Thoughts on "Lost"

[mabfan]

[Major spoilers for last night's episode, "Two for the Road"]


gnomi and I tend to watch "Lost" when it's broadcast on Wednesday nights, one of the few shows we don't time-shift. The main reason for this is that "Lost" tends to be a show where they actually manage to surprise us with their plot developments, and we'd rather not run the risk of reading spoilers the next day. (Well, that's my reason. Not sure if Nomi feels the same.)

Anyway, over the past season they've been developing two new characters rather extensively, with significant flashbacks and interactions with the season one characters. The two characters are Ana Lucia, played by Michelle Rodriguez, and Libby, played by Cynthia Watros.

Well, last night we saw a significant flashback in the life of Ana Lucia; we saw the beginnings of a relationship being developed between Libby and Hurley; and then we saw the two of them, Ana and Libby, get shot to death in the space of the last minute of the show. No warning, just bang bang, and they're dead.

After I recovered, it immediately occurred to me that Rodriguez and Watros are the two actresses who were arrested for drunk driving a few months back, on the same night. Suddenly the title of the episode, "Two for the Road," takes on much more significance. Given the chance that Rodriguez may be unavailable for the next 18 months or so if she gets sent back to jail, it makes sense to ensure that the producers don't have to worry about her anymore. It's certainly one way to deal with misbehaving actresses. Or, as Nomi said, "Moral of the story? Don't mess with JJ Abrams."

Comments

[swashbucklr]

Who killed them?

I didn't see it, but I don't mind a spoiler.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Michael came back and told Jack, Kate and Locke that the Others are easily defeated. Then, near the end, after Ana couldn't bring herself to shoot Henry, Michael just calmly shoots her and then shoots Libby when she comes to find blankets.

[lauriemann.livejournal.com]

I think Michael was brainwashed.

In terms of the actress who plays Ana-Lucia, she's had something of a film career and is making another movie. In the case of Cynthia Watros, I'd forgotten that she's already been cast on another show, so maybe she's really dead.

[stealthmuffin.livejournal.com]

I don't know if he was brainwashed -- to me it seemed more likely that the Others had offered him Walt in exchange for spreading misinformation about the Others' whereabouts, living situation, and firepower, as well as other tasks (killing Ana-Lucia? spreading chaos? retrieving Gale? getting them a way into the Swan?).

Then again, the way his teeth were chattering before he shot himself was pretty disturbing.

[justcomeinalone.livejournal.com]

I figured Michael was desperate to implicate the Others in shooting Ana, getting them into a frenzy that they'd want to go to war.

Either that or Michael is some evil genius behind the Island Experiments and hangs out with evil-smoke-creature in his spare time. :-P

[pressburger.livejournal.com]

One thing that didn't seem right was that Michael's statement was an obvious lie since Kate et al knew that they were using makeup to seem grungy. Wasn't there an episode where Kate told this to Jack?