LOST recap 4/4 Left Behind

I think we're getting somewhere, people, I see a show next week where Sayid tortures information out of Juliette. What d'ya think?

In several interviews with the cast of both LOST and HEROES, the actors have told me "All is not what you think on this show, the people you think are bad may be good."

With that in mind, Locke's comment to Freckles about "I put in a good word for you, but they told me what you did", was creepy. Are the Others the good guys? Are the LOSTIES meant to atone for their criminal pasts? I find this particularly enlightening considering that the smoke (and now lightening) monster dogged Eko right after flashbacks revealed his shortcomings.

All the people who were killed on the island either resolved their past shortcomings (Shannon, Boone, Ana Lucia) or failed to come to terms with their past (Eko). Hurley's girlfriend's issues and/or reason to be there was never made clear before she died, although I've heard her character will be featured in upcoming flashbacks. Drunk driving arrests will also expediate your removal from the island.

FYI -- Did anyone else notice Locke had a black eye in the scene with Kate?

Did the fence stop the smoke monster, or did Juliette stare it down with her green eyes? She is a plant, meant to monitor and keep track of the LOSTIES, isn't she? And we thought only Ben likes to play mind games.

I believe she handcuffed herself to Kate to get a grip on her fortitude and how deeply committed she may be to Jack.

While Sawyer gets conned by Hurley into being nice, we find out his pissed off ex-girlfriend is carrying his baby. I wonder how old the little Sawyer is now? I hope he/she's no longer "wrinkly"?

Juliette's a fertility doctor. Kate did the nasty with Sawyer. Is there a Sawyer bun in Kate's oven? Is that why Juliette's so interested in her?

Why wouldn't the LOSTIES simply send someone to the beach and have everyone come back and live there? They'd have shelter at least (if not electricity and satellite TV, maybe the NFL Game Day Package).

Here's ome interesting observations from the discussion at popcandy.

The song that begins Kate’s flashback is Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight.” The song has been used twice before: at the first of “What Kate Did,” Episode 2.9, and in Christian Shepard’s car in “Two for the Road,” Episode 2.20. Patsy Cline died in a plane crash.

Kate claims that she takes her aliases from the names of the saints. St. Lucy (or Lucia—as in Ana Lucia) is the patron saint of blindness. According to her legend, she had her eyes torn out, but God restored her eyes. Her festival is celebrated in Scandinavian countries by having young girls wear crowns of candles.

We’ve also seen Kate go by the name “Monica.” (”I Do,” Episode 3.6) Saint Monica is the patron saint of patience, wives, mothers and abuse victims. It makes sense that Kate would have chosen this alias after trying to protect her mother from her step-father’s continued abuse.

What does Locke mean when he says that they captured him, but “only temporarily?” Does he mean he intends to escape, or that they have already told him he’s free to go. This next part is pure speculation, but I suspect that Ben is essentially making a play to humor Locke by moving the Others out of Othersville. Locke doesn’t like their modern, suburban existence, and Ben wants to convince Locke that he’s willing to do what it takes so that Locke can commune with the island for him in order to be healed.

Locke admitted explicitly that he doesn’t want to go home. He also said that the Others told Locke what Kate did. Locke didn’t appear to me to be judgmental about this fact—he probably believes that the island has provided Kate with a blank slate, just as it did for him.

When Hurley approaches Sawyer on the beach at the first of the episode, Sawyer is reading Watership Down again. (He read this book already in the first season.) Ostensibly a book about rabbits, Watership Down—one of my favorite books, by the way, is a book about politics and power plays in a closed (and sometimes violent and brutal) society. In some ways, the novel parallels LOST, in that there is a group of rabbits that are ruthlessly efficient and scary, just like the Others, who the protagonist rabbits have to contend with for survival.

This episode has a rapture, of sorts, like the “Left Behind” series of Christian novels. The Others and the “good people” have “disappeared,” leaving everyone else behind to suffer tribulations.

The gas canister that is thrown into the Others’ rec room says “ALS Technologies” on it. No idea what that means, but (knowing LOST), this could be significant at some time in the future.

This episode told us quite a bit about the Monster, I think. The Monster appeared in both the form we saw it in season one (a hulking, roaring beast) and season two (the black smoke). It was very interesting that Juliet, who appeared to be pretty well connected and informed, did not seem to know much about the Monster, or even recognize it. There has been a lot of speculation that perhaps it is through the Monster that the Others are able to gain so much intelligence about the survivors or that the Others somehow can control the Monster. This appears now not to be the case. It was also very significant and interesting that the Monster can be deterred by the sonic fence. Maybe this was the purpose for which the fence was built in the first place.

the Others’s PIN number for the security fence is 1-6-2-3. 16 and 23, of course, are two of the “numbers.”

Trust Sayid not to trust Juliet. Sayid’s instinct is not often wrong about these things. Keep a close eye on Juliet.