They Didn't Lose Your Father
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iwanttomorrow"They didn't lose your father. They just lost his body..."
This maybe one of my all time favorite Locke quotes and one of the most profound for me that Lost has ever had because it held such a deep truth about death that many people fail to understand, that when we die our bodies are empty shells: nothing more or less.
As for the rest of the two hour episode I feel like I am still absorbing everything that happened because so many twists and turns and surprises came.
On the island. . .
-- I felt hurt for Sawyer when Juliet died not because I was a Sawyer/Juliet shipper but because Sawyer has found his way into my heart over the series. The man maybe a con artist but he also has a heart as he's proven time and again throughout the series.
-- The writers showed me up where Smokey was concerned I honestly thought they had not a clue what it was but when it appeared last night in the episode and took out Jacob's bodyguards, then was suddenly in the form of Locke again I was a bit freaked out. It was a lovely turned of things to see Ben looked as freaked out by what he saw as I felt. Who or what IS the person pretending to be John Locke now?
-- Jacob appearing to Hurley was interesting and I'd ask how could he talk to Hurley, when did he get that ability but I remember Charlie appearing to Hurley when he was in the mental hospital.
-- Speaking of Hurley, loved the moment he told Japanese dude (paraphrase) "Wait a second he's translating what you say but not translating back WHAT I say. You understand English!"
-- I hated it when Sayid appeared to die and they were told he was dead. I had a total flashback to Season 1 when Jack started doing CPR on Sayid - remember when Ethan took Claire and Charlie and Jack and Kate found Charlie hanging by the neck dead? That scene has always stuck with me and I really had a flashback to that moment because Jack started CPR on Charlie and Kate tried to make him stop it when it looked like Charlie was gone just like she made him stop it on Sayid.
-- For the record I'm not sure I believe that's Sayid who sat up in the end, I can't after what happened with whoever (Jacob's enemy I know) that is pretending to be John Locke last season.
-- Sawyer using Miles to find out what Juliet wanted to tell him: "It worked..." what the heck?!!
-- Jacob's enemy whoever or what he is wants to go home. Where's home?
-- Lastly are Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Jin, Miles, and Hurley all back in the present? It certainly seemed that way since the found the remnants of the hatch Desmond blew up!
On the plane/at the air port. . .
-- I truly don't know what to make of this or what it means for the characters. . . because the plane didn't crash and the island was clearly underwater.
-- Desmond was on the plane which was weird since he was on the island when the plane crashed originally.
-- I think Shannon WASN'T on the plane according to what Boone said to Locke during the flight.
-- Jin unfortunately is a jerk :( and Sun liked about not understand English when we all know she very well can understand it
-- I hope Sayid will find Nadia
-- Kate is a fugitive still and managed to escape the marshall and what the heck she winds up in the cab with Claire who I presume is still very pregnant with Aaron?
-- Charlie is once again a drug addicted and has been arrested because of it
-- Absolutely loved the scene between Jack and Locke at the airport as I already said!
This maybe one of my all time favorite Locke quotes and one of the most profound for me that Lost has ever had because it held such a deep truth about death that many people fail to understand, that when we die our bodies are empty shells: nothing more or less.
As for the rest of the two hour episode I feel like I am still absorbing everything that happened because so many twists and turns and surprises came.
On the island. . .
-- I felt hurt for Sawyer when Juliet died not because I was a Sawyer/Juliet shipper but because Sawyer has found his way into my heart over the series. The man maybe a con artist but he also has a heart as he's proven time and again throughout the series.
-- The writers showed me up where Smokey was concerned I honestly thought they had not a clue what it was but when it appeared last night in the episode and took out Jacob's bodyguards, then was suddenly in the form of Locke again I was a bit freaked out. It was a lovely turned of things to see Ben looked as freaked out by what he saw as I felt. Who or what IS the person pretending to be John Locke now?
-- Jacob appearing to Hurley was interesting and I'd ask how could he talk to Hurley, when did he get that ability but I remember Charlie appearing to Hurley when he was in the mental hospital.
