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10. That may have been the best, most shocking ending to an episode so far. Somewhere, Marty McFly is holding a picture in which Ben is slowly disappearing.


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10. That may have been the best, most shocking ending to an episode so far. Somewhere, Marty McFly is holding a picture in which Ben is slowly disappearing.


Good work.


I was about three seconds away from singling this out as well. Nice, FT.

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wenchlette Wrote:
Drank Wrote:
FT Wrote:
10. That may have been the best, most shocking ending to an episode so far. Somewhere, Marty McFly is holding a picture in which Ben is slowly disappearing.


Good work.


I was about three seconds away from singling this out as well. Nice, FT.


Same here. Three cheers for Bobbo. Hip Hip Hoor....aww fuck it.


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good episode!


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Totally saw Sayid killing Ben coming once he said he knew his purpose back in the island.


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Yeah, but did you really expect him to actually succeed in shooting the kid?


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pussydick_taco Wrote:
wenchlette Wrote:
Drank Wrote:
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10. That may have been the best, most shocking ending to an episode so far. Somewhere, Marty McFly is holding a picture in which Ben is slowly disappearing.


Good work.


I was about three seconds away from singling this out as well. Nice, FT.


Same here. Three cheers for Bobbo. Hip Hip Hoor....aww fuck it.


See, I was proudest of the "choke the chicken" joke, but everybody loves them some McFly.

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Drank Wrote:
Yeah, but did you really expect him to actually succeed in shooting the kid?


Shoot yes, kill not necessarily (and remains to be seen).


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Yeah, but did you really expect him to actually succeed in shooting the kid?


Shoot yes, kill not necessarily (and remains to be seen).


I don't expect him to die either. This will all just be part of what made Ben into an evil bastard. Or it will all just be "erased", like it was a dream or something, and they were never in 1977. I'm hoping the writers don't pull something like that.


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Drank Wrote:
Yeah, but did you really expect him to actually succeed in shooting the kid?


i thought he'd maybe snap his neck once ben let him free.

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i wonder if the writers are going to mind F us all and have some dream like shit or something totally bizarre to explain it all.

likely the kid ben is not dead, right?


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Next week is a Kate episode where she tries to save Ben's life and we find out Whatever Happened To Baby Aaron?

And the week after that is a Ben episode where he "tries to summon the smoke monster to atone for past sins." Now that very much sounds like a possible death of Ben episode. We know by now that, whenever somebody is slated to die, they get a starring episode.


Other than that the episode was pretty so-so. We didn't really find out anything too new or interesting.

I'm starting to get impatient again with the focus on all these guys when I really want to know what's going on with:
-Rose, Bernard, and the other 815ers
-Cindy, the kids, and the other Others
-Desmond and Penny
-Sun and Frank


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Ben's still alive in the future. Won't his bullet wound heal like Locke's and Patchy's.

Also, I'm still wondering about Paolo and Nikki. They were buried a live a few seasons back. When do they come back?


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Also, I'm still wondering about Paolo and Nikki. They were buried a live a few seasons back. When do they come back?


I heard S6 just alternates between Nikki and Paolo-centric episodes.


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Episode 11:

1. It sure didn’t take long for Sawyer’s ex to see right through Kate’s lie. Boy, nothing gets past Sawyer’s baby mama, does it? Well, except Sawyer. Oh, snap!

2. I never thought Hurley would serve as a better comedic foil than when partnered with Sawyer, but the debate he had with Miles on the quantum physics of time travel was absolutely hilarious - especially Hurley’s “checkmateâ€

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I was a bit disappointed with the explanation of how Ben becomes Ben. He gets shot, turned over to The Others and the reason he doesn't remember any of this is basically "he won't have any memory of this incident and will now be one of Us". It seemed a bit cheap and easy.

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Smokie gonna rape Ben.


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Episode 11:

7. That whole scene with tween Ben being handed over to Richard, who very creepily declares Ben will never be the same before whisking him away to the dark and isolated temple for mysterious (and likely nefarious) reasons, gave me the heebie-jeebies and then some. I’m starting to wonder if in addition to his duties with The Others, maybe Alpert might also be President of the South Pacific chapter of NAMBLA. He and Gary Glitter do appear to wear the same shade of eyeliner.


Yeah, dude. Not only will he never be the same, he's going to "lose his innocence". I hit pause on the DVR and me, my roommate, and my friend all just sort of awkwardly looked at each other exchanging puzzled glances about what exactly Richard meant. Either that was intentionally nasty or a humorous Freudian slip on the part of the writers.


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I quite dug that episode. Plenty of set-up with Locke/Ben, Richard/Ben, missing Sayid, Kate/Claire.

