Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Lost 6.10 "The Package"

A quick note that tomorrow I’ll be appearing at Huron University College at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, at 6pm to talk about writing, and Lost. Hope to see some of you there!

“A wise man once said that war was coming to this island. I think it just got here.”

As we enter the second half of the final season, all of the stories are beginning to come together. We were in contact with both camps equally in this episode for once, and even saw what was happening with Widmore. In Locke’s camp you have misery — Jin’s leg is hurting and he’s angry. Sayid confesses that he can’t feel anything at all (I thought that moment was devastating) and Smokey’s suggestion that that might actually be for the best was creepy. Kate and Sawyer are both trapped in their own worlds of sadness. Claire is realizing that Aaron won’t know who she is and she’s wondering what the use of leaving the island even is. Over in Jacob’s camp, it’s not like it’s much better. Ilana just keeps polishing her guns while Sun can’t speak to anyone anymore, Jack tries to keep things together and brings hope to them, Richard and Hurley return, Miles has his caustic comments, and Frank plays cards. And Ben... well, Ben’s become quiet. I’m actually really missing evil weaselly Ben. Bring him back!!

The war is coming, and we know once and for all that Widmore is NOT on the Man in Black’s side... meaning he’s actually a good guy? So what does that make Ben? Widmore suggests that he thought the Man in Black was a fairy tale, but did Ben know anything about it?

And the Kwon candidate is...
I think after this episode it’s possible we had a hint that Sun was the candidate. (Only on Lost could I use the phrase “it’s possible we had a hint” and act like it’s a solid clue.) In the sideways world, she walked by a mirror, looked in it and suddenly stopped and stared like she saw someone else looking back at her... or like she saw momentarily what she looked like in the other world. So far only the candidates have done that with mirrors in the sideways world.

Highlights:
• “Unless Alpert’s covered in bacon grease I’m not sure Hurley can track anything.” LOL!!!!
• Sun flirting with Jin in the hotel room with the buttons on her shirt was fantastic. I LOVED that scene!
• Gah!! When Sun conked her head on that tree I actually gasped out loud.
• Room 23!!!
• Keamy: “I feel like I’m in those damn Godzilla movies.” Hahaha!! I love the little details they gave him to make him more of an idiot, like yelling to make the Koreans understand, and then mixing them up with Japanese people.
• Mikhail!! With two eyes!!
• Miles: “She hits her head and forgets ENGLISH? Are we supposed to buy that?!” Frank: “Asks the man who communes with the dead.” HAHAHA!!! Oh Frank... I would buy a book of your one-liners.
• Richard walking over wearing the cross made me swoon. I’ve been in love with this guy for three years, and after last week’s episode, it totally paid off. ;) Oh Richard...
• Sun unleashing on Richard, who turns to look at Jack, who gives a little shrug and a “Dude, I’m as lost as you are” look. Brilliant!
• Jin looking at the pictures of Ji Yeon for the first time, and the look on his face (only I felt a little bad that Sun wasn’t with him when he saw pictures of his daughter for the first time).
• I know there’s one more highlight I’m forgetting... what could it be???
• DESMOND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answers:
• Desmond My Desmond was the thing in the box. I joked a couple of weeks ago that perhaps the container is like Ben’s box, and contains what you want the most; in which case, if it represented my wish it would have been Desmond. Which means... that container represented my wish!!! Oh THANK YOU Lost writers, for making this show all about ME!! :)

The Numbers:
At the hotel, Jin and Sun are put on the 8th floor; Ben says he told them all 4 times that he didn’t do this to Sun.

