3 X 3: Further Instructions
What a fabulous episode. Remember how great this show was in the beginning? Well, it hasn’t *lost* (ba-dum-pum) anything since then! Viewers take note! The Great White Hunter is back!
One concern for me - once I watched the previews for next week I almost don’t want to watch more Sawyer torture. I’m done with The Others, their over-the-top head games and again, can someone please write in some vengence for Sawyer? ABC - GET RID OF THIS STORY LINE!
On with the show…
1. Opening with the eye, of course. Scene was remiscent of the very first ever opening of the show with Jack out in the jungle.
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2. Ironically, the Jesus stick falls from the sky onto Locke. A bit contrived considering what transpired from there, don’t you think?
3. OK, so Locke & Co. have been gone for a whole day and Charlie never alerted anyone of what happened there at the hatch? Man, if you told me I would be heading out there not only to see if anyone was hurt but also to check out what was left. And were Desmond, Locke and Eko knocked out cold all that time? Makes me wonder if there were Others involved in this blackout period.
4. I loved that Locke went into his “sweat lodge” for a little wacky paste and a magic carpet ride. I just wonder when the journey really ended because I’m not so sure that Eko was really talking to Locke about saving Jack.
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5. Ironically Locke needed to speak to the island but he couldn’t talk.
6. I was glad that Charlie was so reluctant to help Locke. The writers gave us, the loyal-obsessed fans, credit for remembering Fire & Water. They haven’t been friends since then and I wouldn’t blame Charlie. Why would you help someone who set you up and then beat you in the head repeatedly. Gee, I wonder why Charlie would hesitate. But Charlie *always* seems to be in the thick of things, doesn’t he?
7. There were so many funny lines in the episode tonight. I especially enjoyed Charlie’s little jabs at Locke like, “Oh yeah, I’ll stand guard in case you devolve into a monkey.”
8. In the airport scene I found it especially entertaining that Desmond was walking around with all the airline stewardesses. Probably true to life, well, the fictional lives of these characters.
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9. Since Locke was handing out apologies tonight, why didn’t he apologize to Charlie? He *did* hlep him but he also was wrong about Charlie as much as he was wrong losing faith in Eko. Will he continue to use and toss Charlie away?
10. What was the animal that chased Locke out of his tent? Polar bear? Spirit guide?
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11. Locke says that “They’ve got him,” meaning Eko. But the bear had Eko. Is he referring to Eko at this point?
12. What other bad things happen to people that hang out with Locke? Did we really see anything bad happen tonight beside the fact that he was duped by the cop back home? Boone died, I guess that is bad, but seems mostly bad things are on the island and he was the one getting the short end of the Jesus stick back home.
13. Jeronimo Jackson T-shirt. Cute.
14. I can see why Locke keeps losing his faith. First his mother tricks him into reconnecting with this dad, who in turn tricks him into major surgery and organ donation. Now we see that Eddie destroys the new family that Locke has found. How sad his life is!
15. Hatch imploded. Cool effect!
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16. Hurley almost bit it tonight thanks to Locke. “Dude.”
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17. Locke’s driver’s license vs. firearm paperwork. No conspiracy theory, just discrepancy. Birthdate on license 5-30-56 but on paperwork 11-15-46. Expires 5-11-02 which gives us a time frame until the plane crash (and obviously his handicap) and we know he is still in California. Maybe the cop *did* notice the difference but also recognized Eddie as a cop but didn’t want to mess up his operation. I’m going with this over prop error.
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18. Is it just me or does the commune that Locke lives in eerily resemble The Others commune here on the island? Will it be Locke that chooses to stay with them for that *family* feeling? Or does he have too much of a bond, or so he thinks, to the Losties? But the cop thought the farm was bad and they were just peaceful. Are we supposed to think now that maybe the Others are’t so bad either.
19. Polar bears are the “Einsteins of the bear world” huh? Funny stuff. What else does he know that might help them?
20. Eddie says that everyone at the commune wants a daddy. Goes along with the daddy issue of the show we have had so far. Interesting.
21. Charlie used Locke’s line tonight, “You don’t get to tell me what to do.”
22. So has Locke stumbled across some type of burial ground when he finds Eko? What is with the dump truck? And the dharma garb? No symbol in the middle so how old might these bones be?
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23. Does he or doesn’t he? I don’t think he does. I think that the Great White Hunter is too soft to kill this guy who he considers his friend and then leaves the commune in shame.
