Beccaning Call

"Are you gonna beat me with your Jesus stick?"

Best. Quote. Of. The. Year. (not like that, you perverts: this is the Jesus stick!)

Tonight was indeed a TWO-HOUR LOST EVENT! The show you love/hate to love came back on tonight after a SIX-WEEK hiatus, but I suppose the powers that be can be forgiven since this was such a kick ass episode.

We got a flashback from the newly introduced bad ass Mr. Eko, (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, of "Oz" noteriety, as well as roles in "The Mummy Returns" and "Get Rich or Die Tryin'") who is absolutely my favorite character now.



After the nice hourlong series recap -- which included snips of both Vincent and Boonie and those are always appreciated -- we got the flashback of Mr. Eko and caught up with those crazy kids. It feels like they've been on the islands for 3 years, but in real time it's only about 2.5 months.

LOST likes to take its sweet time in revealing too much information to the viewers, but tonight we found out:

- that mike is going nuts and even though he thinks it's walt on the computer, it's going to be the others, and it's going to be bad news bears.

- Eko was a local thug of sorts in Nigeria back in the day, and played a role in the crashed beechcraft full of heroin that Locke saw in a dream/found with Boone. He then turned into a priest. (Hence, Jesus stick.)

- Lostzilla = smoke with a mind of its own that potentially hosts the souls/ghosts of people who have died on the island, and Eko won a face-off against it because he is fearless.

- after getting kicked out of claire's hut, charlie's gonna relapse, which i would do too if i had a heaping bucketful of heroin and was deserted on that ridiculous island

-Eko's priest bro was on the plane that killed Boone

Now the whole "lostzilla-smoke" payoff may seem kinda weak since it's been played up for a season and a half and it was ... a floating, twisting cloud of black smoke ... but the way they did it was quite interesting and i wonder if they'll ever explain exactly WTF it is. Probably not. Maybe in season 6. Right now, the slightly telepathic-faces-of-dead-enclosed smoke idea works for me.



Watch the show. It's talking loco and I LIKE it.
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posted by Becca @ 12:05 AM