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🎃 Snowpiercer Halloween Things 🍬

*The Hospitality Halloween Party*

Ruth: Alright everyone! Halloween is upon us and there's still so much to do! Tristan! I need you to finish up all those caramel apples!

Tristan: Y-yes ma'am.

Ruth: Zarah, I need you to light all the candles in the jack-o-lanterns. Use your judgement, if the carving is too scary or inappropriate--leave it dark!

Zarah: Ummm. Ok. Sure.

Ruth: Alright, Sam-

Roche: No, no. You're gonna have to run this one without me.

Ruth: But I have a list--

Roche: You can give it to Till. I'm headed home. My wife and I are taking the kids trick or treating.

Ruth: That's very sweet, but--oh. He's gone. Right then. I suppose I should give this to you.

Till: What's all this?

Ruth: A list of child friendly Halloween movies. Once you finish the decorations, you may choose one to put on. Speaking of--how are the decorations coming?

Till: Oh, well. I'm not really that artsy, so I handed it off to Jinju.

Ruth: Oh no.

Jinju: Don't worry. I've got it all under control. I've got a ton of seashells and sharks teeth that I've painted orange and I'll hang them up with these happy little bats.

Ruth: I'm sorry, 'happy bats'?

Jinju: Yes, I painted little smiles on their faces.

Ruth: May I ask why?

Jinju: It's much more realistic.

Ruth: *eye twitching* Realistic? How is a smiling bat realistic?

Jinju: Because it's Halloween. The holiday where for once bats are celebrated instead of vilified. I should think they'd be 'happy' about that, don't you?

Till: Yeah, babe. Makes total sense.

Ruth: ...I think I'm going to go make sure we've got enough vodka for the punch.

*At the Cavill House*

Melanie: But, sweetheart, we always go trick-or-treating together! Don't you remember the year you went as Amelia Earhart and I was Fred Noonan? Or the year you were Thomas the train and I was the conductor? Or when--

Alex: Yes, of course I do! But Mom, think of it this way--if I tell people I'm an orphan, they'll give me even more candy that we can split later.

Melanie: Oh my gosh that's genius!

*At the Roche Home*

Roche: Now, explain to me why you can't be a princess again this year? It's a classic look.

Carly: Because I'm not four years old anymore, Dad. I want to go as something scary.

Roche: *sighing* I guess it was bound to happen eventually. Alright. Something scary. Yeah, I think I can get behind that.

Carly: Good, 'cause I need you to ask Miss Cavill if I can borrow her Teals.

Roche: *already digging his phone out of his pocket* Okay, I need you to say that again but with a little more feeling. Look at the camera!

*At the Wellstead Residence*

Josie: Now remember, all you have to do is ring the doorbell. And when they open the door, say "Trick-or-Treat".

Miles: I got it, Mom.

Layton: And always go for the Snickers!

Miles: What if they don't have Snickers bars?

Layton: *thinks a moment* Fallback to caramel apple suckers.

Josie: Now, if you start to get cold, I packed some gloves and a scarf into this backpack.

Layton: A backpack? All he needs is the pillowcase and a flashlight. The promise of candy should keep him warm all night long, right Miles?

Miles: It's not a promise though.

Layton: What?

Miles: There's not a guarantee that I'll get any candy. You said I'm supposed to ring the doorbell and shout "trick or treat". It's a choice. They could choose 'trick'.

Layton: I mean, I guess technically...that's true. Maybe. But I've never heard of that happening. I mean, I don't think--I don't think anybody would really choose-

Josie: Ignore him. And take the backpack. If anyone chooses 'trick'...I've packed you some shaving cream and toilet paper.

Layton: What?!

Miles: Thanks, Mom!

Josie: Bring me back a Mars bar!

*The 'other' Halloween Party*

Osweiller: We're throwing a halloween party at our place. It's gonna be the greatest thing ever.

LJ: Someone will die.

Osweiller: Of fun!

LJ: And of murder.

Osweiller: There's gonna be beer, pumpkins...

LJ: Bloody goblins.

Osweiller: Fake ones! It's gonna be awesome. We have decorations.

LJ: Dead people we just murdered.

Osweiller: No, not murdered. Just pictures of dead people from TV or movies.

LJ: Mutilated bodies.

Osweiller: But fake ones. There'll be candy, dancing, tequila. All kinds of food and snacks.

LJ: But you have to bring the snacks yourself because we don't have any money.

Osweiller: ...No, yeah. That time you got it right.

*Bonus: the Wilford Mansion*

Audrey: *on the phone* Joe? What is taking so long?

Wilford: Just hold your horses, my dear, it's surprisingly difficult to find candy for sale on Halloween night.

Audrey: Please hurry.

Wilford: If you're worried about disappointing trick-or-treaters while I'm out, just turn off the light so they'll think you're not home.

Audrey: Oh, I won't disappoint them. I've already given away all of the fruit we had in the house and two of your gold tipped fountain pens...

