OK... I'm going to cheat here. A poster at the Fuselage named Todell (who happens to also write a LOST blog for the Houston Chronicle) posted this which I'm copying and pastung in lieu of any actual recap from me. I really had nothing to say about this episode so I was surprised to see someone draw so much meaning out of it, and especially using the Hero's Journey which was my virtual college thesis.
Charlie's list? His greatest hits? They're the steps of the mono-myth:
1. a call to adventure, which the hero has to accept or decline
2. a road of trials, regarding which the hero succeeds or fails
3. achieving the goal or "boon," which often results in important self-knowledge
4. a return to the ordinary world, again as to which the hero can succeed or fail
5. application of the boon in which what the hero has gained can be used to improve the world
1. A call to adventure = #5 Charlie hears his Driveshaft song on the radio for the first time, and realizes he will be a "bloody rock god" = Charlie learns that Claire can be rescued.
Charlie has lost hope with the band and is ready to quit when the group hears You All Everybody on the radio, and hope is reborn! Charlie will be a rock star after all! On the island, this scene is shown shortly before Desmond tells Charlie that Claire and Aaron will be rescued via the helicopter. Hope is reborn!
2. A road of travails = #4 Charlie's father teaches him to swim = Charlie learns he will drown to death.
As a child, Charlie is frightened to learn how to swim, but after some encouragement from his father, Charlie overcomes his fear and dives in. On the island, this scene takes place just before Charlie learns that to be the hero, it requires that he drown to death. Which, of course, is a nice bookend to the flashback -- Charlie must learn to swim, only so that he can drown.
3. Achieving the goal or "boon," self-knowledge = #3 Liam gives Charlie the family ring = Charlie telling young Aaron that he loves him.
Liam gives Charlie the family ring, the symbol of their lineage. The ring is the symbolic "boon:" it represents Charlie's specialness, is bestowed upon him because he's the "different" one, the one that will have a family. And he does have a family: Claire and Aaron. To whom he bestows the family "boon."
4. A return to the ordinary world = #2 Charlie saves the woman from the mugger = Charlie accepts the mission and says his goodbyes.
Charlie saves Nadia after Driveshaft has broken up, and he has returned to the ordinary world where he is no longer a "rock god." And he passes the test. On the island, Charlie has to say goodbye to his family and friends, the members of his ordinary world, before he can complete the mission.
5. Application of the boon = #1 Charlie meets Claire = Charlie goes on his mission to the Looking Glass.
Charlie has finally found his great purpose in life: loving and saving Claire, and he accepts it. The child in Claire's womb will be the inheritor of Charlie's boon, but for the child to carry on Charlie's inheritance, Charlie must commit an act of sacrifice and heroism.
There are plenty of heroic characters on the show whose stories also follow the mono-myth pattern, but the difference here is that the writers are literally drawing the comparison out for us on that list that Charlie creates.
***
The thing that really bugged me about this episode was that it felt REALLY manipulative, that exactly all the right buttons were pushed to get the audience to react a certain way. And these weren't subtle moments either. Then again it was called "Greatest Hits" and any band's greatest hits are never their most subtle works. But, yeah, it worked: there were moments I was on the verge of tears and there was that bit at the end when I thought Charlie was done for and had comitted the noble sacrifice.
BUT... as I wrote that monring only three things were going to happen: 1) Charlie was going to die; 2) Desmond was going to sacrifice himself to save Charlie once and for all (very nearly done); 3) Deus Ex Machina.
And of course... we got #3.
The episode served as a bridge to the end game. The problem here was that the previous run of six of seven episodes have been so good that this one felt like it pulled the breaks and served as a breather before the whole thing got going again. Now all the pieces are in motion and we'll finally get that epic confrontation between the Others and the Losties that's been building since the coming of Ethan.
Easter Eggs:
*Yup, that was Nadia.
*The Bunny Rabbit Hatch
*And the mysterious sticker on Charlie's guitar: "I was here moments ago." WHAT.
NEXT: This is it! LOST's Season Finale, the Jack-centric "Through the Looking Glass". And be sure to tape it... supposedly the epsiode will require immediate rewatching, especially the final five minutes...
ETA: At my personal blog, a commenter was intrigued by my thinking that Ben was more a monster now for being amoral, than being immoral. Really I shouldn't have used the word monster. Here's my response:
Oops... I actually don't mean monster in a "bad" way, but that Ben was no longer operating by the traditional rules of good or evil, so instead of being "human" he was now something else entirely. That kind of philosphy can lead to benevolent or harmful acts depending on where it's newly rooted. In Ben's case it's not really rooted at all, just where it needs to be so he feels right. He's never a liar, until he is and then he's not again. He's not a killer, until he is, but then he's not really. He's a good person, but the person handing out the "good" label is himself.
