>:41 LOCKDOWN
what an episode. we got a massive amount of information and it went quite a ways toward validating the last locke flashback for me. taken by itself, that last one, not enough happened in the flashback, we learned almost nothing new relative to the other two locke flashbacks. seemed pointless at the time. that's because it was almost all setup, we needed all that to launch right into this one. old anthony cooper is the worst! poor locke's got everything on track and this bastard shows back up with his bizarre machinations. what's so cool about the show is the malleability of the flashbacks, we never know week to week if we're going to get hero of the ER drama with jack, police drama with ana, african or korean gangstering with eko or jin, grifting with sawyer...i've always thought locke kind of gets the soap-opera, i mean after that kidney episode, what else can you say? but it is one jacked-up crazy soap opera, i'll give it that.
and cut to one second after henry asks for milk. immediately retreats from all but confirming he was an other. and does so incredibly convincingly over the course of the episode, michael emerson does such a great ambiguous job, i keep flip-flopping on him, even if that WAS him in ethan's medical hatch getting ready to cut into claire. jack barks out orders like an ass, right in character.
and charlie finds the balloon, nice shot. this episode did a great job with structure, not revealing what happened until the most opportune time. these people find the grave and we don't see them again until the end. same with programmer gale. but we also had...
mango poker! hell of a b-plot, those two squaring off, keeping jack from going back out to the swan. nice character moments. love lindelof's episodes.
and then the swan came alive! i wonder what that voice was saying. reminded me of a similar bit of speaker creepiness from stephen king's THE DARK TOWER. that was very well-done, all the stuff leading up to the door crushing the toolbox and trapping locke. this is where all that 'everything changes' hype kicked in, to positive effect, i thought. because of the hype, we expect momentous events to happen. i'd say, by episode's end, we don't really have much of a change of the status quo. i mean, confirmation that 'henry' is lying but that's just another skip in the pond. but we're charged to believe that the worst CAN happen and locke is going to lose his legs twice over, in the past and the present. nice bit of sleight of hand.
another thing, if they could've just gone to the computer up through the pantry, you'd think locke would've done that before prying open that great godamighty door. the button's the priority! but that wouldn't've made such a good episode, i guess.
so locke got himself an appraising business, welcome home. man of many jobs. we now know nadia made it as far as LA and was alive 4+ years ago. we certainly haven't seen the last of her, i'm thinking. sayid and his broken heart.
is there a doubt in anybody's mind that the plane that flew over locke at the flightline motel was Oceanic? at this point, i should hope not.
i love how we stayed with locke for the climax, no idea what's going on. actually, when it went to commercial with gale unconscious and the four-minute counter ticking, i thought they might just blow up the hatch and kill locke and gale, which would've been insane. instead, we got a blacklight map, the best we've seen yet. no great surprise to see the stations aligned in a bagua, same eight-sided symbol as the dharma logo. so we have the staff and the flame as the two stations on the west side of the island? the two stations on the east, between the swan and the arrow, aren't named. and there's even a small question mark on one. then, of course, that big question mark in the middle. that might be important (sarcasm). question marks on maps drive me crazy, want to go chart them out! nice device. lots of latin and numbers sprinkled liberally throughout. a few english phrases: "alleged location of aborted (unreadable)", "alleged location of the flame", "activity unsuitable for", "possible CV II, inactive since accident". there are lots of CVs written down, CV I - CV IV. a "possible cv II, inactive since the accident"
the latin was very interesting, i thought:
"ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est" = "when he is great, nothwithstanding certainly slowly anger is downwards"
"malum consilium quod mutari non potest" = "bad advice is not able to change anyone"
"hic sunt dracones" = "here be dragons" (this at the southeastern tip of the eastmost line of the bagua, an old sailor's map expression, seems like)
"credo nos in fluctu eodem esse" = "trust us in the very same flow that consumes" (what's great about this one, esse can mean 'eat or consume' OR 'to be or exist' so it's up to the translator; this translator votes consume!)
"sursum corda" is repeated three times above the staff (which i'm thinking is ethan's station) = "born on high"
and the real gem "cogito ergo doleo" = "i think, therefore i feel pain"
whew.
so, yeah, that fried me out. homestretch. cool we weren't with henry, don't know what he really did, it sure felt like a lie when he told locke he "did what you told me to". did the countdown hit the end? and that's what happened? or did henry key in a new sequence, show that map to locke, for whatever reason? the latter, i think, still believe they ARE averting doomsday every 108 minutes and something really bad will happen when the sequence is inevitably not entered on time. that shot of the map on locke's eye, so beautiful. d aronofsky was supposed to direct this one, would've been a great riff on requiem for a dream. o well.
and what was up with that parachute? i kept thinking dharma commandos were about to pop out of the jungle, everything was about to change! was it just a food drop? i wonder how dharma mac & cheese stands up to kraft.
and cue sayid with the driver's license, mr. henry gale lives at 815 walnut ridge rd in wayaza, mn just east of minneapolis. the zip, 55391, adds up to 23, of course. a very affable-looking black man. the way 'henry' cocked his head back away from sayid, looked back over at jack...excellent. locke's in a pickle, henry is going to have to come up with a whopper now. and episode 42 looms before us. a hurley flashback would be logical but i'd say all bets are off. an on-island 'henry' flashback would be killer.
keep believing, island faithful.
