Major change, recurring stuff
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chaniI watched "The Lighthouse" in the evening and I almost fell from my chair when watching the opening scene: in the alt-verse (or sideverse whatever)Jack has lost all his chest hair!
And looks like he has a son...
But let's go back to the chest hair issue first. As much as I dislike Jack's character, I've always thought that MF had the nicest body of the all cast (Sawyer/JH has a beautiful face and a sexy attitude, but not a great body). Who the heck thought that it would be better hairless?!!!!
"The Lighthouse" wasn't as good as "The Substitute" but, even though it was a Jack-centric episode, I enjoyed it. I liked the word play on "candidate" (Hugo telling Dogen he is a candidate after Jacob suggested him to do so, David Shepard being one of the candidates at the piano audition...Jack being obviously Jacob's favourite candidate which means that Jacob's tastes suck), and I liked the return of the Lewis Carroll's references through David's book, and the lighthouse (Jack didn't go through the looking-glass but saw stuff from space and time and broke the mirror). And Alt-Jack found the key opening the house of David's mother under...a (not so white) rabbit! Also, Jack recalled the episode in which they found the caves, confessing that he was chasing the ghost of his dead father. The episode in question was titled: "White Rabbit".
By the way I'm more than ever convinced that this is all about an inner journey, hence the lighthouse being a magic/metaphorical one, rather than a real one. Being lost can mean so many things...
The lighthouse's mirror wasn't only a magical mirror, it reminded us of how the show is written, with characters mirroring other characters and storylines echoing storyline. In this episode, Jack's daddy issues concerning Christian were being dealt with (or at least mentioned) in both universes AND reflected by David's issues.
I also liked that David was playing Chopin. This year is Chopin's year! I wonder if there's a connection between David's skills and Daniel Faraday who used to brilliantly play the piano too, before he lost his mind. Also Dogen's son was another candidate. There was another parallel with Aaron of course, a son whom Crazy Claire didn't raise and to whom uncle Jack read Alice in Wonderland in the flash-forwards when he lived with Kate. So David is either Aaron's substitute or Daniel's. Is Dogen a candiate too?
Interesting stuff: we didn't see who David's mother was, we didn't see the jury at the audition...
I liked that Hugo and Miles played the strategy game that we call Morpion in French (I have no idea how it's called in English), carrying on the recurring theme of game playing. And I liked that later Hugo, sort of channeling Miles' wit, suddenly wondered whether the skeletons (Adam and Eve)were actually themselves. It's about time!
I liked that the lighthouse device, a kind of dial, echoed the wheel that Ben pushed to move the island, and that the numbers were there again. 108 degrees is the sum of the numbers and that's where Jacob asked Hugo to set the dial.
Someone is coming and it's a "he" ("help him ", Jacob told Hugo). Desmond is the free/cursed traveller, so my money is on Mr Desmond DAVID Hume! There must be a reason Alt-Jack's son was named David. Someone has been called!
Of course it could just mean that Hugo had to help Jack, so he would find his path back, coming back to himself once he is fixed up.
Can Crazy Claire kill Kate, please pretty please?!!!!!!!
ETA: One last thing I just ran across in here:
"I think one of the under-recognized strengths of Lost is how the structure of the storytelling reflects what the show is about. Long before the characters started traveling through time, we were traveling through time, via flashbacks and flash-forwards. And now it seems that this season—in which the story is split between two realities—is going to be devoted to alternate realities within the two realities. Choosing a side in the coming island conflict isn’t just a matter of allying with friends against enemies. It’s also about subscribing to a worldview. It’s about picking a reality to live in." Noel Murray
Quite spot-on!
And looks like he has a son...
But let's go back to the chest hair issue first. As much as I dislike Jack's character, I've always thought that MF had the nicest body of the all cast (Sawyer/JH has a beautiful face and a sexy attitude, but not a great body). Who the heck thought that it would be better hairless?!!!!
