With much further ado, "Lost" takes us off the island and brings us to a strange non-island-non-off-island existence within season four. The show has begun leaning away from the petty island drama for the sake of pursuing more confusion about physics, chemistry, space, and time--it is too bad Arntz is not around to help explain some of the conundrums.
At the end of season three, we find out that some Oceanic 815 survivors make it off the island and back to civilization--thanks Beardy Jack. In season four, we have flashes forward to this post-island life for the Oceanic 815 and island survivors (coined The Oceanic 6), flashes backwards to explain more about character origins, and what amount to flashes of the "present" life of the characters on the island. Ultimately, this technique leads to a chase that parallels some of the jungle chases on the island: The present on the island is trying to catch-up to the flashes forward (Oceanic 6 time) that continue to develop in a forward-moving manner. There are some excellent "12 Monkeys"-esque moments during the season--particularly in "The Constant." This also helps to harp on the "Alice in Wonderland" motif that resurfaces throughout the show.
This shift in story-telling provides a new layer of intrigue and, thus, enjoyment for the audience. We sort of know where things are headed and we sort of know where things are, but we do not really know at all how the two are connected. Or if they are connected.
Terry O'Quinn is still the stand-out performer, and the show is trimming some of the fat (N.B. A reduction of Claire). The writers seems to be tired of the Jack-Kate-Sawyer triangle and have shifted more towards the evolution of their friendships and romances without struggle between the males. I eagerly await how Abrams and co. will handle the explanation of how big Walt has gotten even though not a significant amount of internal time has passed.
With one more season of Netflix watching left, I will soon be caught-up to current "Lost" time...Whatever time that may be: Three out of Five stars
Here are the questions left over from Season 1:
What's the deal with the moving black smoke?
What did the others want with Walt?
What is so special about the numbers?
What illness took Rousseau's people?
Where is this island?
What's with Locke's occasional paralysis and even more occasional feeling in his legs?
What made him move to the box company?
What's with Jack's dad on the island?
What is Walt's super power?
What's the point of Vincent?
Season two left overs:
Why do people see a dripping wet Walt when he's not actually around?
What is he saying in said incidents?
What is the significance of the hatch names?
Why was the electromagnetic facility built?
Why was it well-stocked with weapons?
What's with Kate's black horse?
Was Sawyer really holding the spirit of Kate's dead dad?
Is this all going to be some sort of religious metaphor?
Why didn't the black smoke take Echo?
What was flashing in the black smoke?
What did the blacklit blast door say?
Why did the Dharma Initiative drop more food?
Why does Hurley start seeing Dave again?
Why didn't Ben run away when the blast doors had fallen?
Why was Desmond in prison?
What's with the big freak bird that seems to only show up once a season?
What's with the statue foot with four toes?
And now the slew of questions from the third season:
What's Carl's back story?
Why does Jack hear his dad on the intercom?
Why was Locke on that orchard?
Why can Desmond see the future?
Who is the guy who looks like Echo's brother but says he is not him?
Why was Jack in Phucket?
What is the meaning of Juliette's mark?
Why was Sayid in Paris?
How does Mikhael keep surviving death?
What happens to the gull carrying Claire's message?
What happened to Locke's spot on the weed farm?
How did Locke's dad get on the island?
How did Abrams and Co. get Billy Dee Williams to guest?
What was the point of Nickie and Paulo? ("Who the hell is Nickie?"--Sawyer)
Will those two stay buried? ("Things have a way of not staying buried"--Locke)
Why didn't the monster take Juliette and Kate?
Why can't the monster cross "the others'" fence?
What is the story with Jacob?
Who is the man from Tallahasee?
Why was Desmond at an abbey?
Why do men have higher sperm counts on the island?
Why do "the others" idolize Locke?
Are the people on the island dead? Are these layers of hell?
Why hasn't Richard aged?
Why is Ben in charge?
What does Jacob need Locke's help with?
That brings us to questions about season four:
Why does Hurley see the water of the ocean in the mirror in the police station?
Who pounds on the glass of said mirror?
Who is Matthew Abbaddon?