Did You Notice?:
• When we were watching Kate and Sawyer chat through the night goggles at the very beginning, it felt very voyeuristic, even though we’re listening in on them every week, there was something different about watching them like that.
• Widmore’s peeps shoot poisoned darts, similar to what the Others used at the end of S2.
• Oh DAMN Liz Lemon is back. Rats.
• Sun seemed so dominant in the hotel room that I don’t believe for a second she would have feebly buttoned up her blouse on the plane for him, nor would her “bodyguard” ahve deigned to speak to her in that way. So that was definitely a false lead for us.
• When Smokey approaches Sun, the red flowers are behind her. They’re always nearby when he shows up.
• When Sun wakes up in the bed beside Jin, he looked dead for a second... it was eerie how still he was sitting.
• When Jin flips the switch in Room 23 and the crazytown Clockwork Orange shit begins to happen, we see DeGroot with his goggles on looking at a microscope... the message “Think About” “Your Life” with many Buddha statues around it, and then “We are the causes of our own suffering” text is laid over a graveyard that looks an awful lot like the one that has Jin’s tombstone in it, then a picture of the moon, then doll’s eyes, another Buddha, “Everything Changes” over an old stove and a compass (not a directional compass but the one that usually comes with a protractor for geometry), then 3 keyboards (interestingly, the top one has a number pad above it with 9 keys on it... much like that one Charlie pushed in the S3 finale that had been programmed by a musician) and then Jin switches it off.
• Now we see why Keamy was wearing that fancy watch in “Sundown”: it was Paik’s watch.
• Is it just me, or has something happened to Jack to make him really super hot in S6?? Is it the hair? Is it his less douchey attitude? It is a combo? Maybe it’s just the hair.
• Smokey always refers to people he hates as “friend,” the same thing he pointed out to Caesar and Bram.
• Sun suddenly speaking in a way that no one can understand made me think of the Tower of Babel story in the Old Testament, where one minute everyone speaks the same language, and the next no one can understand each other.
• It looks like Mr. Paik is a complete dick in every reality.
• “The heart wants what the heart wants.” Sometimes I feel like that could be the mantra of the show.
• There was some weird stuff happening in the fridge. Keamy does all of his talking, and then Jin says, “Thank you.” Keamy is extremely careful around Jin, like he genuinely doesn’t want to hurt him, and when he says, “I’m sorry... some people just aren’t meant to be together” it looks like he’s saying it with more pain than he should. Is that on purpose, or is there something larger happening there?
• In the pictures with Ji Yeon, you can see Sun’s dog Bpo Bpo.
• AH!! Sun is pregnant in the sideways world! Jin’s sperm was OK in that world, and he didn’t need the Magical Island Sperm™ to impregnate her.
• Jack is brilliant in the scene with Sun... it felt like one of those lovely season 1 moments where one character connects to the other, or when Jack was really helpful and a pretty damn good doctor to people on the island. (Is it just me, or am I in love with Jack in this episode?! What has HAPPENED to me?!)
• Was anyone else thinking, “Sun, there are only a few pages in that little notebook... stop wasting them by drawing giant emoticons”?
• Notice Sawyer doesn’t quite finish his sentence: “Then we’re screwed six ways to Sun-”
• Sayid emerging from the water was SO Apocalypse Now.

So Many Questions...
• Does anyone know if what the customs guy says is true? Can they simply confiscate the money if he won’t fill out the paperwork? Isn’t there some law stating that they need to have a Korean translator standing there to tell him this stuff fairly?
• So if Jin isn’t married to Sun, why is he working for Paik? In the other world it was a necessary evil to get Sun, but in this one it seems he’s willingly working for Paik, and happened to meet Sun while he was doing it (I assume... or perhaps he met her and then worked for Paik to get closer to her...) Either way, working for Paik doesn’t seem to cause the personal turmoil that it did in the other world.
• In the sideways world, most people are living happier lives, but Sayid’s is miserable, and now Jin’s and Sun’s are falling apart. And notice theirs are interconnected but not connected to the others. Are they separate somehow?
• When Sun woke up, she could only speak Korean. In the sideways world, she can only speak Korean. Any connection?
• Why is Zoe looking for the pockets of electromagnetic energy on the island? She says she’s a geophysicist, so what does she have to do with Widmore’s team?
• Smokey tells Claire that her name isn’t on the wall (but we saw Littleton there... perhaps it was Aaron?) and that Kate’s isn’t... “Not anymore.” Her name hasn’t been crossed off Jacob’s dial, though. Why the inconsistency?
• So... is Jin the tomato?
• Jack promises Sun that he'll get her back to Jin... he's made promises he can't keep before, and I really hope this isn't one of them.
• So, does Sawyer really know what’s in the room in the sub, or does the Man in Black just THINK he knew what was in there?
• So... where is Penny? How did Widmore get Desmond? Did he take him out of the hospital? Does that mean he has Charlie, too? I remember saying at the end of S5 that we saw Eloise get into a cab, but Widmore was still there... did he do something?