Wilford: You what?!

Audrey: I thought I could make your cigars last longer by giving them out one by one instead of by the case but--

Wilford: Not my Gurkha cigars?!

Audrey: I told you, I panicked! They all looked so sweet in their little costumes. One little girl even hugged me and told me she loved me. What was I supposed to do, Joe?

Wilford: Well I sure as hell hope you didn't give her the keys to the Porsche.

Audrey:

Wilford: Audrey? Hello? Audrey are you there?! Answer me, woman! Audrey?!

[crowclubkaz]

1,001 Cars Long: An Unofficial Snowpiercer (TV) Audio Experience

Listen on Spotify here, follow the map above to guide you through Snowpiercer ; for the full experience, it is recommended that this story be listen to in the intended order, rather than on shuffle

[two-hearts-beat]

I had to convince my mother that we are in fact front-of-the-train people in snowpiercer terms, when the very fact that we can watch snowpiercer should be a pretty clear sign that we are not tailies

[lostshow]

make me choose: drdanielfaraday → The science team or the tail section survivors? 

[wigler]

WWW | LOST: The Other 48 Days and Collision

Two days without LOST blogs. That's like forgetting to push the button. Sheeeeit. Well, we're back now with a great double-feature: "The Other 48 Days" and "Collision."

— I really love "The Other 48 Days." I mean, what's not to love? From the opening shot — a haunting look out at the ocean from the beach of the island, watching in terror as the tail section of the plane crashes into the water — it's a gripping episode, start to finish.

— It's like watching a complete season of LOST on fast-forward. New characters, new threats, new milestones. 

— You feel for these characters. Up until now, these folks have been skin-deep, not revealing much about their personalities or backstories. But here we get Eko and his 40-day period of silence, initiated because he brutally killed two Others. Here we get Libby, the "clinical psychologist" who dropped out of med school after one year, proving her medical know-how by snapping Donald's broken leg back into place. Here we get Cindy, the flight attendant from Oceanic 815, not doing a whole hell of a lot, but she's a great callback to the origin of the series nonetheless.

— But the episode really hones in on two people: Ana-Lucia Cortez, and Goodwin Stanhope.

— It's cool how they set these two up as the Jack and Kate of the Tailies world, except that one of them is secretly working for the other team. It's fun to watch Goodwin in this episode, knowing that he's not going to make it out alive. It's even more fun to watch Goodwin in this episode, when you've already watched the show, and you know why he's in with the Tailies: because Benjamin Linus is a greedy, self-important, spiteful little shit. It makes for very compelling replay value. On your first watch, cold and unknowing of the show's future, you root like hell when Goodwin's impaled. When you've seen Juliet's season four flashback and know that Ben sent Goodwin to the Tailies because he hoped he'd die and that would leave Juliet wide open for the taking, it makes Goodwin's story really rough to look at. Fun stuff.

— Then there's Ana. I still don't love this character, and I think that's because there's something about Michelle Rodriguez that's just so grating to me. But even with that aside, you feel for her in this episode. She has her moments. "If I were a savage, I would have cut off his finger already. That's tomorrow," is a wonderful line. 

— There are great scenes here. The Others storming the beach and taking nine of the Tailies. Goodwin and Ana's final scene together, sizing each other up, passing the knife back and forth between them, a literal shifting of power dynamics. 

— You also just have to appreciate this episode's place in LOST history. It's the first time the show really fucks with the flashback format. Rather than flashing to the present and back to someone's story off the island, the entire episode is a catch-up of the time we've missed with the Tailies, not returning to the present until the very final moments. I love when LOST screws around with the format. The flashbacks can get very old and very stale if not done properly, so it's always a welcome sight when they try to do something new.

— The one thing that kinda blows about "The Other 48 Days," and the Tailies story in general, is … well, it never really amounts to all that much, does it? — (I guess I should say SPOILERS ahead, but honestly, this blog is filled with spoilers; it's intended for people who've seen the series already, or people who don't care about spoilers. You read at your own peril.) — Bernard is really the only one of these guys we'll have sticking around for the long haul. If you can look at the episode and the Tailies plot as extra window-dressing, just another coat of paint that makes the whole picture look even prettier, then I think you can enjoy the episodes that focus on these characters. If you're the type of LOST fan who is only in this thing for the overall mythology and getting some damn answers, then this one probably feels like a waste of time. I guess I'm more the former than the latter.

— One quick thing: this episode introduces the lists. The Others have lists of names of people to take. The vast majority of the Tailies either die in the crash, or are abducted by the Others. It's interesting; the Tailies we get to know and "love" all wind up dead or forgotten, but the ones we really don't see all that much are all carted off to Others territory. I would love to see an episode focusing on the Tailies who were abducted, through a Cindy flashback perhaps, but c'est la vie; it wasn't mean to be.

— Also, it's heavily implied that Eko was on the list. This is from Ana's final conversation with Goodwin before she outs him as an Other.

