LOST thoughts and a small update

[mfirefly10]

So I did a small(ish) friends-cut yesterday. Cuts are not fun on either end and I hate doing them but I like to actually get to know the people on my list. And sometimes we have a lot in common on paper but for whatever reason, we just don’t make it past pleasantries. I’m sorry if I upset anyone but I just think it’s kinda silly to keep people I rarely talk to. That said, this’ll be the last cut for a while, as I think I’ve assembled a pretty wonderful list of friends :D


And now for some initial reactions on Lost 6x06:



* My first thought after this week’s episode was that I wish I loved Sayid as much as I used to. I mean, I still like the guy but he shot a kid. Wee!Ben was creepy as hell but you just don’t shoot kids, dude.

* My second thought: If Benry is fleeing in terror, we’re all pretty much screwed!

* My third thought: If the MiB (a.k.a. Not!Locke/Fake!Locke/Smokey...show, can we please just NAME him already?!) turns out to be nothing more than ‘evil incarnate’, I’m going to be pissed! Personally, I don’t think F!Locke or Jacob is particularly ‘good’ or ‘evil’. It seems like they both have power over death but Jacob uses that power to restore while Not!Locke uses it to destroy. Yet they’re both power-hungry bastards who enjoy screwing with people so I’m not really sure I should be rooting for either one of them.

* Ilana gained major points in this episode by saving Miles (and Sun and Frank...but the points were really for Miles since I thought he might bite it this week!)

* Speaking of: ILU Miles but I wouldn’t call creepy!Claire 'hot'. At least not until she loses the wig-of-doom and takes about 16 showers. She is entertaining, though...in a creepy, might-kill-you-with-an-axe kind of way:)

* Dogen (I have a feeling I’m spelling his name wrong): I kinda figured the baseball was a memento of his son’s and that he’d lost his son in some gods-awful way. That said, his back-story, while sad, just didn’t affect me all that much since we’ve only known him for about 5 seconds. I’d rather Sayid hadn’t murdered him and his hippie side-kick but I can’t say their deaths were all that shocking or upsetting to me.

* But Not!Locke’s reaction to Kate was delicious! He was all ‘DO NOT WANT. DNW...Or do I?...Well, if crazy!Claire doesn’t kill her, I can always use her to distract Jack’ That's F!Locke for you: always thinkin' of how to use other people to his advantage!

* The ending was epically creepy. Probably the creepiest ending in LOST history...which you know is saying a lot!

* But my enjoyment of the episode was slightly hindered because I kept asking ‘where the frak are Sawyer & Jin?!' I’m guessing Not!Locke left Sawyer to look after Jin while he and crazy!Claire took care of some business but if that’s the case...you'd think Jin would be able to talk Sawyer into taking him back to the temple. He probably couldn't go on his own thanks to his injury but I'm sure Sawyer would help his buddy out. Unless Jin has been knocked-out or something...

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[pengyn.livejournal.com]

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THAT IS ALL I REALLY HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT ;)

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

*dies of giggle!fits*

[ovariesofsteel.livejournal.com]

All I know is this episode feels like we're back on the upswing toward the original awesomeness of the show. Keep it going, TPTB! You can do it!

[softly-me.livejournal.com]

Your icon =D

[ovariesofsteel.livejournal.com]

Hee <3

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

*fingers crossed the awesomeness continues*

[ovariesofsteel.livejournal.com]

I was meh on this Ben episode.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

You mean in Sayid's episode or in the Ben-centric episode that aired this week? 'Cause I thought Ben (and ME) was awesome in his own episode, both on the island and in his flash-sideways:)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I've read useful spec that the "she's hot" comment was to redirect people away from the assumption that Miles can identify ZombiePeople. Of course, that then also would suggest he thinks Sayid is hot. Which, okay, can't really disagree with him. :) I LOVE Full-on!Dark Side Sayid. mmm, embrace it, dude.

I think Smocke's name is going to give away exactly what he is, so that's why it's withheld. It's way past deliberate at this point. I do think they're in opposition, but it's more of a yin-yang, than western good-evil dichotomy. To me, it reeks a lot of the Vorlons-Shadows of B5, where the Vorlons were generally 'better' but still had no problem blowing up whole planets when they felt like it.

Dogen's backstory's going to tie into Widmore/Paik, I suspect. I think he was a Widmore stooge who had a change of heart. So I think Smocke didn't want Jin to see him, because Jin might recognize Dogen.

