Another interesting episode of Lost this week. They're on something of a hot streak now, I guess -- though one would expect that as we barrel toward the end of the season.I have yet to hear from anyone who doesn't like Eko. So seeing another episode about him is compelling, particularly now that he's out Locke-ing Locke in the faith department.
The revelation of the "super hatch" is rather interesting on a few levels. For one, it doesn't appear that it truly IS a "super hatch," despite its apparent proximity in the center of the island. The orientation for this video marked it as only #5 of 6 ("The Pearl"). Kind of makes you wonder what's going on in hatch #6. And why this wasn't hatch 7. And why there appeared to be nine TV screens in the hatch to monitor "other places" when there are apparently only five other hatches. And if there's something special about this spot on the island that pulled the Nigerian plane down right on top of it. And if it's a "coincidence" that every time Locke goes out to this spot with someone, he's unable to climb whatever needs climbing on his own.
Fun as all that island MacGuffinry was, though, I was still more entertained by the content of the flashbacks, which (as the good flashbacks do) filled in some new info about the past we didn't know. It would appear that Eko's true conversion to spiritualism is far more recent than we might have guessed. And I'm guessing we haven't seen the last of his ghostly brother.
Then there was that interesting nugget that the father of the "miracle girl" he was sent to investigate is the same psychic that sent Claire out on flight 815. (For once, I figured out this connection before reading about it somewhere on the net.) More interesting was the fact that he played himself off to Eko as a total fraud. This presents only two possible scenarios in my mind:
1) He was lying to Eko to get him to go away. Quite likely, but not very interesting.
2) He didn't believe a word of what he told Claire when he sent her on the airplane to L.A. This seems very unlikely, given how serious he was about giving Claire her money back and getting her on this particular flight.
I think we have to rule out the possibility that he was a fraud who had one brief moment of true insight, because the timetable appeared to be that Eko met him after he had already met Claire -- likely only a day or two before flight 815 departed.
I find these mysteries going on off the island to be more compelling than what's going on on the island these days. Is that wrong? Is it likely there will ever be closure on any of it, when the only way we ever get filled in on things is via flashbacks?
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Once again, like the lockdown-countdown-airdrop there is a big timeline problem that the writers hopefully have figured out already. The psychic seemed to have a brief moment of insight with Claire, but that would mean Eko hung around Australia for a while longer. This is possible, and might be uncovered in future flashbacks. "Future flashbacks" -- oxymoron? Perhaps the psychic was lying to Eko and even his wife because he can't live with what he knows about the world.
For a few minutes, I wondered if the "resurrected" girl was Jack's half-sister, but that was soon put to rest. The girl sure was creepy, though.
I agree that the flashbacks are as strong a storytelling device as the narrative on the island. This must be by design rather than happenstance because the writers are slow to unveil all the mysteries of the island.
I was disappointed that Libby died. I thought the writers were going to go somewhere with her backstory, but I guess it wasn't that important. Either that, or she'll pop up in another of Hurley's flashbacks. At the very least, they've given Hurley a harder edge now, which is probably a good thing.
A friend tells me that the weird orientation guy had both of his real hands in the 1980 Pearl video and had a fake hand in the earlier one found in Swan. I haven't verified this elsewhere, but my friend isn't prone to pulling things from thin air.
If this were true, it's further evidence of the island's mysterious regenerative properties. Could Locke now have both kidneys?
Sir, you officially get extra points for use of the phrase "Island MacGuffinry". ;)
I wonder if part of the "experiment" will involve fostering future tensions among the group by showing the video of Michael shooting Ana Lucia and Libby- since we were specifically informed that "everything is recorded for posterity."
I thought the "recording" consisted solely of writing things in the logs and putting them in the mail tube. Remember, it's likely the Pearl station was also an experiment.
Oh, and how nice the tape barfed when the doctor was describing the location of the barracks. At least we know how the Others have a ferry.
I thought the fake psychic guy was just scamming Claire until he had a REAL moment of insight, surprising him at the time. So it figures that he'd call himself a fake when talking to Eko.
Anybody else see the fake ad for Hanso? hanso.com
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