I just heard on a caller on the recording of the Jay & Jack 24 hour podcast state a very interesting observation that I hadn’t thought of before, but I think it has to play into things somehow.
So far, every single one of the Oceanic Six that we’ve seen (apart from Aaron, if he is really included as one of the six) was on the other side of the island when Desmond turned the failsafe key.
Jack, Kate, and Hurley (and Michael, even though he might not be considered one of the six) were off on their mission to get captured. Sayid and Sun (and Jin, but it doesn’t sound like he makes it) were on the boat, also on the other side of the island.
As far as I can tell, the only other person we’ve seen off island in the future is Ben. This means that every person (other than Aaron) that we’ve seen off island was also on the other side of the island at the time of the failsafe being triggered. It seems like that can’t possibly be a coincidence.
Since we just had a Juliet episode recently, I’m wondering when we’ll see the rest of her story.
Specifically, when does she turn from a whimpering sucker into the hardened, lying judo master we see today? It had to have happened sometime during that three years, but I’m wondering why.
My best guess is that (based on what we’ve seen now) is that she was telling the truth to Jack in season 3 - there actually was a subset within “the others” who were planning on overthrowing Ben. I believe that she was probably a member of that group, along with Goodwin and probably Ethan.
We’ll see how it plays out.
The last episode where Sayid tells Alex about her mom raised an interesting question for me: why didn’t Kate mention it to Alex when she was with her?
We know that Kate knew about the connection, since Kate talked with Danielle about it last week, and now we apparently know (from Alex’s surprise at Sayid’s comment) that Kate did not say anything to Alex about it even though she spent all that time with her.
Why?
Since I never posted about the episode from last week, I thought I’d better cover it to get it off my chest.
There has been a lot of buzz about the disappointment around the preview’s claim of “three big secrets revealed”, and the producers (rightfully, to some degree) blaming the network for building up those expectations unrealistically. So, I’ll give them credit on that one; I know the scenes with Cindy and the kids would have been WAY, WAY better if we didn’t know they were coming.
HOWEVER, my main gripe is not related to that. Rather, it’s the fact that these people (especially Jack) absolutely refuse to ask the questions that any normal person would ask.
- Sawyer lets Carl run off without getting any useful info out of him : They might be able to redeem this one later by revealing that Sawyer actually did grill him for info off camera, and he’s just not sharing that info with anyone else, since that’s the kind of guy Sawyer is. Even if this isn’t the case, I could give him half credit for letting him go just to provide himself with an excuse for not being able to go back after Jack
- Jack’s conversations with people like Tom and Cindy : This is the part that really burns me. How the hell do you see Cindy walk up to your cage like that and not ask her to explain what the heck has been going on, since she obviously knows? Or when Jack has been standing around chatting with Tom and Juliet, he basically makes no attempt to get any significant info out of them.
I’d even be OK if the characters would ask the questions and they evaded actually answering them, because I understand that it’s a mystery and they can’t be revealing everything all at once, but to not even see the questions being asked is a bit hard to swallow.
In stark contrast, this week’s Heroes episode was amazing. There’s a show where you’ve got the mystery aspects, but the characters want answers and go after them until they find them.
I remarked to the guys while we were watching the show that if Jack agrees to go out of the room while Ben and Juliet talk that I would quit watching this show.
OK, so I was exaggerating, but seriously, what the heck is he thinking? Why would he agree to that?
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