Michael Emerson (Ben Linus) said the finale would make me want to eat my soul, but after such a hearty breakfast, I can't take another bite. Surprisingly meaty bird -- the crow.

We're introduced to two characters in this two hour finale -- a blond man in white, Jacob (okay that's more formality than introduction) and a brunette man in black, Nameless Guy, who, despite being only normally hirsute, I'm dubbing Esau unless/until canon otherwise dictates. In real time, I was ticked that the show was wasting time on two new characters, even if Jacob isn't technically new, but they more than paid off, so it's all of the good. It seems Jacob and Esau have been on the island even longer than Richard, because they sit on the beach watching as The Black Rock approaches. Esau knows Jacob's arranged their arrival, bringing people to the island seems to be his thing. Esau says, "You're still trying to prove me wrong." Jacob says that's because Esau is wrong. Esau says, "They come, fight, destroy, corrupt. It always ends the same." Jacob says it can only end once. "Anything before that is just progress." Toward what end though, Jacob? Toward what end? Before we leave this dashing duo, Esau tells Jacob that he really wants to kill him and that someday, he'll find a loophole that allows him to do just that. So they were playing what Des so aptly Christened a "game" even back then. Jacob says, "I'll be right here." We cut to a profile of the statue's face and I have to check my mythology before writing the full recap, because now I don't know that he's Anubis, either. Crazy-ass show.

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Was that insane or what? I think I can hear colors melting and they all taste like the sun. That is to say, the crazier this show gets, the harder I love it. Pretty soon? My heart's going to explode. Where to begin? Where to begin? How about at the beginning?

Once Daniel is dead, Charles and an Other-Goon catch Jack and Kate in the jungle and bring them to Camp Richard where Jack confirms to (a little bit pregnant) Ellie that she's Daniel's mother and that she needs to help him (i.e. Jack) detonate a hydrogen frigging bomb in order to prevent a plane crash which left an awful lot of people... alive. Yeah. Kate thinks that's nuts, because it is, so she heads out on her own. When one of the Others doesn't like this and tries to shoot her down, Sayid pops out of nowhere and shoots him. Kate and Jack agree to disagree about the end of the island/world/life as they know it, and once she tells off Sayid for shooting wee Ben, she leaves to find the rest of her people (read: Sawyer). Sayid, Jack, Ellie, and Richard swim under the creek and through a tunnel to the bowels of the Temple, where the Others have hidden the Jughead bomb.

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As a young boy, Daniel Faraday is not only academically inclined, he's also a gifted musician. His mother, Eloise Hawking, being a beast from Hell, makes him give up music to concentrate solely on his "gifts," because she knows sod-all about child development or the effect of music on the mathematical area of the brain. And as a young man, when Dan graduates Oxford, his mother, Eloise Hawking, being a beast from Hell, expects him to give up women and concentrate solely on his "gifts," because although lovely, she has a shriveled-up prune for a heart. Of course, his current squeeze is Theresa, his lab assistant whose brain he'll eventually break, so maybe Ma Faraday has a point. As an adult, after Daniel breaks his own brain (the first time), Charles Widmore, who funded the Theresa-breaking research at Oxford, recruits him for his expedition to Craphole. He promises the young man, who is weeping over the tragedy of Oceanic Flight 815, that going to the island will heal him. Daniel's mother, being a beast from Hell, later encourages her son to take the trip.

During Daniel's first time on the island, before he lost his love Charlotte to the magical hemorrhagic jetlag that seems to kill those who return to Craphole, he tracked down Desmond Hume and told him to find his mother, the beast from Hell, and enlist her help. And then Dan got stuck in 1977. And then he left the island on the sub, but came back, still to 1977, which is now. He gets everyone's knickers in a twist -- particularly Jack's -- when he tells him that Eloise was wrong, and Jack et al were never supposed to be there. Oh, and he freaks out Miles when he tells Dr. Chang that Miles is his son and that there's going to be an "incident" at the Swan. Chang, unsurprisingly, doesn't believe him, since he changed the kid's diapers, just that morning.

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Ben has to summon ol' Smokey and submit himself to judgment for his past deeds. Locke, Sun, and Frank tag along for the ride, and we see some of our favorite special and unique snowflakes. What else can I tell you in so little time? Writing recaplets for this show sometimes seems a fool's errand. Luckily, I'm just the woman for the job!

