Quick Hits cont’d.
- I toyed with titling this recap, “Ironic Tacos.”
Whether you prefer “The Taco Life” or “Life Tacos, as the translation of “La Vida Tacos,” the irony of such a moniker in an episode focusing largely on a guy able to communicate with dead brains couldn’t possibly be missed by anyone watching tonight’s episode. I’m sure of my absolute correctness on this point.
- So the Numbers may have originated as nothing more than the serial number of the Swan Station hatch.
- Miles recitation of Hurley’s Empire Strikes Back script was classic.
“Chewbacca: Rawwrrrr.”
- Might want to re-adjust your microphone there, Hurley.
- For the record, I kind of like the Ewoks. Jub jub.
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- Some good food-for-thought on last week’s smokestravaganza:
We only saw images of Ben’s relationship with Alex flicker in Smokey’s psychic soot — as if making a tragic mess of his daughter’s life was the worst thing Ben has ever done. Ha! He killed his father! He participated in the mass murder of 40 people! He sent Goodwin to his death and tried to end John Locke’s life at least twice!
Smokey’s selective auditing of Ben’s past is enough to make me lose faith in any theory that says the Monster is an instrument of divine justice. If it is, then the Island gods must be crazy — and unfair. Or just evil. Indeed, a few weeks ago, I cited Terry O’Quinn’s quote to the Los Angeles Times about his suspicion that the show’s chief villain might be the Island itself. Perhaps Lost is a dark, Lovecraftian variation on the Book of Job or the Biblical story of Jonah. The message in the metaphor: God may exist — but is he/she/it truly good? [EW] - More from Doc Jensen:
Reader Svetlana Evans picked up on something in ”Dead Is Dead” that intrigued me, too. ”What is the significance of the big deal they made of John Locke taking off the shoes to row the [outrigger] between islands, and taking such care when putting them back on, especially on camera, while he was talking to Ben. Filler action or pertinent to storyline?”
I vote ”pertinent.” Remember, those shoes belonged to Christian Shephard. Jack put them on Corpse Locke’s feet so John could play the role of Corpse Christian’s proxy aboard Ajira 316. I got the vibe that Lost was trying to remind the audience about the shoes without looking like it was trying to remind us about the shoes. Perhaps it’s one more clue that John is as undead as Christian — that is, if it isn’t proof of my ”Ben murdered Christian like he murdered Locke” theory. [EW] - And yet another item from Doc on the Norse god of battle (who goes by the name of “Hoth,” funnily enough).
The name Höðr is thought to be related to höð, “battle”, and mean something like “killer”. This would seem to fit with the god’s mythological role. In the standardized Old Norse orthography the name is spelled Hǫðr but the letter ‘ǫ’ is frequently replaced with the Modern Icelandic ‘ö’ for reasons of familiarity or technical expediency.
The name can be represented in English texts as Hod, Hoder, Hodur, Hodr, Hödr, Höd or Hoth or less commonly as Hödur, Hödhr, Höder, Hothr, Hodhr, Hodh, Hother, Höthr, Höth or Hödh. [Wikipedia]Read more about it at EW.
I’ll do my best to have some new Lost content up next Wednesday, despite the lack of a new episode. In two weeks, I expect all kinds of chrono-centric conundrums to consider now that Danny-boy’s back in town after a stay at the Dharma mainland HQ in Ann Arbor, MI.
I hope when this show is over, someone makes a dvd of it all, in chronological order…like they did with “Memento”….my head spins!
so, Faraday doesn’t age, and neither does Alpert?
Faraday does age, he was zapped back in time with Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and the rest. He just disappeared, and none of them have seen him since the time hopping finally stopped. Thus the reason Miles was shocked to see him.
i took hurley’s comments to mean he was rewriting empire so there wouldn’t be a return of the jedi. yes, yes?