It's funny: Damon and Carlton on their latest podcast said this episode would serve as a breather, a chance for some laughs, right before things got really serious on the road to the Finale. Well... somehow despite focussing on a character with father issues (on LOST? NO FRAKKIN WAY!) who can talk to the dead the show did indeed deliver on a couple chuckles. It's an odd choice to make Miles' centric the humorous one of the season... I wonder if his episode was a part of the strike shortended Season 4 as planned how his backstory would've been told. EVERYONE having daddy issues or mommy issues) is getting tiring but it gave us a chance to see Miles soften up and better get to know Candle/Waxman/Pierre Chang.
*So... the hatch is being built yet it's already doing it's thing, causing someone's filling to dislodge and kill it's owner from the inside out. Hate to say but I think that would've made an interesting visual if we got to see it. But what does this mean: is the crazy magnetism of the Swan already in full effect? Does it just get worse when the hatch is built over it?
*Still not quite sure what to make of Jack... he seems to really just be hanging around for the sake of hanging around.
*I think the crazy would-be kidnappers were just Ben's people. Shame they cost Miles that fish taco. I love fish tacos.
*Now after finally getting the Miles episode, is anyone disappointed? I mean, I thought we'd get a lot more. I would've had him wander around the Island just talking to dead people, just filling the whole episode with cameos by former cast members. Maybe throw a twist in at the end with some spectacular reveal from a dead corpse. I mean imagine if he hung around the Caves and listened to Adam and Eve or went to the Black Rock. There's tons of stuff that could've been revealed here. I'm not going to call it a lost opportunity because these moments could still come. But with fewer and fewer episodes left it'll probably just be random moments.
*Next week: CLIP SHOW! They teased it'll be done in a way we've never seen before which usually means it'll be painful to watch.
*Two weeks from now: "The Variable" apparently starring Farraday.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
5x11, "Whatever Happened, Happened"
And now:
YOUR reigning, defending, undisputed champion of worst LOST line ever is....
"He will forget this ever happened and his innocence will be gone."
I think they could've just gone with, "Oh, the Temple healed Ben, but then he became embittered by Sayid betraying him and turned evil and he kept quiet in Season 2 about having ever met Sayid in his own past just to fuck with him even more."
I mean I feel like we've dealt with equally annoying bullshit before.
Instead, the writers knew they'd backed themselves into a corner and turned The Temple into a two-in-one plot device/deus ex machina that not only raises you from the dead but erases your memory, too.
There's a reason that soap operas are always made fun of for using amnesia storylines: it's easy and a cop-out. LOST typically doesn't go the easy route so why go there now?
What else has been (or *will be*) conveniently forgotten in the history of the show? The mind reels at the possibilities...
What annoys me the most though is how they're saying Ben was given his diabolical personality by having his "innocence" (WHAT?) removed, as if he just couldn't become a dick the regular way: by being born one. Benjamin Lynus has been one of the most fascinating villains in television history because you almost couldn't believe how consistently manipulative and self-serving he always acted. Yet you could because you've met people like that or people who could've become like that if certain paths had been followed, certain choices made. Again, it just feels like another cop-out.
*Meanwhile...
Kate thinks abandoning Aaron to his grandmother after telling him she was only stepping out for a bit is OK? I mean how fucked up will Aaron be when he grows up?
I can almost accept her seeing Aaron walk away so easily with someone who sort of, kind of looks like Claire as the moment when she realizes she'll never be his mother. But it's just not that strong enough a moment for me to buy. After seeing her broken on Jack's bed I thought something tragic must have happened, maybe Widmore or Ben blackmailed her, maybe she saw the ghost of Claire.
And the Cassidy/Kate storyline really needed more time. I can't believe it was compressed into this one episode. Easily could've been two or even three.
*Overall, a second disappointing episode. I think the season is careening headlong toward the season finale with plot development taking precedence over character development. I also think a very scary ending is being set up when amnesia and turning evil can get so easily exported out of The Temple.
YOUR reigning, defending, undisputed champion of worst LOST line ever is....
"He will forget this ever happened and his innocence will be gone."
