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[krickets]

Holy shit guys, I think everyone on my flist agrees about an episode of LOST. This is the first time ever.

I haven't watched and... I'm pretty much afraid to now.

Anyone wanna spoil me with the key points in the comments?

Comments

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

LOL, I know! I'm terrified!

With my luck, I'll prolly luuurve this one.

Nah, not gonna happen.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, you never know!

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

Guess I was right to be terrified cuz that was frighteningly bad!

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear it.

I still want to watch but I'm fucking pissed as hell at my germans. They watch multiple episodes of csi/law & order/ncis/etc. a DAY. If there's no new episodes of the many spinoffs, they find them in syndication. I am going fucking bonkers -- I haven't been able to watch this episode yet as a result of their RUDENESS.

For two and a half weeks they have commandeered our remote and put this shit on. I am going MAD. And I'm sure my parents are too. Say what I might about the crap my parents watch, at least it's not 24/7 procedurals. JESUS, VARIETY MIGHT BE NICE.

*headdesk*

You were just privy to a spontaneous rant... I apologize.

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I can do this:

- Allison Janney was the previous "Jacob" who was charged to keep some sort of magical life and death containing light safe.

-A nice pregnant lady washes ashore and delivers two boys with the help of Janney, Jacob and the MIB who still has no name. Janney bashes their mother's head in with a rock.

-She then raises the boys and fills their heads with wacky notions about death and protecting the heart of the island and staying away from the mean Romans (?) who live on the other side of the island.

-The boy's dead mom shows up and tells Esau his “mom” is crazy in her crazy pants.

- Esau goes all emo and runs off to live with the Romans and build the frozen donkey wheel. He also may or may not have invented backgammon.

-Jacob stays with his fake mommy and mopes because she loves MIB more.

-Jacob visits the MIB and discovers his brother’s going to leave the island. He runs home to tell mommy dearest. She spazzes out and goes to the camp to kill her beloved son and torch the camp.

-Janney returns to Jacob and makes him drink some wine and take over her light keeping duties. He cries a bit. MIB shows up and kills Janney who thanks him for putting her out of her misery.

-Then Jacob kills his brother tosses him into the magic water/life source and out comes Smokey. MIB’s dead body washes up on the other side of the river, Jacob cries some more and then lays MIB and fake mommy to rest in the caves. We have an unnecessary flashback to a half naked Jack and Kate to remind us about the Adam and Eve mystery.

-Lost fans everywhere weep in pain from the lameness. The end. ;)

[crickets.livejournal.com]

So the fact that they're brothers is confirmed. Maybe this means that Jack and Claire will be stuck together on the island in the end after all. Hmmm...

Other than that. WHAT? Light keeping duties?

Was this poisoned wine? Why did she make him drink wine?

So Esau[OMG DID HE ACTUALLY GET A NAME? PLEASE TELL ME YES.] and his Mom are Adam and Eve? That's kind of disappointing to be honest.

Okay, I don't know if I need to watch this ep now. Especially since it doesn't really do anything to enhance the CURRENT plotline and the one we care about.

[And not to mention apparently sucked.]

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Alas, he's still nameless, I've just gotten so used to calling him Esau one slipped in. ;)

Dude, I wish the light keeping thing was a metaphor, but there was an actual glowy light at the end of a tunnel and Alison Janney was like we must protect it or all the light in the world will go out!

Heh. I think the wine was magical...maybe? I read it as symbolically binding Jacob to the island until he finds his own replacement. It looked like the same bottle the MIB smashed back in "Ab Aeterno" but that could have been the prop department being lazy.

And yep, MIB and his fake mommy are Adam and Eve. *sighs*

Yeah, you didn't miss anything. I'm so ready to get back to characters we actually know.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

I wish they would just call him Esau and be done with it. Seriously. Especially that they've now done this backstory with them literally as brothers. PLEASE JUST MAKE IT SO. I am so sick of calling him MiB or what-the-heck-ever. It just makes me think of Will Smith and creepy alien dogs.

Aw, they protect the light of the world.... that's... extremely cheesy. Hahaha.

Magical wine. It makes sense. [Um, did I just say that? What has this show done to me?]

SIGH.

This show is so full of empty promises.

[zelda-zee.livejournal.com]

LOL, awesome recap!

[ozmissage.livejournal.com]

Heh. Thanks! I figure I can either laugh or cry...I choose laughing for now. ;)

[workswithwords.livejournal.com]

Here's the spoiler:

NOTHING HAPPENS


psst. what is the pacific kink meme link?

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Awww.

*comforts*

You just need a good nap. [And for it to be next week's episode?]

[crickets.livejournal.com]

http://community.livejournal.com/pacifickink/1057.html

I left some on page 6! ♥! [I'm sure you can guess.]

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, drive-by +1 for awesomeness.

[akzseinga.livejournal.com]

I just watched 8 minutes and then stopped and checked my flist to make sure if this is really going to be as lame as I think it is. Apparently, I was right.

You know what pisses me of? We get to see this pointless story with Jacob and MIB which could've been just said, like: Oh, and by the way, these bones in the caves? Me and my crazy mother. Or something. So, we get this fuckery and we didn't and probably won't get Claire's island story. Which I would LOVE. Because there's still so much unknown.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's disappointing that we probably won't get her story in favor of this shit.

[(Anonymous)]

I have to disagree, i dont think it was lame at all. Yes the light appeared cheesy but what it was was the "electromagnetic energy" which 2000 years ago would just be "light". We have seen this light as well at the end of season 2, end of season 4, and season 5, so its not like they are just throwing this at us. I was fine with the episode though i know allot of people werent for various reasons. I think it probably should of played toward the beginning of the season, not right when the final act is about to begin.

[crickets.livejournal.com]

Trey is that you?

I hadn't seen the ep when I posted this entry, but I felt kind of let down by this episode but for me that's not surprising because I have always felt that the mythology on this show has been poorly done. It just was another in a long line of disappointments.

I was expecting everything that happened though, so I don't think I was as let down as everyone else was about the episode. If I had just watched it not knowing what was going to happen I might have been a little bit more unhappy with it than I was.