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And Locke opens his eyes.
You know from the first second that he’s in the jungle, a nice recapitulation of Jack in the first seconds of the show. And he CAN walk. Guess the opposite was too obvious. Cue naked Desmond running past. The fact that he’s naked turns out to be the most interesting aspect of tonight’s episode (and not cause e’s hanging to the left, brothah!). The Jesusstick falls out of the tree, somebody read last week’s entry and they threw it at me right away! Locke checks it out, we have the numbers carved along the bottom as well as some new scripture. Let’s see:
Genesis 13:14 – And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had separated from him: Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are – northward, southward, eastward, westward.
Habbakuk 1:3 – (this one’s on page 823!) Why do you show me iniquity and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife and contention arises.
John 3:05 (why the 0?) – Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
(is the 0 a clue implying episode? such as in season 3 episode 5, john locke will maybe lift up his eyes and look to the north? head out to save the trio? enter "the kingdom of God"? watch for it in just two weeks.)
Acts 4:12 – Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which he must be saved.
Romans 6:12 – Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
And the words LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK NORTH
So out of that, I get that the surrounding world can be a bad scene but purity of mind and spirit will get you in to the chosen land and also look to the north shore, time to deal with those Others.
[sophisticated Biblical analysis ends here]
I’m ready for Locke to look up and see Eko dead in the tree, same shot as when the monster got the pilot…but he goes back to camp instead. Whoa, does the island want him to work on the church now? Charlie’s pretty slow on guessing “island” during Locke Charades. A sweat lodge, all right we’re going to get psychedlic and have some visions, always a good idea on this show.
Locke’s hitchhiker is a weirdo. Locke’s gun permits place him in San Francisco, that’s a new one.
Yas, Locke is grinding up something like he was when he dosed Boone. It is time for a visionquest in the sweat lodge. Ought to be good. Hey, the writers found another flashback for Boone, I wondered if he might ever come back through Locke. ‘I’ve come to help you find your way so you can bring the family back together again.’ Great to see all the characters there in the airport. Dig Hurley behind the counter on the Swan computer. And Desmond as Captain, Boone says he’s helping himself. The tension builds, we know Eko’s the one in danger. Ben wanding Jack and getting the trio through the security checkpoint is a nice touch. And blood on the torch, no time. Great sequence, felt surreal and wrong in all the ways it should have.
So now Locke’s going to save Eko. This would ring a lot cooler if he hadn’t morphed into such a bitch last season. But good, yes, go save him.
“By the polar bear”! Oh, now the bears are back. It would be nice if there was a reason other than story necessity to revisit one of those three dozen dangling threads.
John’s friend Mike looked familiar. Hank Jennings from Twin Peaks? Oh and Eddie’s rocking the Geronimo Jackson tee-shirt, Mike’s good enough to point that out for the less observant. Geronimo Jackson is of course that classic power trio from the 60s whose debut Magna Carta Sayid and Charlie found in the Swan while the A-team was out chasing Michael back in THE HUNTING PARTY, and it’s speculated that Gerald and Karen Degroot comprise 2/3 of that particular classic rock ensemble.
Nice shot of the imploded Swan, didn’t think we’d get that tonight. How did those dudes make it out of that network of force without getting mangled? Funny how everything’s fine then…it’s time to run again! Ah, the first season. Then Locke almost takes out Hurley, that would’ve been unfortunate.
Polar bears are the Einsteins of the bear community. I bet these are even smarter than usual. And they have a taste for fish biscuits.
Wow, Locke sure turned into Willard from Apocalypse Now pretty quick there. Go get him.
The return of Naked Desmond! Glad he wasn’t off running for half of the season. Funny shot of him and the tie-dye, the look on his face.
And the bear cave. That Tonka truck is ominous, same effect as the teddy bear last season.
Eddie’s a cop. ID# 84023, even. Does Locke have the stones to take him out to save his new family?
