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Would you look at that? I'm finally posting about Lost! (The post brought to you by the fact that I should be sewing buttonholes at the moment, but -- have you ever tried sewing buttonholes by hand? Fact: IT IS A PAAAAIN IN THE ASS; in this case, a pain in the ass x8.) Also, I just listened to/watched the new podcasts (NEW PODCASTS NEW PODCASTS NEW
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Yes, it really was.
I was kind of absurdly gleeful about Boone and Locke.
The 'well, serves you right' bit of my brain balanced out the bit that felt sorry for the entire meaning of Ben's life being bullshit so I'm afraid I was mostly amused by his continual 'wtf' expression. Mainly because EVERYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WAS FEELING LIKE THAT. It's silly that I don't hate Ben and yet want to punch Flocke every time he's on screen, because *Ben* was the murderer, but being the manipulator seems so much crueller.
Christian has always made massive massive alarm bells go off in my head, just like Flocke does now...I always assumed he was a baddie somehow stopping Jacob communicating. But yeah, how was he in the cabin if the baddie is the Something Nasty.
I really love Jack too. It's ok. :-P
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Yes, exactly -- and then thinking in retrospect how far back that manipulation goes for Locke on the island, too; every time he had a vision or a revelation or an experience that made him feel "special" or "chosen"? Was that all orchestrated? (I went back and forth a lot on how I felt about this with episodes like "Cabin Fever," where it seems like everything in his life is decided for him -- but then I loved a lot of the stuff in S5 with John seemingly initiating action himself when he first encounters Richard in 1956. But then that compass--! If Not!Locke was the one who gave it to Richard in 2007 who then gave it to TimeTravelingLocke along with the "you have to die" message which then prompted pretty much the rest of his leadership journey... how much agency did Locke ever have? NONE? AUUUGHHHH BASTARDS. I think in a weird way, though, this is why I kind of ( ... )
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x2. Or 3, because the person above agrees, too. It just didn't fit in, somehow, and seemed very forced and yawnorific. (that is, in fact, a word-- look it up. I dare you.)
-Other plane OTPs: Boone/Locke, AKA Bocke: Original Flavor. Remember those days? Those were good days.
x3 again! The two of them have such randomly good chemistry.
-Like EVERYONE who died from 815, geez -- Frogurt, Arzt, Charlie, Shannon, Boone, Nikki, Paulo, Scott, Steve, Locke, Eko, Libby, Ana Lucia, Greg Grunberg, Eddie Mars, the list goes on...
OMG if all those people are alive I will NOT be able to pull myself away from the computer screen. Shannon??? Boone??? Libby??? Ana Lucia???!!! (surely they won't bother to bring back Nikki and Paulo, though, right?)
OTOH, if Penny isn't alive, then... frak it. I will boycott the show forever.
Still don't care about Charlie. Whoops. Whatever.
OMG I'M NOT ALONE. THANK GOD.
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It seemed even more out of place because we should have been sympathizing with him -- his grand lady love has just died in a horrific manner, and I'm sure there are more than a few Juliet fans in the audience (RIGHT HERE) and instead I was like... dude. Chill.
Gosh, so many of my favorite S1 moments were Boone/Locke ones. I think part of it is just because I miss that Locke -- cooky and confident and capable -- and all of the randomly, weirdly awesome stuff he would say (the whole "sto lavorando" anecdote, calling Kirk a "piss-poor captain," etc. etc.). And "Hearts and Minds"? BRILLIANCE. (Okay okay, so that's a Boone/Shannon ep, but there's plenty of Boone/Locke, too. "I felt... relieved," still gives me goose-bumps every time I watch it ( ... )
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- Is the timeline supposed to have changed that much? I mean, Shannon wasn't on the plane, right? And Desmond was on the plane? (Wtf, why would Desmond be on the plane?) Was she referred to as Ms Paik instead of Mrs Kwon? I didn't even catch that... I thought she didn't respond in English for fear of the sort of fight we saw way back when on the island... And and and in what way would the island's destruction cause these changes (what impact did it originally have on their marriage, and Shannon's bad relationship, etc.)? I can't remember!
- I thought Juliet's (apparently not-)death in the finale was really effective. They diminished it in the season's beginning a bit, ya know, starting off by killing her again... Took all of the excitement and OH MY GOD NO! away ( ... )
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I'm one of those "CHANGE ONE THING, CHANGE EVERYYYYYTHING!!" people, but then again you have to assume that a lot of things are still the same in order for these same people to be born/still alive/on the plane/etc., so I don't really know how much we can expect to be different in these characters' stories vs. how we saw them in the pilot. I feel like it might be more complex than it appears now -- sort of, oh, you think you know who these characters are and what you're watching, but then more changes become apparent later in the season. (So with Sun/Jin -- it could be intended to make us think that they're kind of cold/distant just because that's how their marriage stood in the pilot, but maybe here it's a totally different situation? And then apparently Hurley and Kate have different backstories based on the Comic-Con videos -- so even if their character archetypes of lotto winner, fugitive, whatever are still the same, there are different circumstances guiding them to that point ( ... )
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