Lost is back — and better than ever! The grumblings of the fans of our chaotic island castaways can now be silenced (at least if the last two episodes of the second part of this third season are any indicator). All the adventure, creepy character back stories and, yes, sordid fun that made season one of Lost such a hit have been recaptured by the show’s creators over these last two triumphant weeks.
Hey, call it “Smoke Monster Soup for The Dharma Initiative Soul.”
It has been four long months since the initial six-run stretch of season three of the cult hit, Lost, splashed across our small screens last October. When last we left our heroes, Jack (Matthew Fox) was stuck in a dolphin tank being analyzed by Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell), one of The Others, while she fed him a steady diet of nonsensical cartoons and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Meanwhile, The Others went all “planet of the apes” on Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway), locking them away in some abandoned animal cages (perhaps used to study the mating habits of polar bears — or former sweaty underwear models now trapped on a remote island).
The diminutive leader of The Others, Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson), formerly known as the captive Henry Gale, continued to creep us out with his bizarre musings - and “sociological experiments” - that make Thomas Dolby look downright normal. Ben brings Jack, a spinal surgeon, to their underground compound in order to have him remove a tumor from Ben’s spine (an operation worth a one-way ticket off the island, the safe release of Jack’s friends, or 150 points in the Milton Bradley game of the same name).
John Locke (Terry O’Quinn) finally disregarded his tiresome task - to endlessly enter the numbers into the Dharma Doomsday computer - causing the island to quake and the sky to turn purple as the former keeper of the hatch, Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick), stood by and watched in bloody horror. Luckily, for all of us, most secret islands in the South Pacific have a failsafe switch located down in the basement to keep the world from ending - and Desmond just happened to have the key!
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