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I am a huge nerd and since the Lost finale hit all those nerdy buttons and hit them just right, I actually took notes and they're just as random and nonsensical as you'd expect from me.
I wanted to put it all together and write a review worthy of an episode I loved (I *know*! But it was just that good), but I'm so TIRED I just want to sleep this whole long weekend and dread the long, hot, TV-less summer ahead.
Maybe I'll come up with something more substantial once I can get some decent sleep, but here it goes.... (oh, did I mention it's brutally long? It's brutally long.) ETA: I've decided to break it down into two posts, one which will have to wait for tomorrow night. Aren't ya lucky?
1. Through The Looking Glass: sequel to Alice In Wonderland but largely unrelated and nonsensical. WRONG. The other side of the mirror. Reverse.
But I swear to the Almighty Lord, if I hear the timetravel nonsense one more time... (Yes, I hated FBYE, mkay? Hated it), I'm going to scream.
THIS IS NOT THE FUTURE. I repeat: This is NOT the future. It's April 5th, 2007, two and 1/4 years after the plane crashed. The PRESENT. I'll be done abusing caps soon, I promise.
None of this was confusing to me in any way when I watched the first time. Other than the fact that it all happened on April 5th, the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide, everything else was pretty much straightforward. I was convinced we weren't flashforwarding to the future, but the PRESENT and this is not the end and Jack will have another future tha involves finding the island, etc.
All the flashbacks so far: PAST before the plane crash.
Island events: 2004. PAST post-crash
Jack in TTLG: PRESENT. April 2007.
What happens after, Jack finding or not finding the island, Fight The Future and all that: FUTURE. The End. The very end of the show in 2010.
Caveat: Lost writers, you have demonstrated to me time and again this season just how badly you can suck and what boneheaded decisions you can make. I like this timeline, please don't fuck it up, kthx.
2. Jack's fb beard did look fake and fugly, but:
1.1 I'd do him anyway. In a heartbeat.
1.2 It's perfectly "in character". This is a man who is HIDING and can't stand to look at himself in the mirror in the morning.
3. The attempted suicide scene was actually better than I'd imagined it after reading the detailed spoilers. His breakdown in the car and the way he walks towards that bridge on a street that's so eerily silent with a city of millions of people in the background.
This was deeply personal to me because for the first time I wondered what it takes for a person to get out of that car and climb on that bridge, look up to the sky and jump. Or send her daughter to watch cartoons, tell her not to go into the bathroom, go to said bathroom, put a noose around the neck and die with her eyes stuck on an ugly ashen wall. In 21 years, I've never once wondered what it takes. I'm not all emo and broken up about it, it was more of an intellectual discovery actually.
4. Jack and Sayid ROCKED that scene of manly men bonding before going into battle. It makes me sad in a way that Lost writers think so little of women and are incapable of writing them.
I wanted them to hug too and mumble "Yeah, whatever, love you too..." to each other.
5. This is the second season finale where Jin tells Sun to stay close to Jack. I love Jin and I wish he had more scenes with Jack because like I said last week, I love it when my favorites are working together.
6. He was literally a shepherd when they leave the beach. For the last time probably. It's their Exodus.
6.1 LOL! Moses. See? Told you the beard was highly symbolic. :D And later on, Hurley tells him to "phone home"
7. Ben, you smug bastard! "I lied". Heh. And when he said "I'll talk them into it" to Richard later on, I totally believed him.
8. Sarah. I can't be rational about her. I defended her after THP, but I suppose in the end she's just another symptom of Womanhood According To Darlton. "Inappropriate?" Honey, he's not going to want to jump you in the car. Trust me. And Jack... his voice... he still says thank you, he's still polite and resigned... (Does it remind you of anything?) When she asks what he was doing driving around at 2 am, it hit me: how DO you explain all of it to someone who hasn't experienced the island and whatever crap he's been trhough since?
I hate Sarah with the scorching red hot hatered I should keep for real life assholes and puppy killers.
9. Rose whips Bernard again. I was fully expecting her to say: "SAY MY NAME, BITCH!"
She's got the NYC thing going on that's for sure. I loved her telling Jack she's gonna punch him and I loved his reaction to it.
