Ajira Airways

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Lost: 316

Whether you've been prepared for it or not, Lost is becoming a very different show. I'm not bringing that up as a negative. I'm not bringing it up as a positive either. This is just the natural progression of what has become the most densely written sci-fi drama ever. Eventually, we were going to reach a point that just seemed utterly ridiculous even by Lost's standards.

Let me put it this way - for as far-fetched a show as Lost is (that isn't a bad thing), I've never really felt like I had to suspend my disbelief to buy into it. With this episode, I did.

The episode focused on the Oceanic Six and how they had to return to the island. It opened with Jack, Kate, and Hurley back on the island, but we'll get back to that. Let's go back to Eloise and her church first. It picked up where we left off last week and it quickly became clear why the entire O6 weren't required - Eloise merely had instructions, and it fell flat for me almost immediately.

She brought them to the very first off-island DHARMA station we've seen (I'm sure there's more) - the Lamp Post - in the basement of the church. Inside was quite impressive. Computers, gadgets, maps, and a giant pendulum drawing chalk lines on a map on the floor. She explained that the Lamp Post was built on top of an electromagnetic pocket. There were many like it around the world, but the station was built to find only one - the island. Right away, it lost me. Very much a chicken or the egg scenario. How would they have known to even look for the island to begin with? And who figured out all the equations? Could it have been Daniel somehow?

The real kicker was when she told them that all they had to do was get on Ajira Airways Flight 316 and that's it. According to the calculations, it would fly right over the island within the given window, and they'd make it back. It sounds ridiculous (even for this show), and I think Cuse, Lindelof, and Co. even realized it and then wrote in Hawking's "leap of faith" crack. That's the last time I complain, though - I'm taking the leap.

After that, it was all about getting to the airport. However, Jack had one more task from Eloise. She claimed that for it to work, their flight must resemble Oceanic Flight 815 as closely as possible and that's why Locke hung himself - to be a proxy for Christian Shepard. All Jack needed to do was dress Locke up in something of his late father's. What ensued bugged me a little. Was there any real point to Jack seeing his grandpa Ray? Wouldn't it have been much quicker to have Jack just dig some of his father's shoes out of a box in the back of his closet? The only purpose it served was to add an air of happenstance and destiny to the situation, and I'm not sure that justified it.

Eventually, everyone made it to the airport, but it instantly created a boatload of questions. Obviously Jack, Sun, and Ben had all the info because they heard it firsthand. Jack told Kate, so she knew. But then Hurley and Sayid also arrived. How did they know? My guess? Hawking somehow paid them a visit and convinced them. We have no idea how Hurley got out of jail, and all he said was "all that matters is that I'm here." But he had a guitar and in the spirit of re-enacting 815, I'd almost guarantee that Hurley shelled out some megabucks for a guitar that had been played by the late Charlie Pace. Same goes for Sayid. He did something to ensure that he was being escorted by Ilana, the Federal Marshal, on the plane. Just as Kate was on 815. How else would they have known to do these things?

Since Hurley bought up all the remaining first class seats, the only people in the front of the plane were the attendants, Jack, Kate, Sun, Ben, Hurley, Sayid, Ilana the marshal, and Caesar (the guy who spoke to Jack in the ticket line). Coach class was full, but if the plane splits like 815, the front end survivors will be together again. Except there was no crash. Once they were near the island, a time flash occurred and just like that, Jack, Kate, and Hurley were back ... in the 1970s. (No clue where/when Ben, Sayid, and Sun are.) Jin, driving the DHARMA VW bus, rolled up, clad in a beige jumpsuit, and aimed a shotgun at them.

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LOST Season 5 preview?

I don't know if anyone else noticed this or not. On iTunes you can get 2 free previews for Season 5. In the one titled "You Found Me" by The Fray featuring LOST (Music Video) there are weird occurances. At around 1:33 there is a weird flash of yellow. If you can manage to pause it during that exact second there is a symbol. It is a sun with a tiger on it. It says Ajira Airways. It flashes again later in the video. What does that mean?

every season of lost has a website to go with it, it's fun. like the oceanic airlines website, that ajira airways website is on:
http://www.ajiraairways.com/
there is nothing on the site yet, they say they'll launch the airline on the 21st January 2009. some of the lost sites are arg's (alternate reality games) sites where you follow clues and you get bonus videos of various people who are connected to the island in some way, or connected to someone else who is connected to the island, and sometimes the clues lead you to other sites aswell. no one knows if this site will be like that until the launch date. you can read more about it on: http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Ajira_Airways

and for information on the 3 other arg's there has been in between seasons read:
http://www.lostpedia.com/wiki/Arg
so you can get the idea of what it is about.

the owner of the airline also has a facebook page: if you have facebook you can join it
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49680092840

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