Lost 6x09 Thoughts
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iariaAb Aeterno
• Richard has been this mystery for years now and as time went on and we saw more of him the anticipation about who exactly he was just kept building and building so that any revelation would almost certainly bring some disappointment. So going into this episode I was a bit apprehensive because I have grown to love not only Richard the character but also Richard the mystery. Overall I was okay with Richard’s origin story, it wasn’t bad, but not what I was expecting either (though there have been hints with the ship that I knew he was probably a slave on it) and so I have to say I am a bit disappointed. I was expecting Richard to be a fair bit older than he actually is – for someone who loves vampires and fantasy 137 years isn’t that long, couldn’t they have made it at least the 1600 or 1700s? Plus I’ve had this tiny wish for him to be ancient for almost as long as he’s been on the show (I’m thinking Egypt/Babylon heyday old) and so for that to be not true in canon makes me sigh and I kind of wish that they had just left him a mystery.
• While I felt for Richard and him losing the love of his life, mostly during the Richard/Isabelle/Hurley scene, I am getting a bit tired of men being motivated by the woman in their life dying.
• I was really surprised to see the statue still around as late as 1863 because for some reason I was really expecting it to have been destroyed at least centuries ago. My biggest issue of the episode was actually the destruction of the statue which was just so completely ridiculous. I’m sorry but I don’t believe for a second that a wooden ship could utterly demolish that statue. And it did it without completely smashing to pieces either. Also shouldn’t there be tons of pieces everywhere? Another issue is just how far inland the ship landed – what the hell? It appeared to only be a bad storm but was it a massive tsunami? Was Jacob somehow involved, beyond bringing the ship to the Island, in how it arrived? But then I don’t know why he’d want to destroy his home.
• “This has nothing to do with you, Jack.” – Hurley. This moment was awesome. I think I might have even gone ‘eeee’ and clapped in glee at it. Thank you Hurley.
• Like Locke later on Smokey doesn’t kill Richard even when face to face with him. What is it about these two men that’s saved them? Did Smokey see something in them, some weakness, that lead him to believe they’d be easy to manipulate? I also keep thinking of how when Locke saw Smokey he was awed and amazing; meanwhile everyone else is terrified including Richard. Honestly that just makes me love Locke more.
• I’m not sure what to believe about what we learned from Jacob in this episode. If it’s all true then we got a lot of answers – the Island is a cork holding evil back from spreading across the world, Smokey is trapped on the Island with Jacob as his jailer, Jacob is the one who brings people to the Island in a longstanding game with Smokey about human nature – and all of it seems very plausible and certainly supported from everything we’ve seen thus far, and in fact a lot of that I’d figured anyway... and yet I admit I’m still a little suspicious because I don’t know if I trust Jacob. Possible six years of this show have gotten to me. While I like the Island as a gateway/cork keeping evil from the world it makes me wonder who Smokey is and why he can’t leave the Island. Is he the evil the Island is keeping trapped? If not then why does he have to be kept on the Island?
• I liked seeing how Richard became Jacob’s representative and intermediary to the various people brought to the Island.
• Richard has been this mystery for years now and as time went on and we saw more of him the anticipation about who exactly he was just kept building and building so that any revelation would almost certainly bring some disappointment. So going into this episode I was a bit apprehensive because I have grown to love not only Richard the character but also Richard the mystery. Overall I was okay with Richard’s origin story, it wasn’t bad, but not what I was expecting either (though there have been hints with the ship that I knew he was probably a slave on it) and so I have to say I am a bit disappointed. I was expecting Richard to be a fair bit older than he actually is – for someone who loves vampires and fantasy 137 years isn’t that long, couldn’t they have made it at least the 1600 or 1700s? Plus I’ve had this tiny wish for him to be ancient for almost as long as he’s been on the show (I’m thinking Egypt/Babylon heyday old) and so for that to be not true in canon makes me sigh and I kind of wish that they had just left him a mystery.
• While I felt for Richard and him losing the love of his life, mostly during the Richard/Isabelle/Hurley scene, I am getting a bit tired of men being motivated by the woman in their life dying.
• I was really surprised to see the statue still around as late as 1863 because for some reason I was really expecting it to have been destroyed at least centuries ago. My biggest issue of the episode was actually the destruction of the statue which was just so completely ridiculous. I’m sorry but I don’t believe for a second that a wooden ship could utterly demolish that statue. And it did it without completely smashing to pieces either. Also shouldn’t there be tons of pieces everywhere? Another issue is just how far inland the ship landed – what the hell? It appeared to only be a bad storm but was it a massive tsunami? Was Jacob somehow involved, beyond bringing the ship to the Island, in how it arrived? But then I don’t know why he’d want to destroy his home.
• “This has nothing to do with you, Jack.” – Hurley. This moment was awesome. I think I might have even gone ‘eeee’ and clapped in glee at it. Thank you Hurley.
• Like Locke later on Smokey doesn’t kill Richard even when face to face with him. What is it about these two men that’s saved them? Did Smokey see something in them, some weakness, that lead him to believe they’d be easy to manipulate? I also keep thinking of how when Locke saw Smokey he was awed and amazing; meanwhile everyone else is terrified including Richard. Honestly that just makes me love Locke more.
• I’m not sure what to believe about what we learned from Jacob in this episode. If it’s all true then we got a lot of answers – the Island is a cork holding evil back from spreading across the world, Smokey is trapped on the Island with Jacob as his jailer, Jacob is the one who brings people to the Island in a longstanding game with Smokey about human nature – and all of it seems very plausible and certainly supported from everything we’ve seen thus far, and in fact a lot of that I’d figured anyway... and yet I admit I’m still a little suspicious because I don’t know if I trust Jacob. Possible six years of this show have gotten to me. While I like the Island as a gateway/cork keeping evil from the world it makes me wonder who Smokey is and why he can’t leave the Island. Is he the evil the Island is keeping trapped? If not then why does he have to be kept on the Island?
• I liked seeing how Richard became Jacob’s representative and intermediary to the various people brought to the Island.
