This episode has almost pushed me away from this show. Without giving us any answers they just gave us about a BILLION new questions. If I'm not thuroughly satisfied by the next two episodes I won't be back after this 80 week hiatus.
Please pardon my pseudo-intellectuaphilisophicalismysiticality.
seriously. they are not answering ANYTHING. they said last week in this week's trailer that we're gonna find out more about the others, they said THE SAME THING this week for next. I think they're just lying now. This episode seemed almost pointless. I mean NOTHING happened. All we know now is why the others kept jack - for the tumor in Ben's spine. Uhhh, that was about 1 minute of the entire episode. The writers need to do something NOW before every viewer leaves.
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
We HAVE found out more about the Others. Sure, we don't know a lot... but, we got a better look at their heirarchy. We found out that Ben has a tumor in his spine (and that there is a reason why they have Jack there). We learned that they aren't normally violent people...
I loved getting more background on Sawyer... and seeing him develop feelings for Kate. He would do anything to protect her... and that just makes me like him more.
Sure... there are a lot of things that I want to know... and I wish that they would give us more. But, I'm not walking out on the show.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
Sawyer rigs his cage so he and Kate can escape. Ben approaches, and Sawyer grabs him.However, nothing happens. Ben tells him they turned off the electricity, and beats Sawyer unconscious. When he wakes up, he's strapped down to a table.They shove a stick in his mouth and plunge a huge needle into his heart!
Later, Ben shows Sawyer a caged rabbit.Ben scares the bunny, which falls over and dies. It had a small pacemaker inserted in its heart to give it a kick-start if it gets anxious, frightened, or tries to escape. Ben gives Sawyer a heart rate monitor and warns him that if his heart rate goes over 140 his heart will explode. And if Sawyer tells Kate, they'll put a pacemaker in her, too.
Back at the cages, Kate immediately questions him, but Sawyer ain't talkin'. Kate has an escape plan -- she could squeeze through the bars at the top of her cage and get them out. Sawyer dissuades her.Kate doesn't understand. They could escape and he's telling her not to?
Flashback to Sawyer in jail.
The new guy, Munson, stole $10 million dollars from the government and hid it. Munson denies stealing it, of course. Sawyer guesses Warden Harris is protecting Munson to play him for the money. Sawyer warns Munson that the Warden will turn his wife against him. When questioned why he's freely offering this advice, Sawyer expresses his hatred for the Warden. Whether the money's real or not, he doesn't want the Warden to get it.
WHOOSH to the Others returning with Colleen, bloody and pale from Sun's gunshot. Juliet asks Jack for his help. Jack scrubs in, and notices x-rays on a lightbox. Juliet says those aren't Colleen's. In the O.R., Juliet confesses she's not a surgeon and couldn't stop the bleeding. Jack finds the bleeder but Colleen dies on the table.
Pickett goes ballistic, ranting that they did this, and beelines for Sawyer's cage. He savagely beats him in front of Kate, demanding to know if she loves him. Kate confesses that she does, and Pickett stops.
Back in jail during visitation, Sawyer sees Munson arguing with his wife.
Sawyer's visitation is with Cassidy, who shows him a photo of their baby daughter, Clementine. Cassidy hoped Sawyer would write a letter to her, but Sawyer becomes angry. Denies he has a baby. Cassidy gets the message and backs off.
Munson tells Sawyer he was right about the Warden using his wife against him. Sawyer tells him when you care, that's when they come after you. Munson wants Sawyer's help moving it. His wife hired a private investigator to find it, and he'd rather Sawyer screw him over than his wife.
Back to the present, Kate squeezes out of her cage and tries to break the lock on Sawyer's. She knows he's lying about what happened to him, and that scares her. What did they do to him, and why doesn't he fight back? He tells her if she really loves him to go without him. Kate claims she said that so Pickett would stop hitting him. She squeezes back into her cage and tells Sawyer, "Live together, die alone."
Juliet tells Jack she's a fertility doctor, but Jack wants to know whose x-rays those were.
They're of a man, about 40 years-old, who has a very large tumor on his vertebrate. He wants to know who he's really there to save.
Desmond tells Claire she has a problem with her roof. He suggests she move down the beach while he fixes it. Charlie, feeling territorial, says if there's any problem, he'll fix it.
Desmond borrows a golf club and ties it to a long stick of bamboo. He puts it near Claire's tent and waits. A storm suddenly blows up, and a bolt of lightning strikes the golf club -- Desmond used it as a lightning rod. Charlie realizes Desmond just saved them, but how did he know that was going to happen?
In jail, Sawyer reveals he conned Munson to get the last six years of his sentence commuted. Sawyer gives up the location of Munson's stolen $10 million. He's now a free man. He instructs them to put his commission in an account with Clementine Phillips' name on it.
On the island, Ben takes Sawyer on a hike. Ben tells him his heart isn't going to explode -- that only thing they put inside him was doubt.
At the top of the hill, Ben points to a big island across the way. That's the island Sawyer knows and loves. They're on a smaller island, like Alcatraz. If they escape, there's nowhere to run. Ben reminds him the only way to gain the respect of a con man is to con him. Sawyer's good, but the Others are better.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
Yeah, I didn't get that end part. I thought it was just one HUGE island. And the others' community was on the other side of it. But it's really TWO islands?
"I'm looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming, can't-live-without-each-other love." - Carrie Bradshaw
"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort" - Paulo Coehlo
Live your life like it's your last day on earth
Life is not how many breaths you take, but how many moments take your breath away.
I guess Desmond is a physic now, as he predicted the lightning strike....
I thought it was very very weird and disturbing when Ben was shaking that Wabbit.
I was a little let down at the end, they went through so much to set up the scene, and it's just that they are on another Island. I thought we would see Henry Gale's head on a giant statue, or a ruined city, or the skyline ending with a great big green curtain,
but it was just that they were on another island. The pay off wasn't that great for the hike up the hill, and Sawyer's reaction before the camera turned around.
But, you know, I'm still into it. Everyone was pissed off last year too, if you remember, saying it was slow and there were no answers. They may pull a Twin Peaks and piss off the fan base, but I enjoy watching the show, even when there are no answers, it's entertaining.
Yeah, I'm thinking that Desmond got some sort of connection to the weather, or something, from the hatch implosion. Whatever it is... it's cool, but freaky.
I was terribly upset watching Benry shaking that rabbit in the cage. Pissed me off actually. Damn, animal abuse doesn't go over with me, at all. It just really bothered me. But, they wanted to prove a point... and get through to Sawyer. It worked.
:::>^..^<::: ~*~The Journey is more important than the end or the start~*~ :::>^..^<:::
Sawyer says "did you just kill that bunny?" Sawyer is a softy at heart that's for sure. Kate says "I just told him that so he would stop hitting you" Yeah whatever Kate. She wuvs Sawyer.
What about Sawyer having a daughter Clemintine? Did we know that already? It seems like we have heard that name before in the show.
I didn't get the end of the show at first either. It was suppose to be like a Planet of the Apes Statue of Liberty moment. He was just letting him know there was not a way to escape I guess. I was sure glad his heart was not really going to explode. That was a relief.
I guess the others do live on that alcatraz island. The other one is all dangerous and stuff. Maybe they don't control everything.
10-26-2006 12:14 AM
Suits him well.
