"Dead is Dead"

I've had this internal battle going this season about which evil fellow's (Ben or Widmore) story about what happened on the Island 20some years ago I want to believe. I think after last night's episode that from now on I shall definitely believe Ben's word over Widmore's (even though both men lie with every breath) due to the fact that Ben seems to actually have a heart. Another thing I thik I learned from last night's episode is that Kate, Sawyer, Miles, Jack, Hurley, Juliet, Jin, and Sayid have to get back to the future before Ben comes back from his stay with the Others otherwise I assume he would have some memory of them (excepting Sayid of course who is apparently roaming around the land inside the Dharma fence unless of course he went into the jungle when Sawyer shut it off).

Key Points:

Current time:

• So as we all know from last week's episode Ben woke up on Alcatraz at the Hydra with Locke sitting next to him.
• After he wakes up he informs Locke that he knew this (meaning that John would come back to life on the Island) would happen and that he is amazed that it actually did happen...blah, blah, blah, lies, lies, lies.
• When John asks Ben why he came back/why he was trying to escape to the main Island Ben replies that he was going there to be judged by the smoke monster for coming back to the Island.
• Later Ben is walking around the beach when he meets Caesar. Caesar informs Ben of the accusations that Locke has made against him (saying that Ben is the man who killed him). Ben uses these accusations (as well as the fact that no one say Locke on the plane) to spin a lie about Locke not being on the plane/Locke being a crackpot resident of the Island. Caesar shows Ben a gun that he has and tells him that he has his back.
• Ben then goes to his office in the Hydra where he digs out an old photo of Alex. Locke comes in and asks Ben about the whole murder thing.
• Ben explains that killing Locke was the only way to get him and the Oceanic 5 back to the Island (it was also the only way for Ben to get back to the Island), he also says that he had to talk Locke out of killing himself so that the important info Locke had about how to get back to the Island wouldn't die with him and after he got that information it was much easier to kill Locke than to talk him back into killing himself.
• Locke replies that he was merely looking for an apology. He also tells Ben that he thinks Ben came back to the Island for killing Alex (his adopted daughter for those of you who don't know) not to be judged for coming back to the Island (cuz that's just sillly). Then Locke suggests that they go over to the main Island that very minute.
• While Locke and Ben are getting ready to leave in one of the outriggers Caesar comes over and questions them about what they are doing.
• Locke tells him that they are going to the Main Island, Caesar asks Ben if he is going with Locke. Ben replies that Locke didn't really give him a choice.
• Caesar says that he is the leader and he says that they can't take the boat.
• John keeps getting ready to leave.
• Caesar reaches for his gun.
• Ben pulls the gun out of his own pack and shoots Caesar (didn't see that coming, but that's okay I don't really like Caesar he's too much of a wannabe Jack and I don't really like Jack thus my dislike of Caesar).
• Ben tells Locke to consider that his apology.
• The two head to New Otherton and find Sun and Frank in Alex's room at Ben's old house.
• Sun says that they have been told by Christian to wait for Locke...Locke is there...surprise, dead is apparently not dead.
• They all talk...Lapidus goes back to the Alcatraz Island, Sun chooses to stay with the psychopaths as they are the only chance she has of finding Jin.
• Ben trys to summon the monster, but the monster doesn't come.
• Locke says that he knows where the monster lives and leads the two to "The Temple."
• Locke and Ben go under the temple (the place where the frenchmen got 'infected').
• Ben affirms that he came back to be judged for what happened to Alex and starts to press on alone when he falls through the floor into another chamber below, Locke goes to find a way to get Ben out.
• Ben explores the chamber. There are lots of hiroglyphs on the walls and at the far end there is a picture of what/who I assume is Anubis fighting what/who I also assume is either the smoke monster or Jacob. Below the picture is what appears to be some sort of cage from which the smoke monster emerges and engulfs Ben.
• Ben is forced to relive some of his best and worst moments with Alex including her murder.
• After that the smoke monster goes back into the cage and Alex (or perhaps Jacob/the smoke monster in the form of Alex appears).
• Ben tells her that he is sorry and that what happened to her is all his fault.
• She tells him he knows and then attacks him informing him that she knows he is already planning to kill Locke again and that he is to listen to and follow Locke no matter what.
• She makes him swear that he will follow (and therefore not harm) Locke and tells him that if he breaks his promise she will hunt him down and destroy him.
• Then she is gone.
• Locke throws a vine down and Ben informs Locke that he has been forgiven...L O S T
• When Lapidus gets back to Alcatraz he is informed by a very distraught survivor that Ilana (the bounty hunter who had Sayid in custody) and her men have found guns and taken over.
• When Lapidus goes to ask Ilana what is going on she asks him what lies in the shadow of the statue (we know that the well is behind the statue, but how would she know that unless she has lived on the Island before? SHE'S AN OTHER) to which Frank answers something along the lines of "What?" Thus Ilana knocks Frank unconscious...L O S T.

Flashbacks:

• First flashback is of Ben recovering from his GSW at the Hostile's camp. Widmore (who is the leader at this time) is very unhappy with Alpert for saving Ben until he finds out that 'the Island wanted it done/chose Ben for something.' Widmore then welcomes Ben as one of his own and informs Ben that he will being going back to New Otherton, but he will remain a member of the Hostile clan (or whatever you want to call the Other's of this time).
• Next we see a older Ben (probably mid-twenties) with a twelve-year old or so Ethan arguing about who is going to 'do it' (meaning shoot and kill Rousseau). Ben says that he will do it and takes a gun into her tent clutzily making a racket as he does so. Alex starts to cry and instead of killing Rousseau he takes Alex and tells her that if she wants her baby to live (and also to stay alive herself) that every time she hears whispers in the jungle she is to run the other way. When Ben gets back to the Hostile camp with Alex and the news that he did not kill Rousseau as was intended he is met with hostility from Widmore. He asks Widmore what he wanted him to do about Alex after he was to kill Rousseau and Widmore replies that he was to kill her as well. Ben says that's not what the Island wanted and if Widmore really wanted Alex dead then he could kill the poor innocent baby right there in front of the other Hostiles, Widmore backs down.
• Afterwords we flash to a time after the Purge (Alex is about 6 and the Hostiles are living in New Otherton) when Widmore is being exiled. Ben goes to see him off on the submarine (not at the Orchid as Widmore had told John). Ben tells Widmore that he is being exiled because he broke the rules by going off Island constantly and having a daughter (Penny) with and outsider. Widmore replies that Ben wouldn't give up Alex for the Island and the two get into a spat about who actually wanted Alex dead. Widmore replies that if the Island truly wants Alex dead then she will be dead.
• Finally we flash to the day of the flight (before Ben calls Jack to ask him to take Locke's body to the airport) where Ben is at the Marina. He calls Widmore to tell him a) that he has found a way back to the Island and b) that he is about to kill Widmore's daughter, then he hangs up and head towards Desmond and Penny's boat. Desmond returns from what appears to be a grocery run and yells at Ben who in turn shoots Desmond in the side. He then advances toward Penny (who is on the deck of the boat shouting at Desmond) and is about to kill her when Charlie (her and Desmond's son) comes up on deck. She tells him to go back below decks and begs Ben not to harm her son. During Ben's hesitation he is (deservadly) brutally attacked by Desmond from behind and thrown into the water...L O S T.

What we can gather from this:

• Ilana and friends are either Others, working for Ben, or working for Widmore
• Widmore lied about how he was exiled.
• Widmore is a truly evil man who wanted to kill a baby.
• Penny is NOT dead (hooray).
• Ben saved Alex's life and did not kill Rousseau as he was meant to (perhaps he is in some twisted way a good guy).
• Ben has no recollection (although he could be lying) of seeing Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Kate, etc. in the Dharma Initiative when he was a kid so they have to get back to the future before he returns to New Otherton.

ER Finale!

7:31 PM: Yeah it's not on yet, but I thought I could start talking about it anyway. I can say that I will be very sad when all is said and done, and I'm really glad their bringing back all of the cast that they can to be on tonight's episode. I only just starting watching the re-runs on TNT but in the year that I've been watching I've managed to watch (in-depth) the end of season 6 all the way through season 14 and back to the pilot and season 1, so I do have some claim to being sad about the end. I'm kind of annoyed that they keep playing commercials for Southland as if it is going to replace ER since it's by the same producers. Okay, ER recap is back...

Later: Wow, what a great way to end such an influential and beloved series. The episode incorporated a ton of details (i.e. speeches, actions, gestures, scenes) from various episodes of the previous season. I especially appreciated that the final episode began in the same way that the Pilot did. One thing that really made me happy was that they began and ended the series with the rise of a Dr. Greene, it really added to the whole legacy of ER (and was really pretty special to all the people who watched Dr. Mark Greene die =>the last thing on his bucket list was "Fix Rachel" and he obviously succeeded as she is on her way to becoming a doctor). Although it was a little annoying the fact that there were things left unresolved from the episode served as a reminder that the life of a real ER doesn't ever end, I don't know, it was a reminder that if the portrayed County General ER was real it wouldn't stop functioning just because it's show was over. Anywho I thought that the end of the ER era was very well written and acted. I was not disappointed.

