Friday, October 07, 2005
"Lost" gets oriented.....
This week on "Lost", we see a bit of who Jin is calling the "others". This masive Neanderthal-looking dude thwacks Sawyer with a club and quickly dispatches Jin and Michael. The three are taken captive and dragged to a covered pit. After they come to and analyze the situation a bit, Sawyer asks Jin and Michael to boost him so he can see if there's a way out of the pit. Suddenly, a knife slices between the bamboo poles covering the pit, and Sawyer tumbles back into the pit. Then the door is opened, and a woman is thrown in. It is Ana Lucia, a passenger from the tail section of the plane that broke off prior to the crash. She does a little Q&A with Sawyer and Michael. Sawyer of course is his usual charming self, deciding to play Mr. Hero to save a lady in distress by brandishing his all-too-conveniently concealed gun. Ana Lucia catches him completely off guard by smacking the crap out of him, stealing his gun, and getting the Neanderthal to let her out. The caveman guy, who Sawyer refers to as Shaft, asks Ana Lucia who the three in the pit are, and she says they were on the plane.
Down in the hatch, Kate recovers her wits after almost getting shot while hiding in the ventilation shaft. She sneaks back out and discovers a cache of weapons. She grabs and loads a gun and sneaks up on Desmond, who is still holding Locke hostage. The gun goes off and hits, of all things, the computer. Desmond comes unglued, wailing, "We're gonna die!" Jack and Kate somewhat reluctantly allow Desmond to attempt to fix the computer. Kate suggests that maybe Say-id can help and asks if there's a front door to the hatch. There is, sealed from the inside. Kate goes out to get Say-id.
Jack is absolutely not buying Desmond's gibberish that the world will end if he doesn't enter the numbers into the computer and reset the timer. Desmond responds by telling him and Locke to watch a film. The film cannister says "Orientation". Locke and Jack watch this incredibly cheesy instruction film telling them that they are stationed on segment three of a six station experimental program. This program conducts environmental, psychological, electromagnetic and other types of tests. And, yes, you briefly see polar bears on the film. The man doing the voiceover on the film states that two people are responsible for entering the proper code into the computer every 108 minutes and recommends that they take shifts to ensure this is done. Apparently, they are supposed to be relieved every year and a half or so by two new people. The man mentions an "incident" occurring at one point. The audio cuts out in places; either this has been watched too many times or had been edited? Anyway, the "orientation" reminded me of those awful health films they made you watch in school in the late 1970's, and it made me laugh. Locke's reaction was to watch it again, and Jack sneered and went back to confront Desmond.
Jack attempts to elicit more information from the increasingly agitated Desmond. The story is that Desmond was doing a race around the world three years ago, crashed his boat on the island and ran into a dude named Calvin, who was running the computer operation solo, I guess because his partner died? Anyway, Desmond is convinced to be Calvin's partner, and then Calvin died. Jack scoffs at the whole notion that Desmond is actually accomplishing anything and says that nothing will happen if the code is not entered and the clock counts down to zero. He says that Desmond was just being tested to see if he would be gullible enough to do it.
Desmond has tinkered with the computer for awhile and switches it on. The power goes out, and the computer begins to smoke. Desmond reacts with terror, grabs some food and some meds and bails. His plan is to run as far from the hatch as he can in the time remaining and not wait for Say-id to show. Jack takes off after him, catches up and forces him at gunpoint to stop. Desmond gives Jack the code to enter in the computer, but Jack doesn't appear to be listening. Suddenly, Desmond realizes that he did know Jack from an encounter in Los Angeles; Jack had done spinal surgery on a woman and thought he had failed and had told Desmond this. So Desmond naturally asks what became of that woman. Jack, who had married that woman, for some reason gets very choked up, as if the question had touched a nerve. He turns away, and Desmond resumes fleeing across the island.
Kate returns to the hatch with Say-id and Hurley (I think he just tagged along out of curiosity), finding Locke alone in despair. Say-id curiously doesn't ask questions, just gets to work. I'm surprised he trusts Kate and Locke this much. Hurley, while looking for a breaker switch, stumbles into the massive pantry and is suitably impressed with his find. Say-id magically gets the computer working, and Locke sits down to enter the code sequence. Hurley starts freaking when he hears his cursed lottery numbers are the code, but then Locke gets the last number wrong, and Hurley doesn't correct him. Then Jack appears and has Locke hit the back space and put in the proper final number. But Locke won't hit the "execute" button. He insists Jack should do it. Jack again resists, adamant that nothing will happen if they just let the timer run out, but in the end, he doesn't appear to want to be responsible if something does go wrong, so he does push the button. Part of me wanted to see him not do it. Locke sits back down and says he'll take the first shift. Perhaps later in the season we'll find out what happens when you don't hit the button.
