LOST "?" Airdate: May 10, 2006
Preface: Please accept my apologies. I started this entry last Thursday and was never able to get back to it due to my hectic schedule...sorry!
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[stretch]...*yawn*...Ok, I think I'm ready to do this. My brain doesn't seem to be functioning all that well this morning. It must still be over analyzing this episode of Lost. I wasn't sure how to craft this entry this morning because there was so much information that I got from the show last night. I guess I should just start with Mr. Eko since the show revolved around him.
The last time we saw some of Eko's back story, his brother, a real priest, was shot and put on a drug plane that was leaving Nigeria. I believe I posed the theory that it was at that point that Eko turned to Christ. However, we learn in "?" that he had fake papers and passport, and he was living as a fake priest in Australia. I can only theorize that he assumed his brothers identity at the airport that day to save his own ass. I have a screen capture of the passport, but I can not read the name all that well. Eko's brother is Yemi. I'll have to track down a Hi-Def screen capture to see if I can read the name on the passport.
The viewers now know that Eko is definitely a penitent man, but when did he stop being a "fake priest" and turn his life over to God? Was it at the airport when the girl who miraculously came back to life confronted him with a message from his brother on the other side? Or was it when the plane crashed? He did take a 40 day vow of silence after he killed two "Others" the first night, so we can assume that he was a believer then.
The "miracle" girl autopsy tape was really creepy. I posted it in my last blog entry if you really want to hear it again. She was obviously dead if she was sitting on an autopsy table about to be cut open. I wonder why her father, the psychic, was trying to downplay the incident and get Eko out of there. Do you think he may have seen something about him when he read Claire in season one? He claimed he was a fraud, but I think that was just to get Eko out of there and on to Flight 815. If there had been a church investigation, Eko would have not been on that flight. Does that make Eko the key as to why the plane was brought down? It's extremely difficult to narrow it down to just one person, and I don't think we're supposed to. (*cheesy movie trailer voice guy - "Fate brought them together. Love will tear them apart...")
I have a feeling the psychic, his character name is Richard Malkin, will have played a bigger role than we expected in getting Claire, Eko, and who knows who else on the plane when all is revealed. Perhaps he works for Hanso, Widmore, Dharma, etc.
I need to go back to season one and watch the scene where Boone dies. From what I remember, he was in the plane which was situated on the cliff that Eko climbs. Did Boone look like he saw the question mark before the plane fell? Eko asks Locke what made the plane fall, to which Locke responded, "Boone made it fall. And then he died. A sacrifice that the island demanded." Eko: "What?" Locke: "Oh nothing." Locke still seems to know more about what is going on than he appears to know... However, I thought it was really stupid of him to send his hatch map up the pneumatic tube in the Pearl.
Even though this new hatch ("?"/The Pearl) appeared to have been abandoned for some time and the plane covered the main entrance (I say "main entrance" because there may be other ways to access each hatch that the survivors don't know about yet), I wonder if someone may have been watching Michael to make sure he carried out his mission. There was a close up of some cigarette butts, but that doesn't definitively place someone in the hatch recently. In the Pearl, Locke & Eko discover a new training film which basically rendered the button in the Swan Hatch useless. The training video claims that it is/was just a psychological experiment and those assigned to the Pearl were to observe and report on the Swan. This is something that I have thought all along...BUT, as John is totally losing faith in himself and the button, Eko says that the work John has been doing is "now more important than ever. We are being tested." Eko is even willing to take over entering the numbers and pushing the button. I'm so freakin' confused at this point.
The Pearl training video also mentions something about shift change... Participants in the experiment were to report to a ferry which would carry them to where they were staying. I do believe we will see that ferry in tomorrow night's Three Minutes.
A Few other things:
- Libby does try to call out Michael as her killer to no avail.
- Eko is building a church because he was told to do so in a dream.
- Eko performs the Last Rites on Ana-Lucia. The fake priest didn't totally waste his time in the seminary.
- The stash of guns, drugs, and such was right under Sawyer.
Timeline question and answer: Steve and I were discussing the psychic last week and he proposed that maybe he really was a fraud and that Claire came to him after Eko and Richard did see something when he read Claire. I thought about this for a while and re-watched Raised By Another from season one and came to the conclusion that Claire visited the psychic before Eko. She was barely pregnant when she went to him. She is a lot further along in her pregnancy when Flight 815 crashes. Eko, on the other hand, visits the psychic within days of getting on the doomed flight.
Did I get everything? I'm looking forward to the next episode, Three Minutes. We will find out what happened to Michael when he ran off into the woods in search of Walt. I hear we will even get to see Walt again who will be older and taller. I wonder how they will explain that?
I have another really busy week, but hopefully I will be able to get to the blog before the weekend kicks in. Thanks for reading.
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[stretch]...*yawn*...Ok, I think I'm ready to do this. My brain doesn't seem to be functioning all that well this morning. It must still be over analyzing this episode of Lost. I wasn't sure how to craft this entry this morning because there was so much information that I got from the show last night. I guess I should just start with Mr. Eko since the show revolved around him.
