I thought the episode was really good. Like, uncommonly good. I haven't felt this way about an individual episode in a long time.
I liked the lost/finding theme. Sun looking for her wedding ring. Michael looking for Walt. Jin finding Sun. I don't know; it all felt so beautifully layered and subtle. And even when Locke brings it all out into the open, it brings new depth to his character: is the fact that he just stopped looking supposed to be inspiring? Because it sounds really depressing to me.
This episode wasn't burdened with OMG ISLAND MYSTERY, and it was really, really refreshing. Because goddammit, you have all these freaking characters who have complicated relationships with each other, and that in and of itself can make this show interesting.
The latest
Entertainment Weekly
has a big article on
Watchmen,
which J.J. Abrams lists as an influence on
Lost.
Also, did everyone notice the last Sun/Jin episode was "...in Translation," and now we have "...and Found"? Quick, someone name the next Sun/Jin episode.
I didn't even see the theme until you pointed it out, P.-C! Duh. What are you looking for, and what will you do to get it, and what will you do if you don't get it? I wondered at Locke's statement, whether "I stopped looking" meant he gave up, or he found what he was looking for.
I didn't even see the theme until you pointed it out
I guess it was subtle after all!
I wondered at Locke's statement, whether "I stopped looking" meant he gave up, or he found what he was looking for.
Well, I think he meant he gave up, in the sense that it's so often the case that you
do
find something as soon as you stop looking. You just stumble across it. But there are two ways of looking at that. It could be seen as, well, giving up, giving
in,
really, to never finding what you're looking for, and then being pleasantly surprised when you find it. Or it could be very "Surrender to destiny"/"It's a lot like drowning that way." The sense that things will take care of themselves, so there's no need for you to stress about them.
Considering how much we've seen him stress about it ("What do you want me to DOOO?!") I'm betting it's the first: he stopped looking and gave up - maybe when he was told he couldn't do the Outback thing - and then found It by accident, literally. He seems to feel that he's very much a part of Its Plan, that his actions are important to The Plan, so I don't buy that he believes things will work out by themselves and he can just relax. But he does seem very relaxed, as long as he believes he knows what his part of The Plan is. Knowing what The Plan is, doesn't seem as important to him as the belief that there is one.
I don't like John Locke at all. I think he's crazy, and dangerously so, not crazy in the entertaining rub-soup-in-his-hair way.
edited for clarity; imagine what it was like before
"Not All Who Wander Are..."
"...In The Grooves."
That would be one hell of a SO.
