Wednesday, February 10, 2010
News The Televangelist: 'Lost' Season 6, Episode 2
Posted by Allison Keene @keeneTV on Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:47 PM
The promos for this week promised "questions will be answered!" Oh boy, so what did we learn after 5 full seasons of trickery and obfuscation?
(1) It's a baseball
(2) The pill is poison.
Thanks, Darlton.
My first impression of "What Kate Does" (as opposed to what she did, the episode title from season 2) was the same eye roll I gave to the TV Guide's one line synopsis of the episode: "Kate goes on the run." Does she? If she's not running, she's getting captured or stealing other people's fiancé's. But she knows how to make a man stay. She can be "very convincing."
Obvious disclosure, I'm not Kate's biggest fan. She was interesting as a kind of pretty tomboy in season 1, who climbed trees and shot at people. But her character is not at all a mountain-mover whether you're flashing forward, backward, or sideways. Kate-centric episodes tend to be filler episodes. And in a final season with more questions than particles in an ever expanding universe, why waste that time?
Let's instead take stock of the surprising returns in this episode:
Aldo: a.k.a. Rob McElhenney, a.k.a. Mac from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia." Did he only return to amuse us briefly and then die? Although it spawned a great Tweet from @aissy: " I wonder who would win Flipadelphia on the Island?" Thoughts?
Sayid: Now "resurrected," he's not a zombie, but he may be Jacob, or he may be part of Old Smokey or just himself ... with "the sickness"
Claire: Island Claire is far more interesting than off-island Claire. We now know that Claire was infected by this same sickness that Sayid now apparently has, and becomes a Rousseau-like character. Is that the same sickness Rousseau's team suffered from? For a refresher course on the Sickness (including a theory that Ben, who was also saved via the Temple, might have some part of it) check out the Lostpedia entry.
Ethan: Hey there, guy. Was anyone else expecting Juliet as the doctor? Still, Ethan's presence was intriguing, and certainly much more positive than we've seen him before (...so far)
Altogether, this episode left me a little cold. There were some interesting moments, as mentioned below, but "Lost" continues, in my opinion, to be a dish best served in large doses, and week-to-week watching has rarely shown it in its best light so perhaps I judge it harshly after the 2-hour premiere. 18 minutes of commercials versus the more typical 14 was also an issue. This is a short post so I'm hoping you Losties will help supplement it by reminding me why I should bother caring about Kate again.
Next Week: Sawyer and Not!Locke/The Man in Black (I need a good acronym here) team up for mischief.
Musings and Miscellanea:
- Artz's little "Midnight Cowboy" moment chuffed the film buff in me
- Miles is dripping sarcasm alert (never enough of him): "As you can see, Hugo has assumed the leadership position ...which is pretty great..."
- How and why would the temple have a hand-crank torture machine?
- Hurley quote of the night: "private talks kind of freak me out because they often lead to me doing things I don't really understand."
- Claire sure does get Stockholm Syndrome quickly ...
- Felt bad for Sawyer and the ring situation. But what was Kate thinking, honestly? That he still loved her and had forgotten about Juliet in the past hour? Good lord woman.
- Someone mentioned that the baseball Togan (correct name?) plays with had #42 on it - did anyone else catch that? And do you feel the numbers are significant or a red herring?
- Good article from TV Guide, Nestor Carbonell (Richard Alpert) speaks about Season 6's power struggles
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That hand-crank torture machine was so Princess Bride ... too bad the pill wasn't a chocolate-covered number from Billy Crystal to restore Sayid's strength. I agree with you about Miles and Claire. That line about Hurley was classic. Ethan still creeps me out way too much - I don't understand how he can be Dr. Nice Guy in timeline B ... wouldn't he still be on the island with the others since he wasn't on the flight to begin with? I'm going to put my money on Jin to win Flipadelphia. He has the focus and patience. Or Juliet if she wasn't dead. She's cool as a cucumber under pressure.
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"Not!Locke/The Man in Black (I need a good acronym here)" done http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/Flocke "Flocke", a portmanteau word of the words "Fake" and "Locke".
Ah, thank you Anderson! "Flocke" so it shall be Debbie, I think you are right on with Jin and/or Juliet. I first thought Sawyer, but he's too hotheaded. If he didn't flip it the first time he'd probably upend the table Also, my assumption about Ethan was that he would never have been on the island, because it was "sunk" in the 1970s when the hydrogen bomb went off? So maybe he was raised to be normal ... or something
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