LOST SEASON FIVE FINALE: THE INCIDENT PARTS 1 & 2


OMG another season of LOST is over. It seems like it just started! Now I look at the LOST counter on the homepage of my blog and it is showing a ginormous (yeah I know, not a real word but it fits) amount of days until it starts again. And next year is the last season. What the hell am I gonna do then???? Holy cripes I'm gonna have to get me a life!! HA HA. Well I suppose for the hiatus I will rewatch from Season 1 and join the rewatching parties over at such LOST sites as Dark UFO and Nik at Night.

But onto the finale. It starts out with some dude in white watching a ship in the distance and cooking up a very nice piece of fresh fish. Biblical reference anyone? Well this dude is JACOB, THE Jacob that we have been waiting to see since forever. Not what I expected. I really thought Jacob was going to be Locke or Jack stuck in time. But Nooooo. Wrong again. We get a look at the intact statue which there has been much speculation on who it is. It's egyptian and could be many deities. I believe the ABC site confirmed it was Tawret but as I write this I am not sure and I don't feel like going to look it up. Anyhoo, I believe the ship in the distance is probably the Black Rock, you know, that ship in the middle of the Island, and the one Richard has been building in that bottle we've seen of late.

Soon another dude in Black shows up. Looks like he wants to kill Jacob but can't physically do it. Jacob does not seem to be overly concerned by this and is all "Bring it on dude, I'll be here when you finally figure out how to ice me." The dude, which many people are calling ESAU for simplicity's sake (Jacob and Esau are brothers in the bible who have a dispute which i won't go into. If you need to know more then open up your Bible and READ!) says he will fine a loophole and refuses Jacobs kind offer to share the fish. Now, I don't know what time period this takes place in, but if indeed it is the Black Rock ship and the statue is intact it has to be around the 1800s although Jacob and Esau don't seem dressed like you'd think they'd be for that era. Oh yeah, we also see Jacob spinning or weaving threads. Kinda like the fates in the ancient greek stories. Is it the threads of the Losties lives? Hmmmm..........

Well we've now met Jacob and we have discovered that Locke is not really Locke. Oh no my friends, he is Mock Locke. It's the Esau dude taking on Locke's form. He has found his loophole. He can't kill Jacob himself but he can get Ben to do it. Ben is prime for it with Mock Lock stoking the fire by asking why WOULDN'T he want to kill him after all Jacob hasn't done for him? Ben tried to get Locke once upon a time to kill his own father (which Sawyer eventually did) and now Mock Locke is getting Ben to kill Jacob. WTH????? I was kinda sad at this because it means LOCKE is dead. Really dead. Was he just a pawn in this game between Jacob and Esau? Or will somehow real Locke be resurrected and redeemed? If not, the poor guy, going through all that, thinking he was special and it turns out he was manipulated to fulfill a loophole in some game played by two ancient guys.

We see flashbacks of Jacob interacting with Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and Jin, Sawyer and Ilana. Jacob touches everyone of them except Ilana. Is he making some kind of mark on them? It seems that Jacob may have anticipated Esau's loophole and is doing something to offset it. Jacob seems caring and friendly and even appears to resurrect Locke after he is thrown out the window by his bad dad. But is Jacob good? With this show, you never know. It would SEEM that Jacob is good but it could always be a red herring. After all, one could argue that his helping Kate out by buying that NKOTB lunchbox enabled her thievery and the giving of the pen to Sawyer allowed him to write that letter that would become his motive for Revenge all his life up to crashing on the Island. Did Jacob cause Nadia to get killed by calling out to Sayid, or did his actions save Sayid and Nadia was just fated to die? This show gives answers but then gives ten more questions with those answers. Either way it is coming down to a game of good vs evil or destiny vs free will or shades of gray.

