Thursday, April 30, 2009

Why do you keep calling me Calvin?

Might as well replace those VW vans with Deloreans because we're now in Back to the Future territory. After much insistence that the future cannot be changed, suddenly we are being told that maybe it can be. Which annoys me a bit. Either A) the Losties are going to prevent the 1977 catastrophe that sets everything in motion with the button and the the plane crash and everything else, in which case the show then becomes a moot point and we never get answers to the dang island mysteries because no one ever ends up there or B) they fail to prevent that destiny in which case we're just going up a rabbit hole that leads nowhere. Either way, this turn of events does not bode well.
Meanwhile, we have many more answers and yet more questions. So Daniel knows pretty much everything, including that in six hours drilling will release all this electromagnetic energy and yadda yadda. How'd he come by that knowledge? And is Daniel's mom Dr. Manhattan or something, that she can 'see' everything that is to happen? The specifics of all this are so maddeningly unclear.

A few thoughts:
- It’s kinda cool they found an actress who looks enough like young Eloise Hawking to play her 30 years ago.
- It's always good to see Radzinsky frustrated and suffering and angry. That actor does really peeved better than anybody. "A physicist shot my hand!" Niiiice.
- In a few hours (in 1977 time), there's some big electromagnetism release that is a big disaster. That, presumably, is the Incident that leads to the Swan hatch numbers thing and all that and to people like Miles and Charlotte being taken off island in their childhood.
- So Miles was born on the island, and can talk to the dead. Ethan was born on the island and seemed to have freaky strength. Daniel also an island-born kid? That might explain his mad math skillz. And the fact some island-born folks have such abilities might also explain why the Others were so interested in tackling the infertility problem (hence bringing Juliette on the island) - because those kids are special in some way.
- So there have been rumors a major character would die soon on Lost. Am hoping it's not Daniel, though that gunshot wound to the chest looks to be more than a neck scractch. (Speaking of gunplay, Jack must be a gamer to know to shoot the fuel tanks and make them blow up. Next let's pit him against some zombies).

1 comment:

Dave Tyler said...

This show is so infuriating. We are, as Daneman said, in Michael J. Fox territory now. Are we on some sort of feedback loop, where all of this is the efforts of Hawking and Widmore to prevent the disaster and they keep introducing new "variables?" to try to change history? But Eloise knew that she ends up shooting daniel, so I'm not sure that changes anything.
Can we assume that Hot Marshall Chick and friends are working for Eloise, and that Eloise is working at crosspurposes to Widmore? We also get confirmation that Widmore is a serial philanderer who doesn't practice safe sex and has sired multiple kids...is Charlotte his too?

My fear now is that they detonate the bomb, after a year long struggle next year, and we cut to Flight 815 flying over the pacific, it still crashes, cut to the chaos on the beach, dissolve, show over.