aunt_zelda | What aunt_zelda Thinks: Lost, episode 3 (Reply)

Previously on Lost:

Some whacky stuff happened. I was watching Ocean's 11 for the first ten-or-so minutes, so how should I know? Also saw The Duchess yesterday. Most depressing, horrifying movie EVER, and it had Kiera Knightly in it! Very pretty, but awfully disturbing. (The movie, not Kiera Knightly.)

Anyhoodle ... the first thing I see is Penny entering the bedroom on the boat and Des putting on his socks. *sighs* Couldn't he be taking his clothing OFF during this speech? They debate about time-travelers and clearing up paradoxes and generally making the Doctor a very happy fanboy.

Faraday ... hee hee ... the other day in physics I heard about a guy called Faraday who figured out induction or something. I giggled. Nobody else got it.

Penny tries to make Des promise not to go back to the island. He says "Why in God's name would I want to go back there?" avoiding the question so that in future episodes he can claim he never broke a promise to Penny.

On the Island, Others get shifty with Miles and Farady's crew. Their leader is tiny and blond and tough. Like Buffy and Faith's love child. Her name if Baith in this recap. Apparently I missed the other Red Shirts getting all blowed up. Are Rose and Bernard and Vincent alive, at least?

"Well gee I didn't have time to ask what with Frogurt on fire and all." Hee. Locke thinks that the proper question is 'When the hell' they are. Oh Locke, not much ruffles your feathers, huh?

The Others captured by Juliet and Sawyer and Locke. They speaketh Latin. Cool. Sawyer wants to shoot them. Not cool. Juliet says they and she can speak Latin because they are Others. Not ... logical. I mean, a metal-head I used to fight with, the husband of one of my old Directors, and the son of another of my old directors can all speak Latin, and THEY aren’t Others. (Or are they …?)

Miles senses a month-old grave, with four American soldiers. Three shot, one of radiation poisoning. Sounds like the leavings of a typical episode of Heroes to me.

Of course, Richard looks the same. He asks if the Boatable Three are here for their bomb. Miles, Charlotte, and Dan's expressions are, respectively 'W' ... 'T' ... 'F.'

Desmond tries to find Daniel or his mommy, looking damn hot and FAR too cool for his own good in a snazzy scarf and darkish shades. There's no record of Faraday, so he looks around, and I half expect him to find the TARDIS. Instead he finds a room marked 'Fumigation' and stupidly goes in. There are lots of props from the episode where Des became a Time Lord and met Dan in there, including the chalk board (wiped clean), a picture of Dan with a blond woman, the mouse's maze, and what I think is a flux capacitor.

A creepy guy with a low-class accent strides in. He had to incinerate his rats and has dealt with many people looking for Faraday and his work. Doesn’t sound as though he ‘dealt’ with them as in, killed them, though, just had to talk to them and drive them off. Des agrees to shove off in exchange for telling his ‘mates’ there’s nothing to find here.

There's no record of Dan after 'what he did to that poor girl.' Utto …

Dan doesn't know when the next flash will be. Five minutes or five-thousand years. That bodes ill for the Trio, seeing as they’re, ya know, trapped in the Others’ camp in the 50s.

Dan plays off of Richard and pretends they're scientists from the American military to deactivate a hydrogen bomb. Richard asks how he's supposed to trust them, to know that they're not on a suicide mission.

"Because I am in love with the woman sitting next to me. And I would never do anything to hurt her." Wouldn't it have been priceless if he'd said he was in love with the man sitting next to him and Miles had had to play along with that? Am I up too late? Yes? Ok …

"Others 101. Gotta learn Latin. Language for the enlightened." Juliet says with a smile that

"Enlighten my ass." Saywer retorts. (I’d be happy to do that, Sawyer, particularly after you spent last episode shirtless for so long!)

Juliet gets one of the Others on her side by speaking semi-sexy Latin and mentioning Richard. The Other-Other breaks his ‘friend’s’ neck before he can reveal where the camp is, then flees. Locke won't shoot him. Sawyer tries to and fails. He demands to know why Locke didn't shoot him. Locke says "Because he's one of my people." Naaaaw.

Des walks around the backlots of Doctor Who and finds a woman who asks him in after he mentions Daniel Faraday. Her sister is in a coma. Because of Daniel. He took off for the States and was never heard from again. Sister demands to know what kind of man would do that. *coughcough* The Doctor, maybe? *coughcough*

Mr. Whitmore is Daniel's benefactor and provides care for Teresa. Rut-row!