"The Lighthouse" wasn't as good as "The Substitute" but, even though it was a Jack-centric episode, I enjoyed it. I liked the word play on "candidate" (Hugo telling Dogen he is a candidate after Jacob suggested him to do so, David Shepard being one of the candidates at the piano audition...Jack being obviously Jacob's favourite candidate which means that Jacob's tastes suck), and I liked the return of the Lewis Carroll's references through David's book, and the lighthouse (Jack didn't go through the looking-glass but saw stuff from space and time and broke the mirror). And Alt-Jack found the key opening the house of David's mother under...a (not so white) rabbit! Also, Jack recalled the episode in which they found the caves, confessing that he was chasing the ghost of his dead father. The episode in question was titled: "White Rabbit".
By the way I'm more than ever convinced that this is all about an inner journey, hence the lighthouse being a magic/metaphorical one, rather than a real one. Being lost can mean so many things...
The lighthouse's mirror wasn't only a magical mirror, it reminded us of how the show is written, with characters mirroring other characters and storylines echoing storyline. In this episode, Jack's daddy issues concerning Christian were being dealt with (or at least mentioned) in both universes AND reflected by David's issues.
I also liked that David was playing Chopin. This year is Chopin's year! I wonder if there's a connection between David's skills and Daniel Faraday who used to brilliantly play the piano too, before he lost his mind. Also Dogen's son was another candidate. There was another parallel with Aaron of course, a son whom Crazy Claire didn't raise and to whom uncle Jack read Alice in Wonderland in the flash-forwards when he lived with Kate. So David is either Aaron's substitute or Daniel's. Is Dogen a candiate too?
Interesting stuff: we didn't see who David's mother was, we didn't see the jury at the audition...
I liked that Hugo and Miles played the strategy game that we call Morpion in French (I have no idea how it's called in English), carrying on the recurring theme of game playing. And I liked that later Hugo, sort of channeling Miles' wit, suddenly wondered whether the skeletons (Adam and Eve)were actually themselves. It's about time!
I liked that the lighthouse device, a kind of dial, echoed the wheel that Ben pushed to move the island, and that the numbers were there again. 108 degrees is the sum of the numbers and that's where Jacob asked Hugo to set the dial.
Someone is coming and it's a "he" ("help him ", Jacob told Hugo). Desmond is the free/cursed traveller, so my money is on Mr Desmond DAVID Hume! There must be a reason Alt-Jack's son was named David. Someone has been called!
Of course it could just mean that Hugo had to help Jack, so he would find his path back, coming back to himself once he is fixed up.
Can Crazy Claire kill Kate, please pretty please?!!!!!!!
ETA: One last thing I just ran across in here:
"I think one of the under-recognized strengths of Lost is how the structure of the storytelling reflects what the show is about. Long before the characters started traveling through time, we were traveling through time, via flashbacks and flash-forwards. And now it seems that this season—in which the story is split between two realities—is going to be devoted to alternate realities within the two realities. Choosing a side in the coming island conflict isn’t just a matter of allying with friends against enemies. It’s also about subscribing to a worldview. It’s about picking a reality to live in." Noel Murray
Quite spot-on!
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Date: 2010-02-25 11:10 pm (UTC)I don't think Jack necessarily is Jacob's favorite. I wonder if 'not being good' in their prior life or in the LAverse would disqualify anyone. I would not count most anybody. I'm very interested to see Sawyer back in LA. I wonder if he did kill that man in Australia in the LAverse. Of course he did kill Locke's father on the Island. Why did 'the Others' demand of Locke that he show them his worthiness by killing his father? Or was that just Ben?
Speaking of Claire in the Islandverse.... didn't you get the idea that she was exactly the Flight 815 version of Danielle Rousseau? Sort of a one-minded mania? Of course Rousseau had not made friends with the MIB/Smoke!Monster.
I don't know....
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Date: 2010-02-26 10:34 am (UTC)You know, I really hope that it isn't Team Good vs Team Evil. White and black are just conventional chess colours to show the two sides of the game.
Jacob isn't better than the Man in Black, they are both very manipulative, moving their pawns as they wish, cheating even, just like Richard Widmore was not better than Ben Linius or like The Others were not better than our Losties, or like The Hostiles were not better than Dharma people, no matter that they all claimed to be the good guys and that the opposite team is therefore evil.
The big players just want to win!
And we, viewers, are players too, but I'm afraid that we won't win eventually. And I hate losing!