If I were on an island

[chani]

I'd know what to wear today. But I am not. 

The sky is grey, it might rain later...and I'm going to a wedding in the afternoon ! 
Shall I wear my long purple dress with the stole I bought in Marrakech? But which shoes could match it? Or maybe the Chinese-like outfit  I wore once at a friend's wedding? Or my dark green suit (dress and long-sleeved jacket) ? Or black trousers with a fancy top? This is soooo frustrating.

If only I were on an island....

I was beginning to really like Ana-Lucia you know...

It's the Shannon syndrome !

Well at least A-L got a taste of Sawyer's mangoes which was funny given all the speculations about A-L/Jack and Kate/Sawyer.

But actually I am not surprised by her death. Good people are taken away by the Others or simply die on the island. 
And Ana was no longer bad. She wasn't a cold-blooded murder anymore. The flashback we got at the airport was significant. As she told her mother, she could come home now. 
Michael has understood something when he was away...and  I bet that had Ana killed Henry she wouldn't have been shot by Michael. The other characters still have demons to fight on the island, they can't leave yet.

Also Libby was shot just like Shannon, by accident. This time by Michael who had just killed Ana. It was like the handover from the old killer to the new one. The fact that Sayid suggested that Hurley could take Libby to the beach where he had taken Shannon foreshadowed a parallel, a similar fate between Shannon and Libby. But Hurley screwed up, so maybe Libby didn't die. Maybe the blanket protected her.

By the way I found Hurley really annoying again.

Lost leaves me more and more with the feeling that, as different as the characters seem to be, they are actually the same, so their storylines have to be connected or have to echo one another.

If there's a key, I  just hope it is Locke.

Comments

[fraidycatx3.livejournal.com]

...and I bet that had Ana killed Henry she wouldn't have been shot by Michael

I agree,very icronic that. You know the other thing I found interesting that no one on my friends list seems to have commented on, is the fact that Henry told Locke he was coming for him.
I don't know what to make of that.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Well, it's either meaningful or Henry is still pushing Locke's buttons (given to the flashbacks about his father, Locke wants to be chosen, he needs it)...or it's both!

[pjzallday.livejournal.com]

I suppose by now I'm too late to have any input but I just have to know...

What did you decide to wear?



As for Ana Lucia getting a "taste of [Sawyer's] mangoes...", I'm not sure I've ever heard it referred to in that way before. ::dies laughing::

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I wore the chinese-like outfit. I left the party quite early (well it was almost 1 am) because I was tired (I caught a cold yesterday).

But, but...the mangoes were an obvious metaphor !!!!!

[pjzallday.livejournal.com]

::is resurrected then dies laughing again::

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's me, I'm a clown.

I wonder if I could juggle with Sawyer's mangoes...

[sister-luck.livejournal.com]

I wasn't surprised of A-L's death either - mostly for reasons outside of the story though - which make me fear that Libby is a goner, too. She might survive for a while, but both these ladies are out I believe.
Nevertheless, I liked how the writers managed to close A-L's story and at the same time opened up new connections which might never come out.

I think that there once people have gone through their issues or have done the things they were supposed to do they die. They all live on borrowed time and only the ones who grow are taken.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Yes I do think that they are there to work things out or to face a certain truth at least...which makes you wonder about Locke.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

I think that there once people have gone through their issues or have done the things they were supposed to do they die.

Eko would appear to be there... and he's still around - maybe even Charlie. It might just be that the writers don't want to send anyone major away without coming to some resolution in their character.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Oh no Eko and Charlie still have stuff to deal with! Eko is nothing but an impostor who threw himself into faith. His journey isn't done. Neither is Charlie's. They are experiencing a temporary remise.

The only one who might be there, as you said, is Locke, hence what Henry told him. But I mistrust Henry so...

Having said that, since the writers seem to have "won" a third season, many major characters need to keep struggling for the series' sake which is getting old IMO. The danger is that the characters are going round in circles and therefore getting nowhere. I saw it in "Six Feet Under" with Brenda and later with Claire, and it became boring.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

Michael has understood something when he was away...and I bet that had Ana killed Henry she wouldn't have been shot by Michael.

Oh... I imagine something has happened to Michael, but I don't think it's what you believe. Why should Michael kill Ana just because she didn't kill faux-Henry? Just because by her admission that she wasn't a killer any more and thus not useful in getting back Walt? Ok, that would be the case if Michael felt he needed to create a situation that would cause them to attack 'the Others.'

