Exciting news on the finale! Originally, the plan on May 23rd was a clip special from 7 to 9, the last two hours of Lost from 9 to 11, and then a Jimmy Kimmel special (“Lost: The Final Rose,” which cracks me up) from 11 to 12. But news has just come out that Carlton and Damon got permission to extend the finale by half an hour, so it’s actually going to run from 9 to 11:30, immediately followed by the Kimmel special featuring a large portion of the cast. Apparently the local news just isn’t going to happen. Probably because, in every town across America, the only important news will be that Lost is over. Right?
Other fun stuff: the night before the finale, Saturday May 22nd, ABC is going to air a special version of the original two-hour pilot. So, obviously, my apartment will be available for anyone who’s interested! And if you’re wondering why the preview for next week’s episode only seemed to show stuff from previous seasons, that’s because Damon and Carlton are so afraid of giving too much away that there aren’t going to be any more promos with new material between now and the finale.
Oh Locke X is alive! I am SO RELIEVED. I’m starting this episode about 40 minutes late because I just spent 2 hours telling people all about how the world isn’t going to end in 2012 (clearly, the world ends on May 23rd as soon as the finale of Lost airs). So, I have a lot of pent-up energy, and I thiiiiiink that’s going to come through in this very bitter blog post.
Well, I guess we have our final confirmation that Kate isn’t on any lists and isn’t interesting in any way whatsoever, so I suppose we can get back to placing bets as to whether she’ll make out with Sawyer or Jack next since that’s all this stupid show cares about.
Oh Jack X, look at you trying to fix people, also known as “bending them to your will since, after all, the world revolves around you.” And then Bernard X adorably says, “I hope you find what you’re looking for,” which we all know is impossible because Jack will never be satisfied. He is, however, always pretty adorable with his son, and later on in this episode with Claire X (and what do YOU all think that music box means?).
Flocke tells Jack he can trust him “because I could kill you,” but didn’t. Um, how does that make any logical sense, especially given that Jack has spent YEARS living a horrible existence where people use allegiances and emotion and false feelings of security to do horrible things to people? If I’m on Lost Island, and someone tells me they’re not going to kill me, I don’t assume it’s because they’re my best buddy; I assume it’s because they’re going to use me in some awful way. And, given that I’m a woman, they’re probably going to use me to get to Jack. Or Sawyer, take your pick. If I’m Jack, and Flocke says this to me, I don’t buy it for a minute — fortunately, Jack does seem to figure out later in the episode that there’s something strange going on, thinks about how Richard can’t kill himself but can have others kill him, puts two and two together, and comes up with a totally bizarre idea that turns out to be correct.
However, I am indeed wondering why it is that Flocke is always claiming to need help from people. Perhaps in this case he really just needs Jack’s psychological help, to convince people to follow him. But generally, he seems very concerned with gaining “followers,” which seems strange to me given that, lacking ash circles and sonic fences, he seems to have an unlimited ability to kill.
And I know Jack rescued them, so obviously Kate, Sawyer, the Kwons, and the rest of the crew are going to follow him at first — at least until they are safely out of the cages. But why would they continue to follow him when it becomes clear that they’re going back to Locke? Sawyer just hatched an elaborate plan to get away from him. I know there is no point in trying to figure out the logic of this show, so I just want to make sure you’re all with me in WTF-land. And why doesn’t Sawyer question Flocke’s explanation that Widmore is just trying to get them all in the same place to kill them? He knows full well that Widmore could have killed them all. I know he doesn’t want to tip his hand in front of Locke, but even when he’s talking to Jack, he just sort of vaguely says “I don’t trust him.” He doesn’t say, “This doesn’t make sense because Widmore could easily kill us. He won’t because he apparently needs us. Also, that bomb on the plane was REALLY OBVIOUS, so I think maybe Widmore WANTED Flocke to find it. As in, I’m totally sure.” Oh, actually, that last bit’s just me, not Sawyer. Unless, of course, that C4 was the result of Ben, Richard, and Miles’s trip to try to blow the plane up. Why wouldn’t they just have detonated immediately, though? On the other hand, why would Widmore have precisely the same plan as our favorite sarcastic trio?
