I may not be able to recap today's episode very soon after the episode ends, like last time, but I'll try to get it up ASAP (hopefully tonight...might be a bit later).
Also, if you are so inclined, there are major spoilers for today's episode!! Please click on the link on the right to view them.
See ya a little later!
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Episode 15 - Across the Sea RECAP
Just finished watching this...here's my summary, for those of you who missed it:
Debris washes ashore - appears to be a shipwreck.
A woman washes ashore, very pregnant, amongst pieces of the shipwreck. She stumbles on shore and wanders through the island, and starts to wash her face in a creek. She sees a reflection and is startled. An older, middle-aged lady appears and asks to help her. The older lady feeds her and asks who she is, and the younger lady answers and says she is Claudia. Claudia starts talking about how she has to go see if any others on her ship survived, but the lady stops her and tells her that if there are any other survivors, she would find them. The lady says she got there the same way she did – by accident.
The girl goes into labor, and the older lady helps deliver the baby. A boy is born - he is named Jacob. Lo and behold, another baby starts coming out – another boy! The lady asks what his name should be, and the girl says that she only picked one name. She wants to see him, but the older lady says…sorry…and bludgeons her. Buh-bye, Claudia.
Flashing forward, a young boy (MIB) finds a box on the shore, and sees that it’s a game. Jacob asks about what it is…MIB invites him to play. How does he know how, Jacob asks? He says he just knows. He tells Jacob not to tell Mom – she’ll take it away. Jacob agrees, and says he wants to play.
The "Mom" is weaving a tapestry. Jacob offers to help. Mom asks what they were doing. Jacob lies and says they were walking. Mom asks if he loves her…Jacob says yes. She gets him to tell her the truth.
Mom joins MIB on a log. Mom tells MIB that he’s special. He asks where it came from, and she says that the game came from her…where else would it have come from? He answers, "Across the sea." She tells him that there is nothing beyond the sea... that the island is all there is. He asks about where she came from…she says her Mom, and her Mom from her Mom, and so forth. Her Mom is dead. What’s dead, he asks? She answers that it's something they’ll never have to worry about.
The boys chase a boar. It gets killed by other people. Jacob wants to know who they are. The boys later ask Mom who they are, and what they’re there for. Mom says they’re there for a reason…the men are not like them.
What reason, they wonder?
She leads them blindfolded, and explains that all people hurt each other. She tells the boys that she made it so that they could never hurt each other. She tells them the men are from another part of the island.
She leads them to a golden, glowing cave of light. MIB asks what is down there…she says it’s light…the warmest, brightest light you’ve ever seen. And she stated it was imporant to make sure no one finds it. MIB is fascinated. She says people want it – it’s something that’s inside all of us, but people always want more of it. It has to be protected - if the light goes out there, it goes out everywhere. She is protecting it, but can’t protect it forever. Who will? She says it’s going to have to be one of them.
Later, the boys are playing their game. MIB tells Jacob to follow his rules...when he gets his own game, Jacob can follow HIS rules. A woman (Claudia) appears to MIB, but Jacob doesn’t see her. MIB leaves to find her a little further in the woods. He asks why Jacob can’t see her, and she says because she’s dead. She wants to show him where he comes from – across the island, where he’s never seen. He follows her to a little village. They’ve been there since 13 years ago…the ship was wrecked in a storm. She explains that they came across the sea – surprised, he says there’s nothing across the sea...but she tells him that he came from there. She also tells him that she’s his mother – NOT the other lady.
That night, MIB is trying to wake Jacob up, and asks him to come with him. They sneak out while their mother is sleeping. He tells Jacob that they’re leaving and not coming back – he’s going to the other people. Jacob resists, and they fight when MIB tells him that the lady they thought was their mother was lying this whole time - she’s not their mother. The lady walks up and Jacob tells her MIB’s leaving to the other people…MIB tells the woman that he knows she killed their real mother, and that everything was a lie. He tells her that he is leaving for "them". He tries to get Jacob to come with him. Jacob won’t.
The woman tells him that no matter what anyone tells him, he will never be able to leave the island.