But there is another possiblity. Go back to faux-Henry trying to kill Ana-Lucia. She was a wanted person by 'the Others.' Ana may not be the 'cold-blooded killer' that she was, but that need not preclude her from being a warrior. Thus she may have been useful, if even just in a training capacity.

The other way of looking at this is that Michael has become an Other (or is somehow under their control - mind control?). Thus faux-Henry still has a usefulness to 'HE' of the Others as an escapee from the Hatch who prompts a quick and unplanned response from Jack and Locke. Even more unplanned because Ana is no longer there for her experience to be a moderating influence.

Now as the trailer for next weeks ep said.... Michael holds the destiny of the passengers of Oceanic 815 in his hands. But who is pulling Michael's strings. And it might be interesting next ep to see if the countdown is going on as faux-Henry starts to flee, if so, does he enter the numbers or not?

And is "HE" of the Others able to project his mind or otherwise harness the electromagnetic power that exists on the island? Is that the Black Smoke Monster? And is that why it did not harm Eko? Is Eko like Locke, one of the good ones? Is faith the measure of that? Is faith possibly the measure of "HIS" ability to control any other person? Or does faith have something to do with control of the island's power? Either way, faith seems to be a key.

The other characters still have demons to fight on the island, they can't leave yet.

Yeah... but then it might be that the writer's don't like to let anyone's story hanging either!

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Oh... I imagine something has happened to Michael, but I don't think it's what you believe. Why should Michael kill Ana just because she didn't kill faux-Henry? Just because by her admission that she wasn't a killer any more and thus not useful in getting back Walt? Ok, that would be the case if Michael felt he needed to create a situation that would cause them to attack 'the Others.'

I don't think you got what I believed! I think that Michael lied. I don't think he wants them to attack the Others at all. He didn't kill Ana because she was no longer useful. I think he killed her in order to free her.


But there is another possiblity. Go back to faux-Henry trying to kill Ana-Lucia. She was a wanted person by 'the Others.' Ana may not be the 'cold-blooded killer' that she was, but that need not preclude her from being a warrior. Thus she may have been useful, if even just in a training capacity.

But did Henry really want to kill her? He used violence to push her buttons just like he uses words to push Locke's ones. I don't think that Ana was a wanted person at all. When Ana killed the other Other, in the episode about the taillies, he told her that they only took good people with them.

Michael isn't under mind-control he wouldn't have said "sorry" otherwise. I think he did what he thought was the right thing to do. Of course it might be a mistake...So in a way yes he became an Other, or rather he embraced their vision.

[candlelightfrot.livejournal.com]

But did Henry really want to kill her?

Faux-Henry had her by the neck and it was only Locke hitting him with his cane that kept him from killing Ana. Yes, he wanted her dead.

I think that Michael lied. I don't think he wants them to attack the Others at all. He didn't kill Ana because she was no longer useful. I think he killed her in order to free her.

Well, I think Michael either is hiding something.

Now how the hell would Michael think he was freeing Ana? Especially, since he told her he was sorry. That logically doesn't match up. Suddenly you want to imbue Michael with some wisdom others do not have on the island? How should he know anything other than what is happening temporally, in the flesh, and thus he killed Ana for his own reasons. And that reason is to create an expediency towards an attack.

Michael knew about Ana's leadership skills, he saw it on the trek across the island. Possibly, he was getting rid of her for that reason. He could create that expediency by releasing faux-Henry. Anyone who was around when he did that was necessarily detrimental to that plan. Thus Ana had to go, as well as Libby. And of course, Michael also had to be injured. But why? For Walt or for reasons concerning the needs of the Others?

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[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Well, we know thanks to Claire and Kate that what Michael said about the Others isn't true, even Kate flinched when he said they were like animals, going barefoot and wearing dirty clothes. She knew those costumes were only props.

Either Michael is really a fool or he lies.

I still think that the island is nothing but a fantasy, so killing Ana might have been a way to free her indeed.

I don't think that Michael planned anything concerning Ana. How could have he known in advance that she would have stolen Sawyer's gun?

I am not sure that Michael is completely aware of what is going on, but he thinks he knows something. The old Michael was a nice guy, he wouldn't have killed people just "to get rid of them" as if they were pawns, and because of some plan. He must know something new that justifies his actions.

And his current actions fit in what the Others have done until now.