Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part Three

As I type this, my family and I are stuck in a lovely patch of summer weekend traffic. We’re headed up to the White Mountains of New Hampshire to visit with my wife’s sister and her husband. While we’re there, we will probably end up rewatching at least two or three episodes of Lost in order to catch them up. Apparently, they haven’t seen an episode since the last time they were down at our house, and the episode that was on heavy rotation that weekend was “Something Nice Back Home.”

They have no idea how much awesomeness they’re in for, do they?

I’m always pretty good about not spoiling people while they’re watching an episode that I’ve already seen, but I’m dying to talk about my theories and whatnot with them. Until then, let’s you and I, dear reader, talk about the third part of Lost’s fourth season finale, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part Three.”

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Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part Two

Lost’s fourth season ended last week with what was pretty much the ass-kickingest episode out of a season full of ass-kicking episodes. These new, shorter seasons really suit the program, as far as I’m concerned. There’s not a lot of padding or filler, and that raises the stakes pretty significantly. Every bit of story feels a bit more urgent, every scrape our characters get themselves into seems a bit more dangerous. And the payoffs are coming fast and furious now. Now we know who was in the coffin. Now we know how you move an island. Now we know how the Oceanic Six turned out to be the Oceanic Six when, for a while, it looked like they might be the Oceanic Seven or the Oceanic Eight. Some viewers and reviewers are already complaining about there being even more questions now than ever before, but that’s hogwash as far as I’m concerned. You can feel this series heading towards its conclusion. The answers are coming, and they’re coming every episode now.

Because this will be our final “Last Week on Lost” until next February, I’ve decided to break it up into two parts. So, here (below the fold) are my thoughts on the first part of last week’s episode, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part Two.”

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Last Week on Lost: There’s No Place Like Home, Part One

I don’t know about you, but when I first heard about Lost taking a week off between parts one and two of the season finale, I was okay with it. That news accompanied the news that the second part of the finale would be two hours long, so it was easy to justify the break in my mind. They couldn’t have a two hour finale of the season finale if they were airing it last night, on the same night as the finales of Ugly Betty and Grey’s Anatomy, so the producers did what they had to do.

Boy, I’d like to go back in time and slap around the version of me who thought this week off would be okay. The wait is unbearable, and because I’m one of the sillyheads who read the season finale spoilers the moment they were posted online, the wait seems even worse. There has also been some speculation that the spoilers that have been posted are, in fact, foilers—that is, fake spoilers meant to trick all us naughty boys and girls who can’t wait for Christmas morning. And me, I can’t stand not knowing if what I know is what’s actually going to happen, or if I’ve been duped. Either way, I think the season finale is going to be awesome, but I’m dying here as I wait to find out.

In the meantime, to help ease our suffering, let’s talk (below the fold) about last week’s episode, “There’s No Place Like Home, Part One.”

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Last Week on Lost: Something Nice Back Home

Teasing tonight’s episode for Entertainment Weekly’s Doc Jensen, Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof says, “Nothing like a good jungle trek to give Locke and Ben a chance to discuss the notion of fate—and even Jacob weighs in on the topic.”

As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge fan of John Locke right now. But any episode which features Ben in a prominent role is going to be a good one. So, thank you Mr. Lindelof for getting me a wee bit more excited than I was before. Today’s going to be a long day, but I’ll definitely be staying up for this one.

In the meantime, here (below the fold) are some of my thoughts on last week’s episode, “Something Nice Back Home,” which I re-watched on the bus ride into work this morning (all the while trying to ignore my laptop’s inability to keep the video and audio in sync while on battery power).

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