Thursday, December 28, 2006

S3E03 "Further Instructions"

Most excellent Episode! :)
YAY!! We've got our S1 badass Locke back!! And the twist at the end with "Locke's Speech" and Desmond was INSANE!!! We'll be talkin about that one for quite some time I think.

Now onto some First View Episode Notes:

- we open with the Locke Eye shot (guess what my new avvy is gonna be? ) VERY remniscent of the beginning of the show in "Pilot (Part 1)" with the Jack Eye shot.

- looks like Charlie got a haircut

- no FB in the intro. I didnt think the FBs were all that great tonight. I was really thinkin maybe Eddie was gonna shoot him, causing his paralysis, but that's still a story for another day I suppose

- Locke wants to "speak to the Island" - YES!!! S1 Badass Locke is BAAAAAACK!!!!

- "Did you rob a bank?" - " 'Fraid so" - looking back on this scene knowing Eddie is a cop....puts quite a different spin on it, not necessarily the line, but the scene where Locke is pulled over.

- I swear I saw "Johnathan Locke" (or at least Johnathan - my bro's name is Jonathan, so I saw the "H" right away - jumped off the page.) I wonder if we're lookin at S3's version of "Jin's Resume"

- "So you can bring the family back together" - what was Boone referring to? Saving the Losties?

- as Boone wheels Locke around, it seems like he tells the future of each person Locke sees. I couldnt write fast enough to get them all, but details will be in tomorrows addendum notes and caps for sure

- "nothing you can do for them. Not yet" - so Locke IS eventually gonna be able to save Jack, Kate, and Sawyer from the Others....YES!!

- I will post a cap of an excellent shot of Locke driving into his little community - the trees were awesome!! I'd love to know where that was filmed.

- Wow....the Swan Hatch IMPLODED. Thats another cap I'll be sure to include later

- (when Locke throws the knife) Hurley: "Dude" - quite possibly the best use of that word I've ever seen!!

- interesting....a beat up old toy truck in the Polar Bear's cave....and I'm pretty sure I saw a Dharma logo....the Pearl I think it was....

- OMG....Locke's community grows WEED!!! HAHAHAHA!!! Eddie thought bombs at first...as soon as he said that, I was like "dude, the fertilizer...come on now....look at the hippie tent for meditation - they're growing POT!! LOL!!"

- that Polar Bear looked excessively PISSED OFF. I get the feeling the Others weren't very nice to the Polar Bears when they had them in captivity. This one tonight seemed overly aggressive.

- interesting, so Desmond says perhaps turning the key "detonated the electromagnetic anomoly" - but in doing so, might have taken him into the future and shown him Locke's speech. This could somehow explain his lack of clothes...when he was returned to the present time, they were destroyed.

- "You will find them. After all, you are a hunter" - yet another example of the Islands ability to see into the heads of the Losties. This reminded me alot of Sawyer being "possessed" by Wayne in "What Kate Did".

- and what can I say...Locke's speech.....I guess once again, Hurley has come up with the most appropriate time to use this word....."WHOAH". The same thing that just tweaked in his brain just tweaked in mine (and I'll bet a bunch of you too )


Enjoy!

Peace,
Truff

S3E02 "The Glass Ballerina" - Addendum Notes/Caps

Time for some addendum notes and screencaps :)


- the breaking of the ballerina and the lie that follows is a great foreshadowing to what we see from Sun in this episode, ie - Dark Sun



- its been over a day since Sayid lit the fire/smoke signal for J-S-K

- here's the last shot of Danielle's Map that we're gonna get for a while (if not ever). It shows Sayid marking the area where the Pala Ferry Docks are -



- "I can help you sail the boat" says Sun. Did she pick it up from Jin? Or has she had sailing experience that Jin doesn't know about? Hmmm...

- I agree that Kelvin kept the discovery of Desmond's wrecked boat a secret from both Desmond AND the Others; and that's why Ben doesn't know about it. They knew what was going on in the Swan Hatch though. Tom hinted that they knew the Losties had gone into the Swan when he said "opening doors to rooms you got no business opening"

- sounded to me like Colleen called Pickett "Denny", coulda been "Danny" too

- the Galaga - well I know I heard it last night, but as I'm watchin it now, the audio quality is reduced and I can't make out what Colleen says to Pickett about the boat.

- how many of yal went WHOAH!! when the camera panned back from Sun lying in bed and JAE sat up next to her! I only say this cause I think thats the effect they were goin for with this shot - Jae sits up really fast instead of slowly sitting up and coming into clear view. Props to Paul Edwards, director, for pullin off a great shot

- there is indeed a motor on the Elizabeth. Why else have a gas can? Sayid uses one to start the signal fire at the Pala Ferry beach, and Sun is seen with another one after Sayid empties the first one.





- after a closer look at the work field, it looks like they're clearing a specific area - they're marking it with yellow flags on sticks and white ties on ropes all over the borders. I wonder why they're clearing such a large area.



- this is the closest shot we get to seeing the Plans for whatever the Others are going to construct in this area that they're clearing out and marking -



- if the Others aren't DHARMA, why do all of their products bear the DHARMA logo in some way? Seen again here is the logo that we saw on the shark on Juliet's canteen.



