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5.6 316 Frank: "Wait a second. We're not going to Guam, are we?" Well, color me shocked. And delighted. I thought we'd have to wait until the end of the season to see the Oceanic Six return to the Island. Actually, I thought they might make us wait until *next* season. They could have made seventy hours last a year and a half. I wouldn't put it past them. I loved how they "recreated" so many elements of the original crash. It was so mystical and weird and fun. Locke was Christian, the dead man in the coffin. Sayid played Kate's role of transported prisoner. Hurley was carrying a Spanish language comic book and what I kept thinking had to be Charlie's guitar. (Did Charlie give it to him?) Jack was in much the same suit that he wore the first time, and he was carrying a hand-written letter, like Sawyer did. Even the flight number was similar (316, 815). And Frank Lapidus was originally supposed to be the pilot of 815. I hope this doesn't mean the Monster will kill Frank. I like Frank. And will the woman in charge of Sayid will die a horrible, lingering death like the marshal? Even though they gave us some great stuff, there were as many questions as there were answers. Which is why we all love this freaking show, isn't it? 1. No babies on this flight. Did Kate give Aaron to Claire's mother? Why did Sun leave her daughter behind? Yes, plane crash, big danger, but I'd never leave my child for any reason. (I just wouldn't have gone back.) Kate looked weird throughout the episode. Maybe she was just in mourning for her son. I wonder why she jumped Jack? It sure made him happy, though, didn't it? Is she going to drop him again the minute she sees Sawyer? 2. What happened to Hurley? He also looked weird, and wasn't talking. Did he get a visitation from Charlie? Loved him buying up all those airline seats to save people. It was just the sort of thing Hurley would do. 3. A wet, bloody Ben, who went to keep his word to an "old friend", called Jack from the marina. What did he do to Penny? Maybe she pummeled him with an oar. Maybe Desmond caught him and beat the crap out of him. Ben can't go more than an episode or two without getting beat up. (And hey. I thought Ben *couldn't* go back? How come he was on the plane?) 4. Why would any authority whatsoever be taking Sayid to *Guam*? Did he carry out an assassination there? 5. What happened to the plane? Did they maybe just need to get close enough to the Island to get caught up in the time displacement thingy? Did their arrival *above* the Island cause time to stop moving? If Jin had a Dharma jumpsuit and a van, he must have been stuck in the past for awhile, though. If Jin is in the 1970s, are Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Faraday there, too? And what happened to the people on the plane? Were they the longboat people? Is that where the Ajira bottle came from? This was a Jack episode, and the action centered on him. He looked different to me. He was nervous and tense, but excited and pleased; at the same time, everything was so mystical that the scientist in him couldn't quite accept it without question. His reluctance to read Locke's suicide note made it seem important, but it turned out to be all about blame. See, you made me leave the Island and kill myself, Jack. So there. I assume we're getting a resurrection. If Jack is Doubting Thomas, does that make Locke Jesus? Character bits: -- Jack kept going for the booze, but didn't actually take a drink. Kate may have had something to do with that. -- Twice, Jack found Kate looking dead: once in his bed, and the other time in the lagoon. Huh. -- Ray, Jack's grandfather, kept threatening to run away to find a better place to live. And he talked about magic shows. A bit of Island metaphor there. Note the white rabbit. We've seen them before (Alice in Wonderland). -- Eloise Hawking told Desmond that the Island wasn't done with him yet. Desmond certainly wasn't buying what Ben and Eloise were selling; he lost four years of his life to the Island. He's probably right, too. I wouldn't trust Eloise *or* Ben. Although I don't want them to write Desmond out, so I hope Eloise is right. (I hope it's not Desmond returning to the Island for revenge. Penny had better be okay.) -- Locke's suicide note said, "Jack, I wish you had believed me. JL." -- Who was the guy who gave his condolences to Jack? He was the only one in first class (except the woman with Sayid) who wasn't one of the Oceanic Six. He must be important or they wouldn't have pointed him out to us. -- Jack putting tennis shoes on Christian's body was actually doing him a favor, considering how much Christian's gotten around lately. -- Eloise didn't ask about her son. Any normal human being would. Especially with him in danger. Maybe she *knows* how he is, already. -- Frank looks great without his beard. In fact, he looks a lot like a guy I was once engaged to. Bits and pieces: -- This episode began with a close-up of Jack's right eye, just like the very first scene in the pilot episode of the series. And just like the pilot, the first thing Jack did was run to help someone. -- Rebecca Mader (Charlotte) is no longer in the cast. -- New Dharma station in the church: The Lamp Post. (I thought it looked more like The Phallic Symbol.) I was reminded of Christian holding the lantern. Loved the very cool Foucault's Pendulum that the actors had to walk around while delivering their lines. See the mighty Wikipedia for info on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum -- An Oceanic sign was right near Ajira Airlines at the airport. Their logos are both circular. Just saying. And "Ajira" means "island." -- Hurley's comic book listed Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, and was called "Y: El Ultimo Hombre." The illustration on the front showed a skeleton in an environmental suit. (Yorick? As in the Shakespearean skull, "I knew him well?") -- Ben was reading "Ulysses" on the plane. It's a very famous novel about a voyage home that parallels Homer's Odyssey. And I'm going to again take a shortcut and give you the Wikipedia page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel) -- Jack saw an old photo in the church. It was labeled "9/23/54 U.S. Army Op 264 Top Secret Eyes Only." I bet that was the ill-fated detachment of U.S. soldiers who brought Jughead to the Island. -- Jack was assigned seat 8C. -- The plane actually had a sign for "Use seat bottom for flotation" that lit up during that bad turbulence before whatever happened... happened. Quotes: Jack: "How can you read?" Ben: "My mother taught me." But Ben's mother died in childbirth, didn't she? Jack: "The other people on this plane. What's going to happen to them?" Ben: "Who cares?" What a prince. This episode was almost more fun than you should actually have watching television. Four out of four polar bears, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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