Thursday, May 08, 2008

>: 79 SOMETHING NICE BACK HOME

Hey, that’s the first time an eye hasn’t just shot open at the top of the episode.

Aaaand the long pan up Jack’s body, no beard. Catherine curses. Great to have him trip over the Millennium Falcon. Did the Yankees bludgeon the Red Sox in ’05? That puts this flash-forward even with Ben and Sayid getting together last week. Clever of Kate to pitch her voice lower like Juliet or Sun’s until she got on-screen.

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” That kind of boils everything down nicely.

Jack allows that his father was a good storyteller. Yikes. Yow, and Jack and Kate are going to wake up poor Aaron.

How many episodes of this series are dedicated to some group crossing the jungle from Point A to Point B? Sawyer, Claire, and Miles take their shift this time, with Claire’s first scene setting up that she’s been “seeing things”. What’s with Miles looking at her next scene? We know she doesn’t get off the island, is she going down soon and he can tell?

Good call, Rose, the Island totally struck Jack down with appendicitis. No taking these people off the Island!

Yeah, that’s totally his dad in that first hospital scene. You’ve got to love these flash-forwards, instead of one thread, you get the Jack/Kate & Aaron show and Hurley can pop in as a guest star. Charlie says Jack’s “not supposed to raise him”. Is this Aaron? The Australian psychic was certainly concerned with the fact that only Claire should raise Aaron. The first baby born on the island. I thought it was Christian at first, as in “raise him from the dead”.

Faraday as chivalrous protector is pretty funny. “Add that one to the list, Dan.” is probably the line of the night.

And Frank comes running out of the jungle! How lame is it that the monster didn’t just snuff all those guys? I mean, I’m sure they still have to serve some dramatic executing purpose, but for all that commotion, it looks like the monster hurt that one dude they still had and maybe killed another. If there were really only six outside Ben’s house.

Jack would TOTALLY want to just take his own appendix out.

Wow, that proposal came out of nowhere. Really didn’t see that coming at all. They were doing so well!

Jin’s duel with Charlotte was pretty serious. Still using that skill-set he picked up from his father-in-law. So Charlotte’s got to get Sun on the helicopter. Man, that is going to be some crazy shit, even though we know quite a chunk of how it will go down. Really hope we get that this month.

Gah, that surgical scene was brutal. At least it wasn’t a vasectomy, I guess.

And Jack’s got to heed the call of the smoke detector out of batteries. What the hell happened with the Swan imploding, anyway?

And there’s Christian! Still rocking the white tennis shoes from the webisode and Jacob’s cabin. Freaking Erica’s got to blow it for everybody. Twice, scaring Christian away, then writing jack his first scrip. Throw out that new razor, buddy.

Jack catches Kate on the phone. Dr. Jones points out that the name Kate uses, Noreen, is the same as one from a Seinfeld episode involving confusion on Elaine’s part over the identity of someone on the phone, she’s really talking to Noreen’s boyfriend, this pointing to Sawyer being on the phone.

That Juliet is one odd bird to read. What a weird end to that scene with her and Kate and Jack. She catches Jack playing possum while she busts him on kissing her.

Is Veronica Mars Aaron’s nanny? Neptune’s probably not too far of a drive from where they’re at.

Where did Kate go? Did she meet Cassidy halfway to check on Sawyer’s daughter? “He made his choice”, did he? He chose to stay. That’s wonderful news.

Does Jack know that he’s related to Aaron? Sounds like it from the way he talked to Kate. If so, the knowledge would have to come through Claire, because he sure didn’t act like he’d seen his father before leaving the island.

Miles saw Christian too? Is that because he’s a ghostbuster? Would Sawyer have seen him if he’d woken up?

And we’re back to Season One, out in the middle of the jungle calling Claire’s name. At least she left her baby behind. Why would she do that? Ominous business. I bet we don’t find out next week. Man, so many threads. Will we check in on the freighter for the first time since mid-March, with the Captain informed that Michael is the saboteur? Will we see Ben and Locke and Hurley’s progress to Jacob’s cabin? Will Kimi kill again? Will we finally get a Sawyer flash-forward now that we know he doesn’t get killed (yet)?

Don’t bet on any island flash-forwards until Bearded Jack makes it back, I’m thinking. Give me the monster Jacob/Christian flashback explaining everything. You scoff, but last season I was sure they were saving the Ben flashback for the finale and instead they through that in right before it started. And here we are again.

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