Dear Lost: We get that the X Losties are remembering stuff from the other timeline. Having Locke X mutter, “Don’t push the button” is pushing it a bit far, wouldn’t you agree? However, I am really enjoying that Jack X is figuring out that there are too many coincidences here for them to be nothing more than coincidences. I think they’re playing that really well, since it’s taking him a while to put it all together and he’s having genuine interactions with these people in the meantime. On the other hand, what is it that Claire X is actually doing while she chills out in Los Angeles?
When Jack pushed Flocke in the water, I wondered why he didn’t just shoot him, and then remembered that bullets seem to have no effect. Interesting that he does follow the law of physics that makes you fall in the water when somebody pushes you, but not the law of physics that makes you feel it when somebody shoots you. Oh wait, that’s the same law of physics. Like I said, interesting! I’m also really intrigued by the law of physics that lets you take a submarine down to some depth in about 30 seconds, but it will then take you 5 whole minutes to get back up to the surface. And the crazy law of Island Logic where Flocke can turn Sayid into a zombie after he’s been dead for two hours, but a friendly conversation with Desmond can turn him back.
Oh, and the crazy law of Island Logic where you can’t kill people with a bomb, but you can give them a bomb and set it to explode and then they can somehow use to kill themselves? How is it not the same as just killing them? And if that’s how it works, wouldn’t it be about a thousand times easier to, say, chase Jack off a cliff, wouldn’t it? Or to toss him down one of those wells — because if he just naturally starves to death, that’s not murder, in the same way that giving him an exploding bomb isn’t murder. These rules make no sense to me, and I’ve been able to make sense of time travel and quantum mechanics and multiverses on Lost — but for the “rules,” I’ve got nothing.
And way to kill Zombie Sayid, everyone. Lapidus, thanks for coming along for the ride, sorry it had to end this way. Oh, and P.S. Ji Yeon: sorry, you don’t have parents. They pulled a Titanic. Maybe you should have tried harder to be born a boy, since boys are important with major storyline that girls just “help” with.
Wow, do I sound bitter tonight? I’m really charged up from the talk I gave, but I’m also not appreciative of a show that makes no logical sense but also isn’t fun. If the story isn’t going to make sense, but I love the characters, we’re all good. But if the story doesn’t make sense and you’re killing Sayid (albeit with honor) and then making me watch Sun and Jin drown, and sucking all of the joy out of the room, you’ve lost me. At least they’re all still alive in the X timeline, and there seem to be some solid story reasons for their deaths.
Really interesting that Locke X hurt his father with a small plane and a pilot’s license — strongly reminiscent of what happened with Boone way, way back when. At this point, I no longer define the “brokenness” of Locke and his relationship with the Island in terms of the mistake he made when he essentially sacrificed Boone for his ‘mission,’ but this episode brought all that up again, and I think the writers do, in many ways, think of that as The Moment for Locke.
One last thing: Sayid told Jack that, basically, he was the one who was going to turn out to be the candidate (thus, the title of the episode). If Flocke is afraid because he “knows” that Jack is going to be the one that matters, #1 why doesn’t he just focus on Jack and leave everyone else alone? And #2, what’s the point of HAVING more than one candidate if you can tell which one is the most likely based on which one seems the most like a main character? And how does he know that they’re not all dead in that submarine? Would something have happened to him, something he could sense, if he’d succeeded in his mission?
Actually, this is the last thing: when you are killing people just to “shock” us, we can tell. Bye, Sayid, who is awesome! Bye, Sun, who hasn’t had a storyline in years! Bye, Jin, who is also awesome! Good job bringing diversity to the cast all those years, but now it’s time to make room for Jack’s rise to glory. Whatever.
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