Lost, Season 4: Episodes 11-14

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In 2009, Peter watched through the first five seasons of Lost for the first time, live-tweeting all thoughts as he had them. Nicknames were created, awards were invented and dispensed, and predictions were made. If you’ve never seen Lost (or even if it’s been a while), these may not make much sense.
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Lost
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[[Episode 11]]
Peter:
This ep has a fantastic beginning. I love the 50s.
Peter:
I also love Emily.
Peter:
Prediction: this is all set on the Island.
Peter:
Nope! Unless they have cars
Peter:
I’m rewinding it just to watch that beginning again.
Peter:
So cute.
Peter:
Top notch acting:
Peter:
I’m preemptively giving Emily Most Likeable.
Peter:
So Emily is obviously going to be someone’s mother.
Peter:
Not Jack’s, we just had a Jack episode.
Peter:
Maybe Locke?
Peter:
Yup! I am rewarding myself with some delicious toast for guessing that one.
Peter:
Also, I’m hungry.
Peter:
Mm, peanut butter and honey on toast.
Peter:
While making it, was thinking: do we know anything about Jack’s mum?
Peter:
If so, I’ve forgotten!
Peter:
Characters we’ve met both parents of:
Peter:
Jin,
Peter:
Locke,
Peter:
Hurley,
Peter:
Sawyer (close enough, anyway),
Peter:
Kate,
Peter:
Claire.
Peter:
That’s all that I can think of.
Peter:
Characters we’ve met one parent of:
Peter:
Shannon, Boom (step-mum, anyway),
Peter:
Jack,
Peter:
Benry,
Peter:
Penny.
Peter:
Anna
Peter:
Sun
Peter:
(Major) Characters we’ve not met either parent of:
Peter:
Rose (for a given definition of “Major”)
Peter:
Bernard,
Peter:
Charlie,
Peter:
Juliet,
Peter:
Eko,
Peter:
Sayid.
Peter:
Okay, back to it.
Peter:
Locke, Hurley and Ben are all following each other to nowhere.
Peter:
Oh! The boat!
Peter:
Haven’t seen the boat in a while.
Peter:
Best thing about being Michael is that you’d have absolutely nothing to lose.
Peter:
Let’s face it, you were suicidal anyway.
Peter:
Not sure why that was in second person.
Peter:
Hopefully you, reader, aren’t suicidal.
Peter:
New character? Hallucination?
Peter:
“Horace”. Maybe this is Jacob.
Peter:
Nope! He’s a dead guy, it seems.
Peter:
Locke just had a dream to tell him where to go next.
Peter:
See what I mean about the Island having a good sense of narrative?
Peter:
HA! ROCK!
Peter:
Patrick, intriguing Other, was around when Locke was a new-born.
Peter:
Still looking the exact same age.
Peter:
Obvious prediction: He’s Jacob.
Peter:
I like these flashbacks because they go back a full 40+ years.
Peter:
Much better than your standard flashbacks.
Peter:
Patrick is calling himself Richard, and tying Locke into the Island even more. (sort of ensuring his survival)
Peter:
As a kid, Locke didn’t talk much, but he did draw smoke that killed people.
Peter:
The drawing of the smoke didn’t kill people.
Peter:
He drew people-killing smoke, that’s what I’m trying to say.
Peter:
He drew smoke which was (in the drawing) killing people.
Housemate:
This is comic the comic that Walt reads in season 1.
Peter:
It seems that the Boat o’ People are Dharma!
Peter:
The protocol has the Dharma logo on it.
Peter:
This helps confirm my theory that Dharma is Whitmore’s.
Peter:
So Benry is consciously aware of his manipulative ways.
Peter:
It’s a trait he admires in others.
Peter:
He fully deserves his award.
Peter:
Teenaged Locke was just as awesome as present-day Locke.
Peter:
His science teacher sucked though. “You can’t be anything but a loser.”
Peter:
This is from a teacher of science.
Peter:
What the hell, educator?
Peter:
I’m sorry Desmond, but Penny vs Benry?
Peter:
My money’s going to be on Benry every time.