Daniel tells Charlotte that he does indeed love her. Richard explains that he has to follow a chain of command, hence the dead Heroes extras.

Other-Other returns and reports that 'their' leader is an ‘old man.’ He is incredibly skeptical that said old man can a) track him and b) knows the island better than him. Cut to Locke standing on the hillside over the Other's camp, smirking my smirk. LOL.

Juliet says that Richard has always been here. Aha! It isn’t just lazy creators or our crazed minds, Richard actually IS that old!

"Why are you so interested in Richard, John?" Juliet, blissfully ignorant of slash fiction, asks. Locke heads down to talk to Richard about how to save them all, and Juliet and Sawyer go to 'save' Dan.

"You can't really expect me to believe that you, a British woman, and a Chinese-man are part of the US military." says Baith, a smart Other.

Dan says, kinda creepily, that he's their best chance at disarming the bomb. She says ok, it's over there, and points at A FRIGGIN' WARHEAD SUSPENDED IN A HALF-FINISHED CELLPHONE-TOWER IN THE DISTANCE.

The bomb is called 'Jughead.' Yeesh. There's a crack. Dan runs and explains that they need to patch the crack and bury it. Sounds like what Hawkins did in S1 of Jericho with the bomb intended for Columbus, OH. Baith gets agitated and stupidly threatens to shoot her gun when in the vicinity of a FRIGGIN’ WARHEAD. Dan spills the 'from the future' thing. Sawyer and Juliet show up and get Baith to drop her gun.

"Are they from the future too?” Baith asks sullenly.

Desmond gets commanding. Yum. Whitmore hasn't seen Penny in three years and wants to know if she's safe. Des gets the info of Faraday's mom and turns to leave. Whitmore wants Des to get out of this mess so that Penny isn't in danger. Wow. Maybe he ISN’T all that evil. Maybe.

Locke barges into the camp, yelling for Richard. LOL. Richard arrives and we get nice closeups of his eyeliner. Locke introduces himself, but it means nothing to Richard. He says that Jacob sent him. Richard gets serious. He orders Other-Other to let Locke got. Other-Other is still a skeptical rebellious teenage bastard. Richard tells 'Whitmore' to drop the gun. My jaw drops and I yelp 'NO!' in a hoarse voice. Locke does a double take and asks if the kid's name is Charles Whitmore. "Yeah, what's it to you?" snots Kid!Whitmore. Locke says it doesn't mean anything. I start yelping 'SO COOL!' and punching the air. My sometime-Lost-companion gives up and goes to bed.

Back on the Boat, Penny is telling a story to ... BABY! OMG! Penny and Des have a kid! There is officially a next-Gen Lost! Sun and Jin’s daughter, Aaron, and now this kid! Start a spinoff series!

The kid wanted to go fishing in the Thames. Naaaw.

Des lies to Penny. Not cool. Penny knows. That is cool. Des tells her that the mommy is in LA.

(OMG ... their baby's name is Charlie! *wibbles*)

Des gets adorable and says that he'll never leave Penny again. She says that he'll never be able to forget the whole 'Faraday mommy' thing and says she guesses that she and Baby!Charlie will be coming with him. Utto … this way lies badness, methinks. Wasn’t Odysseus’s wife’s name Penelope? Then again, she stayed at home and got abandoned, so maybe Penny deciding to go with Des is a survival strategy?

Locke tries to get Richard to tell him how to get off the Island. Doesn't work. Richard says that the process for choosing a Leader begins from a very young age. Locke tells him to go meet him at his birth, in two years. Heh. Then Locke leaves in a Flash. Yay for continuity?

Dan and Charlotte run up to each other and each ask if the other is fine. They are. Miles says "Yeah, I'm great too." Heh. My other Lost-companion snorts as well.

Then ... Charlotte keels over and starts bleeding from her nose. A lot. YEEK! NOOOOOO! Why you take away my hetero-pairing, evil show, WHYYYYYYYYYY?!

Next Week, on Lost:

The promo we got last week for this episode! I have officially lost faith in their promo-people. Hopefully we’ll see Kate, Jack, and Ben get into a three-way fight, Sun go badass, and Sayid shoot something. But with this show, who knows?