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Sucks to be Juliet

Poor Juliet. She thought she was going to leave on the submarine, and Locke blew it up. Now she thought that she was going to be leaving by raft then by freighter… and that blew up, too.

Poor thing has been stuck on the island longer than any of our castaways, though admittedly, she was living quite well in New Otherton for most of that time.

Now, she’s free of Ben, though she doesn’t know it yet… but Jack’s gone, too. (I don’t think she knows that yet, either.)

It really sucks to be Juliet right now.

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Look at that, a flashback! It looked like a building out of New Otherton from the first shot, so I did suspect. I knew not to make any snap judgments, though - this is LOST. Juliet’s seeing an on-island therapist. That’s kinda funny. And Tom had a mustache! Has he lost weight since filming his death scene last season? The actor, of course. In the case of the character, he would’ve gained weight from that time up until the island’s present time.

And Juliet meets up with her old therapist, Harper, in the jungle. Is she really there, perhaps on an excursion from the Temple? She is all wet with rain.

Ah yes, she’s delivering a message from Ben. Her appearance and disappearance was accompanied by the whispers. Could she be like Richard, one of the island’s original inhabitants? Juliet seems confused by them, so it would seem that ordinary Others aren’t responsible for the whispers.

“Ben is exactly where he wants to be.” Isn’t that what Miles said as prisoner in the boathouse? Just a few scenes before he ended up with a live grenade shoved into his mouth?

Aww, and Juliet met Goodwin to bandage up his arm. He was married to Harper? I guess there’s a good reason for Harper to have more than a little animosity toward her, considering Juliet ended up sleeping with him.

The Tempest is the power station. And did I hear Harper say that the gas canisters were also being stored there? The kind of gas used in the Purge?

What doesn’t Dan think he can do? The easy answer would be to speculate that he and Charlotte will orchestrate a second Purge. But that would be too obvious, wouldn’t it?

Kate knows that Charlotte is lying about the satellite phone being out of juice and looking for the packs they threw from the chopper. She saw the phone’s light on. And… she got pistol-whipped. Doh.

Harper seemed “hostile” for a therapist. Would that be hostile or Hostile?

So apparently, during a woman’s second trimester, the woman’s immune system turns on the fetus. And… we don’t know what she was about to say next. I wonder if Goodwin’s visit was really about an egg salad sandwich, or if it was meant to be a booty call.

Yikes. Harper is not a very good therapist. You don’t confront your patient about sleeping with your husband - at least not during her session. Threats are not cool, either. Who does Juliet look like, and why would Ben harm Goodwin for sleeping with Juliet? Does Juliet look like a grown up Annie, maybe? Is she one of the women who died in pregnancy?

Claire makes a good point to Locke. It sounds a lot like what we fans said all along about the Others and how they treated the castaways.

Ben wants to know if the rabbit he’s eating for dinner had a number on it. We know what that means, but apparently the experiments run on the rabbits weren’t too bad. Ben still ate it.

What could Ben do to Goodwin? Now we know. He could send him over to the Tailies, which would lead to his death. Did Ben know how it would turn out when he chose him? And if so, what did Ethan do to get on Ben’s bad side? I mean, Ethan was their surgeon.

36-15-28 opens Ben’s secret safe. With the Red Sox tape in it? “I taped over the game.” LOL. Charles Widmore! Confirmation that he owns the freighter and is looking for the island. We “knew” that, but now we know that. And Widmore does his own dirty work. I would’ve thought he’d hire someone like Jin to beat people up for him.

Oh come on, just tell us who the man on the boat is. Stupid commercial break. Tell us it’s Michael. That’s what most of us fans think, anyway. And if it’s not Michael, we need to know that, too. And then we need to know why Harold Perrineau’s name has been in the opening credits all season!

So Ben sent Goodwin on a death mission, then cooked a romantic candlelit ham dinner for Juliet. Wine. Opera music.

The children from Flight 815 were on Jacob’s list. Hmm. And Ben says that Goodwin is trying to bring Ana-Lucia to New Otherton, trying to make it sound like Goodwin “wants” Ana-Lucia in a sexual way. To make Juliet jealous.

I get a Season Four Mishear Award! I thought that Chemical Suit Daniel just told Juliet, “Don’t shoot me yet!” I was so taken aback by the phrase that I repeated it out loud. My husband turned to me and said, “Juliet. He said, ‘Juliet.’” So it was “Juliet, what are you doing here?” That makes a bit more sense.

That alarm sounds familiar. I’d be having flashbacks if I were so surprised that Charlotte is so… violent. “That was a close one.” They rendered the gas inert so that Ben couldn’t use it again.

Ben’s not more excited about Jack being a spinal surgeon because they just found Goodwin’s dead body. And he took Juliet to it.