Peter:
Of course, there’s always subversions to consider…
Peter:
At this point, I seriously have no clue what’s going on with the Island.
Peter:
I can’t even make predictions, I’m that baffled.
Peter:
We’re not seeing the face of the guy pushing Locke’s wheelchair.
Peter:
Cinematic choice, or setting up for a reveal?
Peter:
Yup, reveal! It’s Oceanic man.
Peter:
So this episode is actually revealing quite a lot.
Peter:
1) Locke has been tied to the Island all his life.
Peter:
2) He was set up to go on Oceanic.
Peter:
It doesn’t look like Benry was responsible for (perhaps even aware of) the crash being deliberately orchestrated.
Peter:
Was Jacob? The Island?
Peter:
Theory:
Peter:
-Scary Oceanic Man is Jacob.
Peter:
I prefer Patrick being Jacob (we’ve already heard him under two names) but Oceanic man is something.
Peter:
Meanwhile, on the boat, Aussie captain and the doctor just died.
Peter:
I cannot deny it, I’m loving this season.
Peter:
Slow start, then got gooood.
Peter:
Phew. Thought the copeter taking off was going to be a deepy unsatisfying episode end, but it was just an ad break.
Peter:
Now that we know about the time dilations, the Pearl (Dharma) makes a bit more sense now.
Peter:
“Mark down the exact time they do everything” etc.
Peter:
Locke’s going into the cabin.
Peter:
Narrative structure strongly suggests that Jacob is Oceanic Man; we’ve just had the “You owe me a favour” setup.
Peter:
Wooo!!! Jack’s Dad! Workin’ for Jacob!
Peter:
It’s all tying together now!
Peter:
Maybe Jacob’s like The First Evil from Buffy; he can control only the dead.
Peter:
Hey, Claire. I’d forgotten about her.
Peter:
Jack’s Dad is being annoyingly cryptic.
Peter:
Also stupidly vague.
Peter:
“Destiny, chosen, supposed to be here” etc
Peter:
Hurley just shared his chocolate bar with Benry.
Peter:
He can have Most Likeable just for that.
Peter:
Jack’s Dad’s getting Least.
Peter:
HA! Great episode end! “He wants us to move the Island.”
Peter:
Patrick can have Most Intruiging.
Housemate:
 (reading my notes) Richard Alpert has always gone by that name. Not sure where you got Patrick from.
Peter:
Hmmm. Neither am I now.
Peter:
[[Episode 12]]
Peter:
Righto, last disc is go.
Peter:
Disc menu is the Lostbusters chatting, while Bernard walks Vincent past.
Peter:
How uninteresting.
Peter:
No “previously on”.
Peter:
Episode opens on “Miss Becket” and a plane carrying…
Peter:
Hurley and Jack?
Peter:
Hang on, I don’t remember how they got here.
Peter:
Oh! That’s the point.
Peter:
This is the Oceanic 6 being dropped off.
Peter:
Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, Kate, Turnip-head Ulrich.
Peter:
I wonder how much warning they had that the episode number was being cut down from 22+ to 15(ish).
Peter:
This seems sudden, but maybe it’s supposed to.
Peter:
First time we’ve seen Jack’s mother?
Peter:
Also: they never dealt with bearded-Jack’s “Go look at my father, tell me how drunk he is.” in the future-flashback.
Peter:
Maybe just a reference to the fact he’s dead.
Peter:
People on the Island connected to immense wealth:
Peter:
-Hurley (won lotto)
Peter:
-Desmond (Penny’s Dad)
Peter:
-Sun (her Dad)
Peter:
-Benry (somehow wealthy)
Peter:
Crap. Don’t remember – did Claire die?
Peter:
I remember her house being blown up, but…oh that’s right!
Peter:
She walked off to hang out with her Dad.
Peter:
I think Sawyer just nicknamed Subtopia “New Weirdland” or something similar.
Peter:
Meanwhile, Jack’s being more of a try-hard hero than usual.
Peter:
So far Jack’s getting Least Likeable.
Peter:
“Don’t walk into the jungle, you’ve just had an operation.”
Peter:
‘Naaaaah.’
Peter:
“Have a rest dude!”
Peter:
‘Naaaaaah’.
