Lost Review. yep read the whole thing, he has some good points though about hurley.
Jack: "I don't believe in destiny."
Locke: "Yes, you do. You just don't know it yet."
When it comes right down to it, what is the ultimate when it comes to survival? Children. All this time, we were led to believe the Others wanted little Turnip-head, when what they really wanted was Walt. I didn't see that coming, even after Danielle told us, "The Others said they were coming for the boy."
What with Danielle being the Turnip-head-stealing culprit, I was starting to think that there really weren't any Others after all (yes, I forgot about Ethan), when boom, there they were: scuzzy, ragged, bearded, and looking like trouble. It was kind of like "Deliverance;" you could practically hear the banjos playing.
Why on earth would they want Walt? The most obvious possibilities make me shudder. But then, what about the woman with the long, blond hair behind the windshield? The only time we could really see her was when she was throwing the Molotov cocktail onto the Raft. Was that Danielle's daughter, Alex? If it was, then I'm even more confused about what the Others could possibly want with Walt.
Was Walt a replacement for Ethan?
We got more clashing of Jack and Locke, and Locke even spelled out exactly what the problem is: science vs. faith. Jack was almost petulant here: "Everybody wants me to be a leader until I make a decision that they don't like." I think what he said to Kate about Locke being a problem was right on the money. But I also think the message we got in this episode was that Locke is in control, not Jack.
The Raft failed. Sawyer was shot, and he, Jin, and Michael were left fifteen miles out with a bunch of sticks. A failure of technology.
Locke's flashback was painful: no wheelchair, and the humiliation of having to be carried on board the plane, which emphasized Locke's misery and helplessness. (And how could he get to a bathroom during a fifteen hour flight?) The absence of the special airplane wheelchair also symbolizes a failure of technology. Stay with me a moment.
Hurley's "The Graduate"-like running for flight-815 flashback was the last, and the longest. We saw Hurley's numbers everywhere; Hurley paid $1,600 to use the old man's scooter, flight 815 took off from gate 23, and there were those soccer jerseys. 🙂 But what's more interesting is that we saw technology failing several times:
-- His alarm clock wasn't working and all the electrical in his hotel room had shorted out.
-- The car (which had the numbers 42, 23, 16, and 4 on the dash) died for no apparent reason.
-- Arzt, in the long baggage check line, said, "You're taking the computer out, now?" to one of the airline people.
Interesting that it was technology, in the form of the magnet and the flashlight, that let Hurley see the numbers on the Hatch... but he was still unable to stop Locke from blowing it. Locke wasn't going to let anyone stop him after getting that far.
The Island *wants* Locke to go underground. The Monster tried to take Locke down the hole. The Hatch also leads underground. Ergo, whatever entity is in charge of the Island must be down the Hatch, and it wants Locke. The Hatch seemed to go down forever (gateway to the Hellmouth?) and the ladder rungs were mostly broken off and missing. I don't think it's going to be easy to get down there, and almost impossible to get back out. Hey, I wouldn't go down there... but I bet Locke will in season two.
For me, the best scene in all three parts of "Exodus" was the final flashback where they all came together on the plane: Claire, Kate, the marshal, Sawyer, Locke and Jack, Charlie struggling with his guitar, Sayid and his new photo of Nadia, Jin and Sun with Paik's watch, Michael buckling Walt's seat belt, Shannon and Boone and her inhaler, Arzt, and finally Hurley, in his two seats, with his Walkman... reading a very familiar Spanish-language comic book. Note that there were only two interactions: Jack and Locke nodding politely to one another as strangers, and Hurley giving the thumbs up to Walt, who smiled back.
Character bits:
-- Claire doesn't know what "Aaron" means. According to my baby name book, it means "lofty or exalted." And of course, it's a biblical name: Aaron was the brother of Moses. Exodus? Moses?
-- Extremely interesting that the two main flashbacks we got in this final hour were Hurley and Locke. I could swear the bird screeched their names in part two.
-- Jin gave Michael Paik's watch. Very sweet, as well as symbolic. Everything on "Lost" is freaking symbolic.
-- Michael figured out that Sawyer is suicidal.
