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Episodes: Reviews
3.13 The Man from Tallahassee Ben: "Tell me, John. Did it hurt?" Locke: "I felt my back break. What do you think?" In his continuing quest to blow up every important installation on the Island, Locke has now taken out the submarine. There's no way off the incredible moving Island anymore. Bad Locke. No biscuit. But we finally know how Locke was paralyzed: because his own father pushed him out of a window. Dan said he felt cheated (what can live up to three years of suspense?) but I thought it had synchronicity. I would have felt cheated if he'd been hit by a car, like everyone else. Or if it had been psychosomatic. And this means the Island really does have healing powers. So how did Ben get sick in the first place, and why isn't he healing? The magnetic field on the Island picks and chooses? Maybe it was because Ben was born there, and is naturally immune. But how can it possibly be that Locke's paralysis will return if he leaves? That doesn't make sense to me. The Island is holding his spine together now, and if he goes, it'll separate again? This was the first episode in which I really enjoyed Ben, who was very amusing and clever as he busily manipulated everyone from his (symbolic of Locke's) wheelchair. In fact, Ben manipulated Locke much like Cooper did. I can understand why Locke desperately needed his father to have some redeeming qualities. I've been there; it's so hard to turn your back on a toxic parent, no matter how terrible they are. Did Ben obtain Anthony Cooper for Sawyer's sake, too? Because I'm still about as sure as I can be that Cooper is the con man responsible for the death of Sawyer's parents. Has to be. So what is this Magic Box bull? I looked through my old reviews and noticed a lot of mentions of special boxes: Danielle's music box, Kate's toy airplane, Kate's and Tom's time capsule, Michael's art work, and Locke, of course, worked for a box company. Lenny the lunatic said that Hurley with his lottery numbers had "opened the box." Pandora's Box. More mysteries. In an episode full of cool stuff, including the resolution of one of our biggest mysteries, my favorite moment was Danielle Rousseau's face when she saw Alex for the first time. No words, just naked emotion. Beautiful. Character bits: -- Why was Locke on disability before his fall? The case worker said depression. Must have been pretty serious depression to get disability money for a physically sound middle-aged man. I thought in that initial scene that he was already in his wheelchair. -- Anthony Cooper was using the alias, "Adam Seward." He almost certainly killed that poor kid, Peter Talbot. Several people have written to me that "Anthony Cooper, Adam Seward" is an anagram for "Sawyer, the con man, a poor dad." -- Cooper poured the infamous MacCutcheon whiskey for himself and Locke. Bad daddies tend to have good whiskey, I guess. -- Locke was driving a red VW deathtrap. -- Jack can play the piano. -- Locke was certain that Jack hadn't betrayed them to the Others, and he was right. I liked that. -- Sayid appears to be taking Sawyer's place by getting hurt all the time. Stop hurting Sayid, please. -- Does Ben know who Alex's mother is? Does Danielle know who Alex's father is? I'm confused. Unconfuse me, please. -- I wanted Jack to kiss Kate goodbye. I guess I'm still invested in Ye Olde Love Triangle. Bits and pieces: -- Tallahassee has been mentioned at least once before. Kate was on her way to Tallahassee when she was captured. Miami has been mentioned in more than one back story, too. Florida must be important to the story. -- Ben said that his people were on the Island because they wanted to be. Really, Ben? Like Juliet wanted to be? -- The paintings in Ben's house all appeared to be landscapes of the Island. Did he paint them himself? There was one of a woman that was hard to see. I wonder who she was. -- Athletic Evangeline Lilly maneuvered her handcuffs from behind her back to in front. That's not easy. Most people can't do it. -- Anthony Cooper said he was a con man, not a murderer, right before he pushed his own son out an eight-story window. (Eight again, one of Hurley's numbers.) Juli on Lostreviews was wondering if Locke was the one we saw fall out of the window in Hurley's backstory, "Numbers". Maybe not, but it would be cool if it was. -- Backstory Locke was balder than last time, but still sporting some fake hair. It worked a little better. -- Gold acting stars for Terry O'Quinn, who did a fabulous job in that scene where he first met his wheelchair. And for Mira Furlan, who managed to touch me with just an expression. Quotes: Locke: "The man from Tallahassee. What is that? Some kind of code?" Ben: "No, John. Unfortunately, we don't have a code for 'there's a man in my closet with a gun to my daughter's head'. Although we obviously should." Locke: "Where do you get electricity?" Ben: "We have two giant hamsters running in a massive wheel at our secret underground lair." You knew I was going to quote that one, didn't you? Another good one. Three out of four polar bears, Billie |