Nice observation on Locke, madkevin. I really thought his characterization was off last season, but the compound episode this season – illustrating your point – helped resolve some inconsistencies.
We’ve seen multiple Kate backstories where she doesn’t react well to threats to her freedom. It would be pretty cool to see Kate get medieval on one or two Others in a successful escape from her cage.
Backov
2002
That would certainly be a welcome change from her complete incompetence.
Patrick
2003
I’m waiting for the episode where she starts getting all bitchy and yells at a guard to get her some tampons and Midol.
bloo
2004
So, what else? Kate has to fall for bad boys and then betray them?
Sawyer has to screw over everyone (including himself)?
Sayid has to have the answer to questions through whatever means necessary?
God, now THAT was a lame episode. At least Mal was in it, but it had a terrible back story too.
How lame.
Well, at least we know the Ben tumor thing was real.
jeffd
2009
That episode was decent, I guess. It wasn’t great, but it was enough to get me to Tivo it in Feb.
Not sure why people think it was lame, it was about as average as every other episode this season so far. And that’s average.
The story continues, albeit in stutters, and things happen, motivations change, and people wind up on operating tables.
Though it did amuse me - the operating room isn’t “fully equipped” if it’s defibrillator died months ago (since Jack couldn’t use it to save Trixie).
Unless you can out and out prove to me the creators/writers state, “We don’t know where we’re going with this show” then you’re never going to convince me that they don’t know what they’re doing - unless of course the show ends and everything is screwed up, to which case I’ll admit I was wrong. I think they know generally where they are going, it’s the exact specifics and the ability to fit it into five seasons or so (supposedly) that’s causing issues.
— Alan
Watching Lost has become a tedious chore.
Was that really the last episode before the break? What a shithead they have for the showrunner.
Watching Lost has become a tedious chore.
Was that really the last episode before the break? What a shithead they have for the showrunner.
DrDel
2013
Can someone explain to me why Jack decided to go ahead with the operation? Was it to split Kate from Sawyer after seeing them together on the TV monitor?
ie. Jack sees Kate and Sawyer together on TV monitor. Jack gets jealous. Jack decides to operate on Ben and lacerate his kidney. By doing this Jack gets Kate rescued. However, Jack is still going to die because he put Ben’s life in jeopardy thereby dishonoring his agreement with Ben et al. Kate is free. Sawyer dies. Jack dies.
If this was his motivation to operate on Ben I don’t think it was very well thought out.
Can anyone else tell me why Jack suddenly decides to operate on Ben after he sees Kate and Sawyer together butt-nekkid? Maybe I am missing something…
I’d also like theories regarding Jack’s change of heart. I have additional questions about the backstory.
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Why did Kate call the federal agents to begin with? It appeared she had successfully eluded them before the call.
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Why did the agent say something like “If you stay put & settle down, we won’t come after you. But you can’t do that, can you?” Was he just taunting her with a claim to not come after her?
I didn’t hate the episode as much as other posters. I found it more confusing than anything else.
I may be reading too much into this, but I got the feeling Jack smiled when he saw them together. He may have been doing it for that. Or, he decided he wanted to get a bargaining chip. Either way, at least one of them set a course to resolve the standoff.
I do not get the backstory at all. I can’t imagine why she would marry a cop.
I thought it set up the second “half” of the season well, but I was expecting more along the lines of “here’s a resolution of sorts and… CLIFFHANGER!” you usually get when they end a season. They’d said they were treating the first third as a mini-season, so I was expecting more from the finale.
I agree with Sidd. I’m more confused than anything.
All the episode really did was reaffirm Kate’s “born to run” instincts, and maybe the call to the Fed was to really get some closure, but the Fed - who obviously was not getting anywhere in his attempts to find her - goaded her back out into the open because he knew her instinct to run very well.
She continually fights her instinct to run in the show (to run from Jack following the Lostzilla attack in the pilot), and then escape from the cages (for Sawyer’s sake).
Of course, Jack is also trying to get her (and Sawyer to escape) maybe because he understands her a little too well (I think her instincts to run kept her from residing in the cave, which felt entrapping). So Jack’s insistence to “RUN!” harkens back to the early days of the show and which is kind of why I like the way it ends. It sucks leading to a break though.
— Alan
Jack saw that Sawyer & Kate didn’t just come together. Ben manipulated them–put them in cages near each other, force them through hardships together, no contact with Jack while Kate & Sawyer were bonding. Jack understood that Ben never really gave up on breaking him. Exploiting the love triangle was the real plan all along, going back to when Ben had breakfast with Kate on the beach, at least.
Jack is heart broken, no doubt, but he saw what Ben did there.
Okie they found the island:
http://http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/11/09/new.island.ap/index.html
A new volcanic island has risen from the South Pacific near Tonga, according to reports from two vessels that passed the area.
The crew of the Maiken, a yacht that left the northern Tongan islands group of Vava’u in August, reported on their Web log on August 12 that they saw streaks of light, porous pumice stone floating in the water – then “sailed into a vast, many-miles-wide belt of densely packed pumice.”
They posted photos of huge “pumice rafts” that they encountered after passing Tonga’s Late island while sailing toward Fiji.
“We were so fascinated and busy taking pictures that we plowed a couple of hundred meters into this surreal floating stone field before we realized that we had to turn back,” wrote a crewman identified only as Haken.
The next day they spotted an active volcanic island, Haken wrote.
He said they could see the volcanic island clearly. “One mile in diameter and with four peaks and a central crater smoking with steam and once in a while an outburst high in the sky with lava and ashes. I think we’re the first ones out here,” he reported.
I can totally buy that; and to make sure their ideas were correct, they brought in Kate to see Jack to see what the reaction was.
What’s his name (angry Other guy) line when he went out to kill Sawyer was interesting (about Jack): “Shepard wasn’t on Jacob’s list.” Am I missing something, or is Jacob maybe “the man”?
— Alan
I was initially sad that Nathan Fillion showed up for a one-time bit part, then I remembered that this is Lost. He’ll be in every future flashback that involves a cop!
