Flower Power

[chani]

This week has been hectic so far and I'm bound to Marking Hell still for a while(at least tomorrow and on Saturday). Today it was non-stop work, from 8:00 to 16:30, I did not have lunch time(I'm supposed to have a break off teaching between 12:40 and 13:05 but I had stuff to do) and I left the school feeling exhausted which isn't surprising. I didn't even get a break to go to the loo during the whole day (I swear it's true) and ran from the subway exit to my place because I soo needed to pee. TMI?

So when I came back home I fed the cats, after relieving my bladder, and went out to the hairdresser. Yeah I was too tired to go shoe shopping.

Next week is gonna be tough too, for I have term meetings on Monday and Tuesday evening after the class. I won't leave the school before 20:00 at best. I'm going to spend 11 hours at school on Monday and I will miss my piano lesson on Tuesday. :-(

In case you wonder the connection between the title of this post and the content so far...the reason is that I've just watched Lost. But I suppose that my icon gave it away.

 

So this episode was Sawyer-centric which is usually good news. From now on I'm going to call him, Mr Dimples.

Those dimples of his are just too cute. The look in his eyes has become really soft too. He started as Sawyer, the outsider, the man who wanted everyone to hate him and now he is just Sweet James, a leader whom everybody can count on. What a journey! I found also adorable his "And Jin, he's a hell of a nice guy but not a great conversationlist".

Jin just needed 3 years to become a good conversationalist, that's all! The "he's a hell of a nice guy" made me swoon. I just love Jin/James. 

So I enjoyed the episode and its flower leitmotiv (the name James chose of course, the 70's pattern, the flower he picked for Juliet) but I could have lived without the ending which was too phoned, from the conversation he had with Horace to Jin calling him and his seeing Kate again. *rolls eyes* 

I liked the parallels between the Oceanic 6 and those who were left behind. They all lied on and off the island. They have all spent 3 years on their own. 3 years, it's the amount of time for a love potion's effects to fade away, according to Tristan et Yseult. I hope that the quadrangle of doom isn't back. James and Juliet are perfect together. Kate and Jack are going to mess everything up. And where is Sayid? 

Of course Daniel had to spot little Charlotte but I really wonder where younger Ben is. I mean Ben and his father should already be there, in the Dharma village. Did his leaving the island screwed up his whole existence on it, even his youth and his killing everyone?

If so Ben, whose mother died giving birth to him, could have been the reason why no woman could survive childbirth. And there's Paul's necklace, a "key of life"...a new connection to Egyptian stuff.

Charlotte died on the island and her body vanished, Locke died off the island and his body was resurrected. Miles can hear dead people, but  Hugo talks to them too. We've seen many ghosts on and off the island. Is Claire dead or alive? What is the key of life that the island seems to hold?


Does Richard Alpert, the man who never ages, have the key?

 ETA: Speaking of Lost, MSN has pictures from "behind the scenes": http://tv.msn.com/gallery/lost-behind-the-scenes/?photoidx=1

I know Locke wasn't really on yesterday's episode but Terry O'Quinn rocks. What a beautiful man.

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Comments

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

Lost spec makes my head hurt.

I saw a spoilery picture earlier today which is apparently from the next ep.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

My head already hurts because of marking!

I'm completely unspoiled.

I hope they'll have some good explanations about the other losties that seemed to have vanished (like Rose, Bernard, Vincent!). Or are they also with the Dharma people but have been hidden to our eyes?

I want to know where Vincent is.

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I'm done with the little marking I offered to do and I'm getting a little bored, but that has more to do with the awful weather. When I read about your schedule, I thought: Yeah, I know, why I'm staying at home at the moment - school would definitely be too much for me right now.

So, *hugs* for marking hell and next week's meetings - and I'm wishing you lots of energy, too!


Back to Lost:

I didn't actively seek out the pictures - just stumbled across them and then I couldn't unsee what I saw, but it didn't really tell me anything.

I'm not sure all the lost losties are currently on the same timeline or better, are on the island at the same time.