LOST!!!

It's true...I'm an addict. I'm seriously addicted to the television show Lost. I know I know...it's almost cliche to say that since so many people are hooked on this wicked good show. But it's true. I'm so hooked, that each Thursday morning after a new episode has aired the Wednesday night before, that I put together a "wrap-up" email that I send out to about 26 people. I started doing this email at the beginning of Season 2, and would send it to about 5 of my friends who also watch the show. Slowly, more people were asking to be added to the email chain, and it's now up to 26. Not a huge number by any stretch of the imagination, but a decent amount, I think.

This morning, someone at work told me that I should start a Lost blog. My feeling is: there are already so many Lost blogs, that mine would just get...pardon the pun...lost in the mix. But, since I already have this blog going, I figured I'd just publish my wrap-up here.

So, each Thursday morning, I will post my wrap-up for Lost here, and if you're a fan of the show, I hope you like it. If you're not...well, I invite you to check out my previous posts!

FYI: These wrap-ups are a bit long....

LOST: Season 3, Episode “The Glass Ballerina”

We find out that the castaways have been on the island 69 days (unless Benry is lying…always a possibility, but most likely not the case this time). That would make it November 29, 2004, as Benry said to Jack. This episode, “The Glass Ballerina”, begins with the breaking of a…well….glass ballerina. Note: Shannon was a ballerina who sort of got “broken” when she was shot by Ana Lucia.

Sun: So, little ole Sun WAS messing around with Jae, as we all pretty much figured out last season. So, is it his kid she’s carrying (remember, Jin is sterile…but, maybe the island healed him and he and Sun could’ve gotten busy on the island at some point…). But her commitment to Jin has become stronger on the island, but she’s obviously haunted by the infidelity to her husband, and the scorn of her father. However, as smart as Sun thinks she is, she may not be fooling Jin, who suspects something. He knew she was scheming with Sayid to stay on the beach to attract the Others. When she shot Colleen, I think it was a knee-jerk reaction to the sound of the boat starting up and she was startled (sort of how Ana Lucia was startled when Shannon came running out of the woods, and how Michael was startled by Libby after he purposely shot Ana Lucia.) As a kid, she blamed the broken ballerina on the maid, so she was lying. And, then we see that she lied to Jin about the affair (by not telling him = lying). So, Sun’s a liar. Next thing you know her pants will be on fire….

Jae: Sun’s suitor who apparently fell in love with her, and wanted her to go to the US with him. The scene of them in bed….did they “do it”, or when Sun said “I can’t”, was she saying she can’t knock-boots with him, or can’t go to the US with him? My guess is that it was the “going to the US”-thing, but who knows what’s in the mind of the LOST writers. In any event, Jae was twice dissed by Sun in that bedroom scene: he even tried to give her a pearl necklace (not that kind, perverts!!!), which she also would not accept. His fear was apparent when Jin threatened him after being told by Sun’s father, and he probably would’ve left the country and discontinued contact with Sun if not for his free-fall from his building. What floor did he fall from, any ideas? I’m not sure…probably the 23rd or 42nd….. Now the question: did Jae’s fall happen because:
a) he couldn’t stand to have lost (no pun intended) Sun, so life had no meaning?
b) He was pushed/thrown by another of Sun’s dad’s henchmen?
c) He was pushed by Sun herself??
d) He thought there was a pool below, and was working on his cannonball?

Jin: Sent by Sun’s dad to send a message to Jae after dad caught Sun in bed with Jae. Jin, however, did not have it in him to kill Jae, instead threatening him to leave the country and never come back. So, imagine Jin’s surprise when Jae ends up face down on the hood of his car outside the apartment building. But the big reveal was when Jin said to Sun “I know you betrayed me” (in ref. to Jae? That she was talking to Sayid assuming Jin didn’t understand? That she was planning to leave him before the crash?), but the tender Jin says later “I don’t what I’d do without you…without both of you”. (remember the baby)

Juliet: She’s evil. Don’t think otherwise. The sandwich-and-soup-making-book-club-hosting vixen is definitely not a nice person. And, there’s some history between her and Colleen and Benry. Juliet’s attempts to sway Jack to the Others-way is not working as it appears that Jack is hunger-striking it in the cell. Keep an eye on her. After hearing Colleen tell Benry that Sayid had found the fake village and that they had a boat, Juliet said something like “so what…they’ll just sail around in circles”, implying that somehow the magnetic force of the island is either known to the Others, or manipulated by the Others. Makes you wonder where Michael and Walt are now on their boat.

