Thoughts On The Lost Finale, Or, In Other Words: OMGWTFBBQGWAH!!!
Broadway is dark tonight
A little bit weaker than you used to be
Broadway is dark tonight
See the young man sitting
In the old man's bar
Waiting for his turn to die
The cowboy kills the rock star
And Friday night's gone too far
The dim light hides the years
On all the faded girls
Forgotten but not gone
You drink it off your mind
You talk about the world
Like it's someplace that you've been
You see, you'd love to run home
But you know you ain't got one
And you're livin' in a world
That you're best forgotten around here
Broadway is dark tonight
A little bit weaker than you used to be
Broadway is dark tonight
See the young man sitting
In the old man's bar
Waiting for his turn to die
Add that one to the "If I Could Actually Make Music Videos, I Would So Use That Song For A 'Lost' One" list.
Okay, something I forgot to mention about my Cedar Point trip the other day: I got quite sunburned on my face, arms, and the part in my hair. Didn't think it was a big deal....but so far today I've felt horribly nauseous, tired and dizzy, and I've had no appetite. I'm starting to think I might have heat stroke or something along those lines.
So I left early from my mentorship so I wouldn't freakin' pass out or something. I plan to finally finish the latest chapter of Metamorphosis (SO HELP ME GOD...) today.
But first, I must blather on about what happened on Lost last night or I. WILL DIE.
Firstly, the raft plot (gee, I'm going to talk about the plotline with Sawyer in it first; who woulda thought?):
Okay, that island is officially frickin' HUGE. It's defititly not hard to imagine a monster, a crazy Frenchwoman, a whole 'nother bunch of survivors, a couple of polar bears, a civilazation of "Others", a government base, a crashed UFO, and a cloned army of Ethans living there and not ever being seen by the castaways. So it is quite feasable they could be discovering new island mysteries for years to come. Eeeecellant...
Ponytail!Sawyer threw me at first, but I warmed up to the look. I still prefer his hair loose though, so...yeah. I'm assuming that was only so the wind at sea wouldn't constantly have his hair in his eyes, anyway. Speaking of, by the way, is it just me or does it seem like a bit of a continuity error that someone who, as Michael made a point of saying in "Born to Run", has absolutely no sailing experience whatsoever, is suddenly quite the master at the sail handling and the rigging and whatnot? Or are we supposed to assume Sawyer is the world's quickest study? I'm just saying.
Man, if I was on that raft, I'd be knocking the rudder into the water at any given moment if it meant we'd get to see a shirtless wet Sawyer in low-rise jeans going after it. Grrrow. And was it just my eternal fangirl blocking my eardrums, or does he not have that bad a singing voice, even? (FYI, I've never even heard a song by Bob Marley, so I'm unopinionated on that one, but...the word "redemption" was in that song. That Sawyer was singing. Uh HUH, that just MIGHT be significant SOMEHOW)
And you know, during the bottle-reading scene, I was like "Jesus, Sawyer, what are you....Oh, why am I even acting like I'm surprised? Forget it; carry on." Hell, I honestly don't care that he was reading all the personal messages, considering we got to see him in his adorably dorktastic glasses again. What can I say? Chicks dig the geeks ("I am NOT a geek!!" "Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that, cowboy.").
But I DO have to complain about him being suddenly quite gabby about his past. WTF was that?? That was just...I don't even know. If I had to guess, I'd say the writers were trying to illustrate how he's gotten a little friendlier with the others, enough to open up to them a little. But if that's what they were aiming for, they failed. It came across more as a combination of a Dude, That Makes No Sense and a Can We Say Cry For Attention? instead of a move for openess. Actually, I might have been able to see the second reveal with Michael as actually happening, since that seemed a lot more sincere and made more sense in context, but I'll never know because the first one with Walt just threw me so far off-kilter. In a related issue, I almost get the feeling Sawyer mentioning that his father never got a chance to hit him was thrown in to put a hole through the theory a lot of people on the internet have formed about Sawyer's father being abusive. So...there is that.
The Others...have a boat. The Others...were actually after Walt (for the record, as soon as Rousseau mentioned that the whisperers said they were coming for "the child...the boy" I was like "Oh SHIT"). The Others...now have Walt. And they left with him, for ungodly parts unknown (considering they were dressed for oddly cold weather in slickers and such, however, I'm starting to think the polar bears will be more significant than originally thought).
Oh, and they shot Sawyer.
Who fell overboard.