Category for KennedyBlogs

This is a "Pop Culture" blog I suppose as I discuss random movies and a select few TV shows (mainly Lost, but I should blog about ER soon as tonight is the series finale).

"Whatever Happened, Happened"

May I first start off by saying Jack is an idiot. If he had just saved little Ben's life, Ben would not have been evil and all would have been right with the world, but nooooo, Jack is way to arrogant and stuck up to save the life of an innocent child. Let's look at it like this: had Jack saved Ben he would have remembered being shot and almost killed by a "Hostile" and saved by a "Janitor" named Jack Shepherd. Had this happened a)if the Purge happened Ben would have been killed in it and Widmore would still be on the Island leading the Others which could be good or bad, but would most certainly have altered the course of the lives of the 815 survivors, b)if the Purge didn't happen or perhaps Ben survived the purge he probably would have been much kinder to (and slightly confused) to Jack and company when they showed up on the Island the second time AND he would most likely harbour a horrible hatred of the Others/Hostiles, and c)who knows what sort of drastic differences to the plot of Lost would have been created.

Last night's episode was absolutely magnificent. Finally we know a)what happened to Aaron, b)why Kate came back to the Island, and c)what happened between Kate and Cassidy regarding Sawyer and Clementine (I still wonder if Kevin ever tried to contact Kate after the crash though). I had al lightbulb moment while watching last night about how the Oceanic 4 and friends will get back to the future, Widmore told Locke that Ben took over as leader of the Others and exiled Widmore back to civilization. In order to get back to civilzation Widmore was forced to turn the wheel which would have moved the Island (or certain people on the Island, through time (this is also might be the "Incident" mentioned in the Swan Station Orientation video), 30 years into the future perhaps. Anywho last night's episode was further evidence that neither I nor Aaron is anywhere close to winning the bet we have going due to the fact(s) that Kate and Jack had a major falling out and Sawyer told Kate that they never would have worked out because he wasn't "fit to be her boyfriend" (however he did call her Freckles for the first time in three years, but then again he also told her to shut up and scram).

Once again I'm going to break down the episode in (what I hope is) an easy to follow manner that simply highlights the key events/things you will probably need to know and understand in order to follow future episodes:

1977:

• Ben survived Sayid shooting him and was brought back to New Otherton by Jin.
• Kate met Ben's dad Roger Linus and the two had a friendly talk about being made greese monkies and janitors by the Dharma people.
• Horace caught Sawyer and Kate in the end of an argument (Kate wanted to know what was going on w/Ben and Sayid, Sawyer didn't want her to draw attention to herself) which could have (but didn't as far as we know because the two managed to make up a semi-convincing cover story about Sawyer asking Kate if she saw anything suspicious) blown their cover.
• Sawyer and Horace determined that Sayid had been busted out by somebody with access to Janitor's keys.
• Upon going to the infirmary to check on Juliet's progress with Ben, Sawyer met Roger and asked him for his keys, when Roger went to his pocket where his keys normally resided they weren't there informing both Sawyer and Roger that Ben was the person who helped Sayid escape.
• Sawyer put Jack, Kate and Hurley under House Arrest via Miles to keep them out of the way.
• Juliet (not actually being a surgeon) could not fix Ben's injuries and thus asked Sawyer to ask Jack for help.
• Jack being the arrogant bastard he is refused to save the dying child.
• Hurley and Miles had a confusing and amusing argument about the past (1977) being their present and since whatever happened, happened they cannot possibly change the outcome.
• Kate had a falling out with Jack about him refusing to help Ben and how she didn't like the new Jack who just sat around and did nothing to which he rebutted that he had already saved Ben once for her (and apparently he didn't plan on doing it again) and that she didn't like the old Jack to which Kate responded by storming out of the house and slamming the door behind her (so much for house arrest).
• Kate (who must be O-neg) gave blood to help sustain Ben's life. Whilst giving blood she had a nice conversation with Roger about parenthood.
• Ben went into hypoxic shock and Juliet didn't know what else to do so she and Kate decided that Ben's only hope rested with the Others/Hostiles.
• Kate took Ben in a Dharma bus to the sonic fence on her way to take him to the Hostiles.
• Juliet sent Sawyer after her to help her with her mission.
• Sawyer shut the fence off and carried Ben into the jungle on the other side with Kate.
• The two had an interesting conversation about their relationship, Cassidy, and Clementine.
• The Hostiles arrived and informed Sawyer and Kate that they were in violation of the Truce.
• Sawyer asked them to take Kate, Ben and himself to Richard in order to save Ben's life, the Hostiles complied.
• Richard greeted Sawyer genially and asked who Kate was.
• Richard agreed to save Ben, but warned Sawyer and Kate that if he did this his innocence would be gone and he would forever be one of them (an Other/Hostile).
• Kate and Sawyer agreed to the consequences and apparently headed back to New Otherton...L O S T
  

Present (On Alcatraz):

• Ben woke up with Locke next to him.
• Locke welcomed Ben back to the land of the living (for now)...L O S T

Flashbacks:

• Kate went to visit Cassidy right after getting back to civilization spilling the beans about what really happened on the Island and giving her the settlement money she got from Oceanic as Sawyer's restitution.
• Cassidy figured out that Kate was lying about Aaron and asks her why even though she told her all about what really happened on the Island she still lied about who Aaron was. Kate replies that she lied because she had to.
  
• Cassidy tells Kate that she thinks Sawyer is a coward and that the only reason he jumped was because he was afraid of what would happen relationship-wise if he didn't. She also shares that she thinks he is an idiot for thinking that sending Kate with a restitution of money that isn't even his and a message that he wants Clementine to be taken care of makes up for everything that he put them through. She tells Kate that she has nothing but sympathy for her and her situation.
• The Flashbacks then go to the night that Jack, Ben, Sun, Sayid, and her all met at the marina. It shows that after she drove off she went to a grocery store to get Aaron something to drink.
• While there her cell rings and upon seeing that the caller is Jack she turns the phone off and puts it away. In the short instant while she checked her phone Aaron disappeared.
• Kate frantically runs through the story asking everybody she sees if they have seen her son. She finally spots a blonde woman leading him to the check-out about to make a lost and found announcement.
• She then goes to Cassidy's house and the two discuss Kate's situation.
• Kate admits that she has always expected someone to try to take Aaron away from her and wondered why it hadn't happened yet.
• Cassidy suggests that this feeling is due to the fact that Kate "took Aaron" first.
• The flashbacks then go to the night that Kate showed up at Jack's appartment, only now she is at the hotel where Mrs. Littleton (Claire's mum) is lodging.
• Kate explains everything about Aaron to Mrs. Littleton and tells her that Aaron is in a room a few doors down waiting for her (Mrs. Littleton) when she is ready. She explains that she has told Aaron that he will be staying with her while she is away and that she is his Grandmother.
• Mrs. Littleton asks Kate where she is going and Kate tells her that she is going back to the Island to find and rescue Claire...L O S T
  

Some of my Favorite Bloopers

In no particular order (Alias Season 3 bloopers are the best ever)
Lost Season 4:

Alias Season 3:

Lost Season 3 Bloopers:

ER Season 4 bloopers:

"He's Our You"

I quite enjoyed this episode, but due to my tardiness in writing this post and illness last week (which has left me with a mound of make-up work to complete and a migraine headache to deal with) I am only going to summarize important events of the episode (things you'll need to know for next week).

