>: 51 EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF
Open how we left, with Desmond. Little soon to catch up with him, where/when he’s been. What’s the deal with him and Claire? Obviously an ulterior motive to move her out of her place, but what?
Wonder when that cartoon Jack was watching aired. “The sub is back, we have a situation.” Guess that answers the question of how they snuck up on Sayid two weeks ago. And of how Ethan crept through the guard to kill Scott/Steve, Locke looked out to the water but never occurred to me he might not have been swimming. Also, apparently there's some screenshot of the ocean in the first season that has a periscope. Haven't seen it but nice touch, if so.
Sawyer had a nice plan, too bad they’ve been monitored all this time. Looks like he’s the –centric after all. Meaning we shouldn’t believe a single thing about this episode. Henry plays Sawyer, asking the age/weight questions while stepping closer to the puddle. Tom says that in the two days since the sky turned purple (I saw white), the comms have been down.
Ben hates needles, bless his heart.
The direct PULP FICTION reference was great.
“I’m Scottish. Cheers.”
The bit with Ben and the bunny was genuinely disturbing. The pacemaker’s just another system of control that may or may not be true. Reminescent of the button even without the beeping watch.
Cassidy comes to visit Sawyer in jail. Forgot the actress was played by Joanie Stubbs from DEADWOOD, two of them in one ep. So, she pressed charges and got him here in this Florida prison? She was the Florida job Robert Patrick set him up with? but we saw a different guy acting like his partner. Is the daughter a con?
And Jack’s got to scrub up, nice bit there, didn’t actually see it coming. Ben tells Juliet “this is not why—”. Whose x-rays? Locke was the first person I thought about, but now I’m wondering if it’s Ben. He’s closer to 40 than Locke. Can’t the island just fix up whoever it is a la Rose? Jack says there’s a tumor in the L4 vertebrae but it’s clearly in the L2. Surely not a glaring prop error, they had to know that would be one of the big freezeframes of the episode.
And Colleen dies before we have time to stop calling her Trixie. Leading to serious drama involving Sawyer and Kate. Is Kate lying?
Sawyer’s prison ID# is 840, shocker there. That $10M man was like a five-minute con.
Kate was lying. Ouch.
Her quoting Jack’s mantra back at Sawyer after he reiterates the episode title was excellent.
Desmond rocks a Promethean experiment with the 5-iron. “Is that… art?” is great delivery from Hurley. What is Desmond up to and how does it relate to the chronological madness implied last week? Something to do with the interest in Claire’s roof? Is that where they were standing to watch?
(okay no, i wasn't getting this, so stuck on doc and marty, i thought desmond was trying to capture the 1.21 jiggawatts or something -- he saved claire with total nonchalance, saw the way they treated sarah connor in T2 and instead of going around preaching that the sky was about to fall just subtly manupulated events so that she and aaron wouldn't get hit by the lightning. this is like the coolest thing of the episode. cheers, chris kimbley, for pulling me out of hill valley. really hoping we get more desmond next ep, that could make things crazy pretty damn fast!)
And Sawyer gives his money to Clementine Phillips, the hypothetical daughter; he’s a pretty good person in spite of himself. I've read that warden was in a Sawyer flashback in the first season, they were exchanging money. Unsubstantiated, but a nice idea.
Sawyer quoting Steinbeck up the hill was great.
Ben shows Sawyer there’s nowhere to run. Then quotes Lenny and George right back at him with regard to Kate, really excellent writing there. No great surprise they’ve been off-island, thought the HYDRA was anyway. So, it’s just underwater next to Other Alcatraz?
I thought this was a solid episode. But was hoping for more ranging around, there are SO many disparate threads dangling, doesn’t feel like we have time to just focus on one or two characters anymore, especially since this is such a small chunk of the season. Only two episodes left. But I’m thinking it will pick up pretty seriously next week, needs to. We’ll see how much of an impact Colleen’s death has on Pickett/Others relations with the castaways. Previews unseen, I’m thinking John Locke will have to lift up his eyes and look north the way the Jesusstick told him to. Hope Eko doesn’t become the island’s latest spirit-guide before that happens.
