Walkabout by Bridgette

*Disclaimer – I make fun of LOST because I love it so much. Also, I constantly write in sentence fragments and capital letters. I defy the laws of grammar.

“Walt, you gotta keep that Dog quiet!” says Michael, and one of the greatest episodes of LOST ever begins. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? You are stranded on an island, and your dog RANDOMLY wakes up and starts barking his head off…and you chastise it? It’s trying to tell you something, dick. I've got mad love for Vincent. He always knows what's going on.

Something interesting, too. What’s in the fuselage? Is it sawyer? Nope. It’s Pumbaa. Pumbaas with a vengeance is more like it. Something interesting though, before the attack of the piggies – Sayid says, “everyone in there’s dead.” Knowing what we know, is he talking about the actual people who died in the crash, or is he talking about all of them? I’m pretty sure he was talking about the actual dead people, but you never know. Sam and I discuss at length on our podcast recording the fact that it’s pretty weird that there’s what sounds like a T-Rex in the jungle, and the people are absolutely terrified of the boars when they run out. Really Sayid? Sawyer, where’d your gun go? Just funny. I guess I’d be scared, but I wouldn’t think that the Iraqi Torturer would be screaming over some piggies. Also, you gotta love when Locke just busts out his suitcase full of knives.
Okay, lets get a little more serious here.

Rose in this episode is just amazing to me. I love her. I think I’d react in ways similar to hers if my love was missing. I love how she is confident that Bernard is alive. I feel like I would know too, if I loved someone that much. I admire such wise and poised characters like Rose. They love life, and they know life, and they make other people better by just being around them. Jack decides he needs to talk to her, even though he’s not a psychiatrist, and she gives him a little more than he gives her, I think. I love when she tells him, “You’ve got a nice way about you, Good soul.”

I really identified with Claire and the gang for most of the series. Charlie and Hurley trying to catch the fish was adorable. When they plan the little funeral type gathering, you feel greatly humbled by the fact that there are lives ending around them, and the most that they can say about the people is where their layover was going to be, or what seat they were in. I think love is a huge message in this show, (notice all the couples in that little heaven room?) and I think the fact that the couple who were so in love with each other had the most evidence for Claire to talk about. Watching this now, I really saw where that fit this show. They WERE very important.

Have you noticed I haven’t talked at ALL about Locke yet, and this is HIS episode? What can I say that Sam hasn’t. Seriously, this man is amazing. All of his stories are mind blowingly awesome, sad, humbling, triumphant…he goes through such a range. Rewatching this, I found more hate for his stupid office manager guy than ever before, especially since you know that the things he is saying are to a handicapped man. I felt like I was watching a middle schooler. I really hope that character wasn’t based off of a real person. I loved that Colonel Locke was his title basically due to the fact that he played a game similar to Risk with a good friend. I have a hard time watching this episode or even thinking about this episode without tearing up, but it brings an important message – whether you think you can or think you can’t you’re right. Locke could have done that damn walkabout…but he got something better. He got a REAL walkabout. I’m really excited to do a little more studying of Locke’s story knowing what we know now. I just can’t get over how horrible that office guy was to him. There had to be a devil set aside for that guy.

Some really important things came from this episode. Jack definitely has some Daddy issues. Shannon’s defense mechanisms are using her appearance to get someone else to take care of her. Sayid is still the island’s go to tech guy. Rose is wise, Claire is a humanitarian, and Hurley and Charlie are going to be Bffles. Most importantly, that secret that Mistah Locke wanted to tell Walt was that his poor legs didn’t work until he crashed in that sand. Think about someone Shannon who just stood there screaming instead of helping people and then think of Locke who wiggled his toes, had the greatest miracle of his life happen, and spent no more than a second relishing in his own joy and divinity before rushing to help others. Who would you be?