Peter:
Honolulu!
Peter:
“Flight two-two is off to Honolulu!” (The Avalanches!)
Peter:
Sayid’s soon-to-be-late wife is pretty fine.
Peter:
So, looking at this structurally, the last ep of the season will either be them leaving or them definitively deciding to come back to the Island.
Peter:
My prediction: both.
Peter:
Meanwhile, we’re dealing with moving the Island.
Peter:
lol Hurley likes food lol it’s funny because he’s fat hur hur hur
Peter:
I like it better when Benry tells people lies than when he refuses to answer questions.
Peter:
Meanwhile, Faraday is putting people in the raft…
Peter:
…but not Sayid.
Peter:
Oh.
Peter:
I thought this was going to explain why HE stayed, but Sun’s getting on the…nope!
Peter:
They’re all refusing to go!
Peter:
Wait, now I’m confused. Aaron (looking way too old) and Sun are on the raft, going to the boat.
Peter:
I suppose we’ve got another 2 eps to explain what’s happening.
Peter:
Sun’s father: “How is the pregnancy” – new contender for clunkiest line of dialogue on Lost.
Peter:
Sun rocks!
Peter:
Totally bought out her Dad’s company.
Peter:
Keep on kickin’ arse, Sun.
Peter:
Woo!
Peter:
Hurley found a coconut in his mansion. (which…he kept?)
Peter:
Is the coconut meant to be a sign?
Peter:
He didn’t have many coconuts on the Island…
Peter:
Hurley: “Wow! You guys are here!” – also clunky.
Peter:
(he’s not meant to be angry or annoyed, just meant to be a point-of-fact.)
Peter:
OH! Awesome!!! Speedo is exactly on the numbers – 4 8 15 etc etc. (I can never remember the numbers.)
Peter:
I want more on Number Fever, damn it!
Peter:
lol! Benry: “I wasn’t being entirely truthful.”
Peter:
King of understatement.
Peter:
So either Sun has to return to the Island with Turnip-head Ulrich and without Jin, or a LOT more stuff is about to go down…
Peter:
Benjamin Linus is in my top 10 TV characters of all time.
Peter:
Other contenders from Lost: Mr Locke, Mr Eko.
Peter:
Tuned out of the eulogy thinking about structure.
Peter:
Hope it wasn’t anything interesting.
Peter:
Oh! Awesome!
Peter:
Claire’s Mum introducing herself to Jack!
Peter:
Claire’s Mum’s accent is slightly ridiculous.
Peter:
Is that really what we sound like?
Peter:
Or is hers genuinely ridiculous?
Peter:
I really want Kate to go out to Australia and find Ray.
Peter:
Won’t predict it, because there’s no way it’ll happen this season.
Peter:
PATRICK!!! (or Richard – I can’t remember.)
Peter:
Awesome! I’d actually completely forgotten about the other Others.
Peter:
Normally an elongated high note like that ends with someone being punched or knocked out.
Peter:
Nope. That time, just ended with a cut to Benry.
Peter:
Benry’s eyes make him look a bit reptilian.
Peter:
They’re very slightly too large for his head.
Peter:
I’m thoroughly enjoying this episode, by the way.
Peter:
Looks like it’s about to end on a cliffhanger.
Peter:
So darned intrigued!
Peter:
Speaking of which, awards:
Peter:
Least Likeable: Jack.
Peter:
Most Likeable: …Sayid? Just for being Sayid!
Peter:
Most Intriguing: still Benry. Ah crap, I can’t do that, can I? Okay then…Patrick/Richard.
Peter:
Episode end!
Peter:
[[Episode 13]]
Peter:
Previously on Lost: finding the explosives on the boat, exposition about moving the Island, Benry telling Locke what to do.
Housemate:
I think that this is the last episode of the season, not the second-last.
Peter:
Oh wow, previously on is still going. Stretching back to the end of season 3.
Peter:
This is a LOT of previously-on.
Peter:
Looks like my “both leaving and deciding to go back” prediction is spot on, if this is the final.
Peter:
Who the crap is Jeremy Bentham?
Peter:
Why did Jack and Kate break up?
