LOST: The Candidate

OH MY GOD!! I still can't catch my breath from crying so hard tonight. I should have realized I was going to be in trouble when I was crying within the first three minutes of Lost. I know I was begging for a body count, but talk about "be careful what you wish for." This is not what I meant. I wanted Ben and Kate to be taken out.. Maybe even Claire (you know, she's just not that same since she went all Rousseau crazy on us). I didn't think Sun, Jin, Sayid and Lapidus were all going to be taken out at once! AAHHH!! Deep breath, Amanda.. Okay, I think I can go on now.

I loved all the Jack and Locke interaction in the Sideways world. When Helen ran into John's room and kissed him and then hugged Jack too, I started crying. I'm a sucker for Helen and John! This episode had some major Oceanic passenger run-ins. YAY, Bernard! I loved it when he said Jack was flirting with Rose on the plane. Ha ha ha I'm glad we got to find out how Locke ended up in the wheelchair in this timeline. He just can't escape those damn plane crashes. The island world bleeds over into the sideways world, even in Locke's dreams.. "Push the button." "I wish you had believed me." Christian's music box gift to Claire looked just like Rousseau's music box that Rousseau had Sayid repair in season 1. It also played, "Catch a Falling Star." The song that both Claire and Kate have sung to baby Aaron. (It was even the song that played on the airplane mobile the Others had above the crib in Aaron's room in the medical hatch.) When Jack told Claire she could stay with him because they are family, I teared up again. It bummed me out that Locke wouldn't let Jack fix him because Locke felt guilty for injuring his father. I know Anthony Cooper was all sad and pathetic in the nursing home, but I was kind of like, yeah, that's what that kidney stealing con man gets! Did you see Jin pass by in the hospital hallway? Good to know the Kwons are still alive in this timeline. It was also good to see that sideways Jack is learning to let things go. I loved when Jack repeated Locke's words to him, "I wish you had believed me."

So my little sideways tears were nothing compared to my island tears. I still cannot believe that Sun and Jin are dead. At least they died together. It really sucks that we waited all that time for them to be reunited just so to watch them die. One of the cool things about this final season is that a lot of the scenes echo scenes from earlier seasons. Sawyer and Kate got locked up in the bear cages again, but this time with more company. The gang was all back together for another shoot out. Looks like being reunited with the castaways brought some good back to zombie Sayid. I loved when Kate got shot. I was like "Bam! Bitch went down!" Of course, Jack is going to try to save her. He even pulled her from the sinking sub. I did not see the Flocke double cross coming. I was thinking the gang was going to get away for good and that Sawyer had gotten Flocke by pushing him in the water and closing the submarine without him. Then Jack found Flocke's bomb in his backpack. NOOOOO!!!!! I do think Jack was totally right though. If they would have just let the timer countdown on the bomb, it would not have gone off. Flocke cannot kill the candidates. He has to get them to kill each other in some other way. The bomb only went off because Sawyer messed with it. (I can't be mad at him though because he's my love. Even though he did kill four of my favorite Losties.) Ninja Sayid proved that ninjas can die when he took one for the team and ran off with the bomb. When he started telling Jack that Desmond was in the bottom of the well, my hyperventilating crying began. So I was already torn up because Sayid was gone, then Frank "We're not going to Guam, are we?" Lapidus got hit on the head and taken out by the rushing water. More tears.. I loved Lapidus! Once I saw trapped Sun, I knew it was all over. I knew Jin wouldn't leave her and I knew we were going to lose them. I can't even describe how loudly I was sobbing. I think David didn't know what to do with me. I am still devastated. I thought about watching Lost again before I blogged, but I just couldn't handle crying like that again. The worst part was when everything went all slow motion and you could see their hands slipping apart in the water.. AAHHH... Poor Ji Yeon. I was attempting to calm myself down, but then Jack told Hurley that Sun and Jin didn't make it. Hurley lost it, Jack lost it and I lost it again. Even though I'm heartbroken, I really liked this episode. We got lots of action. Things are all lining up for the big finale. I think I'll be done with hour long dramas when Lost ends though. I can't handle being this upset over a tv show.

I was wrong in my last blog that this week would be the Jacob/Man in Black Lost. Next week's episode will be that one. It's called Across the Sea. I've heard Allison Janey is going to be in it. LOVE HER! I also read that there will be no more promos for the upcoming episodes. The finale has also been upped to 2-1/2 hours, instead of just two. That means we have 4-1/2 hours of Lost left. Uh-oh, time for me to cry again....