Emotions

Getting a little tired of this season’s same scene/different perspective technique. I think they’re finally pulling out of that and moving on to the Tailers. I’m so glad they’re fleshing out the tragedies of Hurley’s big win and I’m glad he got to play Santa Claus with the food. Locke’s flashbacks with Helen and his father were so poignant. I was crushed when Sun buried the bottle of messages. It’s too bad the writers couldn’t have left the question open longer about what happened to the Rafters, but then there would have been a ton of flashbacks and I’d be even more annoyed.

Questions

• I’m intrigued with how Anna Lucia became a hard ass.
• I’m wondering if Locke’s lesson to be learned from the Island is that you will need to love others and rely on others in order to fulfill your purpose.
• My friend S thinks Rose’s husband is a dick. I’m intrigued to see if how he plays out.

Emotions

So, I made it past the finale and chortled with the cliffhangers that would have left me furious for the months after if I had followed the series live. Glad to see Jin made it out of the drink, was worried there for a tic or two. I like that the writers are playing with 108 and other Asian cultural artifacts like the symbolism of the Book of Changes, Tao Te Ching.

Musings

• Did the writers use Tao Te Ching hexagrams in the classical way (indicating the eight cardinal directions) for the Dharma project or do those hexagrams reveal something else? (I want to look elsewhere online but I’m not gonna!)
• I’m guessing that Desmond had no intention of coming to the Island during his race around the world and despite his having quite the regular workout routine has just encamped himself in the Dharma bunker.
• It appears that the “illness” is real and not a figment of Danielle’s murderous mania, but Desmond seems a little crackers too.
• The Others have a thing for kids (not pedophilic, I’m sure) and it could be because they have newer DNA, stem cells, whatever.
• I wonder why the Dharma project initiators (who used Apple II’s apparently and data tape banks) would require someone to “reset the clock” every 108 min?/hr? Now that I think on it, could it be that for whatever the Dharma project was for the participants needed to be inoculated regularly? But then why did Desmond have Locke do the number key entry to reset the clock?

Hmm…

BTW, I had to run to Blockbuster after what happened to Boone. So, I was very glad that (a) BLOCKBUSTER TOTALACCESS provides that exchange system thing and (b) the local BLOCKBUSTER had it. Anyway,

Emotions

I love Sun & Jin! I was so glad to see them make up at the end of Exodus, p1 (They remind me of the ups-and-downs that BF and I have dealt with and how cultural differences can be both exotic/attractive and isolating). I was glad that Shannon stopped being a bitch for five seconds and took Vincent. I was teary when Vincent tried to swim out after Walter. I’m glad that Jack heard about his dad from Sawyer. I’m glad that the writers wanted to show that Sawyer is more wounded and angry and is ultimately trying for redemption. And I’m really glad that Ar[n]dst got his just desserts. I giggle at the thought of how the writers might have been exorcising their demons of embittered high school teachers. Rose (the black wife — sorry, PC police, that’s all the writers have really given me to work with) should be providing some wisdom to Clare, so I’m a little surprised that the writers haven’t let the Wise Woman of the Island, a.k.a. Rose, do that.

Random musings

• I (as the jury) am still out on Kate and I don’t know if it’s casting or the monstrously complex background that’s being gestured to. I keep waiting on how they’ll reconcile a truly frightened Kate in Episode 1 (who needs the “Just let the fear in for 5 seconds…” speech from Jack) with the total hard-ass she can be. Was that first portrayal just an act? I guess I was fooled then.
• And what the hell is Kate thinking of romancing/being nice alternately toward both Jack and Sawyer?
• I’m waiting to see where Sun got all of her medicinal knowledge.
• I’m now waiting to see what’s become of Alex, Danielle’s girl.
• My mind (the Eternal Mathematician’s) is still playing with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42… Is it a mathematical series? Which one? Fibonacci, no…

That’s all for now. Just wanted to write that down…