>: 60 THE MAN FROM TALLAHASSEE
Another great fake-out intro. This show continues to make a gullible fool out of me. I was already cursing that this flashback was starting post-paralysis, what a gyp. Locke even reaches down with his arms like he’s got the chair. Tricky. When he stood up, my friend Steve muttered, Now we’re going to see HOW. I’ve been saying that the last four times, I whispered back, since before we met Anthony Cooper in the first place.
And back to the novelty of throwing the pigskin in the Village. “Good hands!” Was sure Juliet was going to lay one on ol Jack right there, so manly is he. Locke again breaks it down for the team with his gift for oversimplification: “This is going to be more complicated than we thought.” Much what I was thinking as well, sir, 80 days after 815 actually crashed, in the neighborhood of December 11th 2004, about the time you and Boone first stumbled across the Hatch, our time. More. Complicated.
Flashback, hell yes, Locke is rocking the Marie Callender Meat Loaf & Gravy frozen dinner. A personal favorite of mine, Lindelof’s too, certainly. Peter Talbot? Only thing that makes me think of is David Talbot, the guy who interviewed a vampire in Anne Rice’s debut. Locke, such an idiot to lie and cover up for his awful father. As always.
Locke sends Kate in first. Again, as always. Same as the hatch. Jack was making the Giacchino chords happen on the piano. Sounded original, anyway. Much more shocking to see those guys pin Sayid to the floor than nab Kate. Figured Rousseau was coming for Ben, not Locke.
Tom’s “Got it” to Ben cracked me up, Tom making it happen, as always and forever, surely. The second Ben said “the man from Tallahassee” I knew that it would be Locke’s father, not Jack’s, who would turn out to show up on the island first. By way of Sawyer, Florida, and the Long Con. Attuned, am I!
The wildest thing of the episode was the return of the FuckYouUp Car from Season 1! Right when Anthony Cooper, sitting member of the Board of Directors at WidmoreCorp, says “Hello, John,” in his mark’s floral shop, you can see the car drive by in the window behind him. This is huge. The car doesn’t do anything else this episode. But it’s the same car that backed into Locke in the parking lot on the way for him to start to get tricked by his mother in 1.19. Same car that plowed into Michael after he hung up mad with his ex and kept him from going to get Walt (that’s my SON!) in 1.14. And it’s the car that Kate smashed into when she managed to kill her old boyfriend in 1.22. And now . . . it returns! So weird for them just to put it in here and not have it do anything heinous. Did it kill Peter Talbot? Is it taking orders from Cooper? Is the driver wearing a Dharma Initiative uniform and/or on the payroll of the Hanso Foundation/Mittelos Corp? Yes yes and yes, children.
Locke, you douchebag, why tip Cooper off? Who could be that stupid?
Ben wants some dignity. Emerson is acting his ass off. “I know you, John Locke.”
Wow, them talking about the back breaking. After all this time, we’re going to see.
So weird to have Jack giving Kate the same Others pat answer about the all-this-time missing captives. “They’re all safe.” Nice touch him throwing Sawyer back in her face re: trusting Others in the first place. But he’s still got the head-dipdown “I will come back for you”. Good stuff. Daniel Day-Lewis has nothing on you, Shephard. Loved that last shot with the foosball table in the foreground, Kate hunched down trying to figure it all out. Sums up the great trick they always pull about recasting the mundane in new and interesting ways (see Jack & Tom playing Catch). Great first half of the episode. I wonder if we’re going to have Locke blow up the sub and break his back.
Loved Ben reminiscing about his Swan captivity and not asking Locke about all he knew (and that Henry Gale could not)(wow, really, who the fuck was Henry Gale? And Jennifer?) . Looks like portrait of Juliet holding the pregnant male mouse up on his wall, as well as a chart of constellations I used to keep hanging up over my bed from like age 10-13. The island won’t fix him, Ben is not a good person, certainly. After all this time, Locke’s holding him prisoner again. You got any Stephen King?
