Lost: What Kate Does
I just finally watched the new episode today. Here are the things I noticed. Spoilers below…
“He’s alive.” Hmm… does this mean Sayid? Or does it actually mean that Jacob is alive (err… existing in a new body)?
Did Kate recognize Jack for a second there? I’m still getting the “Constant” vibe here.
Hahahaha… no way, is that the guy from Always Sunny? This new cast is blowing my mind.
Was the test to see if it was actually Sayid? So Jacob put on a nice act of being in pain and the other Others are onto him? It’s really starting to seem like Jacob is the bad guy here. Unless the other Others were making sure it wasn’t Smokey in Sayid’s body.
We still don’t really know where Claire is on the island, right?
It’s nice to see a small crowd walking through the jungle again. Classic Lost scene with trails and traps and deception!
Sayid is talking just out of character as Locke has been. Sayid gave Jack the decision to give him the pill; normally Sayid would have been more aggressive, no? Either Sayid has calmed down after seeing the light or there’s some other soul behind the wheel.
Ethan Rom in the house! Hahahaha… “I don’t want to stick you with any needles if I don’t have to.”
Oh yea… that’s right… Claire is Jack’s sister.
Some of these emotional-ish scenes are kinda falling flat for me. Jack being told to give the pill. Sawyer at the docks. Kate and Claire at the taxi. Just meh, at this point, I prefer the scenes with plot answers.
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IT would seem that Jacob is the good guy and evil Locke..aka Smokey..is the bad guy, but who knows. I have my doubts about that point in particular. Probably something we will never know until the end of the series.
The whole thing of Claire losing her personality when ‘saved’ just send even more doubt in my mind.
I think Sayid does trust Jack because of everything they have been through together. Overall, it seemed like they agreed on more points than disagreed and that is why Sayid had no problem in taking the pill if Jack gave it to him.
Yeah, that is Rob McHelhenny (sp?) from ASIP. He was on back in Season 3 when they went in and saved Carl from the mind trance video.
I think ultimately the ‘new reality’ will come crashing down and they will realize that they shouldn’t have landed safely. There was a reason that they crashed and that became clearer when Jacob ‘touched’ Jack, Locke, Kate, Sawyer, Hugo and Sayid and Jin and Sun (and Ilyana). Right there we have 9 and the title of ‘LA X’ gives reason to think that there are 10 main players in the grand scheme of things. Who is the tenth?
There isn’t much evidence of Jacob as pure “good” and Dark Locke as pure “evil” (despite the blatant white vs. black theme). I’d venture that they’re the ultimate embodiment of the characters’ internal struggle between altruism and relentless self-interest. Jacob’s interactions have all tilted towards empathizing with the pain of others (or encouraging others to help carry the weight of a burden), whereas Dark Locke seems indifferent to any pain or destruction caused so long as it achieves its singularly obsessive desire to get itself “home.”
I think the central theme of the season thus far has been measuring the comfort people can provide to each other and how much that sacrifice can cost us. LA-verse Kate should have been halfway to Mexico, but instead risked capture by squaring things away with the poor girl she left on the side of the road. Island-verse’s Kate entire journey back has been motivated by a selfless urge to reunite Aaron with his mother. LA-verse Jack wants to ease the life of LA-verse Locke. Island-verse Jack is trying out humility, accepting that his vaunted science can’t save a dying Sayid… and protecting his mystically-resurrected friend from any possible threat. In fact, I’d guess that the whole poison pill thing the Others bandied about was more to test Jack than anything else. Jack’s getting unmoored from his usual self-righteous streak, concerning himself first and foremost with helping his friends rather than his previous modus operandi of Getting The Hell Off The Island.
There’s probably a good reason why Jacob has chosen these people to make a final stand.
As for Sawyer? I imagine he’s a lost cause. Well, he only seems to care about his own grief and nobody else. I see this going one of two ways: (1) Dark Locke can lure him to his ranks with a seductive pitch on fulfilling Sawyer’s selfish desire to have Juliet restored or (2) Sawyer will abandon the whole crazy war altogether and opt to live in the alternate reality, where he’ll hope to get coffee with a version of Juliet he’s never met (they’ll go dutch).
More stuff I noticed:
• Mac from It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia returns as a snarky, cranky Other that acts vaguely similar to his comedic counterpart. Good stuff.
• Claire looks very Rousseau, although an apparently tainted one. Great reversal there.
• The greater good isn’t always best. A tainted Sayid might not be the best thing to keep around your temple, especially given his history of working as a sleeper agent.
• Anyone ever watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer? Dark Locke is, so far, amazingly similar to big bad of Buffy’s final season.