Hey, it's Daniel from TMZ here, back with another edition of the "Lost" Diary.
While we were watching "Lost" last week, Ari joked that when Charlie "died," all the Diary readers were probably thinking of me. And, lo and behold, I got several comments last week like this one: "Man when I saw the arrow go in Charlie's neck I was saying to myself Daniel is going to so love this." Or this one: "The first thing I thought of when Charlie was shot in the neck was 'Daniel is going to be so happy.' "
You guys are the best, really. And the offer still stands: When Charlie really does die, party at my house.
For all you "Lost" Diary newbies, here's how it goes. I gather with a group of friends watching "Lost," writing what happens on the show as it happens, and throwing in my two cents along the way. We got the OG crew back together this week: Ari, Lauren, April and Matt. Let's roll:
10:00 -- We're all curious about what's going to happen with Sun's pregnancy. Who is the dad? Will the Others want her or her child? Will she survive the pregnancy? Now Jack is curious too. A little too curious, maybe?
10:02 -- It's Sun flashback time and we've jumped back to when Jin and Sun first got married. I like that the flashbacks lately aren't completely linear.
10:03 -- Some of you may remember that I always make fun of Jin/Sun flashbacks because they use the words "honor" and "shame" in nearly every scene. The fact that Jin's mom is a prostitute will apparently bring shame to Mr. and Mrs. Kwon. From now on, whenever the words "honor" or "shame" are used, you have to drink.
10:04 -- I love Desmond as much as the next guy, but I think he's better in small doses. Am I wrong here?
10:05 -- "Oops." -- Hurley.
10:09 -- Nothing really interesting going on yet with Sun and Jin, except that after nearly three years of "Lost" I now am 100% certain which is Sun and which is Jin. I used to get it backwards every now and again, but I am good now.
10:10 -- Yup, Sun is suspicious of Jack. I don't know why it's weird when a doctor asks a pregnant woman how she's doing, but it just is.
10:11 -- Sun confronts Juliet about her "research" and Juliet acts like she didn't know Sun was pregnant. Riiiiiiiight.
10:12 -- "They die. They all die." -- Juliet. Glad you asked, Sun?
10:13 -- The crew of Desmond, Charlie, Jin and Hurley is really starting to bore me.
10:14 -- But then Mikhail comes running out of the woods. Which wouldn't be weird except for the fact THAT HE DIED!!!
10:17 -- Jin serves Mikhail up a nice helping of Korean whoop ass.
10:18 -- "As your friend pointed out, I already died once this week." -- Mikhail. Fair point. 
10:19 -- Desmond takes Mikhail up on his offer to save the parachutist. Given the circumstances, I'd say it's the right call. Though I'd like to point out again, MIKHAIL DIED ALREADY!!!
10:20 -- Sun found Jin's dad and asks him why he wasn't at their wedding.
10:21 -- Drink.
10:22 -- What are the odds that the blackmailer is Jin's mom?
10:23 -- Drink.
10:24 -- Juliet wants to take Sun somewhere, just the two of them, to answer Sun's questions about the Others. Here's my question: has it been a week since Ben told Juliet he'd see her in a week? Cause if so, say ìë
to Sun. (Yes, I looked up how to say "goodbye" in Korean.)
10:28 -- Sun is hesitant to tell Juliet when the last time she had sex with Jin was. The paternity of Sun's baby is "Lost's" version of the Anna Nicole Smith saga.
10:29 -- Sun is asking her dad for the money to pay off the blackmailer. This scene is almost over and no one said ...
10:30 -- Drink.
10:31 -- Interesting turn -- Jin began his career of "working" for Sun's dad because of this whole affair. There are always consequences.
10:32 -- After Mikhail saved her life, parachute girl muttered something in Portuguese. Mikhail says she said, "Thank you for saving my life," but I don't buy it for a second. Some Internet research will be required. (Apparently she said, "I am not alone.")
10:33 -- Juliet has taken Sun to the creepy hatch. This is definitely the last place a pregnant woman should be hanging out.
