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On with the show…

Yes, I’m still stinging from the beating the writers gave me, the viewer, from this episode. If I wanted to watch fighting I’d turn to ESPN. If I wanted to watch the bad guy intimidate the good guy I’d go to work (you decide who’s who). I watch for the mystery of the show! You say, the mystery is in whether or not the pacemaker was real. *Insert me rolling eyes.* There was no mystery there. It was Them again torturing our Sawyer and I for one am raising my hand to be excused from this story line.

My boyfriend told me that maybe our expectations have become so high that there is no room for any error in this show. True, but it wasn’t necessarily the writing that I take issue with as much as the content.

I will still watch because I do want to see Sawyer’s redemption song (remember him singing this on the raft?)

1. Here is a little something to cheer you up. Follow this link. Warning: you will be earwormed for the day.

2. Bravo to Desmond for knowing when to walk away. Claire was a little freaked and the *new and improved* macho Charlie was fluffing his feathers when Desmond came to her about fixing her tent. For the record, Desmond appeared to know lightening was going to hit her tent and that is why he built the lightening rod. Seems like more people, especially Hurley, are starting to know that there’s something going on with Desmond.
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3. Jack is watching a cartoon about Swan’s. How appropriate. But why? Seems like the crafty Others didn’t plan for a purple sky explosion that wiped out their Comcast Cable. At this point, I think it’s fair to say that much of what they know about these Losties comes from internet research. Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but info about Jack, Sawyer, and Kate would all be out there considering what we know about their histories. Now they are cut off. This could be what starts the cookie crumbling because they seem to be depending on technology as much as we do!
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4. Bravo to Jack for the mind games with Juliet! This distinctly reminds me of when Ben (the hostage formerly known as Henry) was playing the *who’s in charge* game between Locke and Jack knowing full well there was already tension there. Jack is toying with Juliet by implying that Ben is in charge. I think that Jack has seen the tension and is playing on it. Finally, I can get behind Jack on this one!

5. OK, I missed this point but it is true. When Ben barges in and tells Juliet he needs help, he distinctly says, “The SUB is back, we have a situation.” I guess we know how the Others have been sneaking around now. It explains how they could have boarded the sailboat without Sayid and Jin seeing them. It explains how Steve/Scott was killed on the beach without being detected. I am wondering if they got the sub from someone in the past who has crashed on the island. They are scavengers. Now they have the sailboat, too. Desmond won’t be happy about that one.

6. The scene where Sawyer is scheming to shock one of The Others, Kate asks about Jack and Sawyer at first act slike he doesn’t care, then he indicates that they don’t even know if he is alive. I think that is part of why they march him past them. They want Kate and Sawyer (who indeed does have a conscience) to know that he is still very much around. Another way to keep them from escaping?

7. Funny. Sawyer calls Munson “Costanza.”
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8. Two days since the sky turned purple, they’re blind, the comms are down and they can’t get them back up, and Colleen is in critical condition. I agree with Sawer, “We happened.” The Other’s don’t even realize, I think, what has indeed happened. It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

9. BTW, on top of being annoyed with the endless Sawyer torture, I’m also annoyed that there are more new Losties being introduced. I’m sure these two are fine actors, but come on! We don’t get enough screen time with the characters that we know (hello, where are Rose and Bernard?) but now we have to have new survivors? Could the writers have at least made their introduction more interesting? Make them have been lost since the crash, something! Them just running up and we are supposed to accept them is just not right. Now we have to share airtime and flashbacks with the noobs. I’m not liking it!

10. Cassidy and the mystery of Clementine. I don’t believe that there is a baby. Sawyer has been locked up for nine months so the timeline makes sense. However, Cassidy seemed to be as much of a sheister as Sawyer and I think she wants her revenge on him for conning her. She doesn’t need the money, this is about saving face.

11. Looked up the words to “Oh My Darling, Clementine” and they probably don’t have any significance, but still interesting (btw, I still wonder if there is mining going on here):

In a cavern, in a canyon,
Excavating for a mine
Dwelt a miner forty niner,
And his daughter Clementine.