Back to the cave. A bunch of skeletons, including one wrapped in a DI blanket from the Pearl. That station sure caused a bit of trouble. Oh, they mess with you on that first shot, show what looks like a bloody stump of bone and cut right up to Eko. He’s got his right arm chewed off! But no, that’s a bloody stick he’s holding (read that back to yourself in Charlie’s voice). Okay, blowtorch the bear, looks like Eko’s got all of his limbs intact.
Hurley reprises his role as Voice of the Audience. Yes, the failsafe key was convenient. It IS a good question, why didn’t they use it sooner? Desmond doesn’t give a satisfactory answer but then he doesn’t/shouldn’t really have any.
“You’re not gonna, like, turn into the Hulk or something?”
That’s a pretty big comment, the way things shake down. Desmond has the slip, shares the contents of Locke’s speech before he gives it. What, is he unstuck in time now, like ol Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim? If THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE shows up in Sawyer or Juliet's hands this season, that will be a pretty big deal. Doesn’t seem like he’s living backwards or anything. This is a lot of fun, Paranormal Weirdness Instance #19 or so. Interesting to see where it goes.
Thought Locke was going to shoot Eddie, he seems to’ve rocked bad decisions for the most part. But no, he’s a good person.
Yes, Locke, you are sorry. Welcome back on track. Weird how Eko went right back to sleep the second Charlie walked up, like the whole conversation was in Locke’s head or something.
And back at camp, meet Paolo and Nikki, figured we’d get a couple new faces holding down the fort. Locke does exactly what you’d expect him to and dives right into the vacuum created by the absence of those dominant personalities. And gives the speech. See, Desmond barely pays attention to it, throwing stones in the ocean. Is he crouched somewhere else listening, doubling up and in hiding a la McFly in Back to the Future II? Or is it more of a Groundhog Day repeating loop thing? Hurley is wondering, at least, that’s a good thing.
They did it again, answered a 154-day-old question with another that will probably take the rest of the season to unravel: What happened to Desmond when he turned the key? Or refine it, Where did Desmond go?
You know from the first second that he’s in the jungle, a nice recapitulation of Jack in the first seconds of the show. And he CAN walk. Guess the opposite was too obvious. Cue naked Desmond running past. The fact that he’s naked turns out to be the most interesting aspect of tonight’s episode (and not cause e’s hanging to the left, brothah!). The Jesusstick falls out of the tree, somebody read last week’s entry and they threw it at me right away! Locke checks it out, we have the numbers carved along the bottom as well as some new scripture. Let’s see:
Genesis 13:14 – And the Lord said to Abram after Lot had separated from him: Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are – northward, southward, eastward, westward.
Habbakuk 1:3 – (this one’s on page 823!) Why do you show me iniquity and cause me to see trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; There is strife and contention arises.
John 3:05 (why the 0?) – Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.”
(is the 0 a clue implying episode? such as in season 3 episode 5, john locke will maybe lift up his eyes and look to the north? head out to save the trio? enter "the kingdom of God"? watch for it in just two weeks.)
Acts 4:12 – Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which he must be saved.
Romans 6:12 – Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
And the words LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK NORTH
So out of that, I get that the surrounding world can be a bad scene but purity of mind and spirit will get you in to the chosen land and also look to the north shore, time to deal with those Others.
[sophisticated Biblical analysis ends here]
I’m ready for Locke to look up and see Eko dead in the tree, same shot as when the monster got the pilot…but he goes back to camp instead. Whoa, does the island want him to work on the church now? Charlie’s pretty slow on guessing “island” during Locke Charades. A sweat lodge, all right we’re going to get psychedlic and have some visions, always a good idea on this show.
Locke’s hitchhiker is a weirdo. Locke’s gun permits place him in San Francisco, that’s a new one.
