Was it the finale ?
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chaniI downloaded and watched Lost.
I found this episode quite disappointing compared to the previous one. I know, I know, I can't have Locke on screen all the time...
I couldn't help thinking that the flashback thing was clumsily done, the Walt/Michael/Miss Clue scene rang wrong - it's either poor writing or they want us to guess that Walt might have played a role to fool his dad just as Michael did when he came back( because the "they aren't who they said" couldn't be a clue, we already knew that!) - and that everything sounded like a blatant lie...like when Michael told Sayid not to come and he replied "of course" staring at him with his Sayid look and then we just knew that our smart Sayid had figured it out and would do something, because basically we already got the same kind of situation before...
I wish they would stop recycling situations or it's gonna look like a soap opera !
So the Others know Sawyer's real name? Why am I not surprised?
By the way, Sawyer gave us a clue when he said that he didn't even know Ana's last name. He said it like it was important. Later we saw that the others knew all the first AND last names of the four on the list. Who else knows that Hurley is actually Hugo?
Suddenly I realized something: all the characters (even the Others) are known by their "friends" and basically go by their first name: Jack, Kate, Charlie, Eko, Claire, Rose, Bernard, Hurley, Walt, Jin, Sun, Michael, Sayid, and the late Boone, Shannon, Ana-Lucia, Libby, Ethan...They are never called by their last name except LOCKE, Rousseau, Desmond, Miss Clue and Sawyer, but we know that Sawyer isn't his real last name and Locke several times called him James on screen. Even when Sayid mentioned the Other who has escaped, he said "Henry".
So Desmond, Rousseau, Miss Clue and Locke are the onlythree four people (can you tell I can't count?) going by their last name on screen or being called that way regularly by other people. Even when they sometimes used John to call Locke, we knew he was Locke, we have been trained to think of him as Locke. What matters is his last name. Maybe that naming thing means nothing, but I think it's interesting.
Charlie is such a kid but his addictive personality is well shown through the relationships he has been having with other people. He needs them, he craves them. When he's disappointed he goes to someone else or something else.
I liked the Charlie/Vincent interaction. Vincent is a saint!
Sorry couldn't help that pun. Speaking of Saint Vincent:
When the Roman Emperor Diocletian began persecuting Christians, Vincent was kept in prison for a long time by Governor Dacian, and was subjected to many cruel torments. When he died eventually, his body was strangely preserved by the protection of a raven. When any wild beast or bird tried to attack the mortal remains of the saint, the raven drove them away. So Dacian had Vincent's body sewn into a bag, tied to a stone, and cast into the sea. But in the night it was washed ashore and again loving hands gave it reverent care and secret burial.
The burials, Vincent bringing the statues, Charlies throwing them away into the sea...all that stuff made me think of the saint's legend.
What is thrown into the sea can be washed ashore. So maybe we'll see those Madonna statues full of heroin again...
Did Charlie really choose the living Madonna aka Claire over the lethal ones? It's funny that the former junkie provided shots to Claire and Aaron. He might have given up on religious vision and artifical paradises but I don't see him having worked out his issues yet.
I like Hurley better when he isn't the funny fat guy or the whiny guy. I liked how he said "no" to Michael, and the look he gave him later when he announced he would go with them. I think that Hurley's true calling is to be dark.
A few words about locke. I noticed he was sitting on the beach, silent and contemplative, just as he used to do at the beginnning of season 1. Back to beginning, rebirth? I wonder if Locke didn't leave his obsession, his shadow aka Eko, behind him. He's free now therefore he's walking again.
Are Sayid and Locke going to save the day or screw up things?
I couldn't help thinking that the flashback thing was clumsily done, the Walt/Michael/Miss Clue scene rang wrong - it's either poor writing or they want us to guess that Walt might have played a role to fool his dad just as Michael did when he came back( because the "they aren't who they said" couldn't be a clue, we already knew that!) - and that everything sounded like a blatant lie...like when Michael told Sayid not to come and he replied "of course" staring at him with his Sayid look and then we just knew that our smart Sayid had figured it out and would do something, because basically we already got the same kind of situation before...
I wish they would stop recycling situations or it's gonna look like a soap opera !
So the Others know Sawyer's real name? Why am I not surprised?
