Sunday, May 23, 2010
Season Six, Last Episode—Ever.
It was beautiful. It was more poetic than I ever imagined. And I'm fulfilled.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Season Six, Episode 15
So, it's down to the wire. And this is what we've got:
It opens the same as the pilot, with Jack waking up, with Jack and Kate sewing up injuries, just flipped.
Ben is evil again.
And Desmond is the constant for everyone. When Desmond hits Ben, he knocks the island back into them. When he talks to Hurley, he gets the island back into him. And he is planning to bring them all together at Miles' Dad's/Jack's kid's event. But what does making them all remember the island have to do with saving the island? I know it has something to do with free will. Jacob tells them, "I'm going to give you what I never had, a choice." How will that choice save the island though?
Desmond tells Ben regarding Locke, "I'm trying to get him to let go." Jack also told him to let go. So what is this letting go? I think it's letting go of his life BEFORE the island. He's the only one who still has his handicap, literally.
Also in this episode Ben says, "It was where I was told I could summon the monster, that was before I realized it was the one that was summoning me." Ben's been working for him all along. He thought he was working for Jacob, but it's been the monster that's controlled Ben. It was a dead body inhabited by the monster that told him to kill everyone originally. He has always been under the monster's thumb.
Whidmore tells Ben, "If you shoot me, your last chance at survival will be gone." And Ben does kill Whidmore, all to avenge his daughter's death. So, if Whidmore's little spiel was right, what is going to happen to Ben in the end? Will he be the one to take over the island if Smokey escapes? And how is Ben ALLOWED to kill Whidmore? Wasn't that against the rules? Or were those just Jacob's rules and now that Jacob is gone, it's a free-for-all? Other things I just don't get: Locke says "I'll finally get what I want, to leave this island." But I swear he already left when he took the form of Jack's dad and made the smoke detector go off. Did they think we would forget that? Is it a coincidence? I think not. I hope it's not shotty writing.
Whidmore was obviously the good one in the whole scheme of the Ben/Whidmore thing. It was Jacob who turned to him, making him a sort of Alanna. Whidmore also says Jacob showed him the error of his ways. Ben, however, continues to error. Oh, and I'm pretty sure Richard is dead, too. Although, he did drink from this cup, so maybe he isn't dead, but giving the body count lately, the odds are not in his favor. Or, as Sonesh would say, more purging of the ethnic people.
So, I knew Jacob's ashes were in Alanna's bag, I totally called that a while back. And when those ashes burn, that's the end of Jacob. So, ashes to ashes, dust to dust?
We learn Desmond was a measure of last resort, immune to electromagnetism. What does that really mean? It means, in English, Desmond was the constant. For everyone. He's the one that can bring them all back, make them remember. And maybe remembering and changing your life for the good (ie letting go of your handicaps) can put more white stones on the tipped scales.
We start wrapping up the show with Jack and Locke's conversation, which is a variation of the same conversation they've always had: man of faith, man of science. And it's the man of faith vs man of science that defined the roles of Jacob and Easu. Jacob believed what his mother said (faith). Easu went to go in search of the world (science). Just another cycle repeating itself.
My theories about the smoke being mom are totally out to door. It's Jacob's fault. He was the good that let in the hate which created the evil. He created the monster. The monster killed him and now someone has to replace him. Another example of yin and yang. And that's why they are there. That, and because they were in unhappy, flawed existances. "You were like me, you were all alone, you were all looking for something you couldn't find out there. You needed this place as much as it needed you," Jacob tells them. That, to me, sounds like finding your faith. And then he explains how they were taken out of the running.
Kate became a mom. Sun and Jin became parents. Well, we know Sawyer has a kid on the flipside. And we know Jack does, too. But Jack still throws himself into the running. He drinks the water, which is blessed (and isn't wine and doesn't come in a holy grail—more disproved theories). And Hurley says, "I'm just glad it's not me." Well, I'm not too sure it isn't him, still. I have a gut feeling Jack is going to die and it is going to be Hurley who is left to protect the light. I think that is def. a twist possibility. And a very unexpected one. Hurley was the first on the flipside to remember it all.
We end with Locke taking about destroying the island ... is that why it's on the bottom of the ocean this season? Does he really succeed? It can't be that easy. And believe it or not, we'll finally know by Sunday.
It opens the same as the pilot, with Jack waking up, with Jack and Kate sewing up injuries, just flipped.
Ben is evil again.