Later, Jacob and the lady are sitting on a log, and he asks her if MIB will come back…the lady tells him no. He asks if it’s true that she’s not his mother…she admits it. She says that the other people are bad, and she couldn’t let them become one of “them”. He asks if he’s like his mother, and she tells him yes. He asks why she loves MIB more than him. She says she loves them both in different ways, and asks him to stay with her. He says yes...for a while.
Fast forward and adult Jacob is weaving the tapestry. He asks his mom if she’s ok…she says she is tired.
Back in the village, MIB is with the other people. Jacob visits him to play their game. They talk about the woman. MIB asks why he wants this. Jacob wants to know if mother is right about “them” – MIB’s people – if they’re bad. MIB says he has lived amongst them for 30 years – they’re selfish and greedy, but they’re a means to an end. Jacob doesn’t think they’re all bad. MIB disagrees.
MIB says that he is leaving the island. Jacob says it’s impossible. MIB throws a dagger and they watch it adhere to a well like a magnet. MIB says there are men who are curious as to how things work…and they’ve found areas where metal behaves strangely. He said they dug around and found something. He asks Jacob to come with him. Jacob says he doesn’t want to leave - this is his home. MIB says it’s not his home.
Jacob tells his "mother" that MIB found a way to leave the island.
She sneaks into the village. She sees people going up and down the well. A wheel is being built. Down in the well, MIB is fiddling with some coals, and notices the woman. She asks to join him, he says yes. She tells him she is worried. He says that he searched for the place she showed him long ago (the cave), and he said that he searched for the light over every square inch of the island. He claims to have finally found it from underneath the island. He pries off a stone, and we see the light beam through…and a wheel is revealed. The wheel is meant to open it…to attach to the system and channel the water and light…and then he’ll be able to get off the island. She begs him not to do this…not to go. MIB says he doesn’t belong here. She says goodbye. They hug. She apologizes to him first, and then she knocks him against the stones. He falls backwards...passed out.
Jacob is sleeping. Mother wakes him up. She says it’s time. She says that she had to say goodbye to his brother, and she leads Jacob to the light/cave. She says he will have to protect it, now. He asks what’s down there…she says it’s the heart of the island…life, death, rebirth. She asks him to promise her that he will never go down there…it would be worse than death.
She takes out the bottle of wine (?) and pours it into a cup. She gives it to him to drink. In doing so, she says, he accepts the responsibility of protecting this place…her time is over. He’s mad that she always seemed to favor MIB and wanted MIB originally to be the protector…but since MIB was no longer there, he was the only choice by default. She says it was always supposed to be him…she realizes that, now. She urges him to drink from the cup. He takes it and drinks. Then she informs him that they are now the same.
Meanwhile, MIB is laying on the ground, and he comes around. The well is destroyed/buried, and the village is burned to the ground. Everyone’s dead. He finds the game and weeps…but he is enraged.
A storm rumbles, and Jacob and the mom are walking in the woods. She tells him to go get some firewood, and to be careful. He goes off, and she comes across the fire that MIB made. She finds the game, and takes out two rocks – one black, one white. As she’s looking at them, MIB comes behind her and stabs her, killing her. He asks why she wouldn’t let him leave..she says it’s because she loves him. She thanks him. He weeps. Jacob comes up behind him, and Jacob attacks him. He beats the crap out of MIB, and hauls him, protesting the whole way, to the cave. He flings him down on the rocks in the water, knocking him out, and his body drifts into the cave. Suddenly, the smoke monster comes flying out.
He finds MIB’s body tangled up in a tree, lifeless. He hugs him and starts to cry. He takes the body back home, next to the mom’s body. He picks up the rocks that fell out of the mother’s hand, and puts them into a pouch. They flash to Jack finding them with Kate...and when Locke referenced the bodies as "Adam and Eve".
Jacob says, "Goodbye, brother. Goodbye."
BOOM.
(I'll tweak this later and add my own slants to it...but this is the jist of the episode.)
Debris washes ashore - appears to be a shipwreck.
A woman washes ashore, very pregnant, amongst pieces of the shipwreck. She stumbles on shore and wanders through the island, and starts to wash her face in a creek. She sees a reflection and is startled. An older, middle-aged lady appears and asks to help her. The older lady feeds her and asks who she is, and the younger lady answers and says she is Claudia. Claudia starts talking about how she has to go see if any others on her ship survived, but the lady stops her and tells her that if there are any other survivors, she would find them. The lady says she got there the same way she did – by accident.
