{"id":3675,"date":"2006-01-26T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/26\/lost-s02e11-fire-water\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:18:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T00:18:57","slug":"lost-s02e11-fire-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/01\/26\/lost-s02e11-fire-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost s02e11: Fire + Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7010,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000684&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Scribbled notes while watching last night&#8217;s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000684&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get 'Lost' on the iTMS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Lost\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/FC101205\/lost_468x60.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reprise: Charlie and drugs, Charlie and Claire\n<ul>\n<li>Oh&#8230;he does have a few statues there. I missed that before.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flashback\n<ul>\n<li>Charlie and Liam as kids<\/li>\n<li>He gets a piano for Xmas? Nice!<\/li>\n<li>Whoa&#8230;family issues.\n<ul>\n<li>Adult Liam&#8230;in a diaper? Not pretty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>And Charlie wakes up.\n<ul>\n<li>Drug dream? Sober nightmare?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You can&#8217;t make up with Claire that easily, Charlie.\n<ul>\n<li>(Especially when you&#8217;re still hoarding heroin.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flashback\n<ul>\n<li>So Charlie&#8217;s an uncle&#8230;and lying to protect his brother.<\/li>\n<li>He must still be (mostly?) clean at this point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Heh: &#8220;Tailies&#8221; &#8212; Hurley&#8217;s word for the survivors from the tail.<\/li>\n<li>Sawyer just cannot resist being a shit.<\/li>\n<li>Charlie&#8230;hallucinating?\n<ul>\n<li>Rescues Aaron from floating out to sea<\/li>\n<li>Claire and Charlie&#8217;s mom: &#8220;You have to save he baby, he&#8217;s in terrible danger&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Love the religious motif<\/li>\n<li>Another dream (?) &#8212; wakes up in the surf, holding Aaron.<\/li>\n<li>Claire&#8217;s freaked (understandably)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sawyer&#8217;s playing Cupid, in his own jackassish way<\/li>\n<li>Okay, it&#8217;s evasive, but Charlie&#8217;s got a point (Kate and the horse, everybody seeing Walt, etc.)\n<ul>\n<li>But he&#8217;s still lying about the heroin stash.<\/li>\n<li>So is he using or not?\n<ul>\n<li>Prairie and I don&#8217;t think so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flashback\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, this is a horrid commercial<\/li>\n<li>The whole band&#8217;s in diapers\n<ul>\n<li>That&#8217;s what Liam was wearing in the first dream sequence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>And drug-addled Liam screws it up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One of the characters noticed the brand-new washer and dryer!<\/li>\n<li>Hurley just froze&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>She&#8217;s quite the flirt!<\/li>\n<li>Okay, say something nice Hurley, it&#8217;s a cute top&#8230;good boy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Eko&#8217;s marking the trees he likes&#8230;huh?\n<ul>\n<li>Dream analysis by Eko<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>They have to baptize Aaron? Okay&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>Charlie&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> freaking Claire out\n<ul>\n<li>Not that he didn&#8217;t before<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Maybe he took the religious symbolism a bit too seriously?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Jack&#8217;s really working on getting Ana-Lucia set up.\n<ul>\n<li>Where <em>do<\/em> they keep getting those blue tarps? Do all planes carry a huge stash of these things or something?<\/li>\n<li>Ana: &#8220;You hittin&#8217; that?&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>Not much for subtlety, that girl.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Charlie&#8217;s got at least six statues.\n<ul>\n<li>Well, five now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flashback\n<ul>\n<li>Liam\/Karen\/Megan: nice (if obvious) parallel to Charlie\/Claire\/Aaron.\n<ul>\n<li>Which Charlie, of course, isn&#8217;t really paying attention to.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and Locke finds Charlie with the heroin in his hand.\n<ul>\n<li>Locke: &#8220;You&#8217;ve given up the right to be believed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Prairie thinks Locke&#8217;s evil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Claire wants a little extra protection\n<ul>\n<li>She&#8217;s thinking about the baptism comment, though.<\/li>\n<li>Is Locke going to show her the statues?\n<ul>\n<li>Nope&#8230;thought about it, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s Charlie lighting?\n<ul>\n<li>Will Sahid connect that Charlie was the one who set the fire?<\/li>\n<li>Oh&#8230;he&#8217;s creating a diversion&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;so he can take Aaron.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Flashback\n<ul>\n<li>Liam sold the piano<\/li>\n<li>Using the money for rehab and fixing his family<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t do it, Charlie&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;or, okay, do it.<\/li>\n<li>Confrontation&#8230;\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230;and Locke takes Aaron, gives him to Claire.<\/li>\n<li>And beats Charlie down. Heh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nobody&#8217;s going to be fond of Charlie for a while.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>At least Charlie says he was still clean.\n<ul>\n<li>Eeww&#8230;do they really need to show the stitching?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Locke&#8217;s changing the gun cabinet combo again?<\/li>\n<li>Baptisms for Aaron and Claire, courtesy of Eko.<\/li>\n<li>Hmmm&#8230;interesting that Locke&#8217;s not destroying the heroin. Just locking it away.<\/li>\n<li>And up comes Charlie&#8217;s hood&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scribbled notes while watching last night&#8217;s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[202,8],"class_list":["post-3675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-lost","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}