>: 26 ADRIFT
open w/ the raft, four seconds before the last shot from the finale, we get to hear michael yell 'walt!' twice and have his life saved by sawyer, a feat that will earn all kinds of gratitude. the question here is 'how synched up are the events?' i assumed the raft and the hatch got blown up at the same time b/c that's howthe finale ended but we've been jumping around so much it's easy to lose track. if that's the case, then we actually HAVE seen what happens after last wk, michael and sawyer wake up the next morning, after whatever's gone down in Desmond's Geodesic Funhouse. So we might not see them until the end of next wk. Or writers could just keep interspersing as they did this wk. we'll see.
so great that they went back to show everything leading up to last wk's cliffhanger. first ep was a straight line from jack to desmond, this wk we got to see all the things we raced by in the back half to get to the jack/desmond reveal: jack leaving camp, locke's first impressions/misunderstanding w/ desmond . . . you knew that john locke was going to say 'yes' when asked 'are you him?', that it was a different question than he thought, nothing to do with island messiahs. kate in the pantry was killer, answers the 'fresh fruit/eggs' dilemma, they're canned. the best fakeout of last night was not sawyer getting sharked to death but those breathless three or *gasp* four seconds where you realize that kate is up in the vent in the EXACT PLACE where desmond fired a warning shot last wk to show jack he's serious.
more tense plot advancement than mythology this wk, the main thing is desmond's '81 and '62 computers (if they're 23 and 42 yrs old, which they are, of course), you almost want to think that he's a loony who's been locked away too long with a calculator . . surely not. what we've seen is he woke up, entered the #s on his keyboard as part of his morning ritual, no big deal or sense of urgency, eat, throw on mama cass, work out, shower, shoot up some medicine w/ the #s on the vial then later while he's talking to locke an alarm goes off and he has locke enter the #s in again to stop a countdown that was aruond 2:36, reset it up to 108:00, which is of course the #s added up. something bad would've happened if the #s weren't entered. what? kate didn't get shot in the head, jack recognized desmond and we're right back to the end of last wk.
how great that the pontoon made it back to the island then you see jin running, know it's bad, tell them in english to run, dammit! but it's too late. nice image of the others stalking forward to end things.
have a theory about the others and michelle rodriguez being cast but don't want to spoil it for anybody else (not counting stewart who witnessed its birth). these cliffhangers are mad! anyone realize that if they bring all this to a head next wk (as i believe they will do) then we'll have 3 episode-lengths at the beginning of this season to mirror/resolve the 3 episode-length finale last may. THAT'S how you start and finish a season! power!
lot more to think about but i've said enough.
so great that they went back to show everything leading up to last wk's cliffhanger. first ep was a straight line from jack to desmond, this wk we got to see all the things we raced by in the back half to get to the jack/desmond reveal: jack leaving camp, locke's first impressions/misunderstanding w/ desmond . . . you knew that john locke was going to say 'yes' when asked 'are you him?', that it was a different question than he thought, nothing to do with island messiahs. kate in the pantry was killer, answers the 'fresh fruit/eggs' dilemma, they're canned. the best fakeout of last night was not sawyer getting sharked to death but those breathless three or *gasp* four seconds where you realize that kate is up in the vent in the EXACT PLACE where desmond fired a warning shot last wk to show jack he's serious.
more tense plot advancement than mythology this wk, the main thing is desmond's '81 and '62 computers (if they're 23 and 42 yrs old, which they are, of course), you almost want to think that he's a loony who's been locked away too long with a calculator . . surely not. what we've seen is he woke up, entered the #s on his keyboard as part of his morning ritual, no big deal or sense of urgency, eat, throw on mama cass, work out, shower, shoot up some medicine w/ the #s on the vial then later while he's talking to locke an alarm goes off and he has locke enter the #s in again to stop a countdown that was aruond 2:36, reset it up to 108:00, which is of course the #s added up. something bad would've happened if the #s weren't entered. what? kate didn't get shot in the head, jack recognized desmond and we're right back to the end of last wk.
how great that the pontoon made it back to the island then you see jin running, know it's bad, tell them in english to run, dammit! but it's too late. nice image of the others stalking forward to end things.
have a theory about the others and michelle rodriguez being cast but don't want to spoil it for anybody else (not counting stewart who witnessed its birth). these cliffhangers are mad! anyone realize that if they bring all this to a head next wk (as i believe they will do) then we'll have 3 episode-lengths at the beginning of this season to mirror/resolve the 3 episode-length finale last may. THAT'S how you start and finish a season! power!
lot more to think about but i've said enough.
posted by rb at 11:04 PM
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