And Jin dove after him.
And then They set the raft on fire.
And Michael fell in the water too.
And so now they're just FLOATING out in the middle of the ocean, in the PITCH-BLACK night, with a BURNING raft and a presumably BLEEDING man, and god knows there are probably SHARKS and SQUID and THE FUCKING SS NAUTILUS (What?? Man, you know you can't put anything past this show, don't even lie) in that water, and I know Mercutio Michael said something about them being at least fifteen miles away from shore, IF NOT MORE...
And now. We must wait. All summer. To find out. What the hell happens to Sawyer.
...Abrams is going to hell. No seriously, TO HELL. He's going to BURN IN HELL. And I don't even believe in Hell, being the charming mix of Wiccan and deist that I am.
....TO HEEELL!!!!
*breathes* Okaaay...moving onto the various happenings on the island:
Looks like Charlie's going to be a junkie again. I have mixed feelings about that possibility, I guess...I should be okay as long as it's handled well. Because there are so many ways a story line like that can NOT be handled well, y'know? But he and Claire and baby Turniphead/Aaron were all wibbly and adorable, so there's always that.
(Oh, and in case anyone didn't see it and they're wondering, the deleted scene that was on Good Morning America can be summed up as follows:
Rousseau eats a raw egg, Charlie thinks Rousseau's "a few sandwiches short of a picnic", Claire admits to Charlie that she always had a feeling the Others would be coming back for her son, and Charlie realizes that was why Claire hasn't named the baby yet. Also, Charlie mentions running into Rousseau in the jungle and having her "try to blow his head off for no reason at all", which...um, when did that happen? Am I missing something?)
Does Claire have her memory back now, or just part of it? I am confuzzed.
Speaking of which...okay, her memory flash with Danielle is hard for me to grasp. Let's see... We're assuming Ethan was with the Others, and Danielle is NOT with the Others. We know Ethan kidnapped Claire originally, and presumably it was him/them Claire escaped from.
Soo...at what point was Rousseau going after Claire that Claire would need to scratch her?? I mean, if Rousseau wasn't with the original kidnappers...did she grab Claire on her way back to camp when she escaped (no wonder Claire's tramutized if she had two different groups of people trying to grab her in such a short timeframe) from Them? Again, I am confuzzed.
Nice usage of Shannon's baggage as being some kind of metaphor for her emotional baggage, especially when you throw in "It's too much" and "I will carry it for you". And I'd say the Shayid is back, and going strong. Awww yeah.
Now we just need a revival of teh Skate when Sawyer (note that I said WHEN. WHEEEN!! I AM WATCHING YOU, ABRAMS!!!) gets back, and the shipping part of my fangirl heart can be content.
Arzt done blown himself up reeeal good. Trust Hurley to bring the dark humor in on that situation, too ("He just...expoded in front of us."). But I love how one of his last acts was to suddenly become the voice of the fandom: "You guys are like a clique! You think you're the only ones that ever do anything! The rest of us are people too! And how come you've never lost weight?!"
And dynamite + torches = Hon, are you right in the head? And I said as much far before Hurley said anything about it himself. Yet it was quite amusing when he brought it up.
Speaking of Hurley, I know lots of fans have made smaller connections before, but after the exchange with him and Kate I'm starting to think every single castaway has a connection to at least one of those numbers. And I mean besides the fact that their flight number was 815 and they left from gate 23. I'll bet if Hurley asked around, all of them would have some kind of personal sognificance to one of the numbers. A couple I thought of just today that I'm pretty sure haven't been mentioned before: Locke was in his wheelchair for 4 years, and Sawyer's parents died when he was 8 (also, Laur pointed out that DieAna-LuciaDie was in seat 42F).
The monster? Is definitly mechanical. It never sounded more mechanical ever in the time it's been on this show than it did last night. And...anyone else catch that weird little smoke plume Jack and Kate saw? And the weeeeird way the smoke rose from the ground when they used the dynamite to save Locke? OMGWTFEVILSMOKE??
And damn, now I might have to sue somebody...
Locke? Was scared of the monster. Hon, face the music...the island doesn't love you. It's just using you for sex. Time to get out of this abusive relationship. But damned if that's ever going to happen, because rarely do the victims of an abusive realtionship realize it as thus and correctly cite that it is not loving and not, in fact, anyway their fault.
And now I'm kind of babbling, but you get the idea. I hope.
