Lost, Season 2: Episodes 10-12

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In 2009, Peter watched through the first five seasons of Lost for the first time, live-tweeting all thoughts as he had them. Nicknames were created, awards were invented and dispensed, and predictions were made. If you’ve never seen Lost (or even if it’s been a while), these may not make much sense.
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Lost
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[[Episode 10]]
Peter:
Oooh! Echo backstory episode?
Peter:
Hand-guns are my favourite type of gun.
Peter:
Assuming that rocket launchers don’t count.
Peter:
Least favourite: tommy-gun.
Peter:
It hasn’t been clearly established whether or not Charlie is back on heroin.
Peter:
From the contents (nearly empty) of the statue, I’d say yes.
Peter:
Charlie: on heroin or just cheerful?
Peter:
Nigerian drug-dealer is a pretty excellent backstory.
Peter:
Echo is well deserving of The Locke Award.
Peter:
Charlie claims not to be using, but I suspect he would claim that whether he was or not.
Peter:
Ah, the gun-barrel focus pull. A classic.
Peter:
Don’t try to lie to Mr Echo, Charlie. He is too cool to fool.
Peter:
The return of the smoke-monster?
Peter:
Recurring themes of Lost:
Peter:
-incest
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-the catholic church/confession
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-parental authority
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-polar bears
Peter:
Sawyer is having trouble dealing with people liking him.
Peter:
He is most likely concocting a plan to be hated.
Peter:
Oh man, Charlie is definitely back on the drugs.
Peter:
This whole Locke/Nigerian drugs plot is beautifully layered.
Peter:
This is the second show I’ve seen this week where a priest and a drug dealer are brothers. (Lost, Veronica Mars)
Peter:
I love climbing trees.
Peter:
Oooh. Clearest shot we’ve ever had of the smoke-monster.
Peter:
Holy CRAP Echo is hardcore.
Peter:
Faced down the smoke monster and WON!
Peter:
Super deserving of The Locke Award.
Peter:
I absolutely love, by the way, that all these characters (even the American ones) use “kilometers”.
Peter:
Things that never seem to run out on the island:
Peter:
-medicine
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-tarpaulins
Peter:
-pens
Peter:
-paper
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-clothes
Peter:
-cloth
Peter:
-mysteries
Peter:
-sexual tension
Peter:
Eerie episode end. Charlie burying (but still lusting over) the madonna statues.
Peter:
Most likeable: (keeping in mind I can’t give it to Echo) Charlie.
Peter:
Least likeable: (but still reasonable) Claire.
Peter:
Most intriguing: Echo!
Peter:
[[Episode 11]]
Peter:
Remember how I said I loved how the Americans use kilometers in Lost?
Peter:
Forgot that Charlie wasn’t an American. Whoops!
Peter:
Previously on Lost is about the mysterious talking computer.
Peter:
Prediction: -it’s fairly obviously not Walt.
Peter:
Another Jack flashback episode. He gets way more than his fair share.
Peter:
The amount of screentime that Jack’s pa has got means that he MUST come back in some way.
Peter:
Prediction: the island brings him back to life.
Peter:
Michael’s gone craaaaazy.
Peter:
The timer won’t go down to 0 this episode. I maintain that they’re saving that for the season finale.
Peter:
The best episode this season (the story of Group B) has been the only one without pre-crash flashbacks.
Peter:
That’s not a coincidence.
Peter:
Prediction:
Peter:
-the computer that was talking to Michael has a small part of Tom Riddle’s soul trapped in it, warping Michael’s mind and causing him to murder chickens.
Peter:
Sun’s saying Jin can’t go. I’m on Jin’s side on this one.
Peter:
Sure she’ll be worried, but he can’t just avoid adventure forevermore.
Peter:
I want Jack to have an affair with this French woman.
Peter:
Affairs make excellent viewing, especially with French women.
Peter:
Jack, don’t pretend this relates to your backstory.
Peter:
Be honest: you’re just running towards the sound of gun-fire because you’re an idiot
Peter:
Jack and Sawyer are arguing about their motivations for tracking Michael.
Peter:
That’s why I like Locke; his motivations are simple and awesome.
Peter:
Flashbacks on Lost don’t seem to follow any rules. Sometimes they’re the characters sitting and remembering these events, sometimes not.
