'Lost': A tale of two crashes

In this past week's episode, "Ji Yeon," we learned from Captain Gault that those aboard the freighter believe that Benjamin Linus staged the crash of Oceanic 815 seen in "Confirmed Dead." More »

Well, the producers of Lost promised a season finale that would bring about a pretty big shift in the way we view the show, and you can't say that didn't happen. Now that it has, though, I don't know whether to be deeply frustrated (again), really, really confused (a distinct possibility) or just in awe of... More »

I have never really counted myself among the Charlie haters out there in Lost fandom. He's hardly my favorite character on the series, but I certainly wasn't cheering when Desmond revealed his premonitions to Charlie a while back. And tonight's episode looked like it would be Charlie's big redemption -- his chance to die a noble... More »

I want to be in a good place about Wednesday's Lost, featuring as it did more fantastic two-handed work by Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn, a bit of a shocker at the end and a fair amount of new information about the island's history. But seriously -- how are we supposed to get around the Jacob... More »

Hey, people who make Lost: I'm sure you've heard this before, and I've alluded to it here in the past too, but it bears saying again -- keep those unconventional flachbacks coming, wontcha? Wednesday's episode diverged from the usual formula to offer up a look at just what the heck Locke has been up to in... More »

Question for you, Lost fans: How much does a holy-crap final scene like the one we had Wednesday night make up for an otherwise fairly uninspired episode, like the one we had Wednesday night? I'm half-inclined to go along with Hurley and be shocked at the final utterance of the Woman Who Fell to Earth (and... More »

Everyone who had "Someone we've never seen before on Lost" in the who's-that-tangled-up-in-a-parachute pool, you're this week's big winners. Lost being the show that it is, it would have been far too easy for the end product of Desmond's latest vision to be his long-lost love, Penny. This despite Desmond's fervent belief that the someone who'd... More »

And this, folks, is why we don't trust the Others. To misappropriate Shakespeare on that other famous Juliet, "Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye than twenty of their swords." I'm not really at all surprised that Juliet's presence in the crash survivors' camp on tonight's Lost is yet another scheme orchestrated by Ben, even... More »

You can't go home again. Everyone get that? To me, that was the big takeaway from this week's Lost, which is to say it wasn't a very big takeaway. It's a point that's been driven home repeatedly on the show, and in particular in recent episodes, so seeing it again in Kate's flashback and the parallel... More »

I double-checked, and tonight's episode of Lost was not directed by George Lucas. It just felt that way a few times, with its "special edition"-like splicing in of newbies Nikki and Paolo into old footage. While that was a nice piece of editing, particularly in the crash scene, it has to be asked: Is this a... More »