Greatest Hits
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chaniI watched Lost yesterday in the evening before burying myself in the reading of a Connelly's crime novel. I really enjoyed the episode. I've been very critical of the writing lately but last night I find it quite good.
It was Lost at its best.
The title was perfect and I love how they wrapped everything up.
Naomi telling Charlie that there had been some fuss about the dead rock star and that a new album had been released, and Charlie writing his best moments in life as songs. Greatest Hits indeed. Very poetic. I guess they wanted to play the audience one last time with the ending when Charlie did not drown and thought he was saved but I'm pretty sure he's going to die for good in the finale. He already wrote his posthumous album, he gave Desmond his last message to Claire, he left Liam's ring in Aaron's crib, he cannot come back now. It's written.
By the way it was so bittersweet when Liam gave him the ring. We knew that Liam was wrong he was the one who would have a son, a family, and Charlie would end up a mess. So when Charlie left the ring, I saw it as a way to give it back to Liam (again with the metaphor of Aaron as in Moses' old brother) not as if he passed it to a surrogate son.
Charlie's journey is over now, he overcame his fears, he got to see himself as a good person, a hero saving the girl (Nadia, Claire), he is no longer trying to walk in his brother's steps.
There were several nice touches in the episode, like the cable on the beach being the connection between this episode and the Desmond-centric episode...leading them to the Looking Glass like Ariadne's thread.
Also Desmond getting hit on the head and losing consciousness on a boat echoed the way he arrived on the island, years before.
Ahhh Desmond, I love this guy. He was ready to take Charlie's place. I know that some people would interpret that as a new attempt at running away, now that he believes that Penny is on her way to rescue him, but I think it mostly showed how good a man he is.
If they keep ruining the character of Locke (I still haven't swallowed the fact he used Sawyer to kill Cooper), Desmond might be the only reason I'd stick to the show.
I enjoyed the short Jin/Sun interaction too with the musical theme that we always get then. There's something so touching about them. I don't understand what the writers waste their time with the Jack/Sawyer/Kate triangle when they already have a true love story on the island.
Jack annoyed me as Hell. I wish they would kill him off. He managed to be even more annoying than Kate! I so wanted Sayid to punch him.
Ben seemed so sure that Locke is dead when he gave Alex the gun (and she had already blood on her hands!) but now I'm convinced that Locke will be back. Had he really died form the shot we would have seen him die. And there's the Jacob buisness to deal with.
Apart from the good writing about the main plot of "Greatest Hits" there are still sour notes and inconsistencies that bother me. I can't help thinking that the writers changed their mind about the Others. For a while they hinted that the Others weren't actually bad people contrary to what our Losties believed, manipulative and liars yes but not really evil while the killers were among the Losties (even Juliet basically became a Losties when she killed)...and now they've become mass murderers (the gassing in Ben's flashbacks) and ready to kill everyone on the beach just to get the pregnant women?
Or is it just the message of the show? The good can become the bad and vice versa?
The title was perfect and I love how they wrapped everything up.
Naomi telling Charlie that there had been some fuss about the dead rock star and that a new album had been released, and Charlie writing his best moments in life as songs. Greatest Hits indeed. Very poetic. I guess they wanted to play the audience one last time with the ending when Charlie did not drown and thought he was saved but I'm pretty sure he's going to die for good in the finale. He already wrote his posthumous album, he gave Desmond his last message to Claire, he left Liam's ring in Aaron's crib, he cannot come back now. It's written.
By the way it was so bittersweet when Liam gave him the ring. We knew that Liam was wrong he was the one who would have a son, a family, and Charlie would end up a mess. So when Charlie left the ring, I saw it as a way to give it back to Liam (again with the metaphor of Aaron as in Moses' old brother) not as if he passed it to a surrogate son.
Charlie's journey is over now, he overcame his fears, he got to see himself as a good person, a hero saving the girl (Nadia, Claire), he is no longer trying to walk in his brother's steps.
There were several nice touches in the episode, like the cable on the beach being the connection between this episode and the Desmond-centric episode...leading them to the Looking Glass like Ariadne's thread.
Also Desmond getting hit on the head and losing consciousness on a boat echoed the way he arrived on the island, years before.
Ahhh Desmond, I love this guy. He was ready to take Charlie's place. I know that some people would interpret that as a new attempt at running away, now that he believes that Penny is on her way to rescue him, but I think it mostly showed how good a man he is.
If they keep ruining the character of Locke (I still haven't swallowed the fact he used Sawyer to kill Cooper), Desmond might be the only reason I'd stick to the show.
I enjoyed the short Jin/Sun interaction too with the musical theme that we always get then. There's something so touching about them. I don't understand what the writers waste their time with the Jack/Sawyer/Kate triangle when they already have a true love story on the island.
Jack annoyed me as Hell. I wish they would kill him off. He managed to be even more annoying than Kate! I so wanted Sayid to punch him.
Ben seemed so sure that Locke is dead when he gave Alex the gun (and she had already blood on her hands!) but now I'm convinced that Locke will be back. Had he really died form the shot we would have seen him die. And there's the Jacob buisness to deal with.
Apart from the good writing about the main plot of "Greatest Hits" there are still sour notes and inconsistencies that bother me. I can't help thinking that the writers changed their mind about the Others. For a while they hinted that the Others weren't actually bad people contrary to what our Losties believed, manipulative and liars yes but not really evil while the killers were among the Losties (even Juliet basically became a Losties when she killed)...and now they've become mass murderers (the gassing in Ben's flashbacks) and ready to kill everyone on the beach just to get the pregnant women?
Or is it just the message of the show? The good can become the bad and vice versa?
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Date: 2007-05-19 12:49 pm (UTC)Mmm, I'm not giving up yet on the idea that the Others are in some way good. Their tactics are doubtful at best and they certainly seem horribly evil but without knowing how the entire Others/Hostiles/Dharma thing actually came to pass I'm not sure we'll understand the Others completely. We don't know how the Others arrived on the island, why they clashed with Dharma and what Dharma was actually doing.
If the Dharma initiative turns out to be spectacularly evil it could well be that the Others were somehow fighting back the best they could... just by really terrible means. Not sure why they continue to use them on the Lostaways but I'm willing to reserve judgement until we know the whole story.
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Date: 2007-05-19 02:39 pm (UTC)As for the Others, I don't know...it's quite difficult to interpret Ben's behaviour as good. It isn't only a matter of knowing their past history, until lately killing weren't their thing at all, and they even were quite judgemental towards the Losties (remember what Goodwin told Ana-Lucia !) and seemed really upset when Sun shot the girl. When Juliet killed it seemed very serious as well, there was a trial and all, and now we're supposed to believe that the end justifies the means for them, that Locke killing his father was indeed a test and considered a good thing for all of them and that they kinda made a genocide during Ben's youth? It's like they're slowly becoming the savages that we thought they were in season 1.