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Lost Recap & Review: S6:E1&2 'LA X'
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Recap
Season 6 premiere episode starts off exactly where Season 5 ended. Juliet has fallen down the hatch construction hole and detonates the hydrogen bomb and everything dissolves in a flash of light.
Jack Shepard is looking out the window of an airplane, Oceanic Flight 815. The flight attendant slips him an extra bottle of booze as she passes and Jack is contemplative in his seat. Familiar faces are to be seen, as Rose is shown in the seat across from him. The plane starts to shake, just like it ought to. But it calms and the turbulence is over. Things have changed. Or so we think. After the turbulence, Jack heads to the lavatory and under his collar he sees blood on his neck. After cleaning up he returns to his seat to find Desmond in the aisle seat. They introduce themselves to one another and Jack questions whether they have met before.
The camera pans to the window and follows a trail down below into the ocean, past fish to familiar objects from the island that come into view, the children’s playground from the Dharma village, the huts, to where it finally rests and shows us the foot of the statue…all deep underwater.
Kate wakes up, in a tree, climbs down to find Miles who has temporarily lost his hearing from the explosion. They find Jack and Sawyer nearby. They are all near the Swan Hatch, no longer just the construction site; it has been built, but blown to smithereens, after Desmond failed to push the buttons in time. So they are no longer in 1977.
It is apparent that this episode will jump back and forth between the passengers on board Flight 815 and to the characters while they are on the island.
Jack is standing once again by the lavatory, Kate emerges and falls onto him due to turbulence and they pass some pleasantries between them. Sawyer passes by and bumps into Officer Mars, as Kate hides something under her tray table. Sawyer takes his seat across form Hurley who is being pestered by a man who recognizes him as the owner of Mr. Cluck’s Chicken. When asked Hurley tells the man how he came to own it and says he won the lottery. Sawyer politely reprimands Hurley for revealing how he came into money and Hurley responds it’s okay for nothing bad happens to him, for he has the best luck.
Meanwhile, back on the island, Jin and Hurley are with a dying Sayid by the van. Jin tells Hurley that they have skipped in time. They hear the others yelling off in the distance. Jin leaves Hurley with Sayid, to find Sawyer and the others. Sawyer blames Jack for Juliet’s death and is furious.
Hurley is visited by Jacob who tells him in order to save Sayid he must take him to the ‘temple’ with the hole in the wall and Jin will know where it is. He instructs Hurley to bring the guitar case as well. Jacob informs Hurley he has died about an hour ago.
Sun and Jin are sitting on the flight. Jin asks Sun what she is looking at. She tells him she thinks it’s great that Rose and Bernard show so much affection for one another. He tells her to button her sweater.
John Locke is looking over the airplane safety manual when two seats over, Boone asks Locke why he was in Australia. Locke tells him he went on a walk-a-bout and Boone is impressed. Boone explains that he went to get his sister to save her from a bad relationship but she didn’t listen to him.
The Other Locke is inside the underground area by the statue, with Benjamin Linus and tells Ben the obvious; Jacob is gone. Other Locke wants Ben to go outside and get Richard Alpert so he can speak to him.
Outside by the statue Alpert is arguing with Bram, while Frank Lupidis and Jin mull over what is really going on. Ileana tells Alpert that Jacob invited them. Alpert tells her just because she asked him the question about what is in the shadow of the statue, doesn’t mean she is in charge.
Ben emerges and tells Alpert he is wanted by Other Locke. Alpert pulls Ben towards the trunk, Bram, Ileana and company were hauling though the forest and throws him down to face the real John Locke, who is dead.
Kate hears Juliet beneath the rubble and they try and rescue her. Jin goes to retrieve the van for leverage, so they can lift a heavy piece of metal that traps the entrance.
As Jin is driving back, Hurley questions if Jin knows where the hole in the wall is and Jin answers yes.
