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Episode Review & Speculation 6.05 LightHouse

2010-03-06T23:28:00.001-05:00

KatesFate’s Episode Review & Speculation
Episode 6.05
“Lighthouse”

Wow! Can you believe that there are only 13 more episodes of Lost to go and although we are finally getting answers, we still have no idea what is going on. I have been savoring each and every moment of Lost this season, knowing they will be the last. Something has felt off to me though and I couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was. Something just feels like it is missing. I figured out what it is though. It’s Juliet. I miss Juliet’s character. I like Kate, but in all reality with Juliet gone, there is no strong female lead anymore. She was always such a fascinating character to watch. I really wish they would have made her a candidate too.

As with the last four episodes and until one timeline is no more, I will split my review into on island and off island events. Let’s start with the off island timeline first.

Off Island Timeline

It’s A Boy!

In the beginning of the episode we see Jack arriving at his apartment and getting cleaned up after work. He walks past a full length mirror *(1) and heads to the bathroom to wash his face and sees his reflection in the mirror. * (2) Well looky there, its Jack’s appendix scar. At first I thought he was surprised to see it and would start freaking out, but it turns out he had it removed when he was 7 or 8 as confirmed by his mom. What was strange was that he called his mom to find out when it was removed because he had seemingly forgotten. Is Jack losing past memories because he never really lived them? I think this means that as they slowly remember being on the island, they will also slowly start to lose past memories they’ve never really lived anyway. In other words, he doesn’t remember because it never really happened. This tells me that these two timelines will converge into one and that in the end they will be on the island where they have always belonged.

After speaking with his mom, Jack rushes out the door and ends up at St. Mary’s Academy. Jack approaches the steps to the Academy and we see a young, brown haired boy sitting alone on the stairs. This is a moment where I can say, I saw this coming but at the same time I didn’t. In other words, I knew the minute I saw the boy that it had to be Jack’s son, however I was also very surprised by the fact that Jack has a son. Again, the casting director did a great job, because the boy really does look like Jack. We learn that Jack’s son is named David and that they do not have the greatest relationship. It is also established right away that Jack is no longer married to David’s mother and only gets visitation once a month.

We have another book reference here as well. Jack picks up a copy of Alice Annotations and tells David he use to read it to him as a child. This is the very same book he use to read to Aaron as well. Did Jack really read the book to David as a child or is he remembering reading it to Aaron and projecting those memories?

Since Jack’s past is obviously different, I immediately wondered if David’s mother is Sarah. It is quite possible that it is someone else. This really wouldn’t matter either unless it turns out to be another Lostie like Juliet or something. Go ahead, laugh all you want, but I am allowed to dream. I don’t really think it is Juliet, but I don’t think it is Sarah either. Maybe Ana-Lucia? Libby? Oh well, it’s fun to guess all the same.

Jack’s mom is frantic because Christian’s Will cannot be found and Jack heads to his mom’s to help find the lost documents, leaving David home alone with the promise of dinner when Jack gets back. When he arrives at his moms, she is frustrated about the lost Will. It would seem Christian’s Will is harder to find that the island itself. While looking for the Will, they discuss David and his inability to communicate with his dad. Jack’s mom reminds Jack that he felt the very same way about his father and suggests that Jack try communicating with David first. If only Christian had been given that advice.

I really liked Jack in this episode. He is so much more laid back and stress-free in this timeline. He doesn’t seem to feel the need to fix things anymore, instead he has more of an open mind and opts to try to set things right. He has a calming effect on his mother who is stressed out when normally Jack would be freaking out over something like this. I also noticed that Jack refused a drink from his mom and in response she said, “Good for you”. Does this imply that Jack had a drinking problem but doesn’t anymore? Or is his mom just happy he chooses not to drink like she does. I’m betting it’s the later of the two, because I am pretty sure Jack is drinking on Flight 815 this time around too. After all, we saw Cindy hand him one bottle of vodka instead of two. Maybe this time around Jack’s mom and dad are both alcoholics or just his mother is and Christian died of other causes. Just a thought.

Jack’s mother finds the will and starts to read it, she immediately asks Jack if his father ever mentioned Claire Littleton. For a moment Jack looked as if the name rang a bell. What really interests me though is that Christian left something for Claire in this timeline because I am pretty certain he didn’t leave her anything in the original timeline or Jack’s mother surely would have mentioned it to him when he escaped the island and went back home. I was happy to see that he and Claire are still related in this timeline too.

Jack arrives back home and David is gone. He calls his ex-wife’s house and leaves a message for David that he is coming there to look for him. When he arrives the address is 23 something, I couldn’t quite catch the rest. David is not there, but Jack finds pictures of he and David together stuck to David’s mirror. *(3) Jack decides to listen to the answering machine and learns that David is at an audition so of course he heads there.

As Jack enters the Conservatory where the auditions are being held, he views a sign that says, “Welcome all Candidates”. I love when the writers do little things like this. He arrives in the middle of David’s audition in what I felt was a very beautiful moment. Matthew Fox did an outstanding job in this scene. You could see the pride and love he felt for David in his eyes and facial expressions. Giacchino’s music in the background makes the scene that much better. Note while David is playing we see his reflection in the top of the piano. *(4) As Jack turns to leave, he is approached by the father of another child and it turns out to be Dogen The Temple Master. Dogen tells Jack, “It’s hard to watch and be unable to help.” I got the feeling that Dogen was not only referring to their children, but also his inability to answer Jack’s questions on the island.

After the audition Jack sits down and talks to David and in one heartfelt conversation he fixes their relationship. Jack figured out a way to make it work by facing his own fears about his father. This ties in nicely with on island Jack. He has to learn to let go and face his fears and understand that he can’t fix everything, but he can fix the one thing he was meant too. I am not exactly sure what that is yet, but I believe Jack is on the cusp of figuring it out.

Black and White All Over

This episode was loaded with tons of black and white images starting with Jack’s apartment. The pictures were black and white, some of the photo frames, the piano keys, the décor and Jack’s office were all done in black and white. We all know these colors play a role in Lost somehow, but why display them so prominently in a Jack centric episode? Maybe it is because Jack needs to realize things aren’t always black and white and that there is a grey area as well.

Reflective surfaces were also scattered throughout the episode and I am numbering them throughout this review. I will talk about these surfaces at the end of the review once I have covered the on island issues which I will do right now.

On Island Events

Girl, you so crazy!

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am beginning to think Claire may have found Charlie’s old heroin stash or learned to harvest some “special” island herbs because she is off her rocker. I thought the “infection” was suppose to make you dark, not crazy! Is this how Sayid will start behaving? Will he make some sort of animal version of Nadia and give it a pair of sunglasses? Don’t get me wrong, I like this side of Claire, it is just odd to watch her behave that way, but on the plus side she has suddenly become a much more interesting person than she ever was before. The only things that made her interesting before were Aaron and Charlie.

Claire has Jin and Justin tied up in her house of horrors and she questions them about the whereabouts of Aaron. Here we learn that Claire was taken to The Temple by the others where she was tortured and branded just as Sayid was. All of this branding reminds me of Juliet and the way the others branded her as punishment for killing old what’s his name. Oh ya, Pickett. Is there a connection to the two brandings? Although Juliet’s was an obvious symbol and Claire and Sayids’ are just hot poker marks. Anyway, back to Claire who keeps making mention of a friend and we learn later that her friend is Flocke. That was no surprise. When Claire doesn’t get any answers that she likes, she decides to kill Justin by putting her ax right through his chest. Claire is scary!!! With Justin now dead, Jin changes his story and says that the others do have Aaron and Kate didn’t take him, like he had originally told her. Claire responds to this with the following, “I’m so glad to know that you were lying, because if what you said was the truth, if Kate was raising Aaron, I’d kill her.” Did you hear that Kate, Claire is going to get you and this time you have nowhere to run. So we have Locke, Claire, Jin and presumably Sawyer all together on the island heading for the Temple and Kate off on her own. Let’s see what the rest of the losties are up to.

You Have What It Takes

The second group of losties consists of Sun, Ben, Frank, Ilana and Richard and they are on their way to the temple. The third group is Sayid and Miles who are currently at the Temple. The fourth and final group is Jack and Hurley who are now at the lighthouse and may or may not be heading back to the Temple. Let’s finish up this review by only discussing the fourth group, Jack and Hurley.

The first on island scene begins with Jack’s face reflected in the pond. *(5) We then see Dogen approach Jack and they have an extremely brief conversation that allows us to see that Jack and Dogen are coming to trust one another. I am sure this will come into play later.

Hurley and Miles play a very innovative game of tic-tac-toe. Tic-tac-toe is a game that rarely sees a winner or a loser and most often ends in a tie. Is someone trying to tell us something here? Hungry from all that banana leaf and vine tossing, Hurley sets off to find food and finds Jacob alone inside of the Temple. What was Jacob doing hunched over the water like that? I’ve read that some people believe he was pouring something into the water, but I can’t really tell while watching it. Does anyone have their own theories about what he was doing? If so, please let me know.

Jacob is there because he needs Hurley’s help. Per Jacob, “Someone is coming to the island and I need you to help them find it.” He tells Hurley he will need a pen to write this down. I thought this was funny because I can’t imagine the others using a pen and I wondered where Hurley would find one. It also reminded of me Boone in The Pilot and of the time in the mental hospital when Charlie’s ghost tells Hurley to write a message down for Jack in case he forgets it. Then I got to wondering if all of the ghosts that Hurley has seen are actually Jacob in the form of these people. Me thinks so.

Hurley sets off to run Jacob’s errand and gets caught by Dogen. No worries though because Jacob shows up to run interference telling Hurley exactly what to say. It turns out that if you are a candidate, you have complete run of The Temple and can do whatever you want. I loved Hurley in the scene, “Why don’t you go back to the Temple?” I’d really love to know what Dogen said to him in response. When Dogen leaves, Jacob informs Hurley that he needs to take Jack with him and Hurley wants to know how to do that. Jacob tells Hurley to tell Jack, “You have what it takes.” These five words set Jack off immediately and off he and Hurley went to presumably find Jacob. These words are the exact opposite of what Christian use to tell Jack as a child, “You will never have what it takes.”

While on route, Jack and Hurley run into Kate and blah, blah, blah Kate is off again to do her thing. I don’t mean to sound bothered by this part but Kate seemed just a bit to happy to me during this scene. It was kind of strange. She won’t look that happy when she runs into Craz…I mean Claire.