I think they could've just gone with, "Oh, the Temple healed Ben, but then he became embittered by Sayid betraying him and turned evil and he kept quiet in Season 2 about having ever met Sayid in his own past just to fuck with him even more."
I mean I feel like we've dealt with equally annoying bullshit before.
Instead, the writers knew they'd backed themselves into a corner and turned The Temple into a two-in-one plot device/deus ex machina that not only raises you from the dead but erases your memory, too.
There's a reason that soap operas are always made fun of for using amnesia storylines: it's easy and a cop-out. LOST typically doesn't go the easy route so why go there now?
What else has been (or *will be*) conveniently forgotten in the history of the show? The mind reels at the possibilities...
What annoys me the most though is how they're saying Ben was given his diabolical personality by having his "innocence" (WHAT?) removed, as if he just couldn't become a dick the regular way: by being born one. Benjamin Lynus has been one of the most fascinating villains in television history because you almost couldn't believe how consistently manipulative and self-serving he always acted. Yet you could because you've met people like that or people who could've become like that if certain paths had been followed, certain choices made. Again, it just feels like another cop-out.
*Meanwhile...
Kate thinks abandoning Aaron to his grandmother after telling him she was only stepping out for a bit is OK? I mean how fucked up will Aaron be when he grows up?
I can almost accept her seeing Aaron walk away so easily with someone who sort of, kind of looks like Claire as the moment when she realizes she'll never be his mother. But it's just not that strong enough a moment for me to buy. After seeing her broken on Jack's bed I thought something tragic must have happened, maybe Widmore or Ben blackmailed her, maybe she saw the ghost of Claire.
And the Cassidy/Kate storyline really needed more time. I can't believe it was compressed into this one episode. Easily could've been two or even three.
*Overall, a second disappointing episode. I think the season is careening headlong toward the season finale with plot development taking precedence over character development. I also think a very scary ending is being set up when amnesia and turning evil can get so easily exported out of The Temple.
5x10, "He's Our You"
We're staring in the face of two scary possibilities:
-Ben Linus is dead thus changing the history of the Island. The Purge likely never happened and the DHARMA Initiative was never destroyed. It makes sense now that DHARMA signs were still hanging up in Othersville in 2007 because they were never taken down by The Others. Yet: why was Ben still alive in 2007 when Sun and Lapidus left him?
-Ben Linus will be risen from the dead by the island, Locke and Christian style. OK... I can accept the resurrection of Locke but you'd think that if Ben had been shot in the chest by Sayid as a twelve year-old and then rose from the dead later he would've said something about it at some point along the way. In true LOST fashion, Ben could just go, "Oh I couldn't tell you because then it would change the past," but that just feels like a deus ex machina than a well executed plan.
Both of these options are really bizarre, yet I think they've been preparing us for this moment all along by repeatedly stating the past can not be changed. I've been thinking they've been meaning to say that, "You can't change the past unless you were always meant to change the past." This would now be the case if Ben is dead and DHARMA un-purged. But I think it'll end up being the latter, with his resurrection serving for Ben as evidence of The Island's power the same way Locke regaining the ability to walk did.
*I expected a far more dramatic parting of ways between Ben and Sayid. We've seen Sayid act toward Hurley as if Ben did or said something that convinced him definitely of Ben's duplicity. So how could Sayid really just have let Ben go after killing all those people for him? You'd think Sayid should've asked why they just don't go after Widmore himself then. How could he have just accepted, "Ok, we're done here" as the end of his killing spree?
Overall, I thought this was the weakest episode of the season. It didn't really break new ground so much as remind us that what Sayid was capable of. Even with all that, I still didn't think he'd pull the trigger on a twelve-year old so the episode managed to plant enough doubt about Sayid's killer instincts. I think I just expected a lot more out of an episode that was supposed to fill in the blanks of Sayid's backstory. It did that, just not in any particularly memorable way.
-Ben Linus is dead thus changing the history of the Island. The Purge likely never happened and the DHARMA Initiative was never destroyed. It makes sense now that DHARMA signs were still hanging up in Othersville in 2007 because they were never taken down by The Others. Yet: why was Ben still alive in 2007 when Sun and Lapidus left him?
