LOST Challenge of the Week: Season 4, Episode 13: “There’s No Place Like Home (Parts 2 & 3)”

Happy LOST day!  That’s the last time I can say that this year (isn’t that depressing?), so I thought I’d make sure I did so.  In reality though, I don’t have much to add on to the challenge from 2 weeks ago.  None of the questions we thought might get answered did, so you have to feel as though tonight’s show is going to be just jam-packed with revelation after revelation.  I’m not even going to mess around.  Here are the questions we expect to have answered tonight.  Please give me your thoughts on any or all of them below!

1. Who is in the coffin?

2. Who dies tonight, and how?

3. What is the nature of the Orchid station?

4. Is Locke successful in moving the island, and if so, to where?  (Or to when?)

5. How do the Oceanic 6 actually leave the island?  Is it via the freighter, or by some other means?

6. What happens to the survivors of Flight 815 that are not part of the Oceanic 6?

7. What happens in the secret “Frozen Donkey Wheel” scene?

Enjoy the episode tonight folks!  It’s the last one until late January 2009!

To Spoil or Not To Spoil

Last year at this time, everyone was getting ready to be amazed by LOST’s “game-changing” Season 3 finale.  The episode was about to introduce a form of storytelling completely new to LOST: the flashFORWARD.  Everyone would be watching along, thinking that it was a flashback, but then BOOM, you’d find out in the last scene that it was a flashfoward, and the shock would hit you like a snake in the mailbox.  Everyone, that is, except those that had been spoiled…like me.

In order to write relevant items for this blog (and prior to that, to folks at the office), I do a bit of research around the net.  Not a ton, mind you, but enough to get some teasers of info that I can share with you and try to develop a discussion.  Last year, however, someone with info about the flashforward went into a forum I frequent, and posted the “snake in the mailbox” scene smack-dab in the middle of it, with no alerts, no warnings…no concern for any of us that would much rather see the action unfold new on the screen as opposed to reading it first.

Of course, as the Season 4 finale approaches, the same fellow has the same information to disseminate across the internet.  How the folks at ABC haven’t caught this tool and fired him is beyond me, but I guess that’s a story for another day.  Anyway, lostpedia has a little discussion going on about it (you can check it out here: http://blog.lostpedia.com/2008/05/what-do-you-think-of-spoilers.html), but I’d be very careful about checking it out…you never know who might post the Season 4 finale spoilers there.

In any event, since there’s no Challenge of the Week this week (since the finale is next Thursday), I thought I’d open up the discussion.  Do you like spoilers?  Do you want to be spoiled at all?  How much is too much?  Also, if you’ve been spoiled, has it detracted from your enjoyment of the show?  I’d love to hear what everyone has to say about this topic.

LOST Fantasy League Results: Week 12

Well, not a lot of scoring this week, which matches the feeling I got from the episode.  Really, nothing amazingly “new” happened, which explains why there was so little to change on the scoreboard.  That being said, let’s take a look at how Week 12 turned out:

 

Congrats to Dede, who once again led the group in scoring!  Of course, as you might imagine, that means that there was little movement at the top of the rankings.  Here are how things shape up going into the final episode of the season (click on the thumbnail for the full standings):

Really, it looks like it’s down to Dede, Bill, and Paul.  Of course, with a 2-hour finale, and the possibility of a shocking death, it’s not impossible for anyone in the Top 10 to pull an upset and jump to the #1 position.  Good luck to everyone in lucky Week 13!