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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 13 Comments
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Yeah, there was definitely a lot of yelling at the stupidity on the television this week. I did like Sawyer striking out on his own to deal with his grief, and the Thelma and Louise style pairing of alt-Kate and alt-Claire. Not looking forward to island-Claire-as-nouveau-Rousseau, though.
Sawyer, in my eyes, has turned out to be the hero of this entire thing. He's the only one who's really grown and is better than he was when they first crashed.
Damn i really got to agree. Nothing happened. It was boring and I'm done with cryptic babel from Lost. Any of the Losties accepting when weird people refuse to say anything about what is going on is just so crazy it this point. They should have killed everyone at that stupid temple. This ep was complete and total filler. It felt like a freaking advertisement for the next episode being cool. Totally reminds me of that Ron Moore directed ep of battle star were absolutely nothing went on. Please Lost go back to telling stories about characters.
Oh, the spackle episode! The one where everyone talked. And talked. And talked. Blech.
I wanted Jack to go apeshit on Head Temple Other for being such a cryptic tool. I know Jack can do it; he's done it before. I want Apeshit Jack!
The thing is: do we really need these Temple Losties? Don't we have enough secretive people running around being secretive already? Why the hell did the show feel the need to add a bunch more?
The only thing interesting about the Temple Losties is how everyone reacts to them. Sawyer up and left, Kate up and left, and Jack up and swallowed that pill, risking his life to get some answers. I feel like all of the Others have a superiority complex with all of their SUPER SECRETS.
That said. I did like the Kate and Claire hour, especially when reg. universe Kate revealed that she's all about Claire. Yay Kate for striking out on your own agenda! I always liked her interactions with Sawyer and Jack, but that lady hasn't had her own solo storyline for such a long time.
I'm never really thrilled with Kate-centric stuff – it seems like no one is quite sure what to do with the character other than constantly remind us that she's a criminal with a heart of gold and a great ass. Ya know?
Lisa, I too was thinking about the duo of Wendy and Lisa earlier this week….creepy….
-CR
Happily, they're still around. They did the soundtrack for Heroes.
I also am not crazy about the new Temple folks, but I actually liked the rest of the episode, and I'm saying that as someone who's been hating Kate since Season 2. But the reason why I've hated her is because her character has been useless and ineffectual. In this episode, though, they've given her depth and have finally forced her to come to terms with herself and her general lameness. And I'm not saying that to be funny. I really loved Evangaline Lilly's performance in this. I was SCREAMING THAT AT THE TV. LEAVE SAWYER ALONE! LET HIM GRIEVE! HE DOESN'T WANT YOU ANYMORE! But what I loved is that after she saw that he was sad about Juliet, was going to ask her to marry him, threw the ring in the ocean, and coldly walked away from her, it finally SUNK IN that he actually LOVED Juliet, and that he couldn't give two craps about her now, and she is truly alone.
I don't think it hit her until that moment that in the 3 years she was gone, he actually DID fall in love with someone else. She just assumed he'd still feel the same about her. And she even tried to make his current sadness about her – saying that if she hadn't joined them on the sub, Juliet would still be alive. He had to correct her and be like "No, actually, it's my fault. Nothing in our relationship has ANYTHING to do with you." I thought that was a really striking moment – it finally sinking in with Kate. A life as a fugitive on the run had gotten her too used to thinking herself in control, and she's finally learned that the world doesn't revolve around her.
Also, Alternate Universe Kate says to Claire "Would you believe me if I told you I was innocent?" and I get the feeling she IS innocent in this timeline (or whatever it is). And so what does that mean about the marshal, or her mom…? And we see her be the kind of person who, even as she's kicking people's asses at the airport and taking a cab hostage, still cares enough about a pregnant girl that she left on the side of the road to go back for her, then give her a ride, then stay with her at the hospital when she should have been escaping.
This episode redeemed Kate for me. AND Claire. It makes so much sense that she's the new Rousseau. And Locke is the new Black Smoke Guy. Who else are our Losties replacing?
Even though we saw Kate blow up the house with her stepdad in it, I consider her to be innocent. Sorry, but regardless of Kate's mom's unwillingness to leave, that guy deserved what he got. Even though she killed the guy, she's innocent because she was saving her mom. I think the statement is all about intentions.
i could see what Kate was doing on the island: going back to her island Kate pattern of bouncing between Jack and Sawyer. Not for malicious purposes or anything; that's just what she'd always done there. I took her tears to be sort of "Sawyer loves Juliet, not me", but also as, "Shit, everything is different, why did I agree to come back, if I hadn't come back maybe she wouldn't be dead, etc". I'm reading a lot into it, but for all my Kate-hate, I still want her to be a better character. And I suppose it is a different Kate than we've had all this time – this is the Kate who gave up Aaron, who went back to find Claire. Maybe she has grown, too, just not as demonstrably as Sawyer.
John and I have a theory that Sayid has been claimed by Jacob. The spring water was a different color after Jacob died; Jacob appeared to Hurley shortly after his death with those specific instructions; then the issue of Syaid being dead then mysteriously resurrecting. Just a working theory at this point.
I propose a new Lost Drinking Game: whenever someone deflects a simple question with a bull—- answer, you take a shot and punch the person sitting next to you in the arm. You then email/twitpic photos of the swollen and bruised arm(s) to Team Darlton, telling them "LOOK AT THE HURT YOU'RE CAUSING WITH THIS CRAP!" Yes, the Losties have endured a lot of crazy stuff – from Smoke Monsters and polar bears to reanimated dead friends/family to time travel – but silly dialogue like, "he is 'infected' with a kind of 'darkness'" should NOT be one of those things.
I will actively promote that drinking game and play it myself. However, if it continues this way, I'll be so hammered 20 minutes in that I'll wind up punching a cat instead of an arm, and posting inappropriate pics of myself rather than the Lost-induced injuries.
If the Losties, should they bee lucky enough to truly go home at the end of this story, I wonder if they will take that annoying "deflector speak" with them. Dr. Shepherd, what's wrong with my wife? "There is a growing darkness that threatens to engulf her being." What does THAT mean? (silent, enigmatic Jack stare). Hurley, do you want to go to the movies? "The infinite blackness: does it stare back at us?" Is that a yes, and do you want popcorn?