Lost, Season 2: Episodes 4-6

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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 4]]
Peter:
Oh please, please tell me this will be a Hurley episode. I’m pre-emptively giving him Most Likeable.
Peter:
I absolutely despise the “fat people are obsessed with food” stereotype. Can you name one fat TV character who isn’t?
Peter:
Conversely, large people I know in real life are not. It’s an annoying and ubiquitous stereotype.
Peter:
Flirty Bar Girl wins a few points for throwing a rock at Sawyer.
Peter:
Damn it, I have accidentally got spanish subtitles on. Not for when they’re talking, just for when text is shown on-screen.
Peter:
Hurley’s mum: “Falling down is not exercise.”
Peter:
Heeheehee.
Peter:
Rose is in the show again, presumeably because her husband’s appearing this episode, as one of “the Others”.
Peter:
From an earlier episode- “If you want a secret to stay secret, don’t tell the big guy.”
Peter:
Too true. Hurley sucks at secrets.
Peter:
Haven’t seen Shannon or Sun in a while. Next episode will probably be theirs.
Peter:
Yup, Rose is talking about her husband.
Peter:
He’s showing up this episode.
Peter:
Also: only just realised these guys don’t know about the raft.
Peter:
I enjoy my life as it is now, but if I won the lotto I wouldn’t hesitate to collect it.
Peter:
Prediction:
Peter:
-someone will fail to complete the 108 minute thing by the end of the season. Possibly on the season finale.
Peter:
Cute Flirty Girl is being rather horrible this episode.
Peter:
She is no longer my new favourite character.
Peter:
I suppose this whole new bunch of people, The Others, allows for a whole new bunch of interesting flashbacks.
Peter:
About time.
Peter:
Hurley was the second-worst person to leave in charge of the food. (right after Sawyer)
Peter:
The Hatch mystery hasn’t really been solved, just shifted inwards slightly. Now they’re trying to break into the concrete.
Peter:
Predictions for what’s inside the concrete:
Peter:
-ANOTHER labyrinth, with even more mysterious characters and older machinery.
Peter:
-A cryogenic chamber
Peter:
-an unrecogniseable animal
Peter:
-scientists
Peter:
-interesting but bewildering experiments
Peter:
-POLAR BEAR FIGHT RING
Peter:
Voila, both Sun and Shannon are in this scene.
Peter:
Hurley’s flashbacks are the best.
Peter:
Not only do Hurley’s flashbacks rock the hardest, but they’re also the best integrated. Really nicely connected.
Peter:
I can see why season 2 divided a lot of people.
Peter:
It’s no longer “Here’s something, what could it mean” it’s “here’s something, how do people react to it?”
Peter:
Obviously these aren’t “The Others” that Crazy Danielle was referring to. Those seem to be ghosty ghosts, rather than people.
Peter:
Episode end.
Peter:
Most likeable: Hurley,
Peter:
Most dislikeable: Flirty Bar Girl,
Peter:
Most intriguing: Flirty Bar Girl.
Peter:
[[Episode 5]]
Peter:
Prediction: the two groups meet, and there’s a fight about who should lead them.
Peter:
Sawyer points out, quite reasonably, that group 1 went down from 47 to 43, while the other group went from 23 to what, 6?
Peter:
Oh no.
Peter:
Sun’s lost her wedding ring.
Peter:
(This is really a plot I could happily live without.)
Peter:
Prediction: Desperate to find her (inexplicably magnetic) wedding ring, Sun turns the electro-magnet up to max.
Peter:
Is this place (the not-Others’ home base) one of the other science bases on the island?
Peter:
That symbol is on the wall.
Peter:
This group of not-Others other survivors are henceforth going to be known as “Group B.”
Peter:
Scared-looking girl from Group B just referred to a “they” – I assume he means the Others.
Peter:
Big Scary Black Guy from Group B did say his name, but I didn’t catch it.
Peter:
Will call him “Mufasa”.
Peter:
Group B does, as scared-looking girl said, have trust issues.
Peter:
But the fish rots from the head – I blame Flirty Bar Girl.
Peter:
Both participants have their mother present – most awkward date ever?
Peter:
I assume Group B is slowly being picked off by the Others, and their hallucination-causing ways.
Peter:
Sun is destroying her garden in a fit of rage.
Peter:
Me, I’ve never been tempted by anger to cause more work for my future self.
Peter:
I’m all in favour of Jin these days.
Peter:
He hasn’t been a tosser for quite a long time now.
Peter:
Woah. The Others appear to be a group of flesh-and-blood people. No way they’re a “group C”…
Peter:
Mysteries that have pretty much no chance of being solved:
Peter:
-why the raft exploded
Peter:
-Jack’s Dad’s body
Peter:
I suspect that that is not the real Michael.
Peter:
Sawyer, biggest arsehole on the island, seems to really be enjoying meeting Flirty Bar Girl
Peter:
Who almost challenges him for the position.
Peter:
Had no idea what Jin was saying (“You find Walt”) so put subtitles on.
Peter:
The code for “Norweigan subtitles” is “NO subtitles.”
Peter:
Sun found her wedding ring. At last, I can sleep at night.
