Uncharted Island

Okay, I needed more space! It’s the commercial break immediately following Sawyer’s plunge into the ocean.

Another Sayid hit. Long hair is quite becoming on him, even though he is a hitman.

“I think visiting hours are over, dude.”

What circumstances have changed? Bentham’s dead, two days ago.

Sayid stopped Hurley from saying who Bentham really is. Guessing that it’s Ben seems too easy, too obvious. Bentham? They wouldn’t do that, would they?

Hurley was playing chess against Mr. Eko. Does Hurley get to talk to everyone who died on the island?

Keamy’s last words. “Wherever you go, Widmore will find you.”
“Not if I find him first.”

And there’s the red light.

That was too tense. I couldn’t type at all until this commercial break. Sun watching Jin run up onto the deck of the ship as they pulled away on the helicopter… Oh my God. It’s a miracle they were able to keep her from jumping. They would’ve had to hold me back, in her place.

And Christian showing up to bid Michael farewell? A nice touch. “You can go now.” So I was right. The island was done with him. He was allowed to die. So Hurley did know that Michael was dead when Walt came to visit him in the mental hospital. Desmond would’ve been able to tell him that Michael stayed behind to give everyone else a chance to get off the boat.

I suppose it is possible that Jin could’ve survived. He was on the very edge of the deck when the first explosion occured. He could’ve jumped…

Who is the second man that Sun blames for Jin’s death?

Sun is meeting Mr. Widmore in London. Curious. She’s calling him on his knowledge about the island. Is she going to be able to make him an offer he can’t refuse? “As you know, we’re not the only ones who left the island.” Is she talking about Ben?

“If I were you, I’d duck.”

Is Ben moving the island? Jack told Frank to go back to the island. Moving it would be a good reason for that not to happen.

“Is that our boat?”
“It was.”

Good reason to be drinking DHARMA rum, Juliet. But isn’t it odd that they can see the smoke from the wreckage of the freighter from across the island’s border protections? I think it’s odd.

Right now, Sawyer is just wondering if he made a great decision that just saved his life, or a terrible decision because he left Kate to die while saving his own sorry hide.

Ben’s going somewhere cold. Jacob didn’t tell Locke how to move the island because he didn’t want Locke to suffer the consequences. Whoever moves the island can never come back. This is when Ben ends up in Tunisia. He loses the better part of a year.

“You’ll find your way, John. You always do.” He told Locke how to assume leadership of the Others. Whoa.

Richard Alpert knows. He was expecting it. “Welcome home.”

Ben had to destroy the Vault to get behind it through the hole in the wall, hence all the metal. He’s got a crowbar. Quite the tunnel through there. To a chamber of ice. A broken ladder. Jacob’s ladder? That’s how Ben hurts his arm.

There’s a big friggin’ wheel. Frozen.

“I hope you’re happy now, Jacob.”

Ben seems like way too much fo a wuss to be able to turn that big ol’ wheel that moves the whole island. Is the sky about to turn purple again?

There is a bright light emanating from this wheel. And Ben just got pixellated like Hurley did earlier.

Wow. That was a bright light. And… whoosh. It was gone. That was pretty cool. Except that it sucks for everyone on that raft Dan had, and for the people in the helicopter who were hoping to get back to the island. How do you hold onto a baby when your helicopter crashes into the ocean?

This underwater sequence is too freaky and disturbing.

Desmond… is he okay? He can’t die!He has to get back to Penny! Come on, Jack. Oh good. The island may be gone, taking with it its magical healing powers. But CPR is still CPR.

They keep changing the type of film they’re shooting on. It’s very distracting.

Is Kate about to start seeing dead people in this flash forward? Backward talking on the phone?

OMG. It’s Claire. She came to see Aaron. “Don’t bring him back, Kate. Don’t you dare bring him back.” She dreamt it, but she’s started seeing dead people, too. Only she’s not being told to go back to the island. She’s being told not to bring Aaron back.

Why is Kate telling Aaron she’s sorry?

“I can’t believe he did it.”
“Who did what?”
“Locke. He moved the island.”

“If you’ve got another explanation, man, I’d love to hear it.” Awesome, Hurley.

