>: 86 THE LITTLE PRINCE
Well, that ship-light on the water makes you think it’s the Hume family blissfully cruising toward (towards, I guess, if Des is speaking) oblivion but another trick, we’re back in the lost week, which I guess is Day 101-108*, of the O6 on Penny’s boat (suppose it is the nascent Hume family, after all). Kate walks up to Jack and tells him how easy it is to keep Aaron asleep, which is just hilarious if you’ve been trying to calm down a beautiful little maniac for maybe a little less than the last 45 minutes. (superfluous hint: not Catherine). Enjoyed Kate’s delivery re: she has always been with Jack, even though the first thing that (certainly) the both of us were thinking was, “Oyeah? Were you with me when you were banging Sawyer in that cage back in 3.6 because there was no one in that Ozymandias room but me, I thought.”
And cut to Charlotte, who’s probably okay as long since this episode didn’t open with an on-Island flashback starring a little red-headed girl. The fact that she’s hemorrhaging certainly seems to have something to do with her probably being a Native (or not, as we’ll see).
And the return of that lawyer, which would have really horrified poor old Jimmy Montana this week. When he showed up early in the premiere, he was freaking me out with how familiar he seemed, but it wasn’t until the same actor dropped the selfless martyr bit on 24 this last Monday night, out of the event horizon Island madness, that I recognized him as Graham Chase, Angela’s pop from MY SO-CALLED LIFE, the show that taught me how to lean, or appropriated what I was already doing (so some have said). But I was just yah-hahing about who that was, and Catherine was nodding the way she does when she has real hope that it will/really might possibly be over soon, when there he was again, this time as Dan Norton, playing some kind of a pivotal guest-starring lawyer role.
Then Locke tells Sawyer, “We have to go back to the Orchid.” Which just resounds backwards and forwards, I don’t even have to tell you why.
The only question is will he push the wheel clockwise or counter-.
(Huge questions at this point, which we might actually get answers to in May: how does Locke die off-Island? Will we get an episode of his O6 conversations, and how shocking will they be?)
Then dear BKV can’t resist messing around with anyone halfway stuck in the 24 drinking game and actually has Ben say, “Hurry, Jack, we’re running out of time.” Double drink.
(I think Gaius Baltar managed to work “I have to go back” into this week’s Galactica too, so yeah, Jimmy correct as ever, the walls breaking down, all the great things bleeding into each other)
Okay, and now we’ve literally flashed back to Season One. Which is going to take a few lines for me to process.
The first time I saw that ray of light projecting up into the sky (this episode), I assumed that it was 2.1, right after Kate fell down the shaft, and that we were maybe going to tumble onto Tom, Alex, and crew docking with a freshly-captured Walt (just because the ray was so much more pronounced in that episode). So, was totally shocked when Sawyer came across Claire and Kate in the clearing. Much much more so because earlier in the episode, in the hospital, when Ben stormed in on Jack post-Hurley call, there’s a sign right behind our Hero that says C/T SCAN, and I never even heard of one of those before the December Shitstorm but on December 23rd, Catherine went to go have a C/T scan and I was suddenly left alone with Miller Li for the first time. What did I do? Well, she was pissed, so I tried to calm her down for a quarter of an hour and then turned to, what else, the episode of LOST that I couldn’t wait to show her, 1.20 >: DO NO HARM, the birth of Aaron juxtaposed with the death of Boone. I stood there, rocking her and narrating who everybody was (which, yeah, sounded pretty insane even at that point, giving the “he’s the ____” descriptions, but she jumped right in, stopped crying and was of course immediately captivated).
But how insane, after the last three episodes, when I was sure that there was no more ammo left in the newborn/giving birth cannon, not only do we open with a sacked-out Aaron versus my daughter who refused to follow suit, but then jump with Sawyer right back to the SAME EPISODE and our first few moments in a room by ourselves.
So yes, Sawyer was pretty freaked out, but I was right there with him.
