Lost, the Candidate
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marinessLost:
1. Come on, Charles Widmore! KILL HER! KILL HER! You know you want to. You know I want you to. You know the entire Lost fanbase wants you to. KILL THE KATE!
2. Oh, come on, show! Don't tell us that Kate is completely unimportant and not on any lists and THEN LEAVE HER ALIVE! KILL THE KATE!
(Incidentally, I was recently asked who I would rather have die: Kate Austen or that cow in Fringe. It says something that I didn't even have to think about this. Although, in fairness, I don't actually want the cow dead (well, mostly); I just want it out of the lab. And maybe turned into some nice juicy steaks. I might have kinder feelings towards Kate Austen if she had a chance of getting turned into something useful and enjoyable. Like steak! Okay, that was a bad digression. Moving on!)
3. Why are Sun and Jin talking in English? We've been reading various subtitles for years, Lost. We can read more now. And also, by this point, no one is going to be particularly shocked to find that they're, you know, Korean.
4. Is anybody else continually amused that even after six seasons of this people still continue to try to use machine guns against the Smoke Monster?
5. Jack and everybody, you could leave Kate in the cages, you know. I'm just saying.
6. Sniffle. They took Kate out of the cages. BAD SHOW!
7. Ok, the shot of John Locke the Smoke Monster just calmly walking through a rain of blanks just amused the hell out of me.
8. I am also deeply amused that the Smoke Monster takes the time to do a little corpse robbing during his escape routine. All he has to do is kill Kate to earn my eternal devotion. Evil or not.
9. Ok, that's awfully convenient. What with crashing, Smoke Monsters, time travelling, hitting people on the head, exploring rather austere quarters beneath stone statues and chatting with men who weave Greek, massacres, quality skin care and shampooing time, nuclear bombs and submarines, not to mention, you know, eating and sleeping and stuff, when the hell did anyone have time to build a nice wicker staircase up to the entrance of the Ajira plane? Seriously?
10. YAY SOMEONE SHOT KATE!!!
Allow me to revel in this for a moment.
YAY SOMEONE SHOT KATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More of this please!
11. Genuine question: Can Smoke Monster not turn into smoke when he's in the water? Because otherwise I don't understand why he didn't flip into smoke form and kill Jack immediately. Just a suggestion, Smokey!
12. You people left Claire again? You suck.
(Although I'd like to point out that Claire's whole "you abandoned me" is a bit much given that she vanished into the jungle and then everybody else was attacked by mean freighter people and then started up some wild time traveling, so, you know, it's a bit difficult to rescue abandoned jungle people, especially given an abandoned jungle person who disappears a lot.)
13. Does anybody else think that just maybe this stealing the sub idea might have gone better if a) they'd all taken a nice nap and had some breakfast first or b) NOT TRIED TO STEAL THE SUB in broad daylight given that they were fully aware that Widmore was guarding an unflyable airplane and would presumably therefore have posted a few people with machine guns around the sub? You people are not demonstrating your thinking skills here. Well. Ok. It was unfair of me, at this stage, to expect that any of you have thinking skills. On a related note, Jacob, you need to be focusing on recruiting more intelligent candidates. I realize it's a bit too late now since you're dead but that just proves my point.
Also, while I'm complaining about this scene, you'd think Widmore's money would buy more competent assassins. As far as I can tell, Kate was the only one shot. Sad, assassins. Very sad.
14. Jack. After six seasons of exceptionally bad decision making, why the hell should anyone trust YOU? I don't even trust the actor who PLAYS you anymore.
15. Boom! Except, is it just me, or did everyone else think that the bomb would be bigger?
16. I bet you all wish you'd just stayed in the cages now, don't you? Also, Jack and Hurley, the issue isn't the oxygen, but the water pressure at this depth. And the slight problem that the sub is not going to be doing an awesome job with air pressure at this
17. On a related note, I do feel that this entire episode – indeed, this entire show – is an illustration of the importance of clear and concise communication.
18. I must ask: why the emphasis on saving Kate?
19. Also, while I'm critiquing, what's with Widmore putting people in cages without any explanation? And then later shooting them with even less explanation? I realize he likes to have people shot, but just a few episodes ago he wasn't shooting Jin or Sawyer and a quick, "Hi, sorry for that whole freighter thing and just for the record, my real issue is with Smoke Monster and could you not go to the sub with him thanks lots." This would have saved a Valuable Sub.
20. And while I'm chatting about the sub, just how many people and weapons did Widmore manage to squeeze in there anyway?
21. AGAIN, WHY is this conversation in ENGLISH?
Look, I realize they've both become fluent English speakers, but in times of stress, and getting trapped in a sinking sub watching the water levels die and knowing your husband could die at any moment certainly counts as stress, people naturally revert back to their native languages. Hell, I have problems muttering "CAFÉ POR FAVOR" in moments of caffeine deprivation which is nowhere near the same stress level, however stressful it may seem.
