'Lost': New Season 5 trailer breakdown

There's nothing I love more than catching sight of new Lost footage. It's just the bestest, y'all. Even when we're forced to watch said footage through an excruciating video featuring the sonic assault of The Fray. Good gravy. I didn't like the song that accompanies this footage the first time I heard it, and now that I've spent the better part of 3 hours poring over it, I'm pretty much ready to kick a kitten. I'm lost and insecure...just kill me! Just kill me!

Honestly, people, find yourself a better song to listen to while viewing. The clip is 2:50 long, so find something in your iTunes that fits that length and groove along that way. My personal options that fit this length? Tom Petty's "I'll Feel a Lot Lot Better," which is ironic, since the entire premise of Season 4 seems to be that NO ONE feels better with the Oceanic 6 gone. I also have Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me," which would be better suited for a montage from the episode "The Other Woman." There's also a lovely Nirvana song that lasts that long, albeit with an unprintable title. If you know your Nirvana, you know which one I'm talking about.

But this isn't a music blog: it's a Lost blog! And we're here to talk new footage. I discussed the original trailer here, and with one exception, I've omitted any discussion of existing footage below. If it aired in that trailer, or in any existing episode of the show, I've ignored it. For one thing, it's redundant. For another, it spares us all a few seconds of listening to that song. Win win!

Check out the hi-res version here, if you like. I've also embedded it below for your convenience.

0:24: Hurley solemnly prays in the house he bought for his mother with the lottery winnings. Looks like he's just been broken out of the mental ward by Sayid. Notice his mother's favorite icon, The Virgin Mary, located in the back.

0:25: New shot of Kate with Aaron, in what looks like Kate's kitchen. Who is she looking at? Jack? Probably not. Ben? Possibly. Mrs. Butterworth? We can only dream.

0:33: Shirtless Sawyer! This happens a lot in this clip. When the sky goes people, men with beards find themselves mysteriously without clothes. The lady fans of Lost say, "Thank you, frozen donkey wheel."

0:50: Close-up of what looks like Locke, opening his eye in shock. Traces of blood can be seen past his right eye. A victim of time travel, or something else?

0:51 -- 0:53: Camera pans back on Locke, laying on the ground. The tall grass around him suggests that he's fallen into that spot. A shot later in the trailer seems to confirm this.

0:58: Juliet leads Charlotte and Miles through the jungle. Note her leadership position in this shot. Also note that these three people combined know quite a bit about the Island's mysterious nature.

0:59 -- 1:00: An unseen man holds two things: a gun and a compass. That man? John Locke. Anyone remember where they've seen that compass before? The big question: to where does that compass point?

1:00 -- 1:02: Daniel Faraday is trying to ensure that a man in a hazmat suit emerging from a metallic door doesn't shoot him. Unclear which hatch this is, as the logo is obscured by the open door. My best guess? It's the Swan Station, especially considering what pops up later in this promo. But wait, you say, the Swan exploded/imploded! It's no more! It's passed on! It's shuffled off its mortal coil! It's ceased to be! This...is an ex-hatch! All true...in our time. But where the Island-based people are, well, it's fully intact. Pre-Incident as well, I'll wager.

1:11: "Sayid! So nice to djhfgdhjjshd....dude, why are you choking me?" Why indeed, Sayid? Don't you know every girl's crazy 'bout a sharp dressed Shephard? Does Sayid blame Jack for Nadia's death? Or is this just Sayid's natural reaction now every time that he hears Jack has a plan?

1:32 -- 1:35: Miles observes two men (red shirts, perhaps) in the near distance. He gets a puzzled look on his face, notices a landmine nearby, ducks, and holy moly, when you freezeframe is just right around 1:34, the black smoke that emits from the explosion looks awfully, awfully familiar. But right before that explosion: look close. See that? It's a logo for Ajira Airways. And wouldn't ya know, "Ajira" is Hindi for "island." And wouldn't ya know, there's already a website produced by ABC for Ajira Airlines. New ARG? The Sun/Widmore endeavor? Discuss!

1:36: Oh, hi there, fellas in what look like military outfits. Nice bows and arrows you're brandishing there. Why don't you have guns, like good army guys that set landmines? Oh wait, you're not really army guys? But maybe Hostiles, loyal followers of technology-hating Jacob, looking to defend the Island from outsiders? That attacked and killed the initial military folk that helped terraform the Island for Dharma Initiative use? Just maybe?

