Lost 1x10: Raised by Another
Dec. 2nd, 2004 02:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fun_like_thatIf I were seriously suicidal I'd join all the Charlie/Claire comms and in huge-ass caps proclaim that "CHARLIE AND CLAIRE SUX SO HARD OMG!!!111!!"
And then I'd wait for the fangirls to rip me apart, limb from limb.
But it certainly wasn't up to par with the last ep, Solitary, but then again what is? It was still better than White Rabbit cause a) it was boring b) it was Jack's ep c) it was about his familial problems that didn't intrigue me at all cause I have my own familial issues to deal with, KTHX and d) it was boring AND the Jack ep.
So right off the bat Raised by Another is running ahead of it cause it's none of those things. But it was still weak in plot and intrigue, for the most part. It was certainly a transitional ep. After last week's few, hard-earned answers and MANY questions I suppose it would have been hard to keep up that momentum. Claire and her baby obviously play into the over-arching plot somehow but aside from that the actual unfolding of the story was less than stellar.
So we start off with another eye, of course. And being that this is Claire's ep, wouldn't it be something that it's hers? She's having some kind of tripped out dream involving her baby being born and seeing Locke with the black/white eyes that, yes, does have further significance but for Christ's sake people, stop treating him like he's the goddamn second coming. Oooh, he's all into the two sides of stuff, whether it be good evil or just black or white in a friggin' backgammon game.
*coughs*
Yeah, so Claire see's the eyes and Locke is all cryptic and shit and she freaks out, gets all screamy and I'm left wondering what the hell kind of dreams she had when she would give into freaky food cravings. Obviously boar and bananas doesn't make for sound slumber. But yeah, she's all "aughhhh!" and charlie's all "I'm here to help you!" and Claire's still all "aughhhhh!" It was very loud.
So flashback. Claire and - Marcus, was it?- are freaking out because Claire's pregnant and she thinks they're screwed. Her mom's disowned her and later in the ep we learn that she has some sort of father issues as well. Who the hell on this island doesn't?
I might be missing stuff but the next thing I remember is Kate staring out at the ocean on the beach. And Jack coming up and them talking about sinking or some shit. OMG Kate had a mother! OMG!!11! Does this mean that she has father issues or just no father? Which could be an issue unto itself. Dr. Phil! You need to strand yourself on this island and tell everyone to wise up or get smart or whateverthefuck it is you tell people with your hack psychology degree.
Also, Jack is a douche bag! Kate: "He's been gone almost a week." Jack: "He'll be fine." He's also the king of redundancy, stating something along the lines of Claire going into labour would be a bad idea. No shit Sherlock. Did it take you ten whole episodes to figure that out?
Again, I must address the clothing issue. Kate has been seen in this outfit since, what? 1x08? Which was a long time ago. Almost a week ago. Well, probably more. It was two days since the end of Confidence Man in Solitary and she was wearing it way back then. If it's been "almost a week" since Sayid left it's probably been about a week since she changed her clothes. Can't we at least get some sort of gratuitous skin shot of her bathing a la 1x02 if you're insisting on making her look like she can't salvage any other clothing?
Perhaps this is the way to show how significant a character will be for that ep, if they've been relegated to simply staring out at the ocean in a sad and pensive way and breaking up fights with the same "hey" every week, wearing the same clothes until they have something for them to do. Or maybe it's just Kate. Who knows? Either way- CHANGE HER CLOTHES! She's beginning to be that girl no one wanted to sit beside in school cause she smelled funny, I'm sure.
Blah, blah, Charlie wants to help Claire, blah blah. They have more chemistry then Kate and Jack, at least, but that doesn't say much cause Jack had more chemistry with Rose and she was practically comatose for that one ep we knew she was still alive. I just don't get the Charlie/Dom fascination and don't find them particularly cute. I'm evil, I know.
So Claire goes to a psychic and he won't tell her fortune, gets all freaked out. If I had been Claire I would have been all up in his face wondering why he was so wiggy. Also, I would have totally gotten revenge on my boyfriend if he did that to me, convinced me to have a baby (and yes, I would SO be having Satan's minion, not that Claire's having it but I would and that's the point. Shut up.) and then left me when I was- what? Five months? Six? Either way, not a fun time for him, lots of rage for me.
