Jacob's Foot: A Tale of Not Looking Back in Anger

Radio silence has officially ended for the last time. No longer will July be the highlight of the long, long hiatus for every LOST fan for this is the last hiatus fans will experience. Yes, the end is near. LOST at Comic Con for the final time was the first real instance of the inevitable conclusion of the series in May. Names were dropped as to who will show up at some point during the final season. I imagine every major, major character is going to show up at some point. Judging from the season six teases (and Lindelof and Cuse didn't reveal anything at all as to what to expect in the final season), it's going to be a special, bittersweet season. Jorge Garcia, who portrays Hurley, asked the funniest question of the day about whether or not the show would erase the last five seasons thanks to Jack's attempt to destroy those three years of time, claiming that to do so would be a real cheat. Lindelof and Cuse, as always, didn't answer. The final panel for LOST at Comic Con's theme was the fans. They appreciated the fans by showing various things created by fans whether they were videos, paintings, etc. LOST was revealed to the world at the 2004 Comic Con. It leaves Comic Con as the greatest show in television history. The crowd for the final panel thankfully beat the record-setting crowd set by Twilight fans for the Twilight panel. I don't think I would've handled LOST being beaten by that crummy vampire story. Nestor Carbonell (the great Richard Alpert), Michael Emerson (Benny Linus), and Josh Holloway (Sawyer) also made an appearance for the final Comic Con. And yes, as I expected and wrote last week, a new video (a "commercial" rather) to officially kick off the anticipation for season six was shown. Below is the video and my thoughts:



It's only 17 seconds long so it's safe to assume I won't blowhard about it. But it looks like Faraday's theory panned out, that detonating Jughead erased the last three years, and the plane never crashed because they stopped The Incident from happening. Hm. I'd like to mention that these things aren't officially LOST canon. Mainly, the obsessive die-hards watch these. I remember during the weeks leading up to season two's premiere that a website was created. I forgot exactly how I navigated it but I ended up witnessing the light shine out of the hatch again and I think saw two scenes from the premiere. Of course there have been interactive games such as The Lost Experience and Find815. Back to the video: Hm.

Back to the Comic Con panel now, a man in the audience was lucky to receive a statue of the bird Claire used as a possible messanger to the outside world from Par Avion. Damon also noted that no one asks what happened to that bird. Perhaps I will cover that when Par Avion is the episode of the day. Also, Claire was the secret word. Very exciting. Here's a picture of her for the hell of it.

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Other highlights I've witnessed: when Josh Holloway surprises the crowd, 'tazes' Damon who he thinks is JJ Abrams, and demands Carlton opens a treasure chest that contains secrets from LOST. Once he has the info in his hand, he pauses, and Emerson says, "oh my god, you can't read!' Josh says he left his glasses on The Island. Emerson takes the paper and begins reading despite Carlton and Damon's protests that he not read. It turns out that it is a scene from Heroes. After reading it for a minute, Emerson asks, "What the [expletive deleted] is this?' Emerson was outstanding. He offers some great insights about LOST. He reiterated that he thinks LOST's ultimate conclusion will be for grown-ups. It was fantastic all around from Lindelof's atrocious acting, Cuse's atrocious acting, the joke that Holloway mistaked Lindelof for Abrams, Nestor and Jorge enjoying themselves, and poking fun at Heroes, and Emerson's reaction to what he was reading (and how he pronounced Sylar). The panel ended with a montage and then Dom Monoghan came out to surprise as Damon and Carlton bid farewell to the crowd.

THE 'LOST' EPISODE OF THE DAY!

The episode: A Tale of Two Cities
Original Airdate: October 4, 2006
Written By: JJ Abrams & Damon Lindelof (Story By Damon Lindelof)
Directed By: Jack Bender

Content: Jack, Kate and Sawyer find themselves in unusual locations after being kidnapped by the Others, who reveal themselves to be more sophisticated than anyone could have previously guessed.

Why It's Worth Re-Watching: The teaser of the episode is gold. It opens with Juliet, she's upset, and about to host the book club. And then what seems to be an earthquake hits and then the viewer realizes the scene is taking place on 9/22/04 as the others watch the plane split in two. The episode is worth re-watching for a few reasons. The first: Michael Emerson sat in during EW's Totally Lost panel. He spoke about Ben stabbing Jacob in The Incident. He's not sure what aftermath of that will be but he revealed that he knew what the scene meant for Ben and explained how he played the scene (i swear this ties in to A Tale of Two Cities).

