Episode opens with Sun’s eye. - I wonder who hasn’t gotten
an episode that’s started with their eye opening? I’m thinking of a few off the
top of my head, but I could just be forgetting about theirs.
Well what do you know? It’s a custom imprinted watch! But
this watch does not evoke happy feelings like the Custom Swiss Army watch that
you get for free from Motivators.com if your promotional products order comes
to $1500 or more. No, this watch is causing individuals to fight and even
attempt murder.
Sure, Jin has a right to be mad. He’s on an island against
his will with a bunch of strangers that can’t understand a word he says.
(Except for his wife, Sun) On top of this, he has just found out that Michael
is wearing his watch. One that is very near and dear to Jin’s heart.
Michael claims he found it with the wreckage, (which is easy
enough to believe) but how could he have not had an idea as to who it might
have belonged to? The episode in which we get a closer look at the watch is a
few seasons in the future, but if my memory serves me correctly, that imprinted watch had
Korean characters on it. I think it’s a pretty safe bet as to who the rightful
owner of that watch is. Even if you picked it up and put it on your wrist
without thinking anything of it, wouldn’t you have gotten a clue once an angry
Korean man tried to drown you seemingly ‘out of nowhere’?
Instead it winds up taking a while to come to this conclusion and it comes with the help of Sun, whom we (and Michael) dramatically find out, can speak English. Were the Korean characters on the watch a detail that was overlooked at the time they wrote it? Not that big of a deal, just an observation.
With each episode I’ve seen since ‘Walkabout’, I am buying
more into my theory that Locke has been strongly influenced or even partially
overtaken by the entity we affectionately call the ‘Man in Black’, whom I also
assume to be the smoke monster. – Maybe that’s something that is obvious to
everyone else. It also could be completely wrong.
Locke just seems to know everything since his encounter with
‘the monster’ in episode 4. In many cases it seems like he might even know what’s
going to happen before it actually happens. A few examples of this come up in
this and the next episode especially, and right now they tend to be focused on
Charlie.
Locke didn’t even have to assess the situation at hand when
Charlie stepped on the bee hive. He was ready to handle the problem and knew
exactly what to say and do. I’m writing this from my notes, but I remember it
feeling like Locke recognized what was going on before Charlie even did.
I feel like Locke takes on people as his projects. In season
one especially. First Charlie, then Boone, then Claire and so forth. Later in
the series we’ll see Locke pay special attention to other characters as well.
It’s like he’s helping them on their personal journey, which at the same time
could be interpreted as ‘moving the chess pieces’ into position for future
events.
‘Adam & Eve’ – this has always been intriguing to me, as
it has to everyone else I am sure. Of course we want to know who they are, and
ever since first seeing this scene (and as Locke points out) we all safely
assumed that they were the remains of people that were on the island before the
crash of flight 815. That being said, I would now assume that there’s a good
chance that they actually ARE survivors of flight 815 that were flashed back in
time. This of course limits the possibilities of who they might be, especially
knowing that it’s a male and a female. One way or another, it’s probably people
we know. I noticed what looked like a purple shirt on one of the corpses. Last
we saw Sayid he was wearing a purple shirt. Just sayin’.
Of course the other important part of the ‘Adam & Eve’
discovery is the small sack with the two rocks in them. One dark, the other
light. Which of course has been a staple theme in the show that has shown up in
a few different forms. Science vs. Faith, Good vs. Evil, Lies vs. Truths, and
to a degree, overcoming personal demons can also relate to a two-sided battle.
And we all remember the infamous scene with Locke explaining backgammon to Walt
in which a dark side vs. a light side is the fundamental element of the game.
I like the song at the end too. Willie Nelson’s ‘Are You
Sure’ was obviously chosen because of the literal interpretation you take from the
lyrics. This is the episode in which the survivors split up into two groups,
some moving to the caves and others staying on the beach. So the most obvious
connection between the song and the episode are the feelings of the survivors
as they contemplate if they made the right decision on where to make their
camp. I thought it was a cool way to ease the episode to a close.
“Oh look around you
Look down the bar from you
The lonely faces that you see
Are you sure that this is where you want to be
These are your friends
But are they real friends
Do they love you the same as me
Are you sure that this is where you want to be…”
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