22. Also, while I'm thinking about it, Sayid, one or two words of, "I'm SETTING OFF THE BOMB NOBODY STAND BEHIND SOMETHING THAT MIGHT PIN THEM AGAINST THE WALL OF A SUB WAY WAY BENEATH THE WATER FORCING THEIR HUSBANDS TO TRY TO MOVE HEAVY METAL AND WATER TO SAVE THEM" might have been nice.
23. Jin. You have an utterly adorable little daughter. Go swim to her! Swim, Jin, Swim!
24. MAD NOW.
25. Jack, it's probably not the best idea to tell a patient just how much you've violated his personal and medical privacy.
26. Um….what happened to Lapidus? Did he die? If so, exactly why has he been around this season other than to add to the death toll?
27. Also, we had Smoke Monster and Claire out on the dock, in the daylight, and now it's night, and I'm supposed to believe that a) Widmore hasn't sent more assassin dudes, b) all of that happened between bright daylight, twilight and night? Er.
Wow. So much wrong with this episode, in a season that has otherwise been good to great: alternate Jack's unbelievable violation of alternate Locke's privacy, bits with Ominous Music Boxes that we know will go nowhere, an unbelievably incompetent Theft of Sub, resulting in the fairly meaningless deaths of at least one and possibly two characters (and not incidentally, killing off every woman candidate, since Kate isn't one of the candidates anymore, and don't think I haven't noticed, show), and, in my major auugh, KILLING Sun, but
-- LEAVING KATE ALIVE!
BAD SHOW. BAD. Even shooting at Kate, wonderful though that moment was, does not begin to make up for it.
(For the record, given this show's extremely high death toll rate, I would have been fine with Sun's death had Kate died as well. But under the circumstances, and with following three seasons of Sun and Jin separation with this, NO.)
******
From a disability perspective, though, I liked that Locke refused surgery and that, more critically, his partner wholeheartedly supported his decision. Even if I'm slightly less happy with the disability as punishment and guilt narrative that immediately followed, I liked that. I am, however, deeply annoyed that Locke didn't say to Jack, "Dude – what the HELL were you doing prying into my personal life and going after my father?" That was just –
Well. I never liked Jack anyway. This just proved it.
1. Come on, Charles Widmore! KILL HER! KILL HER! You know you want to. You know I want you to. You know the entire Lost fanbase wants you to. KILL THE KATE!
2. Oh, come on, show! Don't tell us that Kate is completely unimportant and not on any lists and THEN LEAVE HER ALIVE! KILL THE KATE!
(Incidentally, I was recently asked who I would rather have die: Kate Austen or that cow in Fringe. It says something that I didn't even have to think about this. Although, in fairness, I don't actually want the cow dead (well, mostly); I just want it out of the lab. And maybe turned into some nice juicy steaks. I might have kinder feelings towards Kate Austen if she had a chance of getting turned into something useful and enjoyable. Like steak! Okay, that was a bad digression. Moving on!)
3. Why are Sun and Jin talking in English? We've been reading various subtitles for years, Lost. We can read more now. And also, by this point, no one is going to be particularly shocked to find that they're, you know, Korean.
4. Is anybody else continually amused that even after six seasons of this people still continue to try to use machine guns against the Smoke Monster?
5. Jack and everybody, you could leave Kate in the cages, you know. I'm just saying.
6. Sniffle. They took Kate out of the cages. BAD SHOW!
7. Ok, the shot of John Locke the Smoke Monster just calmly walking through a rain of blanks just amused the hell out of me.
8. I am also deeply amused that the Smoke Monster takes the time to do a little corpse robbing during his escape routine. All he has to do is kill Kate to earn my eternal devotion. Evil or not.
9. Ok, that's awfully convenient. What with crashing, Smoke Monsters, time travelling, hitting people on the head, exploring rather austere quarters beneath stone statues and chatting with men who weave Greek, massacres, quality skin care and shampooing time, nuclear bombs and submarines, not to mention, you know, eating and sleeping and stuff, when the hell did anyone have time to build a nice wicker staircase up to the entrance of the Ajira plane? Seriously?
10. YAY SOMEONE SHOT KATE!!!
Allow me to revel in this for a moment.
YAY SOMEONE SHOT KATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More of this please!
11. Genuine question: Can Smoke Monster not turn into smoke when he's in the water? Because otherwise I don't understand why he didn't flip into smoke form and kill Jack immediately. Just a suggestion, Smokey!
