LOST Rewatch: S1 E4: Walkabout
“Well, you’re not getting rid of me that easy” It’s the line said to Rose by Jack, one of the main dude’s of LOST. And he couldn’t be more right. About the show, himself (the fact that he’s travelled on the Island, off the Island, in Time, and has eventually ended up meeting Rose everyewhere he goes) Kate, Locke (Death isn’t a problem – Just be Taken control of by some mysterious guy!), and everyone/everything else on the show. With that, the new post about the LOST Rewatch have started, and oh boy, we have a lot of ground to cover!
Soo. What happens?
Walkabout is the first episode in which we meet Locke fully for the first time. He is fucked up, miserablea and has anger problems – Again like Anakin in Star Wars – Episode I & II. We also start with some humor on LOST now. In my oppinion, Rose has always been hysterically sarcastic and insanely funny! We get a little backstory on Rose and her husband, Bernard, and a scene where Locke – plays RISK. May this be one of the first signs that he’s just a piece in a game or that someone is playing a difficult and complex game through him? Another thing that moves on in this episode is Michael and Sun’s relationship, Sayids plan and Sawyers awkardness. Claire and Charlie also begins taking control over their situation.
The Season 5 Finale Again…!
“They come, they fight, they destroy, they corrupt. It always ends the same.” “It only ends once. Everything else is just progress.” Oh, yeah! The first words in the season 5 finale episode “The Incident”. I have said that I wasn’t through with that episode before, but now is the time to move a little further!
The first words on LOST uttered by the Mysterious Man in Black that may actually forshadow all of LOST’s six and final season. We’ve seen the Oceanic-survivors come. They’ve fought against the Others, Rousseau, each other, Polar Bears and a hell of a lot more! We’ve seen them when they have destroyed things; Locke destroys submarine and Hatch, Jack and Juliet activates bomb, they’ve destroyed each others emotions, weapons, trust, everything that comes their way. They’ve even manage to destroy parts of the GREAT PLAN and their destiny! Of course, this was fixed very shortly after by Ben, Jack and Jeremy Bentham aka John Locke. Just as Rose said in the Season 5 finale: “We’ve travelled 30 years back in time, and you’re STILL finding ways to kill each other on!” No one could have said it better. Wondered what actually happened to them when the bomb went off, and the rest probably travelled in time, and causing the Incident… Hmm, maybe they are the “Adam and Eve” skeletons… Anyway, let’s move on. We’ve now arrived at the corruption. And as I read that, I thought; Hey, they haven’t corrupted anything! Well, when I think about it, actually they have. They’ve corrupted The Others, The Dharma Initiative, Themselves (Michael’s treachery in the last episodes of Season 2) and then they’ve been corrupted. So, rule that one out. The only thing that conversation doesn’t give an answer to is, How does it end? And why doesn’t it do that? Because that would mean that they’ve spoiled the whole sixth season! LOST starts off in the modern world. Why? If it had jumped from the crash of The Black Rock and Oceanic Air Flight 815, or been just about The Black Rock-survivors, we still would have seen the mysteries on the Island. Maybe not so much, but still! It would eventually become the same show. So, why do we follow the Oceanic Air-catastrophe so closely? Because, as Jacob said, “It only ends once. Everything else is just progress.” We are to witness the final, last and inevitable end of it all. We are to see how it ALL ends, not just the story of how some people’s life on the Island is. So, if the ending had been told in that conversation, we still wouldn’t know the ending. Because the final ending may be different than all the other endings. Still want to hear how it all ends? Well, it has already ended. Think about it; we are to witness the FINAL end. That said, it has already ended. But the FINAL END hasn’t ended yet. It’s just begun. But it has ended… Like all of the other “crashed on THE Island”-stories usually ends; Death.
The Black Rock – All of them died. We don’t know how, but they’ve all died, except (maybe) Ricardos Alpert(os?)
Danielle Rousseau’s science expedition – They were all killed by Smokie (to stop them from interfering with The Man in Black’s master plan…?)
Yemi’s Plane – They all died (Also here, we do not know what happened – But Mr. Eko managed to do everything on the list, if I remember correctly.)