I really liked Hurley in this ep. He was funny and doing some grunt work that will play a major role later in the ep, as you all know. Because you all watched the ep. Right? Right. The only thing that bothers me a little about his character is that he was basically written into the show. I got the Entertainment Weekly today with Lost on the cover and the show's creators were saying they met Jorge (that's his name, right?) and liked him so much they stuck Hurley into the mix. Would work if they already had a possible plan for him in mind and didn't just say- hey! This guy is funny, throw him in and we'll do something with him at some point but we don't know what or when. I want to believe that you have an ultimate plan in mind, JJ! Don't dash my hopes by winging it and fucking over the end of the show!
Anyhoo, yeah. Hurley was great. I like how easy going he is and isn't nervous about approaching anyone. The way he just made himself at home in Sawyer's tent impressed me, he's not intimidated. But then again would anyone be intimidated by a guy wearing those sunglasses? *snort* The half-nakedness will have to make up for them, I guess. I also liked his scene with Locke because Locke is so deluded and on crack it's hysterical. Don't get me wrong, he's still creepy as fuck but he was laughable here. Which was the intention, I'm sure. Locke is another one that needs new clothes. He goes out hunting and shit too, so I can imagine things are getting kind of raunchy.
I'm glad we have the humour to offset the dark scenes because it is alot to take in. If the show was all doom and gloom and conspiracy and stuff it'd get boring and depressing pretty fast. Like a horror movie after the tenth time something jumps out of the closet, you get tired of it. So the light, airy scenes where they're trying to make a home as best they can are a nice contrast.
Blah. Another digression. Okay. More Claire freakage. Someone's trying to HURT HER BABY! Whatever. Charlie gets properly huffy about it the next day when Jack suggests that she's just having wicked vivid dreams, as a good prospective stranded-on-an-island suitor should be.
Boone is a liberal and Shannon doesn't want to move to the "rape caves". Don't know if these are puzzle pieces to their backstory later but we'll just file this info and see what happens. I'd like to know why they were suddenly heading off to the caves. Maybe Shannon learned about the effects of long-term exposure to the sun and the damage it can do to your skin. Tanning is bad people! /PSA
I think I forgot about Claire somewhere. Meh. So she gets dumped, goes back to psychic guy who's all- your baby must be raised by you and not by another! She's all, uh huh and leaves. He stalks her with phone calls for months (that's what she said, right?). Now, by this point, if I were Claire, I would have been far more irate, would likely have threatened some sort of retaliatory action such as calling the cops for harassment and stalking and possibly have changed my number. If I were the psychic guy I would have gotten smart and blurted out my plan to her before she had a chance to hang up on me instead of blathering on for the gazillionth time that THEBABYISINDANGEROMG! She goes to give the baby up for adoption, selling it to a seemingly nice couple who agree to sing Catch a Falling Star to it sometimes and want to pay her for her offspring. They want to buy Satan's minion! But, alas, fate or Satan or simply the ball point pen association of the universe have other plans and she sees the non-working pens as a sign. She rushes over to the psychic's place and he gives her the brilliant plan. Which really isn't that brilliant.
Then she goes into labour, or already has by this point- whatever. Charlie's there, tending to her very need and telling her that, as a drug addict, he can deliver her baby. I can't in a MILLION years understand why he blurted that out. Is this a way to further the progression of the C/C relationship because she didn't reject him for being a junkie? Dude! She was having LABOUR pains! She would have been happy to have Atilla the Hun there at that point.
Charlie runs off to find Jack, yells Ethan to tell Jack instead (if you didn't feel the creepy/foreboding vibes from Ethan here you're dumb) and runs back to Claire who figures out that the psychic was actually making Claire keep the baby to raise by putting her on the plane cause he knew it would crash, blah blah blah. The psychic thing started out kind of cool but then the dude wouldn't tell her what he saw and it got frustrating then annoying and lame near the end.
I bet Claire's baby is going to be the deity worshiped by Locke's cult.
Or a bunny. Cause, you know.
Claire's fine, btw. She and Charlie head back to the caves, all happy and having exorcised their demons for now. But no! There, in the bushes! Evil lurks! Or Ethan. Whatever. He's all eerily calm and slightly menacing but generally creepy, which I'm guessing he picked up from Locke or else Locke's been getting pointers from Ethan. Either way, creeeeepy. Bet he's taking Claire and Charlie off to make a sacrifice to his god or kumquat tree or something. Fun!
