Tin Man (Plus 'What aunt_zelda Thinks: The Shape of Things to Come'

[aunt_zelda]

Yahoo for Tin Man! I mean, I know the acting was a bit weak here and there, and Azkadelia (sp?) flashed her cleavage around a bit more than was neccesary, and Raw didn't do much of ... anything, really.
But I loved what it tried and mostly-succeeded to do. I'm talking about the world itself, the O.Z. I mean, all the stuff, how clever was that?!  Central City was fascinating, and I'm slightly annoyed we didn't spend enough time underground with all the criminals and outlaws, because it was causing me to have pleasant Firefly flashbacks.
I liked how they wove all the old stuff from 'The Wizard of Oz' into it, especially the Road, DG's waitress uniform, Dorothy Gale, and the Tin Man himself (go Cain!) It was a bold move, considering this is a generation addicted to Wicked, and I think it worked pretty well.
On the subject of Cain (and Glitch/Ambrose) WOOHOO! Those two carried the show for me, and that was even before the 'sweetheart' bit. Cain, aka Mr. Badass Angsty, calling Glitch sweetheart?!
Let's not let that overshadow their previous moments of not-straight-manly bonding, when Glitch was talking about dancing (SQUEE!) and taking care of Cain in the van (BOYSCOUT!) and really just about anything.
I choose to ignore Cain's son. They should have left him as mysteriously-missing, a cactus could act better than that poor boy.

Yeah, I know I said I wasn’t gonna watch Lost anymore, because it’s stupid and I’m protesting the latest timeslot, but as I’m watching it online, and not at abc.com … I feel I’m still protesting.

Besides, this episode kicked ass.

 

 

‘The Shape of Things to Come’

 

“Australia is key to the whole game.”

Is it now?

 

Ben plays the piano. *grinz*

When Locke and Sawyer enter, a smile plays about Ben’s lips for about three seconds. Did he expect hot OT3 action?

Upon hearing ’14 J’ Ben grabs a big ass gun from the piano bench.

 

Ah, it’s a Ben episode! Yaaaaay! He wakes up in the Sahara desert … in a parka. I love this on-drugs show.

 

Then Ben throws up some Slitheen slime. Ew.

 

Then some … Arab guys ride up on horses. They have headscarves and big guns, though not as big as the one Ben has stashed in the piano bench. He plays stupid and scared, one of them feels him up checks for weapons, finds something in Ben’s pocket good lord and then Ben goes all badass. He kills the guy on the horse, the horse screams, he says something badass, then he knocks out the other guy.

 

“Frenchie and the kids.”

*tears up*

 

“It’s very important that you survive what’s about to happen here, John, so I need you to stay close to me!”

Ben is clearly on the slashers’ side.

 

“You want to live, I’m your best chance.”

And lo, the slash keeps getting slashier!

 

“When? ‘When’ is kind of a relative term …”

*giggles* Daniel (whose name I had to look up because I forgot, I thought it was Dave) should guest-star on Doctor Who!

 

Good lord how stupid are the Red Shirts? REALLY?! Three of them just got dropped in like three seconds! I mean, the first guy was ok, but the two who came out TO THE SOUND OF GUNFIRE AND YELLS TO STAY INSIDE have me wondering how they lasted this long on the Island in the first place. Seriously.

*sigh* Sawyer, don’t you know that the table-trick only works in movies? In real life it’s pointless …

 

Whoa … rocket launcher! That’s what they killed the Judge with!

 

Back to Flash!Ben in … Tunisia. I really, really, really want him to meet up with Sydney Bristow, or, better yet, JACK BRISTOW. Because I can’t get enough of Victor Garber. It’s kinda disturbing …

 

“Certainly, Mr. Moriarty.”

*sporfleDIEZ* OMG BEN IS THE MASTER!

 

Ben asks the date for the fan’s sake, and it’s October 24^th, 2005.

 

ZOMG! It’s after the crash! Ben is in super-secret-agent-man mode! And look, there’s his uke James Bond, Sayid, on the TV!

