OK, so I spent more than two hours writing a detailed recap of this episode, and Blogger ate the entire post. Haters.
So here goes. Locke goes on a vision quest. Boone! Locke used to live on a commune and brought a cop into their growing operation, but then didn't kill him. Eko gets captured by a magic polar bear. Charlie tags along with Locke so he doesn't lose his job and end up on the Hobbit convention circuit. Locke fights the magic polar bear with hair spray. Desmond gets his underwear blown off by an "implosion," and possibly gets precognitive powers. Hurley says "dude" and "whoa."
Want to learn more, hit up Television Without Pity. I ain't writing that post again.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Lost: Further Instructions
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It opens with a small page wondering around the castle grounds being throughly ignored by everyone in Eternia. The poor page grumbles to himself that nobody will every notice him because he is a nobody. Then he finds on the ground a big pearl. The page picks up the pearl and goes about his buisness assuring himself that he will give it back to its rightful owner when they show up.
Teila stops him and admires the pearl, then walks away. The page is so happy that Teila, captain of the guard, admired the pearl he happened to be holding. w00t.
Cut to a village out in the middle of nowhere as a priest runs out of their temple screaming that the pearl left under their protection is gone. The few townspeople who actually listened to him shrugged him off asking "whats the worst that could happen?" What? Well according to legend a huge pieloving dragon shows up to eat everyone out of principle. Then like it was scripted down comes a dragon razing the town. You could tell the dragon was excited 'cause it had probally been waiting hundreds of years for these people to lose this pearl so that it would have a reason to eat them.
Back at the castle Man-At-Arms runs in to let everyone know there is a distress signal from a village being pwnt by a giant dragon. As everyone spins in circles freaking out Prince Adam runs like to the back of the room and says the might words "BY THE POWER OF GREY SKULL!" I always get hyped when I see the transformation animation on He-Man. It makes me want to do manly thing like chew glass.
In the distress signal the village mentioned that they lost a pearl. o rly? Teila mentions that she saw some kid who had a pearl, maybe they should go find him. The kid over hears this whole conversation and wants nothing to do with giving up the only thing that lets him talk to women, he is out.
Man-At-Arms, He-Man and Orko take off in a flying vehicle to go fight the dragon while Teila trys to find the boy.
When He-Man reaches where the dragon is it had already lit the whole planes no fire around the village. He-Man tells Man-At-Arms and Orko to go fight the dragon he is going to stop the flames, then he leaps out of the vehicle, which is like a mile above the ground.
He-Man lands in the middle of the buring field ready to work. How I ask, are you going to stop the fire. He notices a lake at the edge of the fire and declairs that the fix. Great, how are you going to get the water over the fire? Instead of telling me he decides to show me by running over to a mountain. He gives the ground one good punch that sends a crack all around the edge of the mountain. He then crawls under it and lifts the whole mountain over his head and tosses it leisurly into the lake, which puts out the fire by flooding the entire valley.
Meanwhile Teila successfully finds the boy and has a heart to heart with him. They discuss how its not about the objects they have that is the reason people like them, but for who the people are on the inside. The kid isn't convience until Teila nails him with the logic of
T:"do I have a pearl?"
Kid: "no"
T: "do you like me?"
Kid: "yes"
T: "well?"
owned.
Then the flood comes.
Teila and the boy saftly make it into the jet car thingy but he lost the pearl. They look down and there it is floating on a log in the flood. They watch as the pearl shakes, then cracks, then hatches into a baby dragon. Oh snap.
The momma dragon flys down but can't get to her baby because there is water there and it is too afraid of the water to save its own child. It will instead flap there as it's child drowns. If only we all felt that way we wouldn't need life guards at pools.
But lo! He-Man motions to jump into the water to save the dragon when the boy stops him. This is his mess and he is the one to right it. Then he leaps over the side into the water, while the vehicle is like 30 feet above the water.
The boy survies the jump and swims to the log. He holds the baby dragon up about arms lenght, which is more then enought room for the momma draon to reach down and save her child.
Cut to the end, and our moral.
What could the moral be?
Could it be: Objects don't make you popular.
Could it be: Its whats on the inside that makes you special.
Could it be: Pay attention to those who are emo, or they'll do something stupid?
Could it be: Follow the rules or you'll be eaten by a dragon?
Moral: Its Man-At-Arms and Orko. Man-At-Arms says to Orko that he saw something pretty amazing today, and Orko asks, and I quote
"was it when He-Man lifted up the entire mountain?"
No He-Man replys it was when the boy decided to take responsibility for his actions and leap out of the plane to save the baby dragon.
Best. Recap. Ever!
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