Ever felt you were trapped ?
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chaniIt's a feeling everybody has experienced once or twice in their life...
I liked 2x16 because it was a Jin/Sun centric episode and I loved 2x17 because it's a Locke centric one and a good episode!
I liked 2x16 because it was a Jin/Sun centric episode and I loved 2x17 because it's a Locke centric one and a good episode!
Jin and Sun are my favourite couple. I really like them together. The problem of communication that exists between them is enhaced, and somehow allegorically showed, by Jin being unable to understand the others (not THE Others but Sawyer, Bernard, Jack etc). That scene was touching. Daniel Dea Kim was so vulnerable again, Jin was so lost in translation, while he seemed working things out at the beginning of the season, when he was separated from the group, with Sawyer and Michael. Inconsistency from the writers? No, I think that this episode was about Sun and what being a couple mean, hence the Bernard/Rose cameo. People in a couple can help each other but also destabilize each other, ruin each other even. But can they save each other?
The dialogue at the doctor's office is relevant:
Sun: Why would I keep something like this from you? Oh, yes. I was trying to trap the son of a fisherman
Of course Sun was being a bitch here, but the verb "trap" is significant. I think she expected the son of a fisherman to un-trap her actually when she married him. But when Jin became the creature of Sun's father, she felt stuck and learnt English to escape a cage. She thought that leaving him was her salvation (but we know that she wasn't very happy already before she met him and wanted to escape already...), and that her impossibility of becoming pregnant was a chance, also she thought that the rich guy, whom she was supposed to date before she married Jin, could provide her freedom again...
Did she tell Jin the whole truth? I think so, I don't think that Jae was her lover. But I'm not sure it mattered at the end of the day. It's funny that now she's trapped on an island, she feels free enough to speak to her husband, to tell him the doctor's revelation about his sterility. Anyway after Claire we have a new Madonna on the island!
Speaking of couple....Ana-Lucia and Sayid did have chemistry...and it's like they 're working as "communicating vases". As she's learning from her previous mistakes, he's regressing.
Of course the cliifhanger at the end was a bit easy, but Henry Gale is definitely fun to watch!
The dialogue at the doctor's office is relevant:
Sun: Why would I keep something like this from you? Oh, yes. I was trying to trap the son of a fisherman
Of course Sun was being a bitch here, but the verb "trap" is significant. I think she expected the son of a fisherman to un-trap her actually when she married him. But when Jin became the creature of Sun's father, she felt stuck and learnt English to escape a cage. She thought that leaving him was her salvation (but we know that she wasn't very happy already before she met him and wanted to escape already...), and that her impossibility of becoming pregnant was a chance, also she thought that the rich guy, whom she was supposed to date before she married Jin, could provide her freedom again...
Did she tell Jin the whole truth? I think so, I don't think that Jae was her lover. But I'm not sure it mattered at the end of the day. It's funny that now she's trapped on an island, she feels free enough to speak to her husband, to tell him the doctor's revelation about his sterility. Anyway after Claire we have a new Madonna on the island!
Speaking of couple....Ana-Lucia and Sayid did have chemistry...and it's like they 're working as "communicating vases". As she's learning from her previous mistakes, he's regressing.
Of course the cliifhanger at the end was a bit easy, but Henry Gale is definitely fun to watch!
I loved so many things about that eppy!
First the title, Lockdown, is a pun...since Locke goes down indeed!
Also Locke is definitely the BOX man as I said once. There were so many boxes in that man's life!
From the small box he opens at the beginning of the episode, where the ring lies, to the coffin his father was supposed to lie in, to HIS hatch (as he said in the previous episode), to the the safe deposit box where his father kept the money of a con, to the smaller box the hatch becomes when the blast doors come down, to the tool box that Gale uses to hold the door, to of course the boxes he was making as he was trapped in a wheelchair before he took the flight...
Oh and cherry on the top, the line: I trusted you, Henry, now you've got to trust me. That button has to be pushed.
Of course Gale had to be the one pushing the button....because basically he's been pushing their buttons, especially Locke's button, for a while! LOL
I tell you this show is based on puns. To tone down this review, I must say that the final twist was quite predictable. As soon as we saw the grave it was obvious that Sayid was going to dig and find Henry Gale. But the fact he was a black man nicely echoed another imposture: Eko the priest!