James Bond Doctor Who Sayid says he just wants to bury his wife as the cameras get as close as they can to that sexy, sexy face.

 

Ben says he needs Locke so they can go find Jacob. The OT3 fics just write themselves on this show …

 

OMG thank you Shiva and Zues that Claire lives!

 

Hee, Hurley is putting Aaron in a laundry basket. *giggles* Better than the piano …

 

Hurley hurls a chair through the window for Sawyer and Claire. I think when preparing for a zombie invasion, the WINDOWS should be the first thing you fortify. Especially if they’re BIG ASS PICTURE WINDOWS.

 

“Sound like a good plan to me.” Sawyer grabs Ben by the collar and looks at Locke. “What do you say, on three?”

The doorbell rings. It’s Miles. He comes bearing a walkie-talkie. So Constantino is open to negotiations now?

 

ZOMG is that Nadia’s picture? I’m inclined to believe it is because Sayid is one of the people holding up the coffin. Oh god … I’m so sorry, Sayid! No happy ending for you! *huggles him*

Meanwhile Ben takes more pictures with one of those canon-sized lenses that spies use.

 

Sayid tackles Ben, realizes it’s Ben, and demands to know how he got off the Island. So this is pre-James-Bond Sayid, but post-Island Sayid. Also Ben is there to find the guy who murdered Sayid’s wife.

 

Sayid crumples the photo, which is dramatic and all but silly, seeing as he might want to have another look at the guy and I doubt there are recycling containers in this kind of place. If there are, they’re probably buried under the artful rubble.

 

Also, Sayid breaks my heart every time he cries. Make him stop, please, and never ever EVER let him near David Tennant!

 

“Who’s Charles Whitmore?” asks Sawyer, who’s been too busy doling out nicknames and shagging Kate to discuss things on the forums.

 

Ben does that creepy/cool thing where he spews stuff about a person. Apparently Mr. Keet worked with mercenary organizations none of them go by the name ‘Ravenwood’ though, mostly in Uganda. Remember Uganda, people, I’m sure Libby was married to a guy from there, who was Jack and Claire’s half-brother, who made-out with Tom in Charlie’s flat the year Walt was born.  

 

Ben knows that, previously on Lost, they wouldn’t kill a child, but this is at a new timeslot so he tells a truth and a lie. The truth is that he stole Alex as a baby ‘from an insane woman.’ The lie is that Alex ‘means nothing’ to Ben. I think we can tell from his tortured puppy-eyes that she means the world to him, but ex-Marine-Dude is too far away to see the eyes.

And then they shoot her. THEY SHOOT ALEX. As in, DEAD. They shot her IN THE HEAD!

 

Sawyer and Locke debate in the background, and all we see is Ben, who’s frozen. It’s awful. Then, after what must have been eons for him, Ben says “He changed the rules.”

 

Then Ben goes into his closet of slashy indication his secret closet the closet damnit, there’s no way to say it non-slashily, I’m sorry! The-room-behind-the-wardrobe. He goes into that, a big steel door comes down behind him, he opens a secret passage, and goes into it.

 

Ben is accosted by the murderer-guy. Then Sayid shows up and shoots the murderer-guy with a silencer gun. This does no end of good for the fangirls. Then he shoots murderer-guy until the gun runs out of bullets. Then he clicks the gun a few times.

Ben eyes him warily. “That should do it …”

He starts off.

“Wait! Where do you think you’re going.”

Personally, when confronted with a badass hottie who’s angry, I’d do whatever the hell he said, but Ben tells Sayid to get on with his life and then turns his back on him. Sayid says he has no life, and doesn’t shoot Ben as I thought he would.

 

“Once you let your grief become anger it will never go away.”

Whatever you say, Master Yoda, I’m just here for the polar bears …  

 

“This is my war, not yours.”

Then Sayid finally gets fed up with Ben and grabs him. (Squee!) He says, in a low, tortured voice, that he spent eight years looking for Nadia, married her, and yesterday he buried her. “So don’t tell me this is not my war.”