• After being brought to New Otherton and imprisoned in what will eventually become Ben's basement Sayid is questioned by Horace who assumes due to the handcuffs that Sayid is either in some sort of disagreement with 'his people' (meaning the Hostiles as they assume he is a Hostile since there are supposedly no other people on the Island and Sayid is not a member of the Dharma Initiative, my question is why didn't Sawyer just say that the Oceanic 4 who are currently in his timeline are the long-lost members of his research team?) making Horace sympathetic towards him or he is a spy making him ripe for the killing. Sayid does not answer any of his questions.
• Sawyer then tries to convince Sayid to allow him to beat Sayid up to make it look like he got Sayid to confess that he was trying to defect from the Hostiles so that Sayid can become a free member of the D.I. Sayid refuses and tells Sawyer that he is on his own.
• Sawyer 'has no other choice' but to let the Dharma people take Sayid to their interrogator who gives Sayid what I assume was Sodium Pentathol (truth serum) which causes Sayid to confess that he came to the Island via Ajira flight 316 in turn causing him to confess that a) he has been to the Island before b) that he is from the future c) that he knows everything about the Dharma stations and d) that the everyone in the Dharma Initiative is going to die in the Purge. This unbelievable confession causes the Dharma people to think that their interrogator screwed up the dose and that they will never get the truth out of Sayid. (Wow, that was a great plan Sawyer, good thinking he almost exposed you and everyone who you love.)
• After returning Sayid to his cell the Dharma people take a vote on whether or not to kill Sayid it is almost unanimous in favor of executing Sayid escept for Sawyer. After a few words from Horace Sawyer changes his nay to a yay in order to 'keep his standing' w/the Dharma folks. He then goes to release Sayid, but Sayid doesn't take the opportunity to run I believe Destiny was involved in his reasons for not running.
• Sawyer then goes to talk to Kate (who was recently informed by Hurley about the relationship between Sawyer and Juliet) about why she came back to the Island, they are interrupted by a burning Hippie Bus before she is able to answer (I hope what she was going to say was something along the lines of "Because there wasn't anything worth staying for back in L.A." because that would have been something of poetic justice, but I suppose I shan't ever know). Sawyer and Kate rush to help the people in the burning house that the bus crashed into.
• Meanwhile in his future basement Ben releases Sayid in exchange for Sayid's promise to take him to the Hostiles. The tow head along a dirt road out of New Otherton where Sayid is spotted by Jin who is driving a hippie bus. Sayid tells Jin that Sawyer let him go then has no choice but to knock Jin unconscious when he radios 'LaFleur' to check out Sayid's story.
• Sayid then tells Ben that he was right about him (in a flashback big Ben told Sayid that he was a natural born killer and that it was really the only thing he was good at) then shoots him...L O S T!
• In flashbacks we learned that Sayid was on the plane being escorted by a bounty hunter (Ilana) back to Guam to receive justice for killing someone Ben had asked him to kill, that's really all that was important I think.

My opinion: Ben's not dead, what happened, happened, they cannot change the past and they cannot die for if they died in the past they could never come to the Island in the future meaning that they have to get back to real time or their lives on the Island will run in an endless loop. I am really curious where they will go with the whole Sayid is a Hostile thing and if he will actually join the Hostiles. I'm also thinking that the reason Ben picked Sayid to be his assassin was because Sayid shot him when he was a child (remember people heal much faster on the Island than normally). So many twists, I am really excited for next week, wonder whose flashbacks it will be (can't be Jack or John's their lives have been pretty much fully explained). What's going to happen to Ben now that he is w/John (who he murdered)? Where are all the other original survivors (Steve, Rose, Bernard, etc.)? Jack and Juliet, Sawyer and Kate? Will Jack in an angry and resentful flurry of emotions try to overthrow Sawyer as the leader and start doing things his own way? I also wonder how Sun and Lapidus will get to the '70s and if Claire will show up w/Christian at any point. So many questions that really need to be answered. Oy to the Vey. Exciting.

Estoy Muriendo

I feel like whining as I've had a pretty crappy run lately (don't think about that sentence too hard). So last week I came down with a respiration-ending cough that deprived me of air, my ability to speak, and sleep all week. I went to the doctor and after having two unpleasant tests run on me (influenza and mycoplasma) the doctor was able to determine that I had a virus and there was absolutely nothing she could do for me which was just spiffy. So Wednesday I was still coughing and couldn't speak (when I did speak I sounded a tad bit like Gollum) but I didn't think I was running a fever and my head ddidn't feel quite like it was going to explode so I decided to go to school at least to get the homework and such that I had missed. School went okay, but I had a ton of things to make up (i.e. major tests, papers, etcetera) which was just spectacular for me because by the time school was over and I was home all I wanted to do was sleep. Regardless of that I did all of my immediate homework and emailed a couple of papers to my AP Bio teacher just in case I couldn't go to school the next day (twas an off-chance at that point in time). Then I ate dinner, watched Lost ("Namaste") and went to bed. That night I woke up and for some odd reason that I didn't care to acknowledge couldn't see very well out of one eye (my vision was incredibly blurry), not seeing caused me no problem in gettting back to sleep, but the next morning when I woke up couldn't open my eye all the way, one corner seeme to be glued shut. I got up, went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror to my horror there was a ton of matter (gunk) in my eye and half of my eye was a lovely shade of hot pink. I went and told my mother figuring that pink-eye was no reason to miss school. Oh how wrong I was, pink-eye is incredibly contagious and is capable of spreading through a school like wildfire through a drought-stricken valley. Thus I went back to bed. That was a very miserable day, between hacking and not being able to rub my incredibly itching/burning eye. That afternoon I got my antibiotics (Z-pack) which did absolutely nothing to relieve anything, but made me non-contagious enough that I thought maybe, just maybe, I would be able to go to school the next day. Well, the next morning I woke up and couldn't open my eye at all so school went out the window once again. So I emailed my teachers for my homework and went back to bed. The next day I felt a little better, but still wasn't capable of doing uch other than sitting on the couch and watching television while coughing and trying not to rub my eye. the next day was more of the same (less pink and matter in my eye though). Monday was good, I took a friend of mine to the Barn and let her ride my horse. Tuesday was horrific I ended up with a tremendous migraine that caused half of my forehead to swell up to twice its normal size prompting people to ask if I had hit my head on something (which I hadn't). Wednesday was okay (yay, more Lost), but I had planned to do homeowork on Tuesday and Wednesday and since I slept through Tuesday I only had Wednesday and I spent most of Wednesday at church making soup and serving food so I didn't get much done. Thursday I had another migraine which was bad because I had a six-hour drive to Seward, Nebraska ahead of me (luckily I wasn't driving so I slept most of the way). Yesterday was fun I visited my sister's college (as in college visit) and watched Twilight for the first time (meh, twas okay) with her and her friends last night. Today I woke up and my eye was weird again (it's a little pink and there was quite a bit of junk in it) then worked for 3 and a half hours on my paper for AP Lang (which is really, REALLY BAD) and now it's done and I'm starting to get a migraine. Oh joy. I'm going to go heat up my lunch now.

I Realize that I Missed One and It's too Late to Do a Summary and So I Shall Mearly Rant

"Namaste"

What an episode! They're back! Anyone who actually reads this blog is probably tired of this topic (well I hope you're not, but you kind of have to have watched the show from the beginning and developed an opinion on the matter to really care or find it interesting, but anyway)but I have a strong inclination after watching this episode of how things are going to wind up romantically on Lost: Jack and Juliet then Kate and Sawyer.

Now for some Evidence:

• When Sawyer said he was 'over' Kate he said it was because she was never coming back then lo and behold she did come back thus he didn't really mean it.
• Sawyer initiated the whole "It's good to see you Kate."/hugging thing therefore he must still have feelings for her.
• Jack and Kate have barely spoken since returning to the island and what they have said to each other has mainly involved exchanging infromation of the non-romantic kind.
• Jack is definately still in love with Juliet and seemed rather jealous when he found out that she and Sawyer were living together.
• Sawyer is clearly torn between his longlost love and his new little fling with Juliet.
• Juliet seems a little jealous and slightly threatened by Kate's presence on the Island, if her relationship with Sawyer was as impecably strong as his relationship with Kate was she would have nothing to be jealous of.
• We still don't know the true reason Kate came back to the Island, perhaps she came back for Sawyer...

Lost ER Doctors and Miscellaneous characters

In the

Here is a list thus far of people who have gone from ER to Lost (in no particular order):

1. Dr. Legaspi - Juliet Burke



2. Christian Shepherd - Dr. Div Cvetic



3. Bernard Nadler - Dr. Jack Kayson



4. Charles Widmore - Al Patterson (guy who sued Corday)



5. Dr. Marvin Candle - Neuro Resident



6. Marshal Edward Mars - Bum's Friend



7. Martin Keamey - Mr. Mooney



8. Danny Pickett - Boy's father



9. Jin Kwon - Ken Sung



10. Michael Dawson - Isaac Price



11. Rose Henderson - Dr. Rabb



12. Ohil - Chamber Tech



13. Anthony Cooper - Sgt. Pete Mattimore



14. Diane Jansen - Edith Landry



15. Carmen Reyes - Mrs. Landeta



16. Sarah EX-Shepherd - Roxanne Please



17. Leslie Arzt - Kyle Martin



18. Stuart Radzinsky - Rod Stillman



19. Amy Goodspeed - Julia Dupree



20. Colleen Pickett - Meg Riley



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Jack Shepherd vs. The State of Delusion

For those of you out there who follow my blog and have read some of the uber long posts I have about Lost episodes have most likely gathered that I don't believe Jack to be the most spectacular chap to have ever roamed the Island. There are many things that have led me to this conclusion, don't get me wrong there was a time when I totally supported the Jack/Kate relationship it is only recently (anytime between this summer and a week and two days ago) that I have become a much larger fan of the Sawyer/Kate relationship (plus I have a bragging rights bet riding on them soo...) and now I shall proceed to explai why that is via some sort of a pro/con list (do NOT mock the pro/con list):

Reasons Jack is a good leader (pros):

In the beginning (meaning between the time the plane crashed and the day Michael walked off) I perceived Jack to be a rather decent fellow for these reasons:

1. He was very nice to Kate when he learned about her fugitive status - he didn't see it as his business and therefore left it up to her to tell him about it.
2. He genuinely cared for everyone on the island and therefore (even though he really didn't want to) took on the role of Leader.
3. He didn't judge people for their past lives (Charlie-drug addict, Sawyer-con man, Sayid-'interrogator,' Kate-murderess, etc.)
4. He didn't let Sawyer die from the knife wound - bleed to death or die of sepsis (but seriously e shouldn't have pulled the knife out until he had the medical suppise that he needed.
5. He made sure everyone else was safe and happy before thinking about his own health.
6. He put the Marshal, who was dying of sepsis, out of his misery when Sawyer (who needed glasses) shot him in the lung instead of the heart.
7. He selflessly went after Claire when she was taken by Ethan and ended up saving Charlie's life even though it appeared that he was more than only mostly dead.
8. He put the nitroglycerin-covered dynamite in his bag instead of Kate's (which can also be seen as an overprotective gesture and is therefore also a con).
9. He didn't cast out the tail section survivors after they (meaning Ana-Lucia) accidentally killed Shannon.
10. He attempted to save Kate from the Others when they were first captured.
11. He saved Sawyer's life by helping Kate and Sawyer escape the cages on the Alcatraz island.
12. He promised Kate he would come back for her when he thought he was going to get to escape the island.
13. He helped orchestrate the ambush on the Others when they were coming for the pregnant women.
14. He got everyone safely to the radio tower.
15. He encouraged Kate to go the New Otherton w/Sayid and Miles.
16. He helped get as many people as he could off the island.

Those are all the pros I could think of, but please enlighten me if you think of any more.

Reasons why Jack is wrong for Kate (cons):

1. When Kate offered to tell him what she did he turned her down saying that he didn't want to know then about two days later asked her what she did and was not very accepting when she didn't tell him.
2. He generally thought that whenever he came up wit and idea (i.e. moving to the caves) that it was the absolute most right thing for everyone to do (yes I realize that is bad grammar and being as I am very tired and it is still before 10 A.M. I really don't care) and therefore pushed it on everyone and was slightly miffed at those who didn't agree with him.
3. He helped torture Sawyer for information when he could have gone about it differently.
4. He made Kate lie to him about the toy airplane when he didn't believe her about who it belonged to (it really belonged to the man she loved not the man she killed) and in the process of doing so made her tell him what she had done even though she didn't want to after he turned down her offer to tell him.
5. He went after Michael when Michael went to try to save Walt even though Locke and Michael both told him not to (he went after him to brig him back, eliminating Michael's free will).
6. He wouldn't let Kate come with him, Sawyer, and Locke to bring Michael back (eliminating her free will and beginning his overprotective streak).
7. He was quite angry with Kate for tracking him, Sawyer, and Locke when he told her not to (showing how little he understands her).
8. He seemed to blame Kate (he gave her the cold shoulder for a while) for losing the guns to the Others since they captured her while she was tracking the threesome stated twice above and made the same threesome trade their guns for her life (in actual reality it was his fault for a)not letting her come along and b)not realizing that she would follow them anyway).
9. He was mean to Sawyer because Sawyer (in his altered state during his infection from the bullet wound in his shoulder) said that he loved Kate.
10. He kept many important people (Sawyer, Locke, Kate, etc.) in the dark about his intentions to 'build and army' to attack the Others with (being as it would affect everyon living on the island he probably should have made that public information).
11. He was angry with Kate for asking him to do the surgery on Ben to save Sawyer's life and set the three of them free (seriously...overly jealous, how could he not see this coming she and Sawyer have been together at the cages the entire time).
12. He got rather buddybuddy with Juliet even though he was supposedly still in love with Kate (yeah obviously not THAT in love).
13. He was angry with Kate for coming back for him when he told her not to and didn't do anything to help her escape the Others, but instead thought only of his and Juliet's escape from the Island (when has she ever done anything he asked her to that involved not going somewhere?).
14. Upon arriving back at the beach and learning of Juliet's alternate agenda he proceeded to not tell anyone about it even though it affected all of the survivors.
15. He was angry at Kate for not telling him about Naomi right away (even though she told him after being sworn to secrecy by Sayid).
16. He didn't listen to Kate when she suggested that Naomi had left a dummy trail and then was miffed when he followed the dummy trail while Kate stole the radio, followed the real trail and found Naomi.
17. After they got off the Island and Jack and Kate got engaged Jack became rather paranoid about Kate's mysterious phone calls so he did the smart thing, got drunk and had a shouting match with her in which he revealed to Aaron (who was unbeknownst to the two adults in the room with them) that Kate was not his mother.
18. And going along with number 17 he got into a jealous shouting match with Kate about her 'doing something for Sawyer' (that's right he got jealous of a guy stuck in a different time on a constantly moving island, the same guy who jumped out of a moving helicopter so that he, Kate and the rest of the people in said helicopter could safely escape from the island, very mature).

And the cons have it, Jack has little to no understanding of Kate and therefore things between them ought not to work out in the end.

"LaFleur" or as I Like to Call it "EPIC FAIL"

I could not have been more wrong about what this episode was going to be about and let me just say that I was incredibly sad after watching it as it meant that for the time being I have lost a bet for bragging rights that I have going with a friend about who Kate will end up with (although technically he hasn't won yet and he lost the bet first when Kate told Jack off a couple weeks ago, so there is still hope, after all this is only season 5, season 6 could bring multiple surprises/changes). Anyway let's just get to the plot shall we:

The plot starts 3 years ago right after Locke disappears down the well after the flash. The flash puts Sawyer and friends in the time when the four-toed statue was still whole, then John turns the wheel, another flash occurs and the well (minus the hole) disappears. The group discovers that their headaches are gone and their noses have quit bleeding (which means Locke fixed the problem). Sawyer decides that all they need to do is wait for Locke to come back and that they will wait as long as it takes.

The plot then jumps 3 years into the future or 'present time' on the island (which is not present time in 'real life'). We see Dharma hippies (a fella and a lady) partying (or rather having a hootenanny) in some security station when another guy comes in and complains about the lady being there. While the tow men argue the lady sees something on one of the screens that upsets her, it's a guy at the sonic fence (who is soon determined to be Horace, the leader of the Dharma Initiative at the time) blowing up trees with dynamite. The two guys kick the girl out and after a short debate decide to go get someone named LaFleur. They run to his house, wake him up, and inform him of the situation. He swears and is discovered to be Sawyer (wow, shocker). He then goes to pick up Miles in a hippy van and the two of them head out to go pick up the drunken Horace deciding to keep the whole drunken thing on the down-low. Sawyer takes Horace back to his wife Amy (who is very pregnant) at their house and question her about why he came to be that way (meaning what kind of fight they got into during which AMy goes into labour.

Three years earlier:
The group goes back to pick up Dan (who they left with Charlotte) only to discover that Charlotte is no longer with them in many manners of speaking (she's dead and therefore did not move with them in the next flash). They also discover that they are stuck in whatever timeline they are in. Sawyer takes charge and suggests that they all go back to the beach to wait for Locke which raises protest from Miles (who is very cynical, but has a point, all anybody does on this show is go back to the beach), Juliet agrees with Sawyer's 'stupid idea' and they head back to the beach. On the way they encounter a couple being attacked by the Hostiles the man has been shot and the woman is being taken (bag over the head etc.). The group then argues about how to handle the situation (Dan states that it doesn't matter what they do as they cannot change the past) and Sawyer and Juliet end up 'going in.' Sawyer demands that one of the attackers drop his gun to which he recieves a shot (which should have killed him , but didn't even touch him because if he had died in the past he never could have come to the island in the first place), Juliet kills the Hostile that shot Sawyer and Sawyer shoots the other Hostile leaving them and the woman who was being taken. They take the bag off of her head and tell her that everything is going to be okay to which she replies "Who are you?" The group discovers that they are in the 70's or the 80's due to the fact that the Dharma people are still there. They inform the lady that they saved (who turns out to be Amy) that they have get moving after discovering that the Hostiles had a radio on them (they also tell her that they are shipwrecked and looking for the rest of their crew). She becomes very upset and determines that they must bury the dead Hostiles due to some sort of truce and gets Jin to agree to carry her husband (the dead Dharma dude) back with them. Along the way Sawyer tells everyone to let him do the talking since he used to lie for a living which is sort of agreed to when Juliet yells for Dan to stop (they have come across the Sonic fence). She then demands that Amy turn the fence off (which is not at all suspicious) because 'it looks like some sort of sonic fence or something' (wow...convincing cover). Amy turns it off (after taking something out of the power box thing that controls the fence) and safely walks through it, but when the others walk through it they are knocked unconscious by the sonic noise...Amy takes earplugs out of her ears.