Peter:
I genuinely…oh that’s right, he thought she was cheating on him.
Peter:
For absolutely no reason.
Peter:
Wanker.
Peter:
Ha! Sawyer just nicknamed Jack “Sundance”.
Peter:
That doesn’t bode well. 😛
Peter:
Characters in order of strongest links to the Island itself:
Peter:
-Locke (all his life it seems)
Peter:
-Benry (obviously)
Peter:
-Hurley (numbers)
Peter:
-Eko (him + his brother)
Peter:
So the boat’s explosions seem to be different to the explosives that Michael had.
Peter:
There are a danged lot of explosives on this boat.
Peter:
They’ve introduced a lot of explosives, obvious prediction: shit’s going to get blown up before the end of the episode.
Peter:
Prediction: Benry knows that the Island won’t let him die.
Peter:
That’s how he manages to pull off all these ridiculous stunts.
Peter:
Further prediction:
Peter:
-Benry frickin’ kills all these people before the episode ends.
Peter:
Shit is going DOWN.
Peter:
One marine guy dead! Not by Ben directly, but close enough.
Peter:
Also, more Others-whispering. Haven’t heard that in a while.
Peter:
CRAP! Disc has frozen up! Crap crap crap crap!
Peter:
Right in the middle of an action scene!
Peter:
…wait, no? It’s back! It’s all cool!
Peter:
It’s skipping again!
Peter:
Also, why is Kate returning to help Benry?
Peter:
What the crap is her motivation there?
Peter:
Sayid/Marine fight! SHIT IS GOING DOWN
Peter:
Honestly, wasn’t really expecting Sayid to die.
Peter:
Since, you know, it’s guaranteed that he survives.
Peter:
Holy crapadoo. Walt got oooold.
Peter:
In…well, yeah, 2-3 years. Suppose it adds up.
Peter:
Walt was a cute kid, but not a particularly attractive teenager.
Peter:
Not unattractive either, just sort of…sneh.
Peter:
Everyone is talking about this Jeremy Benthal guy!
Peter:
Who the crap is Jeremy Benthal?
Peter:
Scary Black Oceanic Dude?
Peter:
Hurley: “Jack and Locke are talking about leader stuff.”
Peter:
Sawyer was the best at being the leader.
Peter:
He was a great leader, for all of the 10 minutes he got to be leader.
Peter:
I don’t like Locke’s weird beardy-thing.
Peter:
It makes him look sort of ugly.
Peter:
Doesn’t work for him.
Peter:
Why is the Island sentient?
Peter:
Will we get an explanation, or is it just a given?
Peter:
It’s got to be somehow related to the four-toed statue.
Peter:
Least likely allies on the Island (that ended up being allies):
Peter:
-Jin/Michael
Peter:
-Benry/Locke
Peter:
-Benry/any of the people who he’s allied with, actually
Peter:
This doesn’t feel like a season finale.
Peter:
I get the impression there’ll be one more.
Peter:
Although it’s so damned hard to tell with Lost.
Peter:
Faraday’s character has been worth it this season, but the others…
Peter:
Charlotte, the psychic…not really.
Peter:
Maybe next season they’ll pay off.
Peter:
lol! Locke: “Is this the magic box?”
Peter:
He’s so naive. It’s adorable.
Peter:
Meanwhile, I’ve loved each and every Dharma station they’ve found.
Peter:
Housemate just asked me who I thought was in the coffin.
Peter:
Guessed Benry, then realised how silly that was.
Peter:
The Asian doctor? I have no idea.
Peter:
Another Dharma tape!
Peter:
I also love love love the Dharma tapes.
Peter:
This one is particularly amusing.
Peter:
“Was he talking about what I thought he was talking about?”
Peter:
“If you mean time-travelling bunnies, then yes.”
Peter:
Holy crap, they’re not going to move the Island in space…they’re going to move it in time! (prediction/theory)
Peter:
Still nothing even resembling a hint of an explanation of what the fuck the numbers are all about.
Peter:
If this is the finale, I’m going to find it just as frustrating as I’ve found every season finale so far.
Peter:
Which is pretty freaking frustrating
Peter:
It’s the wrong six, Gromit, the wrong six!
