Lost, Season 4: Episodes 4-7

:
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.
:
Lost
:
[[Episode 4]]
Peter:
I’m not enjoying season 4 as much as the first 3.
Peter:
Season 4 feels like it’s not dealing with stuff that was there from the start, but with new stuff it’s introducing.
Peter:
Anyway, here we go.
Peter:
No Previously on! That’s unusual.
Peter:
We open on Locke with a shaved head, but walking.
Peter:
Island or mainland?
Peter:
Locke has Ben as a prisoner.
Peter:
Good on him.
Peter:
Chop off some limbs, Locke!
Peter:
Ben keeps shooting people.
Peter:
Locke needs to take a leaf out of his own book, and ask the Island what to do next!
Peter:
Take some of that hallucination-fruit.
Peter:
Why the heck doesn’t Kate trust Sawyer?
Peter:
Is this just conflict for the sake of conflict?
Peter:
What’s “the pregnancy thing”??
Peter:
Mainland Kate looks like a movie star. She has no freckles.
Peter:
Anything’s better than Jack’s beard, I suppose.
Peter:
Also I guess she sort of is a movie star.
Peter:
A TV star, anyway.
Peter:
I think the Judge’s name is Gazlehurst.
Peter:
Both his judging and his name are stupid.
Peter:
I have completely lost the thread of what’s happening at this point.
Peter:
According to @StevesyDoyle on Twitter, this season gets good around episode 5.
Peter:
I hope so, because I really dislike it so far.
Peter:
Okay, Miles wanting one minute of Ben’s time is pretty interesting.
Peter:
Can we skip forward to that happening?
Peter:
Kate having a son is a pretty good reveal.
Peter:
I like the future-flashbacks idea a lot, but there’s too much new stuff this season.
Peter:
Too much new stuff that doesn’t come from old stuff, I mean.
Peter:
Weirdtopia was “new”, but answered a lot of old questions.
Peter:
Nothing this season is answering old questions, just introducing new ones.
Peter:
That is my issue with this season.
Peter:
No give-and-take.
Peter:
Oh wow, Jack is not only beardless, but completely clean-shaven.
Peter:
This must be when they were only just off the Island.
Peter:
Hey, the plane crash was September 22nd.
Peter:
That’s my sister Elizabeth’s birthday.
Peter:
(also dozens of other peoples’ birthdays probably.)
Peter:
Whoa! That’s a nice bit of info:
Peter:
“Only 8 of us survived the crash.”
Peter:
Perjury! Why?
Peter:
This is a terrible court scene.
Peter:
Boston Legal has ruined me for courtroom scenes.
Peter:
“Do you love the defendant??”.
Peter:
Awful.
Peter:
So, what we know so far about the characters getting off the Island:
Peter:
-There are only 6 of them.
Peter:
-That includes Kate, Jack, Hurley…I think that’s all so far.
Peter:
-They’re claiming only 8 survived.
Peter:
-Jack has an ugly beard.
Peter:
-Hurley’s hallucinating Charlie and has been locked up.
Peter:
-Jack’s a drug addict.
Peter:
-Kate either gets off her charges, or is released at some point.
Peter:
-Someone relevant to the people who escape dies.
Peter:
Perhaps one of the escapees, maybe someone else.
Peter:
-Jack’s Dad is…alive?
Peter:
-Kate has a son?
Peter:
-Kate and Jack aren’t on good terms.
Peter:
-Jack, maybe others but definitely Jack, wants to go back.
Peter:
He feels called.
Peter:
Oh!! Forgot Sayid.
Peter:
-Sayid is one of the escapees, and he’s working for Ben as an assassin, to keep others safe.
Peter:
Kate is missing her freckles even ON the Island. Hmm.
Peter:
Meanwhile, in the episode, Miles and Ben had their moment.
Peter:
Turns out that Ben is rich and notable?
Peter:
Theory: Ben has taken over the Dharma Initiative and has the money that comes with that position.
Peter:
Sawyer’s character is all wishy-washy at the moment.
Peter:
I blame weak writing and the luxuries of Suburbtopia.
Peter:
Just realised; we have no idea where the rest of the Others have gone to.
Peter:
They’re leaderless and homeless at the moment.
Peter:
I wonder how much of Ben’s character was written from the beginning and how much was expanded because of the great actor.
Peter:
Holy crap Locke is badass!
Peter:
Probably a bad idea leaving him with grenades, after his history of blowing things up.
Peter:
Prediction:
Peter:
-Kate is not pregnant, she already has a kid back on the mainland. I don’t like people calling Sawyer James.
