Inland, Dreaming of Waves

Black Lace and Bruises

I came home after two hours of Krav Maga last night and watched another episode of Lost: "In Translation." In this episode, a man is building a raft to get off the island, but his son burns it because he likes living on the island. Only one other character knows the boy set the fire, so everyone else blames the Korean man who's gotten into fights with the man building the raft.

Really the episode was a love story told in flashbacks, showing how the Korean couple are driven apart by the man's decision to work for the woman's father, who is a thug. The marriage really failed the night the man came home from beating up a government minister, but the couple didn't admit it until they have been on the island for some time.

There was a lovely flashback between the man and his father, whom he was ashamed of. He told his wife that his father was dead. His father asked him how anything could be more important than his wife and advised him to run away to America and save his marriage there, but apparently it was too late.

The Korean woman finally admitted that she speaks English. That didn't endear her to anyone, but now that her husband has left her, she can at least wear a bathing suit without him hassling her about showing some skin. I wonder if the show will try to redeem him at one point. When we first met him, when he was courting his wife, he was an innocent. In an attempt to provide for her, he became corrupted by her father.

Redeeming characters is one thing that Six Feet Under does really well. That show would take every character to the point of hatefulness and bring them back. I think they went too far over the edge with Brenda's sex obsession and with Nate's screwing everything in sight when his wife was missing, but they did a great job with the mother (my favorite character) when she was in this new age therapy group. She got up in the group and did an AA-style admission featuring the line, "Fuck my legless grandmother!"

To get back to Lost, I guess the show's writers have decided it's time to pair people off. Kate is still caught between Jack and Sawyer (I guess every show these days has to have a truly annoying but really hot character), Shannon is hooking up with Sayid, and Charlie (Dominic Monaghan) is mothering the pregnant woman who's been really really pregnant for months now. I think she's going for a Guinness record.

At least there haven't been any attempted rapes of female cast members. I hope they just don't go there.

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OK, those of you who read this because of the title--it was mostly false advertising. I got up this morning and put on black lace underwear, and Todd said, "That goes really well with the bruises on your chest."

posted by Price of Silence @ 9:35 AM