Lost Ajira

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A week after the most divisive episode in the history of the series, I was very curious about the follow-up. For the record, I enjoyed "Across the Sea" even if it was perplexing at times. If nothing else, it was essential for tonight's episode. I was very glad to see Desmond again even if it was only in the sideways world. I really thought he was about to run Locke down again so I totally shocked when he got out of his car and beat Ben to a pulp...just like old times! Ben even had a flash of Desmond beating him at the marina in "Dead Is Dead." But Desmond wasn't done yet! He turned himself in to Sawyer who put him in a jail cell with Sayid (very glad to see him again!) in a cell next to Kate. Desmond still wasn't finished gathering up sideways Losties thanks to a deal he made with Ana Lucia who released them to Hurley while she was transporting them to county lockup. I loved Hurley's line asking if Ana Lucia was coming with them. His meeting with Libby had an even more profound effect than I had thought! It appears that the climactic meeting of everyone in the sideways world will be at the benefit concert at Miles' dad's museum.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the sideways world, Locke got religion. He became the man of faith that we all know and love when Ben told him what Desmond said while beating Dr. Linus. So Locke has decided that it is indeed time to fix his legs. Speaking of Ben, he got invited to dinner at his favorite student Alex's house with her mother. It goes without saying that it was nice to see Danielle again especially all dressed up like a normal person as opposed to a crazy Island hermit. After dinner, it almost seemed like there was a love connection between Ben and Danielle. I could be reading that wrong but it sure seemed like something to me. I still have no idea what will happen when all the sideways characters get together in the finale, but a fair number of them are setup for the meeting and I'm sure the rest will be drawn together by Desmond during the epic finale on Sunday.

Back on the Island, Jack, Sawyer, Hurley and Kate were understandably upset by the deaths of Sayid, Sun and Jin but man-of-action Jack knew what to do. After sewing up Kate's wound (mirroring Jack's post-crash surgery in the "Pilot"), Jack began leading the survivors in search of Desmond. Sawyer stopped Jack along the way to ask about the bomb on the sub. I really empathized with Sawyer and his feelings of guilt and responsibility for Sayid, Sun and Jin's deaths. Jack really stepped up and said some very comforting things to Sawyer and I liked Jack for doing it. Not long after, Hurley saw the boy Jacob and followed him to find the full grown Jacob who told him that the end was near and that he needed to see the survivors.

Meanwhile, Ben, Richard and Miles were still on a quest to get C4 to destroy the Ajira plane. However, they were ambushed at Ben's old Dharma house by Charles Widmore and Zoe. Unfortunately for everyone, Locke was not far behind. Widmore and Zoe hid, Miles ran and Ben and Richard attempted to confront Locke. Suddenly Richard was attacked by the Smoke Monster and seems to be dead and gone. I'm not totally sure we've seen the last of him, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he was gone for good considering how characters are dropping like flies now! If he's gone I must say Richard, we hardly knew ye. Please give Frank our condolences if you see him in the afterlife of secondary characters.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just when I thought Ben had turned over a new leaf, he double crossed Widmore and Zoe. After quickly dispatching of Zoe, Locke offered to spare Penny's life if Widmore told him how and why he returned to the Island. I was surprised to learn that Jacob told Widmore to return with Desmond. As Widmore was telling Locke about the importance of Desmond, Ben shot and killed him. This is just getting ridiculous! Ben asked Locke who else needed to be killed which disturbed me. But then again, he could be pulling a long con on Locke. At least I hope he is!

Back at Jacob's campfire, the remaining candidates questioned Jacob about his motives. Apparently Jacob brought them all to the Island because they had lonely lives and they needed the Island as much as the Island needed them. And Kate was crossed off the list in the cave because she had Aaron and wasn't alone anymore. But she was still a candidate and she could have the job if she wanted it. After last week, I really didn't care for Jacob and although he made some good points in his explanation, he still came off as pretty selfish. He said that he was letting his replacement choose because he never got the chance to decide if he wanted to be guardian of the Island. Of course, Jack stepped forward to be Jacob's replacement. It felt right even though I haven't always been on Team Jack. Jacob turned water into wine or something for Jack to drink and told him where the heart of the Island was. Jack drank and became like Jacob.

Finally, Ben and Locke trekked to the well where Desmond was supposed to be but apparently, besides not killing him, Sayid also left a rope for Desmond to escape. According to Locke, Desmond is the fail safe in the case that all the candidates are killed. I have a feeling that Locke plans to throw Desmond into the light to make him a Smoke Monster but his unique resistance to electromagnetism will backfire on Locke and probably destroy him.