Peter:
Sawyer shouldn’t be in the copeter (and wasn’t he all “Hey the Island rocks let’s stay here” a few episodes ago) and where’s Sun/Turnip-head?
Housemate:
And that’s how it ends.
Housemate:
There is no season 5.
Peter:
Oh god, it would be like A Series of Unfortunate Events all over again.
Peter:
That fuel level is dropping fast!
Peter:
Oh crap! A leak!
Peter:
SO MUCH IS HAPPENING.
Peter:
It feels like a season finale in that regard!
Peter:
Sawyer is whispering to Kate.
Peter:
Stuff about finding his daughter? Now he has kissed her.
Peter:
Sawyer/Kate kisses are the most common Island kiss.
Peter:
I sort of want to jump out of a helicopter into the ocean now.
Peter:
That’s a safe thing to do, right?
Peter:
The Island shifting through time really nicely explains how Patrick/Richard (we heard it earlier but I still don’t recall) never aged.
Peter:
Oh noes! Marine guy who we thought was dead isn’t actually dead.
Peter:
Why didn’t they kill him a little bit harder?
Peter:
Marine guy sort of reminds me of Christopher Walken. Something about his eyes/delivery.
Peter:
At this point, for some reason, Twitter ate the rest of the posts, so we’ll never know what Peter’s opinions were for the rest of the episode. 🙁
Peter:
[[Episode 14]]
Peter:
Sayid is so hot.
Housemate:
Ha!
Peter:
He is!
Housemate:
…yeah, I gotta admit he is. He’s a bad-ass as well.
Peter:
I have no idea who the crap Bentham is.
Peter:
Great dialogue so far in this ep. Like 6 quoteable bits so far, and we’ve not even hit the opening title.
Peter:
Hurley has been playing chess against Eko.
Peter:
Why couldn’t we see him? I love Eko oh so much.
Peter:
Predictions! In this ep we will:
Peter:
-see something blow up
Peter:
-activate the “box”
Peter:
-see something explode
Peter:
-find out who Bentham is
Peter:
-see them get off the Island
Peter:
-see them decide to come back
Peter:
-be enormously frustrated
Peter:
Jin is being super self-sacrificing.
Peter:
I predict that he won’t die.
Peter:
Should make a definitive guess who Bentham is, but I’ve genuinely no idea.
Housemate:
The science of the gas stopping the bomb from exploding is sound.
Peter:
(My housemate is a scientist!)
Peter:
Okay, definitive prediction: Bentham is…yeah, I’ve got no idea.
Peter:
Will stick with my original guess of Benry, despite the fact it’s not.
Peter:
Boat just exploded!!!
Peter:
Also, Michael heard whispers, saw Jack’s Dad.
Peter:
Michael + Jin dead??
Peter:
Is that Penny’s Dad?
Peter:
No, doesn’t look like…oh, it is!
Peter:
He looks strange. Weirdy beardy thing.
Peter:
Sun’s become a bad-ass.
Peter:
Confronting Penny’s Dad, giving out her business card.
Peter:
Meanwhile, in the past: rule of TV deaths applies here…
Housemate:
 Rule of Lost TV death…even if we see the body, the actor can still get regular work on the show.
Housemate:
Sometimes MORE work.
Peter:
Magic Box just exploded.
Peter:
Meanwhile, on the beach, Sawyer is all topless and hot.
Peter:
Who is he, Captain Kirk?
Peter:
So they can see the boat-smoke, but not the helicopter?
Peter:
Meanwhile, in the hatch, Benry is back to not telling Locke stuff.
Peter:
Booo.
Peter:
Benry: “Whoever blows up the Island can never come back.”
Peter:
Hmmm, maybe Benry is Bentham after all. Maybe I secretly rock pretty hard.
Peter:
(when it comes to predictions, that is)
Peter:
Okay, no way they’re writing out Benry.
Peter:
No writer in his right mind would ever write out a character as awesome as Benry.
Peter:
Although these are the same writers as the ones who wrote out Eko…
Peter:
Benry is crawling through a cave.
Housemate:
Recognise his outfit?
