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My brilliant bride pointed this out last night: When Locke had the gun on Jack and Jack was connecting to the boat, Locke said something to the effect of, "Jack, you weren't supposed to do that." As if Locke was shown by Walt how the present was supposed to play out and Jack fucked it up somehow.
Also, we were part of the 600 million Tivo owners who tried to freeze-frame on the newspaper article to see whose funeral it was, but we couldn't do it. We also tried to freeze on Kate's license plate at the end and couldn't make it out, although other websites are reporting it said LOKO695 (I don't know how in the hell they got that).
If you don't feel like bearing with me anymore, then skip to the next post. Otherwise, here I go off the deep end. I've heard the show's creators refer to Stephen King's inspiration before in previous interviews, and this episode reminded me of Kingdom Hospital. If you didn't see all of that (or forgot it), here's what I'm talking about.
Kingdom Hospital explored the space-time continuum paradox from the opposite viewpoint from normal. For example, in every sci-fi story where people alter space-time, they always fuck it up so that they return to a new present that is in terrible shape because of their thoughtlessness. However, Kingdom Hospital gave us a present time that was already seriously fucked up and bizarre and the show's characters went back in time to "set things right." They then returned to a new present that was perfectly normal and happy.
I now have no idea where I was going with that, but I don't feel like hitting delete after all that effort. My brain hurts.
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