Monday, May 21, 2007
LOST / 3x20, "The Man Behind the Curtain"
"Helllllp... Me...."
And so goes our first meeting with Jacob (aka "HIM"). In case you didn't see him, it wasn't a Psycho-esque delusion of Ben, Jacob was most definitely there.
Now who could he be? At first glance, the forehead looks distinctly like Terry O'Quinn's except according to Lostpedia, he was being played here by one of the show's prop masters. I am willing to go out on a very, very long limb and say that they deliberately picked a dude to play Jacob who looked like O'Quinn, just so they could eventually reveal that Jacob is indeed Locke.
How can that be? Well, if all the theorizing about lost time is correct, then perhaps Locke is somehow caught in time, and everyone is going through a time loop, but only Locke is standing still in that particular place for some reason. Notice in the above pictures Jacob's hair is as long and his clothes as tattered as Richard Alpert's when we meet him in Ben's flashback. Richard doesn't look like he's aged a bit. Perhaps this similarity is not coincidental and there's a hint here that what seems to have caused Alpert's agelessness is also affecting Jacob.
Or... Richard Alpert is Jacob. (cough.) But that would just be lame, yes?
*While the episode was full of little bits of show mythology, the one that stood out for me was the subtle way they explained why Ben (and thus the Others) are so obsessed with kidnapping pregnant women. If I'm reading the episode correctly, Ben believes he may have brought a curse to the Island that causes all pregnant women to die at around seven months, just as his own mother did. This was in no small part because his father kept blaming him for his mother's death and their misery ever since. Ben told the Others he was born on the Island to deflect any hint he brought this "curse" with him, while also making him look special as supposedly the last on-Island birth.
Meanwhile, the girl who grew close to him seems to have disappeared from his life later, the crude doll she made for him the only reminder of her presence in young Ben's life. What happened to her? Did she perhaps die in childbirth, too? Was this what finally snapped Ben and turned him into a mass murderer?
This is just another case of the writers taking a seemingly bizarre mystery and resolving it not just by answering a question, but illuminating a character's dark past. Really, instead of sympathizing with Ben, it made him seem even more like a monster, not because he's evil, but because he's beyond notions of good and evil. He acts purely out of self-preseveration, with lies being the truth if it suits that purpose.
His special relationship with Jacob was all he had left to hold onto. And with the coming of Locke, with Locke hearing what even Ben couldn't hear, that relationship was threatened, and so, too, Ben's place within the Others and more importantly his view of himself.
*Smokey = Whispers? It sounded like whispering around Ben as he approached the sonic fence and spoke to his mother. It's now widely assumed that Ben's mom was the Monster. Is Smokey also the cause of the whispers then, too? Indeed the Monster may be the closest thing to a grand unifying theory of Lost, explaining everything from Dave to Christian Shepherd to the Whispers.
*Actually, there's also a theory out there that Jacob is the Monster and that the circle of ash or gunpowder is the smoke we see when it is out and about. So when it reenters that zone the ash just falls away and rejoins the circle while he retakes his seat. Or... not.
*Did someone say "Volcano"? Well... you know they never bring anything up without it coming back later. Island go boom?
And so goes our first meeting with Jacob (aka "HIM"). In case you didn't see him, it wasn't a Psycho-esque delusion of Ben, Jacob was most definitely there.
Now who could he be? At first glance, the forehead looks distinctly like Terry O'Quinn's except according to Lostpedia, he was being played here by one of the show's prop masters. I am willing to go out on a very, very long limb and say that they deliberately picked a dude to play Jacob who looked like O'Quinn, just so they could eventually reveal that Jacob is indeed Locke.
How can that be? Well, if all the theorizing about lost time is correct, then perhaps Locke is somehow caught in time, and everyone is going through a time loop, but only Locke is standing still in that particular place for some reason. Notice in the above pictures Jacob's hair is as long and his clothes as tattered as Richard Alpert's when we meet him in Ben's flashback. Richard doesn't look like he's aged a bit. Perhaps this similarity is not coincidental and there's a hint here that what seems to have caused Alpert's agelessness is also affecting Jacob.
Or... Richard Alpert is Jacob. (cough.) But that would just be lame, yes?
