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

[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.