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Date Posted: 12:01:19 01/19/06 Thu
Author: anom
Subject: Re: Correct copy of: A Penitent Heart spoilers for Lost 2.10 "The 23rd Psalm"
In reply to: Rufus 's message, "Correct copy of: A Penitent Heart spoilers for Lost 2.10 "The 23rd Psalm"" on 04:13:09 01/15/06 Sun

"So, I've come to visit you for the first time in three years and you won't hear my confession."

I wonder if this implies that Yemi used to take Eko's confessions. Or maybe this is a standing joke btwn. them.

Interesting comparison w/Aaron & Moses, esp. since Aaron was a priest--the High Priest, in fact--& Moses wasn't (he ordained Aaron & his sons as priests but was not one himself). So which brother is Eko in this comparison? Is either of the brothers speaking for the other? Does Yemi speak for who Eko would have been if he hadn't been taken away? Is Eko now trying to be the voice of his dead brother, to carry on in his place? Aaron was also the older brother, like Eko. I don't know if anyone ever actually asked him why he couldn't be more like Moses; they didn't grow up together, so maybe not. But Eko may well ask himself why he can't be more like his little brother.

"I am your brother and I would never do anything to hurt you. But my friends, if you do not do what I ask, they will burn this church to the ground."

Eko has been shown as the one in charge here. He won't hurt his own brother, but he won't stop his "friends" from burning the church; in fact, he's the one making the threat. He tries to tell himself there's at least an element of doing right in this, & I suppose he is drawing a line for himself, but he's also being hypocritical, & I suspect he knows it. On the other hand, his brother doesn't call him on it.

I may have missed 1 or 2 episodes. I don't remember ever seeing the black smoke before, at least not looking like it had a mind of its own. "Black smoke" references I've seen looked like it just came from a fire, possibly lit as a signal by the Others, up the mountain. Has it been shown before acting like a "creature"? Is this what Locke saw in Season 1?

The scene at the airstrip doesn't make sense to me. Why would Eko's partner take the wounded Yemi into the plane, & then keep Eko off it? If he wants the drugs for himself or thinks Eko would get him arrested by insisting on going to a hospital, fine, but then why let Yemi on the plane in the 1st place? I feel like some of the story of the relationship btwn. Eko & his troops must have been cut.

"I have to ask when this process of becoming a priest for real started, on the airstrip in Africa, or after he killed the Others?"

I'd say it was before he killed the Others, because right after the crash, as soon as he'd helped some other survivors to shore, he waded back in & started pulling bodies out of the water. I think the process had to have started already, or why would he have bothered w/people who were already dead? Ooh, maybe there's a parallel here: I almost wrote "people who couldn't be saved." Yemi had written Eko off as someone who couldn't be saved, couldn't be forgiven, even by God; in fact, that very statement may have been what made Yemi start...reconsidering. Was Eko dead inside? Did whatever happened after he was kept from boarding 1 plane & after he did board another make him feel that he could be saved after all? In any case, I'd say the process of his becoming a priest was completed when he put his brother's cross on (took up his brother's cross, in the sense of his burden or task?) & said, "Yes. I am." Although, especially given that, I was surprised that he apparently burned his brother's body along w/the plane rather than burying it. Wouldn't he have wanted to give Yemi as close to a Christian burial as he could?

Of course, the least believable part of all this is that Eko's plane crashed on the same unknown island where Yemi's plane had crashed years earlier. But it's certainly in keeping w/the theme that the characters are on the island to come face to face w/their pasts.

I wonder what did happen w/Eko after the plane w/the drugs took off. It sounds like he was pretty well known, so the priest disguise might not have bought him much time. How long ago were the events we saw in Nigeria? How did he end up in Australia, heading for the US? Did he think he had put his violent ways behind him, & then when he killed again, even in self-defense, it affected him so strongly he stopped speaking? I definitely want to see more of his backstory. It occurs to me he & Sayid would (will, I hope) have a lot to talk about.

I'd been thinking, based on some things Eko said to Locke in a previous ep (something like don't confuse coincidence w/fate?), that the writers were introducing a new element into the Locke vs. Jack/faith vs. science axis. Is it a more specifically religious faith? This ep might make it seem that way, but when Eko's group of crash survivors found the other Dharma bumbunker (sorry, I just had to!), he was the one who picked up & kept the Bible they found. When he gets to the main group in their bunker & finds out about the Dharma filmstrip, he opens the Bible & we see a space has been cut out of the inner pages to hold a piece of film that was missing from the other one. This Bible doesn't mean what you might have expected, & Eko's religion may turn out not to either. Has something been cut out of it too? And also replaced by something more "practical"? Has this already been covered in the story of how he became a warlord?

I forgot to set my VCR to tape this episode (I had a feeling I was forgetting something when I left in the morning, but I thought that meant something I needed to take with me), so thanks for posting the summary, Rufus. Then they showed it again before the new ep, so I got to see it for myself after all! And you were right about "This is our island" in the new one. But I think I disliked it more than any other ep so far.

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