Where The Princess Bride and LOST Meet...May 09 '07 (Updated Feb 28 '10) Write an essay on this topic.The Bottom Line You've just achieved your life's ambition! What are you gonna do next? I've been thinking a lot about The Brig, the most recent episode of LOST. I don't know if I'm happy with how it played out or not. I guess it's a sort of grim satisfaction; I don't condone revenge, but Anthony Cooper ruined Locke and Sawyer's lives, not to mention many others, and it certainly doesn't seem safe to let him go roaming around the island. It was an intense episode as two of my favorite characters struggled to face their demons. The ending seemed inevitable but not anything to celebrate. This parody, to the tune of Candle in the Wind, is sort of a sequel to my first Sawyer soliloquy, which had him griping at Locke (who I call Mr. Clean again, even though he only used that name once; I just get such a kick out of it...). Now, Locke has managed to help him cast off the shackles of yesterday, though it was as much for Locke's benefit as Sawyer's, and it meant getting more blood on Sawyer's hands. He was so traumatized by the misery of killing an innocent man that he can no longer get any real pleasure from killing his intended target. On some level, I think he's grateful to Locke because he doesn't have this hanging over his head anymore; on the other hand, he feels used, and he's discovered he's really not cut out to be a killer. I've always compared Sawyer to Inigo Montoya, and pop cultural dynamo that he is, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the comparison occurred to him too. Sawyer's dedicated decades to hunting down the man who destroyed his life. I love Inigo, but I can't help but wonder what happens to him after his revenge is accomplished. So much of his life was focused on that goal, will he know what to do with himself now that it's out of the way? Same with Sawyer. Is his life just about payback, or can he finally move on now and start fresh? Goodbye Mr. Clean Goodbye Mr. Clean. Guess you're not so great after all. You couldn't face that troll yourself. You made me take the fall. Don't think because you couldn't Lay a finger on your old man, That somehow makes you better. You just used me for your plan. And it seems to me you love to lie Like your bug-eyed buddy Ben, Trickin' me into this thing to Feel secure again. Well, your deadbeat dad disowned you, And since I was a kid, I dreamed of settling the score, But I hate what I did. Is his death enough, Enough to make the nightmares fade? What if he was right about where we are? Was this a mistake we made? It's your fault that he died. He deserved it, yeah, that's true, But my pain won't go away. I have more blood on my hands thanks to you. And it seems to me you love to lie Like your bug-eyed buddy Ben, Trickin' me into this thing to Feel secure again. Well, your deadbeat dad disowned you, And since I was a kid, I dreamed of settling the score, But I hate what I did. Goodbye Mr. Clean. Guess you're not so great after all. You couldn't face that troll yourself. You made me take the fall. Goodbye Mr. Clean, From the man who lost his parents long ago, Who needed some closure but wants to be more Than a vengeance-driven Inigo. And it seems to me you love to lie Like your bug-eyed buddy Ben, Trickin' me into this thing to Feel secure again. Well, your deadbeat dad disowned you, And since I was a kid, I dreamed of settling the score, But I hate what I did. I dreamed of settling the score, But I hate what I did. LOST Parodies: Bohemian Rhapsody * I Am a Rock * White Christmas * Christmas Canon Rock * We Wish You a Merry Christmas * Christmas in Killarney * Henry the Eighth * Sweet Baby James * The Only Living Boy in New York * Here, There and Everywhere * He Was My Brother * For Baby (For Bobbie) * Sloop John B. * When I'm 64 * The Longest Time * Run for the Roses * You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore * Eye of the Tiger * Girls Just Wanna Have Fun * Leader of the Band * Same Old Lang Syne * Cat's in the Cradle * An Innocent Man * The Boxer * Sparrow * Loves Me Like a Rock * Der Fuehrer's Face * Goodbye Yellow Brick Road * Candle in the Wind * Scarborough Fair / Canticle * Hey Jude * Tears in Heaven * Bridge Over Troubled Water * House of the Rising Sun * Lover's Cross * Lasso the Moon * Rocket Man * El Condor Pasa * Hair * Why Don't You Write Me? * The Greening of Belfast * She Wore a Yellow Ribbon * Sons and Daughters * I'll Follow the Sun * What the World Needs Now Is Love * Danny Boy * Yesterday's Men * I Want to Live * Mountains of Mourne * That's a Woman * Desperado * Dance Little Jean * The Tinker * Brothers in Arms * Vanishing Breed * Time in a Bottle * Ordinary Man * Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall * The Black Velvet Band * Penny Lane * Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da * Take Me Home * Goodbye Mrs. Durkin * Ireland's Call * Steal Away * Ride On * Hey There, Delilah * Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious * Under the Sea * Greenland Whale Fisheries * The Island * Bleecker Street * I Will * Hit the Road, Jack * Sing Australia * The Wind That Shakes the Corn * The Hidden Hatch * Poems, Prayers and Promises * My Old Man's a Dustman * Coulter's Candy * Candida * Knock Three Times * I Don't Mind If I Do * We Kill the World (Don't Kill the World) * All This Joy * Overs * Brown Girl in the Ring * Fly Away * I'm Sorry * Hallelujah * The Orange and the Green * Heaven on Their Minds * Burning Bridges * While My Guitar Gently Weeps * Michael Row the Boat Ashore * Cracklin' Rosie * Annie's Song * Candle on the Water * Shilo * Gaston Poems: Baby Brother * The Pilot in the Pilot * Vincent * Of Sacrificial Death and Life * John the Baptized * Not Penny's Boat * Finding Vincent * I'm Lost Without... * Apollo * A Hurley Christmas * The Once and Future Ben  |
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