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Jan. 19th, 2005 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosFirst off, because God knows I can't go an entire new episode without a new Lost icon ...
Okay, so ... yeah. First off, ABC? *whacks network upside the head with a boat oar* No more repeats, damn it. Just because you gave us back Claire does not mean you get away with dangling her out of reach for another week.
Anyway, in general, it was ... well, not the best episode, but definitely not the worst. *coughcoughWhateverTheCaseMayBecoughcough* I think the only reason it didn't thrill me all that much was that we kind of saw all of this coming. Yes, Walt has powers. Yes, Michael was separated from him by fate. Yes, Brian was kind of a schmuck. There's an even stronger parallel growing between Michael and Claire, what with their child's father or stepfather not being able to handle raising the child they're confronted with. Just from Michael's flashbacks, I can see a Michael/Claire scene coming, although we probably won't get it.
In any event, my thoughts per characters ...
Walt: I can't remember who it was early in the show's run who asked why he had an "old man's name" -- and my immediate thought was, "How do you think old men get old man names?" -- but I was figuring on the family name thing, which is forgivable and sweet.
Of course, the powers thing couldn't have been more obvious, but I think they handled it good enough. The thing that bothers me, aside from the fact that nobody said, "Where the fuck did the polar bear go?" after all the attacking was over with, is that you'd think that after ten years, Walt would realize that he can do this stuff. He behaves like he doesn't even know, which seems weird. You'd think you'd notice stuff happening around you. And why does Walt get these powers? Is there a reason? Is it genetic? Is it just 'cause the superpower fairy sprinkled omniscient dust all over his head as a baby? What?!
And then you go right back to the Walt/Claire's baby parallel, in that both of them have these great destinies that they're supposed to fulfill. (Claire's baby, at least, but I don't think Walt's got those powers so he can use it for bar tricks when he grows up.) It's obviously too much for it to be a coincidence. And if Alex vanished, and Claire's baby has vanished (which was what it looked like) and if Walt vanishes later on ... okay, I'm not worried anymore about what it means for those two. I wonder about what that means Alex might have been able to do.
Michael: Awww. I knew there was a good father in there somewhere. It's just that a plane crash onto a deserted island can't do much for the newfound relationship between a guy and his kid.
I'm glad I took a peek at the friends list before I went home and saw the thing about the car crash, because they're good and all, but they scare the hell out of me and give me nightmares. But I felt so sorry for him the way everything just kept going wrong. First the move to Amsterdam, then the car crash, then the adoption.
The thing that gets me is how he's going to react when it starts to hit him that his kid's not normal. I mean, he knows Walt makes things happen, but I'll bet he really won't have anticipated the extent of it.
Vincent: You know what? So far, we have a baby that's integral to the plot, a kid whose powers are integral to the plot, and a dog that does nothing but run off at inopportune times. If the polar bear wants a midnight snack, he can have Vincent. You know, after he eats Kate and Jack.
Sun: Hi, Sun -- wait, come back! Aw, nuts.
Claire: CLAIRE! You're back! Oh, swell, because now you can exfoliate and condition your hair and shower, except not so much. Also, I think you dropped your baby back there.
So ... hmm. Yeah, she looked oh-so-very not pregnant in that last shot, didn't she? Which means that the baby's off in NeverNeverLand (and if Walt goes missing, too, we should just forget all subtlety and call Alex, Walt, and ClaireBaby the Lost Boys even if we don't know what the baby is and for all we know, Alex might be short for Alexandra) and we won't get to see it forever and a day. And I know there's a whole thing about not tossing babies into TV shows because it ruins the storyline, but dude, bring back the baby! I want to see if it has horns and a tail and his father's eyes! "But Guy's eyes are normal!" *snerk* Sorry, couldn't resist.
Boone: God, you're pretty. You're so pretty, it totally makes up for the fact that you're dumber than the entire blonde hair dye shelf at CVS. Just stand off to the side and make sidelong flirtatious glances at everybody else, and we'll all be happier.