Peter:
That’s not part of the prediction, it’s just something that bugs me.
Peter:
-Locke blows something up.
Peter:
Kate is being incredibly annoying this episode.
Peter:
She is getting my Least Likeable.
Peter:
It’s like she WANTS to go to prison.
Peter:
On reflection, I think Hurley was saying Oceanic 6.
Peter:
We know who 4 of them are. The other 2?
Peter:
My guess is that Sun and Jin are the other 2 to get off the Island.
Peter:
Least likely: Locke, maybe Sawyer.
Peter:
I suppose it could be Claire, but I doubt it.
Peter:
Maybe we’ll see another one now?
Peter:
Oh, maybe Walt and Michael?
Peter:
Aaron! Aaron!! GREAT twist.
Peter:
Damn it, I was toying with the idea during the clothesline scene but didn’t predict.
Peter:
ALWAYS PREDICT.
Peter:
That ep:
Peter:
Most Likeable: Probaby Sawyer, even if his character is a bit weak. Wish I could give it to Locke.
Peter:
Least Likeable: Kate.
Peter:
Most Intriguing: Benry!
Peter:
[[Episode 5]]
Peter:
I’m warming to the season, though this next episode (episode 5) had better be pretty darned good.
Peter:
Starts with Desmond on helicopeter.
Peter:
Looks like this episode we’ll get to see what happened to the helicopter.
Peter:
Desmond can’t be one of the Oceanic 6; he wasn’t on the flight.
Peter:
Oh! Cool! Desmond doesn’t look like he’s having flash-forwards, but instead hallucinations.
Peter:
I love Desmond’s hallucinations.
Peter:
He’s so crazy!
Peter:
And we’re back on the helicopeter! This episode is indeed impressing me.
Peter:
I love Desmond episodes.
Peter:
I just love Desmond generally.
Peter:
Yay Desmond!
Peter:
So the Island is in some kind of time loop.
Peter:
Maybe that’s why the only way Michael could get off the Island is to follow the Others’ co-ords.
Peter:
I really hope that all this time travel/new characters stuff is stuff they had in mind from the beginning, not just written on-the-fly.
Peter:
Whoa this episode is cool.
Peter:
Confusing as all heck, but awesome as well.
Peter:
My final verdict will depend entirely on how it ends.
Peter:
I don’t seem to be making many notes this episode.
Peter:
All sorts of things are happening in a confusing but interesting kind of way.
Peter:
This technobabble is weak.
Peter:
“Every equation needs a constant…”
Peter:
Pfft. That’s not how equations work at all.
Peter:
Are we meant to be guessing who Ben’s mole is?
Peter:
My money’s on…whoa!
Peter:
Cool!! History lesson about the Black Rock!
Peter:
Nice crossover!!
Peter:
Whoever wins this bidding had better be incredibly awesome.
Peter:
Like…Penny, or Benry or someone.
Peter:
Oh! It was Penny’s Dad.
Peter:
Things are heating up
Peter:
The old communications officer looks like a muppet.
Peter:
This “anchor”/”constant” thing is seriously the weakest part of this (otherwise great) episode.
Peter:
Weak stake-raising, writers!
Peter:
This is a nice scene though.
Peter:
Having to convince an ex who’s trying to split with you to give you their phone number else you’ll die.
Peter:
So, it’s looking more and more like Penny’s Dad is the mastermind behind either Dharma or this new ship of people.
Peter:
I got really excited about the fact that Penny had spoken to Charlie, until I remembered that yeah, we saw that.
Peter:
So does this mean that Desmond just magically has all his memories back, or are we doing this amnesia plotline for the whole season?
Peter:
Okay, @StevesyDoyle was completely right. Five-star ep.
Peter:
Most Likeable: Desmond,
Peter:
Least Likeable: bad guys on ship,
Peter:
Most Intriguing: Faraday.
Peter:
Farraday was also extremely likeable that episode.
Peter:
Just realised: there’s so much going on here that they have to skip between Jack/Locke eps
Peter:
[[Episode 6]]
Peter:
Previously on Lost covers the introduction of all the Lostbusters, and their ambiguous objective.
Peter:
We open on Juliet.
Peter:
I quite like Juliet.
Peter:
Oh, assumed she was in a Subtopia house.
Peter:
Instead, she’s getting therapy…in the future?
Peter:
Or in the past? Hopefully future.
Peter:
Oh cool!
Peter:
She IS in a subtopia house.
Peter:
And while it is a flashback, it’s an Island flashback.
Peter:
My favourite kind of flashback.