Air Balloon – Henry Gale, the owner, Died (The question is, did he manage to do something on the list? Or did Benjamin Linus do it for him…?)
Elizabeth – Desmond’s boat, ended with the death of Kelvin (And Desmond corrupted The Hatch, fought Kelvin and eventually killed Kelvin, thus ending the circle)
Naomi’s Helicopter – This was in season 3. She did it all – Arrived, fought with the wounds and verbally, corrupted the mind of Desmond, making him believe she came on Penelope’s bill, then died)
And finally…. The Ajira Airways 316! That plane made it possible for the Oceanic-survivors to travel back in time and destroying an atom bomb, infiltrating and corrupting the Others (The Man in Black) and oh boy, they did fight with each other, the Dharma Initiative and now the Others will fight on Jacob’s side against the mysterious Man in Black! Remember that this crash has already ended with death; Jacob’s. The final and last end begins when the Oceanic-survivors from 1977 arrives in present time. And they will destroy The Man in Black, fight along with the Others, corrupt the Loop-Hole and finally, end it with the Death of the mysterious Man in Black. Which brings me to another thing; maybe the theory with a new timeline is true after all… Maybe that’s what they’ve corrupted? The original timeline? Anyway, now you know this theory. Enough about the end of LOST – it makes me sad just thinking about it. Let’s move on to Smokie, Locke and Jack!
Smokie, Locke and Jack
This is the first episode where someone actually sees the Monster aka Smokie. And if Smokie can appear as people, then both Jack and Locke have seen it. But only Locke has seen it’s true face. That is, if Smokies true face isn’t the Man in Black, of course. But something makes me believe that the Man in Black has the same control over Smokie that Ben had; He can only summon it. Again, maybe the Man in Black has a little more control over it. I don’t know, and I really don’t want to! The fun thing about this is that when Locke sees the smoke monster, nothing happens. We don’t really know what’s happening. Maybe he is judged? Maybe he learns to control it? Or maybe Smokie and the Man in Black already have started to take control over him? Now, the LOSTPEDIA blog, which you can read HERE, theorises that maybe Locke didn’t see the black Smoke Monster that we all have grown up with, but something else entirely? Either way, he denies it when Michael asks about it, but WE know he saw something. The question is, what? Well, we could ravel on about that for HOURS; it’s much more fun to theorize a little again!
Jack talks with Kate – Jack sees dead father – Dead father enters jungle – Jack runs into Jungle, Kate follows, no one’s there… (Fanfare); Locke steps out!
We know that Locke has met Smokie by now, or atleast seen The Smoke Monster, but is it possible that he is dead already? No, it is not. His body isn’t found before Season 5, in the Ajira Airways-Plane. But maybe the smoke monster already has taken control over bits and pieces? Like Lord Palpatine gradually takes control over Anakin’s will, making him do things that helps his choice about moving over to the dark side… And that again comes back to LOST being a story kinda like Star Wars. But in all large, epic stories about good vs. evil, you have some version of this scenario, right? Anyway, I really enjoy the last part of this episode, where Locke looks on his (almost) burning wheelchair and smiles. He has been granted a huge favor, by the Islands healing powers. But is it really the Island? All of his anger problems ends with his power to walk once again, but is this really a good thing? It makes him mad, and not only that, he also begins to be fanatic about the Island, their destiny and so on. I think the Smoke Monster or the Mysterious Man in Black (we have yet to find out wether he is the Smoke Monster or another being) gave him the power to walk once again, for it was needed so he could believe in the Islands powers and, ultimately, seal his own destiny in a large and complex Risk-game, where his role is as a Colonel, or a guy that’s operating under orders from a general. Now, this general is probably the Man in Black. And so goes the theory!
Until next time, folks, where we will dwell further into the Islands mysteries. But now, just at the end, a little notice about Fringe; they have these “next episode clues”, remember? Well, maybe it was just a clue so that we could do the same thing with LOST? It is funny, how these shows keep having things in common! See you later, Aligator-Headed-Giant-Human-That-We-Originally-Thought-Was-Anubis!
