Tuesday
09Feb2010
Things You Can't Know - "LA X"
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 12:36PM ;)
During Lost's 5th season, Darren Vandergriff and I started a habit of texting each other joyous profanity after each episode would air. Last week with the premiere of season 6, we actually took the time to write a few extra, more constructive and less offensive, words into emails to each other. This felt good. So obviously, being delusional as crap in terms of our own self-importance and mass appeal, we've decided to post these email conversations here on my blog. It's not so much to invite conversation as it is to boast our intellectually striking insights and observations, that will inevitably compel the thousands of you that read my blog.
So here is our first installment of "Things You Can't Know," responding to the Season 6 Premiere titled "LA X."
Seth:
- Terry O'Quinn and Matthew Fox are ready for their Emmys, please. If anyone wants to argue with me, I will direct them to the following lines of dialogue: "They don't lose your father, they just lost his body." / "Nothing is irreversible." / Terry O'Quinn's face after Jack says "nothing is irreversible." / "Isn't that just the saddest thing you ever heard?" / "I'm sorry you had to see me like that." / Matthew Fox's entire performance in the hatch crater at the beginning.
- How absolutely amazing was Nestor Carbonell in that last scene? The terror in his eyes and his voice?
- During the slow-motion montage at the end of part 1, where the plane lands and everyone gets off (which was a fantastic sequence) did you get chills when Boone and Locke shook hands? (good chills)
- The temple scenes made me nervous - but again, not personally nervous, more nervous about how everyone else is going to feel and react to it. It is cooler now to look at previous seasons through this new lens of knowing these more eastern-driven hippy Others are at the temple the entire time, and are likely the core/foundation of the Others.
But I can already tell people are uncomfortable with it. Because of "the samurai." Cough. - I realized this, too, and it's kind of obvious really but I'm an idiot: Jack and Locke have now (technically) completely switched spiritual roles. You could say from what we've seen of the Jacob/MIB relationship that they're very parallel to the fundamental Jack/Locke relationship. On the spiritual level of Faith Vs. Reason, and on the tangible level of Staying On The Island Vs. "Going Home."
Now Locke is representing this character who apparently wants to go home, and Jack is the character looking at the wreckage of his act of "destiny" and the casualties it caused, completely confused. - Brad William Henke, who played Bram, really really sucks at acting. At least in this role. Don't believe me? Watch his first scene in part 1 where he and Richard and Ilana are arguing in the distance (we can't make out what they're saying), and we pan over and rack focus to Frank and Sun. Just watch Bram. Then laugh. Hard.
- Oh, and the ankh in the guitar case: (note to the 2 people reading this who are likely named Ann and Karla: in a display of ridiculous accidental brilliance, I totally predicted there was an Ankh in Hurley's guitar case) I was led to guess this when - at the Lost underground art show, Lindelof was telling reporters about one of the paintings they commissioned that had multiple clues to season 6 in it, and a reporter asked him to point one out, and he pointed to the torch Hurley was holding, which had an Ankh in the flames.
We were watching The Incident at Neil's and I just randomly thought, "that's the shape of the guitar a case....it would fit.....hmmm....I'll text Darren."
Cut to: me being right. With a Dove Award.
Darren:
- Sayid: What do you think will happen to me after I die?
- FLocke: You wanna know the last thing that was going through his head? 'I don't understand'. Isn't that the saddest thing you've ever heard?
- Locke seemed contented, not necessarily happy, but contented in the flash sideways. Even lying about the walkabout, it seemed like he'd rather live a set of lies than be disappointed by his realities.
- Richard got his s*** kicked in when FLocke came outside. I wonder where he's taking him?
- Speaking of Richard, it's good to see you out of those chains!
- I might add Josh Holloway to the list of actors who should be nominated along with Terry O'Quinn and Matthew Fox just after the first episode. I'm amazed at the growth of some/most of these actors throughout the series. It's been great watching them developing their characters and their craft throughout the past six years.
- To those who don't like the temple or the people who inhabit it...then why are you watching? I just simply don't understand people who project their expectations onto the show. It's not fair to the writers or the story. And, frankly, it's frustrating to me as a fan. Why shouldn't there be a wise, old Asian man in the temple? I actually think that the line "I don't like the way English tastes on my tounge" is really cool. And I'm curious to see where this goes.
- In a completely unrelated note, how the h*** is Fringe doing? I haven't watched it in ages. Please let me know your thoughts on season 2 overall so I can figure out if it's worth it to spend my precious time watching it. I've been falling behind due to my ridiculous work schedule.
So there you go. Keep in mind that neither of us knew we were going to be posting those thoughts onto the internet, so neither of us went out of our way to say anything of significance. Now that we know, I'm sure all future installments will be at least 10 times more informative AND pretentious.