Locke: Boy, he can't decide whether to be batshit insane or calmly sage from week to week, can he? Not that I mind, I just wish each episode came with a blurb beforehand like they do on soap operas when actors take sick days. "Today on Lost, the role of Locke's personality will be played by a piece of tin foil tossed in the microwave and set to "Popcorn"."
Kate: You know, one of these days, somebody's going to be looking for something in a bag, and Kate's going to say, "You know, Sawyer probably has it," and the other person will just snap, "Jesus, can't you just go flirt with him without bringing backup?" Not that I blame her for the flirting, just for the way she always seems to want to go along for visits to Sawyer. Speaking of home ...
Sawyer: Sweetie, you're very sexy, and you've got some wonderfully snarky dialogue, but this is at least the third time I can think of that your sole purpose for being in an episode was to have something you're not supposed to and start a fight over it. I know it's a deserted island, but there's got to be a more interesting hobby on that island than being on a perpetual loop.
Sayid: He's doing it again. Make him stop having sexual chemistry with Claire's diary, damn it.
Charlie: See? He can have all the sexual tension he wants with Claire's diary, because she called him adorable and said he made her feel safe and my God, they're just setting us up for a "You didn't keep me safe" heartbreaking remark, aren't they? *sigh* As for "You hit like a ponce", does anybody else get the impression that the phrase "See, if Charlie says something really British, that makes fangirls squeal" is heard in the writers's offices pretty much every week?
Also, the scene where he was trying not to read Claire's diary? HEE.
Hurley: They're playing for deodorant sticks! It's the 2005 Underarm Classic! A hole-in-one on the ninth hole wins a gigangic Ban roll-on! *dies*
Jack: Meh. Go away now.
Okay, so ... yeah. First off, ABC? *whacks network upside the head with a boat oar* No more repeats, damn it. Just because you gave us back Claire does not mean you get away with dangling her out of reach for another week.
Anyway, in general, it was ... well, not the best episode, but definitely not the worst. *coughcoughWhateverTheCaseMayBecoughcough* I think the only reason it didn't thrill me all that much was that we kind of saw all of this coming. Yes, Walt has powers. Yes, Michael was separated from him by fate. Yes, Brian was kind of a schmuck. There's an even stronger parallel growing between Michael and Claire, what with their child's father or stepfather not being able to handle raising the child they're confronted with. Just from Michael's flashbacks, I can see a Michael/Claire scene coming, although we probably won't get it.
In any event, my thoughts per characters ...
Walt: I can't remember who it was early in the show's run who asked why he had an "old man's name" -- and my immediate thought was, "How do you think old men get old man names?" -- but I was figuring on the family name thing, which is forgivable and sweet.
Of course, the powers thing couldn't have been more obvious, but I think they handled it good enough. The thing that bothers me, aside from the fact that nobody said, "Where the fuck did the polar bear go?" after all the attacking was over with, is that you'd think that after ten years, Walt would realize that he can do this stuff. He behaves like he doesn't even know, which seems weird. You'd think you'd notice stuff happening around you. And why does Walt get these powers? Is there a reason? Is it genetic? Is it just 'cause the superpower fairy sprinkled omniscient dust all over his head as a baby? What?!
And then you go right back to the Walt/Claire's baby parallel, in that both of them have these great destinies that they're supposed to fulfill. (Claire's baby, at least, but I don't think Walt's got those powers so he can use it for bar tricks when he grows up.) It's obviously too much for it to be a coincidence. And if Alex vanished, and Claire's baby has vanished (which was what it looked like) and if Walt vanishes later on ... okay, I'm not worried anymore about what it means for those two. I wonder about what that means Alex might have been able to do.
Michael: Awww. I knew there was a good father in there somewhere. It's just that a plane crash onto a deserted island can't do much for the newfound relationship between a guy and his kid.