Hurley and Jack finally arrive at their destination, a giant lighthouse. Jack asks the exact question I wanted to ask, “How have we never seen this before?” and Hurley responds, “Maybe we didn’t need to before.” That explanation is good enough for me. Inside and at the top of the lighthouse, they find a wheel that Hurley has been instructed to turn to 108 degrees and as he is doing so Jack sees his reflection *(6) in the mirrors used to guide the ships in. Not only does he see his own reflection, he also begins to see images. He sees the building where Sun and Jin were married, the church Sawyer saw Jacob at as a child, and his own childhood home. It turns out that the wheel is marked with names and each name has a number. When the wheel is aligned at a specific name and number you see an image of that persons past in the reflective mirrors.

I really loved this and it made me change my mind about the cave Flocke took Sawyer too. I believed it was Jacob’s cave, but the lighthouse proved to me that it wasn’t. Why would Jacob need that cold dark cave to keep track of the losties when he had that beautiful lighthouse and wheel to keep track of them. Upon seeing his own home in the mirrors, Jack becomes very angry and demands answers from Hurley that Hurley just doesn’t have. When Jack doesn’t get any answers he smashes the mirrors into pieces. Although I can understand why Jack did it, it still bothered me because he had no way of knowing if that lighthouse could be useful to them somehow and he smashed it anyway.

The Man In The Mirror

After smashing the mirrors, Jack takes to a cliff side and does some thinking while Jacob pays Hurley another visit. We learn that Jack needs to figure out what his purpose is on his own and cannot be told what it is by anyone else. The trip to the lighthouse was a way for Jacob to show Jack how important he really is. There is something he must do, but he must do it on his own. Jacob also informs Hurley that someone bad is going to the Temple and Hurley wants to warn them but Jacob says it’s too late. My theory on this is that Flocke will get there and kill every other and lostie that is within that temple. Like I said earlier, only Sayid and Miles are there now. I think Flocke will kill them all and all of the other Losties will arrive at the Temple in a montage scene to find everyone dead.

I love Jacob, I really do. I enjoy watching him speak to Hurley and he seems so sincere. It seems pretty obvious to me now that Jacob is the good one here. When Jacob tells Hurley, “Someone is coming to the island. I need you to help them find it.” I believe that statement had two meanings. He was speaking about Jack’s need to realize why he is important but I also feel that someone is still coming to the island. The name Wallace at 108 was not crossed off. I don’t want to see a new character at this point, so I am hoping that Wallace will end up being Desmond or Faraday. I also wonder if Wallace might be Ilana’s last name as she is probably a candidate as well so her name should be on that wheel also.

I am sure you noticed the numbers I posted above certain sentences throughout my review. These numbers indicate everytime that Jack looked into a reflective surface. Jack also stared into a mirror when looking at his son. David served as a mirror for Jack and allowed him to look into himself and fix himself. Now that Jack has done this in the alternate timeline, I think he will also be fixed on the island, so to say. Meaning that Jack is going to figure out what he must do soon and I believe it will happen in the next episode. While he stares at the ocean and does some soul searching, he will finally come to realize that yes, he was brought to this island for a reason.

Things I Noticed

*Claire’s new baby is very, very ugly!
*I have always liked Jack but this episode made me love him.
*Hurley is still wearing a red shirt.

Best Lines

*Dogen – Go back to the courtyard.
Hurley – I’m a candidate and I can do what I want.
Dogen – Who told you that?
Hurley – It doesn’t matter. Why don’t you go back to the courtyard?
Dogen - #$&*(%@^%&$$&

*Jack – Jacob, where is he?
Hurley – He’s kind of dead. He just turns up whenever he wants like Obi Wan Kenobi.

*Claire – We gotta get that cleaned up. One thing that’ll kill you around here is an infection.

*Hurley – What if we time travled to like dinosaur times and then we died and got buried here. What if these skeletons are us? (referring to Adam & Eve at the caves). I think the writers are trying to tell us something here.

Episode Review & Speculation 6.04 The Substitute

2010-03-06T23:25:00.001-05:00

KatesFate’s Episode Review & Speculation
Episode 6.04 “The Substitute”

Four episodes down and sixteen to go until the series finale and all of our questions are finally being answered while new mysteries are still popping up. With that in mind, I have a lot to say about this episode so be prepared. Once again I have split the review into two parts, On Island and Off Island Events.

OFF ISLAND EVENTS

A Leap Of Faith

At the beginning of the episode, we see Locke arriving at home from the airport. As he attempts to lower himself from on the lift, it sticks and Locke is forced to take a leap of faith. Unfortunately he fails to land, falling on his face instead. This sort of mirrors what happened to Locke in the alternate timeline, he took a leap of faith and now he is dead. Locke surprises me when falling and shakes it off with a laugh.

Did anyone else notice that when the sprinkler system activated, it sounded just like Smokey? Another thing to note would be the water from the sprinkler falling down like rain upon Locke’s glorious baldhead. How very appropriate. I was elated when I saw Helen rush out of the house to Locke’s aide. Helen is by far one of my favorite flashback characters and I have been in love with Katey Segal since Married With Children.

So in this timeline, Helen and Locke are still together? As far as I can tell, the only issue they ever had as a couple was Locke’s obsession with his father, Anthony Cooper. The fact that they are together now tells me that Locke no longer has issues with his dad. Further proof of this is when Helen suggests that they just elope and only invite John’s father and her parents. Oh and there is also that lovely picture of Locke and his father hung in Locke’s cubicle.

This tells me that Anthony Cooper has a good relationship with his son in this timeline. Maybe Anthony was never a con man at all in this timeline. This revelation could also mean that Sawyer is not a con man in this timeline either. As I said back in my review for LA X, all of their pasts are different in some way now. They may all still be the same person at their core, but something about all of their pasts is different now.

John Locke not only has a different past, he also has a different personality. I love the way this runs parallel to him now being Flocke on island. Locke no longer seems as angry or lost in this timeline. (pardon the pun). In my opinion, it is because of the relationship he has with his father and with Helen. But if Locke has a good relationship with his father, why is he still in the wheelchair? I have no guess on this one, but I can’t wait to find out.

A Few Familiar Faces

Locke runs into a few people from his past in this timeline as well. Randy Nations is still his same old jerk of a boss at the box company. He meets Hurley after being fired by Randy. Since Hurley owns the company, he offers Locke some hope in the form of a new job. I have to mention here that I love the way we are getting to see how lucky Hurley is. That was great when Locke’s ramp stuck and it wouldn’t hit Hurley’s H2! When Locke arrives at the temp agency that Hurley referred him to, he is questioned by non other than the psychic whom Hurley’s father had hired to trick Hurley into believing there is no curse. When Locke then asks to see the supervisor, it turns out to be Rose. It turns out Rose still has cancer so it would appear that even though their pasts are somehow different, the core problems from their pasts are still the same.

Rose gives Locke a job as a substitute teacher and on his first day he substitutes as a health techer. The lesson plan for the day? Why the reproductive system of course. How nicely does this tie into the islands fertility problems? I loved it!!! While in the teachers lounge, Locke runs into an old friend. I knew the minute I heard his voice that it was Ben. It turns out that in this timeline, Ben is a European History teacher with a case of OCD. I for one, cannot wait to see more of this Ben.

I’ve been reading that some people feel these off island events have been boring, but not me. For me it is almost like watching season one all over again. Even in the final episodes, we are learning more about these characters and how their paths were always meant to cross.

ON ISLAND EVENTS

Blind Faith

Locke has Richard hostage in the jungle and he demands that they talk. We learn that Richard is clueless when it comes to Jacob’s agenda, which was kind of a surprise but does make a bit of sense. You’ve all heard me say it before and I’ll say it again, Lost will have some biblical explanation for all of this. Therefore, it makes sense that Richard would follow Jacob blindly. He has seen Jacob perform miracles first hand and he chooses to follow and believe in him, ignoring any and all temptation. Locke seems annoyed with Richard’s decision and you could just tell he was getting ready to kill Richard when he suddenly sees a young blonde boy standing in the jungle. Whoa! Who in the heck is that? He stood there surrounded by white light with blood on his hands. My first guess is that this boy is Jacob. It pretty much has to be. My husband thinks it is Aaron and who knows he might be right, but I doubt it. Love ya hon! I am sticking with the Jacob theory. Richard apparently doesn’t see the boy and Locke blows it off and warns Richard that he’ll be seeing him soon. I am not certain why Richard would not be able to see Jacob as well, but maybe Jacob can make himself seen by only those he wants to see him.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Smokey cam was kind of cool and I really liked the roller ocaster sounds as we traveled through the park, erm I mean jungle. Apparantly Smokey is out recruiting and his first choice after Richard, is Sawyer. As Smokey is arrives in Dharmaville, Sawyer is listening to “Searching to Destroy” and drinking heavily. I think, but I am not sure, that the osng Sawyer was listening to was done by Iggy Pop and was on the soundtrack of “The Deer Hunter” and “Apocalypse Now”, both movies about war. Sawyer, although he is drunk as a skunk, knows this man is not John Locke, yet somehow Flocke convinces Sawyer to come with him.

I have to take a moment here to bring something up about Sawyer’s appearance in this scene. I know he is meant to look slovenly and drunk, but was this shot really necessary….

Please writers/directors I beg of you, if we are going to get a shot of Sawyer in his skivvies, myself and every other girl in the world, would like them to be clean!

Flocke convinces Sawyer to put pants on, thank goodness (I can’t believe I just said that), and the two of them head into the jungle. While they are out, they run into the little boy Locke saw earlier with Richard, but this time, Sawyer sees him too. Why would Sawyer see him and not Richard? Got me, but like I said, maybe he wasn’t meant to. When Flocke realizes that the boy must be real if Sawyer saw him too, he takes off after him. Flocke catches up with the boy and the boy says, “You know the rules. You can’t kill him”, and saunters off into the jungle, leaving Flocke lying there screaming, “Don’t tell me what I can’t do”. It seems Flocke is starting to develop Locke’s personality.

So it appears that Flocke is not allowed to kill anyone who is a possible candidate. (I’ll get to all that later) If Jacob gives someone a number and makes them a candidate, the rules must state that Flocke (I wish we knew this guys name already), cannot kill a possible candidate until their name has been crossed off. I wonder how all of this works for Ben and Widmore. They seem to go by the same sort of rules, but keep in mind that Widmore supposedly broke those rules so who is to say that Flocke won’t break them too.

