Lost - Whatever Happened, Happened
No, ABC, for crying out loud I will not be watching the Unusuals.
Okay so Sawyer told Kate to visit Cassidy and his daughter. Big answer for the audience for all those counting. Cassidy had a baby named Clementine with Sawyer. She got conned hard by him. She met Kate and helped Kate talk to her mother. So they bonded. That’s the story.
Again, I’m sure we’re all happy to see more character development. Perhaps the Oceanic Six were supposed to leave the island and establish some connections involving everyone’s histories that they were unaware of in the opening seasons. And now that those extra bonds have been built, they returned, with a better understanding of each other?
“Checking to see if I’m disappearing.” Hahahaha, another poke to the audience.
Jack’s “no” is his chance for that final huge test of all this fate mumbojumbo that Locke has been slamming him with all this time. Wow, Jack has sat back quietly for a few episodes and with a single word, he throws all of Lost for a loop.
Okay Miles thanks for the lesson. So despite being in the 1970s, the Oceanic 6 are following their timeline in a forward direction. Despite the year being off, they are still living and aging normally. It just so happens that at one point 2008 turned into 1977 for them. I can handle all that. But they left us with a cliffhanger about Ben’s situation.
Whoa Claire scare! So the maternity theme is strong here. Kate can’t seem to get it right, but she still strives to be a solid motherly figure. She almost lost Aaron, she felt the desire to save Ben (calling him “child” instead of “Ben”), hanging with Cassidy, etc.
That and Sawyer claiming to not be fit as a boyfriend or father reminds me of a major concept for the show. The island (or maybe some group of people, or both) took these people in to improve their lives. For what reason? Who knows. I’m still just waiting for something given to use regarding the big picture. I’ve been lacking wild theories lately.
And there’s Jack again, making up for all the missing Locke moments! “Because I’m supposed to… I haven’t figured that out yet.”
Wow Kate. Strong. Strong moves. I’ve felt that emotionally tied to Kate that much. She was always involved in the love triangles and was a criminal. For the first time I have a faint flicker of caring for her character.
Richard may have said all that stuff about innocence and always being one of us but I think he knows exactly what Ben is becoming. And it’s almost as if Richard knows that Kate and Sawyer know the adult Ben too.
“You shouldn’t do this without talking to Elle, and if Charles finds out…”
“Let them find out, I don’t answer to either of them.”
Heavy
Locke greeting Ben’s awakening. Even heavier!!!
And how about that sneak peek? It sounds like Ben and Desmond might be in the same category of players in this big game.
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I can’t wait for next week. BEN EPISODES ARE THE BEST.
Haven’t read any of this cause fucking comcast went out in the middle of the goddam episode. So I haven’t seen anything past Kate leaving in the Van with Ben.
The Temple that Richard carried Ben to is the same place that the smoke monster dragged that French guy.
Richard is the smoke monster. That’s why he went around killing so many, but spared Locke. Richard likes Locke.
Lostpedia says that the stone door and monster hole are parts of the perimeter wall of The Temple. One must travel a bit farther to get to the actual Temple.
Thoughts:
- Obviously the new big question is about what happened to kidBen when Alpert took him into the temple. I really hope there’s an Alpert-based episode sooner or later.
- So the Others referenced both Eloise Hawking and Charles Widmore as being in charge in 1977 (but Alpert answers to no one, because he is a bad ass). This raises some interesting questions – I would guess that Penny and Daniel were both born prior to 1977, because they certainly appeared to be older than 27 in 2004 (then again, so did Ethan). So if one or both of them were already born, were they born on the island since Penny’s dad and Dan’s mom were both there at the time? Daniel’s failure to get a nosebleed would indicate he was NOT born on the island. But Penny certainly still could have been. Of course, this also lends more intrigue to the questions about whether Dan/Penny are siblings and Widmore and Ellie were together. But yeah, I’m really wondering where those kids were if their parents are on the island.
- I hope they show young Widmore in 1977 soon. If I did makeup for this show, I would do a computer-generated face morph of the kid who played young Widmore and Alan Dale (old Widmore) and then apply makeup to the kid until he looked like the cross between them. That’d be fun.
- I assume Sayid’s still in DHARMA territory because I don’t think he ever got through the sonic fence when he escaped. I wonder when we’ll see him again.
Good episode overall, but it once again reminded me how much I miss Desmond and Dan. Next week’s preview looks amazing and I’m hoping we’ll see a bit of Des in it.
I love that the writers have Hurley saying/asking all the things the audience is thinking. Plus he looks cute in his Dharma onesie.
Hahah, I love calling it a onesie instead of a jumpsuit (but only for Hurley because he’s a giant adorable baby).
Finally watched the damn thing.
Never thought I’d type these words: Evangeline Lilly’s performance really made this episode. I bought into the emotional beats of this one and Kate’s growing ability to live for something other than herself… especially that clever bit of writing where she loses Aaron in a grocery store. It’s something the audience can find emotional common ground with, a very identifiable moment of panic that serves as a precursor to the more sci-fi heavy reasons for why she’s leaving her ward behind.
That’s saying a lot, since I view Kate episodes as something to be suffered. I think everyone I know does. But I think that, after several years, the show has embedded some pretty deep hooks in us. The creators can make us dance, even for the characters we don’t especially like.
The changes in Juliet and Sawyer still work wonderfully. I love that understated current of sisterly digression between Kate and Juliet… it’s a refreshing way to resolve a thorny emotional issue on a show that usually has characters snarling and screaming at each other.
I’m finding it fascinating to see the repercussions of some characters being unable to change their ways. Poor little Ben is a weird, morbid, but ultimately innocent creature. Sayid, unable to overcome his instinct for violence, lays the foundation for a future sociopath. Jack, paralyzed by his usual selfishnes, raises up the scaffolding. The Island will be more than happy to pour some concrete into that mold.
Though, Richard’s muttering about Ben eventually forgetting everything seemed a little too damned convenient for the writers.
Actually, the more I think about it the more that Ben’s forthcoming changes in the Temple might end up making sense. Rousseau seemed to think something had changed within her teammates when they clambered into its depths… and Ben originally declared that he was “born” on the Island.
Yea, so maybe the smoke monster made him an evil, conniving liar, like Rousseau’s friends became.
Also, Juliette suggested they bring Ben to the Others. This still has me on the fence about where her loyalties lie. Unless her suggestion just reminds us that she knows more than she lets on (remember Others learning Latin?).
No doubt she knows more than she has told us, but I think you’re nuts in assuming she’s hiding things from the survivors or that her loyalties are screwed up.