And then another couple of cool things, bits of Season One just bled into the episode, the first of which was the theme of Non-Communication. Remember? It was primarily a Jack/Kate thing, seems like, but quite a few times there was information that the audience was privy to and would just be yelling at the screen, “Tell her/him!” over the course of like weeks, but they’d keep walking through the jungle with one party still ignorant of the full picture, a theme which Jack extended this week by keeping Kate in the dark about why he called her “today of all days.” (and yes, take another drink)
And the other thing was that flash of Season One Locke, my man, all of a sudden walking with Sawyer he dropped the Parable of the Ray, just the way he would in those mid-teens episodes of Season One when he’d only show up for like a four-minute scene and throw in some sick tale about Michelangelo getting whupped by his father or the stray dog who surely wasn’t his reincarnated sister, it was crazy, that’s exactly the tone he took with Sawyer while recounting the end of 1:19>: DEUS EX MACHINA, not quite as profound because of course ensuing events have done a lot to shatter the mystique that he and the writers spent a year’s worth of episodes crafting, but it was nice to get a little taste.
Great shot of the canoes, again the mundane assumes an air of horror. And Ajira Airlines, that bottle of water, they’ve got a website and all kinds of travel plans. Juliet dropping in the India thing was some shoehorned exposition, surely that’s going to mean something.
Followed by a couple of choice Sawyer quotes: “Other Others” and “Time travel’s a bitch.”
IS Claire dead?
Ben’s Canton-Rainer van is another anagram: reincarnation. You’d think they’re just messing with us at this point, but of course “flash-forward” was anything but. A reference to Jin? Something else?
I dug Juliet’s “Why don’t you tell me now” delivery, though some combination of either Sawyer’s follow-up or Giacchino’s strings struck me as overwrought. But great way to defuse the scene, we’re all thinking it’s time to kiss some freckles out of his mind but instead she’s got a nosebleed (and what was with Daniel’s insinuation that Miles has been on the island before? They are just throwing things in by the second). And always a pleasure to have Charlotte on hand with an “Oi”, her second of the season.
Man, I swear, as soon as we saw that wreckage, I was positive it was finally 1988 and time for the Secret Origin of Danielle Rousseau, was so pleased with myself, I didn’t grasp the significance of the confirming French stencils until I saw the episode title (“BESIXDOUZE = B612, the asteroid upon which the Little Prince from outer space lived; he would catch a shooting star and come our way. No idea what this has got to do with Aaron or our wayward Oceanic Six, as of yet, though I bet Daniel’s mum knows). And it was a crazy call not to give the French folk subtitles. They weren’t saying anything of particular note that I could make out, maybe that was the point, just “over there” and “let’s go” and “how are you doing?” to Jin, that kind of thing.
And yeah, Jin. I don’t mind, glad to see him, but it doesn’t quite make sense, him getting caught in the flash. Daniel and Frogurt in the Zodiac on the way back to the Island, sure. But Lapidus/screaming Sun and other O6ers left Jin on the deck of the freighter and flew straight toward the Island. Left him behind/we have to go back/etc. Then flash. And they weren’t caught in it. But Jin was, back there right after he presumably jumped off the deck of the freighter? Because they were in the air, maybe? A plot-hole, methinks.
Sick showdown on the marina. Sun’s got the prince and the gun and we don’t even know if Jack or Ben is in her sights. Wonder if we’re even going to find out next week. Quite a way to leave it. Everybody except Hurley already together. And that Jack Bauer clock ticking, forty-something hours to go, if it’s already been a night since Ben was with Miz Hawking.
And that last scene, which, who at that point didn’t realize that it was young Rousseau? So effective, though, and sad, seeing her pregnant belly, already knowing exactly how both of those lives are going to end, the horror belied by the optimism in that girl’s fresh young face, her hair wisping in the wind. Mira Furlan gave old Bill Mapother a run for his money in terms of making your mark as a guest star, the abject weathered horror that she gave Rousseau’s face stole about any scene that she was in. Starting out from here, with Jin of all people, and knowing that all these frogs are going to be “infected” and, I think, killed by her, definitely has my full attention, and might be enough to make me not wonder next week what’s going down nineteen years later on Slip 23 at that marina.