While Flocke is off chasing the boy, Richard appears and tries to get Sawyer to go back to the temple with him. Richard gets a chance to warn Sawyer that Flocke wants to kill him and everyone else and he won’t stop until……Until what? Most likely, he was going to say, until they are all dead. Sawyer chooses to stay with Flocke and it now looks like Flocke might have a genuine recruit. Sawyer may be following Flocke, but Sawyer is far from stupid. Sawyer was a pretty good con man and he still is. I think Sawyer may pretend to follow Flocke for a while, but that in the end he will betray Flocke in order to save the others lives. My theory is that this is how Sawyer will die. Yes, I said it. Sawyer will die. He will die saving the others from Flocke.

Jacob’s Ladder Leads To His Lair

Locke and Sawyer arrive at a huge cliff that leads straight down to the crashing waves beneath it. Attached to that cliff is a ladder that they must climb down. On the way down, Sawyers rope broke and I screamed. Bravo to that stuntman. Stunt people have some big, well let’s just say they are very courageous. Flocke reaches out to Sawyer and saves him. I definitely do not believe that Flocke saved Sawyer out of the kindness of his heart. He saved Sawyer because he needs Sawyer on his side. He needs an army and he needs one now. This was Flocke’s way of building trust.

Once they reach the bottom they enter a cave. I loved this cave. Imagine what it would be like to camp out inside of that for just one night! Too cool. Inside of the cave there is a scale that balances two stones, one white and one black, perfectly. This could signify what was a level playing field between Flocke and Jacob, but Flocke picks up the white stone and hurls it into the ocean. When Sawyer asks why Flocke says, “Inside joke”. Flocke has just thrown the game off balance and elimated the other side or at least that is his prime objective.

What comes next is something we have all waited a long time to hear the answer to. What do the numbers mean? Flocke shows Sawyer the place where Jacob keeps track of those he brings to the island and they each have a number. Per Flocke, Jacob just has a thing for numbers. Well okay then. The following losties are on the wall…..

Locke – 4 (Flocke crosses him off though)
Reyes – 8
Jarrah – 16
Ford – 15
Jack Shephard – 23
Kwon – 42

What is interesting is that Jack is the only one whose full name is listed. This must have some significance. He probably is more important than the others. Also for the number 42 it just says Kwon. Does Jacob mean Sun or Jin? Or does he perhaps mean both of them? I think he just means Jin and I’ll tell you why. Kate is not on the list and at first I was surprised by that because Jacob touched her too. After thinking about it, I realized that maybe Kate is not up there because she is a woman. Maybe Jacob can only be replaced by another man. This is why I think that Kwon means Jin. I still believe that Sun and Kate play an important role in all of this too.

I’m almost done here. Remember what I said, Sawyer is a con man and can smell a con a mile away. He is on to Flocke and Sawyer is set to pull another long con and I can’t wait to see it play out. Okay, I am done now. I will see you next week and thanks again for reading.

Little Things I Noticed

*The coffee cup Locke drinks from in the bathtub is half black and half white.
*Locke mentions wanting to dance at his wedding, just as Sarah did to Jack.

Best Lines

*Flocke – Hello James
Sawyer – I thought you were dead,
Flocke – I am

*Sawyer – Cuz Locke was scared even when he was pretending he wasn’t and you,
you’re not scared.

*Hurley – Chin up. Things are gonna work out.

*Ben – John Locke was a, a believer. He was a man of faith. He was a much better man than I will ever be and I’m very sorry I murdered him.

Lost Episode Review & Speculation - 6.03 "What Kate Does"

2010-02-14T00:52:00.002-05:00

KatesFate’s Episode Review and Speculation
6.03 “What Kate Does”

This episode didn’t have all of the awe that the season six premier did, but it was still decent. I think it was meant to be a set up episode for next week while still providing us with some insight into the characters. We also saw a few characters from the past come back in some unexpected ways which is always a nice treat. Well let’s get started shall we?

On Island Events

The Claiming of Sayid

The episode begins with Lennon running barefoot through the Temple. Not wearing shoes is fairly normal for the others. As far back as season two we have seen them running around in the jungle barefoot. However, if you have read my theory on this forum, I believe that shoes and feet somehow play a very important part in this story. I won’t get into now so if you are interested, please check out this thread to read more. I will say that the director certainly made a point out of showing us Lennon’s bare feet.

Even though the spring water was not clear and Dogen himself had declared Sayid dead, Sayid somehow springs back to life surprising everyone. Not only is he alive, but his wound is almost completely healed. The Others are beside themselves over this whole situation and request to speak to Sayid alone. The Others are concerned that Sayid may have been claimed and apparently this is not a good thing. In order to determine what is going on with Sayid, they blow some ash on him and then wire him up to some sort of device and seemingly electrocute him. I found this sort of unusual because the Others do not usually use any modern devices such as electricity. It then hit me that maybe they didn’t electrocute him. Maybe it was some sort of electromagnetic energy that they forced through his body. Then Dogen takes a hot poker and burns Sayid’s chest with it. I am guessing here that the ash blown onto Sayid was really the most important part of the test. Maybe the way in which his wounds react to the ash is what is important here.

I can’t fathom what results these tests were suppose to produce, but they were obviously not the right results, because they are now requesting that Jack murder Sayid before the “darkness” takes over. How was Sayid suppose to react to these tests if he was not being claimed I wonder. He responded pretty naturally to the pain if you ask me.

Dogen wants Jack to give Sayid a pill of some sort, Jack not yet knowing what is in the pill does not want to give it to Sayid and decides to swallow it. Dogen freaks out and performs a combination of martial arts and CPR I was quite impressed with. This could have been a really stupid thing for Jack to do, but I think that deep down Jack knows he is important and that these people will not harm him. At one point, Jack approaches the guards so he can speak to Dogen and he says, “Step aside”, both guards stepped away no questions asked as if their God had spoken.

There was one scene with Dogen and Jack that I found particularly interesting and that was the scene where Dogen was twirling the baseball. Think back to the episode where Richard Alpert visits John Locke as a young boy and asks him to choose which items are his. He asks Locke to choose between the following objects, a comic book, a baseball, a compass, a vial of sand, a book of law and a knife. Locke chose the knife, sand and compass and Richard did not like those choices declaring Locke “not special”. I have a feeling that Locke was suppose to have picked the baseball, compass and the sand instead. What importance that baseball has I don’t know but it is certainly odd that it showed up in The Temple in the hands of Dogen don’t you think?

What Kate Does

When Kate told the Others that she could bring Sawyer back I thought to myself, alright Kate finally understands that this is where they belong and that Sawyer needs to be there too. Boy was I disappointed when Kate suddenly took out both of the Others who were escorting she and Jin during their hunt for Sawyer. Sawyer specifically told her not to come after him. Does she ever learn? I have always liked Kate, but I was very angry with her during the timeline on the island. That girl is like a dog with a bone sometimes. Let it go already Kate. Even Jin knew she was doing the wrong thing. When Jin asked her what she planned on doing when she found Sawyer and she said, “I guess we’ll figure that out together”, I was flabbergasted and actually lost a little bit of respect for the girl. I am hoping she redeems herself in some way and I wonder where she is headed off to now that she realizes that Sawyer doesn’t want her help. My guess is back to Jack and The Temple.

Sawyer’s Heartbreak

I know all of you are probably sick and tired of hearing me say how great Josh Holloway is and how much I have enjoyed his characters arc, but all I can say about that is that you better not read this part of my review. Sawyer is my favorite character for a lot of reasons and yes the fact that he is gorgeous certainly does help, but even if I didn’t find Sawyer good-looking, I would still be impressed with his acting as of late. He has really come into his own as Sawyer and I am going to predict right here and now that next year is the year he will finally be nominated for an emmy.

I love the sarcastic, witty and brooding Sawyer, but there is always more than one side to a person and the character of Sawyer could of ended up being very one dimensional played by another actor. Watching Sawyer love and lose Juliet has been a very emotional roller coaster ride for me and the only other character on Lost whose life has had that effect on me is John Locke.

I mentioned this in a thread on this forum, but do you remember how Sawyer use to keep his stash of guns and goodies right underneath his bed buried in the sand? Well, I like the way the writers carried that over into this episode. While living in Dharmaville with Juliet, Sawyer kept all of his prized possessions under the bed where he and Juliet slept. When Kate goes back for Sawyer she finds him pulling up the floorboards for a box and we see Sawyer pull out a small black velvet bag. I was hoping we would get to see what was in that bag during this episode and I got my wish.

We learn during Kate and Sawyers’ conversation on the dock that Sawyer was going to ask Juliet to marry him. I can’t tell you how much this scene made me cry. I will never watch Lost again without a box of tissue next to me. Sawyer seems to now be resigned to the fact that he was meant to be alone forever and stays behind in Dharmaville and Kate finally leaves with her tail between her legs. The writers have a habit of splitting up the characters during crucial times only to bring them all back together again in some elaborate montage of a scene, so I am sure Sawyer will be back at the Temple once again, the question I have is when? Hopefully he will figure out what Juliet meant when she said, “It worked” and he will be able to move on.

Claire?

I was certain that Aldo was going to kill Jin as he lay there trapped. When we suddenly see both Others get shot, I was certain it was Kate or Sawyer. Never in a million years did I expect to see Claire standing there looking down the barrel of a shotgun looking like a mini Rousseau. I knew Claire would pop up on island at some point, but not in this way, shape or form. We learn from Dogen that Claire has been claimed, infected, whatever you want to call it, but what does this mean exactly and how did it happen to Claire? Did Claire die in her sleep after that explosion and was somehow claimed by the MIB? I am at a loss here, but I am sticking with that theory for now because I don’t see how she could have been claimed otherwise.

I was also pleased to learn that Dogen knows she is Jack’s sister. Dogen had no idea who Jack was when they walked into the Temple, so that has to mean that even though he didn’t know Jack’s face, he somehow knew of Jack and Jack’s family. This only solidifies the idea that Jack is very important to the island and the Others.

