Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Hardcore Rewatch

Hopefully this post will be better than my last...god those are some bad picks.

Season 5 DVDs come out next Tuesday. I need to be through seasons 1-4 by then, so I'm hitting the rewatch hard. Zipped through season 3, disc 3 Sunday, plugged through disc 4 yesterday. Next up, one of the strongest stretches of the series to close out season 3, then season 4, which might be my favorite season of all. This coming week is going to be great.

No groundbreaking revelations, but a few scattered thoughts -

  • Expose is an awesome episode. Hilarious. Dramatic. Incredibly self-aware. That was one of the biggest strengths of The X-Files; it knew exactly what it was and could poke fun at itself in sharp, clever way. D & C really took advantage of Nikki and Paulo to do the same thing here.
  • Claire is annoying. She's pretentious. She's whiny. I didn't realize how much I haven't missed her this last year. Hopefully all this time trouncing around the jungle has led to a serious attitude adjustment.
  • Jack's time in captivity with the Others flips the switch that begins his relentless efforts to get off the island. Seeing Kate with Sawyer, Locke blowing up the sub, the loss of control, it all turns him from merely a driven commit-o-phile to borderline psychopath hell-bent on leaving the island at all costs. Hopefully more on this soon.
  • Stranger in a Strange Land - It pisses me off when they introduce characters on-island that you never see again (like Harper in The Other Woman). They did this here with the old woman who is supposedly the "sheriff". What the hell? Wouldn't the sheriff of the Others be a pretty important character? And if not, why introduce her at all? Couldn't Ben just have decoded Jack's tatoos? And how does "He walks among us but is not one of us" fit into the larger Jack picture? Too many questions, and not the kind that tickle your brain.
  • I want to know what the Magic Box is. I am convinced that it's not just a mind game Ben was playing with Locke. The easy answer would be the Monster. I like this one better - the Temple. There's some weird stuff going on in that Temple. After Sayid shot Ben, Richard brought him there to save his life. Then again, the Monster appeared from a vent in the Temple to "judge" Ben in Dead is Dead, so it could be a mix of both. Either way, I guarantee we get an answer to this at some point in season 6.
  • Jack spiking the ball at the end of Par Avion is just awesome. The little stutter just adds so much. Tom throwing like a queen is almost as good.
  • Season 3 might have the best collection of cliffhangers of any season. There are so many [woah] BOOM moments that it's hard to keep track of them all.
Alright, that's plenty for now.

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