They killed Karl! You bastards!
That kind of ruined the whole episode for me.
Danielle is more ambiguous, I’m hoping she survives. I believe we were promised a flashback at some point. I would say there’s hope for Karl since he was shot in the lung and not the heart (usually tv shows specify left side=really dead and right side=ambiguously dead) if not for the glaring promos of “someone will die!”. Feh.
But otherwise…
I was surprised at the remarkable amount of straight forwardness and revelation in this episode. I knew Cynthia Watros was making an appearance but I couldn’t imagine how.
I was thinking OK, they have Walt hidden away with his grandmother so they don’t have to show how old he is. But then window shot! And he looks the right age. Weird… I had heard that in the episode where they left the island that a little more had been filmed showing them more unambiguously escaping. I was hoping they’d use some of that previously unseen footage.
Now we know Michael is the saboteur. I was wondering if he was somehow causing the weird cabin fever too but I guess that’s just the island.
Hmm, the Temple is marked on Ben’s map as a Dharma station! I had figured it would instead be of the ruins/four toes statue era.
Clearing up the Mr Friendly sexuality issue was fun, altho somewhat creepy. Would be nice to have some GLBT action on the castaway side. Altho I swear I’m getting a vibe from Miles.
I liked Ben’s take on why he’s a good guy.
The whole list thing was interesting too. Does he pick who is innocent or does he ask Jacob? Are the innocent ones who get spared the same ones who would be eligable to join the others? It looks like they got all the Tailies they wanted - but Ethan’s death interrupted their listmaking of the fuselagers. Who in our main cast would have ended up being on Jacob’s list? We know not Kate, Jack, or Sawyer. Locke? Michael? Aaron?
I was shocked at what Sayid did. I guess for Sayid, anything Ben or Michael do are automatically bad. All that matters is that Michael betrayed them and is working for Ben, it doesn’t matter to him that he’s trying to protect his friends now. I can understand Sayid’s emotional response to Michael’s return, but I can’t figure out what pragmatically speaking he hoped to accomplish by turning Michael into the Captain.
Was Locke’s failure to mention the money really just an oversight or was he keeping secrets?
Who shot Karl??? Was it a Ben set up? Was it Lapidus and the NRA? The other Freighties? A Castaway? Letmeatem!!!