Peter:
Holy crap! One of The Others!!
Peter:
And he wants to engage in a dialogue!!
Peter:
Don’t screw this up, guys! Get some answers!!
Peter:
You can’t just introduce traumatic flashbacks as an excuse for Jack to act like an idiot and a wanker.
Peter:
Doesn’t make sense.
Peter:
Him losing a patient and kissing a French woman relates in NO WAY to the current scenario.
Peter:
If it wasn’t way too long, I’d nickname the Others’ bearded leader Tennessee Mountain Landis. (after the Jonathan Coulton song).
Peter:
Meanwhile, I’m totally digging this Jin/Sun storyline.
Peter:
Jin might get Most Likeable just for sheer reasonableness.
Peter:
Points that Jack and I agree on:
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-washing up can be therapeutic
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-French girls are hot
Peter:
-so is Kate
Peter:
Denise’s name is Sarah. I will probably continue to refer to her as Denise.
Peter:
Jack: “We can fix this!”
Peter:
Denise: “I’m leaving you. I’ve been seeing someone. I can’t stay.”
Peter:
Sucks to be you, Jack.
Peter:
Denise: “You will always need something to fix, Jack.”
Peter:
That’s the same reason that House can’t be in a relationship, from memory.
Peter:
Maybe that’s why he and Anna would be such a good pairing.
Peter:
Seems like there’s a LOT to fix there.
Peter:
Jack: “How long do you think it would take to train an army?”
Peter:
Okay, THAT is going down as my new favourite episode cliffhanger. ROCK.
Peter:
Most likeable: Jin.
Peter:
Least likeable: Would have been Jack, except for that closer line. Landis can have it
Peter:
Most Intriguing: Landis.
Peter:
(Landis = big bearded Others guy.)
Peter:
[[Episode 12]]
Peter:
That episode needed much more Echo.
Peter:
“Previously on” all about Charlie/Claire.
Peter:
My thoughts on the Charlie/Claire situation: she’s being perfectly reasonable, and I understand where she’s coming from.
Peter:
BUT dude did go into the jungle and get your kid back
Peter:
Not to mention heaps of other parental duties.
Peter:
He has SOME rights surely.
Peter:
I’m assuming this is a dream, not a flashback.
Peter:
Maybe a flashback to when he was on heroin.
Peter:
I can totally see why the “Epileptic Trees” page exists over at TV Tropes.
Peter:
Charlie, don’t be jealous of Locke.
Peter:
He’s not going to take over the parental duti-…oh crap, that would actually make total sense.
Peter:
Locke isn’t the type of guy who’s just going to sit by and let the kid grow up without a father.
Peter:
And we all know Locke would be an AWESOME dad.
Peter:
Claire’s asking for some space.
Peter:
That’s a fair call.
Peter:
She’s saying “not now, maybe again soon.”
Peter:
Listen to the subtext, Charlie!
Peter:
Charlie’s flashbacks are extremely well integrated.
Peter:
Much better than stupid Jack’s. Those ones really annoyed me.
Peter:
Still…army
Peter:
Kate helping Sawyer with his exercises = a great excuse for non-sexual touching.
Peter:
Charlie, who we’ve established can’t swim, is now trying to swim out and save what I assume is a hallucination.
Peter:
And…he succeeded.
Peter:
Okay, looks like it’s some kind of crazy extended hallucination/dream.
Peter:
Libby/Hurley is a pairing that I have no particularly strong feelings about.
Peter:
She’s a psychologist, he was in a mental home…
Peter:
Okay, Charlie’s pretty definitely using again.
Peter:
He’s lying to Locke about having burned ALL the statues.
Peter:
I like the idea of an actual horse running around on the island.
Peter:
Libby seems to be shaving her armpits on a fairly regular basis. Where the hell are all these characters getting razors from?
Peter:
Echo! Echo is my new favourite character.
Peter:
I’m surprisingly disappointed that he’s wearing a shirt.
Peter:
Ha!! Anna to Jack about Kate: “You hittin’ that?”
Peter:
I love it when characters cut through the crap.
Peter:
Who needs subtext when you can just use TEXT!
Peter:
So Charlie WASN’T using, but everyone suspecting that he was is making him start again? What?
Peter:
I’m not sure whose side I’m on here.
