Lost again

[selenak]

Dear Island,

you know what your duty is, don't you? Remember, you/John Locke are my favourite 'ship on this show. Who loves you better? Really, I don't care whether you're purgartory, hell, Eden or just a science experiment gone bad, but you better come through with the magical healing mojo again.

Yours in faith,

Selena



Dear Producers,

that was a cool episode. I note Ultimate Drew realized he had struck gold with pairing up Locke and Ben the last time, and gave them lots of scenes together. Well done. As was the Ben background story. Michael Emerson and the kid who played his younger self were terrific. Incidentally, is Jin now officially the only person on this island who had a good father? Oh, and Richard the Unaging Recruiter Guy of Shifting Loyalties (he was the one who gave Locke the file on Sawyer last episode, after all) is a good mystery, as is, of course, Jacob. (Can't make up my mind whether he's a poltergeist produced by Ben's and Locke's subconscious interacting or the force of this island somehow held captive.) (I did notice the ash Locke found on the way to the cabin.) Alex' short scene: loved it. Definitely her mother's daughter.

However. See above. If my beloved John Locke dies, I'll call it quits. Much as I like Sun, Jin, Sayid, Hurley. You, people, are asking me to put up with Doctor Jack on a regular basis, and Jack has by now reached season 3 Vaughn level of self righteous obnoxiousness and ability to make previously interesting women act stupid. At least Kate hasn't used the world "soulmate" yet, an indignity you inflicted on s3 Sydney, Abrams, and don't think I forgot that. But to return to my point: the dullness and annoyingness of Jack is such that I will only put up with it if I continue to get my Locke in compensation. Under no other condition. Would I have watched Alias if you had made Vaughn the lead and taken Sloane away? You bet I wouldn't have.

Besides, I'm already a nervous wreck because of Heroes. Given my fondness for shady characters and the occasional sociopath, you do not want to ruin my mental health entirely, trust me.

Yours anxiously,

me


Dear Locke ("dear John" carries just the wrong implications here),

one of the many, many reasons why I love you: in one and the same episode, you start a power game with Ben, and do it rather well, and ask, utterly sincerely, "why?" when he shoves you into a mass grave in the end. It's the same "why?" you always asked your father when he pulled those stunts on you, and I suspected during the last episode already - and in The Man from Tallahasee - that you play out your relationship with Ben on a similar pattern. Though with the added dimension of wanting simultanously to replace him and wanting his approval. Unfortunately, Ben has his own father drama going on and has cast you as his old man as well. Aren't you two a match made - well on, the island? Alas, now he's done it and tried to kill you. Emphasis on tried, do you hear me? You better get well, because, see above. There goes my newest 'ship, I suppose, but no matter, we all know you two love the island best anyway.

Also? Last week I saw people suspect Ben set you up to steal that tape recorder from him. So I was thrilled that this week, it turned out not to be the case; on the contrary, you, John, pulled a fast one on Ben, managed to warn our gang of forlorn heroes of their peril and still didn't have to go back to them. (Jack is there. I entirely understand why you prefer to be elsewhere and wander the path of moral ambiguity between camps.) I mean, if the island comes through for you again, you could in theory unite both camps by displacing Ben and Jack as leaders simultanously, but really, that would be the end of the show, I guess.

In summation: I believe you will spend the next episode near death and healing, on a spiritual trek through the underworld, possibly encountering Boone and the unlamented original Sawyer there, and return for the season finale, healed. I believe that just as much as you believe in the island.

Yours eternally,

A woman of faith

Comments

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Loke had better not be dead. Srsly. Or stay dead. And if he comes back, I really hope he brings Boone with him. :)

And while I am generally a Jack fan, I am seriously hoping for some explanation of his behavior over the last few eps, because he's been annoyign even me.

As for Heroes making you an emotional wreck. WORD. I am quite nervous because I'm not sure yet exactly how much they are willing to fuck with me, but I'm sure it's a lot. And I'm sure there wll be one hell of a cliffhanger that will have me gnashing my teeth till next September.

[g_shadowslayer]

Yes, yes, and YES!

And I have yet a third production team trying to do me in, with SPN this week. I might crack yet! :O

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I'll believe Locke is really dead when... Well, I was going to say, "when I see his lifeless body stiffening in the sun," but on this show, I'm not actually sure whether even that guarantees anything. :)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

"Who the hell are Nikki and Paolo?" True, it doesn't, and yes, I won't believe it, either.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I knew it would turn out a good thing that I don't watch SPN. I'm not sure I could handle more torture-by-production-team...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry. Jack is the lead, if anyone is, so undoubtedly there will be some explanation as to why he couldn't explain anything to his friends which will make it look all understandable; that a leading man's perogative, alas. The narrative tends to support them.