*While the episode was full of little bits of show mythology, the one that stood out for me was the subtle way they explained why Ben (and thus the Others) are so obsessed with kidnapping pregnant women. If I'm reading the episode correctly, Ben believes he may have brought a curse to the Island that causes all pregnant women to die at around seven months, just as his own mother did. This was in no small part because his father kept blaming him for his mother's death and their misery ever since. Ben told the Others he was born on the Island to deflect any hint he brought this "curse" with him, while also making him look special as supposedly the last on-Island birth.
Meanwhile, the girl who grew close to him seems to have disappeared from his life later, the crude doll she made for him the only reminder of her presence in young Ben's life. What happened to her? Did she perhaps die in childbirth, too? Was this what finally snapped Ben and turned him into a mass murderer?
This is just another case of the writers taking a seemingly bizarre mystery and resolving it not just by answering a question, but illuminating a character's dark past. Really, instead of sympathizing with Ben, it made him seem even more like a monster, not because he's evil, but because he's beyond notions of good and evil. He acts purely out of self-preseveration, with lies being the truth if it suits that purpose.
His special relationship with Jacob was all he had left to hold onto. And with the coming of Locke, with Locke hearing what even Ben couldn't hear, that relationship was threatened, and so, too, Ben's place within the Others and more importantly his view of himself.
*Smokey = Whispers? It sounded like whispering around Ben as he approached the sonic fence and spoke to his mother. It's now widely assumed that Ben's mom was the Monster. Is Smokey also the cause of the whispers then, too? Indeed the Monster may be the closest thing to a grand unifying theory of Lost, explaining everything from Dave to Christian Shepherd to the Whispers.
*Actually, there's also a theory out there that Jacob is the Monster and that the circle of ash or gunpowder is the smoke we see when it is out and about. So when it reenters that zone the ash just falls away and rejoins the circle while he retakes his seat. Or... not.
*Did someone say "Volcano"? Well... you know they never bring anything up without it coming back later. Island go boom?
Sunday, May 13, 2007
3x19, "The Brig"
Was this the beginning of the end for John Locke? Even though he'd get shot and apparently killed the following episode, "The Brig" really was part 1 of a two-parter. Across the two Locke finally let go of the all-consuming anger toward his father and thus left his past before The Island behind him. John Locke is a new man. And you know what that means:
Purgatory Rule -- everytime a character resolves his pre-crash issues he or she gets whacked. Usually this is within that character's respective episode, but I think we can treat "The Brig" and "Man Behind The Curtain" as one whole.
Actually, we got a two-for-one in this episode with Sawyer resolving his own father issues. But while the original Sawyer is dead, the scars te left on his namesake are still evident. Somehow this is not a rebirth for James Ford... there's more yet to resolve as his puking and misery afterwards attests to. What does Sawyer become now that the object of his vengeance has been destroyed? Does he move on to resolve the damage he himself left behind, starting with his daughter Clementine?
Resolving both these issues within the same episode points to the spirtual brotherhood Sawyer and Locke share. Really this was the only way Locke could get past his anger, knowing that someone else shared his pain, perhaps even felt it worse than he did. Live Together, Die Alone...
This was a masterpiece of an episode, with everything from the writing, to the directing to the acting, editing and lighting clicking together to create a thrilling and even moving hour. One of the best episodes ever.
*The Master Manipulator: Nearly everything Ben said to Locke was a lie, intended to manipulate him into a humilating situation. Locke posed the greatest threat to Ben's hold on the Others. Ben would do everything he could to keep it, even if it meant kidnapping Cooper from Florida and putting John in a position to kill him, which Ben knew would never happen. Meanwhile, he created false expectations among the Others and looked stronger for it when Locke failed to live up to them.
*"A little hot for Heaven": So it's not purgratory... IT'S HELL! Cooper's little "theory" added an extra special kick to all the other ones out there that the Island was purgatory. Instead of thinking about it in literal terms though I think this episode shifted a lot of fans' minds toward thinking about it metaphorically.
Bits & Pieces:
*Naomi Dorrit: A reference to the Charles Dickens novel, Little Dorrit. According to Lostpedia the book "is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period."
*"An Old Pace": The ancient-looking column Anthony Cooper gets tied-up to seems to be from the same civilization that built the Four-Toed statue. Who were these people and where did they go? Were they the ancestors of the Hostiles?
*Why is Cindy there? Me'thinks there's a flashback in Cindy's future. There's definitely a lot more to learn about how she went from Taillie to Other.
