Lost, Season 3, Episode 5, “The Cost of Living”
So, the season picks-up right before it gets ready to go on break. But that’s not a complaint.
Eko: Is there an Eko in here? Well, not anymore. We see in his flashback (which did not contain a lot of new information that we hadn’t seen in his previous flashbacks) that he is originally chastised for breaking into a food locker to get food for his brother (Yemi) and himself. The village woman who catches him (who looks a lot like, but is not, Mrs Klugh from the Others village of the island) tells him to confess. Also in the flashback, after telling the men’s leader that “I am not afraid of you” and “You don’t know who I am” (a reference to a last-season flashback where Eko killed a man to prevent his brother Yemi from being killed by that same militia leader who does not now recognize the older Eko), Eko takes out the militia men who had been terrorizing Yemi’s church for the polio vaccine, and this causes the villagers, who see Eko with the bloody hands and machete after the killings, to lose their faith in him as a priest. And as the little girl, with the braids (Armina) tells him after the machete-madness, “You will be judged. You owe God for every life you have taken. And you Yemi one church”. This would explain why Eko began building a church on the island. People telling Eko to confess for his ‘sins’ is a central theme in this episode (Yemi says it in flashback, the little girl says it in flashback, the villager who caught him stealing food says it in flashback), and the Smonster, disguised throughout the episode as a Yemi mirage, or a Yemirage (heh heh heh), passes judgment on Eko, and completely pummels him. When Armina, in the flashback, asked Eko if he was a bad man, he replied “Only God knows”. Hmmm…when the Smonster scanned Eko last season, it obviously was able to absorb Eko’s memories, and may have decided that he was “a bad man”. And as we’ve seen on the island, the Others also did not select “bad” people. But ultimately, Eko did not confess for his ‘sins’, saying instead that “I ask no forgiveness, Father, for I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to survive. I did my best with the life I was given.” Apparently, Smonster God disagreed with him, and we all know what happens when a vengeful God disagrees with a mere mortal...... (NOTE: For those of you who wonder ‘why did they get rid of Eko’: the actor asked to be released from his contract due to his parents both dying last year, and he wanted to return to London to direct a movie he’s written about them/his life.)
Smonster: This ‘thing’ is still a mystery. It has appeared to only a couple of the Losties, and appears to be more than just the security system Rousseau declared it to be. Interesting that when Locke talked to Eko and asked him what he saw, Locke said “I saw a bright light. It was beautiful”. But Eko replied, “That is not what I saw.” Could this imply there’s maybe TWO Smonsters? One that finds good, one that finds evil? I’m just supposin’…. One thing’s for sure, it can get nasty (remember, it almost took Locke in Season 1 when it was dragging him across the jungle before Jack lobbed dynamite down the hole). Also, with the Smonster imitating Yemi, and Yemi’s bones no longer existing in the burned-out drug plane wreckage, I’m wondering if the Smonster/Island is able to absorb bodies and materialize as that person later. Why? Well, Yemi’s body disappeared, but came back in Smonster-form, and in Season 1, Jack’s Dad’s body was gone from the coffin, but Jack had seen his Dad on the island. This theory, however, breaks down if you wonder how Hurley saw his psych-ward buddy Dave and how Kate saw that black horse, and how Shannon saw Walt.
Jack: Tells Juliet “I don’t like mysteries” when she asks him what he thinks she brought him for dinner. Hamburger and fries? Pretty sophisticated at the Hydra Station, eh?
Jack gets Benry to admit that he’s the one with the spinal tumor, but again, Benry is a lying bastard, so who knows. But, I think this may actually be true, and I believe that it may have been Juliet who made sure Jack saw the XRays. Jack is becoming a bit more inquisitive, and definitely seems to be trying to take in as much information as possible. Most likely to use against the Others at some point, possibly during an escape down the road. Will he operate on Benry? Well, it is something he can “fix”, and we all know how obsessed Jack is with fixing things.
Juliet: I. Just. Don’t. Trust. Her. Yes, she made Jack a hamburger by “slaughtering the cow”, and cooked the fries in the oil she “rendered”, but, the Others are all about deceit. No reason to think this is any different. However, at the beginning of the show, when the Others were having the Viking-style, complete with pyre, funeral for Colleen, Juliet said “I hate funerals”. Wonder if that meant the Others have had to have a lot of funerals. And what was with the Polyphonic Spree dress-up at the funeral? Wacky. I was just waiting for the entire attendance to break out in song. Using the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a disguise, Juliet’s video showed her flashing cards to Jack implying that many of the Others want Benry gone, and the signs encouraged Jack to do the surgery to remove Benry’s tum-ah (tumor). Card: “It has to look like you tried to save him” Card: “It’s a complicated surgery, no one would ever know” (implying if Benry died…oh well). However, she served Jack a burger and fries WITHOUT ketchup. Totally she’s not to be trusted just on that principal alone.
Funerals: The Others don’t bury their dead, they light them on fire and set them adrift. Is this to prevent them coming back in Smonster-form? If so, they must have encountered the Smonster….or maybe have something to do with it.