Jack foreshadows "The Locke problem". Also finally points out the fact that everyone is always coming to him every time something goes wrong, whining for him to solve the problem...right up until he gets some initiative and grabs the reins and make a leadership call himself. Then they're all like "Who died and made you Big Kahuna?" You go, Jack.
PS, all the folk who seem to think once Sawyer gets back (ONCE HE GETS BACK!! HE'S COMING BACK, GODDAMN YOU!!!!), he'll wind up playing some sort of second command to Jack or at the very least taking his side when the schism arrives? Yeah, add me to the list.
Finally, thoughts on the flashbacks:
Can I just say I adore it like crazy when the characters appear in each others' flashbacks? And that happened a lot in this episode. SCORE.
Even Arzt made an appearance, first in the security line in Hurley's, and then helping Claire with her bag in the final one.
Hurley's flashback was teh awesome. Good ol' Hurley makes us laugh, as always. Also, add him to the list of people along with Jack who fought tooth and nail to get onto this particular flight. Ah, the irony.
And it turns out he was the one responsable for the Spanish comic book de OMGWTFPOLARBEAR. Chills.
Locke...was pitable. Which kind of puts a funky feeling in your stomach when you consider how OMGSOCREEPY he's being in the present. It kind of makes it hard to dislike him. I mean, really hard. Seriously.
I have to say, though, I've got to point out the slighty jarring continuity error we had with Sawyer and Sayid's appearances in the flashback. Both of them had the wrong (and longer, I think) hairstyles and too much of their island scruff. I guess it was just too hard to trim them down properly, or something.
Look, don't ask me: I know nothing about hair and make-up, let alone for primetime TV shows. I'm just pointing it out, is all.
The group flashback just had me. I mean it was so...."just another group of people, just another flight, just another day". And the interactions between them, like Hurley's thumbs-up to Walt, Locke and Jacks's "polite nod and smile" exchange, and Boone giving Shannon her inhaler. GAWD. Again, I do not cry at TV shows for some reason, but that definitly had me with a lump in my throat.
And, again...Now. We must wait. All summer. To find out. What happens. To them Sawyer.
I.....Oh Gawd, I'm going to die. No, seriously, I will not live through summer, I swear.
TO HELL, JJ ABRAMS!! ALL THE WAY TO HEEEEEELL!!!!
A little bit weaker than you used to be
Broadway is dark tonight
See the young man sitting
In the old man's bar
Waiting for his turn to die
The cowboy kills the rock star
And Friday night's gone too far
The dim light hides the years
On all the faded girls
Forgotten but not gone
You drink it off your mind
You talk about the world
Like it's someplace that you've been
You see, you'd love to run home
But you know you ain't got one
And you're livin' in a world
That you're best forgotten around here
Broadway is dark tonight
A little bit weaker than you used to be
Broadway is dark tonight
See the young man sitting
In the old man's bar
Waiting for his turn to die
Add that one to the "If I Could Actually Make Music Videos, I Would So Use That Song For A 'Lost' One" list.
Okay, something I forgot to mention about my Cedar Point trip the other day: I got quite sunburned on my face, arms, and the part in my hair. Didn't think it was a big deal....but so far today I've felt horribly nauseous, tired and dizzy, and I've had no appetite. I'm starting to think I might have heat stroke or something along those lines.
So I left early from my mentorship so I wouldn't freakin' pass out or something. I plan to finally finish the latest chapter of Metamorphosis (SO HELP ME GOD...) today.
But first, I must blather on about what happened on Lost last night or I. WILL DIE.
Firstly, the raft plot (gee, I'm going to talk about the plotline with Sawyer in it first; who woulda thought?):
Okay, that island is officially frickin' HUGE. It's defititly not hard to imagine a monster, a crazy Frenchwoman, a whole 'nother bunch of survivors, a couple of polar bears, a civilazation of "Others", a government base, a crashed UFO, and a cloned army of Ethans living there and not ever being seen by the castaways. So it is quite feasable they could be discovering new island mysteries for years to come. Eeeecellant...
Ponytail!Sawyer threw me at first, but I warmed up to the look. I still prefer his hair loose though, so...yeah. I'm assuming that was only so the wind at sea wouldn't constantly have his hair in his eyes, anyway. Speaking of, by the way, is it just me or does it seem like a bit of a continuity error that someone who, as Michael made a point of saying in "Born to Run", has absolutely no sailing experience whatsoever, is suddenly quite the master at the sail handling and the rigging and whatnot? Or are we supposed to assume Sawyer is the world's quickest study? I'm just saying.