The girl goes into labor, and the older lady helps deliver the baby. A boy is born - he is named Jacob. Lo and behold, another baby starts coming out – another boy! The lady asks what his name should be, and the girl says that she only picked one name. She wants to see him, but the older lady says…sorry…and bludgeons her. Buh-bye, Claudia.
Flashing forward, a young boy (MIB) finds a box on the shore, and sees that it’s a game. Jacob asks about what it is…MIB invites him to play. How does he know how, Jacob asks? He says he just knows. He tells Jacob not to tell Mom – she’ll take it away. Jacob agrees, and says he wants to play.
The "Mom" is weaving a tapestry. Jacob offers to help. Mom asks what they were doing. Jacob lies and says they were walking. Mom asks if he loves her…Jacob says yes. She gets him to tell her the truth.
Mom joins MIB on a log. Mom tells MIB that he’s special. He asks where it came from, and she says that the game came from her…where else would it have come from? He answers, "Across the sea." She tells him that there is nothing beyond the sea... that the island is all there is. He asks about where she came from…she says her Mom, and her Mom from her Mom, and so forth. Her Mom is dead. What’s dead, he asks? She answers that it's something they’ll never have to worry about.
The boys chase a boar. It gets killed by other people. Jacob wants to know who they are. The boys later ask Mom who they are, and what they’re there for. Mom says they’re there for a reason…the men are not like them.
What reason, they wonder?
She leads them blindfolded, and explains that all people hurt each other. She tells the boys that she made it so that they could never hurt each other. She tells them the men are from another part of the island.
She leads them to a golden, glowing cave of light. MIB asks what is down there…she says it’s light…the warmest, brightest light you’ve ever seen. And she stated it was imporant to make sure no one finds it. MIB is fascinated. She says people want it – it’s something that’s inside all of us, but people always want more of it. It has to be protected - if the light goes out there, it goes out everywhere. She is protecting it, but can’t protect it forever. Who will? She says it’s going to have to be one of them.
Later, the boys are playing their game. MIB tells Jacob to follow his rules...when he gets his own game, Jacob can follow HIS rules. A woman (Claudia) appears to MIB, but Jacob doesn’t see her. MIB leaves to find her a little further in the woods. He asks why Jacob can’t see her, and she says because she’s dead. She wants to show him where he comes from – across the island, where he’s never seen. He follows her to a little village. They’ve been there since 13 years ago…the ship was wrecked in a storm. She explains that they came across the sea – surprised, he says there’s nothing across the sea...but she tells him that he came from there. She also tells him that she’s his mother – NOT the other lady.
That night, MIB is trying to wake Jacob up, and asks him to come with him. They sneak out while their mother is sleeping. He tells Jacob that they’re leaving and not coming back – he’s going to the other people. Jacob resists, and they fight when MIB tells him that the lady they thought was their mother was lying this whole time - she’s not their mother. The lady walks up and Jacob tells her MIB’s leaving to the other people…MIB tells the woman that he knows she killed their real mother, and that everything was a lie. He tells her that he is leaving for "them". He tries to get Jacob to come with him. Jacob won’t.
The woman tells him that no matter what anyone tells him, he will never be able to leave the island.
Later, Jacob and the lady are sitting on a log, and he asks her if MIB will come back…the lady tells him no. He asks if it’s true that she’s not his mother…she admits it. She says that the other people are bad, and she couldn’t let them become one of “them”. He asks if he’s like his mother, and she tells him yes. He asks why she loves MIB more than him. She says she loves them both in different ways, and asks him to stay with her. He says yes...for a while.
Fast forward and adult Jacob is weaving the tapestry. He asks his mom if she’s ok…she says she is tired.
Back in the village, MIB is with the other people. Jacob visits him to play their game. They talk about the woman. MIB asks why he wants this. Jacob wants to know if mother is right about “them” – MIB’s people – if they’re bad. MIB says he has lived amongst them for 30 years – they’re selfish and greedy, but they’re a means to an end. Jacob doesn’t think they’re all bad. MIB disagrees.
