>: 84 THE LIE
Great to see Lapidus, if only for a second. Was sure that he was gone. I like the idea of him getting a beer for Desmond while the 6 decide whether or not to lie. We’re catching a buzz, Brother! Penny’s boat is called SEARCHER, pretty sure that was the name of the ship in the second season of BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY when they basically ripped off STAR TREK's premise. I dug Hurley’s refusal to ever help Sayid followed by the opposite of same. And funny to see Ana-Lucia, guess it wouldn’t be a Hurley episode if he didn’t have an imaginary friend, even for a minute. Her advice is a bit ominous on the rewatch, “Whatever you do, don’t get arrested.”
So, looks like we will have at least somewhat character-centric episodes this time and Hurley’s up first.
Claire is no longer listed in the cast, I’m noticing, even though Jin still is. Guess I won’t hold my breath for her and her pop showing up just any week now with all the answers.
What did Ben have hidden in the A/C vent?
Cheech’s caviar burger is almost as funny as the same recap voice saying “Previously on EXPOSE.” No sign of Nikki, though.
Strange, seeing Aaron as a toddler.
And Ben gets a 42 at Jill’s butcher shop. She's a champ. Also, a reference to Gabriel and Jeffrey. Don’t know them as of yet.
Meant to comment on Charlotte last time, wondering if her nosebleed had anything to do with her maybe being a native, and then she turns around and says she hadn’t had a nosebleed since she was little. Now the bit about her mum’s maiden name this time. Wonder if we're heading for a flashback getting to know her here pretty soon (Apparently, the Charlotte, Miles, & Faraday-centric episodes were what got cut last season when the writer's strike sliced the episode count from 16 to 13).
And Frogurt rocks the death by fire irony. That guy will always be the dude with his tongue cut out in THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, that movie was some formative trauma for me in all the right ways.
Was that Vincent on a leash, fleeing the fire-arrows? Who’s been taking care of him al this time? How much is happening off-screen that the Nikki and Paolo fiasco is making the writers afraid to show us?
Cheech’s wave to the officers as he drives by has got to be one of the most suspicious of all time.
And not to keep bringing my kid into this, but compare Ji Yeon to Miller Li:
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I tell you, we, well mostly Catherine, grew an entire kid since the last episode aired and this show does not miss a beat.
Oh, we do get that flashback to Jin from the finale, maybe that’s why he’s still lurking in the cast credits.
Heavy exchange between Kate and Sun. If you believe the latter about not blaming Kate, that leaves either Ben or Jack as the other person besides her father that she holds responsible for Jin’s death (if it’s not Widmore, which, why not?). Interesting that she asks about Jack in the next line of dialogue. Or, maybe it's just to transition to him in the next scene. They've been doing that a lot more lately, the Alan Moore transition, like Juliet saying they'll get the water, cut to Hurley throwing water in Sayid's face. It's the little things.
Hurley’s breakdown of the first four seasons is priceless, great delivery.
Very grim, Sawyer stepping on the nail. Him telling Juliet not to be a wiseass is pretty funny when you stop to think about it.
Boy, never wake Sayid up after a hard night out. That is one hell of a default mode.
Whereas Hurley throws a Hot Pocket at Ben. Wild how Ben is completely telling the truth. Believed Hugo was going to buy it and sign on for a second there. Great strategy, confessing to murders he didn’t commit. And yeah, he really does look crazy in that last shot, looking across the way at Ben.
Really thought Juliet was going to lose the hand. But you know when a knife gets thrown, John Locke can’t be far behind.
And Finoula Flanagan returns. She sold Desmond his wedding ring back in 3.8 and most famously in my mind had a great turn in Alejandro Amenabar’s Kidman flick THE OTHERS (2001), which I always thought was a fun little extratextual joke. Was pretty sure in those first few shots of her in the Jedi robe that we were looking at D. Faraday’s mum in Oxford rocking some equations to probably locate the island. And that might even be the case.
Dig the 70s-looking DI computer she has going on there. 
And Ben seems to be reporting to or at least deferring to her. 70 hours, she says. Is that going to be the off-island timeline for the rest of the season? Madness. Good thing for Ben that everyone's in LA, even Sun. Hadn't even thought about how hard it will be to get her to sign up for an island return with her kid back in Seoul. Chloroform might have to play a part.
