Some Like It Hoth

Best. Title. Ever.

More tonight. :)

Dead is Dead

I thought this episode was great but kind of confusing.  Not confusing how lost usually is, which is just completely lack of understanding, but more in the way of character development.  I liked young ben, what happened to him??? He saves all the cute little babies but likes to kill people once they're old enough (if a character named Caesar becomes leader, you know hes going to die).  It kind of makes sense though that he wouldn't kill moms with young children or children themselves.  His mom died and he has a horrible relationship with his dad and doesn't want to give any kid that experience, and I don't think not wanting to kill babies is that hard to understand.

I will say this though, the thing with the smoke monster and the flashbacks in it-awful.  It just didn't look right and it was cheesey and all that.  So are we all in agreement that Alex is dead? I just think that was the smoke monster/temple making her show up.  

Speaking of people who might not be dead, I was really mad when it wasn't claire in alex's room because i think that would have been awesome.  

More to come later, I have to run

Whatever Happened, Happened

Fantastic episode, I thought. (Of course, I always do.) We got to look a little more at folks' motivations (e.g. who needs whom)... the Love Parallelogram struggled to sort itself out... we found out what happened to Aaron...

Oh yeah, and Ben. First, Roger (who seems perfectly likeable) clearly aims to make this a Love Pentagon. But who cares? Ben. Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben. There was a lot going on here... and what seems like some interesting inverted Fall of Man / original sin religion overtones.

I appreciated the compassion for the poor kid, but also sympathized with Jack. I mean, come on, he and Sayid had good intentions. And yet, we now see they brought about the very future they were desperately trying to avoid. Tragic. Ironic. And a staple in tales of Fate.

Serves them right for their immoral behavior, eh?

Richard is quite a guy. Now, what's up with the temple!?!?!? It's been such a tantalizing subject since the first mentions in, what, Season 3? Crazy. Aside from being Smoke Monster HQ, I'm still caught up in this Garden of Eden business, so I'm thinking it's an enclosure for the Tree of Life and/or Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.

Adam and Eve got knowledge, sacrificed eternal life, right? And with it they lost (ahem) their innocence. Now Ben is sacrifing knowledge for life... but he, too, is losing his innocence. And as an adult, he certainly seems to have plenty of knowledge, including of Good and Evil ("we're the good guys"). Hm. Maybe I'm trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, as my Calc professor likes to say.

Ben's mind-wipe also seems to throw Diego's "Ben Knows The Future Because He's Met It In The Past" theory out the window (at least to some degree). Oh well. I was a fan.

Jack trying to fix things vs. letting the island fix things for itself was very interesting. Active vs. passive. Does a belief in fate and predestination and all that make you more passive? We certainly seem to be seeing a certain sad resignation in some of our time-travelers. That's a real risk of disbelief in free will (etc.). And Jack's situation serves as an important reminder of the consequences. Good.

Hurley and Miles were pretty funny trying to explain to us, the audience, about time travel. Now, Miles said that Our Heroes can die, whereas other people can't. This disturbed me a bit. Pending elaboration, I'm going to (hope / ) say Miles was a wee bit off. Obviously, I have no authority to overrule the show, haha. But it seems more logical to say that, say, Ben's fate is known, whereas the time travelers' fates are not.

So of course Ben "can" die. He's not immortal or invincible or anything. Same with all these other characters of the past. Rather, the time-travelers KNOW Ben's future, but not their own. It's not that he couldn't die. He just didn't. Doesn't. Won't. Yet.

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