-Ben Linus will be risen from the dead by the island, Locke and Christian style. OK... I can accept the resurrection of Locke but you'd think that if Ben had been shot in the chest by Sayid as a twelve year-old and then rose from the dead later he would've said something about it at some point along the way. In true LOST fashion, Ben could just go, "Oh I couldn't tell you because then it would change the past," but that just feels like a deus ex machina than a well executed plan.
Both of these options are really bizarre, yet I think they've been preparing us for this moment all along by repeatedly stating the past can not be changed. I've been thinking they've been meaning to say that, "You can't change the past unless you were always meant to change the past." This would now be the case if Ben is dead and DHARMA un-purged. But I think it'll end up being the latter, with his resurrection serving for Ben as evidence of The Island's power the same way Locke regaining the ability to walk did.
*I expected a far more dramatic parting of ways between Ben and Sayid. We've seen Sayid act toward Hurley as if Ben did or said something that convinced him definitely of Ben's duplicity. So how could Sayid really just have let Ben go after killing all those people for him? You'd think Sayid should've asked why they just don't go after Widmore himself then. How could he have just accepted, "Ok, we're done here" as the end of his killing spree?
Overall, I thought this was the weakest episode of the season. It didn't really break new ground so much as remind us that what Sayid was capable of. Even with all that, I still didn't think he'd pull the trigger on a twelve-year old so the episode managed to plant enough doubt about Sayid's killer instincts. I think I just expected a lot more out of an episode that was supposed to fill in the blanks of Sayid's backstory. It did that, just not in any particularly memorable way.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
5x09, "Namaste"
*There was a moment watching the episode tonight and K. turned to me and went, "You know this season has been REALLY good." And I can't put my finger on it but I have to agree. In terms of coherence and overall quality Season 1 is still the best. Season 2 has a fond place in my heart for The Button metaphor that everyone hated. Season 3 had some bright spots and a great run at the end. And Season 4 had some of my very favorite episodes ever. I can't really say any of that about this season -- it's been all about relentless momentum toward something HUGE, tying up as many loose ends as possible along the way. All the pieces seem to be falling to place: Jughead, the building of the Swan, the Losties there to witness it, DHARMA at its height and the constant references to a truce it seems everyone can't wait to break.
This episode was really interesting in that we really got to see the tables turned here: Sawyer is THE MAN and he's not playing. Over the last three years he's learned to be the leader Jack has always wanted to be. What sets him apart is he seems to have conquered his demons while Jack is still chasing his. How is Jack going to deal with that? And how does that impact what Kate feels about the two of them, now that one seems hapless and the other is more self-assured than ever?
*This has been brought up on The Fuselage, but the Othersville Lapidus and Sun retruend to appeared subtly different than the one last seen. For one thing there's still DHAMRA signs hanging that clearly should not have been, unless I'm mistaken. Supposedly there's no alternate timeline shenanigans going on with LOST, so I don't know if it's just that those signs were never taken down even after DI was destroyed. Or it could be a sign that, yes, the past has been changed and DHARMA lasted longer than it did before.
*Is it safe to assume one of the big questions in the coming weeks is whether or not to kill Ben the Kid? Obviously it won't happen, but does that mean that a coruse correction of some sort will get in the way of anyone who tries? (My money's on Sayid.)
*So where is Farraday? Has he figured out a way to travel out of 1977? Remember this video that aired at Comic-Con? You can hear the camera man speak and it sounds like Farraday.
*And believe it or not the fake band Geronimo Jackson that's been popping up constantly throughout the show's run has put out a single available on ITunes titled "Dharma Lady." It played in the DHARMA van Jin was driving when he first found Jack and company. They also played it again during the welcome picnic tonight at DHARMAville.
It's almost exactly based off a song by The Donkeys titled "Excelsior Lady" and apparently is played by The Donkeys, too.