Peter:
Haha, one of Group B’s hiking poles is a hockey stick.
Peter:
Sun looking happy because she’s found her ring is, for the record, a really terrible end-of-episode cliffhanger.
Peter:
Worst one yet.
Peter:
That ep –
Peter:
Most likeable: Jin,
Peter:
Most dislikeable: Flirty Bar Girl,
Peter:
Most intriguing: Mufasa.
Peter:
[[Episode 6]]
Peter:
I have genuinely no idea who The Others could be.
Peter:
Children of the scientists?
Peter:
Them being flesh-and-blood took me by surprise.
Peter:
I read somewhere that the best way to seduce a woman is to engage all her senses at once.
Peter:
Feed her delicious food while smelling good, put on music, set up candles, and gently caress her.
Peter:
Sayid seems to be all over that. No wonder Shannon fell for him.
Peter:
Even I’m falling for him.
Peter:
In response to “I saw the Others”, Group B random: “Did you see the kids?”
Peter:
Seems like the Others kidnap kids to raise them in their crazy ways.
Peter:
Okay, Sayid and Shannon definitely just had sex.
Peter:
For defs.
Peter:
Walt seems to be the hallucination of choice these days.
Peter:
Theory: they can only make people appear if they have their bodies (dead or alive)
Peter:
People we’ve seen in hallucination form so far: Walt, Jack’s Dad.
Peter:
People who are missing: Walt, Jack’s Dad’s body.
Peter:
Boom did Hallucinate a fake Shannon, but he was on drugs at the time.
Peter:
Doesn’t really count.
Peter:
So glad I never did ballet as a kid. It looks miserable.
Peter:
Cute that Shannon teaches it though.
Peter:
These backstories need more cross-over.
Peter:
Couldn’t this SUV accident have been the same one that Denise was in, in Jack’s flashbacks?
Peter:
I’ll point out that the monster (smoke-monster?) has only appeared in two episodes thus far.
Peter:
First and last of the first season.
Peter:
I love how whenever Locke sees a problem he just fixes it.
Peter:
Just fixes it.
Peter:
No matter what it is.
Peter:
No-one’s yet said “Hey Locke, I want to leave.” They’d be off the island in minutes.
Peter:
Oh no. Charlie’s not back on the heroin, is he?
Peter:
Chaaaarrllliieeee! Nooooo!
Peter:
(Imagine the above in llama-voice)
Peter:
If you ever have your pick of TV shows to act on, choose one with heaps of flashbacks.
Peter:
That way even if your character dies, you can continue to appear on it.
Peter:
Most likeable character goes to Mufasa, early though it is.
Peter:
He’s like the Group B’s Locke.
Peter:
I would love to play a “Lost” computer game, if it were an RTS.
Peter:
If it exists IRL, it’s probably a terrible FPS.
Peter:
Lost Season 2: The Hunt for Walt.
Peter:
That tree in the background has a penis.
Peter:
Mufasa’s name is Mr Echo, Bitchy Flirty Bar Girl is called “Anna”.
Peter:
Prediction: Those pirate guys sell kids to The Others in return for…I dunno, Magic or seomthing.
Peter:
Apparently those whispers are much scarier than we’ve seen so far.
Peter:
Group A’s reaction: keep on trucking.
Peter:
Group B’s reaction: RUN!!
Peter:
Shannon has been completely fucked over by her step-mother.
Peter:
Even though there’s no evidence to reinforce the theory, every time I see rain, I think the monster’s coming.
Peter:
Sayeed: “I will never leave you.”
Peter:
I’ve been down that path, mate. Anyone you have to promise that to, you’re going to want to leave.
Peter:
Can one of the characters with a camera following them be taken by the Others, so we can see who the hell they are?
Peter:
Episode end!
Peter:
Most likeable: Jin.
Peter:
Least likeable: Anna (Flirty Bar Girl).
Peter:
Most intriguing: Walt. (where are you??)
Peter:
[[Running tally: All seasons]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Locke on 7 (Hurley on 6, Jack on 3, Sawyer and Jin on 2, 10 characters on 1 – Charlie, Ray, Shannon, Sun, Turnip-head Ulrich, Walt, Jin, Arzt, Boom, Sayid)
Peter:
Least likeable: Jin at 5 (Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 3, Jack’s Dad, Shannon, Crazy Danielle, and Locke on 2, 13 on 1 – Locke’s Boss, Charlie’s Brother, Clare’s Boyfriend, Kate, Charlie, Michael, Shannon’s Boyfriend, Hurley’s Mum, Locke’s Dad, Sawyer, Arzt, Crazy Pirates, Jack)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Kate on 4. (Ethan, Crazy Danielle, Locke and Walt on 3, Desmond (The Inhatchibant) and Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 2, 8 characters on 1 – Sayeed, Asian Wife, Jack, Charlie, Boom, Shannon, Denise, Sawyer, Mufasa.)
Peter:
[[Current season]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Jin on 2 (Jack, Kate, Sayid and Hurley all on 1)
Peter:
Least likeable: Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 3 (Susan (Walt’s mum), Jack and Locke all on 1)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Desmond (the Inhatchibant) and Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 2, Walt and Mufasa on 1

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