Lost 5.08: La Fleur
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weewarriorA Sawyer episode and I actually kind of love it? What is the world coming to.
Wherein the Leftbehinds find a nice life in the suburbs, until half of the O6 arrive to crash the party.
- I really want to marry Juliet. She works as a mechanic and delivers babies in her spare time! Awesome.
- Yay for Reiko Aylesworth, Patrick Fischler and Kevin Rankin! It's like a random meetup of people from shows I watch/watched and never talk about!
- Very fond of Sawyer putting his con man skills to good use. There is a fair bit of hilarity in him ending up as Head of Security and basically a straight arrow. I guess all it needs is a loving environment.
- LaFleur and literary connections: I can buy John as the Little Prince, Richard and Christian as the Fox and Ben as the Snake, but Sawyer as the Rose is a bit of a stretch. Anyway, apparently Henry Flower is also a name Leopold Bloom uses in Ulysses, so there you go.
- While I really don't like the path this storyline took, I appreciate the parallels laid out between Amy-Paul-Horace and Sawyer-Kate-Juliet (until they got too anvillicious, anyway). If you take The Man Behind The Curtain into account, we even might have a Jack parallel in Olivia, who really struck me as Mrs. Goodspeed back then. Then again, maybe they just couldn't get Samantha Mathis back, and thus decided to go for Free Love with Horace and Amy.
- The relationship between the Hostiles and the Dharmites is again shown as having strong parallels to early European settlers in the West and the Native American tribes who already lived there, although the Hostiles seem to be no single ethnic group as such.
- Richard's cameos continue to delight, and I still love how the legend of John Locke is built up. Here, it is James of all people who unwittingly nourishes the Others' oncoming obsession with their Chosen One. No wonder they were all so beside themselves when he finally showed up in Season 3! Being my usual paranoid self, this makes me think he either isn't their saviour after all, or he is and it is a very bad thing.
- Going back to The Immortal One for a second - is he dead? I'm just asking because it would explain how he neither ages nor is troubled by that sonic fence. Then again, maybe he can teleport. Or he just knows the friggin' code.
- Interesting: Richard speaks of "my people" when he talks to Horace. He gives every appearance of being their leader. I wonder if that means that the Leader, as in Person Who Talks To Jacob, doesn't speak to puny mortals, or that Richard hasn't found the real one yet - which makes again a pretty good case that it is not Widmore, who likely is still on the island at this point.
Misc:
- The situation of the Leftbehinds is a nice contrast to the O6 + Affiliates - for the Lefties, things start out horrible and get better, except for Dan, and for the Off-islanders, things start out splendid, and then get progressively worse, except for Desmond. One question that really bugs me, though: Why on earth do the O6 have to go back? So that everyone can be unhappy together again?
- I assume DDK was glad that Jin is finally able to communicate better. I will miss the Korean, but it doesn't make much sense to have him keep it up, given that Charlotte presumably doesn't speak it yet.
- So, did Bernard, Rose and Vincent join Dharma as well? Did they become bear food? What?
- Uh oh, Dan. At least he has people halfway looking after him. I love this casual friendship vibe between him and Miles.
- Little Charlotte was adorable, which almost makes up for the fact that she's kind of seven years older than she should be. Hmm. I don't think we're completely done with time jumps yet, are we.
- "You're not Dharma material" - and here I thought hippies of all people wouldn't be elitist. Hypocrites.
- So, the statue: Ancient Egyptian? Sumerian? I'm going for Egyptian because of Paul's ankh, and for the same reason I'm assuming that's our Dogboy Anubis here.
- This episode made me again feel that this show would do great without Jack and Kate. Speaking of whom...
- I know Kate is meant to be all special and stuff, and it's really, really hard to convincingly have a character everyone is mooning over because these things tend to be so subjective, but honestly, if Sawyer leaves Juliet for Miss Teen Forever, he deserves no pity. Not to mention that the writers deserve to be slapped if they make Juliet second best again.
- Next week: Uhh, nothing. But the week after it's apparently Sun vs. Ben: the re-match! Go, Sun!
Wherein the Leftbehinds find a nice life in the suburbs, until half of the O6 arrive to crash the party.
- I really want to marry Juliet. She works as a mechanic and delivers babies in her spare time! Awesome.
- Yay for Reiko Aylesworth, Patrick Fischler and Kevin Rankin! It's like a random meetup of people from shows I watch/watched and never talk about!