I know you must have been surprised as I was to see Prince Valiant riding his trusty steed through Craphole in 1977, but it turns out it was just Charles Widmore, who isn't valiant at all, and doesn't think Richard should have rescued Ben. Ben doesn't want to go back to Daddy Dearest, so clearly, he remembers some things, just not how he got injured or why he's now with the Others.

In 1989, Ben and an adolescent Ethan sneak up on painfully young Danielle Rousseau's shelter. Ben steals her infant daughter, Alex, and warns Danielle that if she ever hears whispers, she should run the other way -- if she wants her child to live. An older Widmore is angry that Ben didn't follow his orders to exterminate the woman and says he should have killed it, too. Ben's all "It's not an it; it's a baby. If killing a baby is what Jacob wants -- you do it."

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Remember how Sayid killed wee Benjamin Linus last week? April Fools! He's not dead yet. And he probably never will be, but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Even though the big news in this episode is that Ben isn't dead, the story is largely about Kate. In 1977, Juliet is trying to save Ben's life, but she's not a surgeon. Jack is though, right? Sure, but he's also not going to lift one gifted finger to save Ben, not even when Kate asks all pretty. He's all "Ben there? Done that." Juliet soldiers along, mostly alone, but gets a blood donation from Kate, who claims to be a universal donor. Huh. I don't remember her volunteering when Boone was dying. Of course she was kind of busy that night -- helping Claire bring Aaron into the world.

Speaking of Aaron, we see a lot of him in this episode, when the show fills in some of its Kate-shaped blanks between 2004 and 2007. In 2004, we see the baby Aaron accompany Kate to Cassidy's (Sawyer's Baby Mama) house, to meet her and Clementine (Sawyer's Baby). Sawyer's parting request to Kate (before he dove off Frank's chopper) was that she would make sure his little girl was taken care of. Kate shows up with an envelope full of cash to give away, and she's ready to spill all the secrets on which her friends' lives depend. She tells all -- everything that the big lie was supposed to conceal. Cassidy calls Kate out on being in love with Sawyer, and explains why that's futile, but that doesn't stop the two women from rekindling their friendship.

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Did that just happen? Can it? I mean, really. Where's Daniel with the playbook? We need rules -- borders -- an end zone. What am I talking about? Well hop aboard, I'll give you the starter tour.

The network description of this episode reads: "A survivor goes rogue, endangering the lives of everyone on the island." But by rogue, it seems they mean something far more interesting than Sarah Palin using campaign funds to buy some snazzy duds. We open on a scene in Tikrit, Iraq. A father berates his son into killing a chicken. The kid doesn't have the heart to do it, so once his father storms back into the house, his younger brother puts his hand on his shoulder, and shows the older boy his palm full of chicken feed. He then enters the coop, lures a chicken over, picks it up and snaps its neck. After he hands the carcass to big brother, the father comes out to congratulate him. The older child is a truthful child, and admits to his father that he didn't off the bird. As the old man scoffs at the older boy and looks fondly at the younger, the subtitles tell us he says, "At least one of you will be a man. Well done, Sayid." So, he's a natural born killer? Tell us something we don't know, Show.

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We open up on Ajira flight 316, and follow it before, during and after the FLASH and crash. As we already knew, the plane hits "turbulence" (or a rift in the space-time continuum). In the cockpit, Frank struggles to keep control, but the plane stalls out and he's forced to land on a makeshift island runway. When he wakes, his co-pilot is dead via shish kebab. Meanwhile, in the cabin, Caesar wakes Ilana, whom he doesn't seem to know, and they (and Sun and Frank) realize that some people have disappeared from the plane. Not Ben, though; he's standing there, relatively unharmed, save the injuries he picked up before he left L.A. (where he certainly did not kill Penny, do you hear me? La la la la la la la).