I think that pretty much covers the on island events so……………

Off Island Events

Born To Run

When we last saw Kate off island she was running from the Marshall and had hijacked a cab that had an extra passenger in the form of Claire. When the cabbie pulls away, Kate catches sight of Jack standing on the sidewalk and you can instantly see that she is confused when she sees him. I am pretty sure Kate recognized Jack but isn’t quite sure where she knows him from. Interesting though that when she pick pocketed his pen she didn’t show the same recognition. I think that as time goes on for these characters off island, they will very slowly start to have memories of the island that will bring them all together and these two timelines will come together as well.

The cabbie jumps out of the cab suddenly leaving Kate to drive with Claire still in back. I cannot believe that cabbie took off and left a pregnant Claire alone with some crazy woman toting a gun. What kind of man does such a thing? What a wuss. Kate eventually dumps Claire at the side of the road and heads to the nearest auto repair shop where she smiles, hands over $200 and the mechanic removes her cuffs. Like it really would have been that easy in real life.

Kate opens up the bag she stole from Claire so that she can change and realizes that the bag is full of baby items. She finally makes a decision that I 100% agree with and heads back to find Claire and return her bag and purse. After returning her bag, they speak briefly and Kate offers Claire a ride to the home of the couple who is to adopt Aaron. I really couldn’t believe that Claire said yes and excepted the ride. Here is a woman who has a gun and hijacked a cab with it and Claire just hops right in the cab! What was she thinking? Kate could have been some sort of baby stealing nut that you read about in the news for all Claire knew. Claire can be quite flighty at times if you ask me.

Claire learns that the couple who wanted to adopt her baby have split up and are no longer interested in adopting. At that moment, Aaron decides it is time to enter the world and Kate rushes Claire to the hospital. As they pull up outside of the hospital in a cab, a police car goes by. This was another moment I found a little unbelievable. Kate just escaped from a federal marshall in a stolen cab with a hostage, you would think every cop in the city would be on the alert for this cab.

Once in the hospital, Claire’s doctor turns out to be Ethan Goodspeed. I absolutely loved this part of the show. How cool that they worked Ethan into these events. Turns out Claire is in early labor, so Ethan offers to give her some drugs and when Claire asks if it is safe he says, “They are perfectly safe. I just don’t want to have to stick you with needles if I don’t have to”. LOL How great that line was. Remember that Ethan kidnapped Claire and stuck her with many a needle while she was in his captivity. Good stuff. It is also interesting to note that Ethan is no longer Ethan Rom. This means he never went to the island and defected to the others.

I was really hoping that when they got to the hospital Juliet would be the one to deliver Aaron. Now that Claire has opted to stop the labor for now, I am holding out hope that this will still happen. Although it would be nice to see Kate do it just like she did in season one, I would much rather be surprised by the appearance of Juliet.

Before parting ways, Claire gives Kate her credit card and Kate tells her she should keep the baby. Since Claire has now put a name to her baby, I believe she will opt to keep it. Although Kate is constantly running and can be rather wishy washy when it comes to men, the girl has a lot of heart and has always gone out of her way to help someone when they’ve needed it. She didn’t have to help Claire, but she did, even at the risk of being caught.

That is all from me for this week folks. Thank you for reading and since you are reading, please feel free to leave a comment. I love to hear from you.

Best Lines

*Ethan – They are perfectly safe, I just don’t want to have to stick you with needles if I don’t have to.

*Miles – As you can see, Hugo here has assumed the leadership position so that’s pretty good.

*Kate – I shouldn’t have come after you.
Sawyer – Which time?

*Aldo – You better not slow us down.
Kate – You better not slow me down.

Things I Noticed

*Claire had a stuffed whale in her baby bag. Aaron had a stuffed whale in his arms the night that Jack and Kate fought in Kate’s house when they were off of the island in the first timeline.

*There was another zebra crossing shown in this episode when Arzt is in the way of the cab. (Thanks to Gazman’s new sig or I never would have noticed this)

Episode Review - 6.01 & 6.02 "LA X"

2010-02-05T12:57:00.001-05:00

KatesFate’s Episode Review – 6.01&6.02 “LA X”

For about an hour before the premier of Lost began, I was on pins and needles. I was so excited to see it that I honestly couldn’t contain myself. I suddenly remembered what it felt like to be a child again on Christmas Eve. I paced around nervously for about an hour and then finally made my way to my chair, powered up the flat screen and cranked up the surround sound. I had waited patiently like a good fan during the longest nine month hiatus EVER and I was ready to get Lost.

I spent the next three hours of the night enjoying the reward that the writers and producers of Lost bestowed upon me for waiting so patiently. It was well worth the wait. I enjoyed the season premier of Lost immensely. There was not a single aspect of the episode that I did not love. It had a nice flow following season fives finale and we were given answers that I didn’t expect for at least a few more episodes. We were also surprised with what I felt was an awesome twist, placing the Losties into two timelines at once.

Timeline One – The flight and arrival at LAX

The fact that detonating the bomb worked and the Losties were right back on Flight 815 was not a big surprise to me. This is what I thought would happen. However, I always thought this would happen and they would retain their memories of the island. I never dreamed that what they did, would make them forget and reset their pasts, not to mention create an alternate timeline where they are still on the island, but now in 2007. I was more than happy to learn that setting off Jughead managed to give us both scenarios. The island is really where they are destined to be, so it makes sense that they are still on it. We’ll talk more about the island later, let’s talk about Flight 815.

This timeline was fantastic. It was awesome to see what would have happened to some of the characters had they never crashed. I also loved the way the writers incorporated lines and sentiments used during season one and how the characters lives still seem to be intertwined. It was interesting that their lives leading up the the flight were different as well. Hurley suddenly feels like the luckiest man alive and Jin is still barking orders at Sun, only this time I get the distinct feeling that Sun does not speak English, yet Jin does. Sawyer still seems like his normal self and is most likely still a con man. However, wouldn’t be a nice twist if this around he is not a con man, but a policeman or a detective? Think about it for a minute and rethink his actions on the flight, it’s not beyond impossible. You see they reset time all the way back to 1977 so anything that happened to them after 1977 has changed. Sawyer’s parents died in 1976 (I think), which would mean his childhood was still the same. But Hurley would not have been born yet, so his past would be completely different. This would also mean that Juliet never went to the island because as we know the island is now underwater, therefore she is most likely not dead in this timeline. Yah!!!!! I wonder if we will get a glimpse of the tailies and what happened to them once the plane landed. I hope we do.

For me the most interesting part of this timeline had to be the fact that both Locke’s knives and Jack’s father have mysteriously gone missing. I also now understand why Locke chose the knife as a young boy when Alpert came to visit him and why it was the wrong choice. Locke chose the knife because it would become the knife that would kill Jacob. This is why Richard never saw anything special in Locke, because he never was. I am guessing that Locke’s knives are lost because their true destiny is on the island as well as the body of Christian Shepard. Perhaps these two items never left the island to begin with when the bomb was detonated.

I also liked the idea that Jack provided Locke with some hope by giving him his business card and offering a free consult. Jack has never been one to hand out hope before and it was nice to see it being offered to John, who could have used much more of it the first time around.

Another interesting thing to note is that Desmond was on the Flight. Or was he? Do you think that Desmond might have been a vision that was meant to somehow jog Jack’s memory to recall island events? He did just seem to disappear into thin air and he was never on Flight 815 to begin with, so why would he be there now?

I also tried very hard to notice when Kate kicked Claire out of the cab, if Claire was pregnant this time around, but it was too hard to tell. Here is a screencap of her. What do you guys think?

And did anyone else notice that Kate pick-pocketed Jack’s pen on the plane in the same way she tried to pocket the handcuff key she and Jack retrieved from the dead marshall on the island and the satellite phone she lifted from his back pocket?

I could go on and on about all of the events so it’s probably best if I just move on the the island events now.

Timeline Two – The bomb explodes and sends the Losties to 2007 but they are still on the island.

This timeline began with a close-up of Kate’s eye. Kate awakens and suddenly realizes she is in a tree. She also has very muffled hearing because of the explosion. I have something to say here and you guys are all going to think I am nuts, but I don’t care because it makes perfect sense to me. As Kate wakes up and is climbing down the tree, her hearing may be muffled, but you can hear all sorts of noises going on around her and it was not just the noise of her climbing down the tree. When she gets her hearing back, everything around her is silent. Now hear me out for a minute, remember the pilot from back in season one that Kate and Charlie found laying in the treetops? Kate looked suspiciously like that pilot laying up there in that tree when she woke up and if you listen to the noises around her, it sounds a little bit like Smokey retreating. It is almost as if Smokey picked her up and put her in the tree without harming her and then retreated as if he was somehow saving her. She also woke up a lot further away from the hatch than everyone else did. I have to add also, that Kate is plagued by a Black Horse in season one. Coincidence? Hmmm…..we’ll see. Wasn’t Kate in the Judas position in the Lost Supper picture? Even though we saw Jacob touch her, whose to say she was not somehow also touched by Esau? If Locke’s character can end up never being special, then Kate’s character can certainly end up being on the “wrong” side.

Moving on to Sawyer & Juliet. Even though the idea the she could possibly be alive down there is a bit hoaky, I was glad that Sawyer and Juliet got to say a proper good-bye. Poor Sawyer though, he has been through a lot and seeing him suffer this way breaks my heart. I tried to contact him through fanmail to let him know that I am here for him whenever he needs me, but for some reason they believe me to be stalking him and I am no longer able to gain access to any of his fansites. Go figure. Their good-bye gave me hope though. Based on Juliet’s comments to Sawyer before she died, I predict that their characters will be reunited with one another before the end comes around. Remember, Juliet is not dead in the off-island timeline and could be living in LA for all we know and remember, she told Sawyer, “It worked”.

Now let’s discuss Hurley. While tending to Sayid who is bleeding profusely, Hurley is visited by the ghost of Jacob. WOW! Jacob tells Hurley that he needs to save Sayid by taking him to The Temple and to take the guitar case too. After easily convincing Jack that Hurley can fix Sayid, they head to the Temple. I was very surprised that we got to see the Temple so soon. Happy, but surprised. It reminded me of a Mayan Temple and the people protecting it are just others. Somebody please tell me why the other that was translating looked so familiar. Have we seen him before somewhere? So Hurley carried this Ankh with a list of names hidden inside all the way to the island. I love that he peeked at what was inside too. It was great that Hurley demanded to know what was on the paper. Once again he saves the day.

A quick thought here. Was Sawyer on the list too? Because you would think if he was that the others would have questioned his whereabouts?