Three years later:
Amy needs a C-section because the baby is a breach so Sawyer goes to get Juliet who reluctantly comes to help (she doesn't think she can do it because every woman she treied to help give birht on the island died). The two run back to the clinic where Amy states that she wants Juliet to do the operation, Sawyer gives Juliet his vote of confidence and goes to wait outside where Jin (who now speaks fluent English) meets him and tells him that they finished another search grid with no sign of 'their people' then when Sawyer tells him that they are to start the next search grid the next day Jin asks how long they are going to continue to look, Sawyer replies that they will spend as much ime as it takes. Then Juliet comes out and informs them that the baby is a healthy boy and therefore everything went as planned. Hooray. (This means that whatever prevents pregnant women from giving birth on the Island hasn't happened yet, I think it would be incredibly ironic if whatever that 'thing' is is Juliet's fault.)

Three years ago:
Sawyer wakes up in the rec room (where to date he, Kate, Ben, and Sayid have all been held prisoner) where he is met by Horace who tells him that the restof his people are fine and then questions Sawyer about who he and his people are. Sawyer tells him that his name is James 'Jim' LaFleur and that he and his crew shipwrecked during a storm during their search for the famous slaving ship called the Black Rock and that the only reason they were in the jungle was because they were looking for the rest of their people. Horace tells James that he and his fellow survivors will be leaving the Island the next day on the submarine and if the rest of his people show up they will send them off the Island too. Meanwhile Juliet informs Miles of her sketchy past with the Others. Dan sees a three-year-old Charlotte (yeah, techniqually she shouldn't have been born until 1979 being as she is only thirty years old and they are in '76 if memory serves) playing in the yard and tells the others that there will be no more flashes. Horace and James then come out and join them, Horace tells them that someone will be along shortly to show them to their rooms then leaves James to tell them that they will be taking the sub to Tahiti the next day. All of the sudden a buzzer alarm sounds and the survivors are whisked into a house. From the window they see Richard Alpert walk into the yard. Horace oes out to meet Alpert who informs Horace that he has broken the truce by killing two Hostiles which Horace denies. Horace goes bakc into the house to talk to James who informs Horace that he is going to go talk to Alpert. He walks out onto the lawn and addresses Alpert as Richard which surprises the man as they haven't met in his timeline. James then admits to killing the two men and being as he is not Dharma the truce has not been broken, Alpert then asks him who he is to which he responds by asking him if he buried the bomb and then talking about Locke barging into the Hostile camp 20 years previous and claiming that he was their leader which convinces Alpert that James is indeed not Dharma. Alpert replies that his people still demand justice for the killings and it is agreed upon that Alpert will take the dead man's (Amy's ex-husband's) body back as justice for the Hostiles. Horace informs Amy of this decision and gives her the choice of whether to go through with the deal she agrees (she didn't really have a choice it was either give them the body or let all the Dharma people die). She then takes a necklace from her dead husband's neck. Horace then tells James that he can stay for two weeks to look for his crew. James goes to tell Juliet who is sitting on the dock by the sub, she tels him that she has decided to leave the next morning, he puts on the charm and changes her mind.

Three years later:
James picks a flower and takes it to Juliet who is cooking dinner in their house. He gives her the flower, they kiss and profess their love for each other (I become very angry with the stupid bastard for forgetting about Kate and falling for the women who tortured him, Kate, and Jack, threatened Kate's life and almost allowed his to be taken, gave orders for the Others to kill him and Kate, lied to all of the 815 survivors about her hidden agenda invloving kidnapping the pregnant/possibly pregnant women from their camp, etc.). James then goes to tell Horace that he is a Daddy and confront him about the fight he and Amy had that caused him to get drunk and blow up trees. He tells James that he found Amy's ex-husband's necklace in her sock drawer and they got into a fight when he confronted her about it. He asks James if 3 years is enough to get over someone to which James replies by going into a long schpeel about a girl (Kate) who he used to love and how she left and he held onto her for a while because he thought that she might be coming back, but now that 3 years have passed he has gotten over her BECAUSE HE DOESN'T THINK SHE'S EVER GOING TO COME BACK. (That's in caps because it means that he is not over her now that she is back and I still have a shot at winning my bet so there Aaron). The next morning James is awakened by a phone call from Jin informing him that he has found some of their people. James tells him not to bring them in and that he will meet them in some valley. When he gets there he is greeted by Hurley, Jack, and last of all Sawyer's long-lost-love Kate.
L O S T

(In case you were wonder, which I'm sure you weren't I started calling Sawyer, James about halfway through this post, that is because he has changed from the cynical, sarcastic, hilarious fellow who was in love with Kate, to an annoying, stupid, 'sensitive nerd in bad need of a hair cut who has seemingly settled down with Juliet.)

"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"

I must start off by saying that I have never really been a fan of Locke, he's way too Narcisistic and he always thinks that he's right without any regard of other people's opinions. He is not a very nice old man to put it in short and so this post will not be as in-depth as my other posts about the show have been. Locke's life doesn't really appeal to me (he's really kind of a whiny quitter) so here is my summary of the episode about his rather short trip back to the 'real world:'



So Locke wakes up in the desert in Tunisia (the exact same place where Ben woke up after he turned the wheel) with a broken leg (open tib-fib) and therefore can do nothing but yell for help at a camera on a post. He lies there all day until a truck comes and the passengers of said vehicle throw him in the bed of the truck and take him to a makeshift tent hospital thing where they reset his fractured leg while he is conscious (obviously has wasn't conscious very long after they reset his leg). He wakes up to Widmore by his bedside and the two chat about their past encounter as well as the Island, Ben, and other dandy topics. We find out that Ben is the reason that Widmore is no longer on the Island (he took over as leader of The Others and exiled Widmore to the real world). The next day Widmore gives Locke his new identity (Jeremy Bentham), a word of warning against Ben, a driver (that fella who took care of Locke right after he broke his back, the same fella that told him to go to Australia for the walkabout which resulted in Locke being on flight 815), and a promise the Locke will not be murdered by anyone (Locke told him that Alpert said he was going to die so Widmore says that he's not going to let that happen). Locke and his driver (whose name escapes me so I shall call him 'Mo') first go to Santo Domingo to try to convince Sayid to come back to the Island => fail #1. Then they go to NY to visit Walt (who tells Locke that he has been having dreams about Locke being back on the Island wearing a suit, surrounded by people who want to kill him) who Locke doesn't even ask to come back to the Island => fail #2. Then they travel to Snata Rosa to visit Hurley who upon first seeing Locke believes that he is hallicinating and that Locke is dead, upon confirmation thathe is actually talking to a guy in a wheelchair, hearing Locke's proposition and seein 'Mo' (who had lied to and somewhat harrassed Hurley in the previous season) freaks out and tells Locke to get L o s t (haha...yeah, no) => Fail #3. Then Locke goes to L.A. and visits Kate (seriously after their last encounter, him banishing her from New Otherton, why did he even bother) who among other things tells him that he hasn't come very far and that she will not go back to the Island (well duh) => epic fail #4. Then Locke goes to visit the grave of his old girlfriend Helen (earlier in the episode 'Mo' asked Locke if he wanted him to look up anyone for him to which John eventually answered that he wanted him to look up Helen). As the two are leaving the graveyard 'Mo' is shot and killed so the maimed Locke frantically drives the car away and gets in an accident which lands him in Jack's hospital. Jack accuses John of basically being a narcisistic average Joe then loudly refuses to go back to the Island and tells John to leave him and the rest of them (Oceanic 6) alone => Epic fail #5. Then the depressed Locke checks into a hotel, writes Jack his suicide note, and is about to hang himself when Ben bursts through the door and talks John down (by telling him that he is ultra special and has lots of work to do). Then after John reveals the person (Eloise Hawking) who can get everyone back to the Island Ben garrotes John with the same exact electrical cord that John was about to kill himself with =>EPIC FAIL #6. Then cleans the scene to make it look like suicide and steals Jin's wedding ring.

On the Island:

The beginning of the episode reveals Caesar (the fellow who gave Jack his condolences at the airport) is seen rifling through stuff in a Dharma station (later revealed as the Hydra) when Ilana (the lady who had Sayid in custody) comes in and asks him if he found anything, he lies and says no (he found some papers including what appears to be some sort of map) and when she presses the matter he shows her a flashlight claiming that it is the only thing that he found. She tells him that they found a man i a suit on the beach. The two walk back to the beach past a fully intact crashed Ajira flight 316 plane. The man they found on the beach is none other than John Locke. The next day Locke is on the beach looking out across the ocean (in this shot it is revealed that he and the other survivors are on the smaller Alcatraz island b/c you can see the big island across the ocean) when Ilana comes up to him and offers him a mango then questions him about his existance on the plane. He tells her that he remembers dying and then asks for the flight manifest (somewhere in here we see the long boats that have been seen in previous time-flashing episodes with the survivors on the beach and learn that the pilot and a woman (Sun perhaps) stole one of the boats and went to the main island earlier taking the flight manifest with them). She tells him to talk to Caesar who is at the Hydra station. So he does, revealing that this is his second time being on the Island. Then he asks if everyone (except for the people who disappeared as Caesar mentions seeing Hurley disappear) have been accounted for. He answers that they have except for the people who got hurt. He then shows Locke a room full of injured/unconscious survivors where Locke discovers Ben and reveals him as his murderer...L O S T...


