>: 70 THE BEGINNING OF THE END
And after the longest wait yet, just over eight months, we are back with new episodes. Open with a pyramid of produce, four sides denoting the fourth season if you really want to sniff around. And more than 42 lemons and limes. But we’re not on the island! And Hurley’s making a getaway. And Jack’s watching it on the news, OJ-style. The fact that he’s rocking the AM screwdriver has me thinking flash-forward and Hurley confirms it with that horrifying call for recognition. SIX? SIX? Does that mean everyone else died? Or got left behind? Or chose to stay? Four minutes in, and the questions already stacking up.
Who are the other three Oceanic 6? The knee-jerk is to assume that Kate, Jack, and Hurley are the ones we know. What about the person who died? Locke or Ben or Michael (or whoever)? Friend of mine made the convincing point that there would have been at least reporters at that funeral if that person was one of the Oceanic 6, they’re famous. Hurley’s invoking the name like it means something, everyone knows Jack, Iron Man’s watching it on CNN in Marvel Comics. So that opens up: six got off the island publicly and told a story, a lie, that at least Jack will come to regret. But do they have to be the only ones who got off? If that’s Michael in the coffin, they still could.
Oh, one thing I missed. The Return of the FuckYouUp Car! Yes, the same car that hit: Michael in New York and put him in the hospital, Locke in the parking lot but DIDN’T paralyze him before he got conned by his own mom, Kate when she was escaping from the hospital (and killed her boyfriend, n’est-ce pas?), and that probably drove by behind Locke’s dad in that flower shop shows up again to halt Hurley’s forward progress. It’s still active in flash-forwards? This CAN’T just be a reused stunt car, honestly, with this show, it’s got to mean something. GOT to.
Anyway, moving on, Naomi’s not dead, wait yes she is, but she wasn’t so bad, covering for Locke knifing her and all and rejiggering the frequency and actually dying before hanging up.
And Hurley denies knowing Ana-Lucia to her old partner, Big Mike. Got to have something to do with the necessary fiction behind being a member of the Oceanic 6, I’m thinking.
Hurley’s slo-mo cannonball was the only point where the episode dipped, yah’hah.
Cedric Daniels from THE WIRE drops in on Hurley as creepy possible counsel for Oceanic. “Where are they? Are they still alive?” Are “they” the other survivors? The other four of the Oceanic 6, who have maybe gone to ground? (remember Kate is probably low-profiling it unless she’s still got the ID off that chick who drowned in 1.5 or whenever)(and if her “he” is Sawyer, yeah, they’re not exactly slinging their passports around the Oceanic terminal nearest you) And looks like Hurley was sketching out 2.2 on the chalkboard in the background there, I see the raft and DHARMA shark. He forgot ungrateful Michael, bitching at Sawyer for saving him from drowning so that he can go kill some tailenders.
And Charlie returns for a solid cameo. “They need you.” This is also what was written on his hand during that excellent hallucination in Big Mike’s interrogating room when Master Pace swam up toward the TV screen and slapped his palm on it. Again, “they”?
Biggest HolyShit moment of the night, though: got to be Hurley stumbling upon Jacob’s now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t cabin. He looks in the window and sees someone sitting in the rocking chair.
_PAUSE: If you have not seen the 2-minute clip, SO IT BEGINS, you are strongly encouraged, nay demanded, to view it here now. Seriously. If you care enough to be reading these words, do this now in remembrance of Eko. We'll be here when you get back. :UNPAUSE_
In addition to confirming what many have suspected since 1.5, that clip also locks down who is sitting in Jacob’s chair. The white shoes, the suit, the profile. Dr. Christian Shephard can be added to the list of on-island individuals hanging out off-screen during the first two or three seasons, waiting for their part of the story to kick in. IS this the actual Doc? We know his body was on 815. We know Jack found an empty coffin in the caves after chasing what appeared to be his dad through the forest. But WAS that old CS himself? Crucially, we’ve never seen what happened to him after rushing Claire’s house with Ana Lucia in Sydney and him getting Sawyer to buy him a drink. He could have taken something that would make him appear dead to Jack and the mortician. Of course, that leads to the impossible Ultimate question: WHY? Why do all this? What is the significance of these passengers on this flight? What is the deal with that island the monster Walt talking backwards and killing birds Zombie Mikhail and the reason that mothers can’t carry their kids to term and the EM anomaly and those numbers O those numbers won’t let me go___
On-point: That was Christian in the cabin. Was Jacob just assuming his shape, as he has done with several pivotal people from our castaways past? Or is Christian Jacob? And how about the wild eye that sent Hurley packing? Checking out a still, it looks a little like Locke, which fits with what’s come before and with him showing up a minute later.
The factioning was pretty crazy. I kept expecting this almost every week in Season 1 and it took us another fifty episodes to get here, the Jack and Locke split. Wild to have Hurley not with Jack and Kate.
And then a charming game of Horse between friends. Nice touch that Hurley can’t miss. He’s the master of jump-shots and ping-pong, thanks to the asylum. But Jack’s just teasing us talking about that beard! Obvious question from this scene: What is Jack afraid that Hurley was going to tell? It’s the same thing they lied about, surely. What? And what happens between that game and go-time at the bridge to spin Jack so hard in the opposite direction, turn him into a mirror image and all?