- here's a gratuitous shot of Kate digging....again, Thank You TPTB :)



- Sawyer's fight - first he decks Pickett and takes the gun, then turns around and smacks the pretty-boy that was talkin to Juliet right in the face with the butt of the rifle. Then a large man with a moustache tries to shock Sawyer, but Sawyer takes the taser and tries to shock him. But the safety is on (this is how he knows this later), and Sawyer gets punched in the mouth by the big guy. Sawyer does the roll around on the ground to stance with the gun, but its too late, Juliet already has Kate at gunpoint.

- Colleen says there are 5 of her friends on board. So they took a raiding party of 6, including Colleen and Tom. And this guy -



- "I'm told he jumped from a balcony" says Mr. Paik to Sun. That sure sounds like he had a hand in it if you ask me. (oh well...TPTB later confirm in the podcast that Jae did indeed jump)

- here are some caps of Ben's viewing room -






- today is November 29 (note - no year given), the survivors of flight 815 have been on the Island 69 days - finally given confirmation on the date and duration.

- I don't think that whatever Ben is gonna eventually ask Jack to do in exchange for freedom is gonna be a very easy decision for Jack to make. Why do I get the feeling its gonna involve someone dying....

- And to close, my favorite two shots from this episode:





Enjoy!

Peace,
Truff

S3E02 "The Glass Ballerina"

WOW. As previously stated, that was simply AWESOME!!
Now for some first round notes
Here we go:

- opening shot of the Glass Ballerina - beautiful. This FB begins to show us a side of Sun we haven't seen yet. Dark Sun.

- YES!!!! THE MAP!!! We see Sayid make a marking, I'm guessing its the fake camp, about midway up the western coast. Yung....go get em

- We see Benry's viewing room in the Hydra, looks pretty much like the Pearl, just observing J-S-K in their respective locations at the Hydra instead

- "Am I interrupting something?" (said by Colleen to Benry and Juliet) - "You never made soup for me" (said by Benry to Juliet) - both indications that Benry and Juliet were once a couple

- So they WANTED Sayid to find the fake camp? These Others are very smart and seem to have a very precise plan in place, and also have the ability to adapt the plan to any situation they encounter. Like "I want that boat" - Benry doesn't want the boat cause he needs it, he wants it cause he can use it as a lure, a temptation for one of his capitves

- Mr. Paik was just awesome in this episode. We haven't really seen much of him so far, and tonight was a great look at his character. Very sinister. I wonder who his boss is?

- it appears that Pala Ferry is more north on the Map then the fake village

- excuse me while I be a guy....SQUEEEEEE!!! KATE DIGGING!!! Thank you TPTB :D

- Alex seemed pretty concerned about Karl. She also seemed to know something about who was supposed to be in what cage.....hmmm....

- I can't wait to get caps to see how many other "workers" the others had. Who were they? The tailies they took?

- Sayid's plan: Take 2 of them. One to make the other cooperate. Nice.

- Jin seemed to be able to handle a gun pretty well, that was a surprise.

- Juliet is perfect for Benry; you can't read her at all. She seems like she's gonna be the one that betrays the Others and helps at least one of the captives escape, but when she pulled that gun on Kate, she looked like she woulda done it had Sawyer tried anything.

- Jae jumping was quite a shocker. Now we have the potential future FB of Sun thinkin that Jin threw Jae from the window....

- Colleen knew Sun's full name. They've obviously gotten info on all of the Losties and are using it to their advantage. To what end, well thats the real mystery now, isn't it?

- OMG HOLY CRAP!!! Sun SHOT Colleen!!! Now THERE'S a side of Sun we've never seen - a KILLER!!! Just WOW.

- oh well, the Others got the "Elizabeth"....oh crap....now that means they have Sayid/Danielle's maps too. I hope Sayid draws up another one, or else the shots we got tonight were the last we'll see of those maps.....

- "You taste like.....strawberries".....hehehehe....."You taste like.....FISH BISCUITS!!!!" YAY!!!! I can bring two of my friends!!!

- Nice. And Benry is watching Sawyer and Kate try to plot. I can see how the next 2 weeks are gonna be unpleasant now....

- Ah. There we go. ANSWERS = BENJAMIN LINUS - lived on the Island all his life. They have contact with the outside world.

- I almost crapped myself when they wheeled that tv in though cause I thought this was gonna be the showing of the Alvar Hanso Orientation film that explains the meaning of the Numbers/the original purpose of DHARMA that was revealed in The Lost Experience. Oh well, there's still plenty of time for that.


We're off to a GREAT start IMO folks.
And its only gonna get crazier from here.

