I was at first disapointed that this episode seemed to be backtracking, but then I realized they were filling in important detail that we missed last week. I like it…
I suspect Kate will pull a Jack Bauer next week, and rescue Jack and Locke by dropping form the ceiling onto Desmond. But it sure will be interesting to see what words are exchanged between J and D… I also like the way this episode bridged the gap between the first 5 minutes or so that we say the inside of the hatch last week and the last few minutes. That scuttles the idea that the first few minutes was from several years previous to the plane crash.
My Wild Assed Guess: Desmond and Ethan were friends. When Desmond is asking Locke “are you him”, he’s asking him “are you Ethan”. He suspects that if Ethan went outside the hatch for a while, he might be so altered by the magical island juju that he would return completely transformed. So the snowman thing was a joke he and Ethan shared.
He obviously expected the world to have ended, presumably due to a mysterious disease?
Any further spottings of anachronistic washer/dryers? They seemed to be going out of their way this time to show how old everything was.
Rational thought, medicine & healing, outbreaks of contagion, and shepherds are the demesnses of which Greek god? What was unusual about the island on which that god was born?
Which of the castaways do his attributes seem to fit?
If that castaway is Apollonian, who’s the Dionysian one? (Maybe a vigorous, divinely irrational fellow who’s given to mystical ecstacy, the kind of guy who might put younger guys through revelatory orphic initiations involving intoxicating substances?)
Will every sentence in this post be framed interrogatively?
The woman who Michael meets in the pit (in the preview for next week’s episode) is the one Jack spoke to in the airport bar, IIRC. I know she mentioned her seat number… any idea what it was?
Another question for the TiVo crowd: when Michael is in the park to give Walt the stuffed polar bear (!) a man walks toward the camera on his wife’s left – the audience’s right – and his haircut and gait made me think of Desmond. Can anyone confirm or refute this? I’m off to get Jack’s bar-pal’s seat number…
I love this show but the horizontal movement of this episode really threw me. There seems like there was a lot of flashback we didn’t really need, from a story aspect or from a character development aspect. Michael had it rough, his gf was a total bitch in taking his son away all the way around the world. And then, in the court hearings where Michael tried to delay it, she didn’t speak up when her lawyer was punching him in the proverbial balls. You could see she was uncomfortable, but I’m liking her less and less.
I really didn’t like this episode that much, the first time I can recall saying this about the show, but it’s true.
Next week’s preview looked very promising. I love Michelle Rodriguez and look forward to her entry into the cast. I had forgotten she had met Jack in the bar, so kudos to you all. I’m predicting we find out that the black lady was right, the tale sectioners are alive and that those who caught Jin were them. The problem I foresee is the suddenly explosion in cast size. If they add 10 more main characters and we have to follow as they weave their story this much longer, I might just explode.
There is a guy who walks past with a backpack and shorts, and he has the right hair color, but I can’t tell if it’s him with my grainy analog cable. I’ll try to find an HDTV screen capture…
What he’s trying to say is that Jack is like Apollo in many ways, and from his interrogative thinking it sounds like he thinks Locke is like Dionysus (aka Bacchus.)
I have to assume that they didn’t randomly choose “Apollo” brand chocolate bars. (I can understand Kate’s reaction; I don’t think I’ve ever gone 44 days without chocolate.)
My only real dissatisfaction with this episode was the stupid, hackneyed device of having a convenient, amazingly clean air duct big enough for an adult to crawl through. For one thing, the underground lair looks like it’s supposed to be a self-contained long-term refuge from infection; I would think that any air ducted from outside would go through an elaborate system of filters and perhaps intense UV, like the systems they have in hospitals. (Unless it’s a purely internal duct, in which case it seems superflous in the first place.)
On Lost, Jack (last name Sheppard) is the healer, voice of reason, and chief “colonist”.
Apollo was born on Delos, a floating island (thus allowing his mother to bypass Hera’s ban that he not be born on solid ground).
He is often contrasted with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and actions based on emotion rather than reason, which is a pretty good description of Lost’s John Locke these days.
I think he jumped into the water not to save Sawyer but to swim over to the other boat, stowaway, and try to help Walt. Either that or ‘the Others’ (if they were the crew of the boat) scooped him up out of the water and took him along for some reason.
While watching I was wondering how this new ‘fill in’ flashback approach would go down on the various boards, not too well it would seem. I guess they’ll be doing it again next week so we know what happened to Jin.
I also started to like Kate a little more when I saw her stuffing her pants with chocolate.
I don’t know about the tail section people–if Analucia is in The Hole with Sawyer, Michael, and Jin, why was she put there? I somehow can’t believe that the other tail survivors would have locked her up. Their captors may be The Others and they may not, but I don’t think the tail sectioners are running the show over there.