And tomorrow at noon I will once again be participating in the Globe and Mail Lost chat from noon to 1pm EST. Go here to ask questions and comment. See you there!

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Blam said...


SMIERT:: Almost! Here's what it would be (with spaces inserted next to the carets so that the example shows up and doesn't actually work):

< a href="http://sonshinemusic.blogspot.com/" > This cool linky dink here < /a >

Blam said...


Sweet muffins! I didn't realize that I'd be entering Comment #401. You work fast, Ms. T. I'm glad that you got it to work, though; congratulations and ignore my obviously unnecessary example. 'Night, everybody...

VW: matterns — Patterns that matter.

Blam said...


SMIERT: This cool linky dink here

Hey... Do they still make Shrinky Dinks? I gotta make some with my nieces.

Rebecca T. said...

@Blam: They DO make Shrinky Dinks! We sell them at my store! I've never done them, though. Am I missing out?

VW: patess - the feminine form of Pat?

Rebecca T. said...

And SMIERT looks like a verification word.

VW: peckbr - when a bird attacks Burt Reynolds

Gracie said...

Rainier said...
@ Gracie: In your team lists, I think you missed one more - Walt. I am not sure how he fits, but can they really be done with him?

I don't think I'm allowed to say this, so I'll just say a little. I saw an interview Darlton (the tall one, I can never get them straight) did, and although I'd love to see Walt come back, I'm not too sure it's gonna happen. I hope that meets with the room policy. If I'm allowed and anybody wants me to say more, I can, though.

Gracie said...

SonshineMusic i.e. Rebecca T. said...
@Gracie: in response to your question about the rewatch - we just all watched the episodes on our own and then got together to talk about them (kind of like we do here on each episode as it airs.)

Does that answer your question? So if we did a BVS rewatch Nikki or someone would set up some sort of schedule and then we would watch, say 2 episodes during the week and then on a specific day get together online to talk about it.

Does that make sense?

Well, duh!!! I thought we were all getting dressed up in our finery and meeting at a specific place ONLINE for these rewatches. (Yep, I sure feel like an idiot. IDIOT ALERT!!!) I've seen other sites plan rewatches. Always sounded like they were meeting somewhere online.

Austin Gorton said...

@Batcabbage: I was not in any way using the word 'dumb' to note a lack of intelligence, but in the sense of 'lacking speech'. An outdated term, to be sure, and I apologise if I have offended.

Nah, no offense implied/inferred/taken whatever. At least not by me.

I was just being nitpicky because I'm a geek like that, and I seem to recall it being something of plot/character point in the book (Nick resents the use of the word "dumb" as a synonym for mute, correcting people who use it by pointing out that he's not dumb, just mute. Or something like that).

Kiki said...

A BVS rewatch! I'd be in. I've caught a couple of episodes on cable lately and it takes me back to how much I LOVE that show. So fun!

Kiki said...

A BVS rewatch! I'd be in. I've caught a couple of episodes on cable lately and it takes me back to how much I LOVE that show. So fun!

Kiki said...

Rainier said...
@ Gracie: Is all smoke MIB's? Who made these rules and why do some of them seem so one sided?

