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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Lost 6.14: Jack's Tears

I can't recall ever seeing Jack crying, at least not on the island.  But he was crying at the end of the island part of episode 6.14 of Lost tonight.  Here's how that came to:

In island reality, all of our people - with the exception of Claire - get on a submarine, in a bid to escape.  They do this after getting free from Widmore, with faux-Locke's help.  The plan was to take the plane, but Locke tells them the plane has been wired to blow up.  The sub is the only option - Sawyer's plan all along.  But with the submarine diving, Kate wounded by a rifle shot,  and Locke and Claire on the dock (Sawyer had no choice but to leave without her), Jack discovers that f-Locke had put a bomb in his back pack.   Sawyer wants to disarm it (Sayid explains how);  Jack realizes that disarming it will only cause it to explode (that's what f-Locke wants);  but Sawyer tries to disarm it anyway.  This only makes the bomb-clock tick faster.   Sayid sacrifices himself to get the bomb away, but the explosion kills Lapidus (as a plane pilot, I guess he's no longer needed) and pins Sun.  Jin elects to die with her, as the submarine sinks.   Everyone else - Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Kate - get safely to shore, though Kate's still wounded and Sawyer has a concussion.

So now you know why Jack is crying.  I felt that way, too.   Sun and Jin were always among my favorite people on Lost.

Why did f-Locke do this?  As Jack realized on the sub, he never really wanted anyone other than himself to leave the island.  He wanted them to die, by their own actions.

The only hope for Sun and Jin would be if the LA reality collapses into the island reality.  The two are alive and well and happy in the LA reality, and possibly they could get their baby from the island reality.

Leakage or passage of information from island to LA reality continued apace tonight, with LA Locke saying "push the button" and "I wish you had believed me".  LA Locke also refuses to let Jack operate on him to restore the use of his legs,  perhaps because LA Locke's in touch with what happened to him when he regained his gait on the island.

Even more significant, our people in better alternate LA reality are beginning to realize the oddity of running into people who were on the 815 flight.  Bernard, who intersects with Jack, says it's "pretty weird,"  and Jack's beginning to wonder about this, too.   Jack also sees Anthony Cooper (in bad shape, but still better than dead), Helen, and Claire.   In fact, he brings Claire a music box that their father Christian left for her, and it plays "Catch a Falling Star".   In another instance of leakage, wasn't Claire on the island singing Catch a Falling Star earlier this season?

It's a pretty appropriate song, and the sky itself seemed to be falling on Lost tonight.

And here's a bit of Pat Hamilton's "Catch a Falling Star"



6-min podcast review of Lost

See also  Lost Season Six Double Premiere ... Three Questions Arising from the Lost Season Six Premiere: Linkage Between Two Realities,  Dead Bodies Inhabited, Who/What Survived H-Blast? ... Lost 6.3:  Kate and Claire, Tenacious Details, and Dr. Arzt's Arse at the Airport ... Lost 6.4:  Better LA, Wilder Island, Some Partial Answers at Last ... Lost 6.5: Jack's Family and Prester John's Speculum ... Lost 6.6: Sayid the Assassin in Both Realities ... Lost 6.7: A Better Ben in Both Realities ... Lost 6.8: The Third Team ... Lost 6.9: Richard's Story ... Lost 6.10: Cloudy Sun ... Lost 6.11: Reunion of Two Realities Begins ... Lost 6.12: Libby and Hurley and Cross-Reality Communication ... Lost 6.13: Make-Up, Break-Up, Everything is Shake-Up

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3 comments:

Carrin Mahmood said...

Nooooooooo, I'm so sad about Sun and Jin. Very Charlie-esque death scene.

Wow one of the biggest differences in Better LA that I've seen with John's dad being someone he loved. Made for a better Locke. Interesting that the same story line happened with Ben. His better dad made him a better person. (Where is he anyway?)

(Didn't Sawyer's back story say the same...some guy responsible for dad shooting mom....?)

Guess the mystery of whether MIB-Locke is good or bad (evidently there was still some question) is finally over.

Dang Clair is going to be ticked, being left again!

Carrin Mahmood said...

So...We know that MIB/Locke can't leave the island as long as even one of the candidates are still alive.
We also know that he can't personally kill any of them (or they him evidently)

My guess is Jack will remain much like Jacob did to protect the world from MIB/Locke/evil? and perhaps we will even see him making a list of potential candidates in case he dies.

I wonder if the Jacob who was off the island who contacted all the candidates was a "real time" Jacob
while the other one was on the island...just like there is a real time Jack back in LA.

So many questions answered...so many to go.

TheLooper said...

Well, I was right about Sayid not having much time left, hit the nail on the head with that one. But I smashed my thumb to bits with Sun and Jin! Very said that they died, but looking at it now, although I believed them to be innocent bystanders in these Lost things and more insignificant, their insignificance seemed to be their demise.

We now have three candidates left: Sawyer, Jack and Hurley. Jack is all about staying on the island these days, Sawyer is hell bent on leaving and Hurley could go either way. Seems like every week he takes someone else's side. This could spell doom for him in the next 3 episodes.

Love the fact that they cleared up why UnLocke/MIB can't seem to leave the island. Not only does Jacob prevent it, but any candidate to replace him prevents it as well.

But Sayid at least did realize how important Desmond is, and we learned he didn't follow UnLocke's orders after all. Which I think we all suspected that anyway. That was the Sayid we always knew and loved for a brief shining moment. I think the sacrifice is fast approaching poor Des.

Claire has now become a wild card. She visibly did not understand, nor like what UnLocke was doing, particularly trying to blow up everyone on the sub. I bet she plays a huge factor now in MIB's demise.

This coming weeks episode should be awesome. Now we will learn more about why MIB hates Jacob so much and why they have been on this island so long. Maybe even what the island is truly for and what it truly is. What is the purpose of this island even existing?

Can't wait for next week, the anticipation is killing me!! May 23rd can't get her fast enough!

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