Peter:
Ah, Tom.
Peter:
Why did they have to kill Tom?
Peter:
He remains my very favourite Other.
Peter:
Benry is a close second, though I only love hating him.
Peter:
How the crap do you make a torch?
Peter:
I feel like if I’m ever stranded on an Island I’ll be the only one who doesn’t know how.
Peter:
The whispering!
Peter:
The whispering + hallucinations are back!
Peter:
Haven’t had whispering and hallucinations for AGES!
Peter:
Doesn’t “Tempest” mean storm?
Peter:
Right, so she wasn’t a hallucination, just a person.
Peter:
But it’s still been a while since we had the whisperings.
Peter:
Prediction: Claire dies. Kate’s fault?
Peter:
I just can’t imagine Kate running off with someone else’s baby.
Peter:
Killing someone, sure.
Peter:
Stealing a baby, out of character.
Peter:
Juliet: “It’s safer for you if I don’t tell you.”
Peter:
For fuck’s sake, people, just tell each other things!
Peter:
It’s so much more watchable.
Peter:
Charlotte’s trigger-happy. She is the character I trust the least at the moment.
Peter:
Except for Benry, of course.
Peter:
She just knocked Kate out. Booo.
Peter:
Great line.
Peter:
Juliet: “I’m sure there are things in your past that you don’t want to talk about.”
Peter:
Jack: “Yeah. You read them all in my file.”
Peter:
Man, I hope Juliet and Goodwin start having an affair. I love affairs.They make excellent watching.
Peter:
Wooo! Affairs!
Peter:
Advice: don’t sleep with your therapist’s husband.
Peter:
Especially if she is a nutter.
Peter:
What, you haven’t even tied Ben up?
Peter:
Jesus, Locke, when will you learn??
Peter:
Miles said to Kate “I am exactly where I want to be.”
Peter:
Therapist said to Juliet: “Ben’s exactly where he wants to be.”
Peter:
These are happy prisoners.
Peter:
Juliet, in a bikini, having an affair. What a good episode.
Peter:
This would only be better if Juliet killed Goodwin’s wife
Peter:
(I know she won’t).
Peter:
Okay, so I didn’t imagine the Ben/Juliet tension when we first met them.
Peter:
I still have no idea how I thought they were married.
Peter:
Yeah, saw that rehash of s3e1 (“Goodwin, go down to the beach”) coming.
Peter:
I hope this Goodwin affair thing goes somewhere.
Peter:
Somewhere more than “Hey look this is why that happened in season 3!”.
Peter:
What, are we going to find out that Ethan dog-eared Ben’s book next?
Peter:
Locke!! STOP TRUSTING BENRY.
Peter:
IT NEVER ENDS WELL.
Peter:
I CAN POINT TO MANY TIMES THAT YOU HAVE REGRETTED IT.
Peter:
I think Red Sox is my current favourite recurring gag.
Peter:
Well, polar bears are still up there of course, but they’re never around nowadays.
Peter:
Wooo! Boat belongs to Penny’s Dad!
Peter:
I am the prediction king!
Peter:
Let’s face it, this Island’s healing powers are actually a pretty good reason to reveal it to the world.
Peter:
I can’t really contest that.
Peter:
Predictions for who Ben’s man on the boat is:
Peter:
-Miles
Peter:
-Penny.
Peter:
-My housemate cooked some delicious-smelling food. I am now very hungry.
Peter:
Hey, cool. Juliet’s found another Dharma hatch.
Peter:
The Dharma Institute is my favourite thing about Lost.
Peter:
Awwww! Benry in love is so darned cute.
Peter:
Juliet has the most expressive eyes.
Peter:
A few more hints about “the lists”.
Peter:
Once I finish Lost (and I mean finish all 6 seasons) I fully intend to go back and rewatch them.
Peter:
May tweet rewatch as well.
Peter:
Holy crap Charlotte likes hitting people. She is my least favourite person this episode.
Peter:
Stop beating up girls I like!
Peter:
Dharma seem to have set up a lot of different ways to kill everyone on the Island.
Peter:
Poisonous gas, not pressing the Hatch’s button in time…
Peter:
Here’s a question: why did the Others take so long to capture Jack?
Peter:
Why not capture him in like the first day or three?
Peter:
Yeah, this Goodwin thing was totally written in at a later date.
Peter:
Also, no way Ben’s character was this multi-faceted from the get-go.
Peter:
There’s precious little trust on this Island. I can’t think of any two characters who trust each other
Peter:
Or who should have any reason to.