But I’d sure like to know.
*man, have always been just so sure that when we finally got to Day 108 on-Island, people were going to start keeling over and all that Desmond/Kelvin infection talk was going to come true at last. Guess not (though perhaps the nosebleeders beg to differ, we’ll come to them in due course).
And cut to Charlotte, who’s probably okay as long since this episode didn’t open with an on-Island flashback starring a little red-headed girl. The fact that she’s hemorrhaging certainly seems to have something to do with her probably being a Native (or not, as we’ll see).
And the return of that lawyer, which would have really horrified poor old Jimmy Montana this week. When he showed up early in the premiere, he was freaking me out with how familiar he seemed, but it wasn’t until the same actor dropped the selfless martyr bit on 24 this last Monday night, out of the event horizon Island madness, that I recognized him as Graham Chase, Angela’s pop from MY SO-CALLED LIFE, the show that taught me how to lean, or appropriated what I was already doing (so some have said). But I was just yah-hahing about who that was, and Catherine was nodding the way she does when she has real hope that it will/really might possibly be over soon, when there he was again, this time as Dan Norton, playing some kind of a pivotal guest-starring lawyer role.
Then Locke tells Sawyer, “We have to go back to the Orchid.” Which just resounds backwards and forwards, I don’t even have to tell you why.
The only question is will he push the wheel clockwise or counter-.
(Huge questions at this point, which we might actually get answers to in May: how does Locke die off-Island? Will we get an episode of his O6 conversations, and how shocking will they be?)
Then dear BKV can’t resist messing around with anyone halfway stuck in the 24 drinking game and actually has Ben say, “Hurry, Jack, we’re running out of time.” Double drink.
(I think Gaius Baltar managed to work “I have to go back” into this week’s Galactica too, so yeah, Jimmy correct as ever, the walls breaking down, all the great things bleeding into each other)
Okay, and now we’ve literally flashed back to Season One. Which is going to take a few lines for me to process.
The first time I saw that ray of light projecting up into the sky (this episode), I assumed that it was 2.1, right after Kate fell down the shaft, and that we were maybe going to tumble onto Tom, Alex, and crew docking with a freshly-captured Walt (just because the ray was so much more pronounced in that episode). So, was totally shocked when Sawyer came across Claire and Kate in the clearing. Much much more so because earlier in the episode, in the hospital, when Ben stormed in on Jack post-Hurley call, there’s a sign right behind our Hero that says C/T SCAN, and I never even heard of one of those before the December Shitstorm but on December 23rd, Catherine went to go have a C/T scan and I was suddenly left alone with Miller Li for the first time. What did I do? Well, she was pissed, so I tried to calm her down for a quarter of an hour and then turned to, what else, the episode of LOST that I couldn’t wait to show her, 1.20 >: DO NO HARM, the birth of Aaron juxtaposed with the death of Boone. I stood there, rocking her and narrating who everybody was (which, yeah, sounded pretty insane even at that point, giving the “he’s the ____” descriptions, but she jumped right in, stopped crying and was of course immediately captivated).
But how insane, after the last three episodes, when I was sure that there was no more ammo left in the newborn/giving birth cannon, not only do we open with a sacked-out Aaron versus my daughter who refused to follow suit, but then jump with Sawyer right back to the SAME EPISODE and our first few moments in a room by ourselves.
So yes, Sawyer was pretty freaked out, but I was right there with him.
