Namaste

Quick hits, because I barely have time to BREATHE:

• I must be getting on in my old age, because I just realized that Sun and Co. didn't land in 1977 like the others. Well, not THE Others, but you know, those other people. Good lord, this could get confusing quickly. Why didn't Sun and Ben (and Locke, too, I suppose) disappear off of Ajira 316 and land in 1977? Um...I don't know. 
• Creepy Christian Shepherd is hangin' in 2007, site of the recently blown-up-by-freighter-mercenaries Dharma neighborhood. WHY IS THIS GUY EVERYWHERE?
• Before abandoning us to go have a baby (lame excuse), Kristin let it slip that LOST will be featuring a WEDDING close to or during the season finale this year. Place your bets: I'm going with Jim and Juliet. Suck it, Kate.
• Amy named her baby Ethan. I'm assuming this ends up being the same Ethan that later kidnaps pregnant Claire, leaves Charlie hanging from a tree, recruits Juliet to the Island, and eventually gets shot by Charlie (not in tree). And Juliet helped bring that little bundle 'o joy into the world!
• Maybe it's me, but I'm getting a little frustrated with the characters on this show who get the most basic answers to HUGE questions, and don't seem all too interested in ASKING FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS!! Example: When Sawyer mentions Faraday's Rules for Living in the Past, Jack asks, "Faraday? He's still here?" Sawyer replies, "Not anymore." And the convo is finished! Infuriating.
• When the plane was crashing, did anyone else notice that the automated voice was spouting off the numbers?!
• Ha. "Based on your aptitude tests, you'll be doing janitorial work." Good to know that medical school can get you far in life, Jack. 
• Sawyer/James/Jim (I'm not a fan of these characters having multiple names...like this show isn't confusing enough!) called Kate...well, Kate. He's only ever called her by her real name when things aren't going well. Where's the love, Sawyer?
  

Next week's "He's Our You" is Sayid-centric. Hopefully, life will slow down a bit before then!

LaFleur

Yeah, yeah, I suck. Get over it.

OK, so anyway, last Thursday's Sawyer-centric "LaFleur" was LEAPS and BOUNDS ahead of its weekly predecessor, "316." There was romance, action, suspense, humor, intrigue (obvi), and, holy crap, AN ANSWER OR TWO!

Thanks to Locke locking (haha, me funny) the wheel in place, the Left-Behind-ers are no longer skipping through time like a stone across the placid lake surface (heeee-ey, girlfriend's gettin' all poetic!). They have finally come to a rest--and as Daniel (still mourning the loss of Red) says, "the record is no longer skipping. We're just on the wrong song." So instead of Maroon 5, we're kickin' it to Geronimo Jackson. On their way back to the beach, (quote of the night goes to Miles for his stunning insight: "...[and] when you get [to the beach], you'll want to go back to the Orchid again, and when that gets boring, we can head back to the beach. It's the only 2 plans you people have.") they run across a damsel in distress. The Hostiles have already managed to kill Paul, and are on their way to doing the same to Amy when Sawyer steps in with his trusty rifle to lend a hand. After he and Juliet take them out, a fearful Amy blathers on about burying the bodies to uphold the pact, blah, blah, blah, then gives the old fake-out at the sonic fence. When the crowd comes to, Sawyer has adopted the story that the group is shipwrecked, and his name is LaFluer. Jim LaFluer. 

Sawyer's epic narrative is basically based on the fact that now that the whole time travelling thing has run its' course, they'll just wait the 30 years it will take for the rest of the crew to get back.

What kind of crazy leadership is that?! Jack would NEVER do something like that! Pshaw. 30 years, my foot. I'd leave your ass, and make my way back to the beach. (Which, as Miles noted is always Plan B.)

Juliet's feeling the same way too, ready to take the next sub outta CrazyTown, but Sawyer looks at her all nice-like and she decides to stay for two weeks. Meanwhile, 3 years later...

...Sawyer, ahem, excuse me, Jim LaFleur, is now head of security for the Dharma Initiative, and Juliet's a mechanic. (Which was, obviously, her second choice after becoming a baby scientist doctor gal.) Oh, and they love each other. Suliet (followers of this blog have learned not to dub these two "Jawyer," for they run the risk of having their sexuality questioned...), in the past three years, have fallen in love, shacked up, and Sawyer has forgotten what old whatsherface even looks like. 

Except, oh yeah, she's back, and that's right, THAT'S what she looks like!

And, she looks so good that Sawyer has to take his glasses off to make sure. 

Barf. OK, Damon. Kate loves Jack, and Sawyer loves Juliet. Let's just leave well enough alone, and NOT MESS WITH THIS, mmkay?!

Ahhh... what else? Oh, lots of Egyptian symbology showing up. We got a glimpse of the 4-toed statue (at least, we're assuming so) from behind, and multiple sources are placing it in Egyptian mythology and drawing parallels between that and the hieroglyphics in the hatch, and on the timer, and on that map drawn on the door, and making all these connections that go way over my head. Please enlighten me if you have a theory on this.

Next week is a repeat, s hopefully, y'all won't string me up when I don't post anything for a week or so. BUT, when LOST comes back in two weeks, we'll get some more Reiko, and some Young Ben! Namaste! (Which, by the by, is the name of the episode.) Until next time...

The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham...

...was completely boring.

Apologies for the tardiness of this recap. Things have been a bit crazy this week.

So anyway, it seems that I am in the minority on this one. I thought "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" pretty much gave us nothing that we didn't already know (or assume). Surprised when Locke showed up alive on the island after the Ajira Airways crash? Nope. And really, there wasn't all that much going on anyway. Locke goes to visit Sayid. Asks him to come back to the island. Sayid says no. Goes to visit Kate. Asks her to come back to the island. She says no. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Furthermore, I'm not even sure Locke dropped his pseudonym when he visited any of those people. So why the secrecy with his name? Why, when Walt visited Hurley in the institution last year, did he say "Why aren't we calling him by his real name" or something to that effect? Makes me think the producers didn't include ALL of Locke's journey.

But the stuff they did include was rather boring, truth be told. Raise your hand if you really cared about what happened to Helen? Bueller..... Bueller.....? (Raise your hand if you even REMEMBER what she looked like!)

What did we get? Uh...Abaddon is the devil. Like, for real. Some sort of mythological character, ushering people to their deaths or something. Charles Widmore is a good guy, Ben is the bad guy? Or Ben is the good guy, and the Chuckster is evil? I don't know. Lapidus took off in an outrigger after Ajira crashed. Wanna bet Sun is with him? (There goes my theory that Cesar and Ilana, or so they're named, were the ones pursuing Sawyer and Co.!)

So, after nothing happens, Locke tries to hang himself. Ben shows up just in time to talk him off the ledge, then kills him himself. Seemingly, as soon as Locke name dropped Eloise Hawking, Ben felt it necessary to strangle him. But other sources are going with the notion, that similar to Michael, the island won't let John commit suicide. 

Whatever. Boring!

Here's hoping that next week's "LaFleur" is a little bit more blog-worthy. I hope so! Reiko Aylesworth (a.k.a. Michelle Dressler from 24) starts her recurring character arc. Weeeee!