I'm glad I took a peek at the friends list before I went home and saw the thing about the car crash, because they're good and all, but they scare the hell out of me and give me nightmares. But I felt so sorry for him the way everything just kept going wrong. First the move to Amsterdam, then the car crash, then the adoption.
The thing that gets me is how he's going to react when it starts to hit him that his kid's not normal. I mean, he knows Walt makes things happen, but I'll bet he really won't have anticipated the extent of it.
Vincent: You know what? So far, we have a baby that's integral to the plot, a kid whose powers are integral to the plot, and a dog that does nothing but run off at inopportune times. If the polar bear wants a midnight snack, he can have Vincent. You know, after he eats Kate and Jack.
Sun: Hi, Sun -- wait, come back! Aw, nuts.
Claire: CLAIRE! You're back! Oh, swell, because now you can exfoliate and condition your hair and shower, except not so much. Also, I think you dropped your baby back there.
So ... hmm. Yeah, she looked oh-so-very not pregnant in that last shot, didn't she? Which means that the baby's off in NeverNeverLand (and if Walt goes missing, too, we should just forget all subtlety and call Alex, Walt, and ClaireBaby the Lost Boys even if we don't know what the baby is and for all we know, Alex might be short for Alexandra) and we won't get to see it forever and a day. And I know there's a whole thing about not tossing babies into TV shows because it ruins the storyline, but dude, bring back the baby! I want to see if it has horns and a tail and his father's eyes! "But Guy's eyes are normal!" *snerk* Sorry, couldn't resist.
Boone: God, you're pretty. You're so pretty, it totally makes up for the fact that you're dumber than the entire blonde hair dye shelf at CVS. Just stand off to the side and make sidelong flirtatious glances at everybody else, and we'll all be happier.
Locke: Boy, he can't decide whether to be batshit insane or calmly sage from week to week, can he? Not that I mind, I just wish each episode came with a blurb beforehand like they do on soap operas when actors take sick days. "Today on Lost, the role of Locke's personality will be played by a piece of tin foil tossed in the microwave and set to "Popcorn"."
Kate: You know, one of these days, somebody's going to be looking for something in a bag, and Kate's going to say, "You know, Sawyer probably has it," and the other person will just snap, "Jesus, can't you just go flirt with him without bringing backup?" Not that I blame her for the flirting, just for the way she always seems to want to go along for visits to Sawyer. Speaking of home ...
Sawyer: Sweetie, you're very sexy, and you've got some wonderfully snarky dialogue, but this is at least the third time I can think of that your sole purpose for being in an episode was to have something you're not supposed to and start a fight over it. I know it's a deserted island, but there's got to be a more interesting hobby on that island than being on a perpetual loop.
Sayid: He's doing it again. Make him stop having sexual chemistry with Claire's diary, damn it.
Charlie: See? He can have all the sexual tension he wants with Claire's diary, because she called him adorable and said he made her feel safe and my God, they're just setting us up for a "You didn't keep me safe" heartbreaking remark, aren't they? *sigh* As for "You hit like a ponce", does anybody else get the impression that the phrase "See, if Charlie says something really British, that makes fangirls squeal" is heard in the writers's offices pretty much every week?
Also, the scene where he was trying not to read Claire's diary? HEE.
Hurley: They're playing for deodorant sticks! It's the 2005 Underarm Classic! A hole-in-one on the ninth hole wins a gigangic Ban roll-on! *dies*
Jack: Meh. Go away now.
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Date: 2005-01-20 05:45 am (UTC)*dies with you*
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Date: 2005-01-20 05:46 am (UTC)*RAISES HER HAND*
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Date: 2005-01-20 05:57 am (UTC)My God, I lent my tapes of Lost to my sister and I forget all the details...
Thanks, btw. heh.