10. Bonnie needs to get laaaaid.
11. Jin is in fact awesome. Just because he had a small gun, doesn't mean he's not an excellent shot. He did the best with what he had. He didn't shoot blanks after all.
12. Bernard? LIE, you doofus! Oh, Rose is so gonna bust a cap in yo ass for this!
13. Ben triangulating with a sharpie... LMAO.
14. Nice parallel between Ben and Jack and their relationships with Richard and Sayid respectively.
15. Claire and Aaron keep popping up in random scenes with Jack. They're together when they're camped by the creek and holding hands over the walkie talkie. :D
16. Bloody hell, brutha! You can swim, you sexy beast you and also that's my favorite non-Jack shirt on the show.
17. Jack's hand shakes when he's looking at the chart. I wonder if he thought of Christian in that moment. All he needs is a cane in that scene because he's got the pill popping and snarky disrespect for authority down to a tee. Dr. Hammil says he can't perform the surgery and "we are well aware of the isssues". What issues? Saint Sebastian knew he was a drunk but kept him anyway???
18. The kid smiling at Jack in the waiting room and his reaction... *sigh* Jack+kids is always riveting for my fangirl heart, but this was so much more than pure fodder for the ovaries. Look at his reaction. He smiles at first then runs away. "I'm not a hero." He can't stand to see that innocent kid looking up at him like that.
19. I love Juliet kind of a lot. Go ahead, defriend me. :D Love attack #1: when she just leaves and gives Jack the space to talk to Naomi. Sure, she knew he'd tell her later anyway, but I liked that small gesture. Polite and mature goes a long way.
20. I liked that Sawyer acknowledges that Jack has a job to do and is uncharacteristically restrained (well, more in character after murdering Cooper) and dare I say... mature about it. For one thing, he could have not said a word to Jack and just wandered off back to the beach. For another, he wasn't a little snippy beyotch. Well done.
Thus endeth part 1. No, I don't blame you if you didn't make it through the whole thing. I haven't numbered them on paper, but I just realized I might hit 50 and that's just a bit overkill. I can't help it. The Jack Show does that to me. :D
I wanted to put it all together and write a review worthy of an episode I loved (I *know*! But it was just that good), but I'm so TIRED I just want to sleep this whole long weekend and dread the long, hot, TV-less summer ahead.
Maybe I'll come up with something more substantial once I can get some decent sleep, but here it goes.... (oh, did I mention it's brutally long? It's brutally long.) ETA: I've decided to break it down into two posts, one which will have to wait for tomorrow night. Aren't ya lucky?
1. Through The Looking Glass: sequel to Alice In Wonderland but largely unrelated and nonsensical. WRONG. The other side of the mirror. Reverse.
But I swear to the Almighty Lord, if I hear the timetravel nonsense one more time... (Yes, I hated FBYE, mkay? Hated it), I'm going to scream.
THIS IS NOT THE FUTURE. I repeat: This is NOT the future. It's April 5th, 2007, two and 1/4 years after the plane crashed. The PRESENT. I'll be done abusing caps soon, I promise.
None of this was confusing to me in any way when I watched the first time. Other than the fact that it all happened on April 5th, the anniversary of Kurt Cobain's suicide, everything else was pretty much straightforward. I was convinced we weren't flashforwarding to the future, but the PRESENT and this is not the end and Jack will have another future tha involves finding the island, etc.
All the flashbacks so far: PAST before the plane crash.
Island events: 2004. PAST post-crash
Jack in TTLG: PRESENT. April 2007.
What happens after, Jack finding or not finding the island, Fight The Future and all that: FUTURE. The End. The very end of the show in 2010.
Caveat: Lost writers, you have demonstrated to me time and again this season just how badly you can suck and what boneheaded decisions you can make. I like this timeline, please don't fuck it up, kthx.
2. Jack's fb beard did look fake and fugly, but:
1.1 I'd do him anyway. In a heartbeat.
1.2 It's perfectly "in character". This is a man who is HIDING and can't stand to look at himself in the mirror in the morning.