Back at the caves Sayid comes strolling in, past Locke who looks less than shocked and surprised to see Sayid. At first I'm all, Locke wtf? But then I see Kate at the caves and I wonder why she's there (was she getting water?) and THEN I'm all- hey! Sayid! He has some water, writhes in pain and gasps while Jack rips open his pantleg where his wound is from that tree thing that stuck him when he was hanging upside down last ep. I'm wondering why the hell it took him so long to get back. Obviously the island is bigger than we thought. And yeah, he's wounded. *shrugs*
So as Sayid is explaining that they're not alone on the island and that the craaaazy!french lady is hanging around, Locke is looking all creepy and interested and Hurley is interrupting wounded!Sayid with the passenger manifest (that he got from Sawyer, pretty much scoff free! Sawyer was probably feeling insecure about being caught wearing such tacky sunglasses.) and how there's an extra passenger lying around somewhere. I think this is where it cut to C/C running into Ethan, but whatever.
Again, this ep wasn't brilliant. But it was alright. Most definitely a transitional episode because not much happened and while more questions were produced from it they're somewhat weaker and are able to be pushed to the back burner somewhat, till another ep (likely the one when/if Claire gives birth) brings them up. Or next week when Ethan tries to take the baby from Claire or whatever he plans on doing.
I don't think Ethan is Alex though. I'm not sure why but I'm still believing that Alex is a female. I'm probably wrong, but I don't think Alex is insane. We'll see.
I guess that's all she wrote. Not perfect, but not total shit. Your average ep, I guess. I think after next week we have a break in eps until January, which sucks unless they show re-runs. But what TOTALLY KICKS ASS is that starting January 5th it's going to be JJ Abrams night with Lost being the lead-in for the season 4 premiere of Alias. How awesome is that? I'm so jazzed.
Also, because it'll get lost in the shuffle when I post this on top of it, My ego-stroking sign-up sheet. I do stroke more than egos though.
*walks away humming*
And then I'd wait for the fangirls to rip me apart, limb from limb.
But it certainly wasn't up to par with the last ep, Solitary, but then again what is? It was still better than White Rabbit cause a) it was boring b) it was Jack's ep c) it was about his familial problems that didn't intrigue me at all cause I have my own familial issues to deal with, KTHX and d) it was boring AND the Jack ep.
So right off the bat Raised by Another is running ahead of it cause it's none of those things. But it was still weak in plot and intrigue, for the most part. It was certainly a transitional ep. After last week's few, hard-earned answers and MANY questions I suppose it would have been hard to keep up that momentum. Claire and her baby obviously play into the over-arching plot somehow but aside from that the actual unfolding of the story was less than stellar.
So we start off with another eye, of course. And being that this is Claire's ep, wouldn't it be something that it's hers? She's having some kind of tripped out dream involving her baby being born and seeing Locke with the black/white eyes that, yes, does have further significance but for Christ's sake people, stop treating him like he's the goddamn second coming. Oooh, he's all into the two sides of stuff, whether it be good evil or just black or white in a friggin' backgammon game.
*coughs*
Yeah, so Claire see's the eyes and Locke is all cryptic and shit and she freaks out, gets all screamy and I'm left wondering what the hell kind of dreams she had when she would give into freaky food cravings. Obviously boar and bananas doesn't make for sound slumber. But yeah, she's all "aughhhh!" and charlie's all "I'm here to help you!" and Claire's still all "aughhhhh!" It was very loud.
So flashback. Claire and - Marcus, was it?- are freaking out because Claire's pregnant and she thinks they're screwed. Her mom's disowned her and later in the ep we learn that she has some sort of father issues as well. Who the hell on this island doesn't?
I might be missing stuff but the next thing I remember is Kate staring out at the ocean on the beach. And Jack coming up and them talking about sinking or some shit. OMG Kate had a mother! OMG!!11! Does this mean that she has father issues or just no father? Which could be an issue unto itself. Dr. Phil! You need to strand yourself on this island and tell everyone to wise up or get smart or whateverthefuck it is you tell people with your hack psychology degree.
Also, Jack is a douche bag! Kate: "He's been gone almost a week." Jack: "He'll be fine." He's also the king of redundancy, stating something along the lines of Claire going into labour would be a bad idea. No shit Sherlock. Did it take you ten whole episodes to figure that out?
