post-Island: Kate, made up, secure (check out the car), not on the run.
Predictions:
Hurley will end up broke, but with good luck restored.
Sun will abandon (or even kill) her father.
Jin will be a happy fisherman.
Sawyer will work in law enforcement (and ends up clearing Kate's record.)
Claire won't be pregnant, her mommy will wake up. She keeps Aaron, or he dies.
Juliet will be pregnant yet independent.
Sayid will be a martyr.
Desmond gets Penelope and maybe the family fortune.
Michael will have a good job and a close connection to his son.
Walt will be normal.
Rousseau will be a celebrity.
Ben will be brain-damaged.
Locke doesn't follow the pattern. Only on the Island is his life reversed. If he leaves, he loses his legs, his independence, and of course he'll be conned six ways to Tuesday.
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(Date Posted:06/19/2007 21:10:16)
Raised by Another: There are mirrors in Claire's apartment and in Malkin's residence, and the big table at the adoption agency is highly reflective. In every scene with a mirror, somebody's mind changes about something.
Claire changes her mind about having a baby with Thomas (and so does he.)
Malkin changes his mind about giving Claire a reading.
Thomas changes his mind about staying with Claire.
Malkin changes his mind again, gives Claire a reading, who changes her mind about the psychic
Claire changes her mind about giving the baby to Arlene and Joseph.
Malkin changes his mind about letting Claire give the baby away (and puts her on 815.)
All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues Reflection off of Jack's glasses in ER: Jack gives up on patient, tells Dad to make the call
Reflection off of Dad's cabinet in office: Jack changes his mind about taking down Dad
Two mirrors in hospital hall: Jack sees Dad with patient's husband; Jack vacillates
Reflective table at inquiry: Jack changes mind, takes down his father
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There's also some nice mirroring from Solitary through Cowboys, across the episodes:
Solitary begins with an upside-down hanging, Cowboys ends with right-side-up hanging
Solitary ends with story of abducted "child", Cowboys begins with "child abduction"
Solitary is pregnant with allusion, Cowboys is barren
Claire appears in neither Solitary nor Cowboys, but in the middle: Raised by Another
Both Cowboys and Raised end with reflective tables and the character changing mind.
Both Cowboys and Raised feature a parent or prospective parent betrayed
In both, Jack fails to save a pregnant woman.
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Thanks, LL!
Okay, some more mirroring. This has to do with image reversals. In White Rabbit, we get our first look at The Lost Dipper. It's a quick shot of the mountains and stars, right after Jack smashes the coffin, just before the final commercial break. The Big Dipper is up in the sky, but it's so very wrong.
When I first saw it, I thought, "Huh. The handle is pointing to the right when it should be pointing to the left." I was thinking it was reversed left to right. But then I got to thinking about the location of the Island. When Jack is talking with Crissy at the Oceanic Airlines counter, they're going on about "no latitude." If the Island has "no latitude" that would mean that it's on the equator. Which would mean that the North Star, Polaris, is supposed to be on the horizon.
Two stars in the Big Dipper can be used to find Polaris. Those stars are known as Castor and Pollux, the twins of Gemini. Follow those stars five times their distance, and you've got Polaris in your sights. Well, if Polaris is supposed to be on the horizon, that means the Lost Dipper we're looking at isn't reversed left to right, it's reversed upside-down. And that's just not right.
Mirror-twins, I says.
This image is repeated exactly as is at the end of Special.
It's the second image of the stars that's been duplicated. The first is the image of the stars as the camera pans down to the beach at the midway point of Pilot 1. That image is repeated in... White Rabbit, right after the final commercial break. Right after the image of the Lost Dipper.
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Whatever The Case May Be
- Kate's face is reflected in the polished bank floor, making her "two-faced"
Hearts and Minds
- Boone's left hand tied behind his back is shown in reverse, making it look like his right hand. These shots occur after the hallucinogenic paste has been administered. Coupled with the first wide-angle lens shot of the series, it indicates that Boone's transformative journey has begun, with its subsequent reversal of his relationship with his sister.
Special
- Lost Dipper again, just before Walt and Michael open the box of letters at the end. Symbolizes the reversal of their relationship. Also, we get faint reflections of Walt and Brian in the glass door after the bird crashes into it, indicating a "ghostly" event.
Homecoming
- Mirror in the pub, indicating the beginning of Charlie's con of Lucy. Coupled with a Jane Austen reference, we see Charlie looking for a rich benefactor, not unlike so many of Jane's heroines. The cigarette case has a mirrored surface; it's presence indicates Charlie's polarity or ambiguity of motive. He is simultaneously trying to develop a relationship with Lucy even as he plots to abscond with her daddy's relics. When he has dinner with her and her father, he's reversed from being the rock-star to a bum in need of a job, setting up another layer of ambiguity in his motives. Later we see Charlie putting on a suit in front of a mirror, and much like Sawyer in Confidence Man it indicates his putting a con into effect. Plus, like Sawyer, he just doesn't look very good in a suit.
Outlaws
- Sawyer approaches the Shrimp Shack, which is run out of a motorhome of some sort. We see the rearview mirror in the first and last shots of this scene. Sawyer is (temporarily) reversed in his plans to kill poor Frank.
