Lost 4.01, Spoilers
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alliecat8I wish I could be the kind of fan who reviews in one concise, articulate, astute post, but I'm not, I'm me. And that means that I'll probably be spamming my flist with random bursts of squee and wtf? and off-the-wall observations til next week, when the cycle will start all over again. Y'all already know this about me, but I thought I'd remind you since it's been, like, forever since we had new Lost.
So, like I said, I was dreadfully spoiled before the ep, which is a habit I wish I could break but I know, realistically, I never will. Self-control is not my middle name. But two things shocked me, one in a very good way and one in a disturbing way.
1. The "undead" appearing OFF the island. (Not a manifestation of Smokey, then?) And Charlie wasn't just conjured up by Hurley's craziness (which, in my professional opinion *snort*, is more crazy-like-a-fox than true craziness -- he was PROTECTING himself by getting himself committed again), the other crazy dude saw him too. And though I thought that Charlie's reappearance in that setting was awesome TV, that's not what shocked me. What SHOCKED me was that Hurley was spooked by something in the convenient store (at which point I automatically resigned myself to not knowing what it was for a couple of years, if ever, because this is Lost, after all), but by the end of the ep, WE KNEW IT WAS CHARLIE! They raised and answered a big, mysterious, intriguing question and answered it in the same ep! I didn't walk away from my TV feeling like I was dying of thirst in a desert, like I so often do after a typical episode that fired up my curiosity and then left it unsatisfied. Kudos, writers!
2. Jack pulling the trigger on Locke. Yeah, it was badass. Yeah, I can see how Jack has been pushed to his limit -- past his limit -- by Locke. But when Jack finally gets ahold of himself (and he WILL, someday, won't he?), what will that knowledge do to his self-image? He's the healer, the miracle-worker, the doctor who took an oath to Do No Harm, and now he's Moses, he's the Rescuer, and yet he fully intended to kill one of his own people. Is Jack capable of expanding his vision of himself to include the capacity to deliberately take a life, and still live with himself? That's gotta play into the unravelling that we saw in the S3 finale.
If I were his therapist, I'd tell him that he needs a good dose of Star Trek and "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," or whatever it was that Kirk or Spocke said. Jack totally believed that Locke was a threat to the lives of all of the survivors, and he was acting in what he believed was their defense as well as his own. But Jack is SO prone to self-hate and self-destruction, I'm not sure he'll see it that way.
Okay, I can't stand it. Will one of you who knows who the Oceanic 6 are, please email me and spill? Don't make me start naming names; I KNOW who you are and I shall hunt you down and tickle the information out of you if you make me. ;)
So, like I said, I was dreadfully spoiled before the ep, which is a habit I wish I could break but I know, realistically, I never will. Self-control is not my middle name. But two things shocked me, one in a very good way and one in a disturbing way.
1. The "undead" appearing OFF the island. (Not a manifestation of Smokey, then?) And Charlie wasn't just conjured up by Hurley's craziness (which, in my professional opinion *snort*, is more crazy-like-a-fox than true craziness -- he was PROTECTING himself by getting himself committed again), the other crazy dude saw him too. And though I thought that Charlie's reappearance in that setting was awesome TV, that's not what shocked me. What SHOCKED me was that Hurley was spooked by something in the convenient store (at which point I automatically resigned myself to not knowing what it was for a couple of years, if ever, because this is Lost, after all), but by the end of the ep, WE KNEW IT WAS CHARLIE! They raised and answered a big, mysterious, intriguing question and answered it in the same ep! I didn't walk away from my TV feeling like I was dying of thirst in a desert, like I so often do after a typical episode that fired up my curiosity and then left it unsatisfied. Kudos, writers!
2. Jack pulling the trigger on Locke. Yeah, it was badass. Yeah, I can see how Jack has been pushed to his limit -- past his limit -- by Locke. But when Jack finally gets ahold of himself (and he WILL, someday, won't he?), what will that knowledge do to his self-image? He's the healer, the miracle-worker, the doctor who took an oath to Do No Harm, and now he's Moses, he's the Rescuer, and yet he fully intended to kill one of his own people. Is Jack capable of expanding his vision of himself to include the capacity to deliberately take a life, and still live with himself? That's gotta play into the unravelling that we saw in the S3 finale.
If I were his therapist, I'd tell him that he needs a good dose of Star Trek and "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few," or whatever it was that Kirk or Spocke said. Jack totally believed that Locke was a threat to the lives of all of the survivors, and he was acting in what he believed was their defense as well as his own. But Jack is SO prone to self-hate and self-destruction, I'm not sure he'll see it that way.
Okay, I can't stand it. Will one of you who knows who the Oceanic 6 are, please email me and spill? Don't make me start naming names; I KNOW who you are and I shall hunt you down and tickle the information out of you if you make me. ;)
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Date: 2008-02-05 01:06 am (UTC)Huh, I hadn't thought of that. Crazy!dude could be Dave, the Sequel, I guess. Argh, Lost is such a mindfuck, they're gonna land *me* in the loony bin!
Yeah, I don't think it'll hit Jack until later. Right now his mind is completely, utterly focused on rescue, I think to the point that he's lost all sense of right and wrong. He just wants to WIN, and winning, to him, means rescue. But as we've seen in the flashforwards, Ben was right to question what Jack has to go back for (not much, it seems), and when Jack realizes that and thinks about what he did to get there, well, we've seen what the sad result will be. That boy needs to quit saving everybody else and get some savin' of his own!
I've been hearing that answers are gonna be coming at us thick and fast now...and I'd say they've probably raised enough questions in the first 3 seasons that it'll take the next 3 to answer them all. I'm looking forward to the ride!