Again, I must address the clothing issue. Kate has been seen in this outfit since, what? 1x08? Which was a long time ago. Almost a week ago. Well, probably more. It was two days since the end of Confidence Man in Solitary and she was wearing it way back then. If it's been "almost a week" since Sayid left it's probably been about a week since she changed her clothes. Can't we at least get some sort of gratuitous skin shot of her bathing a la 1x02 if you're insisting on making her look like she can't salvage any other clothing?
Perhaps this is the way to show how significant a character will be for that ep, if they've been relegated to simply staring out at the ocean in a sad and pensive way and breaking up fights with the same "hey" every week, wearing the same clothes until they have something for them to do. Or maybe it's just Kate. Who knows? Either way- CHANGE HER CLOTHES! She's beginning to be that girl no one wanted to sit beside in school cause she smelled funny, I'm sure.
Blah, blah, Charlie wants to help Claire, blah blah. They have more chemistry then Kate and Jack, at least, but that doesn't say much cause Jack had more chemistry with Rose and she was practically comatose for that one ep we knew she was still alive. I just don't get the Charlie/Dom fascination and don't find them particularly cute. I'm evil, I know.
So Claire goes to a psychic and he won't tell her fortune, gets all freaked out. If I had been Claire I would have been all up in his face wondering why he was so wiggy. Also, I would have totally gotten revenge on my boyfriend if he did that to me, convinced me to have a baby (and yes, I would SO be having Satan's minion, not that Claire's having it but I would and that's the point. Shut up.) and then left me when I was- what? Five months? Six? Either way, not a fun time for him, lots of rage for me.
I really liked Hurley in this ep. He was funny and doing some grunt work that will play a major role later in the ep, as you all know. Because you all watched the ep. Right? Right. The only thing that bothers me a little about his character is that he was basically written into the show. I got the Entertainment Weekly today with Lost on the cover and the show's creators were saying they met Jorge (that's his name, right?) and liked him so much they stuck Hurley into the mix. Would work if they already had a possible plan for him in mind and didn't just say- hey! This guy is funny, throw him in and we'll do something with him at some point but we don't know what or when. I want to believe that you have an ultimate plan in mind, JJ! Don't dash my hopes by winging it and fucking over the end of the show!
Anyhoo, yeah. Hurley was great. I like how easy going he is and isn't nervous about approaching anyone. The way he just made himself at home in Sawyer's tent impressed me, he's not intimidated. But then again would anyone be intimidated by a guy wearing those sunglasses? *snort* The half-nakedness will have to make up for them, I guess. I also liked his scene with Locke because Locke is so deluded and on crack it's hysterical. Don't get me wrong, he's still creepy as fuck but he was laughable here. Which was the intention, I'm sure. Locke is another one that needs new clothes. He goes out hunting and shit too, so I can imagine things are getting kind of raunchy.
I'm glad we have the humour to offset the dark scenes because it is alot to take in. If the show was all doom and gloom and conspiracy and stuff it'd get boring and depressing pretty fast. Like a horror movie after the tenth time something jumps out of the closet, you get tired of it. So the light, airy scenes where they're trying to make a home as best they can are a nice contrast.
Blah. Another digression. Okay. More Claire freakage. Someone's trying to HURT HER BABY! Whatever. Charlie gets properly huffy about it the next day when Jack suggests that she's just having wicked vivid dreams, as a good prospective stranded-on-an-island suitor should be.
Boone is a liberal and Shannon doesn't want to move to the "rape caves". Don't know if these are puzzle pieces to their backstory later but we'll just file this info and see what happens. I'd like to know why they were suddenly heading off to the caves. Maybe Shannon learned about the effects of long-term exposure to the sun and the damage it can do to your skin. Tanning is bad people! /PSA
I think I forgot about Claire somewhere. Meh. So she gets dumped, goes back to psychic guy who's all- your baby must be raised by you and not by another! She's all, uh huh and leaves. He stalks her with phone calls for months (that's what she said, right?). Now, by this point, if I were Claire, I would have been far more irate, would likely have threatened some sort of retaliatory action such as calling the cops for harassment and stalking and possibly have changed my number. If I were the psychic guy I would have gotten smart and blurted out my plan to her before she had a chance to hang up on me instead of blathering on for the gazillionth time that THEBABYISINDANGEROMG! She goes to give the baby up for adoption, selling it to a seemingly nice couple who agree to sing Catch a Falling Star to it sometimes and want to pay her for her offspring. They want to buy Satan's minion! But, alas, fate or Satan or simply the ball point pen association of the universe have other plans and she sees the non-working pens as a sign. She rushes over to the psychic's place and he gives her the brilliant plan. Which really isn't that brilliant.
