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5.12 Dead is Dead
Locke: "If everything you've done has been in the best interest of the Island, then I'm sure the Monster will understand." Dead is dead. Dead isn't dead. I'm so confused. In fact, I'm such a hopeless Lost geek that I started getting really excited at the prospect of answers about the Monster, the Temple, the Others. But all we really got were more tantalizing clues. I feel like Charlie Brown with the football. I've always assumed (yeah, making an ass out of you and me) that there was a real-life albeit science-fiction-like answer for everything happening on the Island. But "Alex" made me wonder if there is a religious answer. (Shades of Battlestar.) What was she? She certainly wasn't Alex. It felt like she was the God of the Temple, Anubis or whatever, speaking through Alex and using her knowledge of Ben to manipulate him. Maybe Christian Shephard isn't Christian Shephard at all, even with the whole "Say hi to my son" bit. Maybe the dead *are* dead and the Walking Dead are all visits from the God. Ben certainly seemed to believe that dead was dead, which implied that he hasn't seen the Walking Dead running around until now. But he has. He saw his own mother. It's even more confusing because John Locke appears to be the exception. He's not creepy or murderous like the "infected", and he's not acting like the Walking Dead; he's still his own Locke-like gullible self. Ben has a serious case of Locke envy, so I wasn't surprised Ben was planning to kill Locke *again.* (Would Locke have just risen a second time?) Locke rose from the dead and has all this miraculous knowledge, and Ben just gets beat up all the time. I'm not sure I can see Ben blindly following Locke's orders, whether the God told him to or not. It'll be interesting to see what happens next, to say the least. Did Ben institute the Others baby-stealing policy back in 1988? He obviously has *one* human weakness: he cares about small children. These past few episodes have shown us Ben's human side. A child abused by his father and nearly killed by Sayid. Sent to kill Danielle, but taking her baby instead. (No wonder Danielle hated Ben so much.) Determined to kill Penny, but unable to do it in front of little Charlie. Apologizing to Desmond. And showing true grief and remorse over Alex's death. I bet the baby-stealing policy *was* instituted by Ben. Richard and younger Charles Widmore certainly didn't seem all that interested in children. Character bits: -- Young Ben remembered his father and his life, so he didn't lose all of his memories. So again, what about Sawyer's group? Especially Juliet, whom Ben supposedly loves? -- Ben's experience with the Monster was a lot like Eko's. Eko was a priest. Hmm. -- Charles Widmore was making trips out to the real world and kept a family there. That explains Penny's ignorance of the Island and eliminates the possibility that she and Faraday are full siblings. (Could still be half-siblings, though.) -- Widmore apparently left the Island for good in what? the early 1990s? We still don't know why Widmore was exiled, do we? Only that it was Ben who caused it. -- Poor Caesar. Is he dead? -- I knew Ilana was a mole. No surprise there. And I am officially worried about Frank. I hope the newly revealed Others led by Ilana don't hurt him. -- When younger adult Ben kidnapped Alex, he was followed around by an adolescent Ethan. -- I watched the harbor scene a couple of times, and I don't think Desmond was shot. I think the bullet hit the groceries he was carrying and knocked him down. -- Has everyone in the cast beaten Ben up by now? How many have there been? It's like the car crashes, practically every episode. I bet Michael Emerson is sick to death having gore slapped on him in the makeup chair. Bits and pieces: -- That bas-relief in the final scene showed Anubis (?) touching something that looked like an accordion version of the Smoke Monster. There might be a Wheel in there, too. -- Yes, everyone has a wall of hieroglyphics in the secret closet of their secret closet. Twisting the water until it flushes is how you call the Monster? Why water? Something to do with the Well and Wheel? If the Temple is half a mile away from the Wall we saw, then what was that in the house's secret closet? An Anubis hatch? -- Charles told Ben that the Island wanted Alex dead. I wonder. -- I particularly liked when Ben was warning Sun that something he couldn't control was about to come out of the jungle, and it turned out to be Locke. :) -- Another masterful acting job by Michael Emerson. Quotes: Ben: "I knew it. I knew that this would happen." Locke: "Then why are you so surprised to see me?" Ben: (to Danielle) "If you want your child to live, every time you hear whispers, you run the other way." So Ben knows what the whispers are. And we still don't. Locke: "I was hoping you and I could talk about the elephant in the room." Ben: "I assume you're referring to the fact that I killed you." Ilana: "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" Poor Frank is about to find out. Will we? I've heard people complaining about this season of Lost being slow. I wonder what show they're watching? Billie My blog version of this review is here, if you'd like to comment. |