>: 64 THE FLASH
(THIS EPISODE WAS INCORRECTLY TITLED)
Well, it should go without saying that I’m sold any time you start off with a quartet trundling through the woods, random conversation drifting to the outcome of a Superman/Flash race (because honestly, faithful, that’s always been such a galling thing to me, if the contest was being all-powerful and taking care of the entire beauteous sphere, or servicing Lois, or negating Lex, no question, but running fast? Around the world? Isn’t that the damn redsuit* job description?), so I’m immediately thinking Charlie’s doomed, not like I haven’t known for the last ten episodes, but still, I mean I was thinking it, and then that arrow in the neck, just heart-stopping. Such a hardcore move to take him out before the titles. But, no. The flash of everything before his eyes. I love Desmond.
Seriously, though, a tripwire? The first thing I thought when Charlie stepped down was Duck and jump to the right. Which would have done him fine. Survival skills not learned.
What a facking good trick though, dropping us in post medias res, actually killing Charlie with Giacchino power, the score, re-quoting Superman (guess it would have been too much for the score to drop J. Williams, but don’t for a minute believe that that wasn’t done and discarded) and giving us the architecture for this episode in a montage. And people tell me this isn’t the best show.
Then in D.’s montage when you think it’s Charlie’s feet dangling from the trees back from when Ethan hung him as a background while he’s talking to Hurley, it’s really the pilot’s, the unPenny.
Great bit in Desmond’s first flashback to have the monk drop “one of us” followed by maybe Desmond’s first “brother”.
Written by Jeff Pinkner & Brian K. Vaughan. I have been waiting to read that last name for the last ten weeks. There is no chance that this will be bad. I will just have to attempt to forget Yorick & Mitchell. Pumped for the cliffhanger.
Desmond dropping his jigsaw puzzle simile was gorgeous, because there actually were count em 4 LOST jigsaws parachuted into the great unwashed last year and there were cryptographic spoiler clues on the back of them, which were really hard to obtain, because they used James’s TURN OF THE SCREW as the unlock key, back from Desmond or Inman hiding the Orientation tape from Jack and Locke, but it blows my mind that Vaughan was a fan like me at the time, watching all of that madness, and then got to tongue-in-cheek reference it in a way that almost certainly blasted through 84% of the Americans watching (bless their hearts), but the whole thing about these, surprise, difficult LOST puzzles to solve was that there were no pictures of the completed puzzle, as in Desmond's quote, which I guess BKV is using to imply that Lindelof et al really are flying by the seat of their pants, still no idea of the endpoint. Hoo-hah. (a stance I completely deny)
“A little afternoon delight…” sums it up.
Got to love Charlie rocking the DI sheet music. And Desmond’s willingness to sacrifice him.
See, all of this would be less horrifying if I wasn’t channeling it day-of. Immediate example: Charlie and Jin walking up the beach whistling the Bridge over the River Kwai melody I was serenading my bride with it not eight hours earlier, for no reason in the world at all, except I felt it from the air, the episode landing.
So awkward to experience Kate hitting on Jack, now. And she thinks she’s so great, sexy spoon-clean, and he takes it right on over to Juliet. Terrible. Great response, though.
(Ford 3, Shephard 0)
Jin’s kabuki show might be the very coolest thing about this one, though. Into Hurley bringing up the chupucabra.
“-that maybe she spent the last three years looking for me.” into the sound of helicopter blades. Nice touch. And, ah-hah-ha, can’t believe that this show would put a red dot in the night sky now, because I had two red dots up there all last month in fiction, and it really is the proof, again, it’s all connected.
“You two arguing over who’s you’re favorite Other?” right behind the shot of Sawyer and Doc silhouettes going at it in ping-pong. Yah, B-plots! Unbeatable.
And the Portugese translation, IDRIL-22? Heller breaks more boundaries and the literary references keep a’coming. Also of significance, the guys in that Arctic station at the end of Season 2 were speaking Portugese. Like we didn't already know that Penny sent this chick. Just saying.
“If the flashes don’t happen exactly as I saw them, the picture changes.”
And Finoula Flanagan, the lady who wouldn't sell Desmond an engagement ring back in 3.8 (and who was excellent in the Amenabar classic THE OTHERS) is in a picture with the monk who fired Desmond). Are all of these people plants, nudging the future castaways toward the island years ahead of time? And that crucifix up on the monk's wall is identical to the one hanging in Yemi's church. Surely just a re-used prop. OR IS IT ALVAR HANSO UP ON THAT CROSS?
Superlative initial chemistry between Des and Pen. I would love it if the whole point of all this was their star-crossed nonsense. It’ll be much more complicated than that, though, yes.
And the face behind the helmet is of South American descent! Nonsensical and madness! Did Desmond change the picture by letting Charlie live? They'd already found the Portugese Heller with the picture to ID Desmond, which wouldn't have been necessary if it was Pen herself. And yet, he did see her in the jungle in that very first flash before the titles.
I need another shot of this immediately! Like every other issue of LOST and Y. Only 5 more left. A lot of ground to cover before we're left twisting in the wind for another few months.
_________
*and aren’t Flashes sacrificed every Crisis? And is this also a reference to Star Trek ensign redshirts, as Boone made in 1.11, calling his own doomed status nine episodes before he wished us goodnight and good luck? This bears consideration. Episode should have been called The Flash, last D. ep was FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EYES, and with all the Allen vs. Kent talk and that whole, well, flash, just can’t believe Vaughan let it slide, I mean, Heller? 22? No. What we experienced. Was a Flash.