Then she goes into labour, or already has by this point- whatever. Charlie's there, tending to her very need and telling her that, as a drug addict, he can deliver her baby. I can't in a MILLION years understand why he blurted that out. Is this a way to further the progression of the C/C relationship because she didn't reject him for being a junkie? Dude! She was having LABOUR pains! She would have been happy to have Atilla the Hun there at that point.
Charlie runs off to find Jack, yells Ethan to tell Jack instead (if you didn't feel the creepy/foreboding vibes from Ethan here you're dumb) and runs back to Claire who figures out that the psychic was actually making Claire keep the baby to raise by putting her on the plane cause he knew it would crash, blah blah blah. The psychic thing started out kind of cool but then the dude wouldn't tell her what he saw and it got frustrating then annoying and lame near the end.
I bet Claire's baby is going to be the deity worshiped by Locke's cult.
Or a bunny. Cause, you know.
Claire's fine, btw. She and Charlie head back to the caves, all happy and having exorcised their demons for now. But no! There, in the bushes! Evil lurks! Or Ethan. Whatever. He's all eerily calm and slightly menacing but generally creepy, which I'm guessing he picked up from Locke or else Locke's been getting pointers from Ethan. Either way, creeeeepy. Bet he's taking Claire and Charlie off to make a sacrifice to his god or kumquat tree or something. Fun!
Back at the caves Sayid comes strolling in, past Locke who looks less than shocked and surprised to see Sayid. At first I'm all, Locke wtf? But then I see Kate at the caves and I wonder why she's there (was she getting water?) and THEN I'm all- hey! Sayid! He has some water, writhes in pain and gasps while Jack rips open his pantleg where his wound is from that tree thing that stuck him when he was hanging upside down last ep. I'm wondering why the hell it took him so long to get back. Obviously the island is bigger than we thought. And yeah, he's wounded. *shrugs*
So as Sayid is explaining that they're not alone on the island and that the craaaazy!french lady is hanging around, Locke is looking all creepy and interested and Hurley is interrupting wounded!Sayid with the passenger manifest (that he got from Sawyer, pretty much scoff free! Sawyer was probably feeling insecure about being caught wearing such tacky sunglasses.) and how there's an extra passenger lying around somewhere. I think this is where it cut to C/C running into Ethan, but whatever.
Again, this ep wasn't brilliant. But it was alright. Most definitely a transitional episode because not much happened and while more questions were produced from it they're somewhat weaker and are able to be pushed to the back burner somewhat, till another ep (likely the one when/if Claire gives birth) brings them up. Or next week when Ethan tries to take the baby from Claire or whatever he plans on doing.
I don't think Ethan is Alex though. I'm not sure why but I'm still believing that Alex is a female. I'm probably wrong, but I don't think Alex is insane. We'll see.
I guess that's all she wrote. Not perfect, but not total shit. Your average ep, I guess. I think after next week we have a break in eps until January, which sucks unless they show re-runs. But what TOTALLY KICKS ASS is that starting January 5th it's going to be JJ Abrams night with Lost being the lead-in for the season 4 premiere of Alias. How awesome is that? I'm so jazzed.
Also, because it'll get lost in the shuffle when I post this on top of it, My ego-stroking sign-up sheet. I do stroke more than egos though.
*walks away humming*
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Date: 2004-12-02 06:59 am (UTC)I must have your babies. Now. Give them to me, I'm hungry! :P
Charlie's there, tending to her very need and telling her that, as a drug addict, he can deliver her baby. I can't in a MILLION years understand why he blurted that out. Is this a way to further the progression of the C/C relationship because she didn't reject him for being a junkie?
The nonsense! It burns!
Or a bunny. Cause, you know.
A bunny that's actually Kate and Sawyer's time-travel-Oedipus-complex-twincest-past baby! (Only after the polar bear, Sawyer's ex, is taken out of the picture.)
*blinks at that sentence* OK, our bad!Lost!theories are starting to make my head hurt. A sure sign that I should sleep... :P
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Date: 2004-12-02 01:08 pm (UTC)I like Hurley. Hurley can stay.
Good point that it's a transitional episode. It felt that way to me, at least. I didn't really sit up and take notice till the very end, with the appearance of eeevil Ethan and the return of Sayid.