No really, it was special, for that was the episode title 'Special', but it was also special for all the people that watched and tweeted and discussed. Thanks to all of you including: @batchoutlost @hawaii @joseph_lavalley @kilinahe @lostdogs10 @LOST_WFTB @nyakototo @Psifen @Tomwilson24 @ZachsMind
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Special - the episode - was about Michael and Walt's relationship. We've had hints dropped since the beginning that Mike and Walt are new to the whole father-son thing. Michael is a bit protective of Walt in some places, and in other places he's been dismissive. John Locke has seem to taken a liking to Walt, but also has been helpful in getting Michael established as a father figure. For instance, while John found Walt's dog Vincent using a whittled dog whistle, he let Michael take the credit. So it's a strange triangle already at the beginning when Michael finds Locke teaching Walt how to throw one of those 'now, Aaat's a knife' knives that Locke is always toting. Michael don't like it and tell's Locke to stay away.
In the backstory we meet Walt's mother (who moonlight's as a Forensic Pathologist at the Jeffersonian... tossing a Bones) who is almost as self-obsessed as Michael. Then we find out that she's even more when she drop's Michael like a rock and takes his boy Walt away to Amsterdam then to Sydney in her quest for her career. Michael also lost his parental rights to Susan (that's Walt's ma) and her also self-obsessed husband Brian. After Susan gets sick and dies (rather suddenly, was it because she ticked off Walt?) Brian decides to drop Walt off on Michael's door step, well except he has Michael fly to Sydney and pick up Walt, so scratch the whole door step line. Anyways, that is how Michael, Walt, Vincent and their load of daddy issues got onto Oceanic Flight 815.
There was some drama with Walt, a Polar Bear that required Team Locke to join forces with Michael to rescue Walt from the white menace *yawn*.
In other, island news, Charlie is jonesin for a Claire fix (hey! both their names start with C and end with e! Don't mistake coincidence for fate. oh rite!) and goes to Sawyer to retrieve her things. Then proceeds to totally invade Claire's privacy and read through her journal. Hope he hides it fast, because while out looking for Vincent (oh, didn't I tell you, the reason Walt got trapped by a Dharma bear, was that Vincent ran out into the jungle) Locke finds ...
wait for it
Claire.
So there's the wrap up, after we iron out technical difficulties with the friend feed, we'll be posting the Live Tweet Transcript (mucho thanks to tweet wrangler @batchout for his assist each week).
Til Monday, then.
Here's the Transcript with more you, and less me!
#LOST #WFTB Tweet-Cap for LOST #114 "Special" LiveTweet (read top to bottom) #s1e14
@batchoutlost: @LOST_WFTB not showing up. I will update tomorrow, but here's something...
@LOST_WFTB: It's a feature not a bug! ;) Enjoy.
Model_Melissa:for all you watching tonight, my theory is that Brian is AN OTHER, prolly working for Widmore. Let me know what ya'll think later.
nyakototo:Is there a Walt drinking game?
ZachsMind:It's 8:01 here i pushed play who's with me?
batchoutlost:Walt! Count at 4. No Dudes or Sonofabitch. One "my boy"
nyakototo:I agree with you Hurley.
batchoutlost:Michael is trying, but he's got some horrible "Away parenting" lack of skills
ZachsMind:I lost count already with the Walts.
joseph_lavalley:@ZachsMind I'm on board & we're rolling!
batchoutlost:#Bones fans just got thrown one :)
kilinahe:I think that's the Baby Emporium on Nimitz.
Tomwilson24:My DVD player has gone funny and I'm watching this in green!!
ZachsMind:What is with that hat?
nyakototo:And I think Michael was convinced he wore the pants in that relationship.
batchoutlost:Numbers alert (4) Aces on Boone's shirt
Psifen:Angry angry Michael.
nyakototo:@LOST_WFTB Didn't she play Jack's girlfriend in Party of Five?
kilinahe:@ZachsMind: the hat? What's with the pigtails?
Tomwilson24:just realized I'm watching the wrong episode as well I'm having a nightmare
ZachsMind:She refused to take Michael's name? She knew something.
nyakototo:Hulk Dawson.
batchoutlost:"Police on your ass" will have to wait a season or so. Locke is GREAT at delegating. Boone gets socked!
nyakototo:@Tomwilson24 Eh? *LOL*
joseph_lavalley:@ZachsMind Boone is so ineffectual; it's actually kind of endearing.
batchoutlost:Sayid and Michael both have a very stern, psycho angry stares!
nyakototo:Baby Walt is so cute! :D
Tomwilson24:Micheal & Sun should have got together but maybe they still will
nyakototo:Not with K-Fed Dawson, that's for sure.
ZachsMind:Boone makes the tactical error of bringing a shoulder to a knife fight;manages to walk away unscathed. Izat ineffectual?
lostdogs10:i forgot about the not being married part
nyakototo:Despite how his anger issues get to me, I do sympathize with Michael's plight.
joseph_lavalley:@ZachsMind Well, when you put it like THAT.... :-]
ZachsMind:She purposefully didn't marry Michael. Like she just wanted his sperm. In the store it looked like she was humoring him.
batchoutlost:Does "You cant grow up in this place" -Michael at least hint at a fountain of youth? Echos "You musn't let another raise him" -Claire
kilinahe:the real question is, where did Vincent come from in the first place? That dog is BAAAAAAAD news.
