Lost 1x13: Hearts and Minds

[summer_skin]

Eeee!

1) nikita_80 is alive and well and back in the online world. *squeezes her tight and never lets her go* Yay for the non-deadness!

2) Tonight is Lost and Alias night! How can you go wrong! I went in knowing basically nothing about this ep outside of the promos but I had a good feeling and it SO paid off!



We start off the eye again. Nice to see a return to the old. I wonder if next season, once they've established the basic groundwork for all the main characters, if they'll get a new gimic. I hope they don't open on feet. Feet bother me. They smell funny and look funny and... yeah.

We get a flashback right from the start, which is great and all, I guess. I was looking forward to the Boone/Shannon backstory just because of all the B/S incest-shippers so I wanted to see what was what. I could very easily ship B/S just because right from the very beginning they had chemistry that none of the other characters had (including the "it" couple that will come to represent the series because that's just the way it is- Kate and Jack. But then again, a pine cone dipped in hydrochloric acid has more chemistry than Jack. :P) So Boone was playing tennis with a Shannon look-alike that actually plays into something we learn later, so whatever. Then he gets a call from the real Shannon and she's all- eeek! Help me Boone! I need help! Help me! I'm in Sydney Australia! Help me! Help! Help! Help! ... Or something like that. Either way, Boone is concerned.

But in real island time he's all creepy-like, watching her with Sayid who has brought her a pair of purple, funky shoes that- while very very pretty and something I'd LOVE to have in my own closet- are not at all practical for the beach. But then again, nothing that Shannon does is practical for the beach so whatever.

So then Boone and Locke decide to go off on their trek back into the jungle, which we all know as where they're digging up that vault thingy. Boone expresses his thoughts about Sayid (none friendly) and Locke tries to get him to let it go, to let Shannon go and says Sayid is a good guy. That "we'll want him on our side." I don't know what side that is, or when they're planning on taking sides but obviously it has something to do with the hatch/hutch/door/vault thingy. Locke must have some sort of idea what it is and that it's going to cause big boom amongst the other survivors or else he wouldn't have said such a cryptically weird thing.

Then again, it's been firmly established that Locke is a couple candied cherries short of a fruitcake so I doubt we're to put anything TOO substantial into what he says yet.

*waits for the fangirls and that one crazy religious dude who thinks everyone is god/jesus/mary/whoever (and makes REALLY stupid points. Ones that can't stand up to everyday logic and actually WATCHING the show.) to post about how wise/knowing/god-like locke is*

Speaking of Locke, when did he become all aboriginal spirit guide-esque? I know he encouraged Jack on his own moment of enlightenment (*snort*) back in White Rabbit but he's really weird now. Speaking in a strange voice (to me, anyway) and grinding shit up in a makeshift fruit shell bowl. He just keeps rounding up the victims for his cult. First Walt, now Boone is left holding the paraplegic!penis (Fcuk Chat will likely be the only ones to get this.) He also speaks Italian. Why is that not surprising? It is, however, annoying. Locke kind of varies between being kinda cool to annoying to downright CREEPY.

I LOVE Hurley in this ep. He's so friggin' funny. And he has poo problems! I love that they're dealing with this issue cause I was wondering about the TP supply. Poor Hurley and his dietary issues. I feel your pain, Hurley. Oh, I do. Also, they're recycling the clothing on the show. Bravo. I'm sure most of the clothes will be new next season but for right now they're re-using some of the stuff, which is great. I know it's not logical for the clothes to be new every episode but then again it's not respectable or acceptable for them to be running around with ... stuff hanging out when they get old and frayed. Which sucks. Cause I like it when ... stuff hangs out.

So Locke doesn't like that Boone is wanting to tell Shannon about the stuff in the jungle (which they're just staring at, waiting for that moment of epiphany so they can open the damn thing. As if Locke doesn't already know anyway. And wouldn't it make sense to keep digging as much as possible, see what else there is to the damn thing? Duh!). So, yeah. Locke gets all pissy that Boone wants to tell Shannon shit. So he hits him. With his knife handle. Whatever.

