Summary:
Fake Locke, after failing to recruit Richard, finds Sawyer, drunk and pantless, in New Otherton, and succesfully manages to convince Sawyer to come with him. Sawyer, who realizes that this is a FAKE Locke, asks a few questions before being led into a cave in the side of a cliff. In here, Fake Locke tells him that he is a candidate to replace Jacob, and shows him the list of candidates - Shepherd, Reyes, Jarrah, Sawyer, Locke, and Kwon (which?), who are each attached to one of THE numbers. Locke tells Sawyer to forget the candidate business and get off the island with him, and Sawyer agrees.
Illana takes some of Jacob's ashes, and then the beach group buries Locke after Ben admits to murdering him. Oh, and Richard runs through the jungle, scared, and tries to talk Sawyer into running to the temple, but scampers off before Fake Locke comes back from chasing a young boy (Aaron/Jacob/WHO?).
Alt Locke is still paralyzed, but he's now engaged to Helen, and it appears he doesn't hate his father. After he gets fired for attempting to go on a walkabout instead of going to a conference on the company dime, Hurley gives him the number for a temp agency, where Rose (!) tells him to be honest with himself. So he takes up a job he is qualified for - a substitute teacher, and becomes best friends with the European History Teacher - Mr. Benjamin Linus.
Reaction:
Holy crap. What a great episode. Real questions were asked - and answered (although there were still some frustrating missed questions). Fake Locke - great at evil, and great at manipulation.
And was I surprised to see Fake Locke show emotion - fear and surprise at the Jacob/Aaron/Boy.
And the cave'o numbers was suitably creepy. Thankfully, Kate does not appear to be a candidate for candidateness. And the candidate replacing Jacob? Cool. Crazy. Awesome.
Alas, my sole complaint is that there still hasn't been shown a purpose for the Alt World. It's interesting, but how does it play into the plot?
Themes:
Fake Locke seems to be an advocate of Free Will. Does that make Jacob the advocate of Fate?
Speculation:
Here are a few quick speculative thoughts:
Sawyer is conning Fake Locke. Why would he even want off the island?
Didn't Helen die of a sudden aneurysm in 2004? Is she about to drop dead on a (sorta) happy Alt Locke?
Hurley will turn out to be the Candidate. He's the only good Lostie.
Next week appears to be a Jack episode - keeping to the mirror of Season 1. Flashbacks (and centricness of the episode) went Plane / Plane / Kate / Locke / Jack / Sun / Charlie. So far this season? Plane / Plane / Kate / Locke... So Jack next week?
1 comment:
hey guy
sorry i havent commented on any LOST reviews yet. they have all been splendid. i want to write something about lOST myself but havent had the time yet
i share your frustration ... what the heck is the point of Timeline B? It's cool, I guess, but also confusing ... how did Hurley win the lotto, did he use 'the numbers?' why did locke want to go on a walkabout if abadon never told him to, because im assuming widmore died in the h-bomb explosion and abadon never met locke. why are some things different that seem totally meaningless like shanon or hurley being lucky instead of cursed?
AHH
i LOVE the new fake locke and even though he's evil i think he's possibly the coolest and most interesting character ever, or at least since daniel faraday's tragic death. i HATED the kate episode, everything about it, every single second that kate is on the screen is a total waste of precious screen time and im not even exagerating. im just glad we got her crap episode out of the way early and lets never talk about it again.
Ilana is cool but i hate her voice. Ben's eulogy was easily the best part of LOST season 6. i know you have a huge mancrush on josh holloway, and i do admit he is a great actor, but you cant tell me that michael emerson isnt the most compeling actor on LOST by a mile and im always riveted to see what hes going to do.
the frustrating thing about Timeline B is that were not going to see what happens with Claire/Aaron/Locke/Ben for another 5 episodes or so. Next week will be Jack being super doctor and then probly sayid with nadia and then who knows hurley being lucky and meeting sun and jin by accident or something, but the Timeline B stuff seriously has about 2 more episodes to make some sense before i start crushing skulls.
that's all i got to say for now.
Peace
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