Jack is summoned aboard the flight to help a passenger in distress in the lavatory. It is Charlie, who is unconscious and cannot breathe. Jack removes the item from his throat (a package of heroin) and Charlie is saved from suffocation. However, now Charlie is handcuffed and will be arrested.
On the beach, Richard asks Ben to tell him what happened and Ben tells him to go see for himself. Bram and two others from his crew, along with Ben, head inside and confront the Other Locke. Bram opens fire, but the bullet bounces off Other Locke. The smoke monster appears kills Bram and his crew, leaving Ben alive. Other Locke appears again and we know now that Other Locke’s other form is the smoke monster.
After the heavy metal is moved from the entrance, Sawyer heads inside the hatch hole to rescue Juliet, but it’s no use, she passes in his arms. But not before she says to him that she has something important to tell him. She doesn’t live long enough to tell him what it is.
Jack walks back to his seat after helping with Charlie and sees that Desmond is gone. He asks Rose if she has seen him and she tells him she was sleeping. Flight 815 is about ready to land and the camera shows all the ‘survivors’ getting ready for landing, including Sayid who holds a picture of Nadia in his hand.
After arriving in Los Angeles, as everyone deplanes, Jack looks over and sees Locke who is waiting to be helped into a wheelchair. In the airport, Jack is called to the Courtesy Desk. His father’s coffin has been lost and it never made it onboard the flight.
Sawyer stays behind to bury Juliet as the rest of the survivors head to the ‘temple’ to save Sayid.
Once at the temple, they carry him inside, but Kate and some others start disappearing. Jack is confronted by strangers and is brought outside to find the rest of the survivors being held at gunpoint. They travel through the forest and come upon the temple, and it is now in perfect shape.
In the airport, Kate uses the bathroom and tries to free herself from her cuffs. The spring from the pen flies out onto the tile right outside the door. Officer Mars steps on it when he tries to rush her out and realizes what she is doing. Kate knocks Officer Mars out as she flings open the bathroom door and tries to flee the airport. She heads to the elevator, held open by Sawyer. Inside Sawyer recognizes her from the flight and notices her handcuffs. Two members of airport security enter and he covers for her and allows her to leave the elevator first when it’s time to exit.
Sawyer and Miles have finished burying Juliet and he asks Miles to communicate with her because he wants to know what she wanted to tell him. He throws Miles on the mound to make Miles agree. He listens and it works. He hears what it was. He tells Sawyer that she wanted to tell him “it worked”. Sawyer walks off in confusion.
The ‘leader’ of the temple people, an Asian man, who is speaking in a foreign language, greets Jack and company. They are Jacob’s protectors and followers. They are asked who they are. The flight attendant from Oceanic 815 pops her head out behind the leader and says she knows who they are. She informs the leader they were on the first plane, Oceanic 815 along with her. This makes Jack and company exchange strange wondering glances. An American man in glasses who is interpreting for the leader, asks the leader if he is sure when he utters a command to him. The American then informs the others to shoot them. Hurley intervenes and tells them Jacob sent them.
The leader asks him to prove it and Hurley shows them the guitar. The leader opens the guitar and inside is a huge wooden ankh (which is a symbol of life).
The leader breaks the wooden ankh in half and reveals a note inside. He asks the survivors for their names. Hurley begins first as they all announce their names. Afterwards, as the leader walks away, and the American instructs the others to take Sayid to the ‘spring’, Hurley demands to know what is written on the note. The American tells him that it says if Sayid dies, they are all in big trouble.
Back at the airport, Jin’s luggage is being inspected. A lot of cash is found in his suitcase and he is taken away by security. Sun is asked by a female officer, if she knows any English at all and if she does to say something now. Sun feigns ignorance.
At the ‘spring’, the American questions why the spring’s water is not clear. The leader cuts his hand and places it into the water. Nothing happens.