Man, if I was on that raft, I'd be knocking the rudder into the water at any given moment if it meant we'd get to see a shirtless wet Sawyer in low-rise jeans going after it. Grrrow. And was it just my eternal fangirl blocking my eardrums, or does he not have that bad a singing voice, even? (FYI, I've never even heard a song by Bob Marley, so I'm unopinionated on that one, but...the word "redemption" was in that song. That Sawyer was singing. Uh HUH, that just MIGHT be significant SOMEHOW)
And you know, during the bottle-reading scene, I was like "Jesus, Sawyer, what are you....Oh, why am I even acting like I'm surprised? Forget it; carry on." Hell, I honestly don't care that he was reading all the personal messages, considering we got to see him in his adorably dorktastic glasses again. What can I say? Chicks dig the geeks ("I am NOT a geek!!" "Yeah, you just keep telling yourself that, cowboy.").
But I DO have to complain about him being suddenly quite gabby about his past. WTF was that?? That was just...I don't even know. If I had to guess, I'd say the writers were trying to illustrate how he's gotten a little friendlier with the others, enough to open up to them a little. But if that's what they were aiming for, they failed. It came across more as a combination of a Dude, That Makes No Sense and a Can We Say Cry For Attention? instead of a move for openess. Actually, I might have been able to see the second reveal with Michael as actually happening, since that seemed a lot more sincere and made more sense in context, but I'll never know because the first one with Walt just threw me so far off-kilter. In a related issue, I almost get the feeling Sawyer mentioning that his father never got a chance to hit him was thrown in to put a hole through the theory a lot of people on the internet have formed about Sawyer's father being abusive. So...there is that.
The Others...have a boat. The Others...were actually after Walt (for the record, as soon as Rousseau mentioned that the whisperers said they were coming for "the child...the boy" I was like "Oh SHIT"). The Others...now have Walt. And they left with him, for ungodly parts unknown (considering they were dressed for oddly cold weather in slickers and such, however, I'm starting to think the polar bears will be more significant than originally thought).
Oh, and they shot Sawyer.
Who fell overboard.
And Jin dove after him.
And then They set the raft on fire.
And Michael fell in the water too.
And so now they're just FLOATING out in the middle of the ocean, in the PITCH-BLACK night, with a BURNING raft and a presumably BLEEDING man, and god knows there are probably SHARKS and SQUID and THE FUCKING SS NAUTILUS (What?? Man, you know you can't put anything past this show, don't even lie) in that water, and I know Mercutio Michael said something about them being at least fifteen miles away from shore, IF NOT MORE...
And now. We must wait. All summer. To find out. What the hell happens to Sawyer.
...Abrams is going to hell. No seriously, TO HELL. He's going to BURN IN HELL. And I don't even believe in Hell, being the charming mix of Wiccan and deist that I am.
....TO HEEELL!!!!
*breathes* Okaaay...moving onto the various happenings on the island:
Looks like Charlie's going to be a junkie again. I have mixed feelings about that possibility, I guess...I should be okay as long as it's handled well. Because there are so many ways a story line like that can NOT be handled well, y'know? But he and Claire and baby Turniphead/Aaron were all wibbly and adorable, so there's always that.
(Oh, and in case anyone didn't see it and they're wondering, the deleted scene that was on Good Morning America can be summed up as follows:
Rousseau eats a raw egg, Charlie thinks Rousseau's "a few sandwiches short of a picnic", Claire admits to Charlie that she always had a feeling the Others would be coming back for her son, and Charlie realizes that was why Claire hasn't named the baby yet. Also, Charlie mentions running into Rousseau in the jungle and having her "try to blow his head off for no reason at all", which...um, when did that happen? Am I missing something?)
Does Claire have her memory back now, or just part of it? I am confuzzed.
Speaking of which...okay, her memory flash with Danielle is hard for me to grasp. Let's see... We're assuming Ethan was with the Others, and Danielle is NOT with the Others. We know Ethan kidnapped Claire originally, and presumably it was him/them Claire escaped from.
Soo...at what point was Rousseau going after Claire that Claire would need to scratch her?? I mean, if Rousseau wasn't with the original kidnappers...did she grab Claire on her way back to camp when she escaped (no wonder Claire's tramutized if she had two different groups of people trying to grab her in such a short timeframe) from Them? Again, I am confuzzed.