-- Charlie showed such courage and determination, enduring so much to retrieve Aaron for Claire. And then he succumbed to the heroin. How disappointing. Of course, we haven't seen him take it yet, but still.
-- Sayid and Shannon made up. I knew it would happen.
-- Interesting role reversal, with Locke "operating" on the Hatch, and Jack assisting.
-- Sawyer was eight when his father killed his mother and then himself. Did we know he was eight?
-- Charlie has an exciting new scar, a symbol of his manhood. Unfortunately, he also has a humongous stash.
-- Have you noticed that Hurley is always last? It must mean something.
Bits and pieces:
-- If you add the four Others to the 43 survivors, you get Rambaldi's favorite number, 47. We're back to 47 again.
-- After Jack dropped the explosive in the hole, the smoke came up, coalesced back into the tornado shape, and took off.
-- A working boat implies that the Others are there by choice.
-- There were no tracks or footprints leading to the torch on the beach. Were they washed away by the tide?
-- How come Hurley's seat number (20) wasn't one of his numbers?
-- Michael: "You're either a hero, or you want to die." Sawyer: "Well, I ain't no hero, Mike."
-- Sawyer: "Hey, Han, you and Chewie want to slow down a second?"
-- Locke: "Boone was a sacrifice that the Island demanded."
-- Jenna the flight attendant: "This is your lucky day."
-- During the two hour "Lost" finale and the "Alias" finale, we must have seen a commercial for every single hot movie of the summer.
Fun and exciting to watch, but parts two and three lacked the emotion and cohesion in part one. I'm mildly disappointed that we got lots more questions and very few answers. But that's the nature of the show, after all, and I do love the show.
Four out of five polar bears,
Billie
not unless you wrote this.eat
Originally posted by OrliNElijahsGrl
OH MY FREAKING GOD! like you have no idea how quickly ive become addicted to this show in JUST ONE EPISODE so far, and how obsessed i am, i went to work today and could not shut up about it, i absoulutly LOVE it, i was absoulutly freaking out the whole time, the beginning had me having my hands to my face going oh my god oh my god oh my god, and i cracked up when dom (charlie) started to sing, i was like: he is SO hotAnd i am telling you, ive been trying to figure out........*spoiler* (kind of)
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING CHASING THEM?! What it seemed like to me was a T-REX dinosaur, because the roar it let out, sounded very familiar to the roar of the t-rex in jurrassic park, so im thinking its a t-rex, i cant think of anything else of what it can be!!! Did anyone else hear what dom (charlie) said in the background of what they thought the thing what, he said he thought it could be monkeys!!! I DIED of laughter when he said that!
i taped it, and when it went off, i rewinded my tape and watched it again and then this morning i watched it again...SEE...that is how quickly ive gotten addicted to the show, im taping all the episodes! The show is like freaking exciting, i especially started freaking out, when Jack, Kate and Charlie was running from WHATEVER that thing is, and the camera kept going on charlie alot, and i was sitting there going: Oh please dont let him die, DONT LET HIM DIE! And then he falls, i gasped and screamed "NO!" and i was going: GET UP! PLEASE! GET UP! i was going absoulutly nutssssss! And im dying to know what happens next, im gonna end up going insane before next wed rolls around, eeeeeeeeeeek!! And i must say this.................................................................................................DOM IS F-IN SEXY ALL WET!! rawr! Well hes sexy all the time, but when he was all wet, i was like dying, i love the cute little grin he gave when kate asked him what he was doing in the bathroom, I wonder...WHAT was he doing in that bathroom? Several ideas came to my head at that point of what he may of been doing, maybe we'll find out later on, or maybe that is a scene that is just gonna make us wonder!!
Plain and simple.............THIS SHOW FREAKING ROCKS, its awesome and im so addicted to it already, and its gonna be a awesome series, and i cant wait for the next episode, LOVE THE CLIFFHANGER for the previews for next wed eppi, why in the h is that one guy spazzing and shooting a gun?!!!!! ahhh
Originally posted by Solo
I'm pretty sure Sawyer is a hero, it was this picture that convinced me. And remember that Sawyer was the one that killed the polar bear. But of course I could be wrong.
Kella said she saw the monster in one of the pilots-- she said she saw it when that one guy gets sucked into the airplane engine thingy