So I've had a few days to sit back and think about the last episode of "Lost" for a month. Have I mentioned how much I'm digging this season of "Lost?" It's making me fall in love with it all over again. This whole flash-forward thing is killer, great way to revitalize the series. And it gives me hope that the writers have a fucking clue about the outcome.
I don't know many people that were shocked by the previous week's episode, where Michael showed up on the freighter and turned out to be Ben's "man on the boat." I wasn't. Stupid ABC's marketing department saw to it that no one would be surprised. Why do they have to announce shit like that?
"Next week, a face returns and you won't believe who it is!" Really? Could it be, um, Michael, since he's been in the cast credits for the last several weeks?
I also hate when they pull THIS shit: "And next week, SOMEONE. WILL. DIE!" Shut the hell up, idiots! I don't want to know that! What happened to the first season, where someone dying was a huge shock? Keep the secrets, idiots!
So this week we got to see Michael's flashback. It was a good episode, don't get me wrong, even if there weren't many revelations in the ep. Thing is, they fucking gipped us by not showing us what we REALLY wanted to know: what happened in the boat when Michael and Walt left the island? All we see is - POOF! - Michael suddenly living in Manhattan who knows how much later.
Thing is, keeping track of the timeline is really getting impossible. What, Michael and Walt left the island after 2 months of "island time," right? So how long did they take to get back to the real world? How much time was Michael there before Tom (Mr. Friendly) showed up to drag him back in? Weeks? A month?
And what the hell? The island won't let Michael die? The ISLAND?! WTF? Sure, we knew that the island has mysterious properties. We also know that there's some sort of time travel going on, that there's a definite gap between Island Time and Rest of the World Time. But how does an island prevent you from dying all the way back in Manhattan? What a bitch, wanting to die but not being able to.
So pretty much right after he gets home, Michael finds himself in the nightmare situation of heading back to the island on the freighter. Wonderful. Guess killing two women really made a difference in getting away from all that island shit, eh? It certainly alienated Walt from his father.
And how long is Michael and the freighter back in the water before they get within Island vicinity? More questions about time.
Why did Sayid rat Michael out to the boat captain? Who wrote the note to Michael and Desmond saying, "Don't Trust the Captain"? Why did they set Michael up with a fake bomb to blow up the ship? What was the point of that?
And just who the hell is Ben working for? Clearly there are a lot of financial resources under his control; otherwise Friendly couldn't have afforded the lavish hotel penthouse in Manhattan (along with his boy lover).
So we have several entities searching for the island now. First, there's Charles Widmore, whose freighter it supposedly is. Then there are the four freighties who made it to the island...on the same boat, but who are they working for? Widmore or someone else? Then there's Penny, who is clearly not aware of her father's search for the island. She's desperately looking for Desmond.
But hey, what about the Hanso Foundation? Where do THEY fall in all of this? Why have they been so absent? I mean, they have a substantial amount of money and resources invested in the island, all those Dharma stations. They HAVE to know that the numbers are no longer being punched into the computer. I mean, the key was turned and the hatch blew up...surely they have ways to monitor the situation. And they're still making occasional food/supply drops, so it's not like Hanso is gone. If Penny's people could sense the electromagnetic disturbance from when Desmond turned the key in the Hatch, then the Hanso foundation MUST know about it.
I don't think Ben is working for them. I mean, he KILLED the Dharma folks that were on the island. Why would he be working for them? I do think he's working for SOMEONE, though. Ben isn't the ultimate go-to guy for the Others, I don't think.
So yeah, I'm digging Lost again. But don't think I've forgotten that there are still tons of unanswered questions out there. Just because we've gotten a few answers this season (mostly about the Oceanic 6) doesn't mean I've lost track of the other shit I want to know about. What the fuck is that four-toed statue on the island? What happened to the polar bears? The Smoke Monster? What was the sickness that the French Lady said destroyed all her colleagues? All that shit was crazy present in the first two seasons, so it seems weird that all those things have been dropped, albeit temporarily (I assume).
What about Walt? Why did the Others kidnap him? What did they do to him in captivity? How come he's not important to them any more?
Yeah, as usual, I'm in it for the long haul.
