UNspoiled! The Constant: LOST

What would it be like if Ben Linus were actually a good person? In the Flash Sideways we get to see him choosing what's good for someone else over power for himself, while on the Island we see his remorse for what he's done to retain his power. It's a great episode with a powerhouse performance from Michael Emerson.

Siiiiiiigh. I don't know, you guys. We struggled for things to talk about in this episode. It's just so...BORING. Give it a listen anyway, because we did our best to make at least talking about it entertaining.

What's that? Jack has a KID in the Sidewaysverse? And he's actually a GOOD DAD??! This is interesting. What does it mean? And who is David's mom? These are the things we want to know about.

On the Island, Hurley brings Jack on a Jacob-instructed mission to a lighthouse no one has ever seen before, and which Jack gets all Jack about and smashes the mirrors to shards when he isn't given answers immediately. When will he ever learn? How did this dude get through medical school and master the ability to cut into people's spines when he has absolutely no patience?


Meanwhile, Claire is crazy. She has a animal skull baby and is killing Others looking for her baby, who she doesn't realize is not only not on the Island anymore, but also not a baby anymore. Jin is savvy in getting himself out of danger of her ax, unlike Justin the Other who ends up with it in his chest. Bye, Justin. We hardly knew ya.

On the Island, Locke promises Sawyer answers, and bring him to a cave covered in names and numbers. Names like Shephard, Reyes, and Ford. Others have been crossed off, like Austen and Locke. This is the stuff I love.

What both of us love, though, is the return of Helen! In the FlashSidewaysVerse, we see that Locke, while still a bit petulant about his being in a wheelchair, is actually much happier. He and Helen are planning a wedding, he apparently has a good relationship with his father, and he gets a job as a substitute teacher. Also teaching there? A very uptight Benjamin Linus.

Newsflash: we don't like the Temple crap. But we did like Jack's reaction to their shenanigans, the scene on the dock with Sawyer and Kate, and we debate whether Claire is really Claire. Oh yeah, that's right, Claire is back! But...is she?

Here we are, starting the final season! Can you believe it? We can't. But we soldier on, and talk about what Krista got right, what she got wrong, and what she thinks this is all leading up to.

There's a lot to get into here, from Jacob and the Man in Black, to Locke, to the actual incident and what happens to Juliet. Then, when we've covered all of it, we get Krista's prediction on what's to come in Season 6, and you don't want to miss that.

The shirt is hitting the fan now, y'all. In 1977, we've got Jack following Daniel's not-so-well-described plan to drop a hydrogen bomb into a pocket of energy in order to change the future (guess we're forgetting about whatever happened happened), and Sawyer getting the shirt beat out of him a very eager Radzinsky rather than tell him anything. In 2007, we have Locke fully embracing his dictatorship and giving all the orders, leading the remaining group of Others to Jacob, who no one has ever even seen. Does he even exist?

Next week is the season 5 finale! I can't believe how far we've come, and that we only have one season left. We'll be covering both parts of the finale as one episode. If you have any questions you'd like Krista to answer about the finale, or what she thinks is going to happen next, please send them to either in the Lost Spoiler group, on Discord, or DM me on Facebook.

We've got bad dads, we've got bad moms...and then we have Daniel's parents, who take it to a whole other level. Daniel's return brings a whole new level of chaos, and immediately. There's the spilling of the time travel tea, blowing up LaFleur's spot in the Dharma Initiative, and, well, talk of literally blowing up an actual hydrogen bomb. And then he's shot by his mother, who in the future sends him there knowing she's going to kill him. None of this can lead to anything good, right?

We're back! Thank you for your patience in our scheduled hiatus. Weddings were attended, family was seen, illness was combated, and so DragonCon was not on the menu, sadly. But, all of that is the past, what happened happened, and we're forging ahead with what turned out to be a very jam-packed episode.

After waiting almost two full seasons, we finally get a Miles episode! We learn that Pierre Chang, aka Marvin Candle, aka that dude in the Dharma videos, is his father...and kind of a douche, but this is Lost, so what did we expect? Hurley tries to bond with Miles over daddy issues and seeing dead people, to little success. Kate uses her heart, not her head, and draws suspicion in her direction. Juliet continues to be the best. Jack seems strangely happy not being in charge. Sawyer seems stressed - heavy is the crown, you know. And Daniel is back!