S3 Ep5 "The Cost of Living"

(started 5/21/10 13:00)

Eko isn't doing so well. He's recovering from the blast, from the polar bear penitentiary and from being dragged back to camp by Charlie and Locke. He's having dreams, visions and memories of his childhood in Africa and of his brother Yemi the priest.

Locke mounts an expedition to go to Station 5/Pearl bunker where they can use the computers to communicate with the Others. Here come Nikki & Paolo - yay! Maybe we'll get to know them?

They finally arrive after Paolo proves himself to be an idiot who should have stayed faceless in the background. Sayid works out a feed to one of the monitors, and we are able to see a screen full of of the electronic equipment and some eyepatch-wearing dude. Who turned the camera off. I think he knows you're there.

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PCL Eko in the aftermath of the shootout at the airstrip when he last saw his brother. He takes over Yemi's church. Militia come to try and strongarm him on vaccine supplies and Father Eko kills them. Don't anybody try to strongarm this guy, ok? Have you seen the size of him? He also has a big old machete in his paw.

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So Eko was building the church on the island as penance for losing the church his brother built? Even so, he stopped building the church some time ago.

He's ready to go, but asks for no forgivenness. He won't apologize to the visions of Yemi for his past actions. Eko says did what he did to survive. It's hard out here for a pimp, dig?

But that isn't Yemi, dawg. WTF???

The smoke monster makes itself into a HUGE fist surrounding Eko, and he looks a little like King Kong holding Fay Wray. He gets thrashed around and thrown to the ground. Hulk smash! But Eko calls out to Locke "you're next"(collectively) before he passes away.


Seriously, a smoke fist??? WTF

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Musing -

So... I had thought the dynamic between Eko and Locke regarding the number sequencing issue was an argument of faith over science. Eko had been able to stare down the smoke wisp when it visited him before because he had great faith, I thought (that, and he's bad-ass.)

Still forming a theory about this, just wanted to get this down to reflect on later.