WE HAVE TO GO BACK II____>: 5-8
The plot thickens!
>: 5 WHITE RABBIT
We open with another survivor, Joanna, drowning. Charlie gets Jack to go out and save her because he “can’t swim.” Really? I guess he either picked that skill up in the next couple of months or was lying through his teeth. I thought Hume was the coward! Seems like Charlie even cited being on the swim team in high school or something when he and Desmond rowed out to the Looking Glass. But, we’ll give the writers a pass, lots of insane threads in between the top of this season and the end of the third.
Another couple of huge lines show up here again in more innocent, or less charged, form: Boone tells Jack “we have to go back” for Joanna when Jack’s swimming him to shore. And the hotel employee tells Jack that “there was an incident” at the hotel bar involving Christian Shephard. I bet that incident didn’t involve a drill or a plutonium core, though, yeah, maybe somebody lost the use of their left arm.
Sawyer gives Kate the marshal’s badge since she’s the new sheriff in town. Never caught that his declaration at the end of THE LONG CON is a reflection of this moment.
When Locke tracks down Jack, Jack asks him, “How are the others?” Seems like that word gets used a lot pre-Ethan to refer to the 815 chorus.
And we get Locke’s mission statement, “What if everything that happened…here…happened for a reason?” The principle subtextual conflict in this entire show, Is all of this random insanity that the writers are throwing at us as fast as they can think it? Or is some beautiful narrative revealing itself so gradually that only the truly patient or faithful suspect that all is unfolding exactly as it must?
So, is that Jacob or his brother running around as Christian? Jacob? Because he leads Jack to the caves? I understand that there are going to be about 108 unanswered questions when we’re done here, but I really hope that events in the final season will at least make something like that clear, who’s been manifesting as all of these dead folk and what the intention was, other than to be mysterious and sinister on the first season of a new drama.
And we get the caves, where we see Jack cry for the first time. I’m going to make a note of that every time it happens, because by the third season, it seemed like he’d been doing it just all the time. I remember seeing the trailer of WE ARE MARSHALL for the first time and they drop the bit about the tragedy of the plane crash and cut to Matthew Fox crying and I wanted to high-five my date. I know someone who skipped the audition for that malarkey!
So, where is Christian’s body? As of that final bit outside the statue base, we know that Jacob or his brother leave the bodies behind when they go running around in the form of whomever. So, where’s Christian? The bottom of the ocean is not a very thrilling answer.
And in the now-famous “Live Together, Die Alone” speech, Jack also drops “Every man for himself” as the philosophy that’s not going to get it done. Though it makes a lovely title for a Sawyer-centric. Hello, 3.4
>: 6 HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
We see the remains of Adam & Eve. With all this time-hopping, I’ve been pretty sure their identities are going to wind up being a couple from 815. Jack & Kate are the most poetic answer, since they’re the ones who discover the bodies. I was looking in Sawyer & Juliet’s direction, and liked the idea of Sawyer & Kate. But, if that’s going to be the case, next season’s going to have to involve some more jumping, because I forgot with all that 70s fun that Jack said that the bodies have been there at least 40-50 yrs, judging from the clothing degeneration. Around the time Jughead went underground, then.
And totally forgot the black and white rocks in Adam’s pouch. Yeah, that’s pretty much everything, there. Whatever it’s going to wind up meaning.
Have always missed Sawyer’s “That’s the real trick, isn’t it?” in reference to the beach vs. caves debate as a Han Solo quote. I do that, too!
Kate tells Jack, “I don’t want to be Eve.” We’ll see . . .
Willie’s “Are You Sure” at the end = FLATTENING.
>: 7 THE MOTH
Locke gives Charlie a speech focusing on choice separating him from the boar. That lines up pretty damn well with the big picture, at this point in the game, cool to see it come out so early.
Hurley brings Charlie his guitar case because it’s in the way. I knew I’d seen him with a guitar before 316!
Charlie, to Jack: “I’m here to rescue you.” Luke, to Leia, of course. Also, probably too short for a stormtrooper.
I forgot that, for a few weeks, I originally assumed that Kate just boned Jack pretty much right after he came out of the cave-in, and really, that’s closer to explicit than im- from her reaction/greeting. How did he get out of that hug?
>: 8 CONFIDENCE MAN
Just a couple of noteworthy lines in this one:
Hurley’s “That was a Jedi moment.” to Jack after he calms Shannon down prefigures his whole EMPIRE fixation in 5.13. (and looks like the third STAR WARS shout-out on this disc)
And, yeah, Sawyer tears up every scene he’s in, does amazing things in his first –centric, but has he ever delivered a better line than, “Darlin’, I’m tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery and I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine eye-raqi. Of course I’m serious.”
