{"id":27338,"date":"2014-12-19T09:27:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=27338"},"modified":"2014-12-19T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T14:27:17","slug":"lost-rewatch-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/12\/lost-rewatch-orientation.html","title":{"rendered":"LOST Rewatch: Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The episode begins with Jin being recaptured along with Michael and Sawyer by \u201cothers.\u201d They are thrown into a pit. Eventually another person, a woman, is thrown down there. It turns out to be Ana-Lucia, from the tail section. We eventually learn that she is working with the people who captured them, and then that they are all survivors from the tail section.<\/p>\n

In a flashback, John Locke is in a meeting for people coping with anger. Locke gets angry at people complaining about minor things and tells his story. He then meets Helen, and they start a relationship. He finally gets to talk to his father, and asks him \u201cwhy?\u201d He is told, \u201cThere is no why. You think you\u2019re the first person who ever got conned? You needed a father figure, and I needed a kidney. Don\u2019t come back, you\u2019re not wanted.\u201d Helen talks about having wasted 20 years being angry, and makes Locke promise to stop going to wait outside his father\u2019s house. He agrees, but eventually goes back, and Helen confronts him, telling him he has to choose between his father and her. She talks of a \u201cleap of faith.\u201d<\/p>\n

Back on the island, when Kate knocks Desmond over and a gun fires and hits a computer, Desmond says \u201cwe\u2019re all gonna die.\u201d Desmond tells the story of meeting Kelvin, and his explaining his pushing of the button as \u201cJust saving the world.\u201d Jack says it makes no sense, so Desmond tells them to watch the orientation film.<\/p>\n

\"LOSTLocke responds to Jack\u2019s talk of impossibility by saying that Jack and Desmond knowing each other would be impossible.<\/p>\n

Kate goes to get Sayid to help fix the computer.<\/p>\n

The orientation video mentions the DeGroots and Alvar Hanso and the Dharma<\/a> Initiative, the unique elecromagnetic properties of that part of the island, and it is clear that pieces are missing. Locke says \u201cWe\u2019re gonna need to watch that again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack suggests that having him push the button might just be a mind game, an experiment to see if he\u2019d do it, with the quarantine sign just to keep him scared and down there. He says he does every single day. When trying to fix it doesn\u2019t work, after\u00a0making the sign of the cross, Desmond grabs some things and leaves. Locke is left alone there and shouts, \u201cWhat am I supposed to do?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate returns with Sayid and Hurley.<\/p>\n

Jack catches up with and confronts Desmond, talking about him taking what was in that movie on faith. Desmond asks Jack about the girl Jack told him about, whose recovery from her spinal injuries would be a miracle. Jack\u00a0says he married her, and we learn that he\u2019s not married to her any more. Desmond leaves, saying once again, \u201cSee you in another life, yeah?\u201d<\/p>\n

They get the computer working again, and type in the numbers in time. And we have the wonderful bit of dialogue between Locke and Jack.<\/p>\n

Locke:\u00a0\u201cWhy do you find it so hard to believe?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jack: \u201cWhy do you find it so easy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Locke: \u201cIt\u2019s never been easy!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Locke says he can\u2019t do it alone \u2013 it\u2019s a leap of faith. Jack hits \u201cExecute\u201d and Locke takes the first shift.<\/p>\n

The exploration of a leap of faith that involves a matter that may be science, and on no level appears to be religion, makes for a fascinating scenario, and the premise to a wonderful season and a wonderful element of the series as a whole.<\/p>\n