Tomwilson24:This green tint I have adds something to the show I think they should shoot s6 with one
ZachsMind:maybe it's 20/20 hindsight but she knew something early on. It explains more about how Michael behaves: he's been played.
batchoutlost:"kinado de useppe keneal polar?" I love @Lostpedia at times (during scenes) like this. Polar bear, yadda yadda, blah
Psifen:Michael's attempt at a heart to heart talk with Walt, 10 seconds after it starts he rips the comic book out of his hand.
kilinahe:Chinatown.
nyakototo:Look both ways Michael.
ZachsMind:We learn later in the series watching Juliet's story, just how manipulative the forces at work can be.
Tomwilson24:@kilinahe Nooooo he's White although he has a black nose???
batchoutlost:Stunt driver makes $$$ n LOST. Does everyone realize it's basically the same Gold Car in most accidents? Except for a Bus once...
nyakototo:Hahaha Sawyer. I know exactly what you mean.
nyakototo:That behaviour is repulsive. It's very hard to hold onto that sympathy.
batchoutlost:"I'm gonna get some water..." Walt knows wassup! / They made a whole show for these Scenes... Gossip Girl :) / Jacob loves pens!
ZachsMind:"You like the art, huh?" Michael's not trying to figure how to talk to Walt. He's trying to see himself in him.
nyakototo:And listen to me right after I throw that comic book into the fire.
ZachsMind:Remember how they took care of the guy who was Juliet's anchor? He gets hit by a bus in season three.
batchoutlost:Comic Book Up In Smoke! Boone has 4 aces (in the hole they found in the ground)
nyakototo:Ohhhmmm. The shot of the polar bear just made me think of the theory I have on Walt. Crazy it may seem.
hawaii:@kilinahe: Michael went shopping at USA Baby in Waipahu. His apartment was in Chinatown, he was hit on Bishop St. http://bit.ly/ztZcH
ZachsMind:Not a stretch to say the second Michael decided to take Walt from Amsterdamn, something wanted him out of the picture.
Tomwilson24:I wonder if Walt wished Susan was dead??? Like the bird
kilinahe:: "I had to hear about your accident from someone else. You should have called me". God. Shut up, Susan.
Tomwilson24:Dom did really well with the scene where he doesn't want to read the diary
lostdogs10:Susan is really cold blooded to Mike
batchoutlost:GOOD: Hurley is such a cool friendly dude in these situations BAD: It throws me off the Dude count :) KATE=OnTheProwl! CHARLIE=Sober!
ZachsMind:Wasn't that Hurley's comic book? =)
batchoutlost:Charlie and the Diary: Like Charlie Chaplin physical humor, so funny!
nyakototo:@LOST_WFTB That eerie semblance between the two is dead on.
Tomwilson24:I'm now convinced Walt caused his mom to die
batchoutlost:Holy Crap the Vincent/Walt Tracking shot looks like a Camera Journey of Cerberus! The "Red Leash" was a bit M Night Shayamalanish
Psifen:Walt is like Ned from Pushing Daisies...
joseph_lavalley:"Birds of Egypt"??
Tomwilson24:If she died Yesterday and he lives in Aus he must have jumped right on a plane errgh what a creep
nyakototo:My theory on Walt is astral projection. Ties in with the early Egyptian teachings of the Ka. Crazy I know. My theory I mean.
ZachsMind:I'm racking my brain trying to think what's in Amsterdam. Does Widmore have business there? Did Susan work for him?
nyakototo:@Tomwilson24 Got the same feeling.
Psifen:Real descriptive there buddy "When he's around, things happen." Sounds pretty normal to me.... lol
nyakototo:@Psifen Pushing Daisies!!! <3
nyakototo:The polar bear. Love that coincidence.
batchoutlost:The Attack of the 7-Frame Polar Bear!
Tomwilson24:I wonder if Jacob would have saved walt or if he did
lostdogs10:Way to be a selfish Brian. Why would he even adopt Walt?
batchoutlost:Another "I can't be his father" Thomas+WIdmore. Special Object Alert! "Things Happen!" I think Walt has the power to doom Michael,but
ZachsMind:What is Walt's ability anyway? To make birds crash into windows? What #crapsuperpowers that'd be.
Psifen:I really don't think that Brian said Walt could take Vincent, nice way to stick it to the bum, Michael.
nyakototo:I think Walt is behind that polar bear coincidence.
batchoutlost:@ZachsMind I think it's more that he prevents birds from escaping his death grip. (Bad Parenting hurts) An Other Dog from the Start
nyakototo:I was always convinced that knife would the do the crazy Magic Bullet thing.
nyakototo:I was always convinced that knife would do the crazy Magic Bullet thing.
kilinahe:@ZachsMind: I don't think she played anyone. I think she was doing what she thought was the right thing. Which it wasn't.
lostdogs10:Walt could use his mind's eye and appear in diffrent places. Mike was about Walt .
