Here is the general season three Preview, for those who need a refresher:
If you want to watch the 30 second promotional “nuggets” being aired during Day Break, go to the YouTube link above and search for “Lost Moment” and it will give you a list of them. Purty kewl.
If you want to check out the latest SPOILERS and FOILERS, go here.
Last week the nugget, (30 second promotional clip,) of the rest of season 3 of LOST during DAY BREAK was a clip of Desmond rushing out into the ocean after some one… CLAIRE, who appears to have drowned!
This week, we see Jack in one of the bear cages (no Sawyer or Kate in sight) surrounded by tons of people who look decently dressed. Cindy, (YES, the flight attendant who was “abducted” on the plight to the Losties side of the island) is there and asks whether or not he recognizes her. She looks clean, happy and healthy. He asks her something like, “how did they take you?” and/or “how is it that you are here?” or something along those lines and she answers that it isn’t that simple (basically) and she seems puzzled by his question. Then he asks her what she is doing there, and she answers that they are supposed to watch. He is pretty angry about that and says if she has something to watch, go watch it.
Apart from what you read here at Mama Need Java, written material splashes out of my fingertips in lots of ways. I love writing at Polk Voice and Associated Content when I’ve got the time, and I try to write something for future articles or even books each day. When I was in school, you could have added the papers and essay assignments to the list. I type fast, LOVE automatic spellcheck, WISH it caught more of my grammar errors, and long to be a better writer about 99.9% of my waking day. In my dreams I’m as good as Annie Dillard, though slightly less earthy.
The thought of getting my master’s in creative writing has been bouncing around in my head for some time. I’ve held it up by its collar, asked how it dares to disrupt my time, my finances and debt, and whether it thinks it can make a decent writer out of me afterall. I think I’m through that phase. The idea and me are becoming fast friends, or as Anne of Green Gables calls it, “Bossom friends.”
That is to say, I am considering applying to some schools this spring, to try out some classes next fall. I don’t know what will come of it all, how much financial aid I will get, how much time it will take, all that is to come. I have simply come to the realization that my desire to become a better writer is something I cannot avoid. As the time comes, I will share which schools I’m applying to. It’s difficult to find low-residency MFA in Creative Writing that is not through the roof expensive, but there appears to be some decent schools out there.
To lay the ground work for the “time” aspect, I am beginning to focus my work- namely, Vivian Writes, (as opposed to work from Wiley and Millipore and the other primarily clerical odd jobs,) on newsletter researching and writing. I really enjoyed a project I had on this several months ago, reporting/writing articles regularly for a specific industry/client. I am now picking up anything I can get my hands on to further my skills in newsletter writing particularly for the bonus of reoccuring work so that when my school classes begin I will have more regular work and income rather than the enormous fluctuations I currently take on. Newsletters can be both print or e-mail, and often require the work of a freelance writer to research the latest news and trends, find pictures, formulate the sections and articles, and often times do the layout as well. There’s lots of ways this can go, and all different types of clients, from a large industry specific newsletter that goes out to clients or buyers, to a small e-mail newsletter written to frequent customers of a local shop. Vastly different hours and pay go with each, but the thing they all have in common is fairly consistent work. Consistent = gooooood.
So, writer for hire; if any one knows of something along these lines, I’d love to talk with ya!
Hey, a kinda cool thing for me today was to FINALLY check out my site statistics. 930 something of you visited on Nov. 2nd! Go fig! And nearly 3,000 since I’ve been running, which nearly made me tear and say, “They love me, they reallllly love me!” My page gets an average of 400 hits a day, and I’m probably a couple of them to moderate comments and write posts, so that leaves a good little posse of you! From the bottom of my heart, thank you!
Okay, enough rambling! I’ve got to go check out MATTHEW FOX (aka Dr. Jack Shepherd from Lost) HOSTING SNL!
I watched Day Break the past two weeks, which is the show airing like a mini-series in the 13 weeks that Lost is not. And, thankfully, it has not turned out to be a bad show. Though I’ve heard people call the concept behind the show “Ground Hog Day” way too many times now, I have found it more like a good Law and Order that doesn’t wrap up in one episode, so you get to spend each week trying to solve the mystery and piece together the puzzle. ANYHOO, What I wanted to report, and the reason I am watching Day Break, is to fill in you LOST fans with whatever “never before seen footage” of the rest of the season that they air for 30 seconds during the commercials of Day Break each week.