Thirty years earlier: Jin finds Jack, Kate and Hurley and brings them to Sawyer, who leaves them hanging on the shore while he goes back to Old New Otherton to grab them some clothes. He and Juliet decide to disguise them as some of the new Dharma recruits who are arriving on the sub that day. Sawyer is shocked by the Returnees' news that Locke is dead, but not as shocked as they are by Sawyer's news that it's 1977. Jin, not to be outdone, is shocked that Sun has come back with them, and makes like a bat out of hell to go find her. Somewhere. Oh, and Sawyer doesn't shock me, but he intrigues me when he tells his friends that Daniel is no longer there. [I think he means Daniel go cray-cray. - Zach]

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Were these 66 minutes the best episode so far in a stunning season, or is that just the wine and the HSQ talking? "The Life And Death of Jeremy Bentham" tells us what happened to Locke once he left the island, who he saw, what he said and did, and how he died, and how he so doesn't stay that way. Oh and? It may take you all night to get your jaw back into the upright position. So buckle up and prepare for take-off... Craphole Island; Night: Saïd Taghmaoui's Caesar (Not!Sayid), who was sitting across from Hurley on Ajira flight 316 last week, is the first person we see. And no offense, Show, but who cares? Caesar's poking around a Dharma station -- it's too dark to tell which one. He finds a some maps, a chart that looks suspiciously like output from Mrs. Hawking's Foucault's Pendulum, and a shotgun which he quickly hides in his pack, then lies to Ilana (Zuleikha Robinson) that it's just a flashlight. Something tells me Caesar's going to be right at home, here. Ilana tells him they've found a man who wasn't on the plane. Sitting by a campfire on the beach, cloaked in a Dharma Initiative blanket, and looking enough like a Jedi that I laughed aloud, this mystery man reveals himself to be none other than John Locke. ALIVE!

The next morning he's standing in the surf looking out to sea when Ilana brings him the best mango he's ever had. Locke wants to know about the two pontoon boats resting on the sand. Ilana says there were three, but the pilot and a woman (Sun?) took off on one, as soon as they landed. She asks Locke why he's dressed so nicely, and he supposes the suit was going to serve as his burial garb, and that he remembers dying!

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The camera zooms in on an eye -- Jack's -- just like the pilot. He wakes in the jungle and hears a cry for help. It's Hurley! Jack dives into the waterfall-fed lake below to save him, and the guitar he's got with him because... he does. Jack and Hurley swim to an unconscious Kate on the shore and wake her. They're back on the island, and I'm back on the phone, trying to book a room at Santa Rosa.

Forty-six hours earlier, Jack, Sun, Desmond and Ben are with Mrs. Hawking in the Church. She leads them down the spiral staircase to her island-locating lab, which she refers to as the Lamppost, because we're not done with C.S. Lewis yet, babies. The Lamppost is located on an electromagnetic energy pocket (there are many) which the Dharma Initiative used to find the island. Mrs. Hawking, who amusingly allows that Ben is a big-ass liar, explains that the island is on another such pocket, but it's always moving through time -- so this lab was designed by a mystery man (Daniel?) to predict where it would be at a certain place in time. They've discovered a window back that will only be open for a short bit, and they must use it. Desmond says, "Are y' daft, then?" or something like it. He can't believe these people would be trying to get back to the island, warns Sun and Jack that "these people" are using them, then promptly leaves. I love you, you unique, precious, special snowflake, and I'm really glad you didn't get hit by that swinging Foucault's pendulum. Next time, please skirt its radius, m'kay? Mrs. Hawking hands Jack a binder full of flights and times and explains that flight 316 from L.A. to Guam will be their access to the window that lets them back onto the island, and they must be on it. What's more, they must have as many of the same people aboard and recreate the circumstances of Oceanic 815, as closely as possible, or the results of their efforts will be "unpredictable." She takes Jack, alone, to a back room and hands him a suicide note from Locke, but Jack won't read it, at least not then. She explains that John Locke's corpse is a proxy for Christian Shepherd's, and that Jack must give John something of Christian's. When he scoffs, she explains to him that this is a leap of faith he must take.

