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Just unbelievable to open with the same scene, THAT scene. Seen it so many times now. The first shot of the eye could always be new, is always, but following it up with the long shot of Jack was the very last thing that I expected. And every other shot, just the same. Except that one of the fragment of paper. “I wish…” So great, even as much as they made of Locke’s suicide note throughout the episode, my mind never flashed back to that for an instant. So, Jack appears to wake up in the same place, but not so, instead of running out to the beach, he finds a waterfall and capsized Hurley with guitar case. Never one to mess around, Jack defaults right back into saving people. Kate’s not dashed on the rocks, just unconscious. And he says it, “We’re back.”
Perfect line, of course hearkening to the classic “We have to go…” as well as hitting a temporal significance of which Jack is unaware.
Thenthe church and Old Lady Hawking. We catch an off-island DHARMA station, the Lamppost. Shades of the Observation Station from THE PRISONER. I have to say, Lady Flanagan’s performance left me a bit cold this time out, as soon as she chucked the mysterious vibe. Nice long/lat board though, looked like a light on to the left of the fourth set of coordinates and one flashing left of the sixth/final set. Current location and next one? Need to check. But that’s how they do it, catch flights that just happen to fly within the right zone at the right time? How does that jibe with 815 being 1,000 miles off-course? WERE our cast manipulated (by anyone other than Lindelof/Abrams) onto that flight? Widmore got the newcomers there, is he or was he in league with Christian Shephard and/or Hawking to do same with 815ers?
And then Ben gets his “For the third time, give me an Emmy!” scene with that Doubting Thomas business. Season One Locke still does it better. The combination of Williams’s framing of the shots and Giacchino’s strings made it track just a little over the top for me, though Emerson was immaculate, as ever. Ttt.
But it looks like, yeah, this is just a straight Jack episode, he’s in every damn scene. Which is fine, by now. Such a cool frame, this whole episode, knowing they make it back. The bit with his grandfather seemed way out of left field until the shoes showed up. Another bunny rabbit in the magic show.
And then that coming home in the dark, perfect direction there, thought Claire or Christian was going to pay a visit for sure, did not expect a tear-streaked freckled booty call. Jack seemed very capable of following the sole ground rule, as much as we’d like to know (my guess is that Aaron’s with his grandmother).
And Stew points out the inherent comedy in Jack hitting up Jill’s butcher shop. Ominous ominous tidings from the dock, though. Wonder how long they’re going to let us twist in the wind re: the Hume family. If Ben’s in that state, I don’t see how Penny could be alive. With Rage Desmond unconscious on the boat vowing revenge, even if he has to go to the Island to get it. The only question is the fate of young Charlie. Let’s hope he’s better off than his namesake.
So strange at the airport. It should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that this show has popped into my head before and/or during every single flight I’ve taken since Fall 2004 and I usually look around with my THE MIST-goggles and try to guess how it would go if the people around me were suddenly the ones I was stuck with for who-knew-how-long?. To see Jack and crew at the terminal like that, look at all those people and know, “Yeah, this one’s going down.” Very heavy.
We obviously got the set-up for some new faces. That Egyptian looking fella who talked to Jack at the terminal and Hurley across the aisle of the plane. The stewardess, maybe. I loved her reaction to Hurley just freaking out as soon as Ben walked on the plane. And Sayid’s marshal.
But we got a flash this time, no definitive crash. Or sign of Sun, Sayid, Ben, or the new faces. I’d be surprised if at least the Egyptian guy wasn’t on-Island.
Locke’s suicide note was flattening. And best bit of writing in the entire episode, was just crushed when I saw that scrap of paper again in Jack’s hands, went along for the entire ride and wasn’t expecting it at all.
The real question is where we’re going from here. They seem to have stopped messing around with us and giving us solid info-dump/serious plot advancement every week, and I hope that continues. An alternative being that we’re suddenly in a series of Oceanic Six flashbacks (Ben subbing for Aaron), letting us know what’s up with Kate and Aaron, how Sayid got arrested, what made Hurley change his mind (nice touch, his buying the 78 seats so that no one else could go)(and surely that guitar case means that the CharlieGhost is involved), no mystery really with Sun but maybe her too, and of course we have to see what happened with Ben and the Humes at the dock that left him such a Ulysses-reading bloody mess. (Oh! And Hurley rocking staff-writer Brian K. Vaughan’s Y THE LAST MAN translation EL ULTIMO HOMBRE has to be my favorite literary insertion of the entire show. That third arc concludes with a space shuttle crashing down to Earth from orbit, #15 no less. Genius.). They might combine all that into a couple of episodes. Or we could finally get The Life & Times of Jeremy Bentham, check out all those doomed conversations and see if he really did hang himself.
Or there’s that Island to consider. We haven’t seen what happened since Locke got up on the frozen donkey wheel last episode and whether or not that stopped the flashes. Did it just leave everybody in the halcyon Chang days of the DHARMA Initiative, in the 70s when freewheeling ex-Korean mafia enforcers are free to let their hair grow long and rock the coveralls from 9 to 5 before cracking open and pounding a few DHARMA beers with their roguishly charming compadres from the South?
