Lost Cubicle Chatter: The Last Recruit

Check in on Wednesday of every week during Season 6 of Lost to share your thoughts, theories, complaints and assessments of the previous night’s episode. Big time SPOILER alert for anyone didn‘t watch yet.

Synopsis: As always, we teamed up with the Joker from Coventry for this week’s setlist and recap. Side note: Joker ran a reprint of his epic LOST/Phish Tees if anyone missed out the first time around. Check ’em out.

Geronimo Jackson, April 20, 2010

Set one (On Island): Who Are You (1) > Second Skin (2), Austin Powers Theme (3), What Would You Say? (4), Reunited (5), I’m On a Boat (6) > All Apologies (7) > I Go Swimming (8)

Set Two (Off Island): Ambulance (9), Land Down Under (10), Simple Twist of Fate (11), Shakedown (12), I Remember You (13)

Encore: Running with the Devil (14)

(1) The Who; Jack and Locke
(2) Widespread Panic; Jack and Locke
(3) Quincy Jones; Zoe with “Who does #2 work for” stage banter
(4) Dave Matthews Band; Desmond and Sayid
(5) Peaches and Herb; Sun and Jin
(6) The Lonely Island; Ensemble
(7) Nirvana; Jack and Sawyer
(8) Peter Gabriel; Jack
(9) TV on the Radio; Locke and Sun
(10) Men at Work; Kate and Sawyer
(11) Bob Dylan; Claire, Desmond, Jack, and Miss Verdansky (Ilana)
(12) Bob Seger; with “everybody walks into the garden hose” alternate lyrics
(13) Skid Row; Locke and Jack
(14) Van Halen; Locke and Jack

Epic One Liner of the Week: “It’s you, me, Jack, Sun, Hurley and that pilot who looks like he stepped off the set of a Burt Reynolds movie.” – Sawyer

Lost My Mind Just a Couple of Times: 1) Perplexing perhaps, that in the same 24 hour period that MIB explains to Jack that he chose Locke because “he was stupid enough to believe that he was brought to this island for a reason,” that Jack hops off the boat after a “it doesn’t feel right” moment, because, you guessed it, he thinks they were brought here for a reason. 2) Also, as Locke led the troops back to camp through the jungle, how is it that there are still 27 extras on the show that we’ve never seen before? Seems a little late in the game for extras, no?

Overall: Maybe it was due to this being the first ensemble cast oriented show in a while, but this one hooked me in big time. It was the first time in a while that I felt like I couldn’t last until next week and wished I waited for the whole season on DVD. In fact, I actually turned it back on immediately after and restarted it (or as they like to say, went back like a Kamboomerang).

Discussion Points: There’s some pretty straightforward questions this week that need answering: 1) Did Sayid really dispose of Desmond (highly doubt it)? 2) Is Jack really going to give himself over to Locke’s plan? 3) Is Lapidus ever going to fulfill any semblance of relevance? 4) And finally, it’s very interesting we learned about MIB inhabiting Jack’s father. Can you think of anyone else he may have been puppeteering?