1:37: Hey, look, it's "Call of Duty: Craphole Island!"

1:42: Just wanna point out that gun in Juliet's hand looks a LOT like the one at 1:37. Not sure what to make of that, though I'd wager Julie disarmed the previous owner before assuming she'd turn on Charlotte and Faraday. (Unless it's a triple-cross, and...oh look, my brains' leaking out of my ears again. Damn you, Lost.)

1:44: Locke, in the rain, brandishing a knife. Eventually you'll learn no good comes from that knife, John. Nothing good at all.

1:51: It's good to know that not only humans, but Virgin Mary statues filled with heroin, can travel back in time.

1:53 -- 1:59: The POV suggests that Sayid's dead, but I'd sooner believe that Frogurt=Jacob before I believed he's dead. More likely, they're holed up at Hurley's house for the night, each taking shifts watching for intruders.

2:03: Sawyer, seriously, it's OK. People wore shirts in the 70's. I promise you.

2:04: Juliet digs up what looks like the same area Locke and Boone excavated back in Season 1: namely, the top of the Swan. The only other hatch I know that has an entry point underground is the Pearl, but compare this shot to this and see what you think. I assume this is happening while Faraday has a look up front, as show earlier in the trailer.

2:06 -- 2:08: "No way, I totally just started leading the Others! Bad first impression!" One has to think that Season 5 involved shaking Locke's faith to the point that it will make Season 2 Locke look like a freakin' zealot by comparison. The image of the compass (a sign of Island leadership) drenched in Locke's blood is incredibly powerful.

2:09 -- 2:13: Flaming arrow attack! Gotta think this is the first night after the donkey wheel incident, after a scene we see later in the promo (at 2:34) in which everyone stands around wondering why their beachfront property is no longer there at ALL. Also, is it wrong that I kinda love the shot of Sawyer grabbing Juliet's hand and helping her run to safety?

2:16 -- 2:17: A torch-wielding Alpert approaches Locke. I can't tell if the initial shot is Locke looking through the jungle or from inside some type of bunker/hut. Maybe he's in ensconced inside the Others camp when the fit hits the shan that first night?

2:20: I prefer my Charlotte sans-bloody nose. It's just my personal preference. Also? I don't like it when people start bleeding from the nose on this show. Why? Exhibit A. Hopefully, she finds her constant on-Island, in the form of her birth parents. Otherwise, we're gonna have a super sad Faraday on our hands. Then again, remember the first time we ever saw Faraday off-Island? He's watching the wreckage of Oceanic 815 being discovered, and he's crying inconsolably. Is it possible that scene happens AFTER everything we'll see this year? Nothing's really impossible anymore. Except "Hurley beats Miles in the 400 yard dash." That ain't happenin'.

2:23: "I see John Locke falling from such great heights/Lay down, John/They'll say." Locke's a pretty outdoorsy type, so I'm guess he didn't fall so much as get pushed. Interesting how this happens in front of a banyan tree: throughout the show, those trees have been used as refuge from Smokey, polar bears, and exploding Arzts.

2:30: Hurley nearly drives off the road, sleep-deprived. That's a big car. Wonder if he's got something in the back. Say, an ex-Republican Guard torturer? (Also? Gotta love that the license plate is bookended by a 4 and 8.)

2:34: The aforementioned shot in which the remaining people on the Island realize their carefully erected mini-city is missing. Now, the Orchid video insisted that nothing inorganic go into the chamber when exploiting the dark matter to move objects through time. However, I'm not even going to try and explain how their clothing went back with them, but not their camp. If you go back to 2:12, you can see a flaming arrow shoot into what looks like a makeshift pillow, indicating they made do on their first day until finding themselves under attack. So I'll wager this is the first time we'll see the Lostaways in Season 5.

2:40: Jack, in the same outfit he wears while getting choked by Sayid, tells someone offscreen (most likely Ben), "Let's go get 'em." Amen, Jack. Amen.

So, what did you make of the new promo? What particular images caught your attention? Ready to make any Season 5 predictions based on it? Leave your thoughts and comments below!

Ryan also posts every 108 minutes over at Boob Tube Dude, then peruses Zap2It's Guide to Lost Facebook group. He also encourages you to join the all-new Zap2It's Guide to Lost Twitter feed. Pretty soon he'll have as many platforms as Ben has pieces of leftover chicken.

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