Cop: Justin Chatwin
Guy that looks like the bearded guy: Chris Mulkey
He was Tom Cruise’s son in War of the Worlds.
Another LOST episode, figuratively and literally. We spent an hour, we got nowhere except to discover that, as we all knew anyway, Locke, Eko and Desmond survived. Not a shread of plot was moved forward.
What was with the Tonka truck in the bear cave? Were we supposed to think someone with kids was living in there at some point? Did that bear have a lot of human bones or what? Where did all those people come from? They can’t be Others, or you’d think the Others would have hunted it down and killed it. Just more unanswered questions.
Desmond is prophectic now? Great, cue more confusing plot angles and loose ends.
WTF is wrong with the people at the beach. Locke, Desmond and Eko are gone for more than 24 hours and nobody cares. The hatch is imploded, but nobody goes to check on it, do laundry, take a shower or just say “hey” for over a day? Nobody goes out into the jungle to see what that huge explosion and purple light might have come from?
Ephraim
1824
You were as prescient as Desmond this week, Sidd. We actually saw ALL of those Lockes this week.
He was serenely mystical when it came time to build his sweat lodge to “talk to the island”. He was slightly crazed and ruthlessly capable as a hunter when he was hunting the bears and entering the den, and he was a self-doubting lackey who gets manipulated by the cop in the flashback.
Good job!
Lock’s not a hunter, he’s a farmer!
JeffL
1826
My new thought on what the island is: It’s Fantasy Island, long abandoned by Rourke and Tattoo.
That what I came up with to amuse myself while being bored by last night’s episode.
I did do pretty well, didn’t I? Kudos to the writers for presenting all three faces of Locke while maintaining decent character consistency. It wasn’t a bad episode, and the flashback had a nice reference to the daddy issues which are a major theme of the show.
Just in case my writing does affect the show, I’m concerned about whether we’ll see Kate bathing, Kate in the rain with a light-colored top on, or Kate doing nude yoga sometime soon.
Feel free to substitute Sawyer’s name for Kate’s if that’s more your cup of tea – substitute “hauling rocks shirtless” for the rain image. As long as you also address my concerns about Kate.
Patrick
1828
When they got Eko back to the village, was there new people there? I wasn’t recording it. But afterwards I had the feeling that there was someone I hadn’t seen before. So was there or am I just going off the deep end?
I thought just some of the normal extras,who have changed a lot,IIRC.
Yeah. I think the writers want to inject some new blood.
That would be Nikki and Paolo. They’ve totally been there the whole time. They weren’t added as replacement characters AT ALL. Really!
Episode sucked, season sucks so far. I’m close to ditching this show.
I don’t have much of a problem with how they introduced them. There are 40+ survivors and it doesn’t break immersion if a couple new ones show up every now and them.
mystery
1833
Just consider them red-shirts.
Patrick
1834
Thats fine if thats what they are doing. It’s just with Desmond going all… knowing what locke will say and everyone not being worried about people being missing for a day. That maybe they are doing some kind of. “The Magic island swaps out people to see if anyone notices” thing.
People dissapearing for a day really isn’t a big thing here. People have gone off for several days before, and it’s a crowd of 40+ people that don’t take a roll call at bed time. Besides, Locke was pretty much living up there anyway.
People going about their business right after the hatch wen’t blewy yes.
Patrick
1836
Yea, they will probably end up getting eaten by a really pissed off polar bear.
You bet. Remember the island has healing powers, so crispified Yogi should take a couple of episodes to heal up those facial burns and then come looking for new skulls to add to his collection in the cave.
mixuk
1838
What the hell, there’s a huge implosion and one of the victims loses his voice, the other one his clothes and the last one is being dragged off by a polar bear.
I’m not even going to mention the tent-trip sequence.
Lost is getting weirder.
drewl
1840
Don’t wanna risk jabbin’ yo momma in the mouth…
anyway, they should kick Lockes ass for blowing up the shower, food and records.
So how’d the polar bears get outta’ Gale’s Zoo?
