Lost: Deus Ex Machina...

[fajrdrako]

Woo, what a good episode of Lost. Feast after famine. A few comments, questions and thoughts...

1. More spooky psychic stuff, with Locke and his prophetic dream. He thinks the island is telling him
things that way - I wonder why?

2. I quite liked Boone in this, still being Locke's minion but being reasonably interesting, smart (for
Boone), and having his own adventure for a change. Mostly with Locke, but still.

3. My favourite scene was Jack teasing Sawyer when treating him - "have you ever had sex with a prostitute?" - heh. And no doubt scaring Sawyer to death and getting even in his own way. The two-part
glasses are delightful.

4. Too bad the glasses-making scene is all we saw of Sayid. I missed him. Not to mention Shannon, Hurley,
Claire and Charlie. But we did see three strangers.

5. The Nicaraguan plane had propellers, and made me think of the little plane in the envelope in the
briefcase.

6. What was Sawyer reading? I couldn't make it out.

7. We still don't know what happened to Locke's legs four years ago. Nor do we know how long ago the
kidney-transplant event with his father was, though presumably it was more than four years ago.

8. So Locke has daddy issues too. (Of course!) Does he see Boone as a son?

9. Presumably Locke's skill at hunting etc. is to compete with his father?

10. It was scary when Locke seemed to be losing the use of his legs again. maaboroshi's comment: "It's like Flowers for Algernon." But the need to carry Boone to Jack seems to have been the incentive Locke needed to walk again - is the island testing him? them? somehow? It looks as if the plane full of heroin would be a test for Charlie.

11. I like Jack's cozy home in the cave. Or is that his doctor's office? Nice, anyway.

12. Sawyer was actually trying, in his inept way, to be nice to people. I loved it when he complimented Sun's garden.

13. The light came on inside the hatch. Did Locke trigger it? Or does it happen, say, every month? Or
is it random? Or is someone there? It looks a little now like an underground tower or column.

14. Loved the conversation about the trebuchet.

15. Why did Jack treat Sawyer? Was he implying that he did it for Kate's sake, because she wanted him to?
Or is it hippocratic oath stuff?

16. Can Locke not feel pain now? Is he a superhero? Why is he the only one this has happened to?

17. I've been predicting Boone will die. Now I'm not sure I want him to.

18. What was the title referring to?

19. Does the "Mousetrap" game have symbolic significance?

20. Jack told his father he had no family, and yet he mentioned a brother in the beginning of the episode.
Is he estranged from his adoptive family, or did he just mean he doesn't have a wife or child?

21. Who did Boone reach on the radio?

22. What is the significance of Teresa, and why did Locke's vision mention her?

Comments

[dargie.livejournal.com]

10. I think the island took Locke's legs away from him because if he'd been able to walk and climb, it'd have been him in the plane instead of Boone. The island has other plans for him.

16. Presumably it was part of his "condition" and when he realized he felt no pain, he realized that he was on the way to being disabled again.

18. I think the title is about what I said in #10, above.

19. I'm guessing that The Mousetrap has a two-fold significance. First, it was the trap Locke's father set for him. Second it's what may be happening on the island.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

All of those ideas make sense - I love the way it's a labyrinth of ideas, symbols and images, for us to play with however we wish.

I find that I like Locke more all the time.

[teaphile.livejournal.com]

Sawyer was reading A Wrinkle in Time.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Which is extremely cool. I don't know if it's a clue to anything, but it certainly makes a person wonder!

[elynross.livejournal.com]

5. The Nicaraguan plane had propellers, and made me think of the little plane in the envelope in the briefcase.

Oh, there's a thought -- they've already established that there are these subtle links between the people. I wonder if the reason Kate wanted the airplane *is* tied to the downed plane?

And I also wondered if the boy that Locke showed the game to *was* Boone, as a child.

Ditto on the not feeling pain -- that's not a good thing, so it's no indication of added powers, but of loss of feeling and growing paralysis.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Boone as a child - what a nice thought! The time would seem about, as IMHO that scene was about ten years ago. Mind you, ten years ago is not a Lost-significant number - perhaps eight years ago?

The tiny toy plane and the big real plane bring to mind sympathetic magic.

I meant Nigeria, not Nicaragua. Oops.