Toss Up: Lost vs, Wait, Where's Veronica Mars?

After six weeks, Lost finally returned this week with an episode dedicated to the most interesting of the tailies, the mysterious Mr. Eko. His episode became pretty predictable after the first flashback making clear that he had something to do with the downed Nigerian plane that Locke and Boone found last year. The rub though being that Eko was supposed to be on the plane but was double crossed twice, first by his brother who tipped off the military and again by his associate who decided to take the drugs himself. What I found out with this whole situation was why the military was so eager to gun down Eko’s brother yet treated Eko with respect?

Much like Ana Lucia, and unlike the first flashback from the originals, Eko’s flashback doesn’t explain why he ended up on the plane but I think it is easy to assume that Eko was in search of his brother and had a layover in Australia. Although if you are in Nigeria, wouldn’t it be faster to reach Los Angeles going West? Unfortunately Mapquest doesn’t have a fastest route between the two. But Anyways. I also think the producer missed out on a great storyline and ended up having Eko’s brother survive the crash and then find his way to the third bunker or be captured by the Other because he is a “good” guy.

The big new from last night was that we finally got a better look at the monster which we have only see once before which could be pointed to as when the show started to lose it’s luster. All throughout season one, the monster was this huge mystical entity that could easily mutilate a human and tear down trees. Then in the finale, the crazy French chick mentioned it was the island’s security system and when we got a look at it, the monster turned out to be black smoke. But that was just a quick glance and last night we got a longer look at, and inside the monster. So apparently the monster is a fan of traveling vessels because it has shown up near the front of plane, near the Black Rock (the slave ship), and near the Nigerian plane. Then the only other time I can remember the monster showing up was when he met up with Locke. So we learned nothing about the monster unless you believe those who saw people from Eko’s past when the camera went inside it (click picture below to make larger).




Elsewhere on the island we learned a little more about Charlie and his statue. Apparently he has been hording the heroin filled statue so it is very possible he has been using again. But I do like the battle between his youth as an alter boy as represented by the Virgin Mary with his adult life of drub abuse to his current link to is currently encased inside the statue. Also we get to see more of Michael and (presumably) Walt’s primitive IM conversation. This just seemed to be filler until the next episode where Michael takes off with a gun to find his boy.

As for Veronica Mars, it was preempted for the soon to be canceled South Beach. Hasn’t UPN leaned anything from Hawaii, North Shore, and The Mountain that beautiful people in exotic locations with poor acting and worse stories fail miserably? And having Jennifer Lopez as a producer can’t help things. Luckily this is only for a week and wee get one more repeat of Veronica Mars before a new episode featuring the Zena the Warrior Princess as an FBI agent. There are quite a few reasons she could making an appearance in Neptune: the fleeing Big Dick, the missing sex tape, the bus crash, the dead dude with Veronica’s name on his hand, and the rarely mentioned Amelia DeLongpre who was last seen being discovered by Veronica and Clarence Weidman in a hotel ice machine. And of course there is also a chance that there is something new on the horizon.