Thursday, May 3. 2007
LOST: "The Brig" Analysis and Comments [SPOILERS]
Summary Version (Read the Full Spoilerific Recap Here...)
Locke cons Sawyer into doing his dirty work for him, and it would seem that both of them are finally rid of their arch-enemies. The identity of the parachuting mystery woman is revealed, along with plenty more information about where she came from and what she was doing. And as is par for the course, we are presented with yet more mysteries....
Click on through for the full monte!
Locke cons Sawyer into doing his dirty work for him, and it would seem that both of them are finally rid of their arch-enemies. The identity of the parachuting mystery woman is revealed, along with plenty more information about where she came from and what she was doing. And as is par for the course, we are presented with yet more mysteries....
Click on through for the full monte!
The Final Analysis
Man was that some dark and twisted stuff or what? It's funny, to me the persona of Cooper here seemed just a little bit "over the top" in terms of sticking it to Locke about his "daddy issues." Did anyone get that feeling? Like maybe this really wasn't him, but was just a "manifestation" of John's inner conflict? How convenient for Sawyer, then.
Will this affect the characters of John and Sawyer in any noticeable way? I'd think so, as John no longer has to deal with his issues surrounding his father, he will be able to move past it. I wonder if he will still have a "need for faith" as we've seen so many times previous?
Sawyer, will he continue to use the name? What's the point now? More important, what's he going to do now? Seems his sole purpose up to this point had been to exact revenge on the "mystery-Sawyer." I think maybe he's a "blank slate" at this point. What else is there?
The "flash-not-quite-so-far-back" thing worked pretty well this time. Better than "Expose" anyway. :) To my count they've only done this four other times. The season two finale with Desmond, "Expose" with Nikki and Paulo (and that was only in part), "The Other 48 Days" with the Tailies, "One of Us" with Juliet, and now here. Any I left out?
And the whole thing with Ben and Locke as it pertains to Cooper. "You brought him here." Are we once again being metaphorical, Ben? In that Ben knows what John really wanted and made it happen? And what's up with this "special" business. We know Ben's said this before, back when he was still Henry. If so, why was he not included as "one of the good ones" with Kate, Sawyer, Jack, and Hurley? Is he more special? It would seem so, as it seems this healing power business might be tied to Locke in some way.
Also thought the way Cooper thought he was in hell was a nice stab at the "Dead and in Hell/Purgatory" theorists out there. :) I still say they're in a Dante-ish purgatory/hell combo
I found it particularly ironic that Sawyer was the victim himself of a con on Locke's part to get him there. Wonder if Sawyer will hold any ill-will towards Locke about this?
Don't know if any of you noticed it, but that gorgeous-yet-sinister wide-canopy tree was visible in the closing shots of the Black Rock. Now I realize that this is a product of the set actually being just a finite section of land, but they're letting this fact slip it seems. More and more bits of the scenery are becoming recognizable, whether they're supposed to be the same places or different. There's a stand of little scrub trees with no underbrush that showed up here again they've used several times before.
The "sacrificial altar" bit was of great note here. Curious how these old "pagan" (simply meaning non-Christian here) rites and traits seem to keep popping up in the Others' culture? First with the Viking funeral ritual, the "branding" of Juliet with the Celtic symbol, the Mongolian-nomadic (or even Nordic I suppose) way they set up camps elsewhere on the island, including the "king-like" tent belonging to Ben, the Greco-Roman references present in the hatch naming and in particular Cerberus the "guard dog," the entire East-Indian DHARMA thing....
It's a great contrast to the Judeo-Christian ways of the 815 survivors, what with Charlie's visions, Eko's priesthood and building of the church, Desmond's past and the guardian angel nature of Mrs. Hawking and the Abbey's Prior, Aaron born without reference to a father (I think)... and still there's Locke, set up in a Native American-style sweat lodge, inside Eko's church no less. Just something to think about.
Answers
(I would have gotten this up sooner, but I was having some serious connectivity issues this morning!)
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Man was that some dark and twisted stuff or what? It's funny, to me the persona of Cooper here seemed just a little bit "over the top" in terms of sticking it to Locke about his "daddy issues." Did anyone get that feeling? Like maybe this really wasn't him, but was just a "manifestation" of John's inner conflict? How convenient for Sawyer, then.
Will this affect the characters of John and Sawyer in any noticeable way? I'd think so, as John no longer has to deal with his issues surrounding his father, he will be able to move past it. I wonder if he will still have a "need for faith" as we've seen so many times previous?
