Lost Season Six Premiere thoughts!

// February 3rd, 2010 // fun

Okay, I am so out of the game that even thinking of writing a recap seems ridiculous. Feels like it’s been forever since last season and thus me remembering much of the detailed history of Lost is sketchy.

However, why not talk about some of the stuff that happened tonight???

Holy crap! SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

First off…can I PLEASE get some props for this??? My recap last season (read it here) had some shockingly accurate predictions:

1. Esau was obviously controlling the smoke monster and became Ben’s daughter to make sure he listened to Locke.

2. The statue must get destroyed when that bomb went off. I’ll bet we’ll see it sinking into the ocean next season…or something to that effect.

Okay, #1 wasn’t that hard to figure out, but #2??? The friggin’ statue was AT THE BOTTOM OF THE OCEAN!!!

I just pulled a muscle patting myself on the back.

So the first point though…Esau…the smoke monster…maybe he’s not actually controlling it, but IS in face THE smoke monster?

I still think he controls it somehow, but his line to Ben, “Sorry you had to see me like that” was telling. Was a cool little fight…loved the guy standing in the circle of ashes, only to get slaughtered anyways.

Now on to the first hour of stuff.

The Lost writers are doing away with the split timelines and are now going with split dimensions??? I don’t know how else to figure out what is going on…there are some alternate universes right now…the plane crashed in one, and the other it didn’t because the Island was annihilated and lies with the fishies.

Loved Hurley seeing Jacob, finding out he’s dead and saying something like “Ah, sorry dude.” Hilarious Hurley.

Wow, the Temple…finally. And Temple people. Are they the Others?

Juliet says from the grave that “it worked.” Obviously SOMETHING worked if the plane never crashed the Island is dead, so where are their “doppelgangers?”

Second hour was strange…lots more questions than anything.

The temple Others try to heal Sayid, but the water is cloudy? Why is it cloudy?

Why does Esau/Locke want to get off the Island? Why can’t he, but Jacob could?

Has Esau been imprisoned there for some reason?

Did the cloudy water delay Sayid’s healing? Was it cloudy because Jacob was dead?

Why is the Tempe no longer protected if Jacob is gone? They didn’t have ashes out before, so did Esau just dare not attack the Temple while Jacob was around?

I think the stuff going on in Los Angeles is interesting…how they are running into each other and meeting each other anyways, despite never having gone to the Island. Could be cool to see if they all end up together somehow.

Curiously…where did Desmond go?

What did you guys think? The premiere didn’t have that “mind-blowing” shocker that Lost loves to have, but they did throw us a curve I didn’t expect. We all thought “Either it worked or didn’t work” more than likely, but I wonder how many thought that it could end up working AND not working.

Ohhhh…interesting…a thought….could the old cabin have been Esau’s prison? And then he manipulated Ben to bring Locke there and somehow they broke a hole in the ash circle, which allowed Esau to roam free?

Doesn’t make sense if he could somehow become the smoke monster anyways, but there are just too many things I don’t get right now.

Also:

Locke lost his knives, Jack his father…Boone is alive, but where is his sister?

If she wasn’t on the plane this time, why not?

Tell me your thoughts…did you see anything I didn’t? What questions do you have?

4 Responses to “Lost Season Six Premiere thoughts!”

  1. adrian says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Boone said that he went to Australia to get Shanon, but he said Shanon stayed with her boyfriend. So, no plane ride for her.

    I’m not sure if there’s any significance to Desmond AND Christian Shepard’s body AND Locke’s knives all being missing from the plane.

    I’m curious to see in the alternate dimension how the bomb going off made their lives slightly different even prior to flight 815. Hurley feels like he’s the luckiest man in the world, Jack doesn’t appear to be an alcoholic (left his glass full), Jack was nervous during turbulence while Rose was calm (it was opposite before), Shanon not going with Boone, etc.

    I don’t think we can say that the bomb caused the destruction of the statue. In the original dimension, we can’t really pinpoint what destroyed the statue. If there was any kind of bomb in the original dimension, why was the rest of the island not damaged. In the alternate dimension, the entire island is under sea, not just the statue.

    I want to know why the people Jacob touched are important to the island. They apparently had their names on that note that lead temple dude read.

    Also interesting how notLocke said that Locke was the only one to realize how pitiful the life he left behind was. Maybe we’ll see life sucking for the alternate dimension folks.

    I love this show :)

  2. Melissa Jill :) says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:32 am

    The smoke monster can take the form of dead people. I think “Esau” who was talking to Jacob back in the ancient days was a form of the smoke monster — he took on the form of someone who was dead. Last season the smoke monster in the form of Locke told Richard to tell the Locke who was alive that he needed to get off the island and bring everyone back and that he would have to die. He wanted to be able to take the form of Locke because he was the leader and would be able to get Ben to kill Jacob — that was the loophole.

    Desmond shouldn’t have been on the plane — he wasn’t the first time around. He was already living in the hatch and shipwrecked on the island. That freaked me out when I saw him.

    When Jacob was talking to “Esau” early on Esau asked him why he kept drawing them here, the outcome is always the same — the kill and destroy. And Jacob said, yes but everything that happens in between is just progress. I’m wondering if Jack, Kate & those Jacob visits are all in a vicious loop where they have been coming to the island in different ways throughout time and always change it a little. They didn’t crash this time but maybe they will all end up there in a different way. Maybe everything will work out if they can get “everyone” to be there all at once. Remember how important Eloise made it that they “all” go back to the island. Sun ended up not being transported back to the 70s for some reason. Maybe that messed things up last time.

    I’m guessing Sayid will now be ageless like Richard & Jacob were because of that pool.

    I’m also suspicious of dead Jacob. Is he really Jacob or is he the smoke monster? They said “dead is dead.” So now I think every time we’re seeing someone who died that we’re maybe seeing the smoke monster impersonating them. But not Sayid — the smoke monster doesn’t inhabit dead bodies — the bodies are still there but he takes their form. Sayid’s body is alive.

    Last season every time we saw Christian Shepherd we were seeing the smoke monster and I also think Claire is dead and maybe that was the smoke monster as well. She didn’t seem like herself.

    My thoughts…

  3. adrian says:
    February 3, 2010 at 10:50 am

    Yeah, the crazy thing with Desmond on the plane. I get that if there was no hatch and no island, than Desmond wouldn’t end up stranded on the island. But why is he on a flight from Sydney to LA?

  4. Mike says:
    February 3, 2010 at 11:16 pm

    @Adrian – I think the alternate universe means that in one of them, the bomb does go off, and in the other, the incident happens and the island is okay. Why they end up back there is anyone’s guess.

    The Desmond angle is weird, but it’s also interesting that just because the bomb went off 30 years ago (or whatever), lives have changes so that Shannon never wants to get on the plane, and other things happen.

    I’m really interested in seeing how their non-crash lives play out. Will Jack and Kate somehow end up together? With Jin and Sun find happiness despite not having to go to the Island?

    @ Melissa – I don’t think Jacob = Smoke Monster. Interesting ideas about the loop!

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