So, with regard to the past two episodes, I'm just gonna jump around wherever my heart pleases...
"Dead is Dead" was a really great episode. If not for the "Jeremy Bentham" episode earlier in the season, I'd have decreed it the best of the season thus far. Overall I think it's easily a top-10 episode. So many delectable things: Ben with a horrible haircut as a youth, his compassion for little Alex (and also little Charlie), the exile of Widmore, the dock scene where Desmond somehow survives a bullet to the chest, all culminated by that epicK smoke monster scene at the end of the episode. Pretty cool stuff, huh? Obviously there are huge similarities (and constrasts) of that scene with the Eko-death scene from season 3. In that episode, Mr. Eko was not (NOT) sorry for killing a man as a child because it saved his brother's life. The smoke monster subsequently came after him and slammed him dead into the earth. Re-live this great moment now!
After Mr. Eko "non-confesses," I love how Yemi gravely says, "You speak to me as if I were your brother!" This followed by Smokey's entrance. Freaky stuff!
So with Mr. Eko, the smoke monster passed a rather harsh, rather lethal judgment. I had a feeling we'd get the opposite scenario with Ben. Sure enough, Ben repented for his sin (letting Alex die / killing her) and he was forgiven. Allowed to live. And then, just like that, Smokey disappeared into those mysterious little holes.
...and then Locke shows up. Hmm...he disappeared before Smokey arrived and returned after Smokey left...John Locke = Smokey, anyone?
As for the past episode, it wasn't as interesting, but it had its moments. It was actually one of the funnier episodes I've ever seen, the more I think about it. The scene with Hurley, Dr. Chang, and Miles in the Dharma bus has to be in the top-5 funniest scenes of all-time. Hurley prodding and trying to set up Dr. Chang with his long lost son? Hilarious! The fact that Hurley was writing "The Empire Strikes Back" also made me laugh out loud. Now we know how George Lucas got his inspiration.
"What lies in the shadow of the statue?" I love how this little line has suddenly carried on this big, huge, mysterious presence. What DOES lie in the shadow of the statue? Clearly the question is being used as a test for other people, to determine if they're on the "right side" of this battle. If you know the answer to the question, you're good. If you don't...well, then you get whapped with the butt of a gun a la Captain Frank. This password-question reminds me of Dharma Kelvin's, "What did one snowman say to the other?" when Desmond arrived on the island / at the hatch for the first time. ("It smells like carrots" is the correct answer.) I look forward to seeing who exactly is on which "side" and what exactly this "battle" is with regard to this new riddle.
The closing scene with Miles looking at his father and Baby Him was pretty moving. I wonder if this causes Miles to want to be around his father more...and perhaps that ultimately leads to his father finding out that THIS Miles is the same as his BABY Miles. And perhaps THAT is why Dr. Chang ultimately splits with his wife and Baby Miles. That's pretty mind-boggling to think you caused your parents' break-up - but not as your innocent baby-self, but rather as your intrusive adult-self from the future.
We've got a two-week break before LOST's epicK 100th episode starring the long-lost Daniel Faraday. Greatly looking forward to it!
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