10:34 -- Juliet just gave Sun some bullshit speech about wanting to give good news again and Sun tells Juliet about her affair with Jae.
10:36 -- Man, that's a lot of security for a nursery.
10:41 -- "On this island, the wounds are a bit different." -- Mikhail. Understatement.
10:42 -- "Phone!" -- Jin. His english is really getting good.
10:43 -- There is no doubt that Desmond is making the wrong choice in letting Mikhail go, but at the same time I respect the fact that he did. He gave his word and, even on the island and even when the Others are involved, that has to mean something.
10:44 -- Juliet has great bedside manner, you know, for a lying bitch. 
10:45 -- Ok, so I wonder: Assuming Ben and the Others are after Sun's baby, does finding out where she conceived change what they do? Do they want her either way or only if the result is one way? And if it's the latter, I think they want someone who conceived off the island -- isn't that what Juliet said a few weeks back?
10:46 -- "I don't want to be in your father's debt anymore than we already are." -- Jin. Brutha, you don't know the half.
10:48 -- Alright, daddy sweepstakes time is almost upon us. I am saying that Sun got pregnant off the island and thus, Jae is the father.
10:49 -- Sweet moment as Sun sees her baby for the first (and only?) time. Man, they are setting this up to end soooooo badly for her.
10:50 -- And Sun got pregnant on the island. So I lose, Jin wins and Sun dies. So if Sun is Anna, that makes Jin Larry Birkhead, Jae Howard K. Stern and Juliet as Judge Seidlin.
10:53 -- Sun goes to meet the blackmailer. I am loving my call that she's really Jin's mom. Not a tough call by any means, but I need to get one prediction right.
10:54 -- Sweet! I'll take any victory I can get. Lauren has proclaimed that Sun is her new Korean idol.
10:55 -- According to Juliet, Sun doesn't have much time and she has no chance of even giving birth. Damn. Is abortion not an option?
10:56 -- Juliet is going back inside the hatch for some reason. Hmm, that doesn't sound suspicious at all ...
10:57 -- Sun should lock Juliet in the hatch. That would be awesome.
10:58 -- Juliet is leaving Ben a message. Apparently her assignment was to find if the women on the island were pregnant -- or at the least the one's who aren't just milling around in the background.
10:59 -- "Flight 815, they found the plane. There were no survivors. They were all dead." -- parachute girl.
11:00 -- "What?" -- Hurley. 
Sometimes I think I am too hard on an episode, other times I think I am too easy. This might be a week that I am too easy.
We got a few answers tonight (the paternity of Sun's baby, more info on Juliet's "mission") and got hit with a few more questions, too (Mikhail is alive? Everyone on Flight 815 died?). It was a good mix of give and take and the flashback had just enough information to keep me interested the whole way through. Add it all up, and the episode gets a B from me. Not bad considering it didn't have Locke or Henry Gale in it.
One of the first "Lost" theories about the show to become popular was that the Losties didn't survive the plane crash and they were all in purgatory -- producers quickly said this was not the case. The ending of tonight's episode sure lends credence to that old theory.
Assuming they aren't all in purgatory, and assuming this woman isn't lying (after all, she was looking for Desmond) here is a quick theory that will no doubt be proven wrong: Once the plane crashed on the island, Henry Gale called back to the Hanso/Dharma people to tell them what happened. The powers that be decided they couldn't have rescue teams come looking for the plane because they might find the island. So they somehow staged a fake crash site to keep people from looking. Could be, right?
So I am going to continue the theme of "community" that we have here at the "Lost" Diary with my question to you this week: Obviously we're all "Lost" fans here (except the guy who posts under the name No Longer A Lost Fan), but is "Lost" your favorite show? If not, what is? Catch you next week.
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I think you're right about the Hanso foundation staging a plane recovery to fool the public. I find the parachute girl's remark about not being alone to be the best. (could Penny have been in the helicopter that crashed into the ocean?) I think Mikhail was running in the jungle to try to get to the parachute girl first.
Hey Daniel, great write up as usual! Yes Lost is my favorite show, and I do my very best at selling others to watch it with me (I have no one to kibbits with like you do) yet can't get anyone else on board with me...