MIB says that he is leaving the island. Jacob says it’s impossible. MIB throws a dagger and they watch it adhere to a well like a magnet. MIB says there are men who are curious as to how things work…and they’ve found areas where metal behaves strangely. He said they dug around and found something. He asks Jacob to come with him. Jacob says he doesn’t want to leave - this is his home. MIB says it’s not his home.
Jacob tells his "mother" that MIB found a way to leave the island.
She sneaks into the village. She sees people going up and down the well. A wheel is being built. Down in the well, MIB is fiddling with some coals, and notices the woman. She asks to join him, he says yes. She tells him she is worried. He says that he searched for the place she showed him long ago (the cave), and he said that he searched for the light over every square inch of the island. He claims to have finally found it from underneath the island. He pries off a stone, and we see the light beam through…and a wheel is revealed. The wheel is meant to open it…to attach to the system and channel the water and light…and then he’ll be able to get off the island. She begs him not to do this…not to go. MIB says he doesn’t belong here. She says goodbye. They hug. She apologizes to him first, and then she knocks him against the stones. He falls backwards...passed out.
Jacob is sleeping. Mother wakes him up. She says it’s time. She says that she had to say goodbye to his brother, and she leads Jacob to the light/cave. She says he will have to protect it, now. He asks what’s down there…she says it’s the heart of the island…life, death, rebirth. She asks him to promise her that he will never go down there…it would be worse than death.
She takes out the bottle of wine (?) and pours it into a cup. She gives it to him to drink. In doing so, she says, he accepts the responsibility of protecting this place…her time is over. He’s mad that she always seemed to favor MIB and wanted MIB originally to be the protector…but since MIB was no longer there, he was the only choice by default. She says it was always supposed to be him…she realizes that, now. She urges him to drink from the cup. He takes it and drinks. Then she informs him that they are now the same.
Meanwhile, MIB is laying on the ground, and he comes around. The well is destroyed/buried, and the village is burned to the ground. Everyone’s dead. He finds the game and weeps…but he is enraged.
A storm rumbles, and Jacob and the mom are walking in the woods. She tells him to go get some firewood, and to be careful. He goes off, and she comes across the fire that MIB made. She finds the game, and takes out two rocks – one black, one white. As she’s looking at them, MIB comes behind her and stabs her, killing her. He asks why she wouldn’t let him leave..she says it’s because she loves him. She thanks him. He weeps. Jacob comes up behind him, and Jacob attacks him. He beats the crap out of MIB, and hauls him, protesting the whole way, to the cave. He flings him down on the rocks in the water, knocking him out, and his body drifts into the cave. Suddenly, the smoke monster comes flying out.
He finds MIB’s body tangled up in a tree, lifeless. He hugs him and starts to cry. He takes the body back home, next to the mom’s body. He picks up the rocks that fell out of the mother’s hand, and puts them into a pouch. They flash to Jack finding them with Kate...and when Locke referenced the bodies as "Adam and Eve".
Jacob says, "Goodbye, brother. Goodbye."
BOOM.
(I'll tweak this later and add my own slants to it...but this is the jist of the episode.)
Monday, May 10, 2010
New Stuff...and Faster Recaps!
I am keeping all my spoiler info on another link (off to the right), since there are a lot of people who are ONLY looking for recaps, and would be ticked off to inadvertently see the spoilers. I came across some nifty info tidbits today, so if you're interested, feel free to click over there...and enjoy!
Also, I'll try to do my recaps ASAP, starting tomorrow with "Across the Sea". We are currently in a unique situation, in which we disconnected our satellite to save some cash (we live out in the boonies - no cable access, can't TIVO, etc.), and we're doing the old fashioned antenna stuff. :p I've been spoiled by DVR, but got so ticked off about Dish Network wiping out our DVR every two seconds before I could view my recorded stuff...so BUH-bye to them. I'm not going to pay good money for something that continuously screws up on the most important things I want to watch...what's the point?
Anyhoo...I got frustrated that ABC.com doesn't post their latest LOST episodes until the next day, and I missed it last week thanks to our satellite disconnect and lack of antenna (had to view it on abc.com - not so bad through the lappy, but the fact that I had to WAIT was aggravating)...but I'm not gonna let that happen again. I about died...LOL! I tried for several hours, all in a tizzy, to see if anyone had recapped the latest LOST episode, and couldn't find ANYONE who did (if they're there, I couldn't find them!)...until the next day, that is. Sorry, can't wait that long - I'm WAY too impatient. Hee hee!