(NOTE: the translations were all on a few minutes of research. the definitive translations can be found at lostpedia.com/BlastDoor)
and cut to one second after henry asks for milk. immediately retreats from all but confirming he was an other. and does so incredibly convincingly over the course of the episode, michael emerson does such a great ambiguous job, i keep flip-flopping on him, even if that WAS him in ethan's medical hatch getting ready to cut into claire. jack barks out orders like an ass, right in character.
and charlie finds the balloon, nice shot. this episode did a great job with structure, not revealing what happened until the most opportune time. these people find the grave and we don't see them again until the end. same with programmer gale. but we also had...
mango poker! hell of a b-plot, those two squaring off, keeping jack from going back out to the swan. nice character moments. love lindelof's episodes.
and then the swan came alive! i wonder what that voice was saying. reminded me of a similar bit of speaker creepiness from stephen king's THE DARK TOWER. that was very well-done, all the stuff leading up to the door crushing the toolbox and trapping locke. this is where all that 'everything changes' hype kicked in, to positive effect, i thought. because of the hype, we expect momentous events to happen. i'd say, by episode's end, we don't really have much of a change of the status quo. i mean, confirmation that 'henry' is lying but that's just another skip in the pond. but we're charged to believe that the worst CAN happen and locke is going to lose his legs twice over, in the past and the present. nice bit of sleight of hand.
another thing, if they could've just gone to the computer up through the pantry, you'd think locke would've done that before prying open that great godamighty door. the button's the priority! but that wouldn't've made such a good episode, i guess.
so locke got himself an appraising business, welcome home. man of many jobs. we now know nadia made it as far as LA and was alive 4+ years ago. we certainly haven't seen the last of her, i'm thinking. sayid and his broken heart.
is there a doubt in anybody's mind that the plane that flew over locke at the flightline motel was Oceanic? at this point, i should hope not.
i love how we stayed with locke for the climax, no idea what's going on. actually, when it went to commercial with gale unconscious and the four-minute counter ticking, i thought they might just blow up the hatch and kill locke and gale, which would've been insane. instead, we got a blacklight map, the best we've seen yet. no great surprise to see the stations aligned in a bagua, same eight-sided symbol as the dharma logo. so we have the staff and the flame as the two stations on the west side of the island? the two stations on the east, between the swan and the arrow, aren't named. and there's even a small question mark on one. then, of course, that big question mark in the middle. that might be important (sarcasm). question marks on maps drive me crazy, want to go chart them out! nice device. lots of latin and numbers sprinkled liberally throughout. a few english phrases: "alleged location of aborted (unreadable)", "alleged location of the flame", "activity unsuitable for", "possible CV II, inactive since accident". there are lots of CVs written down, CV I - CV IV. a "possible cv II, inactive since the accident"
the latin was very interesting, i thought:
"ut sit magna, tamen certe lenta ira deorum est" = "when he is great, nothwithstanding certainly slowly anger is downwards"
"malum consilium quod mutari non potest" = "bad advice is not able to change anyone"
"hic sunt dracones" = "here be dragons" (this at the southeastern tip of the eastmost line of the bagua, an old sailor's map expression, seems like)
"credo nos in fluctu eodem esse" = "trust us in the very same flow that consumes" (what's great about this one, esse can mean 'eat or consume' OR 'to be or exist' so it's up to the translator; this translator votes consume!)
"sursum corda" is repeated three times above the staff (which i'm thinking is ethan's station) = "born on high"
and the real gem "cogito ergo doleo" = "i think, therefore i feel pain"
whew.
so, yeah, that fried me out. homestretch. cool we weren't with henry, don't know what he really did, it sure felt like a lie when he told locke he "did what you told me to". did the countdown hit the end? and that's what happened? or did henry key in a new sequence, show that map to locke, for whatever reason? the latter, i think, still believe they ARE averting doomsday every 108 minutes and something really bad will happen when the sequence is inevitably not entered on time. that shot of the map on locke's eye, so beautiful. d aronofsky was supposed to direct this one, would've been a great riff on requiem for a dream. o well.
and what was up with that parachute? i kept thinking dharma commandos were about to pop out of the jungle, everything was about to change! was it just a food drop? i wonder how dharma mac & cheese stands up to kraft.
and cue sayid with the driver's license, mr. henry gale lives at 815 walnut ridge rd in wayaza, mn just east of minneapolis. the zip, 55391, adds up to 23, of course. a very affable-looking black man. the way 'henry' cocked his head back away from sayid, looked back over at jack...excellent. locke's in a pickle, henry is going to have to come up with a whopper now. and episode 42 looms before us. a hurley flashback would be logical but i'd say all bets are off. an on-island 'henry' flashback would be killer.
keep believing, island faithful.
(NOTE: the translations were all on a few minutes of research. the definitive translations can be found at lostpedia.com/BlastDoor)
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