I'm Lost every Thursday night...
After spending a weekend (and as he said, not enough time) with my still-pseudo roomie and fellow business entrepreneur Christopher T-Money Reilly, I did the whole work thing and was greatly anticipating the opening of the movie Cloverfield. I joined my fellow monster/zombie/vampire movie fanatic Jennie (an old friend of fellow Camel Sophie Fitzgerald ’07) for opening night at the busy and environmentally unfriendly Time’s Square cinemas for a night of popcorn, shaky-cam, and insane destruction. The movie was basically a conglomeration of my favorite things, and I walked out with a giant grin on my face, unlike some who had to run to the bathroom due to the Blair Witch style filmmaking (except, unlike the Blair Witch Project, this movie was, well, good.) To our surprise after the film (yes, film) ended, this idiot stood up and asked the audience “So, did you like our movie?” After several moments, the audience realized that this was one of the actors (T.J. Miller, who played Hud, and was the cameraman throughout the movie as well) and further realization that the rest of the cast was in fact present in the theatre as well. It was a wonderful surprise to meet with them (although Jennie failed in understanding the intricacies of my iPhone camera and produced a wonderful blurry image of our feet, which I believe is just as good as this T.J. definitely would have taken Chris’s attention off of me when I would be showing him the photo) and capped off a wonderful night of fun-filled adventure.
Several weeks later (which would be last night) I continued my J.J. Abrams extravaganza with the season 4 premiere of Lost (aka the best show ever.) After spending the preceding weeks with my girlfriend catching up on the previous 3 seasons with up to 5 hours of Lost a night after grueling days of work, I was more than ready to be amazed at the genius that is the show. Given that I have basically two shows that I watch (Lost and BSG [if you don’t know what that is an acronym for than don’t bother, I’m just too much of a nerd]) I was pumped to finally, after 9 months, watch a new episode. Beware; SPOILERS will follow along with incredibly genius theories on the happenings of those stranded by flight 815...
I am not going to bring everyone up to date on the show, for that would be way too much work, so I’ll leave that to my favorite website, Lostpedia. In “The Beginning of the End,” a Hurley-centric episode, we see a disturbed Hurley (by the reappearance of Charlie, who also happens to be dead) driving his estranged dad’s old Camaro through the streets of L.A. in a wild chase with some cops and upon being captured is interrogated by none other than the late Ana Lucia’s old mustached partner. This scene sets up the episode as the Losties are trying to get in contact with “Not Penny’s Boat” and reach rescue while Hugo and several others are trying to warn them that those on the boat are not who they say they are. In this journey Hurley is separated and comes upon the house of Jacob, the mysterious and omnipresent leader of the “Others.” Upon approaching it, one sees (or I believe it to be) Christian Shepherd, Jack’s dead father, rocking in Jacob’s chair until Hugo is scared away by the creepy eye that we last saw when Locke visited Jacob last season. Now for the theories…
Well, I'm sure that whoever Jacob is, he is the leader… maybe Jacob, through the interesting ability of the island to bring up, shall we say “ghosts,” needed a body so he took Christian’s? Jacob could very well be the personification of the island, because he was probably there when Ben arrived and before the Purge of the original Dharma members, because that was probably an order by Jacob to protect the island. At the same time, after Hurley is scared by the appearance of Jacob’s house, Locke miraculously appears in front of him. For all we know, Locke is dead too due to Ben’s cold attempted murder only (on the island) hours ago? These people coming back from the dead are just messing with my mind. And then there is also the whole time travel theory about the island, but that is for another blog.
For those of you who don’t watch this amazing show, DO. Your mind will be blown away. And for those of you who made it through this blog, I commend you. Trust me, there will be more to come. Alright, back to the Lost bulletin boards, I have some catching up to do with the fellow nerds.