>: 54 NOT IN PORTLAND
Well, THAT is how you do it. That episode blew away the first six of the season. And it needed to. I dug the last couple, but the pace was plodding and more maddening than usual, maybe due to always-increasing expectations, but, man. At any rate, we got a power-packed one this time out.
Nice open with Juliet on the beach, suspected it was a flashback, but anything was possible. Confirmed by the always-creepy presence of William Mapother as Ethan. Good trick with the crappy hallway lighting, I was sure we were in the Staff station, the last place we saw that. And cue Calamity Jane from Deadwood as Juliet’s sister. That’s the second cast member in 6 episodes! We need Swearingen as Desmond’s Captain in the Scots Guard whenever we finally find out what he got kicked out for, though come to think of it, I guess I’d rather his next –centric episode focus on whatever time travelingesque thing happened to him post-failsafe and pre-nude in the jungle. Figured Juliet was shooting Jane up with the numbers vaccine. Not so. Great reveal on being in Miami, though, of course we’ve got to have an Oceanic plane flying into the shot. And a copy of Carrie was on the nightstand, guess both sisters are as down with Sai King as the writers. Cool yin-yang clock too, the duality keeps a’coming.
And back to the not-very-sterile operating room. Juliet immediately reverses the tables on Jack and leaves him standing there with his scalpel in one hand and his manhood in another (hmm, more of a disturbing image than I intended). A buddy I watched it with pointed out that this would’ve been a better cliffhanger than we got and I agree, a lot less forced than the dramatic “Run, Kate!” even though of course that was kind of cool because that’s what she does, she runs.
I’m enjoying the way MC Gainey’s portraying Tom, pretty much the opposite of the dude we were dying to find out about throughout Season 2. He’s the best argument that the Others really are the Good Guys, as he seems a decent enough sort.
Got to love Ben talking to Juliet upside down with the mute button on. Wonder if anyone read his lips, surely SOMEone has.
Great for Sawyer to reference the Star Wars Wookie homage right after they did it. He came up with three nicknames for Alex in like four minutes of screentime, a personal best.
That film in Room 23…..man, those people don’t mess around. Wonder how long the loop was. There’s a flash of the old Alvar Hanso shot from the orientation tape and the last image we see as Sawyer’s lugging Carl out is the shot of Gerald Degroot when the tape was listing parapsychology as one of the six aspects of the Dharma Initiative. Namaste, Gerald! Also, saw the "God loved you as much as he loved Jacob" bit, remember we're supposed to be looking for Jacob, that's the name Danny said at the end of last episode, "Shephard's not even ON Jacob's list." Who's Jacob? Eyepatch Man? What list? The Questions continue.
At first, thought Julie was stealing the numbers vaccine from the hospital and that THAT had something to do with pregnancy, but this is thankfully not the case. The company that recruited her somewhat aggressively, Mittelos Co, is an anagram for Lost Time. Also, Thomas Mittelwerk is the COO and #2 guy at the Hanso Foundation. Online information leads us to believe that he’s taken over through a coup or something. But make no mistake, Ethan’s involvement at the end all but confirms that Mittelwerk/Hanso and maybe their board (also featuring Charles Widmore and Anthony Cooper, Locke’s pop) are most likely the “they” wreathed in shadow who Ben probably answers to.
Jane’s pregnant. The test is of course from Widmore Labs, the third one we’ve seen, after Sun on the island and Kate in flashback. Everything happens for a reason!
There was an Apollo Candy bar ad on the side of the bus that plowed into Doc Edmund (which I saw coming from a mile away, or at least from down the block). Those are the fictitious bars that the HF funds and had stocked in the Swan’s pantry (Kate took four in 2.1 or 2.3)
Thought Sawyer might finally buy it, then they gave us the Kate fakeout, then Juliet just capped Danny. Craziness.
The only way Ben is really Alex’s father is if he went to the mainland and got Rousseau knocked up, think she told Sayid or Hurley that she was six months pregnant when she landed on the island sixteen years ago (how she managed to land and not be four or eight months pregnant is quite beyond me). Most likely, they just told Alex her ma died in childbirth and that Ben’s her pop, a lie. (Ben lies.)
Great bit at the end there, Juliet’s only been here three+ years and Ben told her he’d finally let her go. The look on Jack’s face says it all. Can’t wait to see what will happen next. And next. And next. 15 more continuous weeks of power, I think they’re just getting warmed up and it’s really going to go down here this spring.