12. You people left Claire again? You suck.
(Although I'd like to point out that Claire's whole "you abandoned me" is a bit much given that she vanished into the jungle and then everybody else was attacked by mean freighter people and then started up some wild time traveling, so, you know, it's a bit difficult to rescue abandoned jungle people, especially given an abandoned jungle person who disappears a lot.)
13. Does anybody else think that just maybe this stealing the sub idea might have gone better if a) they'd all taken a nice nap and had some breakfast first or b) NOT TRIED TO STEAL THE SUB in broad daylight given that they were fully aware that Widmore was guarding an unflyable airplane and would presumably therefore have posted a few people with machine guns around the sub? You people are not demonstrating your thinking skills here. Well. Ok. It was unfair of me, at this stage, to expect that any of you have thinking skills. On a related note, Jacob, you need to be focusing on recruiting more intelligent candidates. I realize it's a bit too late now since you're dead but that just proves my point.
Also, while I'm complaining about this scene, you'd think Widmore's money would buy more competent assassins. As far as I can tell, Kate was the only one shot. Sad, assassins. Very sad.
14. Jack. After six seasons of exceptionally bad decision making, why the hell should anyone trust YOU? I don't even trust the actor who PLAYS you anymore.
15. Boom! Except, is it just me, or did everyone else think that the bomb would be bigger?
16. I bet you all wish you'd just stayed in the cages now, don't you? Also, Jack and Hurley, the issue isn't the oxygen, but the water pressure at this depth. And the slight problem that the sub is not going to be doing an awesome job with air pressure at this
17. On a related note, I do feel that this entire episode – indeed, this entire show – is an illustration of the importance of clear and concise communication.
18. I must ask: why the emphasis on saving Kate?
19. Also, while I'm critiquing, what's with Widmore putting people in cages without any explanation? And then later shooting them with even less explanation? I realize he likes to have people shot, but just a few episodes ago he wasn't shooting Jin or Sawyer and a quick, "Hi, sorry for that whole freighter thing and just for the record, my real issue is with Smoke Monster and could you not go to the sub with him thanks lots." This would have saved a Valuable Sub.
20. And while I'm chatting about the sub, just how many people and weapons did Widmore manage to squeeze in there anyway?
21. AGAIN, WHY is this conversation in ENGLISH?
Look, I realize they've both become fluent English speakers, but in times of stress, and getting trapped in a sinking sub watching the water levels die and knowing your husband could die at any moment certainly counts as stress, people naturally revert back to their native languages. Hell, I have problems muttering "CAFÉ POR FAVOR" in moments of caffeine deprivation which is nowhere near the same stress level, however stressful it may seem.
22. Also, while I'm thinking about it, Sayid, one or two words of, "I'm SETTING OFF THE BOMB NOBODY STAND BEHIND SOMETHING THAT MIGHT PIN THEM AGAINST THE WALL OF A SUB WAY WAY BENEATH THE WATER FORCING THEIR HUSBANDS TO TRY TO MOVE HEAVY METAL AND WATER TO SAVE THEM" might have been nice.
23. Jin. You have an utterly adorable little daughter. Go swim to her! Swim, Jin, Swim!
24. MAD NOW.
25. Jack, it's probably not the best idea to tell a patient just how much you've violated his personal and medical privacy.
26. Um….what happened to Lapidus? Did he die? If so, exactly why has he been around this season other than to add to the death toll?
27. Also, we had Smoke Monster and Claire out on the dock, in the daylight, and now it's night, and I'm supposed to believe that a) Widmore hasn't sent more assassin dudes, b) all of that happened between bright daylight, twilight and night? Er.
Wow. So much wrong with this episode, in a season that has otherwise been good to great: alternate Jack's unbelievable violation of alternate Locke's privacy, bits with Ominous Music Boxes that we know will go nowhere, an unbelievably incompetent Theft of Sub, resulting in the fairly meaningless deaths of at least one and possibly two characters (and not incidentally, killing off every woman candidate, since Kate isn't one of the candidates anymore, and don't think I haven't noticed, show), and, in my major auugh, KILLING Sun, but
-- LEAVING KATE ALIVE!
BAD SHOW. BAD. Even shooting at Kate, wonderful though that moment was, does not begin to make up for it.
(For the record, given this show's extremely high death toll rate, I would have been fine with Sun's death had Kate died as well. But under the circumstances, and with following three seasons of Sun and Jin separation with this, NO.)
******
From a disability perspective, though, I liked that Locke refused surgery and that, more critically, his partner wholeheartedly supported his decision. Even if I'm slightly less happy with the disability as punishment and guilt narrative that immediately followed, I liked that. I am, however, deeply annoyed that Locke didn't say to Jack, "Dude – what the HELL were you doing prying into my personal life and going after my father?" That was just –
Well. I never liked Jack anyway. This just proved it.