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Talk about today's new episode. Beware of spoilers of aired material! Airs 9:00 PM Eastern.

S2E17 - Lockdown
When the hatch suddenly takes on a life of its own, Locke is forced to enlist the help of an unlikely ally. Meanwhile, Ana Lucia, Sayid and Charlie go off into the jungle to find out the truth about Henry.

(Or should it be called "Lockedown"? Oh the wit!

Michelina · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:26 am Post subject:

Just watched the episode over here in Canada. For a Locke episode, (I'm a bit close-minded with him atm), I really quite enjoyed it.

The Flashbacks: Okay, I love Helen. She was awesome. I love how she stood up for Locke, and stood by him firmly until she was convinced he chose his Dad over her. As sad as I felt for Locke (yes, I admit it) when she turned down his proposal near the end, I can't say that I blamed her. She thought John was ready to let go ("we moved past this!"), unaware of what was really going on, with Anthony Cooper's con and all that jazz.

Speaking of which, what up with Cooper anyway? Where was he going? Why? He might've mentioned it, but I find it hard to hang on to every word that man says. Gah. So confusing.

AND OMGWTF NADIA WAS, LIKE, IN LOCKE'S FLASHBACK! WTF WTF WTF

Wasn't some major Locke connection to Sawyer supposed to revealed in this episode? Meh.

The Island - Bahahaha. The hatch strikes back 4 realz, yo!!1one!!1 Locke's leg is totally damaged. Henry Gale is actually spelt like H-E-N-R-I, and Henry Gale actually ISN'T Henry Gale, he may be ONE OF THEM, and WTF IS IT NEXT WEDNESDAY YET?

Humbug. The parachute thing was weird. Are the Dharma peoples dropping supplies every now and then? Charlie totally spoke my thoughts with "What the bloody hell is that?" Srsly. Speaking of Charlie, I didn't understand why they didn't show the Charlie/Sayid/Ana + Balloon storyline until the end, where it showed what they had been doing all of that time - digging up "Henry's wife's" grave, only to find the REAL
slim shady -- I mean, Henry Gale! AHH, IT'S SO CRAYZEE.

The Jack/Sawyer thing? = AWESOME. They're becoming jungle pals! Aww! Okay, well, they're not quite there yet, but I loved the kinda sorta bonding. Cute. I immediately thought of all those Brokeback videos, hee. And Hurley, Kate, Libby and basically the whole sodding camp watching them? Hahaha, brilliant!

The Jate... Okay, I'm a Skater but...OMG. AWWW. SQUEE! SQUEE! I'm beginning to like Jack more and more each episode (there was a time when I was anti-Jack..ahh, memories) and his scene with Kate near the end ("I can walk you back to camp if you like") made me melt. So sweet. Of course, the island mysteries overshadow the shippiness, as was expected...damn parachute.

Besides the Jate, was I the only one getting [platonic] Jaire vibes from this episode? I think they're pretty sweet together, in contrast to Season One, where Jack only saw her as the pregnant girl and Claire didn't feel as if she could talk to him without being taken seriously. I am totally loving the Jack & Claire relationship.

Now, as for Locke...hmm. He's still not my favorite. I don't really know how I feel towards him. I felt an ounce bit sorry for him in his flashbacks, but on the island...his possesiveness of the hatch is a little strange, I never really understood why he feels the need to be responsible for it. Basically, Locke's confusing me right now...hmm.

Overall Episode Rating 8/10

Next Week: The Canadian preview shows a scene with Sayid and Ana in the hatch, Sayid pointing a gun at "Henry", who is tied up. They talk about Zeke, and Sayid tells Henry he has until "three" to give them some answers, or he'll shoot. Henry screams "I'M NOT A BAD PERSON!" before Sayid says "Three." Then, it fades to white as a gun shot fires.

NEXT WEDNESDAY CAN COME ANYTIME NOW.
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SuperKC · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:07 am Post subject:

I can't believe you read epico by the way. There are icons all over LJ about it and I've been to the site, but I haven't read. It must be pretty frickin' good.

Anyway, the ep = great. More later.

Rocksiren · Expert Vidder Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2576

Okay good episode. A few thoughts:

"Henry" is full of crap. Cool Sayid, Charlie, Ana interaction.

Locke, for all his intelligence is REALLY gullible. Hell believe anything.
Also I couldnt help but think of Karma in reference to his leg. Hopefully I wont have to say what I mean about that.

When the blue light went on, I thought of a giant tanning booth! My sister thinks the map shows all the "hatches" on the island.

The package delivery is very odd- means someone HAD to fly overhead and drop that.