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24. Why didn’t Desmond implode and how can he tell the future now? Will he turn into the Hulk as Hurley predicted? And why did they make him into the Caucasion version of Jesus? Seriously, is there some time warp thingy going on that Desmond is wrapped up in? Where did his clothes go and why wasn’t anyone else naked?
25. I wasn’t crazy how they brought in the two new characters. They just wander on up and now we are supposed to accept them? Maybe in small bits, guys? Plus, don’t we have a few other story lines to contend with now instead of adding more? Doh!
26. Dude, nice legs! ha!
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27. Eddie was headed to the town of Eureka. Check out this link and read about the SciFi Channel’s show of the same name. Ironic, isn’t it? Too many similarities to not be something there. A secret town that no one will ever find. The Others town could potentially be a community of the best scientists and thinkers? Interesting.
28. The Jesus stick now reads, “Lift up your eyes and look North.” Remember that Michael headed North to find Walt. Also, Desmond told Jack, regarding Sarah’s surgery, that he needed to lift her up.
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29. Eddie gave the cop that pulled over Locke in the beginning a knowing look (when I watch it back now). Was he angry at almost getting busted right in the beginning? And what was up with the torrential downpour followed by an instant burst of sun? Just like the island.
29. In the airport sequence, why are Hurley and Benry the only two who work for the airline? Possibly Desmond, too, but I think he’s just wearing a suit, not a pilot’s uniform. I don’t want Hurley to be duping them somehow so I hope this is just a production choice, but no Others appear in this scene that we know of.
October 19th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Why didn’t anyone else seem to see Desmond? Wasn’t there anything odd about a half-dressed male (that I don’t remember ever being at the Losties camp before…?) throwing stones into the ocean?
October 19th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
i think desmond may have always had some sort of psychic capabilities…he told jack see you in another life…which came true and didn’t he also tell that jack would succeed in getting his wife to walk again??
October 19th, 2006 at 1:13 pm
desmond was at the camp when sayid asked to borrow his boat
October 20th, 2006 at 2:39 am
Crazy episode.I just wonder what is with locke and thte drugs.It’s like doesn’t make any sence.Why would locke do this.I cant wait to the next episode.
October 21st, 2006 at 7:35 am
My theory, and of course it’s just a theory, is that Desmond hasn’t had any special abilities before now. Or if he did, he was so blind sided by the whole Penny-get-off-the-island mode that he had no idea. Maybe the hatch knocked him silly but gave him abilities. Seems too supernatural for this show, that there is something medically unexplanable going on.
As far as Locke, he is only doing what natives have been doing for hundreds of years. Taking some wacky drug and going on a vision quest is not all that unusual… unless you live in civilization and then it might not seem so approrpriate. Like, I could do it to clear my mind and figure out what field of work I should be in…
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:03 am
About Desmond i think he has no idea what he is talking about.Maybe he can`t use his powers yet.For Locke:I think this with the drugs happens right after his father cheated him,and Locke is kind a looking for friends and stuff.And then he goes to this place where he met his girl.(sorry if there are any mistakes i am bulgarian)Maybe he desperatly needed family.I`m dawnloading season one right now and i`m going crazy(just wanted to tell you guys):)
October 24th, 2006 at 1:48 am
I have just watched one episode when Eathen is trying to get Klear’s baby.And i was thinking something.Ben says that he has spended all of his life on the island and Eathen wants a baby maybe the others are made like that-they are stolen babys from all over the world and they have never left the island just like Ruso’s daughter.Maybe that’s how their comunity is made.I am just going crazy.I want to know what is going on in thenext episodes.I NEED MORE LOST.
October 24th, 2006 at 1:28 pm
GG - once again I had to read your blog to find out what I missed on the show and boy did I miss a lot (and I watched the whole show!!). Anyway, I was really confused timewise in this episode. It seemed to me that the storylines with Jack, Kate and Sawyer were for a couple of days, not just one. So, were Eko, Desmond and Locke unconsious for a couple of days? Also, I questioned as you did, why was Desmond the only one without clothes? And where did that Jesus stick come from? If this episode was taking place only a little while after the hatch exploded, was it just falling down from the blast? But if it was days after, did someone throw it on him and if so, who? Anyway, not alot of time to add more, but I wanted to comment on a few things. Can’t wait for tomorrow epi
October 24th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Damn.For me it will be the next day.I am so fucked up.
October 25th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Today once again i watched again the 3×3 ep.And suddenlly i noticed somethingthis dude eddy looks like ben.They are so similar-froggy eyes and the shape of the had.I think he is Bens son.Maybe it’s a stupid gues but maybe it is thrue.So what do u think about that.