(Catch-23 would, of course, have been acceptable)
Well, it should go without saying that I’m sold any time you start off with a quartet trundling through the woods, random conversation drifting to the outcome of a Superman/Flash race (because honestly, faithful, that’s always been such a galling thing to me, if the contest was being all-powerful and taking care of the entire beauteous sphere, or servicing Lois, or negating Lex, no question, but running fast? Around the world? Isn’t that the damn redsuit* job description?), so I’m immediately thinking Charlie’s doomed, not like I haven’t known for the last ten episodes, but still, I mean I was thinking it, and then that arrow in the neck, just heart-stopping. Such a hardcore move to take him out before the titles. But, no. The flash of everything before his eyes. I love Desmond.
Seriously, though, a tripwire? The first thing I thought when Charlie stepped down was Duck and jump to the right. Which would have done him fine. Survival skills not learned.
What a facking good trick though, dropping us in post medias res, actually killing Charlie with Giacchino power, the score, re-quoting Superman (guess it would have been too much for the score to drop J. Williams, but don’t for a minute believe that that wasn’t done and discarded) and giving us the architecture for this episode in a montage. And people tell me this isn’t the best show.
Then in D.’s montage when you think it’s Charlie’s feet dangling from the trees back from when Ethan hung him as a background while he’s talking to Hurley, it’s really the pilot’s, the unPenny.
Great bit in Desmond’s first flashback to have the monk drop “one of us” followed by maybe Desmond’s first “brother”.
Written by Jeff Pinkner & Brian K. Vaughan. I have been waiting to read that last name for the last ten weeks. There is no chance that this will be bad. I will just have to attempt to forget Yorick & Mitchell. Pumped for the cliffhanger.
Desmond dropping his jigsaw puzzle simile was gorgeous, because there actually were count em 4 LOST jigsaws parachuted into the great unwashed last year and there were cryptographic spoiler clues on the back of them, which were really hard to obtain, because they used James’s TURN OF THE SCREW as the unlock key, back from Desmond or Inman hiding the Orientation tape from Jack and Locke, but it blows my mind that Vaughan was a fan like me at the time, watching all of that madness, and then got to tongue-in-cheek reference it in a way that almost certainly blasted through 84% of the Americans watching (bless their hearts), but the whole thing about these, surprise, difficult LOST puzzles to solve was that there were no pictures of the completed puzzle, as in Desmond's quote, which I guess BKV is using to imply that Lindelof et al really are flying by the seat of their pants, still no idea of the endpoint. Hoo-hah. (a stance I completely deny)
“A little afternoon delight…” sums it up.
Got to love Charlie rocking the DI sheet music. And Desmond’s willingness to sacrifice him.
See, all of this would be less horrifying if I wasn’t channeling it day-of. Immediate example: Charlie and Jin walking up the beach whistling the Bridge over the River Kwai melody I was serenading my bride with it not eight hours earlier, for no reason in the world at all, except I felt it from the air, the episode landing.
So awkward to experience Kate hitting on Jack, now. And she thinks she’s so great, sexy spoon-clean, and he takes it right on over to Juliet. Terrible. Great response, though.
(Ford 3, Shephard 0)
Jin’s kabuki show might be the very coolest thing about this one, though. Into Hurley bringing up the chupucabra.
“-that maybe she spent the last three years looking for me.” into the sound of helicopter blades. Nice touch. And, ah-hah-ha, can’t believe that this show would put a red dot in the night sky now, because I had two red dots up there all last month in fiction, and it really is the proof, again, it’s all connected.
“You two arguing over who’s you’re favorite Other?” right behind the shot of Sawyer and Doc silhouettes going at it in ping-pong. Yah, B-plots! Unbeatable.
And the Portugese translation, IDRIL-22? Heller breaks more boundaries and the literary references keep a’coming. Also of significance, the guys in that Arctic station at the end of Season 2 were speaking Portugese. Like we didn't already know that Penny sent this chick. Just saying.
“If the flashes don’t happen exactly as I saw them, the picture changes.”
And Finoula Flanagan, the lady who wouldn't sell Desmond an engagement ring back in 3.8 (and who was excellent in the Amenabar classic THE OTHERS) is in a picture with the monk who fired Desmond). Are all of these people plants, nudging the future castaways toward the island years ahead of time? And that crucifix up on the monk's wall is identical to the one hanging in Yemi's church. Surely just a re-used prop. OR IS IT ALVAR HANSO UP ON THAT CROSS?
Superlative initial chemistry between Des and Pen. I would love it if the whole point of all this was their star-crossed nonsense. It’ll be much more complicated than that, though, yes.
And the face behind the helmet is of South American descent! Nonsensical and madness! Did Desmond change the picture by letting Charlie live? They'd already found the Portugese Heller with the picture to ID Desmond, which wouldn't have been necessary if it was Pen herself. And yet, he did see her in the jungle in that very first flash before the titles.
I need another shot of this immediately! Like every other issue of LOST and Y. Only 5 more left. A lot of ground to cover before we're left twisting in the wind for another few months.
_________
*and aren’t Flashes sacrificed every Crisis? And is this also a reference to Star Trek ensign redshirts, as Boone made in 1.11, calling his own doomed status nine episodes before he wished us goodnight and good luck? This bears consideration. Episode should have been called The Flash, last D. ep was FLASHES BEFORE YOUR EYES, and with all the Allen vs. Kent talk and that whole, well, flash, just can’t believe Vaughan let it slide, I mean, Heller? 22? No. What we experienced. Was a Flash.
(Catch-23 would, of course, have been acceptable)
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