Two weeks.
Two weeks we have to wait to find out if Jin and Desmond get blown to smithereens on the freighter.
Two weeks to see what “plan” Ben had in mind when approaching The Orchid station in surrender mode, allowing Keamy to cold-cock him across the jaw with a pistol (how very un-Ben like to play victim).
Two weeks to hopefully see more flash-forwards of Future Jack and how he digests the information that Claire is his half-sister…although I think the glimpse we got of Future Future Jack in last year’s finale – he of the paste-on beard and suicidal tendencies – answered that question.
Two weeks to figure out how the Oceanic 6 depart the island as a sextet, since in the last few frames last night, they were scattered across the island and freighter in various forms of distress.
Normally, I would question whether we might actually get some answers in the two-hour finale airing May 29 (though last night’s ep was technically the first of a three-part whammy), but I have to say, I’m pretty satisfied with the level of information that has seeped out these past few weeks – especially in those gripping flash-forwards.
But as usual, the questions raised during “There’s No Place Like Home” were endless.
What is Locke supposed to do once inside The Orchid? Ben sort of left him to figure that out on his own. Or maybe Jacob will finally appear and show Ben the way to ….whatever.
Where was Richard “Hot Guy From Suddenly Susan” Alpert taking Kate and Sayid?
Why was the typically jittery Daniel almost passing out from fear upon consulting his notes about The Orchid?
And who thinks Hurley continued to munch on that tube of 15-year-old saltines even after Ben told him they might be a little stale?
I’ll leave the intricate postulating to the gazillion other bloggers out there who are more inspired to theorize about why Hurley might have picked up a Jesus statue to use as a weapon, whether that scene of the Oceanic 6 departing the Coast Guard plane was an homage to “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and if Ben handing Locke his “death stick” thingy was some sort of torch passing.
I also still can’t figure out the reasoning behind the Oceanic 6 sticking to this story of their group initially containing eight members. Any theories?
I will, though, award the line of the night to the Oceanic flack telling the group upon touchdown that the assembled media had already dubbed them the Oceanic 6. “That’s not the best branding as far as we’re concerned, but…it’s catchy,” she said, flinching on the outside and grinning inward at the publicity this amazing rescue will bring the tarnished airline.
One final thought regarding Oceanic. Obviously, based on Sun’s whip-smart, table-turning maneuver on her father and his company, the settlements disbursed to the survivors were some kind of stupid money, like, Hurley-winning-the-lottery money.
Hey, I expect a food voucher and an upgrade to First Class when my plane is 17 minutes late to the gate, so I’m totally in favor of giving giant rewards and golden tickets to a group of people who had to dodge smoke monsters and eat food wrapped in weird Dharma Initiative packages for more than 100 days.
But, even considering this is TV, do most airlines have that kind of dough to compensate plane crash victims? I’m thinking not. But Oceanic apparently does, and who else has a boatload of bucks?
Ah – Charles Widmore, maybe? What do you think?
Some notable “Lost”-centric sites:
http://darkufo.blogspot.com/
http://www.hawaiiup.com/lost/
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