LOST - The Shape of Things to Come
April 24, 2008 |
LOST was back tonight with a shear vengeance. If you don’t want any MAJOR spoilers, then stop reading.
Ok, so now we know how Ben was able to convince Sayid to work for him… Widmore’s people killed Sayid’s woman and bam, grief becomes anger, anger becomes vengeance and all of a sudden Ben has the perfect pawn. However, we learned that Ben is no spring chicken himself. Somewhere in Ben’s island life he was trained in some sort of high end combat. When he took out those guys on the horse, I knew we were in for one great episode.
Rules
It looks like Widmore, who’s corporation was a partner/ran the Dharma Initiative at one point or another still holds a grudge for Ben “stealing” the island during the “purge” all those years ago. Evidently they had some sort of rules established that Widmore broke. I assume it involved each others families. It seems Widmore was once on the island because when Ben had the opportunity to kill Widmore in his bed, he said he knew he wouldn’t be able too. Since the island won’t let some people die… well, Widmore must have had some sort of interaction with it. Since the rules are now gone, Ben is on the hunt to kill Penny, which should make things interesting with Desmond.
Hidden Island
Despite the freighter showing up on the island’s doorstep, and at some point taking the Oceanic Six to safety, evidently the island is still hidden from the rest of the world. How? I don’t seem to have any clue.
Smoke Monster
Ben evidently lied when he said he had no idea what the smoke monster is because he evidently has the ability to summon it like a guard dog — a strong, powerful, large, black smoke monster guard dog. It is proving more and more evident that Ben knows much more about that island then he lets on.
Travel
Ben clearly has the ability to travel to and from the island using some sort of worm hole or warp or something. It was hinted at when the scientist chick found the polar bear skeleton in the Tunisian desert, which just happens to be where Ben arrived. There is an idea floating around the interwebs that the island sits on a vile vortices which connects various points around the globe through a warm hole. It’s begging to look like that’s actually the case.
Death
A lot of people out there believe that Clare bites the dust at some point since Kate has Aaron in the future. I don’t believe this and think that Kate stole Aaron but it seems I’m few and far between. Though the whole “Clare eats it” idea was played with tonight when her house blew up around her. They teased the idea for one commercial break before she was found safely under a blanket in the middle of the blown up house. Cheers writers. On the other hand, the writers didn’t pull any punches when it came to Ben’s daughter, Alex. The commandos called Ben’s bluff, and actually killed her setting off the chain of events that leads to Ben treating to kill Penny Widmore.
The Shape of Things to Come
It looks like the shape of things to come for our island dwellers involves Locke, Ben and Hurley visiting Jacob for some advice as to what to do next. I expect them to visit the Temple thereafter to find the other Others, along with Alpert who could probably do a whole bunch to help explain things considering he doesn’t seem to age. It also looks like, based on the preview for next week, that Jack is extremely sick (could this be the first sign that the island won’t let him die?) and the beach camp, which is now the only camp left, is going to start finding a way to fight back against their new enemy — should it come their way. I would say they would try to get some answers from the strange scientists, but conveniently Jack’s going to rupture his appendix which will require their attention. It’ll be interesting to see what their real purpose on the island is and where their true allegiance lies.
This was one killer episode and is actually just another great chapter in the best season of LOST on TV yet. The shape of things to come for LOST look very, very good.