For those of you looking for a concrete example of "the idiot ball", please see Locke comma John on this week's Lost.
And yet somehow the Hurley/Jin/Sawyer triumvirate becomes even MORE entertaining, and I thought the bus bit was the topper. (Weren't there documents on that bus WASN'T THERE A MAP? For the luvva...) More of them doing cool stuff, please.
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ReplyDeleteHope the directing is going well; tell me, what's its like living in a free society? Is Canada warmer than Boston?
Here's a link that I thought you might enjoy. (http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/5957)
Funny, the writing reminded me of you.
Better start looking for a good Irish Pub, St. Pattys is coming!
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I prefer to believe that Locke has an addiction to online gaming.
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Any thoughts on Captain America?
Just wondering.
It's fairly obvious that Locke simply cannot resist a computer asking him to push its buttons.
ReplyDeleteThough there was one character fanwank (on TWoP, maybe) that said that as soon as Mikhail told him he couldn't beat the computer John went all "DON'T TELL ME WHAT I CAN'T DO MOTHERFUCKER!" on it. And hilarity ensued.
(Actually that isn't a terrible theory...)
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I think the whole episode is emblematic of John's "Incurious Motherf***ers" post of bygone days. No one tells anyone anthing. When Locke gets to the point where he can enter the code informing the Dharma Initiative that "hostiles" have entered the Flame station, the audience already knows about the C4 that the station is wired with. Therefore, the audience knows that entering 77 will blow the station. Unfortunately, Sayid and Kate never bothered to tell Locke the whole place was booby trapped and Locke never bothered to tell Sayid and Kate that he'd managed to get outside contact. If any of these incurious motherfrakers had mentioned their stupendously important information to the other, Locke would never have entered in that code. Well, unless Boone told him to in a sweat-lodge vison.
ReplyDeleteBeyond that, the moment I saw all the Dharma Initiative manuals on that shelf, I knew the place had to go. There was way too much useful stuff there, and God forbid that they ever find anything that can shed any light on the mysteries of the Island. A slight hyperbole, but only a slight one.
So Locke and Sayid/Kate both keep mum about important stuff and they toss Locke the idiot ball and make him blow up another station. If someone wanted to destroy the Dharma initiative, all they'd have to do is move Locke from one facility to another. He's getting really good and ruining them.
The only part of this thing that made more sense after I thougt about it was how Sayid was pressing Mikael for more substantial information about the Dharma Initiative than the vague generalities the Mikael was trying to feed him. He'd decided Mikael ws full of it the moment that he said he was alone and was trying to string him along to see if he'd spill anything without doing that torture thing that Sayid hates.
Oh and as a final comment. If the station is being invaded by unknown hostile, you're supposed to try to beat a chess game before you can send the signal to blow the place? I could rationalize that by deciding that the program was written to always lose to a predetermined set of moves but given the rest of the episode, I think that I'll just go on believing that you had to beat a chess program in a life-and-death, seconds-to-resolve situation to get in contact with the outside.
Totally off topic, but I don't care. Hot Fuzz is the dog's bollocks, another brilliant genre mash up from Pegg, Wright, Frost & co.
ReplyDeleteAs you were...
I initially assumed that Locke had some long term tactics in mind when he was clearly going to blow the station, but then I realized, nope, idiot ball.
ReplyDeleteWhat I also liked (in the sense of not liking it at all) about the latest episode was not only the continued incuriousness of all the characters, but also how what little the writers have grudgingly revealed about what's going on at the island was essentially negated. "You think you know something about what's going on, because we laid down some hints about the mysterious Dharma Initiative? Well, the 'Others' are part of another group entirely, so ha! (flips the bird at the audience)" I think this episode may have finally cured me of wanting to watch the show- at this point it seems clear that no writers on earth could possibly straighten up all the mysteries so far revealed in a way that makes any sense.
The funny thing is, this episode actually gave us more information than many have. We now know that the Others were on the island for a long time; then the Dharma Initiative arrived; then they co-existed for a certain period of time; and then hostilities broke out which resulted in the slaughter of virtually all the Dharma Initiative members (except for Kelvin and his partner).
ReplyDeleteAnd yet it still manages to be an incredibly frustrating and audience-insulting episode, because it teases us with much more information (like those Dharma instruction manuals) and then yanks it away from us through a series of utterly improbable plot contrivances.
Locke isn't the only one carrying the idiot ball--we also have to believe that Mikhail saw Locke sitting down at a computer that had the power to blow the whole building up, and then took no steps to stop him beyond saying, "Oh, you'll never win--the computer cheats."
Clearly, the LOST writers are capable of producing absolutely brilliant episodes. I wish I knew why they haven't been lately.
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