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look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair
I saw a scene in Lost yesterday that TOTALLY makes a rewatch worth it.
It's the one where Eko goes to visit Ben in the hatch in Maternity Leave (I just had to look the episode title up on Wikipedia, GDI). And he tells Ben about the two men he killed, and that he feels remorse for it, and that he's now on the right path again. And that he needed to tell someone - well, of course, Ben reports to Jacob, doesn't he? And this whole thing is about good versus evil, or whatever.
That scene makes no fucking sense unless you've seen the later seasons. I mean, I get that probably originally Ben was reporting back to Widmore or whoever (I don't get who's on what side right now, having missed a whole season and a half), but that it was later changed to Jacob. Although then again, maybe the writers though they'd stick this in for lols because apparently Michael Emerson was only supposed to be in three episodes.
I don't care.
THAT SAID. I don't think you should have to rewatch a show to "get" something like this? Also: I'm still of the opinion that Lost isn't as clever as the writers thought it was. (I mean yeah, yeah, I will hold my hands up and say that some of the foreshadowing/Chekov's guns are amazing*, but I really don't think it's as dense as they wanted it to be).
*But also some stuff that was allegedly answered, I honestly think was the result of someone going, "Oh shit, the fans won't stop bugging us about this, let's slap this on it!" and leaving it at that. And that sometimes what you think is foreshadowing really isn't at all, it's just something someone picked up and ran with later on.
And, in spite of my tag, everyone EXCEPT Jack has made me feel a bit teary this time around. But I think I'll keep it for the time being, because it kind of makes me laugh.
It's the one where Eko goes to visit Ben in the hatch in Maternity Leave (I just had to look the episode title up on Wikipedia, GDI). And he tells Ben about the two men he killed, and that he feels remorse for it, and that he's now on the right path again. And that he needed to tell someone - well, of course, Ben reports to Jacob, doesn't he? And this whole thing is about good versus evil, or whatever.
That scene makes no fucking sense unless you've seen the later seasons. I mean, I get that probably originally Ben was reporting back to Widmore or whoever (I don't get who's on what side right now, having missed a whole season and a half), but that it was later changed to Jacob. Although then again, maybe the writers though they'd stick this in for lols because apparently Michael Emerson was only supposed to be in three episodes.
I don't care.
THAT SAID. I don't think you should have to rewatch a show to "get" something like this? Also: I'm still of the opinion that Lost isn't as clever as the writers thought it was. (I mean yeah, yeah, I will hold my hands up and say that some of the foreshadowing/Chekov's guns are amazing*, but I really don't think it's as dense as they wanted it to be).
*But also some stuff that was allegedly answered, I honestly think was the result of someone going, "Oh shit, the fans won't stop bugging us about this, let's slap this on it!" and leaving it at that. And that sometimes what you think is foreshadowing really isn't at all, it's just something someone picked up and ran with later on.
And, in spite of my tag, everyone EXCEPT Jack has made me feel a bit teary this time around. But I think I'll keep it for the time being, because it kind of makes me laugh.
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