LOST: Further Instructions, or Visions from a Sweat Lodge

Here be spoilers, and polar bears, and lots of blood. SO, if you haven’t seen the latest episode of LOST and don’t want to know anything about it in advance, don’t read.

1. De live-blogged the show at Thinklings. Unfortunately, we weren’t attending the same party. He says, “Locke is mute, and Charlie can talk (and talk, and talk). Punch him, Locke!! Please! You’ve done it before! I can’t take the charades!” We were saying, “Oh, good, Locke can’t talk. And Charlie can. Please let it last for a couple of episodes at least.” But it didn’t. By the end of the episode, Locke is making heroic speeches again. He’s the macho leader guy who’s redemed his mistakes by rescuing Eko, almost single-handedly. But I would have loved to have seen him carrying Eko on his back by himself all the way back to camp. Locke turns into The Hulk! Only he doesn’t. Charlie’s right. THey ignore him until they need him for guard duty or to hold up the other side of Mr. Eko. Then, Charlie’s their best friend. And Charlie is funny. Locke isn’t.

2. “Ever notice that Hurley is really the only voice of reason on the island?” Another quote from De, but this time I agree. Hurley is my favorite character on the island, and I think he’s losing weight. He also makes sense and comes out and says what everybody else is thinking. The only thing he gets weird about is the numbers, and he hasn’t mentioned them in a while.

3. So, when did Locke lose the use of his legs? He seems to have lived a full life: Daddy problems, Mommy problems, organ donor, girlfriend problems, running from the money guys, member of a druggie commune/cult, and then paralysis? I’m not sure I’ve got it all in the right order, but anyway you look at it he’s been a busy man. And he worked at a box company in his spare time.

4. We have an abundance of prophets on this island. Is Mr. Eko the prophet/messenger of God? Or is Boone a prophet come back from the dead? Desmond reminds me a bit of Elijah with a Scots accent. And at the end he seemed to be a prophet, or someone who was living backwards, or something.

5. How are the Beach People going to manage without Jack the Doctor or Sun the Herbalist? You’d think there would be a nurse or something in the group, but I suppose that information would have surfaced by now with all the medical emergencies they’ve been through.

I think tonight was a bit of a let down. I don’t like all the sweat lodge mumbo-jumbo. I don’t like Locke, faith or no faith. I added a picture of Sun last week, but no picture of Locke will be forthcoming. If Locke’s going to be the new hero of the play, they’re going to have to work on his character as far as I’m concerned. Rescuing Mr. Eko from a polar bear won’t hack it. But I’m glad Mr. Eko isn’t dead.

6 thoughts on “LOST: Further Instructions, or Visions from a Sweat Lodge

  1. I also prefer Locke verbally-impaired. I thought the espisode was just okay. I liked the Boone drug-dream. As H says, Lost is the only show where dead characters can be recurring characters. I’m really glad that Mr. Eko is still a live. I like him. Also, I’m annoyed at the double-Tailie murder last season and don’t want all the Tailies to die. But, of course, we still have Bernard.

    I think Boone’s not a prophet; he’s just a visual representation of the island. The island was speaking to Locke.

    I love Desmond as prophet. What happened to him when the hatch imploded?!

    The cave with Dharma skeletons was freaky. The dump truck seems to point to children on the island during its former Dharma glory days. I can’t see a kid flying Sydney to LA with a dump truck. Were there families from Dharma on the island at one time? If “Ben” has lived on the island his whole life, was he born on the island? Were his parents and others the original Dharma scientists?

    The writers give us three new questions for each one they answer. Argh!

  2. Yes, I’m getting more and more confused. Don’t worry, maybe in the next episode we’ll get some of our questions answered. Like, “How is the whole Kate-Sawyer-Jack thing going to work out?”

  3. From the preview and the first episode this season, it looks like the-powers-that-be are pushing Kate and Sawyer together. BTW, are you watching “Heroes” or “Jericho”? Both seem to be heavily influenced by Lost.

  4. I love Hurley, too, and agree that he’s often the voice of reason (which is pretty funny, since he was in a mental hospital in his pre-island life). I thought that it was very sad that he was robbed so quickly of the chance to have a relationship with Libby.

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