(started 5/21/10 08:45)
Eko's a big dude. And kind of off-kilter in his reasoning about the button-pushing issue. This is not a good thing. Especially when he has dynamite and REALLY wants to get in the blast doors.
Meanwhile, inside the blast doors Desmond and Locke are playing a "what if" game about whether or not they should be continuing to push the button. Can I just interject here that I find it funny/interesting they have these two dealing with philosophical matters and they are named Locke and Hume? Locke and his personal identity issues with a mind-body connection (the formerly wheelchair bound) and Desmond's Fork of Destiny (are things random or predetermined?) Yeah, I took Philosophy, writing staff.
I can't start thinking about these themes right now or I'll never finish this episode. What does Kelvin being named Kelvin mean? And Danielle's is Rousseau...
***Now I CAN'T concentrate on anything but the names. Dammit.***
Why does the giant foot of the statue Sayid sees from the boat only have four toes? Is this a "Planet of the Apes" thing too? Or something out of The Odyssey?
Locke is in the hatch when the zero-moment comes and the lighting goes bright along with a terrible nose, making all inhabitants cover their ears. The island doesn't explode, but there is a giant fireball. Desmond has made a sacrifice of himself? And Locke admits he made a mistake. He was wrong about the button.
Michael is reunited with Walt, but at what expense to the rest of the Oceanics? And they get to take off in a boat, lah dee dah. Why isn't Walt a little freaked out that J/S/K are tied up on the dock? Has he become inured? And Henry Gale is the leader of the Others, officially.
Hurley gets to return to camp to tell them about the Others capturing them, but Jack, Kate & Sawyer must stay. Captives.
So the button pushing magnetic re-setting has something to do with causing the plane to crash? It was a system failure on Desmond's part.
Meanwhile in a remote frozen land, we see two people at a monitoring station gets beeped. They pick up the phone and call...Penny, Desmond's woman.
I know I'm leaving a lot out, but there's a lot in this episode. Mind blown.
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I like Mr. Eko. :D
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't know if someone mentioned it or you figured it out along the way, but did you pick up that 4+8+15+16+23+42=108, with the button pushing all the wacky numbers stuff? Glad you're doing this. Now you can be tortured like the rest of us. :D
ReplyDeleteCool that you picked up on the Locke/Hume thing. This was an intentional thing on the writers' part, and there are other names to be noticed as well. I'm enjoying reading about your project, hope you can make it through all the way to the end by Sunday!
ReplyDelete@Kim - seeing as how she has minutes instead of week(s) between episodes, I suspect most of those details will be part of her post project discovery.
ReplyDeleteWe'll see. I'm just impressed she's keeping up the pace.
I miss the Hurley Bird.
ReplyDelete@Jamie, i figured as much, which is part of why I posted it. Just trying to help her along.
ReplyDelete@Kim, yeah once she's done it'll be interesting to see if she ever wants to talk about Lost again. ;-)
ReplyDeleteWhen you're finished, you should go to ew.com and read the Doc Jensen articles.
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