Sorry for the blog coming out a day late people, but Ive been busy finishing up all my school work before Spring Break and making final preparations for my big Spring Break poker tournament. Only 8 more days til the poker tournament and hopefully everyone interested in playing gets a facebook invite by tomorrow when I send them out. Ill be writing a preview blog for this tournament since we have some interesting storylines beginning to unfold..
**Po's Spring Break poker tournament, Saturday March 6th @ 6:30pm**
Now its time to break down this week's LOST episode. Jack's flash-sideways was very interesting. I dont know what to make of the whole appendix scar that Jack saw on himself in the mirror. His mom said he had it out when he was just 7 yrs old, but im not sure if thats true...
And holy crap Jack has a son! They never showed us who the ex-wife was, but it has to still be Sara. Maybe the actor who plays Sara just wasnt available for filming because of her new role on Modern Family.
I love how Dogen just shows up out of nowhere in Jack's flash sideways as well...
As far as the on-island actions, is it just me or is Claire even hotter now that she is playing the bad girl. It just goes to show you how much she has changed, she just swings an ax and nails a guy in the chest with it. I think Claire will eventually end up figuring out what really happened to Aaron and will have a confrontation with Kate about it.
I have an interesting theory dealing with the names of the candidates on the wall. We know that Kate was the only one that Jacob touched who didnt appear on the wall as a candidate. I wonder if this is because Kate was brought to the island by Jacob to be "with" whoever the new candidate ended up being. Jacob touched Kate to make sure she got to the island, not to be a candidate, but to be at the side of the candidate and to make sure the island stays populated. Its really the only reason I can think of as to why Kate would be touched by Jacob but not on his wall of names.
Okay now its time to discuss the most important scene from this week's episode, the Lighthouse scene. Earlier in the episode Jacob told Hurley that someone was coming to the island and needed help finding their way. I think Jacob is talking about Desmond, all along I have thought that Desmond would be the one who ties everything together and maybe even ties the alternate timeline into the real timeline.
So Hurley and Jack go to the lighthouse and see the wheel of names and numbers. They show us pictures of things at each degree. The main point of this was for Jacob to show Jack that he really has been important to the island the entire time. I think after seeing that Jacob has been watching him for his entire life, it has now clicked with Jack that he plays a crucial part in how the story ends. Jack is probably even ready to die for the island now... not literally... well, maybe literally?
One quick scene that caught my eye was the scene with Hurley and Miles playing TIC TAC TOE... it always ends in a draw. Hmmm... I think this could be a clue into something that is going to happen in a future episode. I just dont think they would show this scene for no reason.
I know very soon we are going to get a Richard flashback, and if they show us the Black Rock coming to the island, I think that is going to make all hell break loose.
At the end of the episode, Smokey(Locke) walked into Claire's tent and Claire called him her "friend." Very scary.... and it looks like all of them are headed for the temple, which is going to get very interesting.
Next week's episode is called, "Sundown" and will focus on Sayid.. so maybe next week we find out if Sayid is going to get infected or not. We will find out next Tuesday at 9pm, until next time...
BASIC KNOWLEDGE and LOUDNESS.......
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
LOST Season 6 Episode 4 "The Substitute"
At this point you know the drill, so lets just jump right into this....
Tremendous episode delivered by LOST this week. Let me tell everyone a quick story that many of you may not have heard before. Three years ago during the filming of Season 3, Terry O'Quinn (the actor who plays John Locke) had a meeting with prodcuers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. During that meeting he said that he was unhappy with the way his character was being handled. He felt his character had no purpose and was slowly becoming irrelevant. The producers told him, much like they tell us fans, to just be patient. Even Terry O'Quinn couldnt have imagined what the producers had in store for him. Being patient has definitely paid off for both O'Quinn and the fans. The last two years of this show have basically been revolving around Terry O'Quinn. He has played the character of John Locke on the island, John Locke off the island, John Locke in an alternate timeline, and now a Smoke Monster form of John Locke.