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Mainland; Evening: We pick up at the Long Beach Marina where we left off last week. Gun in hand, Sun is about to exit her car when her phone rings, so she has a tense talk with her mother, and a sweet talk with her ridiculously adorable daughter Ji Yeon. Then she heads out to send Benjamin Linus to his likely well-deserved doom, but Ben swears Jin's alive and that he can prove it. Kate and Jack have a spat because she thinks he only offered to help her protect Aaron in order to get the back to the island. Jack seems offended, but it's sort of true, isn't it? Kate gathers the still sleeping Aaron from Sun's car, puts him in her own, and drives away. It's then Sayid's turn to storm off. He tells Ben he wants no part of this and then tells Jack that if he sees him or Ben again, "It will be extremely unpleasant for all of us." Kate's tires squeal to spell out, "Don't mess with the Sayid!" Ben convinces Sun to give him 30 minutes to get her to the person who has proof Jin is alive. She agrees, and with Jack, they get into the van and head off toward Ben's proof. En route, Ben has a hysterical, "Don't make me turn this van around," moment that you can't miss.

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The episode title, "The Little Prince" is an homage to the book of the same name. And I'm sure it's meant to make us think of Aaron, but that's not where it stops. The book is about a little boy who leaves his planet to visit a bunch of others, but only finds stupid grown-ups on them, who don't even know basic things -- like that you truly see with your heart; and that you can't own something unless you care for it and it cares for you. The only way the boy can get back to his home planet is to die and leave his body behind. O HAI JOHN LOCKE! Why, I will start by talking about the strand-aways first; thanks for the suggestion. You know summing up an hour of this show in a few hundred words is like trying to truly see a thing using only eyes.

The Strand-Aways: Charlotte's not dead. It's just a flesh-wound. Of the brain. Okay, no, it would be like a flesh wound of the brain if FWotB were caused by magical jet-lag of the brain, and if jet-lag caused hemorrhaging. Blame Daniel for that mess, by the way. Even Juliet's like OMIBBQPOLARBEAR worst explanation ever, dude -- and I never explain things. Locke realizes he has to get everyone to the Orchid Station, to stop the flashing and to get the escape-aways to return. Sawyer's less than confident he'll find a way, but maybe he's never read The Little Prince, bookworm though he is.

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Fitting an entire nut tree into a nutshell is tricky, but here goes nuttin'. (I am not even sorry about that). Penny gives birth to Desmond's son and they name him Charlie! This makes me tear up, but then cackle, because although I'm sure he's named for our Charlie, Charles is Mr. Widmore's first name. Two years later after Charlie Hume's birth, the little family sails back to Old Blighty so Des can find Faraday's mother at Oxford. Desmond swears he'll only spend a day on it all, and that Penny's father will never know they're there. Penny asks him to promise that he won't go back to the island, and while Des scoffs at the very idea, he never does promise. There's no record of any Faraday ever employed at Oxford, so Des snoops in Daniel's old lab, which has been sealed with a fumigation warning, but that's just a ruse. Desmond finds papers scattered about and the equipment shrouded, and a picture of Daniel and a pretty young blonde woman. A workman finds him in the abandoned lab and informs him that Daniel was involved in wild experiments in which he was trying to send rats' brains back in time. And then there was some girl to whom he did ghastly things...

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On the island, all the strand-aways are together at the beach. There's a survivor named Neil, whom Sawyer refers to as Frogurt. Frogurt is as annoying as all get out and not just because he left a stray shirt lying around that Sawyer used to cover his previously shirtless self (what'd he have to do that for?). When Daniel catches up to everyone, he says he has to calculate new bearings before they can think about leaving the island and avoiding the next big flash. Charlotte confesses to some memory loss, which scares Daniel. Frogurt flips out on Bernard because Bernard isn't having any luck lighting a fire, and then someone shoots Frogurt with a flaming arrow and he's dead (or, as dead as anyone gets on this crazy island). Hooray! The flaming arrow attack heats up (sorry) which sends the rest of the strand-aways running for cover in the jungle, and Sawyer shouts plans to meet at the creek.

On the mainland, Hurley takes an unconscious Sayid to his house and enlists his father's help in hiding out. When the cops come looking for Hurley, Cheech lies to save his son, which is the least he could do for him, don't you think?

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What you've got to know is that everyone on the island seems to be jumping through time, but remaining on the island. And on the mainland, people are just jumping out of their skins about whether or not they should go back to the island.

Ben is getting Jack cleaned up and off drugs and trying to convince him to help round up the rest of the Oceanic Six and get them back to the island. Because of Jeremy Bentham/John Locke's visit to Jack last season, he's already ready, though less than confident. They want to get Hurley too, but learn from the news that Hurley's wanted for murder (committed by Sayid) and has escaped from the psychiatric hospital.

