When I left work at 5 p.m. yesterday it was like driving in a blizzard. These great, huge flakes were coming down and splattering against my windshield like bugs. You could actually hear them hitting the ground. It was awesome! It snowed off and on for at least the next two hours, but none of it stuck. There was a little accumulation on cars and rooftops, but none on the ground. The kids across our back fence managed to scrape enough together to make a few snowballs. Places within 50 miles of here did get 1 or 2″ on the ground for a while and other parts of the state got as much as 4 or 6″. Third snowfall of the year, which effectively doubles the number of times I’ve seen snow in Texas in the past twenty years.
The Canadian men’s hockey team beat Germany and now faces Russia to advance to the medal round. Go team! A friend of mine just got back from a week at the Olympics and he was very impressed with everything he saw. More than anything else the camaraderie among the athletes of all nations. He got to see the US/Canada hockey game and said that even the Canadian fans were in good cheer after the game was over.
Last night’s Lost was about a lighthouse.
So Claire’s not quite as crazy as Rousseau was, but give her another dozen years or so and she might get there. I had a bad feeling about the axe once she started sharpening it, but I thought at first she planned to amputate Jin’s leg. If the others have been torturing her as she said (and her branding scar is reminiscent of what they did to Sayid, so she’s probably telling the truth) then she has good reason to be irked with them. Jin’s sudden change in story about Aaron had me worried and confused. At first I thought he was the bad person that was going to the temple, that he had somehow been infected, too. But then I realized that he was protecting Kate, that he’d figured out that Claire probably wouldn’t take kindly to Kate’s actions. Some are speculating that it is Claire herself who is the bad person going to the temple, but I figure it’s fake-Locke.
What would this show be without Hurley? What an awesome character. He balances off the seriousness and drama all by himself. “I could eat,” he tells Miles. Of course he could. His previous experiences with dead-Charlie and dead-Libby and dead-Ana Lucia have prepared him to deal matter-of-factly with dead-Jacob.
Though there wasn’t a lot of action in this episode, I liked the Jack story a lot. This season seems to be running full on parallel to season one, step by step, episode by episode. I am intrigued by the fact that off-island Jack doesn’t seem to remember details of his childhood, as if he didn’t really live through them. The appendix scar, for example, which seemed to take him by surprise. This represents another difference in his life, as he still had his appendix in the original trajectory. Juliet operated to remove it in season four. I wonder if his ex-wife wasn’t shown for expediency or because she’ll show up and be a surprise at some point in the future. Juliet, perhaps? Pretty cool seeing Dogen at the music tryouts. Their lives are always intertwined, no matter what course reality takes.
And why didn’t they notice the lighthouse before? Because they weren’t looking for it, of course. Perfectly sound explanation! #108, by the way, is someone named Wallace, but that might just be a Maguffin. Several other familiar names on the dial if you look up a screen capture of that shot. Linus, which could be Benjamin or even his father. Mr. Friendly, which was the unofficial name for Tom the other before we met him without his beard. The deeper we get into this season the less likely I think they’ll pull a white/black : bad/good switcheroo on us. It may end up being a toss-up or a push, but I don’t think Jacob will end up the bad guy.
