Wednesday, February 10. 2010
What Kate Did
...was not a whole hell of a lot. At least not from what I gathered. Got away from the cops, took alter-Claire to the hospital.... Went after Sawyer... and uh, well....
Sorry, guys, didn't get a whole lot out of this one. Maybe its just me. Here's what I did get, though.
Island Claire
Claire's on the island. Although its not spooky-attitude Claire from the cabin. Looks to be a rather Rousseau-esque version of Claire. Rather deja-vu don't you think?
LA Claire
Kept Aaron from escaping, and uh, met Kate. Didn't get to give up baby for adoption. And... sent the cops away, helping Kate out.
Sayid
Alive! Or is he? So what-in-the-bloody-hell. "Infected?" By smokey? By Jacob? Whose side are these guys on, anyway?! Why the you-know-what would Jacob send him to the temple to be "cured" if this would happen? And why would Dougen want him dead?
Dougen
Going to spell it that way. In Japanese its either the name of a Zen Buddhist monk that lived c. 1200, ??. Who interestingly enough penned a little book called Shoubougenzou, or "Treasury of the Eye of the True DHARMA." Yeah, nice. More on the monk Dougen at Wikipedia.
Or it means "the same origin", ??. The same as what? I might be missing something as it could just be a name, but since when is a name just a name around here?
Ethan
Posing as a doctor in LA going by the name of Goodspeed. Nice bit of juxtaposition given his OTHER involvement with Claire... Unknown if DHARMA even still exists in this timeline, or if he's got any sort of intentions, etc.
Other than that... Auto shop guy ring any bells for anyone? Didn't here. Hopefully the events of this episode prove to be vital connecting glue later on, or I'm just missing something. Please correct me brutally in the comments!!
Sorry, guys, didn't get a whole lot out of this one. Maybe its just me. Here's what I did get, though.
Island Claire
Claire's on the island. Although its not spooky-attitude Claire from the cabin. Looks to be a rather Rousseau-esque version of Claire. Rather deja-vu don't you think?
LA Claire
Kept Aaron from escaping, and uh, met Kate. Didn't get to give up baby for adoption. And... sent the cops away, helping Kate out.
Sayid
Alive! Or is he? So what-in-the-bloody-hell. "Infected?" By smokey? By Jacob? Whose side are these guys on, anyway?! Why the you-know-what would Jacob send him to the temple to be "cured" if this would happen? And why would Dougen want him dead?
Dougen
Going to spell it that way. In Japanese its either the name of a Zen Buddhist monk that lived c. 1200, ??. Who interestingly enough penned a little book called Shoubougenzou, or "Treasury of the Eye of the True DHARMA." Yeah, nice. More on the monk Dougen at Wikipedia.
Or it means "the same origin", ??. The same as what? I might be missing something as it could just be a name, but since when is a name just a name around here?
Ethan
Posing as a doctor in LA going by the name of Goodspeed. Nice bit of juxtaposition given his OTHER involvement with Claire... Unknown if DHARMA even still exists in this timeline, or if he's got any sort of intentions, etc.
Other than that... Auto shop guy ring any bells for anyone? Didn't here. Hopefully the events of this episode prove to be vital connecting glue later on, or I'm just missing something. Please correct me brutally in the comments!!
Wednesday, February 3. 2010
LA X
Interesting. That's what I'm coming up with. Interesting.
(keep in mind that I'm purposely keeping myself out of the spoiler-loop, so if some of these observations are old-hat, my apologies....)
And no, I'm not doing recaps this time around. Found it much more enjoyable when I wasn't trying to scratch down what's happening and trying to keep up. Sorry!
At least one "mystery" of the island is at last revealed. That being the identity or what-have-you of our old pal Smokey. Yes, folks, its the MiB, Jacob's Nemesis. Actually this came to me watching "The Incident" last week. Yeah, duh, I know, should have seen it.
The bomb went off, and nothing happened. Or did it? Yes! ... and no! Or, uh, or something. It would now seem that we are dealing with two distinct and separate timelines. Not a future/past thing like we've had before, but two totally separate parallel paths. Did you hear the "swoosh" when switching between the two? It's noticably different than the old "flashback" swoosh. Giveaway!
But, as usual, more questions and problems arise. Here's my take:
(keep in mind that I'm purposely keeping myself out of the spoiler-loop, so if some of these observations are old-hat, my apologies....)
And no, I'm not doing recaps this time around. Found it much more enjoyable when I wasn't trying to scratch down what's happening and trying to keep up. Sorry!
At least one "mystery" of the island is at last revealed. That being the identity or what-have-you of our old pal Smokey. Yes, folks, its the MiB, Jacob's Nemesis. Actually this came to me watching "The Incident" last week. Yeah, duh, I know, should have seen it.
The bomb went off, and nothing happened. Or did it? Yes! ... and no! Or, uh, or something. It would now seem that we are dealing with two distinct and separate timelines. Not a future/past thing like we've had before, but two totally separate parallel paths. Did you hear the "swoosh" when switching between the two? It's noticably different than the old "flashback" swoosh. Giveaway!
But, as usual, more questions and problems arise. Here's my take:
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