I can't be the only one who finds themselves in that sitch, so I'll try to do everyone a favor and get it typed up within an hour or two of viewing it (I'm on Central Time) so that others won't have to go through that frustration - so long as you can find me! It may not be perfect (I can always edit it further the next day), but at least it'll give some people an idea of what happened, if they happened to miss it and are going crazy trying to figure out what happened.
'Till next time! See ya tomorrow, folks!
Also, I'll try to do my recaps ASAP, starting tomorrow with "Across the Sea". We are currently in a unique situation, in which we disconnected our satellite to save some cash (we live out in the boonies - no cable access, can't TIVO, etc.), and we're doing the old fashioned antenna stuff. :p I've been spoiled by DVR, but got so ticked off about Dish Network wiping out our DVR every two seconds before I could view my recorded stuff...so BUH-bye to them. I'm not going to pay good money for something that continuously screws up on the most important things I want to watch...what's the point?
Anyhoo...I got frustrated that ABC.com doesn't post their latest LOST episodes until the next day, and I missed it last week thanks to our satellite disconnect and lack of antenna (had to view it on abc.com - not so bad through the lappy, but the fact that I had to WAIT was aggravating)...but I'm not gonna let that happen again. I about died...LOL! I tried for several hours, all in a tizzy, to see if anyone had recapped the latest LOST episode, and couldn't find ANYONE who did (if they're there, I couldn't find them!)...until the next day, that is. Sorry, can't wait that long - I'm WAY too impatient. Hee hee!
I can't be the only one who finds themselves in that sitch, so I'll try to do everyone a favor and get it typed up within an hour or two of viewing it (I'm on Central Time) so that others won't have to go through that frustration - so long as you can find me! It may not be perfect (I can always edit it further the next day), but at least it'll give some people an idea of what happened, if they happened to miss it and are going crazy trying to figure out what happened.
'Till next time! See ya tomorrow, folks!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Lost Season Six - Episode 14, "The Candidate"
Okay peeps, I have to admit, I'm wiggin' out, here. We're only a few episodes away from the friggin' finale, and I have so many dratted questions that I'm afraid that won't get answered in the end.
And what was the DEAL with torturing us for another week by running an unannounced rerun? (Was I the only one who was clueless to this?) I was all psyched last week, after a long, hard day, and was looking SO forward to viewing the latest episode. But nooooo...they HAD to run a darn rerun. I love me some Richard Alpert, but geez...not again?!
First off, would someone - anyone - puh-leez give Kate a different shirt to wear? The same Dharma-blah-generic-brownish thing is getting on my last nerves, especially since she apparently chose the smallest, tightest sized shirt available from Dharma to maximize boob emphasis. Don't get me wrong - I admire her athletic physique, but sheesh.
Claire and her wig is another contender for me to be flippant about - I swear I saw a bird fly outta there. I wish there was a scene where Kate or Sun would have sat gently down with her and helped her brush her hair out...or perhaps tackled her down and made her wash it or rinse it...just once.
Okay...'nuff of that.
In the flash-sideways/alt reality, Dr. Jack Shephard repairs Locke’s dural sac (hmmm...kinda similar to the story he tells to Kate on Season 1 - note to self: If you have an issue that involves your dural sac, do NOT go looking for Dr. Jacko, as he has a thing for puncturing and then patting himself on the back for repairing the darn things) and alt reality Locke is recovering in the hospital. They recognize each other from the baggage claim area on Oceanic 815. Jack informs him that he is a "candidate" (coinkidink? NOT) for new procedure that will probably "fix" his spinal cord issues/paralysis. Lockity-Locke tells him, "Nuh-uh," and Jack gets all up in his business, trying to figure out why on earth he would turn down the chance to walk again and have feeling in his legs. To me, however, it seemed Jack was more horrified at the prospect that Locke wasn't ALLOWING him to be the hero in it all. How DARE he keep Jack from "saving" him? The horror.