I'm glad they gave at least some sort of explanation as to why Ben didn't remember them later on. It just makes Richard into even more of a power player to watch since he remembers meeting Locke in the '50s and Kate and Sawyer in the '70s but doesn't let on in the '00s.

The temple is very important too as that was where Richard was supposed to be taking the Others just before Locke turned the wheel. I'm thinking the science vs. religion/Dharma vs. Others theme is going to become really prevalent in the final season.


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Here are my thoughts on the twelfth episode of Lost (season five), "Dead is Dead":

1. This episode was great, if for no other reason than for the sheer quantity of Ben failure. It certainly was satisfying seeing Locke repeatedly overdose Ben on his own medicine at every turn. I haven't seen Ben that frustrated since he tried to woo Juliet with his meek Leon Phelps impression. (Apparently, Dharma-brand Courvoisier doesn't quite cut it.)

2. The flashback to when twenty-something Ben and his boy wonder sidekick, young Ethan, invade Rousseau's tent on an assassination mission ordered by middle-aged Widmore reveals two of Ben's greatest weaknesses: young children and hairstyling. It's as if Ben asked a senile barber with macular degeneration, "Gimme the 'Flock of Seagulls,' Gramps!"

3. As for young children being one of Ben's weaknesses, they apparently render him unable to kill in their presence. Both Rousseau and Penny were spared due to their offspring being in the same frame. As a result, Ben angered Widmore and Widmore's future son-in-law, Desmond, but for completely different reasons...and with completely different results. Widmore just stormed off to his tent in a huff, but Desmond laid a beating on Ben the likes of which he hasn't suffered since he was "Henry Gale."

4. Ben also failed when he attempted to summon The Smoke Monster by doing some Roto-Rooting down in the basement. Then, after Locke had to tell him where they needed to go to find The Smoke Monster, Ben tried to reassert his island knowledge superiority by telling Locke and Sun he'd take it from here and head into the temple. That is, until Locke kicked Ben in the nuts yet again by pointing out to him that The Smoke Monster would only be found by taking a trip down into the giant gopher hole that Dharma greenskeeper Carl Spackler had enlarged via squirrel-shaped plastic explosives.

5. Once Ben does finally manage to coax The Smoke Monster out from what looks like King Tut's sewer grate, instead of facing stern judgement, he ends up getting treated to nothing more than a poorly Photoshopped slideshow.

6. After the smokiest PowerPoint presentation this side of a quarterly Philip Morris meeting, Ben is rewarded by being reunited with his long-dead faux daughter Alex...who promptly kicks his ass, calls out his secret plan to re-re-re-kill Locke, and politely suggests he reconsider following through on that plan.

7. Going back to bad hair for a moment, what was the deal with that hairstyle on thirty-something Widmore? It looked like some sort of grotesque hybrid of Hurley and a flapper.

8. Aside from bad hair, another issue regarding Ben and Widmore is quite troubling. Why has Widmore been portrayed by several different age-appropriate actors all the way up through when he reaches middle age, but Ben is played by the same fifty-something guy dating all the way back to when he was 18?

9. Can somebody please clarify Alpert's position on The Others' org chart? Is he CEO? He claims he doesn't answer to Widmore or Ben, but he also defers to their leadership. He also makes it clear that Jacob calls the shots. Putting it in the context of a football team, it's kind of like Jacob is the owner, Alpert is the GM and the head coach is first Widmore, then later Ben. Would that make Ethan their Defensive Coordinator? It's all so confusing!

10. Speaking of confusing, how about Ilana cryptically asking Lapidus "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" She might as well have been asking Dan Rather, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" or Dustin Hoffman, "Is it safe?"

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I thoroughly enjoyed that last night.

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Yeah, it was good, but I have to say that this season does seem to have much lower production values than previous seasons have. Maybe the CG in the first few seasons was worse than I remember, but lately it's really been BAD.

Plus, as FT mentioned, Old Ben playing Young Ben and just looking like Old Ben with a toupee and an ascot, a.k.a. Gay Ben.


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Old Ben playing Young Ben and just looking like Old Ben with a toupee and an ascot, a.k.a. Gay Ben.


CLASSIC!

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I got a hard on thinking Alex was back. Sigh. Stupid smoke monster. haha


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discostu on Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:12 pm Wrote:
The LOST island statue looks A LOT like Anubis aka, the Egyptian god and gatekeeper of the Underworld / Afterlife.

This and the Ankh necklace and the Tunisian "exit point" is all pointing back to ties to ancient Egypt.


Did anyone else notice the hieroglyphs of Anubis and smoke monster on the "Tomb of the Smoke Monster" from which it came?

There's obviously a link to the island and ancient Egypt (Richard Alpert?)


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