Lost 6x15
I haven't updated in ages. I suck. so. bad.
I never know how to break the ice when I post a new entry after a long time, so... I won't try to do that, and simply slip into Lost talk before I give up on updating again.
But before that: a big, warm welcome to all the new people on my flist *hugs*, and a big thank you to taperjeangirl for the virtual gift! So cute! Sorry for not saying anything before but being my usual head-in-the-clouds self I didn't notice the addition to my profile at first. Thanks a lot for the nice thought!
Okay, here we go:
(Warning: if you think Lost can do no wrong, and hate to see people be pretty critical towards the show, my messy comment/review is probably not what you want to read. Don't throw stones at me afterwards. :D )
Did we really need this episode? No, we didn't, IMO. I didn't think I could feel more down about Across The Sea after I finished watching it, but then I checked the credits and saw it was written by Lindelof and Cuse themselves. Oy.
The fact that they left this chapter of the story for so late in the game makes it disappointing. I would've accepted it in late S5 or beginning of S6 - but they devoted the second to last episode of the show ever to this. They stopped the monumentum leading to the finale, and focussed a whole episode on two/three characters who are almost strangers to us.
I'm not a fanboy. I didn't have crazy expectations about this episode, I don't worship Jacob and MIB and don't think Darlton have to explain every single thing they put the seed of in the show. I'm willing to stay onboard for whatever direction they choose to follow as long as I get my dose of character-driven story, to be honest.
So, I'm not one of those people who have been begging to know everything and get specific explanations to every single mystery or storyline left unresolved. I don't even have theories of my own, because I just decided to "enjoy the ride" on that front since Season 2/3.
But if you writers choose to make a whole episode about said answers and explanations? Well then I expect them to be good, or at least clear. Enough to justify getting one of the last hours of the series.
We have a cave full of light. The light is "everything" - life, death, rebirth... It's the heart of the island. The elecromagnetic energy? I guess so. And it has to be protected because a bit of that light is in every man (power?), but men always want more than what they have/can have. So there is the need of a protector. And the role is passed from person to person, until they can't carry the weight of the task anymore and a new successor raises. Who was the first protector? Who appointed them? Who knows.
What do you need to be the candidate? Apparently a good heart, and the willingness to swallow whatever crap your mom tells you.
Because like adult MIB said - Mother never explained anything, she only asked to do what she said was the good thing to do, and said that people are bad. Why? They just are, I suppose.
MIB (who, poor guy, doesn't get a name - and while I don't see the big deal of not knowing his name, I don't see a reason why he didn't get it, either) is "special". He can talk to dead people. He knows what things are even if nobody told him anything. Also he is sexy and has beautiful eyes and built a frozen donkey well to manipulate time and travel off the island using the instructions of an alarm clock. Written in Sweden.
But he is evil. Why? We don't know that, either. Mother says he can lie (while she and Jacob don't), also he demands answers and explanations and wants to explore the world - see what's "across the sea", go back to where he came from, the land of his real mother.
Arrogance? Curiosity? What does make MIB bad? You are too greedy, you disrespect your Maker and what They gave you, and set yourself up for pain and disappointment - and evil?
And in the end it's MIB the one who distrusts humanity, while Jacob thinks there is good in people... even if it was MIB who wanted to go live with his own people, and Jacob stayed away because Mother told him they were bad... what's the message there?
Jacob is like God - he sees the good in mankind but also knows how corrupted by sins we can become, while MIB in his search for extreme freedom and enlightenement made the same mikstake of Satan (who, originally, was God's most beloved and beatiful angel)?
I am utterly clueless, so sorry for resorting to religious parallels but that's all I have right now. Maybe I'll get a new perspective after a rewatch.
The Adam and Eve reveal? Lame, there is no other way to put it. I'm not bothered by the content of the revelation, but by the fact that the writers want me to believe they planned this all from the beginning just because of the black & white theme and the skeletons in the caves. Sorry but that doesn't prove anything.
And to end my unpopolar opinion review with an even more unpopular opinion: I don't like Jacob. Mark Pellegrino's lack of charisma doesn't help.
But episode 15 told us once and for all who the new protector of the island will be. Let's recap how Jacob was presented: whiny, second best complex, trying to live up to his parents' expectations, he didn't want the "job".
Yep, the new protector will have tattoos. And considering how the new protector of the island has stayed in charge until someone got epically pissed and stabbed them in the chest? Well, then, watch your back, Jack.
I just don't get this: why should there be a new protector if we were told last season that "it only ends once"..? Aren't the Losties those who will finish this "war" once and for all?
I wish everything they told us in Across The Sea had been explained in another episode, maybe one half devoted to the island's backstory, and half featuring our characters, the ones we're following the journey of (and sorry, but I don't consider Mother, Jacob and MIB *my* characters). We could have gone through MIB's past via flashback from Flocke's point of view, that way the main cast (Hurley & co.) could appear in the present timeline.
What pissed me off in all of this? The "every question will lead to another one, just rest and be grateful to be alive". Ohhh, Darlton, what a sweet, patronizing meta message to your audience.
