Lost 2.10: Eko vs. Lostzilla

We get a glimpse into the sordid past of Mr. Eko, courtesy of Lostzilla.

First off, I didn’t come up with the name Lostzilla. I heard it somewhere else and thought it was too awesome to one-up so I stole it. Secondly, wow. What the hell is that thing? An encounter that harkens back to the two part pilot episode, Lostzilla reminds us why we first fell in love with Lost. We fell in love with the ultimate question: What the hell was that? And this episode served up the mother of all ‘what the hell was that’s.

When Eko encountered Lostzilla, I had a feeling he wasn’t going to run. I knew it wasn’t going to kill him. I knew this from when Locke encountered the same thing and he survived. Hell, he even wanted it to take him. But then again, this IS Locke we’re talking about. He has been sold on the island from day one, due to him regaining his lost legs. However, what Eko says to Charlie is the interesting part. He said he had nothing to fear. Some would say this means he lived a tough life, shot a couple of guys early on in his life, became a notorious criminal and that gave him no fear. But I think it’s because he was on the track to find his brother. He had no fear anymore because nothing was going to stand in his way to finding his brother’s body. So perhaps, people who are dedicated in their quests don’t get killed by Lostzilla? I’m not sure, but it makes for good discussion.

Secondly. What were the flashes in Lostzilla? They were flash backs of Eko’s past. If you do a slow-mo of the smoke, it shows pictures from the episode which depict his past. Now the question is how did those memories get into the mind of Lostzilla? It either had them already or was scanning them from Eko’s brain. If it knew them already, it means one thing: they were all brought to the island for a reason and purpose and that purpose has something to do with their pasts. If it was scanning it from his brain, that means many things: either they aren’t supposed to be there and the island’s defense system is acting against them or they were randomly chosen to be there. Both of these don’t make sense. If they weren’t supposed to be there and you were an uber-smokey machine, and you smash down trees at will and well… freaking FLOAT, wouldn’t you just kill them off quickly? And if they were randomly chosen, that’s retarded. You can’t have all seeing and ultimate powers to choose people to come and be unable to choose WHOM you want there. So that leaves the only logical conclusion. Lostzilla knew them, knows their memories, and they were chosen based on those memories.
Which means, there is someone controlling it. The writers have been adamant that everything on the island can be scientifically proven, which means the Others who are running the experiment in the hatch are running other larger experiments and they are STILL running it to this day.

It was an awesome episode and we’re definitely back on track for more goodness out of Lost. Thank goodness for Lostzilla and Mr.Eko!