Peace,
Truff

S3E01 "A Tale of Two Cities" - Addendum Notes/Caps

The following are my Addendum Episode Notes and Screencaps for this episode:

- during the "previously on LOST" segment, Benry says "You're coming with us" which sounds a little more malicious than what he actually said in "Live Together, Die Alone" which was "You're friends are coming home with us"

- Juliet selects the Talking Heads "Speaking in Tongues" from her CD collection, but thats not what plays when she puts it in the CD player; instead its "Downtown" by a female singer (sounds like the early 70s)



- the whole Others village looked so normal, I couldn't tell if I was looking at a FB in the outside world or not. I thought we might be seeing some off Island background to this new Other, Juliet (possibly a connection to one of the Losties). I mean, look how "normal" this looks - never would've suspected this place to be on our Island -



- "here I am thinking that free will still actually exists on..." said Juliet to Adam right before the shaking started. I would love to know what words she would've used to finish that sentence. "Our Island", "the Island", "HIS Island", or something else??

- when Benry came out of his house, he immediately began to look up. I think they knew a plane was gonna crash, but they didn't know exactly when (through Remote Viewing). Thats why they were still prepared to spring into action when they realized it was happening. This shot is one of my favorites EVER on LOST -



- In the first FB, Jack's pager reads 7:15:23 AM, and there is also a completed crossword puzzle. Some words I see are: NecessaryEvils, Prenatal, Raft, Heroes, Boom, Poe, Required..., Essential..., Vital Statistics, Ella



- when Jack decides to scream for help, the first thing he does is yell for Kate...

- the soundboard in the control room for Jack's "cell" is quite complex looking for something that just operates a single speaker PA system/bullhorn



- Kate's nice dress is in Locker #841

- "I wanted to give you something nice to hold on to. Because, Kate, the next two weeks are going to be very unpleasant" - what a great line, delivered impeccably by Benry. Mike Emerson is such an amazing actor.

- here are some of the larger cages that Sawyer runs past while attempting to escape -



- Christian's hospital jacket says "C. Shephard, M.D. Chief of Surgery"; so it looks like after he went and got help for his drinking the first time, the hospital didn't take his license away

- The Dharma logos on food products: The ones dropped at the Swan all had the Swan logo on them, while all the products seen at the Hydra are just the bagua with a black circle and the word Dharma written in white in the middle.

- Juliet is good at dodging questions. For example, Jack: "That button, what's it for?", Juliet: "its for emergencies". Jack: "who's watching me?", Juliet: "are you going to sit against the wall so I can open the door?" Nice. Answer a question with a question. Isn't that a psychologists trick? And the best one she just stares and walks away..."what the hell is going on here??"

- Doesn't this just make you hungry?



- The HYDRA, the underwater zoological Dharma station, where the study of sharks, dolphins, and polar bears (at least) took place. So now we have: The Swan, The Pearl, The Flame (we havent seen this one yet), The Cauduceus (or Staff), The Arrow (even though we only saw a bunker for it), and The Hydra. That looks like all of the 6 original Dharma stations to me. Now to figure out what each was originally intended for and how this current incarnation of the Dharma Initiative has changed them....

- The Others are indeed the remnants of the Dharma Initiative, although it seems apparent that the original intent of it was abandoned for something else. Jack: "So you people are just whatevers left over of them?" Juliet: "Well, that was a long time ago. It doesn't matter who we were, it only matters who we are."

- "What would you like to find out?" yet another blown opportunity by Jack. I would've asked again and again, Where Am I? and What the hell is going on here?

- so it looks like Jack's accusations of his father sleeping with his wife was the final blow that got Christian to break down and drink again.

- and once again, Benry steals the show with a look....




Enjoy!

Peace,
Truff

S3E01 "A Tale of Two Cities"

Wow. That was FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!

Here are my notes for this episode:

- Nice Eye Shot to open felt very much like the opener for S2 with the music and the chores then all of a sudden BAM!!! But last time it was the Hatch door blown open, this time, it was the EMP and Flight 815 crashing

- That was hands down the coolest intro I have ever seen. I thought "The Other 48 Days" was badass...but this....this....HOLY CRAP!!! RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!!

- Jack's car radio was playing "Moonlight Serenade" in the first FB - this is the same song that Sayid and Hurley got on the tranciever that one night

- Blood was taken from all 3 captives

- Kate in the shower......wet Kate......'nuff said

- "The next two weeks are going to be unpleasant" - yes, I agree, that sounds like our 6 episode mini season to me.

- Did Jack imagine the intercom repeating Christian's voice from the past saying "let it go", or did it really happen? (somehow)

- "What the hell is going on here?" - good Jack. Finally an intelligent question!! Too bad you didnt get an answer....yet

- There were big zoo like cages all over the place as Sawyer attempted escape

- How did Sawyer know Karl's name?? Must've been a scene they cut (for some reason...???)

- definite tension between Juliet and Benry....I like it

- confirmation that the current group of Dharma is responsible for the Polar Bears when Tom tells Sawyer that it only took the Bears 2 hours to figure out the Skinner Box (though he doesn't refer to it as such)

- Nice, and aquarium for the Dharma Sharks. AND Dolphins - now there are TONS of possibilities here cause dolphins are very intelligent creatures...

- THE HYDRA!!! THE UNDERWATER STATION!!! FINALLY!!! CONFIRMATION!!! I cannot tell yal how long I have been waiting for this. Oooh, I am gonna have me some fun with them Maps now....

- So now the question is - How did they get their info on Jack?

Addendum notes and caps to follow.

Peace,Truff