Among the many themes, spun and some resolved, most unresolved, that especially grabbed me -
1. Kate is the moral compass of the show now (with Sawyer a close second, for different reasons, see #7 below). She tells Sayid and Jack, in one incandescent moment: you can't right history by killing a little boy (to Sayid, about his shooting young Ben), and you can't right history by detonating a hydrogen bomb on an island inhabited by lots of people (to Jack). This, in addition to Kate realizing what was clear to her and us already, last week, that changing the history they know will mean they won't be together. So Kate speaks for ethics as well as true love. Jack, for his part, and in my opinion, has never really recovered from the Jack who was about to jump off the bridge in the Season 3 finale. He's lost his way, and he still has not found it.
2. Sayid, whom we haven't seen since he ran off into the woods a few episodes back after shooting Ben, comes out of the woods to kill the Hostile guy who was about to shoot Kate. I had been wondering when we'd see Sayid again - but that was a fine, kick-in-the-stomach surprise.
3. Resolved: Miles comes to see and understand why his father, Marvin Candle, wanted him (as a baby) and his mother off the island. Very satisfying. And it was fun seeing Candle trip up Hurley when Hurley tried to deny he was from the future. You gotta be lightning quick indeed and very well versed in all relevant history, if you're a time traveler who doesn't want to be outed.
4. Resolved: How Richard knew that Locke needed to get a bullet taken out of his leg - a very nice piece of time-loop resolved (and we get to hear about the time-traveling compass again).
5. But, unresolved: who has the real power now - in 2007 -- Locke or Richard or Jacob (whom we learn Locke wants to kill). And who is Jacob? Christian, Jack's father?
6. And ... Eloise recognizes her own handwriting when she reads the note she wrote in the future in Daniel's notebook - another nice bit of time travel writing. But ... I'd still like to know why Richard's people were able to save young Ben and not Daniel (because Ben was seriously wounded in contrast to Daniel who was dead? ok, but that should be made a little more clear).
7. Back to Sawyer: he's trying to get Juliet off the island, on a sub that will take both of them back to the U.S.A., in 1977. That's not going to happen, of course - but it was great to see Sawyer do that anyway. But, happy endings are hard to come by in Lost, and the scene of Sawyer and Juliet, now joined by Kate, shows that the Kate and Sawyer story isn't over yet, either - especially given Jack's willingness to let his story with Kate go into an alternate time line.
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By now it´s kind of become a cliché to say "what a great episode!" or "what a brilliant episode!". But then, again, we get episodes like this one. So, i´m gonna say absolute heavenly awesomeness expecting that it´ll mean something. If this is the buildup for the season finale, i can honestly say i won´t be quiet until next week.
So... well, everything was just perfect. But probably my favorite moment was when Kate got into the sub: Juliet´s face was priceless. Elizabeth should be nominated for an Emmy, just based on her acting in this scene: she´s desperately in love with Sawyer, and you can just see all the pain/frustration/anger in her eyes and in her mouth when Kate sits in between them. And, oh, stupid Sawyer, didn´t look at Juliet when Kate said hi. You know, like saying "it´s fine; she means nothing to me!" Though we all know she does... anyways.
The Locke-Richard-Locke loop was astonishingly accurate; i just didn´t see that coming. Not like that.
Oh, and did you notice how Charles Widmore was touching Hot-1977-Eloise´s tummy? I bet she was already pregnant with Daniel!
Next week can´t come soon enough.
I am wondering if the "Kill Jacob" angle from Locke has any ties/echoes with the eps in S2 (?) when The Others shanghai Locke's father ("Sawyer") and tell John to kill him. There must have been some point to all that beyond just some test for John. I always found it a little odd, anyway: by that I mean it suggested more than was explained (duh! it's LOST)...
And what about all those psychic predictions about baby Aaron and the dangers to the world should he not be raised by a good man? Add in Christian and there's a whole lotta daddy threads a'hanging!
My predictions: Richard is a serpent in the garden and Jacob is somehow James/Sawyer, who needs setting free...
(or Jacob is Jack, repenting for being a bull-headed PIB, Pain in the butt).
I agree that this is perhaps the greatest tv show ever. These eps leave me breathless (I only caught up with S1-4 over x-mas, so this "wait a week" thing is wonderfully excruciating for me)...