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Lost Season Six, Episode 14 The Candidate

Lost Season Six - Episode 14, "The Candidate"
Okay peeps, I have to admit, I'm wiggin' out, here. We're only a few episodes away from the friggin' finale, and I have so many dratted questions that I'm afraid that won't get answered in the end.

And what was the DEAL with torturing us for another week by running an unannounced rerun? (Was I the only one who was clueless to this?) I was all psyched last week, after a long, hard day, and was looking SO forward to viewing the latest episode. But nooooo...they HAD to run a darn rerun. I love me some Richard Alpert, but geez...not again?!

First off, would someone - anyone - puh-leez give Kate a different shirt to wear? The same Dharma-blah-generic-brownish thing is getting on my last nerves, especially since she apparently chose the smallest, tightest sized shirt available from Dharma to maximize boob emphasis. Don't get me wrong - I admire her athletic physique, but sheesh.

Claire and her wig is another contender for me to be flippant about - I swear I saw a bird fly outta there. I wish there was a scene where Kate or Sun would have sat gently down with her and helped her brush her hair out...or perhaps tackled her down and made her wash it or rinse it...just once.

Okay...'nuff of that.

In the flash-sideways/alt reality, Dr. Jack Shephard repairs Locke's dural sac (hmmm...kinda similar to the story he tells to Kate on Season 1 - note to self: If you have an issue that involves your dural sac, do NOT go looking for Dr. Jacko, as he has a thing for puncturing and then patting himself on the back for repairing the darn things) and alt reality Locke is recovering in the hospital. They recognize each other from the baggage claim area on Oceanic 815. Jack informs him that he is a "candidate" (coinkidink? NOT) for new procedure that will probably "fix" his spinal cord issues/paralysis. Lockity-Locke tells him, "Nuh-uh," and Jack gets all up in his business, trying to figure out why on earth he would turn down the chance to walk again and have feeling in his legs. To me, however, it seemed Jack was more horrified at the prospect that Locke wasn't ALLOWING him to be the hero in it all. How DARE he keep Jack from "saving" him? The horror.

So Jack, being the pompous, nosey, control-freak bloke that he is, decides to take it upon himself to "investigate" why Mr. Locke wouldn't want to have this procedure done. His "investigation" (involving alt Bernard and alt Helen) leads him to Locke's father, Anthony Cooper, in which we find out that Mr. Cooper is paralyzed and in a rather vegetative state - unable to talk, walk, or do much of nuttin' except drool.

We find out that Locke was responsible for his father's condition, via a plane crash in which Locke was at the helm and Mr. Cooper being the passenger at Locke's insistence. Although it was an apparent accident and he claims that he doesn't remember much of what happened, Locke feels guilty and apparently "unworthy" of walking again. OK. Or something. He wheels away from Jack in the Locke 'tude he generally has in the alt timeline.

Throughout this, there's a scene in which Locke mutters during his sleep about, "I wish you had believed me," LOCKED (bwah ha...okay, don't mind my cheesy puns) in an apparent unconscious memory of la isle, no doubt. Hmm.

The island Jack wakes up on a boat on Hydra Island. Sayid is there, saying hullo in an almost normal way. Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Claire, Jin, Sun, and Lapidus are captured by Widmore's crew and they're locked into the lovely cages that Kate and Sawyer were in on Season 3. On the beach, Sayid tells Jack that Fake Locke saved him from the attack, and that all of Fake Locke's people are in the jungle, willy nilly, leaving just the three of them - Jack, Locke, and Sayid.

Fake Locke hatches a nifty plan to bust the other guys out of the cages, and suddenly the power clicks off. Smokey comes along, rushing (or clicking and squeaking) around the cages, slaying Widmore's people who are guarding our captured Lostie friends.

As Kate can't quite reach the keys on the fallen dead guard in front of their cage, Jack walks up and grabs the keys, releasing his friends - but not without informing her, "I'm with HIM," (aka, Fake Locke). Well, neener for you, Jack.

Fake Locke stomps over to the Ajira plane, which conveniently has a handy staircase (eh?) that he can march his Fake Locke butt on to and into the plane. He sees with great agitation that the plane has been rigged with a type of bomb, and comes back out to tell everyone else that they'll have to take the sub home. Aw, bummer!