Sayid’s turn. So Hurley convinces them to save Sayid and Sayid is placed into a pool of water that is no longer clear. My guess is that it is no longer clear because Jacob has died. Not to mention, no speak English, English taste bad guy, did not have his wound healed when he placed his hand in the water. So how did the water end up healing Sayid? Wanna know what I think? Too bad, I am going to tell you anyway. I think it might be possible that Jack’s touch somehow saved Sayid. Perhaps after Sayid was taken out of the pool and Jack tried to save him, he actually did save him. Maybe Jack has the same power of healing that Jacob does. He does have an obsessive need to fix things and has performed miracles. Shout out to Lupinbell here who mentioned that Sayid, may have said, “What Happened” in the voice of Jacob when he awakened. I watched it again and I think Lupinbell is right. That is definitely not Sayid’s voice. Could Jacob now be inhabiting Sayid?

I have saved the best part for last. The Lockeness Monster, Richard Alpert and all that went down at the beach. The most spectacular part of the entire episode was the scene where Flocke turns into Smokey, killing Bram and his men in much the same way it did Keamy and gang. I love the way it tricked Bram out of the ash circle. Clever fellow. By the way meppy, I am so sorry that Smokey turned out to be a man. I know you always fancied it a girl. While all of this happened, Ben hid and when it was over he stepped out and was heading toward the door, when Flocke appeared behind him and said, “I’m sorry you had to see me that way”. That statement combined with the look of evil on Flocke’s face and the look of terror on Ben’s face was more than wicked. This will go down as one of my all time favorite scenes ever.

In yet another great Flocke/Locke/Ben scene we learn what Flocke wants. He wants to go home. Home? Where is home? Could he mean the ultimate home, heaven? Was Flocke/MIB cast out of heaven and he now wants to go back. I want to see these two people act together for the rest of their lives and I will watch anything the two of these men do together. How have they not won every single award out there? I am in awe of both of them.

Flocke decides it is time to confront the people on the beach and he starts with Richard. In another great wow moment, Flocke says, “It’s good to see you out of those chains Richard”. Well there you have it folks. Richard was a slave on the Black Rock. I never believed he was an Egyptian. The look on Richard’s face was one of sheet terror and that one sentence from Flocke told us more about Richard that we’ve known for five years. Flocke then man handles Richard and Richard is down for the count. Flocke turns to everyone else and tells them that he is very disappointed in all of them. But why? Does he mean for locking him in a cabin for all of these years and for following Jacob instead?

Back at the Temple, they learn of Jacob’s death through Hurley. Was anyone else surprised that they didn’t somehow know themselves? It seemed odd to me that some stranger had to inform them of it. Jacob could have been dead in that foot for years and they seemingly never would have known. With Flocke on his way to the Temple with Richard in tow, next week is looking to be even better than this episode, although I don’t know how that would be possible.

That’s it for me folks, at least until next week. I know I left some important stuff out, but I have covered some of those topics in other threads so I left them out. Thanks once again for reading and please feel free to share your thoughts and leave your comments.

Things I Noticed and/or Loved

1. Hurley wears a red shirt throughout the entire episode. Say it ain’t so.
2. Frogurt sleeping on the plane between Locke and Ben was a nice touch.
3. I loved that Sawyer & Juliet got to say a proper good-bye.
4. Hurley! Hurley! Hurley!

Best Lines

1. Lockeness Monster – I’m sorry you had to see me that way.
2. Lockeness Monster – It’s good to see you out of those chains Richard.
3. Juliet – It worked.
4. Ben – You used me.

Lost Season Finale

2009-05-18T22:44:00.002-04:00

Hello Everyone!

I have so much to say about the season finale of Lost that I could spend weeks writing my review for this episode. Unfortunately, although it definitely won't take me weeks, my review will be a bit late for this episode.

I would like to make a quick statement about the apparrant death of my favorite character outside of Sawyer, Juliet Burke. Darlton, you have until August when you start filming the last season of Lost. Please pay attention to the fans and the message boards and make sure Juliet is a part of season six and the last season of Lost. Why must you always kill off the most interesting and exciting female characters to watch?

Follow The Leader - Episode 15

2009-05-16T22:34:00.004-04:00

My Weekly Review – Follow The Leader (Episode 15)

I have two words for tonights episode, absolutely incredible! It was obvious that this episode was meant to set up the final two episodes of the season, but I am okay with that. These sort of set up episodes are often my favorite kind. They are the type of episodes that keep me at the edge of my seat and leave me wanting more.

The episode toggled back and forth between 1977 and 2007. With that in mind, my review will be split up between the two time periods to make it easier on myself.

1977

Take Me To Your Bomb

Follow The Leader started right where The Variable left off. Daniel has just been shot by Eloise, and Kate and Jack are in the jungle watching in disbelief. They decide to run and as they do, Widmore rides up on his horse and captures the two of them, beating Jack up a little in the process.

Widmore approaches the camp with Jack and Kate in tow and asks, “What happened?” when he sees Faraday lying on the ground dead. Richard replies, “This man walked into camp and put a gun to my head and Eloise, (hesitates briefly) reacted.”

This was an interesting choice of words to me. It is thought by some that Jack reacts before thinking as well. I wonder if Eloise “reacting” to this situation, is what led to her being banned from or leaving the island. Ben told Widmore that he was being banished from the island for having a child with an outsider. Eloise is the woman he had the child with and she use to lead the others. Based on this information, I believe she was banished from the island and perhaps it was for “reacting” one too many times.

Eloise has Kate and Jack taken to her tent and while they wait to be interrogated, they discuss the pros and cons of finishing the job that Faraday set out to do.

Jack – Everyone we lost since we got here, they’d all be alive.

Kate – And what about us? We just go on living our life because we never met?

Jack – All the misery that we’ve been through, would just wipe it clean. Never happen.

Kate – (angrily) It was not all misery.

Jack – Enough of it was.

Well, it would appear as if anything good Jack ever had with Kate could never outweigh all of the bad things that have happened to him. Jack saying this clearly shocked Kate. Although I like Kate, I can’t help but wonder if she doesn’t support Jack’s decision because it would mean she would end up in jail for killing Wayne. She can’t go back to LA now either, because she has violated her probation and Aaron is now with grandma anyway. It would make sense that she opposes Jack’s views.

Eloise enters the tent and demands answers to her questions. Join the club lady. She questions Jack about Faraday and his plans to detonate the hydrogen bomb, which she read in Faraday’s journal. She has also noticed the inscription inside of the journal that is in her handwriting, but she does not remember writing it.

Eloise – How is this my handwriting if I don’t remember writing it?

Jack – Because you haven’t written it yet. I know this is hard to understand, but what you just did, it was an accident. And I think there is a way for you to take it all back.

Eloise – (to Kate) Does he know what he’s talking about?

Kate – He thinks he does.

That answer seems to suffice Eloise because she instantly decides to help them detonate the bomb and finish what Faraday set out to do so that she can stop herself from killing him in the future. Kate is not happy about any of this, but goes along with Jack anyway.

Back at the DI barracks, Sawyer and Juliet are in the custody of Radzinsky, Phil and Horace. Sawyer and Juliet are each tied to a chair and Radzinsky is trying to beat answers out of Sawyer. Beat all you want Radz, Sawyer has endured much more and by far more experienced hands than yours without talking.

Having seen the video of Kate and Sawyer taking Ben into hostile territory, Radzinsky wants to know where she is and Sawyer refuses to tell so Radzinsky continues to beat him. Horace tries to stop him and Radzinsky takes him out of command. What? What gives him the right to appoint himself the leader? Is there not some chain of command that they have to follow? Why can’t Horace just throw him out of the room? As I said in my review for He’s Our You, and my feelings are still the same, I liked him better when he was still a stain.

Phil Makes The Biggest Mistake Of His Life

Radzinsky threatens to kill Sawyer if he doesn’t talk and Juliet, unable to hold back any longer begs Stuart to please stop. Sawyer, who is lying on the floor covered in blood and still tied to the chair says to Juliet..”Juliet, don’t. Whatever you tell em, they ain’t gonna believe you. It’s only gonna get more people hurt. Even though the 06 came back and destroyed their happy life, Sawyer still cares about them and is willing to endure torture to keep them safe. Of course, one could argue that he is just keeping Kate safe, but I wouldn’t be one of them.

Horace decides to its time to try and exert his authority and says, “Beating him is pointless okay. He’s not gonna talk. At this point, that rotten Phil steps in and claims that he knows how to make Sawyer talk. With that, he turns suddenly and sucker punches Juliet right in the mouth. OMG! I wanted to kill him right then and there. How dare he? I thought Sawyer might explode out of his ropes when he roared at Phil, “You son of a *****! You’re dead man. I’m gonna kill you. You are a walking dead man Phil. I hope Sawyer gets to meet up with you again. You are going to rue the day!

Pop Quiz Hotshot

While Sawyer contemplates ways to kill Phil, we see Hugo, guitar case in hand, running through the DI barracks towards the jungle. Go Hurley go! But wait, Hurley is not alone, he is being followed by Pierre Chang. Hurley meets up with Jin and Miles at the edge of the jungle and Pierre follows. Pierre questions Hurley about their being from the future and the conversation went like this…

Chang – Your friend Faraday says that you’re from the future. I need to know if he was telling the truth.

Hurley – Dude that’s ridiculous.

Chang – What year were you born? What year?

Hurley – Uh, 1931

Chang – You’re 46?

Hurley – Yah. Yes I am.

Chang – So you fought in the Korean war?

Hurley – Theres no such thing.

Chang – Who is the president of the United States?

Hurley – Alright dude. I’m from the future. Sorry. .

Hurley is so freakin funny. He tries so hard and then he is just so nonchalant about it after being busted. Sorry. Miles ends up telling his dad what Faraday knew and what he planned to do. The issues that Miles had with his dad were created by himself. He was the reason that his father sent him away as a baby. That was a nice twist within this story.

Miles is able to convince Chang who heads out to find Horace. Chang interrupts Sawyer’s beating to tell them all that they must evacuate the island immediately. Radzinsky, of course, says no and Sawyer decides to talk. He tells them that Pierre is right and if they put him and Jules on the sub, he will tell them everything. Radzinsky demands he draw a map to the hostiles camp and what is done is done. I know some people would like to argue that Sawyer once again only thought about himself, but I disagree. Sawyer wanted nothing more than to protect everyone or he wouldn’t have gone through what he just went through. Sawyer changed his mind when Phil punched Juliet. I believe he made a choice between Juliet and everyone else and he chose Juliet. You can’t fault the guy for that.