Michael and Walt: I wonder where they are now. Benry did give them a compass heading when they left, so maybe there’s one way to get through the magnetic confusion that occurs in the compasses on the island.

Jack: Still in his cell and on a hunger strike perhaps? Juliet brings in soup for him (“I made it myself”), he’s not interested, just as he wasn’t interested in the sandwich that she brought in for him the day before (last week for us viewers). When Benry told him that they have contact with the outside world by telling him that Christopher Reeves had died, and that the Red Sox had won the World Series, Jack didn’t believe him. After all, Jack’s dad favorite saying about anything that seemed impossible was “that’s why the Red Sox will never win the World Series.” So, when Benry says the Sox won the World Series by coming back from an 0-3 hole to beat the Yankees in 4 straight, and then won the World Series in a sweep, Jack just laughs at Benry’s supposition. It’s not until Benry shows the tape of final out of the 2004 World Series (for those that may have forgotten: Keith Foulke, the pitcher for the Sox, fields a ground ball and throws to Doug Mientkiewicz at first base.)

Benry: “Real” name: Benjamin Lynus/Linus. And he’s lived on the island his whole life. Hmm..interesting. He seems have been involved in the Colleen/Juliet history, and he’s obviously picked Colleen as his favorite, noted when he told Juliet (after she brought soup in to Jack): “You never made soup for me.” Benry’s been keeping tabs on Sawyer, Kate and Jack via hidden cameras, as seen by the huge bank of monitors he was standing in front of at the end of the show. Who is this freak?!?!?!? If he was born on the island pre-Dharma, and Dharma started in 1970, could it be that the community he was part of were used by Dharma as test subjects for whatever Dharma is doing, and eventually they overthrew the Dharma people? But, who would be Benry’s parents….possibly the people whose bodies were found in the caves by the Losties when they first moved inland from the beach? But, that begs the question: where did THEY come from ? And also, who’s still doing the food drops?

Sawyer/Kate: Still both being held in their individual cages, with Sawyer still working hard for his fish biscuits. After they’re taken out to perform hard-labor (making small rocks out of big rocks), Sawyer’s attempt to knock out guards, take a gun and the stun-gun fails when Juliet holds a gun to Kate’s head. All this after he plants a smoochie on Kate’s lips, spurned on by how Kate “looked so good swinging a pick-axe.” Sawyer remarks that Kate “tastes like strawberries”, to which she replies “you taste like fish biscuits”. Ha ha! Sawyer later calls her “shortcake”...as in ‘strawberry’? The work camp is probably a scam…just trying to break Sawyer and Kate.

Sayid: Okay, has this guy had one plan that went correctly since they crashed on the island? He was thwarted (by Locke) when he tried to set up the transponders…he was captured by Rousseau when he went hunting for her….Shannon was shot when they went looking for Walt….and now, his “I’ll start a fire and lure the Others here” plan has also gone bad.

Alex: Rousseau’s daughter sneaks up to talk to Kate, and inquires about Carl, the guy who had been in the cage across from Sawyer, and tried to help Sawyer escape. So, what’s the connection there? Interesting that Kate was given Alex’s dress to wear. Has Alex been kicked out of Dharmaville? What’s her connection to Carl?

The Hydra Station: So, this station has an even more elaborate monitoring system than the other stations on the island. From the Hydra’s command center, we saw Benry standing in front of a bank of monitors…I didn’t count them, but there had to be at least 20, eh? He was able to watch the cages that Sawyer and Kate were in (and listened in on Sawyer’s hopes to catch the Others off-guard at some point), and he was watching Jack’s cell, too. I didn’t get a chance to see what was on the other monitors.

Bernard/Rose: Haven’t seen them in a long time, so just thought I’d mention them.

Next week: a Locke-centric episode, and a return of the Smonster! And Charley telling Desmond that “the blast blew off your underwear” was hilarious!!!

I’m sure I missed some stuff…didn’t get to watch the episode until 11pm last night…my friends' band, The Codes, play a small set for about a dozen of us, so I taped the episode (don’t they know that playing on a Wednesday completely interferes with me watching LOST????), and watched when I got home…. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Until next week, Namaste.

PS. Just a reminder: The Red Sox won the World Series in 2004. Didn’t want any of you to forget that. Red Sox. World Series Champs. 2004.