There’s a boat. This is such a reflection of the season one finale.

“We have to lie.”

This is where the lying starts. Kate doesn’t think they can pull it off, but Jack thinks they can, if they let him do all the talking.

The Searcher. IT’S PENNY’S BOAT!

I’m so happy for Penny and Desmond that I’nm crying. That kiss may be even better than the one Sawyer gave Kate tonight.

“How did you find me?”
“Your phone call. I have a tracking station.”

If they’re going to lie about everything, I guess Penny Widmore is the one who can help them pull it off.

Octagon Global Recruiting. What was that ad all about?

One week later. Membata. Penny’s going to help them stage their fake rescue. “Just long enough to give you a nice, convincing sunburn.”

Well, that explains how Desmond and Frank don’t have to be explained.

“Don’t let ‘em find you, Desmond.”

“I’ll see you in another life, brother.” Nice turnabout.

At least they got a nice week to relax on Penny’s boat before having to start living their life as a lie.

Jack’s flash forward, back at the Hoffs/Drawlar funeral home. He’s gonna break in. To look in the coffin? See if Betham is really dead? The coffin is much bigger now, I think.

Ben is talking to Jack. Alive? “Did he tell you I was off the island?”

“He told me that, after I left the island, some very bad things happened, and it was my fault for leaving. And I had to go back.”

“The island won’t let you come alone. All of you have to go back.”

Ben has a few ideas.

Dammit. Everyone who said that Locke was in the coffin was right. Dammit. Dammit. DAMMIT!

Locke is Jeremy Bentham.

Jack’s not looking so hot. Hey doc, you got a bit of sweat… all over there.

Those were some pretty little red panties. And… a Millennium Falcon? “Yankees bludgeon Red Sox in Series Sweep.” My baseball history is a bit off, but I’m sure someone else already knows the exact date by now.

Is that… Juliet’s voice from the shower? They always try to do that “husky voice” thing to mask an identity until we see the person’s face. Whoa wait… Kate? And they’re… smooching?

Oh my. This is not a happy day for Skaters.

Jack’s reading to Aaron. Aww! Nice moon and stars mobile above that big boy toddler bed. (My son is almost three and still in his crib.) I’ll need a closer look at the screencaps later because I was typing; did Aaron look

Jack’s referring to his dad in the past tense. He was a good storyteller. So hopefully that will put those “Christian is still alive” theories to rest that cropped up when Jack went all crazy back in the first flash-forward where he went off on the Chief of Surgery about seeing if his father was drunker than he was.

What did Jack change his mind about? Kate is so glad he changed his mind. She’s so glad he’s here. And… a nice little panty shot for the hot-blooded males out there.

Miles heard some ghosts. Danielle and Karl’s ghosts. He found their bodies. Dammit. Danielle really is dead. No flashback. Poor Claire… she looked like she was going to be sick.
I give her credit for not throwing up all over the place. A few months on this weird island still wouldn’t prepare me for the sight of an unexpected shallow grave containing the decomposing bodies of people I’d talked to a few days ago.

Juliet has a great solution for not being able to trust Dan and Charlotte. Give Jin a gun and tell him to shoot them in the leg if they try to run. Because he will.

Sawyer’s funny, warning Miles off of Claire. Restraining order! LOL! “What are you, her big brother?” He was all protective about Hurley last week, and now it’s Claire.

It would really suck needing to have surgery on the beach. And Jack wants to be conscious to watch the surgery and talk Juliet through it? And he wants Kate to be there with them, holding the mirror. Yikes.

Whoa. Jack just saw his dad walking through the lobby. And Dr. Stillman from Santa Rosa called him about Hurley’s refusal to take his meds. Oh dear.

Hurley’s convinced they’re all dead and never got off the island. The voice of some fans with a theory! Ah, that’s what he changed his mind about… Kate. Or not Kate, but Aaron. Because that’s why he didn’t want to go see Kate for more than just coffee. After the trial. So this flash forward takes place sometime between “Eggtown” but before “Through the Looking Glass.”

