Lost Observations – “The Shape of Things to Come”

It’ssssssssssssssss baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack! After a five-week hiatus, Lost is back!! I guess this is a good thing. I mean, OF COURSE this is a good thing, but on Week One of the hiatus, I woke up all excited because “It’s Thursday! Lost is on!” and then reality smacked me in the head. Lost wasn’t on. I had to wait five weeks. Week Two rolled around, and I reminded myself on Wednesday that Lost wasn’t going to be on tomorrow. (Remember way back when Wednesdays were a day of pure joy because Lost was on Wednesdays? But I digress.) …and Thursday came and went, and I only twitched a little. By Week Three, I was pretty much cured. I didn’t even think about Lost. But, then Week Four got me all excited again. One more week!

And, now, it’s here. My addiction has been renewed. Things will come to a crashing halt in May, and it may take most of June for me to recover. But, until then…I’m so glad it’s back!

As always, if you don’t want to be spoiled, and you haven’t watched “The Shape of Things to Come” yet, please mark this post to read after you do!

… Are you still here? …

Okay, I admit it. I dig spoilers. I totally watched the three little clips put out by ABC to all the online entertainment sites.

… Still? …

And, all it did was get me more excited for the show. They didn’t really give away anything I hadn’t already guessed for myself. One of the clips was a little disturbing, but I was hoping I didn’t see what I thought I saw, but I’d prepared myself for the worst…just in case it wasn’t just creative editing to lead us in the wrong direction.

… There’s no going back after this …

Ready?

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Okay, now that we have that obligatory warning out of the way…

Like I’ve said before, I won’t recap the whole show. But watching Lost always leaves me with questions and comments and observations and I think this is a great place to get all that out. I love reading all the other recap sites and seeing the screen shots, so check out some cool links in my Blogroll.

This episode was great! And, I see why they moved it to a later timeslot. Claire, our toddler, loves watching Lost, but she had to go to bed before it came on. Honestly, I’m glad. There were some pretty heavy and disturbing things in it. I knew (or was hoping) that Ben was bluffing and wasn’t as evil as he wanted to sound when the people from the freighter were holding Alex hostage. His reaction when he said goodbye to her tells me that he really was devastated, and whether or not he is her biological father, he loved her.

Speaking of which…if Ben is traveling around in time, who’s to say he didn’t travel back in time and hook up with Danielle Rousseau? What if Ben really is (was?) Alex’s father? Yes, this is very Terminator, with a splash of Star Wars, but it really made me wonder. It was like he was saying what we wanted to hear…but what if it was only partially true? What if he really was her biological father?

How did Widmore change the rules? And, can we see what they are/were, please? What did he mean by “it was always my island”? Who really killed Nadia and why? Are we to believe that Sayid was “rescued” from the island as one of the Oceanic Six, found Nadia, married her, suffered through her death and then started working for Ben?

What did Ben mean when he said he “couldn’t” kill Widmore? Is this more of “the island won’t let you die” stuff? Is that why Claire survived the explosion? The island wants her to live? (I realize it’s not over yet…and anything could happen to her…)

WHO IS IN THE COFFIN!? Sorry…I got carried away.

I’m also curious as to when Ben did his little time-travel (not unlike a polar bear?) to Tunisia? If you notice, his arm was hurt, so I wonder where that fits into island time? October 21, 2005 is interesting… I need to see a timeline of events. I’m sure another rabid fan of Lost has created one. And, speaking of things the fans notice, I had a feeling Dan was lying about what the Morse Code said, and I’m so glad Bernard translated for us! (It was nice of him to save us the trouble of writing all the digits down and translating it for ourselves.) …which leads us to what happened to the poor doctor in that little wrinkle of time between the freighter and the island?

And, I can’t wait until they find Jacob again and we learn a little more about Smokey.

My two favorite lines of the evening were Daniel saying, “When is a relative term” and what Hurley said at the very beginning of the show: “Australia is the key to the whole game.” Hmmmm…interesting.

I can’t wait to read all the recaps and buzz online about this episode, and needless to say, I can’t wait for next week!