Lost 6x01 "LA X"

[ozmissage]

 

Let’s get this out of the way first:

MY SHIP IS ENDGAME. SHE SAW THE FUTURE WHERE THEY HAVE COFFEE AND BABIES AND A HAPPY ENDING.

If Darlton is screwing with me there will be rage the likes of which the internet has never seen.

Okay so I just need Sawyer to keep it in his pants for 15 more episodes and we’re golden.

But you guys, they made me watch her die. Again. And he was holding her in his arms and they kissed. My heart can not take much more of this. Why is Darlton trying to kill me?

Moving on:

* Okay so we have two timelines now. On island and AU. What I don’t get is the why. Not the why did that happen, but the why do we care about an AU? What’s the point of this exercise other than “Hey, look not-dead people are having their redemption arcs fucked up! Only not really cause it both happened and didn’t happened.”

What do we gain? I’m just going to try and trust that they have a plan. They have a plan right?

* MILES! OMG. He talked to Juliet and he was snarky with Hurley and he totally knows something is up with Sayid. I missed him so much. Also, how have I never noticed that he has a tattoo on the back of his neck? Guh. So pretty. So awesome.

I want to see his AU like right now.

*Charlie! Oh, God. He almost died. He wanted to die. *pets him* We better see him again. I do not approve of an AU where is alone, in jail, and that screwed up. Not cool show.

*I so wanted Boone to pop up with a pen.

*The guitar case mystery has been solved. Thank God, because that’s been driving me nuts.

*I didn’t shed any tears over Sayid because those asshats at ABC aired a promo where he was alive and well-ish in the Temple so I knew he wasn’t actually dead.

But what is he now? What does he lack? The Temple always takes something right.

*Still loved watching Jack try to save him though. I also loved defiant Jack resurfacing there at the end. About damn time.

*Quick someone save the children from the scary cult! I half expected one of them to slip a help me note to Jack.

*Sol Starr is on the island! That’s just cool.

*I already like the Man in Black like ten thousand times more than Jacob. “Let’s not call names.” Heh.

And BRAM got STAKED. I laughed my ass off, which thank you show I needed a laugh after you tortured with The Demise of Juliet pt. 2.

*Also ash rings as protective circles, black smoke monsters---the SPN/Lost crossovers are writing themselves.

*Home is where now? Also, RICHARD! Poor guy. Did we just get confirmation that he was a slave on the Black Rock?

*The Boone/Locke convo was made of win. I’ve missed him. Shannon didn’t come back with him in this universe? Interesting.

*What’s up with Des? Shouldn’t he have drowned if there was no island wash up on? Was he time-traveling/universe hopping?

*Red scar on Jack’s neck. Was I supposed to know what that means?

*Claire’s in the cab! Very cool. I approve of this development.

*And to end this on a light note: Josh Holloway I love you, but dude you look nothing like you did six years ago. That just looked wrong.

All in all a promising start, still not sure why we're hanging out in the Alt-verse it’s kind of like half of the show is fanfiction now. But I’m not going to complain if it means I get a happy ending for my girl. Which I damn well better.

There will probably be more substantial /less spazzy thoughts tomorrow after I process. I just had to get some of the squee out.

Comments

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

SHE SAW THE FUTURE WHERE THEY HAVE COFFEE AND BABIES AND A HAPPY ENDING. THIS. You take the island, I'll take the AU and we all have our happily ever after :D

I thought of Boone when Jack needed a pen too! Didn't we all?

I think the red scar is from when they were on the island. Parallels will screw you up man...

It's not fanfiction... it's uh... they have to reconnect the timelines. That's what this season is about :)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Dude, I can totally live with angry, elevator Sawyer running off with Kate if it means my James gets to find Juliet and tell her she was very, very wrong and they were meant to be together and now they're going to have the awesome life they deserve. :D

Boone is an excellent pen finder. They definitely should have asked for his help.;)

But...but how? And why? I'm trying to process this new development, but mostly I keep squeeing because I really don't care about the technicalities cause JULIET IS ALIVE. SOMEWHERE. OMG.

[mollivanders.livejournal.com]

Awesome :) This is acceptable canon, let's go with it!

SHE IS :D

[joyyjpg.livejournal.com]

If the reason they kept Juliet alive for half the episode is so she could tell us about the coffee and let us know that, in the crazy AU they have created, she and Sawyer will live happily ever after, then I will forgive them for making us think she would live and then breaking our hearts again.

Is it weird that something in the back of my mind immediately thought of you when we heard Juliet's voice coming from below the hatch?

I'm actually very intrigued by the AU thing. I'm assuming they DO have a plan, so I'm anxious to see what it is.

Did we just get confirmation that he was a slave on the Black Rock?
I think we did!

Right before MIB kicked him in the face. I DO NOT APPROVE OF THIS.

