New
season of ‘Lost’ raises questions Melissa Kingsley/ Reviewer
The season premiere of ABC’s hit TV show
“Lost” answered some pressing questions while
creating some new ones.
The third season of “Lost” is expected to focus
more on the Others, perhaps giving viewers some insight about
what their
purpose on the island is.
Next week’s episode takes us back to the other
survivors, who are planning a mission to rescue their
friends. Will they be
successful? If one thing is for sure, the writers are not
going to give any answers without creating many more
questions.
In the show’s finale least season, three of the main
characters, Jack, Kate and Sawyer, had been captured by the
Others living on the island. The season premiere focused only
on the whereabouts of these three, revealing nothing about
the rest of the
castaways who are still living on the other side of the
island.
The episode began in a seemingly normal residential
neighborhood with average, every-day people.
It is not until these people step outside and witness a
plane breaking apart in the sky that the audience understands
that these people are already living on the island, and the
plane crash they are viewing is the one that landed the main
characters there as well.
By viewing the plane crash from the point of view of the
Others, the writers have set the stage for a season that
focuses a great deal on these mysterious people.
Back in present time, Jack, Kate and Sawyer all awake to
find they are being held in separate locations – Jack
in a cell, Kate in a locker room and Sawyer in an outdoor
cage.
While Jack and Sawyer struggle unsuccessfully to escape,
Kate is escorted to a meeting with the leader of the Others,
who warns her that the next few weeks will be “very
unpleasant.”
Jack is approached by one of the Others- a woman named
Juliet – who possesses a file containing every piece of
information relating to his life. For her to have this
information means that the Others must communicate with the
outside world, but no clues are revealed.
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