Lost 2

Hello friends,

Hands up if you haven't seen or heard about the TV show Lost?

I just finished watching the Season 2 of Lost on dvd and I am in love with this show more than ever. When I got the DVD box set, I was so excited I felt like watching it all in one go. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN LOST SEASON 2, THEN YOU BETTER STOP READING NOW!

One of the more fun thing that happened in Lost 2 is how different people had met different people and they are connected. John is shown inspecting a house in flashback, and the house turns out to be Nadia's, Sayid's lover. Jin is courting a Korean guy and at the hotel where she meets him, the doorman is Jin, her future husband. Sawyer dines in a cafe, where the waitress turns out to be Kate's mother. Jack is exercising in a stadium, where he bumps into Desmond, who eventually ends up being the one in Hatch pushing the button.

Lost 2 goes on to explain what the "hatch" is, and who the guy is. The huge tension is that there is a button that needs to be pushed every 108 minutes, by feeding in a series of numbers, to save the world. Locke and Jack take over the initial responsibility to push the button.

We also follow the stories of Ana Lucia and her group of survivors, who were in the tail section of the plane. While they come across as a mean bunch of people, they are just as scared and lost as the survivors from the front section of the plane.

Clair revives her memory, and leads Kate and Libby to another secret hatch, where Claire remembers how she was kidnapped and treated with vaccine by doctors. Kate discovers a box with fake beard, prosthetics and theatre glue. More questions than answers!

John and Mr. Eko discover another hatch, which turns out to be an observation deck, with cameras showing what's happening in the hatch where the button has to be pushed.

The major development occurs when Michael is kidnapped by the Others, and he finally meets Walt for a while, who only mutters to his dad, "you are not who you say you are." Michael is asked to bring four of his friends to the Others, and Michael does just that, and betrays his four friends. This poses a dilemma for the viewers: did Michael really betray his friends, or did he do what any father would do for his son?

The Others claim they are "good people." Still trying to figure that out.

A sailboat comes ashore, with Desmond on it.

Sayid, Jin and Sun take the boat to the other side of the Island, where they see a statue of just a foot, with one toe and three fingers. What is a statue doing here? They also see a stone formation on top of the hill, the Black Rock.

New characters come in, especially Mr. Eko, who brings in a lot of religious symbology: building a church, carving scriptures on his staff, interpreting Charlie's dream, Baptizing Claire and her baby, and dealing with the Virgin Mary statues.

However, the most dramatic and most thrilling thing happens when John is determined to not push the button. That finally happens, with something weird happening on the Island, and the timer showing red hieroglyphics.

In Brazil, where it is snowing heavily, two people/scientists see a red light flashing, and inform Penny about it.

Oh, and that LOOK between Jack and Kate changed the whole meaning of the show.

That's it! Now I am ever so determined to be the first to see Lost 3. I want to know what happens to Jack, Kate and Sawyer as they are held captive by the Others, and I want to know all the answers to everything that's been happening on the Island.

I can go on and on and on about the so many connections and my theories on it, but I prefer to just sit back and take in whatever comes next, because Lost 2 is bigger and better than Lost 1 and I am hoping Lost 3 will be mind-blowingly spectacular.

Oh, by the way, the whole underlying theme of Lost is that "everything happens for a reason," something I firmly believe in, and it's interesting to see how different people on the Island react to the fate/ science debate.

Mansur