I don’t remember what the kids that were taken in the beginning looked like so I was wondering if it was one of them.
Trippy. I certainly don’t remember that either , but it could be the little girl from the tailies group-- both have blond hair. Hard to say from the picture, though, because I just can’t see her face clearly.
Upon re-watch I noticed this as well.
Kate acted very vulnerable and abused when she was put in the cage. Her wrists were all bloodied from the handcuffs and when she took a bite of the fish biscuit she winced as if her mouth was sore or her teeth were loose. Taken with Ben’s prediction that it would be a very unpleasant 2 weeks for her, I’m wondering how much time passed? Or, exactly how many sandwiches was Jack offered before he finally gave in?
The time between episodes is never more than a few days. I’m sure that Kate’s difficult 2 weeks are ahead of her.
Damn you! Oh well, I liked my theory while it lasted.
I agree that it was Carrie at the book club, but for some reason Juliet is holding a distinctly different King book outside. Might be just a continuity error or changed for visibility since the author was much more apparent on that cover than the Carrie one. Either way, it was a different book in that shot.
Could it have been a different edition of Carrie?
Neither myself or Mrs. WeHaveCookies remembers seeing the little girl. Could it have been a subliminal single frame or two and they decided to use that particular instant for a still just to mess with us?
It looks to me as if it is indeed a different edition. In this shot you can see that the book’s title seems to begin with the letters CAR. And it looks like a trade paperback.
One review I read suggested that the Others captured Jack, Kate and Sawyer because
each of them saw something not real. Jack saw his dead father, Kate saw the horse and Sawyer supposedly saw an intelligent boar. I remember the first two, but I don’t remember the intelligent boar. Does anyone remember that?
And I agree that the cages were originally intended to hold the polar bears and were hastily reused for securing Kate and Sawyer. But why the complex feeding mechanism in Sawyer’s cage? I think the Others were attempting to test the intelligence of the bears and perhaps augment it.
Then why didn’t they want Sayid? He saw imaginary Walt when he was with Shannon.
I’ve seen other photos released by the producers that were not part of the episode, so this might just be another one. When I rewatch this one (I always do!) I’'ll do a slow-mo viewing of that part and see if she shows up. I haven’t seen anything on the “Lost” cites like The Tailsection, though, and someone usually catches these things pretty quickly. No other show that I know of is analyzed so closely.
I liked the way Elizabeth Mitchell showed Juliet’s tension. She looked like she was about to cry at the beginning of the ep but had to pull herself together for the book club. At the end, her “thank you” to Ben(ry) was not at all sincere, and that’s exactly as it should be. After all, the little rodent would have let her drown.
I don’t see the little girl that y’all are talking about.
I read her as a lot more machiavellian than that. My impression was that the plan was to let Jack get in trouble, emperil her, and then bond a little through a “rescue”. I wouldn’t be surprised at this point if Juliet was the leader of the Others.
[spoiler]Maybe because Walt was the psychic making them both see him. Or maybe Shannon was and made Sayid see Walt.
But that’s distant guesswork on the “others taking the castaways who have some psychic abilities” theory.[/spoiler]
Any isolated group needs to recruit new specialists from time to time… and as a possibly cult-like group, they need to first breakdown and rebuild the new recruits… Jack is clearly good at putting things back together, and Kate is good at blowing things up… Sawyer? He’s good at manipulating others… they gots plenty of those already.
Why not just let the water equalize then swim out to freedom?
I saw it!!!
I just haven’t had a chance to comment before now.
Yeah, they were clearly two different editions, as they were being held by different people. In fact, in the same scene (in the living room), you can clearly see a third edition, too, being held by yet another book Other. You can only see the author on that one, though.
Sawyer saw Kate’s horse, too, when he first left the hatch after recovering from his infected bullet wound. I don’t what that says about the horse’s unreality. Also, Hurley’s spent more time with imaginary people than anyone else on the island, but they let him go. Which is another question: why did they specifically want Hurley, if they were just going to use him as a messanger?
I vaguely recall Sawyer’s boar, but I forget the context of the episode. A boar tears up Sawyer’s tent, and he gets one of the guns and goes hunting for it with Kate (I think). The boar outsmarts them both, at one point pissing all over Sawyer’s gear when they make camp, but not touching Kate’s stuff. He winds up deciding to let the boar live, but I can’t remember why, or what the overall point of the episode was. The boar was definetly real, though. Lots of people saw it, and it left a wake of tangible destruction (of Sawyer’s stuff) behind it.
The boar represented stuff about his past eating away at him, and he let the boar live to symbolically just let it go.