(in between writing and posting this, I have learned how much money Buddy Holly paid to charter that plane out of Clear Lake, Iowa fifty years ago, and it will probably barely disturb you at this point to know that the answer rhymes with one hundred and fate.)
Perfect line, of course hearkening to the classic “We have to go…” as well as hitting a temporal significance of which Jack is unaware.
Thenthe church and Old Lady Hawking. We catch an off-island DHARMA station, the Lamppost. Shades of the Observation Station from THE PRISONER. I have to say, Lady Flanagan’s performance left me a bit cold this time out, as soon as she chucked the mysterious vibe. Nice long/lat board though, looked like a light on to the left of the fourth set of coordinates and one flashing left of the sixth/final set. Current location and next one? Need to check. But that’s how they do it, catch flights that just happen to fly within the right zone at the right time? How does that jibe with 815 being 1,000 miles off-course? WERE our cast manipulated (by anyone other than Lindelof/Abrams) onto that flight? Widmore got the newcomers there, is he or was he in league with Christian Shephard and/or Hawking to do same with 815ers?
And then Ben gets his “For the third time, give me an Emmy!” scene with that Doubting Thomas business. Season One Locke still does it better. The combination of Williams’s framing of the shots and Giacchino’s strings made it track just a little over the top for me, though Emerson was immaculate, as ever. Ttt.
But it looks like, yeah, this is just a straight Jack episode, he’s in every damn scene. Which is fine, by now. Such a cool frame, this whole episode, knowing they make it back. The bit with his grandfather seemed way out of left field until the shoes showed up. Another bunny rabbit in the magic show.
And then that coming home in the dark, perfect direction there, thought Claire or Christian was going to pay a visit for sure, did not expect a tear-streaked freckled booty call. Jack seemed very capable of following the sole ground rule, as much as we’d like to know (my guess is that Aaron’s with his grandmother).
And Stew points out the inherent comedy in Jack hitting up Jill’s butcher shop. Ominous ominous tidings from the dock, though. Wonder how long they’re going to let us twist in the wind re: the Hume family. If Ben’s in that state, I don’t see how Penny could be alive. With Rage Desmond unconscious on the boat vowing revenge, even if he has to go to the Island to get it. The only question is the fate of young Charlie. Let’s hope he’s better off than his namesake.
So strange at the airport. It should come as no surprise to anyone reading this that this show has popped into my head before and/or during every single flight I’ve taken since Fall 2004 and I usually look around with my THE MIST-goggles and try to guess how it would go if the people around me were suddenly the ones I was stuck with for who-knew-how-long?. To see Jack and crew at the terminal like that, look at all those people and know, “Yeah, this one’s going down.” Very heavy.
We obviously got the set-up for some new faces. That Egyptian looking fella who talked to Jack at the terminal and Hurley across the aisle of the plane. The stewardess, maybe. I loved her reaction to Hurley just freaking out as soon as Ben walked on the plane. And Sayid’s marshal.
But we got a flash this time, no definitive crash. Or sign of Sun, Sayid, Ben, or the new faces. I’d be surprised if at least the Egyptian guy wasn’t on-Island.
Locke’s suicide note was flattening. And best bit of writing in the entire episode, was just crushed when I saw that scrap of paper again in Jack’s hands, went along for the entire ride and wasn’t expecting it at all.
The real question is where we’re going from here. They seem to have stopped messing around with us and giving us solid info-dump/serious plot advancement every week, and I hope that continues. An alternative being that we’re suddenly in a series of Oceanic Six flashbacks (Ben subbing for Aaron), letting us know what’s up with Kate and Aaron, how Sayid got arrested, what made Hurley change his mind (nice touch, his buying the 78 seats so that no one else could go)(and surely that guitar case means that the CharlieGhost is involved), no mystery really with Sun but maybe her too, and of course we have to see what happened with Ben and the Humes at the dock that left him such a Ulysses-reading bloody mess. (Oh! And Hurley rocking staff-writer Brian K. Vaughan’s Y THE LAST MAN translation EL ULTIMO HOMBRE has to be my favorite literary insertion of the entire show. That third arc concludes with a space shuttle crashing down to Earth from orbit, #15 no less. Genius.). They might combine all that into a couple of episodes. Or we could finally get The Life & Times of Jeremy Bentham, check out all those doomed conversations and see if he really did hang himself.
Or there’s that Island to consider. We haven’t seen what happened since Locke got up on the frozen donkey wheel last episode and whether or not that stopped the flashes. Did it just leave everybody in the halcyon Chang days of the DHARMA Initiative, in the 70s when freewheeling ex-Korean mafia enforcers are free to let their hair grow long and rock the coveralls from 9 to 5 before cracking open and pounding a few DHARMA beers with their roguishly charming compadres from the South?
(in between writing and posting this, I have learned how much money Buddy Holly paid to charter that plane out of Clear Lake, Iowa fifty years ago, and it will probably barely disturb you at this point to know that the answer rhymes with one hundred and fate.)
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