Posts Tagged ‘Smokey
25
May
10
617 – The End – Ben
24
May
10
617 – The End – Naming Names
Names
I am so glad the writers didn’t feel the need to name Smokey or the Island. I know some people wanted that, but I couldn’t have wanted that less.
24
May
10
617 – The End – review
20
May
10
The Maybe-Deads
The finale is looming, the dead are piling up, but there are still two maybes out there. Frank and Richard are still possibly alive. Of course both of them are very likely dead but we haven’t had anything confirmed yet.
19
May
10
616 – What They Died For
Review:
If that was a set up episode then it was the best one ever. I don’t think it was a set up episode, it seemed more like it was part one of the finale. I can barely even count all the things that happened tonight.
First of all the surviving Candidates mobilized and decided to follow the plan to kill “Locke”. Finally they’ve stopped trying to escape.
Secondly Ben is in the position of a lifetime. He’s conning the most powerful being on the Island. This is what he was meant to do. Unfortunately to get to this place Richard probably had to die, and Ben had to kill Widmore (not a big loss). But he’s got himself a front-row seat and a position of pivotal power. I am thrilled about what he managed to do in this episode.
Then Jacob showed up and answered questions, and appointed a replacement. I didn’t see this coming at all. Who knew that would happen before the finale. Jacob had one of my favorite speeches in a very long time. He finally explained to these fools that they belong on the Island, they had nothing left in the real world. I’ve said this forever.
Off the Island things really kicked into high gear. In what was possibly the best choreographed flash-sideways yet, Desmond started two sets of dominoes that resulted in Ben getting matched up with Rousseau, Locke giving into to fate and finally agreeing to Jack’s surgery, and finally Desmond started inviting/coercing people like Hurley, Kate and Sayid into going to the most anticipated concert of the year. This concert looks like it’s going to be the place to be in the finale.
This episode blew me away. If it was Richard’s last episode than that’s unfortunate. Regardless, this episode accomplished a lot. If this is anything like what the finale will be like, I don’t think I’ll have any trouble giving it a perfect ten. As for this episode I think it warrants a 9.0/10.0
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Jimmy Kimmel had this hilarious video on his show the other night. He does a big intro, who really cares about that, then he ques up this video featuring Jacob and Esau. It looks like it was filmed on the Lost set while both the actors were still in their costumes. It’s quite clever.
– izi
12
May
10
615 – Across the Sea
Review:
In some ways we’ve been waiting for this episode since the Pilot. We all wanted to see the flashback of the beginning. Of course we were wrong, there was no beginning. People have always been on the Island, evidently. Or at least the beginning is too boring to talk about. The point is that there is no grand genesis account. The Island is Special, but not special enough to be defined. As we already knew, it has some crazy energy on it.
We may have wanted an Island flashback of the very beginning for a long time, but we’ve only wanted a Jacob/Esau flashback for one season. But it seems like we’ve been waiting forever. So we got it, and it wasn’t that impressive. Jacob and Esau weren’t Cabbage Patch Kids that sprang out of a plant on the Island. They weren’t Egyptian gods. They weren’t Cain and Abel (specifically, probably there are some references to Cain and Abel). Neither of them are demons (well, probably not). They were just humans with the same origin, but two diverging paths. Jacob got to be the Island’s Guardian and Esau got to have a fate worse than death. He couldn’t die, so now he’s a fancy cloud of smoke.
I can’t pretend that I wasn’t disappointed with this episode. It was kinda like turning left at an intersection when you’re supposed to turn right. But before you even get a chance to do a U-turn you realize it’s a cul-de-sac. You follow the roundabout thinger, and then you’re kinda going in the right direction again. Then you finally get to the intersection where you started and you realized you spend most of your time going nowhere. If you had just turned right in the beginning it would have been a lot easier. This episode made it looks like both Jacob and Esau were headed in strange directions, but then at the end they got back on the paths that we knew they were on. This episode wasn’t a waste of time, but it certainly wasn’t a great use of it, especially when there’s so little time left. 4.0/10.0
Not Confused Just Lost 