And what’s going to happen now that Jeremy Davies has landed?
The strike might get resolved in time, island faithful. Cross your fingers. And welcome back to the island.
Who are the other three Oceanic 6? The knee-jerk is to assume that Kate, Jack, and Hurley are the ones we know. What about the person who died? Locke or Ben or Michael (or whoever)? Friend of mine made the convincing point that there would have been at least reporters at that funeral if that person was one of the Oceanic 6, they’re famous. Hurley’s invoking the name like it means something, everyone knows Jack, Iron Man’s watching it on CNN in Marvel Comics. So that opens up: six got off the island publicly and told a story, a lie, that at least Jack will come to regret. But do they have to be the only ones who got off? If that’s Michael in the coffin, they still could.
Oh, one thing I missed. The Return of the FuckYouUp Car! Yes, the same car that hit: Michael in New York and put him in the hospital, Locke in the parking lot but DIDN’T paralyze him before he got conned by his own mom, Kate when she was escaping from the hospital (and killed her boyfriend, n’est-ce pas?), and that probably drove by behind Locke’s dad in that flower shop shows up again to halt Hurley’s forward progress. It’s still active in flash-forwards? This CAN’T just be a reused stunt car, honestly, with this show, it’s got to mean something. GOT to.
Anyway, moving on, Naomi’s not dead, wait yes she is, but she wasn’t so bad, covering for Locke knifing her and all and rejiggering the frequency and actually dying before hanging up.
And Hurley denies knowing Ana-Lucia to her old partner, Big Mike. Got to have something to do with the necessary fiction behind being a member of the Oceanic 6, I’m thinking.
Hurley’s slo-mo cannonball was the only point where the episode dipped, yah’hah.
Cedric Daniels from THE WIRE drops in on Hurley as creepy possible counsel for Oceanic. “Where are they? Are they still alive?” Are “they” the other survivors? The other four of the Oceanic 6, who have maybe gone to ground? (remember Kate is probably low-profiling it unless she’s still got the ID off that chick who drowned in 1.5 or whenever)(and if her “he” is Sawyer, yeah, they’re not exactly slinging their passports around the Oceanic terminal nearest you) And looks like Hurley was sketching out 2.2 on the chalkboard in the background there, I see the raft and DHARMA shark. He forgot ungrateful Michael, bitching at Sawyer for saving him from drowning so that he can go kill some tailenders.
And Charlie returns for a solid cameo. “They need you.” This is also what was written on his hand during that excellent hallucination in Big Mike’s interrogating room when Master Pace swam up toward the TV screen and slapped his palm on it. Again, “they”?
Biggest HolyShit moment of the night, though: got to be Hurley stumbling upon Jacob’s now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t cabin. He looks in the window and sees someone sitting in the rocking chair.
_PAUSE: If you have not seen the 2-minute clip, SO IT BEGINS, you are strongly encouraged, nay demanded, to view it here now. Seriously. If you care enough to be reading these words, do this now in remembrance of Eko. We'll be here when you get back. :UNPAUSE_
In addition to confirming what many have suspected since 1.5, that clip also locks down who is sitting in Jacob’s chair. The white shoes, the suit, the profile. Dr. Christian Shephard can be added to the list of on-island individuals hanging out off-screen during the first two or three seasons, waiting for their part of the story to kick in. IS this the actual Doc? We know his body was on 815. We know Jack found an empty coffin in the caves after chasing what appeared to be his dad through the forest. But WAS that old CS himself? Crucially, we’ve never seen what happened to him after rushing Claire’s house with Ana Lucia in Sydney and him getting Sawyer to buy him a drink. He could have taken something that would make him appear dead to Jack and the mortician. Of course, that leads to the impossible Ultimate question: WHY? Why do all this? What is the significance of these passengers on this flight? What is the deal with that island the monster Walt talking backwards and killing birds Zombie Mikhail and the reason that mothers can’t carry their kids to term and the EM anomaly and those numbers O those numbers won’t let me go___
On-point: That was Christian in the cabin. Was Jacob just assuming his shape, as he has done with several pivotal people from our castaways past? Or is Christian Jacob? And how about the wild eye that sent Hurley packing? Checking out a still, it looks a little like Locke, which fits with what’s come before and with him showing up a minute later.
The factioning was pretty crazy. I kept expecting this almost every week in Season 1 and it took us another fifty episodes to get here, the Jack and Locke split. Wild to have Hurley not with Jack and Kate.
And then a charming game of Horse between friends. Nice touch that Hurley can’t miss. He’s the master of jump-shots and ping-pong, thanks to the asylum. But Jack’s just teasing us talking about that beard! Obvious question from this scene: What is Jack afraid that Hurley was going to tell? It’s the same thing they lied about, surely. What? And what happens between that game and go-time at the bridge to spin Jack so hard in the opposite direction, turn him into a mirror image and all?
And what’s going to happen now that Jeremy Davies has landed?
The strike might get resolved in time, island faithful. Cross your fingers. And welcome back to the island.
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