This week: Charlie is going through Sawyer’s stash, while Hurley sits by and protests a bit. Charlie says he would have wanted this, then that this stuff isn’t his anyway and that people need medicine and stuff. Suddenly, Desmond appears. He needs Charlie, and Hurley too, to come with him.
That’s all, folks. Not really a nugget, except that we know that at whatever point this clip takes place, Sawyer has not returned to the losties. Can’t wait, February 7th!
After last week’s episode, “I Do”, the ABC show LOST will be leaving the air until Feb. 7th, at which time it will show re-run free until May’s finale.
Personally, I welcome the break. Especially during the holidays, life gets a little hectic. It’s kinda nice not to have to sit down around the tv on Wednesday nights, like a whole 1-2 hours of my week has just opened up at a time I could really use it!
However, many other fans are left wondering, “why?”
According to ABC, producers and others involved in the show, one of the reasons this is happening is to avoid any reruns. Fans in the last two seasons would get so annoyed and discouraged from watching when they would sit down on an anticipated Wednesday night only to find an epidose they’ve already seen. Why not just start later, or end earlier, in order to play all 23 episodes straight through? Firstly, they did start later than other Fall premiers. Secondly, the networks typically air shows from Sept - May, so to end three months early would mean airing from Oct. 4- early March. Also, most shows air reruns or other programming/specials during the holiday season, I suspect because rating are down as people must travel and such. Besides that, the network has tried to explain to us television-show-producing-challenged that if they were to let Lost air a straight season without interruption, they would have to take off an entire year to shoot the next season. In other words, the time it takes to shoot, edit, and so on every single week would make it so that the next season couldn’t be shot until 2008-09, and that would certainly be a longer hiatus than three months.
Still, ABC is certainly making a bet, aren’t they? Are fans loyal enough to such a complex show to weather the mid-season break? You’ll have to help me understand if you think that fans will be too perturbed to start watching again in February, because in my logic, fans weather the three month summer hiatus all the time, and yet there we are, watching the premiere at every new season! Besides, I would much much much rather take one long break than be inundated with reruns and other shows when I least expect it. It really kills the suspense for me.
So, if you ask this mama, a true LOST fan, they can take a planned break. Just give me the date and time of when I’ll get on with my LOST addiction and I will be there, with bells on. As one lost fan said, “If we can wait a few months for LOST to start we can wait a few months for LOST to continue.”
As an aside, ABC has cleverly devised a way to keep LOST fans enticed during the break, (as if we expected them not to?) At any point during each week’s new episode of “Day Break”, which will be taking over the LOST slot for the next 12 week’s, LOST will air a 30-second promotional “nugget” of never before seen scenes of the rest of season three.
Will that get me to watch “Day Break”? As I said before, I need my Wed. evenings right now, so no, I won’t begin a new addiction on that night unless it involves working or my family. (Sorry Taye Diggs- loved ya in Rent!) However, I will gladly hit up the forums to hear about any cool sightings. Turns out many people want to Boycott daybreak and others are defending it, saying that it’s a pretty cool show and that if we don’t support the network’s decision to do LOST this way, we will go back next season to not knowing whether this week LOST will be new or not.
If I find out the “nugget” from last night, I will come back and add.
Next Wednesday I plan to divulge any spoilers I can find, true or otherwise, so for those who don’t want to read them, don’t come here that day!
But after tonight, we won’t see a new episode of LOST until next February. Why? I’ll tell you all about it next Wednesday. You will have nothing better to do that sit around and find out.
First of all, every one MUST watch this: Losticil. I about fell out of my chair. I’m not kidding.
Another side note before I begin: Lost figurines launched today at Toys R Us in NYC. Check out Hurley!
So, on to the recap: I DO epi 3.6
I have come to realize that recaps should be, well, a recap, rather than a play by play. Instead of a whole recap, I will be listing the revelations, thoughts, and OF COURSE, questions I had about each episode:
1. I don’t trust Juliette- why did she tell Ben that Alex didn’t ask for him? Is Juliette the real bad guy?
2. Kate loves Sawyer…?- they got caught in a net tonight for sure. And she kisses him to tell him he she loves him. I don’t know why but Sawyer kisses funny. It kinda grossed me out. But kudos to ABC for not making it a soft porn moment, just letting us “get the idea”.
3. Jack loves Kate- He can’t believe she is listening to them, he is worried about her and so relieved to see her. But she wants to save Sawyer. And then he catches them on the camera- OH MY! Does he think that what he does to Ben and attempting to set her free will make her love him back?