Meanwhile, lawyers representing an undisclosed client go to Kate's house with a court order to collect blood samples from her and Aaron in order to (dis)prove she's Aaron's mother, so Kate takes Aaron and goes on the lam a.k.a. "vacation."

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No one wants to wait for 2009 to get some Lost love, and frankly, if we had to wait that long, chances are we'd probably go a little batty.

Luckily, ABC understood our pain and provided fans with this sneak peek for the new season.

So, get back into Lost mode (not that we ever really got out of it), watch this clip, and then return to pondering what moving the island really means and if and how the Oceanic Six will travel to its new location.


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*Two Hour episode...extra long recap.  So let's go...

*After last week’s debacles, I cannot believe we have two more episodes (1 tonight and 1 big two hour event two weeks from now).  Who’s excited for a big season end cliffhanger?  ME!!!

Erase and Rewind

The episode begins much like the show began.  Some people on a plane.  This plane, however, is a cargo plane.  And this one contains the Oceanic 6.  Before they land, they get a warning of the situation from an airline representative.  She tells them that in addition to their families, press will be at their landing site. 

Even though we all know…let’s recap our Oceanic 6:  we have Sun, Aaron, Kate, Hurley, Sayid and Jack. Apparently, they all have a story that they decided upon.  When the back of the plane opens a crowd of people gather around.  Each of them greets some of their crying family members.  Sun’s parents are there.  Hurley’s mom and dad are there.  Jack’s mom is there. Sayid gets pulled aside by Hurley and gets a big hug from Hurley’s mom.  Kate is alone with Aaron. Sad…

A Girl Named Emily

We start off with a young girl, Emily, in a '50s outfit dancing to music in her room and putting on makeup. When her mom asks if she's going out with "him," she says yes. Mom is not happy that this "him" is twice her age. When Emily runs outside away from her mother, she gets hit by a car.

Next scene she's in the hospital being rushed into surgery. Emily tells the doctor she's pregnant, and all of a sudden they're doing an early delivery. She's told her baby is a boy and that he's okay for now. The baby is immediately taken away. She yells out, "His name is John!"

John Locke, maybe? Whaaaat?

The Cabin and the Boat

Neither John nor Ben know where the cabin is, and they think Hurley is leading them. When they realize how lost they are, they decide to make camp. In the middle of the forest. Where the scary monsters are!

Back on the boat, Sayid wakes Desmond up, because they hear the helicopter. They've brought back one of the soldiers who was attacked by the smoke monster. Then head soldier man (Keamy) tells Sayid that he needs to know exactly where each of "their people" are on the Island.

Keamy then holds a gun to one of the men on the boat, because he thinks he gave him up to Ben. When the Captain says he didn't do it, he takes him to Michael and says he was the one who did it. Keamy starts to beat Michael up. Michael admits to giving Ben Keamy's name. Why???? When Keamy goes to shoot Michael in the head, he's unable to. (Because Michael can't die yet, remember!) Then Captain Gault tells Keamy they need Michael, because he can fix the engines. Why? Because he broke them.

A Man in the Forest

John Locke comes upon a man cutting down a tree. Who is this man in the Dharma suit? Apparently his name is Horace? He tells John that he's building he and his wife a place to get away. Then when he says he's probably not making any sense, he turns around, with a bloody nose (sign of time traveling???) and says, "That's because I've been dead for twelve years." Right, because that makes so much more sense.

Then, as dead man disappears and appears, he says, "You gotta find me John, and when you do, you'll find him."

Him, as in Jacob. Then he says, "He's been waiting for you a real long time."

Then John wakes up. What the heck just happened? (Lost makes me say that a lot.)

Locke tells Hurley they now know where they're going and Ben says, "I used to have dreams." Thanks for clearing that up, Ben.

Thursdays Are BACK!!!