The last time we saw some of Eko's back story, his brother, a real priest, was shot and put on a drug plane that was leaving Nigeria. I believe I posed the theory that it was at that point that Eko turned to Christ. However, we learn in "?" that he had fake papers and passport, and he was living as a fake priest in Australia. I can only theorize that he assumed his brothers identity at the airport that day to save his own ass. I have a screen capture of the passport, but I can not read the name all that well. Eko's brother is Yemi. I'll have to track down a Hi-Def screen capture to see if I can read the name on the passport.
The viewers now know that Eko is definitely a penitent man, but when did he stop being a "fake priest" and turn his life over to God? Was it at the airport when the girl who miraculously came back to life confronted him with a message from his brother on the other side? Or was it when the plane crashed? He did take a 40 day vow of silence after he killed two "Others" the first night, so we can assume that he was a believer then.
The "miracle" girl autopsy tape was really creepy. I posted it in my last blog entry if you really want to hear it again. She was obviously dead if she was sitting on an autopsy table about to be cut open. I wonder why her father, the psychic, was trying to downplay the incident and get Eko out of there. Do you think he may have seen something about him when he read Claire in season one? He claimed he was a fraud, but I think that was just to get Eko out of there and on to Flight 815. If there had been a church investigation, Eko would have not been on that flight. Does that make Eko the key as to why the plane was brought down? It's extremely difficult to narrow it down to just one person, and I don't think we're supposed to. (*cheesy movie trailer voice guy - "Fate brought them together. Love will tear them apart...")
I have a feeling the psychic, his character name is Richard Malkin, will have played a bigger role than we expected in getting Claire, Eko, and who knows who else on the plane when all is revealed. Perhaps he works for Hanso, Widmore, Dharma, etc.
I need to go back to season one and watch the scene where Boone dies. From what I remember, he was in the plane which was situated on the cliff that Eko climbs. Did Boone look like he saw the question mark before the plane fell? Eko asks Locke what made the plane fall, to which Locke responded, "Boone made it fall. And then he died. A sacrifice that the island demanded." Eko: "What?" Locke: "Oh nothing." Locke still seems to know more about what is going on than he appears to know... However, I thought it was really stupid of him to send his hatch map up the pneumatic tube in the Pearl.
Even though this new hatch ("?"/The Pearl) appeared to have been abandoned for some time and the plane covered the main entrance (I say "main entrance" because there may be other ways to access each hatch that the survivors don't know about yet), I wonder if someone may have been watching Michael to make sure he carried out his mission. There was a close up of some cigarette butts, but that doesn't definitively place someone in the hatch recently. In the Pearl, Locke & Eko discover a new training film which basically rendered the button in the Swan Hatch useless. The training video claims that it is/was just a psychological experiment and those assigned to the Pearl were to observe and report on the Swan. This is something that I have thought all along...BUT, as John is totally losing faith in himself and the button, Eko says that the work John has been doing is "now more important than ever. We are being tested." Eko is even willing to take over entering the numbers and pushing the button. I'm so freakin' confused at this point.
The Pearl training video also mentions something about shift change... Participants in the experiment were to report to a ferry which would carry them to where they were staying. I do believe we will see that ferry in tomorrow night's Three Minutes.
A Few other things:
- Libby does try to call out Michael as her killer to no avail.
- Eko is building a church because he was told to do so in a dream.
- Eko performs the Last Rites on Ana-Lucia. The fake priest didn't totally waste his time in the seminary.
- The stash of guns, drugs, and such was right under Sawyer.
Timeline question and answer: Steve and I were discussing the psychic last week and he proposed that maybe he really was a fraud and that Claire came to him after Eko and Richard did see something when he read Claire. I thought about this for a while and re-watched Raised By Another from season one and came to the conclusion that Claire visited the psychic before Eko. She was barely pregnant when she went to him. She is a lot further along in her pregnancy when Flight 815 crashes. Eko, on the other hand, visits the psychic within days of getting on the doomed flight.
Did I get everything? I'm looking forward to the next episode, Three Minutes. We will find out what happened to Michael when he ran off into the woods in search of Walt. I hear we will even get to see Walt again who will be older and taller. I wonder how they will explain that?
I have another really busy week, but hopefully I will be able to get to the blog before the weekend kicks in. Thanks for reading.
posted by Tripp at 11:22 AM
2 Comments:
Nice blog, Tripp.
About the psychic. I feel almost certain he's with Dharma (like who isn't). Briefly considered that he might be the "great man", head honcho type guy, but, nah.
If you haven't already, take a look at TVgasm.com. Ed Hill does some great episode wrap-ups with cool links to worthy web pages.
Keep up the good work.
I want to respond to your comments about Clair and the Psychic. I believe Claire talks to the psychic several times including right before the plane takes off. He tells her that she must raise the child and the psychic then tells her to go to LA becuse there are parents there to adopt her baby. You probably realize this but it is not clear in your most recent post.
Thanks for the Blog. I can't wait for your feedback on 5/17 episode.
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