Sun is doing her part to contribute to the survivor mission, healing people and planting shit. So that's cool. At least SOMEONE is doing something good. And man, did you see how well that garden was weeded? Damn. Must be nice. So anyway, Jack and Kate are la dee dah-ing about this and that and how Locke isn't bringing anymore boar back for everyone (part of Hurley's poo problems), of course not knowing that Sun is understanding everything that's going on. She needs a wardrobe change, btw. That tanktop is very charming and all but I'm sure it's getting a little grungy.

We also learn that they've been on the island for more than 3 weeks by this point. I... don't think I have anything else to say about this. *shrugs*

Jin also crept onto my cool list this ep. I know he's still an over-bearing, possibly murderous and potentially abusive husband but since he's barely been seen for the past few eps and Sun's been off doing her own thing (You go girl!) there hasn't been enough to hate him for. And his interaction with Hurley was pretty funny. Poor Hurley and his poo problems.

So Locke is in creepy land again, tying Boone up and slathering some sort of... something on the wound on Boone's head. Which leads to another flashback in which we learn that Shannon has been abused by her boyfriend and Boone can't get a cop to her house to... do something. They're step-siblings though, which is great cause now they can bump uglies and it's all good! And there, in the cop station, is Sawyer being dragged off in handcuffs, and quite loudly, might I add. So obviously there's a clue as to his reason for being in Australia for later when he gets another ep. I'm going to guess and say episode 17 will be his.

Okay, now this next scene made me want to jump up and down and do the retarded seal clap for hours. SO FUCKING FUNNY! I LOVE HURLEY AND JIN TOGETHER! Hurley out there in the ocean, trying to catch some fish but not succeeding while Jin catches a couple. Then he steps on a sea urchin and it's SO FUCKING FUNNY! "Pee on my foot! Pee on it! Or I'll lose my foot! PEE ON IT!" And Jin just refusing, not knowing what the hell is going on. Oh my god. Them getting out of the ocean? TOO FUNNY! And then Jin gives Hurley some sort of fish and Hurley barfs it all back up. Too, too funny. They're going to be my new OTP. I'll hug it and love it and snuggle it and call it Squishy.

So then, back on the beach, Jack is giving Charlie asprin or something (seriously? For his heroin withdrawal? Jack, you're such a noob.) and they talk about something forgettable until Jack asks him what he thought of Locke who's just sitting on the beach, staring out at the ocean like he's... well, weird and creepy and strange. With his help (and his compass. Did you know Locke WASN'T popular in school? I NEVER would have guessed. *deadpan*) Sayid found out that the island has some sort of freaky compass screwy stuff happening. East is West and Northwest is South and shit. Sayid told Jack about how the compass came from Locke so then Jack was all weird about Locke. And where the hell has Boone gone to, people are wondering? Isn't Locke his secret gay boyfriend and paraplegic!penis holder now? Why aren't they attached at the... hip? But Charlie seems to have no trouble with Locke. Endorses him in the highest regard. Great, a recommendation coming from a recovering heroin addict and someone so grief stricken by his own death and the kidnapping of his potential love interest that he stared into a fire for like- a gazillion days and didn't talk. That wins me over!

So blah, blah, Hurley has hobbled his way back to the caves. Michael has found his own bag and in it is a wooden box that clearly has something significant inside because his episode is next and obviously there needs to be foreshadowing. So yeah. Hurley's sitting there, talking to Michael about whatever and Jin comes up with a fish and gives it to Hurley. SEE!? They're SO OTP it hurts! And it's been gutted and everything!

Then Jin walks off with his *snort* wife and Kate watches them. Did I mention that Kate figured out that Sun speaks english? And she begged her not to tell anyone, especially her husband because hasn't she ever lied to the man she loves? And Kate looks all forlorn and sad and understanding and shit cause she obviously did it. No, wait. She KILLED the man she loves. Whatever. You had your chance last week people! You can't go back and un-lame and lame episode!