Peter:
Locke’s being completely reasonable, but I can’t work out where Charlie is coming from.
Peter:
Was he using?
Peter:
My guess would be no, but he’s been lying and looking shifty all over the place.
Peter:
Perhaps it’s Locke being reasonable that has weirded me out a bit. He’s normally the hectic one.
Peter:
Charlie just lit a fire. Predictions:
Peter:
-to distract people
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-burning the area he spilled the heroin in a desperate attempt to get high
Peter:
I don’t really understand what’s going on or why.
Peter:
I suppose the only way this all makes sense if is he IS an addict still.
Peter:
Locke punching Charlie was pretty cool. I could easily just watch an hour of Locke beating people up.
Peter:
Dear writers of Lost: could we please have less confusing episodes about relationships, and more cool episodes about building armies? Thnx.
Peter:
Charlie wasn’t using! Go Charlie.
Peter:
Although it does mean that he was just completely insane for most of this episode.
Peter:
All of Echo’s tree-marking, gone to waste.
Peter:
Why was he marking trees, anyway?
Peter:
“These are the ones I like.”
Peter:
Theories on Echo marking trees:
Peter:
-eventually he’d have marked every tree on the island and thus explored the whole place…
Peter:
-Actually no, that’s all I’ve got. I can’t think of any other reason he’d be marking trees. I’m also not sure why Locke has kept the drugs.
Peter:
Unless it’s purely and simple so that we can continue to have drug conflict for seasons to come.
Peter:
Episode end. That was a weird one.
Peter:
Least likeable: Charlie,
Peter:
Most Likeable: (remembering Echo’s now ineligible) Turnip-head Ulrich.
Peter:
Most Intriguing: Liam.
Peter:
And that’s the end of a disc, too.
Peter:
Incidentally, this disc (disc 3 season 2) has my favourite menu screen. Sun sitting by beach.
Peter:
The disc cases all have 2 people on them.
Peter:
1st disc: Kate/Sawyer.
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2nd: Shannon/Sayid.
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3rd: Jack/Anna.
Peter:
4th: Claire/…Locke??
Peter:
I really don’t want Claire and Locke to become a couple.
Peter:
Don’t get me wrong, I love Locke, think he’d be a great Dad, but…not a good pairing.
Peter:
I much prefer Claire/Charlie.
Peter:
Locke should pair with Echo, or maybe Sawyer.
Peter:
[[Running tally: All seasons ]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Locke on 7 (Hurley on 6, Jack and Jin on 3, Sawyer, Sayid, Charlie and Turnip-head Ulrich on 2, 9 characters on 1 – Charlie, Ray, Shannon, Sun, Walt, Jin, Arzt, Boom, Kate, Flirty Bar Girl)
Peter:
Least likeable: Jin at 5 (Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 4, Jack’s Dad, Shannon, Crazy Danielle, Locke and Charlie on 2, 16 on 1 – Locke’s Boss, Charlie’s Brother, Claire’s Boyfriend, Kate, Michael, Shannon’s Boyfriend, Hurley’s Mum, Locke’s Dad, Sawyer, Arzt, Crazy Pirates, Jack, Nathan, the Mean Cop, Claire, Tennesse Mountain Landis)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Kate on 4. (Ethan, Crazy Danielle, Locke, Walt and Mr Echo on 3, Desmond (The Inhatchibant) and Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 2, 10 characters on 1 – Sayid, Asian Wife, Jack, Charlie, Boom, Shannon, Denise, Sawyer, Goodwin, Tennesse Mountain Landis, Charlie’s Brother Liam.)
Peter:
[[Current season ]]
Peter:
Most likeable: Jin on 3, Sayid and Kate on 2 (Jack, Hurley, Anna, Charlie and Turnip-head Ulrich all on 1)
Peter:
Least likeable: Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 4 (Susan (Walt’s mum), Jack, Lock, Mean Cop, Nathan, Claire, Tennesse Mountain Landis and Charlie all on 1)
Peter:
Most intriguing: Mr Echo (Mufasa) on 4 (Desmond and Anna (Flirty Bar Girl) on 2, Walt, Goodwin, Tennesse Mountain Landis and Charlie’s Brother Liam on 1)
Peter:
[[Awards Given:]]
Locke:
“Greatest character in all of Lost” (“The Locke Award”)
Echo:
The Locke Award

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