SNOW DAY! If you work in education, you still get the thrill of anticipating the possibility that school might get cancelled the next day due to inclimate weather. I know that I am not the only one who feels this way because P said (giddily) to me as we returned from our friends' house last night "if it is a snow day tomorrow, we should make a snowman!"
5:10 rolls around, we get the call, NO SCHOOL! So we are going to hang out with the beagle today. Get some work done. Shovel the driveway, who knows what else! And who cares, it is automatically FUN DAY because it is SNOW DAY. We didn't get a lot of these growing up in the NW, though I hear it is crazy out there now. SO this must be the midwest's redeeming value, that and low costs for housing.
Anyway. LOST Premiere.
I was not disapointed, though, I need to watch it again before any of these tentative observations are solidified:
1. On the flashforwards: Jack from Jack's flashforward is not Jack from Hugo's flash forward. They want us to think that they are with the line "I am thinking about growing a beard," (Jack to Hugo) but don't let that fool you. Kate from Jack's Flashforward is not Kate, and I think that coming flashforwards will prove that theory. In other words, my feeling is that they feel themselves as mentally unstable, but perceive each other as totally stable.
2. Jacob is in the coffin.
3. Still convinced that this show is about melancholia, and that this island is not real, if real means that they are all actually there. I still think this is a psyche ward, or something close to it.
4. Ben is not dangerous (anymore), Ben vis a vis Jacob was dangerous though. Locke becomes even more dangerous when he converses with Jacob, and takes Ben's place as the leader of the pack. That much is obvious!
5. Interesting that Hugo can see/hear Jacob. I love Hugo.
6. Mikhail can't die, which sucks because I can't stand his character.
7. Naomi is/was not bad. She was a pawn.
8. The bald, black dude who talked to Hurley is an illusion. A diversion to the audience of the show, if you will.
9. N, this one is for you. The trauma that ties everyone or everything together is trauma associated with the lost of the parent, specifically the father. Every major character has lost, abused by, or had an absent father. These consistent references to mirrors makes me think that the psychoanalytic theory from Lacan is playing a huge role in this whole thing. He is famous for claiming that our subjectivity is forged out of "the mirror stage" - think, particularly the references to "through the looking glass." Melancholia is also imagistically tied to mirrors.
10. Love this show. So well written. Here's to hoping that the writers settle before the shows run out.
That's all I got for now. Hasta!
2 comments:
What if Jacob is really Jack's father??? It kind of looked like him and he was wearing white shoes
If Jacob was Jack and Claire's father, that would mean that Jack was the central character in the show, which I am not entirely convinced of yet. It would be odd, too, that Ben, John and now Hugo would have a connection with him and that Christian's presence would have structured the events prior to Jack's arrival.
I agree though, Jacob does look like an old man and if the shoes are white (I will have to go look again) then there could be a connection. How does that explain Jack's claim that the person in the coffin was neither friend nor family? And, didn't Christian already die? Why the surprise from Jack?
I think the show wants us to think that the person in the coffin was Sawyer or Locke, based on how Jack responded at the funeral. Plus, Jack contacts "Kate" after he finds out, so who knows, it may in fact be Sawyer . . .
My feeling is that it is a character we either have not yet be introduced to or someone we know very little about
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