So back in the jungle Boone wakes up from being passed out or something, I don't know. He can hear Shannon screaming for him in the jungle and she's tied up too. So Boone manages to get free from the ropes using the knife that Locke threw into the ground dangerously close to Boone's crotch (careful old man, your gay boyfriend sort of needs that part of his anatomy if you two intend on being involved in any runky tunky. That's a phrase my 9th grade science teacher used once. Runky tunky. Yup.) and races off to save Shannon. He gets her untied but OOPS! BIG GIANT MONSTER AHOY! It's bearing down on them and they're running and it's running and there's roaring and big boom and blah blah blah. They hide in some trees like the ones that Charlie was hung from and Sawyer threw the case from last week. Those funny looking trees have a lot of purpose on this show. So they're in there, hiding from the monster that's right on top of them and sniffing them out and shit.

Aaaaaand flashback at some point. Boone tried to bribe Shannon's abusive boyfriend who upped the fee by a pretty penny and Boone shelled out. Then he went to the house to get Shannon but he realized that it was all a hoax and Shannon was just trying to scam him out of the money that she didn't get when her father died or something. So, needless to say, Boone was pissed. THEN Shannon showed up at his hotel and said that her boyfriend took all the money and left town or some shit. Shannon was defenseless and had nothing so she used the only weapon she had. Her sex appeal and her knowledge that Boone has naughty!bad!lusty!feelings toward her. Well, she was also drunk, but whatever. They have the sex but then after Shannon told Boone that everything would go back to normal once they got to LA and it was just your everyday case of step-sister rescue. Apparently Boone has had to bail her out more than once. Surprising? Not really.

So they're in the trees hiding from the BIG GIANT MONSTER AHOY! but it seems to have wandered off so Boone and Shannon take a chance and start to make a run for the beach or caves or something. Shannon's not sure she can trust Boone but she really doesn't have much choice or chance because OOPS! BIG GIANT MONSTER AHOY! is back and chasing them so they're running and it's running and big boom and shit. Shannon gets scooped up and carried away so Boone has to chase her. He finds her by some water (a river?), all bloodied and cut up and dead and shit.

This wasn't like the Charlie thing. I was REALLY shocked by the Charlie thing when he was hanging there and I thought they were really going to go through with it. I thought it for a moment this time with Shannon too and I was all- okay, this is alright, I guess. Way to fake people out. But it all seemed to convenient and the pieces didn't fit so I was all, nah, this can't be right. Also, kantayra kept telling me she hoped Boone was insane and stuff and that this was all in his head so I was like- yeah, he's like the craaaazy!french lady now, only with better hair. In one way it would have been pretty cool if they'd killed her off, but it would have also been a cheap death in another. So whatever.

In case you haven't figured out yet, Shannon's very much alive. We find this out when Boone storms back to the camp, knife in hand and tries to take Locke out. Of course he doesn't win. Lame. Shannon is off to the side, flirting and flitting with Sayid and everything, fine and dandy. So Locke says some shit about him needing to let go and about how everything that happened was what he wanted to happen or something. Now that Locke is always cryptic and creepy I kind of tune him out for the most part.

What gets me about this scene is that they're obviously fairly close to everyone wherever they are (I couldn't tell if it was the beach or the caves, and it doesn't really matter anyway) and yet when Boone attacked Locke with the knife, no one noticed. Also, when Locke was trying to get Boone off to the hatch/hutch/door/tomb thingy he announced that he found fresh tracks down by the river or something but no one cared. No one asked any questions or thought to wonder if they were Claire's or anything. I don't CARE that the story hasn't been on Claire and I don't care what happens to her, in all honesty, although it WOULD suck if she were gutted or something, but the lack of ANY kind of concern for her at that very moment was a little disconcerting. I don't know if that was the way it was MEANT to be or because there's just too much to stick in an ep to comment on it, but they could have put something in.

