forgot to watch "Lost" last week

[fflo]

John Locke, to his scoundrel father: "You make people think that you're their family, and then you leave their lives in ruin."

Maybe I'm crazy staying late at work on a lovely night to catch up. But at least this episode has stuff going on in it, as TGP pointed out.

Comments

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

a character's name is john locke?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm assuming that's how he would spell the last name. If he existed, and thus could spell.

The character is hardly like his namesake in philosophy, methinks. Wait---does "namesake" go both ways?

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i think it does, for why should we assume that the old john locke is better than the new one and more deserving of being the originary bearer of that name? (unless, of course, it's about time, and you can't be the namesake of someone who lived after you did.)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

good point... i was thinking in terms of time, and some sort of primacy of the preceding. turns out the word is supposed to work both ways. i wonder which is more commonly taken as the sense. hmmm.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I thought last weeks ep was the best of season 3.

I also think Ben is giving the straight dope on the wishing machine.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

what is "lost" about?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Plane crash survivors on remote island with mystical properties and a population of mysterious people having something to do with a project (psychological manipulation?) called the Dharma Initiative, dating back to the early post-hippie days. Kinda Lord of the Flies meets Fantasy Island, with enough of the thriller element so's not to alienate the manly menfolk.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

...meets The Tempest, it sounds like to me...

who are the savages?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Early on, before we know the (possibly pseudo-)scientists are civilized, they steal away with some survivors, and are called "others." Oh, and there's the fact that the people in the tail section of the plane landed somewhere else and were at first thought to be hostile strangers. Or maybe they really were hostile, cuz they were scared too. Or whatever. Plus there's the mysterious French woman. And at one point a hot air balloon crashed there. And then there was a guy sailing around the world or something... he's psychic now. And the drug-smuggling priests. See, the island has these mysterious powers that draw folk there. We have to watch years of it to find out what/why.

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

...and when they reunite with the people who had landed somewhere else, after many many many years of not communicating with the "others," they learn their languages had changed and they sometimes cannot understand each other.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oops---you're ahead of the curve for "Lost" right there!

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

i'm thinking these are some dropouts from a phd program in language and literature writing the script and planting these insider jokes. but not bad at all, i say. a surreptitious way to force people to become interested in these sorts of "plots."