Locke's healing transferrable? So how did Ben heal so quickly once John was with him? Does Locke's "specialness" extend beyond himself? If so how has that been affecting the Losties all this time? Did Ben actually try to keep Locke with him primarily to heal himself?
*Free Will: Ben brings up free will again as a major component of the Others' beliefs. He even says one needs a "full commitment" to it to be a true citizen of the Island. Problem with that is we see so little of it in practice. Every decision Ben claims could be made by free will (going all the way back to earlier this season with Kate falling for Sawyer because of the conditions of their captivity) has been manipulated by him.
*Everyone Loves Sayid: This run of episodes strongly casts Sayid as the Wise Man of the Losties. Everyone trusts him, everyone believes him, and everyone looks to him to solve their problems. And... these are all reasons why I think we may be seeing the last of him. A guy like that can not be allowed to survive on this particular Island.
*Interesting that Sayid has never seen anything as sophistocated as Naomi's satellite phone. Is this another hint that time on the Island and time in the outside world are operating differently? Perhaps in the outside world it is actually 2007 (or maybe 2010 when the show ends).
*Significance of Sawyer walking barefoot? Maybe it's nothing, but you'd think Sawyer would at least have gone back to his tent and grabbed some foot gear. I think this was a subtle way to hint Sawyer was going on a spritual journey of sorts.
*The faked crash: I think it's safe to assume Ben had a crash faked so the search for Oceanic 815 would end. The Hostiles and Ben are definitely being backed by someone or something and I think it has nothing to do with the Hanso Foundation. Maybe Mitellos Bioscience is not a front for DHARMA but really a new entrant into the show's mythology.
*Guest Starring: Rousseau: Hilarious little cameo by everyone's favorite Frenchwoman with an eastern European accent. I think running into Locke and grabbing the dynamite is going to come up again during her long promised flashback, now looking likely for Season 4.
Purgatory Rule -- everytime a character resolves his pre-crash issues he or she gets whacked. Usually this is within that character's respective episode, but I think we can treat "The Brig" and "Man Behind The Curtain" as one whole.
Actually, we got a two-for-one in this episode with Sawyer resolving his own father issues. But while the original Sawyer is dead, the scars te left on his namesake are still evident. Somehow this is not a rebirth for James Ford... there's more yet to resolve as his puking and misery afterwards attests to. What does Sawyer become now that the object of his vengeance has been destroyed? Does he move on to resolve the damage he himself left behind, starting with his daughter Clementine?
Resolving both these issues within the same episode points to the spirtual brotherhood Sawyer and Locke share. Really this was the only way Locke could get past his anger, knowing that someone else shared his pain, perhaps even felt it worse than he did. Live Together, Die Alone...
This was a masterpiece of an episode, with everything from the writing, to the directing to the acting, editing and lighting clicking together to create a thrilling and even moving hour. One of the best episodes ever.
*The Master Manipulator: Nearly everything Ben said to Locke was a lie, intended to manipulate him into a humilating situation. Locke posed the greatest threat to Ben's hold on the Others. Ben would do everything he could to keep it, even if it meant kidnapping Cooper from Florida and putting John in a position to kill him, which Ben knew would never happen. Meanwhile, he created false expectations among the Others and looked stronger for it when Locke failed to live up to them.
*"A little hot for Heaven": So it's not purgratory... IT'S HELL! Cooper's little "theory" added an extra special kick to all the other ones out there that the Island was purgatory. Instead of thinking about it in literal terms though I think this episode shifted a lot of fans' minds toward thinking about it metaphorically.
Bits & Pieces:
*Naomi Dorrit: A reference to the Charles Dickens novel, Little Dorrit. According to Lostpedia the book "is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period."
*"An Old Pace": The ancient-looking column Anthony Cooper gets tied-up to seems to be from the same civilization that built the Four-Toed statue. Who were these people and where did they go? Were they the ancestors of the Hostiles?
*Why is Cindy there? Me'thinks there's a flashback in Cindy's future. There's definitely a lot more to learn about how she went from Taillie to Other.
Locke's healing transferrable? So how did Ben heal so quickly once John was with him? Does Locke's "specialness" extend beyond himself? If so how has that been affecting the Losties all this time? Did Ben actually try to keep Locke with him primarily to heal himself?
*Free Will: Ben brings up free will again as a major component of the Others' beliefs. He even says one needs a "full commitment" to it to be a true citizen of the Island. Problem with that is we see so little of it in practice. Every decision Ben claims could be made by free will (going all the way back to earlier this season with Kate falling for Sawyer because of the conditions of their captivity) has been manipulated by him.