Oh and I loved that colourful line from Sawyer to Jack: How about you put your mangos where your mouth is?
*g* and Sawyers' pretty dimples and sidelong glances are never boring.
But my fav is still John Locke! I love him to bits.
First the title, Lockdown, is a pun...since Locke goes down indeed!
Also Locke is definitely the BOX man as I said once. There were so many boxes in that man's life!
From the small box he opens at the beginning of the episode, where the ring lies, to the coffin his father was supposed to lie in, to HIS hatch (as he said in the previous episode), to the the safe deposit box where his father kept the money of a con, to the smaller box the hatch becomes when the blast doors come down, to the tool box that Gale uses to hold the door, to of course the boxes he was making as he was trapped in a wheelchair before he took the flight...
Oh and cherry on the top, the line: I trusted you, Henry, now you've got to trust me. That button has to be pushed.
Of course Gale had to be the one pushing the button....because basically he's been pushing their buttons, especially Locke's button, for a while! LOL
I tell you this show is based on puns. To tone down this review, I must say that the final twist was quite predictable. As soon as we saw the grave it was obvious that Sayid was going to dig and find Henry Gale. But the fact he was a black man nicely echoed another imposture: Eko the priest!
Oh and I loved that colourful line from Sawyer to Jack: How about you put your mangos where your mouth is?
*g* and Sawyers' pretty dimples and sidelong glances are never boring.
But my fav is still John Locke! I love him to bits.
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Date: 2006-04-02 06:52 pm (UTC)Je dois avouer avec honte que je n'avais pas remarquer "box" multivalence avant de lire ton analyse. C'est vraiment tres interessant.
Moi aussi n'avais pas doute que "Henry Gale" ne soit pas ce qu'il essaye de se passer - mais le denouement m'a surpris un peu. Quand on a revele que sa "femme" etait un homme, j'ai pensee immediatement "yay slash!" Mais pourquoi "Henry Gale" avait pris le nom du mort? Et pourquoi n'avait-il pas elimine les papiers?
J'attends l'episode suivant avec impatience...
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Date: 2006-04-02 07:07 pm (UTC)Everything is connected!
J'étais convaincue que Gale mentait et manipulait son monde aussi quand ils ont trouvé le ballon et la tombe, corroborant son histoire, je me suis dit qu'il y avait sûrement eu un vrai Henry Gale et que "notre Henry" l'avait donc tué. Et puis Sayid commençait déjà à vouloir creuser la tombe quand Ana-Lucia a dit qu'il ne pleuvait pas sur eux, suspendant ainsi son geste...donc la clé c'était la tombe! Je lis trop de romans policier, plus rien ne me surprend ou presque! ;- )
Quand on a revele que sa "femme" etait un homme, j'ai pensee immediatement "yay slash!"
LOL
Ma chérie on dirait que tu es déformée par le fandom!
J'imagine qu'Henry Gale ne pensait pas qu'il "profaneraient " une tombe...
Le thème de l'imposture est récurrent dans la série, et le changement de nom aussi: Sawyer n'est pas Sawyer mais James, Hurley est en fait Hugo, Eko a pris la place de son frère...
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Date: 2006-04-02 07:47 pm (UTC)LOL!!!
Mais, serieusement, je ne suis pas totalement convaincue que "Henry" est le malfaiteur ou simple tueur. Il y a deux choses qui ont attire mon attention. 1. Il veux rester avec les passagers et a besoin de l'allie parce qu'il sait que son mensonge peut etre revele. 2. Il a immediatement retenu les chiffres. Est-ce possible? Si on te dit 6 chiffres fortuit, peut-on les retenir par coeur? "Henry" n'a pas prie de les repeter. Puis il avait perdu conscience. Quand il l'a regagne, il n'a pas prie de repeter les chiffres aussi. Ou il travail avec les chiffres professionellement ou bien il les sait...
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Date: 2006-04-02 07:51 pm (UTC);- )
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Date: 2006-04-02 08:43 pm (UTC)Actually those obvious clues, just like the hieroglyphic code, are an annoying game between the writers and the fans. Just my opinion of course...