4. Will Ben die? He has an incision, made by Jack on purpose, in his kidney and will bleed to death within the hour. If Kate gets to “safety” and walkie talkie’s back that she’s okay, he will stitch him back up. Either way, if that tumor doesn’t come out, he will die soon.
5. Who is Jacob? Pickett says, “He [Jack Shepherd] wasn’t even on Jacob’s list” Hmmmmm suspicious.
6. Kate’s flashbacks- she seems to have really loved the guy she married while on the run. I wonder how she forged papers to get married in the first place. But as she realizes that he will find out sooner or later, she’s back on the run.
7. Ecko’s Stick- Locke sees the writing while burying him that reads “Lift up your eyes and Look North.” Will he head north on the island, or try to go to the highest height? Will he find out there is a small Alcatraz island nearby or figure out that is where Jack, Sawyer and Kate are? How will he get them? Will he get them? Will they escape? Ahhh!
8. Desmond- did he see/know Ecko would die by vision. His powers are peculiar.
9. Why was Jack’s door unlocked? Who told him to open it? Alex? Juliette? He got a gun, saw Kate and Sawyer’s lover escapade -was it all on purpose?
10. The next half of the season: I’ll have to place a countdown in the blog somewhere for the next episode in February, when we will get 16 (?) straight episodes, rerun free.
PREVIEW FOR the rest of the season was vague… booooo…But some say they saw Sawyer and Kate running away. Will confirm when I know more!
Poor Jack, will he join the Others?
Boy, I know those aren’t the greatest points ever, but what can I say, I am SO FREAKIN TIRED! (Just read the last two posts to catch up on my current events!)
In all, hated to see it end that way, wished it would have ended answering the major question and posing another, but it took a cheap shot by creating the big climax and then… LOST- bum bum bum!
In classic-Lost fashion, this episode gave us some of the original thrills: jungle, hallucinations, intrigue, and of course, Smokey the Forest Monster! (My little pet name).
Here’s the recap, and my interjecting thoughts…
Ecko-centric: Ecko’s flashbacks reveal the time period between being mistaken for a priest after his brother’s death to his stay in London. Returning to his brother’s village, he takes on the new role of priest, only to find evil come a knockin’ as some new gang of ruffians come to collect their share of the vaccines delivered to the village, in exchange for protection. Ecko then seeks out an alternative gang to sell the vaccines to, and it seems his intentions are to keep the money for himself to afford getting to London where his brother was supposed to continue his studies. News is intercepted from the original gang, who comes to send a warning to the village by cutting off Ecko’s hands. Instead, Ecko turns the table on them, chopping them up with a machete, basically. Emerging from the church covered in blood with weapons in hand, the village can see Ecko for what he is, a killer. Upon his departure to London, the alterboy asks him if he is a “bad man.” (Not the first time we have heard this phrase). The alterboy’s mother tells Ecko that the church is no longer sacred, and that Ecko must repent of the lives he has taken, and that he “owes Emmy (sp?) a church. (Big ah-hah moment here for viewers, as to why Ecko was building a church on the island.)
Back the beginning, real time: Ecko doesn’t look so hot, recovering in a tent back on the beach. Sayid is there, (guess Jin and Sun are also back at the beach?) After leaving Ecko, Emmy –Ecko’s dead brother – appears to him and tells him it is time for his confession. “You know where to find me” is the last he says, before we see Charlie, Hurley, Locke, Sayid and them running towards the tent, which is now on fire. They get Ecko out and sort of throw him down, and when they look back, Ecko has taken off. (We all laughed over here because Charlie says rather softly, “Ecko? Ecko?” – like, hmm, guess he’s not here… pass me a slice of pizza?)
On the twin island: (or is it?) Jack seems to be getting a good work out down in that underwater aquarium hatch. I guess he’s got to work off the extra calories from eating Juliet’s soups and cheeseburgers. Ben comes to get Jack for the funeral of Collette, (and he has to wear a white tunic? Um, can anyone say cult?). Jack confronts him about the xrays and the tumor, asking about Ben’s symptoms and painting a not so hopeful picture of Ben’s bleak future. Ben won’t admit it. At the funeral, however, Ben pulls Juliet aside and asks her why she showed Jack his xrays. Confirmed! Later, Ben interrupts Juliet’s food visit with Jack. Here’s where things get a bit interesting:
Ben confesses that Jack has been down there to be broken, so he would trust them and come to believe they are not the enemy. He even points out how Juliet was picked because of her striking resemblance to his ex wife, Sarah. Why is he telling Jack all this? Because now that Jack has seen the xrays and is aware of Ben’s tumor, there is no point to that plan. He simply now asks Jack to consider the request. Is he trustworthy? If the Others are capable of such deception and plotting, what makes this new story beyond their schemes?