And Desmond is the constant for everyone. When Desmond hits Ben, he knocks the island back into them. When he talks to Hurley, he gets the island back into him. And he is planning to bring them all together at Miles' Dad's/Jack's kid's event. But what does making them all remember the island have to do with saving the island? I know it has something to do with free will. Jacob tells them, "I'm going to give you what I never had, a choice." How will that choice save the island though?
Desmond tells Ben regarding Locke, "I'm trying to get him to let go." Jack also told him to let go. So what is this letting go? I think it's letting go of his life BEFORE the island. He's the only one who still has his handicap, literally.
Also in this episode Ben says, "It was where I was told I could summon the monster, that was before I realized it was the one that was summoning me." Ben's been working for him all along. He thought he was working for Jacob, but it's been the monster that's controlled Ben. It was a dead body inhabited by the monster that told him to kill everyone originally. He has always been under the monster's thumb.
Whidmore tells Ben, "If you shoot me, your last chance at survival will be gone." And Ben does kill Whidmore, all to avenge his daughter's death. So, if Whidmore's little spiel was right, what is going to happen to Ben in the end? Will he be the one to take over the island if Smokey escapes? And how is Ben ALLOWED to kill Whidmore? Wasn't that against the rules? Or were those just Jacob's rules and now that Jacob is gone, it's a free-for-all? Other things I just don't get: Locke says "I'll finally get what I want, to leave this island." But I swear he already left when he took the form of Jack's dad and made the smoke detector go off. Did they think we would forget that? Is it a coincidence? I think not. I hope it's not shotty writing.
Whidmore was obviously the good one in the whole scheme of the Ben/Whidmore thing. It was Jacob who turned to him, making him a sort of Alanna. Whidmore also says Jacob showed him the error of his ways. Ben, however, continues to error. Oh, and I'm pretty sure Richard is dead, too. Although, he did drink from this cup, so maybe he isn't dead, but giving the body count lately, the odds are not in his favor. Or, as Sonesh would say, more purging of the ethnic people.
So, I knew Jacob's ashes were in Alanna's bag, I totally called that a while back. And when those ashes burn, that's the end of Jacob. So, ashes to ashes, dust to dust?
We learn Desmond was a measure of last resort, immune to electromagnetism. What does that really mean? It means, in English, Desmond was the constant. For everyone. He's the one that can bring them all back, make them remember. And maybe remembering and changing your life for the good (ie letting go of your handicaps) can put more white stones on the tipped scales.
We start wrapping up the show with Jack and Locke's conversation, which is a variation of the same conversation they've always had: man of faith, man of science. And it's the man of faith vs man of science that defined the roles of Jacob and Easu. Jacob believed what his mother said (faith). Easu went to go in search of the world (science). Just another cycle repeating itself.
My theories about the smoke being mom are totally out to door. It's Jacob's fault. He was the good that let in the hate which created the evil. He created the monster. The monster killed him and now someone has to replace him. Another example of yin and yang. And that's why they are there. That, and because they were in unhappy, flawed existances. "You were like me, you were all alone, you were all looking for something you couldn't find out there. You needed this place as much as it needed you," Jacob tells them. That, to me, sounds like finding your faith. And then he explains how they were taken out of the running.
Kate became a mom. Sun and Jin became parents. Well, we know Sawyer has a kid on the flipside. And we know Jack does, too. But Jack still throws himself into the running. He drinks the water, which is blessed (and isn't wine and doesn't come in a holy grail—more disproved theories). And Hurley says, "I'm just glad it's not me." Well, I'm not too sure it isn't him, still. I have a gut feeling Jack is going to die and it is going to be Hurley who is left to protect the light. I think that is def. a twist possibility. And a very unexpected one. Hurley was the first on the flipside to remember it all.
We end with Locke taking about destroying the island ... is that why it's on the bottom of the ocean this season? Does he really succeed? It can't be that easy. And believe it or not, we'll finally know by Sunday.
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Season Six, Episode 14, Part 4
Watched the first episode of LOST last night. Locke (white) tells Walt (black) while playing backgammon there's two sides, one dark, one light. It started back in ancient Mesopotamia. Do you want to know a secret? And that, I think, is what it all boils down to.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Season Six, Episode 14, Part 3
Obviously, the nearing end of LOST has been taking up a big portion of my thoughts, so here's something else that caught my attention:
From hubby's diehard friend:
Mom is the smoke monster. That's just the form it took. And she was killed with the sword Dougan gave Sayid to kill Fake Locke with. Now, why she thanks Easu for kiling her is beyond me, but this is an interesting theory.