Nice usage of Shannon's baggage as being some kind of metaphor for her emotional baggage, especially when you throw in "It's too much" and "I will carry it for you". And I'd say the Shayid is back, and going strong. Awww yeah.
Now we just need a revival of teh Skate when Sawyer (note that I said WHEN. WHEEEN!! I AM WATCHING YOU, ABRAMS!!!) gets back, and the shipping part of my fangirl heart can be content.
Arzt done blown himself up reeeal good. Trust Hurley to bring the dark humor in on that situation, too ("He just...expoded in front of us."). But I love how one of his last acts was to suddenly become the voice of the fandom: "You guys are like a clique! You think you're the only ones that ever do anything! The rest of us are people too! And how come you've never lost weight?!"
And dynamite + torches = Hon, are you right in the head? And I said as much far before Hurley said anything about it himself. Yet it was quite amusing when he brought it up.
Speaking of Hurley, I know lots of fans have made smaller connections before, but after the exchange with him and Kate I'm starting to think every single castaway has a connection to at least one of those numbers. And I mean besides the fact that their flight number was 815 and they left from gate 23. I'll bet if Hurley asked around, all of them would have some kind of personal sognificance to one of the numbers. A couple I thought of just today that I'm pretty sure haven't been mentioned before: Locke was in his wheelchair for 4 years, and Sawyer's parents died when he was 8 (also, Laur pointed out that DieAna-LuciaDie was in seat 42F).
The monster? Is definitly mechanical. It never sounded more mechanical ever in the time it's been on this show than it did last night. And...anyone else catch that weird little smoke plume Jack and Kate saw? And the weeeeird way the smoke rose from the ground when they used the dynamite to save Locke? OMGWTFEVILSMOKE??
And damn, now I might have to sue somebody...
Locke? Was scared of the monster. Hon, face the music...the island doesn't love you. It's just using you for sex. Time to get out of this abusive relationship. But damned if that's ever going to happen, because rarely do the victims of an abusive realtionship realize it as thus and correctly cite that it is not loving and not, in fact, anyway their fault.
And now I'm kind of babbling, but you get the idea. I hope.
Jack foreshadows "The Locke problem". Also finally points out the fact that everyone is always coming to him every time something goes wrong, whining for him to solve the problem...right up until he gets some initiative and grabs the reins and make a leadership call himself. Then they're all like "Who died and made you Big Kahuna?" You go, Jack.
PS, all the folk who seem to think once Sawyer gets back (ONCE HE GETS BACK!! HE'S COMING BACK, GODDAMN YOU!!!!), he'll wind up playing some sort of second command to Jack or at the very least taking his side when the schism arrives? Yeah, add me to the list.
Finally, thoughts on the flashbacks:
Can I just say I adore it like crazy when the characters appear in each others' flashbacks? And that happened a lot in this episode. SCORE.
Even Arzt made an appearance, first in the security line in Hurley's, and then helping Claire with her bag in the final one.
Hurley's flashback was teh awesome. Good ol' Hurley makes us laugh, as always. Also, add him to the list of people along with Jack who fought tooth and nail to get onto this particular flight. Ah, the irony.
And it turns out he was the one responsable for the Spanish comic book de OMGWTFPOLARBEAR. Chills.
Locke...was pitable. Which kind of puts a funky feeling in your stomach when you consider how OMGSOCREEPY he's being in the present. It kind of makes it hard to dislike him. I mean, really hard. Seriously.
I have to say, though, I've got to point out the slighty jarring continuity error we had with Sawyer and Sayid's appearances in the flashback. Both of them had the wrong (and longer, I think) hairstyles and too much of their island scruff. I guess it was just too hard to trim them down properly, or something.
Look, don't ask me: I know nothing about hair and make-up, let alone for primetime TV shows. I'm just pointing it out, is all.
The group flashback just had me. I mean it was so...."just another group of people, just another flight, just another day". And the interactions between them, like Hurley's thumbs-up to Walt, Locke and Jacks's "polite nod and smile" exchange, and Boone giving Shannon her inhaler. GAWD. Again, I do not cry at TV shows for some reason, but that definitly had me with a lump in my throat.
And, again...Now. We must wait. All summer. To find out. What happens. To them Sawyer.
I.....Oh Gawd, I'm going to die. No, seriously, I will not live through summer, I swear.
TO HELL, JJ ABRAMS!! ALL THE WAY TO HEEEEEELL!!!!