If his ideas of Adam and Eve are anything to go by....I mean, she seemed experienced enough and ultimately she wasn't really his mother....
Lost 6x15: "Across the Sea"
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If his ideas of Adam and Eve are anything to go by....I mean, she seemed experienced enough and ultimately she wasn't really his mother....
If his ideas of Adam and Eve are anything to go by....I mean, she seemed experienced enough and ultimately she wasn't really his mother....
If his ideas of Adam and Eve are anything to go by....I mean, she seemed experienced enough and ultimately she wasn't really his mother....
Knotty Mommy hair? What are you doin...ohhhh....
That's the real reason why she doesn't age. 
Or maybe that's how Jacob managed to not age either.... something must have happened when they "touched." Hmmm.... that might explain why Richard was so serene too.
Perhaps I've accidentally stumbled upon this season's tribute to the Shannon and Boone Moment™...
Or maybe that's how Jacob managed to not age either.... something must have happened when they "touched." Hmmm.... that might explain why Richard was so serene too.
Perhaps I've accidentally stumbled upon this season's tribute to the Shannon and Boone Moment™...
I just rewatched this episode and it's even better on second viewing. If you were iffy on it I suggest giving it a rewatch.
I won't have a final verdict on this episode until the end credits roll on the series finale. Right now it just sorta hangs there as I wait to see how these pieces will tie into the final three episodes or other parts of the show. Right now I'm ambivalent about a lot of it and if the pattern holds from my experience with LOST it won't so much be how I feel about this particular episode or how these individual pieces look in a vacuum but how the way they contribute to the Big Picture i.e. how those individual pieces play into all sorts of other pre-existing threads.
I just watched almost all of the episodes from this season in rapid succession and this season is rather underwhelming and disappointing when you look back. Watching it originally I was giving it the benefit of the doubt that while I wasn't crazy about a lot of stuff on first blush that with the show's brilliant track record over the last few seasons that everything would amount to something more than it seemed at the time. But now that I've seen where a lot of it went I can safely say that this season is not nearly as good as seasons 1,3,4 or 5. It is slightly better than 2.
This really should have been the apex for the series and instead of building on the last few seasons it just sorta collapsed. I'm not bitter or angry and you won't see me ranting on like so many fans villifying Cuse and Lindeloff the way internet fans have with certain creators i.e. Brannon Braga but I'm disappointed that LOST didn't knock it out of the park like it seemed this time last year it was poised to do as season 5 was winding down.
Unlike seasons 3-5, there wasn't an urgency to the storyline. S3 rescue was imminent. S4 was how they leave. S5 was about the time travelling and possibly changing history. S6 promised us an epic War--we didn't get it. Instead we had a lot of recruiting and joining camps and back andforth to hydra island and back and forth to the statue then the temple then to the Otherville then to the old beach. In hindsight it comes off as stalling. Couldn't they have tightened it up a bit. It felt so mechanical and workmanlike. There was no focus or purpose like in previous seasons. I think better time could have been used to give us more on Widmore or Hanso or Dharma or Jacob's cabin or something.
S3 gave us Juliet and more of the Others. S4 gave us the freighter folk. S5 gave us Horace, Widmore, Eloise, Ilana, the Dharma folks etc. What did we get this season--Dogen and the Temple Others were duds and I was glad they were ditched when they were.
I just kept waiting for the show to kick into gear and it still hasn't. In the past it would take off several episodes from the finale. Look at season 3 or S4 with Shape of Things to Come, Cabin Fever and 3 part finale or S5 exciting build up to the Incident. Here we are at ep 16 and I'm still not jazzed up.
Then they want to talk characters well what did we get in the way of arcs--Sayid is evil then he isn't then he goes Boom! and according to C/L the purpose of his arc was to say if you tell him is a good person he is a good person WTF, Jin/Sun reunite then die but if you blink you'll miss it(there is understated and subdued and there is it feeling like a fleeting footnote), what about the Claire/Kate subplot that seemed to be percolating with her wanting to kill Kate it fizzled as far as I can tell or what about why he chose to take Claire(then poor de Ravin had to wear that hideous wig all year), Hurley returned to annoying season two levels, did we need more Dominic Monaghan as Charlie.
And I'm all for pangs of nostalgia but a lot of the namedropping or old faces stopping by for a cameo essentially felt forced and like oh there is the old cave from the first season, oh there are the cages from the six episodes at the start of season 3, oh look crazy Libby or there's Chang. It didn't feel organic in my opinion. And something that bugged was even though everyone knew Locke wasn't Locke they referred to him as Locke even amongst themselves.
As I read more of these L/C interviews and as the series is winding down I'm becoming less excited or motivated to revisit it anytime soon like I was eagerly thinking to do so this summer a few months ago.
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The biggest thing that I learned in this episode was that Marcellus Wallace's briefcase is the thing inside the shiny light cave that gives the island its power.
Seriously, that's the first thing I thought when I saw it.
Seriously, that's the first thing I thought when I saw it.
Saw the episode again recently. I must admit, I still find these few lines funny:
Yeah, baby!
Yeah, baby!
Well, Knotty Mommy Hair™ showed them her cavern.... turnabout is fair play after all.
You know, I never thought of the light cave as a yonic symbol until now.
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