I'm reviewing Lost again!
Because Lost? It kinda kicked ass. (A few people may notice that this is cross-posted from somewheres else.)
That's actually pretty weird to say about an episode that was, for the most part, really depressing. We get the other side of Sun's story, which I'm happy about, because it left a lot of things unanswered, and, well wouldn't you know it, there really are two sides to every story. And I think this side was better.
Gah. Emotions. Sun admits to Jin that she was going to leave him, but she does it in English, which she knows he can't understand. This, directly before asking him when they stopped communicating. That? Is so fucked up. And gah! Daniel Dae Kim! That whole scene just freaking killed me.
After last week's episode, I started developing a theory, and it's all based on how Locke is not at all evil. You know, like everyone seems to think he is. Or, if not evil, at least that he wants to sabotage everyone so that he can stay on the island. Because he loves the island.
Well, first of all, yeah. Yeah he loves the island. I mean, can you blame him? He was bitter and crippled and one plane crash later he's jogging around having a religious experience. I think I'd love that island, too. However ... so? Locke, of course, is all about destiny. He was planning for a walkabout in the Outback. This, to him, was akin to a spiritual quest, which seems to be something he knows about. The more we've learned about him, the more I believe we've seen that he's always been into this spiritual/nature/camping/guns and ammo/knife-wielding/being one with the earth crap. He believes that the plane crashed for a reason (it's fate!!) and that being on the island *is* the "spirit quest" let's say, that he was meant to be on.
But you know what the thing about a spirit quest is? You have to come back from it.
Seriously. The whole point of a spirit quest is you go out into the wilderness, you get imbued with all this poignant and deep stuff, and then you have to go back to your society .
I'm pretty sure Locke knows this. And, no, I don't think there's any reason he wouldn't want to get back to civilization, once he feels his spiritual journey is complete. He quit his job, so he doesn't have to worry about that. He's not paralyzed anymore, so he doesn't have to worry about that. He's a self-describe "realist" and he seems to have some pretty good coping skills, especially as his life has not been all sunshine and flowers, from what we know. Is he a little crazy? Maybe. Or maybe he was just a little crazy from being alone and invalid for the past four years of his life. That can make you cranky!
But anyway, my theory was that Locke is, in fact, trying to speed up the process of getting people off the island. And he's doing it by moving everyone else along on their spiritual journeys. For Boone and Charlie, it was a bit extreme and somewhat sinister. But for Sawyer last week, and Shannon this week, and even Mercutio ... he's getting better and more subtle at it. He can just rattle off the exact nature of people's issues, like he's saying, "Man, will you just actualize already?"
Of course, he kind of threw a wrench in my whole theory with his, "I like it here too" line. ... But that proves nothing! Again! Just because he likes the island doesn't mean he wants everyone else to stay there. Even if in the event it happens that he does want to stay there forever, he clearly has no sinister wishes for everyone else. He seems to have no desire to sabatoge anyone else's plans for getting away. Remember, it's the creepy Satan child that torched the raft.
And here's what I wonder about that. I did not see that coming. That was good. But his explanation? Did not live up to the shock. So I prefer to think that he's lying. Or that his reasoning is more complex than he presented it. And I want to know why he was so excited to help his father build a new raft. So he could torch it again? I'm telling you, that child is of Satan.
"Goddamnit." I hit the floor. I hit the freaking floor. This was the most brilliant ending I have ever seen, and this may in large part be due to the fact that I said "When is that thing going to run out of batteries?" five seconds before it did. I ... I have no words. That was beautiful.
That's actually pretty weird to say about an episode that was, for the most part, really depressing. We get the other side of Sun's story, which I'm happy about, because it left a lot of things unanswered, and, well wouldn't you know it, there really are two sides to every story. And I think this side was better.
Gah. Emotions. Sun admits to Jin that she was going to leave him, but she does it in English, which she knows he can't understand. This, directly before asking him when they stopped communicating. That? Is so fucked up. And gah! Daniel Dae Kim! That whole scene just freaking killed me.
After last week's episode, I started developing a theory, and it's all based on how Locke is not at all evil. You know, like everyone seems to think he is. Or, if not evil, at least that he wants to sabotage everyone so that he can stay on the island. Because he loves the island.
Well, first of all, yeah. Yeah he loves the island. I mean, can you blame him? He was bitter and crippled and one plane crash later he's jogging around having a religious experience. I think I'd love that island, too. However ... so? Locke, of course, is all about destiny. He was planning for a walkabout in the Outback. This, to him, was akin to a spiritual quest, which seems to be something he knows about. The more we've learned about him, the more I believe we've seen that he's always been into this spiritual/nature/camping/guns and ammo/knife-wielding/being one with the earth crap. He believes that the plane crashed for a reason (it's fate!!) and that being on the island *is* the "spirit quest" let's say, that he was meant to be on.
But you know what the thing about a spirit quest is? You have to come back from it.
Seriously. The whole point of a spirit quest is you go out into the wilderness, you get imbued with all this poignant and deep stuff, and then you have to go back to your society .
I'm pretty sure Locke knows this. And, no, I don't think there's any reason he wouldn't want to get back to civilization, once he feels his spiritual journey is complete. He quit his job, so he doesn't have to worry about that. He's not paralyzed anymore, so he doesn't have to worry about that. He's a self-describe "realist" and he seems to have some pretty good coping skills, especially as his life has not been all sunshine and flowers, from what we know. Is he a little crazy? Maybe. Or maybe he was just a little crazy from being alone and invalid for the past four years of his life. That can make you cranky!
But anyway, my theory was that Locke is, in fact, trying to speed up the process of getting people off the island. And he's doing it by moving everyone else along on their spiritual journeys. For Boone and Charlie, it was a bit extreme and somewhat sinister. But for Sawyer last week, and Shannon this week, and even Mercutio ... he's getting better and more subtle at it. He can just rattle off the exact nature of people's issues, like he's saying, "Man, will you just actualize already?"
Of course, he kind of threw a wrench in my whole theory with his, "I like it here too" line. ... But that proves nothing! Again! Just because he likes the island doesn't mean he wants everyone else to stay there. Even if in the event it happens that he does want to stay there forever, he clearly has no sinister wishes for everyone else. He seems to have no desire to sabatoge anyone else's plans for getting away. Remember, it's the creepy Satan child that torched the raft.
And here's what I wonder about that. I did not see that coming. That was good. But his explanation? Did not live up to the shock. So I prefer to think that he's lying. Or that his reasoning is more complex than he presented it. And I want to know why he was so excited to help his father build a new raft. So he could torch it again? I'm telling you, that child is of Satan.
"Goddamnit." I hit the floor. I hit the freaking floor. This was the most brilliant ending I have ever seen, and this may in large part be due to the fact that I said "When is that thing going to run out of batteries?" five seconds before it did. I ... I have no words. That was beautiful.