*Next week: "He's Our You"
This episode was really interesting in that we really got to see the tables turned here: Sawyer is THE MAN and he's not playing. Over the last three years he's learned to be the leader Jack has always wanted to be. What sets him apart is he seems to have conquered his demons while Jack is still chasing his. How is Jack going to deal with that? And how does that impact what Kate feels about the two of them, now that one seems hapless and the other is more self-assured than ever?
*This has been brought up on The Fuselage, but the Othersville Lapidus and Sun retruend to appeared subtly different than the one last seen. For one thing there's still DHAMRA signs hanging that clearly should not have been, unless I'm mistaken. Supposedly there's no alternate timeline shenanigans going on with LOST, so I don't know if it's just that those signs were never taken down even after DI was destroyed. Or it could be a sign that, yes, the past has been changed and DHARMA lasted longer than it did before.
*Is it safe to assume one of the big questions in the coming weeks is whether or not to kill Ben the Kid? Obviously it won't happen, but does that mean that a coruse correction of some sort will get in the way of anyone who tries? (My money's on Sayid.)
*So where is Farraday? Has he figured out a way to travel out of 1977? Remember this video that aired at Comic-Con? You can hear the camera man speak and it sounds like Farraday.
*And believe it or not the fake band Geronimo Jackson that's been popping up constantly throughout the show's run has put out a single available on ITunes titled "Dharma Lady." It played in the DHARMA van Jin was driving when he first found Jack and company. They also played it again during the welcome picnic tonight at DHARMAville.
It's almost exactly based off a song by The Donkeys titled "Excelsior Lady" and apparently is played by The Donkeys, too.
*Next week: "He's Our You"
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
5x06, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
*Wow... that was the some of the most violent television I've watched since The Wire. This episode just went... there. I don't quite know what else can be talked about other than what the hell must be going through Ben's mind.
"Is he evil?" is too simple a question.
It's incredible that despite everything we've seen Ben do he's still even a little trustworthy. Yet he gets nearly everyone at some point to trust him and his character was at a place where even a lot of the audience had come to peace with him.
Even if his motives were selfish, his actions were being employed toward a noble end: serving the Island. It's that sort of consistency that has somehow allowed us to excuse or at least better tolerate his actions. The rarely seen moment last week when he lost his temper with Jack and Sun drove home his earnestness.
He was the villain everyone loved to hate. Now he's back to just being hated.
Clearly, he meant to save Locke when he busted into his hotel room. It was the moment Locke told him about needing to find Hawking that everything changed. There's something... insane about a person so quick to make a life and death decision.
Meanwhile it brings up a ton of questions about exactly what sides are vying against each other:
*While the contours of "The War" are defined by Widmore and Ben, it's still really unclear where Locke, the Oceanic 6 and Eloise Hawking fall.
-Widmore and Ben both seem to think Locke is special and necessary to their needs. Yet they both seem to both threaten and nurture him. Locke seems more like a pawn than a crucial piece of the puzzle.
-Hawking's association with Locke (and Widmore's telling Locker about her) was so poisonous to Ben that he killed Locke over it. Yet Hawking seemed perfectly fine working with Ben and he with her. Did she even know Ben killed Locke? But would that have ever mattered to her? What seemed to change here was instead of Locke being the shepherd who brought everyone to Hawking it was now Ben who did so. Might the original plan have been that Ben was going to be in the coffin and serve the role of Christian in the Coffin? Might he have been afraid that the Island wouldn't resurrect him the way it most certainly would Locke? Did all this suddenly become clear to him when Locke told him Widmore wanted him to find Hawking?
*I didn't realize this until I saw it on Sledgeweb, but Ajira Airways 316 crashed on the Hydra after the Island's station has been abandoned. So it crashed in the present day. Lapidus and Sun appear to have taken a canoe and rowed to the Island, leaving the canoe at the camp where it was found by the Left Behind a few episodes ago. Meanwhile, Jack, Kate and Hurley are in the same timeline as Jin, likely in seventies.
So we now have a scenario where Locke, Ben, Lapidus and Sun are in 2009 while Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday and Miles are all in the seventies. WACKY!