Why is he visiting Hurley?
Who are the "they" Abbaddon talks about to Hurley?
Why are only some people allowed to see Jacob's cabin?
Who was in Jacob's cabin when Hurley peeked in?
How does the cabin move?
How does Hurley make it disappear?
How does Charlie visit Hurley in the hospital?
How does Hurley make Charlie disappear?
Who needs Hurley--according to Charlie?
Why does the woman who Miles visits have a photo of young Echo?
What's the tool Miles uses?
How can he talk to ghosts?
Why was there a Dharma Initiative polar bear skeleton in the desert?
Why was the "rescue team" of Charlotte, Miles, Farraday, and Lupides put together?
Is Abbaddon Naomi's boss?
Does he work for Widmore?
Why are Widmore and Ben at war?
Where is Mikhail?
Is Locke's tyranny supposed to be a religious zealotry metaphor?
Why didn't Dan's experiment with the "payload" work?
Why was the payload 31 minutes late?
Why does Ben have so many passports?
What's Oceanic 6 Sayid's list?
Why is there only one bearing from the island that works?
Why does Miles want $3.2 million?
Who does Miles actually work for?
Why can't Dan remember the playing cards?
Why do people with radiation/EMP exposure get disoriented going to and from the island?
What triggers the space/time shifts that Des goes through?
What's in the Black Rock journal? Tell us more about Tovard Hensel.
Why is Widmore so fascinated with the Black Rock?
Was that seriously a Christmas episode?!?
Why was Dan pleasantly surprised about Des being a constant?
Does island Dan know Des from Oxford Dan?
What is Harper's deal? How come she can disappear with the whispers?
Who filmed Widmore beating Ben's accomplice?
Who are Zach and Emma?
Why does Michael tell Des and Sayid not to trust the captain when he can, in fact, be trusted?
Who faked the Oceanic 815 deep-ocean recovery? Ben or Widmore? Why?
Why does Ben end up in the Sahara (after turning the island's wheel)?
Why does Sawyer suddenly care so much about Claire?
Is that lame action sequence at "the others" village necessary? Everyone gets shot but Sawyer?
Why does Ben use "Dean Moriarity" as his alias in Tunisia?
Why does he receive a funny look from the hotel clerk?
Who killed Nadia?
How did the Rousseau-Ben love go down to produce Alex?
Ben and Widmore have rules of war?
What's with the door in Ben's house?
What's with the temple?
What's with the hieroglyphics?
Did Ben trigger the black smoke? How? How do the mercenaries survive?
Why does Dan lie about the morse code?
Why can't Ben kill Widmore?
What is Widmore talking about with regards to Ben's origins?
Will Ben kill Penelope? Will Desmond get in the way?
When and how does Jack come around to Kate and Aaron?
Why does Hurley think that the Oceanic 6 are all dead?
What happened to Claire and Jack's dad?
What's Horace's story? Bloody nose?
Why does child Locke draw the smoke monster? Does it come from man-made fire?
Why does child Locke pick the knife? Does that link with his struggle to find Jacob and answers?
Why does the secondary protocol have the Dharma Initiative logo? Was the D.I. Widmore's?
What's with the references to Geronimo Jackson?
What's with the references to Portland?
Why does Abbaddon visit Locke in the hospital?
Who is Abbaddon with? Jacob? Richard? Ben? Widmore?
Is the island in the future or the past?
Why is Claire in the cabin? Jack's dad?
Who is Decker?
What is Charlotte's "getting back to the island" all about? Has she actually been there? Is she time traveling?
Where is Dr. Hallowax?
Why did the final orientation tape auto-rewind before finishing?
What did Sawyer whisper to Kate?
Was Hurley playing chess with Echo?
Did Jeremy Bentham commit suicide?
Did anyone survive the boat explosion?
What is San doing with Widmore?
Where did the island go? How did it go?
What's Claire doing in Kate's house? How'd she get there?
What happens with Dan's raft?
Why is John Locke going around as Jeremy Bentham?
How did he die?
Farewell to brother Desmond.
Last question: Abrams, why bother with the following clips?
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