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The recap lets us know that we’re going to get tons of plot advancement down several threads. Great news. I about didn’t expect to see Jack’s crew or Sayid’s crew this week and focus on base camp adventures. The writers are juggling a lot, and very well.
Killer opening (except for the Dancing w/the Stars simulacrums gliding across the bottom of the screen, that was pretty frustrating). Claire’s eye. Second shot of the ep shows her odomoter, the tenth of a mile’s on an 8 and she’s on mile 10, giving us a cool 108 in black and white, no less. The numbers endure. She’s hurt, but not as bad as Ma. The goth girl dark hair tells us this is the earliest we’ve seen her.
And Charlie’s woken up free of worry. Which should last all of four minutes. Precog Desmond is one of my favorite subplots ever. “I know how we can get off this island!” Quite a lot before the title.
Sawyer’s rocking Rand’s The Fountainhead. Catherine’s been after me to read that for the majority of our relationship. I yield. There’s MC Gainey in the credits, guess Tom’s showing up. Claire all-but-confirms Christian Shephard as her dad in my eyes when she tells the cop that her dad died when she was two.
Is that creek where Kate and Rousseau talked about Jack and Alex the same one where Eko took his last drink of water? Could it NOT be?
Real interesting, that talk with Mikhail. So, the Swan’s EM juice was emitting a locator signal for the Hostiles’ sub.
“Why would we want to come back (to the island)?”
“You are not capable of understanding . . . because you are not on the list . . . because you are flawed.”
Including Locke (Ben was lying back in the Swan armory, no surprise there). So, who are the Good Ones? Are there any left or have they all been taken? Mikhail dropping all of their names and Locke’s paralysis was awesome. As was the sweeping shot of the pylon perimeter.
And there’s Aunt Lindsey. I didn’t recognize her from the Ana-Lucia flashback, but hearing about someone paying for everything REALLY confirms the whole Uncle Jack/Christian-as-father theory that’s been percolating since only a few minutes before Ana and Libby breathed their last.
A brutal cerebral hemorrhage for Mikhail. They really are running hard for the Locke-as-jackass angle. Wonder where it’ll wind up. He seems to have about lost all credibility with Sayid and Kate.
(and that’s only half of the episode, yeesh)
Kate shimmying up the tree was suitably tense.
Knew he was going to be there but it was so great to see Christian Shephard show up yet again. So, he’s been in almost all of Jack’s flashbacks and one of Sawyer’s and one of Ana’s (where they bumped into Sawyer) and now Claire. I’m really liking the idea that he’s going to come back on-island more and more, he’s easily my favorite recurring flashback performer. It’s very significant that we still haven’t seen, in all this time, how he got from that bar with Sawyer to the slab where Jack ID’d him. And of course, moreso, that Jack found his empty coffin way back in episode 5. Real interested to see how this will play out. But, Jack is Aaron’s uncle. Cool.
Nice to have Claire in the loop about Charlie. And great touch, the birds on TV in her ma’s hospital room. Perfect note she wrote, too. Giacchino brings back the cellos in C# for the bird to escape the island, reminiscent of the unbeatable Raft Theme in the same key when Michael and crew shoved off back in 1.23. Nice touch, guy.
So, what an episode. I was totally sold. Figured Sayid & co would pull back the bushes and we’d see the village from the season premiere and that would be that. But, so much better! Amazing how the adrenaline can spike from such a small sight as Jack running toward the camera. Sent my mind a’spinning! I was already thinking:
[Okay, we’re going to get that whole story next week, how he’s running, what happened to Juliet, and I just hope hope the episode won’t end with this (the great cliffhanger flashback trick from 2.2 and 2.7) and we’ll GET TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!]
my mind made it all the way through that in the time it took Sayid to hold Kate back. Genius to have him be going out for a pass. Thrown by Tom, there he is, the Bogeyman of Season 2 entire, just romping around with his buddy Jack! The look on Kate’s face was perfect. But could only be topped by Jack’s spike. Sublime, such a great trick, the horror of throwing a football.