*More time travel craziness: Cesar is looking at a page out of Daniel's journal, meaning at some point in the past Daniel visited the hydra and left his journal there.
*And just for the hell of it:Waaaaaaaalllllllllltttttttt!
*Next week: "LaFleur"
"Is he evil?" is too simple a question.
It's incredible that despite everything we've seen Ben do he's still even a little trustworthy. Yet he gets nearly everyone at some point to trust him and his character was at a place where even a lot of the audience had come to peace with him.
Even if his motives were selfish, his actions were being employed toward a noble end: serving the Island. It's that sort of consistency that has somehow allowed us to excuse or at least better tolerate his actions. The rarely seen moment last week when he lost his temper with Jack and Sun drove home his earnestness.
He was the villain everyone loved to hate. Now he's back to just being hated.
Clearly, he meant to save Locke when he busted into his hotel room. It was the moment Locke told him about needing to find Hawking that everything changed. There's something... insane about a person so quick to make a life and death decision.
Meanwhile it brings up a ton of questions about exactly what sides are vying against each other:
*While the contours of "The War" are defined by Widmore and Ben, it's still really unclear where Locke, the Oceanic 6 and Eloise Hawking fall.
-Widmore and Ben both seem to think Locke is special and necessary to their needs. Yet they both seem to both threaten and nurture him. Locke seems more like a pawn than a crucial piece of the puzzle.
-Hawking's association with Locke (and Widmore's telling Locker about her) was so poisonous to Ben that he killed Locke over it. Yet Hawking seemed perfectly fine working with Ben and he with her. Did she even know Ben killed Locke? But would that have ever mattered to her? What seemed to change here was instead of Locke being the shepherd who brought everyone to Hawking it was now Ben who did so. Might the original plan have been that Ben was going to be in the coffin and serve the role of Christian in the Coffin? Might he have been afraid that the Island wouldn't resurrect him the way it most certainly would Locke? Did all this suddenly become clear to him when Locke told him Widmore wanted him to find Hawking?
*I didn't realize this until I saw it on Sledgeweb, but Ajira Airways 316 crashed on the Hydra after the Island's station has been abandoned. So it crashed in the present day. Lapidus and Sun appear to have taken a canoe and rowed to the Island, leaving the canoe at the camp where it was found by the Left Behind a few episodes ago. Meanwhile, Jack, Kate and Hurley are in the same timeline as Jin, likely in seventies.
So we now have a scenario where Locke, Ben, Lapidus and Sun are in 2009 while Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday and Miles are all in the seventies. WACKY!
*More time travel craziness: Cesar is looking at a page out of Daniel's journal, meaning at some point in the past Daniel visited the hydra and left his journal there.
*And just for the hell of it:Waaaaaaaalllllllllltttttttt!
*Next week: "LaFleur"
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
5x07, "316"
The stupidest theory I ever heard was one that held the Island moved, as if it were on a conveyor belt making it's way around the world. That's how it was able to pick-up the Black Rock, the Nigerian Drug Plane, etc. Hawking didn't exactly say the Island moved like that (really if it moves in space at all it appears to be within a small portion of the Pacific). But I know it's just going to revive theories like that.
*Then there was a once stupid theory that I long subscribed to: that time loops were going to be a huge part of the show, that the entire show might even end as it began with Jack waking up in the jungle. Well now that they did it here, I guess that won't be the the finale. But it still wouldn't surprise me to see something like that, maybe with a crash involving the children, like Aaron and Walt.
*Annnnnd finally: what Hawking said all but confirmed that the VIle Vortice theories have some truth. There's supposedly pockets of electromagnetism all over the world where wacky shit goes down (healing, disappearances, possible teleportation). The Bermuda Triangle is supposed to be one as well as Ayers Rock, featured in the Season 2 episode S.O.S.
*Does the episode's title, "316", also refer to John 3:16?
*There's a DHARMA station in Los Angeles? Really? And if it's so hard to figure out how to get to the Island how come The Others could do it so easily with their submarine? And the Freighter was able to find it? Hmmm....
