>: 36 FIRE + WATER
enjoyable. expected a bit more, ah, development on one of the twenty things still dangling but i was pleased with what i saw.
charlie's crazy dream was much more enjoyable than a straight flashback to kick things off, awesome to have grown-up liam playing with voltron. thinking on it now, was he wearing a diaper? baby symbolism abounds. little brother charlie has been charged with saving the family his whole life, at least that's how he remembers it. obvious at the top that we've got charlie v. locke.
sawyer/kate watching jack/ana walking was odd. what's kate thinking? 'you hittin' that?' had to be the line of the show, perfect delivery, jarring. and funny. prissy jack's not having it. so, they going out to the jungle building an obstacle course for training or what? quoting sun-tzu at each other? of course, not one mention of the army. or michael. or walt. or others strategy. arrgh. dangle, threads.
hurley and libby were funny/odd. she's got an agenda, don't know if she recognizes him from korean television (where all the californian lottery winners get coverage) or she's another spy or what. don't remember if i realized this before last wk's roundup, but old pirate claus's face seemed strategically blank when jack specifies 'ethan?', like he didn't know the name. ethan from another other camp? all we know is the pirate has walt, we don't know if that's the group jin and eko saw, who took the tailenders. is libby from the pirates, opposite goodwin from the junglewalkers? just gaming on hurley? still drunk from last night? time will tell. give her validation, hurley!
and another crazy dream from charlie, i dug it, six ft under level of weirdness. the great thing about that scene with kate manhandling charlie out of claire's space (ha, was so into the show, forgot they were dating) was that long pan around the left side of locke resolving on the inscrutable squint, EXACTLY the way episode 3 'tabula rasa' ended, ominous angelo badalmenti synth and all, the first time we were like 'okay, now what is up with THIS guy?' which led us into 'walkabout'. this leads us to...what? claiming his position as aaron's dominant father figure? he's handling claire deftly, a pro, guess he has been all along, ever since building that crib. thought at first he just wanted to mate, but catherine's right, it's that kid he's interested in, the one on which everything depends. according to the sydney psychic. man, i would love to see a flow chart for a whole season, a b and c plots, the character beats and histories, i bet it looks insane.
strung-out liam struggling to cash in on a diaper commercial was priceless, as was charile chasing down the director, wearing one.
thought we had a problem with the fire, late in the show and all, but they took care of it. charlie gets clocked by locke (HOW did he not hit him a fourth time?gah) and stitched by jack, nice double-team, that. figured eko was going to rock the ashes for the baptism, nicely shot scene in the water. episode was called fire+water, cheers.
the point of this episode, i feel, was to separate charlie from his mates. serious 'over to the dark side' moment at the end by the fire there, even had the hood and all, giacchino should've thrown a john williams quote in there. pretty sure charlie will start leaking info to SOME group of others at some point. why didn't locke destroy the statues? to hold sway over charile at some point, knowing he'll need to call on him? WHAT is that dude's agenda? they tried to deflate all the weird first season vibes about locke at the top of this season, but i think quoting that shot from ep 3 is a deliberate recapitulation of what an ominous character he is. my buddy todd wonders if locke and eko aren't warrior priests passing in the night, one moving from a life of sin/evil to one of piety, locke taking the opposite trajectory. as of now, that holds water.
off next week, back on the 8th. like they didn't do that on purpose.
and for those of you who weren't in the comic book store yesterday (vast majority of you, yes), writhe in horror at the cover of the latest catwoman. the numbers are slowly, insidiously seeping out of their initial construct into all planes of fiction. soon they will realign your synapses, as they have mine and john locke's.
charlie's crazy dream was much more enjoyable than a straight flashback to kick things off, awesome to have grown-up liam playing with voltron. thinking on it now, was he wearing a diaper? baby symbolism abounds. little brother charlie has been charged with saving the family his whole life, at least that's how he remembers it. obvious at the top that we've got charlie v. locke.
sawyer/kate watching jack/ana walking was odd. what's kate thinking? 'you hittin' that?' had to be the line of the show, perfect delivery, jarring. and funny. prissy jack's not having it. so, they going out to the jungle building an obstacle course for training or what? quoting sun-tzu at each other? of course, not one mention of the army. or michael. or walt. or others strategy. arrgh. dangle, threads.
hurley and libby were funny/odd. she's got an agenda, don't know if she recognizes him from korean television (where all the californian lottery winners get coverage) or she's another spy or what. don't remember if i realized this before last wk's roundup, but old pirate claus's face seemed strategically blank when jack specifies 'ethan?', like he didn't know the name. ethan from another other camp? all we know is the pirate has walt, we don't know if that's the group jin and eko saw, who took the tailenders. is libby from the pirates, opposite goodwin from the junglewalkers? just gaming on hurley? still drunk from last night? time will tell. give her validation, hurley!
and another crazy dream from charlie, i dug it, six ft under level of weirdness. the great thing about that scene with kate manhandling charlie out of claire's space (ha, was so into the show, forgot they were dating) was that long pan around the left side of locke resolving on the inscrutable squint, EXACTLY the way episode 3 'tabula rasa' ended, ominous angelo badalmenti synth and all, the first time we were like 'okay, now what is up with THIS guy?' which led us into 'walkabout'. this leads us to...what? claiming his position as aaron's dominant father figure? he's handling claire deftly, a pro, guess he has been all along, ever since building that crib. thought at first he just wanted to mate, but catherine's right, it's that kid he's interested in, the one on which everything depends. according to the sydney psychic. man, i would love to see a flow chart for a whole season, a b and c plots, the character beats and histories, i bet it looks insane.
strung-out liam struggling to cash in on a diaper commercial was priceless, as was charile chasing down the director, wearing one.
thought we had a problem with the fire, late in the show and all, but they took care of it. charlie gets clocked by locke (HOW did he not hit him a fourth time?gah) and stitched by jack, nice double-team, that. figured eko was going to rock the ashes for the baptism, nicely shot scene in the water. episode was called fire+water, cheers.
the point of this episode, i feel, was to separate charlie from his mates. serious 'over to the dark side' moment at the end by the fire there, even had the hood and all, giacchino should've thrown a john williams quote in there. pretty sure charlie will start leaking info to SOME group of others at some point. why didn't locke destroy the statues? to hold sway over charile at some point, knowing he'll need to call on him? WHAT is that dude's agenda? they tried to deflate all the weird first season vibes about locke at the top of this season, but i think quoting that shot from ep 3 is a deliberate recapitulation of what an ominous character he is. my buddy todd wonders if locke and eko aren't warrior priests passing in the night, one moving from a life of sin/evil to one of piety, locke taking the opposite trajectory. as of now, that holds water.
off next week, back on the 8th. like they didn't do that on purpose.
and for those of you who weren't in the comic book store yesterday (vast majority of you, yes), writhe in horror at the cover of the latest catwoman. the numbers are slowly, insidiously seeping out of their initial construct into all planes of fiction. soon they will realign your synapses, as they have mine and john locke's.
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