3. The attempted suicide scene was actually better than I'd imagined it after reading the detailed spoilers. His breakdown in the car and the way he walks towards that bridge on a street that's so eerily silent with a city of millions of people in the background.
This was deeply personal to me because for the first time I wondered what it takes for a person to get out of that car and climb on that bridge, look up to the sky and jump. Or send her daughter to watch cartoons, tell her not to go into the bathroom, go to said bathroom, put a noose around the neck and die with her eyes stuck on an ugly ashen wall. In 21 years, I've never once wondered what it takes. I'm not all emo and broken up about it, it was more of an intellectual discovery actually.
4. Jack and Sayid ROCKED that scene of manly men bonding before going into battle. It makes me sad in a way that Lost writers think so little of women and are incapable of writing them.
I wanted them to hug too and mumble "Yeah, whatever, love you too..." to each other.
5. This is the second season finale where Jin tells Sun to stay close to Jack. I love Jin and I wish he had more scenes with Jack because like I said last week, I love it when my favorites are working together.
6. He was literally a shepherd when they leave the beach. For the last time probably. It's their Exodus.
6.1 LOL! Moses. See? Told you the beard was highly symbolic. :D And later on, Hurley tells him to "phone home"
7. Ben, you smug bastard! "I lied". Heh. And when he said "I'll talk them into it" to Richard later on, I totally believed him.
8. Sarah. I can't be rational about her. I defended her after THP, but I suppose in the end she's just another symptom of Womanhood According To Darlton. "Inappropriate?" Honey, he's not going to want to jump you in the car. Trust me. And Jack... his voice... he still says thank you, he's still polite and resigned... (Does it remind you of anything?) When she asks what he was doing driving around at 2 am, it hit me: how DO you explain all of it to someone who hasn't experienced the island and whatever crap he's been trhough since?
I hate Sarah with the scorching red hot hatered I should keep for real life assholes and puppy killers.
9. Rose whips Bernard again. I was fully expecting her to say: "SAY MY NAME, BITCH!"
She's got the NYC thing going on that's for sure. I loved her telling Jack she's gonna punch him and I loved his reaction to it.
10. Bonnie needs to get laaaaid.
11. Jin is in fact awesome. Just because he had a small gun, doesn't mean he's not an excellent shot. He did the best with what he had. He didn't shoot blanks after all.
12. Bernard? LIE, you doofus! Oh, Rose is so gonna bust a cap in yo ass for this!
13. Ben triangulating with a sharpie... LMAO.
14. Nice parallel between Ben and Jack and their relationships with Richard and Sayid respectively.
15. Claire and Aaron keep popping up in random scenes with Jack. They're together when they're camped by the creek and holding hands over the walkie talkie. :D
16. Bloody hell, brutha! You can swim, you sexy beast you and also that's my favorite non-Jack shirt on the show.
17. Jack's hand shakes when he's looking at the chart. I wonder if he thought of Christian in that moment. All he needs is a cane in that scene because he's got the pill popping and snarky disrespect for authority down to a tee. Dr. Hammil says he can't perform the surgery and "we are well aware of the isssues". What issues? Saint Sebastian knew he was a drunk but kept him anyway???
18. The kid smiling at Jack in the waiting room and his reaction... *sigh* Jack+kids is always riveting for my fangirl heart, but this was so much more than pure fodder for the ovaries. Look at his reaction. He smiles at first then runs away. "I'm not a hero." He can't stand to see that innocent kid looking up at him like that.
19. I love Juliet kind of a lot. Go ahead, defriend me. :D Love attack #1: when she just leaves and gives Jack the space to talk to Naomi. Sure, she knew he'd tell her later anyway, but I liked that small gesture. Polite and mature goes a long way.
20. I liked that Sawyer acknowledges that Jack has a job to do and is uncharacteristically restrained (well, more in character after murdering Cooper) and dare I say... mature about it. For one thing, he could have not said a word to Jack and just wandered off back to the beach. For another, he wasn't a little snippy beyotch. Well done.
Thus endeth part 1. No, I don't blame you if you didn't make it through the whole thing. I haven't numbered them on paper, but I just realized I might hit 50 and that's just a bit overkill. I can't help it. The Jack Show does that to me. :D