Namaste, island faithful. I bow to you.
Nice open with Juliet on the beach, suspected it was a flashback, but anything was possible. Confirmed by the always-creepy presence of William Mapother as Ethan. Good trick with the crappy hallway lighting, I was sure we were in the Staff station, the last place we saw that. And cue Calamity Jane from Deadwood as Juliet’s sister. That’s the second cast member in 6 episodes! We need Swearingen as Desmond’s Captain in the Scots Guard whenever we finally find out what he got kicked out for, though come to think of it, I guess I’d rather his next –centric episode focus on whatever time travelingesque thing happened to him post-failsafe and pre-nude in the jungle. Figured Juliet was shooting Jane up with the numbers vaccine. Not so. Great reveal on being in Miami, though, of course we’ve got to have an Oceanic plane flying into the shot. And a copy of Carrie was on the nightstand, guess both sisters are as down with Sai King as the writers. Cool yin-yang clock too, the duality keeps a’coming.
And back to the not-very-sterile operating room. Juliet immediately reverses the tables on Jack and leaves him standing there with his scalpel in one hand and his manhood in another (hmm, more of a disturbing image than I intended). A buddy I watched it with pointed out that this would’ve been a better cliffhanger than we got and I agree, a lot less forced than the dramatic “Run, Kate!” even though of course that was kind of cool because that’s what she does, she runs.
I’m enjoying the way MC Gainey’s portraying Tom, pretty much the opposite of the dude we were dying to find out about throughout Season 2. He’s the best argument that the Others really are the Good Guys, as he seems a decent enough sort.
Got to love Ben talking to Juliet upside down with the mute button on. Wonder if anyone read his lips, surely SOMEone has.
Great for Sawyer to reference the Star Wars Wookie homage right after they did it. He came up with three nicknames for Alex in like four minutes of screentime, a personal best.
That film in Room 23…..man, those people don’t mess around. Wonder how long the loop was. There’s a flash of the old Alvar Hanso shot from the orientation tape and the last image we see as Sawyer’s lugging Carl out is the shot of Gerald Degroot when the tape was listing parapsychology as one of the six aspects of the Dharma Initiative. Namaste, Gerald! Also, saw the "God loved you as much as he loved Jacob" bit, remember we're supposed to be looking for Jacob, that's the name Danny said at the end of last episode, "Shephard's not even ON Jacob's list." Who's Jacob? Eyepatch Man? What list? The Questions continue.
At first, thought Julie was stealing the numbers vaccine from the hospital and that THAT had something to do with pregnancy, but this is thankfully not the case. The company that recruited her somewhat aggressively, Mittelos Co, is an anagram for Lost Time. Also, Thomas Mittelwerk is the COO and #2 guy at the Hanso Foundation. Online information leads us to believe that he’s taken over through a coup or something. But make no mistake, Ethan’s involvement at the end all but confirms that Mittelwerk/Hanso and maybe their board (also featuring Charles Widmore and Anthony Cooper, Locke’s pop) are most likely the “they” wreathed in shadow who Ben probably answers to.
Jane’s pregnant. The test is of course from Widmore Labs, the third one we’ve seen, after Sun on the island and Kate in flashback. Everything happens for a reason!
There was an Apollo Candy bar ad on the side of the bus that plowed into Doc Edmund (which I saw coming from a mile away, or at least from down the block). Those are the fictitious bars that the HF funds and had stocked in the Swan’s pantry (Kate took four in 2.1 or 2.3)
Thought Sawyer might finally buy it, then they gave us the Kate fakeout, then Juliet just capped Danny. Craziness.
The only way Ben is really Alex’s father is if he went to the mainland and got Rousseau knocked up, think she told Sayid or Hurley that she was six months pregnant when she landed on the island sixteen years ago (how she managed to land and not be four or eight months pregnant is quite beyond me). Most likely, they just told Alex her ma died in childbirth and that Ben’s her pop, a lie. (Ben lies.)
Great bit at the end there, Juliet’s only been here three+ years and Ben told her he’d finally let her go. The look on Jack’s face says it all. Can’t wait to see what will happen next. And next. And next. 15 more continuous weeks of power, I think they’re just getting warmed up and it’s really going to go down here this spring.
Namaste, island faithful. I bow to you.
posted by rb at 12:07 PM
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Head explode! Good show! Can't think!
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