And then another couple of cool things, bits of Season One just bled into the episode, the first of which was the theme of Non-Communication. Remember? It was primarily a Jack/Kate thing, seems like, but quite a few times there was information that the audience was privy to and would just be yelling at the screen, “Tell her/him!” over the course of like weeks, but they’d keep walking through the jungle with one party still ignorant of the full picture, a theme which Jack extended this week by keeping Kate in the dark about why he called her “today of all days.” (and yes, take another drink)
And the other thing was that flash of Season One Locke, my man, all of a sudden walking with Sawyer he dropped the Parable of the Ray, just the way he would in those mid-teens episodes of Season One when he’d only show up for like a four-minute scene and throw in some sick tale about Michelangelo getting whupped by his father or the stray dog who surely wasn’t his reincarnated sister, it was crazy, that’s exactly the tone he took with Sawyer while recounting the end of 1:19>: DEUS EX MACHINA, not quite as profound because of course ensuing events have done a lot to shatter the mystique that he and the writers spent a year’s worth of episodes crafting, but it was nice to get a little taste.
Great shot of the canoes, again the mundane assumes an air of horror. And Ajira Airlines, that bottle of water, they’ve got a website and all kinds of travel plans. Juliet dropping in the India thing was some shoehorned exposition, surely that’s going to mean something.
Followed by a couple of choice Sawyer quotes: “Other Others” and “Time travel’s a bitch.”
IS Claire dead?
Ben’s Canton-Rainer van is another anagram: reincarnation. You’d think they’re just messing with us at this point, but of course “flash-forward” was anything but. A reference to Jin? Something else?
I dug Juliet’s “Why don’t you tell me now” delivery, though some combination of either Sawyer’s follow-up or Giacchino’s strings struck me as overwrought. But great way to defuse the scene, we’re all thinking it’s time to kiss some freckles out of his mind but instead she’s got a nosebleed (and what was with Daniel’s insinuation that Miles has been on the island before? They are just throwing things in by the second). And always a pleasure to have Charlotte on hand with an “Oi”, her second of the season.
Man, I swear, as soon as we saw that wreckage, I was positive it was finally 1988 and time for the Secret Origin of Danielle Rousseau, was so pleased with myself, I didn’t grasp the significance of the confirming French stencils until I saw the episode title (“BESIXDOUZE = B612, the asteroid upon which the Little Prince from outer space lived; he would catch a shooting star and come our way. No idea what this has got to do with Aaron or our wayward Oceanic Six, as of yet, though I bet Daniel’s mum knows). And it was a crazy call not to give the French folk subtitles. They weren’t saying anything of particular note that I could make out, maybe that was the point, just “over there” and “let’s go” and “how are you doing?” to Jin, that kind of thing.
And yeah, Jin. I don’t mind, glad to see him, but it doesn’t quite make sense, him getting caught in the flash. Daniel and Frogurt in the Zodiac on the way back to the Island, sure. But Lapidus/screaming Sun and other O6ers left Jin on the deck of the freighter and flew straight toward the Island. Left him behind/we have to go back/etc. Then flash. And they weren’t caught in it. But Jin was, back there right after he presumably jumped off the deck of the freighter? Because they were in the air, maybe? A plot-hole, methinks.
Sick showdown on the marina. Sun’s got the prince and the gun and we don’t even know if Jack or Ben is in her sights. Wonder if we’re even going to find out next week. Quite a way to leave it. Everybody except Hurley already together. And that Jack Bauer clock ticking, forty-something hours to go, if it’s already been a night since Ben was with Miz Hawking.
And that last scene, which, who at that point didn’t realize that it was young Rousseau? So effective, though, and sad, seeing her pregnant belly, already knowing exactly how both of those lives are going to end, the horror belied by the optimism in that girl’s fresh young face, her hair wisping in the wind. Mira Furlan gave old Bill Mapother a run for his money in terms of making your mark as a guest star, the abject weathered horror that she gave Rousseau’s face stole about any scene that she was in. Starting out from here, with Jin of all people, and knowing that all these frogs are going to be “infected” and, I think, killed by her, definitely has my full attention, and might be enough to make me not wonder next week what’s going down nineteen years later on Slip 23 at that marina.
But I’d sure like to know.
*man, have always been just so sure that when we finally got to Day 108 on-Island, people were going to start keeling over and all that Desmond/Kelvin infection talk was going to come true at last. Guess not (though perhaps the nosebleeders beg to differ, we’ll come to them in due course).
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