May 4, 2007
The Brig
Wow, what an intense and involving episode. This has been a really great season, dating from the big episode break. On to the specific points to praise and ponder:
The Others get creepy again: After so much faux-suburbia doings, it was cool to see the Others regain a bit of their strange, inhuman spookiness. I found the scene where they gathered around to watch the execution of EvilLockeDaddy -- ultimately turning away in disappointment -- to be quite chilling, especially given the children from the plane crash taking it all in. It was just very cult-like and strange. These folks obviously think whatever grand mission they are on justifies all sorts of behavior, including the willy-nilly killing of anyone doesn't get their "good person" seal of approval.
Along those lines, Ben's matter-of-fact description to Locke of the raid-to-come on the beach was both scary and funny. The tone struck me as something like: "Oh Locke, don't make that face, we abduct pregnant women all the time and it's fine. You 815 people make such a fuss about every little experiment we do, honestly."
Saywer's revenge: EvilLockeDaddy just couldn't shut up, could he? He was really pouring on the cocky, unrepentant attitude, but as vile a person as he was, it was still sad to me to see Sawyer make the choice he did. I'm really curious to see how extinguishing the life of this man and all he has represented will affect Sawyer going forward.
About that crash: So now we've got parachute chick and EvilLockeDaddy claiming that the plane's remains and dead bodies were found. It's freaky and definitely significant that the only two people supposedly in from the "real world" are telling the same story, but I'm still of the same opinion as when I first posted -- most likely, someone with the means has put one over on the world at large in order to make it seem as if plane recovered, everyone dead, nothing more to see here.
Of course, a simpler explanation would be that parachute chick is lying. I'm not as trusting of her as I was when she first showed up. Because of Desmond's visions and trust in her as (apparently) an agent of Penny, I was totally buying her. But ultimately, she's just one more stranger showing up with a story, and we know how that tends to end on this Island. (As for Desmond's visions: a poster shared a theory here that Desmond's visions could be from an implant. That makes a lot of sense from what we've been shown, and if an explanation like that is correct, it would make the seeming time-travel and visions quite suspect, just another manipulation.)
Why EvilLockeDaddy was spouting the same line as parachute chick goes to the larger question of how he really got on the Island. It sounds to me as if someone snatched him and brought him there courtesy of the Others, and who knows what he was told or what the real game plan there was supposed to be. Ben really seemed to want Locke to be willing to kill his father, but why? Is killing your inferiors just the initiation for getting to join Otherville?
Kate and Jack: Put me among those who want to smack Kate upside the head for running off to Jack Dearest with some scoop, in another sad effort to get to be his No. 1 girl again. Honestly, why does anyone trust her with any information? (It would help if Sayid would do his secret doings somewhere a bit more, hmm, secretive. Also, every other time I see Sayid tinkering with a new gizmo, I flash back to the Professor trying to run a radio with coconuts on Gilligan's Island, proving once and for all that I watched way to much bad TV as a kid.)
I've never understood the negativity I've seen Jack generate among many fans, but am I starting to get it, big time. Since returning to the beach, he has been quite the smug, secretive, heavy-handed "leader," expecting everyone to kowtow to his demands without accepting any kind of input.
I don't think anything as exotic as cloning or brainwashing is afoot, I think Jack just has a little bit of information and, yet again, is going to proceed however he wants because he is arrogant enough to think he knows what is best for everyone. Given that his last brilliant plan wound up with getting captured by the Others in the jungle, I'm not sure why he thinks he's the master strategist, but he's really starting to out-wanker Charlie in my book.
Perhaps new revelations will make it clear where Jack is going and how necessary it was to keep his supposed comrades in the dark.
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You made me laugh so hard with this:
...Also, every other time I see Sayid tinkering with a new gizmo, I flash back to the Professor trying to run a radio with coconuts on Gilligan's Island, proving once and for all that I watched way to much bad TV as a kid.)
What excellent observations!!
ABC is set to announce that Lost will end production after two more seasons.
This is what my E! Online partner in crime Marc Malkin just announced in his column, Planet Gossip.
I know. Breathe, Lost fans. Breathe.
Here's what I can tell you. I just spoke to insiders at ABC and they tell me it's true: The network and producers have reached a decision on an end date and they are expected to announce it in the next two weeks. This is meant to be a good thing, because now the producers finally can start mapping out the remaining episodes and start rolling out some of the major reveals and answers we fans have been waiting
for.
I'm also told there are more big changes in store for the show!
According to sources, ABC is planning to push back Lost's return date to January of next year in order to air new episodes back-to-back, and it is also "extremely likely" that Lost will change time slots next season.
Still, the biggest change may be that massive, mind-blowing, cast-related "game-changer" I keep hinting about—to which I am sworn to secrecy, for it is that big—which is revealed in the season finale. (I cannot wait for you to see it.)
Source: Kristin
The parachute chick is a Dharma Initiative spy. When Desmond turned the key it signaled Dharma to send someone to the island to check on things and get information. Penny worked with The Dharma Initiative and so did her father. Thats the connection to Desmond. (Desmond has an implant, but I think that it was put in him before he got to the island, I think it was put in him so that he could be tracked and show Penny where the Island is, so she can find something or someone on it.)