Well i had a REALLY exciting Memorial Day weekend, so I watched a bunch if this season's eps again focusing on the sideways world that we now know as "Purgatory". Basically just looking for hints at the end game plan for this world. Not sure is anyone is reading this still but here were some pertinent notes this round:
Ep 1-2:
- Jack has his neck cut, recognizes Desmond, and just barely recognizes Kate as she;s coming out of the bathroom.
- Charlie hints at what we learn later... he was supposed to die (or at least he wanted to)
- Rose seems like she could already have "flashed" over, and when we see Bernard much later in the season, he has too. Makes sense, they're soul mates.
- Boone. If you go back and read my first ep recap from earlier int he season, you'll see that I noticed something was up with him even back then. I thought he had just become a better actor... but maybe he had already flipped over!!! Seeing Locke could have done it, or trying to get Shannon back from Australia maybe.
- Two red herrings... The island is in the bottom of the sea... and it turns out that never mattered. Also, Juliet says (to Miles while she's dead) "It Worked". Like the bomb going off? Nope, the candy machine turned back on and dropped Sawyer his apollo bar.
Ep 3: Kate
- The singular episodes focus primarly on the significant change and growth the characters have made. For example... Kate. Rather than running from the Claire baby situation, she came back to help. She used to run.
- Kate almost flashes on Jack outside the airport.
- Claire's belongings seem to almost trigger her as well.
Ep 4: Locke
- Lockes accepts his place in the world. Although later he's ready to get fixed. But either way he seems at peace.
- Meets Rose.... she doesn't give any serious indications that she knows anything funny, but she does send him to the school where Ben teaches, so it sort of helps. She also tells him about accepting cancer, and maybe he should do the same.
Ep 5: Jack
- Jack has a son to work through his daddy issues.
- His appendix scar? Nope. Where Locke stabbed him in the finale.
Ep 6: Sayid
- Dealing with beign a good or bad man. I wonder if this storyline might have been Eko's if he had stuck around.
- He can't be with Nadia, too many bad things always happen. Althoguh the Shannon thing was sort of convenient.
Ep 7: Ben
- Father figure stuff. He chooses Alex this time over his own desires.
- Another tease about Dharma.... didn't end up mattering.
Ep 8: Sawyer
- Not really sure what Sawyer was workign on... he was a better dude, but nothing esle really changed. I guess he worked out most of his stuff in the real world.
Ep 9: Richard
- Not really a flash ep but his wife did say to Hurley that they already were together. Maybe talking about the "light" they all went into. Maybe?
Ep 10: Jin and Sun
- Another one I wasn't real sure what they needed to improve on... and maybe NONE of them did.
- A question, I think we already asked, Mikhail/Omar/Keamy all died. So are they fucked for the afterlife? Was this world real for them too? Cuz it was real for others: Daniel, Eloise, etc. Maybe their connections just didn't reach that far so they were phonies (like David Shephard).
Ep 11: Desmond....
From here on out its Desmond, Hurley and then the group eps... so it all starts to come together for them... but those were some early season notes that I thought you might find interesting.
Still planning on doing a fuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllll series recap of stuff but I'll probably wait for the Blu Ray series to come out in late August.
Later.
2 years ago
I'm still reading!!
ReplyDeleteI think the episode between Jin and Sun was pretty important. I think it showed that while in Season 1 and 2 Jin was (and had been) very controlling causing Sun to want to leave and to cheat. They had real issues in their marriage and neither were very happy. However, the sideways life showed that while at first you think Jin is going to be the same, he's not. Even though they're not married, they're very much in love with each other and would do anything to be with each other. Yes, it does get to that point on the island, but I think the sideways life shows how they should have been. Sun should have never cheated, Jin should have never been so controlling, etc.
Good point. They're definitely more of a team/partnership in this series of flashes. No what about Saywer... get to work Kate.
ReplyDeleteI re-watched the finale last night and had a thought about the aftermath for the people that theoretically made it back on the Ajira flight. Obviously Lepidis would have to land at an airport (or a straight stretch of beach I suppose). And when he did, surely a missing plane landing with only 6 passengers would garner some media attention. So did the Ajira 6 pull an Oceanic 6 and just lie to everyone? This might work, except for the small bit about Kate being on BOTH flights! Wouldn't everybody start to get a tad suspicious about that?
ReplyDeleteObviously this is just a hypothetical scenario, but kind of funny to think about nonetheless.
I think we touched on this before in some of the comments but I still love this idea, so here’s how I see it playing out:
ReplyDeleteBoth fates assume Richard was knowledgeable regarding the directions and/or bearings one would need to escape the island.
1) Good ending. Lapidus finds a remote beach to land on. Using Richard’s “other” connections and Miles diamond money Kate, Claire, Sawyer and Frank are able to essentially go into hiding and live out their lives happily. Sawyer might even find a way to contact his ex screw partner and his daughter. Miles and Richard are free to live whatever lives they choose. Happy times.
2) Bad ending. Lapidus is shot down by the Air Force for being an unidentified aircraft trying land on a restricted airfield. Kidding. But he does land at an airport. Or something. Frank has to explain what happened to all but 1 of his passengers on the flight. He’s charged with the murder of a few dozen people. His mugshot with the shape he arrives would priceless. Kate, broke parole and lied about Oceanic 6, so she’s probably screwed. Claire and Sawyer might actually be ok to return to their normal lives, but the questions of what the hell happened to them will be tough to deal with. Miles, would probably be ok, as would Richard, but again… where the hell did they come from would be the prevailing question.
I saw #1 is the way to go.