THE BAD TWIN
We are treated to a knitting wheel, a fire pit, and Rumpelstiltskin making a tapestry to begin the season finale. A man in a white shirt goes out into the ocean and retrieves some fishing gear. He cooks a red herring (that made me laugh when I saw it) and we see the Black Rock, or at least a ship that looks like the Black Rock sailing near the island. A man in a black shirt walks up and the two men seem familiar with each other. This looks (their shirt patterns look ancient) and feels like an old scene; something that did in fact happen hundreds of years ago in the island mythology. Jacob offers the man some fish and he says “No thanks I just ate.” which made me wonder what (or who) did he just eat. The man in black asks how the ship found the island. The man in the white shirt... oh for god sake, Jacob, okay, it’s Jacob if you read my blog at all you would have known right away from the picture I posted on here, oh I don’t know, about a month or so ago, that this guy is indeed the infamous Jacob! So, where was I? Oh right, Jacob tells the other guy that he will have to ask them how they got to the island when they get there. The other guy says that Jacob brought them. The MIB continues by telling Jacob that he is still trying to prove him wrong. Jacob says that he is wrong. The MIB says "they arrive, they fight, they destroy, and then they corrupt, and it always ends the same". Jacob says "it only ends once and anything that happens before that is progress". MIB declares that he really wants to kill Jacob and will find a loophole someday. Jacob tells the MIB that when he does find a loophole, he will be right there waiting for him. “Always nice talking to you Jacob.” the MIB says as he walks away. Jacob responds with; “Nice talking to you too.” but doesn‘t throw us a bone and say the MIB‘s name. As the MIB walks away the camera pulls back to reveal even more of the statue. It has been officially stated by ABC that the statue is indeed Taweret which was predicted by me right here on this blog way back in early March. Don’t take my word for it go, check out the post for yourself - just click here: http://cheekie-sweetcheeks.blogspot.com/2009/03/whooooooo-are-you-who-who-who-who.html
SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE
On the sub, Kate explains to Juliette and Sawyer what Jack is planning to do with the bomb. The sedative is being passed around on the sub so it would seem that the Others got the idea from the DI. The Captain of the Galaga comments that after they all take their sedative that he will "see them on the other side". Whatever that means. Sawyer tells Kate that they were happy on the island until they came back. He tells her that he is done with the island and he is going to take his chances in the real world.
LEARN TO LOVE THE BOMB
Deep inside the tunnels, Sayid tells Jack how to get the core of the bomb out of Jughead and how to detonate it. Richard mentions that Eloise is pregnant. How does Sayid know so much about Faraday’s time table? Was all of it written in the notebook?
THE UGLY DUCKLING STATION
Radzinski shows up at the Swan construction site and wants to know why they have stopped drilling. Chang explains that the drill got close to the pocket of energy and the temperature raised 60 degrees, and he didn’t want the drill to melt. Radzinski tells him there is water there for them to put on the drill to make sure it doesn't get too hot and that they are to continue drilling. It would seem that Radzinski does have some sort of “in charge” position when it comes to the Swan station. He says that he has been working on plans for the Swan station for a number of years.
STEP BY STEP, RUNG BY RUNG
Locke and his group continue to trek towards Jacob. Sun asks Ben who Jacob is. Ben tells her that Jacob is is in charge. The leader of the others answers to Jacob. Ben has never met him. Richard says that he doesn’t understand how Locke wasw able to come back from the dead. Richard says that he doesn’t age because it is something Jacob has done for him. He adds that he figures Jacob has had something to do with Locke being alive again. Locke tells Richard that he wants to go see Jacob so he can thank him for bringing him back to life. Locke says that afterwards they will have to deal with the rest of the people that were on the Ajira flight. Richard asks what “deal with them”means. Locke says to Richard; "You know what I means." So we got a little part of the answer to the mystery of why Richard never ages; Jacob made him that way. It would seem that Richard is ageless on the island and he is there to guide the Others and help their leader. I guess he is supposed to greet the people that Jacob calls to the island as well. That might make Richard and his group untouchable because they are not strangers or "foreign" to the island, to Jacob, or the MIB for that matter. They are not held to the same rules as regular people are.
A TERRIFIC CANDIDATE
Ilanna and her group paddle ashore. She discusses some plans with Bram including what to do with Frank. They mention the question, say something about Frank being important, and if he is a good candidate or not. All very interesting points and something that will apparently have to wait until next season. Frank wants to know what he is a candidate for. They show Frank what is inside of the box; something he is not very happy to see. The way he says "Terrific", reminded me of Charlie from the first season when they heard the monster for the first time.
2 GIRLS 1 SUB (Google That!)
Juliette makes the decision that Sawyer, Kate, and she will return to the island. They make the captain turn the sub around and take them back to the island.