The performance that I watched this past Tuesday by Terry O'Quinn was probably the best performance I have seen in all 6 seasons of watching this show. I feel like I am on the edge of my seat every time he is in a scene. Quotes like "What if I could answer the most important question in the world?" ... and "You're so close, itd be a shame to turn back now" really make me feel like were getting somewhere. I have a feeling that since he is portraying the smoke monster that he is going to be the one who reveals A LOT of island secrets in the coming episodes.
Speaking of the smoke monster, how cool was it to have a 'smokey cam' going on at the beginning. Hopefully we get more scenes from the viewpoint of the smoke monster flying around the jungle.
Lets tackle the issue of the little boy right now... we witnessed a few scenes with a random kid showing up out of nowhere. In the first shot his arms were covered in blood, and the second time he was being chased by Smokey and appeared to be getting bigger and bigger the closer Smokey got to him. "You cant kill him" has been a highly debated quote over the past couple of days. I tend to agree with the theory that its little Jacob telling Smokey he cant kill any of the candidates that Jacob brought to the island because of the rules. These are the same rules we hear about between Widmore and Ben after Ben's daughter is killed. I have a feeling we will be hearing more about the rules of the game that all these characters (Widmore-Ben, Smokey-Jacob) seem to be playing.
Speaking of Ben... absolutely hilarious seeing him as a nerdy High School teacher who is teaching European History and complaining about coffee filters. Too funny. It makes sense though why he is a teacher. The island is underwater in the alternate time line, we assume because the hydrogen bomb went of in 1977 in that time line. Therefore, Ben was never brought to the island as a boy by his Dad, and he would never be shot and never taken to the temple by Richard, so he never became that bad guy. He is just a dorky looking High School history teacher who has probably never killed anyone in his entire life.
Now time to talk about the candidates... we finally have full knowledge of what the numbers stand for, people! Smokey showed Sawyer Jacob's lists with the names of all the people he has brought to the island over the years. The names that were scratched out seems to be people are now dead and no longer candidates, hence Smokey crossing out Locke's name. Notice that Kate was not shown up on the wall, and all the numbers were accounted for too. Very interesting since we saw Jacob touch Kate when she was a little girl. Another comment that caught my ear was when Smokey said, "Kwon... im not sure if thats Sun or Jin. I think that he means Jin, which may mean that a candidate can only be male, which would explain why Kate isn't on the wall. Another theory is that when Jacob shows up at Jin/Sun marriage the camera clearly shows Jacob touch Jin but doesnt show him touching Sun, we just assumed that he touched both... which could explain why Sun is the ONLY one touched by Jacob who is not at the temple, and the ONLY one touched by Jacob who didnt flash to 1977 after the Ajira flight crashed.
The final scene was one of the most intense scenes we have ever seen in LOST. It felt good to see why exactly they were brought to the island, what Jacob's plan was for them, and what the numbers meant. I now think Smokey wants to actually leave the island, and he looks to be trying to manipulate one of the candidates in order to do so. Sawyer said he was going to help him, but hopefully sawyer is planning a nice long con and will turn out to be the one who ruins Smokey's ultimate plans in the end.
I think Smokey needs all the candidates on the island to be dead in order for him to be able to leave the island, because they are the "protector's" of the island. However, as were told by the little kid, he cannot kill them... much like he couldnt kill Jacob either. I think Smokey can only kill people if the judgment calls for it. Thats why we have seen Smokey judge people in the past (Eko and Ben). He killed Eko, but let Ben live. So because of this Smokey had to find a loophole and get someone else to kill Jacob. So if he needs other people to kill the candidates that would explain why he may be building an army of "claimed, sick" people in the upcoming war that Widmore and Bram told us was coming. We shall see....
**Side Note: Ive been thinking about the whole Desmond on the plane scene from Episode 1, he was on the plane then seemed to disappear and we never saw him get off the plane. Daniel Faraday told us back in Season 5 that the rules of time travel dont apply to Desmond because he is special. We also saw how Desmond's consciousness jumped from 2004 to 1996 in Season 4 during "The Constant" episode. What if Desmond randomly flashed onto the Oceanic plane in the alternate time line for some reason. It would explain how he just disappear, because he flashed on and then flashed off the plane. What was his purpose on the plane though? He seemed to have disappeared right after Jack saved Charlie's life. Interesting...
