“What was truly devastating to him was the loss of his power. They allowed him to keep the title of Emperor, but without any power it was meaningless.”
Ben knew well the significance of his history lecture, for in another reality, he had been Emperor, only to be stripped of power and exiled off the Island. Likewise, Richard knew the power of immortality, but it carried no value for him. Death had more meaning.
For both men, power was an illusion, and they gave it up. They surrendered: To Ilana’s forgiveness, to Jack’s faith.
Ben’s exile is over now. Richard’s life has just begun. They discovered something more potent, more meaningful, more triumphant than power: They discovered purpose.
(Mirror, Mirror: Cultural Themes in LOST 6.05 can be read here).
His reality is controlled by dark forces. A man of science, he must learn to stretch his mind beyond the constraints of logic. His followers are many, and they know he is a natural leader, like his father before him. He is tempted to assume command, but his people’s true leader is caught in a parallel dimension, a mirror universe. He must apply every available resource to a single end: bring the commander back from the mirror world. First Officer Spock? No, his name is Dr. Jack Shephard. The leader he has been dispatched to transport across spacetime is not Captain James Tiberius Kirk, but the only man who can vanquish the dark forces of the Island.
The most important person ever to walk jungle path and sandy beach is making his way to the Island. But he cannot get there alone; he needs a guide–someone of clear and keen vision. Jacob cannot be that guide. For Jacob saw as through a mirror, dimly, but the guide will see face to face. The guide sees not dim reflections of men and words written on stone. Rather, he sees men as they are, and the words written on their hearts.
“Jack is here because he has to do something. He can’t be told what that is–he has to find it himself.” Tonight, in the lighthouse, Jack began to see with new eyes. The Island has its guide.
Holy crap, people, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover this week, what with the numbers reappearing, a mysterious Island boy playing havoc with MIB’s brain, another of Jacob’s “lists” and black and white stones that promise to take us alllll the way back to season one. So let’s get to it, shall we? I’ll warn you, though - this column is loooooooong.
Prime Candidate: Cultural Thoughts on LOST 6.04, “The Substitute”
by Pearson Moore
We know who he is. We know his history and we understand his motivations. The Prime Candidate was identified not only by name, but by number.
Carlton Cuse promised “illumination” in this episode, and he delivered: illuminated integers, a child glowing in the jungle, and brilliantly coloured themes of balance, strength, and humanity. “The Substitute” was a feast for the eyes and for the mind, and arguably the richest episode of the last six seasons.
Impartial Risk Cultural Musings on the Resurrection of John Locke
by Pearson Moore
He was the most trusting person on the Island. Gullibility proved not only a weakness, but the fatal flaw of character that destroyed John Locke. But in the same way that Hurley’s insanity is the surest sign of his well-grounded sanity, gullibility will prove John Locke’s greatest strength. Insanity is sanity. Weakness is strength. Freedom is slavery. George Orwell proved these statements false. Sixty years later, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse will prove them true. That truth will provide the philosophical basis for return of John Locke to the Island.
Looks as though the powers that be returned to fine form with this episode, recharging the formula and giving us a lot of new twists and turns. Even though it was billed as a Kate-centric episode, the secrets behind the curtain had much more to do with Sayid, the Others and, of course, our long-lost Island mother, Claire. We’ve got much to talk about, so grab your vials of Dharma vaccine and let’s …
We heard the phrase only once, but we saw the words–in deeds that risked lives–two dozen times in the space of forty-four minutes. Tonight’s episode was one of the richest in the six years of this most compelling of television programmes, for tonight we were obliged to confront dangers of mind, soul, and spirit. This night everyone on-Island and off risked everything–and gained rewards even more precious than a wedding ring kissed by tear-stained lips. This was an episode to savour.
Magnificence
The Cultural Mythology of LOST 1.01 to 6.18
by Pearson Moore
His name is Kambei Shimada, a ronin who lived five hundred years ago. He is an aged, balding, unemployed swordsman, symbol of a dying breed of men useless in an age of muskets. His story required only two hundred seven minutes of celluloid. We think we know him: hero, defender of peasants, leader of men. But his story does not end with one year’s barley harvest, or even an entire nation’s movement into the modern age. Without Kambei Shimada, we understand neither sixteenth century Japan, nor even twenty-first century America. This single figure from the imagination of Akira Kurosawa holds the key to LOST.
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