So Jack, being the pompous, nosey, control-freak bloke that he is, decides to take it upon himself to "investigate" why Mr. Locke wouldn't want to have this procedure done. His "investigation" (involving alt Bernard and alt Helen) leads him to Locke's father, Anthony Cooper, in which we find out that Mr. Cooper is paralyzed and in a rather vegetative state - unable to talk, walk, or do much of nuttin' except drool.
We find out that Locke was responsible for his father's condition, via a plane crash in which Locke was at the helm and Mr. Cooper being the passenger at Locke's insistence. Although it was an apparent accident and he claims that he doesn't remember much of what happened, Locke feels guilty and apparently "unworthy" of walking again. OK. Or something. He wheels away from Jack in the Locke 'tude he generally has in the alt timeline.
Throughout this, there's a scene in which Locke mutters during his sleep about, "I wish you had believed me," LOCKED (bwah ha...okay, don't mind my cheesy puns) in an apparent unconscious memory of la isle, no doubt. Hmm.
The island Jack wakes up on a boat on Hydra Island. Sayid is there, saying hullo in an almost normal way. Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Claire, Jin, Sun, and Lapidus are captured by Widmore’s crew and they're locked into the lovely cages that Kate and Sawyer were in on Season 3. On the beach, Sayid tells Jack that Fake Locke saved him from the attack, and that all of Fake Locke’s people are in the jungle, willy nilly, leaving just the three of them - Jack, Locke, and Sayid.
Fake Locke hatches a nifty plan to bust the other guys out of the cages, and suddenly the power clicks off. Smokey comes along, rushing (or clicking and squeaking) around the cages, slaying Widmore’s people who are guarding our captured Lostie friends.
As Kate can't quite reach the keys on the fallen dead guard in front of their cage, Jack walks up and grabs the keys, releasing his friends - but not without informing her, "I'm with HIM," (aka, Fake Locke). Well, neener for you, Jack.
Fake Locke stomps over to the Ajira plane, which conveniently has a handy staircase (eh?) that he can march his Fake Locke butt on to and into the plane. He sees with great agitation that the plane has been rigged with a type of bomb, and comes back out to tell everyone else that they’ll have to take the sub home. Aw, bummer!
Jack states heroically (blech) that he’ll help get everyone on the sub, but that he’s not leaving the island. Just 'cause he's special. Sawyer makes Jack pinky-swear (well, not quite....) that he'll make sure that Fake Locke doesn’t make it on the sub, no matter what it takes.
They all get to the dock where the submarine is located (complete with the "chick-CHICK" noises of loading their weapons as they approach it - Side Note: Why do they never have their weapons loaded, and they all have to load them at the same time?) and gun fire ensues between them and Widmore’s crew. Jack suddenly turns and pushes Fake Locke into the water. (Remember: Fake Locke has stated before that he can’t go in the water. Hmm.)
Kate gets shot in all the gunfire, and Jack hauls her (moaning and screaming - "Auuuuuggggh!") into the sub. Everyone makes it just in time (Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Sayid, and Lapidus), except for Crusty Claire and Fake Locke. Crusty Claire is howling about them leaving without her, and is REALLY ticked off, but Fake Locke holds her back and informs her that it's actually good that she isn't on that sub - she wouldn't want to be.
The sub pulls away from the dock and goes underwater - yay, just in time. Or IS it?
Once inside, Jack reaches for his backpack to look for stuff to help out wounded, bleeding Kate, and finds a bomb planted there by Fake Locke. Oops. Jack states that Fake Locke can’t kill the candidates, and by attempting to disarm the bomb, they'll actually make it go BOOM. He tells them, don't do it - just leave it alone, and we'll all be hunky dory! Sawyer, who is as hard-headed as ever, practically gives Jack the finger and yanks the wires out of the bomb anyhoo, which causes the timer to go even faster towards detonation. Whoopsie daisy.
Sayid grabs the bomb and quickly tells Jack that Desmond is in a well on the island and that Fake Locke wants him deader than a doornail. Jack asks why Sayid is giving him this info, and he replies, “Because it’s going to be you, Jack.” Sayid then grabs the bomb like a football star and hauls his butt away from everyone else to a corner of the sub. KaBOOM...it explodes. Buh-bye, Sayid.