Peter:
Looks like Island has a Saharan teleporter after all!
Peter:
Thought that ad break was an episode end. Almost had a fit.
Peter:
It wasn’t! Hoorah!
Peter:
Is the Island some kind of alien spaceship?
Peter:
Turning that wheel apparently makes the sound of a didgeridoo.
Peter:
Turning the wheel has the same special effect as the Hatchsplosion did.
Peter:
Oh no! Not Desmond! I quite liked Desmond. 🙁
Peter:
Oh good. He’s much more alive than I expected.
Peter:
I still think that the Island (like the bunnies) went forwards in time.
Peter:
So, Claire is in the future.
Peter:
This episode’s going to end any second now, with a frustratingly low number of explanations.
Peter:
Oh boo. It was all a dream.
Peter:
Another boat has found the raft.
Peter:
Let’s hope it works out better than the first time you met a boat.
Peter:
Hopefully this one’s not full of pirates!
Peter:
This season has had very few pointless flashback episodes.
Peter:
Admittedly, shorter season – less filler required.
Peter:
Penelope! Penelope and the Russian Eskimos!
Peter:
I feel that this season has had the least new information revealed.
Peter:
All we’ve really learned is more about Penny’s Dad, time travel, and Benry’s past.
Peter:
Getting pretty close to the end of the season, still haven’t had the future-characters definitively decide to return to the Island. 🙁
Peter:
This feels like a looong episode. Extended ep?
Peter:
Is this episode goodbye to Jin, Michael, Desmond, Penny, Benry?
Peter:
That seems unlikely.
Peter:
Okay, the big reveal! Who’s in the coffin?
Peter:
My money’s on either Benry or the pilot who got them off the Island. Literally no idea who else.
Peter:
Jack just broke a handle off with a rock. One of the many useful tricks he learned fromt his time on theIsland!
Peter:
Right, so not Benry.
Peter:
Oh no! Locke!! (prediction)
Peter:
Yup! 🙁
Peter:
Again, Twitter ate the posts, and so this season is a bit low on Most/Least Likeables!
Peter:
[[Running Tally: All seasons]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Saywer on 14 (Hurley on 11, Sayid on 7, Jack and Charlie on 6, Jin on 5, Desmond and Tom on 3, Turnip-head Ulrich, Sun, and Dan Farraday on 2, 8 characters on 1 – Shannon, Walt, Boom, Kate, Random shop-woman, Charlotte, Benry)
Peter:
Least likeable: Benry on 10 (Jack on 8, Jin, Locke, Kate and Michael on 5, Anna on 4, Jack’s Dad on 3, Shannon, Crazy Danielle, Charlie, and Charlotte on 2, 11 on 1 – Locke’s Dad, Sawyer, Claire, Tom, Bernard, Denise, Juliet, Desmond’s Love’s Dad, Sun, Aussie Captain)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Juliet on 7 (Locke on 6, Eko on 5, Kate, Walt, and Desmond on 4, Ethan, Crazy Danielle, and Patrick/Richard on 3, Anna, Sawyer, Michael, Sun, Eyepatch Man, Charlie and Charlotte on 2, 14 characters on 1 – Sayid, Jack, Boom, Shannon, Denise, Goodwin, Tom, Libby, Alex, Hurley’s Dad, Farraday, Rose)
Peter:
[[Current season]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Dan Farraday and Hurley on 2 (Charlotte, Sawyer, Goodwin, Desmond, Jin, Tom, Benry and Sayid all on 1)
Peter:
Least likeable: Jack on 3 (Charlotte on 2, Benry, Locke, Kate, Aussie Captain, Michael and Jack’s Dad all on 1)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Charlotte on 2 (Charlie, Farraday, Rose and Patrick/Richard all on 1)
Peter:
[[Awards presented:]]
Locke:
“The Locke Award” (previously on 7 “Most likeables”)
Eko:
“The Locke Award” (awarded before he even won any “Most likeables”)
Benry:
“The Benry Award” (awarded when he’d won 9 “Most Intriguings”. I then forgot about the award, and gave him one more.)
Benry:
So this season, Jack was apparently the least likeable, but most everyone else was pretty even.

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