LOST S06E06 E-mail Chain: Have You Seen My Baseball?

Season 6: Episode 6

I’m back!

Peter “I’ve clearly had too many drinks” Ha: Snooze…Sayid goes bad. Did I really just sit through that?

Allie “Clearly watches LOST” Townsend: An hour of your life that you’ll never get back.

I kind of liked this one. I like bad ass Sayid. I like nice Sayid in post-bomb, pre-crash real time. Team Sayid!

Anyway. I thought the plot was interesting. I feel like we finally got somewhere. I’m just not sure where that is.

PH: Seriously? Did we watch the same episode? Am I losing it?

AT: Were you distracted by something shiny again? Peter…

Seriously, the two groups finally came back together. Everyone knows that John Locke is the smoke monster (Except Jack and Hurley, I’d imagine) and they know that Claire is alive. AND Sun knows that Jin is alive and on the island, too.

Plus, we figure out (well, sort of) why the Samurai temple dude is hanging out there and just why he loved that baseball so much. We also realize that they must have been right about Sayid being occupied by something. Though he did try to kill Locke initially. I’m not sure who he is, I guess.

Oh, the confusion.

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PH: If by shiny you mean booze-y.

What exactly did undead Locke say to Sayid to turn him? It appears that everyone but me was satisfied with this week’s episode.

Also, how did Sayid escape that Japanese Kung Fu grip in the beginning?

AT: Alright, boozy.

Locke told him that he couldn’t have killed him if he wanted to and that Mr. Roboto just wanted to provoke Locke to him Sayid instead. He could have killed Sayid, yes, but didn’t because he watched the baseball fall off the table. (Hint: The baseball reminds him of his son.)

What I’m creeped out about: That damn song. “Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket. Save it for a rainy day.” WHAT IS GOING ON? Is everyone possessed by demonic preschoolers?

PH: Don’t be racist, Allie. Mr. Roboto? Samurai? Japanese Kung Fu?

Perry Como is the man.

AT: Huh? Don’t be racist Peter. Not all white people love Perry Como.

Wait, isn’t this supposed to be about LOST?

PH: This discussion is OVER! You clearly don’t watch LOST.

AT: Ahhh. Song reference. Not race reference. (I’m so quick.)

Well. That was fun.

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Mike Williams

Can you feel it? That sense that there is no way that this series will end well. That’s great that we sort of found out what the numbers mean and yeah, we now know what the smoke monster is. The list of unanswered questions associated with this show is very, very long. There are what, eleven episodes left? Doesn’t anyone else feel that even with that much time left they can’t wrap this up?
Makenna Combs

I completely agree with Peter, this episode was LAME! The acting and chemistry in the “other reality” where Sahid is uncle family-man was particularly painful to me. “Mommy, there’s a picture of you in Uncle Sahid’s backpack!” Really? Barf.

And I agree with you Mike… even the questions that are somewhat answered (i.e. “what is the smoke monster”) are still not REALLY answered – WHY can he turn into the smoke monster? What is he? Why can’t Jacob turn into things? Or can he?

This season is getting progressively less satisfying for me. Of course I’ll keep watching, and hold out hope that they bring something to the table that makes me glad I invested all of this time and energy into this show. …Or else.
http://twitter.com/thepeterha Peter Ha

I need to go to Ikea and get more chairs. To throw.
adanzis

Peter, I get that there weren’t enough answers, but… we got Sayid murdering the temple guys in cold blood AND Smokey on a rampage. That’s enough action for me to forgive the silliness of the rest of the 40 minutes.
http://theuselessinformationfile.wordpress.com wolvenspectre

I liked it but I have always liked the contradiction that is Sayid.

As for being “Occupied” I am still convinced that Roussau and Charlie are possessing Claire and Sayid. You seen Claires hut and traps that are like Roussau’s and the way that Charlie was shown drowning, then when Sayid came back to life he said “Whut Happen’?” like Charlie’s accent and not like Sayids elequent well spoken english. I think that the Smoke Monster is manipulating the dead and near dead like with what happend to Roussau’s crewmates.