So what was the deal with that clip show? Yeah, I watched it in hopes that something might come up that I hadn’t remembered, but they didn’t even touch on a couple of the major points (dead bodies in the caves, Nigerian drug smugglers, Golf) that I would have thought to be important to the mythos of the show. Meh. I’m over it.
As for another Sayid ep, I guess that’s ok. He’s an interesting character. At least now we know why Sayid was headed to L.A. and that he specifically requested to be on the flight he did.
Holy crap Locke is back in camp. He’s still all bloody and telling the truth about the plane. And that truth is a lot of good stuff. There’s a lot of meat in there, if you wanted to unpack it. No one seems to be asking the questions, though, and they aren’t really getting into what Locke could have to share with them. Here’s what the plane means: Charlie’s drugs, another radio, Locke’s legs, other people on the island, the hatch, etc. I mean, they gots to find out about the door in the floor eventually, right?
Ok. I just finished a semester of school and my major project of the last two or three weeks has been a paper about Lost and cultural literacy, the idea that our language is a creation of the cultural texts and shared metaphors that every good communicator should know. It might be nice to think that I was a little Lost out, but I’m not. I argued in my paper that Lost is one of the most culturally literate forms of modern entertainment because it builds off two of the main universal texts (the Bible and the Shakespeare canon) and merges them with modern entertainment forms. I actually think that, it wasn’t just something I wrote because I needed to find a topic that was somewhat interesting.
Seriously, Locke, you talking to the sister of the guy who’s death you are recently responsible for is not really a good idea. Give it up, man, give it up. Now you just went and got the Iraqi Republican Guard after you. How is that a good idea?
But back to the cultural literacy. My main examples were derived from the fact that the show’s entire premise is developed from a Shakespeare play (the Tempest) and pop cultural templates (Twilight Zone, Lord of the Flies, Wrinkle in Time) and that most of the characters are modern takes on Shakespearean of Biblical archetypes. I specifically reference Locke as an Abraham (sacrificing Boone to the island) figure and an example of Peter (walking and then losing faith).
Is it just me, or does Locke seem a little different now that he’s come back from the door? He seems more subdued and yet more intense at the same time. Also, no trouble walking now.
One thing I have noticed recently is the tremendous lack of fathers on the show. I got that after I noticed Wrinkle in Time and someone’s synopsis of the plot mentioned the search for a father in a place with no time. I got to thinking that there were really no father figures on the island or in the back-stories. Jack’s is obvious; Claire’s baby has no father; Locke lost his father; Sawyer lost his. We don’t know about Charlie or Kate but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a lack of male influence. Even Hurley’s back story involved a grandpa and not a papa. In fact, the best example of a father on the island is Michael, the black guy, and his son and that isn’t necessarily the best relationship under the sun. Also, they are the closest to becoming former island residents.
Locke referenced the raft as if that was as bad an idea as other forms of communication with the outside world. He’s trying to keep the people from getting off the island because he doesn’t want to get off the island. What a jerkstore. I’m really starting to wonder where this whole Locke thing is leading to. If, like I suppose will happen, the survivors are going to split into factions following Jack and Locke by the end of this season, Locke really isn’t helping his cause any.
The Questions:
1. When will they find out about the hatch?
2. Are we going to have a split in the survivors? If so, when and how?
3. When will Hurley find out about the numbers on the hatch door?
4. What about fathers is special to this island and how will that play into the developing plot?
5. Why didn’t Wal-Mart have the new Raveonettes CD I wanted to buy there tonight?