No real easter eggs other than the mileage. Sayid’s map from The Flame didn’t offer any new insight beyond the fact that there are certainly subterranean passages in effect in the vicinity of the village. Really can’t wait for next week. Again.
Killer opening (except for the Dancing w/the Stars simulacrums gliding across the bottom of the screen, that was pretty frustrating). Claire’s eye. Second shot of the ep shows her odomoter, the tenth of a mile’s on an 8 and she’s on mile 10, giving us a cool 108 in black and white, no less. The numbers endure. She’s hurt, but not as bad as Ma. The goth girl dark hair tells us this is the earliest we’ve seen her.
And Charlie’s woken up free of worry. Which should last all of four minutes. Precog Desmond is one of my favorite subplots ever. “I know how we can get off this island!” Quite a lot before the title.
Sawyer’s rocking Rand’s The Fountainhead. Catherine’s been after me to read that for the majority of our relationship. I yield. There’s MC Gainey in the credits, guess Tom’s showing up. Claire all-but-confirms Christian Shephard as her dad in my eyes when she tells the cop that her dad died when she was two.
Is that creek where Kate and Rousseau talked about Jack and Alex the same one where Eko took his last drink of water? Could it NOT be?
Real interesting, that talk with Mikhail. So, the Swan’s EM juice was emitting a locator signal for the Hostiles’ sub.
“Why would we want to come back (to the island)?”
“You are not capable of understanding . . . because you are not on the list . . . because you are flawed.”
Including Locke (Ben was lying back in the Swan armory, no surprise there). So, who are the Good Ones? Are there any left or have they all been taken? Mikhail dropping all of their names and Locke’s paralysis was awesome. As was the sweeping shot of the pylon perimeter.
And there’s Aunt Lindsey. I didn’t recognize her from the Ana-Lucia flashback, but hearing about someone paying for everything REALLY confirms the whole Uncle Jack/Christian-as-father theory that’s been percolating since only a few minutes before Ana and Libby breathed their last.
A brutal cerebral hemorrhage for Mikhail. They really are running hard for the Locke-as-jackass angle. Wonder where it’ll wind up. He seems to have about lost all credibility with Sayid and Kate.
(and that’s only half of the episode, yeesh)
Kate shimmying up the tree was suitably tense.
Knew he was going to be there but it was so great to see Christian Shephard show up yet again. So, he’s been in almost all of Jack’s flashbacks and one of Sawyer’s and one of Ana’s (where they bumped into Sawyer) and now Claire. I’m really liking the idea that he’s going to come back on-island more and more, he’s easily my favorite recurring flashback performer. It’s very significant that we still haven’t seen, in all this time, how he got from that bar with Sawyer to the slab where Jack ID’d him. And of course, moreso, that Jack found his empty coffin way back in episode 5. Real interested to see how this will play out. But, Jack is Aaron’s uncle. Cool.
Nice to have Claire in the loop about Charlie. And great touch, the birds on TV in her ma’s hospital room. Perfect note she wrote, too. Giacchino brings back the cellos in C# for the bird to escape the island, reminiscent of the unbeatable Raft Theme in the same key when Michael and crew shoved off back in 1.23. Nice touch, guy.
So, what an episode. I was totally sold. Figured Sayid & co would pull back the bushes and we’d see the village from the season premiere and that would be that. But, so much better! Amazing how the adrenaline can spike from such a small sight as Jack running toward the camera. Sent my mind a’spinning! I was already thinking:
[Okay, we’re going to get that whole story next week, how he’s running, what happened to Juliet, and I just hope hope the episode won’t end with this (the great cliffhanger flashback trick from 2.2 and 2.7) and we’ll GET TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT!]
my mind made it all the way through that in the time it took Sayid to hold Kate back. Genius to have him be going out for a pass. Thrown by Tom, there he is, the Bogeyman of Season 2 entire, just romping around with his buddy Jack! The look on Kate’s face was perfect. But could only be topped by Jack’s spike. Sublime, such a great trick, the horror of throwing a football.
No real easter eggs other than the mileage. Sayid’s map from The Flame didn’t offer any new insight beyond the fact that there are certainly subterranean passages in effect in the vicinity of the village. Really can’t wait for next week. Again.
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