Locke: Sets himself apart from Jack’s controlling ways by inviting anybody who wanted to go to the Pearl Hatch with them to see about using a computer to communicate with the other hatches. When Desmond wondered if they were going to look for Eko, or the computer, since both were going to be in the same place, Locke said “Don’t mistake coincidence for fate”, which is what Eko had said to Locke in Season 2. At the Pearl hatch, Locke shows them (Sayid, Desmond, Nikki and Paulo) the Marvin Wickman/Marvin Candle film. Funny when Locke says “Suddenly I feel very stupid” when newbie-character (Nikki) says that maybe all the screens in the Pearl hatch will show other hatches. Sayid gets to work on this, and soon they’ve got a live screen from another hatch (most likely the Flame/Fire hatch) when Spooky Eye Patch Guy looks into the camera, and shuts it off. “Guess he’ll be expecting us”, says Locke. While in Pearl hatch, they hear the Smonster noise, and come out to find Eko pummeled. Before dying, Eko whispers in Locke’s ear. When asked what he said, Locke says: “We’re next”. But, it’s hard to say what Locke was actually told by Eko. We’ll see.
Desmond: He’s the one who suggests that the computers are used in the hatches to communicate with each other. Was is a vision that gave him this idea?
Paulo and Nikki: The two newly introduced Losties are boring. I’m guessing that they’ll have some more of a major role down the line. For now, they don’t do much.
Eye Patch Guy: Not sure who this is, but is it possible that it was the guy on the island with Kelvin (the guy who was in the hatch before Desmond)? Yeah, I know, he told Desmond that his partner was killed, but…… Another question: does the glass eye that Eko found in the Arrow station last season belong in Eye-Patch-Guy’s eye socket?
Benry: Unless he’s lying, he admitted to Jack that he is indeed the one who’s XRays Jack saw. “Do you believe in God, Jack?”, he asked. Jack: “Do you?” Benry: (and I’m paraphrasing cuz I couldn’t write fast enough): “Two days after I find out I have cancer of the spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky”. That’s funny: I figured Benry thought HE was God.
Tailies: Well, with the exception of the children taken by the Others, all of the people who had been seated in the tail section of the plane have died. And, before you say, “Rose’s husband Bernard is still alive, you dork”, I’d like to remind that Bernard was seated in the FRONT of the plane, and was only in the back of the plane at the time of the crash because he was using the bathroom.
So, next week’s ep will be it until February 7th. The preview was a busy one……can’t wait! But the drought of episodes until February will be nerve-wracking, cuz you just know the next ep will end with some sort of cliffhanger!
Until then, Namaste.
Eko: Is there an Eko in here? Well, not anymore. We see in his flashback (which did not contain a lot of new information that we hadn’t seen in his previous flashbacks) that he is originally chastised for breaking into a food locker to get food for his brother (Yemi) and himself. The village woman who catches him (who looks a lot like, but is not, Mrs Klugh from the Others village of the island) tells him to confess. Also in the flashback, after telling the men’s leader that “I am not afraid of you” and “You don’t know who I am” (a reference to a last-season flashback where Eko killed a man to prevent his brother Yemi from being killed by that same militia leader who does not now recognize the older Eko), Eko takes out the militia men who had been terrorizing Yemi’s church for the polio vaccine, and this causes the villagers, who see Eko with the bloody hands and machete after the killings, to lose their faith in him as a priest. And as the little girl, with the braids (Armina) tells him after the machete-madness, “You will be judged. You owe God for every life you have taken. And you Yemi one church”. This would explain why Eko began building a church on the island. People telling Eko to confess for his ‘sins’ is a central theme in this episode (Yemi says it in flashback, the little girl says it in flashback, the villager who caught him stealing food says it in flashback), and the Smonster, disguised throughout the episode as a Yemi mirage, or a Yemirage (heh heh heh), passes judgment on Eko, and completely pummels him. When Armina, in the flashback, asked Eko if he was a bad man, he replied “Only God knows”. Hmmm…when the Smonster scanned Eko last season, it obviously was able to absorb Eko’s memories, and may have decided that he was “a bad man”. And as we’ve seen on the island, the Others also did not select “bad” people. But ultimately, Eko did not confess for his ‘sins’, saying instead that “I ask no forgiveness, Father, for I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to survive. I did my best with the life I was given.” Apparently, Smonster God disagreed with him, and we all know what happens when a vengeful God disagrees with a mere mortal...... (NOTE: For those of you who wonder ‘why did they get rid of Eko’: the actor asked to be released from his contract due to his parents both dying last year, and he wanted to return to London to direct a movie he’s written about them/his life.)