Yes, I am most extraordinarily overexcited for next week's episode as it appears that I might win a bet I have going with a friend about who Kate will end up with (my bet would be Sawyer because Jack has turned into a bit of jerk) at least for the time being as I can't truly win until the end of season 6.

"316"

That was insane and I think (after watching the promo for next week) that we as viewers are going to have to wait two weeks before we actually know what's going on with the people on the island which is rather obnoxious, but I suppose twill be interesting to find out what sort of wonko things happened with Locke after he turned the wheel. I am really happy after watching the episode last night that Kate and Jack are not back together (the promos ade it look like they were going to get back together, but as it turns out it was just a moment of weakness on Kate's part that Jack took advantage of) so hooray for that.

My problem with Jack (this is going to be a very long post in case you were wondering):

I really liked Jack in the beginning (season one and part of season two), he seemed like a nice enough fellow and he had a sense of humor. Then when he found out that Sawyer was also in love with Kate he became WAY too over protective of her and ended up driving her away (not letting her go with them after Michael then getting angry when she tracked them and came anyway but ended up getting caught and almost killed). Then he was once again flustered when she didn't confide in him everything that she knew (i.e. finding costumes in the medical station), you know what, I'll just do an entire post on this later as it has very little to actually do with the episode. It's a big ranting point for me.

Plot:

So right away we know that at least three of the Oceanic 6 made it back to the island (stupid children, why would you ever go back you just got away) because the episode opens with Jakc waking up in the jungle (just as he did in the pilot episode) with a piece of paper in his hand that says I wish...(without the dot dot dot, it's ripped off so we can only see the I wish part). Hurley is then heard yelling for Jack because he is in grave need of assisstance. Jack follows the noise and ends up at the waterfall/pond thing featured in episode 12 (where Kate and Sawyer find the Halliburton case) where it appears that Hurley is drowning managing only to stay afloat by hanging onto a guitar case (possibly Charlie's guitar case?). Jack heroically dives in from the top of the waterfall only to discover that he and Hurley can both stand in the area of the pond where Hurley was 'drowning.' Then we see Kate looking quite dead on a rock on the edge of the pond thing. Jack rushes over to her to discover that there isn't a scratch on her, she's breathing perfectly and is therefore just unconscious. He wakes her up and it is confirmed that they are indeed back on the Island, (thank you grasp of the incredibly obvious) and that none of them has any memory of a crash...dun...Dun...DUN!!!



People at Church (Desmond, Sun, Ben, Jack, Faraday's deranged mother whose name is Eloise):

• Eloise takes her visiters downstairs (in the Church, if you don't remember what happened in the previous episode please see last post for a synopsis) to a Dharma Station known as the Lamp-post which is revealed (by Eloise) as to be the station where the location of the island was first discovered.


• Eloise also mentions that the Island is constantly on the move, not on ly through space, but through time as well which is the reason that the survivors of flight 815 were never rescued. She talks about the brilliant fellow who first discovered this, how he discovered it (pendulum swings over electromagnetic energy similar to that on the island...very complicated+not a physisist=not going to explain it in depth), and how he wrote a bunch of equations that can predict with relative accuracy where the island is going to be at any point in time.


• At this point in time Desmond becomes fluastered at the fact that the people in the room (namely Jack and Sun) are willingly going back to the Island.


• When asked why he is there he says that he is there to deliver a message from Daniel that his mother and ONLY his mother is supposed to help/save the Island not any of the Oceanic Six and what not.


• Eloise replys that she is helping and that the Island is 'done with Desmond yet.'


• Desmond then goes on to warn Jack that theses people (the Others, Ben, Locke, etc.) are using him (and the others) in some sadistic game and that he should get out while he still can/ignore anything that Eloise tells him. He also mentions that Eloise cost him 4 years of his life by telling him that his sole purpose in life was to go to the Island.


• He then yells that the Island may not be done with him, but he is done with the Island.


• Exit Desmond with the slam of a door.


• Eloise continues on to say that she believes she has found a window of opportunity for the group to return, an Ajira Airlines (yeah, I totally saw that coming) flight to Guam that is apparently going to fly directly over where the island will be at that point in time.


• She then informs the bunch that in order to increase their chances of getting back to the island they need to as best they can recreate the circumstances of the first flight.


• When Jack asks what would happen if they couldn't get everyone on the flight Eloise responds that the results would be unprediactable.


• Jack then stupidly ask if 'that's it' to which Eloise responds that that is not it, at least not for Jack.


• She takes Jack to her office where she gives him Locke's suicide note (now we know how/why he died and I cannot say that this was a huge surprise to me) and tells him that Locke's body will be a proxy for Christian's body (Jack's dad) and that in order for this to work Jack must give something of Christian's to Locke.

Jack (since the entire episode followed Jack this is going to be a very long section):

• Jack exits the office to find Ben alone in the Sanctuary, who tells him that Sun has left the building.


• Jack then asks about Locke's body to which Ben replies that he has friend watching it and will pick it up before he heads to the airport the following day.


• Ben then asks Jack what Eloise said to him.


• Jack responds by asking how Eloise knows what she knows and shy she is helping them.


• Ben responds by telling the story of Thomas the Apostle (Doubting Tom, if you don't know this story it can be found in the Bible or online).


• Ben then goes to leave and when Jack asks him where he's going he says something along the lines of that he is fulfilling a promise he made to an old friend (big red flag, Ben doesn't have any real friends, he has subordinates, people who either follow him because they admire him, have no other choice, or are scared of him...HE MEANS THAT HE IS GOING TO KILL PENNY WIDMORE...oh crap).


• Jack is next seen at a bar drinking some sort of alcohol (the Island will be good for him, after all as far as we know all of the beer is gone) when his phone rings and he answers it with a "He did what?"


• Next we see of Jack he is at a nursing home where an important looking man is telling him that this is the 4th time 'he's' left and that 'he' has got to follow the rules or 'he' will be moved to a different facility.


• Jack then goes up to a resident named Ray and the two go back to Ray's room where we find out that Ray is Jack's Grandad who packed a suitcase and tried to escape the nursing home and go somewhere on a bus.


• While Jack is unpacking the suitcase he finds a pair of his father's shoes which he takes with him back to his appartment.


• When Jack gets back to his appartment he immediately heads for the booze which he is about to drink when he hears footsteps somewhere in the appartment.


• He goes to investigate (which reminded me of a bad horror movie: he progresses through his dark house alone, with nothing to defend himself, and no lights on) and finds Kate lying on his bed looking utterly defeated (no Aaron).


• He gently asks her why she is there. To which she resonds with the question: "Are you still going back to the Island?"


• He answers affirmatively and she tells him that she is going with him.


• Then Jack starts asking questions (i.e. what happened, where's Aaron? I wonder how she got in) to which Kate answers that if he wants her to go with him he will never ask her about Aaron again.


• He agrees and she (in a moment of weakness which he takes advantage of) kisses him and . . .(Mamma Mia reference again).


• The next morning Jack makes Kate coffee and the two chat for a bit about Jack's father's shoes (Kate spots them and thinking they are Jack's suggest that he should consider hiking boots instead which leads into a whole schpeel about what shoes Jack put on his father's feet for the funeral...touching moment...etc.) and are interrupted when the phone rings.


• Kate tells Jack that she will see him at the airport and then leaves so he can answer the phone.


• The caller is Ben (who we see on the other end of the line looking beat up and muddy at the marina possibly meaning that he definately did go after Penny but ran into a few problems) who tells Jack that he has gotten sidetracked and needs Jack to pick up Locke's body at the butchershop where he left it.


• Jack agrees and is next seen at said carnicería where he meets Ben's lady 'friend' (Jill) who agreed to take care of Locke's body in the one of the premiere episodes this season.


• She take him to the body and after asking a question about a bag that Jack is holding and receiving no answer tells Jack that she has been instructed to lend him the van and leaves to pull it around.


• Jack proceeds to put his father's shoes on Locke's feet (my question is why did he even bother tying them?) telling Locke that the whole situation is 'even crazier than Locke was,' then he gives the un-opened suicide note back to Locke.


• Then we see Jack at the airport answering questions about why he's traveling to Guam with ''Bentham's'' body, meanwhile he spots Kate (who looks kind of like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider) walking throught the airport.


• A man in the line behind Jack gives him his condolences for losing his friend (so this guy will most likely be an important character this season).


• Jack is then approached by Sun who (when he is surprised to see her) tells him that if there is any chance that Jin is still alive she is going back.


• Sayid is seen being escorted by a marshall (I assume she was a marshall) to the plane (interesante).


• We then see Hurley with a guitar case waiting for the plane with a bunch of other people when a lady comes over the P.A. saying that there are plenty of empty seats for flight 316 still open. Hurley jumps up and tells the lady that those seats are not open, that they are his, he bought all t 78 seats. They argue but Hurley refuses to back down, so the lady has no choice but to admit that the flight is full.


