LOST Dave, first thoughts

So, I gotta talk about the last episode of LOST and the question it raised.  Is the island and everything on it just a figment of Hurley's imagination?

For my part, I would have to say, No, I don't believe that it is, or they wouldn't have told us.

However, the idea of things, or indeed everything, being just in the head is an intriguing one.  It may play into the ultimate truth of the island.

What really shocked me about this episode is the fact that the new girl, I always forget her name, (EDITORS NOTE: Holy crap! There was a time when I couldn't remember Libby's name?  Shame on me!)  from the other side of the island was also in the hospital with Hugo.  That's just strange.

We already know that the island has some sort of power.  It gave Locke the ability to walk again.  It brought the horse that was just like the one from Kate's past.  Perhaps it could create someone for Hurley from his past.  Maybe the new girl on the island actually doesn't exist and has been created from the mind of Hurley.  I guess we won't know anytime soon though.  After all, Walt has been missing all season!

Although, maybe something will finally be done about that this week since Jack is going to try to trade "Henry Gale" for Walt.  I can't wait to find out.

Until Next Time, I hope that you are secure in your own reality!

LOST Maternity Leave, first thoughts

Okay, so what the hell is up with the Others?


Is it just me or did you actually start to think we might have been wrong about them?  Maybe they aren't all bad.  Clearly, they aren't as primitive as we were led to believe.  They have a fairly state of the art medical center that they were able to just abandon, and the whole grizzly adams look that we've gotten from that one guy is just a fake beard and stage makeup.

You saw how he really looked when he spoke to Ethan in Claire's flashback.

I loved that for only the second time, the episode took place entirely on the island (the other being the episode that showed what had happened for the last season and a quarter to the tailies, which while interesting was far too rushed for my taste.) 

This entire island episode was great.  It worked in the show's propensity for flashbacks so well that it was almost half the episode before I realized that it was like a normal episode, but the flashbacks weren't going as far back.  Brilliantly done.  Flashback episodes are always difficult to pull off, but for a series that is partly based on them, this episode was able to seem unbelievably natural.

I also loved that Russo is now good again.

So, some questions answered, far more asked, but all in all a brilliant episode.

The season is really starting to heat up now.

Questions from the last couple episodes that I really am unsure of: is Henry Gale (Wizard of Oz reference? especially with the whole hot air balloon thing, Dorothy Gale's uncle Henry?) an Other or is he telling the truth?

What the hell was that when the clock went down past zero, Egyptian symbols?  What do they mean?  I'm really not sure, but I'm looking forward to trying to find out.

Until Next Time, I want Walt back, and keep Sawyer bad, cause man he is a fun character.