurley to do the same. Sayid kills two more people and Hurley is seen with a gun, implying that he’s the killer. Sun gets another conversation with Mr. Whidmore. We learn that their common interest is Ben (luckily) and he demands some respect.
The skipping story element is glorious. It has the potential to solve all of the mysteries of the island. Now they can go back to any time period and learn everything about the people there. We can see what happened with Rousseau, The Hostiles, Dharma, The Others and even the original people, the ones who built the four toed foot and Ben’s door. This is very exciting. Ironically the Oceanic 6 storyline, the exciting part of the last season, has now become the least exciting part this season. Oh well, it’s still fun, just less so.
9.5/10.0 (Just because my brain hurts.) It’s going to be a lot of fun watching the people on the island fail, trying to change the future. They’re going to have a fun season.
A recap of this episode would be insanely long, and if you read the last one then you’ll know that it won’t really make sense anyways. The problem I have with analyzing this episode is that I already did that.. for a month. I referred readers to my coverage last time and I’ll do it again. Go here if you want to see all that I said about this episode back in June. (Note: I wrote all that jazz way back in June, so I may have changed my mind about a lot of those ideas. Just don’t hold me to any of the crazy things I said back then.)
But let’s get on with it.
Technically the most important things to happen in this episode are:
-The Oceanic 6 get away
-Ben moves the island
-and Locke is the man in the coffin
All great things, they’ll have a huge bearing on the rest of the show, and especially season 5. But, to be completely honest the reason why I’ll give this episode a 10.0/10.0 is because Desmond got back with Penny. I know that it would be just as good without that scene, but that’s the most significant thing in my mind
10.0/10.0
Continue reading ‘413 – There’s No Place Like Home (part 2)’
This episode seems to be to speed things along. Most of the action happens off the island. It seems like they wanted to get most of the Jack Kate relationship stuff out of the way before the finale.
On the island Jack has an appendectomy. Juliet comes to terms with the obvious fact that Jack doesn’t love her. And Jin finds out that Charlotte can speak Korean and tells her that she has to save Sun.
On the other side of the island Sawyer is leading Miles, Claire and Aaron back to the beach. On the way Miles treats Claire strangely, they meet Lapidus, Keamy and his men, and Claire sees Christian and follows him off into the jungle. Sawyer is left with Aaron.
Off the island we see Jack settle down with Kate for about a week, and then he self-destructs. He starts seeing Christian and he has a disturbing visit with Hurley. Kate on the other hand appears completely different, she is content and is more than happy to settle down with Jack. Unfortunately she is sneaking around behind Jack’s back and he doesn’t like that. Kate confesses that she’s doing something for Sawyer and Jack leaves her in a drugged-up stupor (is that even a word?).
The episode was jam packed with developments. The flashforward was very interesting and Claire disappearance is still on most of our minds. The episode doesn’t really stand out as one of the best of the season but it still was very good and there was nothing about it that I disliked. 7.5/10.0
Review:This episode is insano. This only the second Ben episode and already his episodes are the best. No one else has such informative flashbacks/forwards, and no one is in the middle of things like Ben. It’s hard to believe that he is just a supporting character.
On to the episode. This episode has completely different interpretations now that season 4 is done. Ben’s flashback is suddenly logical and understandable. Now that we know exactly what preceded this flashforward we can understand his actions.
As for the actions on the island…well there is too much to say. Ben controlling Smokey, Alex dying, Claire “dying”, Sayid coming under Ben’s control, Daniel lying, Jack nearly “dying”, Ben conversing with Mr. Whidmore; it was so much insanity that it’s hard to keep track of it all. I don’t want to go too deeply into it here (keep reading if you want to see me go too deeply into it) but I just want to say that this episode will likely be the basis for many more storylines in the future.
10.0/10.0
This episode is essentially a continuation of D.O.C. with some fun Freighter activity thrown in. Sun decides that she doesn’t believe what Juliet told her in that episode and she wants to go to Locke’s camp. Juliet stops her by telling Jin that Sun cheated on him. Bernard tells Jin that wives are always right and Jin eventually agrees. They decide to stay with Jack and try to get rescued.
In the flashforward Sun delivers her baby. In the parallel, but unrelated flashback, Jin buys a stuffed panda bear. Sun mourns Jin’s death. All very sad stuff. I wasn’t angry at all with the writers tricking us like this. I thought it was terribly clever. Apparently other people don’t share my enthusiasm for this kind of trickery.
On the freighter Desmond and Sayid hear Charles Whidmore’s side of the argument about the fake 815 plane. And they meet little ol’ Kevin Johnson. That’s right, it’s the return of every ones favorite panic eyed villain, Michael! It’s unfortunate that word got out about his return, it would have made for a great reveal.
The episode wasn’t bad, the extra trickery in Jin and Sun’s flashback/forward was the shot in the arm that their flashes needed. And it’s always fun to see old freinds return. 7.5/10.0
Not Confused Just Lost