I squeed a LOT over Charlie. And Jack looking for a pen.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

That has to be the reason. You don't mention random coffee dates and "it worked" in the first act if you don't mean for it to pay off in the third. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Otherwise Darlton is pure evil.

Heh. The minute I heard her voice I started whimpering because I so did not want to watch her die again. It just hurts too much.

Poor, Richard. He's having a rough day. But all my brain can think was,"he's carrying him to the temple! That means he can hang out with Miles now." Clearly my brain was scrambled at that point.;)

[angela-weber.livejournal.com]

I also loved defiant Jack resurfacing there at the end. About damn time.

That was, basically . . . the only good part of this episode for me. :/ Well, that and the pen. ;) Gah. I don't know. I need to sleep it off.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

I was so blown away by the idea that Juliet wasn't actually going to just die alone at the bottom of that well, that I pretty much just went with everything else. Now if I don't get the happy ending that I feel they're setting us up for then I will start throwing things.

But pens! That was awesome. ;)

[cantbesilent.livejournal.com]

MY SHIP IS ENDGAME. SHE SAW THE FUTURE WHERE THEY HAVE COFFEE AND BABIES AND A HAPPY ENDING.

THIS. This will get me through the season, when I'm knee deep in angst and Jacob mythology and pissed off at everyone. You don't just put shit like that in episodes in the final season if it doesn't mean something. Right? RIGHT!?!?!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

If they try to backtrack and say her synapses were just misfiring or some crap I will lose my shit because that would be evil the likes of which I have never seen.

I am totally with you, happy S/J is the light at the end of a very long mythology soaked/triangle filled tunnel. As long as we get our happy ending, I will happily hand wave everything else. Seriously, I don't even need logical answers to any mysteries. I just need Sawyer and Juliet to have a coffee date and I will call the series a success.;)

[elliotsmelliot.livejournal.com]

I so wanted Boone to pop up with a pen.

Me too!

*Sol Starr is on the island! That’s just cool.

Just wait until he meets Silas!

And to end this on a light note: Josh Holloway I love you, but dude you look nothing like you did six years ago. That just looked wrong.

Yeah, everyone else blended in but not him.

What’s up with Des? Shouldn’t he have drowned if there was no island wash up on? Was he time-traveling/universe hopping.

Or is there no/different Widmore, and therefore no race? I did wonder if he was purposely sitting next to Jack. Maybe he remembers?

it’s kind of like half of the show is fanfiction now

Good point! It would be nice to get some happy endings in the Au world.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for Titus Welliver to show up again. I don't want to put Terry O'Quinn out of work, but that's an awful lot of gravelly-voiced awesome to waste. ;)

Poor Josh, he's clearly gained some weight and his face just looks so aged. And the hair! It looked bizarre to see him in that in outfit. He's still hot...just not when he's dressed like that.

Good point about Widmore, I hadn't thought of that. He was probably on the island when it went down...but does that mean Penny doesn't exist? Does Daniel? This is making my brain hurt.

I hope the AU gives us lots of happy endings. :D

[phelipa.livejournal.com]

I cried. Stupid Lost getting my stupid hopes up and then destroying them all over again. There had better be some Juliet in the AU! Break my freaking heart, who don't you.

I LOVED that they included Claire! YAY!!

I definitely thought Jack was going to demand pens and Boone would be all running to the rescue with a handful of pens!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

See I just keep remembering how Elizabeth Mitchell said she would be back more than once. There's still hope, which is more than I could say 24 hours ago when I was convinced the only Juliet I would see this season was some kind of ghost.

I was actually happy to see Claire! And she's being kidnapped sort of. Again.

[valhalla37.livejournal.com]

I really, really liked that, in the Juliet/Sawyer scene, that seeming implication that it worked and she saw/experienced the AU. Obviously I don't super ship them, but I would love to see them meet up for coffee somewhere in the other timeline.

Okay so I just need Sawyer to keep it in his pants for 15 more episodes and we’re golden. LOOOOOL; that made me laugh so, so hard.

Don't get me wrong, Josh Holloway is an attractive man, but holy hell he was wearing those six years last night! I think it was the hair, lol.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I need to see them have coffee now. It's like not even optional at this point. Although I want it to be her James and not Alt!Sawyer. I kind of hate that there's a universe where he's back to square one because I was never much of a fan of original flavor Sawyer.

Poor Josh Holloway. I think the problem was he looked like a "boy" six years ago, all young and roguish and he looks like a man now. Grown-up I guess. So when you put him in a that outfit and slick back his far too long hair he looks like he's playing dress up.

[bold-seer.livejournal.com]

SHE SAW THE FUTURE WHERE THEY HAVE COFFEE AND BABIES AND A HAPPY ENDING.

For some reason, that reminds me of Boomer and Chief and their Cylon house of happiness. :/

Josh Holloway I love you, but dude you look nothing like you did six years ago. That just looked wrong.

