[[Episode 19]]
Pre-accident John.
Another Locke flashback episode!!
Took me a while to work out how cool that was.
The lady Locke just served in the toy store – is she the old lady from Not Another Teen Movie?
I don’t think brute force is going to get you into the hatch guys. It’s going to be something more abstract, like “hope” or “innocent blood”
Oh no! Locke can’t start to lose feelings in his legs. He just won my “greatest character” award!!
Prediction: Locke defeats paralysation simply by battling it hand-to-hand.
I’m starting to wish this wasn’t his episode. When he’s a supporting role, he can just kick arse. When he’s the protagonist, he has to face conflict.
Locke’s mother: “You don’t have a father. You were immaculately conceived.”
I KNEW IT! Locke IS a god!
Oh, of course! Looked Locke’s mother up; she’s the psychiatrist from the beginning of Cruel Intentions. She’s great in that.
Woah. Even Locke’s nightmares are awesome.
Lost has a lot of:
-Australians
-One-armed Australians
-Psychiatric wards
-Dark backstories
-Mysteries that won’t be solved any time soon
Good casting. Locke’s father looks just like him.
Oh. Locke having a history of hunting makes him considerably less cool. I preferred it when his skillz were just sheer willpower.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not retracting his award. Just…wish they’d have just left him alone. I was fine with him being massively great.
Prediction: Locke donates his kidney. Locke’s father dies, and his kidney leaps out and returns to him.
Haha, I love it when we get glimpses of the non-main characters on the island. I forget they’re there most of the time.
Main characters:
-Jack
-Kate
-Sawyer
-Locke
-Boom
-Jin
-Sun
-Michael
-Walt
-Shannon
-Hurley
-Sayid
-Charlie
-Claire
That’s 14. That leaves 20-odd other people on the island.
Other than Steve and Rose, I don’t think any of them have names.
Meanwhile, in the episode, Boom and Locke have found the plane, and Locke’s not walking any more.
Locke and his father are about to get surgery. Prediction: Jack’s Dad is the surgeon in charge, he botches it.
Predictions for what’s in the plane:
-some bodies
-more guns
-explosives
-fashion accessories
-clues
-a journal with the numbers in it
Boom just had a body land on him.
Oh, wow! Plane’s full of drugs. Enough to keep Charlie high for at least another 2 seasons.
Also, a working radio. Much more exciting than drugs. Well, to everyone but Charlie.
I never thought I’d say this, but shut up Locke! I want to know what the person on the other end of the radio was saying.
Sawyer gets Least likeable this episode, just for being ornery.
Boom can have Most likeable.
Oh wow, I think Locke just got scammed for his kidney.
Locke gets back all his cool points. Vulnerability = more likeable character.
If I were Locke, I would wage an unholy war against my father. Save up all that willpower I know you have, and kick his arse one day.
Come on, surely anguish will open the hatch.
Oh, wow. It did.
CRAP. End of episode!! I’m (obvously) shifting Least likeable to Locke’s Dad, and giving Most intriguing to Locke. (particularly his faith)
[[Episode 20]]
Previously on is all about the hatch & Boom’s accident.
Came up with theory while reading over my notes so far:
Walt is somehow affected by the numbers as well. Maybe not as powerfully, but. his step-dad talked about how “bad things happened” when he was around. Sounds like a candidate for number fever if you ask me!
I am officially calling the number bad luck “Number Fever” from now on.
“His lung collapsed!” – I can’t think of a single situation where that’s good news. Maybe if the lung was holding up the Axis of Evil?
Jack just promised to save Boom.
My prediction: He does. No main characters die on the island. That’s for supporting cast, like Scott.
I really like that this off-hand raft suggestion is actually happening. Justifies some people still living on the beach. Good writings.
Sawyer may be an arse, but when it’s an emergency, he jumps in and does what needs to be done.
Like Bob Jelly from Seachange, or Alan Shore from Boston Legal
Jack’s flashbacks seem to be completely unrelated to the ep so far. Hope they tie it in somehow.
Hey, it’s Denise!!! Denise from Boston Legal is marrying Jack’s friend.
Prediction:
-he loves her.
-they’re sleeping together
Okay, it’s sort of tying in already. I think Jack just undislocated Boom’s leg.
Or just pulled on it for fun.
Undislocated? Relocated?
“Oh god. You’re having your baby.”
This is the second time now. Ever heard of the girl who cried wolf, Claire?
Mysteries no-one is dealing with:
-Ethan’s origins/motivations
-The black rock
-The numbers
-Adam and Eve
Mysteries no-one has dealt with for a long time:
-Jack’s Dad’s body
-the monster
-why the plane crashed
-why everyone survived
-POLAR BEARS
Mysteries that people are actually dealing with:
-the hatch
Holy crap, Jack plays the piano as well? Tick another one off the sexy checklist.
Mysteries that have been solved:
-the 16 year-old French signal
Ah ha! Denise just kissed Jack. Word of advice: never marry your best friend’s ex-fiance. At some point, you have to choose: bros or hos?
Jin has the same attitude as Sawyer – he can be a real tool, but when it’s an emergency, he’ll even break his vow of not-talking-to-his-wife.
Seriously tempted to give Locke “least likeable” this episode. He’s been a bit of a wank, and everyone else has just been so great.
Boom, dying, is crying out “Shannon…” – cut to Shannon and Sayid making out on the beach.
Well, not dying.
He’ll survive.
Jin’s non-English is surprisingly comforting.
If I were having a baby, I’d be comforted.
His grin helps a lot.
Oh please, please tell me you’re going to cut off Boom’s leg.
Jack’s Dad is getting a lot of screen-time this season. He must be important in some way, whether in terms of plot or just Jack’s character.