And Sayid plants the first seed of doubt in Alex, good stuff.
Ben’s got Hawking’s A Brief History of Time in his living room. Maybe he loaned it to the guy who fell for the Wookie prison transfer. Great crack about giant hamsters in the underground lair. The magic box example “in terms Locke can understand” is fascinating to me. A scientific explanation, whatever you imagine, it can make, well that’s nanotech. Those little suckers own hydrogen and just move forward from there, so they can literally craft anything you can imagine. And I’m sure the smoke monster must be rogue nanotechnology. JJ Abrams, when he was real young, bought a magic box with a ? on top of it in NY, a $50 magical value for only $15, the sticker claimed. 15, I say. He’s never opened it in all this time, his imagination having long since far outstripped whatever is literally in that box. He’s going to die not knowing for sure what’s in there, but with an infinite variety of mysterious riches nesting there in his mind. Ben’s little example freaked me out pretty good, more than the FuckYouUp Car returning even, JJ’s magic box, the ?, nanotech, how all of these things apply and nestle and bundle and swirl in the creative process . . . again, let me sum the island experience up. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? (exactly)
Great retort from Locke about the submarine, too.
Wow, cold-blooded, Ben tells Locke that basically all he’s doing is blowing up Jack’s ride, the sub can never come back anyway because of the anomaly (Locke’s last major fuck-up, please bear in mind, island faithful)(not counting his more-than-indirect role in the departure of the best character to crash into these shores, a certain Nigerian) and his pat response is “Let’s go.” Brilliant. Gahd, and then Alex, 16-year old Alex, even tells Locke that Ben is the master manipulator, which anyone tuning in with a cerebellum could also share, and he has the nerve to come back with “I’ll have to keep that in mind”. It’s not a mind, dude. It’s a Rambo gag-reflex.
Not that the creators are as stupid as Locke. Incredible move to have the shot of him first opening the porthole down into the sub mirroring the classic shot of him and Jack looking down into the hatch, but now he’s in the NE quadrant opposite his former location in the SW. Indicating an absolute reverse. In intentions and outcome.
Was Ben referencing Judge Reinhold with “You don’t knock?” at Jack. If so, can I handle it?
Bad edit with Jack/Ben/Juliet. Ben makes his tiered, not-going-to-happen promise, shakes hands with Jack, Jack clearly turns and walks away, then Ben has his little moment with Juliet. Cut to Jack standing in the same place, pre-walkaway. The anomaly strikes again! I’ll blow his damn head off, brothah!
Hah, I must be channeling Desmond because Cooper pours himself and Locke shots of MacCutcheon right before Locke finally finally falls eight stories and one of the oldest questions is answered. Next up, just any day: Who are Adam and Eve? and Where’s Christian Shephard’s body? Cold, how Dad sets Locke up, too.
(Horrifying numbers footnote: at this commercial break, we cut to Austin local news showing a cop’s car camera doing night-vision on another car on fire. The ticker reads: 4215. 4216. Doesn’t skip to 4223, though)
The detectives say Locke’s father could be anywhere in the world now? Hmm, I would try latitude 4.815 and longitude 162.342 to start with, but I’m a nut. Couldn’t be.
Wow, and there’s Richard, the guy who hired Juliet (and hit her ex with an Apollo Candy bus) three years ago, helping Ben with John. Mittlos Tech=the Others=the Hostiles, the little doubt removed. He asks Locke “Are you going to do anything stupid?” Yukyuk. Richard is being ironic.
I missed this the first time: Ben asking John “are you ready to see what came out of the magic box?” Meaning his father. Adding credence to my idea that all the ghost guides who keep cropping up (Christian, Ana, backwardsWalt, Boone, Yemi) are results of nanotech. Ben dropping the word “communion” with Locke brings Whitley Strieber to mind, very interesting, we’re right back to aliens and bigspaceship1 after all of this. So great, how he set Locke up, this is the one place your father can never get at you. Is it really his father? What in hell is happening on this island? Really! I mean it, this time! 108108108eject!
