Lost Observations – “There’s No Place Like Home, Part 1”

Well, I don’t know about you, but the title of this latest episode of Lost makes me want to close my eyes and tap my heels together.

What a great episode. There are only two hours left! Then, we have to wait 9-months! Gee, that would be plenty of time to hide a pregnancy from the rest of the world and then come home with a really big 5-week old baby.

Well, ya win some and ya lose some. I was right about Aaron being one of the Oceanic Six, but I was wrong about what the cover story was going to be. Kate gave birth to him? She was six months pregnant when they crashed? Mmm-hmm. I guess it’s possible. John’s mother was six months pregnant and was able to hide her pregnancy with a poodle skirt. And, there *are* women out there who don’t show until later, if at all. So, I’ll just have to suspend my disbelief on that one.

(I mean, we all know the truth…I’m just trying to see this from an outsider’s perspective.)

And, before I had Claire, I was really horrible at guessing how old a baby was by how big he or she was…and I still am. But, does Aaron look 5-weeks old to you? No? Yes? Maybe? Okay, I’ll let that one slide, too.

I do believe that Sun could pull off the “well, I was pregnant before I flew and didn’t know it” line. She herself didn’t know if Jin was the father of her baby until Juliet did the ultrasound, so that is very plausible.

Hurley not losing weight is actually the most unrealistic part of the story, but he was able to laugh his way through that.

And, it was nice to see good ol’ #108 make a reappearance. That’s the number of days they were on the fake island in the cover story before they set sail on the boat that washed up. So, is Day 103 the date of the “typhoon” really the date of the Tsunami that happened in real life? I’m sure someone has checked that by the time I even post this…

So, we know the cover story…what’s the real story? I really hope we find out next week.

And, did they say anything about the supposed plane they found at the bottom of the trench…the one that was planted by Widmore (or so we’ve been led to believe)? Are we to believe that these six (or eight) people got out of the plane before it sunk to the bottom? Is that the story? Or, does something wacky happen with that whole thing in the space/time continuum, when/if they move the island? Did I miss something?

WHO IS IN THE COFFIN!? Just kidding.

Let’s talk about some shocking and not so shocking things we learned in this episode. Ben is still in charge. I’m really not surprised. He always has a plan. We know this.

Claire’s mom came out of her coma!? She’s the one who drops the bombshell on Jack about him being Claire’s ½ brother and therefore Aaron’s uncle!? Wow! I did not see that one coming.

Sun bought the controlling portion of Daddy Paik’s company!? Wow. Go Sun! She said that two people were responsible for Jin’s death, and her father was one of them. Who is the other? My hubby thinks she was referring to herself, but I didn’t get that vibe from her. I could be wrong; I’ve been wrong before.

Also shocking was my own sadness for Kate when they got off the Coast Guard plane and she had no one there. I’ve never really liked Kate, and I actually felt a little twang of sadness for her, clutching baby Aaron, all alone.

But, in most of the rest of that flashforward, I’m actually happy for the survivors. They appear happy. We know it’s short-lived. We know it doesn’t end well for Sayid or Jack or Hurley, and we don’t really know yet what happens to Sun or Kate or Aaron in the future. But for a moment, they really do appear happy.

And, then the numbers make a (maybe not so) coincidental appearance, and Hurley starts his descent. The numbers really do make him crazy.

And, I guess I shouldn’t say “we know it doesn’t end well,” because we don’t really know where it all ends. This is all just the middle…or the beginning of something much larger.

And, does anyone else wonder why Daniel has all of these things scribbled in his notebook? Is this from the past? It doesn’t look like it’s from a briefing of what’s going to happen on the island before their mission, because he has formulas scrawled all over the place. Or, maybe that’s just how crazy physicists take notes in a meeting.

So, I can’t wait to read all the buzz online about this episode. (Check out my blogroll for some cool Lost sites.) I love getting more and more of the story even though each piece of the puzzle brings us closer to the end.