The Foundation On Which Dharma Was Built

Meanwhile, Kate, Jack, Alpert and Eloise arrive at a fresh water pond and Eloise tells them they must swim under it to get to the tunnels where the bomb is buried. It is at this point that Kate makes her decision to go back. She is still not convinced that Jack knows what he is talking about and she is afraid he is going to kill them all. As she begins to walk away, the others draw their guns and threaten to shoot if she leaves. She continues to walk away and a shot is fired. Kate’s eyes open wide and she looks down at her chest. Psyche! Sorry all you Kate haters, but Kate has not been shot. Sayid suddenly appears from the bushes looking all proud of himself. He has shot the other who had their gun aimed at Kate. I honestly believed for that moment that they had killed Kate. I was speechless.

After listening to Jack talk about destiny, Kate leaves telling Jack, “I’m going back to find the rest of our people because if I can’t stop you, maybe they can.” Knowing she could be killed by the DI if she got caught, Jack didn’t put up much of a fight about her staying. He really is behaving a lot like Locke.

Jack, Sayid, Eloise and Alpert swim into the pond and through an underwater tunnel which leads into the tunnels of what I believe is The Temple. I loved the way the water entrance looked from inside of the tunnel. The hydrogen bomb is massive in size and weight and Jack questions how they are going to move it and Alpert tells him the same way they got it in. Well thanks Richard, that was helpful. Seriously though, just how will they move that bomb to where it needs to be and where will they move it to?

Twos Company, Threes A Crowd

Sawyer and Juliet are being loaded into the sub as Miles, Hurley and Jin watch through binoculars from the jungle. Hurley says, “Don’t worry, its gonna be okay. Sawyer always has a plan right?” No Hurley. Not this time. I don’t think that they noticed that S&J were handcuffed while getting on the sub either. I hope those three are going to be okay.

Sawyer and Juliet are handcuffed to a table in the sub but not within reaching distance. Juliet tells Sawyer and she loves him and he says he loves her right back. They are so awesome together. There is something so real about their relationship. Their joy is marred however, when one more person is being forced off of the island and loaded into the sub. Kate is brought in and handcuffed to the table right in front of Sawyer. Sawyer sits looking dumbfounded and Juliet looks like she would love nothing more than to kill Kate at that moment. Kate just says hey, like she is totally oblivious. The writers are going to keep teasing us with these couples until the very end, but that’s okay. These scenes where Kate keeps getting in the middle of them are meant to pique our curiosity and I find them funny.

Now that we have the events in 1977 covered, lets head off to 2007.

2007

The Return Of Locke

Thirty years later we see Richard sitting on the beach building a ship in a bottle against a beautiful backdrop which makes the ship appear to be sailing. The ship resembles The Black Rock, but I don’t think it means anything. I just wanted to mention the scene because it reminded me of a portrait. It was a beautiful scene. His ship building is interrupted by the return of John Locke who walks into camp carrying a boar and announcing that dinner is served. He sure does know how to make an entrance.

Locke immediately takes charge and tells Alpert that they have an errand to run and it must be done immediately. Richard stares at Locke as if he can’t quite understand him.

Locke – What’s wrong?

Richard – There’s something different about you.

Locke – I have a purpose now.

Yah! I was ecstatic when Locke said this. No longer is he waiting to be told what to do. He knows exactly what to do and is going to waste no time in doing it. As they speak, Richard notices Ben and Jin on the beach and wants to know what he is doing there and Locke responds, “He helped me get back.” When I heard this, a thought struck me that maybe Ben’s purpose on the island this entire time was not to lead the others but to actually kill John in that hotel room so that he could get back to the island. Although Locke was always the chosen one, Ben had a big connection to him and the island needed him just as much as it needed Locke.

While Richard and Locke speak, Sun questions Ben as to whom the man Locke is talking to is.Sun – Who’s that man he’s talking to?Ben – His name is Richard Alpert. He’s a kind of advisor and he has had that job for a very, very long time. The fact that we were told Richard is an advisor really doesn’t tell us much, because I think most people kind of already assumed this. What interests me is the fact that both Juliet and Ben have now stated that Richard has been on the island for a very, very long time. This just reaffirms my beliefs that Richard is from the time of the Statue and the building of The Temple and tunnels. Richard is some sort of an Egyptian god or something. He appears to be the only one of his kind left on the island though.

Ben sits on the beach while Richard and Locke prepare to leave and John invites him to join them.

Locke – Ben, I’d appreciate it if you’d join us.

Ben – What John, don’t you trust me here with my former people? Afraid I’ll stage a coup?

Locke – I’m not afraid of anything you can do anymore Ben.

Ben – In that case, I’d love to come

John – (smiling) Good.

Ben’s statement about staging a coup was my favorite line of the episode. The sarcasm and tone of his voice made me laugh out loud. I also love that Locke seems to have no real need for Ben anymore.

Tell Me What To Do One More Time

The three of them head out leaving Sun behind with the promise that if there is a way to bring Jin and their people back, he will find it. While trekking through the jungle, Locke tells Richard that he wants to go and see Jacob when he is finished with his errand, but it is clear that Richard doesn’t like the idea. Locke, having a purpose now informs Richard that he is the leader and Richard will take him to Jacob. Well alrighty then Locke. You got it! Locke stops suddenly and points to the beechcraft where numerous past scenes have taken place, most importantly the scene in which Locke is flashing through time and Alpert informs him that he will have to die.

We watch this scene unfold in front of us again and learn that it was Locke himself who sent Alpert to help him during that time. He sent Alpert to tell himself that he was going to have to die. Trippy stuff man!So had Locke not gone back to the island, Locke would have never gotten the compass that Richard just gave him back. Just how many times has this compass been exchanged back and forth between them now? If anyone has the gumption to figure it out, please let me know. Ben stands there in apparent amazement at the scene unfolding before him.

Ben – Your timing was impeccable John. How did you know when to be here?

Locke – The island told me. Didn’t the island ever tell you things?

Ben – No John and clearly it hasn’t told you where Jacob is or you wouldn’t need Richard to show you! (So there! Na-na, na-na, boo-boo!) Hahahahha!

Locke – You’ve never seen him.

Ben- What?

Locke – Jacob. You’ve never seen him.

Again, I loved this scene simply for the way that Ben made his statement about Jacob. He was such a baby about it. I love Ben.

Locke’s Purpose

After having set his path straight, Locke heads back to camp and tells Alpert that he would like to see Jacob immediately and wants to call a meeting with all of the others in regards to the whereabouts and existence of Jacob. Locke stands before all of the others and announces that he is going to see Jacob to find out who this man is that is telling them all what to do and that he would like all of them to join him in his quest. They all seem more than willing to follow Locke in his pursuit.

As the others, led by Locke trek across the beach, Alpert expresses his worries about Locke causing trouble to Ben. Richard and Ben do not like this idea at all. Ben decides to talk to Locke about Richards concerns in regards to seeing Jacob. Ben tells Locke that he is there to follow him now..

Ben – I’m here to follow you now. So if you need Jacob to help you reunite your people, then I’ll do….

Locke – (interrupting) I’m not interested in reuniting my people.

Ben – (looking shocked) What do you mean? You told Sun…

Locke – I know what I told her but that’s not why we’re going to Jacob.

Ben – Then why are we going to Jacob?

Locke – So I can kill him

Say what? This is huge. I had always thought Locke would save Jacob, not kill him. But why, why would Locke need to kill Jacob? One idea might be that Locke is not Locke (which I believe to be the case), and that he wants to kill Jacob in order to take control of the others and the island. Locke is Smokey and he has found a way out and wants the island all to himself. Keep in mind this is not my set theory, just speculation.

My other thought is that killing Jacob is the way to save Jacob. Depending on how you look at it, Locke’s being killed and resurrected saved him, I don’t know why Locke would want to kill Jacob, but I am hoping this means that we will get to see Jacob again next week in the season finale.

I am also wondering how Ilana and Bram are going to fit into this equation. Will they stop Locke from killing Jacob or help him? I can’t wait until next week. Though sadly, it will be our final Lost season cliffhanger ever.

Random Thoughts

I do not want Jack to change things and I don’t think he will. Otherwise the show would end when he detonates the hydrogen bomb and I don’t think it will take 18 more episodes to get that bomb to blow.

I hate Phil, I hate Phil, I hate Phil, I hate Phil, I hate Phil, I hate Phil, I hate Phil.

Will we get to see Rose, Bernard, Claire or Vincent in the finale?

Best Lines

Sayid – If this works, you might just save us all and if it doesn’t, at least you’ve put us out of our misery.

Jack – This is our destiny.Jack – Well maybe I was wrong.

Richard – I’m starting to think John Locke is going to be trouble.

The Variable - Episode 14

2009-05-05T20:59:00.003-04:00

My Weekly ReviewThe Variable - Episode 14

This was one of those episodes that just had it all. Drama, humor, mystery, and many answers. Things are starting to fall into place in this mind blowing story and our Losties are at the brink of learning where their true destinies lie.

As I stated in last weeks review for Some Like It Hoth, seeing Daniel arrive back at the island was a sure clue that he would be the centric character for this weeks episode.

Sacrificing The Children

In the episode's first scene we see Desmond being rushed into an ER with Penny and Charlie running in with him. I really thought that Desmond had not been hit with Ben's bullet. The way he attacked Ben, I figured a jug of milk had saved him. Although I was wrong about this, Desmond is still okay and that is all that matters.

While Des is in surgery Penny is visited by none other than Eloise Hawking. She claims she is there to apologize for Penny's husband becoming a casuality in a conflict bigger than any of us. When Penny asks her if Desmond will be okay, Eloise replies uncertainly, "I don't know. For the first time in a long time, I don't know what's going to happen next."

What confuses me is why Eloise is suddenly unsure of the future and why she would apologize to Penny for Daniel interferring in his life. She herself has done the very same thing. It was she who stopped Desmond from marrying Penny in the first place. Why the seemingly sudden change of heart?

As Eloise is leaving the hospital, Charles Widmore emerges from the shadows to find out if Desmond is okay. Either Widmore never really disliked Desmond at all or he is just happy for his daughter that Des is okay. Next Eloise and Widmore have an interesting conversation about sacrifice.

Eloise - Your daughter is in there. Why don't you go in and say hello?

