LOST "Maternity Leave" Airdate: March, 1, 2006
This has to be the most revealing episode this season, and because of this, I feel like this blog entry might be all over the place. Let me start and the end of the episode.
Suspected "Other" Henry Gale does a great job of planting some seeds in Locke's head. Another great military tactic: Divide & conquer... turn your enemies against each other. In my last post I discussed how sometimes special ops are trained to assume the role of a fictional character in case they are ever caught behind enemy lines. There is definitely a military presence on the island: the army issue knife that Anna found, the military tactics, and hand to hand combat ability in Ethan are just a few examples.
Speaking of Ethan, we saw the softer side of this ass as he tried to woo a heavily intoxicated Claire. In case you haven't read it all over the internet, the man who calls Ethan out of the nursery and into the hall is none other than Mr. Friendly (a.k.a Zeke). "You were supposed to make the list and then bring her in..." he says to Ethan and then asks, "What am I supposed to tell him?" "Him" is obviously the one in charge, but who could that be? Ya think he's referring to Hanso? And is Hanso really Locke's dad? That has been suggested but not yet confirmed. Another theory I have seen tossed around claims it's Jack's dad who is running the show: Hanso, Jack's dad, and Sun's father partnered together to form the Hanso Foundation and fund the Dharma Initiative.
That really got me thinking, and this is a "way out there" theory; but what if Jack's dad did not technically die? I don't know what made me think of the movie "The serpent and The Rainbow," it just popped into my head. It was a 1988 flick about an anthropologist who goes to Haiti after hearing rumors of a drug that turns people into zombies. The drug actually shuts down the body to the point that people would think you were dead. You could still see and think, but you couldn't move, talk, or scream. What if Jack's dad's death was the beginning of an experiment? I have a feeling that Hanso also owns/owned Oceanic Airlines. What if the crash was already predetermined by the Others to get the doctor back to his post. It would be a good military weapon: make your enemy think you are dead and escape when they dispose of your body... hopefully they don't bury you in a big trench because that would totally suck and defeat the purpose of having that capability. I don't know... maybe this theory holds no weight and was a total waste of a thought process. I just like to throw stuff out there.
Meanwhile, back in the newly discovered Dharma Medical bunker...
I just want to quickly touch on a few other things from "Maternity Leave."
1. The teenage girl who helps Claire escape is Alex or Alexandra, Rousseau's daughter who was taken from her 16 years ago as a baby. Here's my question: if she was a baby when taken by the Others and raised by them, how would she know that Claire was in trouble?
2. They have been on the island now for 60 days. I think Jack made that comment. It doesn't seem like enough time has passed for the now abandoned medical bunker to look as dilapidated as it did. Maybe there is something going on with time. Hurley did make a "time" reference a few episodes ago when the radio they were using picks up Glenn Miller's "Moonlight serenade."
3. Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin... Mr. Eko's nappy chin locks represented the two "others" he killed when they invaded the talies camp a few days after the crash. Why he repented his sins to Henry Gale, I don't know. Maybe it was because Henry knew the men.
4. Kate finds the pirate costumes in the medical bunker lockers, including Mr. Friendly's fake beard and theatre glue. I guess the 'ol pirates in the woods scene was meant to scare the survivors into staying on their side of the island and away from the other side of the island where they might find modern technology.
5. There was a short scene when Ethan takes Claire out of the bunker for some fresh air. He gives her something to drink and she says it tastes "sour." Ethan shrugs it off and says, "Oh, I didn't notice." I'm not sure what he was giving her and/or if it has any relevance at all. He said he was going to miss her. Do you think he may have been sneaking her some of the vaccine?
6. The book that Locke gives Henry Gale is The Brothers Karamazov by Russian author Dostoevsky. I have never read the book, but some quick research on Wikipedia.org reveals a lot. "...often regarded as a masterpiece of literature and one of the greatest novels ever written. The book is written on two levels: on the surface it is the story of a patricide in which all of the murdered man's sons share varying degrees of complicity but, on a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of the moral struggles between faith, doubt, reason, and free will." Wikipedia Link. Earnest Hemingway cited Dostoevsky as a major influence on his work, hence the Hemingway reference from Locke which fueled Henry's "divide & conquer" tactics. Henry also makes a Steven King mention.
I think that is just about everything I got from this episode. Let me know if I missed something. Feel free to post. The next two weeks will be season one re-runs... thank goodness because I'm on vacation March 11-20. I don't watch much TV when on vacation. The next new episode will be on March 22 with "The Whole Truth."
I'll see you on March 23rd.
Suspected "Other" Henry Gale does a great job of planting some seeds in Locke's head. Another great military tactic: Divide & conquer... turn your enemies against each other. In my last post I discussed how sometimes special ops are trained to assume the role of a fictional character in case they are ever caught behind enemy lines. There is definitely a military presence on the island: the army issue knife that Anna found, the military tactics, and hand to hand combat ability in Ethan are just a few examples.