*It's evident we're going to get more Real World 06 flashbacks:
-We need to find out what convinced Kate to come along, what left her crying on Jack's bed, and why she left Aaron behind.
-What convinced Sun to come along and why she left Ji-Yeon behind
-Why Hurley's with a guitar case and what convinced him to actually do what Ben wanted
-How did Sayid get arrested and why is he on the flight? Why is that woman worthy of coming to the Island with the O6?
-Did Ben go after Penny? Did he kill her or just get his ass beat attempting it.
So that's at least five episodes just rehashing the 36 hours or so of the 06's life before they boarded the plane. Plus we need to learn more about the two people who look to be new cast members: the woman who accompanied Sayid and the man who was also in the first class cabin with the rest of them
And what happened to Lapidus?
*So when are they now? I'd bet they're around the time that started the season, right when DHARMA was first building its stations. I'm also betting that everyone is now in the same time and we'll be seeing some Jack/Kate/Sawyer triangulation soon enough. The story of how the Left Behind got assimilated into the DHARMA Initiative will certainly be interesting.
Next week: "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
*Then there was a once stupid theory that I long subscribed to: that time loops were going to be a huge part of the show, that the entire show might even end as it began with Jack waking up in the jungle. Well now that they did it here, I guess that won't be the the finale. But it still wouldn't surprise me to see something like that, maybe with a crash involving the children, like Aaron and Walt.
*Annnnnd finally: what Hawking said all but confirmed that the VIle Vortice theories have some truth. There's supposedly pockets of electromagnetism all over the world where wacky shit goes down (healing, disappearances, possible teleportation). The Bermuda Triangle is supposed to be one as well as Ayers Rock, featured in the Season 2 episode S.O.S.
*Does the episode's title, "316", also refer to John 3:16?
*There's a DHARMA station in Los Angeles? Really? And if it's so hard to figure out how to get to the Island how come The Others could do it so easily with their submarine? And the Freighter was able to find it? Hmmm....
*It's evident we're going to get more Real World 06 flashbacks:
-We need to find out what convinced Kate to come along, what left her crying on Jack's bed, and why she left Aaron behind.
-What convinced Sun to come along and why she left Ji-Yeon behind
-Why Hurley's with a guitar case and what convinced him to actually do what Ben wanted
-How did Sayid get arrested and why is he on the flight? Why is that woman worthy of coming to the Island with the O6?
-Did Ben go after Penny? Did he kill her or just get his ass beat attempting it.
So that's at least five episodes just rehashing the 36 hours or so of the 06's life before they boarded the plane. Plus we need to learn more about the two people who look to be new cast members: the woman who accompanied Sayid and the man who was also in the first class cabin with the rest of them
And what happened to Lapidus?
*So when are they now? I'd bet they're around the time that started the season, right when DHARMA was first building its stations. I'm also betting that everyone is now in the same time and we'll be seeing some Jack/Kate/Sawyer triangulation soon enough. The story of how the Left Behind got assimilated into the DHARMA Initiative will certainly be interesting.
Next week: "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
5x05, "This Place is Death"
There was a moment as Jin, Young Danielle and the rest of the French science crew trekked through the jungle that I felt a sense of deja vu. For the first time maybe since Season 1, I actually felt a sense of dread. For whatever reason we've watched our Losties walk back and forth through the jungle so many times that we no longer expect it to be dangerous. It's just a place to walk through to get from one landmark to another. But through the eyes of the crew everything was all of sudden wild and new again. When one suggests they actually go into the Monster's tunnel to retrieve Montand, you almost want to laugh at their naivete. It was just a great few segments where you remembered why the Island used to be so scary, because anything and everything could happen. It also makes Danielle's line in the first season, "This is where Montand lost his arm" morbidly funny.
*Then there was Charlotte's death, one of the more well executed and meaningful deaths on the show in a long time. I'd read in some interview that if it weren't for the writers' strike there would've been an episode exploring Charlotte's Island roots. That would've made her passing even more powerful as it still feels like we barely got to know her. Yet there she was doing her own "constant" travel through time, giving us her life's cliff notes. When she starts spewing out her life story to Daniel, more as a confession than a revelation, we know she's got little time left. So when Daniel asks, "Why are you telling me this?" we know what he doesn't: that Charlotte is right and this place is death.
