LOST: Season 4, Episode 2

Here we go, fans! In this episode, we get to meet the NEW CHARACTERS for Season 4.

The biggest bombshell in this episode is that Naomi appears to have been telling the truth: Flight 815 really WAS discovered at the bottom of the ocean with all passengers on board…no survivors. (I can’t help but wonder, does that mean that Drive Shaft really did release a hugely successful Greatest Hits album after the crash? Mysteries, mysteries…)

It’s always tough to welcome new characters into an established television series, but a look at the history of Lost tells us that most of these characters will probably die soon anyway.

Take Season 2 for example. The new characters were the “tail-ies”, those passengers from the tail section of the plane. First the Aussie hostess was taken by The Others (although it turns out that she isn’t actually dead), then Ana-Lucia and Libby are shot and killed. Mr. Eko was finally killed by the Smokey Monster in Season 3, leaving sweet old Bernard as the sole survivor. Yep, new characters are doomed in the world of Lost.

In Season 3, the day-to-day lives of The Others were revealed. Remarkably, Ben and Juliette have managed to stay alive thus far, while most of the other Others have been killed by the Losties throughout Season 3 (even poor Tom, the original bearded man who took Walt and sunk the raft). Even Naomi, who parachuted onto the Island to rescue them, is dead before the Season is over.

So here we are, two episodes into Season 4 and four new characters have been introduced in a not-so-subtle way. One of them has the ability to communicate with dead people. The woman appears to be the modern, female equivalent of Indiana Jones (with a keen interest in Dharma paraphernalia and of course, Polar Bears), whilst another new guy confirms the “THEY’RE NOT IN HELL” theory by pointing out that the dead pilot at the bottom of the ocean is NOT the man who was flying the plane (he knows that the pilot always wears his wedding ring – and the dead guy in the water had no ring).

OK, we know these people are from a boat which is NOT PENNY’S BOAT, but that doesn’t mean they’re evil, does it? So far they seem like friendly folk.

Less friendly was the black guy who first made an appearance in the previous episode, harassing Hurley at the mental institution. Here we see him instructing Naomi to take these 4 new characters to the island to retrieve Ben. It seemed for a moment that Sawyer or Locke might finally kill him and put us all out of our misery…but if we weren’t squirming over Ben’s creepy mind games, it just wouldn’t be Lost.


Funniest moment: The look on John Locke and Ben’s faces when Hurley reveals that he has seen The Shack (“it’s back that way”).

Saddest moment: They go to the trouble of bringing Naomi’s body to the helicopter, only to be told that it can’t take any unnecessary weight. It would’ve been nice for SOMEONE on the island to get a decent burial.

Biggest potential screw-up: Letting Ben live. (Would somebody just pop a cap in his proverbial already?)

LOST: Season 4, Episode 1

Welcome to Season 4 of Lost!

While the Series 3 finale didn’t leave us with as much of a cliffhanger as previous seasons, it was one of the most intriguing episodes to date. We saw a crazy, drunken Jack with a beard…and the moment that rocked everyone, when we discover that these events in Jack’s life are taking place AFTER the crash.

In the first minutes of Season 4 we discover that Jack and Kate are 2 of only 6 people to have been rescued from the Island. Hurley is the third. So who else will make up “The Oceanic Six”? One is surely the man (or woman) in the coffin from the Season 3 finale.

As expected, Charlie’s revelation that it is “Not Penny’s Boat” proves to be a crucial point in this episode. Locke wastes no time in exploiting Hurley’s grief, by convincing him that Charlie will have died in vain if they don’t heed his warning. Hurley convinces the Losties that the people on the boat are dangerous and that they should follow Locke to The Others’ abandoned Barracks. Judging by Hurley’s conversation with Jack at the end of this episode, this is a decision that Hurley would later regret.

There are some disturbing moments in this episode, not least of which is Hurley’s encounter with Jacob’s mysterious house, which seems to appear out of nowhere. According to the official “Lost Secret Clues”, the man who spooks Hurley at the window is in fact Jack’s father (whom we know is dead – and also happens to be Clare’s father). Not sure how this is important, but then again we never really know why dead people keep appearing on the island…

After his rescue, Hurley begs to be taken to a Mental Institution after receiving an unwanted visit from Charlie (or, more than likely, Charlie’s ghost). He is also confronted by a disturbing character: a man who claims to be an attorney from Oceanic Air, but quickly turns dark with anger and demands to know whether “they” are still alive. Who? The survivors of Flight 815? The others? It seems that escaping from the Islands doesn’t mean you’ve escaped from the freaky Dharma people.

Hurley earlier dodged a question from a Police Officer (Ana-Lucia’s former partner) and claimed that he had never met Ana Lucia. It appears that those rescued from the Island cannot (or will not) discuss what happened there.

And finally, after another Lostie reunion and another Lostie-group split up, Jack and Kate are waiting alone under a section of their plane (nice link back to where it all began, huh?). The helicopter lands and the man asks, “Are you Jack?”. Well, who wants to know?



Funniest moment: When Bernard encourages Hurley to do something he has often thought about: Cannonball-ing into the ocean.

Saddest moment: Hurley breaks the news to Clare that Charlie is dead.

Biggest potential screw-up: Soon we are going to discover that somebody has made a major, life-altering screw up: either Jack has allowed some terrible people to locate the Island, or John has spoiled their one chance to be rescued. Only one of them can be right.