The sub begins to fill with water and Sun is trapped against the sub wall by some chunky, immobile debris (her wrist seems caught or something?). Hurley takes injured Kate and escapes the sub, and Jack grabs a hold of Sawyer, who is hurt. Jin says he is not leaving Sun; Jack and Hurley successfully swim off with their injured friends, and we get to watch Sun and Jin hang on to each other, declaring their love, hand in hand, until they both drown. The last shot of them is a sad scene where you see their hands go limp with each other, and as their dead bodies drift away, their hands slowly pull apart. To do a Sawyer-ish impression, I was like, "SON of a B!TCH!!" I could handle Sayid dying, but both Sun and Jin getting knocked off was a tear-jerker.
Kate, Hurley, Jack, and an injured Sawyer surface on the shoreline. Sawyer coughs, however, giving us reason to believe he's still alive. Jack hangs his head and cries. Yeah, that's right, Jack. Wah.
I'm wondering if Kate and Sawyer are going to make it in the next epi?
Fake Locke and Crusty Claire are still hanging out on the dock, and Fake Locke tells her the sub has sunk, but not everyone is dead. He grabs a gun and informs Claire that he’s off to “...finish what he started.” Hmm.
And then...credits. Aiiiieeee.
And what was the DEAL with torturing us for another week by running an unannounced rerun? (Was I the only one who was clueless to this?) I was all psyched last week, after a long, hard day, and was looking SO forward to viewing the latest episode. But nooooo...they HAD to run a darn rerun. I love me some Richard Alpert, but geez...not again?!
First off, would someone - anyone - puh-leez give Kate a different shirt to wear? The same Dharma-blah-generic-brownish thing is getting on my last nerves, especially since she apparently chose the smallest, tightest sized shirt available from Dharma to maximize boob emphasis. Don't get me wrong - I admire her athletic physique, but sheesh.
Claire and her wig is another contender for me to be flippant about - I swear I saw a bird fly outta there. I wish there was a scene where Kate or Sun would have sat gently down with her and helped her brush her hair out...or perhaps tackled her down and made her wash it or rinse it...just once.
Okay...'nuff of that.
In the flash-sideways/alt reality, Dr. Jack Shephard repairs Locke’s dural sac (hmmm...kinda similar to the story he tells to Kate on Season 1 - note to self: If you have an issue that involves your dural sac, do NOT go looking for Dr. Jacko, as he has a thing for puncturing and then patting himself on the back for repairing the darn things) and alt reality Locke is recovering in the hospital. They recognize each other from the baggage claim area on Oceanic 815. Jack informs him that he is a "candidate" (coinkidink? NOT) for new procedure that will probably "fix" his spinal cord issues/paralysis. Lockity-Locke tells him, "Nuh-uh," and Jack gets all up in his business, trying to figure out why on earth he would turn down the chance to walk again and have feeling in his legs. To me, however, it seemed Jack was more horrified at the prospect that Locke wasn't ALLOWING him to be the hero in it all. How DARE he keep Jack from "saving" him? The horror.
So Jack, being the pompous, nosey, control-freak bloke that he is, decides to take it upon himself to "investigate" why Mr. Locke wouldn't want to have this procedure done. His "investigation" (involving alt Bernard and alt Helen) leads him to Locke's father, Anthony Cooper, in which we find out that Mr. Cooper is paralyzed and in a rather vegetative state - unable to talk, walk, or do much of nuttin' except drool.
We find out that Locke was responsible for his father's condition, via a plane crash in which Locke was at the helm and Mr. Cooper being the passenger at Locke's insistence. Although it was an apparent accident and he claims that he doesn't remember much of what happened, Locke feels guilty and apparently "unworthy" of walking again. OK. Or something. He wheels away from Jack in the Locke 'tude he generally has in the alt timeline.
Throughout this, there's a scene in which Locke mutters during his sleep about, "I wish you had believed me," LOCKED (bwah ha...okay, don't mind my cheesy puns) in an apparent unconscious memory of la isle, no doubt. Hmm.
The island Jack wakes up on a boat on Hydra Island. Sayid is there, saying hullo in an almost normal way. Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Claire, Jin, Sun, and Lapidus are captured by Widmore’s crew and they're locked into the lovely cages that Kate and Sawyer were in on Season 3. On the beach, Sayid tells Jack that Fake Locke saved him from the attack, and that all of Fake Locke’s people are in the jungle, willy nilly, leaving just the three of them - Jack, Locke, and Sayid.