GOOD TIMING
Sayid gets the core of the bomb out of Jughead. Richard asks Jack what makes Locke “special” because he doesn’t see it in Locke after three visits to Locke on the mainland. Jack tells Richard that he knows Locke and that Richard shouldn’t give up on him. Nice idea Jack, anybody else see the pathetic irony in Jack saying that to Richard besides me? In actuality it would seem that Locke really wasn’t special after all. Locke was just one big pawn being played by the smoke monster that is played by the MIB in order to find the loophole that would allow him to kill Jacob.
PASSING THE BUCK
Locke asks Ben why he hasn’t told Richard about Locke’s plans to kill Jacob. Ben says that when he was being judged by the monster his dead daughter made him promise that he would do everything that Locke asked him to do. Locke smirks and says it will be easier than he thought to talk Ben into it. Ben asks what he has to talk Ben into and Locke tells Ben that it is him that is going to kill Jacob, not Locke.
LOOK FOR THE SOFT SPOT AND HIT IT WITH A SLEDGEHAMMER
Richard leads the mad bombers to a spot under the DI and smashes through a wall and into one of the DI houses. Richard hits Eloise over the head and tells Jack and Sayid that he is protecting his leader. He tells Jack and Sayid that they are now on their own. Inside the house Sayid suggests that they should hide in plain sight when he sees one of the DI jumpsuits. After putting on Horace’s jumpsuit, Jack and Sayid go outside and are spotted by Roger Linus. Roger recognizes Sayid as the hostile who shot his son. Roger gut shoots Sayid. The Dharma van shows up and inside is Jin who helps to get Jack and Sayid out of there. Notice that now it is Jack who seems bulletproof and is definitely getting some sort of protection from the island. Hurley drives them all out of the compound.
SON OF A BITCH PART 1
Juliette watches the sub leave and again she is heading back towards the island that she has tried to get off of before and even though she has been close a few times she knows that no matter what, she is not fated to leave. See the look on her face to get a little idea of how difficult is was for her to make this choice. She fought so hard for so long to get off of the island and when it would seem she is actually leaving, regardless of the circumstances, she still cannot be free and is once again being pulled back to it’s shores. The three arrive back on the beach and Kate thanks Juliette for having her back back on the sub. Vincent comes out of the jungle to greet them! Rose is there too! With Bernard (whoa, island life has been fattening the last three years)in tow! It didn’t seem they were very happy to see their three long lost Dharma friends as evidenced by Bernard’s “Son of a bitch!” greeting.
Part 2 of the recap will be posted tomorrow
7 comments:
If the statue is indeed Tawaret then it's a shame the makers of LOST screwed up by making the statue male when Tawaret is female. As I stated before (also on the same posting), female statues' "skirts" always go down to their ankles while male statues' "skirts" are shorter only going down to their upper thighs (STEADY! STEADY!).
Passing the sedatives around may indicate that the Others got the idea from the DI but they must have got the idea from Jim Jones!!! Holy Jonestown Kool-Aid, Batman!
The DI sequences have been taking place between the years 1974 and 1977. So it's frankly painfully obvious that Richard doesn't age because he's a bionic man! A prototype for the six million dollar man; Richard Alpert has bionic skin (and bionic guy-liner) which don't crack.
Jack.
I'm assuming you must have tuckered your little self out when you were describing Ilana and Bram discussing what they were going to do with "Faraday". Obviously you meant to type Frank as halfway through the paragraph it changes to Frank with no explanation. You really must learn to pace yourself. You're not getting any younger and we can't have you pooping yourself out with an entire season of recaps to go!
"Sayid gets the core of the bomb out of Jughead". Did you ever think in your entire life you'd have to write a sentence like that?!?