I never know how to break the ice when I post a new entry after a long time, so... I won't try to do that, and simply slip into Lost talk before I give up on updating again.
But before that: a big, warm welcome to all the new people on my flist *hugs*, and a big thank you to taperjeangirl for the virtual gift! So cute! Sorry for not saying anything before but being my usual head-in-the-clouds self I didn't notice the addition to my profile at first. Thanks a lot for the nice thought!
Okay, here we go:
(Warning: if you think Lost can do no wrong, and hate to see people be pretty critical towards the show, my messy comment/review is probably not what you want to read. Don't throw stones at me afterwards. :D )
Did we really need this episode? No, we didn't, IMO. I didn't think I could feel more down about Across The Sea after I finished watching it, but then I checked the credits and saw it was written by Lindelof and Cuse themselves. Oy.
The fact that they left this chapter of the story for so late in the game makes it disappointing. I would've accepted it in late S5 or beginning of S6 - but they devoted the second to last episode of the show ever to this. They stopped the monumentum leading to the finale, and focussed a whole episode on two/three characters who are almost strangers to us.
I'm not a fanboy. I didn't have crazy expectations about this episode, I don't worship Jacob and MIB and don't think Darlton have to explain every single thing they put the seed of in the show. I'm willing to stay onboard for whatever direction they choose to follow as long as I get my dose of character-driven story, to be honest.
So, I'm not one of those people who have been begging to know everything and get specific explanations to every single mystery or storyline left unresolved. I don't even have theories of my own, because I just decided to "enjoy the ride" on that front since Season 2/3.
But if you writers choose to make a whole episode about said answers and explanations? Well then I expect them to be good, or at least clear. Enough to justify getting one of the last hours of the series.
We have a cave full of light. The light is "everything" - life, death, rebirth... It's the heart of the island. The elecromagnetic energy? I guess so. And it has to be protected because a bit of that light is in every man (power?), but men always want more than what they have/can have. So there is the need of a protector. And the role is passed from person to person, until they can't carry the weight of the task anymore and a new successor raises. Who was the first protector? Who appointed them? Who knows.
What do you need to be the candidate? Apparently a good heart, and the willingness to swallow whatever crap your mom tells you.
Because like adult MIB said - Mother never explained anything, she only asked to do what she said was the good thing to do, and said that people are bad. Why? They just are, I suppose.
MIB (who, poor guy, doesn't get a name - and while I don't see the big deal of not knowing his name, I don't see a reason why he didn't get it, either) is "special". He can talk to dead people. He knows what things are even if nobody told him anything. Also he is sexy and has beautiful eyes and built a frozen donkey well to manipulate time and travel off the island using the instructions of an alarm clock. Written in Sweden.
But he is evil. Why? We don't know that, either. Mother says he can lie (while she and Jacob don't), also he demands answers and explanations and wants to explore the world - see what's "across the sea", go back to where he came from, the land of his real mother.
Arrogance? Curiosity? What does make MIB bad? You are too greedy, you disrespect your Maker and what They gave you, and set yourself up for pain and disappointment - and evil?
And in the end it's MIB the one who distrusts humanity, while Jacob thinks there is good in people... even if it was MIB who wanted to go live with his own people, and Jacob stayed away because Mother told him they were bad... what's the message there?
Jacob is like God - he sees the good in mankind but also knows how corrupted by sins we can become, while MIB in his search for extreme freedom and enlightenement made the same mikstake of Satan (who, originally, was God's most beloved and beatiful angel)?
I am utterly clueless, so sorry for resorting to religious parallels but that's all I have right now. Maybe I'll get a new perspective after a rewatch.
The Adam and Eve reveal? Lame, there is no other way to put it. I'm not bothered by the content of the revelation, but by the fact that the writers want me to believe they planned this all from the beginning just because of the black & white theme and the skeletons in the caves. Sorry but that doesn't prove anything.
And to end my unpopolar opinion review with an even more unpopular opinion: I don't like Jacob. Mark Pellegrino's lack of charisma doesn't help.
But episode 15 told us once and for all who the new protector of the island will be. Let's recap how Jacob was presented: whiny, second best complex, trying to live up to his parents' expectations, he didn't want the "job".
Yep, the new protector will have tattoos. And considering how the new protector of the island has stayed in charge until someone got epically pissed and stabbed them in the chest? Well, then, watch your back, Jack.
I just don't get this: why should there be a new protector if we were told last season that "it only ends once"..? Aren't the Losties those who will finish this "war" once and for all?
I wish everything they told us in Across The Sea had been explained in another episode, maybe one half devoted to the island's backstory, and half featuring our characters, the ones we're following the journey of (and sorry, but I don't consider Mother, Jacob and MIB *my* characters). We could have gone through MIB's past via flashback from Flocke's point of view, that way the main cast (Hurley & co.) could appear in the present timeline.
What pissed me off in all of this? The "every question will lead to another one, just rest and be grateful to be alive". Ohhh, Darlton, what a sweet, patronizing meta message to your audience.