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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Lost 5.8: True Love Ways

A fabulous, very satisfying all-island episode 5.8 of Lost tonight - one of the best Sawyer episodes, and, for that matter, one of the best Lost episodes of all time, also.

Speaking of which - time - Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Faraday, and Jin are back in the 1970s, and the island has stopped skipping, due to Locke's turning of the wheel. We get a great immersion in prime Dharma time - before Ben and his father have arrived. Horace (who met Ben's father and mother on the road in Oregon) is head of the Dharma island crew. He's married to Amy (played by Reiko Aylesworth - Michelle Dressler on 24, and a pleasure to see again), who is having his baby boy.

But the real love story, and it's a wonderful one, is between Sawyer and Juliet. She's got Sawyer's back, as he says, and he enables her to recover her confidence, culminating in her successful delivery of Horace and Amy's baby.

Has Sawyer really gotten over Kate? We'll find out soon, because tonight's episode ends with Sawyer going out to meet Jin, who has picked up Hurley, Jack, and Kate (having traveled back from LA and through time on that plane that fell from the sky last week). I've got to say that ...I'm rooting for Sawyer and Juliet, they were so good together tonight. But it won't be easy - and, Juliet may well have some feelings for Jack. But Sawyer and Juliet never looked happier. (And Sawyer was back in primo wise-cracking form - aptly calling Faraday "Plato").

Faraday may be due for some happiness, too. Charlotte disappeared before the island stopped skipping - she wasn't dead, Faraday told Sawyer and Juliet - she just disappeared. This seems to mean that she was never on the island. And the fact that Faraday sees Charlotte as a little girl in Dharma town means that maybe he will warn her a little more strongly this time not to come back to the island as an adult, which means that Faraday could go find Charlotte off-island at some point, and they could live happily ever after, as I suggested a few weeks ago.

But that's getting a little ahead of the game. For now, it's good to see true love ways on that time-jangled island. I could almost hear Buddy Holly's voice over the credits.

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20 comments:

Carrin Mahmood said...

Ahhhh! It was soooo good. I've been sitting up playing Free Cell waiting for you to post, I am seriously deranged!

I Loved Richard's face when Sawyer went out to talk to him.

Wouldn't it be funny as the whole blogging world is talking about who Jacob is, and who is suppose to be in charge, Christian, Jack or Locke, maybe even Aaron the little prince...and the whole time it was Sawyer!

Juliette,like Ben, was one I didn't know if I could trust. When Sawyer asked her if she had his back as he walked towards the picnicers I was a little nervous.

Did Rose and the rest of them get killed by the flaming arrows? where are they?

Carrin Mahmood said...

ooooh noooo, I hate when that happens, sorry!

Paul Levinson said...

No problem - I removed the double comment :)

Rose and Bernard will show up at the end of the season, like they always do...

tvindy said...

I wonder if Rose and company have been living with the Others. Where else could they be?

It was nice to see the statue intact (even if from the back). I was afraid the writers had abandoned it.

Paul Levinson said...

PS to White Bear: staying up, waiting for me to post strikes me as the height of sanity ... :)

I'm honored!

Michael A. Burstein said...

I thought Daniel made it clear that Charlotte had died and then disappeared. Perhaps as a corpse she would no longer travel through time.

James F. McGrath said...

On the one hand, Daniel did indeed say that Charlotte was dead, and that's why she moved away with the island's time rather than shifting with the rest of the time travellers. On the other hand, there were several other instances of her being just about dead after a flash, but she revived, and so I wonder whether they've prepared things for her to make a comeback at some later point. But if nothing else, this may inspire Daniel to figure out a way around the "whatever happened, happened" problem.

dawn said...

Okay nobody mentioned the baby. Could he be someone important from the plane and if who? This was a tremendous episode. I love Sawyer and Juliet together but you know there will be problems having Kate there. I'm not sure who she really belongs with Jack or Sawyer. I also thought the eyeliner remark hysterical , they have written about Alpert online and he swears that that is his eyes not eyeliner

Ricardo Cárdenas said...

Brilliant, mindnumbingly brilliant episode! I just love how all the backstory of the Dharma Initiative is fitting into the Losties´story. This was another great episode in which both character development and story progress worked together to give us a wonderful experience. And, oh, yes, Juliet and Sawyer look horribly sweet together. By the end, I almost wished kate hadn´t returned. But oh, well. The look on Sawyer´s face when he saw Freckles was priceless

Paul Levinson said...

Michael and James: Faraday wasn't speaking very clearly (he was so upset), but I think he said Charlotte is not dead, she's just gone.

Dawn - you mean Horace and Amy's son? Yes, I think he could well be someone important - someone in his 30s in the present...