Thunder.
>: 5 WHITE RABBIT
We open with another survivor, Joanna, drowning. Charlie gets Jack to go out and save her because he “can’t swim.” Really? I guess he either picked that skill up in the next couple of months or was lying through his teeth. I thought Hume was the coward! Seems like Charlie even cited being on the swim team in high school or something when he and Desmond rowed out to the Looking Glass. But, we’ll give the writers a pass, lots of insane threads in between the top of this season and the end of the third.
Another couple of huge lines show up here again in more innocent, or less charged, form: Boone tells Jack “we have to go back” for Joanna when Jack’s swimming him to shore. And the hotel employee tells Jack that “there was an incident” at the hotel bar involving Christian Shephard. I bet that incident didn’t involve a drill or a plutonium core, though, yeah, maybe somebody lost the use of their left arm.
Sawyer gives Kate the marshal’s badge since she’s the new sheriff in town. Never caught that his declaration at the end of THE LONG CON is a reflection of this moment.
When Locke tracks down Jack, Jack asks him, “How are the others?” Seems like that word gets used a lot pre-Ethan to refer to the 815 chorus.
And we get Locke’s mission statement, “What if everything that happened…here…happened for a reason?” The principle subtextual conflict in this entire show, Is all of this random insanity that the writers are throwing at us as fast as they can think it? Or is some beautiful narrative revealing itself so gradually that only the truly patient or faithful suspect that all is unfolding exactly as it must?
So, is that Jacob or his brother running around as Christian? Jacob? Because he leads Jack to the caves? I understand that there are going to be about 108 unanswered questions when we’re done here, but I really hope that events in the final season will at least make something like that clear, who’s been manifesting as all of these dead folk and what the intention was, other than to be mysterious and sinister on the first season of a new drama.
And we get the caves, where we see Jack cry for the first time. I’m going to make a note of that every time it happens, because by the third season, it seemed like he’d been doing it just all the time. I remember seeing the trailer of WE ARE MARSHALL for the first time and they drop the bit about the tragedy of the plane crash and cut to Matthew Fox crying and I wanted to high-five my date. I know someone who skipped the audition for that malarkey!
So, where is Christian’s body? As of that final bit outside the statue base, we know that Jacob or his brother leave the bodies behind when they go running around in the form of whomever. So, where’s Christian? The bottom of the ocean is not a very thrilling answer.
And in the now-famous “Live Together, Die Alone” speech, Jack also drops “Every man for himself” as the philosophy that’s not going to get it done. Though it makes a lovely title for a Sawyer-centric. Hello, 3.4
>: 6 HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
We see the remains of Adam & Eve. With all this time-hopping, I’ve been pretty sure their identities are going to wind up being a couple from 815. Jack & Kate are the most poetic answer, since they’re the ones who discover the bodies. I was looking in Sawyer & Juliet’s direction, and liked the idea of Sawyer & Kate. But, if that’s going to be the case, next season’s going to have to involve some more jumping, because I forgot with all that 70s fun that Jack said that the bodies have been there at least 40-50 yrs, judging from the clothing degeneration. Around the time Jughead went underground, then.
And totally forgot the black and white rocks in Adam’s pouch. Yeah, that’s pretty much everything, there. Whatever it’s going to wind up meaning.
Have always missed Sawyer’s “That’s the real trick, isn’t it?” in reference to the beach vs. caves debate as a Han Solo quote. I do that, too!
Kate tells Jack, “I don’t want to be Eve.” We’ll see . . .
Willie’s “Are You Sure” at the end = FLATTENING.
>: 7 THE MOTH
Locke gives Charlie a speech focusing on choice separating him from the boar. That lines up pretty damn well with the big picture, at this point in the game, cool to see it come out so early.
Hurley brings Charlie his guitar case because it’s in the way. I knew I’d seen him with a guitar before 316!
Charlie, to Jack: “I’m here to rescue you.” Luke, to Leia, of course. Also, probably too short for a stormtrooper.
I forgot that, for a few weeks, I originally assumed that Kate just boned Jack pretty much right after he came out of the cave-in, and really, that’s closer to explicit than im- from her reaction/greeting. How did he get out of that hug?
>: 8 CONFIDENCE MAN
Just a couple of noteworthy lines in this one:
Hurley’s “That was a Jedi moment.” to Jack after he calms Shannon down prefigures his whole EMPIRE fixation in 5.13. (and looks like the third STAR WARS shout-out on this disc)
And, yeah, Sawyer tears up every scene he’s in, does amazing things in his first –centric, but has he ever delivered a better line than, “Darlin’, I’m tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery and I just got tortured by a damn spinal surgeon and a genuine eye-raqi. Of course I’m serious.”
Thunder.
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