A Difficult LOST quiz. . .

1. Mr Eko's Jesus stick falls out of a tree and almost hits John Locke in the face. When he picks it up, the first thing he reads on it is, "Lift up your face and go _______."

2. Juliet Burke's sister, Rachel gets pregnant, has a ______, and names the baby ________.

3. Goodwin receives a chemical burn on his arm and lies about how he got it. The dharma station where he works is the _________.

4. Jack's ex wife is named ________.

5. The three nicknames Sawyer uses for Cassidy, Kate, and Juliet, are, respectively, _____, _______, and ________.

6. The book that Juliet chooses for book club (that Ben wouldn't read on the toilet) is authored by _________.

7. Jack Shephard and Daniel Farraday both have something in common, concerning their education. What is it?

8. Charlotte's field of study is ___________.

9. Richard Alpert and Tom (Mr. Friendly) look on and do not intervene while John Locke beats the hell out of __________.

10. When Amy goes into labor, there is a complication that requires Juliet to get involved with the birth. The baby is _________.

A small complaint. . .

All right. It's about high time someone explained why all the mothers on LOST are of the RABBIT variety? As in, is there one that can actually be considered a good one? This Eloise Hawking business better have some MAJOR significance to what happens in the long run.

I can sort of see Rousseau not being able to get Alex back, as they probably would have killed her.

I don't get Claire abandoning Aaron to hang out with Christian in the woods.

I don't get Kate going back to the island and just leaving Aaron, who'd she had been raising since he was 3 months olds.

Sawyer's mother was killed (absent).
Sun's mother seemed like she was out to lunch.
No mention of Sayid's mother, Desmond's mother, or Penny Widmore's mother.

Hurley and Charlie Pace seemed to have okay relationships but Charlie's mother croaked.
Kate obviously has mama issues.

Jin's mother was an evil whore.

?????????

Who IS Daniel Faraday?

This has been puzzling me. He's been to the island, apparently multiple times. His mother knows both Ben and Charles Widmore. He does all kinds of crazy time travel experiments with a rat he named after his mother. He deserted his disabled girlfriend to go back to the island, and once he's back, he tells everyone else that the future can't be changed but then he HIMSELF contradicts this and speaks to Desmond in effort to change outcomes (presumably to save Charlotte.)

Is there some sort of twisted link with Widmore? Is he going back to the island to figure out how to save his first girlfriend? What does the mother have to do with this?

He has already kind of been proven a liar (saving your friends is not our PRIMARY objective---oh well, we were never going to take you off this island anyway), the future can't be changed, etc. Now he's getting on the sub and leaving the island at his leisure? Isn't this what brought Widmore down too? The island will not be pleased. Neither will John Locke. Maybe he's going to blow up the sub again, before he did it the first time just to prove his point.

Furthermore.

Are we to expect Kate to start showing some pregnancy symptoms anytime soon?

Frank Lapidus

I think it's about high time I gave some real props to everyone's favorite pilot, FRANK LAPIDUS (Jeff Fahey).
There is just something about this guy that I really, really like on LOST. Many out there may have forgotten Mr. Fahey before now, but I have always appreciated him.

Some of his more memorable roles have included DWAYNE DUKE (just call me Duke) in Psycho 3, which is seriously one of my personal favorites, JOB in The Lawnmower Man, and the main character from one of the cheesiest horror films of the late 80s, BODY PARTS! Not to mention the chef JT in Planet Terror, you know, the one on the hunt for the best bbq sauce recipe (who then discovers his own blood to be the crucial ingredient?) Nice.

I see a Jeff Fahay film festival in the near future.

Lost Season 3

I just may need to permanently tape my glasses here and start up a website like RICHARDALPERT DOT COM. . . .

SMOKEMONSTER DOT COM?

WIDMORE INDUSTRIES, MCCUTCHEON WHISKY? OCEANIC 815 DOT COM?

PUSH THE BUTTON IN THE SWAN STATION DOT COM.



Season 3 is really valuable. This is what I am leaning toward a little over halfway through my review of it:

1. Juliet. Is "mole-ing" for Ben initially, but is doing so only because she knows he has access to her sister and son in Miami. The recording she leaves in his locker about Sun's pregnancy and the "I hate you" that she left out on the end seems to support this. She's definitely my favorite chick on the island. A fertility specialist who loves Stephen King? Genius.

2. The Episode "The Brig" is probably one of the most important in the season. Locke joins up with Ben and The Others, sees his father being held in a room (Ben told Richard to bring him The Man from Tallahassee) and then gets is humiliated by Ben in front of the entire camp when he is unable to slit the guy's throat. Ben says to everyone, "I GUESS HE'S NOT WHO WE THOUGHT HE WAS."

Hmmm. I smell a super elaborate set-up here. Ben KNOWS that John Locke is who they all think he is, and therefore must humiliate him to get the peoples' allegiance back until the next issues arises. How rude. This comes to pass in several other situations down the line, and always, someone important seems to intervene or help John stay on the right path (Walt, Richard, Christian Shephard, etc.).

I don't buy that Ben is trying to "test" John or to get him to find his own strength. Richard, on the other hand, comes to John with Sawyer's file and explains that the old guy (Locke's dad) has got to go. Knowing that Locke won't do it himself, Richard gives John the file that presumably explains that Cooper not only ruined Locke's life by stealing his kidney, treating him with cruelty, and pushing him out a window, but also Sawyer's, as he was the original "Sawyer" who caused James Ford/Sawyer's father to go ape shit, ruining another life.

I love Richard Alpert.

A revisit to season 2

A few things:

1. This season was completely about John Locke and Eko.

2. Every time Locke seems to fall off the chosen path, the island messes with his legs.

3. John was meant to find the Swan Station, but never to be the button-pusher.

4. It was important for John to find the Pearl Station in order for him to realize he was never meant to be the button-pusher, but he completely overreacted and lost his faith (momentarily).

5. In trying to save Locke during the second lockdown with Desmond inside the Swan, Eko WHIPS IN HIS JESUS STICK, which just barely makes it inside (like Indy grabbing his hat in Temple of Doom) when the doors come down. Signficant.

6. Yemi and Ana Lucia both tell Eko in a dream how to get John to find the Pearl Station. Libby and Desmond met before and she gives him her boat.

7. When Desmond resets the island with the key underneath the Swan Station, those Portuguese dudes in the arctic see the flashing on their computer and call Penny Widmore, saying, "I think we may have found IT." She's looking for the island? Did the old man TELL her about it? Or did she used to live there too?

A revisit to season 1

1. Locke gave Sayid his compass after he and Boone found the hatch, apparently thinking he didn't need it any more. Sayid discovers that it doesn't actually point north, Jack confirms this. Did Richard Alpert have this thing in the future? Was there something more to the compass at all? I read a theory tonight about how in season 2, once Mr. Eko arrives, there is a lot of business about looking up and going north. . . and how the island has to keep corralling Locke back in line to keep him on the right track, which is apparently to The Others (in a northward direction).