Wonder when that cartoon Jack was watching aired. “The sub is back, we have a situation.” Guess that answers the question of how they snuck up on Sayid two weeks ago. And of how Ethan crept through the guard to kill Scott/Steve, Locke looked out to the water but never occurred to me he might not have been swimming. Also, apparently there's some screenshot of the ocean in the first season that has a periscope. Haven't seen it but nice touch, if so.
Sawyer had a nice plan, too bad they’ve been monitored all this time. Looks like he’s the –centric after all. Meaning we shouldn’t believe a single thing about this episode. Henry plays Sawyer, asking the age/weight questions while stepping closer to the puddle. Tom says that in the two days since the sky turned purple (I saw white), the comms have been down.
Ben hates needles, bless his heart.
The direct PULP FICTION reference was great.
“I’m Scottish. Cheers.”
The bit with Ben and the bunny was genuinely disturbing. The pacemaker’s just another system of control that may or may not be true. Reminescent of the button even without the beeping watch.
Cassidy comes to visit Sawyer in jail. Forgot the actress was played by Joanie Stubbs from DEADWOOD, two of them in one ep. So, she pressed charges and got him here in this Florida prison? She was the Florida job Robert Patrick set him up with? but we saw a different guy acting like his partner. Is the daughter a con?
And Jack’s got to scrub up, nice bit there, didn’t actually see it coming. Ben tells Juliet “this is not why—”. Whose x-rays? Locke was the first person I thought about, but now I’m wondering if it’s Ben. He’s closer to 40 than Locke. Can’t the island just fix up whoever it is a la Rose? Jack says there’s a tumor in the L4 vertebrae but it’s clearly in the L2. Surely not a glaring prop error, they had to know that would be one of the big freezeframes of the episode.
And Colleen dies before we have time to stop calling her Trixie. Leading to serious drama involving Sawyer and Kate. Is Kate lying?
Sawyer’s prison ID# is 840, shocker there. That $10M man was like a five-minute con.
Kate was lying. Ouch.
Her quoting Jack’s mantra back at Sawyer after he reiterates the episode title was excellent.
Desmond rocks a Promethean experiment with the 5-iron. “Is that… art?” is great delivery from Hurley. What is Desmond up to and how does it relate to the chronological madness implied last week? Something to do with the interest in Claire’s roof? Is that where they were standing to watch?
(okay no, i wasn't getting this, so stuck on doc and marty, i thought desmond was trying to capture the 1.21 jiggawatts or something -- he saved claire with total nonchalance, saw the way they treated sarah connor in T2 and instead of going around preaching that the sky was about to fall just subtly manupulated events so that she and aaron wouldn't get hit by the lightning. this is like the coolest thing of the episode. cheers, chris kimbley, for pulling me out of hill valley. really hoping we get more desmond next ep, that could make things crazy pretty damn fast!)
And Sawyer gives his money to Clementine Phillips, the hypothetical daughter; he’s a pretty good person in spite of himself. I've read that warden was in a Sawyer flashback in the first season, they were exchanging money. Unsubstantiated, but a nice idea.
Sawyer quoting Steinbeck up the hill was great.
Ben shows Sawyer there’s nowhere to run. Then quotes Lenny and George right back at him with regard to Kate, really excellent writing there. No great surprise they’ve been off-island, thought the HYDRA was anyway. So, it’s just underwater next to Other Alcatraz?
I thought this was a solid episode. But was hoping for more ranging around, there are SO many disparate threads dangling, doesn’t feel like we have time to just focus on one or two characters anymore, especially since this is such a small chunk of the season. Only two episodes left. But I’m thinking it will pick up pretty seriously next week, needs to. We’ll see how much of an impact Colleen’s death has on Pickett/Others relations with the castaways. Previews unseen, I’m thinking John Locke will have to lift up his eyes and look north the way the Jesusstick told him to. Hope Eko doesn’t become the island’s latest spirit-guide before that happens.
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