Yas, Locke is grinding up something like he was when he dosed Boone. It is time for a visionquest in the sweat lodge. Ought to be good. Hey, the writers found another flashback for Boone, I wondered if he might ever come back through Locke. ‘I’ve come to help you find your way so you can bring the family back together again.’ Great to see all the characters there in the airport. Dig Hurley behind the counter on the Swan computer. And Desmond as Captain, Boone says he’s helping himself. The tension builds, we know Eko’s the one in danger. Ben wanding Jack and getting the trio through the security checkpoint is a nice touch. And blood on the torch, no time. Great sequence, felt surreal and wrong in all the ways it should have.
So now Locke’s going to save Eko. This would ring a lot cooler if he hadn’t morphed into such a bitch last season. But good, yes, go save him.
“By the polar bear”! Oh, now the bears are back. It would be nice if there was a reason other than story necessity to revisit one of those three dozen dangling threads.
John’s friend Mike looked familiar. Hank Jennings from Twin Peaks? Oh and Eddie’s rocking the Geronimo Jackson tee-shirt, Mike’s good enough to point that out for the less observant. Geronimo Jackson is of course that classic power trio from the 60s whose debut Magna Carta Sayid and Charlie found in the Swan while the A-team was out chasing Michael back in THE HUNTING PARTY, and it’s speculated that Gerald and Karen Degroot comprise 2/3 of that particular classic rock ensemble.
Nice shot of the imploded Swan, didn’t think we’d get that tonight. How did those dudes make it out of that network of force without getting mangled? Funny how everything’s fine then…it’s time to run again! Ah, the first season. Then Locke almost takes out Hurley, that would’ve been unfortunate.
Polar bears are the Einsteins of the bear community. I bet these are even smarter than usual. And they have a taste for fish biscuits.
Wow, Locke sure turned into Willard from Apocalypse Now pretty quick there. Go get him.
The return of Naked Desmond! Glad he wasn’t off running for half of the season. Funny shot of him and the tie-dye, the look on his face.
And the bear cave. That Tonka truck is ominous, same effect as the teddy bear last season.
Eddie’s a cop. ID# 84023, even. Does Locke have the stones to take him out to save his new family?
Back to the cave. A bunch of skeletons, including one wrapped in a DI blanket from the Pearl. That station sure caused a bit of trouble. Oh, they mess with you on that first shot, show what looks like a bloody stump of bone and cut right up to Eko. He’s got his right arm chewed off! But no, that’s a bloody stick he’s holding (read that back to yourself in Charlie’s voice). Okay, blowtorch the bear, looks like Eko’s got all of his limbs intact.
Hurley reprises his role as Voice of the Audience. Yes, the failsafe key was convenient. It IS a good question, why didn’t they use it sooner? Desmond doesn’t give a satisfactory answer but then he doesn’t/shouldn’t really have any.
“You’re not gonna, like, turn into the Hulk or something?”
That’s a pretty big comment, the way things shake down. Desmond has the slip, shares the contents of Locke’s speech before he gives it. What, is he unstuck in time now, like ol Vonnegut’s Billy Pilgrim? If THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE shows up in Sawyer or Juliet's hands this season, that will be a pretty big deal. Doesn’t seem like he’s living backwards or anything. This is a lot of fun, Paranormal Weirdness Instance #19 or so. Interesting to see where it goes.
Thought Locke was going to shoot Eddie, he seems to’ve rocked bad decisions for the most part. But no, he’s a good person.
Yes, Locke, you are sorry. Welcome back on track. Weird how Eko went right back to sleep the second Charlie walked up, like the whole conversation was in Locke’s head or something.
And back at camp, meet Paolo and Nikki, figured we’d get a couple new faces holding down the fort. Locke does exactly what you’d expect him to and dives right into the vacuum created by the absence of those dominant personalities. And gives the speech. See, Desmond barely pays attention to it, throwing stones in the ocean. Is he crouched somewhere else listening, doubling up and in hiding a la McFly in Back to the Future II? Or is it more of a Groundhog Day repeating loop thing? Hurley is wondering, at least, that’s a good thing.
They did it again, answered a 154-day-old question with another that will probably take the rest of the season to unravel: What happened to Desmond when he turned the key? Or refine it, Where did Desmond go?
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