Don't get me wrong, I don't understand anything any more than I did before the episode, but I found it compellingly watchable. I gave up on answers a while ago, I think.
Oh my god. What can it be? We're all doomed! Who's flying this thing!? Oh right, that would be me. Back to work.
Wash ,'Bushwhacked'
Lost 2: Tied to a Tree in a Jungle of Mystery
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-t - May 12, 2010 9:57:55 am PDT #5683 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 12, 2010 10:54:03 am PDT #5684 of 5968
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I enjoyed it. I'm quite bemused as to why fans all over the internet are losing the plot (no semi-pun intended) over it. Yes, the light in the cave was a bit irritating at first, but by the end I was into the whole thing where the island is a Garden of Eden, source-of-all-life type setup. (I was less keen on the anvil that was the LOOK, THESE ARE THE ADAM AND EVE PEOPLE, NO REALLY, LOOK, THEY ARE ending. But you can't have everything.)
I think there are two kinds of LOST fans, and The Girl and I are the wrong kind. As we were just saying on the phone, we'd much prefer a LOST that featured no one but Hurley, Desmond, Faraday, Widmore, that spooky woman Fionnula Flanagan plays whose name I'm bored of looking up, and Jacob and Esau. And was all about the epic, not the adventure. We may be watching the wrong show. Just don't tell us that.
Theodosia - May 12, 2010 10:54:15 am PDT #5685 of 5968
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'd have preferred to have had bits of this story play out over the season, instead of using up a whole hour of it when we're so close to the finale.
It's actually not all that unsatisfying an origin for Jacob and Smokey.
Also thematically, I notice that we have yet another mother willing to sacrifice her son. Also I guess the temple pool's revivication of Ben and Sayid must be connected to the Glowy Cave....
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 12, 2010 10:58:34 am PDT #5686 of 5968
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
I'd have preferred to have had bits of this story play out over the season, instead of using up a whole hour of it when we're so close to the finale.
Someone mentioned on twitter that it was shown out of order. Apparently it was supposed to be shown earlier in the season. That would have made more sense. But yes, it would have worked better as interspersed scenes.
I feel like there's still more origin story to come. Let's hope it gets told quickly, if so.
Polter-Cow - May 12, 2010 11:51:45 am PDT #5687 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, huh, that would explain why it's not connected to the big events of last week.
§ ita § - May 12, 2010 12:04:04 pm PDT #5688 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Polter-Cow - May 12, 2010 12:12:24 pm PDT #5689 of 5968
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ha! Nice.
§ ita § - May 12, 2010 12:21:03 pm PDT #5690 of 5968
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Not watching Lost, all I see is Lucifer, the Horseman of War, and an escaping demon.
Juliebird - May 12, 2010 12:34:31 pm PDT #5691 of 5968
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
who's the demon?
-t - May 12, 2010 12:45:24 pm PDT #5692 of 5968
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Smoke monster