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Big happenings on the island this week. Let's discuss:
- There seems to be some sense among the Others that Locke is capital-I Important. Like a chosen one. Like Neo. What that role is supposed to be, we dunno. Why it was so dang important he kill his father, I'm not sure, aside from the idea that byshedding this last tie to his old life he commits to the Others. Like a baptism. That whole bit about "I'm sorry, he's not who we thought he was" that Ben said to the crowd after Locke didn’t slice and dice Con Artist Dad. But how they can expect him to sign up for the Others when he doesn’t even know what the heck is going on is a bit crazy.
- The fate of Oceania flight 815 is an intriguing/annoying question mark. They're not in Purgatory or Hell - if it was Hell, it'd be a lot more crowded. And not as pretty. And it'd smell. And the producers of the show have sworn 1,000 ways to Sunday that the flight survivors are not dead. So what's the deal with the plane wreckage and bodies actually being found? Elaborate hoax, with faked video? Possibly. Some kind of sci-fi alternate timeline thing? Annoyingly possible.
- So we got a bit more elaboration of the Magic Box notion. Now we see it's a metaphor and Con Artist Dad was kidnapped and brought here. One wonders if other off-island traces of life of the Losties have been brought to the island. One wonders why Ben kept insisiting 'you brought him here, John' to Locke.
- What's Rousseau need dynamite for? You bet your bippy I'm curious to see. One of the great moments of the episode, Locke sitting there whittling, Sawyer locked in the brig, yelling and pounding, and Locke warns Rousseau about the dynamite "Be careful, it's unstable." Pot calling the kettle black there.
- What was Sayid digging a hole for?
- What in the wide wide world of sports is going on with Juliet and Jack? That whole interaction with Kate, where J&J seem to know something Big and Important that they've not shared yet was emblemic of everything I love/hate about this show - so intriguing and yet so annoying at the same time. "We should tell her." "Not yet." If I'm Kate, that's the moment I beat Jack's head with a rock until the white meat shows.
- Quite good episode. We saw Locke's dad bite it, as we'd all been rooting for. We saw Sawyer get his revenge. It was interesting in that it was a non-flashback episode - no backstory, all island events. And now we have so many new questions and mysteries that my head hurts.
- Did I miss any? What'd you think?
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3 comments:
Great ep and my hate/hate relationship with Punk a@## Locke continues.
1. Ben is a P-I-M-P. He wanted Locke to prove how much he wants to be down with the others AND he wanted something to hold over him...so, he had him kill his good for nothing Daddy. Too bad Locke was too much of a punk to do it. He sucks. Buuuut, giving Sawyer the tape was UNsucky, so, at least we know he is not a mole.
2. OK, Jack, my sexy doctor man, is AN idiot. Juliette CANNOT be trusted. People who lock you in cages and mind copulate you are bad. And I am furious at the amount of trust Jack is showing her. Anything she says is suspect. Sorry.
3. Kate. My dawg. Idiot. No one else trusts Jack, so why is she running to tell him stuff? Because she is (sing-along) "Torn between to lovers, feeling like a fool." And shame on her for trying to sneak out of Sawyer's tent in the middle of the night. That't not cool. Stay, get some more in the morning and then bounce.
4. The "found plane" is a plant, bodies and all, by the others
henchman. They are not in hell.
5. I TOLD you all that Juliette's goal was to find fertile chicks for the others to experiment with. Bastards.
6. The parachute chick....I dunno, she gives me pause.
That might have been the best episode of the season.
The writers are taunting us again with the hell thing. When Locke's Daddy was spitting out "You mean you haven't figured it out yet?" and lines about it being hot and being in hell, the writers were slapping around the audience. "You nerds think you know what's going on? Think again, punks.
Because I love to pat myself on the back: I'd like to point out that I called the Locke's Daddy/Sawyer connection a while back.
I guess the question regarding the "discovery" of Flight 815's wreckage is how hard would it be to fake some underwater footage from a robot camera. Nobody is sending real divers that deep right? But we know the island seems to be a place that can't be found on a map. Is it cloaked some how? Does the cloak occassionally fail, and that's what brings planes and helicopters down? That still doesn't explain how a 19th centure slave ship ended up there.
The Locke and Rousseau greeting was interesting too and purposeful, I think. People have written dissertations on the differences between the philosophers Locke and Rousseau and their opinions on the state of Nature. Rousseau sees civilization as the problem, preventing Man from living in a pure state of freedom. Hence, the dynamite for Lost's Rousseau. Locke believed that while Man is free, absolute liberty created savages, and Man need some higher order (ie religion) to give his life purpose. Hence we have the island's Locke treating the Island almost as some sort of God that grants wishes, and order and purpose to his life.
I don't think the writers conceived that meeting as an accident. Peer-review that, suckers.
I think Sayid was just tending the garden. I could be wrong.
Locke is SO gonna get crucified. That heavy handed Christ-carrying-The-Cross imagery at the end of the episode only strenghtens my conviction that Locke will be the island's sacrifical lamb. He's going to save everyone.
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