Lost episode 6x12 (or, I See Dead Parallels) (or, SQUEE!! JACK AND SAWYER!)

[diandrahollman]

Taste association this week: more Cadbury mini eggs and Almond Amaretto ice cream. Dude. This stuff is seriously awesome. Great, I'm already talking like Hurley.

Dr. Chang! You're working for Hurley in this verse? Really?

Yes, everybody does love Hugo. Seriously, I vote Hurley for island leader.

Ha! Grandpa Tito's alive in the Alt!Verse! I knew it!!

Awww...Hurley acting all sweet and cuddly talking to his dead girlfriend. Poor baby.

Really Ilana? You're going to the Black Rock to get dynamite so you can blow something up? How second season of you. And did anyone actually explain *why* the slavers needed an endless supply of dynamite on their ship? Seriously.

Michael! What a surprise that we didn't totally see in the previews last week! And he's trying to stop Hurley from blowing up the plane because that would be really stupid and get a lot of people killed. I would say this is really Smokey manipulating him by taking on Michael's image, but Ilana said he couldn't change form anymore, so...I guess he's just better at giving advice than following it.

For the umpteenth time:
Jack: Who are you talking to?
Hurley: Uh...[shifty eyes] No one.
Sigh. Hurley? Seriously. Either learn to lie better or just tell the truth.

Libby! Yay!!! And apparently crazy dead people remember the original verse even better than just regular dead people.

Ilana: Jacob said Richard would know what to do and Richard pulled some half ass plan from his ass that involves blowing up the plane we came in on because that's apparently the only way to keep Smokey from leaving the island (though Hurley has a point because being stuck on a deserted island with a pissed off smoke monster can't be a good thing), so I'm just going to wave this unstable dynamite around while I rant about how I've spent my whole life devoted to Jacob and his "protect the candidates" mission and BOOM! Um. Okay. She wasn't *that* annoying. Which makes this a bit less dramatic than when Arzt bit it somehow. But...was she really important? Did she really have any effect on the well being of the candidates one way or another - especially since they apparently can't die until they fulfill their "purpose"?

So...Desmond just sat still and let Sayid tie him to a tree? Didn't I see this in a fanfic once? Oh, he's a sacrifice for Smokey the Locke Monster. Sayid is never coming back, is he?

Yes, we're going to blow up the plane. No, we're not. Yes, we are. No, we're not. Yes, we AAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Would you people make up your minds?! And should I find it ironic that Jack is floting the possibility of Ilana blowing up as a sign they're not supposed to play with dynamite when his answer to previous problems was "we're gonna blow 'em all to hell!" Seriously, all this flip flopping is making me dizzy. And Hurley is going along with the "let's go get some more dynamite from the never ending supply" idea for what joyful purpose? This doesn't sound like him...

I don't get it...is Desmond *playing* Smokey? Is that what Widmore brought him in for? He can break all the rules so maybe *he* can kill Smokey? Augh.

Oh, I get it now. The trip to the Black Rock was a trick. Good bye, Black Pearl Rock. It was real.

So my mother saw the picture of an island in Dr. Senator Kelly's office and suggested the island and all the people and things happening on it is really just a delusion of one of the patients in Santa Rosa. I'm not sure if she realizes this theory has been around since season one. Also? If it were true, the Alt!Verse would be the delusion, right?

I *heart* Hurley and Libby. Really. They're adorable. And this whole conversation in the rec room while whatshisface is playing Connect Four (and *not* chanting the numbers?) is awesome.

"Let's go talk to Locke." Ben: "Are you trying to get us all killed?" Hee! No, Ben, just you. Though the fact that you're still here must mean you have a significant role in the endgame, which is interesting given you didn't appear until several episodes into season 2.

And we're further subdividing the groups, even as we talk about joining them again. Why is Frank going with the "let's all trust Jacob's plan" group and not the Snark Briggade? Speaking of which...the Immortal, the Sociopath and the Guy Who Talks to the Dead. That is either a fantastically bad idea or the best spinoff ever. And Richard's question? What is the island? Nice one, writers. Though Hurley's bluff was pretty good for a guy who couldn't lie to save his life. Except it might have worked better if he hadn't looked so guilty the minute Jack went along with it. I would say I would love to play poker with him, but I'm afraid I'm not much better at deception.