Another one: It's not about the wine, it's about the cup. In a holy grail sort of way (I said that earlier). Because Jacob makes Richard drink from the same cup when he gives him eternal life.
From hubby's diehard friend:
Mom is the smoke monster. That's just the form it took. And she was killed with the sword Dougan gave Sayid to kill Fake Locke with. Now, why she thanks Easu for kiling her is beyond me, but this is an interesting theory.
Another one: It's not about the wine, it's about the cup. In a holy grail sort of way (I said that earlier). Because Jacob makes Richard drink from the same cup when he gives him eternal life.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Season Six, Episode 14, Part 2
I'm retracting some previous stuff. The smoke monster isn't Jacob's brother. He killed Easu's brother and later steals his body. And the mother that appeared to Easu wasn't his mom, it was the smoke monster. And it's the smoke monster who guards the light, even though it doesn't want to and wants to leave the island. But he's trapped. Just as Jacob's faux mom was trapped, and that's why she thanked Easu for killing her.
Oh, and I read in an article online today that they are never going to say Easu's name is Easu because, in the producer's own words: " I think for us to explain why we're not giving him a name veers too far into the territory of explaining things that we don't feel the need to explain." So, he's Easu. It's obvious. And that's that.
Oh, and I read in an article online today that they are never going to say Easu's name is Easu because, in the producer's own words: " I think for us to explain why we're not giving him a name veers too far into the territory of explaining things that we don't feel the need to explain." So, he's Easu. It's obvious. And that's that.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Season Six, Episode 14
Welcome to what is chronologically the first episode of LOST ever, save them showing us how "mom" got on the island. Like I said a zillion years ago, Jacob and Easu (man in black) are brothers. And much like the bible story of Jacob and Easu, the two are in strife battling over control of their birthright—the light, the life, the death, the good, the evil.
Why does "mom" favor Easu? It seems before he even came out, she had no intention of killing their real mother. "Jacob doesn't know how to lie. He isn't like you," she tells Easu when he is older. It's like she knows he has ill intentions. It's like she knows he is going to choose darkness over light all along. Is she trying to prevent it? Is that why she favors him, in an attept to change him?
There are so many parrallels. This is the third pregnant woman who has washed ashore. This is the third set of children that have been taken from their mothers. Well, fourth actually, because even though Sun never gave birth on the island, her child no longer belongs to her either.
Mom gives the same speech to Easu and Jacob about people coming and destroying. Apparently, this whole cycle has been going on for a long, long, long time. It's the speech we will later hear him give to Easu. He truly has replaced her. And I'm betting all my bottom dollars that Jack is going to replace him.
Mom says something peculiar in this part of the show. She says, "Because they are people, Jacob, and that's what people do." Easu replies, "But we're people." But are they? There is another reference by Easu later in the show about how Jacob and Mom look down on them from the mountain, almost a reference to Greek gods. Are they somehow God-like? By drinking the blessed wine, does it make them God-like? Easu never drank the wine, so does his evil status come from exposure to the light? And after Jacob drinks, it seems his eyes are open, a la Eve and the Garden of Eden. Plus, there's a whole holy grail things going on here, too.
So, Easu can't kill Jacob because of dear old Mom. She's the one who made the rule. She also made the rule that they can never leave. And all these years later, the is trying to rebel against her rules.
Now on to the light. Eden? Fountain of youth? Heaven? "A little bit of this very same light is in every man. But they always want more. They will try and if they try they will put it out. And if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere." Is what they are protecting God? Or is it just goodness in general? Whatever it is, after getting too close to it, it turns Easu into evil. And like Lucifer, he is cast out of the light forever.
But before he becomes the smoke monster, Easu uses free will to leave, to choose the human path. Another Eden reference.
"One day you can make up your own game and everyone can follow your rules," is what Easu tells Jacob about the game (which is where the whole rock thing comes into play). Is it all just a game? With Jacob leaving the island and touching all of our Lostees it seems that it becomes that way, even though Mom, whose intent and purpose for them being on the island seems so much more serious.
And why is it Easu can see his dead mother but Jacob can't? The only other person on the island who can see dead people is Hurley. What does it mean? What does it mean?
And then we have the wheel and the light. Internet rumors are flying that these "people" that tell Easu about the island and they way it works are actually Farraday. That he travels back back in time and lets Easu know so much, too much. How else does Easu know how things work? Even his own mother wants to know.