Also, I don't think Smocke wanted Jin or Sawyer to see the carnage, because it would make them doubt him. They're only recruits, not claimed like Claire and Sayid, so he left them behind.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Dogen's backstory's going to tie into Widmore/Paik, I suspect. I think he was a Widmore stooge who had a change of heart. So I think Smocke didn't want Jin to see him, because Jin might recognize Dogen.

Also, I don't think Smocke wanted Jin or Sawyer to see the carnage, because it would make them doubt him. They're only recruits, not claimed like Claire and Sayid, so he left them behind.


Both of those make perfect sense so I'm clinging to your theories until canon tells us otherwise:)

[softly-me.livejournal.com]

1. I feel a weird inverse reaction with Sayid's character. The less I approve of his decisions, the more I'm interested in his character. He used to just be a former torturer looking for the woman he loves. Now he's a crazed, child-shooting, smokey-conjuring, hopeless, grieving, angsty, miserable fool and I can't get enough of him.

3. I've been thinking the same thing! We only think Jacob is the good guy because we've been told. I see no evidence myself.

4. I love Ilana already! (But I'm terribly biased toward the wimminz.)

5. I sorta ship Miles/Claire now.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

4. Oh, I too loved her from the beginning. Anyone who can fool Sayid long enough to subdue him is clearly made of awesome. She's just more awesome now that she saved my Miles:)

5. Me, too:) Sorta:) Still pulling for Kate/Claire but if they don't give us that, Miles/Claire is very acceptable :D

[biba79.livejournal.com]

I don't watch Lost, but yay for not being cut! Hehe!

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

How could I cut someone with such awesome taste?:)

And I plan on having a non-Lost post sometime soon 'cause I know a lot of my flisters don't watch it:)

[biba79.livejournal.com]

Awww, that was so nice! Thanks bb!

And yay for a non-Lost post! lol

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have a feeling some people will be very happy when I post something not related to LOST:)

[lovely-fatima.livejournal.com]

I have a theory--based on the great deal of Egyptian glyphs and such that we've seen on the show--that Jacob is the current incarnation of Ma'at (or the concept of light and Truth) and the Man in Black is the current incarnation of Apep (or the Egyptian concept of darkness and Chaos). It would make much more sense of the Creepy!Child's comment, "You can't kill him." Likewise, the appearance of the Smoke Monster--in particular its snake-like form--would illustrate such a connection. The Egyptians portrayed Apep as a giant serpent. Ma'at was later called Ra--the sun god. So in that respect, this very well could be a struggle between light and darkness--ultimate good vs ultimate evil.


This would also make sense of the giant statue of Taweret on the island. She was Apep's demon-wife and--interestingly enough--was a goddess of fertility and childbirth. Kinda significant given the fact that for the longest time, any woman who got pregnant on the island either died horribly or the child died. Maybe that didn't happen until AFTER the statue was destroyed.

Taweret is closely related, in appearance at least, to Ammut, also called the "Devouress of the Dead." She attended the Judging of the Dead in the Judgement Hall of the Two Truths during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, and devoured those who were sinners in life.

Another interesting note: as Egyptian culture evolved, the dichotomy between Ma'at and Apep transformed into the myths of the endless opposition between Osiris and Set and later Horus and Set.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Hee. I only got like...half of that...but it sounds really cool and I definitely think the LOST writers would do something like that:)

[colourmayfade.livejournal.com]

Heeeey, I was kept! I was thinking of doing a cut soon, too, but it's so hard!

Haha, your second thought is the truth. That scene made me laugh though.

YES TO THE MIB THING. I've been hoping against all hope that it wouldn't be some evil vs. good thing and if it turns out that way, it's going to be horribly disappointing. My interest is going to get thinner and I'd hate to see that happening so close to the end.

You know, strangely enough the ending was a bit blah for me. I don't know why, but it was exactly what I was expecting and I just went - oh, it's over. Sigh.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

Cuts are hard and I don't think anyone enjoys doing them but sometimes it has to be done. But I would never cut anyone I actually seem to talk to so you're completely safe:)

I have faith that the writers realize how ridiculous the whole good vs. evil thing would seem at this point so I imagine it's much more complicated. (Or, that's my hope, anyway)

The ending...If they had used a different audio track, I doubt I would've been so creeped out:) But that use of crazy!Claire singing 'Catch a Falling Star' was just perfect!

[ciaimpala.livejournal.com]

That ending was insanely creepy!!! It packed such a punch.

[mfirefly10.livejournal.com]

That it did:)