Refrain:
Oh my darling, oh my darling,
Oh my darling, Clementine!
You were lost and gone forever
Dreadful sorry, Clementine.

Clementine goes on to drown in the song, too.

12. Didn’t Kate rob the bank in Albequerque? That is also where Sawyer sent the money for his “baby.” Will we see a connection later?

13. I’m also not convinced that the Other’s don’t know that there is periodic sound coming through the intercom that Jack keeps hearing. Conveniently, he keeps hearing the good stuff. Why isn’t the boring stuff crackling through? “Hey Ben, pass me the salt.” “Juliet, where did you put the gauze?” Stuff like that. I think Jack should be noticing this too.
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14. I can’t believe that I am siding with Sawyer on this, but I would not be sad if I saw one of the Others hurt and I thought that “my people” did it. Think about everything that they have done to Sawyer alone, let alone everyone else. Kidnapping kids, killing their mates, injecting who knows what and etc… yeah, they’re the good guys all right.

15. I watched back the scene where they are taking Jack to help Colleen and he distinctly pauses and turns towards Kate and Sawyer. He is facing forward (left of the screen) and his head turns to the right. You can see this by the line in the bag over his head. This will come into play during the great escape that must be coming. He heard them for sure.
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16. Whose xray is this *really* going to be? Is it Ben? Is it Locke? Could it be someone we haven’t met yet? Obviously it was meant to be here for him to see - no coincidence there. I found two very significant things about this scene. For the first time Jack seems to realize that he is not just in this room, but on this island for a very specific reason. Secondly, if there is this amazing healing power here, why is this person still plagued with cancer in their spine?

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17. Did Jack really do everything he could to save Colleen? Juliet had her stabilized and then Jack starts working and she dies. Plus, I could not believe that Jack didn’t pause and demand something for himself or his friends in order to help her. My boyfriend thinks that perhaps the surgeon in him took over and the rationale of where he was, was forgotten.

18. There is more than one operating room wherever they took Jack. He walks to Area Op-4 but behind Ben we see Area Op-5. Why all the operating rooms? Also, notice the observation area above the Op room that Jack and Juliet are in. We know for sure there are fertility experiments happening. Is Sun unknowingly involved? Are they trying to breed super-humans (intelligence and immune to disease)? No crash cart? Do they kill people and not even try to save them if something goes wrong?
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19. When Juliet brings Jack to the operating room Ben is upset and Juliet says he can help, he’s a doctor. Ben begins to say, “That is not why we …” and Juliet cuts him off. Not why what? They brought Jack here? Not why they are here? Not why he brought Colleen here?

20. How is it that Ben is always in front of the monitors just in time to see the important stuff? He is like the Wizard in Oz, isn’t he? This is way too convenient and not believable.
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21. When the warden brings in Sawyer to get the information about the money, why does he ask him, “You remember Agent Freedman from the Treasury Department?” Why would Sawyer remember him? I assume other meetings, but was he also involved in the investigation into Sawyer’s con?

22. After exchanging info with the warden, wouldn’t Sawyer be wanted by some very powerful people? When it comes time, will he want to leave the island? What will be waiting for him back on land?

23. If there are two island’s why didn’t Danielle see it when she mapped the main island? Is is possible that they brought Sawyer to see the other island in the morning because of the tide? Maybe there is a land bridge connecting the two islands and depending on the tide it might not be visable in the morning. If they brought him in the evening he would see the connection. In the season opener Ben tells Goodwin and Ethan to go join the survivors and gives them a very short time frame to get there. If there were two islands how could they have done that so quickly? I still have some serious doubts about what Sawyer has been shown. Maybe there *is* another island but that these Others and the Losties are indeed only on the one island.
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24.  What does Ben mean a man gets sick if he lives alone?  Connection to “the sickness” that is always referred to?  Maybe it’s not a virus that they need to fear, but more of a physchological illness.  Goes along with these experiments we have been seeing.

25.  Who is the patched man next week?  Remember last season when Eko opened the trunk in their hatch they found a glass eye.  Is this the owner?
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