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Episodes: Reviews
5.16 The Incident
Sawyer: "What do you think, Blondie?" Juliet: "Live together, die alone." Lots of introspection. Lots of exposition. A two-hour episode about a character we'd never met before, and he died at the end. I was looking at the clock at twenty to eleven and thinking, you know, nothing has really happened yet. And then everything went nuts, so be careful what you wish for. We did get a big concepty breakthrough. All of those flashbacks with Jacob touching the Losties at some point in their past meant (to me) that Destiny is a great big go. Locke always believed in destiny. Jack is a recent convert. Sawyer may still have some work to do. The Incident If it's all about Destiny, Jack and Jughead probably did just cause The Incident, after all. That bomb going off at the very last moment of the episode was absolutely infuriating, because I really wanted to see The Incident and its aftermath. But noooo! It was the Lost cliffhanger of all Lost cliffhangers, because we now have no frigging clue about next season. Who died? What time period will they be in? What will they remember? What if nothing changed? What if nothing stayed the same? Arghh! Unless most of the cast managed to race to minimum safe distance in the space of a minute without a jeep or minivan, most the cast just got blowed up. This is a pretty big clue that they're either going to completely recast the series in its final season, or the explosion will do something to dropkick the time travelers somewhere else -- quite possibly, back to their own time. Is it unreasonable to think Juliet may actually come out of it alive? I don't want to lose Juliet. Or Sayid, for that matter, who was also dying. Ditto Jack, Sawyer and Kate. Unless the final season is all flashback. They wouldn't do that to us. Would they? No. Actually, after reading Josie's review of Stephen King's The Stand and how it relates to Lost (link at the end of this review), I've realized that season six is probably going to be about good versus evil. Which brings us to... Jacob and Whats-his-name The answer to "What lies in the shadow of the statue" is "He who will save us all" in Latin. And that's Jacob, who has a really weird basement apartment with a circular fireplace and handmade Greek wall hangings and a skylight with a view of the Foot. Who, or what, is Jacob? If he can be killed, he's probably not the living embodiment of the Egyptian god Sobek. (We got a really good look at the statue this time: head of a crocodile, body of a man, ankh in hand, god of power, protection and fertility. I think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobek. Ben said the statue was just a foot when he came to the Island, though. So it wasn't the Incident that blew the statue apart? Was Ben lying?) The opening scene with the bad CGI of the Black Rock (i.e., long time ago) showed Jacob and another man, whom I'm going to call Nemesis Guy. Nemesis Guy was talking about how unhappy he was that Jacob kept bringing people to the Island (like Flight 815, maybe?) and that Nemesis Guy planned to find a loophole so he could kill Jacob. Apparently, Jacob, Nemesis Guy, and Richard are virtually immortal, but not puncture-proof. And they can't kill each other. This raises many questions about the Walking Dead, as well as the Cabin. Locke seemed like Locke: mighty hunter, wry sense of humor, all of Locke's memories, and so on. But the real Locke is dead in the big airline crate. So Nemesis Guy can borrow the form and personality and memories of the dead, and right now, he's walking around looking and acting like Locke. What about Christian, Charlie, and so on? Were they all really Nemesis Guy? Who was in the cabin before Christian and Claire? Did someone trap Jacob or the Nemesis in the cabin with the circle of ash (shades of Supernatural) and did he manage to get free? Jacob's spinning wheel, the Greek letters, and the confirmation that Destiny exists in this 'verse made me think of the Three Fates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moirae). Would that make Jacob the spinner, and Nemesis Guy the one who cuts the thread, Death? Would Richard the "adviser" be the one who measures, then? Or is there a third Male fate hanging around the Island, incognito, perhaps? Flashbacks The visits that Jacob made to certain Losties in the past included some interesting details. Jacob physically touched each of them. And he gave most of them an object. -- Little Kate, in Ames, Iowa with her friend Tom (and his toy airplane) got a jump start on her life of crime by shoplifting a "New Kids on the Block" lunchbox. Jacob bought it for her and touched her on the nose, and said, "You're not going to steal any more, are you?" No, she's going to move up to patricide, Jacob. -- Eight-year-old Sawyer was at his parents' funeral and writing his letter to Locke's father. Jacob gave Sawyer a pen and touched his fingers. -- Sayid's flashback was the most ambiguous. Did Jacob save Sayid from dying in that car accident with Nadia? Or did he make certain Nadia died so Sayid would return to the Island? Jacob was holding a map and touched Sayid the moment Nadia was hit. -- Ilana's flashback wasn't like the others. She was in a hospital and her face was covered in bandages. Jacob came and asked her for help, in her own language, and she knew who he was. (What language was it?) He didn't touch her or bring her anything; he was even wearing gloves. -- Locke's flashback was plummeting eight stories and, apparently, dying. Jacob touched Locke's shoulder, and Locke started breathing again. Jacob told Locke everything was going to be all right. Locke is dead now, though, so I guess that isn't exactly true. -- Sun and Jin's wedding. Their vows about never being apart, like the earth and the sky. Jacob touched them both on the shoulder at the same time and blessed them in perfect Korean. -- Jack's five seconds of fear. Except we didn't know before that it was Christian who told him to do it, and that Jack was angry with him about it. Jacob gave Jack the Apollo candy bar from the machine, and touched Jack's fingers. (I think Jack thought it was a come on.) -- Juliet and her sister Rachel, as children, learned that their parents were getting a divorce. No Jacob. I thought Jacob was