Back in the 70's we have Jack all hopped up to ignite the bomb and reset the past, or so he thinks. Kate, Juliet and Sawyer go to stop him, Sawyer goes Postal on Jack and then Juliet breaks the boys up by saying she's changed her mind. WHAT????? So now she thinks it's a good idea to blow up everyone and the Island because Sawyer gave Kate some look? And Kate changes her mind after Jack tells her that this is the only way to ensure that Claire is reunited with her dingo bay-beh.

Poor Sayid is squirting out buckets O'blood while Jack and Sawyer have their smackdown but I guess Jack isn't too concerned because if his theory works, Sayid will be arriving safe and sound in Los Angeles. No harm, no foul. Miles is the voice of sanity when he states that perhaps the setting off of the nuke is what CAUSES the incident and you know, maybe they should just leave well enough alone? They probably should, but they won't!

I was glad to see VINCENT!!!! When he came running up to Saywer on the beach I was like YEAH!!!! And there were Rose and Bernard hanging out for three years under the radar, enjoying the life of Papayas and Dharma canned food they salvaged. Kate tells them about the bomb and Rose is like "It's always something with you people". It sure is. I think that Rose and Bernard should have been a bit happier to see their Island buds after three years with just each other. Even for just a visit. They do offer to tea to Juliet, which she declines after touching her stomache. Is she preggers or is this some innocuous thing that we interpret as something else because it's LOST? Probably the latter. Or the ladder as in Jacob's ladder? Ha ha. There I go reaching again at something that probably has little bearing on anything. But then again, you never know so I am throwing it out there.

Now we get to the part where Radzinsky is going bonkers about the drilling and won't stop no matter what. The drill hits the pocket of energy and naturally, all hell breaks loose. The Losties arrive and there is a shoot out and things being pulled by the magnetic force. Good to see Phil get splattered by the beam thing hitting him. Bye Phil we hardly new ye and good riddance to you. The Losties cover Jack so that he can throw the bomb down the shaft. Sayid has supposedly rigged the thing to go off on impact. It doesn't. Good old Pierre Chang gets his hand munched as we all knew happened and his son, Miles, saves him from further damage. It was really rather sweet when Miles yelled "Dad" for the first time and came to his father's aid.

The heartbreaking part of all of this is when Juliet is attached to a bunch of chains and sucked into the hole by the electro magnetic force. Kinda like Smokey dragging people into holes. Coincidence? Jules is holding on for dear life and Kate and Sawyer valiantly try to save her. Juliet sees everything falling and knows Sawyer will get smacked down himself so she lets go of his hand and falls to her doom. Or does she? Sawyer freaked out and damn I had the tears in my eyes I must admit. Jack and Kate have to drag him away. We next see Juliet, down in the shaft, a bloody and mangled mess. She would rather die or reset things than to lose Sawyer. Ahhh, how damn romantic. It's the Romeo and Juliet of the Technological World. Hey, I'd rather have my memory erased and start over then remember your damn face! With whatever strength she has she grabs a boulder and smashes the bomb (apparently 8 times as mentioned by another blog site) and then everything goes white. Did the bomb go off? Did Juliet die? Are things reset or was the flash of light the same thing that happened right before they were hurled in time??? Tune in next January to find out.

Wait, I'm not done. I need to get back to Mock Locke, Ben, Jacob and the Ajira people. First of all, they declare something about Frank being a "good candidate". For what? Both Frank and us viewers wanna know dammit. A vessel for Jacob? But wait, Frank's alive! So back in the statue, Mock Locke and Ben confront Jacob. Ben whines about "what about me" waah waah waah and then Jacob is all, "what about you" and so Ben does the natural thing that anyone would do in this situation, and stabs him. So now is Ben just a pathetic pawn rather than the sinister dude we've all come to love/hate? I hope not. If you ask me, and even if you didn't I'm gonna say what I think cause it's my blog. If you ask me, Jacob knew and perhaps even planned this. He didn't try to run away or fight. He egged Ben on by saying the exact WRONG thing and just stood there as Ben did his impression of Jason Vorhees. Oh yeah, and it appears Jacob knew the moment he saw Mock Locke that it was Esau cause he says to him something along the lines of " I guess you found the loophole". Again, my take is that Jacob is still one step ahead of this game and when he tells Mock Locke "they're coming" it pisses the hell out of dark dude so he tosses Jacob onto a roasting fire. Mmmm. Fish anyone?