*Everyone Loves Sayid: This run of episodes strongly casts Sayid as the Wise Man of the Losties. Everyone trusts him, everyone believes him, and everyone looks to him to solve their problems. And... these are all reasons why I think we may be seeing the last of him. A guy like that can not be allowed to survive on this particular Island.
*Interesting that Sayid has never seen anything as sophistocated as Naomi's satellite phone. Is this another hint that time on the Island and time in the outside world are operating differently? Perhaps in the outside world it is actually 2007 (or maybe 2010 when the show ends).
*Significance of Sawyer walking barefoot? Maybe it's nothing, but you'd think Sawyer would at least have gone back to his tent and grabbed some foot gear. I think this was a subtle way to hint Sawyer was going on a spritual journey of sorts.
*The faked crash: I think it's safe to assume Ben had a crash faked so the search for Oceanic 815 would end. The Hostiles and Ben are definitely being backed by someone or something and I think it has nothing to do with the Hanso Foundation. Maybe Mitellos Bioscience is not a front for DHARMA but really a new entrant into the show's mythology.
*Guest Starring: Rousseau: Hilarious little cameo by everyone's favorite Frenchwoman with an eastern European accent. I think running into Locke and grabbing the dynamite is going to come up again during her long promised flashback, now looking likely for Season 4.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
3x18, "D.O.C."
Rewatching the episode after seeing the last two draws out all the interwoven subtleties of the show's plot overall: without rewatching I'd still be obsessed over what Juliet is up to and what the hell Naomi meant when she said "there were no survivors".
Juliet's storyline, with the tape recorder as the connecting thread, portrayed her first as a mole, then a reluctant mole and now, perhaps, a double agent. Her fate has swung with each passing episode, depending on who had the recorder at the time.
Naomi's bizarre news also set-up "The Brig" perfectly. Without the entire world believing that the passengers of Flight 815 were dead, Anthony Cooper wouldn't have thought he was in hell, something that allowed him to finally be himself, as well as give the "It's Purgatory" theories an extra special twist.
*"It is he who will bear this debt." What may be lost with all the analysis of those two issues, is just how well the episode filled out Sun and Jin's backstory. Now we know Mr. Paik didn't make Jin his goon out of spite but because he felt Jin owed him for helping out Sun.
Another dimension's also added to Sun's compulsory lying. She tells her father that she covered for him all his life, and that she would continue to do so as long as he covered her this one time. It's a wonderful twist that shows Sun's lying in a different light: she does it so easily not because she's a weak, craven character but because she had to do so for herself and her family's welfare. This ironically carries on elsewhere as she lies to Jin about wanting to have a fancier honeymoon and living arrangements. While Sun thinks she's protecting him, she's instead giving him the impression she's materialistic, which we saw during Sun's first flashback in Season 1. Turns out she's not that way at all but continued the ruse to cover her first lie to Jin.
*Mikhail and the Island's healing properties: I crapped my pants when Mikhail emerged our of the jungle. Sure, it's a bit of a cop-out to say the Island just healed him (and they referred to that a bit in "The Man Behind the Curtain") but again, it subtly sets up how even the most deadly looking injuries can still be cured. Are they setting up the return of Locke?
*The episode also quietly laid the groundwork for Kate being pregant: Juliet informed Sun all men were five times more fertile the average man. Considering how much nookie Kate and Sawyer have been having lately (and seriously... I think it's safe to assume Sawyer's sex drive is in a bit more hyperdrive than the normal male) there's a very good chance Kate's with child. BUT... how's this for a possible twist: what if the Others used the captivity on the Hydra to impregnate Kate... with JACK's sperm. It could all come out in the raid when the Others take the pregant women.
*Jin, LOST Action Hero: Daniel Dae-Kim is a black belt in Tai Kwon Do and choreographed the fight with Mikhail with the director.
*"Thank you... She said 'Thank You'": Umm, check that Mikhail. The parachutist actually told you, "I am not alone." Sneaky Others....
BUT... if she's not alone... who else is with her? Penny? Maybe even -- GASP! -- Walt?
*More father issues: So... Jin's father doesn't even know if he's Jin's real biological father. Nearly every character on the show appears to have father issues. In this particular case, is it just a recurring theme or something pointing to a larger connection among the Losties?
Juliet's storyline, with the tape recorder as the connecting thread, portrayed her first as a mole, then a reluctant mole and now, perhaps, a double agent. Her fate has swung with each passing episode, depending on who had the recorder at the time.