ZachsMind:The shot when Michael looks at his letters to Walt, there's the Dharma octogon hanging over him - his whole life...
kilinahe:Michael's mail was intercepted, just like Desmond's.
batchoutlost:and here is where we see Locke with A ROPE again but pulling up. The first scene like that (pre- hatch) was /w Jack & the VIne rescue
Tomwilson24:Someone suggested to be the other day that the black somehow destroyed the Statue
batchoutlost:Boxed Letters. Makes me think of the Widmore Penny Desmond. WALT Smiling = Priceless!
nyakototo:@LOST_WFTB *LOL* Back and to the left... back and to the left... That inane JFK theory.
nyakototo:I seriously loved Boone and Locke together.
Psifen:Seriously Boone? You've never heard of a dog whistle?
ZachsMind:Vincent wasn't in the deal! Vincent's the wild card! It was Michael's idea for him to be on the plane.
nyakototo:Is Claire a dog? I'M KIDDING!
nyakototo:@LOST_WFTB Locke knows EVERYTHING!
Psifen:Bad Robot!
batchoutlost:GhostClaire. Back. BOOM The Black Rock? Maybe it's a Person (well, entity anyway), not a Place? The Black Locke[?] :)
nyakototo:@LOST_WFTB I went both ways in my head. It always goes both ways. Damn you Locke. *LOL*
ZachsMind:Vincent wasn't Jacob's idea or Blackie's idea. Whoever is orchestrating things, doesn't have Vincent's 'leash.'
lostdogs10:looks like Mike was using his mind's eye when drawing the pictures.
Tomwilson24:After watching that I think Walt could be a bigger player than I thought
kilinahe:Susan keeps the kid/Sawyer, he hits like a ponce/Vincent? Dog of Doom!
Tomwilson24:Did anyone hear that Jacob was eating a Red herring off a Black rock in the finale
ZachsMind:This is one of the better episodes. I keep finding myself watching more than tweeting.
nyakototo:@Tomwilson24 Yes. Damn you Jacob. *LOL*
ZachsMind:Claire. AND THUD. Where she's been doesn't really get paid off until S2, and even then we never get the whole story.
lostdogs10:@ZachsMind theory, maybe Suzy was working for the DI which is why she moved around. Maybe the DI did experiments on walt
ZachsMind:I'm hoping in part of S6 the children of Lost come to save the day. Walt, Aaron, and Ji Yeon all grown up.
ZachsMind:Didn't we learn in S2 that the Black Rock is a boat landlocked on the Island? Presumably Richard Alpert's ship?
batchoutlost:You are a Genius, Brotha! // RT @LOST_WFTB Walt's comic the key/ burned all up in the fire / polar bear revenge #haiku
ZachsMind:Ooh! Maybe Walt's not special because of Michael but because of what they were doing to him in Amsterdam?
lostdogs10:@ZachsMind At the end of season 1 they get dynomite off the black rock. We don't know if Rich was on boat.
ZachsMind:Maybe Susan didn't pick Michael, but someone else put him in her path. She the DI would only hire her if she had a kid?
lostdogs10:Oh wait that was s2
ZachsMind:@lostdogs10 Yes I know we haven't seen Richard on the Black Rock that's why I said presumably, but all signs point there.
lostdogs10:Wasn't in Exodu they got the dynomite if so that's season 1, So confused jumping back and forth
ZachsMind:However you slice it, I really don't see S6 ending w/o Walt's return.
ZachsMind:You're right @lostdogs10 it was the S1 finale where we see the Black Rock for the first time.
Tomwilson24:RT @ZachsMind: @lostdogs10 It was a slave ship wasn't it, Did Egypt have a lot of djavrs slaves in the 1800's
lostdogs10:@ZachsMind How do we know Richard isn't egyptian. He can get into the Temple
ZachsMind:Well he wears poofy shirts, and he was making a ship in a bottle. The writers at least want us to think he's a pirate. =)
ZachsMind:He does have the dark eyelashes tho. Maybe they cast him cuz he looks like a walking hieroglyph.
ZachsMind:I saw Nestor Carbonell recently in a commercial for spanish TV. I think he was really a Latin Lover kinda guy B4 Lost.
ZachsMind:Back to "Special" Hasn't been a fave of mine before but I must admit to getting sucked in this time. It's dark & intense.
lostdogs10:@ZachsMind We've seen Rich in 1954, 77,2005,2007 non puffy shirt was I believe 2007 because Ben and Sun were there
lostdogs10:I like the next episode better. I never noticed how annoying Boone was until rewatched Special
ZachsMind:@lostdogs10 but we didn't see Richard in ancient times when Jacob & Blackie were waiting for the Black Rock to arrive.
ZachsMind:By Special the writers may have decided Boone was gonna die. Horror films often make the first major victim unlikable.
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