Do you believe in God?: We can’t get through an Ecko-centric without plenty of faith topics, but this particular one isn’t in Ecko’s storyline, but rather Jack’s. Ben asks him before leaving the room, and rather than answering, our “man of science” poses the question back to Ben. His reply? “Two days after finding out I have a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon dropped out of the sky. If that’s not proof there is a God, I don’t know what is.” (pretty close to exact quote.) My thoughts? Shut up, Ben, you are an evil bunny killer pretender, don’t tell me about God! *with drawn out southern slant* You ain’t no Churrrrstin! … But what do I know? I just write blogs.
Sticking with Jack’s storyline,
Juliet’s video stunt: As if we weren’t confused enough, Juliet comes back to show Jack a movie. Claiming the movie is “To Kill a Mockingbird” but she’ll keep the volume low because Jack isn’t interested, she puts it on and begins a little heart felt speech chocked with apologies and encouraging him to go through with the surgery to help Ben. OH BUT the video suggests otherwise, my dear Jack. The tv displays a recording of Juliet holding up large white papers with handwritten messages. Things like, “Ben is a liar. And he is dangerous. Some of want a change, but it has to look like an accident. That is up to you, Jack. I will protect you.” Jack, what art we to do?
I’ll tell ya, at this point I shouted out, “I don’t trust her! She’s lying…..But I don’t know about Ben either! I don’t know about this! … oh my gosh, *dramatic depreciation of emotions* I don’t know who I am! Where do my loyalties lay?!” Hey, I had a moment.
Meanwhile, in the jungle: Locke knows Ecko went towards the Nigerian plane crash site, (which is convenient, as he was headed to the Pearl station to find a way to communicate with the Others.) Locke has certainly taken on a new leadership role, every one is looking to him with the answers. And being unique, he opens up the little trip to the Pearl station to any one who wants to come. Great time to pull in new characters, (Nikki and Pablo, Paulo, what’s his name? Sorry, all their lines are so awkward… they just aren’t family yet, us Lostaholics aren’t very trusting, takes awhile for us to get to know ya!) Anyway, so this group takes off in the afore-mentioned direction.
Ecko’s hallucinations: Stumbling in the jungle, Ecko seems to be followed by Smokey the Forest Monster, who appears as images of the men he hacked in the church. Trippy! While splashing his face in a stream, Smokey rises up behind him and retreats when Ecko raises a machete. Some how I think it has more to do with Locke and his crew showing up on the other side of the creek rather than the machete.
Crash site: Ecko digs his way back into the plane, which I cannot tell but didn’t seem to have been very damaged by the fire set to it by Ecko and Charlie. While removing some stones from the doorway, Locke asks Ecko what he saw. Locke says he saw it once, that is was a bright light, and it was beautiful. Ecko says, “That is not what I saw.” There is some debate over whether they are referring to the hatch explosion, or rather, implosion, or if they are talking about the Smokey and the early season one Locke sighting of the phenomenon. From my feedback on the forums, it seems most agree the language reverts back to Lock’s face to face encounter to the island monster, which he said before in season one was “beautiful.”
Locke’s confession: Locke and his crew go down into the Pearl, which I’ll get to in a minute. Emmy appears and basically asks for Ecko’s confession. With true heartfelt conviction, Ecko sheds his shame and claims that he confesses nothing. He did not ask for the life he was given, but it was given nonetheless. He did the best he could with it, he did what he had to do to survive. He took the life of a man in order to save his brother’s life. He is not sorry, he does not believe this was a sin.
… then Emmy shocks us all… “You speak to me as if I am your brother.” Oh, the mockery, the embarrassment, the confusion Ecko feels over spilling his guts to some one who is not even his brother! “Who are you?!” He calls after the image, but it is gone.
Pearl station: Playing with wires, Sayid doesn’t make much sense of it. Paulo finds out the toilets still work. Nikki watches orientation video and concludes something all of us have already deducted: six hatches mentioned in video, other monitors for watching projects (plural), therefore the other monitors must show them something. Locke, feeling “suddenly stupid” and Sayid playing with more wires, and suddenly a monitor comes on. A man enters the screen, white, middle aged, wearing an eye patch, and looks into the recorder, then places his hand over it before it goes to fuzz. Locke’s conclusion, “They must have been expecting us.” Maybe they knew the toilet was flushed? Maybe it was an older video, perhaps of that Russian(?) guy who was Kelvin’s old partner? I’m sure we’ll find out one day!