The American warns Jack there will be risks in what they are about to undertake. Two of Jacob’s follower’s hold Sayid up as they enter the spring. They hold him underwater as if performing a baptism. The leader takes a sand timer and turns it over. The survivors watch as life springs to Sayid, they start yelling for the followers to lift him up, but it is apparent that the sand must run out before they can. While Sayid is thrashing, the leader waits for the sand. Jack gets impatient and tussles with two follower guards. The timer runs down, and Sayid’s body becomes still. Sayid is lifted out and the survivors are told that Sayid is dead. Jack walks over to the body and tries to give Sayid CPR, in vain, as Kate tells him to stop already because he is gone.
Sayid is seen taking his luggage off the carousel as Kate walks past, trying to make her getaway. She goes through an unauthorized area to the streets.
At the spring, Miles and Sawyer (who is unconscious) are being are brought in. Miles tells Kate they were jumped by Jacob’s followers in the jungle, and Sawyer took four of the men out before he was hit in the head with a rock.
The American takes Hurley with him to speak to the leader, who is busy cutting herbs in another location in the temple. After being asked why he came to the temple, Hurley tells the American that Jacob told him to come there to save Sayid. After conversing between the leader and the American, Hurley realizes the leader understands English, but doesn’t like to speak it. The American tells Hurley that Sayid was beyond saving. They ask him when Jacob will be arriving and Hurley informs them that won’t be happening since Jacob is dead. This takes them by surprise.
The entire temple camp erupts into motion, bustling in preparation, circling ashes around the temple and igniting a huge flare. Hurley remarks to the American that he gathers they won’t be going anywhere. The American tells Hurley all of this was to keep ‘him’ out.
Back at the beach, Ben realizes the Other Locke used him to kill Jacob because he couldn’t do it himself. The Other Locke reveals to Ben that real Locke was very confused right before he died, as Ben was choking him, and that his last thought was he didn’t understand. Other Locke continues and tells Ben, that out of all of them, Locke was the only one on the island who didn’t want to leave. The Other Locke wants the one thing that John Locke didn’t, which is to go home.
Hurley leans over Sayid’s body to say goodbye, while Miles sits near by. Kate is washing the blood of Sawyer’s face as he wakes up.
Jack is in the Lost Baggage Office in the airport and runs into Locke who baggage has been lost. Locke starts a conversation and he learns what happened to Jack’s father. Locke tells him they didn’t lose his father they lost his body. Jack asks Locke about his condition and proceeds to give him his business card, telling him nothing is irreversible.
On the beach, Richard Alpert and company look to the sky and see the flare that was shot from the temple. The Other Locke comes out, with Ileana ready to shoot him, but Richard protests. Frank Lupidis and Sun cannot believe their eyes.
Other Locke walks up to Richard and tells him it’s good to see him out of those chains, as Richards eyes are open wide in shock, with the words “You?” on his lips. Locke hits Richard in his jugular and Richard goes down, as Ben looks on in shock too. Other Locke then picks up Richard onto his shoulders and begins to walk away.
The American comes into the ‘spring’ room and asks to speak with Jack privately. Jack puts up a fight, as Hurley yells out Jack’s name. Everyone turns around…Sayid is sitting up and is asking what happened.
Review
LOST did not disappoint at all and Season 6 started off with a bang. Overall I think it was one of the best episodes (that I can remember). So many new questions are now posed. I don’t even know where to begin, and obviously neither does the show, but that is what draws us to it. Let’s review the show together by asking questions.
The Oceanic flight: Is this flight the ‘other’ universe of time in which the explosion did work, and time and events have been changed? It seems so. However, more events have changed than planned. Boone’s sister is no longer on the flight. His plan to bring her back to the states didn’t work, so he is now on the flight alone. We think Locke is fine, when he tells his story of his walk-a-bout to Boone, but soon find out, he is in fact paralyzed, which should be the case if things were back to ‘normal’. So that seems to one constant. But then Desmond is seen as a passenger, and he was never initially on that flight. Then he seemingly disappears when Jack returns to his seat. Was Desmond ever really on the flight?