- Very fond of Sawyer putting his con man skills to good use. There is a fair bit of hilarity in him ending up as Head of Security and basically a straight arrow. I guess all it needs is a loving environment.
- LaFleur and literary connections: I can buy John as the Little Prince, Richard and Christian as the Fox and Ben as the Snake, but Sawyer as the Rose is a bit of a stretch. Anyway, apparently Henry Flower is also a name Leopold Bloom uses in Ulysses, so there you go.
- While I really don't like the path this storyline took, I appreciate the parallels laid out between Amy-Paul-Horace and Sawyer-Kate-Juliet (until they got too anvillicious, anyway). If you take The Man Behind The Curtain into account, we even might have a Jack parallel in Olivia, who really struck me as Mrs. Goodspeed back then. Then again, maybe they just couldn't get Samantha Mathis back, and thus decided to go for Free Love with Horace and Amy.
- The relationship between the Hostiles and the Dharmites is again shown as having strong parallels to early European settlers in the West and the Native American tribes who already lived there, although the Hostiles seem to be no single ethnic group as such.
- Richard's cameos continue to delight, and I still love how the legend of John Locke is built up. Here, it is James of all people who unwittingly nourishes the Others' oncoming obsession with their Chosen One. No wonder they were all so beside themselves when he finally showed up in Season 3! Being my usual paranoid self, this makes me think he either isn't their saviour after all, or he is and it is a very bad thing.
- Going back to The Immortal One for a second - is he dead? I'm just asking because it would explain how he neither ages nor is troubled by that sonic fence. Then again, maybe he can teleport. Or he just knows the friggin' code.
- Interesting: Richard speaks of "my people" when he talks to Horace. He gives every appearance of being their leader. I wonder if that means that the Leader, as in Person Who Talks To Jacob, doesn't speak to puny mortals, or that Richard hasn't found the real one yet - which makes again a pretty good case that it is not Widmore, who likely is still on the island at this point.
Misc:
- The situation of the Leftbehinds is a nice contrast to the O6 + Affiliates - for the Lefties, things start out horrible and get better, except for Dan, and for the Off-islanders, things start out splendid, and then get progressively worse, except for Desmond. One question that really bugs me, though: Why on earth do the O6 have to go back? So that everyone can be unhappy together again?
- I assume DDK was glad that Jin is finally able to communicate better. I will miss the Korean, but it doesn't make much sense to have him keep it up, given that Charlotte presumably doesn't speak it yet.
- So, did Bernard, Rose and Vincent join Dharma as well? Did they become bear food? What?
- Uh oh, Dan. At least he has people halfway looking after him. I love this casual friendship vibe between him and Miles.
- Little Charlotte was adorable, which almost makes up for the fact that she's kind of seven years older than she should be. Hmm. I don't think we're completely done with time jumps yet, are we.
- "You're not Dharma material" - and here I thought hippies of all people wouldn't be elitist. Hypocrites.
- So, the statue: Ancient Egyptian? Sumerian? I'm going for Egyptian because of Paul's ankh, and for the same reason I'm assuming that's our Dogboy Anubis here.
- This episode made me again feel that this show would do great without Jack and Kate. Speaking of whom...
- I know Kate is meant to be all special and stuff, and it's really, really hard to convincingly have a character everyone is mooning over because these things tend to be so subjective, but honestly, if Sawyer leaves Juliet for Miss Teen Forever, he deserves no pity. Not to mention that the writers deserve to be slapped if they make Juliet second best again.
- Next week: Uhh, nothing. But the week after it's apparently Sun vs. Ben: the re-match! Go, Sun!
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Date: 2009-03-06 08:51 am (UTC)It's also really into Sayid, that's why it kills off all his canon girlfriends. And it loves Kate without really knowing how to write her.
I still want Hurley to smack Roger. Pretty please?
I think I would pay to see that.
I'm still toying with the idea that the O6 plus friends will somehow trigger the development that will end up in the Purge, so if Richard doesn't tell John he needs to bring them back via his death, then the Hostiles don't wipe out the Dharma Initiative. Richard has a nice smile, but he's clearly not that interested in preserving Dharma lives, and just seems to be want rid of them one way or the other.
I'm not entirely sure where I stand on behalf of Richard - I think it would really, really help to know his age to figure out what his agenda exactly is - but I am by now wondering if the Purge was exactly what we were let to believe. I could imagine the Lostaways somehow help bringing it along, but I definitely think they are responsible for getting people like Charlotte and her mother and presumably Miles and his Mom off the island.