Lost: The Economist
By fred | February 15, 2008
(S04E03) Okay, got a little “distracted” today but I’m finally going over the latest episode of Lost. One thing for sure about this season, is that it will be a very special one, for a lot of reasons. Of course, there’s the strike which had it cut in half and that will result in a slightly shortened season, with a second half a little shorter than firstly imagined.
But also, this time the creative minds behind the show are in a very different position : they know exactly how many episodes are left, for the entire series. And you can tell that they do, and that it had an impact of the show. All those stupid things about Jack’s tattoos are long gone now, now every episode is not only absolutely awesome, but it comes with a lot of answers and development regarding the whole thing.
We might only be three episodes in, but I’m willing to bet this is going to be the best season of the show to date, because if it keeps up that way, there’s no question this season will blow all the others away.
I’ve said it before, but after last season’s finale I did not expect flash-forward to come back to the show, because I felt that it would reveal way too much regarding what happened, or will happen, on the Island, given that “we” are still on there. Quite obviously I was dead wrong on that one, and I couldn’t be happier about that. Sure, it reveals a lot, but it also morphed into something else completely.
While Jack’s flash-forward, being the first and with the idea of trying to only reveal that it was indeed the future for the end, looked very much like those old flashbacks used to look. But now that we know about them, that there’s no mystery to this, writers have been using it fully as a brand new storytelling device, and it turns out to be one of the greatest thing ever. If flashbacks could feel like filler at times in the past, the new & improved flashforwards are nothing like that, so much, in fact, that they now come with their own story that is getting as great, compelling, captivating and mysterious as the one on the Island !
It is, it really is, fantastic.
So let’s stay in the future and talk about it. This time who found about a new name to add to the list of the Oceanic 6, and it was no other that Sayid ! That gives us Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, and two more. I would want to say Claire is one of them, due to Desmond’s vision, but thinking about it he never told Charlie she was saved, just that she left the Island on an helicopter. She could then be brought back there, or killed on the boat.
Since we’re talking about killing… Once off the Island, Sayid started to work for someone, as a killer. Yes, he kills people. And it looks like this week he had to watch die another cute blonde girl whom had found a special place in his heart… Sayid should play games, because he’s definitely not too lucky when it comes to love.
He had to kill Elsa, but not before she tried to kill him. She did because she knew he was using her to get to her boss, who may or may not be an economist, but either way is involved in something else, something bad. That’s why he was on Sayid’s list. Yes, he’s got a list, another list of “bad people”, and this list was compiled by his boss, who turned out to be no other than… our very own Benjamin Linus ! Watching the episode a second time you could totally recognize his voice before seeing him, something I totally had not done when I first watch it.
I was completely blow away, especially because had you ask me, I’d had given everything I have that Ben would never have left the Island, no way. Which kinda make me wonder if it could have been Locke on that coffin, for some reason…
No wayyyyyyyyyyy ! What a great episode!!!
Even when “we spent” little time on the island i gotta say i loved this one.
It was amazing from head to toes. Maybe i´m a bit supid today but i never saw that murderer sayid coming, the surprising hurley and Ben as sayid´s boss! (Still i gotta say that change of voice from Ben in the end was kind of crappy. First he talked like a demon and then he changed to his normal voice which is more “angelical” not to say gay :P)
The time thing is crazy, cos as you said, the communications are in “real time” but i remember a chapter when sayid and hurley were listening to a radio and sayid said that radios waves could come from anywhere in the world and i think hurley said it could also come from another time. so…
is that an explanation? i don´t know what to think, what i can say is that i loved that time thing. it was amazing!
Something you´ve missed is that Elsa had the same bracelet as naomi. How is this related…? i don´t know.
Well, i want to see this episode again, i´ve just finished it and i´m sure i´ve lost some stuff. Still gotta say that i love to read your reviews and now i also made my girlfriend read them too :)
oh, two more things:
* that berlin thing was excellent. I study german and i love berlin so… it was cool :D
* my girlfriend is swiss and she was way too happy to see Ben´s swiss passport ;-) heheh
Cheers Mate!!
ps:add me on msn if you want, maybe we can chat some time :) Das wäre toll !
hey you!
yeah, it was another fantastic episode!! And the time thing is indeed really cool, though I don’t really know what it means. But, what’s for sure is that Dan was only testing to see if there was something up with time or not on the Island, and it was a test long planned. He didn’t had to explain or ask for anything else than “launch it”, and it only contained a clock. So again, h knew – or suspected – something there.
BTW, question : how, or more exactly, when were those two clocks put in sync ? Before Dan & co came to the Island, and then how come his clock did not get a delay as well, or after, using the radio ?
I would think the later, but then again, how come those things happen in real time ??
Plus, what’s better is that it so doesn’t feel like the four-toed statue, this time we know writers have a plan and know what it means… now they just have to tell us!
Hear that Lindelof, Cuse and other Abrams, you better tell us, now!! :)
And yeah, thank you, those bracelets!! How could I forgot that!? Especially since I think it was important, as it meant that Sayid was indeed tracking down whoever came on the Island to “rescue” them… or at least whoever sent people on the Island, whoever was in charge.
I’m just wondering what could have happened, that got Sayid to change so much. Because if he trusted those people on the boat, at some point, and then things got really ugly, as in people died-ugly, so much that it got Sayid to turn to Ben (!), and now hunt them & kill them all, it must have been something big.
Something that must have happened either on the Island, or on the boat. But then, since the Oceanic Six got rescued, and assuming they left on that boat, were people on that boat fighting with our Losties as well ? I mean the Oceanic Six didn’t just show up one day: “yeah, we’re suvivors from Oceanic F815, we were living on an Island and someday we just found that boat! Amazing uh? What’s that? You found the wreckage on the plane, with dead bodies, under water ? That’s odd…”
And, how come neither Jack or Hurley, or Kate, seemed that affected by it ? I mean, not the way Sayid was… Hurley wanted to forget “the lies”, sure, but Jack seemed fine with it, and so did Kate even when Jack got all depressed.
Please answer all those questions, I need to know, I really do! ;)