So where do our Lostees fall into all of this? I think the end of the show sums it all up. It's Jack who finds the two bodies. It's Jack who takes the rocks. It's Jack who is going to replace Jacob. And, based on a good theory I heard on Yelp, Jack is going to sink the island in order to keep Easu on it. That's why we see the island on the bottom of the ocean in the beginnning of this season. And, as David keeps saying, LA X land is the end of the show. It's how things were supposed to be.
But, we all know there's more to it than that. And we only have two more epsiodes to get it all wrapped up.
So bittersweet.
Why does "mom" favor Easu? It seems before he even came out, she had no intention of killing their real mother. "Jacob doesn't know how to lie. He isn't like you," she tells Easu when he is older. It's like she knows he has ill intentions. It's like she knows he is going to choose darkness over light all along. Is she trying to prevent it? Is that why she favors him, in an attept to change him?
There are so many parrallels. This is the third pregnant woman who has washed ashore. This is the third set of children that have been taken from their mothers. Well, fourth actually, because even though Sun never gave birth on the island, her child no longer belongs to her either.
Mom gives the same speech to Easu and Jacob about people coming and destroying. Apparently, this whole cycle has been going on for a long, long, long time. It's the speech we will later hear him give to Easu. He truly has replaced her. And I'm betting all my bottom dollars that Jack is going to replace him.
Mom says something peculiar in this part of the show. She says, "Because they are people, Jacob, and that's what people do." Easu replies, "But we're people." But are they? There is another reference by Easu later in the show about how Jacob and Mom look down on them from the mountain, almost a reference to Greek gods. Are they somehow God-like? By drinking the blessed wine, does it make them God-like? Easu never drank the wine, so does his evil status come from exposure to the light? And after Jacob drinks, it seems his eyes are open, a la Eve and the Garden of Eden. Plus, there's a whole holy grail things going on here, too.
So, Easu can't kill Jacob because of dear old Mom. She's the one who made the rule. She also made the rule that they can never leave. And all these years later, the is trying to rebel against her rules.
Now on to the light. Eden? Fountain of youth? Heaven? "A little bit of this very same light is in every man. But they always want more. They will try and if they try they will put it out. And if the light goes out here, it goes out everywhere." Is what they are protecting God? Or is it just goodness in general? Whatever it is, after getting too close to it, it turns Easu into evil. And like Lucifer, he is cast out of the light forever.
But before he becomes the smoke monster, Easu uses free will to leave, to choose the human path. Another Eden reference.
"One day you can make up your own game and everyone can follow your rules," is what Easu tells Jacob about the game (which is where the whole rock thing comes into play). Is it all just a game? With Jacob leaving the island and touching all of our Lostees it seems that it becomes that way, even though Mom, whose intent and purpose for them being on the island seems so much more serious.
And why is it Easu can see his dead mother but Jacob can't? The only other person on the island who can see dead people is Hurley. What does it mean? What does it mean?
And then we have the wheel and the light. Internet rumors are flying that these "people" that tell Easu about the island and they way it works are actually Farraday. That he travels back back in time and lets Easu know so much, too much. How else does Easu know how things work? Even his own mother wants to know.
So where do our Lostees fall into all of this? I think the end of the show sums it all up. It's Jack who finds the two bodies. It's Jack who takes the rocks. It's Jack who is going to replace Jacob. And, based on a good theory I heard on Yelp, Jack is going to sink the island in order to keep Easu on it. That's why we see the island on the bottom of the ocean in the beginnning of this season. And, as David keeps saying, LA X land is the end of the show. It's how things were supposed to be.
But, we all know there's more to it than that. And we only have two more epsiodes to get it all wrapped up.
So bittersweet.
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Season Six, Episode 13
Holy crap! They killed Sayid. They killed Sun. They killed Jin. They shot Kate. Lapidus got smacked in head by the sub door and for all we know, he's dead, too. ALL IN THE SAME EPISODE. I think they've finally decided to pick up the pace in this race to the end. About freaking time.
So, this time in LA X land we learn Locke's Dad is a good guy. He didn't throw him out the window and break his back. It was Locke who injured himself and his father in a plane crash. Because ... everything is better in LA X land. It's also in LA X land that Sun and Jin are well and good. Not so much here. Sun and Jin finally get reunited only to die together in this episode. How utterly heartbreaking. Who is going to take care of their kid? Is she a candidate? Clearly, it can't be that deep, we only have three epsidoes left.
