The Dow Is Up!

Last week was the “fall season” finale of Lost. Basically, Lost realized the same thing that 24 did last year. They realized that reruns of the show are pointless because of the serial nature of the series. (Is that redundant?) The only thing more annoying than reruns? Tuning in one week expecting to find your show and finding a very special episode of Prison Break. So, Lost is running almost all of its episodes in a row (just like 24). But Lost decided to whet our whistles by giving us a 6-week “fall season” followed by a 16-week “spring season.” 24 thankfully just runs 24 episodes in a row.

I rather enjoyed this "season," but I don’t think it really accomplished much. In the most recent episode, Kate and Sawyer end up getting it on. It was funny watching that with The Wife. Here’s the scene. Kate escapes from her cage and opens Sawyer’s cage. She tells him to run and he tells her it’s pointless because they’re on an island. She gets upset for not telling her sooner. He says he wanted to give her hope. Then he bones her. The Wife couldn’t believe this would happen. Sawyer was all beat up and they’re in the middle of nowhere. The problem with this train of thought is that The Wife is not a man (at least, not the last time I checked). You see, men don’t care about that. This is why men get in so much trouble. They see a chance to get laid and they take it, damn the consequences.

(Another wonderful part about this season of Lost is that I actually get to watch it with The Wife. When I was in school, I was gone most nights, so we didn’t get to watch much TV together. And now I don’t watch much TV at all, so any chance to sit down and watch a show with her is a plus. It’s weird how much more enjoyable a show can be just by watching it with someone. Unless that show is Law & Order and you’re watching it with my former roommates doing their impersonations of a drunk Jack McCoy. Now THAT is redundant.)

Anyway, it turns out Jack watches Kate and Sawyer get it on thanks to a miraculous escape. (Or was it really miraculous? Maybe Ben purposely let him escape so that Jack would see the lovemaking.) Jack gets upset and agrees to do the spinal surgery on Ben and everyone thinks Jack’s gone crazy.

Well, it turns out that everyone’s right, but not for the reason they thought. Jack purposely injures Ben in such a way that only he can save him. Now he has the upper hand when dealing with the Others. They have to let Kate go (and Sawyer too?) or Ben dies. And that’s pretty much where they ended the “fall season.”

Here’s what we learned. The Others are rather advanced. They have an established village, but they continue to use the Dharma bunkers. I have no idea why though. Maybe they have to because so many crazy things keep on happening on their island.

The Kids Are Alright. Remember how Rousseau (the French lady Sayid sort of befriended) had her child stolen away from her? It turns out that she’s okay. If you consider raiding the Others’ workspace with only a slingshot “okay.” Yes, that “Alex” (who was formerly Malcolm in the Middle’s girlfriend) is Rousseau’s missing daughter. It seems like she was raised by Ben. But where?

I think that’s about all we learned. There are still many, many more questions. First on my mind is why on earth did they kill the woman from Deadwood so soon? I thought for sure she’d be a recurring character. Nope. Shot dead in her second episode. Booo!

Who’s the guy in the eye patch? We haven’t seen him anywhere else. When Sawyer was about to be shot, the guy doing it mentioned some other guys “list.” Perhaps it’s that guy. The one thing that popped out to me, though, was the pirate ship. Remember in season one where they went to go find the dynamite and it was at the Black Rock, which turned out to be a pirate ship in the middle of the island? Well, what if the captain of that ship found another one of the hatches? This is quite a leap and I’m only making it because pirate captains frequently have eye patches. That and they never explained anything related to the Black Rock.

What’s going on with Desmond? Can he really see into the future? Why? And how is this going to benefit them?

What the hell killed Mr. Eko? It looked like a giant fist, which made me think it was literally the Hand of God. Makes sense given that Mr. Eko was a fake priest. I’m sure there’s a Bible quote out there somewhere to explain it. “Yea, thou shall walk on the mysterious island with a rod with God’s word upon it. If thou dost not garner high enough ratings, then the Hand of God shall smote thee. Probably by smacking thee around. Consider thouself warned.”

Why the hell didn’t they discover the Other island? So, the Others are on a different island than the Losties. That’s fine. But each island is viewable from the other island. So why didn’t anyone circumnavigate the Lostie island and discover the Other island? That would have been the FIRST thing I did after I crashed. Hey, what if you’re not on an island after all? What if you’re really on a peninsula or an isthmus? Isn’t that something worth noting? Instead, these people just ASSUME they’re on an island? Eventually, they got a map from Rousseau that showed details of the island. But still, they never double-checked? Morons. It’s like an old-episode of Cheers where the guys go out on a road trip and get stranded in the desert. Norm disappears. When he comes back, they find out that they’re like a mile from a resort. Maybe there’s a Club Med on the island. Go find out!

Who told Jack the door was open? Does that intercom really work and the Others are messing with him? Or is he getting help from an external source? And if so, who is it?

What the hell happened to Desmond’s wife from last season? Remember the last episode of the year when they didn’t push the button in the hatch? It caused a big KABLOOEY. And all of a sudden we flashed to an arctic expedition and they were able to detect it. And it turns out that the person financing the expedition is Desmond’s former wife? (Maybe they never actually married. I can’t remember.) Well, what’s up with that story? Are we going to be hearing from them again this season?

And finally, are we ever going to get an episode without a flashback? Please? Pretty please? With sugar on top?