WARNING: Spoilers ahead. I use this space to discuss my thoughts and theories about the ABC-TV show LOST. If you haven’t seen the latest episode and odn’t want to know what happens, I suggest you run like Kate.
Finally, Jack grows a spine (and a brain) while working on Henry’s spine. Well, he hasn’t actually gotten to the spine or the tumor yet, but he does have a plan, and I’m on board for it. Actually, I can see a multitude of holes in Jack’s little plan, but I don’t think I could have come up with anything better, probably not anything nearly as good. However, just to show how smart I am, from the comfort of my living room with no one’s life riding on my decisions, I have a few questions for Mr. Jack to mull over for the next hour or the next three months —whichever comes first:
1. Why can’t the Others hold a gun on Jack and have Juliette stitch up the kidney? She is a doctor, isn’t she? Maybe she doesn’t know how to do surgery on a spinal tumor, but she could surely put a few stitches in a kidney, right?
2. What Jack doesn’t know of course, is that they’re supposedly on an island. What Jack does know is that whatever happens with Kate and Sawyer, he’s still stuck in the operating room with only a scalpel for a weapon. So, I’d say Jack’s in trouble, and Kate and Sawyer aren’t much better off.
3. If Kate and Sawyer will run, and if Mr. Wacko Bereaved Husband will let Sawyer go, and if they can get hold of a boat, Kate and James are home free. However, I can foresee that all this negotiating and finagling might take a little longer than an hour, might take until next February. And in that case, Henry/Ben is dead, and Jack no longer has a hostage.
4. What’s the range of those walkie-talkies? If K and S go to the other side of the water, will they even be able to notify Jack that they’ve made it?
So, Jack’s plan may or may not work, but it’s a good try.
Other Observations/Questions:
I don’t like Juliette. I don’t trust Juliette. Maybe she and Ben are allies, or maybe not. Either way, she’s just as creepy as he is.
What’s going on with Slingshot Girl? (I don’t remember her name.) Is she Rousseau’s Alex? Did I hear Ben ask about her asking about him just before he went under the anesthesia? When she asked to be taken to Ben, was it a take-me-to-your-leader request, or a what-have-you-done-with-Ben request?
Breaking rocks just seems stupid. And “I won’t work if Sawyer can’t come, too,” was sort of lame, too.
The Others must have let Jack get out, get a gun, see the monitors, see Kate and Sawyer. They’re still trying to play with his mind, but Jack shows them he’s not to be manipulated.
I think if I knew, as Sawyer and Kate are bound to know by now, that Big Brother was watching, I’d keep my clothes on. I think, under the circumstances, I’d keep my clothes on anyway. But self-control probably isn’t the forte of either of our lovebirds.
To change the subject a little, we now know that Eko died “for a reason” (other than to get him off the show?). So, the writers have three months to make up a reason if they don’t have one already. Locke and I are certainly not in on the secret if there is a reason. “Lift up your eyes and look to the north?” I don’t get the message, but Locke seems to have had a revelation.
We knew the writers of LOST would leave us with a cliff-hanger, and they did. My question to other viewers: was it exciting and intriguing enough to make you mark your calendar for February, 2007?
I’ll be back with more LOST hash in 2007. I want to see what happens to Ben and Juliette, and Charlie and Sayid. And I’m finally impressed with Jack although I still think Kate and Sawyer deserve each other —for better or for worse, probably worse. Jack can find a better mate. Not Juliette.
I also don’t see Jack’s plan as perfect, but it was indeed a good one, and made for a good “season” ending. I’ll definitely be back in January.
Did you hear Slingshort Girl say, “They’ll kill your boyfriend, just like they killed mine.”? I had to replay that section several times to get it. I think she’s referring to the guy that was in the cage when Sawyer first got there.
This show sure does keep you guessing.
Not January. February.
I think Sawyer and Kate are a better match. Jack is too good-two-shoes for Kate. Don’t you just love to hate Ben? And I don’t trust Juliette either. I think she wants to be the leader of the others and that’s why she wants Ben dead.
Did anyone pause the TIVO and frantically look up the verses on Eko’s stick? I did….but it didn’t make any sense to me other than verses on salvation. Hmmm.
I’ll be back in 07 to see what happens. Do we know if they’re gonna wrap it up this season in 07 or will it continue on and on and on…???
I figured Jack’s plan is the best he could come up with. I don’t really believe Juliette is medical, she knows the lingo and is all about the mind games.
I agree about Sawyer and Kate – someone was probably watching, but they were so caught up in the moment they didn’t care.
I also do not think Ben was truthful when he said they were on another island. If they were, how could they on the day of the crash, send people to the crash cites to blend in. But will Kate and Sawyer do anything about it?
I am so angry at the death of Mr. Eko. I loved that there was a spiritually insightful man on the show. Yes Locke is spiritually astute person, but I want more. And after the great episode of Psalm 23, where he faced down the monster with righteous truth as well as he did in his past. Here he was proud, and a bit arrogant, and got stomped. I would rather have learned other things from him through out the next several seasons.
“Lift up your eyes and look to the north?†I don’t get the message, but Locke seems to have had a revelation.
It’s also the message he got in the wacky vision with Boone. I think he’s going to go north past the Others’ uncrossable line in the sand and see the other island. Also, slingshot girl is Rousseau’s daughter Alex.