Widmore - Unfortunately Eloise, my relationship with my daughter is one of the things I had to sacrifice.

Eloise- Sacrifice? Don't you talk to me about sacrifice Charles. I had to send my son back to the island knowing full well...

Widmore - He's my son too, Eloise

Than she lays a hard slap across his face and gets into a cab. The conversation led me to believe that she knew sending her son back to the island would result in her shooting him. It also made me wonder who Penny's mother is. Daniel and Penny are awfully close in age, so either Widmore was sleeping with two women at the same time or Daniel and Penny are brother and sister. It just doesn't make sense that Penny's mother could be someone else. I am going to throw a crazy thought out there. Maybe Pen and Dan are twins and shortly after they were born Charles and Eloise seperated. For some unknown reason, Charles took Penny with him and Eloise took Daniel. It's not too far fetched when you think about it.

Eloise and Hawking are also not the only two that have sacrificed their own children at some point. Ben sacrificed Alex's life. Sun sacrificed leaving her daughter behind to find her husband. Claire seems to have sacrificed Aaron for the sake of the island. Sacrifice has played a role on Lost many times and not just when it comes to the children.

I Can Make Time

Not only is Daniel a physicist, he is also a musician. A flashback shows us Daniel around age 12 I would guess, expertly playing the piano when his mom approaches him. Eloise gently tries to persuade Dan away from the piano and concentrate more on his studies. She explains to him what it means to have a destiny and that it is her "job" to keep him on his path, that his gift is his mind and he needs to concentrate more on science and mathematics. There is no time for the piano. But wait a minute, Daniel has a solution to that problem. He can do both. As he states, "I can make time." "If only you could", responds Eloise as she covers the piano keys.

A thought crossed my mind after I re-watched this scene. Do you remember back in season 3 when Charlie needed to turn off the jammer? Bonnie had told Charlie that the keypad was programmed by a musician. Could Daniel have been the musician that programmed it? Other than Charlie, he is the only other musician on the show. The Looking Glass could be the first station that was built by the DI since its function is to communicate with the outside world. Maybe Daniel programmed it before he left the island?

Back on the island in 1977, Daniel wants Miles to take him to see Jack. While off in Ann Arbor Daniel learned that Kate, Jack and Hurley were back on the island and has come back to tell them that they shouldn’t have come back. Daniel informs Jack that his mother was wrong. They don’t belong back on the island at all.

He cuts his meeting short to have Miles take him to meet Mr. Chang. When Pierre pulls up Daniel says, “Right on time”. This would mean he knows exactly what is going to happen and when it is going to happen when it comes to the DI’s moves. He cannot predict the Losties moves because they are the variables and have free will.

Daniel confronts Chang and tries warning him of the impending disaster. Of course convincing Chang is not easy and Daniel finally tells him that he is from the future. Pierre thinks that Miles overheard his conversation about time travel and is now pulling his chain so Daniel tells him that Miles is his son. I really think Pierre wanted to believe Daniel and had Miles not lied about who he was, Chang would have been convinced.

Your mother is an other

Meanwhile back at the barracks, a meeting of the minds is taking place at LaFleur and Juliets’ house. With Phil locked in a closet, Sawyer, Juliet, Jack, Jin and Hurley are deciding what to do next. Sawyer does not want to leave his home but realizes that they have no choice.

Hurley – That dude in the closet. I thought he worked for you. Can’t you just convince him that it was all like a misunderstanding?

Sawyer – I punched the man in the damn face Hugo what am I suppose to say, my fist slipped?

The way Sawyer sees it, they only have two choices. They either commandeer the sub and leave the island or head back to the jungle and start anew. Jin proclaims he is not getting on the sub while Sun is somewhere on the island and Hurley thinks leaving the island would be a wishy-washy decision. Hurley couldn’t be more right. I love when the writers acknowledge the fans thoughts about some of the choices the characters have made.

Daniel unable to convince Chang, arrives at the meeting with Miles to find out if anyone knows how to find the hostiles because his mother is one of them and only she can help them. “Your mother is an other?”, asks Sawyer. I could say that sentence over and over again. It sounds like the name of a rap song. There is a bit of a conflict between Sawyer and Jack over whether to help Daniel because Sawyer doesn’t want to go back where they belong. He belongs with Juliet right where they are and feels if Jack and co. hadn’t come back everything would be fine. Jack on the other hand believes Dan and wants to take him to his mother. The conversation that follows was excellent!

Jack – (looking at Kate) You know where the hostiles are?

Kate – What?

Jack – You and Sawyer took Ben out to them. Can you get us back out there?

Sawyer – Whoa hold on a second. Don’t say a word Kate.

Jack – She can say what she wants to say. Kate you made me promise to never ask What happened to Aaron or why you came back here, but I know that reason, It isn’t here.

Sawyer – Whatever her reason is, helping H.G. Wells here talk to his mommy ain’tGot nothing to do with it. Come with us Freckles.

Juliet – The code for the fence is 141717. You should take Daniel. Its over here for us Anyway.

Kate – Okay lets go.

First of all, Sawyer – What the **** is the matter with you? Okay it’s bad enough that he asked her to come without talking to Juliet about it first but he called her Freckles. Right there in front of Juliet. My girl wasted no time giving Kate the code to the fence. She wasn’t having any of that. Sawyer didn’t even comment or object when Juliet stepped up. I think he knows better. It is quite obvious who wears the pants in that family. I loved this scene and the way Juliet delivered her line. She has had so many great lines throughout the seasons and her delivery is exceptional.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

Jack, Kate and Daniel head out and Kate immediately states that they need guns and that there are some locked up in the motor pool. Being a janitor Jack has a key so all three of them head to the stash of guns and commence to stealing them. Suddenly, Radzinsky shows up and catches them and bullets begin flying everywhere.

There were a few things that bothered me about this whole scenario. Why did all three of them head to the motor pool? They might as well have held up signs announcing what they were doing. It would have made more sense if Kate had gone alone since she works in the motor pool and her being there would not have looked suspicious. They could have met up at another spot and headed out from there. Duh!

The actual gunfight itself bothered me as well. Both sides were in fairly close range of each other and shooting constantly, yet Daniel, Kate and Jack come out of it unscathed. Oh that’s right Daniel got a little boo boo on his neck. Please. The whole thing was just kind of hokey, especially when Jack shot at the barrel of fuel and it exploded. There was no need to even have a shoot out here if one of them wasn’t going to be shot.

Also, why did Juliet and Sawyer not hear the explosions and the alarm back at their house? Surely they would have heard the commotion and scrambled to get out of there a little quicker.

Back where they belong?

Jack and friends manage to escape and get Faraday to the hostiles, but not before Daniel sees young Charlotte on the swingset. Again with that swing. I mentioned this in my review for Some Like It Hoth as well, but that swingset has been in more scenes than Vincent, Rose and Bernard combined. Do you remember the scene in Terminator when Sarah Connor is watching a young girl and her mom play on the playground by a swing and then a nuclear bomb explodes? The swingset in Dharmaville has an eerie way of reminding me of that scene. I just thought I would share that.

Daniel approaches little Charlotte, who happens to be eating a chocolate bar and Charlotte says, “I’m not suppose to eat chocolate before dinner.” Nice. Daniel then warns Charlotte about leaving the island which is exactly what he told himself he wasn’t going to do when she died. This would make sense since the past cannot be changed. This was a sweet scene and Faraday was great in it.

On the way to the others camp Daniel explains to Jack and Kate , that anyone of them can die because “this” is their present. The writers were practically hitting us over the head with this clue now that I think about it. Of course Daniel was going to die. Jack asks why Eloise was wrong about them returning to the island and Daniel explains the incident to them and the true purpose of the hatch. He explains to them that all of his research has regarding time travel and changing the past has focused on the constants. What he failed to figure into his research was the variables. Our Losties are the variables. People are the variables. “We have free will. We can change our destiny.”

Daniel is going to detonate the hydrogen bomb in order to keep the incident at The Swan from happening. If he does this, the Losties and the rest of the passengers of flight 815 will land in LA where they were suppose to. Hmm. Why would any of them want to do that, except for maybe Jin and Sun. Certainly Kate wouldn’t want to go back when she would most certainly go to jail this time around. And what about Jack? He has pretty much already resigned himself to the fact that he was never leaving the island once he went back so I don’t think that is an issue. Miles isn’t going anywhere and we know Sawyer and Juliet don’t want to leave. Hurley on the other hand has a loving family back home, but he himself said it would be wishy-washy to go back, for the moment anyway. And as Kate herself said, “This is a mistake. He’s talking about erasing everything that’s happened to us Jack. Its insane.”

With Daniel now dead, will Jack and Kate follow through with his plan? Would they even know how to detonate a hydrogen bomb? I don’t believe it will be detonated unless Faraday was somehow able to plant some seed of doubt in Chang’s mind during their conversation, which is most likely what will happen. We know Chang sent Miles and mom away and this is most likely the reason why. He knows what is going to happen and doesn’t want them to get hurt. They will remove people from the island via the sub and I cannot wait to find out who gets on it and who doesn’t.

Jack, Kate and Faraday make it to the others camp when Daniel tells Jack and Kate to wait and he approaches the camp and takes aim at Alpert demanding to see Eloise. Daniel tells Alpert he will shoot if he doesn’t tell him where Eloise is. One…two….BOOM. Daniel looks down and blood oozes from his chest. Pan to Eloise who has just shot her own son. As he lay dying Daniel realizes that his mother knew this would happen all along. She sent him to the island knowing she would kill him when he got there. Whatever is happening on that island must be horribly, horribly bad if a mother is willing to sacrifice her own son to stop it from happening.

Faradays death, although sad was necessary. Faraday’s destiny was not actually to stop the incident but to figure out how to stop it and set the scene so that Jack and Kate could stop it from happening. At least that is one possibility.

Back at the LaFleurs house they are still packing when Radzinsky shows up looking for Sawyer to tell him what just happened. While Radzinsky is ranting, Phil decides to start beating on the closet door and Juliet and LaFleur are taken into custody of the DI. Luckily Hurley, Jin and Miles are outside watching all of this go down. Hopefully they will come up with some sort of solid plan to free L&J from Radzinsky’s clutches.

A Family Affair

As we learn in Daniel’s flashbacks, Widmore and Eloise appear to now be working together to get Daniel back to the island. We learn that Widmore himself contacted Faraday in regards to joining the freighter team and that it truly was him who planted the duplicate of Oceanic 815 on the ocean floor.