Before I wrap it up I just wanna announce that in 2 weeks, Saturday March 6th, I will be hosting another big poker tourney at the house. I think its Spring Break for most of the college kids, and im lettin everyone know early because last time a couple of you told me that you wanted to play but couldnt get off work on that short of notice. A facebook group will be made next week sometime so be on the lookout for that. Hopefully we can get as many people as we had last time...
Thats all for this week's episode... next week's episode is called "Lighthouse" and will focus on Jack. See you all next week...
BASIC KNOWLEDGE and LOUDNESS.....
Tremendous episode delivered by LOST this week. Let me tell everyone a quick story that many of you may not have heard before. Three years ago during the filming of Season 3, Terry O'Quinn (the actor who plays John Locke) had a meeting with prodcuers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse. During that meeting he said that he was unhappy with the way his character was being handled. He felt his character had no purpose and was slowly becoming irrelevant. The producers told him, much like they tell us fans, to just be patient. Even Terry O'Quinn couldnt have imagined what the producers had in store for him. Being patient has definitely paid off for both O'Quinn and the fans. The last two years of this show have basically been revolving around Terry O'Quinn. He has played the character of John Locke on the island, John Locke off the island, John Locke in an alternate timeline, and now a Smoke Monster form of John Locke.
The performance that I watched this past Tuesday by Terry O'Quinn was probably the best performance I have seen in all 6 seasons of watching this show. I feel like I am on the edge of my seat every time he is in a scene. Quotes like "What if I could answer the most important question in the world?" ... and "You're so close, itd be a shame to turn back now" really make me feel like were getting somewhere. I have a feeling that since he is portraying the smoke monster that he is going to be the one who reveals A LOT of island secrets in the coming episodes.
Speaking of the smoke monster, how cool was it to have a 'smokey cam' going on at the beginning. Hopefully we get more scenes from the viewpoint of the smoke monster flying around the jungle.
Lets tackle the issue of the little boy right now... we witnessed a few scenes with a random kid showing up out of nowhere. In the first shot his arms were covered in blood, and the second time he was being chased by Smokey and appeared to be getting bigger and bigger the closer Smokey got to him. "You cant kill him" has been a highly debated quote over the past couple of days. I tend to agree with the theory that its little Jacob telling Smokey he cant kill any of the candidates that Jacob brought to the island because of the rules. These are the same rules we hear about between Widmore and Ben after Ben's daughter is killed. I have a feeling we will be hearing more about the rules of the game that all these characters (Widmore-Ben, Smokey-Jacob) seem to be playing.
Speaking of Ben... absolutely hilarious seeing him as a nerdy High School teacher who is teaching European History and complaining about coffee filters. Too funny. It makes sense though why he is a teacher. The island is underwater in the alternate time line, we assume because the hydrogen bomb went of in 1977 in that time line. Therefore, Ben was never brought to the island as a boy by his Dad, and he would never be shot and never taken to the temple by Richard, so he never became that bad guy. He is just a dorky looking High School history teacher who has probably never killed anyone in his entire life.
Now time to talk about the candidates... we finally have full knowledge of what the numbers stand for, people! Smokey showed Sawyer Jacob's lists with the names of all the people he has brought to the island over the years. The names that were scratched out seems to be people are now dead and no longer candidates, hence Smokey crossing out Locke's name. Notice that Kate was not shown up on the wall, and all the numbers were accounted for too. Very interesting since we saw Jacob touch Kate when she was a little girl. Another comment that caught my ear was when Smokey said, "Kwon... im not sure if thats Sun or Jin. I think that he means Jin, which may mean that a candidate can only be male, which would explain why Kate isn't on the wall. Another theory is that when Jacob shows up at Jin/Sun marriage the camera clearly shows Jacob touch Jin but doesnt show him touching Sun, we just assumed that he touched both... which could explain why Sun is the ONLY one touched by Jacob who is not at the temple, and the ONLY one touched by Jacob who didnt flash to 1977 after the Ajira flight crashed.