That may be just what Jacob wanted. Could he be a Phoenix rising from the ashes? When he says that they are coming does he mean Ilana's crew or the Losties? Either way, Mock Locke ain't too happy about it. Some have speculated that Ilana may be some sort of Egyptian Goddess with restorative powers and that's why Jacob came to her to ask for her help. Ilana certainly knows alot more and I'm sure she will be spilling to the Losties when they are foomed back to the present. You really don't think they are gonna go reset the future do you? I mean, erase all that happened? No way. That would be like we watched all 6 seasons for everything to have never happened anyway. To quote Daniel, "Whatever happened, happened." So I think Daniel was right and he was wrong. You can't change the past, whatever happened, happened. But you CAN change the future by your actions that come about by free will and some Destiny thrown in. The Losties are gonna come back to the present with the knowledge they have gained from the past and that is what is going to make them change the future by winning the war. THEY are the variables!

I could go on and on about this episode. It had all kinds of excited things stuffed into it. It got me to thinking about Jacob being like "God" let's say. And those that believe in him have faith, even though they do not see him. Ben had Faith, but then lost it. No pun intended there. Much like we all do. Sometimes we want to see God as proof. Especially when something horrible happens and we wonder where was God??? If we were to confront God, as did Ben, would we ask, "well what about me?" I'm sure a great many of us would. Why not me? Why me? We would be angry. But the anger dissapates (hopefully!!) and we again have Faith even if we aren't given "proof". Or hell maybe we are all Pawns in God's little game and are helpless to do anything!! These are all good questions and no one really has an answer. But it does make you think, and as we all know, thinking is good, reading is fundamental and all that other crap.

I will add one last piece about Jacob and his Cabin. I don't think it was Jacob's. I think Jacob or someone had imprisoned Esau there (hence the ash around the place) that was then broken allowing Esau to escape and assume the forms of dead people to suit his needs. When Ben brought Locke to that cabin originally it was ESAU who was saying "Help me" to Locke and Christian was speaking for Jacob because Jacob was never there! He was in the damn statue.

What lies in the shadow of the statue asked Ilana to Richard. Richard responded in Latin with something that has been translated as "He who will save us all". Jacob is IN the statue, not in its shadow. Could it be the dead body of Locke that will save them as that's where he is laying right now. Or could it be Ben? Remember when Ben stated that "I lie. That's what I do." Hey, it might seem like a stretch in most cases but when it comes to LOST, anything goes, and how we love every last minute. January is a long way off but we made it through last time and we will make it through this time FOR THE LAST time. Time. Only fools are enslaved by space and time!

PS Please bring back Desmond next season without that annoying cloying Penny hanging about him!


WELCOME BACK ME TO 2009

I now have my computer functioning and my cable TV and DVR hooked up. Ahhh, I felt so lost without it and now it's back. I was literally going mental not being able to go online and read the reaction to the LOST finale. It was torture, it was hell. But, I made it through. Now all I have to do is find a job to pay for it. HA HA.


LAND OF THE LOST

The remake of Land of the Lost will be coming out soon starring Wil Ferrell and damn, I cannot wait to see it. Little Chaka, the Sleestak, and Dopey the sweet veggie Dino. I hope they don't muck it up like they did when they "remade" the show on TV a few years back. Who can get that theme song outta their heads either: "Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition met the greatest earthquake ever known....." Sing it with me! I wonder if they will have Enok the good Sleestak on there? Guess I'll find out soon, coming to a theatre near me.