impressions
well. huh. i dunno. i am having, how do you say, mixed feelings? i no longer want to kill jj abrams (though smashing his glasses is still an option), but i do not want to make sweet sweet love to his tv skills either. behind the cut...
let's start off with the bad:
-locke. what happened to him? he used to be so utterly bad ass. now all he does is talk about faith and destiny and how he is at one at the island and they are going to get married and have new age babies. i don't know how you turn one of the awesomest characters into the one who causes the most eye-rolling, but congrats, jj, you did it!
-too much of kate, jack, and locke. i understand they are central to the island and to the plot, but unfortunately, they are boring.
-not enough shirtless sawyer. don't you agree? i mean, c'mon, not even a glimpse of the fate of the rafters? they are three of the most intriguing, not to mention best-looking, people on the island.
-jack's hair in the flashback. you would think abc would have enough money to buy a decent hairpiece, but apparently not, and they were forced to go to crazy larry's wig shop. not a good look.
the good:
-the opening scene was beautifully shot.
-hurley. the fat man is always there with the funny.
-maggie seeing walt. very creepy, one of the more obvious manifestations of what will apparently be an obvious theme this season: who's crazy? who's not? who's seeing stuff? is it a hallucination or real? WHAT IS REALITY, DUDE? this'll harken back to when jack saw his (previously dead) dad last season.
-the scene when locke is lowering kate into the hatch. very scary indeed.
-i thought the scene between jack and sarah, his soon-to-be-wife and miraculously cured paralyzed broken back lady, was pretty touching.
-the fact that, surprisingly, NOTHING WAS REALLY ANSWERED. i mean, yeah, mirror and dude. that's what's in the hatch. but it only causes mysteries upon mysteries...as i predicted.
the what the fuck?
-desmond. eh? what do we make of this? and why the hell does he have a sweet-ass apartment down there? and what 60s song is that, cause it's kind of catchy?
-what's being quarantined? could it be...total effing insanity?
-the mirror. does this play into the reality/nonreality crazy/sane aspect? is it referencing alice through the looking glass at all? a parallel universe?
-WHERE IS THE DINOSAUR POLAR BEAR SMOKE MONSTER?!?!
Comments
-the fact that, surprisingly, NOTHING WAS REALLY ANSWERED. i mean, yeah, mirror and dude. that's what's in the hatch. but it only causes mysteries upon mysteries...
Um, YEAH. We're getting zero answers, ever, beceause they have no idea how to solve any of the problems they made up on a whim. Cripes. God, I hate Lost!!!!
Oh, I donno. I think they wouldn't have put QUARANTINE on the door if they didn't know what was being quarantined. When we learn that, I suspect it'll provide some answers.
Also worth pointing out: tonight's title, "Man Of Science, Man Of Faith"
(the former presumably being Jack, and the latter being either Locke or Desmond)
"Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Mama Cass of The Mamas & The Papas
the hair was actually the scariest part of the night. The Nabob kept yelling "THE HAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at the most tense parts.
that was the worst wig i've ever seen!
someone who watches much more closely than i said that the vials in desmond's underground lair had the lottery numbers on them. also, the patient in the er who died in the car crash was "mr. rutherford," as in shannon rutherford. cue the eerie music.
Only the third or fourth Lost episode I've ever seen, but that was good stuff.
I too was wondering what the eff was going on with that hairpiece. No bueno.
I didn't know that was his future wife. I guess I better go get Season 1 on DVD.
I'm sure someone has said this before, but shouldn't the characters Locke and Rousseau be like, fundamentally disagreeing with each other all the time about the nature of man and government and moral truth and all that? At least, I have a freshman philosophy paper somewhere that says they should.
Was there ever a Hobbes on "Lost"?
I wholeheartedly disagree with your assessment of Locke. He's just as badass as he used to be - perhaps moreso because he's being consumed by what he sees as some holy mission or test that the island's putting him through. He used to talk about keeping the islanders alive and fed and whatnot, but now he has a different, far creepier agenda. And that steely glare he kept shooting a Jack? C'mon!
And let's be reasonable, guys... is anyone really upset that there wasn't full disclosure of the island's mysteries on the first episode of the season? It's as if ABC wants us to watch again next week or something.
Sommer: I know! You can't throw around names like that, Lost writers!
Here's something I picked up from a friend: The numbers are the jerseys retired, in order, by the New York Yankees. That guy in the whole is almost certainly not Desmond but Roger Maris.
Or hole, even.
jeff, i'm not surprised they didn't give us a concrete answer, but i continue to worry about the writers and their plans...if every "answer" to a mystery is just another mystery, FOREVER, that will blow. i don't think the secret of the island will be revealed anytime soon, maybe ever, but they have GOT to give us something that makes sense.
Hey Catholics! Did any of you noticed that Jack worked in the Saint Sebastian Hospital.
Yeah. I bet hanging out in that hospital's atrium was REAL FUN for the kids.
Two comments:
1) Quarantine-- ok, fine... but why paint it on the inside of the lid. The guy didn’t know?
2) The mirror thing- hey, anyone who has played Myst and the follow-on games, was feeling a bit of déjà vu.
"what's being quarantined?" - Just a guess, but it's Desmond as he was injecting himself with something.
Yea, having Quarantine on the inside of the hatch seems more than a little goofy. Perhaps they thought Desmond would forget why he was there after 20 or 30 years and try to find a record store to update his vinyls. Might be tough since there was no ladder.
Quarantine on the inside would indicate it's the outside that's being quarantined. Get it?
Makes sense, but if you are sealed underground, you should know the reason why.
If you are correct, the set up underground implies some sort of experiment is being carried out on the island. The injections may be needed to protect the observer(s)in their underground lair. The disarray in the facility entrance (large moldy containers) implies there may have been more people there at one time.
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