Hurley has had no bad luck, quite different than originally set, which means his entire life prior to the flight, was different as well. How is this possible if things were only supposed to change from the time right before the crash?
Did you notice the similarities happening in the alternative flight universe, which occurred in the original post crash universe? Charlie suffocating on drugs in his throat, similar to Charlie suffocating by drowning. Officer Mars’ head being bashed in pre-crash by flying suitcases in turbulence and the same side being hit by Kate in the bathroom at the airport.
To bring something up from the LOST recap show, Eloise Hawking’s statement, when talking about how to return to the island made me pause. She said ‘we will have to replace Jack’s father’s body with Locke.” Why is it necessary to have a body? Is it necessary for some sort of ‘recreation’? How did that second flight “crash” per se, and how was effected by that same turbulence/bright light, if there was no electromagnetic explosion to allow it to happen, like it did when Desmond didn’t push the button? I might be missing something from last year, but the question is now bothering me.
There is Sayid. Why is it so necessary to keep Sayid alive? Is it because he is part of the original chosen ones? Sayid’s dip in the spring by the ‘followers’ was religious in nature. He was dipped as if being baptized. Then, when the ‘followers’ lifted him out of the water, Sayid’s arms stretched out at his side, like a vision of Jesus on the cross. Then, thirdly, his resurrection from the dead. How did this miracle happen? Is it a miracle?
We are not closer to finding out who Richard Alpert really is, but we did get one hint. When Other Locke came up to him and told him it was good to see him out of chains, you can’t help but think, was Alpert a slave before? Could Richard Alpert have been an Egyptian slave?
Where are earth is Jack’s father’s body? Was it an airline mix up, or did fate have something to do with it? Is that Oceanic Flight that didn’t crash really just another alternate universe on top of everything and not really the pre-crash flight?
The Other Locke: It is apparent that the Other Locke is the smoke monster, some sort of monstrous entity hell bent on getting his way for his own agenda. What agenda that is we are not of sure yet. Who exactly is Other Locke? Is it the Man in Black? Or is it someone else entirely? Do you think Other Locke is taking Richard to the temple to confront Jacob’s followers? Why is taking Richard necessary? Where do you think home is for the Other Locke, could it be otherworldly?
When Miles and Hurley were near Sayid’s body as Hurley was saying his goodbyes and notices the odd look on Miles’ face, what do you think Miles was thinking? Do you think he was ‘reading’ Sayid’s dead body and discovered something?
Why did Jacob allow Ben to simply stab him, putting up no fight? Do you think it is all part of the “choice” theme prevalent on Lost? Was that really Jacob that was killed?
And last but not least…I noticed two things related to a “spring” in this episode. The spring where they try to save Sayid and the spring from the pen that gives Kate away in the airport bathroom. Am I merely reaching on this one and it’s purely coincidental, or is there something else to it?
Item of Curiosity:
When Hurley found that book on the floor of the temple and made a comment about why someone would want to bring a book there, I knew it was important. So I did some research. The book Hurley finds is by Søren Aabye Kierkegaard. His philosophical work deals with the issues of how one lives, focusing on the priority of concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment. The book is titled ‘Crainte et Tremblement’ (Fear and Trembling).
Explanatory excerpt from Wiki: The book title comes from the Epistle to the Philippians: "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, work out your salvation with fear and trembling, not only in my presence but much more now that I'm away
Abraham, when hand in the mountains to sacrifice his son Isaac, is it just a murderer or not? The German philosopher Hegel said about him that he was the "father of faith", but between his act he contradicts the ethical and moral conceptions of the latter?
Interesting to say the least.
What questions do you have? What are all your thoughts on this fantastic season premiere episode? Please share you thoughts on all the questions that have been posed within the review.
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