bassmanret on 15/4/2006 at 05:13
Ok, ok, before this topic becomes "archived", I'll say what needs to be said, golly-darn-it!
First and foremost, YES, YES, YES!!! The most "Chick-Flickish" episode ever! Bernard was an impressive actor (up for debate, of course) in his "50-ish, unmarried, my-heart-is-breaking, lip-twitching, eyebrow-slanting, bestest-quivery-voiced stuff. And Rose FINALLY broke down and showed some actual emotion there at the end ('bout time, woman!)!
But really, the episode was about this:
1. Rose and Bernard back story: They meet when he helps her out of the snow..... ok... snow... white.. water... island...YES, A CONNECTION THERE!
Soooo,... Bernard wants to build a big, fat sign on the beach. ...with stones. ...that are big. ... that are heavy. ...that will require hours and days and months of work to create said sign. ....yah.
2. Locke losing it when asking "Mr. Gale" about whether he pressed the buttons... "Eeeeeeeeeeevil Smiley-face from Mister-Gale wins every evil-smiley-face award I know of!
3. Jack chose Kate over Sawyer to go to meet the OTHERS, and Jack has a gun without Sawyer's knowledge... Hah! (Sawyer not happy)
4. Ecko is building a church .... Duh! Ecko isn't impressed with Bernard's idea. Bernard likes Echo better when he's creating cranial damage. Charlie likes Echo how he is. They're pals! ....hmmm..
5. Bernard's lack of people skills wins him ... no one. ... (suggestion: Darhma mouthwash: "For breath clean as a mountain breeze..."... oh, never mind.)
6. Claire: ...nothing.... (but, damn, she's cute ...:))
7. Bernard paid a "healer" to cure Rose. The "Healer" gave Rose the patented "I'm-a-psychic-looking-really-weird-at-yo-ass" thing, and she made him promise to tell her beloved-but-whitey Bernard that he had done the Tammy-Faye-Baker stuff on her, and she was "cured-and-walkin wit Jesus, Praise the Lord!" BUUTTTT, the psychic also said that, even though he, through his own powerful Mojo was not able to cure Rose at this point in time, the healing stuff comes from the earth and magnetemismsizes and stuff. ... hmmm
8. Locke and Rose. Rose acknowledges the fact that SHE KNOWS Locke was "wheelerized", and she "knows" that his wounds will heal much more quickly. This is followed by a most-knowing smile from Locke. She has kept this secret from everyone. Wow!
9. Jack and Kate. Kate and Jack are wandering aimlessly.....la-dee-la-la--la...
10. Jack and kate. While Jack's back is turned, Kates spies a most entriquing ....[que music] .. .DOLL ...[end music]... most innocently LYING ON THE ....[que music] ..GROUND!!!! ..[end music]
11. Jack and Kate. Kate, on her own, decides to defy all her bank-robbing-fugitive-on-the-run logic to trigger a "booby" trap. Jack, through Evil-detecting-action-figure-identifying-forces determines that the doll is evil, and attempts to stop Kate from touching it with pleading cries of warning!
12. Jack and Kate. Jack's warning cries are unheard, unfortunately, and the two are sucked into a horrible net trap, hanging 10 feet above the ground, facing each other closely, nearly at each others faces, nearly touching lips, nearly ...
13. Locke and his once again happy and content to be on the island self are back in the Hatch, pressing happy numbers and coloring happy pictures with crayons and stuff. ... ah.. to be happy again ...
14. Jack and Kate. [Booby-trap-enhanced]-Kate says, "Let's shoot the line that's binding us." [Kate shoots, ... misses]. [YO, JACK, YOU GET THE HINT, DUDE, OR WHAT?????].
15 Jack and Kate. Ok, then, ..........Jack, you try.......
16. Jack and Kate. [Jack shoots the rope, they fall]
17. Jack and Kate. [Kate: Jack, you idiot! ... oh, the positions and contortions... ]
18. Jack and Kate. Kate, "Sorry I kissed you"
19. Jack and Kate. Jack, "I'm not."
20. [Michael comes running through the woods into their camp].
21. ...
...next episode??
Gingerbread Man on 15/4/2006 at 05:29
Last week more like lost weak.
It was refreshing to have an episode centering around two of the sidecar characters, but on the whole it felt like nothing actually happened. In fact, what did actually happen? A minor possible reinforcement of Locke's Miracle, Jin still can't speak English worth shit, Walt still missing and presumably still dripping wet, and Eko is building a church which we knew from the first time we saw him marking trees.
It felt very much like most of the major cast were doing something else that day and didn't want to have more than a few minutes screen time each. Except the attention whore Jack. Terry O'Quinn doesn't actually have a real life, and prefers to spend his days glaring at shit in front of a camera, so that was par for the course for him.
Hurley's still fat, Kate's character is getting weaker and weaker with each passing episode, and Sayid drank an invisibility potion.
Matter of fact, the closest thing to a Lost Moment this week was in the previews for next week. I know they can't all be Lockdown or 23rd Psalm, and I know that they're obviously gearing up for some End Of Season Spectacularrrrrr... But I'd like to see a polar bear wander in and fuck someone over, just for giggles. They don't play golf anymore, they don't need to hunt now that Secret Airplane Man has dropchuted them a huge supply of macaroni and cheese, and even the incarcerated "Henry Gale" has become a little boring.