Sayid, this way lies badness! (And smokin’ hot long coats!)

“Benjamin,” says Sayid. “Who’s next?”

Whoa!

Ben promises he’ll be in touch. Then he walks off, and, a millisecond before the shot changes, he SMIRKS. OH MY GOD. I’d be willing to wager he had Nadia killed, then framed that-guy, just to get Sayid working for him! Bastard …

 

Ben appears out of his magic closet and squeezes past an angry Sawyer. “Excuse me, James.”

“Excuse you?!” flabbergasts Sawyer. Hee hee, I love him …

 

Shouldn’t Claire have made a sling for Aaron out of a blanket by this time? It’s stupid to carry around the baby in the same blue blanket all the time. You’ll need use of both your arms, girl!

 

Then the Monster shows up. This time it looks like a big, black, lightning-casting snake with fists of doom.

 

Everyone else runs off. Locke gives Ben a gun, and, to the sound of sad-pianos, Ben closes Alex’s very-dead eyes and kisses her forehead. For a second he looks like Ianto, after he finds Lisa dead.

 

 

Back at the Beach with the Jackalopes (yeah, I forgot they existed too) Daniel works on … techy things by the light of those-miraculous-torches. He fixed the phone-thing. Kate smiles at him. Silly Kate, you don’t need another boyfriend!

 

Daniel sends out the message “What … happened … to … the … Doctor?”

Oh don’t worry about him, Danny-boy! He’ll regenerate in a few hours into a new model just as hot, though more ADD, than the first! Don’t you fret!

Whoa, did they buy the Morse-code noises from Jericho?!

 

Bernard – swiftly filling in the main-character slot left vacant by all the deaths around the Island – uses his Morse-Code skilz to say that Daniel’s translation is wrong. What the message actually said was “What are you talking about? The Doctor is fine.”

Do the words ‘Time Lord’ mean anything to my fellow Americans?

 

Jack thinks that the best way to get info out of Danny-boy is to get all up in his little hobbit-grill and snarl. This actually works, despite Kate trying to work her way into the UST going on.

“Where you ever going to take us off this island?” Jack demands.

Danny-boy pauses. Then he says “No.”

 

Charlotte looks huffy and annoyed.

Danny-boy looks worried that Jack’ll hurt, maybe even kill, him.

Juliet looks smug, but very serenely so.

Jack looks like he’s about to cry again … oh, wait, never mind, he’s just sick. Ominously sick, as the fast-music wants us to believe. Hey, if he throws up Slitheen-slime, he’ll soon find himself in the Sahara desert!

 

The … oh, I dunno what to call this group, there’s too many damn groups now! Sawyer, Locke, Claire n’ Aaron, Hurley, and Miles light up torches. Sawyer points Miles in the direction his ‘buddies from the chopper’ are, but Miles says he’d rather stick around with this group for a while. Sawyer stupidly hands him a torch. Counting down until Miles bonks someone on the head with it! … 1 … 2 … 3  …

Ben strides out of the bushes. After an awkward pause, Locke says “Sorry about your daughter.”

“Thank you, John,” Ben says cordially, mentally putting bad karma points next to all of the other peoples’ names.

 

Locke accuses Ben of lying about knowing what ‘the smoke monster’ is. Just because you can summon something doesn’t mean you know what it is, Locke!

 

Sawyer decides not to be flabbergasted this time, but snarky and suspicious. “Who the hell’s Jacob?” he demands, fed up with all this mysticism.

 

“You know what? I’m done with all this. I never should have followed whackos in the first place. I’m going back to the Beach and Claire and the kid are coming with me.” He turns to Claire. “You good with that?”

Claire nods. “Yeah, I’m good with that.”

Miles says he’s going too.

Hurley begins to go with them after Sawyer says “You too, Hurley.”

Then Locke and Ben exchange this look I’ll call slashy-men-obsessed-with-the-Island-crazy-eyes, and Locke cocks his gun and points it at the new D&D cell.