Cliffhanger: yes, I suspect there will be one. Retrospectively, I'm so glad I didn't get hooked on Farascape until that show was nearly over, because they had incredibly mean cliffhangers at the ends of their seasons. BSG and Babylon 5 cliffhangers I was generally okay with. But Heroes might do me in...

[svilleficrecs.livejournal.com]

Regardless of who or what or if something on the show goes boom, fandom most definitely will. I keep coming back to how floored I was by Five Years Gone and knowing the finale will have to way more than top that, in terms of OMGWTFPOLARBEAR!s, effects and torturing our characters.

And considering how heavy on the ground the Peter & Claire moments have been last few eps, I gotta imagine there's going to be at least a little more mindfuck for us in that department. In all the departments, really.

Is it Monday yet? How about now?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on Locke: he's my favourite (with Hurley next) and don't they know how incredibly boring Jack is? I was furious when Kate told him about Naomi "because he ought to know". Aaaugh! And that tattoo ep was a wasted hour of my life.

I have hope that Locke will survive because the island and/or Jacob needs him, and he got shot where his kidney used to be, so maybe he hasn't got that much internal damage.

[lives in hope and is delighted she gave you your latest 'ship]

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I have hope, too, and good point about the kidney - which btw emphasizes the Ben/Father parellels -; the island will come through for him!

Jack: alas I don't think they do...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I just watched the ep again. Locke was shot higher than where a kidney would be. :-(

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No, belay that. Kidneys are above the waist, so stet, but I think a lung might also be in the way.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

absolutely love the review, but in regards to Locke's health, let us not forget that this is a man who survived being chucked out a fifth floor building and this is also the island that made a crippled man walk.

Surviving such a petty thing as a point blank gunshot to the torso should be a minor inconvenience.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Well, if it is any consolation - Lock got a bullet wound to the side of his gut, not in the stomach, but to the side. Which on TV shows, means you can more or less survive. Heck if Micah did, Lock should. Plus we have the on going metaphor of people being put in graves partially paralyzed. So, no, I don't think he's dead. Yet.

I keep hoping they'll kill Jack off. They are threatening to kill several characters in the finale. But I have this odd feeling that everyone involved with producing the show is under the mistaken impression that the audience is rooting for Jack, when in reality we are rooting for other characters. So maybe you should send that letter?

I'm afraid they are going to kill off Sayhid and Locke, which doesn't leave me that much reason to watch...true I like Desmond, Jin, Hurley and Sawyer. But Lock and Sayhid are the only counter points we have to Doctor Jack. We need them! Course I was watching Alias for Will, Victor Garber, and Ron Rifkin...sigh, adore Ron Rifkin.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Absolutely!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

*shares the Ron Rifkin adoration*

*and the love for Will and Victor Garber*

Living in Europe as I do, my letter would arrive too late and would not be considered a voiced opinion by the main target audience anyway, sigh.

If Locke and Sayid die, I'm out of there, despite my sympathy for the others, because, as we agree, the dreadfulness of Jack... whom they're never going to kill off. He's like Vaughn that way. We'll always ever get teased with the vain hope it might happen!

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Living in Europe as I do, my letter would arrive too late and would not be considered a voiced opinion by the main target audience anyway, sigh.

Yep, wouldn't work. The main target audience for reasons that escape me seems to be obsessed with Jack/Kate/Sawyer and loves Charlie.

If Locke and Sayid die, I'm out of there, despite my sympathy for the others, because, as we agree, the dreadfulness of Jack... whom they're never going to kill off. He's like Vaughn that way. We'll always ever get teased with the vain hope it might happen!

The may lose me as well. I can take one or the other going, but not both. Honestly, who is going to question saint Jack then? Desmond? Juliet? Sigh.

Agree, Jack isn't going anywhere. They planned to kill him off in the first episode, but the network guy stopped them, the guy is like a cockroach = he ain't killable. They keep promising and never following through...it's as bad if not worse than Vaughn, dang it.

This is what happens when you prefer character actors to leading men buff boys...you are doomed to watching your favorites get killed off.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

This is what happens when you prefer character actors to leading men buff boys...you are doomed to watching your favorites get killed off.

At least on Alias, they let me keep Sloane and Jack till the finale... *clings*