Speaking of Ethan, we saw the softer side of this ass as he tried to woo a heavily intoxicated Claire. In case you haven't read it all over the internet, the man who calls Ethan out of the nursery and into the hall is none other than Mr. Friendly (a.k.a Zeke). "You were supposed to make the list and then bring her in..." he says to Ethan and then asks, "What am I supposed to tell him?" "Him" is obviously the one in charge, but who could that be? Ya think he's referring to Hanso? And is Hanso really Locke's dad? That has been suggested but not yet confirmed. Another theory I have seen tossed around claims it's Jack's dad who is running the show: Hanso, Jack's dad, and Sun's father partnered together to form the Hanso Foundation and fund the Dharma Initiative.
That really got me thinking, and this is a "way out there" theory; but what if Jack's dad did not technically die? I don't know what made me think of the movie "The serpent and The Rainbow," it just popped into my head. It was a 1988 flick about an anthropologist who goes to Haiti after hearing rumors of a drug that turns people into zombies. The drug actually shuts down the body to the point that people would think you were dead. You could still see and think, but you couldn't move, talk, or scream. What if Jack's dad's death was the beginning of an experiment? I have a feeling that Hanso also owns/owned Oceanic Airlines. What if the crash was already predetermined by the Others to get the doctor back to his post. It would be a good military weapon: make your enemy think you are dead and escape when they dispose of your body... hopefully they don't bury you in a big trench because that would totally suck and defeat the purpose of having that capability. I don't know... maybe this theory holds no weight and was a total waste of a thought process. I just like to throw stuff out there.
Meanwhile, back in the newly discovered Dharma Medical bunker...
I just want to quickly touch on a few other things from "Maternity Leave."
1. The teenage girl who helps Claire escape is Alex or Alexandra, Rousseau's daughter who was taken from her 16 years ago as a baby. Here's my question: if she was a baby when taken by the Others and raised by them, how would she know that Claire was in trouble?
2. They have been on the island now for 60 days. I think Jack made that comment. It doesn't seem like enough time has passed for the now abandoned medical bunker to look as dilapidated as it did. Maybe there is something going on with time. Hurley did make a "time" reference a few episodes ago when the radio they were using picks up Glenn Miller's "Moonlight serenade."
3. Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin... Mr. Eko's nappy chin locks represented the two "others" he killed when they invaded the talies camp a few days after the crash. Why he repented his sins to Henry Gale, I don't know. Maybe it was because Henry knew the men.
4. Kate finds the pirate costumes in the medical bunker lockers, including Mr. Friendly's fake beard and theatre glue. I guess the 'ol pirates in the woods scene was meant to scare the survivors into staying on their side of the island and away from the other side of the island where they might find modern technology.
5. There was a short scene when Ethan takes Claire out of the bunker for some fresh air. He gives her something to drink and she says it tastes "sour." Ethan shrugs it off and says, "Oh, I didn't notice." I'm not sure what he was giving her and/or if it has any relevance at all. He said he was going to miss her. Do you think he may have been sneaking her some of the vaccine?
6. The book that Locke gives Henry Gale is The Brothers Karamazov by Russian author Dostoevsky. I have never read the book, but some quick research on Wikipedia.org reveals a lot. "...often regarded as a masterpiece of literature and one of the greatest novels ever written. The book is written on two levels: on the surface it is the story of a patricide in which all of the murdered man's sons share varying degrees of complicity but, on a deeper level, it is a spiritual drama of the moral struggles between faith, doubt, reason, and free will." Wikipedia Link. Earnest Hemingway cited Dostoevsky as a major influence on his work, hence the Hemingway reference from Locke which fueled Henry's "divide & conquer" tactics. Henry also makes a Steven King mention.
I think that is just about everything I got from this episode. Let me know if I missed something. Feel free to post. The next two weeks will be season one re-runs... thank goodness because I'm on vacation March 11-20. I don't watch much TV when on vacation. The next new episode will be on March 22 with "The Whole Truth."
I'll see you on March 23rd.
posted by Tripp at 10:47 PM
4 Comments:
Did you notice the mobile in the nursery?
Oh yeah. I thought I put that in the blog, but I guess I didn't. The mobile is made up of Oceanic Airline planes. We have seen that crib and mobile before in season one. I'll pull a capture over the weekend. It was from a lucid dream of Claire's. I'll see if I can post that capture as well as a few others. I just need to find some free time. The fact that they had Oceanic Planes on the mobile leads me to believe that the Hanso Foundation maybe owned/owns Oceanic Air. Just another thought.
Someone posted on the ABC Lost board - remember in one of the Kate back stories, where she goes into the bank vault to find something important?? I think she says something about how it's important to someone she cares about.
I'm not sure, cause I don't remember, but I think what she gets out of the little bank vault box is a toy plane. Like on the mobile. Does anyone remember this part of her back story??
Leave your answer here. I think the next rerun has a Kate back story - so maybe that one with the bank vault.
Susan
Hey my idenity is "Other" (LOL)
Anyway, I think that Kate considers herself responsible for the death of her childhood friend (that she used to escape the hospital). The toy plane was in the time casule they buried as kids.
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