Quick Lost update

[ebonlock]

First how cute is Sawyer giving Hurley dating tips?

Ok...um...Charlie in a diaper singing, both adorable and quite disturbing. Almost as disturbing as his Catholic iconology vision thingie with Claire and his mom as angels of the lord. Freaky, freaky.

Many points to Charlie for his comment about Kate seeing a horse and nobody batting an eye, but when he starts having visions suddenly he's back on the drugs. Heh.

Interesting that Eko connected the mortal peril that Aaron might be in as spiritual peril, and Charlie tries to convince Claire to baptize the baby. Even more interesting was Locke's look as he watched Kate drag Charlie away. Does he know something? And if so, what?

I'm kind of glad that Locke took the smackfarthing away, I was a little concerned that Charlie was going to break down and start using again. I'd have preferred that Charlie did it himself, and maybe he would have, but I'm not even sure he was convinced he would for a minute there. Could he have found the strength? I dunno'.

"Charlie just feels that he has to save the baby because he can't save himself." Interesting idea, and he may well be on to something there, though it pains me to say it.

And WTF is up with the fire? It's a great distraction, but oh Charlie, if you thought they didn't trust you before. Man.

And that last flashback with Liam is just too tragic. Jesus, he just totally abandoned poor Charlie. The family line just about killed me, yes Charlie, you are family too, and Liam really should've recognized that.

Charlie loses his shit and steals the baby to try to do a forced baptism. Well they certainly can't blame this on the drugs, and now I can't help thinking Charlie's going to become the new persona non grata. A-L gets welcomed back into the fold and now Charlie becomes the new outsider.

Goddamn, seriously sucks to be Charlie. Well maybe he'll get a chance to redeem himself, but I'm seeing it being on the scale of a major self sacrifice, and even then... Maybe the Others will recruit him instead, I've got to say that if I were him I'd be ripe for it at this point. *sigh*

The scene with Jack was nice, it's nice to see that not everybody has completely turned their backs on him. The scene with Eko and Claire was kind of disturbing, though, and just 'cause Eko thinks he's a priest now I'm not so sure the whole baptism thing counted. And, um, doesn't faith play a part too? Shouldn't Claire at least have to kind of believe? Maybe I'm unclear on that whole thing.

Locke putting the statues away in the gun locker...ooh I'm not so sure that's a good idea.

Charlie all alone at the outcast fire...awww.

Oh and "Coming up on Lost", that means another set of repeats, doesn't it? :(

Comments

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

My strong feeling when I saw the look on Locke's face, coupled with the music, is that he strongly disagreed with the idea of Aaron being baptized. Because he is the island shaman? Because he opposes Christianity? Because he is secretly doing the island's bidding, and baptising Aaron would thwart the island's will? I don't know. But there was, at that moment, a clear feeling to me of the Christian vs. Natualism/Wicca/Pagan moment (Which, BTW, it would make me sad if that's the direction they're really going, so I'm hoping that this is just the *framework* for their story and not the real conflict)

Well that would only necessarily be the case if the "island's will" (for lack of a better term) matched that of the Others, which I'm not convinced of. Certainly I don't think Locke is working towards the same goals as the Others. I think the island itself and its will would be more neutral in nature, so if Locke is seen as a sort of shaman/pagan stand in he's in league with a natural, but neutral order. The Others may be "evil" and the survivors "good", but I'm convinced that neither group necessarily speaks for the island itself.