ghost mountin' (evidence)
All in all, a satisfying episode of Lost. There was, of course, one major piece of fanservice for both the misogynist and seething proletarian demographics.
But more importantly, there was undeniable haunting! That's right, g-g-g-ghost Walt could be seen by Sayid, confirming that Shannon isn't crazy, just kind of a bitch. I can't remember the last time pop culture has had a solid, unambiguous ghost. A reliable ghost. The kind of ghost they had in the fifties. An American ghost, goddammit. Perhaps ivory tower liberal academia's tyrannical influence on our supernatural entertainments is finally coming to an end. Screw ghost relativism, I say.
Sure, it's fine for the lone hauntee to descend into paranoia as a menace unseen by everyone else draws closer and closer — but only as an excuse for making everyone's eventual deaths that much more grisly. If folks realize they're under otherworldly assault, they won't just naturally wander under that ill-conceived chandelier, after all. Allowances for that sort of thing can be made.
What's not okay is using spectral subjectivity as an excuse for "was it all a dream?"-isms. Nuts to that. Up yours, Henry James! Ghost Walt is now clearly the objective advance guard for something heavy-duty-spooky, and I'm pretty happy about it.
titles are hard, okay?
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Due to the backwards speech, my friends and I like to call him Black Lodge Walt. Wow, Bob, Wow!
that title is dirty
That's why I just don't bother making them make sense.
It occurred to me this week that I used to put a lot of effort into titles. I think this is largely Kriston's fault, since I probably took a lot of cues from him as I got used to the medium, and he tends to write irritatingly clever titles. But after a while I just couldn't be bothered. Maybe I just used up all of my original ideas.
And Jeff, it's not meant to be dirty. It's just a trainwreck of a reference to a Unicorns song.
This was my first Lost episode and, while it wasn't bad, I have to admit to thorough, total confusion. Keeping all these folks straight seems like a helluva task. I did, however, like Ghost Walt's first appearance, complete with dripping goo.
I can understand the confusion -- they just introduced a whole bunch of new characters. Fortunately, they seem to be killing people off at a good clip as well. We should reach character equilibrium again shortly.
You should really rent the first season DVDs. The slow build-up was really the best part of this series -- now it's chugging along, and it's satisfying, but not in the same way. The way the various revelations unfolded was really what made the series a hit.
Also: not goo -- seawater. The last time Walt was seen by the folks he's haunting, he was headed out to sea on a raft (from which he was then kidnapped by the others). Makes it extra creepy, eh?
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