It's confirmed! The season will have 14 hours.
That's fantastic...
Here's the schedule:
April 24 - Episode 4.9 The Shape of Things to Come
May 1 - Episode 4.10 Something Nice Back Home
May 8 - Episode 4.11 Cabin Fever
May 15 - Episode 4.12 There's No Place Like Home
May 22 - no episode
May 29 - Episodes 4.13 & 4.14 There's No Place Like Home
I Can't Wait!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Sunday, April 6, 2008
LOST 4.8 - Meet Kevin Johnson
There's a war coming to LOST. I don’t think that either side in the conflict between Benjamin’s “Others” and Widmore’s group is to be trusted or believed, and I don’t think that either side is “good”. I think that the only “good” people left on this show are the poor survivors of the crash of Flight 815. Admittedly they are flawed people, but we’ve come to believe in their basic goodness.
During “Meet Kevin Johnson” both sides of the fight present their cases. They continue to try to drum the reasons why they should be believed into their respective audiences, which makes them both even more suspicious.
Ben again tells the Locke camp that Widmore has sent the freighter to exploit the island and kill everyone one it. I have to admit that Miles does not deny anything that Ben is telling Locke’s group, so it appears that Ben is correct, but I believe that Miles is just trying to not tip their hand. If Widmore’s people were really sent to kill everyone on the island, then why did Charlotte and Daniel disable the gas factory? On the other hand, why were Widmore’s deck hands so enthusiastically practicing their target shooting, and why would they laugh when Michael asks them why they need to practice shooting if this is truly a rescue mission?
Tom (in New York) tells Michael that Widmore is responsible for the fake Oceanic Flight 815 found at the bottom of the Sunda Trench. Isn’t it just too convenient that the cost of recovering the wreckage would be prohibitive; no one will ever be able to further investigate it. Can we believe the evidence that Tom presents to Michael, the dossier of materials that show the Thailand graveyard robbed for its bodies; the purchase order for the 777 aircraft; the shipping logs for the freighter hired to drop the whole thing down the Sunda Trench. Couldn’t Ben have faked the documents? Couldn’t the documents have been altered and in reality they show what BEN has done to fake the wreckage?
Miles does try to remind Locke and Sawyer that Ben has ways of getting whatever he wants (“considering you had a gun to his head and now he’s having dinner with you… I’d say he gets what he wants”), therefore he could have resources to fake the wreckage. And we do know that Ben has the ability to leave the island… in fact, Tom, in New York, tells Michael that “some of us can come and go” to the island.
But Frank also has a discussion with Michael that indicates that it’s been confirmed to him that the wreckage was faked, and he implies that someone other than Widmore was responsible for the wreckage.
Who to believe, Ben or Widmore… Whose motives do we trust? I don’t believe we know enough yet about the big picture to make an accurate determination.
I’ve almost gotten tired of hearing Benjamin Linus say “but we’re the good guys!” In "Meet Kevin Johnson" he tells Michael that he doesn't kill innocent people, that all the bad things that have been done in his name (but not at his request) have been done by other people (after all, he says, Michael killed Libby and Ana Lucia). I even think that he might have set up the episode’s finale ambush in an effort to get rid of Karl and Rousseau. I find it too convenient that he just happens to have a map to the “Temple” with him when it’s time to convince Alex to leave New Otherton. He’s been planning this.
Ben’s description of the “Temple” as a sanctuary, the last safe place on the island seems strange. Alex asks Ben why they cannot all go to the “Temple” and Ben states that it is only “for us”. Perhaps he knows that the Others will kill anyone approaching the “Temple” unexpected so he sends the trio there. And since his break with the rest of the “Others”, perhaps Ben feels that they will kill Karl and Rousseau and capture Alex and try to use her as bait/leverage.
I was really disappointed in this development. While Karl and Alex have always been secondary characters, Rousseau and her story has had a prominent place in the “Lost” mythology. I don’t feel that her story is really over yet. Perhaps she is no longer needed in the “now” of the show, but I feel that they still have a lot to explain about her past and what happened to her team. Did they die of the “time sickness”?
In “Meet Kevin Johnson” we do finally learn a bit about what happened to Michael and Walt after they left the island. Unfortunately there are still many details about their escape that are not revealed in this episode. How did they make it back to the United States? How did they get back to New York without having to reveal who they really are?
Michael’s visit to his mother does reveal that he and Walt arrived in civilization without explanation as to where they had been; they asked her not to reveal that they were home; she couldn’t even call them by their real names. Michael does not have the means to take care of Walt, so he leaves the boy with his mother (by the way, Walt did not look as if he was being played by the same actor to me) and emotionally spirals into despair.
But a strange thing begins to happen to Michael. Despite his numerous attempts at suicide, he cannot kill himself. He survives a horrendous car crash; a gun he purchases with Mr. Paik’s watch will not fire. Finally Tom tells Michael that he cannot die… that his fate is tied to the island and that he MUST go back (as Ben’s henchman) to take his fated part in what is to happen. Aha! Think about it… perhaps Jack has (during his downward spiral) also tried to commit suicide and that he has realized that he cannot kill himself. Perhaps he has realized that his fate, too, is tied to the island and that the only way he will ever have peace is to return.
