I hope you all have heard by now that the Series Finale on Sunday May 23rd has been expanded to run until 11:30pm. So, I hope you are all planning on taking that Monday off...right? Also, Entertainment Weekly's May 14th issue has 10 different cover photos of our favorite Flight 815 survivors. I got mine in the mail as a subscriber (Jack) but I suspect it will be on sale at newstands this week. There are several good articles on the show inside, including a handy 2 page chart as to how all the characters relate to each other, a look back at the filming of the series premiere, lots of great photos, and more. Check it out.
Lunch was a small gathering as many people don't work on Fridays these days. My sense was that all were still saddened by the episode and still absorbing it. I, for one, can't bring myself to watch it again. Though after reading some recaps it is evident I missed some little things...like Jin's appearance at the hospital in Sideways World as Jack and Locke talked. Its hard to see with tears in your eyes.
Apparently I am not alone in not wanting to watch it again...it was the first thing mentioned at lunch. They did all confirm the Jin sighting, so I guess it happened...
We discussed how Anthony Cooper was injured in Sideways World and how it was a clever spin on the Flight 815 scenario... In Island World Locke was crippled by his father and healed by the plane crash, in Sideways World he cripples himself and his father in a plane crash he feels (but doesn't know how) he caused. Carol noted that the actor playing AC, Kevin Tighe, got a listing in the credits, unusual for someone with no dialogue. Also answered the question as to why he looked familiar...he was on the old show Emergency in the 1970's...yeah, before some of you were born...ha ha. (Check him out at
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001798/ Actually its amazing what a career he's had.)
Sadly, all (Phyllis, Kristina and Carol were in attendence) fell that Lapidus is really, most sincerely dead. Felt that though we all liked him for his comic relief he really had no real purpose. I take the stand of the classic film Sullivan's Travels that few things in life are as important as comic relief...so until they show me a body I am going to keep my fingers crossed.
Phyllis brought up the question that I had as I drifed off to sleep Tuesday night: WHERE THE HECK ARE BEN, MILES AND RICHARD ALPERT????? She confirmed my sense that we haven't seen them since they refused to go along with Hurley's March to Find Smockey. My, they must be feeling pretty full of themselves right now. I am wondering if we will see them sitting around with Desmond over a cup of tea, or scotch, when Jack and Co. wander up to the Well.
Phyllis stated that there is now no question that MIB/Smokey is EVIL. Carol mentioned (I think from a conversation published somewhere with the producers) that the purpose behind the deaths of Sun and Jin was to prove that once and for all. You know, I didn't need convincing, guys...!!! Really.
Hurley and Jack blubbering at the end really got to Kristina...and apparently Doc Jensen.
I mentioned my thought that Sawyer will be very eaten up by guilt over his decision to pull the wires that caused the explosion that leads to the Kwon's deaths; so eaten up he will do something reckless that leads to his death...and maybe Kate will too, or die of her wound. The point is...they could end up being Adam and Eve. This led Phyllis to noting that one body was found with a white stone and one with a black stone. So... one person had been evil and one good? She also mentioned something in the Washington Post Ladies recap: Perhaps Kate and Jack are not on the list so MIB would not be concerned with them... and so not go after them. (we wondered about which list... she clarified that it was the list that Widmore had of 4 names...the same 4 names that Ben had given Michael under orders to bring back so he could get his son.... wow.) So, not the "list" of names on the cave wall. All clear now? Sure.
OK, then... I asked if Widmore is a "Good Witch" now...that he DID mean to protect them by putting them in that cage.. Smokey couldn't get them because he can't kill them himself and they wouldn't have gotten on the sub. Though in retrospect I suppose he could have tossed in the C-4 and the same scenario might have played out.
No one was sure of the significance of the music box Claire showed Jack in Sideways World...though we all remember the song as one sung to baby Aaron. Rousseau had a music box with a ballerina on it...and though not exact, Claire did become the Island Crazy Lady with a Lost Baby. Speaking of Claire we all felt bad for her...once again she was abandoned, left behind, but she can't really blame Kate since she saw her get shot. But then again, SHE'S CRAZY so who knows whether this will push her completely over or... maybe anger at Smockey may bring her back to sanity, sort of.
Something prompted Carol to remember a line from the film The Jewel of the Nile, I believe the holy man (who is the "jewel" of the title) says at some point "I'm sure it's not my destiny to die on this island." We do have a far ranging discussion....don't we?
Kristina made the great point that Sawyer's guilt over the deaths of Sayid and the Kwon's "evens out" the guilt of Jack over the death of Juliet. Maybe they can finally put that behind them a really work together now...if the guilt, as I mentioned earlier, doesn't cause Sawyer to unravel. Last week we had discussed how Sawyer's distrust of everyone had been a good defense...but he took his distrust too far. Phyllis read the entry from Doc Jensen on Sawyer...he wanted to have a great escape plan that worked where Jack's had failed, but instead of success he "found his Waterloo".... that he finally got a real taste of the downside of leadership. Doc also predicts that if Sawyer comes to an untimely end it will be at Claire's hand...since it was Sawyer who made the call to leave her behind. (though she may not be so upset since the sub sank.)
Carol wondered why Jack didn't notice a difference in his backpack, C-4 must feel different from shirts. I think we gave that one up to dramatic license. I thought maybe Smocke had set up the bomb on the plane in the first place but everyone else thought he was taking advantage of the opportunity of getting the explosives. I'm still not convinced... though I now understand the whole stealing the watch thing...he needed it for the timer on the bomb on the sub - the one on the plane was wired into its controls. I just have a hard time accepting that Smockey would be herding them all to the Sub without knowing in advance how he was going to get them to kill each other.
I mentioned finally that I wasn't surprised by the Kwon's deaths; sad, yes, but not surprised. Its as though their story was over...the Island was done with them. But oh brother, what a powerful film moment...the choice to show their hands separating under the water was just soooo heart breaking, so final.
Well, as someone famous once said, talk amongst yourselves, I'm all vaklemplt!
Namaste, Yinz.
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