3 X 14: Bye Bye Ken and Barbie aka Expose
I know you think that I’m at home right now still doing the happy dance…
But this is what I want to remember about EVERY SCENE (except the last one, of course) that Ken and Barbie were in:
1. I wasn’t going to watch it but when I found out that Ken and Barbie were probably going to be a goners I just had to. Except now I have to send apologies to Scott because he has probably not heard such a constant stream of curse words from me ever (yet there was that one time…). Plus he probably wanted me to shut up already about the horrible acting and how I stayed up until freaking 10:00 to watch this and after last week how could they, blah, blah blah. You can all argue away with me but my feelings stand that I cannot stand Barbie as an actress and the big payoff of satisfaction watching them die was stolen by an entire HOUR of suffering having to stomach those two and their cheesy dialog. I’d rather watch Billy Ray Cyrus dance for an hour than suffer through that episode again. *blech!*
2. I truly think that the powers that be at ABC know that they made a huge mistake just plopping Ken and Barbie down on the beach and expecting fans to just accept them. So they had to hurry and clean up their mess = last night’s episode. Wasn’t there supposed to be some big mythological reveal last night? Maybe the revelation is that Ken isn’t the chronic pooper that we thought he was but rather just some tv-executive killing con man. I mean, were we really supposed to believe all the reshoots of the famous scenes in the show (plane crash)? “Oh, gee, guess I must have missed them the first time.”
3. I’m not going to post a shot from Nikki’s breakout role, but let’s just say my theory on why they *really* cast her was just reinforced.
4. “Plywood.”
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5. So is Boone supposed to be the gay character that was revealed? In the airport, Shannon says, “If you would quit flirting with random guys maybe we could actually get on the plane.” Yes, I know what you are thinking… but he slept with Shannon. Ever heard of bi? Maybe he had a moment of weakness. Who knows. But in our conservative society I doubt they are going to make a prominent character gay. But it’s on at 10 now so maybe they could get away with it. Hurley, Charlie, Desmond love triangle? Ew, creepy!
6. How ironic. In the airport Barbie makes Ken promise her that they will never end up like them (Boone & Shannon). Both couples are dead. Guess he didn’t keep his promise!
7. Yes, I know she was on the Cobra show and that is the same show Locke was watching last week.
8. There is a theory out there that when Desmond *went back in time* his decisions changed the course of time and somehow instead of Rose and Bernard on the plane, Ken and Barbie ended up there. That is why we haven’t see R&B and K&B just suddenly showed up. However, being the obsessive fan that I am I looked through my screencaps because lo and behold, Rose is getting CPR on the beach as Barbie runs around looking all sweet in her clean dress. So there, they *have* to still be on the island somewhere.
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9. Oh, like her acting wasn’t unbelievable enough, look how clean her dress is after surviving a plane crash and running all over the place looking for Ken. OK, so she has a little scratch on her arm. Boo hoo.
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10. Sawyer, “He wasn’t saying You’re Next about them he was saying You’re Next as in you’re all next.” Hurley, “Yeah, that’s not really better.” Crack me up!
11. Artz has been dead at least several weeks and all these bugs, especially the butterfiles because they are they only one’s that I’m remotely familiar with, are still alive?
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12. Now here is an interesting piece that might come back into play in the future. A walkie talkie from The Others.
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13. I found it interesting that Sawyer was so angry when he came back to find his tent ransacked yet he doesn’t waste a second going through K&B’s stuff.
14. The scene where Kate was arguing with Artz and Shannon was very out of character too, at least, it was not the Kate that I remember from Season One. Why would she be discussing the guns with anyone? I remember that she kind-of hung back from the crowd as they didn’t know that she was a fugitive.
15. Hey, the pigs are walking!
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16. OK people! So tell me that Ben and Juliet didn’t notice that the hatch was open when Paulo was down there hiding! Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, let’s say he closed it to be extra sneaky. So wouldn’t they have noticed, then, that the dirt was off of the cover and the latch was really easy to open? Then, as Nate said in the last comment section, Ben just blurts out his plan? Ben? Remember Henry? Ben doesn’t reveal anything in black and white (he’s like an ethics professor!).
17. Good boy Vincent!
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18. Yeah, we haven’t seen the end of Sawyer and those diamonds. He’s a con man. He didn’t throw them all down there.
19. Opened her eyes just in time to see the dirt coming. I would think with a couple hundred pounds of dirt coming at you, there is no way to dig out of this one. Do you think that the actors will have nightmares about shooting this scene?
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March 30th, 2007 at 11:17 am
they said that when stung, they cant move one muscle. but that doesnt mean you pass out, right? their characters probably hear and saw everything before they began to move their body again, lol.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Gitsie are you a fan or critic of the show? Why do you put so much time into it if you only pick it apart?
March 30th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
i believe the reason that ben and juliett didn’t notice that the hatch doors were open is because they didn’t come in that way. there are theories that the others travel through underground tunnles and thats how they get from hatch to hatch.
March 30th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
This has been on my mind for awhile….in EW’s cover store about lost before the start of the spring season, this was said by Damon
‘’I feel like we’re playing a chess game,'’ analogizes Lindelof, ‘’and in the first six moves, we’ve lost our queen and two bishops, and the audience is saying ‘They are the worst chess players in the world!’ What they don’t realize is that we’re nine moves away from checkmating you. If we lose, we lose. But that’s the play, and we’re standing by it.'’
…Now, if you take him literally, the “9″ moves away from checkmating you would mean that in episode 15 there is going to be a huge reveal. I actually think next week episode is going to be big. Its almost like everyones guard is down right now and not expecting much from the next episode. However, you heard it hear first….something big is going down.