Hurley was happy until he saw Charlie. And apparently Charlie keeps visiting him and sitting with him on the bench. Charlie knew that Jack would be stopping by, and gave him a message. “You’re not supposed to raise him, Jack.” Oh dear. “You think he means Aaron?” I hope he doesn’t mean it as a warning against necromancy and his father… who will apparently be paying him a visit soon. Because Charlie said he would.

Dan wants to go in first, to “make sure it’s safe.” Was that code? Or was he all nervous like that because, like Sun and Jin said, he likes her?

Frank Lapidus! “Keamy’s coming back, and if he sees you, he’s going to kill ya.”

The birds were very helpful, deciding to start chirping just when Aaron started to fuss. The Island at work! And Frank really does have the best interest of the castaways at heart.

“So it looks like I’m going to be your nurse.” “Wouldn’t be the first time.”

That was a weird angle for that shot into Jack’s car window. Waiting for Charlie? And he’s worried about if he’s “good at this,” being a dad. And… he just proposed. He’s got a ring. It’s pretty! I’m guessing that’s platinum, not white gold, since the Oceanic 6 are loaded. And Kate said yes.

Will we find out what goes wrong before the end of this episode? I mean, something has to go wrong for Jack to hit the bottle and call Kate to meet him in a secluded place instead of just talking to her at home.

I knew she understood them. I knew she did. She’s an anthropologist. I didn’t need to see her smile when Sun and Jin were talking about her to know.

That was a tense surgery scene.

What’s that beeping? “St. Sebastian Neurosurgery Group.” It’s the smoke detector. I hate when that happens. It’s always in the middle of the night!

And… Christian’s kicking back on a black leather couch in the lobby. Who is that woman, Erica? Thanks to my husband! Jericho. She was Hawkins’ wife. And she just wrote him a scrip for clonazepam. That Klonopin is good stuff for anxiety, and sleep.

Kate was on the phone with Maureen, one of the moms from the park. Huh. This from the woman who said she doesn’t do taco night.

Hey, uh, Jack… chasing two of those pills with a beer can really mess you up. I guess this is the beginning of the end for his happiness.

WHOA! Was NOT expecting Claire to wake up and see Christian holding Aaron! “Dad?” Yeah, now Claire sees dead people. She just doesn’t know he’s dead… just that he’s not supposed to be there.

Bernard’s pretty handy to have in a makeshift operating room, even if he’d only ever performed dental surgery.

Uncomfortable girl talk. Juliet’s telling Kate about how Jack kissed her… and that she doesn’t think he meant it for her, but to prove that he doesn’t love Kate. Sigh.

And Jack was awake to hear it.

Jack is trashed on the couch. He’s paranoid and suspcious about why Kate stayed out late. “I’m going to ask you to trust me.” Sorry, Kate, but what kind of an answer is that? What are you hiding?

“I was doing something for him. For Sawyer.”

Sawyer chose to stay. Sawyer chose to stay on the island, and Jack chose to come back with Kate to save her. Sawyer doesn’t die. (Phew!) At least not before the Oceanic 6 leave.

“Your son? You’re not even related to him!” Does Jack know, then, that Christian was Claire’s father, too? Oh… Aaron heard him. And was clutching a stuffed Shamu toy.

Miles told Sawyer that Claire walked off with someone she called Dad.

That is just a weird picture… dirty, scruffy Sawyer with a gun on his back, in the middle of the jungle, holding Aaron in a blanket.

The preview for next week… Was that Ben’s dad talking to Locke? Or someone else who was gassed in the Purge?

Please, please, please… PLEASE reveal Cooper as the real Sawyer. How many commercial breaks will we have to go through before the reveal? If there is one…. and I’m counting on it.

“Don’t you know where we are?” Creepy! This bodes well for those who believe that Locke has been on the island before. Because of his father.

Ben seems to think that taking pregnant women from the beach camp is fine and dandy. Of course it’s not the first time, Ben. We’ve been watching for three seasons. Why not just ask them? Explain to them why you want them with you? Having lived on the island his whole life, he really needs to work on those social skills.

Jack was with the Others for 10 days. Is that all? It seems like he was with them for months. The timeline does drag on a bit.

