Comments on: LOST 6×04 “The Substitute”

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:54:35 +0000

HH’er? Is that a reference to the size of somethings?

By: Jei

Jei — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:34:09 +0000

The interesting point for me was that Locke’s personality seems to have imprinted on the Smoke-monster in a meaningful way. The final battle may be subverted by Locke taking control (for once).

Also, shout out to Rose the HH’er and bizzaro Hurley’s random awesomeness.

By: MJG

MJG — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:23:18 +0000

I feel a bit like Mike does, a bit that it doesn`t seem to matter at the moment. Essentially it`s just a lot of stuff happening. I think it`s an offshoot of the writers` refusal to tell us who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.

For a while we had clear bad guys. The smoke monster, Tom, Ben, Widmore. But now it`s even less clear than ever. Fake Locke says it`s all for nothing! That`s probably a lie, but we can`t help but feel some malaise from that All this effort, for nothing?

They need to give us a bad guy, and soon. The smoke monster Fake Locke doesn`t seem so bad. We need someone to hate, otherwise it`s all just a bunch of wandering in the jungle for an island that doesn`t matter. It HAS to matter in a serious cosmic way for us to care.

Theory to that end- The smoke monster Fake Locke guy must be super evil. Super evil, so much so that releasing him will unleash serious pain on the world. Will destroy everything, essentially. Then the island is a prison. So in that sense, what Fake Locke says about it not mattering is true. What matters is that Fake Locke is kept imprisoned on it.

Who`s good and who`s bad here becomes clearer if we look at Jacob. He seems to be the jailer. He`s given up everything to jail this guy. He`s ruined countless lives just to keep him jailed. Unless he`s seriously masochistic against this one guy (which doesn`t seem to be the case, he doesn`t torture him, just imprisons him), then he`s doing it for the greater good.

So. what they need to do is show us what a bastard the smoke monster Fake Locke is. Perhaps it`s not even his fault, just his nature is to be a bastard. In a way, he`s innocent, but his very existence off he island will cause destruction.

If any of that is gonna be true, they need to start showing it to us soon. Perhaps in the sideways flashes- the world will start to unravel because in that world, the prison is sunk and the Fake Locke is escaped. To that end, the electromagnetism was a restraining field of some type. By blowing it up, Jack et al opened the door and released him.

Agreed that the cave filled with names didn`t mean much. No proof even that it was Jacob that wrote it. Could easily have been Fake Locke for all Sawyer knew. Certainly underwhelming. I guess one episode where they reined in the budget.

By: Jason Collin

Jason Collin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:46:37 +0000

Actually I felt Sawyer’s description of real-Locke as “always scared even though he pretended not to be” was a great line and a dead-on analysis. Locke is not a natural born leader. He has some survival skills and got his legs working again on the island. So even though he was brave to face the smoke monster, skilled to hunt and kill a wild boar with only a knife, inside he was actually scared because he never knew when or if his legs would give out again, and had no history of success, only failing and being at the bottom, so no real confidence to base his leadership on.

Then he was totally wrong about pushing the button too, just when he had thought he had the island figured out, he goes and blows up the whole damn hatch.

Yeah, the show promises to nearly wrap everything up but they’ve got a long way to go still and just 14 more hours to do it in. Widmore will have to come back in to play somehow, hope that’s sooner rather than later.

Ben not having answers, letting that wench lead them across the island, not good. Maybe he feels bad over killing Jacob and Locke. It was nice of him to say he felt sorry for doing it at his grave.