Sawyer, will he continue to use the name? What's the point now? More important, what's he going to do now? Seems his sole purpose up to this point had been to exact revenge on the "mystery-Sawyer." I think maybe he's a "blank slate" at this point. What else is there?
The "flash-not-quite-so-far-back" thing worked pretty well this time. Better than "Expose" anyway. :) To my count they've only done this four other times. The season two finale with Desmond, "Expose" with Nikki and Paulo (and that was only in part), "The Other 48 Days" with the Tailies, "One of Us" with Juliet, and now here. Any I left out?
And the whole thing with Ben and Locke as it pertains to Cooper. "You brought him here." Are we once again being metaphorical, Ben? In that Ben knows what John really wanted and made it happen? And what's up with this "special" business. We know Ben's said this before, back when he was still Henry. If so, why was he not included as "one of the good ones" with Kate, Sawyer, Jack, and Hurley? Is he more special? It would seem so, as it seems this healing power business might be tied to Locke in some way.
Also thought the way Cooper thought he was in hell was a nice stab at the "Dead and in Hell/Purgatory" theorists out there. :) I still say they're in a Dante-ish purgatory/hell combo
I found it particularly ironic that Sawyer was the victim himself of a con on Locke's part to get him there. Wonder if Sawyer will hold any ill-will towards Locke about this?
Don't know if any of you noticed it, but that gorgeous-yet-sinister wide-canopy tree was visible in the closing shots of the Black Rock. Now I realize that this is a product of the set actually being just a finite section of land, but they're letting this fact slip it seems. More and more bits of the scenery are becoming recognizable, whether they're supposed to be the same places or different. There's a stand of little scrub trees with no underbrush that showed up here again they've used several times before.
The "sacrificial altar" bit was of great note here. Curious how these old "pagan" (simply meaning non-Christian here) rites and traits seem to keep popping up in the Others' culture? First with the Viking funeral ritual, the "branding" of Juliet with the Celtic symbol, the Mongolian-nomadic (or even Nordic I suppose) way they set up camps elsewhere on the island, including the "king-like" tent belonging to Ben, the Greco-Roman references present in the hatch naming and in particular Cerberus the "guard dog," the entire East-Indian DHARMA thing....
It's a great contrast to the Judeo-Christian ways of the 815 survivors, what with Charlie's visions, Eko's priesthood and building of the church, Desmond's past and the guardian angel nature of Mrs. Hawking and the Abbey's Prior, Aaron born without reference to a father (I think)... and still there's Locke, set up in a Native American-style sweat lodge, inside Eko's church no less. Just something to think about.
Answers
- So, Locke's dad is in fact the same guy Sawyer's been after all his life.
- The magic box is just a metaphor. Ben said so! Well, we kinda figured that out already.
- Naomi was hired by Penny to find Desmond.
- We know more about the supposed wreckage of Flight 815. Four miles down at the bottom of a trench.
- Where were the Others exactly? What's the deal with the ruins? Is this related to the four-toed statue Sayid saw on the shoreline way back in season two?
- Where are they going next?
- What are Jack and Juliet hiding? (I know, but then I've read the spoilers!
) - Will anyone come looking for Naomi? Or will they be able to contact her ship?
- What's next for Locke? And for Sawyer? It would seem that part of their characters' source of internal conflict has just been eradicated.
- Was that even the real Cooper? How did he get there so quickly if so?
- What's Alpert's part in all of this?! Maybe we'll learn more of that next week.
- What was Rousseau planning to do with an entire crate of TNT? It can't be good.
- What's next for Jack now that he's been told nobody trusts him? Seems to me he's going to have to choose which side he's on.
- Why return to the Black Rock? Just because it was there?
- Did I really hear a horse (of course) at the Others' camp?
(I would have gotten this up sooner, but I was having some serious connectivity issues this morning!)
Technorati Tags: LOST, The Brig, Analysis, Comments, Opinions, John Locke, James Sawyer Ford
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MR. E
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2007-05-03 12:09
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JUst a thought. Wasn't Noemi the Parachutist picture on Ben's mantle a few episodes ago?
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pDale
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2007-05-03 14:15
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Ms. Klugh used a horse to travel to the Flame station.
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KT
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2007-05-04 08:43
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Ben said to Locke "Don't tell me what I can' do!" Which is what Locke often said when he was wheelchair bound. Thought it was pretty neat, and something Locke could certainly relate to.
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