Jacob's Foot: LOST Supper III (Only Six Days til LOST returns!)

Oh I am getting excited. I am getting very, very excited. Actually, that's a lie. I've been excited since the whiteout of season five and the whole 'DESTINY FOUND' bit. It now only 6 days until the final season of the greatest show ever premieres. "The Incident" re-aired last night. I hope everyone watched it. I have even more things to say about the episode that I did not write in either the recap or the 'dotting my i's' entry I did and what I have to write about it coincides with that fantastic LOST Supper III promo picture. So, naturally, I will begin there before laying out my other observations of this very, very cool promo.

NOTE: Here is where I'd post the actual picture but I can't find it online.

--I wrote one sentence on Frank for The Incident recap. I wanted to acknowledge the character. What I didn't mention is the candidacy Bram spoke of to Ilana. Frank asks what is he a candidate for And, of course, he gets no answer. One can speculate on what it means and people have. People have speculated about the candidate being Jacob's replacement which does make plenty of sense, considering it seems like Jacob knew he was going to die. But it's all speculation. CUT TO the LOST Supper III picture. Ilana sits at the far left of the table, staring (it seems) at someone down the table. That person seems to be Frank Lapidus. As for Frank? He's looking off into the distance. He's not looking at Ilana and he's also the only one who has multiple eyes on him. Ben, Miles, and Hurley share in Ilana's stare. It's interesting for a few reasons. Reason number pertains to the fact that Miles and Hurley can both see dead people. How does that relate to Frank, considering he is alive and well? Your guess is as good as mine but consider it a hunch or something. In fact, call it a "Dead Is Dead" moment (named for when I famously (okay only famous to me) declared that episode one of the most important episodes without exactly knowing why). Ben's stare is most intriguing because it's his bewildered/shocked/i-really-don't-know-what-is-going-on look, a look similar to his facial expression when explaining to Sun that dead is really dead on this Island. So what's up with the fascination with Frank? I don't really know. I can speculate and speculate but, by now, all should realize there's a fine line when speculating. It also just occured to me Jacob seems to be a Prospero figure. Hm. I may or may not expand on that little thought during season six. It remains to be seen. Back to Frank, he's certainly carries the potential for an intriguing story in the final season and LOST Supper III lends to such an idea for potential and intrigue. BRING ON TUESDAY NIGHT!

--Ilana is the character I'm very, very eager to learn more about. The writers really eased her into the fifth season and the story. She remains mysterious in the promo, simply sitting and staring while Richard and Claire enjoy a bottle of wine. There's been plenty of speculation about Ilana elsewhere on the interweb. I'm no commenting on speculation because, well, I don't want to speculate.

--I focus a lot on Kate's gaze in this promo. She's definitely looking at Claire and Richard. Why? Well, again, one can speculate. Kate looks troubled like she's trying to figure Claire out or something. I'm so excited for Season Six and to find out where in the world Claire Littleton was for the past 3 years. Doc Jensen offered some interesting words about Richard/Claire in the promo in the issue of EW the promo appears in. I used 'in' way too much in the previous sentence.

--As for the rest of the promo, I could write and write about it but I'm getting redundant with this 'speculation' stuff that I don't like to do but LOST Supper III is worth looking at and enjoying.

Moving on now to a Missing Pieces webisode. I know I wrote something around December or November about covering every Missing Pieces webisode but I obviously didn't because I forgot about it. I constantly evaluated and re-evaluated this thing during the hiatus. But the time calls for me to embed the video for the "So It Begins" webisode. Here's why:

-It's a fun new perspective on the opening of LOST and provides newer context for the story. I'm not positive whether or not the webisodes are considered canonical. I recall hearing Damon and Carlton stating that the show itself is the only canonical thing because they don't wish to alienate non-obsessive fans. Fair enough. Still, it's one hell of a webisode to make.

-Christian utters the famous 'He's got work to do' line that's been spoken by Walt, when Walt appeared to Locke. The presence of NotLocke seems to be there in both instances. But who knows. All will be told in good time.

And that wraps it up for this entry. I'll be back with an all-new episode of the day on Monday Feb. 1 and the official LOST preseason rankings will be posted Feb.2.

Yes, indeedy, "LA X" looms in 6 days.

To quote Jacob: "THEY'RE COMING!"