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In our visit back to the island this week we take a look back at Lost season 2 episode 15, “Maternity Leave” and episode 16, “The Whole Truth.” As the dynamic between Jack, Locke, and Henry Gale continues to evolve and Henry manipulates Lock and Jack, these two episodes also begin to reveal story lines that will weave heavily into the plot of season 3 and the pregnancy issues faced by those living on the island.
In “Maternity Leave” we see flashbacks to the time when Claire was kidnapped by Ethan and she realizes that Danielle assisted her escape, along with a mysterious teenage girl. Claire also realizes that she and Aaron are supposed to be together.
In “The Whole Truth” Sun realizes that she’s pregnant and isn’t sure how to tell Jin. In flashback we see that they tried conceiving before crashing on the island, but unbeknownst to Jin, he is infertile.
Next up: the Locke centric episode “Lockdown” and the Hurley centric episode “Dave.”
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oi! that screenshot you guys chose, it looks like Ethan and Claire are having so much fun!!
Wow, very exciting to see your bookie fit Owl Creek into this episode, although I guess I can also thank Dostoyevsky for writing such a long book.
When I tweeted the suggestion I thought it might cover ground already covered awesomely in “The Third Policeman” (which I am now dutifully reading!). It’s controversial of course; so much so that Lindelof recently addressed “Owl Creek” in an interview simply to say LOST was not an “Owl Creek” story.
Emilee pointed out how this book appears in LOST. Those whacky showrunners were certainly confronted with the obvious questions even after the second episode, “Tabula Rasa.” So to then show Locke flip through the pages of “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” hold it upside down, shake it to try to get something out of it, and then toss it aside might be seen as something Damon Lindelof might have done, himself, with that book. No Dharma film stock in there, eh?
Which seems overly disparaging to this awesome book, a story that really has been incredibly influential since Bierce wrote it. It’s almost impossible to imagine The Twilight Zone episode “”A Stop at Willoughby” without “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge” among many others, and what I love about the Twilight Zone episode/presentation of “Owl Creek” is Rod Serling’s introduction, the genuine enthusiasm he has for the story. I mean if Rod likes it, there has to be something to it, right?
Definitely. So I don’t really see LOST as a rejection of “Owl Creek” it’s more to take the immediacy of these absurd, heightened hallucinatory experiences found in these Twilight Zony stories and impose that urgency and depth of feeling onto living characters facing choices that do have consequences.
Here’s the Lindelof interview.
http://video.klru.tv/video/2365017581/
And here’s the twilight zone presentation of “An Occurrence or Owl Creek’s Bridge.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DocXC-kobmU
I like the way Rod Serling says it was shot in France, “made by others.”
As Jin would say: “Others!! OTHERS!!”