Comments on: Terry’s Oquinn Interview about Locke

By: Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Atlantis — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:41:22 +0000

Like to watch Stargate Atlantis episodes and also Lost. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

By: Jack&LockeYummyEachOther

Jack&LockeYummyEachOther — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:42:25 +0000

I agree. I see Locke chasing Jack through the jungle. After seeing how fast he is, Locke says, “The Island is strong in this one,” and right as he’s about to destroy Jack, Hans Sawyer emerges and punches him clear to the other island. of course before this, Locke will destroy Princess Benmai because of his allegiance with Ricardo Juan Kenomi….great job!

By: wnt2kno

wnt2kno — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:36:58 +0000

Oh and i’m glad to see he has good taste in golf clubs! (just like mine).

By: wnt2kno

wnt2kno — Thu, 21 May 2009 01:35:28 +0000

i’ve seen interviews that had surprising comments from him — and disagree though about the inglorious death. I think his characters (body at least) will be integral to the story in season 6 and i think it was great as an audience member to finally realize how Locke got his new found confidence (it wasnt him at all!).

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Wed, 20 May 2009 03:06:24 +0000

Walt was a huge mystery that culminated into a boy going to school in New York.
Daniel Faraday had the resources to explain some of the island’s secrets, and he walked alone, gun-drawn, into a camp full of armed hostiles.
And now the miraculously resurrected, destiny-driven John Locke is the equivalent of a guy in a mask.

It’s very insulting

I agree with that completely and you could have easily listed 10 more items. This show has always had it’s share of eye-rolling plot contrivances (people about to reveal something getting cut off by someone running in to breathlessly announce “Jack [or Kate or whoever] is back!” is my “favorite”) but they just piled that crap on in season 5.

As soon as Daniel separated himself from Kate and Jack, I knew he was going to get shot by Eloise, I just knew it, it was that predictable. As soon as he got shot, I knew he was going to reveal he was her son and the screen would *boom* LOST.

When John’s body tumbled out of the container, I didn’t go “Holy crap! Didn’t see that one coming!” I went “You bastards! John has meant nothing the past 5 seasons”, it could have been Hugo’s co-worker Johnny’s body that Esau inhabited for all it mattered.

And if they try the “But! But! a tiny speck of John’s consciousness is still in Esau and will grow in strength until it battles Esau for control of the 50-something bald man’s body and soul!!11!!!” trick, I’ll never watch this show again.

By: jon

jon — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:53:48 +0000

I think you missed the part where they dumped his body on the beach like a sack of potatoes.

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Wed, 20 May 2009 02:37:05 +0000

If Walt serves no purpose to the story now, then that’s really REALLY shitty writing, inexcusable. He’s presented as being possessed of paranormal abilities, he’s appeared in tents talking backwards, then they disappear him for a whole season because they need a reason for the character to have grown up because they either a) didn’t care or b) didn’t plan that the actor was going to go through freakin’ puberty and that’s it?!?

And you have it backwards, Michael was the one who written so horribly after the first part of season 1 that he served no purpose, an interesting character (artist, builder, knew how to design an aqueduct etc.) turned in to a guy screaming “WAAAAALLLLTTTTT [sob] My boy! WAAAAALLLLTTTTT”. I was relieved when Christian said “You can go now”, the writers had killed Michael off years before.

By: JimmyJon

JimmyJon — Wed, 20 May 2009 01:12:33 +0000

well apparently since we haven’t seen him all that much since his kidnapping. Writers have apparently written him off, besides any appearances from him now would seem forced, especially with his dad being dead, he serves no purpose to the story.

By: Henry Holland

Henry Holland — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:28:58 +0000

As far as the mysteries goes, well, what’s a mystery? There’s still people out there who don’t know why there were polar bears on a tropical island, and if you look at lists of mysteries, there’s a good percentage of them that are continuity errors! Sure, I’d love to know why everyone mixed up Scott and Steve, but I’ve resigned myself to that not being answered.

What does bug me is that if you think of the last 48 episodes (seasons 4-6) in terms of how the show was run in the first three seasons, that’s two seasons of 24 episodes. So, roughly a third of the way in to the final season, they introduce two characters that are seemingly what the show is REALLY about?

I mean, I keep going back to the thought that almost everything we’ve seen for 5 seasons is pointless, all the drama, tension, deaths, tears and occasional yucks along the way were irrelevant because of stupid plot contrivances like time loops and the boring fate v. free-will debate. If “this” always happens, why am I’m supposed to be all bought in to what happens to these characters? Because of a few more plot contrivances, a handful of them are going to change something? So what!

I can see why Terry O’Quinn seems less than enthusiastic about the turn the show has taken.

By: DarthBubba

DarthBubba — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:20:10 +0000

He is LockesDad. . . he has a rep to live up to.

By: johr77

johr77 — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:14:51 +0000

“but really, he’s just a special boy with some abilities”

Were gonna have to take the boy…….. ummmmm why?,

he’s just a special boy with some abilities, and thats it?

By: AlwaysInWaltsHead

AlwaysInWaltsHead — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:09:14 +0000

I agree with a lot of points you make. I think what got me annoyed most, is one of the producers saying that the show has always been character driven and not so much about the environment they’re in. Going on to say that we won’t get all the answers about the island that we may want but the character storylines will be completed by the end of season six. How can they throw so much info at us over the whole series, build these huge arcing storylines centered around all the islands strange and somtimes wacky occurances, and then not explain ALL of them before the series end? I’m a fan but it seems like they are setting us up for disappointment. There might have been some good creative ideas floating around the writing in the begining but that is long gone by this point.

By: AlwaysInWaltsHead

AlwaysInWaltsHead — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:58:45 +0000

I’ll go a step further. How do we even know that was really Locke that got up at the crash site in the pilot episode? Maybe the toe wiggling shot was the guy in the black shirt streching out his new Locke body suit for the first time.

By: icy_one

icy_one — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:46:49 +0000

Lost aired Wednesday night, and on Thursday he was in a golf pro-am – do you think he had time to watch it on Wednesday? Probably not. He even asked the reporter not to spoil it for him because he wanted to be surprised. Also I fail to see what killing his character has to do with any of this – if he didn’t care about the show as you claim, then what kind of punishment is killing off a character you say he doesn’t care for while keeping him on the show for the remaining season?

The only person that comes off as a bit of an a-hole is you.

By: mpl

mpl — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:45:52 +0000

I loved this ending to the Locke story line. All along he’d been told he was special; we’d been told he was special. But at the end both he and we were doubting it. His suicide/murder was spectacular. We knew we’d be seeing him again…but when we did, I didn’t like him. It felt wrong to me. I didn’t like seeing Ben lick his boots. He seemed unsympathetic in ways that I can’t put my finger on. Smug, maybe? I didn’t like him as the leader. And then he asks Ben to do his dirty work for him. The reveal that it was John in the coffin, that he WAS dead, that he was NEVER really special – that hit me right in the chest. I was fond of John and I am sorry for him now. As far as I’m concerned the writers handled this brilliantly. RIP, John Locke. We’ll miss you — we really will.