119 – Dues Ex Machina

Review:

When I think of a Locke flashback I don’t think about “Walkabout” I think of this episode.  This one was much more emotionally significant.  Finding out Locke was in a wheel chair was a pretty epic twist, but finding out that Locke had been screwed in one of the worst ways possible, by his own father was so much worse.

Oh, and Boone died (or at least came close to dying).  Also at the end of the episode when that light came on in the hatch it was just magical.  If that didn’t happen at the end of this episode, the episode would have been so depressing.

I’ll give it a 9.0/10.

104 – Walkabout

Review:

Locke -centric episode.  Some people say this episode was the one that hooked them to the show.  Obviously the twist, that Locke was in a wheelchair, was very dramatic.  But when I remember these first few episodes, this one didn’t really stand out.

I completely underestimated this episode.  The fact that the general public thinks this episode is wonderful made me think that it therefore must be pretty average.  But this is the kind of episode that I love.  It is almost all mythology hidden under character development.  On the outside everyone remembers Locke being able to walk again.  What we forget is all the crazy stuff that happens in between.  Things like: Locke seeing Smokey, Jack seeing Christian and Rose knowing that the Tailies are still alive.  Since this was such a good episode I’ll give it the old 10/10

Foreign Theories: The Island Papers (part 2)

Last week I drew your attention to the blog White Rabbit Trails.  It’s a great blog with lots of Lost jazz.  Last week he talked about where the pieces of the plane landed.

This week he gets more specific by writing about where the Tail section landed in this post.  As usual he’s done a lot of research and made the page look great.

He also did another post about the tarps on the island.  This is something that I’m sure has annoyed a lot of people.  Where do the survivors get all those blue tarps from.  Imagine how hard it would be for them to not have any.

Check it out it’s a great site.