Initial reactions: Through the Looking Glass

[spicedogs]

1. I did not like this episode. It was not a rattlesnake in my mailbox. I was not startled. I was pissed. I think we were cheated.

2. The show better go back in a good direction next season. This episode was too dark, boring, and had no substance.

3. Michael got the shaft with this episode. Eye candy is still valued with the producers of LOST.

4. WTF was going on with Kate and Jack. First he tells her he loves her, she acts jealous when Juliet kisses Jack, and now she is living with someone else.

5. Why did Kate go back? She was a fugitive. Why was she not jailed? Was the future altered?

6. Did Rose remain on the island? She didn't want to leave the island because it cured her cancer.

7. Rousseau remained on the island. Where's Ben?

8. Ben could not have been in the coffin. He had no reason to return to the United States. His family was on the island.

9. Sawyer, Locke, or Juliet could have been in the coffin.

10. Did Locke stay on the island?

11. What was the need to kill Tom for? Booo on Cuse and Lindelof.

12. Why kill off Patchy. Why kill off The Others? Are we no longer seeing The OThers in the coming episodes?

13. WTF is happening with Alex? She is suddenly in love with a stranger? I don't know about you, but if someone pointed out to me that that woman there is your mother, I would not be in love with that woman right away. It takes time for that kind of love to blossom.

14. Surely Alex was mad at her father, but when he told her "I didn't want you to get pregnant," she should have had some feelings towards him. And then help them tie him up, watch him being beaten, and not flinch? What happened to the days he was her protector? She HAS TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15. How come Oceanic Airlines is in operation? They were out of business because of the crash. WTF.

Comments

[rainbowstevie.livejournal.com]

-Huh, I actually rather liked it...I love dark, and I thought they were getting into some intense storytelling.
-As for Kate not being in jail, I'm guessing she got some sort of official pardon after surviving for months on an island like that. I have to assume that would impress some people. There would have to be more complex reasons, obviously, but I think that'd be the jist of it.
-Yeah, boo on killing Tom. That was, excuse the word choice, overkill. I LIKED Tom.
-However, I must respectfully disagree with your opinions on Alex. The relationship with her father is clearly strained, and having grown up without a mother, meeting that mother for the first time is going to be an emotional thing. It's not necessarily that she suddenly loves Rousseau, but that she's overwhelmed at having a mother at all. And frankly I was more insulted than touched by Ben's rationale for caging Karl. Raging teenage hormones or not, I think she could have had enough self control to figure out on her own that intercourse might perhaps not be the smartest practice to engage in. Besides which, not long before that she'd watched her father give orders to have the two women in the hatch murdered, women I'm assuming she knew pretty well. Family loyalty only goes so far.

[katje0711.livejournal.com]

Sorry you didn't enjoy it. I loved it.

Kill off some of the Others because they are at war and that's what happens during war.

I'm quite certain Locke stayed on the island.

Maybe Kate is under a different identity. Maybe this is some kind of parellel universe. There's no telling with this show.

[aurorawest.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear you didn't like it. It was one of my favorite episodes of Lost ever. I loved the darkness of it.

I sort of agree with you that the Alex/Danielle reunion was strange, but for different reasons. I don't think Alex suddenly loves a stranger, I think you can tell she's really confused and shocked. But I still think it could have been handled better.

I didn't think Michael Emerson was shafted at all; he had a LOT of screen time. I feel fairly certain that Sawyer (their main eye candy guy, IMO, not that that's all he is) got less screen time, and he certainly had less dialogue.

The Others are getting killed off because the Others' storyline is over. I was sad to see Tom go. Mikhail -- I'm very much hoping he's still alive.