• Jack approaches Hurley, happy that they are on the same flight yadda, yadda, yadda.


• Next scene Jack boards the plane walking past Sayid and the marshall pasing slightly at Kate's seat before taking his own.


• Just before the flight attendants are about to close the doors Ben (with an arm in a sling, still looking rather rough) enters the plane with a ticket which causes Hurley to freak out.


• Overdominearing Jack gets control of the situation and everyone is 'calm' when he is approached by a flight attendant (who looks like Cindy from the first flight) who says that they found something of his (Locke's suicide note) in his cargo.


• Jack takes his seat and the flight commences (with the same music as was playing when Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, and Frank were in the helicopter leaving the Island).


• When the fasten seat belt sign is turned off he goes to sit next to Kate and goes into some cheesy bit about how amazing it is that they are all on the same plane (which is responded to with sarcasm on Kate's part).


• He then makes some retort along the lines of 'it's almost lke we're all back together again' to which Kate remarks "We're on the same plane, that doesn't make us back together." (Hooray there is still hope for Sawyer, just so long as he hasn't fallen for Juliet, but knowing what she did to him when he was a prisoner I kind've doubt that's happened.)


• The pilot then comes over the P.A. introducing himself as Frank Lapidus (gasp).


• Jack asks the Cindy-looking flight attendant if he can speak to Frank being as they are old friends, she agrees to ask if he will take his seat (he can't be up while the cockpit is open).


• Frank comes out to talk with Jack and is surprised to see Sayid, Hurley, Kate and Sun also on the plane: "We're not going to Guam are we?" is his remark.


• Later in the trip Jack and Ben are sitting next to each other and Ben asks Jack about the note, blah, blah, blah, Ben convinces Jack to read the note and gets up to 'give him some privacy' (go crash the plane).


• The note says: I wish you had believed [in] me - JL.


• Then they hit turbulance and the noise/purple light we viewers know as meaning a flash is happening on the island occurs and POOF Jack wakes up on the Island.

The episode ends with a Dharma bus driving up to the lake thing and a man getting out and pointing a gun at the 3 in the water (in case you forgot who those three are since it has indeed been a long time since the beginning of the post they are: Jack, Kate, and Hurley). Hurley then says "Jin." and thus Jin lowers his gun and smiles slightly in bewilderment...L O S T.

The promos have revealed that next week's episode is all about what happened to John off the Island and therefore we must wait two weeks to get back to the present and find out what is to become of those on the island. How very irksom this is to me. Oh well, I 'll manage.

"This Place is Death"

Another terrific episode of Lost last night, more cliffhangers, spectacular. I've realized that just about every question on the show can be answered with: "It's Ben's fault." For instance: Why is the island jumping through time? It's Ben's fault. Why is Kate once again pissed at Jack? It's Ben's fault. Why do the Oceanic Six have to go back to the island? It's Ben's fault. Other such questions that cannot be answered with: "It's Ben's fault," can generally be answered with "It's Locke's/Jack's fault."

Okay then, so last night's episode mainly centered around those on the island, namely Jin who was thought to be dead, so here is the plot:

Jin:

• Jin starts off with Rousseau and the other French people who stand around and argue for a while until Jin starts talking about needing to find his camp and the helicopter which makes him sound crazy.
• The French people have a radio with them, but there is a signal blocking them from sending a transmission, this signal is repeating 4 8 15 16 23 42.
• They ask Jin about a radio tower and he tells them that there is one on the island. They then ask him if he can get to his camp from their current location. He answers no, so they ask him if he can find it from the radio tower and he answers yes so off they go.
• Along their trek they lose one of their people and hear the familiar mechanical creeking of the smoke monster. When they ask him what it is he replys monster and insists that they keep moving. They stupidly decide to go look for their friend (which I suppose I would have too).
• They find their friend when a tree is uprooted and her dead body falls from the sky, then they decide to take Jin's advice and run which at this point does them little good.
• Another Frenchman from the group is grabbed by the monster and dragged (drug?) down a hole beneath a brick wall (not before there is a tug of war between the monster and everyone else which results in the guy's arm being pulled off).
• Everyone except for Jin and Rousseau follows the monster down the hole after they hear their friend yelling for help.
• There is a flash and Jin finds himself alone at the wall with the guy's rotting arm (from the state of decay of the arm we can tell that not much time has passed in this falsh). He sets off in search of his camp or the beach (I'm not 100% sure if he knew where he was going or not) after seeing black smoke on the horizon.
• He ends up on the beach where he finds wreckage from something and somebody's personal belongings (ie. music box, clothing, etc.). There he discovers two of the Frenchmen have been shot to death.
• He sees Rousseau pointing a gun at Robert (the father of her child) and claiming that he is sick, that the monster made him sick. Robert is pleading with Rousseau that he loves her and doesn't want anything to happen to her or their baby.
• When Rousseau lowers her gun Robert cocks his and shoots her, or at least he would have shot her had there been any bullets in his gun.
• Rousseau kills him then sees Jin and starts shooting at him claiming that he is a carrier.
• Jin is running away from her through the jungle when there is another flash.
• After this flash he hears a gun cock and a man (Sawyer) tell him to turn around slowly, which he does.
• After recognizing each other they have a happy excited reunion and Jin asks where the helicopter (and therefore Sun) is.
• The others try to explain that Sun and the other people on the helicopter got off the island and that they are heading to the Orchid station to find a way to bring them back, but it's a bit much to comprehend for someone just learning English, so Jin asks Charlotte to translate, which much to the chagrin of everyone else she does.
• Jin is not happy when he finds out that the plan is to bring Sun back.

Sawyer, Jin, and Company:

• The flashes are continuosly becoming more violent and closer together.
• Eventually they prove to be too much for poor Charlotte (who I never really liked for multiple reasons) who goes wonko because her brain can no longer distinguish between present and past. Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles all end up with bloody noses after this flash.
• John informs the group that they must press on in order to stop the flashes and keep themselves alive and therefore they must leave Charlotte. This brings about much protest from Dan who is 'in love' with Charlotte and therefore REALLY does not wan to leave her even though she tells him too.
• Before Locke and friends set off to find the Orchid Charlotte bursts out (much like Claire in Kate's dream) to Jin (in English and Korean): "Don't let him bring her back!etc. This place is death!"
• So Charlotte and Dan get left behind (they both annoy me, much too secretive the lot of them) and the rest of the group presses on to the Orchid station. Before they leave someone presents the question "What happens if we get there in a time before the Orchid station was built?" and Charlotte answers that they will find it at the well.
• When they first arrive at the station it exists causing Juliet to saysomething along the lines of: "What are the odds that we got here the same time this thing existed," then there is a flash and Sawyer responds: "You just had to say something." (I just realized that no one in the group really calls him Sawyer, the ones who talk to him all call him James.)
• They then look for and find a well which has a rope going down into it and is seemingly bottomless.
• Jin grabs the rope and threatens to cut it if Locke is going to bring Sun back, arguments ensue.
• The resolution is that if Locke sees Sun he will give her Jin's ring and tell her that his body washed up on shore, Locke agrees and begins to shimmy down the rope when low and behold another flash occurs.
• Sawyer grabs the rope (seriously, what good was that going to do) and when the flash is over the rope is sticking out of solid earth which deeply upsets Sawyer who must have thought that Locke (and therefore his only chance of ever seeing Kate again) was dead.

Charlotte and Dan:

• As Charlotte's mind is jumping through time (and therefore causing her to constantly hemorage from her mouth and nose) she reveals to Dan that she grew up on the Island with the Dharma folks and then was forced to leave with her mother.
• She states that a crazy man told her that she had to leave the island and that if she ever came back she would die, and that she thinks that man was Dan.
• She also reveals that she became an anthropologist in hopes of one day find and returning to the Island.
• Then she dies.

Locke and Christian:

• After the flash Locke falls a short ways and hurts himself in the landing finding himself in the wheel chamber thing, or near to it anyway.
• Here he sees Christian Shepherd (Jack and Claire's dead father which Locke does not know) who tells him that he (Locke) was supposed to turn the wheel and that Ben royally screwed things when he turned the wheel (he knocked it off of its axis allowing it to freely spin resulting in the temporal shifts).
• Locke is informed that he must put the wheel back on its axis and then give it a little push which will then move the island and send Locke home so that he can begin his mission of bring the Oceanic 6 back.
• He is told to find a woman in Los Angeles who will know how to return (Daniel's mum no doubt). He is also told that he will have to sacfrifice his life in order to get them to return.
• He turns the resets the wheel on its axis and gives it a little push.
• End episode. (Which poses the question, what time did those on the island get stuck in?)

