On the Island, we get a introduction that features Pierre Chang, the man who is the focus of each Dharma Initiative training video. He is interrupted from making his latest video and is brought to the very same place that we saw Locke and Ben at last season: The Orchid. The workers there have been drilling holes in the wall, and their drill bits keep melting when they try to drill through. Pierre is given a sonar printout that reveals the "frozen donkey wheel" that Ben turned in last season to move the island behind the wall. Pierre demands they don't drill any further, or else doom will ensue. As he is walking away we see a man come walking the other way in a construction uniform, and it is none other than Daniel Faraday!....LOST....
I loved this first episode of the season because it set up the structure of the upcoming season- which is a distinct lack of structure. After Ben turned the big wheel, the castaways on the island jumped to a different time period before they ever came onto the island. Their camp was missing because it hadn't been built yet and Locke had a run in with none other than the heroin carrying plane that would end up being Boone's demise. But, there is more, the castaways at random times move to different time periods on the island without warning. There is a brilliant flash of white light and all of a sudden, they are in a different time period. This is a fascinating development because it allows for the viewer to get an interesting perspective on the history of the island. They can go back to the beginnings of the Dharma Initiative, and find out more back story about the mysterious others. I am very excited to see where this time travelling goes.
We got to see quite a few important things on the island in this particular episode. Locke got shot by past Ethan and had to be fixed up by a futuristic Richard Alpert. Richard gave Locke a compass and told him that he would have to die in order to get the Oceanic 6 back to the island- which is an important step to fixing their current predicament. Daniel Faraday became useful since he is the only one on the island who has any idea what is happening to them. After telling Sawyer that he can't change anything in the past and that it is useless to knock on Desmond's hatch door, he waits for Sawyer to leave and does it himself! Apparently, Desmond is special and is the only one that can help them. Daniel tells Desmond to find his mom in Oxford, and Desmond wakes up in the future and remembers this and knows he needs to help Daniel out.
As for the Oceanic 6, we got little glimpses of them that showed how bad off they are since leaving the island. Kate had to run off after being approached by an attorney who wanted to test to see if Aaron was really her son. Sun is out for revenge specifically against Ben who she feels is responsible for Ben's death, and she is allying with Charles Widmore to do it. Sayid has become a dangerous hit man and estranged from his boss, Benjamin Linus. Hurley is going back to being crazy and has had numerous encounters with dead people. Then we have Jack who is depressed over Locke's death and knows that it is important to go back to the island. Him and Ben are working together to try to gather up the oceanic six and somehow get them back to the island. But, because of the varying conditions of the oceanic 6 and their mistrust of Jack or Ben, it seems impossible for them to gain the trust of the other members of the oceanic 6. I can't wait to find out how Ben is able to manipulate this situation to his advantage.
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