A great show to take us through the strike hiatus. A double cliff hanger with a double homicide involving Rousseau, Karl and Alex, and Sayid stupidly blowing Mike's cover to the captain of the freighter.
What's wonderful about the show right now, IMHO, is the duality of blame between Ben and Widmore, with each side's henchmen blaming the other for the fake Flight 815 found earlier. This leaves us a dilemma as viewers: is there a good v. evil situation here, with heroes and bad guys, or is the show similar to life, in that everyone has aspects of good and evil in them, revealing them at different times?
Some interesting reveals during this episode include:
Holy cow! The man in the hospital bed next to Michael (on the ventilator) is Alvar Hanso!
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Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Now if I could only remember what Hanso has to do with the island. Hold on a second while I run to the Lostpedia.....Talk amongst yourselves.....Oh yeah, he founded the original outpost on the island, and he supposedly disappeared from public view...
Also -- was Michael time jumping? Check it out:
1. Libby calls him Mr. Dawson when the other nurse says he was not carrying any ID.
2. Michael asks Libby, "What happened to me?" and she tells him he was in a car accident. He wants to know how badly he is hurt. He doesn't ask the second nurse this question because he of course knows what happened: he was trying to kill himself.
3. There is a Christmas tree in the background when the second nurse comes in, but not when Libby comes in.
4. Libby is wearing hospital gear (scrubs/ID), but later on the freighter when she appears to Michael, she is in her island duds. I mentioned earlier that she did spend a year in med school, but left to become a psychologist. So it is possible she actually worked in a hospital.
The revelation of Tom as a gay man. I never saw that coming, although some have hinted they knew it to be the case. He told Kate once "You're not my type..." I think there should be a spinoff series "Mr. Friendly in The City".
The revelation that the island does not allow you to kill yourself. Could that explain why Jack was wet on the bridge in the first flash forward? Does that mean you're immortal if you spent time on the island? Would that make Sayid a better assassin?
Michael's character continuing self-pity. It was what caused him to split from Walt in the first place.
And how tight is the time frame that allowed Michael to get home, get in an accident, recover, find Tom in an alley, get to Fiji and get on a slow moving freighter back to the island. Hard to swallow, considering how messed up they made him look in the hospital, which had Christmas decorations up, to indicate it was sometime close to where they are now. In the meantime, Tom had to get on and off the island and back again before the sub was destroyed (is that their only way on and off the island?) and in time to be killed. Now figure into that equation the time difference between the island and the real world is roughly thirty one minutes. (Ouch!)
According to the LOSTPEDIA:
Michael's flashback is suggested to have taken place sometime between Days 68 (the day Michael and Walt leave the Island), as Michael is estranged from Walt since he revealed what he did on the island, and Day 82 (the day the Others leave the barracks), as Ben is shown at his barracks house.
* Likewise, Tom's appearances would seem to have been set between Day 74 and Day 80 as he was at the Hydra before Day 74 and at the Barracks on Day 80.
Why is Michael haunted by Libby and not Ana Lucia? Once leaving the island Hurley sees dead Charlie, Michael sees dead Libby – some kind of connection by guilt? They both felt guilt over the deaths – inadvertently in Charlie’s case and advertently in Libby’s?
Is it just me, or did the captain not looked troubled by Sayid's revelation, as if he knew who Michael was all along. How weird would it be if the whole Widmore v. Ben thing is an elaborate ruse to fool the survivors of 815, because they don't want the secrets of the island, least of all its location, revealed.
That song that was playing in Michael's car...where else have we heard that??
It appeared to be a Mama Cass song, which is the same artist (different song) that desmond was jamming to in the hatch when they first found it. Is Mama Cass in a time warp somewhere?
Ben telling Michael he doesn't kill innocent people. Huh? He told Mikhail to kill the girls in the underwater station. He told Locke to kill his father (granted, that man was no innocent!).
Not to mention, we know Ben killed the Dharma population. Were they not innocent? Half of them were children. Ben, influenced by the Hostiles or not, detonated the gas that killed his father and all of the Dharmas. We know that him saying he doesn't kill innocents could be true as of right now, but in the past, it certainly wasn't. Ben kills innocents, but according to his own qualifications.
QUICK QUIZ:
Shortly after the ships heads out, Naomi and Frank have a brief conversation on deck with Michael nearby. After they finish talking, Namoi steps up from the deck to go through a door.
What do Naomi's low waist jeans reveal on her backside?
A. A whale tale.
B. Plumbers crack.
C. A tramp stamp.
Will Rousseau gunshots heal like Locke did?
As always, feel free to comment...
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