>: 37 THE LONG CON
"May the circle be unbroken
By and by, Lord, by and by"
-traditional
"Never saw me comin', didja?"
-James Ford
that were a pretty artful spot of conning there. you really have to rewatch this one to appreciate how beautifully all the elements dovetail, see him arrange all the elements with consummate skill. first shot is of locke and jack opening the safe, spar for a second before locke gives up the combo. cut to sawyer giving charlie hell on the beach (!) so were they not together at this point? did jack cause this whole mess by confiscating sawyer's pills? jump to the first flashback we saw of sawyer, not sure at what point it cut off earlier. i thought they were heading for florida and a robert patrick-caused shooting of the girl but no dice. seemed like she was conning him the whole time, not so. and we went back to kate's mom's diner for the big reveal that he was actually working her! the explanation for this coinicidence net is pretty much going to have to be the best piece of writing i've ever encountered to live up to everything at this point. o, but i have faith.
of course it seemed suspicious that the others left sun, big target painted on ana's head for the commercial break. dug that shot of everybody walking away from the war council, leaving sawyer and kate standing there. my favorite shot of the night though was prob realization dawning on kate, that long head shot of her, we can see the gears turning, followed by ana looking away, guilty, of something else. follow that up with a perfectly placed flashback of sawyer and cassidy in the bathroom (deadwood fans, cassidy was played by joanie, the little hooker who could - first lodz shows up on 24, now this, whatta week) beautiful writing to have sawyer explain the long con even as cassidy has the idea to offer up the money RIGHT AFTER we see kate demand sawyer's help, both his plans coming to fruition even as he explains it right to our face.
i definitely thought the guns were going to come out and we were going to have an actual or near-accident by the end of the ep, sawyer did a great job explaining away his motivation by throwing the pills to jack in the swan, never DREAMED he was working everybody with a junkie up his sleeve. sheriff sawyer, huh? sleep with a rifle duct-taped to your hand, i guess. the ramifications of all this just have my head spinning, there are so many sides. when kate and sawyer found that hood with a different weave, i yelled 'it was the other others!', everything's gotten so complicated outside the closed system of 'islandtown' but what i loved about this tale, it was really just a locked room mystery, everybody there from the get-go, just a matter of revealing who and why. all the exterior unknowns not even a part of this complicated betrayal, waiting for the story to catch up to them.
ana's 'scott, steve, whatever' cracked me up. charlie talking about locke feeling like a fool was chilling. i can't imagine how these altered dynamics will reverberate through the back half of the season. sawyer carved out a chunk of real estate on the island for the basses with his 'high score on donkey kong' comment. it was especially effective not having subtitles for the koreans, made everything more urgent and didn't really sacrifice content. loved that shot of hurley and sayid under the night sky looking toward the ocean. and ellington makes the soundtrack! i was definitely wondering if the 40s big band meant they were dislodged in time, hurley always says what we're thinking.
what will be the final fate of the survivors of oceanic flight 815?
By and by, Lord, by and by"
-traditional
"Never saw me comin', didja?"
-James Ford
that were a pretty artful spot of conning there. you really have to rewatch this one to appreciate how beautifully all the elements dovetail, see him arrange all the elements with consummate skill. first shot is of locke and jack opening the safe, spar for a second before locke gives up the combo. cut to sawyer giving charlie hell on the beach (!) so were they not together at this point? did jack cause this whole mess by confiscating sawyer's pills? jump to the first flashback we saw of sawyer, not sure at what point it cut off earlier. i thought they were heading for florida and a robert patrick-caused shooting of the girl but no dice. seemed like she was conning him the whole time, not so. and we went back to kate's mom's diner for the big reveal that he was actually working her! the explanation for this coinicidence net is pretty much going to have to be the best piece of writing i've ever encountered to live up to everything at this point. o, but i have faith.
of course it seemed suspicious that the others left sun, big target painted on ana's head for the commercial break. dug that shot of everybody walking away from the war council, leaving sawyer and kate standing there. my favorite shot of the night though was prob realization dawning on kate, that long head shot of her, we can see the gears turning, followed by ana looking away, guilty, of something else. follow that up with a perfectly placed flashback of sawyer and cassidy in the bathroom (deadwood fans, cassidy was played by joanie, the little hooker who could - first lodz shows up on 24, now this, whatta week) beautiful writing to have sawyer explain the long con even as cassidy has the idea to offer up the money RIGHT AFTER we see kate demand sawyer's help, both his plans coming to fruition even as he explains it right to our face.
i definitely thought the guns were going to come out and we were going to have an actual or near-accident by the end of the ep, sawyer did a great job explaining away his motivation by throwing the pills to jack in the swan, never DREAMED he was working everybody with a junkie up his sleeve. sheriff sawyer, huh? sleep with a rifle duct-taped to your hand, i guess. the ramifications of all this just have my head spinning, there are so many sides. when kate and sawyer found that hood with a different weave, i yelled 'it was the other others!', everything's gotten so complicated outside the closed system of 'islandtown' but what i loved about this tale, it was really just a locked room mystery, everybody there from the get-go, just a matter of revealing who and why. all the exterior unknowns not even a part of this complicated betrayal, waiting for the story to catch up to them.
ana's 'scott, steve, whatever' cracked me up. charlie talking about locke feeling like a fool was chilling. i can't imagine how these altered dynamics will reverberate through the back half of the season. sawyer carved out a chunk of real estate on the island for the basses with his 'high score on donkey kong' comment. it was especially effective not having subtitles for the koreans, made everything more urgent and didn't really sacrifice content. loved that shot of hurley and sayid under the night sky looking toward the ocean. and ellington makes the soundtrack! i was definitely wondering if the 40s big band meant they were dislodged in time, hurley always says what we're thinking.
what will be the final fate of the survivors of oceanic flight 815?
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