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Of course at that moment I thought to myself “Sayid isn’t smart enough to listen to that whole tape to see if there’s anything else?” - gotta have your dramatic reveal, I guess. But even then, you’re right, they seemed to play it up as if it exonerated her, when it’s really just “hey, checking in, here’s the info” “okay, we’re coming soon” - that makes her seem worse, if anything - since she’s part of a plan to kidnap a lostie.
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I didn’t feel that they played it to exonerate her. If anything, she knew that by having them listen to that, they’d be more likely to kill her ass. More than exonerating her, it gave them time to realize that something is happening, and more important than burning Juliet at the stake is stopping that from happening.
Yes, it seems like Jack does have a plan, but I still don’t trust him, and won’t for the rest of the show. And you know what? I think some people, including Sayid and Sawyer, will agree. But think about it, Jack isn’t very trustworthy, we know that already. Remember is “army” plans from last season, and how he was so damn sneaky with them? Ever since he became leader of the island, Jack’s played the reluctant leader who gets pissy and revengeful whenever he doesn’t get his way, and I think that this “let’s not tell anybody” thing was yet another way of playing into that. And I despise that character even more for it.
Also, I believe TPTB have said that there will be a decently sized cast change-up in the finale. After seeing this episode, and knowing the raid plans, I’m going to have to guess that a large portion of one of the sides is going to die off. Either they’ll actually succeed in killing a lot of the others, or the others will succeed in taking the children and any pregnant women and leaving a lot of the other losties for dead. By now, they must know that if they leave them living, they’ll come after them in any way they can and kill more of them, so it’s my guess that they don’t plan on leaving the lostie camp in very good shape when they leave. We saw them do a “purge” once already when two populations “couldn’t live in peace”, and my guess would be that they’re planning another. So which side will it be that loses the largest number of people? And if it is the lostie camp that is ravaged, and say 1/2 of our current leads die off, could that be the moment the show jumps the shark. Because while I love the stuff from the others’ camp, what ties the show together for me is still the fact that we have the old losties with their problems, their goals, their relationships, and without them I don’t think I’d be as interested in the show.
If anyone is reading this though, don’t stop giving us answers and showing us the others’ camp, that has made this season my favorite, the number of things we’ve had answered and the new mysteries the answers have brought up.
