Scarecrow's Blog From the Darkside

With Sayid and Claire's "heel turn" during the sixth season (as my buddy at work calls it), you literally bare witness to a behavioral change that sees their humanity seemingly removed as if The Man in Black took a scalpel of psychology at cut it all away. Claire doesn't even resemble the sweetheart with a genteel spirit from the first season, replaced with this vicious ice queen while Sayid's weak spot of Nadia (in the sideways off-island, her marriage to his brother was encouraged because Sayid felt he didn't deserve her) is used as leverage against him when he is sent out by Dogen to kill MiB. By the end of Sundown , Sayid has completed transformed as those in the temple once followers of Jacob have gathered behind MiB, while Kate finds herself in a bind due to her purpose in returning to the island (retrieving Claire so she can be returned to her son) in the first place. Miles, Ben (who I would have thought might align with MiB instead of Iliana), Sun, and

The sideways off-island continues to surprise me, including it's additional information about Jack having an estranged piano protegy son he sees in a recital and Sayid contemplating helping his brother (married to the love of his life in a plot twist) by ridding him of debt thugs demanding interest for loans made to open a store. These correspond with on island stories regarding Jacob calling for Hurley to take Jack to a lighthouse and Sayid being banished from the temple due to his resurrection by ways other than the healing pool. Claire overcome by evil polluting her soul to Sayid recognizing that he's only alive because it seems darkness awakened him. Jack smashing up the mirrors on the lighthouse when he realizes Jacob has always been watching them, Jacob assuring Hurley that their trip wasn't wasted, Sayid given a special knife to kill The Man in Black by Dogen, Claire helping to stitch Jin's bear trap wounded leg and burying an ax into one of Dogen's men after

The sideways gives us a glimpse into what might be. The possibility that Locke works through his handicap and finds a certain peace through communication with those he also meets on the island in the parallel timeline. He no longer must deal with the awful behavior of his douchebag boss, fired because of his use of company funds in attempt for his walkabout. Meeting Hurley at his van, the two strike up a friendly conversation which leads to a temp agency talk with Rose who tells him of her cancer and making the most of what time he does have. Getting a teaching job, Locke even meets Ben, of all people, himself a teacher of European history! That this is an alternative to Locke's body being buried on the island, his form occupied by The Man in Black, I'll take it. It is simple, nothing extraordinary, like many of our own lives, but he's not a dead corpse buried on the island. And Ben being a friendly school teacher in the sideways timeline, much different than the guilt-s

"What's your theory of the killer, doctor?" "A neurotic, of course. Some poor devil suffering from a fixation." "Fixation? What do you mean?" "A knot or kink tied to the brain by some past experience. A madness that comes only at certain times when the killer is brought in direct contact with some vivid reminder of the past." "You know this really is all your own fault. You have absolutely no business photographing so attractively. And I have a habit of collecting pictures of beautiful girls." Precode most definitely! After Die! Monster, Die! I had plans to watch classic horror films all year as opposed to just October, the second of which is Doctor X (1932). Warner Bros has the Technicolor, Grot sets, Max Factor makeup, eyeraising subject matter, and Curtiz cinematic touch. Yes, it has the Tracy wisecracking news reporter hunting for the big story on the Full Moon serial killer and his tiresome e

Admittedly after the first three episodes of the final season, I have tried to kind of let it all sink in. With the emergence of fresh characters and a “sideways” (I have read this is how Cuse and Lindelof consider the “off-island” actual landing of the Oceanic, following the main leads after their leaving the plane) subplot to boot, I realize that managing to keep up with it all will be a bit of a challenge. I’m personally up for it, although the inclusion of Sayid succumbing to darkness after the pool at the temple for which the Others (led by Dogen and his interpreter, Lennon (John Hawkes)) reside didn’t “heal” him of his “infection”, resulting in a “faulty” resurrection, is quite a plot development to digest. Just talking it over with my friend today, coming off the lips in conversation we had a good giggle about it. Dogen (Hiroyuki Sanada) is presented as a major character within this final season, attempting to convince (and failing) Jack to get Sayid to take a poison pill

After Brock Lesnar defeated Roman Reigns yet again in the cage match at THE GREATEST ROYAL RUMBLE, I consider the latter a dead character. But I’m not upset at the developments since I haven’t particularly cared about the Universal title for some time. What is a relief is how the WWE World Title picture currently stands on Smackdown, so that gives us what the Universal Title picture doesn’t. I’m just not all that enthused or invested in Lesnar any longer, although I recognize his stature as an intimidating force of nature that suplexes you into oblivion, accompanied by his explosive F-5 finisher which puts the final touch on matches for most of his opponents. Problem is: what is next? When there is no real challenge out there for Lesnar left where will the drama come from? Who is on RAW that even remotely stands a chance with Lesnar. He has beaten Samoa Joe, Reigns, Cena, Orton, Braun Strowman, and the like. And who can get a decent match out of Lesnar at this point? There are f

I guess I must admit that I’m a bit over Kate. I think the alternate timeline regarding the Oceanic landing safely has given these characters somewhat a separate and unique parallel to the on-island 2007 timeline where certain characters are as they were before events/incidents/situations evolved and changed them (mostly for the better, perhaps a bit for the worse). Kate is still running from the authorities, commandeering a cab, eventually dropping off a very pregnant Claire who happened (as fate would have it) to be inside at the time. What Kate Does follows Kate on the island in 2007 and in LA in 2004. Sawyer pulls a gun on the Others (whose leader is Dogen, not particularly fond of the English language so he mostly uses an interpreter), while they are all involved in an altercation with Jack (responding to their desire to investigate Sayid, regarding whether or not he’s dead), so he can escape, doing so. Kate will follow, Jin accompanying her (hoping to find Sun), while Doge

Jack before the plane lands in alternate timeline Let’s assume that, as a dying Juliet declares to Sawyer, she has something to tell him, later, through Miles (at Sawyer’s persistence) telling him, “It worked”, intimating that Jack was indeed successful…and yet Jack must still resume his current situation on the island. Cuse and Lindelof have offered two timelines, one where those specific Oceanic (and freighter, in Miles’ case) survivors in 1977 ended up ahead in 2007 to encounter Jacob’s faithful and another where everyone on the Oceanic Flight 815 made it to LAX (with a wee bit of turbulence). LAX follows the landing and airport activities of the main cast. On the island Sawyer just wants to make Jack pay for Juliet’s death, crushed under the debris within the drill spot at the Swan. Sayid’s wound appears to be fatal, and yet there is a temple with “healing waters” Jacob insists Hurley must carry his dying friend, so that is a major mission that coincides with Bram and gunm