Mark Parsons
It still staggers me at how Locke and Jack think they actually can do anything on this island, or to it!
Both characters have become really irritating this season, for several reasons:
1. Jack and his complacency-he's a whimp and it's finally showing. He hides behind rational and critical thinking, but when it comes down to it, he takes others ideas and tries to make them his own for his own purposes. The only time this guy really has mattered was during the first season, after that, with all the revelations on this island that have occurred and proven him WRONG every time, he's just a bonafide gutless terd.
2. Locke's unbelievable arrogance-he was dead! He couldn't walk! This man owes his life to this island, and probably Jacob as well, and now wants to kill him? I think we all know nothing will happen to Jacob or this island from either scenario that Jack and Locke are attempting to unfold, but talk about arrogant!
3. Where do Jack and Locke get any idea they can do anything on this island that the island doesn't allow them to do? We've been shown time and time again how wrong they both have been about things that the island has revealed to them and yet they are the prototypical man's man guys thinking they are the masters of their domain. WRONGO! Something big is going to happen next week and I hope it finally opens these two men's eyes.
But this episode, AWESOME! I love the build up and loved the story. Kate is right, everyone needs to listen to her (for more reasons than the fact she is hot!). Because that brings me to my next list of questions:
1. How does anyone die on this island if Locke can be alive?
2. Do they really think the island will let them stop their plane from crashing? Does any of them being in 1977 have any bearing on that in the first place?
3. Locke wants to kill the "being" that asked him for help?
4. Is Richard about to get medieval on someone, finally?
5. Why do they keep referring to the Oceanic survivors as having died with the Dharma Initiative in 1977, when the Dharma Initiative doesn't get wiped out until Ben is older, probably around 1992? Perhaps their presence has already altered the course of things (kind of the new Star Trek-esque approach)? Which that would go back to one of my other posts I made, the true paradox was the Oceanic Flight crashing in the first place and isn't happening now. They're about to create another paradox!
Just going to be interesting to see next weeks episode unfold. The setup is almost upon us for the final season and I too agree, this is one of the best series I've ever seen!
Wow!! so good, and I agree with kid entropia, at some point one just sounds moronic stating the obvious about how good this show is!
Q-1: Why did the Dharmites have to leave the island in the original ’77 if Jack wasn’t threatening to blow the H-bomb?
Q-2: I didn’t track with Richard saying he saw the O815 people in Sun’s picture die right before his eyes in’77..Do he or the other, “Others” have no recollection of Kate and Sawyer, Jack and Hurley being kidnapped by them?
I LOVED John saying to Ben…”You never could hear Jacob could you!”
I had a few theories a while back that Ben appears so bad he must actually be good. Of course NOTHING has even remotely hinted that that might be true. (Except for when he couldn’t kill Alex, and paused from killing Penny when he saw Charlie…and to continue this run-on thought…could Penny & Desmond’s Charlie comes back to be rocker Charlie?) What ever his true characterr he continues to amuse me, and has stayed wonderfully twisted and awful.
My other theory was Ben and the others “gas” the Dharmites for a noble purpose…like to save some of the O815ers or something…but alas that too looks improbable.
Looper, I agree whole heartedly, Jack is making me crazy. I am still clinging to the image of him as in control, compassionate, leader Jack from the first season but man…that image is growing cloudier by the week!
I kind of appreciated Locke taking charge, and basically saying, “You know what enough of this $#!*, let’s just lay it on the line and get to the bottom of this Jacob business!” Although it
Your Q1, It seems like people can die on the island…it’s just the dead, crippled, etc. from the outside who come to the island revive. (well at least Locke, and Christian)
White Bear, quick answer to your first question:
"Q-1: Why did the Dharmites have to leave the island in the original ’77 if Jack wasn’t threatening to blow the H-bomb?"
Because Jack did threaten to blow the H-bomb in the original reality - whe just didn't see it. At this point in the story, none of the time traveling has changed anything (as far as we know). But Jack always went back in time, and threatened to blow the H-bomb (as did Faraday).
Lost may very well turn out to be one of the greatest TV series of all time, but I'm reserving judgment until the series finale. There's always the chance that the writers won't manage to pull everything together. If the ending is sloppy, I'll be horribly disappointed, though.
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