Essentially, he sums up one of the most important themes of LOST: father/son relationships or lackthereof. He describes how Ben has always been looking for a father and that deep down in his heart he always expected Jacob to be what his own father never was so he pours his heart out to Jacob and only receives a 'what about you?' as the response but Michael states that Jacob is the one who willed Ben to stab him with the knife (which is indeed very interesting). Back to this episode, the flashback revolves around Jack's obsessive days with Sarah and her new lover but the underlying thread of the flashback is Jack and his relationship with his father. He suspects Christian of being the new guy in Sarah's life when he finds out Sarah's been calling him. This suspicion leads to Jack physically attacking his father at an AA meeting (it's revealed in the flashback that Christian has been sober for 50 days). The final scene of the flashback involves Jack and Sarah. Sarah bails Jack out of jail for the aforementioned incident with his father, and that she found out because Christian called completely drunk. When Jack hears this, it's like the monster just hit him. He's crushed. What's tragic about it is that Jack is the reason his father began drinking again, and drinking led to his death in Sydney. When he's in The Hydra, he hears his father say 'let it go.' I'm of the opinion this episode is underrated for the flashback alone. Jack's a favorite of mine because of his backstory, his conflicts, struggles, his ability to come through in the clutch, etc. I'll go as far as to say it's evidence of why the ultimate end of LOST will be sad (i of course see the other side as well). There's evidence throughout the show and yada yada. Back to the episode, the first episode of season three doesn't end happily. Kate's sad as hell, Sawyer isn't too happy, and Jack has to give in rather than continue to fight. And they are all locked in cages (Jack in an aquarium if you want to be matter of fact about it ). The Others have the clear upper hand at the end of the episode (of course that's not the case come Through The Looking Glass). It's a poignant story about the darker and more vulnerable side of Jack.

The episode also introduces the world to Juliet playd by Elizabeth Mitchell. It took some time for Juliet to grow on me but the character is great. Elizabeth Mitchell had the pathos of Juliet down in the first scene of the season. She brought humanness to the Others. The episode also has a badass scene in which the ocean rushes into The Hydra as Jack tries to escape. I remember seeing it in the previews and being wowed. Also, Sawyer cracks me up when he finally figures out the contraption in the cage and he dances to the triumphant music that plays as he gets his Dharma fish biscuit, peanuts, and water. Another recommendation: watch the episode and then re-watch it with commentary by Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Mitchell. It's fantastic. Elizabeth Mitchell and Matthew Fox knocked this episode out of the park. And for good measure, here's the final scene of Jack's flashback:



TRUE BLOOD

In this episode, Alan Ball began to blatantly rip off the Angel/Darla dynamic as well as the Angel/Buffy/Spike triangle. Those flashbacks screamed Angel/Darla. I'm not a fan of that, Alan Ball. Bill is basically Angel. Evil and now tormented to a degree. So yeah, not a fan of that. Also, Lafayette was ordered to sell V again by Eric, and he's showing some severe trauma from his three weeks in hell. Terry helped comfort Lafeyette. Terry also laid a verbal smackdown on his cousin Andy. Eggs has some sort of supernatural ability but any interesting thing about that subplot desolved completely thanks to bulljawn Maryann. Daphne revealed herself as an accomplice to Maryann, setting up Sam (who is still cool) to be killed. Sookie and Isabel's boyfriend went undercover into the Fellowship of the Sun and the plan completely backfired (Bill could not help because of "Darla"). Eric wants to be romantically involved with Sookie and invited "Darla" to control Bill or something. As a matter of fact, when she returned last week, with that slow-mo walk, that was right out of season two of ANGEL when Dru returns to vamp Darla again (it's best I don't digress and explain why Darla was vamped a second time). Jason and Luke built some thing to murder a vampire. Jason had sex with Sarah Newlin. That's about it. You see, not a lot happened. This episode essentially had no story. It just things happening. It was basically The Joker saying "i just do things." Hopefully next week improves.

OASIS OFF!

I think there's only three songs left in Oasis Off so here is the first of the final three. I chose to embed a live acoustic version of the song because it's fantastic.

"Don't Look Back In Anger"