March 30th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
Hey Brian, it’s my site and I can blog about whatever I chose. Some days I’m a fan and some days I’m a critic. I’ve been pretty consistent since Nov. 2005 (actually I wrote about it before that but I had giant emails circulating at work and I worried I would be fired for them so I created this website for my co-workers to come to me) on writing about this show - the good, the bad and the ugly. You can go back and read them through if you like and then you can decide if I’m a fan or a critic.
March 30th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Last night was the first time I have been actually bored by an epi. All I could think what the it was self-indulgent. Some head writer has always wanted to do a “buried alive” show and came up with some stupid, contrived way to do it. I agree that it looked too much like a re-write of the shows history. And why would Ben reveal anything to anyone???? I hated last night’s show and hope Nate is right about something big coming. It’s going to take a few times to regain my sense of trust for this show.
March 31st, 2007 at 5:19 am
Dialogue from the Ben/Juliet Pearl scene:
Ben: “Who left this open?”
Juliet: “Tom was down here a couple days ago.”
Ben: “Tell him to cover it up with the plane.”
Or something to that effect, I’m quoting from memory.
Why is it strange that Ben would tell Juliet his plan? She’s clearly helping him to carry it out, after all.
Yes, I believe I did read a quote by Kiele Sanchez where she said that she’s really claustrophobic and that shooting the buried alive scene was nightmarish for her.
I hope Boone WAS the gay character, because I will just be irritated if a big deal gets made out of some other character being gay. I don’t get why it matters. The only time anyone else’s sexual orientation matters on Lost is when they’re involved romantically with someone, so the show would need TWO gay characters. But honestly, I’m so tired of the Triangle and C/C and Jacket; this show doesn’t need any more heavy handed romance plots, which a gay romance would almost certainly be.
If you listen to the most recent official podcast they say that the plan was always to do a Redshirt episode, and that’s why Pikki were introduced, and they were always meant to be buried alive. And two characters getting buried alive seems exactly like something Darleton would really love, so I buy it.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:17 am
Emily: Agreed. Enough with the love triangle, rectangle, trapezoid, whatever they are trying to set up here.
Respectfully disagree about Ken & Barbie. Check out this quote from Damon Lindelof from a TV Guide interview: “People hated them [K&B] before they even opened their mouths to say anything significant because it felt like they were crashing the party,” exec producer Damon Lindelof acknowledges of the characters who were abruptly introduced last fall. “The easiest thing would have been to just write them out and forget they ever happened, like the cougar on [Season 2] of 24. But that’s not Lost. We should at least own up to it.”
ie: oopsies!
March 31st, 2007 at 7:19 am
Nate: I’ve been doing some digging since your prediction that something “big” is going to happen next week. There are some interviews with the producers out there that indicate what you say is true. Old Smokey is set to make an appearance (that can only mean trouble) and if I find more I’ll have to put it on my spoiler page for safekeeping. Great stuff! Thanks!
March 31st, 2007 at 7:22 am
To The Other Scott: I actually read something somewhere (I have to start keeping track of this stuff) and one of the producers pretty much said that did at some point want to do that type of epi so you are right on. They’ve announced a fourth season (haven’t we all been saying five since season one when the producers said they were only going to do five) so you have another year to get your trust back. I keep watching because of epis like Locke’s last week.
March 31st, 2007 at 7:00 pm
5. “Hurley, Charlie, Desmond love triangle?” BLEH!!!!!!!! I was seriously eating my dinner when I read that - past tense, now, thank you! Yuck!
6. Luckily, “Barbie” isn’t dead! “Razzle Dazzle!!” Hee! Hee! No, now, hear me out… that last scene was so much better than anything I could have thought up for the whole “Kill Ken and Barbie” phenomena you had going! Seeing her open her eyes at the last moment, coming out of her paralysis was just the writer’s redemption to me! It’ll bring me back, gladly, to next week - that, and the fact that next week is Kate-centric… can’t go wrong with her storyline!
April 2nd, 2007 at 1:25 pm
There’s a supposed to be a gay character?! I never knew. But interestingly enough my boyfriend was telling me a few weeks ago that him and his friend think Tom might be gay.
When Kate is supposed to change into the dress, he tells her not to worry about him checking her out. “Believe me, you’re not my type.”
At the time I just thought it was funny cuz Kate is in that stupid love triangle, so he’s kind of telling her she’s not even that hot. But now I think the way he said that could really indicate something else.
Apparently he also said something else that made them think he might be gay, and they were thinking that could be the reason he’d be on the show, cuz there’s nothing else that is interesting about him. But I had to remind my bf that Tom was already in season 2 and the thing about him could have just been how different the role he played in season 2 is from his real personality in season 3.
However, if there’s really supposed to be a gay character on the show, I think it’s very likely that that would be Tom.
April 4th, 2007 at 5:33 am
Early in the episode, Locke said to Paulo that ‘nothing stays buried on the island.’ - Hmmmmm…..
April 4th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
No one mentioned the SPIDERS!!! They cant just be getting one or two… There were so many… didnt the he tell Barbie that when one bites it sends a smell or signal out to all the other spiders around to come swarming (I’m not quoting directly - obviously). I wonder if we have seen the last of the spiders… I wonder if this has something to do with the ’sickness’?
April 8th, 2007 at 9:29 am
Yeah,I wanna know more about this sickness..and how Danielle had to kill all her fellow sailors…!
Those spiders FREAK ME OUT!!