I haven’t watched LOST at all this season, but keep hearing radio ads that the season finalie is tonight.
Give me a one or two paragraph sum-up of what this show is about and what I’ve missed.
Lips, it really can’t be summed up in one or two paragraphs. I recommend you go visit www.televisionwithoutpity.com and get updated there.
You might want to start now. The season finale is only nine hours away. I doubt you make it.
They just did a recap episode this week. Would it have killed you to watch it?
Quick catch-up: There was a bunch of people on a plane. They crashed on an island. Weird things are happening.
Ha ha ha.
OK, let’s give this a shot. The show opens after a plane has crashed on an island in the Pacific. There are just under 50 survivors. Then, some huge but unseen monster shows up in the jungle. Some of the survivors try to reach higher ground to send a radio signal, but instead they pick one up, which they figure out has been playing for 16 years. It’s a french woman saying something along the lines of everyone else being dead. Also, they encounter a polar bear.
In each episode, we get some of the backstory of a character, while the scenes on the island show the development of their society. Characters include:
Jack – doctor, got his drunk surgeon father’s license revoked
Locke – the creepy guy with the hunting and tracking skills
Kate – fugitive
Charlie – former rock musician and drug addict
Claire – pregnant Australian woman
Sharon – Superficially a superficial L.A. airhead, she’s actually a real operator
Boone – Sharon’s brother
Hurley – all-around nice guy, won the lottery back home
Sawyer – con man
Sayed – former Iraqi soldier and communications officer
Jin – non-English speaking Korean who was roped into being a thug by his father-in-law
Sun – Jin’s wife, who was about to leave him because of the thuggery
Michael – architect
Walt – Michael’s young son, but he grew up with his mother
Several weird thing shave happened. Claire was kidnapped by a guy (Ethan) who everyone thought was a plane survivor but who apparently had already been on the island. (She came back later and successflly delivered her baby.) Sayed and then Hurley encountered Danielle Rousseau, the french woman who had created the message 16 years ago. Her team had been lured to the island back then by a broadcast of a series of numbers. They’re also the numbers that Hurley had used a year or more before to win the lottery. He’d heard them from one of his co-mental patients when he was institutionalized (probably). The money brought Hurley nothing but grief; another guy who’d used the numbers to win a bar bet was similarly afflicted by bad luck. Locke and Boone found a hatch buried underground, but have not been able to open it. Michael and others built a raft. That’s only a sampling of what’s happened.
Then, last episode, Danielle (the french chick) appeared from out of the jungle to warn the group that the bad guys (Ethan’s group) were coming to kill them. Micahel, Walt, Jin, and Sawyer left on their raft. Another group went into the jungle to try to get dynamite to fortify the camp. They came across what Danielle had previously called the black rock – and it turned out to be a 19th (?) century ship named “Black Rock.” Then the episode ended.
–Cliffy
There are 23 episodes you need to catch up on.
That’s Shannon not Sharon
Good job Cliffy! I think that covers most of the high points. One nitpick: The group went to get dynamite to blow open the hatch, with the possible outcome of hiding inside from Ethan’s group.
Cliffy, thanks for the recap. I know it was a tall order to recap the whole season in a few sentences, but you seem to have done pretty well.
whuh? you mean the conning of Boone out of the occasional small boatload of money?
As Boone told Shannon’s boyfriend guy before he realized that he (Boone) was the mark, Shannon (:smack:) lives off a succession of wealthy men who she uses for their money, she’s conned Boone into extra money more than once, she’s probably run other games on people whenever she feels it useful, and, once Boone figured all this out and told her he wasn’t going to be her patsy anymore, she did one thing that pretty effectively put him back in her pocket.
–Cliffy
Not only did I get her name wrong, I can’t code for crap. :smack:
–Cliffu
Oh, sure, that time it works!
Oooh, Locke is the best character! All we saw of him at first was that he had incredible hunting and tracking skills, but seemed quite the loner. In the first episode when it started to rain, everyone else ran for cover, but he sat on the beach just enjoying the rain. Lots of weird stuff like that for him that made him seem odd and slightly creepy.
His backstory - One shot from the very beginning, of him lying on the beach right after the crash, looking at his feet and wiggling his toes, then standing up shakily and smiling oddly.
Then it goes to the recent past. We saw him at work at a box company (which we later learned Hurley’s accountant bought for him with his lottery winnings), always sitting down, doing something secretive on his computer, getting cryptic phone calls for “Colonel Locke” and things like that. Made you think he was maybe an undercover CIA agent or something like that. Co-workers teased him about his game-playing, and some upcoming trip to Australia where he was going to play Big Hunter Guy. You realized he was just a regular schlub, playing war games and the like. Then it cuts to him in a travel office in Australia and the agent is telling him they can’t accomodate someone like him on a trip like this, that Locke misled them, offers to give all his money back and book him on a flight back to the US. The guy gets up and walks away, and Locke (in a wheelchair!) rolls after him, saying he can do anything anyone else can do. No go, they make him cancel this trip (something like a safari, but in Australia) and back home he goes. Obviously, when they crashed, Locke could walk again, and thinks the island is magical. He hasn’t told anyone that he couldn’t walk before.
Also, Hurley’s winning lottery numbers are engraved on the cover of the hatch.
And the one kid on the island, Walt, has ESP or something like that. He can make stuff happen, and he knows things.
Well, I was trying to avoid spoilers, Biblio. There are a couple other big details I left out on purpose.
–Cliffy