-- Speaking of Hurley, loved the moment he told Japanese dude (paraphrase) "Wait a second he's translating what you say but not translating back WHAT I say. You understand English!"
-- I hated it when Sayid appeared to die and they were told he was dead. I had a total flashback to Season 1 when Jack started doing CPR on Sayid - remember when Ethan took Claire and Charlie and Jack and Kate found Charlie hanging by the neck dead? That scene has always stuck with me and I really had a flashback to that moment because Jack started CPR on Charlie and Kate tried to make him stop it when it looked like Charlie was gone just like she made him stop it on Sayid.
-- For the record I'm not sure I believe that's Sayid who sat up in the end, I can't after what happened with whoever (Jacob's enemy I know) that is pretending to be John Locke last season.
-- Sawyer using Miles to find out what Juliet wanted to tell him: "It worked..." what the heck?!!
-- Jacob's enemy whoever or what he is wants to go home. Where's home?
-- Lastly are Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Jin, Miles, and Hurley all back in the present? It certainly seemed that way since the found the remnants of the hatch Desmond blew up!
On the plane/at the air port. . .
-- I truly don't know what to make of this or what it means for the characters. . . because the plane didn't crash and the island was clearly underwater.
-- Desmond was on the plane which was weird since he was on the island when the plane crashed originally.
-- I think Shannon WASN'T on the plane according to what Boone said to Locke during the flight.
-- Jin unfortunately is a jerk :( and Sun liked about not understand English when we all know she very well can understand it
-- I hope Sayid will find Nadia
-- Kate is a fugitive still and managed to escape the marshall and what the heck she winds up in the cab with Claire who I presume is still very pregnant with Aaron?
-- Charlie is once again a drug addicted and has been arrested because of it
-- Absolutely loved the scene between Jack and Locke at the airport as I already said!
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Date: 2010-02-07 01:20 am (UTC)Ah thanks! Always nice to run into a fellow Doctor/Rose shipper!
I love pretty much anything Locke says, but his quote to Jack at the airport really does strike me as one of the most profound of the series.
Locke has always had some of the BEST lines in the series but what he said to Jack at the airport definitely struck a chord in me. It's definitely one of the most profound lines ever heard on Lost.
I felt hurt for Sawyer when Juliet died
I totally agree with you there. I am a Sawyer/Juliet shipper, but that's not the main reason why I was so upset about her death. I would argue that of the survivors, Sawyer is the one who changes the most. He goes from this con man who doesn't care about anybody and essentially hates himself to settling down, living a happy life with a respectable job and a lovely girlfriend, and when she died in the last episode, it really felt like Sawyer was regressing back to his season one self, only not as fun. I actually really enjoyed the plane/airport Sawyer scenes because even though he is still presumably a con man, he's back to his season one level of smart alecky remarks, and it hurt a lot less to watch that than to watch what he was going through on the island.
I might slightly disagree with you but just a little bit about Sawyer. He did change over time but instead of changing into someone more caring I see him as someone who has been hurt a lot in life (we know this to be a fact), way too much in fact, and therefore put on the tough guy con man act because when you hold people at arms length it's hard for them to hurt you. I don't think he changed so much into someone who cared but came to a point to where he could show it a little more freely than what he used to.
I read/heard a theory recently that, since the airport timeline is an alternate timeline, so to speak, that would mean that in 1977, instead of the "incident" occurring, the island just ended up underwater, along with the Dharma Initiative, which means that Desmond didn't crash his boat there. I'm personally more interested in where he went towards the end of the plane ride and in what he was reading.
Yeah it'd make sense if things happened that way with Desmond and yeah I wonder where he disappeared to too.
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Date: 2010-02-09 04:04 am (UTC)Yeah, I read someplace (either E! or Ausiello) that Maggie Grace's non-appearance was a scheduling conflict that couldn't be worked around. So I assumed either Shannon was on the plane because I thought she was up in first class and made Boone sit in coach? It's been a long time so forgive me if my memory is failing. Or she just didn't get on the plane. I think they left it open to interpretation for that reason.
I'm wondering if we'll see Shannon again though at some point in this alternative reality. Perhaps running into Sayid in some circumstance?