This week Instant Dharma host Maggie Furlong (@thetvshowgirl) is joined by Zap2It’s Brill Bundy (@zap2itbrill) and celebrity DJ and LOST superfan Mike B. (@themikeb) dish on last night’s episode of Dr. Linus.

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So many great arcs last night, that I don’t quite know where to start.  Just a very well done episode.  I hope you had a chance to read my loooong prehash on Dr. Linus, because there were so many parallels alluded to in Dr. Linus that just made the whole thing amazing to watch the both times I watched it last night.  It’s also good too be back with the majority on initial reactions, after being in bizzaro land the last couple of episodes, everyone seems to be cheery on the first episode of the second act.  Okay, lets get on with some illuminating thoughts.

justice is truth in action

Seeing Ben flee terrorized in the jungle was fitting, Sayid’s darkness was in part because of Ben’s manipulations, and seeing the monster in his eyes completed Ben’s descent to his lowest point.  Ben happening upon Team Illana in the jungle was a happy coincidence, and joining in and recommending the beach as a sanctuary was just where we wanted them to go.  Ben’s old habits rear up when Illana, knowing that the monster couldn’t kill Jacob, immediately caught Ben in his lie.  Truth cut to the bone when Illana gave Miles Jacob’s ashes and Miles exposed that Ben not only killed Locke (as he admitted when they buried him) but also Jacob himself.

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Recap, weirdness alerts and observations by Amy on LOST 6.06 – “Sundown”

Previously on LOST:  LA_X:  Jack spent a significant amount of screen time half naked and/or looking SMOKIN’ hot (and Amy was happy).  Jack makes amends with his piano playin,’ musical genuis son, David.  He lets David know that the “you’re not good enough for me” parenting method will never apply.  Jack’s mom finds Christian’s will.  She asks about Claire. ISLAND: Jin hooks up with Clairuso and realizes that 1) she’s thinks the temple peeps are holding “baby Aaron,’ 2) she’s a a homicidal wacko and 3) Mock Locke is her “friend.”  Jack and Hurley sneak outta the temple and skedaddle through the jungle to the lighthouse on Jacob’s recommendation.  Jack smashes the lighthouse mirror after realizing “He’s been watching.”  Jacob admits to Hurley that 1) Jack had to know how important he is and 2) a VERY BAD man is coming to the temple.

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LA_X

Sayid stares from a cab. Cabbie reminds him the meter’s running. He heads to a house. He rings the bell. Nadia answers (with a BIG OL’ engagement/wedding ring on her finger).  They hug.  Two kids coming running to the door. A man follows.

• Kids:  Uncle Sayid! Uncle Sayid!
• Omar:  Flowers for my wife, huh?
• Sayid: Some of us still have mojo, brother.
• Omar: Still a skank! Come in!

Weirdness alert: Nadia is Sayid’s sis-in-law? ALSO: Nadia is wearing a silver bracelet on her LEFT wrist. A bracelet that some fans have noted reminds them of Naomi’s bracelet (the groovy sat-phone toting, freighter chick Locke knifed back in Season 4).  HOWEVER, this bracelet could ALSO remind us of: Esla’s bracelet (“The Economist”), which she wears on her left wrist AND Dogen’s (right wrist). Also note: Nadia’s necklace charm changes after her husband appears.

Nadia pours tea.

• Kids: Whadja bring us? Whadja bring us?
• Sayid: Check my bag and see.
• Nadia: They missed you.
• Omar: Yeah, so you’d better keep coming up with decent presents on all your fancy–schmancy world traveling.
• Sayid:  I translate contracts for oil companies. It’s almost as boring as dry cleaning.
• Nadia: Omar’s opening up a new store.

Weirdness alert:  Nadia sips tea.  From Sayid’s angle, she uses both hands, but from Omar’s angle her left arm’s on the table.  Her bracelet changes during this scene, and her necklace too, from what I can tell.

Omar’s cell phone rings.

• Nadia:  I thought we talked about no cell phones at the dinner table.
• Omar: (nervously leaving) Dinner’s over. This is business.
• Nadia:  Did you get my letters?
• Sayid:  Yes.
• Nadia:  You never wrote back.
• Sayid – no answer.

The kids return, thrilled with brand new boomerangs (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!) and a picture of Nadia. Weirdness alert: it’s the picture the feds baited him with back in Australia (to go undercover and spy on his pal).  This makes no sense, right? ASK YOURSELF WHY this picture would so OBVIOUSLY be included.  Highlights the “doesn’t makes sense” nature of Sayid’s LA_X story, right?*  Nadia nervously fingers the picture. Across the room, a menacing looking Omar slowly snaps his cell phone shut.

[HINT:  The PICTURE is a CONSTANT.  ALSO: We've seen some serious cell phone weirdness in every LA_X story so far.]