Smonster: This ‘thing’ is still a mystery. It has appeared to only a couple of the Losties, and appears to be more than just the security system Rousseau declared it to be. Interesting that when Locke talked to Eko and asked him what he saw, Locke said “I saw a bright light. It was beautiful”. But Eko replied, “That is not what I saw.” Could this imply there’s maybe TWO Smonsters? One that finds good, one that finds evil? I’m just supposin’…. One thing’s for sure, it can get nasty (remember, it almost took Locke in Season 1 when it was dragging him across the jungle before Jack lobbed dynamite down the hole). Also, with the Smonster imitating Yemi, and Yemi’s bones no longer existing in the burned-out drug plane wreckage, I’m wondering if the Smonster/Island is able to absorb bodies and materialize as that person later. Why? Well, Yemi’s body disappeared, but came back in Smonster-form, and in Season 1, Jack’s Dad’s body was gone from the coffin, but Jack had seen his Dad on the island. This theory, however, breaks down if you wonder how Hurley saw his psych-ward buddy Dave and how Kate saw that black horse, and how Shannon saw Walt.
Jack: Tells Juliet “I don’t like mysteries” when she asks him what he thinks she brought him for dinner. Hamburger and fries? Pretty sophisticated at the Hydra Station, eh?
Jack gets Benry to admit that he’s the one with the spinal tumor, but again, Benry is a lying bastard, so who knows. But, I think this may actually be true, and I believe that it may have been Juliet who made sure Jack saw the XRays. Jack is becoming a bit more inquisitive, and definitely seems to be trying to take in as much information as possible. Most likely to use against the Others at some point, possibly during an escape down the road. Will he operate on Benry? Well, it is something he can “fix”, and we all know how obsessed Jack is with fixing things.
Juliet: I. Just. Don’t. Trust. Her. Yes, she made Jack a hamburger by “slaughtering the cow”, and cooked the fries in the oil she “rendered”, but, the Others are all about deceit. No reason to think this is any different. However, at the beginning of the show, when the Others were having the Viking-style, complete with pyre, funeral for Colleen, Juliet said “I hate funerals”. Wonder if that meant the Others have had to have a lot of funerals. And what was with the Polyphonic Spree dress-up at the funeral? Wacky. I was just waiting for the entire attendance to break out in song. Using the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a disguise, Juliet’s video showed her flashing cards to Jack implying that many of the Others want Benry gone, and the signs encouraged Jack to do the surgery to remove Benry’s tum-ah (tumor). Card: “It has to look like you tried to save him” Card: “It’s a complicated surgery, no one would ever know” (implying if Benry died…oh well). However, she served Jack a burger and fries WITHOUT ketchup. Totally she’s not to be trusted just on that principal alone.
Funerals: The Others don’t bury their dead, they light them on fire and set them adrift. Is this to prevent them coming back in Smonster-form? If so, they must have encountered the Smonster….or maybe have something to do with it.
Locke: Sets himself apart from Jack’s controlling ways by inviting anybody who wanted to go to the Pearl Hatch with them to see about using a computer to communicate with the other hatches. When Desmond wondered if they were going to look for Eko, or the computer, since both were going to be in the same place, Locke said “Don’t mistake coincidence for fate”, which is what Eko had said to Locke in Season 2. At the Pearl hatch, Locke shows them (Sayid, Desmond, Nikki and Paulo) the Marvin Wickman/Marvin Candle film. Funny when Locke says “Suddenly I feel very stupid” when newbie-character (Nikki) says that maybe all the screens in the Pearl hatch will show other hatches. Sayid gets to work on this, and soon they’ve got a live screen from another hatch (most likely the Flame/Fire hatch) when Spooky Eye Patch Guy looks into the camera, and shuts it off. “Guess he’ll be expecting us”, says Locke. While in Pearl hatch, they hear the Smonster noise, and come out to find Eko pummeled. Before dying, Eko whispers in Locke’s ear. When asked what he said, Locke says: “We’re next”. But, it’s hard to say what Locke was actually told by Eko. We’ll see.
Desmond: He’s the one who suggests that the computers are used in the hatches to communicate with each other. Was is a vision that gave him this idea?
Paulo and Nikki: The two newly introduced Losties are boring. I’m guessing that they’ll have some more of a major role down the line. For now, they don’t do much.
Eye Patch Guy: Not sure who this is, but is it possible that it was the guy on the island with Kelvin (the guy who was in the hatch before Desmond)? Yeah, I know, he told Desmond that his partner was killed, but…… Another question: does the glass eye that Eko found in the Arrow station last season belong in Eye-Patch-Guy’s eye socket?
Benry: Unless he’s lying, he admitted to Jack that he is indeed the one who’s XRays Jack saw. “Do you believe in God, Jack?”, he asked. Jack: “Do you?” Benry: (and I’m paraphrasing cuz I couldn’t write fast enough): “Two days after I find out I have cancer of the spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky”. That’s funny: I figured Benry thought HE was God.
Tailies: Well, with the exception of the children taken by the Others, all of the people who had been seated in the tail section of the plane have died. And, before you say, “Rose’s husband Bernard is still alive, you dork”, I’d like to remind that Bernard was seated in the FRONT of the plane, and was only in the back of the plane at the time of the crash because he was using the bathroom.
So, next week’s ep will be it until February 7th. The preview was a busy one……can’t wait! But the drought of episodes until February will be nerve-wracking, cuz you just know the next ep will end with some sort of cliffhanger!
Until then, Namaste.
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