LOST - A Tale of Two Cities Review
well since this is a review so there are going to be spoilers in it for people who has'nt watched the episode already. so you have been warned. so lets get on with the show.the episode starts with a cd popped into a cdplayer. dejavu anyone? remnants of the second season's first episode. but this time it is'nt in a hatch. it's in a house. and it is'nt desmond. it's some woman. now at first i thought this was penelopy aka desmond's lover. she looked alot like her. atleast at that time. so she bakes some brownies. gets her hand burnt in the process. she's actually making tea and ofcourse brownies for a whole bunch of people. then we see it's a book club. where people talk abt the books they read and so and so. seem's she is the host and the book all of them read was stephan king's "Carrie". it seems its her favourite book. but not ben's. who is ben? we don't know yet. and suddenly the house starts shaking. they get under the doorway for protection. seems like it was common thing in their neighbourhood. now at this time i was thinking this was an aftermath of desmond putting in the key and destroying the hatch and its magnetic field. but was i ever so wrong. so continuing.
they get out of the house to see what the hell is going on. lots of people gather outside. and we see a couple of familier faces. ethan ( the guy who abducted claire and charlie ) and the fake henry gale ( the leader of the others). they are all wearing nice clothes. then they look up as the sky. and what do we see? a plane breaking down. the fuselage goes one way and the tailsection the other. fake henry gale starts giving out commands. calls over ethan and goodwin( guy who infiltrated the tailsection losties camp). fake henry gale tells they to go to either side ( meaning where the tailsection and fuselage losties might have landed) saying there might be survivors and asks ethan and goodwin to pretend they were one of the survivors too. and to gather information from them. and asks them to get a list of the passengers who survived. and then the camera zooms out showing the whole island and the other's "camp" seems to be in some sort of crater or hidden by a big mountain. now that my friends is a great opening. upstaged the "wtf moment" of season 2 premiere of a guy being down the hatch. and that's why lost is so great. the story might be slow for some but it's so rewarding at the end. but alot of questions were risen again after the first five minutes. but now we know where the other's live and we know the plan crash was'nt planned. throw away the lost theories everyone!!! staaart making new ones :P
back to the show.now i'll keep this brief. nothing thaat important happened in this episode but it was still great. now still being with the lost formulae we got jack flashbacks. so it was mostly a jack centric episode. but we got to see kate and sawyer. jack was kept in a glass room which we finally in the end learn it is an aquarium. kate is given a shower and asked to dress up to have breakfast with fake henry gale while wearing handcuff's. sawyer was put into a cage where the polar bears once was. that explains the polar bears. and this also explains the dharma logo'd shark sawyer,micheal and jin saw in the ocean in the end of season 1. so we did get alot of answers. now the part sawyer was in looked like a zoo. and had a dharma logo which is supposedly called "hydra". and jack was in an aquarium and the logo was in a hatch there too. so they were kept close by. now from what i have seen. the other's are trying to break down each one by one. for what motive we don't know yet. but it seem's blood was taken from both jack and kate but not from sawyer.
sawyer and jack both tried to escape from their locations but to no awail. they were brought back. sawyer tried to escape with the help of a young kid named "carl". and jack tried to squeeze his way out of the situation while holding the woman who was seen in the intro hostage. who's name is btw "Juliet". Juliet broke Jack down eventually at the end of the episode. (mentally ofcourse although i must say she throw's a pretty mean punch). and we dont know what happened to kate but hands were pretty scratched up when she was brought back to a cage next to sawyers and locked up in it.now there was nothing much to jack's flashback's. i think it was irrelevent to the story but it was used to break Jack down by Juliet. And praise's were given to Juliet by "Ben" (who i mentioned earlier) who turns out to be our old friend "fake henry gale" (whew...i was gettin tired of writing that down all the time :P).
so all in all the episode was pretty good. now for those of you who bitch's about lost being slow you'd say it was a bad episode. but we got to know more about others and where they lived and more abt the polar bears and the shark and we got introduced to Juliet who I think is a really plus point to the show. She is one beautiful woman. Not in the hot or sexy sort of way. But she has one nice smile and her acting is pretty great. I think she has some problems with Ben and I think she would help Jack escape somehow.And get this. she had information on jack. where he graduated, his marriage, his father's autopsy report. his whole life to be exact in one book. now i thought this whole thing was'nt planned.wonder where this is going...hmmm. but i'm sure it wont be disappointng in the least. and it seems like the Jack Kate Sawyer triangle is pretty much over. Kate is going to choose Sawyer and Jack and Juliet is going to have somthing going on. Just my opinion. anyways one great episode. can't wait for the next. hope to review all the episodes of the season. becos this is one great series. i watched the episode TWO times and saw alot of stuff i missed :) . so till next week. taa.
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3:23 AM
maail
good work ...
i didnt read the whole article word 2 word ...
coz i have not watched the eppy yet ...
but gud 2 know u r gonna review each n every eppy ...
may be i can check back if i missed anything after i watch the eppy, eh ... ?
u must really be the "hugest" fan out there ... hehe ...
laterx ... top
12:48 PM
lol...that i am...but if u visit some forums of lost...i would like be the not so hugest fan...chk out www.dharmasecrets.com if u have time...and dude u have got to check out the episode...if you have been spoiled readin this thing...u shud still chk it out :) top
8:30 PM
It was a great episode. Lots of good emotional pull with the back-story, a great introduction to new mysteries involving the Others and what exactly they are doing, and plenty of 'Oh My Gosh' moments. I do kind of wish they had spent a few moments with our friends on the other side of the island, but the teaser for next week showed we’ll be seeing plenty of them.
Strangely, though I immensely enjoyed the episode, I feel a little let down. It is probably the down from a big high, but it feels strange knowing what happened after so many months of speculation. top
8:43 PM
Dude...my sentiments exactly :)
and regarding the next episode...seems like sumone gets shot eh? ;) top