Lost: Season 5 (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

Great episode. As everyone said, the best highlight was EB Farnum.

As soon as I saw him I said to myself "that guy looks so familiar" but
it took me less than a minute to figure it out.

 

[MarkMel]

To me Sanderson will always be Larry as in - "Hi, I'm Larry. This is my brother Darryl, and this is my other brother Darryl."

 

[Scott McGillivray]

Interesting that Sanderson is the third actor to appear on "Lost" that was also on "Deadwood".

There may be more, but three that I know of without cheating and looking on IMDB.

 

[TravisR]

Without cheating, I can think of 4- Paula Malcomson (Trixie on Deadwood and Colleen on Lost), Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane on DW and Juliet's sister on Lost), Kim Dickens (Joanie on DW and Cassidy on Lost) and now William Sanderson (Farnum on DW and Oldham on Lost). I love both shows so I know them both pretty well.

 

[Jeremiah]

Has Ben in past episodes ever hinted at the fact he met Sayid and any of the other Losties? I don't know if he has met Jack, Kate, and Hurley, but he should of met Sawyer, Jin, and Juliette, and definantly know who Sayid is.

 

[TravisR]

No but, up until Sayid shooting him in this episode, I could see him not remembering any of them. I think that, to Ben, most of the random Dharma people (like Juliet, Jin and Miles) and even the prominent LaFleur are basically forgotten memories at this point. Not to mention that, even on the island, it's kinda crazy that someone he knew in the 1970's would look the same as a person he knows in 2004.

After this episode, it's interesting to think how shocked Ben must have been when he was first captured by the survivors and realized that Sayid was somehow the same guy who shot him 30 years prior.

 

[Joe_H]

Besides that, Ben has never exactly been all that forthcoming with new information anyway, so it's believable that he wouldn't mention it even if he did remember.

 

[EricW]

i'm pretty sure, though, that Ben and Widmore are aware of the Island's time travelling properties. when Widmore asked Ben if he was going to kill him, Ben said 'we both know i can't do that'. that means A) they somehow know they will be living in a future point in time, or B) they have proof they will travel into the past but it hasn't happened for them yet.

 

[Joseph DeMartino]

That was my initial thought, but now I'm not so sure. Ben is one of those people who observes everything, filing it away for later use while giving nothing away. We also don't know how prominent the Losties will become among the Dharma crew in the upcoming episodes, and what part they play in "The Incident", which will clearly be a memorable event. I'm especially reminded of Ben's behavior when flight 815 is detected approaching the island. He doesn't seem to reacting to an unexpected event. Instead he seems to be putting effect a long-planned response to exactly that event. Especially interesing is his interest in getting the names of the passengers and his immediate dispatch of a spy who can blend in and claim to be one of the survivors. I think Ben was trying to verify that 815 was the plane Sayid and the others had originally come to the island on. I think he was expecting them.

Regards,

Joe

 

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[NeilO]

That seems to be more likely all the time. We first thought it was just "the rules of the game" they were playing but now it might just be more than that.

 

[Greg_S_H]

There was a really stupid syndicated piece in the paper today. Check this out:


How much wrongness can they cram into one paragraph? Lost has never been better. Ali Larter has never been on there (thank God) and she doesn't even play Niki Sanders! Sheesh.

 

[Arild]

Wow. There ought to be laws against being so wrong. And punishment. Severe punishment.

 

[TonyD]

is there a link to the article looks like a fun read.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Not that I know of. I typed that from the print edition of the Dallas Morning News.

 

[John Swarce]

Actually, they really screwed up the show and the network. Maxim is doing a feature on the "Girls of Heroes", so the beginning of the paragraph was wrong. BTW, nice photos at the Maxim site!

--John

 

[Justin_S]

Wicked episode. Aside from "LaFleur", which I didn't care for, the episodes this season have been firing on all cylinders. The ending with Locke and Ben is perhaps the best final moment an episode has had yet. Haha, pure gold.

Miles and Hurley were cracking me up with their time travel discussion. It's the first time I haven't found Hurley annoying in quite awhile, and it's nice to have Miles finally getting some decent screentime again.

So, Sayid is the catalyst for Ben's evil ways, and Widmore didn't approve of Ben's rebirthing as an other. Certainly planting the seeds for their rivalry.

 

[todd s]

And Jack...Since if he would have saved Ben. He may never have turned "evil".

 

[Mikah Cerucco]

That was really for the fans. Unfortunately, they still couldn't make sense of it.

 

[TravisR]

Because Sawyer never mentioned his daughter or Cassidy, I didn't think that would be what Sawyer whispered to Kate. That also makes two flashbacks from a pair of S3 episodes have alot more importance than they had before.

I liked the bit of continuity with Kate singing 'Catch A Falling Star' to Aaron. Back in an early S1 episode (Raised By Another), Claire asked Aaron's prospective adoptive parents to sing that song to him since her father had sung it to her.

And since they're so reminiscent of our (and probably a million other message boards) conversations, I loved the dialogue between Hurley and Miles. Especially the Back To The Future reference.