Apocalypse Now Lost

I love the Internet. I was able to watch the second half of “Lost” Season 5 in just a few days thanks to Netflix. Now I’m watching the season six double premiere. Living in the future is pretty sweet. (But what’s with still not having flying cars!?!?)

Stuff has indeed gone pear-shaped for the survivors of Oceanic 815: major characters are dying left and right, the space-time continuum is being violated, the smoke monster has become an actual character, and we see how pathetic life for our heroes would have been had their plane NOT broken apart and crashed on the island.

On top of that, we learn that John Locke really is still dead. Damn. He was my favorite. But hold on. Am I the only one to notice that the Smoke Monster–now that it looks like Locke–is behaving very much like Colonel Kurtz from Apocalypse Now?

Come to think of it, that’s not the only similarity. Jack, Hugo, Kate and Jin run into a hostile group that inhabit a temple at the edge of a body of water. There’s a whacked-out hippie-looking dude translating for the leader of the temple-dwellers. The steps of the temple aren’t littered with severed heads, but do I have to paint you a picture?! The likeness is there, right?!?!?!

The show’s cast of characters has a lot of similarities with the characters in Apocalypse Now if you stretch your imagination a little bit. even has an unstable cajun (Sawyer), a young blond dude who like drugs too much (Charlie) and one older black dude (Michael) and one younger black dude (Walt).

Ironically, the only person who seems capable of filling Ben Willard’s shoes is Ben Linus. Linus is now trusted by the thing posing as Locke because it knows Ben is afraid of it and has an insatiable need to get to the bottom of the island’s mysteries…as do we.