Oceanic Six:

• The episode opens with Sun receiving a call from Korea from her mother and daughter asking when she is coming home, after a short conversation she replys that she will be home soon, goodbye, etc. then grabs her gun and gets out of her car just in time to see Ben and Kate arguing about Aaron.
• Sun points the gun at Ben and tells Kate to get out of the way who responds with a) "What are you doing?" (wait you've got a gun pointed at Ben, never mind, proceed) and then b) "Where's Aaron?" Sun tells Kate that Aaron is in her car.
• Kate goes to get Aaron, and puts him in her car, then yells at Jack and Ben (who most definately deserved it although she was a tad bit harsh to Jack, but I can see where she's coming from) and leaves.
• Sayid also leaves, warning Jack and Ben that if sees either of them ever again it will not go well (which I think was pretty much the consensus of all those not 'friends' with Ben after the little rondevous). (Off topic tangent, but did Sayid walk away? Because if he didn't then the only car he could have taken would have been Sun's car as he came with Ben in the van and Jack came with Kate who had already left in her car soooo....)
• Anywho Sun tells Ben that he is responsible for Jin's death who rebuts that no one is responsible for Jin's death because he is not dead and if she comes with him he can take her to someone who can offer her proof.
• Sun, Ben, and Jack take the van and head to the mysterious person's (Dan's mum's) place.
• Whilst in the van Jack tells Sun that he is deep ly sorry for leaving Jin and that they should have waited for him.
• She asks him why he is telling her this now and assumes that it is because he doesn't want her to shoot Ben if he is lying. He tells her that after what Ben just did to Kate, if she doesn't shoot him he will.
• Ben angrily and violently pulls the van over to the shoulder of the road and shouts at Sun and Jack that if they knew how hard he'd been working to help and protect them and their friends they would never stop thanking him so if they want to shoot him then they should get it over with otherwise they should let it go and let him drive on.
• Sun tells him to drive and they end up at a church.
• After they get out of the van Ben gives Sun Jin's wedding ring as proof that he is alive telling her that Locke gave it to him, she believes him. He tells her that the people on the island, Jin included really need their help and that there is a woman in the church who can help them get back, but they don't have much time so he needs her to decided right then and there. She agrees to help.
  
• Desmond shows up and asks the group what they're all doing there to which Ben replys probably the same thing as Desmond to which Desmond replys: "You're looking for Faraday's mother too?" To which Ben replies with a puzzled look as he walks off to the church.
• When they enter the church the British woman from Desmond's flashbacks in season three (the same one that Ben visited in episode two of this season) greets Ben (we find out that her name is Eloise) and curtly tells him that she thought she told him to bring 'all of them.' He replies that this was all he could get on short notice and she replies that it will do for now, then tells the group that they have work to do.
• L O S T

I CANNOT WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE!!!!
However, I'm really sort of rooting for Kate and Sawyer and the commercial made it look like Jack and Kate are going to make up (and out) which is kind of not promising.

"The Little Prince" (Which I actually got to watch live for once)

As I am currently sick and have been so since Monday night I was able to watch 'Lost' at eight o' clock last night when it was on. I was quite glad as it was an extraordinary episode with lots of hints and a few more questions.





Plot:

Kate:

• Kate left Aaron with Sun at her hotel and went to confront Mr. Norton (of Agostini and Norton Law firm) she attempted to broker a deal with said man (she would give him the blood samples in exchange for a meeting with his client) and he all but outright refused, telling her that she is in no position to be making bargains (which I suppose she really isn't, but eh twas worth a try).
• She proceeds to stake out the parking garage where Mr. Norton parked his car in hopes that she can follow him to his mystery client and is doing so when she receives a frantic call from Jack (which she almost doesn't answer and given her situation at the time, I don't think I would have) who is very worried about her whereabouts. She reluctantly informs Jack that Aaron is at a hotel with Sun and gives him directions to where she is.
• Jack shows up and the two are allowed a brief moment for chit-chat before Kate spots Norton leaving the building, she tells Jack to either get in or don't (he does) then speeds off after Norton (of course following the Alias one block rule before starting her engine).
• The two follow Norton to a hotel where they see him give an envelope and a file to the one and only Mrs. Littleton (Claire's mum and Aaron's real grandmum) they immediately assume that she is the mystery client and Jack goes in to speak with her and try to explain everything while Kate waits in the car.
• When Jack comes back he informs Kate that Mrs. Littleton knows nothing about Aaron and is receiving reparations from Oceanic Airlines which she sued (Mr. Norton is obviously her lawyer).
• The two then drive to the marina (slip 23 no doubt) where they meet Ben and Sayid.
• Kate accuses Ben of being the mystery client and he doesn't deny it (I was right about this the entire time).
• End Episode

Jack:

• Jack (after reviving Sayid) is reprimanded for working on a patient (Sayid) at the hospital as his liscence has been suspended. He then answers a call from Hurley who tells him that he is safe from Ben in L.A. County lock-up.
  
• Ben shows up at the hospital and accompanies Jack back to Sayid's room only to discover that Sayind has once again unsuccessfully been attacked by some guy with a tranq gun who had Kate's address in his pocket.
• Jack (who is quite worried and frantic) calls Kate and upon learning her and Aaron's whereabouts tells Kate to call Sun (which she does) and ask her to bring Aaron and meet the at Slip 23 at the marina.
  
• He then goes to find Kate and the rest is in her blurb thing above.
• Except that when they get to the marina Jack tells Kate that Ben is 'with him' and that he is there to help all of them 'be together again.'
  

Ben and Sayid:

• While waiting for Jack to return (from being reprimanded) Sayid is attacked by a man posing as a nurse, he turns the tables on his attacker (having obviously anticipated as there is no way Jack ordered any meds for Sayid, especially the kind that are administered through the IV) and demands to know who sent him. The attacker tells Sayid that the adress is in his pocket then Sayid tranqs the guy.
• Enter Jack and Ben, Sayid asks if they know anyone who lives at 42 Panorama Crest and Jack replies that the address belongs to Kate.
• While Jack goes off to meet Kate, Sayid and Ben drive elsewhere in Ben's van. Sayid informs Ben that he does not trust him, especially with Hurley and that he does not intend to let Ben get anywhere near Hurley. Ben tries to convince him that he is trying to help them all (meaning the Oceanic 6).
  
• The two drive to a parking garage where Mr. Norton (the one and only) who informs Ben that there is no case against Hurley because the man outside of Santa Rosa was killed before Hurley escaped. Hooray.
• The two then drive to the marina to meet Jack and Kate.
• Ben admits to trying to take Aaron away from Kate and promptly informs her that she is not his mother (well yes, but how exactly does Ben have any case against Kate as far as custody goes? Last I checked Ben wasn't Aaron's mum either or any kind of blood relation to Aaron so where does he come off with the power to take custody of Aaron away from Kate?).

Sun:

• Sun stays at the hotel with Aaron while Kate goes to confront Mr. Norton (which was Sun's idea).
  
• Right after Kate leaves Sun receives a package in the mail containing a file on Ben and a gun hidden in a box of chocolates.
• Sun is next seen at the marina with Aaron asleep in the back of her car (I swear they cast the kid that plays him because he sleeps all the time or he fakes sleeping well because he's asleep for like 92.6587% of the show), upon seeing Ben she grabs her gun and gets out of the car.
• End Episode

Sawyer and Friends:

• Sawyer is annoying as Juliet and Dan try to resucitate Charlotte so Juliet sends him away.
• Locke then informs Sawyer that he intends to get off the island (via Orchid station most likely) to bring the six who escaped the island back therefore informing Sawyer that Kate is indeed not dead (yay).
• Meanwhile Dan explains that what is happening to Charlotte is a side effect of the stress of time travel on the mind (what happened to Desmond in Season 4) and that it could happen to them all (he later reveals to Miles that most likely those who have had the most exposure to the island get sick first).
  
• When Charlotte wakes up she doesn't recognize Dan until he tells her his name.
• The group then heads back to the camp to get the Zodiac raft and head to the Orchid station.
• On the way Miles gets a bloody nose.
• Another flash occurs and the group sees a beam of light in the distance (the hatch on the night Boone died) and when they hear screaming Sawyer goes to investigate. He watches Claire give birth to Aaron and therefore sees Kate. Yet another flash occurs and Kate is gone.
• When the group arrives at the beach they find that a) it has been ransacked and all the beer is gone, b) the Zodiac is gone, and c) that some people from Ajira airlines have left their boats on the beach.
• They take one of the boats and head for the Orchid. On the way they find themselves in a gunfight as the Ajira people have followed them in the other boat and are apparently upset that the group thought it would be okay to borrow a boat.
• Luckily a flash occurs and the group find themselves alone, in the boat, in a rainstorm.
• Once they land on the island again they find supplies marked in French, Sawyer and Juliet continue a conversation about him seeing Kate, and Juliet gets a bloody nose.

Jin and Rousseau:

• The French stuff belonged to Rousseau's group who found Jin floating on a piece of boat in the water and got him to the beach in their raft. (YAY, Jin's not dead!)

REALLY, really good episode! Uber excited for next week I am!