I originally had the whole purgatory theory down pat, but when the producers nixed it right off the bat, I started to think that they probably are telling the truth, but after last night's comment about 815 not having any survivors, I've been toying with it again. I did, however, think it was highly unusual that this random person to descend into the tree was so familiar with flight numbers... do you see what I mean? We don't know where she came from, but unless she was from Sydney or LA, the chances of her being fluent on all flight numbers seems weird.
I also want to know why she kept rambling in all these languages... me estoy muriendo (hurley caught her saying she was dying in spanish) then she was speaking chinese, italien, then english. What is the significance of that?
I'm not even going to ATTEMPT this thing about how Mikhail resurfacing except to say that in the episode where he 'died' , I commented at that time that no one actually CHEcKED that he was dead. They didn't even bury him alive (sorry Nik and Pao), so maybe he was never dead.
I keep referencing this shows plot to the last years of Dallas. Anyone old enough to remember that? They strung out a few seasons of craziness and it wound up that ol' Bobby Ewing was just having a very long dream... having said that, I keep thinking about the poster who said he wonders if Locke isn't writing a novel at his desk at the box company... does anyone remember the flashback to Locke at his cubicle? Someone looks over the side and laughs at whatever it is Locke is working on... all of the characters are based on people he's been around (Jack is his surgeon, his con-Dad, etc...) any one care to expound on this (cool) theory?
Keep up the great work Daniel!
Heck yeah "LOST" is my favorite show!!! It's my entire family's favorite show! The only other show I watch is "Grey's Anatomy" which is just a good soap opera for an hour a week. I consider LOST a much more intense, almost full body experience. It's like a reallllly long action/drama/sci-fi movie. I search lots of internet sites about it, read your diary about it, discuss it with at least 5 people in school the next day, text message my friends about it, and e-mail my family with theories.
I personally gave this episode a solid A--maybe even an A+. No joke. I laughed at Hurley shooting off the flare, actually cared about Sun & Jin's back story for the first time, loved how we found out why Jin was so indebted to Sun's father, I started to trust Juliette again (I believe now that she is more "neutral" and just dealing with bad people rather than actually bad herself), was flabbergasted watching her leave the tape recorded message for Ben, and when Mikhail ran out of the forest I literally sat up & screamed at the television, "BUT HE'S DEAD!!!" It was also pretty bad ass to watch him stick the parachute chick in the lungs.
As for the ending, which was superb, I figure it could only be 3 things. (I thought just like you, Daniel).
1) They (the outside world) really did find the real plane with their real bodies, meaning that everything happening on the island is NOT real (in the physical, alive, real world sense). Purgatory? A dream? All in Hurley's crazy head? I don't buy this one at all.
2) They really did find A plane with random bodies on it, and believed it to be Flight 815. This is the most likely conclusion I was thinking--that the Others somehow "planted" a fake crash.
3) They really found nothing at all, and it was all just made up by the media. (Like how people thought we really didn't land on the moon). This could have been sponsored by the Others and their forces as well.
All of that adds up to an A for me.
#1. They did not kill Mikhail... the fence obviously incapacitated him. That is why he ran into it. You are just a hater. If you want to say you dont like the show, claim something happened when it didnt.
Sun's father is a Korean Gangster; he has people killed and stuff.
I forgot to answer earlier that my favorite shows besides Lost are Scrubs, The Office and best new show on TV: 30 Rock!
I also like Ugly Betty and Grey's Anatomy
Hey TMZ guy, can my friend and I come over to watch with you? Also, I bet that Desmond is dead too.
LOST is my favorite show! It's great!! i think the "fans" expect to much out of it sometimes. I mean it is just a TV show after all. And the writers cant please everyone all the time. They have good reason for writing something a certain way. So maybe Mikhail really didn't die. I mean starnger things have happened on this island!!
Oh, Jericho is aGREAT show too!! :)
Kate is so pregnant which sucks because she may get fat soon then.
LOST is not my favorite show but it was in season one. I think the Office has taken over that role but that doesnt matter.