By the way, Sawyer gave us a clue when he said that he didn't even know Ana's last name. He said it like it was important. Later we saw that the others knew all the first AND last names of the four on the list. Who else knows that Hurley is actually Hugo?
Suddenly I realized something: all the characters (even the Others) are known by their "friends" and basically go by their first name: Jack, Kate, Charlie, Eko, Claire, Rose, Bernard, Hurley, Walt, Jin, Sun, Michael, Sayid, and the late Boone, Shannon, Ana-Lucia, Libby, Ethan...They are never called by their last name except LOCKE, Rousseau, Desmond, Miss Clue and Sawyer, but we know that Sawyer isn't his real last name and Locke several times called him James on screen. Even when Sayid mentioned the Other who has escaped, he said "Henry".
So Desmond, Rousseau, Miss Clue and Locke are the only
Charlie is such a kid but his addictive personality is well shown through the relationships he has been having with other people. He needs them, he craves them. When he's disappointed he goes to someone else or something else.
I liked the Charlie/Vincent interaction. Vincent is a saint!
Sorry couldn't help that pun. Speaking of Saint Vincent:
When the Roman Emperor Diocletian began persecuting Christians, Vincent was kept in prison for a long time by Governor Dacian, and was subjected to many cruel torments. When he died eventually, his body was strangely preserved by the protection of a raven. When any wild beast or bird tried to attack the mortal remains of the saint, the raven drove them away. So Dacian had Vincent's body sewn into a bag, tied to a stone, and cast into the sea. But in the night it was washed ashore and again loving hands gave it reverent care and secret burial.
The burials, Vincent bringing the statues, Charlies throwing them away into the sea...all that stuff made me think of the saint's legend.
What is thrown into the sea can be washed ashore. So maybe we'll see those Madonna statues full of heroin again...
Did Charlie really choose the living Madonna aka Claire over the lethal ones? It's funny that the former junkie provided shots to Claire and Aaron. He might have given up on religious vision and artifical paradises but I don't see him having worked out his issues yet.
I like Hurley better when he isn't the funny fat guy or the whiny guy. I liked how he said "no" to Michael, and the look he gave him later when he announced he would go with them. I think that Hurley's true calling is to be dark.
A few words about locke. I noticed he was sitting on the beach, silent and contemplative, just as he used to do at the beginnning of season 1. Back to beginning, rebirth? I wonder if Locke didn't leave his obsession, his shadow aka Eko, behind him. He's free now therefore he's walking again.
Are Sayid and Locke going to save the day or screw up things?
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:18 pm (UTC)Looks like it'll be a good one!
I want to know what's up with Walt - clearly he was appearing to Shannon, and then that woman asked if he turns up in places that he shouldn't be ... interesting ...
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Date: 2006-05-19 06:35 pm (UTC)The fact that Walt might be "special" was something that bothered Michael even before the crash, we know this from the flashbacks. I believe it was Walt's mother who told him so...or was it the step father? Yes I think he learnt it in Australia.
So if the island is a representation of what goes in the characters' mind (fears, hopes, obsessions, addicttions), the thing about Walt being tested makes sense.
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Date: 2006-05-19 07:16 pm (UTC)I agree with you.
The ep was mostly filler and for a moment I was worried like you that it was the finale.
The flashbacks were highly unnecessary.
Only interesting bits:
Eko taking up Locke's position in the hatch.
And possibly the arrival of the promised boat.
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Date: 2006-05-20 11:45 am (UTC)Eko is now obsessed the way Locke used to...maybe even more because he has that religious thing going on.
Poor Eko, always the replacement, first for his brother, now for John Locke. But it's what his name suggested anyway. He's meant to echo others' life and journey.
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Date: 2006-05-20 05:12 am (UTC)Dom Monaghan (sp?) was on Craig Ferguson tonight. BTW - I love Craig he is consistently funny. Dom was in a skit where Craig played and old soccer player who does colour for a British sports show. Dom was a surfer in the skit and he and Craig got into it. Craig called him a heroin smoking junkie (alluding to LOST) or something like that. Dom told him his grandmother was a fan of Craig's - as the skit's soccer player - when she was a 'little girl.' A lot of fun.