Naomi's bizarre news also set-up "The Brig" perfectly. Without the entire world believing that the passengers of Flight 815 were dead, Anthony Cooper wouldn't have thought he was in hell, something that allowed him to finally be himself, as well as give the "It's Purgatory" theories an extra special twist.
*"It is he who will bear this debt." What may be lost with all the analysis of those two issues, is just how well the episode filled out Sun and Jin's backstory. Now we know Mr. Paik didn't make Jin his goon out of spite but because he felt Jin owed him for helping out Sun.
Another dimension's also added to Sun's compulsory lying. She tells her father that she covered for him all his life, and that she would continue to do so as long as he covered her this one time. It's a wonderful twist that shows Sun's lying in a different light: she does it so easily not because she's a weak, craven character but because she had to do so for herself and her family's welfare. This ironically carries on elsewhere as she lies to Jin about wanting to have a fancier honeymoon and living arrangements. While Sun thinks she's protecting him, she's instead giving him the impression she's materialistic, which we saw during Sun's first flashback in Season 1. Turns out she's not that way at all but continued the ruse to cover her first lie to Jin.
*Mikhail and the Island's healing properties: I crapped my pants when Mikhail emerged our of the jungle. Sure, it's a bit of a cop-out to say the Island just healed him (and they referred to that a bit in "The Man Behind the Curtain") but again, it subtly sets up how even the most deadly looking injuries can still be cured. Are they setting up the return of Locke?
*The episode also quietly laid the groundwork for Kate being pregant: Juliet informed Sun all men were five times more fertile the average man. Considering how much nookie Kate and Sawyer have been having lately (and seriously... I think it's safe to assume Sawyer's sex drive is in a bit more hyperdrive than the normal male) there's a very good chance Kate's with child. BUT... how's this for a possible twist: what if the Others used the captivity on the Hydra to impregnate Kate... with JACK's sperm. It could all come out in the raid when the Others take the pregant women.
*Jin, LOST Action Hero: Daniel Dae-Kim is a black belt in Tai Kwon Do and choreographed the fight with Mikhail with the director.
*"Thank you... She said 'Thank You'": Umm, check that Mikhail. The parachutist actually told you, "I am not alone." Sneaky Others....
BUT... if she's not alone... who else is with her? Penny? Maybe even -- GASP! -- Walt?
*More father issues: So... Jin's father doesn't even know if he's Jin's real biological father. Nearly every character on the show appears to have father issues. In this particular case, is it just a recurring theme or something pointing to a larger connection among the Losties?
Saturday, May 5, 2007
LOST / News and a Proposal
*Rumor has it ABC will announce LOST's end date at this coming week's upfronts. Further rumors speculate LOST will get two more seasons, though late breaking reports modified that to mean the second one may not be a full 22 episode one. That fits in with Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse's long stated desire to end the series after 100 episodes, possibly meaning the show could terminate as early as the November 2008 sweeps.
*Rumors also speculate LOST Season 4 will begin in January 2008 and run non-stop from there ala 24.
*To make the long hiatus between season go down easier I'm going to propose a LOST watching club: The LOST Rewind. Each week beginning the one after the season finale, the "club" will rewatch three episodes, beginning with "Pilot" and going from there. At that pace every episode of LOST will have been rewatched by the time Season 4 rolls around. Discussions will focus on what we may have missed the first time around, what storylines and clues have been paid off and how character arcs have evolved. I'm also hoping the show's complexities will be easier understand when ingested in such a dense schedule.
I'm going to propose it to Karri and Artz at the Fuselage so it could have an official home. Who's with me?
*Rumors also speculate LOST Season 4 will begin in January 2008 and run non-stop from there ala 24.
*To make the long hiatus between season go down easier I'm going to propose a LOST watching club: The LOST Rewind. Each week beginning the one after the season finale, the "club" will rewatch three episodes, beginning with "Pilot" and going from there. At that pace every episode of LOST will have been rewatched by the time Season 4 rolls around. Discussions will focus on what we may have missed the first time around, what storylines and clues have been paid off and how character arcs have evolved. I'm also hoping the show's complexities will be easier understand when ingested in such a dense schedule.
I'm going to propose it to Karri and Artz at the Fuselage so it could have an official home. Who's with me?
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
LOST / Quick and Dirty
"Written by Damon Lindelof
& Carlton Cuse"
-- has to be my favorite phrase.
Just absolutely awesome.
& Carlton Cuse"
-- has to be my favorite phrase.
Just absolutely awesome.
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