So...Jack can't be Jacob's replacement because he needs to learn to let go and start taking orders from somebody else for once in his life? And he had this little revelation when? Seriously, he spends five years banging heads with everyone because he needs to FIX EVERYTHING AND EVERYBODY and just like that he's letting Jesus Jacob take the wheel? Oh, the hell with it. Isn't Matthew pretty?

The whispers are...dead people who can't move on. Oh, god, it's "Ghost Whisperer". Michael: "Look, are we done here? Because I have to go taunt Hill Harper from a prison cell. Though, really, even though you guys killed me off, like, three times, this is probably the most normal part I've played. Seriously, man, have you *seen* my filmography? It goes something like this: Redshirt, Redshirt, Drag Queen killed in a gang war, Redshirt, Inmate, Matrix sequel, Matrix sequel, crash on deserted island chase after my kidnapped son and betray my friends, get chased around by zombies, sex offender accused of murder, Con my way onto a ship going back to Crazy Island only to blow up with the ship, OCD cop in the craziest precint in Los Angeles on a show that lasted like four episodes, back to Crazy Island as a ghost and then straight back to Inmate but this time on death row. My fictional life seriously sucks."

Ahem. Excuse me.

Charlie nearly dies and has a hallucination of his Original!Verse. Daniel catches a glimpse of Charlotte and starts writing genius quantum physics formulas. Libby the Loon sees Hurley on TV and has the clearest connection to her Original!Verse memories of anybody but Hurley is clueless until she kisses him. And Desmond has to be clubbed over the head repeatedly and exposed to electromagnetic radiation to make the connection. Well...Desmond isn't dead, but...Where's Juliet already? Can we assume she knows something? Or is that not how it works? How does it work? What are the rules on this Looking Glass to the Alt!Verse thing anyway?

Libby: Are we done here? Because I have a bitter crumudgeoned asshole of a doctor to annoy.

I might watch too much television.

Desmond is pushing people together and - therefore presumably - toward the island in the Alt!Verse? Is that what Widmore needed him to do? Be a sort of Jacob 2.0? Except he's not a candidate so he can't *really* be Jacob 2.0, unless the candidates aren't really there for the reason we thought they were there, which, considering what happened to Ilana, is entirely possible. And I will flesh out that theory further once my head stops spinning.

NOOOOOOOO!!!!! Smokey the Locke Monster is trying to kill Desmond!!!! Waaaahhhhhh!!! But that's apparently okay because Alt!Desmond is trying to kill Alt!Locke? Bzuh? I mean, that must have been why he ran him over, right? He can't paralyze him any further. He has to die in *both* universes because...why? Widmore seemed to want to *prevent* the universes colliding so...somehow Desmond eliminating discrepancies helps accomplish that? Also...Desmond's fictional son in the Alt!Verse is named Charlie too? Is that because he knows he has a son in the other verse or, like Claire, he "just knew" the name? 

Guh. My head hurts. Maybe I'll have something more coherent to say about this episode tomorrow. Maybe.

Final thought: why does Jack look so surprised to see Locke? Or am I reading that expression wrong? Was he really looking at Sawyer standing behind Locke and thinking "damn, I forgot how *hot* my secret boyfriend is!" Yes, I will keep fanwanking this ship to the end. But seriously...SQUEEE!!! Jack and Sawyer are back together!!!!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Also? I forgot Sun still can't speak English. Great. Is she going to be like this indefinitely now? I thought Jack said it wouldn't last...

Comments

[diandrahollman.livejournal.com]

I didn't even notice this?

It was briefly mentioned in the middle of a conversation - I think the one where Ma Reyes was ragging on Hurley about finding a woman.

And really! Unless they were planning to blow up an entire mountain I don't see the need for carrying, like, twenty crates full of dynamite on a ship.

And yeah, Locke was dead the last time he saw him but he knew that's who they were going to see, so...did he think everyone was just imagining the guy looked like Locke?

And he was staring at his hot secret boyfriend as well. :)

Yes. That. :D