And back to the novelty of throwing the pigskin in the Village. “Good hands!” Was sure Juliet was going to lay one on ol Jack right there, so manly is he. Locke again breaks it down for the team with his gift for oversimplification: “This is going to be more complicated than we thought.” Much what I was thinking as well, sir, 80 days after 815 actually crashed, in the neighborhood of December 11th 2004, about the time you and Boone first stumbled across the Hatch, our time. More. Complicated.
Flashback, hell yes, Locke is rocking the Marie Callender Meat Loaf & Gravy frozen dinner. A personal favorite of mine, Lindelof’s too, certainly. Peter Talbot? Only thing that makes me think of is David Talbot, the guy who interviewed a vampire in Anne Rice’s debut. Locke, such an idiot to lie and cover up for his awful father. As always.
Locke sends Kate in first. Again, as always. Same as the hatch. Jack was making the Giacchino chords happen on the piano. Sounded original, anyway. Much more shocking to see those guys pin Sayid to the floor than nab Kate. Figured Rousseau was coming for Ben, not Locke.
Tom’s “Got it” to Ben cracked me up, Tom making it happen, as always and forever, surely. The second Ben said “the man from Tallahassee” I knew that it would be Locke’s father, not Jack’s, who would turn out to show up on the island first. By way of Sawyer, Florida, and the Long Con. Attuned, am I!
The wildest thing of the episode was the return of the FuckYouUp Car from Season 1! Right when Anthony Cooper, sitting member of the Board of Directors at WidmoreCorp, says “Hello, John,” in his mark’s floral shop, you can see the car drive by in the window behind him. This is huge. The car doesn’t do anything else this episode. But it’s the same car that backed into Locke in the parking lot on the way for him to start to get tricked by his mother in 1.19. Same car that plowed into Michael after he hung up mad with his ex and kept him from going to get Walt (that’s my SON!) in 1.14. And it’s the car that Kate smashed into when she managed to kill her old boyfriend in 1.22. And now . . . it returns! So weird for them just to put it in here and not have it do anything heinous. Did it kill Peter Talbot? Is it taking orders from Cooper? Is the driver wearing a Dharma Initiative uniform and/or on the payroll of the Hanso Foundation/Mittelos Corp? Yes yes and yes, children.
Locke, you douchebag, why tip Cooper off? Who could be that stupid?
Ben wants some dignity. Emerson is acting his ass off. “I know you, John Locke.”
Wow, them talking about the back breaking. After all this time, we’re going to see.
So weird to have Jack giving Kate the same Others pat answer about the all-this-time missing captives. “They’re all safe.” Nice touch him throwing Sawyer back in her face re: trusting Others in the first place. But he’s still got the head-dipdown “I will come back for you”. Good stuff. Daniel Day-Lewis has nothing on you, Shephard. Loved that last shot with the foosball table in the foreground, Kate hunched down trying to figure it all out. Sums up the great trick they always pull about recasting the mundane in new and interesting ways (see Jack & Tom playing Catch). Great first half of the episode. I wonder if we’re going to have Locke blow up the sub and break his back.
Loved Ben reminiscing about his Swan captivity and not asking Locke about all he knew (and that Henry Gale could not)(wow, really, who the fuck was Henry Gale? And Jennifer?) . Looks like portrait of Juliet holding the pregnant male mouse up on his wall, as well as a chart of constellations I used to keep hanging up over my bed from like age 10-13. The island won’t fix him, Ben is not a good person, certainly. After all this time, Locke’s holding him prisoner again. You got any Stephen King?
And Sayid plants the first seed of doubt in Alex, good stuff.
