We've definitely had our knickers in a pleasant twist about Locke at times, but after last night's Lost, we realize now that we really/actually/distinctly love Terry O'Quinn as a vessel for everything that the Lost writers want to put into it/him. He's not a vessel as in, "ooh yeah, lil' ho, take it," he's a vessel as in, "that frickin' handmade ancient urn is AWESOME." The medium is the message, maybe? Fuck, maybe they should've called the character McLuhan instead. Or Marshall, just for the sake of subtlety. Then they would've had to find a different name for Locke's "Jeremy Bentham" identity, and I don't know enough about semiotics/semantics/linguistics to think of a perfect swap-out. "Noam Chomsky," maybe? No, that's awful. Fuck, shit ... shows you how much I know.
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