Lost 2x10 - "The 23rd Psalm"

Yay, Lost is back!

I would have posted sooner, but I've been busy.

Anyway, on with the comments, observations, questions...

• The kid playing young Eko had a really good resemblence to the older actor.
• What was the purpose of the little incursion at the beginning? Were they just recruiting? And, if so, for what purpose? Were they some kind of anti-government rebels or just thugs out terrorizing the countryside?
• I didn't think it was possible, but Eko looked even more badass all thugged out with the corn rows and that sleeveless trench coat.
• He also didn't seem to take very well that comment about not having a soul. Some indication of guilt, maybe?
• Nice knife work, by the way.
• So Charlie had the statue; big deal. It wasn't broken and the drugs were still inside. I think he was keeping it around to prove to himself that he could live without the shit even though it was readily available. I kinda get the feeling that that's why he's hoarding all of the other ones too.
• I also think Claire overreacted. So he used to be a drug addict; woopty-fucking-do. She was on her way to another country to give her unborn baby up for adoption because of what a psychic told her. Charlie can at least be excused by the addiction; Claire's just an idiot.
• So, it seems that Eko's regular business was not drug smuggling. What did he do, then? Was he just a general purpose thug? He had better not have been one of those damned email scammers that I'm always hearing about. I really hate those fuckers...
• Teaching Michael how to shoot a gun doesn't really seem like a great idea. But using a perfectly good jar of salad dressing for target practice when you're stranded, indefinitely, on a creepy island in the middle of nowhere with no hope of resupply or rescue seems like an even worse one. All you gotta do is slop that shit on some leaves and bam, instant salad.
  Morons...
• It was a big jar, too.
• Why didn't Michael say anything about talking to Walt on the computer? Why didn't Charlie tell everyone else about Eko staring down the Smoke/Monster thing? You know, a bunch of people surviving an unsurvivable plane crash on a spooky island, I can handle. I can even handle the fact that everyone who happened to survive has some sort of weird or overly coincidental connection to both the island and the other survivors, but the idea that none of these people ever talk to each other about some of the crazy-ass shit that goes on around them just ruins my suspension of disbelief. Otherwise normal people in extraordinary circumstances is what most forms of fictional drama are about, but none of these characters are normal people. Hell, even Hurley, who is arguably the most "normal" of the group, keeps way too much shit to himself. If it was me, or anyone else I have ever met in my entire life, for that matter, stranded on that island, you had better god damned bet that if any of that shit happened to me, the first thing out of my mouth after running my ass back to camp would be "Dudes, guess what I just fucking saw."
• Speaking of such, the black smoke thing: WTF? I seem to remember reading an article that quoted the producers as saying that their show was not science fiction and that all the wierd shit that happens on the island can be explained through plausible modern science. Now, I'm no scientician, but that smoke thing seemed decidedly supernatural, at least given our (Earth's?) current level of technology.
• And yes, yes, the images that kept popping up in the cloud. Apparently they were images from Eko's backstory. Here's a link.
• I think it's got something to do with all that mention of remote viewing from the Dharma Initiative. That, combined with all of the crazy telepathic and psionic shit that seems to regularly occurr on this fucked up island, leads me to belive that the cloud of smoke is the collective consciousness of all those participating in the experiment. I've got no theory as to their purpose, though.
• The term "Jesus Stick" has now made its way in to my daily vocabulary.
• It seems that we now know why Eko was not initially taken by The Others. If we are to believe Goodwin in his claim that they only took the "good" people, it should be pretty obvious now that, even though Eko is clearly not the same man he used to be, he still ain't quite "good" yet.
• And about the priest thing; is he really a priest? Is a signature on ordination papers all you really "need" to become a priest? As someone raised Catholic, I have no idea. In any case, though, he seems to have really embraced it. I wonder if he was practicing during that tween time after his backstory and before the island.
• For that matter, why the fuck was Eko in Austrailia? Was he looking for his brother? Judging by the decomposition of the bodies, the condition of the plane, and how much Eko seems to have changed, I'd have to guess that is been at least two or three years since the events in his flashback.

Ok, that's it for now. Feel free to comment.

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