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Richard is a Cylon.

Matt wrote:Richard is a Cylon.

Richard killed Laura Palmer

arthursimone wrote:

Matt wrote:Richard is a Cylon.

Richard killed Laura Palmer

Thank God, now I can stop watching Twin Peaks on endless loop.

Asaf wrote:Chew on this Jeff, the Losties are the island's constant. And all of them, each others' as well.

That's sweet... but then what the #$^*&% is the island? Is it some kind of hyperdimensional sentient Logos thing? I don't even know what I'm talking about now.

HOLY SHIT

WHUT

THAT

BUT

WHUH?



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Good dialog is when the character only says stuff that character would say; great dialog is when the character says stuff only that character would say.
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1. holy phuck
2. the opening scene was a scram

Man, I'm so damn far behind on Lost.

Anyone have Season 4 they could let me borrow?

I don't even remember what the hell's going on in the show at this point.

If that kid comes back to life, I swear to god...

No, they could do the right thing and deal with the consequences of their actions in terms of the space/time continuum.

Or he could just start fading away like Marty in Back to the Future.

acrouch wrote:No, they could do the right thing and deal with the consequences of their actions in terms of the space/time continuum.

The right thing? But whatever's happened has happened, in the LOST s/t continuum. Which means that the Ben Linus (as Henry Gale) who got beat up by Sayid in the hatch in season 2, is the same Ben Linus who was shot by Sayid when he was only 12. I don't think LOST time rules allow Ben to have died as a child. The consequences are likely to be about, "What do the D.I. do when the Hostiles have shot one of their kids in cold blood (during a truce, of all times to shoot a kid in cold blood!)?"

nobody loves young Ben!!

Episode-review-title win

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hujhax wrote:Episode-review-title win

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I've edited this post to include this SPOILER warning. Hopefully, people who aren't caught up yet aren't reading this...

Love those links, Peter! The article reminded me of a couple of items that I'd forgotten about the episode, which contributed to my loving it. Like, that Ben hands Sayid a copy of A Separate Reality. I remember seeing that and thinking, "I can totally see how Ben would like that book... but how would a guy like Sayid respond to a book about magick (I decided to go ahead and spell it with a "k" here, to mean that it's about personal growth and mind expansion rather than pulling rabbits out of hats) and ontology and psychedelics? That seems a lot more like Locke and Ben territory to me.

But from a character standpoint, Ben is offering Sayid something that is clearly special to him, and that's probably a bigger deal than him giving Sayid a sandwich, which of course is also a kind gesture on Ben's part. So it sets up a shocker of a scene, in which Sayid shoots the kid who had recently said to him, essentially, "Here, take this aspect of me that is very meaningful to me and that few know about, because I want to be your friend and I respect you." Ka-blam!

And the TIME blogger (heh, "TIME"...) spelled out that conflict so well here: "What better way to become bad, however, than to find that you can trust no one, that your dad beats you, that you can bring a stranger sandwiches and help him when no one else will and then, first chance he gets, he plugs you in the heart for no apparent reason?"

Yay LOST.