Whoa… scary Sawyer. I thought he was about to turn green and start smashing things. *shudder* I’m still betting on Locke’s prisoner being Cooper, not Ben.

Ben apologized to the myriad of Others for the lack of a public execution. I almost wonder if the real test was to see if he wouldn’t kill him, rather than what he was asked to do.

And in the belly of the Black Rock with a bag over his head… was Cooper. Okay, at least I can chalk one of for the evening. And we’re at the halfway point.

Why would Richard Alpert confide in Locke about Ben wanting everyone to see him fail? Oh, I see. He kinda sides with Juliet in the want for new leadership. This is very encouraging!

PAYOFF! TWO FOR TWO!

So Cooper gets rear-ended and gets the Scully treatment - the The X-Files - Fight the Futurebit where the fake ambulance opts for the cryogenic alien-breeding chamber in the Antarctic instead of the hospital ward - but he finds himself on the island instead of a spaceship. And he thinks he’s in hell. (Sartre comes to mind - Hell is other people. Or in this case Other people?) Oh, the kittens. Someone think of the kittens! (The ones that die whenever someone mentions Purgatory, which is only a breath away from hell in this case.)

Okay, so I wanted Cooper to be revealed as Sawyer… but that whole scene was so disturbing. The way Cooper reacted so flippantly. You could see the rage building on Sawyer’s face. He didn’t take him seriously, when Sawyer’s whole life was building toward this moment… much like Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride. (”Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) I know Sawyer shot the guy he thought was the real Sawyer back in Sydney. It’s one thing to shoot a guy. It’s a quick, impersonal manner of death. Strangling Cooper with the chain - *shudder* - that was disturbing. It only takes a moment of rage to pull a trigger. But Sawyer had to follow through, pulling the chain tighter until Cooper stopped struggling…

Oh Kate, how can you be so stupid? You just told Juliet about Naomi. Wait, what? What do Jack and Juliet know about Naomi?

One last thought. Thank you, Ben, for the throwaway line about the magic box being a metaphor. I wonder if that was added in just to shut the fans up about some of the wilder theories about a literal magic box.

Sawyer. My personal favorite.  Honestly, how many [heterosexual] women don’t love the bad boys? He’s got that slow, sexy drawl.  He always has a snappy comeback, or at least a funny nickname for people.  He’s done some really despicable things, but he has the capacity for good. He loves his daughter.  He loves Kate.  He wears dorky glasses because he loves reading. 

Desmond. He was a bit of a mystery for an entire season, until we got the biggest flashback ever.  He has a real hang-up about honor, which is what drove him to compete in the boat race around the world that ended with his shipwreck on the island instead of staying home to fight for Penny.  He’s got a gorgeous accent, brutha.  He has a stuffed bunny.  (Aww!)  He was courageous enough to risk his own life to save Locke and the others by turning the fail-safe key.  And like Wesley and Buttercup in The Princess Bride, what Desmond and Penny have is true love; the Dread Pirate Roberts couldn’t keep Wesley away forever, and this island can’t keep Desmond away forever.  I hope.

Jack. Doctors are often sought-after in the dating pool, although only Kate seemed to be remotely interested in him on the island.  A natural leader, he’s strong in body, mind, and spirit.  And check out those tattoos, if you’re into that.  He’s very adept, whether at sharpshooting or performing miraculous surgery on otherwise inoperable injuries.  I’d definitely want him nearby if I were stranded on an island; you never know when you may need some stitches or a makeshift blood transfusion or something.  If you can get past his cocky attitude, he’s generally a pretty good guy.

Sayid.  Ignoring the fact that he’s tortured a number of people, Sayid is one of the good guys, too.  And quite attractive.  Even the shallow blonde Shannon fell for him on the island, though had she reported him as a potential terrorist in Sydney.  (If she only knew!)  Sayid seems to be thinking more clearly than anyone else on the island, including the beach’s generally accepted leader Jack.  He was the one who figured out that Michael was acting shady, and it wasn’t his fault that Michael’s betrayal succeeded anyway.