I found out via The Lost Forum that next week's episode is called "Everybody Hates Hugo". I'd like to find out more about Hurley, so I'm looking forward to that. My guess is that he starts hoarding food from the pantry and doesn't tell anyone.
Hurry up, next Wednesday.
Down in the hatch, Kate recovers her wits after almost getting shot while hiding in the ventilation shaft. She sneaks back out and discovers a cache of weapons. She grabs and loads a gun and sneaks up on Desmond, who is still holding Locke hostage. The gun goes off and hits, of all things, the computer. Desmond comes unglued, wailing, "We're gonna die!" Jack and Kate somewhat reluctantly allow Desmond to attempt to fix the computer. Kate suggests that maybe Say-id can help and asks if there's a front door to the hatch. There is, sealed from the inside. Kate goes out to get Say-id.
Jack is absolutely not buying Desmond's gibberish that the world will end if he doesn't enter the numbers into the computer and reset the timer. Desmond responds by telling him and Locke to watch a film. The film cannister says "Orientation". Locke and Jack watch this incredibly cheesy instruction film telling them that they are stationed on segment three of a six station experimental program. This program conducts environmental, psychological, electromagnetic and other types of tests. And, yes, you briefly see polar bears on the film. The man doing the voiceover on the film states that two people are responsible for entering the proper code into the computer every 108 minutes and recommends that they take shifts to ensure this is done. Apparently, they are supposed to be relieved every year and a half or so by two new people. The man mentions an "incident" occurring at one point. The audio cuts out in places; either this has been watched too many times or had been edited? Anyway, the "orientation" reminded me of those awful health films they made you watch in school in the late 1970's, and it made me laugh. Locke's reaction was to watch it again, and Jack sneered and went back to confront Desmond.
Jack attempts to elicit more information from the increasingly agitated Desmond. The story is that Desmond was doing a race around the world three years ago, crashed his boat on the island and ran into a dude named Calvin, who was running the computer operation solo, I guess because his partner died? Anyway, Desmond is convinced to be Calvin's partner, and then Calvin died. Jack scoffs at the whole notion that Desmond is actually accomplishing anything and says that nothing will happen if the code is not entered and the clock counts down to zero. He says that Desmond was just being tested to see if he would be gullible enough to do it.
Desmond has tinkered with the computer for awhile and switches it on. The power goes out, and the computer begins to smoke. Desmond reacts with terror, grabs some food and some meds and bails. His plan is to run as far from the hatch as he can in the time remaining and not wait for Say-id to show. Jack takes off after him, catches up and forces him at gunpoint to stop. Desmond gives Jack the code to enter in the computer, but Jack doesn't appear to be listening. Suddenly, Desmond realizes that he did know Jack from an encounter in Los Angeles; Jack had done spinal surgery on a woman and thought he had failed and had told Desmond this. So Desmond naturally asks what became of that woman. Jack, who had married that woman, for some reason gets very choked up, as if the question had touched a nerve. He turns away, and Desmond resumes fleeing across the island.
Kate returns to the hatch with Say-id and Hurley (I think he just tagged along out of curiosity), finding Locke alone in despair. Say-id curiously doesn't ask questions, just gets to work. I'm surprised he trusts Kate and Locke this much. Hurley, while looking for a breaker switch, stumbles into the massive pantry and is suitably impressed with his find. Say-id magically gets the computer working, and Locke sits down to enter the code sequence. Hurley starts freaking when he hears his cursed lottery numbers are the code, but then Locke gets the last number wrong, and Hurley doesn't correct him. Then Jack appears and has Locke hit the back space and put in the proper final number. But Locke won't hit the "execute" button. He insists Jack should do it. Jack again resists, adamant that nothing will happen if they just let the timer run out, but in the end, he doesn't appear to want to be responsible if something does go wrong, so he does push the button. Part of me wanted to see him not do it. Locke sits back down and says he'll take the first shift. Perhaps later in the season we'll find out what happens when you don't hit the button.
I found out via The Lost Forum that next week's episode is called "Everybody Hates Hugo". I'd like to find out more about Hurley, so I'm looking forward to that. My guess is that he starts hoarding food from the pantry and doesn't tell anyone.
Hurry up, next Wednesday.
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