The final scene was one of the most intense scenes we have ever seen in LOST. It felt good to see why exactly they were brought to the island, what Jacob's plan was for them, and what the numbers meant. I now think Smokey wants to actually leave the island, and he looks to be trying to manipulate one of the candidates in order to do so. Sawyer said he was going to help him, but hopefully sawyer is planning a nice long con and will turn out to be the one who ruins Smokey's ultimate plans in the end.
I think Smokey needs all the candidates on the island to be dead in order for him to be able to leave the island, because they are the "protector's" of the island. However, as were told by the little kid, he cannot kill them... much like he couldnt kill Jacob either. I think Smokey can only kill people if the judgment calls for it. Thats why we have seen Smokey judge people in the past (Eko and Ben). He killed Eko, but let Ben live. So because of this Smokey had to find a loophole and get someone else to kill Jacob. So if he needs other people to kill the candidates that would explain why he may be building an army of "claimed, sick" people in the upcoming war that Widmore and Bram told us was coming. We shall see....
**Side Note: Ive been thinking about the whole Desmond on the plane scene from Episode 1, he was on the plane then seemed to disappear and we never saw him get off the plane. Daniel Faraday told us back in Season 5 that the rules of time travel dont apply to Desmond because he is special. We also saw how Desmond's consciousness jumped from 2004 to 1996 in Season 4 during "The Constant" episode. What if Desmond randomly flashed onto the Oceanic plane in the alternate time line for some reason. It would explain how he just disappear, because he flashed on and then flashed off the plane. What was his purpose on the plane though? He seemed to have disappeared right after Jack saved Charlie's life. Interesting...
Before I wrap it up I just wanna announce that in 2 weeks, Saturday March 6th, I will be hosting another big poker tourney at the house. I think its Spring Break for most of the college kids, and im lettin everyone know early because last time a couple of you told me that you wanted to play but couldnt get off work on that short of notice. A facebook group will be made next week sometime so be on the lookout for that. Hopefully we can get as many people as we had last time...
Thats all for this week's episode... next week's episode is called "Lighthouse" and will focus on Jack. See you all next week...
BASIC KNOWLEDGE and LOUDNESS.....
Thursday, February 11, 2010
LOST Season 6 Episode 3 "What Kate Does"
Not the best episode LOST has ever put on the air, but that was expected after such a hyped up 3-hour season premiere. This episode is getting a lot of negative publicity, but I think this was just a transition episode which is laying the groundwork for a fantastic storyline.
When they first started testing Sayid I think they were testing to see if he was the smoke monster, thats why they blew the ash over his body. Then they tested to see if he was "sick." That was the overall theme of this episode: "The Sickness." If you recall from last season's episode when we met Danielle Rousseau's French team, you would remember that Rousseau's entire team was attacked by the smoke monster and then eventually she killed them all because she claimed that they were "sick" ever since the smoke monster attacked them. Im wondering if Rousseau herself got sick too which turned her into the crazy woman she ended up being.
I cannot complain about how the episode ended though, a great ending seeing Claire return and looking exactly like Rousseau. Those traps that were set in the jungle that Kate almost tripped over were set by Claire. Apparently she was "claimed" and got sick. This sickness goes to your heart and changes the kind of person you are, which is certainly true because the old Claire would never hurt a fly let alone openly shoot and kill two guys with a rifle. The similarities between Claire and Rousseau are stunning: they look exactly the same now with Claire's new hair, they both seemingly went crazy and started setting traps all over the jungle, both walked around with a rifle, and most importantly both lost their babies! Its still unclear how Claire was separated from Aaron, but nonetheless she doesnt have him anymore. The last time we saw Claire she saw her dad, Christian, and went away with him while leaving Aaron behind. Im pretty sure Smokey was in Christian Shepard's body when he took Claire away, thus making her "sick." Speaking of Aaron, remember when Rousseau kept telling Claire that her baby was infected? Hmmm...
