tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post6961133599517087625..comments2024-03-28T03:13:15.831-04:00Comments on Remarkable: Lost Season 6, Episode 14: The CandidateGeoff Klockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09080580776997273785noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-24945446009078980702010-05-07T08:35:44.239-04:002010-05-07T08:35:44.239-04:00I should add that it was an immersion program, hel...I should add that it was an immersion program, held at a summer camp of sorts. Which makes it much more comparable to the situation on Lost, actually.neilshyminskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-52768906329701952142010-05-06T10:49:50.356-04:002010-05-06T10:49:50.356-04:00Neil: Hey, your aunt is fair play for evidence. I ...Neil: Hey, your aunt is fair play for evidence. I still think it's a strange <i>choice</i> by the writers, but justifiable given that account. 6 weeks! Crazy.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669500899738381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-43325019861364107182010-05-06T10:18:34.362-04:002010-05-06T10:18:34.362-04:00James: I'm don't speak a second language f...James: I'm don't speak a second language fluently either, so I'm basing this on second-hand accounts. I have an aunt who was thinking in French after 6 weeks in a program where English-speaking teachers were forbidden from communicating in any language other than French. And on the flipside, my father-in-law went about 4 decades without speaking in Finn and after struggling to converse with a woman who spoke *only* Finn likewise found himself thinking in Finn. Which is to say that I would find it plausible if Jin and Sun were speaking in either language.<br /><br />Katie: Yeah, it didn't quite work for me, either. I'll play the 'as a dad...' card and say that I would feel compelled to leave - and wouldn't that make for an equally, if not more, gut-wrenching scene?neilshyminskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-43933768066590668522010-05-06T09:30:31.369-04:002010-05-06T09:30:31.369-04:00I am not at all convinced there is a mother in the...I am not at all convinced there is a mother in the world who, when faced with the choice of dying alone or orphaning her child, would choose orphaning her child. But even if there were, that mother would at least, like, MENTION it in the "should you die with me or not" discussion. That it doesn't even come up is the writers willfully ignoring the issue because it would ruin their sad little scene.Katie Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10624627112011661037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-46495881970648843472010-05-06T07:58:36.468-04:002010-05-06T07:58:36.468-04:00Oh, Paradise Lost, my goodness. Hope to God it...Oh, Paradise Lost, my goodness. Hope to God it's true, that'd be elegant.plokhttp://circumstantial.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-54914740407166060622010-05-06T04:56:49.700-04:002010-05-06T04:56:49.700-04:00Remember when getting to a location like the plane...<i>Remember when getting to a location like the plane, or the sub, would take 4 episodes of hiking and diversions?</i><br />Completely agreed on all the action in this one. It dawned on me when our guys were storming the sub; "Holy Cow THIS is happening already?"<br /><br />Neil: Hmmm. My objections to that would be that Sun and Jin had only ever spoken to each other in Korean until their reunion (barring a few English lessons), and that at the start of the Dharma Years, Jin only had very limited English (except where the plot required sudden aptitude), so a good chunk of that time would have been spent becoming fluent. I'm not bilingual though, so I guess we'd have to defer to someone with experience of being immersed in a second language. For now though: I'm still kind of mad, and disappointed given how brave they were re: subtitles in Ab Aeterno.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14740669500899738381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-36994081442705832202010-05-06T04:40:20.912-04:002010-05-06T04:40:20.912-04:00The religious elements on BSG really worked for me...The religious elements on BSG really worked for me up until the end because, well, they seemed manufactured. That God turned out to be real on the show and not an older Cylon model was bizarre.Joe Gualtierinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-28560028555331026032010-05-05T22:49:14.525-04:002010-05-05T22:49:14.525-04:00Also, jittery LOST excitement doesn't lend its...Also, jittery LOST excitement doesn't lend itself to good spelling.sdelatovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09222734151570512788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-38581044558598654412010-05-05T22:47:39.341-04:002010-05-05T22:47:39.341-04:00I'm a pretty massive fan of Sayid, the Arab du...I'm a pretty massive fan of Sayid, the Arab dude, blowing himself up to save people.<br />I had considered Sayid already lost though, so it wasn't the epic cry party it could have been. I folded like an origami snowflake when Jin and Sun went down though.<br /><br />Jack saying 'John Locke told me (to stay)' was a substantial fist-pump moment in our household. Jack's story is getting very good, I think, and having him become the engine of salvation, powered by a just-too-late belief in Locke's faith, makes original Locke's role much sweeter and pivotal.<br /><br />I feel like the Locke Ness Monster's biggest error is trying to appeal to Jack's skepticism about Locke, not knowing that it's out of date.<br /><br /> If Terry O'Quinn said I had to marry him I'd probably have to do it. Just ook at the dude's face when he's talking about his plane crash, and when he's saying 'you don't want to be on that sub'. Epic.<br /><br />I feel like the audience knows Jack was right. I'm eager for the characters to catch up and agree. I hope they come out of this as a solid team.sdelatovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09222734151570512788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-81556753804005647992010-05-05T22:06:39.065-04:002010-05-05T22:06:39.065-04:00Upon reflection, i'm actually not bothered by ...Upon reflection, i'm actually not bothered by the goodbyes being in English. We don't really know what Sun was up to in the 3 years she was gone, whether she spent all that time in Korea or was somewhere she would be speaking in English... But we *do* know that Jin was speaking exclusively in English. After that much time, he's probably *thinking* in English, too - so it wouldn't be a surprise that he'd think to use it. (Or, rather, not think to use Korean.)neilshyminskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-50021518799368560132010-05-05T21:24:56.607-04:002010-05-05T21:24:56.607-04:00an interesting theory posited (either on Slate or ...an interesting theory posited (either on Slate or on Gawker, can't remember, both roundups hit close to the mark on what our LOST party was saying) that Jin & Sun not saying their final goodbyes in their native language MIGHT mean that we haven't seen the last of them. There are arguments to be made against this, of course, but i thought it was an interesting angle.sara d. reisshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18229743478023552805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-10239858325626600122010-05-05T20:10:24.354-04:002010-05-05T20:10:24.354-04:00yeah, we had the same reaction to jin & sun...yeah, we had the same reaction to jin & sun's final scene in english.jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499357055806445527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23042008.post-40093900319039094962010-05-05T19:45:15.061-04:002010-05-05T19:45:15.061-04:00Couple of quibbles:
1) Jin and Sun would've s...Couple of quibbles:<br /><br />1) Jin and Sun would've said their final I love you's in their native language, not English. In theory, hearing them say "I love you" should have been more powerful than reading it, but it was actually less powerful for me, because knowing they were saying the words in my language for my benefit took me out of the moment a bit. <br /><br />2)When the bomb was counting down, Jack should've told Sawyer what happened with him and Richard with the dynamite. This wouldn't have convinced Sawyer ("You wanna risk all our lives because of some faulty fuse, doc? I don't think so."), but at least Jack would've said all that could've been said. But hey, this is Lost, and people rarely say everything they could, even when they should.Troy Wilsonnoreply@blogger.com