Suddenly your comment box has a word limit?!? Well heres part 2:
Your comment about Locke not being special at all is funny since I've been saying what a fuckup Locke is for years now. As I've said before, if you look at Locke's "progress" throughout the series he has acted like he was the guy with the answers but has routinely fucked up time and time again. Only a few examples would be prancing off into the jungle with Boone then suddenly not being able to walk and essentially getting the dumb kid killed, assuring EVERYONE in the hatch that Ben was playing straight with them and would never hurt him, becoming convinced that nothing would happen if they didn't punch in the numbers (when we saw something VERY DEFINITE happened) and shooting the damn computer requiring Desmond to desperately turn the failsafe switch, cockily assuring Jack that he was going to move the island and then having nothing to do with moving it while Ben turned the frozen donkey wheel, failing in bringing the Oceanic 6 back to the island (as we have seen Locke's death played NO part in their returning to the island) and many more examples too numerous to count. Locke has been as much of a fuck up as Jack and that goes a long way to proving my point about the so-called "man of faith" and "man of reason". I'm absolutely positive TPTB deliberately made these two men (representing "reason" and "faith") both fuckups in order to demonstrate that extremes are the wrong way to go -- you need to go the "middle way" (very Buddhist of them considering also the wealth of Buddhist imagery that's been present in the show from the beginning). Veering to one extreme or the other (all faith or all reason) will cause you to fail. The world (not even the Island) is all black and white. There are shades of gray. Going toward one extreme of all reason or to the other extreme of all faith will make you fail. And Locke and Jack both demonstrate this in their story arcs. Locke has never been one of my favourite characters precisely because he "talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk". He strikes a cocky attitude, gives us that "I know what I'm doing more than you do" tone in his voice and strides off LOOKING LIKE he knows what he's doing -- but, as we've seen time and time again Locke has NEVER had the faintest idea what he was doing and has just made boneheaded move after boneheaded move. I also believe the island itself has consistently tried to TELL Locke that he was going about things all wrong by constantly re-injuring his legs. I mean, the island gave him back his mobility when 815 crashed. So, how many times after that has Locke injured his legs. I mean, really! If that isn't a major red flag telling Locke he's wrong in whatever he was doing at the time, I don't know what is. I mean, there's the time his legs stopped working which led to Boone getting killed inside the drug plane. There was the time in the hatch when Locke slid halfway under the closing hatch bulkhead and it punctured his leg (when Ben came to his aid leading Locke to believe Ben was on the up and up). And most recently when he was climbing down into the well when the time shift sent him crashing down and snapped his leg before he turned the donkey wheel. How many hints do you NEED, Mr. Locke, that you're barrelling ahead in the wrong direction?!? It's like the island is saying "Look, I gave you back your legs hoping you'd do something right but now you're pissing me off so I'm gonna whack those same legs so hopefully you'll get the point". Sadly, Locke has been so thick-skulled (like Jack) that he can never take a hint.
And how great was it when Bernard stole Sawyer's "son of a bitch" line?!?
I know all about the skirt and what you are saying about the statue but here is the link to ABC where they say it is Tawaret http://abc.go.com/primetime/lost/index?pn=recap#t=162212&d=201648
so I was right, you were wrong, deal with it. Oh, and look, if we want to split hairs, the lines in the statues skirt go the wrong way this time; notice they went the opposite way when we saw the statue in the LaFleaur episode or which ever episode it was in earlier this season. Maybe it's not an Egyptian statue just something similar, maybe they are not ancient egyptian hieroglyphics, what if they are ancient Atlantean hieroglyphics and a statue of an Atlantean god or goddess, what then huh??? And I'm sorry but all female shirts should be "down to their ankles" and in a pile on the floor.
Yeah I fucked up the Faraday part, my bad, I have went back and fixed it so I could have denied it and said you were crazy and I still might do that if you dont tell me what the CPHV is on your blog!!
Yeah, that Sayid and jughead sentence is weird but I think weirder sentences are to come from this show!
Don't know how the comment box had a word limit cause it didn't seem to have one on your second comment on on mine right here either.
Yeah well, I like Terry O'Quinn more than I like where they have taken the character of John Locke (who I actually like more before he came to the island than I did since the crash but I think that's the idea, he is the sympathetic characte who we have given second, thirs, and who knows how many subsequent chances. If you look at Terry's acting resume as well, he hasn't exactly had alot of experience playing "the good guy" either.
As you have pointed out there is definitely a Buddhist feel to alot of what the show contains.
No, you were not right and I was not wrong. Actually, the creators of the show were wrong because they fucked up the statue. I only ever said the statue was male; consequently it cannot possibly be Tawaret unless she's started cross-dressing (not unheard of in ancient Egypt if Aknaton is to be any standard). I'm totally convinced TPTB are saying it IS Tawaret. This fact doesn't make either of us right or wrong it just makes TPTB fuck ups on this occasion. And no, it couldn't be a statue of some Atlantean deity or some such because they've already admitted that it's Tawaret and the style of the statue as well as the hieroglyphs are blatantly Egyptian. And, for that matter, Tawaret is an Egyptian deity so there's no disguising TPTB's fuck up. As always, I will lay the entire blame at the feet of J.J. Abrams: the demonstrably no-talent part of the production team.
No, on all the preposterously lengthy comments I've left there has never been a word limit but suddenly this time it said it couldn't post because of a word limit. That's why I split up the comment into two. Pretty rigoddamndiculous if y'ask me.
Pilgrim.
I like Terry O'Quinn too and I didn't say I didn't like where they're taking the character. Actually, the character of Locke was MORE annoying to me about two seasons ago when it APPEARED that he was Mr. Smug who had all the answers and could do no wrong. THAT'S annoying. I actually find the slowly revealed revelation that Locke has been a major fuckup as well much more interesting.
I am beginning to think the special effects crew for LOST got their degrees from DeVry. They can't get shit right.
I think what the show could have used are continuity police on teir staff. Doesn't seem like they have them and if they do have them, they need to fire them and hire one of us!
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