At the end of last week's Lost, we - along with Locke, Kate, Sayid, and Rousseau - saw Jack enjoying himself with The Others. He certainly didn't seem a prisoner-
This week, we learn that he was indeed a prisoner, looking forward to being set free from the island, the very next day, on a submarine with Juliet. (He would have come back to at very least rescue Kate, as we see in a rare tender scene between them.)
Except he doesn't make it. (How could he - his leaving the island would all but end the show. Jack has been much more central to the show than Michael.)
And who stops him?
None other than Locke, who blows up the sub, and turns out to have been unknowingly operating on Ben's behalf, who of course also doesn't want Jack to leave the island.
How did this come to be?
As we've suspected all along, Locke never really wanted to leave the island - it somehow got him out of his wheelchair (which we at last learned how he got into, tonight). Even more importantly, Ben understands this. He sees in John Locke someone who has some sort of deep connection to the island.
Someone, in other words, who may be more of an Other than Ben himself.
We still do not know who The Others are, and what exactly they want.
But wouldn't tonight's show be pivotal indeed, if it set the future of Lost up with Locke being the new leader of The Others...
Useful links:
2 and 1/2 min podcast of this review at Levinson news clips
Lost: Keys What's Really Going On essay
1 comment:
I started to read this post, but had to stop before spoiling anything for myself. I'm usually one season behind every show I watch because I get them on DVD instead of watching it when it airs. Thus, I just finished watching the second season, with its grim ending of the main characters being captured by The Others.
I enjoyed the second season immensely, even though I was wary because everybody said it was so much worse than the first one. Truth is, I thought it was as good, if not better. At least, once I got past the first four or five episodes, which I agree were not very compelling.
I was thinking about all that on Monday, cause I had somebody visiting, and he wanted to go to Toys R Us to get some Lost figures. He ended up getting Jack, even though I think Locke looked better. Character-wise, I'd also get Jack, because even though I like both Jack and Locke, the latter is way too spiritual and just full of... faith for my taste. But at least (and this is what makes him great for me), he does what he thinks he has do, what he thinks is right, and doesn't care what other people think. That is always a great theme in books and movies (at least, for me), and I'm glad to see it explored in the show.
And on a completely different subject, I just wanted to promote my blog by saying that Halagan just postes his long-awaited review of The Plot to Save Socrates, so feel free to visit us and read wht he wrote. I know he'd love it!
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