Lost Season 5, Episode #1
The Review
You might think adding actually jumping through time might be more confusing than flashbacks and flashforwards, but you’d be mistaken, at least in the case of “Because you left”.
While we still don’t know why the people who left the island need to go back, or how Locke got off the island or how Ben got off the island… (at this point I’m just going to assume tribal council didn’t go their way), the story is firmly set in motion that they have to go back. Ben and Jack are heck-bent to bring the old gang back together.
Kate and Sun have problems of their own. Kate has little rutabaga head in tow and now has someone hot on their tail. And Sun has another showdown with Widmore.
A really solid episode, no new mysteries and everything that happens moves the most prominent story arc (time skipping) forward (so to speak). It is also really cool to have the castaways go back in time to things (and people) we recognize from earlier in the series.
Characters
Sawyer and Daniel are the featured characters on the island, while Sayid and Hurley pull the lion’s share of advancing the plot in “real time” back on the mainland. Oh yeah, Locke also features prominently, back on the island.
Grade: B+
Running Commentary (or Greg’s Inner-monologue)
The record skips…
Dr. Chang is super cool.
An almost limitless energy that will allow them to manipulate time. And there are rules, rules that cannot be broken. I’m just curious, who do you suppose writes these rules? I’d like that job.
Heather says, she writes the rules. In fact…
She writes the rules that make the whole world sing… she writes the rules for every-thing…
Oh, it’s that guy. I guess, I’m going to have to remember his name. I think it’s Daniel. He’ll be Daniel until I can tell you his real name.
Mortuary
Jack was a train wreck when the plane crashed. Jack became a train wreck on the island and is a train wreck now.
I’m glad Ben has a plan. I’d be sad if Ben didn’t have a plan.
Three years earlier
Okay, a time reference. I guess that’s good. They’ve been off the island for three years. Watching Ben move the island, I am reminded that he was the one who said, “Whoever moves the island can never come back.” Uhm. Maybe he’s not going to go all the way, it would be a shame for something so cryptic to be contradicted so quickly. I mean that sounds like one of those rules. If someone is going to go to the trouble to write them and people are going to remember them, they shouldn’t be so easily cast aside. At least that’s what I think.
The Island – moved
Everything but the people is gone.
Oh, good. His name is Daniel. Apparently Daniel (the physicist) knows something about the camp...
Daniel: Your camp isn’t gone, it hasn’t been built yet.
Oh, I am sooo sure that’s not what Sawyer wanted to hear.
Now. (Kate)
And away she goes…
Island
Sawyer is the voice of reason.
Daniel: blah-blah-blah-blah
Sawyer: SLAP
Ah, there we go. All is good.
Cool, the island (or the people) are skipping through time like a record? Oh yeah, Daniel was on the island way back when Chang was. That’s pretty cool.
It’s ironic (and big of me to point out) that in my review of the last episode, it totally escaped me that that Locke was not one of the folk who got rescued. Good job guys.
Eco’s brother’s plane! The drug madonnas!
Wow. Evil Ethan! Huh, who’d have thunk. I suppose the whole moving the island is kind of like the creators calling for a mulligan. I’m actually good with that. I’d rather go back to a show that I like and enjoy it all over again than be sad that it went ca-ca.
Back to the future
Sun – Whitmore round 2: “Common Interests”
Uh-oh, Hurley has been implicated in Sayid’s dirty work.
A change of plan, should just be built into to all of Ben’s plans. Because his plans don’t really seem to go very well.
Sayid: …whatever he (Ben) tells you, just do the opposite.
Now, that sounds like a plan.
Wow. That was the worst action foreshadowing I’ve ever seen. I called the frying pan. Heather called the knives. Like it was choreographed by Charlie Brown.
We were really doing well up until the lame fight scene.
Back on Gilligan’s Island
Having the story jump back and forth in flashbacks and then flashforwards was one thing. Having the actual story jump back and forth in time is kind of fun. But I like time travel.
Time is like a string.
That is such an antiquated concept. Totally linear. Good theory, easy to prove (since we can neither go forward or backwards in time) but if we could… then this theory would kind of be like the whole “world is flat” concept. Just give us some time… we’ll figure it out.
Richard
Okay, I can totally see why my cool friends are hooked on this show again.
Richard: It’s a compass.
Locke: What does it do?
Richard: It points North, John.
That is awesome dialogue. That was a really scene with a guy who know what time travel is all about. Okay, Richard (whose name I apparently know) can stay.
Time-skips
Can I just say it now, I really like the time-skips. Sure if they go on all year I can see them becoming annoying. But this is kind of cool.
Sawyer: This would all be fascinating, if I was listening.
LMAO!!!
You can’t change the past
We say that only because we don’t know if anyone if anyone already has.
Miles is an idiot. And yes, apparently I know his name too.
Uh-oh, Charlotte has a nose-bleed. Dang, I know her name too. Frak me.
Daniel is definitely my new favorite character. Desmond is definitely like a little marionette, time’s puppet. I say, “puppet” but mean a word that rhymes with bitch. Oh wait, I mean bitch.
Oh crap that the end.
Okay friends, you are right. At least for one episode: Lost is back.
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