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2.3 Orientation Desmond: "I push this button every hundred and eight minutes. I don't get out much." I was somehow intrigued, amused, and disappointed at the same time. The orientation film was shelved behind Turn of the Screw, the classic Henry James novella about a governess' belief that the two children in her charge were turned evil because of ghosts. We never find out if it was true, or if the governess was demented. This paralleled my uncertainty about what was going on here. Were Desmond and Locke deluded? Or were they the smart ones who knew what was really happening? I'm usually on Jack's side, but this time, I was on Locke's -- at least temporarily. I think Locke (or someone) should keep hitting the button until they know for sure what will happen when they stop. Yes, the film itself was fun; it contained all sorts of interesting goodies about island stations and unique electromagnetic properties and polar bears. But am I the only one who was a tad bummed to discover that the Island might just be an old social science experiment? There has been too much build up for something so outright pointless. At least we found out why the bunker had a combination of old stuff (the project was from the 1970s, and the film was copyrighted 1980) and new stuff (new recruits bringing in new supplies?) What I don't understand is why the computer was still so old. Leaving aside the hilarity of Locke in group therapy, the flashbacks were mildly disappointing, too. Two years after the kidney-napping, and Locke was still stalking his father? Helen was very likeable, although her motivations for trying to make Locke stop stalking Daddy weren't clear. In other news, we have now met Ana Lucia, and she seems to be a lot like Kate. I can completely understand why she and the other people (from the tail section?) were being so cautious, but would everybody please stop hurting Sawyer now? And I'm missing everyone else on the Island. Can we get back to the beach, please? Character bits: -- Desmond has been in the bunker for three years, which means that it has probably only been four years or so since Jack's bad haircut. -- It was confirmed that Jack lived in Los Angeles, and that he did marry Sarah. He got upset while he was talking about Sarah. Did she die? -- Helen wasted twenty years of her life being angry, huh? She can't be the same woman Locke was talking to on phone in "Walkabout"; he must have asked the woman he was paying to let him call her Helen. -- Who was in the photo with Desmond? -- Where did Desmond go when he left? Is there a shuttle leaving in ten minutes? Will the little dinosaurs get him on his way out? -- Ana Lucia woke up under water. If she was telling them the truth, that is. Maybe the other people weren't from the tail section. -- When they panned over the food stores, all I could think was that there was peanut butter for Claire. -- Desmond's dead partner's name was Kelvin. Kelvin, as in temperature scale? -- Sawyer got in a couple of nicknames: he called Ana Lucia "Cupcake," and the big black guy "Shaft." -- Locke's father told Locke: "You think you're the first person that ever got conned? You needed a father figure, and I needed a kidney. Get over it." Someone on Lostreviews speculated that Locke's father might be the original Sawyer. The personality certainly fits. -- We still don't know about Locke's paralysis, dammit. Bits and pieces: -- Please stop with the bad wigs. I promise to suspend belief without them. -- I'm rarely impatient with "Lost," but I got very tired of the endless bunker confrontation. -- Dan said that the Others in the opening scene looked like the family from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. -- I want to see the door Kate used to get outside. If it was so hard for them to find the hatch, how did they conceal the front door? -- How did Locke get the keys to his car back? -- Helen: "I like bald guys." Locke: "I'm not bald." Helen: "I can wait." -- Locke: "We're going to need to watch that again." :) I did watch it a couple of times, and got the following: Dharma Initiative, Dr. Marvin Candle, Gerald and Karen deGroot, University of Michigan, B.F. Skinner, Alvar Hanso, the experiment was supposed to run 540 days, and "Namaste and good luck." I don't know what I was expecting when we started to get some answers, but this wasn't it. Two out of four polar bears, Billie |
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