— ANA: "Why do you think they take some of us and not the others?"

— GOODWIN: "That first night, they took the strongest of us. Our quiet friend, three other guys. They're all athletic, tough, threats."

— ANA: "They didn't take you."

— GOODWIN: "Guess they changed their plan after two of them got killed."

— I think that's very interesting, and it's a detail I didn't pick up on until just now. I've teased in the past that I have a theory about why Eko's death is totally awesome and a great set-up for one of the show's best reveals … namely, who/what the Monster really is. I don't know if this exactly fits into the picture, but let's take Goodwin at his word. The Others were originally targeting Eko, and they gave up, because the dude's just too strong to be taken down. Eko being on Jacob's list makes sense if he wanted to get him out of the Monster's path. I'll have much more on this theory when we get to Eko's death (or perhaps I'll wait until the Monster is revealed … I don't know, I'll explain more at one of those junctures), but this is a cool little piece of the puzzle that I didn't have before.

— Yeah! Cool! 

— Into "Collision," an episode I really love. Yes, even though it's an Ana flashback. In fact, I actually love the flashback. Not just because Staind's "I'm on the Outside" is playing in the bar before Ana kills her shooter, even though that's fucking amazing. — The flashback does a great job establishing why Ana is so cold, so dead inside, as she puts it. It sets up her pregnancy, and her attachment to children as seen in "The Other 48 Days," really nicely. Plus, it has SOUTHLAND rock-star Michael Cudlitz (even though I'll always think of him as awesome dude from BAND OF BROTHERS) and TOTAL RECALL badass Rachel Ticotin. Hard to go wrong with either of those two.

— There's just a lot to like about this episode, the Ana stuff notwithstanding. First of all, it has golf, and you know how I feel about LOST's golf episodes: they are automatically awesome. But the golf isn't just fun for fun's sake: it's fun because it establishes a tone on the beach that's so radically different from the deadly happenings deeper in the jungle.

— Sawyer is dying. Shannon is dead. Sayid is tied to a tree in a jungle of mystery, and Ana has taken everyone hostage. The stakes are high. Stress is high. Danger exudes from every pore of this episode. And all the while, Jack and Kate are flirting with golf clubs. It's a great dichotomy. 

— Plus, this episode features one of the best first meetings between any two characters on this show. After Eko brings the injured Sawyer to the Hatch, he's just standing in the halls, observing the DHARMA logos. John comes out and sees him in the hall.

— JOHN: "Hello."

— EKO: "Hello."

— That's it, and that's enough. The Locke/Eko relationship is one of my favorites on the show. So excited that we're finally in that territory.

— There's more greatness in the Hatch. Jack and Kate trying to help Sawyer, with Kate implementing the whole "whisper in the ear" treatment that Jack never learned in medical school, makes for some great fodder for the love triangle crowd. Also, when Locke asks Jack what happened to Sawyer, the clock hits the four-minute warning. Jack reminds Locke he needs to go push the button. The scene continues, with the countdown signal still blaring through the halls, until you hear the timer flipping back to 108. You don't even see that happen; you just hear it. Pushing the button is already such a common part of the survivors' lives, that it's presented as an equally common part of the show itself. I think that's a wonderful detail.

— Now, I'm not a fan of the Sayid/Shannon romance, and I'm happy it's over, but a couple of things: (1) Maggie Grace is already relegated to "special guest star" status in the credits. That was fucking fast. Seriously, no respect! And (2) Tortured Sayid is the best Sayid. I'd argue that Sayid is always tortured Sayid, but this is aggressively tortured Sayid. He's at a low-point. And that makes for some weeny Sayid moments coming up in the near future. But it also puts him on the path to become the Sayid we see in "One of Them" just a few episodes from now, and that episode, and that version of Sayid, is fucking tremendous. So, if it took killing Shannon to get Sayid to that place? I'm for it.

— Still doesn't mean Shannon and Sayid should end up together in the church. That's some bullshit.

— One last quick shout-out to the episode's closing montage. Emotional reunions and connections with no sound other than a blissful Giacchino score to guide you … that's the bread and butter of LOST right there. Bernard and Rose finally finding each other again. Jin and Sun reunited. Sayid cradling Shannon's lifeless body as he walks past Jack. Jack and Ana finally connecting, long after their promise to drink together on Oceanic 815. All wordless. All Giacchino. It's sublime.

— Okay! We're back in the groove! I went a few days without work-outs and LOST in my life because of my New Mexico work-trip, but I'm fully back in the swing of things now, with a one-day buffer between the blogs. Feeling good, feeling motivated, thanks to today's great double-feature. Tomorrow brings us our first and only Kate episode of the season, which I'm honestly kind of dreading … but it'll even out with our first Eko flashback, and our fullest look at the Monster yet.

NEXT: "What Kate Did" and "The 23rd Psalm"

PREVIOUSLY: "…And Found" and "Abandoned"

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