Sawyer, determined to be a better leader than Locke, and especially better than Jack, pulls a gun too and insists that Hurley isn’t going anywhere with the crazy loons in love (my words, not his.) Hurley says he’ll go with Locke and Ben because he doesn’t want people hurt.

Here is yet another prime example of why ‘Sawyer and Hurley’ would make a better leader than Jack, Locke, Ben, or anyone really. I think we saw a lot of others in S2 … or 3, I can’t remember. Where they roasted boar and Sawyer said nice things to Claire to ‘swing the vote’ that Hurley made up.

 

Then Sawyer takes a step forward to Locke. “You harm so much as one hair on his curly head and I’ll kill you.”

Whoa. Not going anywhere near that one with a ten foot polar-bear!

 

*sigh* I knew it was London, England without the words, you silly production-people. Those funny license plates + those cabs + driver on the ‘wrong side’ of the road and car = England.

ZOMG Ben is clad in black and has a GUN behind his back! In the dead of night! THIS EQUALS EVILNESS!

Ben is going to the Penthouse Suite. I wonder if a Latino man named Arturo is waiting for him?

It’s Charles Whitmore. A.k.a. Penny’s dad. A.k.a. the guy who killed all those peoples. He and Ben banter for a few minutes, and Charles pours himself some of the scotch he told Desmond couldn’t have.

“Have you come here to kill me, Benjamin?”

“We both know I can’t do that.”

 

“Don’t stand there looking at me with those horrible-eyes of yours …”

Give the man a prize! *smiles at him … from a safe distance*

 

Charles spews some BS and facts and stuff the hardcore fans will pour over for weeks.

 

“So I’ll ask you again, why are you here?”

“Because I’m going to kill your daughter.”

Ok, how many of you felt ice water drench your body? Even without the guitar-string-of-DOOOOOOM I wanted to crawl under the bed and hide for weeks.

 

“… and then you’ll wish you hadn’t changed the rules.”

What, so this is all a big, horrible game of Risk?! And Charles broke a treaty?

 

“You’ll never find her.”

Erm, Charles? All Ben has to do is locate a man whose shirts keep melting …

 

“That Island’s mine, Benjamin. It always was … it will be again.”

Eh? That’s grammatically incorrect, Charles!

 

They say ‘suppose’ a few times, then Ben slams the door.

 

THE END FOR NOW!

 

Next Week: Jack’s appendix ruptures: Juliet says he’s gonna die. Silly Juliet, haven’t you seen the Flash-Forwards? Also, the Pilot (remember him?) warns Sawyer’s new D&D cell that ex-Marine-dude will kill them and they have to hide. We see ex-Marine-dude looking around, and Aaron crying.

Utto! Shoot him, Sawyer!  

Comments

[vampedvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see you finally watched Tin Man. It rocked :) I loved DG, though I thought the girl who played her really couldn't act (or was high) for much of the movie. But she was pretty, and dreamy.. and yeah.. so I go for looks instead of acting skills sometimes. *shrugs*

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to see you finally watched Tin Man. It rocked :)
Yes it did!

I loved DG, though I thought the girl who played her really couldn't act (or was high) for much of the movie.
Not so much 'high' as really, really out of it. If she'd been acting high she would have giggled more. Maybe she was on sedatives?

But she was pretty, and dreamy.. and yeah.. so I go for looks instead of acting skills sometimes. *shrugs*
Yes she was very pretty ... I liked how the heroines in this weren't blond or brunetts. Black-hair is too-often a sign of evilness, and I liked how it wasn't in this.

[lovemyfaceoff.livejournal.com]

So it was cheesy and silly and filled with a lot of holes but I loved it anyway.

http://iamascavanger.livejournal.com/tag/tin+man my fanfiction.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

I loved it anyway. Doesn't matter about the cheesy stuff and weak acting.
Yay fanfiction!

[lovemyfaceoff.livejournal.com]

Yeah the girl that played DG.......is not as good an actor as her sister.

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

You mean the actress' sister, or DG's sister?

[lovemyfaceoff.livejournal.com]

the actress' sister

[aunt-zelda.livejournal.com]

Ah, who's her sister?