LOST Season 6 Episode 8 "Recon" E-mail Chain: Well, This Stinks | Techland

Guys, I’m worried Peter has really fallen off the bandwagon.

This is how it starts, right? First, you’re skipping two episodes of the final season of LOST and next thing you know, you’re watching Jersey Shore reruns in your underwear and stealing from your mom’s bingo fund to buy issues of People. I think it’s time for an intervention. (We’re coming for you, Ha.)

But even in Peter “I always watch LOST” Ha’s absence, we must press on.

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Last night’s Recon sure didn’t reveal a whole hell of a lot. Surprise, surprise. We got a few one-line would-be bombs if everyone on the planet wasn’t already rolling their eyes and groaning “Duh” at the same time.

Kate: “Sayid, are you okay?” Sayid: “No.”

Locke to Sawyer: “I am the Smoke thing.” Yeah, no shit.

Still, Smokey the Locke finally admitted he is the monster wrapped into the likeness of dead John Locke. That’s progress, I guess. Strangely, even dead non-Locke is still my favorite character on the island outside of Hurley. For a monster, he really shows very little hostility. He’s pretty cool and even tempered, though who didn’t cheer when he slapped the breakfast out of Crazy Claire? Good golly, that was awesome.

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What’s the most perplexing is the creators’ decision to introduce a new band of characters into the mix when we’ve only got a handful of episodes left. We know Charles Whitmore, yes, but his band of 40 thieves are new to us. But at least we didn’t have to bother too much with the corpses in the mass grave that Sawyer found on the neighboring island. Honestly, they’re going to have to start killing folks fast, or we’ll never get our answers.

I was also pretty bored by post-bomb, No-Crashland Sawyer. He’s a cop? That’s interesting, but he’s still Sawyer. I also don’t get how the pasts of our LOSTies were changed so much post-nuke. Was Jacob’s presence in their pasts also eliminated? Oh, so many questions!

Help me out here, Techlanders.

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jeffreytz

I was trying to make the “Sawyer’s a cop” thing work for me but frankly it doesn’t. If this season’s “sliding doors” analogy is correct, and the alternate reality views we see are just what would have happened if the plane hadn’t crashed, then that means Sawyer was a cop on the plane before it crashed. I guess you could say what he did in Australia in a previous flashback episode might fit his cop character, but frankly it feels much more like ‘alternate universe’ vs. ‘the plane just didn’t crash’ (at least compared to everyone else’s alternate storylines (Locke, Kate, Hurley, etc.). I thought it was a good twist, but it also felt like a cheat.
Makenna Combs

I really enjoyed this week myself – Josh Holloway is really stepping it up this season in my opinion. Sawyer has been perfectly acted. Meanwhile Claire has quickly become my least favorite. Especially her bad “wilderness” wig and silly sideways sneaky glances.

That’s an interesting thought about Jacob being erased completely – do we know exactly what “time” we are in on the island? If Ben killed Jacob and they are in the past, I suppose that could have kept him from visiting all of them later on (assuming that Kate, Sawyer, etc. were born towards the end of the 70s)

ALSO! I’m sure this will be on Lostpedia or something but did anyone else notice Watership Down on Sawyer’s nightstand? Seems to be a possible hint to the story line of the island if you ask me (some trying to escape, someone taking control and keeping them there unwillingly?).

And that’s all I got.
Rorschach

I was going to write a big comment, but if I wanted to convince people who don’t really pay attention to what’s really going on, but still want to poke fun, I’d just talk to pretty much everyone else in the world.

“They’re going to have to start killing folks fast, or we’ll never get our answers” is pretty insulting to fans of the show.

I like the idea of Techland covering Lost, because it along with BSG is the most important sci fi television wise of the last 20 years. But I don’t think this particular type of commentary is for me.

Whoops, looks like I actually ended up with a long comment. Sorry. The first one was longer, trust me. I’ll summarize by saying that the two most ‘evil’ people on the show are by most people thought of as Whidmore and Smokey. We see now that they are on completely opposite sides. That’s a big deal.

Sorry to go fanboy, I realize how annoying we are… just my two cents. I won’t bug y’all again on it.
Rorschach

ugh, I feel like an ass for even posting that. You guys need a delete comment button.
Makenna Combs

It’s ok @Rorschach, I get what you mean – the commentary isn’t as in-depth/serious as I would really like either… but I still enjoy discussing thoughts through comments, etc.
http://djtrudeau.wordpress.com djtrudeau

Do follow the link up top to LOSTwatch, as Poniewozik has the best commentaries I’ve found.
http://twitter.com/thepeterha Peter Ha

Sorry guys. I’ll be on the ball next week.
pasteeater

Single best thing that ever happened to Claire: Going away and not being there anymore. Second best thing that ever happened to Claire: the Getting-Tossed-On-Her-Ass then bitch-slapped, 1-2 combo by SmoLoch. Best thing about sideways-Lost? That I have never had to hear Shannon open her whining gob, and have only heard in passing by Boone about her.

Oh, I lost count — how many of the main female characters have now been with Sawyer? Oh Charlotte, how have I missed thee? (A: A lot more than I ever missed Claire).