There were many mentions by the Japanese guy saying people get sick, and it goes to there heart after they get "claimed." Here is what I think is happening on our wonderful island... In last year's episode "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" we saw a conversation between Charles Widmore and John Locke. During this conversation Widmore said "There is a war coming!" We heard the same thing when Bram kidnapped Miles in that van.
We heard the Japanese guy say its very important that all of our Losties stay at the temple and stay together. If no one has noticed, everyone Jacob touched is at the temple right now. So I look at the people he touched as Jacob recruiting his "army"... to counter this I feel like Smokey is trying to build an "army" as well, and he is doing this by making certain people sick in order to make them become evil and help him. Thats what is happening to Sayid, and is also what the Japanese guy told Jack, "that is what happened to your sister." Obviously referring to the fact that Claire was claimed and got sick. This seems to have been a war that has been brewing for a long long long time now. This would explain Jacob's comment in the Season 5 finale when he said, "It only ends once, anything else is just progress." Progressively Jacob has been selecting his people for a war against Smokey, and after hundred's of years of trying it seems he finally has brought the right people to the island. It will only end once when the inevitable war comes to blows. This could also be why everyone kept saying the Oceanic 6 were never suppose to leave and that there work was not finished.
In the season premiere Smokey(Locke) said that he wanted to go home. I think by this he means the temple. Smokey wants to live in the temple but currently it is being run by the Japanese guy and his team who seem to be connected with Jacob. Thats why the Japanese guy told Sawyer that it was very important that he not leave the temple. I think the culmination of this season and the series will be the one final battle between Jacob's army and Smokey's army. Obviously there will be a lot more to this storyline if it happens, but who knows its just my best theory from what I have been watching.
As far as the alternate timeline is concerned I thought it was very well done. Kate has absolutely no growth when it comes to on-island, I like her more in this timeline. Everyone is talking about how unrealistic it would be for Claire to get in a taxi with someone who pointed a gun at her, but when you think about it its really not that far fetched. Claire's emotional status was terrible at that time... she is about to go give up her baby to a couple in LA, her Dad left her and is now dead, her Mom is in a coma from a car crash that she caused, and the father of her baby left her when she was pregnant. She was just looking for someone to hang on to and trust. Again, they're trying to show us that these people were destined to be involved in each other's lives whether there was a plane crash or not. Kate seemed to be having a lot of deja vu tonight. When she saw Jack outside the airport she looked at him for a while, when she heard Claire scream "Aaron" she had another shocked look on her face. Interesting.
One very interesting bit of information I discovered was in the scene where Claire was looking at the picture of her ultrasound, the camera showed the top of the ultrasound for a split second and the date on the top of the ultrasound was OCTOBER 22, 2004!!!!! If you remember, the original Oceanic Airlines flight was on SEPTEMBER 22, 2004. So if the ultrasound had the real date on it, then the flight that landed in LAX was a month later than the original Oceanic 815 flight, I wonder if they were even flying on Flight 815???
That is all for this week's episode, make sure to view the blog next week as we will have a full recap on Season 6 Episode 4 "The Substitute." This is a Locke episode and should deal with the things that are happening over at the statue, so I am very excited for that. Until next time....
BASIC KNOWLEDGE and LOUDNESS......
When they first started testing Sayid I think they were testing to see if he was the smoke monster, thats why they blew the ash over his body. Then they tested to see if he was "sick." That was the overall theme of this episode: "The Sickness." If you recall from last season's episode when we met Danielle Rousseau's French team, you would remember that Rousseau's entire team was attacked by the smoke monster and then eventually she killed them all because she claimed that they were "sick" ever since the smoke monster attacked them. Im wondering if Rousseau herself got sick too which turned her into the crazy woman she ended up being.