the point. Or maybe the point was that Juliet realized her relationship with Sawyer was over, and it was nobody's fault. (I noticed a book entitled The Mysteries of the Ancient Americas on the coffee table.) -- Hurley, released from LA County lockup, shared a cab with Jacob and a great big guitar case. Jacob told Hurley that he, Jacob, wasn't one of the Walking Dead, that Hurley could be blessed. Like Jin and Sun, perhaps? And Jacob told Hurley what plane to take. And touched him. Moving right along to... The Love Rectangle of Death Jack, Kate, Sawyer and Juliet came together at the end of the episode, ready to die together to change their future. That final scene where Sawyer lost Juliet was wrenching. (So to speak, since there were actually were wrenches and other tools flying about.) It was like she wanted to die, or knew it would happen. During the brief scene with Bernard and Rose talking about being together even after death, Juliet looked at Sawyer, and Sawyer looked at Kate. (Dammit, Sawyer. Why did you do that?) Jack really does love Kate, and thinks he blew it when they were Los Angeles. The way she was looking at him near the end and recreating their "cute meet" (with blood) in the pilot, though? I think he still has a chance. If they still know each other in season six, that is. Character bits: -- Rose, Bernard and Vincent had a hut and a nice Zen-like retirement by the ocean. I thought them saying they wanted nothing to do with the guns and running around was pretty hilarious. Who can blame them? At least, if they never show up again, the fans will stop asking where they are. -- I was certain there was a body in the Mysterious Huge Coffin-like Airline Crate, but I didn't expect it to be Locke. Will Locke return next season as the Nemesis Guy? How's Terry O'Quinn's driving record? -- Speaking of which, the only character we didn't see in the finale was Desmond. I hear he's in legal trouble. -- Sawyer was aware that he could have tried to prevent the death of his parents in 1976, and he chose not to because he didn't think he could. And yet, he changed his mind and tried to help Jack, Kate and Juliet. I wonder why. Probably because Juliet wanted him to. -- I thought it was lovely (and again, way circular in a time travel way) that Miles saved his father's life. All through those last scenes, I kept watching Dr. Chang's arm, expecting it to get bonked at any moment. Which it was. -- Did Sayid get his karmic reward for shooting young Ben when Roger shot him? That's sort of what it felt like. -- Yes, yes, yes, Eloise was pregnant with Daniel in 1977. I missed that in the last episode and a lot of people wrote and told me. Mea culpa. -- According to Ilana, Frank may be a candidate. For what? I'd like to see Frank next season, actually. So I hope he's a candidate. Whatever that is. -- Radzinsky came to the Island to change the world, and he thirsts for the power of electromagnetism. As I've said before, he really deserves to spend the next twenty-five years pushing a button until he kills himself. If that happens this time around. -- Sun found the ring Charlie left in Aaron's crib. Does that mean Charlie is coming back? That would be cool. -- Sawyer told Jack about his parents. They do tend to share those big honking moments every now and then. I wonder if he ever told Juliet? Jack reciprocated by saying (or implying) that he loved Kate, but knew he couldn't have her now. -- Sawyer finally called Juliet a nickname: Blondie. Right before he may have lost her forever. And he called Miles something I couldn't make out. Amos? [I'm told it's Enos, a deputy from The Dukes of Hazzard.] Bits and pieces: -- In the Locke flashback, Jacob was pointedly reading Flannery O'Connor, Everything that rises must converge. There was a pierced dove on the cover. Coincidentally, Phil was killed in much the same way as the dove. I don't think that meant Phil was the embodiment of peace. But it probably meant something. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_That_Rises_Must_Converge -- I am told that the Greek phrases were from The Odyssey, "May the gods grant thee all that thy heart desires" and "May the gods grant thee happiness." Desmond's journey has been compared to The Odyssey. He even has a wife named Penelope who never stopped waiting for him. -- "Locke" aka Nemesis Guy said he was going after the Ajira people next. Maybe the Ajira people really are the good guys. -- Mark Pellegrino (Jacob), like Brad William Henke (Bram), had a key continuing character role in the first season of Dexter. -- Isn't it interesting that the ending was one great big rabbit hole? I have to say that seeing the Jeep pulled down into it made me laugh out loud. Not that Juliet plummeting to her death was at all funny. I like Juliet a lot. Quotes: Sun: "Who's Jacob?" Ben: "He's in charge of this Island." Sun: "You said John was in charge." Ben: "No, I said he was the leader. A title that I've discovered is incredibly temporary." Frank: "What's in the box?" (I immediately flashed on Dean on Supernatural doing that Brad Pitt imitation.) Locke: "You mind if I ask you a question?" Ben: "I'm a Pisces." Kate: "Jack has a bomb." Rose: "Who cares?" Kate: "Excuse me?" Rose: "It's always something with you people." Jack: "We're not going back in time." Miles: "Right. Because that would be ridiculous." Locke: "Well, it's a wonderful foot, Richard. But what does it have to do with Jacob?" Jack: "Three years ago, Locke told me that all of this was happening for a reason, that us being here was our destiny." Sawyer: "I don't speak destiny." Sawyer: "This don't look like LAX." Really good. Not as great as some of their finales, but I enjoyed it tremendously. And I don't know what I want for season six. But waiting until 2010 is going to be tough. One last thing. Billiedoux.com guest writer Josie K, who knows her way around literary criticism, is doing Lost Lit Summer Book Reviews. She just put up her first review of Stephen King's The Stand and its relationship to Lost -- here. So if you're interested in Lost-related book reviews, stop by the blog this summer. We've also got numerous other summer retro reviewing projects going on, as in X-Files, Wonderfalls, Highlander, and Doctor Who. Blog version of this review is here, if you'd like to comment. See you in 2010, Billie |