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Lost: Deus Ex Machina

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Like Lost, I’ve had somewhat of an extended hiatus recently. I was taking a page from Sam’s book and not posting on account of the vomiting only without the vomiting. I basically just needed some me time, aight? So lay off my back already. I have all sorts of post ideas, but lack the gumption to write and then post them. Maybe later…

I decided to mess with the formula a little bit this week. Since all of about two people actually read the Lost synopses every week, I’m trying to make them shorter. But a lot tends to happen, so I happen to write a lot. On to this week:

- So this was a second week of Locke. Traditionally (as in the one other Locke episode), Locke has given some great fodder to the excitement that is Lost. Before he went all island guru on us, Locke was the fun freaky guy who you didn’t quite know where he stood. Now we know he stands in the middle of boredom town but only when he isn’t creeping everyone and their mother out in dreams or getting even creepier with Boone all alone in the woods out there. But you gotta have faith. And so we hear about three million times this episode. Locke and Boone try to bust the glass but it doesn’t work. So Locke decides to creep himself out in a dream for once and sees Boone being all bloody and a plane crashing. One rotting Nigerian and a drug smuggle or two latter and Boone is talking to someone on the radio of the downed plane when the downed plane goes down. He’s bloody up and Boone breaks down, carries him ala mother bear to Jack and then pounds on the glass. Knock and it shall be opened, so we get some light in the window at the end. Also Locke finds a gun and keeps it, Sawyer gets possible the ugliest glasses ever, beating out John Sagehorn by a mile, and the pregnant lady doesn’t actually have her baby for about the eight week in a row.
- Some Locke backstory: his mommy (he was adopted) comes and pretends to be crazy, telling him all about immaculate conception (!) and leads him to his father who promptly takes him hunting and steals his kidney. That’s love, baby. Then Locke breaks down and we’re left wondering if his mom really is crazy, if that was his real dad, if he was immaculately conceived and why he drives a red Volkswagen. Special side note, my dad said the actor who played the dad was from a show called Adam 12, a cop show. That might actually be important.

Now, for something completely different:
- You think I would be all excited about dead bodies. Its just that I’m not. When I went to see the Ring Two, the theater was full of 8th grade girls who were really terrified of the dead bodies, but they really didn’t phase me. I’ve reached that point in my life where a rotting corpse just doesn’t hold the same impact for me that it used to. Aging sucks.
- While on the beach awaiting glasses, Sawyer was reading “A Wrinkle in Time.” Before, as in earlier in the series, he was reading “Watership Down.” I’m not sure, but “Watership Down” is about survival and safety and all that and “Wrinkle in Time” is about (again, I may be a little off) a government experiment and family and finding their father. Interesting… Characters that read are cool, as are subtle allusions to cool things that may actually apply, but what sort of weird person brought this book selection to Australia? A little odd.

And the Questions:
1. When will the Hobbit find out about the drug plane?
2. Who left the light on for them?
3. How is Boone contacting people with the downed plane’s radio going to come back and bite everyone in the butt?
4. Who is the Nigerian and how did the numbers bring him to the island?
5. What is going to happen with the baby next week?