With its final season looming, it was a big weekend for hit TV show Lost at Comic Con in San Diego, CA.
The day kicked off with a morning panel led by creators Damon Lindelof and Calrton Cuse that featured islanders Hurley (Jorge Garcia), Ben (Michael Emerson), Sawyer (Josh Holloway), Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) and, in typical always-keep-you-guessing Lost fashion, the deceased Charlie (Dominic Monaghan). The producers revealed two faux commercials, one for Mr. Clucks and another for Oceanic Airlines, which raised even more questions surrounding the possible time erasure / nuclear explosion of last season’s finale. To further add to the mystery, it is reported that a phrase along the lines of “Am I really dead?” was written on Monaghan’s hand, possibly usurping the line “not Penny’s boat” he wrote in the finale of season three (read more about the main panel here).
Unfortunately, many were left waiting in the San Diego heat after 6,500 filled Hall H to capacity. Luckily, Entertainment Weekly reporters Doc Jensen and Dan Snierson, who run the in-depth blog / video recap ‘Totally Lost’, held a smaller panel in front of about 200 people later in the afternoon. They recapped for those who missed the larger panel, pinpointing the five main pieces of knowledge the audience learned: 1) we don’t know anything (ha-ha) 2) time may have been rebooted which could mean that Flight 815 never crashed 3) the Dharma Initiative is becoming less important 4) Daniel Farady and Juliet are both returning 5) Richard Alpert’s story is going to be fully revealed.
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!?!?!?!?!? Courtesy Film School Rejects.
Seriously, that’s what I’m calling Lost from now on: The Ben Show. Time and again, he has duped us (think Henry Gale and the Hot-Air Balloon… which sounds like an awesome fantastic amalgam of Harry Potter with Harold and the Purple Crayon), thrilled us (well, maybe just me; I find him deliciously diabolical), and pissed us off (especially when threatening Penny’s life), but he has never, ever bored us. And in last night’s episode, he even went as far as to provide us with a few private insights into the dark, dark intricacies of his multifarious soul.
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5.11 “Whatever Happened, Happened”
Boohoo. Courtesy Sepinwall.
The title certainly implies a rather blasé attitude toward the series of drastic (although not necessarily life-altering) events that Sayid literally shot into motion last week, but I’m sure Hurley would disagree. And he isn’t the only one suffering some slight befuddlement from having to live through the past, which has already happened before even though his present self is just now experiencing it for the first time. Everyone on board? Now for a tour of what I consider to be the highlights of everything that happened exactly the way it was supposed to, starting with little Ben’s big predicament:
“He needs a real surgeon.”
Once again, Jack faces the same conundrum that first presented itself when an adult Ben lay on the operating table with his spine exposed. And once again, Juliet refuses to just let the guy bleed out. Admittedly, this time around that would probably create more problems than solve them, but one still has to admire the tenacity with which everyone tries to keep little Ben alive despite knowing that his future self tossed them rather rudely into the ninth circle of hell. I guess they all understand on some Faradian level that Ben simply can’t die, but I find it interesting that they take this responsibility upon themselves while Jack would rather let the island resolve everything on its own, believing that Ben is going to live whether he helps him to or not. Perhaps he also feels some residual satisfaction at telling Kate he is not going to do this for her—again.
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5.9 “Namaste” & 5.10 “He’s Our You”
Sayid broods. Courtesy TV Squad.
Some of you might have noticed that I kind of dropped off the face of the earth last week. Sorry about that. Luckily, I have organized everything I had to say about last Wednesday’s filler transitional episode into a somewhat-not-really short series of bullet points that you may feel free to scroll through in order to get to the meatier stuff of last night’s whopper.
- If the trees sway mysteriously in the wind to the sounds of dragon bellies rumbling, you can bet the smokey monster is up to something naughty again.
- If a light turns on in an abandoned house while Frank and Sun are strolling through the old Dharma neighborhood at very reasonable hours of the night, you can bet it’s Dr. Christian Shephard waiting around to relay another helpful message about how they’ve either gone about something the wrong way or have a long, long road ahead of them.
- “My” runway theory was totally on target. Now the question is, were Ben and the Others anticipating the Aljira plane when they built the runway, or did they have other plans for it?
- I about had a conniption fit when Jack bumped elbows with Dr. Pierre Chang, who assigned the other doctor with janitorial duties. Then I just laughed.
- Any fuzzy feelings I was harboring for Sawyer fizzled into thin air when he verbally assaulted Jack with some zingers about how he, all bespectacled and severely flat-ironed, is actually thinking things through, whereas Jack always just forged blindly ahead and got lots of people killed. Rude!
- Radzinsky, the original button pusher and designer of the Swan (a.k.a. the Hatch), gets extremely cranky when riffraff such as Sayid catch a glimpse of his precious model, which looks like someone built the Epcot Center out of toothpicks and then chopped the whole thing in half.
- Ben does not destroy all the Dharma folk after all—somewhere between now and his eventual turn to the dark side (which is ironic because the young impressionable version of him looks a wee bit like Harry Potter minus the forehead lightning), Charlotte makes her escape, presumably by leaving the island with her mother, and the baby whom I am currently assuming to be Miles is somehow granted a reprieve from death by poison gas as well.
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This never ends well on the island. Courtesy TV Squad.
So I experienced some mild flatulence of the brain during the first 10 minutes of this episode, which picked up right where we’d left off with Sawyer and Co. at the end of “This Place is Death,” as they stood over the ground where the well that Locke shimmied down had not yet been. (As though we had just pressed pause on them while Locke was gallivanting about California and Santo Domingo, getting propositioned and thwarted and killed and all other manner of unfortunate things. And then there was that whole conspiratorial business with Plane Crash 2.0. So, yeah, a lot has happened since then.)
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