*So was Charlotte always destined to die a horrible death from Constant Disease? Farrady seems to have warned her a child never to come back to the Island, yet it's her leaving that leads her to want to return so badly. What else might Farraday do in his future flashes that he shouldn't do, all in the remote hope that he could still save Charlotte?
*For once the flashes weren't annoying sound effects and harsh lighting but really communicated how much pain the Left Behind were going through.
*The big question I'm starting to have is just how much Ben is saying is the truth. We all know he can't be trusted yet he's positioned himself in such a way that he's never been more trustworthy. He's got half the Oceanic 6 following his lead to get them back to the Island. But what if he's just trying to hitch a ride that he doesn't deserve. Let's really look at what's going on here: 1) Ghost Christian now says that Locke should've turned the Frozen Donkey Wheel he should never have listened to Ben and let him do it in his place -- meaning Ben wouldn't have left the Island; 2) We have Ghost Claire, Constanting Charlotte and I think at least one other saying that some people, like Aaron, should never return; 3) I really don't buy that he happened to get Jin's ring from Locke, especially since if Locke had given it to Sun and told her Jin washed up on shore she'd more than ever have no reason for returning. It just feels like an elaborate scheme to get revenge on Widmore by getting off the Island, hiding it from him, killing his daughter and then returning back to the Island, still out of Widmore's reach.
*The Donkey Wheel, the Monster, Danielle, heiroglyphics, Ben actually losing his cool and, of course, Finnoula Flannagan. It was just a buffet of awesomeness.
*Next week: I actually have no idea what the title of the episode is, but from the preview it looks ridiculously mythology heavy. ("Windows" -- what?)
Can't we flash forward to next wednesday?
*Then there was Charlotte's death, one of the more well executed and meaningful deaths on the show in a long time. I'd read in some interview that if it weren't for the writers' strike there would've been an episode exploring Charlotte's Island roots. That would've made her passing even more powerful as it still feels like we barely got to know her. Yet there she was doing her own "constant" travel through time, giving us her life's cliff notes. When she starts spewing out her life story to Daniel, more as a confession than a revelation, we know she's got little time left. So when Daniel asks, "Why are you telling me this?" we know what he doesn't: that Charlotte is right and this place is death.
*So was Charlotte always destined to die a horrible death from Constant Disease? Farrady seems to have warned her a child never to come back to the Island, yet it's her leaving that leads her to want to return so badly. What else might Farraday do in his future flashes that he shouldn't do, all in the remote hope that he could still save Charlotte?
*For once the flashes weren't annoying sound effects and harsh lighting but really communicated how much pain the Left Behind were going through.
*The big question I'm starting to have is just how much Ben is saying is the truth. We all know he can't be trusted yet he's positioned himself in such a way that he's never been more trustworthy. He's got half the Oceanic 6 following his lead to get them back to the Island. But what if he's just trying to hitch a ride that he doesn't deserve. Let's really look at what's going on here: 1) Ghost Christian now says that Locke should've turned the Frozen Donkey Wheel he should never have listened to Ben and let him do it in his place -- meaning Ben wouldn't have left the Island; 2) We have Ghost Claire, Constanting Charlotte and I think at least one other saying that some people, like Aaron, should never return; 3) I really don't buy that he happened to get Jin's ring from Locke, especially since if Locke had given it to Sun and told her Jin washed up on shore she'd more than ever have no reason for returning. It just feels like an elaborate scheme to get revenge on Widmore by getting off the Island, hiding it from him, killing his daughter and then returning back to the Island, still out of Widmore's reach.
*The Donkey Wheel, the Monster, Danielle, heiroglyphics, Ben actually losing his cool and, of course, Finnoula Flannagan. It was just a buffet of awesomeness.
*Next week: I actually have no idea what the title of the episode is, but from the preview it looks ridiculously mythology heavy. ("Windows" -- what?)
Can't we flash forward to next wednesday?
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