LOST Recap
March 22, 2007
LOST is absolutely amazing. This would be the first recap that I’ve ever done, but it seems each week I just get more and more into this show. I love reading people’s thoughts, like Josh’s recaps, and stuff from The Lost Blog.
The Man from Tallahssee was one of the best LOST episodes yet. The relationships between everyone are so intriguing. Jack is clearly “up to something” and had plans to come back and help Kate and the other Losties. But what is up with Tom? Why did he warn Jack that the rec. room that Kate was in was bugged? I think there is more to him than we know at this point.
Of course the biggest shocks were finally finding out how Locke became paralyzed and the appearance of Anthony Cooper (Locke’s father) on the island - beaten and bound up. I knew that Cooper was the cause of Locke getting paralyzed but I just kept waiting for it to happen. And as to his appearance on the island…where did he come from? Has he been there all along, part of one of the groups of Others? Or did they get him once they knew that John Locke was one of the Losties on the island?
Ben - who I think is one of the best characters on the show (I love the writing for his character) - mentioned a magic box to Locke. I wonder if we’ll hear more about that.
I was thinking - I wonder if something about the island has to do with each person’s greatest fears - or something along the lines of their greatest weakness. Think about:
- Locke and his father: Ben mentions that Locke is angry and doesn’t want to leave the island because he’s afraid his father will find him
- Charlie and the heroin: Perhaps something he feared but definitely a weakness for him
- Hurley and food
- Sayid and torture: We saw him deal with this in Season 1 when he tortured Sawyer.
- Sawyer and other people: For someone who has spent his life conning people, he now has to be faced with the reality of other people he must interact and work with, and the possibility of actually having real and deep feelings for someone (Kate). He obviously struggles with that.
- Jack and leadership: Fear of being the one everyone expects to look to.
I don’t know - it’s just an idea.
It will be interesting to see what happens now with Jack, Sayid, Kate and Locke. Also, what will happen to Juliet, after she was promised to be able to leave with Jack? It’s clear (to me) now that Alex really is Rousseau’s daughter, which means that Ben and Rousseau were together, and probably grew up on the island together. Is Rousseau trying to escape, or is she part of another group of Others? She still remains mysterious to me, and I don’t understand why she left Sayid and Kate and Locke when they decided to head into the barracks.
UPDATE: According to this board here, remember when Hurley was meeting with the lawyer and a guy falls out of the window? That was Locke. Crazy. There is a lot of other good stuff in there, talking about how Locke’s father is the guy that Sawyer is looking for…
…but then again, you can’t trust everything you read on the boards:
Tags: LOST, LOST-Recap, LOST-Spoilers, Lost-Theoriesfact: Ben Linus is either Juliette’s sex-changed sister, or a sex-altered clone of Juliette’s sister. fact: Jack’s father is a major player, still very much alive…and Jack is a clone of him. Fact: it all has to do with clones.
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Adam Walker Cleaveland: I am a 28 yr old 
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:47 am
I’m from Tallahassee…but I don’t have a sinful TV.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:24 am
best show ever. wanna start a cult?
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:59 am
After a slow and blah beginning (except for the one with Hurley and the van) things are starting to get real interesting. The more I see, the less I understand. You think you get what is going on, but then you don’t. I wondered about the bug warning and how locke’s dad got there as well. I remember hearing someone say that the island was really purgatory and each person had to work out whatever it was on earth that kept them from moving on to either place.
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 am
I’m not so sure that Ben is Alex’s biological dad. Remember, Rousseau said that Alex was taken from her when she was a baby.
And remember, Ben is not necessarily the head honcho. He said as much last season, and Mikhale said it explicitly last week.
Jack seems conflicted about what ever plans he has. But they all blew up w/ the sub. Locke is selfserving…100% right now.
I think a big question is who REALLY is Rousseau?
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Right - I know Ben isn’t the head honcho. Isn’t that Jacob probably? We’ve been told that name before - I can’t wait till we finally get to meet him.
Rousseau seems like she’s going to be a key figure in all of this.
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I’ve been a huge LOST fan for a couple years now, but this season it seems like things are falling apart. But, last night was pretty sweet. What’s the deal with this “box”? I’m not sure what I think about a magic box that contains beat-up, con artist fathers, but hey, why not?
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
It seems to me that the show has a lot of dealings with torture and exploring are things all good or all bad, or some sort of mixture of both good and bad. I wonder, then, if they are going to give Locke the chance to torture his “father” and, if so, will Locke take him up on the idea?
PS: I also agree that Ben is a very, very strong character. He has been in my top two favorite characters ever since his debut last season.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:47 pm
box = metaphorical
i like goth claire
mark
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
if you are into podcasts, there is a great one dedicated to LOST. it is called lostcasts and is found at http://www.lostcasts.com or by searching lostcasts on the applestore. they update on sundays and they go deep into literary and pop-culture references in LOST as well as research the use of certain names (Locke, Hume, Rousseau, etc). There is also a comment’s section that fills up with thoughts, theories and other speculation. check it out.
March 22nd, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Another good podcast is found at http://www.jayandjack.com . It’s a little more on the comedic relief side of things. But they’re both a good companions. But Lostcasts does go pretty deep. Both are really good.
March 22nd, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Sort of off-topic, but the page load time is increasing…
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:57 pm
I hadn’t thought about it until last night, but when they started talking about Locke’s father as a con man I immediately made the jump to him being the original Sawyer… There are so many eerie interconnections that it would be very disappointing it weren’t the case.
Also, I don’t think that Ben and Rousseau had to be “together” at any point. It’s like Blake said above, Rousseau’s baby was stolen. Ben probably just adopted her.
March 26th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Am I the only one that saw the exchange between Locke & Ben, when Locke is yelling at Ben for being a cheater - living over on one side of the island in luxury while the plane crash victims get by on scraps - as a metaphor for our current state of world affairs concerning multi-national corporations & “free-market” economies?
I mean, the Others steal the young, and brain wash those who don’t submit, to their way of life, they steal resources and kill almost indiscriminately. But when you visit them, they’re playing catch and having book-clubs, living in quaint little homes, with LEFTOVERS in the fridge. There is the illusion of leaving to a better place, but the leaders want them to stay because when you get right down to it, it’s about power, and Bennie’s got the conch!