"Lost"
Posted March 2nd, 2006 by RD Heldenfels
I am still mulling over last night's episode, since I was fighting sleep when I watched it. Not because it made me sleepy, though. There was a lot going on, and not — as was the case in the new episode two weeks ago — baby steps of information. This felt as if the show was really telling us some things.
Still, in my mulling, I keep coming back to what looked like a couple of references to other productions — horror productions, in fact. First, I got a strong sense of "Kingdom Hospital" in the way the corridors were lit; that impression was underscored by the captive Other's reference to Stephen King.
(If you want, we can argue about whether the captive is an Other. He sure looks that way to me, more so now that he is sowing disagreement among the flight survivors. If you also want, we can argue about whether a "Kingdom Hospital" reference is to King or to the original Danish version. I'm sticking with King because of that Other line in the dialogue.)
The other idea, which popped into my head during one of my "Lost" conversations in the office, is that there was a lot of "Rosemary's Baby." I was even thinking that there was an "RB" poster involving an empty rocking chair, although the poster I saw online today did not include that image. But I still get an "RB" feel from the way Claire was treated.
Loved the scene with Eko. What a good character and performance — the way he was giving his confession but also sending a message to the Other that there was at least one scarier person than Jack and Locke in the survivor group now.
