Wednesday, May 31, 2006

TV: Giant Simpson's Foot - I'm LOST!

Lost season 2 has ended with it's final two episodes last week. And here be spoilers.

Michael got Walt back, and Henry gives them a motor boat to take them to 'rescue'. Once he leaves, he can never come back.

Oh, Henry the balloonist, is the leader of the Others.

Desmond, the ex-occupant of the hatch, comes back with his sail-boat. His love story is told. And he proceeds to solve the mystery, and assume responsibility, of the crash of flight 815.

John's faith, broken by Henry, refuses to punch in the numbers, and the hatch blows up. Two French guys in the Antartic detects the explosion and reports the event to Desmond's lover.

Sayid's plan went according to plan, he managed to reach the Others' camp ahead of Jack & Michael's group, and secured the premises single-handedly. He was an Iraqi Republican Guard after all.

On the way to that camp, the fisherman, his wife, and the soldier saw a collosal statue of Bart Simpson's foot. It's like a rubbled Argonath from FOTR, but only has four large toes.

But Michael wasn't leading Jack, Kate, Sawyer & Hurley to the camp. They went to a clearing where a pneumatic tube outlet was dumping all the surveilance reports coming from the ex-occupants of The Pearl.

Despite Jack knowing about Michael's betrayal, he still led everyone into an ambush. Hurley was released to warn the rest not to come after them ever again. Whilst Kate and Sawyer gave Jack betrayed looks, for betraying their trust in him.

Just because he's got an MD doesn't make him qualified to lead. His leadership, I might liken to 16th century Catholic church. All self-righteous and imposing his brand of morals upon everyone else. Expects blind allegience and gets hissy when he's not given what he wants. He doesn't give a crap about other people's opinions, believes his way is right and best, and gets mad when other people does things without his consent. He's undemocratic, and bordering on fascism, but his military decisions are all disastrous. Each 'invasion' against the Others had given the enemies more guns and/or hostages.

The original plan for the series was to have Michael Keaton play the role for Jack, and have the character killed very early. Wish the producers had stuck to that script.

Maybe the idea of the love triangle between the babe, the rogue & the doctor is just too good to give up. It makes for a fascinating case study of primate reproductive tactics. Had a good discussion about this before. Isn't it true that women want to swoon with the dashing, rogue pirate and his virile sperm, yet will also marry the grizzled old millionaire with the financial security? It's a fascinating dilemma, to either go with the good genes (maximising NATURE), or go with the rich partner (maximising NURTURE).

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