Predictions:
-Jack’s Dad shows up on the island before the end of the season.
-He is a master of hand-to-hand combat
-But still an alcoholic
Oh, wow. He’s going to cut it off using a door. Gruesome.
“What about the axe?”
“We can’t use the axe.”
Why??
Meanwhile, Claire is trying to stop having this baby halfway through labour. I suspect that she hasn’t thought this through at all.
Prediction:
-the baby comes out and it’s Jack’s father
If only Boom was Australian. #theabundanceofaustraliansmissinglimbsonlost
I haven’t been talking about it much, but Lost is really nicely lit a great deal of the time. Scenes at night lit by fire especially.
Jack and Denise are at the altar.
Probably should have mentioned you couldn’t think of any vows before now, dude.
This is either going to be the most horrible breakup imaginable, or incredibly sweet and romantic.
My money’s on romantic, for the subversion.
Yup, incredibly incredibly romantic. Although his voice did do the nasal whiney thing halfway through the vows.
No! Don’t delay! Chop the leg off!!
If Arrested Development taught us anything, it’s that missing limbs are hilarious.
Awww, the Australian had a baby. Fortunately this island doesn’t have any dingos.
The kid is a male, ruining its chances of hooking up with Walt. (unless Walt turns out to be this show’s first gay character)
I had high hopes for Boon and Locke being gay, and having a nice sort of adventurey romance. No such luck.
…did Boom just die? You can’t kill Boom. He had all sorts of storylines going on.
Oh I know what’s happened: The Island is a closed system.
You can’t give birth without killing off someone else.
Should’ve cut off the leg…
Possible names for the baby:
-Boom (good taste)
-Ethan (incredibly bad taste)
At least Boom got to sleep with his step-sister before he died. Everyone should do that at least once in their life.
“Boom died, Jack.”
“He didn’t die.”
Oh god, he’s got Rose-craziness.
“He was murdered.”
Oh, that makes more sense.
And episode end!
Most likeable: I’m tossing up between several here, but will give it to Jack for heroics.
Least: Locke.
Most intriguing: Denise, Jack’s…wife?
Getting Least likeable doesn’t supersede his Most awesome character award. Just that in this ep he was comparitively not as likeable.
[[Episode 21]]
This is a long previously on. We’re at the end of the season, must be wrapping up a lot of character arcs.
I think Kate’s due for another flashback episode, incidentally. First shot of the ep is of Sayid though.
“He wouldn’t let Jack take his leg.”
Come on, that phrasing’s not fair. Jack wasn’t trying to become Jake the Peg, or expand his leg collection.
Sayid flashback episode. Looks like we’re going to find out why he was in Australia, going to America.
I really don’t think there are as many Americans in Australia as this show seems to think there are.
I know exactly…1.
5+ Canadians though.
Jack, listen to Kate. You just got rid of half your blood and haven’t slept. Stop wandering the jungle. Locke will turn up when he’s needed.
How do all of these characters have such perfectly shaved heads?
Locke, Random extra #8…do they use knives?
The woman who drowned in episode 6 was called “Joanna”. Storing all this up in case all these deadites turn up again.
Yeah, Jack, even if you weren’t blood and sleep-deprived, Locke would still kick your arse in hand-to-hand.
Jack’s a strong early contender for Least likeable.
Hey, just remembered, the compass that Locke gave Sayid was off.
Prediction: the “black rock” in the middle of the island is a magnet.
Both a standard magnet, and a magnet for planes and crazy people, etc etc.
Sayid is trying to set off a smoke alarm with a cigarette. Aren’t they normally built to ignore cigarette smoke?
“Happenstance” is a cool word.
“Turnip-head” is a good name for the baby.
Not as good as Ulrich, mind you.
This episode is all character stuff, which is nice, but doesn’t give me much room to theorise. Get back to the mysteries, Lost!
Girls on the island, in order of sexual appeal:
1) Shannon
2) Kate
3) Extra in census episode
4) Sun
5) Claire
6) Rose
7) Eve
Guys in order of sex appeal
1) Sawyer
2) Sayid
3) Jack
4) Locke
5) Charlie
6) Jin
7) Michael
7) Hurley
8) Walt
9) Turnip-head Ulrich
Except without two sevens. Pretend there weren’t two sevens.
No! Locke!! YOU knocked Sayid out!
This show is more than a little bit inspired by Survivor. I keep expecting everyone to vote someone off.
If Survivor inspired Lost, I wonder what the show inspired by Big Brother would be like.
Or “Farmer Needs a Wife”.
Ha! “There’s something about Miriam” as a dramatic series.
Jin is very slowly learning English. It’s cute. Might give him Most likeable. We’ll see what everyone else does.
Oooh, someone’s taken the key to the gun-case.
My guess: Shannon.
Oh come on, you can’t present a mystery and then solve it two shots later. Gives me nothing to predict.
I’ve always wanted to see a suicide bombing pep-talk. Interesting stuff. “Drive with the windows down, the fresh air will keep you awake.”
Alert, not awake. I suspect that very few people have accidentally drifted off before a suicide bombing.
Holy crap, Shannon shot Locke. Holy holy holy crap. Locke!!
Was thinking that the baby’s going to miss out on flu vaccinations, but I suppose in a closed society that’s not really a risk.
Oh no!! Sayid was on his way back to his love when the plane crashed. Nice touch of tragedy without being a sob-story.
Why is Locke so secretive about this hatch?
Episode end!
Most likeable: Turnip-head Ulrich.
Least likeable: Shannon.
Most intriguing: Sawyer.
[[Running tally:]]
[[Awards Given:]]
“Greatest character in all of Lost”
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