Discuss Episode 5 - The Cost of Living - Here

April_Rose · Discuss Episode 5 - The Cost of Living - Here

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The Cost of Living (Eko centric)

Episode Summary:
A delirious Eko wrestles with past demons; some of the castaways go to the Pearl station to find a computer they can use to locate Jack, Kate and Sawyer; Jack does not know who to trust when two of the Others are at odds with each other.

I haven't seen it yet but I can't wait!

Guest

Wow, great ep :]
Such a shame Eko's gone =[ but on the other hand... FINALLY SOME MORE MONSTER ACTION =]]]
im looking forward to finding out who the monster will go for "next" :]

Admin1

I cant believe Eko died, that was way too obvious, that death was a bit of a let down Sad

Next ep looks bloody awsome tho!

Guest

I hated this ep...Sorry but i did......Ok mr eko was caught driving without a full hawian driving license but is that any real reason to kill of his character.......Theres so much backstory regarding eko i just cant understand how there going to tell it......Whats the point in killing all these characters for them to pop up in the future via flashbacks.....

Yemi????? I mean wtf his body is gone from the plane.......He tells eko to stop acting like his brother (opening up further questions)

One thing i think this ep DID tell us is it is not the others who are controlling the black smoke monster...So who is?.....Is this why the others persist on saying there the good guys of the island????????.....

Why have the writers of lost waited untill season 3 to let us know the black smoke can touch and feel humans as before we were all lead to believe it could see negative thoughts and feelings (remeber the 1st time it came in contact with eko and he stared it down)...What exactly was dfrent this time........Eko himself says just before hes dragged and flung to hus death that he has no regrets about his life he done what he had to do with the shitty life he had......I just dont get it like....

The guy with the patch on his eye???????who the hell is he and am i missing something.....Have we seen this character before?.....As i havent and wouldnt mind re-watching an olde ep that explains who he is...(if there is one)

I forget her name but her who keeps going in to see jack.....Who all thinks she's for real or is this more mindtricks.....Im not sure if she really is against ben tbh.....I think its all set up to see what he does as ben wants to know 100% that jack will try and save him and not kill him before letting him operate on his spine.....

Anywho im gutted with the way this episode has went guys i really am.....Season 3 and there still making us ask more questions ...Ok there giving us bits and peaces of answers but it aint enough in my eyes..

We have 1 ep left before a 3 month break and tbh other than visuals and more storys they have hardly answered any questions from as early as season 1.........

For one why did shannon and sayid both see walt standing in the jungle when we were lead to believe it was shannons negative thoughts that lead her to dream/whatever she was seeing him....(and thats just one tiny answer we need from an early season)....are we ever gonna get real answers or just given more questions untill we forget what we want answers about)

I also read via the net that the writers have now admitted that a lot of what we are now seeing is being made up from week to week.....Which tbh is sucky as hell.....

April_Rose

I was very disappointed to be honest that they killed Eko off, am totally with Jaseyboi on this one, apart from that I was impressed with the episode though, and it led me to wonder - does the guy with the eyepatch control the monster? It didn't kill since the pilot, and Eko faced it before - if they were going to kill him off they could have had him die from his polar bear inflicted wounds or let him walk off a cliff in a state of delierium. The fact the monster killed him immediately after the eyepatch guy realised that someone was watching him - I presume a light came on under a camera or whatever - makes me think they are linked.

angelfairy

this was a great epsiode i really liked it

R.I.P EKO Crying or Very sad

i like your thought about the eyepatch dude controlling the smoke monster A_R it never occured to me that eko was killed by it just after they saw eyepatch man but now thinking about it i think that they could be linked. Lost confuses my brain every single episode but i would be Lost without it ("lost without it" hahaha , wow i'm sad lmao)

April_Rose

I Know, it confuses me too but that's one thing I love about it...

That's the thing, like Jaseyboi says above it could have killed Eko before, nothing major happened to him since the last time he saw the monster, and it didn't kill him at the river earlier in the epiosde, and thye could have found another much easier way to kill him off - have him die from his injuries from the polar bear or have him think he saw his brother and walk off a cliff - but after seeing the monster already in a previous episode and earlier in this one then suddenly afer they see eyepatch guy and he realises they see him then it kills Eko and somehow gives him the idea that it now poses a threat to the rest of them, hence his final words.

Of course there is another major event in this episode that we're forgetting because of the drama of the eyepatch guy (I must admit it made me jump and squeal when he appeared) and the death of Eko. This annoyed me so much that I'm only now thinking about it.

Juliet - do we trust her? If we say yes then she took a huge risk trying to communicate with Jack in the way she did. We saw evidence of struggles with Ben - to the extent that if we believe what he says about being diagnosed just days before the crash, the fact there was difficulty between them on the book club day shows just how awkward thigns were between them - but her wanting him dead is way out there at the same time.

I wonder who is with her? And why they took Sawyer and Kate as well now that we know why they wanted Jack? To use as leverage? If he agrees to operate will they let Kate and Sawyer go or is there another purpose for having them?

The next episode is a Kate one so we'll learn more I'd say, and I expect an explosive cliffhanger of an ending.

What if she is lying and this is all part of a ploy to really test Jack - they'd have to consider the possibility that this is what he woudl do anyway, let Ben die on the operating table, (though we probably know better, what with Jack always needing to be the hero) - so perhaps Juliet is tryign to suss him out to see whether they can trust him. if he agrees to do what she asks then they'll know they can't?