Jin. Ignoring the fact that he was one of the heavies for Mr. Paik of Paik Heavy Industry, well, you also have to ignore his nature of needing to control his wife.  He does love Sun very much, and all of the terrible things he’s done have been for her.  Who cares if he’s the son of a village fisherman?  If he could get over that nasty temper of his, he’d be quite a catch.

As soon as Ben told Sawyer they put a pacemaker in, I said to my husband that they were just messing with him. Turns out, I was right. I guess it can still happen, sometimes. Conning the con man to gain his trust; funny, I thought they were just doing it to mess with his head. Then again, I didn’t realize that Sawyer was playing the other convict to buy himself a get out of jail free card.

He has a daughter named Clementine. Didn’t see that coming.

We have confirmation of the two island theory. Every since we saw Pala Ferry last year, the forums had been a-buzz with the possibility of a second island. The pan-out shot we had during the season opener seemed to discredit the theory, but either they used a deceiving camera angle, or the book club village is on the Losties island. Or Ben was lying, and they are still standing on the Losties island, and the other island is just another island. Many possibilities.

“The sub is back.” So that explains a lot. They have a submarine. Helps explain how the Others have been able to sneak up out of the water without being noticed and without being wet.

So what are Sawyer and Kate going to do now? Stuffed in their bear cages with no place to run.

Something just occured to me. Karl asked where the plane crashed so he could escape to the Losties. Wouldn’t he, as an Other, know that it was a different island? Maybe that lends credence to them still being on the original island. Or maybe the young people are kept in the dark about what happens outside their little compound. Lots to think about.

Jack couldn’t save Colleen. But will he end up saving Ben? That’s what the previews suggest. If I were Ben, I don’t know if I’d want to trust my life to the man I’ve been psychologically torturing for weeks.

And Desmond is almost certainly a precog. He knew that, not only was it going to rain at a certain moment, but that a hole in Claire’s roof would open up over the baby and that lightning would strike his homemade golf club tower. This could certainly be interesting. Will the future he sees always come true, or will he be able to change the future by taking measures to avoid what he sees coming true? Personally, I’d like his “visions” to be like Min Farshaw’s vision in the Wheel of Time series. When she sees something and knows what it means, it always comes true, no matter what she or anyone else tries to do to change it.

Kate loves Sawyer. She denied it later, but we know she loves him. And he loves her. We’ve known that for a while. Will the writers actually do something interesting about it? I hope so.

I have to admit it. I’m a total Sawyer fangirl. Is it the eyes? The hair? That slow, sexy drawl? His generally rugged good looks? Or is it that whole bad boy persona of his?

I think it’s a little bit of everything, and I know I’m not alone. I don’t know if there are more Sawyer fans in the LOST community or if we’re just more vocal than the fans of the other male survivors of Flight 815, but the forums and fan art galleries all seem to have more Sawyer love than love for anyone else.

Sawyer has a lot of great one-liners. Zingers. His special brand of sarcasm is something many guys envy and many gals drool over.

“Guess what? I JUST SHOT A BEAR!”

“What? You got union trouble down at the sand factory, Norma Rae?”

“You versus Sun, hot oil death match? My money’s on you, Sheena.”

He has a nickname for everyone. Freckles. Chewie. Doc. Grape Ape. Captain Falafel. Hot Lips. Tattoo. Mamacita. Shaft. Jabba. Moonbeam. Mr. Clean. Sticks. Tokyo Rose. Gazoo. I could go on…

We Sawyer fans all know we probably shouldn’t like him so much. He’s not a nice guy. He let Sayid torture him instead of admitting he didn’t have Shannon’s inhalers. He conspired with Charlie to stage an attack on Sun in order to steal all the guns and stockpile supplies. Off the island, he turned into the very con man he hated. He killed a man after being duped into thinking this man was the real Sawyer.

But there’s just something so… irresistable about Sawyer. Maybe it’s the dorky glasses he wears to prevent the blinding headaches he gets from reading. Maybe it’s finally admitting to Jack that he’s the closest thing he’s got to a real friend on the island. I don’t know. It’s a Sawyer thing.

Are there any other Sawyer fangirls out there? What’s your favorite thing about Sawyer? If you’re not a Sawyer fan, don’t worry. We’ll be covering character love for the other survivors, too!