Peter:
Oh, fair enough. Goodwin affair was introduced to raise the Jack/Juliet stakes.
Peter:
I’ll accept that, fair call.
Peter:
Juliet: “These people came to this Island to wage war against Ben, and when they do, Ben will win.”
Peter:
You are way too Ben-confident, lady.
Peter:
Oh! Just realised that Ben is still controlling the Others.
Peter:
He lied to…oh.
Peter:
Realised that just before it was explicitly shown on-screen.
Peter:
Episode end! Good ep. I’m right into season 4 now.
Peter:
They’re incorporating more old stuff.
Peter:
Most Likeable: Goodwin.
Peter:
Least Likeable: Charlotte.
Peter:
Goodwin’s wife gets a close second for Least Likeable.
Peter:
Most intriguing: Benry. God I love his character. Next episode!
Peter:
[[Episode 7]]
Peter:
Decided to make dinner before starting next ep.
Peter:
Note to self: tomorrow, go vegetable shopping.
Peter:
Can’t remember last vegie I ate.
Peter:
Not good.
Peter:
Prediction: I will forget to do that.
Peter:
Previously on deals with the copeter, the mole on the boat, pregnants dying on the Island, Sun’s affair, and Juliet being a baby-doctor.
Peter:
It’s like they’re setting up a Sun/Jin episode, but I can’t see that happening. They’re such minor characters these days.
Peter:
Is “problem with the kitchen” set-up, or a threat?
Peter:
Can’t tell.
Peter:
My guess is that it’s set-up.
Peter:
I suppose if Sun and Jin are the other two who escape, they’ll definitely have a bigger role to play.
Peter:
I dislike them being so minor.
Peter:
I had forgotten how duplicitous Sun was.
Peter:
Flashback or flash-forward?
Peter:
My guess is forward.
Peter:
I HOPE it’s forward.
Peter:
Yup! Flash-forward.
Peter:
Unless this is her second preg…no, that wouldn’t make ANY sense.
Peter:
We haven’t had anything about Jack’s Dad in aaages.
Peter:
If Claire being his daughter turns out to just be a coincidence, I will be pissed.
Peter:
Locke’s camp can’t be 2 day’s walk away. That’s insanity.
Peter:
That would make the Island much, much bigger than everything until now has suggested.
Peter:
Gah, stupid subtitling.
Peter:
I have to rewind Sun/Jin episodes about 9 times more than I have to rewind any other episodes.
Peter:
Jin is having a wacky adventure in his flash-forwards.
Peter:
At what point did he go from being the most sinister character to being comic relief?
Peter:
See, now he is being sinister, but about comedic matters.
Peter:
“I NEED THAT TOY PANDA!”
Peter:
Haha, now he’s kicking arse!
Peter:
“Whereever Sun goes, I go.”
Peter:
JESUS, now Juliet’s telling him about the affair!
Peter:
Shit is going down!!
Peter:
Sun, you could at least TRY to cover up a bit.
Peter:
Juliet’s a known liar, don’t just stand there and look guilty.
Peter:
I don’t understand how she can be seeing a three-syllable word and yet the subtitle only says “Jin”.
Peter:
How does that make sense?
Peter:
If his name is, in its native language, a three-syllable word, then why isn’t that what people call him?
Peter:
Why learn the Anglicised version?
Peter:
Although I never really got having a different name for Germany and Japan than what they call themselves either.
Peter:
(Plus Deutschland and Nippon are really cool names)
Peter:
Bernard: “You know we’re the two only married guys on the Island?”
Peter:
Well, you don’t know about all the Others, dude.
Peter:
Goodwin was, at least.
Peter:
Bernard: “Locke is a bad man. A murderer.”
Peter:
Surely Jack’s killed his fair share in his time on the Island?
Peter:
Thinking about it, maybe not.
Peter:
People who have murdered others on this show:
Peter:
-Sawyer (at least 3 people: the martial, Locke’s Dad, the prawn-salesman),
Peter:
-Locke (Naomi)
Peter:
-Kate (her biological Dad),
Peter:
-Sayid (heaps of people, probably),
Peter:
-Charlie (Ethan),
Peter:
-Ethan (Charlie…well, he tried.)
Peter:
-Goodwin killed a Group Bian
Peter:
-Michael (Anna, Libby),
Peter:
-the Smoke-monster (Eko),
Peter:
-Benry (Locke..again, attempted),
Peter:
-Anna (Shannon),
Peter:
-Sayid (in the future-flashback)
Peter:
People who I can’t remember actually having killed anyone:
Peter:
-Jack,
Peter:
-Juliet,
Peter:
-Sun,
Peter:
-Jin (maybe in flashback? Can’t recall),
Peter:
-Hurley,
Peter:
-Claire,
Peter:
-Rose
Peter:
Meanwhile, in the show, Sun just had her baby.
