Best episode of the season. They finally got past their fixation on the new characters and just had an awesome episode full of new info and kickass action.
Tyjenks
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I totally thought she said Eric, too and was also confused.
Yeah, I was thinking, are we supposed to know the name Erik somehow or just realize he was not named Jack or James?? Sure did not sound like Aaron…
Erich
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Jesus, Locke! “Enjoy your breakfast.” I’m glad he’s back to being sinister, weird Locke. He was a limp character ever since they found the hatch.
I’m beginning to think Locke has jumped the shark, he has gone from interesting to annoying…
She says Aaron. Jeez you guys are deaf.
— Alan
I’m starting to feel the same way.
Good point. You are right, unless she were sick/unable to care for him, etc. It would mean that Claire gave Aaron to Kate because she wasn’t getting off the island and wanted him to.
This does clear up the “he’s waiting for me” line in last season’s finale.
I was thinking that late last night regarding the “him” part of the Season 3 finale. Would explain a bit, and reinforces Jack’s reluctance about anything to do with it.
The book that Locke gives Ben is VALIS, by Philip K. Dick.
— Alan
I thought the VALIS thing was a cute touch.
Machfive
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I really will be dissapointed though if it turns out that Locke and Jack can’t both end up being good guys. I realize the show’s been setting things up from the beginning to put Locke and Jack on different paths and have different priorities, but I always hoped that when it came down to it, neither turned out to be wrong, just taking a different path to the same conclusion.
Ultimately, they’re both making the choices they make because they feel those decisions are for the good of the group, and they both have good hearts.
Interestingly, Ben is beginning to morph into a similar figure, because it looks like he too believes what he’s doing is for the good of his own people, and the island as well. Seeing Sayid, who has always been like a weapon for good, working with Ben, really makes you wonder about who the “wrong” people are.
So if we count Aaron as one of the Oceanic Six, that leaves one more survivor…and I predict it’s going to be Jin (and even if we don’t include Aaron I’ll pick Jin as among the final two.)
It just makes too much sense from a storytelling viewpoint: a couple everyone likes being split apart; Jin tormented by the guilt of being forced to leave his pregnant wife behind for some mysterious reason; having to pretend that Sun’s dead and being blamed for her “death” by his mob-boss father-in-law; his potential to go all bad-ass against Sun’s dad and his goons; Jin being able to speak decent English by the time he leaves the island so he can interact easily with the other returnees. It could be Sun who comes back instead, but I think there’s much more story potential for Jin. He should be the one.
drewl
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Obviously jack can’t deal with that lie/story they’re going to come up with which will lead him to the crazed state he was in during the 1st flash forward.
DT1
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Considering Juliet has told Sun she would die giving childbirth on the island, I don’t see why both Jin and Sun wouldn’t want to leave.
Of course they both want to leave, but events will conspire against them to make sure only one of them can. Otherwise we would have a happy ending for those two if both left the island, and we can’t have that on Lost, heh. And although it should be Sun who leaves the island because of her condition, the twist will be that it’s Jin instead.
I didn’t have any problems making out “Aaron” (although I called it back when it showed Claire and Kate talking out by the clothesline) but the sound did seem pretty wonky toward the end. When Kate and Jack were talking in the parking garage as she was leaving the courthouse, there was a major echo on Kate’s lines. Way more so than there should have been just from being in a parking garage.
I forget though, was that Sun’s condition or just the island effect? Cause of course Claire had her baby on the island just fine, and I think Juliet knew that already.
— Alan
DT1
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Yes, but Claire conceived her baby off of the island. The good news was that it was Jin’s baby. The bad news was that it was conceived on the island so that meant Sun would die.
Jin is a good guess. It would explain why they felt the need to have that whole scene with Sun and Jin where he displays English skills with a desire to learn more, plus expressing interest in wanting to live in America. As mentioned, it would make flash-forwards with him in them more likely to involve interaction with the other survivors and leaving behind Sun/baby is a powerful motivation for getting back. (Though we don’t know for 100% sure, I think that vast majority the non-Oceanic 6 people are still alive back on the island, though a couple of them may die between now and the rescue).
I wonder if Aaron being raised by Kate will be tied into that whole Claire/psychic situation where he said that she must be the one to raise him. I guess they kind of debunked his psychicness with the Eko storyline, but it does seem to fit that now everything is ‘wrong’ and Aaron is being raised by someone else.
nabeel
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More teasing about the kind of things they had to lie about back on mainland, and what really happened; it’d be pretty messed up if the baby doesn’t know that Kate isn’t his real mother. I was disappointed with Miles’ whole extortion angle, I wish it had been something more interesting than that. They could do so much with Miles’ ability and the people who have died on the island, I wish they’d get on with that.