That being said, there is some activity on the Claire front next week, according the preview. Charlie decides to look in her journal for whatever but Sawyer has "appropriated" it and he and Charlie come to blows (hee!). Michael has a brilliant idea to build a FUCKING RAFT to get off the island (great guy. The fucking compasses don't even work right and you want to put some floating slabs of wood in the water and float out to sea when you don't know where you are, where you're going, what direction to go... are you seeing my problem with this REALLY BAD AND STUPID IDEA?). Walt is all into the knife tossing now and it's scary. Welcome back to the land of paraplegic!penis holders, Walt, AKA Cult O'Locke (as dubbed by kantayra. AND AND AND!!! *wibble!foams just thinking about it*

OMGWTFANOTHERPOLARBEAR!!!!! SO EXCITED!!!

So, overall I liked this ep. It had a lot of moments that had me going 'no way!' so that worked well. I like that Shannon and Boone aren't siblings so I don't feel naughty!bad!wrong for shipping them (not enough to join comms or write fic, but they're pretty together) and that they had teh sex. Locke was... frustrating, I guess. I don't know where he stands with me right now. I don't mind that he's there but I guess I wish he weren't so damn smug all the time. I have to wonder if he's really that all-knowing about the island and stuff (possibly as a result of being the only person there to see the monster and still be living) or if he's just making it all up as he goes along. I think that must be the purpose of his character right now. To utterly piss off and frustrate everyone. AND HE'S NOT GOD! *slaps teh stupids and the fangirls* This ep was most certainly better than last week's ep. At least they didn't have some lame cop-out with a goddamn toy airplane.

Hurley+Jin=OTP4-EVA!!!!



I didn't watch this ep as closely as I should have as I was writing up my Lost... whatever this post is. I'm glad that Weiss knows what's going on now. I didn't pay attention to why Jack was interviewing Nadia, so I'm a little foggy on that but they butted heads, so that's interesting. I liked the opening scene, funny and all and I'm glad to see Marshall going on more missions.

And Marshall telling Vaughn off when they were tracking Syd? TOO FREAKING FUNNY! Best part of the ep, I'm sure.

I don't understand why Syd didn't just tell Nadia that Irina had a hit out on her so Jack killed her before she could kill Syd. Seems simple and logical to me. Cause you KNOW this will all come back to bite them in the ass later. But Syd will save Jack at the last moment, although it will create somewhat of a continuing rift between Syd and Nadia. My prediction.

I'm... still hesitant about this season. I guess all the hype and "dumbing down" of the show is making me wonder if it'll be ANYTHING like the show that was. And I HATE the opening. Stupid mainstream pandering.

So that's the Wednesday night roundup for this week.

If I'm not working on Friday I'm going to go see the wonderful piece of garbage that will be Elektra. If anyone can sit through a trailer for that and not a) groan b) giggle or c) rejoice in the bad-ness you're blind and tasteless. If I didn't get to see it for free I wouldn't even rent it. But odds are I'll have to work as that's been the way things have been going for the past couple weeks, and that's fine too. I'll find out tomorrow. Maybe get my hair dyed. We'll see.

Also, I'm doing that drawing picture meme thing here for those of you who can see it.

Comments

[lucie-inthesky.livejournal.com]

OMG did they really have teh sex!?!? Dammit... I missed that part!!! And "Runky Tunky" -- along with *wibble!foams* -- is my new favorite word.

Thanks for the recap!

[gloriousdaze.livejournal.com]

I just downloaded and watched the ep today because my job is very inconsiderate and doesn't care about my TV viewing schedule. Poor Boone. Bad Shannon. I don't think Locke is God, but he is mighty Jesus-like. And a little tidbit about the "pee on it!" scene between Jin and Hurley, my Korean is bad, but Jin did say "What are you doing? No, Stupid!" when Hurley was reaching for Jin's pants. Just thought you'd get a kick out of knowing that. That was a hilarious.

[sogay.livejournal.com]

Locke is teh God, missy. *SQUEEEEEEEEE*