Ben’s got Hawking’s A Brief History of Time in his living room. Maybe he loaned it to the guy who fell for the Wookie prison transfer. Great crack about giant hamsters in the underground lair. The magic box example “in terms Locke can understand” is fascinating to me. A scientific explanation, whatever you imagine, it can make, well that’s nanotech. Those little suckers own hydrogen and just move forward from there, so they can literally craft anything you can imagine. And I’m sure the smoke monster must be rogue nanotechnology. JJ Abrams, when he was real young, bought a magic box with a ? on top of it in NY, a $50 magical value for only $15, the sticker claimed. 15, I say. He’s never opened it in all this time, his imagination having long since far outstripped whatever is literally in that box. He’s going to die not knowing for sure what’s in there, but with an infinite variety of mysterious riches nesting there in his mind. Ben’s little example freaked me out pretty good, more than the FuckYouUp Car returning even, JJ’s magic box, the ?, nanotech, how all of these things apply and nestle and bundle and swirl in the creative process . . . again, let me sum the island experience up. WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? (exactly)
Great retort from Locke about the submarine, too.
Wow, cold-blooded, Ben tells Locke that basically all he’s doing is blowing up Jack’s ride, the sub can never come back anyway because of the anomaly (Locke’s last major fuck-up, please bear in mind, island faithful)(not counting his more-than-indirect role in the departure of the best character to crash into these shores, a certain Nigerian) and his pat response is “Let’s go.” Brilliant. Gahd, and then Alex, 16-year old Alex, even tells Locke that Ben is the master manipulator, which anyone tuning in with a cerebellum could also share, and he has the nerve to come back with “I’ll have to keep that in mind”. It’s not a mind, dude. It’s a Rambo gag-reflex.
Not that the creators are as stupid as Locke. Incredible move to have the shot of him first opening the porthole down into the sub mirroring the classic shot of him and Jack looking down into the hatch, but now he’s in the NE quadrant opposite his former location in the SW. Indicating an absolute reverse. In intentions and outcome.
Was Ben referencing Judge Reinhold with “You don’t knock?” at Jack. If so, can I handle it?
Bad edit with Jack/Ben/Juliet. Ben makes his tiered, not-going-to-happen promise, shakes hands with Jack, Jack clearly turns and walks away, then Ben has his little moment with Juliet. Cut to Jack standing in the same place, pre-walkaway. The anomaly strikes again! I’ll blow his damn head off, brothah!
Hah, I must be channeling Desmond because Cooper pours himself and Locke shots of MacCutcheon right before Locke finally finally falls eight stories and one of the oldest questions is answered. Next up, just any day: Who are Adam and Eve? and Where’s Christian Shephard’s body? Cold, how Dad sets Locke up, too.
(Horrifying numbers footnote: at this commercial break, we cut to Austin local news showing a cop’s car camera doing night-vision on another car on fire. The ticker reads: 4215. 4216. Doesn’t skip to 4223, though)
The detectives say Locke’s father could be anywhere in the world now? Hmm, I would try latitude 4.815 and longitude 162.342 to start with, but I’m a nut. Couldn’t be.
Wow, and there’s Richard, the guy who hired Juliet (and hit her ex with an Apollo Candy bus) three years ago, helping Ben with John. Mittlos Tech=the Others=the Hostiles, the little doubt removed. He asks Locke “Are you going to do anything stupid?” Yukyuk. Richard is being ironic.
I missed this the first time: Ben asking John “are you ready to see what came out of the magic box?” Meaning his father. Adding credence to my idea that all the ghost guides who keep cropping up (Christian, Ana, backwardsWalt, Boone, Yemi) are results of nanotech. Ben dropping the word “communion” with Locke brings Whitley Strieber to mind, very interesting, we’re right back to aliens and bigspaceship1 after all of this. So great, how he set Locke up, this is the one place your father can never get at you. Is it really his father? What in hell is happening on this island? Really! I mean it, this time! 108108108eject!
posted by rb at 5:39 PM
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Locke's papa is a busy man. Marrying old women, pushing sons out of windows, hiring dalton to clean up the double deuce. Where is Dalton and how does he fit into the Hanso foundation? Are they studying him because he is the greatest cooler around, or because of his throat ripping ability? I sure hope they answer these questions soon.
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