So for the sake of expediency and efficiency, Doc Jensen is rocking the Popwatch party this week.
Strike up the band!
Take off your shirt!
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Okay, maybe keep your clothes on.
In case Im losing you here, Im referring tothe season premiere ofTotally Lost but thats in the past.
Like every episode ofTotally Lost, it was produced and edited by the exceedingly talented Jason Averett.
You will not regret it, and you will not see me naked.
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12 need-to-knows (maybe) for tonights episode: The Substitute
Baffled by the Sideways?
yo check out our Q&A withLostexec producers Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, if you havent already.
Want to get up to speed for tonights episode?
But at least youll be prepared by knowing … We never saw the driver.
My guess: Charles Widmore.
Alpert claimed he ran a school for special kids and wanted to test Locke to see if he qualified.
He asked Locke to pick which one.
Locke picked the knife.
Alpert was disturbed and left in a huff.
In high school, the bully-harassed Locke wanted to be a cool-kid jock.
To our knowledge, Locke never achieved his alpha male dreams in high school.
Locke and Cooper bonded through a variety of activities, especially hunting.
Yet once Cooper got the kidney, he abandoned Locke all over again.
Helen Norwood
Lockes true love, a certifiable soul mate.
They met cute and complicated at an anger management support group.
Helen discovered Lockes betrayal and rejected his offer of marriage.
Locke didnt want to get involved, but changed his mind when the son died under suspicious circumstances.
Did Cooper kill the young man?
Locke was wracked with guilt over the possibility.
Yearning for redemption, Locke threatened Cooper with exposure.
Cooper responded by pushing Locke from an eighth-floor window.
All things considered, Locke should have died from the fall.
Not that Locke walked away not literally, at least.
As a result of the fall, Locke lost the use of his legs.
For roughly four years prior to the crash of Oceanic 815, he was in a wheelchair.
But The Island mysteriously healed him.
The box company
Locke worked for a Tustin, Calif.-based box company prior to the crash of Oceanic 815.
The company was one of the many investments of Lotto winner Hurley.
Lockes boss was a power-trippy young punk named Randy.
Board games
Locke loves playing them.
Well, you start with all these parts off the board.
And then you wait til your opponent lands here on the old cheese wheel.
And then if you set it up just right, you spring the trap.
And becomes inseparable from it.
Locke attributed Crouchers success to destiny.
The brig
Upon crashing on The Island, Locke realized he could miraculously walk again.
Locke couldnt bring himself to commit patricide.
Sawyer was initially perplexed and irate, but eventually figured out Coopers significance and killed him.
to save The Island and his friends from peril by turning a mystical donkey wheel.
The first time, Ben asked to do the deed instead and Locke agreed.
The second time, Locke cranked the wheel and was teleported off The Island.
Moreover, we must also wonder if perhaps Ghost Christian has been Smokey or Smokey-controlled all along.
The Believer
ThroughoutLost, Locke has been positioned as the man of faith.
And so concludes my maybe-relevant, maybe-not primer on John Locke for tonights episode.
But todaysLostcoverage is far from over.