We also get to see Eloise interrupt Daniel while playing the piano again only it is about 15 years later. She tells Daniel that he should take Widmore up on his offer. Going to the island may heal him and he can complete his research. Daniel says, “Will it make you proud of me?” and she responds, “Yes Daniel, it will.” I didn’t notice it the first time, but upon re-watching the episode, I noticed that it was very upsetting to Eloise to have to say these things to Daniel because she knew what the outcome would be. What an awful life Daniel Faraday has had to live. Daniel was never allowed to have free will when it came to his life decisions. If his mother hadn’t interfered and pushed so hard, I wonder if he would have become a physicist at all. Maybe this wasn’t Daniel’s true destiny at all since he was not allowed free will. Maybe he himself is the variable as the title suggests.

Random Thoughts

· I will keep saying this until she takes it off. Juliet is wearing a red shirt for the third episode in a row now.

· Juliet rocks

· Ben really was telling the truth about Widmore and the plane.

Best Lines·

Widmore – What if I told you the plane was a fake. An elaborate expensive fake.

Faraday – How would you know that?

Widmore – Because I put it there.

Faraday – Why would you tell me that?

Widmore – Because come tomorrow, you won’t remember I did.

Sawyer – Your mother is an other?

My Weekly Review

2009-05-02T16:52:00.002-04:00

My Weekly Review - Some Like It Hoth (Episode 13)

This weeks episode featured Miles Straum. I have been waiting to see his backstory for what seems like ages and was starting to think they were going to pull a Charlotte on his character. I have always been fascinated with the paranormal so Miles and his gift have always intrigued me.

The episode starts by introducing us to a young Miles and his mother who are trying to find an apartment. While mom speaks to the landlord, Miles wanders off to the vending machine only to be side-tracked by the voice of a man coming from apartment 4. (there were a lot of #'s mentioned in this epi). Turns out the voice calling out to Miles is that of a dead man. He screams for his mom and everyone comes running. The way Mile's mom reacted, I got the feeling that this was the first time she had seen Miles perform his gift. I also got the feeling that it was the first time it had ever happened to Miles as well. If that is the case, I wonder why his gift didn't manifest at an earlier age. Or he simply had not been around a dead person until this point in his life.

On the way back from taking Ben to the others, Sawyer calls Miles and tells him the tape from monitor 4 needs to be erased. (#'s mention) As Miles begins to eject the tape, Horace shows up with a package he needs delivered to Radzinsky in grid 334, putting Miles into The Circle of Trust.

The Circle of Trust. So there is a group of DI members harboring a secret from the rest of the DI perhaps covering up their true intentions for being on the island. Horace must really trust Miles to have made him a member of the group so quickly with no initiation at all. Needless to say, Horace's interruption leaves Miles no chance to erase the tape and it is left sticking out of the VCR just waiting for someone to find it.As it turns out, Miles mission is to take a body bag to Radzinsky who is in grid 334 which is Hostile territory. Miles is unaware of this until Radzinsky rolls out the bag and two men carry a dead body out of the jungle to place into the bag. Radzinsky tells Miles to take the body to Horace. Once they are all gone, Miles uses his gift to find out how the man died.

We learn later that the man was killed by a filling being sucked out of his tooth and shooting through his brain because of a high dose of electromagnetism. Remember Desmond's line in the hatch back in season 2? "I don't know about you brotha, but everytime I walk by that wall, my fillings hurt." Alvarez was most certainly working on the Swan at the time of his death.

Back in Dharmaville, Roger Linus discovers that Ben is missing and lashes out at Juliet and Kate then storms out while threatening to tell Horace what has happened. "Well, here we go", states Juliet. Those four words and the way she spoke them really resonate. Their peaceful life is at its end and what lies ahead is the furthest thing from peace. What a foreboding statement that was and now one of my favorite Lost quotes.

Kate sees Roger, whom it would seem has not told Horace about Ben yet, on the swingset (and how many scenes throughout the seasons have now focused on that swingset?) and apparantly feeling sorry for him decides to try and comfort him. Bad decision Kate. Roger is drinking again, fast and hard and she should know there is no communicating with a drunk. Of course Roger becomes suspicious of why Kate would even care and becomes convinced she has something to do with Ben's disappearance. Kate keeps putting herself into situations where she can't help but look suspicious. I know its not intentional, but I really wish she would stop it.

Miles shows up to deliver the body to find Horace on the phone. I guess Mr. Chang found out how the man died and would now like to have the body for himself. Why? Good question. Will we get an answer? Not in this episode. Questions are never answered that quickly on Lost.

So Miles, now on a new mission heads back to his van to find Hurley loading it with ham, cheese and his special garlic-mayo sandwiches. Hurley is delivering sandwiches to workers at the Orchid and that happens to be where Miles is headed so they carpool and become the very first people to ever "go green" in order to stop global warming. Their trip together gave us the best scenes of the night in my opinion. The two of them are great together. I enjoy watching them just as much as I enjoy it when Locke and Ben share a scene. I hope they pair them up more often.

On the way to the Orchid, Hurley notices a foul odor coming from inside of the van and is insistent on pulling over so he can check that his sandwiches have not gone bad. Whew, its not the sandwiches. Just a dead body and thank goodness because bad mayo could have purged half of the DI a bit before their time. During the remainder of the ride, Hurley learns that Miles can talk to dead people and seems thrilled to be able to share his hobby with someone. Turns out that although Hurley and Miles seem to share the same gift, they come about it in totally different ways. Hurley actually sees and converses with the ghosts and Miles claims to just be able to read their last thoughts before death.

This doesn't make any sense to me. There are a couple of things that Miles has done that lead me to believe that Miles either lied to Hurley about how his gift works or over the course of the story, the writers changed their minds about the way in which Miles gift would work.

First of all, when Michael was entering the freighter back in "Meet Kevin Johnson", Miles knew he was lying about who he was. There is no way Miles could have known that. Naomi didn't even know it. After this scene, I had always assumed that Mile's gift included being able to read minds. There was also our first meeting with Miles in which he seemingly talks to a womans grandson. The ghost even responds by knocking on the wall where his stash is hidden. After retrieving the stash, Miles tells the ghost that it can leave now and assures the grandmother that the boys spirit is gone. This scene gave the distinct impression that Miles could talk to ghosts. If he can only read their last thoughts, why was he asking it questions? I don't think Miles was completely truthful with Hurley about his gift but I cant think of a good reason as to why he wouldn't be so I am hoping the writers have a good explanation for what seems to be a change in Miles gift. Or I could just be reading into this too much. No matter what the reason though, Hurley was right when he said that his super power is better.

Hurley and Miles arrive at The Orchid to meet Pierre and hand over the body. The best quotes came out of this episode. I love that when Pierre comes over to meet them and questions Hurley being there, that Hurley just blurts out, “Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone about the body”. He is so naïve and endearing. Even when he does screw up, which is rare really, you can’t help but love the guy. The rest of the conversation was totally quotable. Here is my shortened version…

“I can keep a secret”

“If you think the kitchen is bad”

“I like the kitchen”

“How do you feel about polar bear feces?”

“Breath one word and you’ll be weighing turds”

“Gross”

Pierre Chang walks away

“Dude, that guys a total douche”

“That douche is my dad”

As serious as the situation really was, I couldn’t stop laughing through the whole scene. And it only got better when Hurley started to psycho analyze Miles. Hurley gets Miles to talk about his dad and the conversation started like this,Hurley – How long have you known he was your dad?Miles – Third day we were here I was on line at the cafeteria and my mother got in line behind me. That was my first clue. The way Miles said this line cracked me up.

Mr. Chang suddenly reappears and tells Miles he needs a ride to Radzinsky. During the ride back, Hurley tries to get Miles and Pierre to talk. Hurley begins to make casual conversation with Chang asking about his wife and job when Mr. Chang mentions he has a three month old son named Miles. Hurley tries his best to get Miles talking as well, but he won’t budge.

They arrive at their destination which is surrounded by camofloauged walls and it turns out to be the future home of the Swan. They are in the process of building it and Hurley and Miles sit and watch while the infamous numbers are pounded into the hatch door. Hurley stares at all of this with a look of dread. He is watching the DI build the very thing that brought him to the island in the first place. I thought that scene was very well done.

Once again H & M end up in the van together and Hurley continues to badger Miles about his father. Miles gets so aggravated that he snags that journal Hurley has been writing in all day and begins to read it aloud. Hurley is rewriting The Empire Strikes Back and is going to send it to George Lucas. Hurley compares Luke’s relationship with Vader to Miles and Pierre and you can see his words hit home by the look on Miles face. All of this made me wonder though. Luke lost his hand because of his father. I wonder if Pierre will lose his because of Miles?

On his way back home, Miles happens upon his fathers house and sees his father holding baby Miles and reading him a story. I felt so bad for Miles watching this scene. I also noticed that Pierre didn’t exactly seem like the father that Mile’s mom said he was. He seemed to really love baby Miles. I think Pierre sent Miles and Lara away because he didn’t want anything to happen to them and not because he didn’t want anything to do with them. Pierre gets a call and steps out of his home. He notices Miles and yells to him that he needs him and Miles responds, “You do?” through his tears.

Turns out they are going to pick up new recruits at the sub and Daniel Faraday is the first one out sporting an official Dharma jumpsuit. He’s back. Yah! I am hoping that means he will be at the center of the next episode. I can’t wait to find out what he has been doing for three years.

I know that I left a lot out of this review and I contemplated not even writing this week because my schedule is just so crazy right now, but getting to write a little bit is better than not writing at all.

Random Thoughts

*Miles being kidnapped by Bram. It’s either Ben or a third party. I know a lot of people think it is too late in the game to add a third party, but I disagree. I feel this group may have always been at the party. Although evidence does point to it being Ben’s group.

*Sawyer knocking Phil out. He had it coming! But how in the heck are they going to get out of that one?

*Loved that we got to see Naomi again and how Miles came to be hired by Widmore.

Best Lines

There were way too many too list and most of them were delivered by Hurley, but I will list a couple.

*Hurley – Polar bear poop. Got it.

*Hurley – He was totally down for that beer dude.

*Hurley – Don’t worry. I won’t tell anyone about the body.

*Pierre – Hey Miles, I need you.Miles – You do?