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Each week I have been getting a more and more Star Wars vibe from LOST as the story is unfolding in season 6 (even the fact that there are six seasons-one for each Star Wars movie). Last week, Hurley made a comment that Jacob comes and goes like Obi Wan Kenobi. I immediately went back to THE INCIDENT where Jacob allowed himself to be killed, much like the real Obi Wan Kenobi. I could imagine him telling MIB, “Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.”

In LIGHTHOUSE we see “Obi Wan” Jacob appearing to “Luke” Hurley Skywalker who is trying to convince Han “Jack” Solo of the existence of both Jacob and the Force. In SUNDOWN, more Star Wars connections for me. As we watched the conversation between Sayid and Flocke, my wife said, “This sounds a lot like Palpatine talking with Anakin.” You know the whole, “I know a way to save Padmay from death” speech? Of course in this case Padmay is Nadia. Then Emporer Flocke gives his new apprenctice “Order 66″. This is the order in “Revenge of the Sith” where all Jedis are commaded to be killed. So what does Sayid do? He goes all Anakin in the Jedi Temple on us and is responsible for the death of many of  the Others/Jedis….even the padawons.

This might be a crazy thought, but it sure is fun. The war has started and it can only end once.

Did you do your homework?  What you didn’t know that Professor Jensen assigns homework, pft, and you call yourself a LOSTie?  Well, here at LOSTblog we do the homework and then draft out a little crib sheet to help you study up for the next episode.  (ed – this is the first prehash post. nevermind, just read ok?)  So here are some observations I’ve made about White Rabbit and All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues.

Wait! before we deep dive, we need to review.  The track so far in Season 6 has been trekking along with Season 1, What Kate Does fits along Kate’s arc started in Tabula Rasa.  The Substitute is along the same path of Walkabout.  We’re expecting that the X-time story will pick up threads left along the trail of White Rabbit and giving us a Jack sidestory.   We’ll see how long this trend continues, but I think along with my theory of the first 6-7 episodes being a combining of the threads left over from the last season, we should have Sun/Jin next, followed by Charlie, Sayid and then Sawyer, then release the hounds as far as X-time stories go, which will probably be an arc towards convergence, at least if my post LA_X thoughts hold up.

Okay, now in review, X-time we’re ready to pick up Jack’s story and the missing casket in LA, while the story on island will be tracking with the Templars, and probably take up the thread of Clairesseau after she captures Jin.  I’d be surprised if we saw Smokey and Sawyer this time, I’d expect more temple preparations for the war, and following Jack on a trek somewhere.  Note: I wrote that before reading the plot summary online.  I won’t leak it here for those squeamish with the slightest of spoilers.

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Previously on LOST:  Kate sheds the marshall and her handcuffs.  Claire barely avoids giving birth after Aaron’s adopting parents renege on the deal.  Claire gives Kate her credit card as thanks.  TEMPLE: Jack survives taking the pill intended for Sayid.  Over tea, Sensei claims Sayid is cultivating inner darkness (like “yer sister”).  NEW OTHERTON: Sawyer sets up for a major post-Juliet pity party. Kate leaves him behind. BEACH: Mock Locke tosses an unconscious Richard over his shoulder, yells at everyone and marches off.  JUNGLE: Claire suddenly appears to rescue Jin. [This new (and dirty) Claire will henceforth be known as CLAIRUSO thanks to LOSTblog's very own Tina (@lostdogs20)!]

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A van pulls up in suburbia. John Locke exits via wheelchair lift (weird noises), which jams halfway down.  He jiggles the red lever.  He roll/jumps the ramp (He thought that would work?), and lands flat on his face on the lawn.  The auto-sprinklers kick on.  He chuckles at the absurdity.  Weirdness alert: Helen comes outta the house, shuts off the water and rescues him.

Mental Notes:  Last time we saw Helen, John was crying over her grave.  John is wearing EXACTLY the same clothes he wore on Oceanic 815 except for the SHOES.  And what’s with the weird hand/ear thing just outta the van?

The bathroom. John sits in the tub sipping from a coffee mug and dangling swatches.

• Helen: Planning a wedding sucks! Let’s just go to Vegas. We can bring your dad!
• John: Nah. My SMOKIN’ hot, soon-to-be wife deserves better.
• Helen: How was the conference?
• John: Uhhh–
• Helen: (finds card) Who’s Jack Shephard the spinal surgeon?
• John: Uhhh– OH yeah, I met him at lost luggage (HAHAHAHAHA!). He’d lost something too.
• Helen: That sounds like destiny to me!
• John: Maybe.

Weirdess alert: John’s DAD?! What conference? I seem to remember John telling fake, 911 Helen that he’d saved up his vacation days and bought two tickets on his own.  Hm.  Also, VERY weird noises heard over cut between LA_X and ISLAND (which repeat throughout the show).

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Another snappy re-cap by the not at all artistically limited DivaHeatherMac

The fan-verse is a buzz with last night’s episode of LOST.  Damon and Carlton promised us answers this season and if the buzz from my view of the twitter-verse is correct, the fans received a goodly amount of answers in last night’s The Substitute.