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Date: 2005-01-20 08:37 am (UTC)Well, obviously Sayid, and I don't know after that. Suppose I could look it up somewhere. I'm kind of pushing for "House of the Rising Sun", though, because I missed that one.
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Date: 2005-01-20 08:40 am (UTC)And I do love this icon ;).
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Date: 2005-01-20 07:36 am (UTC)My poor mother was confused. :D
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Date: 2005-01-20 03:11 pm (UTC)Now to see if Vincent comes home with injuries from Michael and Walt stabbing him!
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Date: 2005-01-20 01:24 pm (UTC)I had solid, if imaginary, money placed on Michael having somehow kidnapped Walt.
You also gotta cut him some slack for not having to do the father thing for the last 9 years, and is pretty clueless on who Walt is. I'd be a bit overprotective of someone (Locke) interfering with my kid after JUST getting him back as well.
And I loved the scene with Charlie and the diary.
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Date: 2005-01-20 03:24 pm (UTC)And damn, but Michael gets bonus points for A) lying to Walt about why he was taking him when he could have really scotched the whole, "You're not my dad, Brian is!" thing (but also broken Walt's heart), and B) not trying to justify himself to Walt with the truth about Walt being taken away from him and Walt's mother blocking all contact and making Brian adopt him. (I was about to give him credit for not being overly quick to hand over the box of cards Walt's mom hadn't been letting him see, but then remembered Michael only got his bag and the box back an episode or two back. Then again, he didn't hand it over to Walt as soon as he got it in Sydney, either, so he still gets credit for not trying to trash Walt's mom to him and for trying to soft-sell the way she'd been keeping them from Walt when he did give Walt the box.) Michael has the stepparent problem, where the kid isn't willing to accept some new person as a replacement parent, and the usual advice given to stepparents is to start out by letting the "real" parent handle the discipline and just concentrate on forming a bond with the kid, but that's not an option for Michael right now. Between the fight with the polar bear, the well-timed box of cards, and the possibility that Michael won't be so severely anti-Locke in the future, things may be improving soon.
But Locke is just racking up the converts, isn't he? Boone's leap onto Michael was just a total adoring follower moment, Charlie's going to think Locke is all-knowing and all-powerful when Claire comes back to the group with Locke and his sidekick (never mind that they didn't find her deliberately so much as run into her), and possibly Michael's going to be more in his camp in the future.
The Charlie/Claire reunion should be fun. Remember, she may have seen Ethan string him up and didn't see Jack revive him, so finding he's still alive may be a welcome shock. I suspect the "didn't keep her safe" bit will be Charlie having a guilt attack on her behalf, rather than her making an accusation.
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Date: 2005-01-20 06:55 pm (UTC)With you on the Sawyer comment. Seriously, give the man something to do. JH has the chops for it and it's about damned time.
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Date: 2005-01-20 07:31 pm (UTC)Mainly because (as I had said last week) I had bet Michael was going to get offed. I don't know why my brother was so worried, because I've predicted Charlie's and Shannon's deaths(and damn them both, they came close enough!), and I was 0 for 2 with them. Now I'm 0 for 3.
You know, eventually they're going to kill SOMEONE off!
-Callisto
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Date: 2005-01-21 06:03 pm (UTC)What if the island, and the big Black Rock that could possibly be a magnet, is collecting these 'special' kids to do something specific?
The connection to the polar bears and the dog is good, I'm wondering WTF Locke thinks he's doing wandering around in the bush with a dog whistle that would work just as well on bears.
that his kid's not normal. I think he already knows exactly what they mean. The way he reacted was recognition not confusion.
I've seen a slightly spoilery photo but it did look like she was still pregnant.
Could I steal the text from that icon? Please?
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Date: 2005-01-22 03:06 am (UTC)I know. I swear, I found the mildly sarcastic and disbelieving way he said "Raft?" sexy. I'm not sure there's anything left on the island he hasn't had chemistry with yet. Except possibly Kate, and even she can't hold out much longer.