I thought was Miles’ sister who worked with her at the museum that Charlotte was supposed to know. Aside from that I thought she looked to be snooping through Sawyer’s things on purpose, implying there was some purpose to her getting set up with him. I’m inclined to think we will see more of her.
Is Smoky’s control slipping now that he has assembled his group? He struck me as very wary in his conversation with Kate, he had a way of trying out expressions before settling on one, implying he was having to think out what he was going to say. I’d go as far as saying he’s a bit afraid of her or what she might do. Irrc he didn’t recruit her directly and didn’t intend for her to be with him. He did recruit Sawyer but I was getting a similar vibe in their interactions, could be because they are candidates of course.
Finally, poor Sawyer, he has the most miserable flash sideways life we’ve seen so far. An evening alone with beer pizza and Little House on the Prairie. My God he’s one lost little boy.
If the rest of my life consisted of spending one night with Charlotte, and the next by myself with beer and pizza, repeated indefinitely; I would be perfectly happy, no matter what was on TV. In fact, I’d say that many guys’ dream would be either
1.) One night with a chick that looks like that
…or…
2.) One night of peace and quiet alone with beer and pizza.
Heh yeah I can see that… but what I was getting at was that LHOTP appeared to be his escapism of choice and that’s pretty sad in both senses of the word.
Eko: From what I heard on that actor – his parents both passed away (not sure the circumstances), and he asked to be let out of his contract so that he could go back to his home, where his family was from (in Britain, I think).
On Libby and Ana Lucia – I know that in the season when their characters were killed off (season 2), they both got busted on drunk driving charges. Rumors went around that this was why their characters were bumped, but I believe the producers are on record as saying that their short-term stints on the show were already planned ahead of time. At least, Ana Lucia’s was (she was only intended for season 2, from what I recall). Not sure why they decided to bump Libby, too – because they made it look like they were setting her character up for some interesting back story (when we find out she was in the same asylum Hurley was) – but that never came to pass.
Not to mention, he started the episode having just spent the night with crazy gun chick. Okay, it was all part of the set-up/sting operation. But hey, he got to bang a hot chick in the line of duty.
Bottom line: Sawyer nailed two chicks in one flash-sideways episode. Have any of the other Losties done better in their side flashes? Sawyer deserves a beer and pizza and peace and quiet night every now and then.
Then at least some of the Others should know that Locke is the smoke monster. I was kind of surprised that this episode took for granted that they didn’t know, likek with Smocke telling them “the black smoke killed them.”
Everyone keeps assuming that the bomb would pretty much vaporize the island, and maybe that’s what the writers had in mind, but… is it really true? I know that nuclear weapons need to be detonated several hundred feet in the air for maximum effect, because if they’re detonated at ground level, their effect is much diminished, and even more so underground like this one was. Plus, this was just the primary fission trigger from a larger H-bomb. So, would it really do all that much damage? Maybe someone knowledgable in nuclear weapons here can clue us in?
The Others that were at the Foot don’t know Locke was the Smoke Monster. They know he’s not the real Locke (which I think everyone knows), but they didn’t know who he was. I wasn’t until he mentioned the chains to Richard that he realized who he was, but he was quickly knocked out.
I remember Sayid getting shot then, but I don’t have the recording anylonger, so I’m not sure what Roger said. Plus he could have met up with his son between Sayid getting shot and the bomb going off if he was still looking for him. Since Linus is with Roger in “Dr. Linus” they obviously got together somehow. The writers could probably go either way at this point if they wanted to, but I think they’d need to provided an explanation for how the Others had a way to get off the Island in 1977.
The Roger in Dr. Linus sure didn’t seem to think that the Island was in danger of exploding or sinking, or even seemed to know that it ever had after they left. He wondered musingly what life would have been like if they had stayed. He didn’t even imply that there had been any big excitement around them leaving at all. I don’t think Ben was shot, in that timeline. They just ended up leaving, maybe because Roger didn’t like being a janitor.
I agree with your assessment of his reminiscing, it was confusing. This whole season dosen’t make sense to me if the timeline dosen’t split into two different stories when the bomb goes off. Not that Lost always makes sense, I just hope they explain (this part) of what’s going on. Are there any other clues that point to changes in the timeline prior to 1977?
Did anyone else notice that the clip of Little House on the Prairie sounded strange? The voices did not sound at all like Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert. Does anyone out there remember the episode the clip was from? Maybe those words didn’t really appear in an episode of LHOP and they dubbed in some voices. If so, surely they could find better voice actors than that. I thought it was terrible. It really took me out of the show.
Well hey, ever since we saw Desmond and Penny and their son Charlie last season, I’ve had this crazy theory lurking in the back of my mind that Charles Widmore is his own grandpa.
I thought they (Little House voices) sounded correct.
Anyway, this season is turning out to be a huge disappointment to me. I have no idea why all the characters they’ve introduced since the beginning of the show isn’t enough to resolve the plot. Now we’ve got two new groups (I guess one of them is dead, but who the fuck knows?) more characters, and a whole lot of ennui.
I don’t give a crap about the Temple Others. I don’t give a crap about the new group that Widmore’s got on the island. Every second that they take up is a second that could be spent showing Hurley or Jack or Ben or Desmond or Penny or CharlieGhost or any one of the other Losties/Others that we’ve spent 5 years with.
I think the introduction of the two new groups is as bad, if not worse, than the Slayerettes introduced in Buffy season 7.
1)I think they, the writers, are stalling because their endgame isn’t dense enough i.e. not rich enough to require 10-12 episodes for exposition, climax and denouement. Hence the plodding pace, albeit punctuated with brief servings of plot-candy.
2)The pattern for this seasons seems clear to me, which is to alternate Flocke et al. with Jack et al. Again, I think this is due to pacing issues.
The last 15 minutes or so had a lot of seriously random “SOMETHING DRAMATIC JUST HAPPENED, CRANK THE VOLUME!” music.
Doesn’t affect it one way or the other. Might have been Widmore or Smokey. Remember that we’ve seen that Widmore will kill everyone and anyone. That was the objective of the last group he sent to the island, after all.
This may seem silly, but is there any reason for us to believe that the Sideways Flashes are all the same universe? I can’t remember enough of them well enough to say for sure.
For example, in Kate’s Sawyer is just some guy who helps her ditch the cops. In Sawyer’s, Sawyer is a cop and it would be very odd for him to help her escape.
I thought Eko just left because of something family, like his parents dying. Libby was just another Lost DUI, and so was Anna Lucia. However, from what I’ve seen on Michelle Rodriguez online over the years, getting a DUI and having work problems is pretty much a typical Monday for her.
Widmore isn’t a Jacob follower. If he were, Bram (a certified Jacobite) wouldn’t have tried to convince Miles not to go to the island. Now, maybe he *thinks *he’s following Jacob; or maybe Jacob was playing two teams againts each other. What’s certain is that Team Ilana and Team Widmore are not on the same side.
Speaking of which, is anybody else wondering how the Man in Black is planning on getting off the island? He seems to be gravitating towards the Ajira Airlines plane, but not only is it damaged, but he doesn’t have anyone in his party capable of flying a plane. Does a guy who came to the island centuries ago and has been trapped there ever since in the form of a smoke monster know how to fly a plane? Maybe he could force Lapidus to do it, but is he even aware of Lapidus’s existence?
Well, that was Ben’s (a notorious liar) statement about their objective. Did we ever get any independent verification of that?