 

it won’t be long…

On the boat, Frank walks with something under his arms.  Some tough guy in a “tank top” asks if Frank is ready.  He tells him he’ll be up.  Frank approaches a woman named Regina.  She is guarding Sayid and Desmond.  He tells her that the captain wanted him to bring the prisoners food.  Sayid wants to know why they are captive.  Frank says the captain is upset that they escaped before.  Sayid tells him that the door was left open.  Sayid asks to talk to the captain, but Frank doesn’t think it’s a good idea.

On the beach, Jin and Sun chat about Sayid and Desmond.  They are curious why they aren’t back.  Jin then brings up naming the baby, but Sun is superstitious in naming the baby.  Jin thinks they will have a girl.  Sun wants to get off the island then discuss baby names.  

back to the flashback…

I love those miniature sand boxes where you can comb over them in someone’s office.  And that’s where we find Juliet waiting for her therapist, Dr. Harper.  Their initial interview says she has been there a week.  Apparently, Juliet doesn’t like being treated like a celebrity.  She feels alone with her newfound attention.  They seem to be in some kind of facility and Juliet is away from home.  But Dr. Harper just says welcome to the island.  What?  Island?  Then Ben’s old goon who I thought was dead shows up.  What the heezy?  Apparently this isn’t a flashforward but a flashback.  It’s when she came to the island.  No way!  Totally tricked!  Juliet gets walked over to a house where Ben stands with flowers, waiting for her.    Her tells her that she is set up with a washer/dryer, her own home, etc.  She thinks she’ll only be there six months, but Ben smiles saying he wants her to be comfortable.

wakey, wakey…

Locke wakes up and goes to make breakfast.  He grabs a book from the bookshelf.   Settling in for a leisurely morning?  Not our Locke.  He’s taking the last of the eggs to Ben.  We’re not talking cold cereal here.  Quite hospitable.  What’s Locke up to? Ben wants to know why he went from the rec room to the basement of Ben’s old house/Locke’s current residence.  Naturally, Locke wants him under his own roof.  Ben questions Miles whereabouts.   Locke says he wants Ben to spill over everything he knows.  After Ben refuses and plays his typical Ben game…telling Locke how lost he is that he’s asking Ben for advice.  Jacob won’t talk to Locke and now Locke is screwed.  Locke takes the food and then closes the door behind him.  Clattering of the tray getting thrown.

Kate and Claire sit on a porch drinking coffee.  Sawyer walks over to them.  Claire goes inside so the lovebirds can talk.  Sawyer asks what’s on all our minds – why did Kate stay?   He first accuses her of spying for Jack.  SIDENOTE:  Kate keeps calling Sawyer by his real name – James.  Quite weird.  Has she been doing that and I haven’t noticed?  Kate says she won’t be saying why she stayed.  Sawyer then mentions the possibility of her pregnancy.  Kate keeps her resolve.  She’s not revealing her real reasons anytime soon.  

Happy Valentines Day my lovely Losties!  While most people are on hot dates or eating chocolate covered strawberries, watching sappy romantic comedies, you and I know how to spend this V-Day.

raindrops keep fallin’ on my head

 

Under the sea, with a sweet sea scope?  This is very the beginning of Titanic.  Oceanic Flight 815 under the water?  Hmmm…just like Naomi said.  All of us Losties know that there are pieces of wreckage on the island.  Not all over the ocean floor. So this is all very freaky. 

 

In a suburban home, Dan, the rescue guy from last week, is crying when he sees a newscast that they found the wreckage of Oceanic Flight 815 on the ocean floor.  His wife/partner asks why he’s crying and he says he has no idea. 

 

Present day, Dan gets ready to jump from the plane.  They basically throw him out of the plane and he lands on the island.  Very cool shots in this episode.  They make us feel like him…free falling.  He lands in a panic, trying to see through the rain.  We get the point of view of Jack and Kate running through the rain.  He gets his gun ready as something (Kate and Jack) runs at him, Jack asks who the rescue guy is…and his name is Daniel.

 

and we're back..

After 8 months and 7 days (and yes I've been counting), we finally have our beloved Lost back. Has it been too long? Yes and no. With the knockout episode they ended with last season, they needed plenty of time to rev themselves up. Despite my need for wanting more about 10 minutes after it was over. Rumors have been flying along with spoilers. But I don't want to hear it from gossip sites; I want to witness it for myself. I watched a bit of last night's repeats from last season, and I'm half paying attention to the recap now. I'm fully invested, but I want the here and now. I still mourn the loss of Charlie, but I'm ready to see what lies in wait. In the next few minutes we'll all be on the same page. But I want to say how happy I am to be back recapping Lost, and how much I want to hear from you on the comment board. So break out your theories and thinking caps. It's time.

