Lost Recap: "The Candidate"

Wow. Is anyone else out there in shock? Lost came back from it's week hiatus and blew our minds (and certain other precious cargo) to smithereens. This is what it has come to. These are the stakes.

Lost Recap: "The Last Recruit"

I love this show. Yes, I know I've been less than ecstatic about some things they've done in this season (or rather, not done) but as it rolls toward it's end game, Lost has no peer in epic TV story telling. How great was this episode? (Answer: Super great!!!) This whole season so far has been set up, set up, set up. They have entire new lives in the Sideways world they have to introduce us to and all. They have to answer questions while still slowly getting the characters to the places they need to be for the final show down. This, to me is the first episode of the season that hasn't felt like set up, but instead felt like the beginning of the execution of the rest of the plot. You can really feel the story moving now. Characters are making moves, big moves, that take them to big, new, and scary places. Sawyer made a big move with his coup of the boat which led him and his companions into the not-so-open arms of Charles Widmore. The characters are starting to feel vunerable to me. That was probably the point with the whole Ilana explosion and it secretly did its work in my head. All of our people aren't going to make it to the end. There will be deaths, painful ones, and they are coming. No one is safe anymore and that just ups the suspense so much. But I'm jumping around too much. Lets start from the beginning.

Lost Recap: "Everybody Loves Hugo"

So I realized this morning that it's bloody monday I still don't have my Lost recap up from last week. So here it is:

LIBBY!!!!!!! It's so good to see her back, snogging Hurley and all. She was my post Kate, pre Juliet crush on Lost and her being back reignighted all those feelings. It was confusing. But wonderful! So how does this new world work, I mean she's dead in the island world, but she's very alive here. How the frak are these world going to collide? Consciousness traveling? Are they going to collide? What answers will we receive and when?!?!?

Lost Recap: "Happily Ever After"

Well damn.

I was so sure about my sweet prediction that The Sideways World was simply what the Candidates lives would have been had Jacob never interfered and touched them. A part of me knew, this wouldn't be it. That, the great masters of storytelling that are Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof (executive producers, writers, show runners of Lost) would make it all fit into this narrative somehow; parallel universe, afterlife etc. But all those answer seemed cheap to me. Underwhelming and kind of unnecessary.