Peter:
Prediction: -it’s a boy.
Peter:
Damn! Soon as I typed that, it was a girl.
Peter:
Suppose it balances out.
Peter:
Prediction: -in 28 years time, Turnip-head Ulrich and Sun’s baby meet up and get married.
Peter:
Johnson is totally going to be the mole.
Peter:
And the big reveal! Johnson is…Michael???
Peter:
I called that like three seconds before we saw him. (as soon as I saw he was black.)
Peter:
Jesus, Sayid’s team, you want to be a little bit more obvious?
Peter:
I mean, sure, there was a bit of surprise there, but Sayid, you’re army-trained!
Peter:
The doctor on the ship reminds me a lot of David Cross.
Peter:
Meanwhile, Sun and Jin are back together.
Peter:
Huuuuge surprise there.
Peter:
Jin: “I know why you did it. I know the man…”
Peter:
and then a second later
Peter:
“…I used to be.”
Peter:
What a silly place for a line-break.
Peter:
Jin rocks. He can have Most Likeable.
Peter:
Least Likeable can go to the captain, who’s Aussie but has not much else going for him.
Peter:
Awww! Jin! “Is…the baby…mine?”
Peter:
In English for no reason other than added vulnerability.
Peter:
If he hadn’t ALREADY won Most Likeable
Peter:
What the crap?
Peter:
Either Jin has…what?
Peter:
What the crap is happening?
Peter:
Woah!! Jin is remarried?
Peter:
Or was he having a flashback?
Peter:
It would be quite excellent if he was having a flash-back while she had a flash-forward.
Peter:
Meanwhile, Hurley is dating Sun? And not crazy?
Peter:
Haha, I just remembered.
Peter:
Locke left a grenade in that guy’s mouth last episode.
Peter:
Hope he doesn’t explode.
Peter:
Jin is dead? Awesome!
Peter:
He WAS having a flashback while Sun had a flashforward.
Peter:
Or he’s faked his death in a far-too-elaborate-plot.
Peter:
Unlikely.
Peter:
Not awesome that Jin is dead, mind you.
Peter:
But the episode in gneral is awesome. So that leaves one more of the Oceanic 6…
Peter:
It’s unlikely to be Sawyer or Locke, though of course either is possible.
Peter:
I’m putting my money on it being Rose or Bernard. That’d be cool.
Peter:
That would tie his “We’re the only married dudes on the Island” line in really nicely.
Peter:
Episode end! Jin gets Most Likeable, of course.
Peter:
Least Likeable: Aussie captain.
Peter:
Most Intriguing…hmm. Not a particularly intrigueful episode, that one.
Peter:
Rose?
Peter:
Why does she want to leave?
Peter:
[[Running Tally: All seasons]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Saywer on 14 (Hurley on 10, Jack, Charlie, and Sayid on 6, Jin on 5, Desmond on 3, Turnip-head Ulrich, Sun, and Tom on 2, 8 characters on 1 – Shannon, Walt, Boom, Kate, Random shop-woman, Charlotte, Dan Farraday)
Peter:
Least likeable: Benry on 10 (Jack on 6, Jin, Locke and Kate on 5, Anna, and Michael, on 4, Jack’s Dad, Shannon, Crazy Danielle, and Charlie on 2, 11 on 1 – Locke’s Dad, Sawyer, Claire, Tom, Bernard, Denise, Juliet, Desmond’s Love’s Dad, Sun, Charlotte, Aussie Captain)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Juliet and Benry on 7 (Locke on 6, Eko on 5, Kate, Walt, and Desmond on 4, Ethan, and Crazy Danielle on 3, Anna, Sawyer, Michael, Sun, Eyepatch Man, Richard/Patrick, and Charlie on 2, 15 characters on 1 – Sayid, Jack, Boom, Shannon, Denise, Goodwin, Tom, Libby, Alex, Hurley’s Dad, Charlotte, Farraday, Rose)
Peter:
[[Current season]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Charlotte, Hurley, Dan Farraday, Sawyer, Goodwin, Desmond and Jin all on 1
Peter:
Least likeable: Jack, Benry, Locke, Kate, Charlotte and Aussie Captain all on 1
Peter:
Most intriguing: Benry on 2 (Charlotte, Charlie, Farraday and Rose 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”)

Leave a Reply

*