Previously on Looooooooooast...
Last week (given tonight is a BRAND NEW EPISODE!) wasn't all about timey-wimey, DHARMARAMA-stuff but instead shifted le focus onto the present day Island shenaninanigans. And it was about bloody time!
I think we'd all been dying to see what came next for John 'I'm the Daddy now' Locke and Ben 'the man with a plan that never works' Linus for weeks. Enough of all this love-triangle nonsense, I heard you cry. Stop showing us those dull DHARMA hippies, we all shouted. Give us the bald guy and the fella with the bug eyes!
So they did with 'Dead is Dead unless of course your name starts with L and finishes with E'.
It's fair to say it was rollicking stuff from start to finish. Terry O'God aka Quinn and Michael Emerson Lake & Palmer are the grand statesmen of the show and they simply outclass the rest of the cast on every level - even Jeff Fahey, who's awesome in one of those hard to pinpoint ways. He just is. It's fact. The whole thing continues the power struggle between Locke & Ben, one which has now wonderfully flipped on it's axis - Locke is very much the custodian of secrets, of where to go and what to do and Ben HATES it. So would I, if I were him: 'who's this slaphead who's only been here five minutes to tell ME what to do?'. Shame the inexplicably alive Island very much considers the bald guy now in charge, innit?
It's fair to say it was rollicking stuff from start to finish. Terry O'God aka Quinn and Michael Emerson Lake & Palmer are the grand statesmen of the show and they simply outclass the rest of the cast on every level - even Jeff Fahey, who's awesome in one of those hard to pinpoint ways. He just is. It's fact. The whole thing continues the power struggle between Locke & Ben, one which has now wonderfully flipped on it's axis - Locke is very much the custodian of secrets, of where to go and what to do and Ben HATES it. So would I, if I were him: 'who's this slaphead who's only been here five minutes to tell ME what to do?'. Shame the inexplicably alive Island very much considers the bald guy now in charge, innit?
Yes, because this all concludes with Ben atoning for his sins after falling through a conveniently weak Temple floor. Thinking about it, the writers have a wonderful 'get outta jail' card whenever something credulity-testing happens (and it does every week). They can simply say 'the Island works in mysterious ways...'. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse should sell Bibles, they'd make gazillions! Anyway, this floor fall gives us a reappearance by Smokey once again - you know, the totally normal cloud of smoke that sounds like a New York taxi cab, lives underground, can't get past sonic fences, scans peoples memories then judges whether or not they should live and if they don't, squishes them violently like a bug. Like I say... totally normal. And seemingly ancient if the Egyptian mural showing Smokes chumming up with Anubis, the GOD OF DEATH, is owt to go by.
Luckily for Ben, Smokey gives him a renewed subscription to the Island and all it's attractions, but with a warning: try and kill the slaphead, I'll kill YOU - or at least, the creepy yet still sexy visage of your dead not-daughter will. How long exactly Ben will obey ze orderz remains to be seen, but I'd bet... err, not very long!
Tonight, the Adventures of DHARMAVILLE continue with the gloriously named 'Some Like it Hoth'. If you don't know the meaning of the title (and it's associating bit of punnery), you are clearly neither a geek or appreciate classic cinema. There may be hope for you yet.
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