Twice during Michael’s flashbacks he has a vision of Libby. The first time he sees her in the hospital. She is delivering blankets (she was carrying blankets in her arms when Michael shot her). The second time he sees her she tells him not to “do it” when he tries to blow up the freighter with the bomb. Are these visions analogous to Charlie’s appearances to Hurley? Remember when Jack tells a fellow doctor that his father is upstairs in the hospital after we knew of his father’s death? Perhaps Jack is seeing visions of his father as well! Perhaps all of these visions are harbingers of fate, reminding the survivors that they still have a role to play.
During “Meet Kevin Johnson” both sides of the fight present their cases. They continue to try to drum the reasons why they should be believed into their respective audiences, which makes them both even more suspicious.
Ben again tells the Locke camp that Widmore has sent the freighter to exploit the island and kill everyone one it. I have to admit that Miles does not deny anything that Ben is telling Locke’s group, so it appears that Ben is correct, but I believe that Miles is just trying to not tip their hand. If Widmore’s people were really sent to kill everyone on the island, then why did Charlotte and Daniel disable the gas factory? On the other hand, why were Widmore’s deck hands so enthusiastically practicing their target shooting, and why would they laugh when Michael asks them why they need to practice shooting if this is truly a rescue mission?
Tom (in New York) tells Michael that Widmore is responsible for the fake Oceanic Flight 815 found at the bottom of the Sunda Trench. Isn’t it just too convenient that the cost of recovering the wreckage would be prohibitive; no one will ever be able to further investigate it. Can we believe the evidence that Tom presents to Michael, the dossier of materials that show the Thailand graveyard robbed for its bodies; the purchase order for the 777 aircraft; the shipping logs for the freighter hired to drop the whole thing down the Sunda Trench. Couldn’t Ben have faked the documents? Couldn’t the documents have been altered and in reality they show what BEN has done to fake the wreckage?
Miles does try to remind Locke and Sawyer that Ben has ways of getting whatever he wants (“considering you had a gun to his head and now he’s having dinner with you… I’d say he gets what he wants”), therefore he could have resources to fake the wreckage. And we do know that Ben has the ability to leave the island… in fact, Tom, in New York, tells Michael that “some of us can come and go” to the island.
But Frank also has a discussion with Michael that indicates that it’s been confirmed to him that the wreckage was faked, and he implies that someone other than Widmore was responsible for the wreckage.
Who to believe, Ben or Widmore… Whose motives do we trust? I don’t believe we know enough yet about the big picture to make an accurate determination.
I’ve almost gotten tired of hearing Benjamin Linus say “but we’re the good guys!” In "Meet Kevin Johnson" he tells Michael that he doesn't kill innocent people, that all the bad things that have been done in his name (but not at his request) have been done by other people (after all, he says, Michael killed Libby and Ana Lucia). I even think that he might have set up the episode’s finale ambush in an effort to get rid of Karl and Rousseau. I find it too convenient that he just happens to have a map to the “Temple” with him when it’s time to convince Alex to leave New Otherton. He’s been planning this.
Ben’s description of the “Temple” as a sanctuary, the last safe place on the island seems strange. Alex asks Ben why they cannot all go to the “Temple” and Ben states that it is only “for us”. Perhaps he knows that the Others will kill anyone approaching the “Temple” unexpected so he sends the trio there. And since his break with the rest of the “Others”, perhaps Ben feels that they will kill Karl and Rousseau and capture Alex and try to use her as bait/leverage.
I was really disappointed in this development. While Karl and Alex have always been secondary characters, Rousseau and her story has had a prominent place in the “Lost” mythology. I don’t feel that her story is really over yet. Perhaps she is no longer needed in the “now” of the show, but I feel that they still have a lot to explain about her past and what happened to her team. Did they die of the “time sickness”?
In “Meet Kevin Johnson” we do finally learn a bit about what happened to Michael and Walt after they left the island. Unfortunately there are still many details about their escape that are not revealed in this episode. How did they make it back to the United States? How did they get back to New York without having to reveal who they really are?
Michael’s visit to his mother does reveal that he and Walt arrived in civilization without explanation as to where they had been; they asked her not to reveal that they were home; she couldn’t even call them by their real names. Michael does not have the means to take care of Walt, so he leaves the boy with his mother (by the way, Walt did not look as if he was being played by the same actor to me) and emotionally spirals into despair.
But a strange thing begins to happen to Michael. Despite his numerous attempts at suicide, he cannot kill himself. He survives a horrendous car crash; a gun he purchases with Mr. Paik’s watch will not fire. Finally Tom tells Michael that he cannot die… that his fate is tied to the island and that he MUST go back (as Ben’s henchman) to take his fated part in what is to happen. Aha! Think about it… perhaps Jack has (during his downward spiral) also tried to commit suicide and that he has realized that he cannot kill himself. Perhaps he has realized that his fate, too, is tied to the island and that the only way he will ever have peace is to return.
Twice during Michael’s flashbacks he has a vision of Libby. The first time he sees her in the hospital. She is delivering blankets (she was carrying blankets in her arms when Michael shot her). The second time he sees her she tells him not to “do it” when he tries to blow up the freighter with the bomb. Are these visions analogous to Charlie’s appearances to Hurley? Remember when Jack tells a fellow doctor that his father is upstairs in the hospital after we knew of his father’s death? Perhaps Jack is seeing visions of his father as well! Perhaps all of these visions are harbingers of fate, reminding the survivors that they still have a role to play.
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