Titled: The Beginning of the End

sending out an S.O.S…

Lemons and Limes? This looks like a Corona commercial. Wait, not anymore. A car crashes right through them in what is apparently a fruit stand. Following the mystery vintage car? A high-speed group of police cars. And they are in, L.A.. In fact, its making headline news, and Jack is making himself a morning screwdriver. And he recognizes the driver. Hmm…. this is so strange already. Man jumps over fences with the cars and all kinds of damage. The driver? Hurley? All the drama reveals Hurley to be the driver. This is so not Hurley. What has happened? He even tries to run from the cops. He keeps screaming that he’s one of the Oceanic 6. 6? What does he mean 6? There better be more than 6 survivors. And no offense to Hurley but out of all those people how was he one of the only 6 to survive?

Have you been on the Lost Find815.com site yet?

Please tell me you have!

One, it's the only thing keeping me sane until Lost returns on January 31st.

Second, I need you all to help me out! What is going on with this site? There are so many clues. What do they all mean? And how much do you think this will tie in to the actual show?

P.S. Can anyway fix the circuit breakers in under 3 minutes? It's driving me crazy. Pretty sure I won't get any work done until I figure it out! (I almost finished but the time keeps running out just seconds too soon!) I also can't find a Season 4 clue. Let's work together on this and get it done!

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It's no secret that I'm obsessed with Lost. So when I received a press release from the fictional Oceanic Airlines stating that they will be resuming their flights and that the search for Flight 815 has ended, I got a little too happy. (Not that they are no longer searching for our losties, but that there's Lost news!)

In fact, Oceanic Airlines came out with a brand new site—www.flyoceanicair.com—announcing their new flights. A video pops up with the news, which is then interrupted by something even cooler...

We are introduced to Sam Thomas, a man who is devastated that the search for Flight 815 has ended.... especially because his girlfriend Sonya was a flight attendant on the doomed plane. From there we're led to a new site: www.find815.com. And that's where the fun really begins.

We're privy to Sam's emails, computer, desk, map... and just about everything he's used to search for Sonya and the other losties. Over the next 5 weeks, new games will become available on the site, in which we can discover clues as to where Sonya may be.

Let me tell you: It's way too fun. My boyfriend even stopped playing Guitar Hero to check out the site with me. And it's a fabulous way of keeping Lost going and getting fans even more psyched for the premiere on January 31st.

So go play with the sites and comment here if you can figure out what the clues mean!

As much as this writers strike has been driving me absolutely bonkers, there is no way I can boycott TV. I love the tube too much, and I'm pretty sure my fingers don't know how to find the "off" button on the remote.

In that case, what are we to do in 2008 when most of our shows are still in limbo?

Watch TV!

Yes, there are still shows out there.

In no particular order, here's what I'm thankful for in 2008:

1. October Road. The cast and crew were able to complete the entire season before the strike. Watch this show! You'll love it. Promise.

2. Dirt. Courtney Cox's FX show still has no premiere date, but I'll be sure to update you as soon as it's announced. If you're a Daily Blabber fan, you'll love this show, as it parodies the tabloid industry.

3. Dexter. Fine, it's not new episodes, but it is coming to CBS. If you haven't caught it yet, be sure to catch on now.

4. Lost. Finally!!!!!!!!! Yes, I'm excited. Lost completely redeemed itself last season and is back and ready to rumble. Check out the extended trailer. It's beyond good.

5. All the other midseason shows: Make Me a Supermodel (Bravo), Canterbury's Law (Fox), Jericho (CBS), One Tree Hill (CW), Big Brother (CBS), The Wire (HBO), Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann (ABC), The Return of Jezebel James (Fox), Medium (NBC), New Amsterdam (Fox), Eli Stone (ABC), Lipstick Jungle (NBC), Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi), Kyle XY (ABC Family), Prison Break (Fox), Psych (USA), Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicls (Fox), and of course, American Idol (Fox).

What are you thankful for this 2008?