Lost Cast Season 5
We’re glad LOST is back! It was starting to get boring with all these shows with closure and linear scripting. (Warning: Spoilers Below)
Being a 2-part premier we got a full dose of LOST to get us excited once again. Plus, as you all know, we got our weekly fix of Evangeline Lilly so all is good.
It seems so long since last season and we’re glad that LOST is showing strong signs of being back on track. Whatever track that may be. The new storyline of flash forwards and time travel is highlighted in the opening scene with Willie Nelson singing “Shotgun Willie” and a record skipping. Great foreshadowing and kudos for a good song.
The characters of LOST (both on the island and off) are intertwined in destiny and the Oceanic 6 must return to the island for the survivors on the island to live. It’s almost impossible to try to recap a show like LOST and Season 5 turns up the confusion dials to 11 so don’t expect it to let up anytime soon this season. Just go to ABC.com and catch up. They have all the episodes there in a nice HD theater you can watch online and some of the more important ones are enhanced with clues and explanations.
The new storyline of time travel is very nicely embraced by LOST’s writers and we have a headache trying to sort it all out. Here are our 10 Favorite Moments for the Season 5 premier(Warning: Spoilers Below)
Sayid and Hurley
1.Sayid is still a bad-ass: Death by Dishwasher!
Best use of an appliance for a murder weapon and second best knife death in the season. In a fight with some bad dudes, Sayid throws one man over the railing of a second floor apartment and fights with the another until throwing that dude onto the dishwasher rack full of knives.
We just love a good knife fight!
Dr. Candle
2.The return of Dr. Candle.
Shooting a training video for the Dharma stations, Dr. Marvin Candle (real name Dr. Chang) is interrupted by a worker and Candle gets pissed.
Don’t mess with the talent!
Ana Lucia returns
3. The return of Ana Lucia!
One of, if not THE, most despised characters from the LOST world popped back up for a cameo. When Hurley is on the run he gets pulled over and talks with a cop. But this cop is dead. Or is she? Is it a hallucination of Hurley’s mental illness or the island playing tricks again?
Who knows….but the “Libby says Hi” quip was nice.
We were never big fans of Ana but we didn’t hate her like some people
Dave’s not home, man
4. Cheech is back, watches bad TV
Hurley’s dad makes a caviar sandwich and is watching the ill-fated “Exposé”, a show that the producers tried to work into Season 3 with what many consider the lowest point of the series.
The episode “EXPOSE” forced the unpopular Nikki and Paulo characters onto us but it was a nice touch by the producers to work back in, like Ana Lucia, something they know was not very well accepted by LOST fans.
Nice shirt, dude
5. Hurley is full of shih-tzu.
Looking for a change of clothes, Hugo grabs a yellow “I (Heart) My Shih-tzu” shirt. Oddly enough, they had his size.
We would have accepted here also a mu-umu-u or a 80’s movie reference shirt.
One suggestion is “Back to the Future.” We didn’t see an OUTATIME reference anywhere in this episode…
Instant Karma
6. Karma’s a bitch
Locke gets shot in the leg (by Ethan!) and is attended to the never-aging Richard Alpert with his youthful looks and permanent eyeliner.
Locke said, “It was Ethan that shot me!” and Alpert states, “Well, what comes around, goes around.”
Nice.
Don’t Talk Back!
7. Sawyer bitch-slaps Faraday
Trying to explain why he doesn’t have time to explain the time-travel mumbo-jumbo, Sawyer doesn’t punch the scientist. He bitch-slaps him.
Bonus: Sawyer telling Charlotte Lewis “Shut it, Ginger. Or you’ll get one, too”
He’s Just Resting His Eyes
8. Really. You think he’s dead?
Even with Locke in a coffin and even after Alpert tells him he must return to the real world to die, we somehow doubt that Locke is dead. It’s great character development to make someone like Locke so untrustworthy.
We believe Locke is dead as much as we believe that Ben is telling the truth. Hurley believes in Ben so little he gets arrested rather than go with Ben.
Daniel Faraday
9. Daniel Faraday
He might just turn out to be an interesting character after all. Not just a whiny scientist but we get a look at someone who might just have mastered the art of time travel and is willing to break the rules to save someone he loves, Charlotte.
And how often can we link to a fan site for String Theory and sound like we know what we’re talking about.
Now this is a knife!
10. Locke brings back the knife
The best knife killing in the show, Locke reappears at the end with his bad-ass hunting knife to kill a soldier followed by a nice shot of Locke pulling the bloody knife out of the dead guy’s chest to show us he hasn’t lost his touch.
photos via Lost-media
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I love this show…I can’t seem to stop watching. I need to know what is going to happen next. I am envious of the writers I wish my mind worked that way.
It’s more than a little addictive, isn’t it. Check out the writings of Brian K. Vaughan for so more interesting stuff. He’s the new influential writer with them (started near the end of Season 3) and his graphic novels are starting to be adapted into movies like Y: The Last Man.