“You’re mine.” Ben thinks he owns Juliet. He’s a bit sicker than we thought.

“Okay, what do I react to first?” That’s what I’d be thinking if I were Juliet. The impaled body of her dead lopver, and being told she belongs to a man she hates.

Jack will take their word for it, about Daniel and Charlotte saving their lives. When did he become such a man of faith?

Hurley says he’s lucky, playing horseshoes with Sawyer. Never thought he’d say that.

And is Ben now roomies with Locke? They’re awfully chummy.

Previews: Sun is almost certainly the last of the Oceanic 6. And Michael is almost definitely the man on the boat. “The face we thought we’d never see again.” Yeah, except for his name in the credits every week.

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“Bring her back in one piece,” Rachel says.

“We’ll do our best,” Alpert replies.

It sounds like a friendly joke. It was the honest truth.

Oh no, Jack did not just tell Sayid the torturer to lay off Juliet until she was ready to talk.  The look Sayid gave him made it clear that Jack may need to worry about some bamboo shoots under his own fingernails.

I wonder what’s wrong with Claire. Not waking up when your baby cries?  Hasn’t happened to me yet. 

“You’ll be amazed at how time flies…” Are they messing with us about time again?  Just come out and tell us!  I don’t want time travel to be the answer here, but I don’t want to give up on my theory about time passing at a different rate on the island.

Jacob is Him.  But who is Jacob?

Okay, so what did Juliet do to Claire?  Will Charlie end up killing her the way he killed Ethan?  Harming Claire is kinda like a death wish.

Everyone who said that women can’t get pregnant on the island… were wrong, but on the right track.  Apparently, women can’t have babies on the island.  I’m not quite sure how they’re going to explain this, but there must be a biological explanation if Juliet successfully created a serum that kept Claire alive to deliver Aaron.  There are a few problems with this.  Danielle… Was she far enough along when she ended up on the island that she was able to deliver Alex without a problem?  And Karl seems to be around Alex’s age; was he not born on the island?  He seems a bit young to have been recruited.  And Ben himself… if he’s spent his whole life on the island, how did his mother survive to give birth to him?

Kinda scary for Sun.

I was a bit surprised to see Juliet in bed with Goodwin.  (At first I thought he was Pickett. I get my dead Others confused sometimes.)

Okay, so many people suspected that Juliet being left behind was a con.  It’s been even better orchestrated than I had imagined.  The Others left a remote-activated implant in Claire that could kill her unless Juliet stepped in to save her?  Talk about planning!  To what end is all of this?

Why Juliet was crying in “A Tale of Two Cities” opening

Now we know. Before we knew who Juliet was, we saw her burn muffins in the oven and have a little crying jag before the book club started. Many people were wondering why she cried, though it didn’t seem the most important part of that episode. Ben spelled it out for us last night.

Juliet was crying because she knew Ben was dying.

Ben said he found out he was dying from his tumor two days before a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky. The book club scene was the day of the crash. Two days sounds about right for letting news like that get to you before breaking down crying.

I think Juliet and Ben were romantically involved. Not at the time of the crash, but sometime prior to that. She still cared for him, though, which is why the news upset her. But she didn’t want anyone else to know how upset she was, either. The news kinda reframes the whole book club sequence now.

Things have obviously changed now. Ben’s inhumane treatment of the plane crash survivors has altered Juliet’s feelings about his impending death. Perhaps there was some minor resentment over his apparent leadership before the crash, but the way he’s chosen to handle things with secrecy and torture has made it a much more palpable aura of mutiny now.

And now it’s all up to Jack, who must find it a little odd that Ben’s plan to make him not view them as the enemy was to imprison and torture him until he broke.

How did Juliet get the dossier on Jack? Could Smokey be the informant?

Juliet sure knew a lot about Jack when she opened up that gigantic file and began telling him about his college days, his career, and his marriage.

It’s been postulated that she could’ve gotten this information from Ethan, who lived among the survivors for a while, or from Ben when he was imprisoned in the Swan hatch. Or from Jack himself as a side effect of whatever drug he was given when he was first captured. Or maybe, just maybe, the Others have contact with the outside world via the internet or satellite or something.

I think it was the smoke monster. You know, we haven’t seen Smokey since he faced off with Mr. Eko in the jungle in “The 23rd Psalm.” When Mr. Eko faced off with Smokey, there were little electrical flashes of his memories in the smoke. What if the Others control Smokey, or can at least communicate with it? I also think that Smokey changes form and appearance, so just because Jack didn’t come face to face with a big black smoke monster doesn’t mean he hasn’t encountered Smokey. Smokey could’ve grabbed some of his memories to be “read” by the Others.

Perhaps it’s a little more “out there” than the other suggestions, but it does help tie things together a little better from earlier episodes.