In the mythology of LOST, we’ve always known that Locke was “special.” Even in Season 1, before pushing the button, before trying to save the island from the freighter people, and even before “they need our help” in Season 4 and now Season 5, Locke always seemed like he was destined for something. He always had a special relationship to the island. Even the Smoke Monster seemed to know it. Tonight’s episode, “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” confirmed that others also know it all too well, namely Benjamin Linus and Charles Widmore. While Kate, Jack, and the other Losties did nothing but reject and ridicule Locke, bringing him to the edge of suicide (I was going to say “to end of his rope” there, but…), Ben and Widmore realize just how important he is to the fate of the island. What other fates may hang in the balance, too, is anyone’s guess. But Locke basically became a football that they were playing “keep away” with. Now that he’s back on the island, complete with a dark hood that he emerged from as if rolling a stone away from the opening of a cave, we can assume he is where he belongs. He is finally where fate wants him to be.
This episode wasn’t as action-packed and fast-paced as the previous six, but it gave us a lot to think about. To be honest, it didn't blow me away at all, but I did like it. My recap is about half-way done, but I’m pretty sure I’m sleeptyping at this point. So my apologies, but I'm not going to be able to post it for you guys tonight. I will be bringing it to school with me tomorrow (well, today, really), and I hope to be able to finish it there to post if for you as early as possible. Maybe some of you will add your own ideas and theories in the comments section at the end of this post in the meantime.
So until then, enjoy the few early screencaps below, and here's a question that I'd like you to give your answer to in the comments:
Who is the good guy, and who is the bad guy: Charles Widmore or Benjamin Linus?
Widmore and Locke
Slow down!
Widmore's newspaper
You can kind of see the license plate. Any numbers?
Cesar finds an map of the island...
...And some of Faraday's notes?
Creepy as ever: Matthew Abaddon
From The Fuselage...
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I am so ashamed. I DVR'd Lost and went to church for Ash Wednesday service and now I have to fully insert my foot in my mouth for what I said about people posting quotes based on the Bible. The phrase "You've got work to do" keeps popping up in Lost. What is to do work?
A JOB!!!
Job 4: Think how you have instructed many, how you have strengthened feeble hands. Your words have supported those who stumbled; you have strengthened faltering knees (or spines). A word was secretly brought to me, my ears caught a whisper of it. Are not the cords of their tent pulled up, so that they die without wisdom?
Job 8: Ask the former generations, and find out what their fathers learned, for you were born only yesterday and know nothing. Will they not instruct you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?...and the tents of the wicked shall be no more (empty Dharma stations everywhere).
Job 15: Your sin prompts your mouth; you adopt the tongue of the wicked (smart-arse Sawyer and wicked-lying Ben). ...To whom alone the land was given when no alien passed among them. ...The ruthless through all the years stored up for him; terrifying sounds fill his ears (Smokie); when all seems well marauders attack him (Others). He will not escape the darkness.
Job 16: Men open their mouths to jeer at me; they strike my cheek in scorn and unite together against me. He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has made me his target; his archers surround me (ask Frogurt). Without pity, he pierces my kidney (ask Locke) and spills my gall on the ground. Only a few years will pass before I go on the journey of no return.
Job 23: (Virtually the whole thing).
Job 42: I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted. My ears had heard of you (rumors of the island), but now my eyes have seen you (Locke saw beauty). Job lived a hundred and forty years. He saw four generations of his children.
4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.
Very Interesting!
I love it! It all fits, more or less.
ReplyDeleteI love the end of Job 16: "Only a few years will pass before I go on a journey of no return."
Nice! Thanks for sharing, Chris!
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