Lost 5.03 Jughead
Jan. 29th, 2009 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakLatin: it’s not just for Monty Python anymore.
Seriously, how much do I love that the Others all get a crash course in Latin as their code language? Two possibilities: either Richard really is that old, or Jacob is a frustrated Latin teacher who hates it that it’s out of the current curriculum. Or Jacob is Jed Bartlett. Or something. Anyway, I do love the Latin.
Otherwise, I feel smug about being right re: the reason for Richard showing up stalking baby Locke directly after his birth being that he met adult Locke in the 50s. Time-wimey stuff is ever so useful. What I didn’t expect was young soldier Widmore, but that’s because I cherished the theory Charles Widmore was an immortal as well (hence Ben’s inability to kill him) and from the slave trader/ pirate days. It was clear we’d have to see Widmore on the island in the past at some point, given his complaint that Ben “stole” it, but this particular point was unexpected, and I applaud the show.
Now: consider the irony of Locke not shooting Young!Widmore (before finding out who he is) because he considers himself responsible for the Others now. Time really takes care of no paradoxes, huh?
Speaking of John Locke, the other big irony, as big as Jack’s main mission in life now being to return to the island, is that Locke’s main mission this season shapes up to be to get off the island. The exact reverse of what their cherished dream through four seasons was, respectively.
Now: how about those two time-tourists, Daniel Faraday and Desmond Hume, huh? I expect there’s something more to the story of Daniel and Theresa than him using her as a human lab rat, which we’ll find out in due time, but him feeling horribly guilty about something in his past makes sense, given that he cries throughout his introduction scene in s4, plus Charles Widmore financing not just his research but the care for Theresa ensures that Daniel is beholden to him. Meanwhile, Desmond gets points for naming his son “Charlie” (though I guess he’d have had to explain to Penny that this isn’t supposed to honour her father) and for not shutting Penny out, as I was somewhat afraid he would. Sorry, Des.
Charles Widmore: gets to show the human trait of being concerned about his daughter but loses points for telling Desmond about Los Angeles yet utterly failing to mention that the danger Penny is in has a name. Methinks something like “remember Benjamin Linus? He declared a vendetta because I got his daughter killed” would have been far more useful than cryptic general warnings, unless, of course, Widmore secretly wants Desmond to go to Los Angeles (on the principle of “I warned him, so he’s sure to go”) and isn’t above using his daughter as bait.
Daniel’s mother: has another name than her son and thusly probably really is identical with Ben’s partner/boss, as other reviewers have surmised. Considering all the screentime and camera attention the young blonde on the island got, with the dialogue pointing out Daniel stared at her because she reminded him of someone, she might be identical with Mrs. Not Farraday as well.
The US armies hydrogen bomb testing as the trigger for the wars on the island: nice symbolism.
In conclusion: Latin! Ave atque vale, amici.
Seriously, how much do I love that the Others all get a crash course in Latin as their code language? Two possibilities: either Richard really is that old, or Jacob is a frustrated Latin teacher who hates it that it’s out of the current curriculum. Or Jacob is Jed Bartlett. Or something. Anyway, I do love the Latin.
Otherwise, I feel smug about being right re: the reason for Richard showing up stalking baby Locke directly after his birth being that he met adult Locke in the 50s. Time-wimey stuff is ever so useful. What I didn’t expect was young soldier Widmore, but that’s because I cherished the theory Charles Widmore was an immortal as well (hence Ben’s inability to kill him) and from the slave trader/ pirate days. It was clear we’d have to see Widmore on the island in the past at some point, given his complaint that Ben “stole” it, but this particular point was unexpected, and I applaud the show.
Now: consider the irony of Locke not shooting Young!Widmore (before finding out who he is) because he considers himself responsible for the Others now. Time really takes care of no paradoxes, huh?
Speaking of John Locke, the other big irony, as big as Jack’s main mission in life now being to return to the island, is that Locke’s main mission this season shapes up to be to get off the island. The exact reverse of what their cherished dream through four seasons was, respectively.
Now: how about those two time-tourists, Daniel Faraday and Desmond Hume, huh? I expect there’s something more to the story of Daniel and Theresa than him using her as a human lab rat, which we’ll find out in due time, but him feeling horribly guilty about something in his past makes sense, given that he cries throughout his introduction scene in s4, plus Charles Widmore financing not just his research but the care for Theresa ensures that Daniel is beholden to him. Meanwhile, Desmond gets points for naming his son “Charlie” (though I guess he’d have had to explain to Penny that this isn’t supposed to honour her father) and for not shutting Penny out, as I was somewhat afraid he would. Sorry, Des.
Charles Widmore: gets to show the human trait of being concerned about his daughter but loses points for telling Desmond about Los Angeles yet utterly failing to mention that the danger Penny is in has a name. Methinks something like “remember Benjamin Linus? He declared a vendetta because I got his daughter killed” would have been far more useful than cryptic general warnings, unless, of course, Widmore secretly wants Desmond to go to Los Angeles (on the principle of “I warned him, so he’s sure to go”) and isn’t above using his daughter as bait.
Daniel’s mother: has another name than her son and thusly probably really is identical with Ben’s partner/boss, as other reviewers have surmised. Considering all the screentime and camera attention the young blonde on the island got, with the dialogue pointing out Daniel stared at her because she reminded him of someone, she might be identical with Mrs. Not Farraday as well.
The US armies hydrogen bomb testing as the trigger for the wars on the island: nice symbolism.
In conclusion: Latin! Ave atque vale, amici.