I could totally deal with Sayid dying, as he has been kind of dead this whole season. But let it be known for a long, long time he was my most favorite character. But we've been dealing with Z-ayid a lot, lately. And he kind of sucked it up. But right before Z-ayid saved most everyone, he seemed so normal. He even tipped Jack off about Desmond. And then tells Jack "it's going to be you." Does that mean Jack is it? The candidate? That is the name of this episode. And we are kicking candidates off the show faster than slower with the mass murders. So, is it Jack? I'm starting to think yes, it really is. He was so insighful on the ship when the bomb emerged. But he was wrong. It was a bomb. And Locke did cause people to die. If Sawyer hadn't pulled the plug, would the bomb had still gone off?
Oh, and where the hell is Ben in all of this?
Fake Locke is evil to the core. He is hell-bent on killing everyone. But why? If he kills all of them, how can they replace him? Doesn't he need them to get off the island? Is that all a ploy, too? And what does he need Desmond for? Ugh, I have no idea what is going on. And we are so quickly running out of time. Furthermore, what does Whidmore have to do with any of it? Is Whidmore a former candidate who got booted for someone else? Is he also trying to pick everyone off so he can lurch himself back into the candidate spot? What does it all mean, man? What does it all mean?
In other trivial questions, where did this jewelry box come from and what does that mean? We haven't seen anything about it before. The only think it makes me think of is the mirror Jacob used to show Jack his life. Another mystery.
And speaking of things we have/have not seen before, did anyone notice the repeat of lines between Sun and Jin being the same as those between Richard and his wife? And again between Jack and Locke at the end when Jack tells Locke "I wish you believed me." The roll reversal is just another neon aarow showing that Jack is the one. He's come around. It's him, totally him. But why and for what? Ugh, now we just need to figure that out.
Next week's preview looks interesting, maybe a throwback episode like we got with Richard. And that's all I've ever wanted for the end of this show, to backtrack to the beginning to show us how we ended up where we are.
So, this time in LA X land we learn Locke's Dad is a good guy. He didn't throw him out the window and break his back. It was Locke who injured himself and his father in a plane crash. Because ... everything is better in LA X land. It's also in LA X land that Sun and Jin are well and good. Not so much here. Sun and Jin finally get reunited only to die together in this episode. How utterly heartbreaking. Who is going to take care of their kid? Is she a candidate? Clearly, it can't be that deep, we only have three epsidoes left.
I could totally deal with Sayid dying, as he has been kind of dead this whole season. But let it be known for a long, long time he was my most favorite character. But we've been dealing with Z-ayid a lot, lately. And he kind of sucked it up. But right before Z-ayid saved most everyone, he seemed so normal. He even tipped Jack off about Desmond. And then tells Jack "it's going to be you." Does that mean Jack is it? The candidate? That is the name of this episode. And we are kicking candidates off the show faster than slower with the mass murders. So, is it Jack? I'm starting to think yes, it really is. He was so insighful on the ship when the bomb emerged. But he was wrong. It was a bomb. And Locke did cause people to die. If Sawyer hadn't pulled the plug, would the bomb had still gone off?
Oh, and where the hell is Ben in all of this?
Fake Locke is evil to the core. He is hell-bent on killing everyone. But why? If he kills all of them, how can they replace him? Doesn't he need them to get off the island? Is that all a ploy, too? And what does he need Desmond for? Ugh, I have no idea what is going on. And we are so quickly running out of time. Furthermore, what does Whidmore have to do with any of it? Is Whidmore a former candidate who got booted for someone else? Is he also trying to pick everyone off so he can lurch himself back into the candidate spot? What does it all mean, man? What does it all mean?
In other trivial questions, where did this jewelry box come from and what does that mean? We haven't seen anything about it before. The only think it makes me think of is the mirror Jacob used to show Jack his life. Another mystery.
And speaking of things we have/have not seen before, did anyone notice the repeat of lines between Sun and Jin being the same as those between Richard and his wife? And again between Jack and Locke at the end when Jack tells Locke "I wish you believed me." The roll reversal is just another neon aarow showing that Jack is the one. He's come around. It's him, totally him. But why and for what? Ugh, now we just need to figure that out.
Next week's preview looks interesting, maybe a throwback episode like we got with Richard. And that's all I've ever wanted for the end of this show, to backtrack to the beginning to show us how we ended up where we are.
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