Jack states heroically (blech) that he'll help get everyone on the sub, but that he's not leaving the island. Just 'cause he's special. Sawyer makes Jack pinky-swear (well, not quite....) that he'll make sure that Fake Locke doesn't make it on the sub, no matter what it takes.

They all get to the dock where the submarine is located (complete with the "chick-CHICK" noises of loading their weapons as they approach it - Side Note: Why do they never have their weapons loaded, and they all have to load them at the same time?) and gun fire ensues between them and Widmore's crew. Jack suddenly turns and pushes Fake Locke into the water. (Remember: Fake Locke has stated before that he can't go in the water. Hmm.)

Kate gets shot in all the gunfire, and Jack hauls her (moaning and screaming - "Auuuuuggggh!") into the sub. Everyone makes it just in time (Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Sayid, and Lapidus), except for Crusty Claire and Fake Locke. Crusty Claire is howling about them leaving without her, and is REALLY ticked off, but Fake Locke holds her back and informs her that it's actually good that she isn't on that sub - she wouldn't want to be.

The sub pulls away from the dock and goes underwater - yay, just in time. Or IS it?

Once inside, Jack reaches for his backpack to look for stuff to help out wounded, bleeding Kate, and finds a bomb planted there by Fake Locke. Oops. Jack states that Fake Locke can't kill the candidates, and by attempting to disarm the bomb, they'll actually make it go BOOM. He tells them, don't do it - just leave it alone, and we'll all be hunky dory! Sawyer, who is as hard-headed as ever, practically gives Jack the finger and yanks the wires out of the bomb anyhoo, which causes the timer to go even faster towards detonation. Whoopsie daisy.

Sayid grabs the bomb and quickly tells Jack that Desmond is in a well on the island and that Fake Locke wants him deader than a doornail. Jack asks why Sayid is giving him this info, and he replies, "Because it's going to be you, Jack." Sayid then grabs the bomb like a football star and hauls his butt away from everyone else to a corner of the sub. KaBOOM...it explodes. Buh-bye, Sayid.

The sub begins to fill with water and Sun is trapped against the sub wall by some chunky, immobile debris (her wrist seems caught or something?). Hurley takes injured Kate and escapes the sub, and Jack grabs a hold of Sawyer, who is hurt. Jin says he is not leaving Sun; Jack and Hurley successfully swim off with their injured friends, and we get to watch Sun and Jin hang on to each other, declaring their love, hand in hand, until they both drown. The last shot of them is a sad scene where you see their hands go limp with each other, and as their dead bodies drift away, their hands slowly pull apart. To do a Sawyer-ish impression, I was like, "SON of a B!TCH!!" I could handle Sayid dying, but both Sun and Jin getting knocked off was a tear-jerker.

Kate, Hurley, Jack, and an injured Sawyer surface on the shoreline. Sawyer coughs, however, giving us reason to believe he's still alive. Jack hangs his head and cries. Yeah, that's right, Jack. Wah.

I'm wondering if Kate and Sawyer are going to make it in the next epi?

Fake Locke and Crusty Claire are still hanging out on the dock, and Fake Locke tells her the sub has sunk, but not everyone is dead. He grabs a gun and informs Claire that he's off to "...finish what he started." Hmm.

And then...credits. Aiiiieeee.

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LOST: Why was Hurley ''made'' a canidate on his second return to the island?

Just been thinking, everybody that came to the island was either A) there for a purpose B) a canidate.
we can assume that ''the lighthouse'' has the names of people Jacob sought to bring to the island for his own reasons (canidate or ''progress'' to further his situation)
From what we have seen Jacob touched various characters & that seemed to create their ''destiny'' to reach the island (this includes characters such as Boone Shannon etc just we didn't see their flash-backs to what happened)

It's a good observation, but one you may just have to make an assumption. Your facts are right, we never see Hurley touched until the taxicab before the Ajira flight. But can we assume maybe he has always been a candidate. The numbers have always been there since season 1 and all the way in the past to his playing them as lottery numbers. Hurley is number 8 and you have to think those 6 have been those numbers since they came on the island the first time. It was significant they were touched, but I think that when they were touched doesn't matter, just so they are. He was chosen long before he was touched.

Lost offers up some big answers about eyeliner guy
Finally! More answers than questions for our latest installment of what's up with ABC's Lost , as we take a look at the story of Richard Alpert in "Ab Aeterno," certainly one of the most mysterious characters on the series, since he doesn't age and has been endlessly loyal to Jacob. ( It's questions and mega answers, so spoilers ahead! )

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