Most interesting, is Finoula's last line of the episode. Ben asks her what will happen if he can’t get Hurley back on board. “God help us all.” Beneath the Orchid, when Marvin Candle/Pierre Chang admonished his foreman not to drill one centimeter farther or risk releasing the energy beneath the Orchid station, he used the exact same phrase. Just a nice bit of symmetry on a double premiere, or indicative of something more?
So, looks like we will have at least somewhat character-centric episodes this time and Hurley’s up first.
Claire is no longer listed in the cast, I’m noticing, even though Jin still is. Guess I won’t hold my breath for her and her pop showing up just any week now with all the answers.
What did Ben have hidden in the A/C vent?
Cheech’s caviar burger is almost as funny as the same recap voice saying “Previously on EXPOSE.” No sign of Nikki, though.
Strange, seeing Aaron as a toddler.
And Ben gets a 42 at Jill’s butcher shop. She's a champ. Also, a reference to Gabriel and Jeffrey. Don’t know them as of yet.
Meant to comment on Charlotte last time, wondering if her nosebleed had anything to do with her maybe being a native, and then she turns around and says she hadn’t had a nosebleed since she was little. Now the bit about her mum’s maiden name this time. Wonder if we're heading for a flashback getting to know her here pretty soon (Apparently, the Charlotte, Miles, & Faraday-centric episodes were what got cut last season when the writer's strike sliced the episode count from 16 to 13).
And Frogurt rocks the death by fire irony. That guy will always be the dude with his tongue cut out in THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS, that movie was some formative trauma for me in all the right ways.
Was that Vincent on a leash, fleeing the fire-arrows? Who’s been taking care of him al this time? How much is happening off-screen that the Nikki and Paolo fiasco is making the writers afraid to show us?
Cheech’s wave to the officers as he drives by has got to be one of the most suspicious of all time.
And not to keep bringing my kid into this, but compare Ji Yeon to Miller Li:
or
I tell you, we, well mostly Catherine, grew an entire kid since the last episode aired and this show does not miss a beat.
Oh, we do get that flashback to Jin from the finale, maybe that’s why he’s still lurking in the cast credits.
Heavy exchange between Kate and Sun. If you believe the latter about not blaming Kate, that leaves either Ben or Jack as the other person besides her father that she holds responsible for Jin’s death (if it’s not Widmore, which, why not?). Interesting that she asks about Jack in the next line of dialogue. Or, maybe it's just to transition to him in the next scene. They've been doing that a lot more lately, the Alan Moore transition, like Juliet saying they'll get the water, cut to Hurley throwing water in Sayid's face. It's the little things.
Hurley’s breakdown of the first four seasons is priceless, great delivery.
Very grim, Sawyer stepping on the nail. Him telling Juliet not to be a wiseass is pretty funny when you stop to think about it.
Boy, never wake Sayid up after a hard night out. That is one hell of a default mode.
Whereas Hurley throws a Hot Pocket at Ben. Wild how Ben is completely telling the truth. Believed Hugo was going to buy it and sign on for a second there. Great strategy, confessing to murders he didn’t commit. And yeah, he really does look crazy in that last shot, looking across the way at Ben.
Really thought Juliet was going to lose the hand. But you know when a knife gets thrown, John Locke can’t be far behind.
And Finoula Flanagan returns. She sold Desmond his wedding ring back in 3.8 and most famously in my mind had a great turn in Alejandro Amenabar’s Kidman flick THE OTHERS (2001), which I always thought was a fun little extratextual joke. Was pretty sure in those first few shots of her in the Jedi robe that we were looking at D. Faraday’s mum in Oxford rocking some equations to probably locate the island. And that might even be the case.
Dig the 70s-looking DI computer she has going on there. 
And Ben seems to be reporting to or at least deferring to her. 70 hours, she says. Is that going to be the off-island timeline for the rest of the season? Madness. Good thing for Ben that everyone's in LA, even Sun. Hadn't even thought about how hard it will be to get her to sign up for an island return with her kid back in Seoul. Chloroform might have to play a part.Most interesting, is Finoula's last line of the episode. Ben asks her what will happen if he can’t get Hurley back on board. “God help us all.” Beneath the Orchid, when Marvin Candle/Pierre Chang admonished his foreman not to drill one centimeter farther or risk releasing the energy beneath the Orchid station, he used the exact same phrase. Just a nice bit of symmetry on a double premiere, or indicative of something more?
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