When will they kill Ana Lucia, that's what I want to know. Get shot of her and let the Slightly Unhinged and Probably Dangerous slot pass to Locke who -- I think it's blindingly clear -- has the greatest potential to be a wild card at this point.
Mind you, Locke's character has been going all wandery lately as well. He doesn't seem to be being written in with the same single-mindedness and drive that he once was.
Probably I'm just still all underwhelmed by SOS, but all the characters (not the actors, mind you) seem to be getting weaker and less interesting lately. I just hope we don't have to sit through another episode like that before the season finale.
Dia on 15/4/2006 at 13:38
There's always a calm before the storm, GBM. I do agree that this episode seemed to be one of the weaker ones, story-wise.
I really can't wait to see fake Henry's secrets revealed, though. I'd like to punch him for those sly, smug looks he's been giving everybody the past few episodes, but obviously torture doesn't work with that creepy guy.
And what exactly is it about the island that causes 'healing'? Nanotech theory again? I'm thinking (hoping) that in Libby's case that the island has healed her mind, though the look she had on her face at the end of the previous episode doesn't seem encouraging in that respect.
More questions:
-Did fake Henry enter the numbers or didn't he and why is he mind-fucking Locke?
-If the island heals people why does Sawyer still need reading glasses?
-Why doesn't Locke just turn on the black light to see the map again?
-WTF kind of game is Kate playing with Jack/Sawyer? She pretty much indicated in an earlier episode that she was in love with the bad boy (not Dudley-Do-Right Jack).
-Are Claire's and Sun's babies going to develop into some sort of mutants?
-Are all those other survivors that you only see in the background so exceedingly dull and devoid of character that you never see any of the main cast pay any attention to them (unless one of the background cast is the one destined to die in a particular episode)?
-Who's making the food drops?
-Has Charlie found God?
Renault on 15/4/2006 at 15:14
Quote Posted by Dia
-Why doesn't Locke just turn on the black light to see the map again?
Gotta figure out how to get those blast doors down first.
Shug on 16/4/2006 at 04:54
Why wouldn't he try to mess with Locke? Clearly the best chance he has of staying alive is by not being returned to his former home, and to do that he needs to create conflict amongst the leadership crew and also make himself non-expendable by holding back info that Locke needs.
The island could only cure Sawyer's STDs, not his eye problems. :D
Charlie's obviously a lot happier now that he's back in the groove of his old religion
They're really starting to play up the Jack / Kate sexual tension aspect again, it looks as though eventually she'll go for Jack over Sawyer. Unless, of course, she jumps the latter because she and Jack cause SHOCKING EVENTS with EXCITED MUSIC every time they so much as threaten to hold hands
D'Juhn Keep on 16/4/2006 at 12:58
Quote Posted by bassmanret
2. Locke losing it when asking "Mr. Gale" about whether he pressed the buttons... "Eeeeeeeeeeevil Smiley-face from Mister-Gale wins every evil-smiley-face award I know of!
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Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Get shot of her and let the Slightly Unhinged and Probably Dangerous slot pass to Locke who -- I think it's blindingly clear -- has the greatest potential to be a wild card at this point.
Yeah, I sort of think Locke will go over to the Others at some point. Just a suspicion based on his growing disatisfaction and seeming alienation as well as his drive to know the secrets of the island, which the Others possibly already know.
As for the countdown, is there possibly more than one computer on the island and only one needs to be 4815162342'd to stop the Ominous Plot Device from going off?
Dia on 16/4/2006 at 13:30
Quote Posted by D'Juhn Keep
I sort of think Locke will go over to the Others at some point. Just a suspicion based on his growing disatisfaction and seeming alienation as well as his drive to know the secrets of the island, which the Others possibly already know.
I hadn't thought of that possibility. Rather worrisome thought, since Locke knows pretty much everything about the survivors & their bunker.
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As for the countdown, is there possibly more than one computer on the island and only one needs to be 4815162342'd to stop the Ominous Plot Device from going off?
I gathered from the map that the survivors' bunker has the main computer. (I've misplaced the map at the moment, so can't double check.) There has to be another PC in one of the other bunkers, otherwise, how could Walt have communicated with his dad?
Shug; refresh my memory, please. Did fake Henry say he
couldn't go back to the Others? Or that he just couldn't admit to being one of them because they'd do horrendous things to him if he confessed? Can't remember.
Shug on 16/4/2006 at 16:17
From memory he said that the guy Jack believed to be the leader was a "nobody", and if he gave them any details or information etc he'd be summarily executed
Fafhrd on 16/4/2006 at 20:52
he seemed to imply that something far worse than a bullet in the brain would be forthcoming if he divulged any information. "You have no idea what He'll do to me if I tell you."
[edit]also not sure how many other people caught this, but the mystic healer guy in the last episode was Scorpius from Farscape. Very odd for me hearing that voice not coming out of Scorpius make-up.
Low Moral Fiber on 4/5/2006 at 02:03
Ho-lee FUCK.
