Lost Thoughts

[auntiemeesh]

Another very good episode of Lost last night.

First things first. When Jin went to the Korean guy's house to deliver his father-in-law's message, did anyone else see Hurley on the TV program the little girl was watching? It was just a little flash but it had to be him. There were several really good Hurley moments this week. I was particularly impressed with his effort to help Jin relax by offering to take him fishing, and you could see that Jin was torn. But I loved that last scene, when the batteries in Hurley's CD player finally died. I have to admit, my first thought when he walked across the screen wearing his headphones was, 'Holy shit, how have his batteries not died yet?' and then they did. Poor Hurley looked like he was going to crumble. I think the music has been proving a solace to him that he sorely needs and now it's gone. I think next week is going to be Hurley's episode and I'm very eager to learn more about his past and where they are going to take his character now.

I was a bit disappointed in the raft burning 'mystery'. The writers were a bit heavy handed, I thought, and I was convinced from the first that it was Walt that had burned it, which made it painful to see Jin being made the scapegoat for some pretty flimsy reasons.

That first conversation between Michael and Walt about the buildings of New York City was an amusing look at a father and son who have very little ability to communicate. Poor Walt clearly doesn't have any interest whatsoever in 'buildings' and the plea to go play ball with Vincent was a blatant attempt to flee. Malcolm David Kelley (Walt) has a very expressive face and when the camera looked at him after showing us the burning raft, it was all written there for everyone to see. And then they tried to make us think Jin had done it by showing that he had burns on his arms. It just seemed too obvious that he must have been trying to put the fire out and I really felt for him when even Sun jumped to assume he was guilty.

We learned a lot about Jin's character this week. Yet another tortured soul on this island chock full of tortured souls. It was too sad to learn that he, too, wanted to escape to America and start over with a new life for him and Sun. But he's so stubborn. He is feeling betrayed by Sun and so even though they both still love each other, he won't accept her plea that they start over and try again. I think there is still hope for them however, once things cool down. One or the other will be endangered somehow and the other will come running, or Sun will have to translate something for Jin and it will start them talking again, or something. (I know, I'm a romantic optimist, but I can't help it, I hope they'll get back together eventually.)

The previews for next week look really good! But then after that we have a six week hiatus. That is going to be painful. :(

Comments

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recap. I missed last night. I'm not as drawn to the show as I was--I hate the feeling of being manipulated and so have been avoiding "Lost" on and off the last couple of months.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I think there are a lot of people who feel the same way. I'm just enjoying the slow build-up of details that show the connections between all these people, like Hurley being on the Korean kid's tv, or Sawyer showing up in the police station while Boone is there. I'm also madly curious about the mysteries surrounding the island. However, I think it's good to give us tiny bits at a time, because it keeps the show interesting, longer.