I cannot complain about how the episode ended though, a great ending seeing Claire return and looking exactly like Rousseau. Those traps that were set in the jungle that Kate almost tripped over were set by Claire. Apparently she was "claimed" and got sick. This sickness goes to your heart and changes the kind of person you are, which is certainly true because the old Claire would never hurt a fly let alone openly shoot and kill two guys with a rifle. The similarities between Claire and Rousseau are stunning: they look exactly the same now with Claire's new hair, they both seemingly went crazy and started setting traps all over the jungle, both walked around with a rifle, and most importantly both lost their babies! Its still unclear how Claire was separated from Aaron, but nonetheless she doesnt have him anymore. The last time we saw Claire she saw her dad, Christian, and went away with him while leaving Aaron behind. Im pretty sure Smokey was in Christian Shepard's body when he took Claire away, thus making her "sick." Speaking of Aaron, remember when Rousseau kept telling Claire that her baby was infected? Hmmm...
There were many mentions by the Japanese guy saying people get sick, and it goes to there heart after they get "claimed." Here is what I think is happening on our wonderful island... In last year's episode "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" we saw a conversation between Charles Widmore and John Locke. During this conversation Widmore said "There is a war coming!" We heard the same thing when Bram kidnapped Miles in that van.
We heard the Japanese guy say its very important that all of our Losties stay at the temple and stay together. If no one has noticed, everyone Jacob touched is at the temple right now. So I look at the people he touched as Jacob recruiting his "army"... to counter this I feel like Smokey is trying to build an "army" as well, and he is doing this by making certain people sick in order to make them become evil and help him. Thats what is happening to Sayid, and is also what the Japanese guy told Jack, "that is what happened to your sister." Obviously referring to the fact that Claire was claimed and got sick. This seems to have been a war that has been brewing for a long long long time now. This would explain Jacob's comment in the Season 5 finale when he said, "It only ends once, anything else is just progress." Progressively Jacob has been selecting his people for a war against Smokey, and after hundred's of years of trying it seems he finally has brought the right people to the island. It will only end once when the inevitable war comes to blows. This could also be why everyone kept saying the Oceanic 6 were never suppose to leave and that there work was not finished.
In the season premiere Smokey(Locke) said that he wanted to go home. I think by this he means the temple. Smokey wants to live in the temple but currently it is being run by the Japanese guy and his team who seem to be connected with Jacob. Thats why the Japanese guy told Sawyer that it was very important that he not leave the temple. I think the culmination of this season and the series will be the one final battle between Jacob's army and Smokey's army. Obviously there will be a lot more to this storyline if it happens, but who knows its just my best theory from what I have been watching.
As far as the alternate timeline is concerned I thought it was very well done. Kate has absolutely no growth when it comes to on-island, I like her more in this timeline. Everyone is talking about how unrealistic it would be for Claire to get in a taxi with someone who pointed a gun at her, but when you think about it its really not that far fetched. Claire's emotional status was terrible at that time... she is about to go give up her baby to a couple in LA, her Dad left her and is now dead, her Mom is in a coma from a car crash that she caused, and the father of her baby left her when she was pregnant. She was just looking for someone to hang on to and trust. Again, they're trying to show us that these people were destined to be involved in each other's lives whether there was a plane crash or not. Kate seemed to be having a lot of deja vu tonight. When she saw Jack outside the airport she looked at him for a while, when she heard Claire scream "Aaron" she had another shocked look on her face. Interesting.
One very interesting bit of information I discovered was in the scene where Claire was looking at the picture of her ultrasound, the camera showed the top of the ultrasound for a split second and the date on the top of the ultrasound was OCTOBER 22, 2004!!!!! If you remember, the original Oceanic Airlines flight was on SEPTEMBER 22, 2004. So if the ultrasound had the real date on it, then the flight that landed in LAX was a month later than the original Oceanic 815 flight, I wonder if they were even flying on Flight 815???
That is all for this week's episode, make sure to view the blog next week as we will have a full recap on Season 6 Episode 4 "The Substitute." This is a Locke episode and should deal with the things that are happening over at the statue, so I am very excited for that. Until next time....
BASIC KNOWLEDGE and LOUDNESS......
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