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Well, for all intents and purposes, Charlie might have spent the rest of the day combing the wreckage. When we cut back to them it's nighttime.
So I just did a little rewatch now that I could relax and not expect Michael to get shot by a sniper every ten seconds or the Monster to burst out of the jungle.
Honestly, it would have been perfect if they just cut out the thirty seconds of Four Toe Statue. The sailboat just may have been cresting the fin of a shark at that moment. I read something about yin and yang and how even toed animals are yin and odd toed animals are yang (or vice versa) and thus at this point the only way they could salvage that whole deal is if it used to be a statue of a guy with four toes on one foot and five on the other. Otherwise, bad bad things.
Everything else, totally gold. It was unsettling and strange seeing Henry Gale walk around in the wide open, all tiny on the dock. I think that reveal would've worked much better in a dank hatch somewhere. But Michael and Walt just sail off? Again, totally expecting the boat to blow up at any second. We'll see.
Just as the hatch exponentially increased the scope of the show last season, everything has pretty much widened the scope this time around. There's a very real danger that Lost could now end up as shitty a show as Alias if they spend too much time and energy in the "real world" but there's still a chance. Albiet, slim.
What I first didn't like but now I totally love is the fact that this episode completely debunks the idea of a vast conspiracy drawing everyone to the island. Sure, Kelvin could've gotten a directive to distract Des within a certain timeframe during the course of 9/22 and make sure he was unable to hit the button but it's more likely that it really was fate. Which is kind of lovely when you look at it through Locke's eyes. Now there might never be that crushing reveal when Locke finally meet's the dad from The O.C. face to face and is told "Fate didn't bring you here, John. We did." He really does have a purpose. They all do. That brief wisp of an idea I had at the end of the first season, that this group was brought to the island destined to become a kind of rag tag superteam that ends up saving the world might actually come to pass. There really is a global threat on that island and Sayid is going to shoot it right in the junk someday.
This is 100% The Stand at this point, with perhaps a dash of The Dark Tower depending on where that Statue comes from. Couldn't be happier. |
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