Fake Locke hatches a nifty plan to bust the other guys out of the cages, and suddenly the power clicks off. Smokey comes along, rushing (or clicking and squeaking) around the cages, slaying Widmore’s people who are guarding our captured Lostie friends.
As Kate can't quite reach the keys on the fallen dead guard in front of their cage, Jack walks up and grabs the keys, releasing his friends - but not without informing her, "I'm with HIM," (aka, Fake Locke). Well, neener for you, Jack.
Fake Locke stomps over to the Ajira plane, which conveniently has a handy staircase (eh?) that he can march his Fake Locke butt on to and into the plane. He sees with great agitation that the plane has been rigged with a type of bomb, and comes back out to tell everyone else that they’ll have to take the sub home. Aw, bummer!
Jack states heroically (blech) that he’ll help get everyone on the sub, but that he’s not leaving the island. Just 'cause he's special. Sawyer makes Jack pinky-swear (well, not quite....) that he'll make sure that Fake Locke doesn’t make it on the sub, no matter what it takes.
They all get to the dock where the submarine is located (complete with the "chick-CHICK" noises of loading their weapons as they approach it - Side Note: Why do they never have their weapons loaded, and they all have to load them at the same time?) and gun fire ensues between them and Widmore’s crew. Jack suddenly turns and pushes Fake Locke into the water. (Remember: Fake Locke has stated before that he can’t go in the water. Hmm.)
Kate gets shot in all the gunfire, and Jack hauls her (moaning and screaming - "Auuuuuggggh!") into the sub. Everyone makes it just in time (Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Sayid, and Lapidus), except for Crusty Claire and Fake Locke. Crusty Claire is howling about them leaving without her, and is REALLY ticked off, but Fake Locke holds her back and informs her that it's actually good that she isn't on that sub - she wouldn't want to be.
The sub pulls away from the dock and goes underwater - yay, just in time. Or IS it?
Once inside, Jack reaches for his backpack to look for stuff to help out wounded, bleeding Kate, and finds a bomb planted there by Fake Locke. Oops. Jack states that Fake Locke can’t kill the candidates, and by attempting to disarm the bomb, they'll actually make it go BOOM. He tells them, don't do it - just leave it alone, and we'll all be hunky dory! Sawyer, who is as hard-headed as ever, practically gives Jack the finger and yanks the wires out of the bomb anyhoo, which causes the timer to go even faster towards detonation. Whoopsie daisy.
Sayid grabs the bomb and quickly tells Jack that Desmond is in a well on the island and that Fake Locke wants him deader than a doornail. Jack asks why Sayid is giving him this info, and he replies, “Because it’s going to be you, Jack.” Sayid then grabs the bomb like a football star and hauls his butt away from everyone else to a corner of the sub. KaBOOM...it explodes. Buh-bye, Sayid.
The sub begins to fill with water and Sun is trapped against the sub wall by some chunky, immobile debris (her wrist seems caught or something?). Hurley takes injured Kate and escapes the sub, and Jack grabs a hold of Sawyer, who is hurt. Jin says he is not leaving Sun; Jack and Hurley successfully swim off with their injured friends, and we get to watch Sun and Jin hang on to each other, declaring their love, hand in hand, until they both drown. The last shot of them is a sad scene where you see their hands go limp with each other, and as their dead bodies drift away, their hands slowly pull apart. To do a Sawyer-ish impression, I was like, "SON of a B!TCH!!" I could handle Sayid dying, but both Sun and Jin getting knocked off was a tear-jerker.
Kate, Hurley, Jack, and an injured Sawyer surface on the shoreline. Sawyer coughs, however, giving us reason to believe he's still alive. Jack hangs his head and cries. Yeah, that's right, Jack. Wah.
I'm wondering if Kate and Sawyer are going to make it in the next epi?
Fake Locke and Crusty Claire are still hanging out on the dock, and Fake Locke tells her the sub has sunk, but not everyone is dead. He grabs a gun and informs Claire that he’s off to “...finish what he started.” Hmm.
And then...credits. Aiiiieeee.
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