Personally I enjoyed the episode, but felt many answers that we were given were burdened with more questions.  Also the answers were not discovered, as much as narrated by TEFKAL (The Entity Formally Known As Locke) (We’re gonna need a symbol for that – okay we’ll just call him Locke).  The problem I have with the explanations coming from Locke’s mouth is that we don’t know what his mission  is, except to get home.  And we’ve been shown that Smokie isn’t afraid of manipulation to get what he’s after.  So I’m immediately suspicious that the answers that played out last night are about as reliable as an explanation from Benjamin Linus.

Any of my concerns of the Island story have been completely covered by the Sideways story of the life of John Locke.  Just seeing the appearance of Helen coming to the rescue when John fell in the lawn, then was sprinkled (baptism?) with the irrigation system was enough for me to love the entire 41.23 minutes.  We also see a more ‘healthy’ John Locke, still wheelchair bound, but no longer bound by anger and frustration.  Planning his wedding with Helen to include his father (but not his mother).  Clearly Sideways-land is no longer the Kansas we’ve come to know.

Sideways John Locke isn’t fully perfect, he’s still apt to lie to get his way, but is also willing to come clean.  The whole redemption of John Locke came from the lips of Rose Nadler, who helped John step out of the waters of denial (or De Nile HA!) and accept the limitations of a wheelchair.  Watching a clear headed Locke embracing his role as a Substitute, next to a clean and apparently clear headed European History teaching Benjamin Linus totally has me starting to LOVE Sideways-land.

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You don’t need to be all fancy schmancy to let your LOST love shine, all it takes is a Sharpie Marker and a good sense of humor.  I present Heather’s LOST in Stick Figures

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“What Kate Does”

Dr. Pierre Chang untangles the web of life at the temple!

from InsideTV at AOL.com

While we prepare for the next episode in Season 6 “What Kate Does,” I’ve reviewed the Season 2 episode “What Kate Did”.  Some things may bear remembering in how we interpret the episode that airs tonight.

First image is Jin and Sun emerging from a tent (where Ji-Yeon was concieved?) a nice reunion for them after Jin had been on the other side of the island after surviving the raft blowing up in the Season 1 finale.  Other things to remember going in: Sawyer is in bad shape after getting shot in the shoulder and is unconscious in the hatch.  Shannon was shot in the stomach in the collision between the Tailies and the main group.  I’m sure that Sayid’s gut shot wound is just a coincidence.  Read the rest of the pay-off of that line.

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I’ve already leaped to the defense of Exposé. Now I’m taking on the Spock’s Beard (per @justinkeyes) episode of LOST and giving a bit of apology for giving it a little rewatch.

So let it not be said that I’m not afraid of taking risks.

First, regarding Stranger in a Strange Land let’s just jump through all the Bai Ling scenes and any reference to Thailand.  I’m on board with having @mjgoldman dump those in the editing bin when mastering the LOST complete series Bluray set.

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Come one, come all and gather ’round for Amy’s first official recap for LOSTblog!

NOTE: Mock Locke is my term for the new Locke in town. I do not announce: back at the plane, back on the island, etc. when I run down the scenes. I’ve got a good reason for this. Trust me! I’m resisting adding a lot of my own theory to the recap, but I will be doing the aohora “Things I Noticed” pretty soon.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy!

When we last left our losties (oh so MANY months ago):

Things were not good.

Juliet was smacking the bomb at the bottom of big hole Razinsky had been drilling into the ground (before everything went all uber magnet crazy, Stephen King style), Jack and Kate were dragging a distraught Sawyer away from the site, Hurley and Miles were at the Dharma van watching Sayid bleed to death (gunshot wound to the gut), Richard and posse were standing (on the beach next to the statue) over Locke’s dead body (hand-delivered by Illana and her merry band of droogs), while Mock Locke (under the statue) stood over Jacob’s bleeding body (courtesy of Ben’s “You never paid any attention to me when I was a kid, and now you’re gonna pay for it with your life” stab wounds). Jacob whispered, through the gross and goopy blood in his mouth, that “They’re coming.” Mock Locke registered the message and kicked Jacob’s dying body into the weird eternal flame looking thing in the middle of the floor.

Final Scene: A broken, bloody Juliet keeps smacking and cursing the bomb until: Cool end-of-LOST slamming door noise. Cut to

A white screen. Black letters read: “LOST.”

End LOST Season 5

And for NINE LONG MONTHS LOST fans have waited (and waited and WAITED) and wondered:

1. Did the bomb exploding prevent the Swan Hatch from ever being built, consequently preventing Oceanic 815 from ever crashing to the island, erasing the last 5 years of the show? (reset theory)
2. Did the bomb exploding split our losties’ existence into parallel universes where during season 6 we’ll see what continues to happen to them on the island AND what could have happened if they’d landed safely in LA? (alternate time line)
3. Who’s coming?
4. How on Earth did Jack survive getting clocked in the head by that flying red toolbox?

Begin LOST Season 6 (YAY!)

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