Hurley WAS in an institution, does this mean he has paranoid schiz?

Laughing all the way through the poker game- I love when Jack and Sawyer are one on one. Im also more convinced that Locke's father is the real Mr. Sawyer. More fun nicknames to add to the Sawyer list- funniest this time- "Muttonchops".
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Hobbes · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 3:19 am Post subject:

Woah.

Locke episodes always rule

even if you hate his flashbacks, he always delivers the island secret goodies

Totally called the Henry Gale disguise thing, but damn now Locke is in one hell of a predicament... on one hand Henry certainly is guilty, but on the other hand he hasn't done anything, and he saved Locke's life! Granted, if he'd run away his whole mission would fail, but still...
It would just be wrong to kill him. Have him join their side maybe? Oh those poor Losties

that's one tricksy predicament.
Oh and Sayid is hardcore. Dug up the grave just to prove Gale wrong

awesome

Rocksiren · Expert Vidder Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2576

No I mean its like he again and again believed his father, Ethan etc. Nothing personal Hobbes, just a pattern. He's a bad liar (he just has this guilty face when he does) and bad at spotting a liar. You and I are like Locke and Jack- you want to believe in him all the time, and I wonder why everyone is so quick to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Totally with you on the flashback thing though. All I could think at the end of this one was- "So we STILL dont know how he ended up in a wheelchair", then was saddened at the thought of another episode. And I mean that about everyone's flashbacks, except the new people.

And its a nasty biz, but I wouldve dug up the grave. At first I thought maybe Henry was gay and didnt want to tell anyone so he told everyone it was his wife instead of "life partner", but theres no talking around this one...hes a liar.

With John's leg, all I could think was "payback's a bitch huh?".

Also, is anyone else beginning to get a MYST/RIVEN feel for the hatch? Maybe its when it closed off, there were those weird sounds and I saw the books.

DID the clock run out or not? Conflicting reports...
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Fan4Lost · Advanced Vidder Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 2224

Awesome Ep! Locke rocks!!

ebizmybef74 · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 2641

Nadia's alive!! YAY!

And a connection I sorta noticed between Sawyer and Mr. Cooper was that right when he opened the door and saw Helen. He called her sweetheart. And the nicknames begin.....

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Polarbear · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:59 am Post subject:

Loved the shite on the blast doors. More dharma cooky stuff please. And the parachute! Looks like dharma do have contact with the outside world.

The flashbacks were okay again nothing special. Not really relevant to the island stuff which I always like to see and I am really getting tired of Locke having it bad in his past. Plus we still haven't learnt how he got in a wheelchair. Big minus point for me. We gonna have to wait for season 3 for that now?

I dunno why Jack had to totally own Sawyer with the card game. Surely Sawyer would be better at poker than Jack and the glad you beat Sawyer comment was meh. Gah talk about forcing a ship.

The ending was awesome as ever. They seriously need to end it with Henry every time. Overall an average ep for me. I was hoping for more to be revealed during the Lockdown scenario.

Sorry if I am on the moan train recently but the last two episodes haven't been terrible just nothing much has happened and I am just waiting for that killer episode to come along to really get my teeth into.
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Aislynn · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:46 am Post subject:

Rocksiren · Expert Vidder Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 2576

Ais: to quote my mom:

"I know why they call it LOST: you could get LOST in those dimples!"
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DaisyAdair · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject:

Anyone have the picture of the door?

lostzilla · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:22 pm Post subject:

Cool ep!! then again a Locke ep is always a good ep.

Nadia - Yay!

The Hatch - The hatch strikes back! Awesome to see Lock freaking out. LOL

Jate - the shower and the beach walk? lol Jack needs to make a better move.

Henry Gale - I was fooled for a sec at the beginning, then again look at those eyes, they have "the others" written all over

AL, Charlie, Sayid - Well I don't really care bout Charlie, But AL and Sayid had me joining the Ana/Sayid ship whatever you call it.

Jack/Claire - Sorta cute

Jack/Sawyer - Jack beat the crap outta Sawyer at poker?? AWESOME "When I need the guns, I'll get the guns" LOL and I've been to Phuket, it's awesome.
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Polarbear · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:12 pm Post subject:

The stuff on the door was apparently a map to all the hatches! How cool is that.

http://www.losthatch.com/multimedia/S2E17_Blast_Door_Enhanced.jpg
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Hollywood · Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 10:14 pm Post subject:

Thats the first thing I thought that map was.
Javi even said himself that there were at least 6 more hatches on the island in the second issue of the Lost magazine.
You get some pretty good info from those mags.

Oh and awesome episode last night!

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