If Mikhail isnt dead and neither is the two weirdos that had their own episode and died are Shannon, Boone, Ana Lucia, Libby, Eko and others still alive too? Does anyone die on this island? Because I thought for sure the Russian was dead. But I guess i could be terribly wrong.
The theory about it being purgatory frankly is a good one, however, the producers did deny that was the case, and we all know TV producers are all choir boys, who never lie.
But, even in the midst of my loathing for liars, it seems unlikely that would be the case, given it would be a bit anti-climatic to discover the biggest secret on LOST was discovered about a month into the shows start, therefore, even if the writers had intended on the island being a sort of purgatory in the beginning, it seems likely they went back to the drawing boards when fans figured it out in 3 episodes. lol.
Good old Mickael is alive, another helpful push towards the island being purgatory, yet, please see above paragraph. Women cant give birth when impregnated on the island, seems unlikely that could happen if they were in purgatory, yet, please see the paragraph above.
It seems very likely a coordinated staged crash scene was put together to make people believe all of the taileys died. However, if that parachute broad was so convinced all the crash survivors were in fact dead....wtf is she doing there? And wtf does, "I'm not alone mean"? Thanks for getting us a translation on that one Daniel.
To answer your question, It is a toss up for me at this point between Lost, and Heroes. Both shows keep you in suspense, although lately Heroes has been doing it with more flare, and excitement.
my theory is that Mr. Eye patch never died. which makes me more suspicious of Locke. like he knew throwing him into that thing wouldn't kill him. And what about Juliette saying "i hate you" about ben after she turned the tape recorder off? i hate her but am starting to think shes not that evil, she wants ben to think shes doing all of his evil biddings but shes got plans. as for the whole "all of you are dead" statement by parachute girl...... hanso co. cover up. totally.
With the patch-eyed man, if what the parachute lady said was true, that they all died, maybe everyone on the island is already dead. And if you are dead, you can not die again. Maybe that is how Lockes dad is now on the island, he tried to scam someone and was killed. Maybe that is why no babies can be born, because there is no one really alive to give birth. I think that smokie is death itself and it goes around and "finishes" the job. Maybe the "submarine" is like the boat on the river "styx" that takes you after you died. I think the island is some form of pergatory where it is decided if you go to heaven or hell based on what "list" you are on. That is why the children were seperated right from the beginning. They are "without sin". I think in this pergatory, you get a chance to redeem yourself, that is why some people seem to be reliving their lives. Who knows....
I think this episode was on par... If you've followed Lost since it's beginning and are still watching than stop bitching!!! If you don't like where it's going, stop watching. I think there's some merit to the purgatory theory, although I would love to see it go in a different direction (i.e. consipracy).
I am still a faithful Lost viewer. While I'll admit that there are episodes that I wish answered more questions, I have been happy with this season as a whole. It's still my favorite show on TV, it's the only show that I HAVE to be home for every week.
Thanks Daniel! I love the commentary every week!
OK -- I either love this show or hate it and say after this season I'm done. Except when an episode like last night. OMG !!! I like the idea of Darma folks staging another plane to protect the island.
Lost isn't my number one show anymore...It used to be, but the beginning of this season turned me off to it. I'm coming back around (and next week does look awesome) but Heroes has definitly taken over for the number one slot.
This week, I have to give it at least a B. It had a "Lost"-esque to it still...solving some mysteries while opening up a few new ones. Plus, I love Sun and Jin, and to show Sun's more badass side is always a plus to me. I hope they come around to showing more Sayid, he is my favorite character.
Do you think the parachute girl plays into Hurley's hallucinations? I can't think of his name, but the guy that landed Hurley in the hospital was on the island at one point. She herself might not be a hallucination, but what she says could be. I hope they aren't going the purgtory way out...it just seems to easy!
Lost was my favorite show until I finally realized that Grey's Anatomy was wonderful. I know they are completely different shows, but at least at the end of Grey's I dont go crazy with the unknown. I still love lost, but somethings gotta give...we'll see they are promising big things before the season finale
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