LOST - S5E01 & S5E02

After nine long months without LOST, it returned last night with a one hour recap and two one hour episodes. The recap was one of the better recaps, with limited goofiness from Damon and Carlton, and just the right amount of information to not bore diehard fans but get people who have missed some of LOST up to speed.

Getting into the epsiodes, we find two main storylines - the story of how the Oceanic 6 need to get back to the island - Ben, (and as we find at the end of S5E02) - Mrs. Hawking, seem to be the driving forces to make this happen.

The second storyline is what happened to the people left behind when the island 'moved'. We discover that the island is slipping in time. (or the people are - it's all relative - as Einstein would say.) We find put that Daniel and the redshirts on the Zodiac survive and move with the island because as Daniel says - they were 'within the perimeter'. Neil Frogurt from S.O.S. is one of those redshirts and we are all pretty happy when he meets his predictable demise.

I like the way Season 5 is shaping up. We have only two seasons left, so it makes sense that we have shifted more into answering questions rather than posing them. LOST is a huge jigsaw puzzle and in Season 1 it was all we could do to find the edge pieces. That really did not let us see any of the big picture. By now however, we have a lot less pieces to fill in the puzzle, so we are starting to see the picture take shape. You can be sure TPTB have deliberately left a few strategic pieces of the puzzle until the very end though.

I'm willing to bet that the Event Window Determined that Mrs. Hawking discovered corresponds exactly with the point and place that one Ajira Airways Flight 316 will be with our Oceanic 6 on board.

This season promises to give us some very cool moments as we relive events both that we have already seen on LOST, and those that we are dying to see - such as the arrival of the Black Rock, Henry Gale's balloon and Danielle's story. The cool part is that our Losties will be there as these events unfold again.

The time travel aspect of LOST is confusing to some, but fascinating to me. What if our Losties all along were the ones who caused the 'incident' and were not just visitors to this past, but an integral part of it?

As I have said from the day we saw 'Adam & Eve' in the caves, and Jack pocketed the black and white stones - at the end we will understand why, when Jack and Kate end up there in the past and Jack shows us those two stones as they end up finally resting in the peace that they have struggled to find.