Many questions brought up last night - let's tackle the biggest one first:
Superman vs. the Flash, who is faster? There've been many DC comics to tackle that issue, the first being in 1967 in Superman #199, in which the two ran a race for charity and had to deal with two separate underworld mob gangs trying to fix the outcome. They deliberately finished a tie so neither gang would win. And that's one to grow on.
Who's the chopper pilot? Seems pretty obvious it's someone looking for Desmond, sent by Penny Widmore - she the one who also was contacted by the Arctic tracking station at season 2 finale when they suddenly saw somethign (the island? the purple electromagnetic burst? on their screens).
One theoretical physics question to make your head hurt - was it originally Penny in the chopper, and reality changed to someone else when Des changed the future by not letting Charlie die, in a Schrodinger's Cat kind of way?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat
Were there other people on that helicopter? Why'd it crash? What does its arrival mean in regards to the idea of being found and rescued?
DeadPassenger groused to me the ep. was utterly predictable in that it was highly unlikely Desmond was actually going to let Charlie die. (Damn.) Predictable? Probably. But I still give the overall ep. a solid B - it had one of the more interesting characters, Demond; it had Kate - the second hottest woman on the island - in her hot undies; it had some great moments of entertainment (Jin's sweet ghost story). And I enjoyed the underlying question of whether Desmond is being tested by Old Testament God in a sacrifice/Abraham/Isaac kind of way. It brought us a new character in the form of the chopper pilot. Did it move the plot hugely forward or answer questions? Not really. But it was still better than finding out about Jack's tattoos.
Interesting side note - the woman in the picture on the head monk's desk is the woman from the jewelry store from that previous Desmond flashback ep.
On the Kate-Sawyer-Jack-Juliet love square: so there's been all this buildup of who does Kate really want, Jack or Sawyer. Are we supposed to now think she really wants Jack and is turning to Sawyer the way I turned to the bottle when Scarlett Johansson spurned me? When Sawyer made that same accusation, Kate said "Sawyer, it's not like that." Really? Then what other way is it?
Your thoughts?
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3 comments:
I care Daneman. I care...almost too much.
I thought the episode sucked a little of the momentum the show had built up out of the sails, but the Desmond back story intrigued me.
The mix tape line was good. So was the line about Desmond only getting excited when Celtic wins the cup. I assume that song he was singing when he was getting pissed was some sort of Celtic game chant.
We do have to wonder about the quantum implications of Desmond's decision. Would the chopper have crashed if he let Charlie die?
Didn't Sawyer say something to Kate about "it not being like that" when they were in the cages?
And I didn't grouse. It was more of a grumble.
Here's some commentary from the email chatter:
Mike Crupi said:
i think the chopper pilot is just their way of introducing another extremely good-looking character. episodes have been getting hotter ever since rose and bernard caused a ratings slide with their ugliness.
desmond has definitely become one of my favorite characters. he was a monk, a drunk, a soccer hooligan, he raced around the world and he sees the future -- what's not to like? and for good measure he triggered two electromagnetic events that brought down a plane full of people and knocked out the others' communications. he's quickly become a big piece of the plot and probably has a fuller understanding of the island than just about anyone since it's endowed him with some kind of superpower. speaking of superpower, when are walt and michael going to return? there's no way they made it back to civilization so i say they show up in the season finale and walt does some spooky shit.
as for the love square, it's getting old. let's move on to the next stage, where jack realizes he's made a terrible mistake trusting juliet and slides back into his role as losties tribal leader.
Joe Allard said:
I assume it crashed for the same reason you have to take a sub to the
island instead of a plane. electromagnetic fields screw with the flight
guidance flux-capacitor thingamajig controls, and makes things crash.
I was wondering who was in the pic on the monks desk, i was a quick
flash, but it really stood out. good call. woman from the jewelry store
huh. hmmm. maybe his mom? sister? i suppose it's not important.
I kinda thought charlie was going to die. they sometimes like to
unpredictably kill people off people before their storylines are
complete (hurley/libby), or to move different storylines along (anna
lucia/sayid/shannon), so i thought he might actually let Charlie die to
see his precious Penny again.
And the losties now have a juiceless satellite phone, i think Sayid
should be able to rig something up to make it work and call the local
Rangers station for help.
One late-breaking news tidbit:
This I found out from the Lost podcast I listen to (yes, I listen to a Lost podcast, go screw yourself, I don't have any pride anyway). The parachutest from the chopper, she said something to Mikhail, he told the Losties that she said "thank you for helping me." Obviously a lie.
What she really said, in Brazilian Portugese, is "I'm not alone."
Whoa.
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