If you haven't seen last night's episode, it's probably good if you don't read this.
My review is incomplete, thanks to the DVR that screwed up my recording of Lost. Basically, it didn't record the first hour, and seconded the second hour instead. I didn't think anything was awry until I was in the shower this morning. It's like, wait, we didn't see the three guys get captured at all, one-eyed unkillable psycho sort of appears out of nowhere, and Desmond appeared out of nowhere. Hmmm. So I can't watch the first hour till my wife gets home tonight. I love the internet for this.
Anyway, I did catch the crucial second hour, which finds Desmond's prophecy of Charlie's death fulfilled. Fanboys online kept saying why didn't he just shut the door from the other side and save them both, etc. Fact of the matter is, until he dies, Claire won't be saved. And also, I think it would peeve a lot of people if Charlie cheated death until. After all, he's been cheating death all this time, and to deny a tease for an extended period of time would simply be cheating. The producers did a damn good job gaining the faith back from its viewers, and it would be a shame to lose that just to save Charlie from something they've foretold all season.
Of course, the biggest twist of it all is that the "flashback" sequences that are a trademark of the show was revealed at the end to be a "flashforward" after all. Meaning that we know at the very else, Kate and Jack will get off the island. More than that though, it gives the show a whole new life - that the island is real, the castaways are real, and my theory of it being a mind experiment or something, or the popular purgatory theory, are shot down. That revelation just brings the series back down to earth - that despite the supernatural things going on on the island and the unexplained phenonema, it's all pretty much a real thing. And that's a big deal.
Of course, there's that question of who's in the coffin, who Kate is really with, and what the lies are about. It's all very fascinating to me especially because Jack is a total mess, which is something that can be very real. The story of Baby Jessica stuck in the well was interesting because one of the rescuers was thrust into the limelight out of obsurity, made into a hero, but when the media subsided, he got depressed and eventually committed suicide. And the notion that Jack was his best when he was on the island, but on the mainland, he's just another man. No longer a leader, and no longer a higher purpose of survival. Jack's dark turn is certainly something that'll make the drama so good.
Locke though, turned totally nutso, which was a bit weird. Killing an unarmed, albeit stranger carrying a satellite phone seemed a bit extreme for the guy, but I guess he's just pissed as hell for being shot and left in a ditch. He's also taken a dark turn, slowly emerging as the new possible villian in the whole saga.
But man, the moment in the "flashback" when Jack is waiting for the other car, I thought it was going to be Penny, since Des and Penny had previously met in a similar fashion, plus Penny never revealed who she was with (but I was misremembering - it was Jack's wife who had another man, not Penny). But Kate walked out, and my mind was just going, "UH!?" It took me seconds to piece it together, (I had read in an interview that "flashbacks" might change into another direction, but I thought it was more a next season thing) but it was a great moment in TV history. It's one of those TV moments when your perception and reality of a show is turned upside down, and you don't feel cheated. It just gets you more hyped up.
And no, I won't have to reedit anything from last night's finale to make it any better.
2 comments:
That sucks that you missed the first half. it won't be the same watching it now knowing what happens and that the flashbacks are in fact flash forwards, but maybe you will catch some stuff that I didn't. I have the whole season on divx, that I am going to burn to a dvd and probably start rewatching soon to see if I can catch anything.
As for the flashforwards, I am not sure that they were. In one of them, when the dr. confronts Jack about being drunk, Jack says go upstairs and get my dad and if I am as drunk as him you can fire me. But his dad died before he ever left. So I am thinking that it is just sort of his imagination, and it is going to lead him to hanging up the satellite phone.
They can't get rescued now. It is just too early in the series. There are 3 more seasons to go, and they can't leave the island now. Then nobody would watch. I think that they are going to team up with Ben's people when they find out who the people on the ship really are, or at least find out that they are not who they hope they are and maybe they are even what Ben says they are.
Or maybe it is a vision that Jacob sent to him or something. it can't be the real future, just a glimpse of what the future might hold if the person on the other end of the phone is not who he hopes that it is.
I don't know what the hell it is. But I can't wait to find out
Yeah, I imagine it spoils the surprise a little, but I'll still watch to see what's up.
The thing about Jack's Dad, there was some speculation about how he could still be alive (though Dad was on a slab, dead as a doornail.) The easy answer is that when he was trying to get the perscription filled under his Dad's slip, he said, "Forget it" and left, since his father was indeed dead. As for the part whereby he said to call his father down, David Leisure, who wandered in from the Monticello (Las Vegas), never really answered that. And also Jack was high and drunk when he said that, so... Just things to throw us off.
As for them getting rescued, no, of course they're not getting off the island anytime soon. There may be new villians unspoken of, the ship offshore, but I don't really think so. The producers have been very economical about their new characters (Naomi, the two women in the underwater station were killed as soon as they were introduced), I doubt they'll throw in a new group of enemies. If anything, it would be a civil war between Locke and the Others against Jack and the castaways.
I think Penny will probably be the one leading the charge toward rescuing them.
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