>: 32 COLLISION (aka OLD HABITS)
i really intended to stumble over to the computer at some pt between gravy and wine and dressing last wk but you all know how that goes.
but now it works out that you can set your brains bubbling with this special recap edition of roundup just in time, i've learned, for the (hang your heads in sad) last new episode of 2005. it's all about sweeps apparently. jumping right in:
the ana-lucia episode. nice switch to follow up the humanize ana lucia episode with one showing us she's a triggerhappy traumatized and injured freakin nutbag. really liking this ep's and shannon's return to having the central theme of the flashback elucidate character while resonating heavily on current island events. we waited two wks and then sayid just jumps up and draws on her. junglefight between sayid and eko! that's prob the heavyweight event of the island and they bust that out in the opening! predictable crazy from ana. cue the start. eko tells ana no while his name is on the credits (i love how every ep almost they synch up one or two of the names to whoever's on screen, who will it be tonight?) demonstrating this episode's destabilization of the tailenders as they assimilate into the main group. ana and eko were a bit tighter than locke and jack and his one syllable is enough to communicate to the other two that it is over, this chick is crazy and we need to leave.
then the great throwback. i was intensely struck on first viewing of how crazily reminiscent of the first season that tiny b plot was, all of a sudden out of nowhere: hurley, charlie, kate and jack playing the golf making with the flirty flirt, like the hatch the virgin mary the raft aaron, none of it had even happened, boone's off with locke and we're still waiting for hurley's flashback, missing the 4's 15's and 16's constantly whizzing by. here's the thing: they did that deliberately, gave us one last taste of the old way because it is gone, with sawyer and ana in the picture i think that's the last advice jack's gonna give kate on her golf swing if you know what i mean and i think you do. serious acting from kate on the edge of the forest, transition on her face from 'this is fun with jack' to 'holyshit there's a giant black man walking out of the woods with dead sawyer on his back'.
locke's crossword puzzle. this disturbed me. i paused it to check the other words, you know how they leave little easter eggs lying about. and it was all gibberish. any other show, i'd say yeah they just put nonsense in there but these guys? dharma logo on the shark, alternate hatch from the first minutes of the season to the one with desmond in it, these guys are a bit too detail-minded for that. so, either locke is the worst crossword puzzler on the island (his written 'gilgamesh' completed quite a few words, like asids, irrisfz, and other nonsense) or that was some elaborate code. i draw the line at cryptography. for now.
loved eko in the hatch with locke. two hellos never had more gravitas. took them being in the same rm for me to realize i've been digging eko more this season. hope locke is strong tonight. i love eko's nuance.
nice intimate moment with sawyer and kate, also dug the look on her face when she remembered jack was there, sharing it with them.
surely ana didn't get away with capping that guy. mom/captain and the whole dept have to know the score on that one. 'i'm pregnant'. should be an interesting reaction to aaron tonight.
i lovelovelove it when they do the no-dialogue musical bits at the end and this one was no exception, giachinno (sic) came up with a gorgeous second permutation of his raft theme in c# worthy of the reunion of bernard and rose, sun and jin, and damn if that last shot didn't literally frame jack and ana to take us out.
but i've said too much.
enjoy the last one of the year. it might gladden your heart to know that 23 episodes were aired. (if you count the season finale as 2, or throw in the recap ep)
i'll see you all tomorrow.
but now it works out that you can set your brains bubbling with this special recap edition of roundup just in time, i've learned, for the (hang your heads in sad) last new episode of 2005. it's all about sweeps apparently. jumping right in:
the ana-lucia episode. nice switch to follow up the humanize ana lucia episode with one showing us she's a triggerhappy traumatized and injured freakin nutbag. really liking this ep's and shannon's return to having the central theme of the flashback elucidate character while resonating heavily on current island events. we waited two wks and then sayid just jumps up and draws on her. junglefight between sayid and eko! that's prob the heavyweight event of the island and they bust that out in the opening! predictable crazy from ana. cue the start. eko tells ana no while his name is on the credits (i love how every ep almost they synch up one or two of the names to whoever's on screen, who will it be tonight?) demonstrating this episode's destabilization of the tailenders as they assimilate into the main group. ana and eko were a bit tighter than locke and jack and his one syllable is enough to communicate to the other two that it is over, this chick is crazy and we need to leave.
then the great throwback. i was intensely struck on first viewing of how crazily reminiscent of the first season that tiny b plot was, all of a sudden out of nowhere: hurley, charlie, kate and jack playing the golf making with the flirty flirt, like the hatch the virgin mary the raft aaron, none of it had even happened, boone's off with locke and we're still waiting for hurley's flashback, missing the 4's 15's and 16's constantly whizzing by. here's the thing: they did that deliberately, gave us one last taste of the old way because it is gone, with sawyer and ana in the picture i think that's the last advice jack's gonna give kate on her golf swing if you know what i mean and i think you do. serious acting from kate on the edge of the forest, transition on her face from 'this is fun with jack' to 'holyshit there's a giant black man walking out of the woods with dead sawyer on his back'.
locke's crossword puzzle. this disturbed me. i paused it to check the other words, you know how they leave little easter eggs lying about. and it was all gibberish. any other show, i'd say yeah they just put nonsense in there but these guys? dharma logo on the shark, alternate hatch from the first minutes of the season to the one with desmond in it, these guys are a bit too detail-minded for that. so, either locke is the worst crossword puzzler on the island (his written 'gilgamesh' completed quite a few words, like asids, irrisfz, and other nonsense) or that was some elaborate code. i draw the line at cryptography. for now.
loved eko in the hatch with locke. two hellos never had more gravitas. took them being in the same rm for me to realize i've been digging eko more this season. hope locke is strong tonight. i love eko's nuance.
nice intimate moment with sawyer and kate, also dug the look on her face when she remembered jack was there, sharing it with them.
surely ana didn't get away with capping that guy. mom/captain and the whole dept have to know the score on that one. 'i'm pregnant'. should be an interesting reaction to aaron tonight.
i lovelovelove it when they do the no-dialogue musical bits at the end and this one was no exception, giachinno (sic) came up with a gorgeous second permutation of his raft theme in c# worthy of the reunion of bernard and rose, sun and jin, and damn if that last shot didn't literally frame jack and ana to take us out.
but i've said too much.
enjoy the last one of the year. it might gladden your heart to know that 23 episodes were aired. (if you count the season finale as 2, or throw in the recap ep)
i'll see you all tomorrow.
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