Well, I think it's because Jacob is more of a believer in free will than MiB is. It's kind of like God and Satan in Christianity; God is nearly always hands-off, let people save or damn themselves by their choices, where Satan is about deception, seduction, and pulling people in any way he can. One interpretation of how good/evil, light/dark works. (Another example comes from that perennial fave of the Lost writers, Star Wars, in which the Dark Side is seen as not more powerful, but seductive and in some ways the easier path.)


To me this was all significant -- when Jacob was talking about people getting a second chance to do the right thing and he only needs one. I'm really stuck on that as being a key. We shall see -- only 5 episodes left.. sniff, sniff. I can't wait for tonight and then reading all the posts!

Blam said...


Me: Do they still make Shrinky Dinks?

SMIERT: We sell them at my store! I've never done them, though. Am I missing out?


Eh... I dunno. The last time I made them — still many moons ago, with some younger family members — I recall being rather unimpressed. As a kid, though, it was exciting just to watch them transform in the oven; this was, of course, before we even had an Atari. What you do is take these plastic sheets with familiar characters on them, color them in, and bake them; they sort-of shrivel up and, ideally, flatten out again, smaller and harder. Those colored crystals that you put in metal frames and bake are much more fun.

VW: SinSin — The Devil's licorice. [Here's reference for the young; they were before my time, too, but familiar from my mom's generation and a Billy Joel song.]

Gracie said...

@Blam: Sweet muffins! I didn't realize that I'd be entering Comment #401. You work fast, Ms. T. I'm glad that you got it to work, though; congratulations and ignore my obviously unnecessary example. 'Night, everybody...

Me: To whom are we referring when we say "Ms. T."? I just home from the doctors, and I'm just too tired to think that through, but it cannot be Ms. Stafford.

Blam said...


Gracie: To whom are we referring when we say "Ms. T."?

That would be "SonshineMusic i.e. Rebecca T."



VW: cramocho — The act of stuffing eight Spanish items into a small area.

Rebecca T. said...

@Blam: Those colored crystals that you put in metal frames and bake are much more fun.

Ooh! Yes! I loved those things. I think we still have some floating around here somewhere.

VW: racket - really?

Gracie said...

@Blam: Gotcha. Thank you. No disrespect intended Ms. "SonshineMusic i.e. Rebecca T."
At one point or another, I've noticed just about everything about your username. EXCEPT the T. Sorry!

@EVERYONE: How do you guys stand it when the show it over, but Nikki hasn't posted yet?? I'm dying here. I wanna read the comments NOW!!!

Rebecca T. said...

@Gracie: No worries. The "T" is kinda hidden. I used to just go under SonshineMusic, but decided I wanted my "real" name listed to. Hence the long screen name. Rebecca or Sonshine or SonshineMusic or SMIERT - I'll answer to anything :)

Benny said...

@Gracie: And I watch the Canadian feed at 7:00, that's an extra 2 HOURS to wait... luckily I watch hockey while cleaning my notes and then V is on, keeping me occupied while waiting.

Just hang in there!

Gracie said...

@Gracie: No worries. The "T" is kinda hidden. I used to just go under SonshineMusic, but decided I wanted my "real" name listed to. Hence the long screen name. Rebecca or Sonshine or SonshineMusic or SMIERT - I'll answer to anything :)

Honey, I'm so tired tonight (Dr.'s appointment today; longest of anyone's natural life), your name could be MR. T. and I'd be cool with that. Tomorrow I'd be screaming "IDIOT MOMENT!" but tonight that would be fine. I'm learning: All good things in time. Or most of them. And I can't wait to get to know each and every one of you. Sincerely!

Gracie said...

Benny said...
@Gracie: And I watch the Canadian feed at 7:00, that's an extra 2 HOURS to wait... luckily I watch hockey while cleaning my notes and then V is on, keeping me occupied while waiting.

Just hang in there!

Me: Okay last comment tonight from me. This is so tired you get stupid. Then you get reckless. I may be able to read some comments, but anything else I might say could come back to hurt me. Blam I feel for you! Besides, Nikki isn't typing. She's having a very long DESMOND moment! And I can't blame her! I can't believe what I saw and will have to see it again anyway.

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