Smokey’s big move: Well, we were told in the previews that some one would die tonight. Some of us knew it was an Ecko-centric, and that the title was “The Cost of Living.” Either we were being tricked in the wrong direction, or it went without saying that Ecko would likely be the one to bite the dust. Well, the pointers were correct – and he literally did bite the dust. What we didn’t expect was for him to die by being body slammed several times by Smokey! WOAH! (And we can see how the pilot ended up shredded in a tree.) I’m sorry, but I just have no logical conclusion about Smokey. He has read Ecko’s thoughts before and did not kill him then. I thought at that time that the monster might have concluded Ecko was innocent, a “good person.” Could it be that Ecko’s refusal to repent was his death wish? OR was it that Ecko had made “peace with his past” and the island was done with him?
Spookiest thing? Locke and them rush up to find Ecko slammed into the ground, and Ecko’s last words in Locke’s ear will haunt us… “He said, ‘We are next’.”
NEXT WEEKS PREVIEW: “I Do” Kate-centric… looks as though Kate and Sawyer get “caught in a net”, Pickett makes good on his threat to kill Sawyer (oh, Sawyer, heartbreaking when you ask Kate not to watch) and it appears to happen mercenary style. Doubt this actually happens, but perhaps at last reveals Kate’s true affections???
Next week is the end episode for the 6 week stretch. Will be a mighty boring Wednesday evenin’ around here for 12 weeks, but we’ll see you back in February. I also promise to report any new LOST news, theories, etc on Wednesday’s, same time, same place J
I am so totally excited, and a bit surprised, when I get feedback in my mailbox from “fans” of my humble mom blog! (And it goes without saying that I might use the e-mails in a post, unless you ask me not to!)
From a LOST fan:
I just want to tell you how much I enjoy your recap of each episode of Lost. I usually don’t have the memory to write it out like you, so I get a better grasp after reading your post. Like you said, this week’s episode was confusing. Reminded me of last year when Hurley was in a mental hospital and the show implied all of the “Lost” experience was just a dream in his head. I wonder about 2 islands though…Maybe they are mixing a little “parallel” reality in here. Anyway, just wanted you to know you have another happy reader of your blog.
And local Polk News Reporter for the Tampa Tribune wrote me:
Hello Vivian: My name is Billy Townsend. I’m the Polk County reporter with the Tampa Tribune. I also, with Jennifer Leigh, write the Polk County News Blog. Check it out. Anyway, found out about your blog from Josh at EP. I like it, particularly the spiritual reflection. I was pleased to see you propping the good things about Lakeland. It’s a nice place to live. Anyway, just dropping a line to say good job.
Also, ReidBlog had some neat observations about last week’s LOST episode, (and mentioned my blog’s recap!) So check hers out here. From her “about” section, what an accomplished woman! How inspiring!
I’ve gotten a lot of work going lately, which couldn’t have come at a better time, being that the holidays are right around the corner and all. Always nice to keep busy! Thanks to all you readers for your support!
This episode was dark and strange. One thing is for sure, I am more convinced than ever that the Others we have been introduced to are NOT good guys.
I am too confused to make a coherant recap this week, there was just SO much in this episode: pace maker, poor bunny, Desmond sees the future, Saywer has a daughter?!, Sawyer was in prison, Collette dies, Picket wants revenge -and Sawyer is the perfect scape goat, Kate finds a way out of the cage but climbs back in when Sawyer won’t come with her, Sawyer loves Kate but does Kate love Sawyer? She said she did, but later said it was only to stop Pickett from beating him. Ben has a tumor on his spine? Jack was captured for this reason- to perform surgery on Ben? Is this the thing Ben was asking him to be willing to do when the time comes? Then the island clue- they are on a seperate island from the Losties? How did Desmond, Sayid, and those on the raft never see a huge frickin twin island next to theirs when out in the ocean? Sounds totally crap to me!
The preview says that in the next two episodes everything will change. It looks as though some one might die, but who? It seems Locke and a few others go into the Pearl Station again, but this time they catch something on a monitor that looks pretty scarey. I will have nightmares tonight about that face!
Looking forward to next week! I think tonight was VERY full and revealing, so I don’t know what else to say but “coooool”.
Motherhood brings as much joy as ever, but it still brings boredom, exhaustion, and sorrow too. Nothing else ever will make you as happy or as sad, as proud or as tired, for nothing is quite as hard as helping a person develop his own individuality especially while you struggle to keep your own. — Marguerite Kelly and Elia Parsons