Kid Entropy - I agree completely! We now have a much better picture of the relationship of the Hostiles and Dharma, why Richard (Hostile) allied with Ben - the historical, interlocking story makes better sense.

tvindy said...

Whenever there's a really interesting episode like this, I spend several hours scouring the internet to read people's theories. I found it really interesting that your theory about Charlotte (that she disappeared in the jump to the point in time wherein Faraday was able to change things so that she never returned to the island) wasn't suggested anywhere else that I could find. It does make a lot of sense, though and is probably correct IMHO. (It would also be cool if she just didn't make the jump and got stuck millenia ago when the statue was still standing.)

Here's a screenshot of the statue. It's obviously Egyptian, and a lot of people think it's Anubis, who is often portrayed with four toes (since that's how many toes jackals have). The screenshot from the back makes it look like he's using a walker (perhaps to compensate for the missing toes), but he's probably holding a couple of Ankhs is a similar way to this statue. And the fact that we see it from the back, probably means that it has the face of a familiar character on it, like Ben, Locke or Hurley.

It has also been pointed out that the reason the Others had so much info about the Losties was that they had already met them in the past, so they had decades to prepare for their coming. It was also suggested that the reason the Others imprisoned Kate, Sawyer and Jack in previous episodes was payback for something they would later end up doing to them, or to Ben, in the past.

Anonymous said...

Loved the episode until the Lifetime channel kitchen implant scene with Sawyer and Juliet. I was seething with rage and then Freckles came, and Sawyer had his goo-goo Freckles face and all was right with the world again. Hopefully, the torture that is this contrived, saccharinne, Sawyer/Juliet mumbo jumbo will be fazed out as quickly as it was written in clearly with Elizabeth Sarnoff having forgotten she was writing a Lost Episode and not some heaven is a place on earth drama on a family channel.

Paul Levinson said...

Different strokes for different folks, anon...

Ricardo Cárdenas said...

Hahahaha, yeah, I know it´s weird to see real "happiness" in Lost. But I think it was great, for a change. We know deep inside that they´ll probably end up separated, but it´s nice to see a glimmer of hope form time to time. I agree with someone (i think it was on IGN?) who wrote that, somehow, Jin, Juliet, Sawyer and Miles look very comfortable in this iteration of the island: they don´t really seem to need help. Which would make the Oceanic 6´s return a bit pointless: what are they saving them from? But, of course, Ben will get what he wants, I´m sure. Anyways. Can´t wait for next episode.
Now, on to something else: Paul, did you watch the Watchmen? What did you think of it?

Anonymous said...

Another great episode of Lost! I agree with a lot of people that Horace and Amy's baby is someone important. I'm thinking it is going to be one of the Losties who we are not expecting....maybe even Sawyer! We saw Sawyer's parents in an episode when he was young but maybe those weren't his real parents.

Those goes back to the nosebleeds...I think they occur for people who were born on the island. This is why Sawyer had a nosebleed but not Jin, Faraday or Locke. If this is true then Juliet must have also been born on this island, which I've kind of thought for a long time. We don't know anything about her parents.

Paul Levinson said...

Excellent reasoning, Tara. Desmond is another possibility for Horace and Amy's baby - but we have no evidence yet (and probably won't) of nosebleeds for him when the island skips.

Kid Entropy - haven't seen Watchmen yet - will soon.

Anonymous said...

If you turn on closed captioning, Daniel clearly says "She's... dead. She's dead."

Paul Levinson said...

I just watched and listened to that scene again. Faraday says ... "she's n... n [unclear] dead" ... she's dead". The three dots do not explain that "n" sound ... And Faraday's delivery, in any case, is not clear at all.

tvindy said...

And he may have assumed she was dead, because she disappeared, not because he saw her stop breathing. If she had died before the jump, he probably wouldn't have put so much emphasis on her disappearance.

Carrin Mahmood said...

So Tvindy...thinking about the Egyptian God statue thing....There are other Egyptian leads I think. Hurley was drawing/ water coloring a Sphinx when Locke showed up to talk to him. Richard Alpert R.A., Ra is one of the earliest gods written about, Egyptian based if memory serves...also the bit about eyeliner...think about Egyptian Pharaoh drawings...lots-o-eyeliner. Okay maybe this is all a bit of a stretch, but it seems Egyptian

I've also been trying to put together a Biblical connection. John (maybe John the Baptist the one who announces the Messiah) Christian (obvious) Shepherd (Christilogical reference) The necklace that Amy takes from Paul is a Cristos...(also Christological) I feel like there is something, I'm just not making the pieces fit!

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