First off let me say that I am starting to really not care for Kate. Her whole set of flashbacks were rather boring if you ask me. Luckily '77 Island storyline was solid.- Lets get the boring part out of the way first, Kate. Coming as no surprise we find out that Sawyer told Kate to take care of his daughter when she left the Island. Somewhat surprising was that Kate spilled the entire Oceanic story to her. Way to go Kate. Not happy with just telling one person she later tells Claire's mom the whole thing too and leaves Aaron with her. I guess the only real nugget we got out of the Kate flashbacks was that she didn't go back to the Island for Sawyer she went back to find Claire. Which is a relief cause Sawyer is much better off with Juliet.
- The chances of Aaron growing up to be a regular well adjusted kid are starting to look pretty grim. Born on the Island, mom abandons him, surrogate mom abandons him, and now he's left with his grandmother who he's never met before. Plus the kid can't even decide if he wants chocolate milk or a juice box. Always get the chocolate milk man! As for the fortune teller who told Claire to not let him get raised by another that's totally gotten messed up. He's been raised by 3 different people thus far.
- The Hurley/Miles conversation on time travel was great. Any show that can reference Back to the Future immediately gets like +10 points in my book. Hurley did bring up the big question that everyone was thinking - if Lil' Ben got shot by Sayid why didn't adult Ben remember the guy torturing him was the same guy that shot him? And by the end of the episode we knew why, how nice of the writers.
- Some might call Jack a heartless bastard for not moving to save Ben and I might be inclined to agree. Jack before he got off the Island would have totally let Lil' Ben die but now that Jack's back on the Island he seems to be at peace with the idea of fate which he was totally against previously. He has come to the conclusion that he was fighting against the Island and now he's finally just going to step back and let the Island do what it will with him which is an interesting character change. I like it. Much better than Always Yelling Jack.
- Ironically Jack's decision to not operate on Lil' Ben directly leads to him become the Ben we all know and love today. Because he doesn't operate Kate and Sawyer have to take him to the Others. The Others will fix him but at a price: Ben won't remember anything (thus explaining why he didn't remember Sayid shooting him), he'll always be an Other now (thus being the inside man to take down Dharma), and finally he'll lose his innocence (thus becoming the heartless manipulator). Jack's inaction just proving that whatever happened, happened and making sure Ben stays Ben.
- Jack's apparently dickheadery seems to have really pissed of Juliet and Sawyer going to help Kate because Juliet wanted him to puts that whole love quadrangle in a good place. Sawyer and Juliet look like they're going to stick together, good. I like the new clam leader Sawyer.
- Not sure how the Others healing Lil' Ben effects my theory that Ben grows up to love Juliet because she saved his life. Maybe once they bring him back that's what they tell him? That or my theory is blown out of the water.
- Where does Richard take Ben to save his life? The mysterious Temple from whence the Black Smoke emits and where Danielle's team of Frenchies went into. I wonder if it is the Temple itself that "infects" the French guys. Once they went in they became Others. By what process and to what extent I do not know but I'm thinking they got some directive from the Temple to do something with/to Danielle and obviously she didn't want to do. Probably involving the baby.
- Speaking of Richard what is his position within the Others? There was mention of him running the whole Lil' Ben situation by Elle (Daniel's mom) and Charles (Widmore). Last time we saw them back in the '50s they weren't anything but little soldiers in the Others army now they seem to have risen to a position where they should be consulted. Richard, ever the badass, says he doesn't answer to them and goes ahead with saving Lil' Ben. Thus beginning the process that will eventually eject Widmore off the Island.
- A nice end to the episode with Ben waking up to find a living John Locke hovering over him. Ben's look of shock, I think, was manufactured. I'm of the opinion that he knew that Locke would come back to life once he was back on the Island. If you'll recall my brief religious connection back when Ben killed Locke - Ben knew Locke wouldn't come back to life if he killed himself (suicide being a mortal sin) so Ben killed him fully knowing that once he got Locke's body to the Island he would be resurrected.
- Next week looks mind blowingly awesome: Ben's judgment by the Island. Make sure to wear a hat so that when your head explodes your brains will be kept centrally located.
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As always, a great summary of the show.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed this episode, and agree completely with Mike that the Kate backstory was lame and boring. Who cares, get her off the show.
Next week is going to be awesome! Get ready for Henry Gale!
I'm watching last night and when Jin took Ben back to Dharmaville and Juliet began working to save him I literally said to myself "good call Mike". Imagine my delight when it turned out that my theory may be true after all. Although we don't know if the temple or Richard healed him. I'm thinking though that Jacob/Richard is the smoke monster. I'm not sure that they would tell Ben that Juliet in fact saved his life because if Ben forgets his past then he wouldn't know her until she arrives on the sub 30 years later, right? I don't remember seeing Richard speak to her in the 70's either, but who knows what the "future" holds. I did get the whole Claire's Mom getting Aaron though. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm willing to bet that Widmore and Eloise became lovers and then conceived Faraday. Speaking of which, where the hell is he?
A question I have though is why Ben was in the bed at the end of the show. I know a few episodes back Cesar brought Locke to him, but then we saw Ben, Frank and Sun trying to find the Losties. Sun knocked him out and they took the boat. Are we to believe that the new castaways brought Ben back or was that a flashback?
Yes, I think its safe to assume that the new crash folks brought him back after finding him unconscious on the beach.
ReplyDeleteI understand Hugo's thoughts that Ben does not remember Sayid as the person who shot him (after Richards comments), but if Sawyer, Juliet, Kate, Jack, Hurley, Miles, etc are still in Dharma when he returns (to carry out his workman job and kill his dad) as a spy of sorts, then why does he not ever remember any of them at all? Did he not grow up around them with all the same names? Or do all of the Oceanic have to leave the comforts of Dharma (maybe placed in other stations) so that Ben doesn't realize who they are?
ReplyDeleteI would like to see that hole again that held all the dead Dharma people. I wonder if there is a jumpsuit with the name LaFleur on it.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking that all the Losties are going to be sent back to their present time by Faraday way before adult Ben initiates the Purge. That'd be a pretty lame way to end the show.
ReplyDeleteAs for the dead Dharma hole, the only jumpsuit that had a name you could read was Horace's.