So off. I miss old!Sawyer's hair.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that was so sad. I was always fond of Chief.
I'm seriously hoping S/J get an actual happy ending. I think my sanity depends on it at this point. ;)

Sawyer is definitely having some hair issues and it's way too long to slick back like that. It just looks bizarre.

[flaky-artist.livejournal.com]

I totally thought the same thing about Boone and the pens. It was great to see him and Charlie again. And Claire, even though it was only like five seconds.

And Terry O'Quinn was all sorts of awesome in this episode.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

I hadn't realized how much I missed Boone until I saw him again. :)

Terry O'Quinn is like an acting god. So good.

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

MY SHIP IS ENDGAME. SHE SAW THE FUTURE WHERE THEY HAVE COFFEE AND BABIES AND A HAPPY ENDING.

I'll buy that (because I so desperately want it. Even the babies...and I'm a babyfic-hater). I mean, "coffee" has already been a metaphor for a future family life with Jack and Kate, (in the parking garage), so why the hell not? Sawyer would just be smarter than Jack and not be a jerk (shhh, I still love you, Jack, quit being a jealous ass), and he and Juliet and the babies they successfully have together ('cause pregnancy would scare Juliet, huh?) would will all live happily ever after. Dammit, please let me have a romantic ending for my Sawyer, you dumb show, even if you DID somehow turn a hardcore Jack/Sawyer slasher into a picket-fence het one?

I still love my J/S OTP to death, though. Shhhhh, I'm not saying "death" around Sawyer these days, don't wanna give him back his old ideas re: Jack. But I love 'em in AU's and island scenarios. Sawyer and Juliet can have the coffee and babies and picket fence. That's MY dual timeline, I guess. ;)

The Temple always takes something right.

Not necessarily...it could give, too. Sayid somehow purified the water and restored its healing powers. Maybe now the Temple owes him something. I wonder what he would want back the most - his innocence, or Nadia?

*Red scar on Jack’s neck. Was I supposed to know what that means?

Hickey from Kate? KIDDING (and is there a barf bag handy?).

OH, it was YOUR post that got me and eponine119 off on the AU hair tangent...it's in her journal. OKAY, I'LL ADMIT THAT HIS HAIR WAS TOO LONG. There, you just made the Official Sawyer Hair Defender kindasortahalfway admit something. Um. I don't think he's gained weight, but his body shape has changed drastically from the slender slope-shouldered water nymph who accosted Kate in S1 because he's been working out like crazy. I saw muscle under those clothes (I have imaginary x-ray vision w/Sawyer), not fat. Flowing hair and muscle. Yeah, he looked different (and wrong, compared to 5 years ago) and good for you for bringing it up -- you have no idea what-all you started. Thanks for the late-night AIM hair-giggle-fest. ;)

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Even the babies...and I'm a babyfic-hater.

I don't even like babies, but I want them to have them. And a house where Sawyer can mow the lawn shirtless and they can burn muffins together and just generally be awesome. I'm a little bit terrified of how invested I am in this ship. Like, I didn't ship anyone on Lost until they happened and now my entire enjoyment of the series appears to depend on two things: 1)Sawyer not breaking my heart and sleeping with and/or riding off into the sunset with Kate and 2)Some version of Juliet being alive and getting her damn happy ending with the man she loves. That's seriously all I want from this show. And for Miles and Hurley to not die. But mostly the first thing.

If anyone could fix the temple's magical stream it's totally Sayid.;)

Heh. I'm starting discussions? I had no idea. I think I said this to someone up above, but I'll say it again. I think the real problem with airport!Sawyer was that six years ago Josh Holloway looked like a boy. The clothes, the hair, the attitude, the physique---he was like a disgruntled teenager, which was fine.

But Holloway (and Sawyer) looks like a man now. He is a man now, which I love because man>boy any day of the week. So seeing him in his old-school outfit made me feel like I was watching him play dress up. I guess that's the part of me that always liked Sawyer, but absolutely loves James. He's grown so much in six seasons, and I love that about him.

But also the hair. That's just too much to be slicking back like that. ;)

[maelstrom815.livejournal.com]

totally agree about Josh Holloway. he was so...so...UN-sexy...

Miles' tattoo -yummm!

also, Richard is hot, I want him to be ok and I want to see him in these chains Flocke was taling about, definitely!

[alliecat8.livejournal.com]

I have total faith that there will be no more Skate, EVER. Not in the island scenario, at least. There's no love there, and neither of them is in the mood for a fling -- he just lost his love and she just lost her child. No, not even Darlton would go there; it would be unthinkable.

I agree that both Josh and Sawyer have grown up in the last few years, and that seeing him in the Humpy's shirt was disorienting. I won't complain about the hair, though, just as long as I can dream about running my fingers through it. ;)