3 X 15 Left Behind
Let me digress for a moment. Ken and Barbie. They are dead. Face it folks, no one is going to get dug out by some golden lab and if Vincent should happen to be that industrious, how would they live being under a mountain of sand? They’re gone. TTFE!
1. Cassidy. This backstory ranks right up there with the dumbest, biggest waste of story time. I kept waiting for betrayal. Nothing. Waited for the name Sawyer to come up. Nothing. Waited for Mom to do something cool and shocking (like show up in a magic box on the island). Nothing. Have I lost my imagination here? I feel like I’ve eaten the forbidden apple and now my eyes are open to the reality of the nothingness that gets thrown into this show sometimes. OK, a crossover, big time. Big deal! I’d rather have someone with a crossover actually realize it (remember when Saywer told Jack about meeting his dad? Classic!).
2. Agreed to gnid gnid (see last post comments), Juliet has some skills! But so does Kate so where in the world did Juliet train (anyone seeing Kill Bill images with me … more like Kill Ben!)? Plus her shoulder has been dislocated four times before.
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3. Kate always has the same song playing in her flashbacks. Is she going to finally go walking after midnight one of these episodes already?
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4. So let me get this right. There is a village, with houses and TOILETS and showers and they are just going to take a few things and LEAVE!!!??? Screw Jack as the leader. Sawyer would be all over that village if he knew about it. Plus there is a security system! I love this show but come on!!!! Leave a few people back at the beach in shifts to watch for rescue and live at the houses with beds! And kitchens! OK, you have a few hippies that probably like sleeping on the beach, but not people like me. They have a rec hall and bikes. Come on!
5. Here’s something to blog about… the gas is $1.32 and $1.81 for the *expensive* stuff! Talk amongst yourselves…
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6. I love it that Sawyer has it counted down to the minutes until he can use nicknames. But check it out, he’s got a watch!!! Again with the watches!
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7. Where is Rosseau? Simple. She found her daughter and is not going to lose her again. Which means she is following the Others. Why haven’t we seen a backstory on her? She is far and away more interesting than the You-Know-Whos (the one’s who won’t be named) and they got a whole episode.
8. There is supposed to be a backstory coming up featuring (maybe) the Degroots. The reason I mention this is because they were college hippies back in the 60’s and 70’s and there were a lot of riots going on back then and what did the cops wear? Gas masks. They threw the smoke bombs at the students to break up the riots. I can’t say that I think that there were riots on the island but maybe they brought along gear from home just in case anyone tried to come to the island and disturb the compound. I’m just trying to speculate why the would have this kind of gear on the island.
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9. Lies, lies, lies. Juliet asks Kate what happened and says she was making tea when they threw a canister through her window. But then how did she voluntarily get handcuffed to Kate? And not only does she know about Old Smokey, she looks at it like she knows far more than she is going to say. Also, she knows the fence is off. It doesn’t make sense.
10. I think that The Others have another camp in the middle of the island. Remember when the Tailies were taking Sawyer & Co. back to the beach they avoided the middle of the island because that is where *They* came from. I also think that there is still another group of Others that we haven’t seen yet.
11. In this scene where Kate and Juliet are arguing and it starts raining, you can hear a loud squealing noise in the background three times. I asked Scott if he heard it, which he did not (maybe because I was talking, lol) but I just watched the scene back now and there is definitely something there. Then Smokey shows up for a little paparazzi action… so I wonder if there is some connection (remember the bird that said *Hurley* then swooped down on him?).
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12. I wonder if a little picture popped out after this. lol. I guess this is another clue as to what the Smoke Monster is. Security system that takes pictures. Yeah, that’s it.
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13. The last time I remember Kate seeing the *monster* it had just pulled out the pilot and shredded him. No wonder she’s so scared! Juliet doesn’t seem nearly as frightened though, does she? Smokey makes his loud *roar* and Kate tells her to run yet Juliet just sits there whining about her arm. We know now that Juliet does know about Smokey yet she didn’t run. Why?
14. Well, he’s not as wrinkly as he was a couple of weeks ago. Man, to be a fly on the wall in the writer’s room….
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15. I think that it’s Hurley who is the real leader. He can even get Sawyer to “join in” now that is a leader. He is always trying to find a way to bring people together. Golf, van and now working on Sawyer. Who would seriously follow what Hurley said? But then again, like Hurley said (ba dum pum) people need a leader and will follow Sawyer. Hurley’s the Dick Cheney to Sawyer’s George Bush (only not as evil or dumb, and much more honest).
16. Too funny to see Sawyer and the boar again. Only disappointment is that I was expecting *something* to happen after all the hullabalo he had before with the boar.
17. When Smokey is chasing Kate & Juliet the second time they come up on the fence. Juliet yells to Kate twice that they are off, then grabs the key and unlocks the handcuffs. Hello, McFly? How does she know they are off? How did she gets gassed but still had the key? How did she get the choice to be with Kate anyway?
18. I don’t know if you can tell from this shot, but there are three distinct puffs of black smoke that come up and join into the one cloud that comes to the fence. Plus other shots.
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19. Why didn’t Smokey go *over* the fence?
20. Then Kate comes up to Juliet all po’d and when Juliet admits they know about Smokey it turns out she was upset about the handcuffs! Wha…. let’s see, the importance of handcuffs vs the unexplained phenomena of a black cloud that floats around killing people. Think, think, think. What should Kate question first?
21. Wow, Sawyer is sharing his beer. The writers were right, we are seeing a side of him that I never thought we would see… a side that he had to eventually face. Sharing his beer.
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22. And the cheese stands alone, drinking water.
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23. I saw at least two gas canisters on the floor in Jack’s house. I guess that is why he was passed out for an entire day longer than Kate.
24. OMG, when will they listen to Sayid? Leave the woman behind Jack!
25. One thought on Locke… remember folks, he runs his own agenda.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Remember when Casidy showed Sawyer a picture of her child. Was the Baby’s name “KATE” or “LUCY?”
April 6th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
AHH, CLEMMENTINE was the baby’s name
April 6th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
11. Oh and how about Juliet knew that it was going to rain… It ALWAYS rains before the monster comes! Also… please lets not forget all the Walt voices and backwards comments that have been heard with the rain in the jungle! The others are sssoooo listening in/watching the girls. Remember - Ben gets people to do what he wants them to do by making them think that it is their own idea! Dah! Kate wants to go back for Jack.
9. Juliet also knows where both Jack and Syied are still laying! Sounds like she got a good look around before she helped drag Kate off. So what I want to know is… how does Kate wake up before Syied (the trained soilder). Last time I heard, military training includes being gassed - and BOTH he and Kate are outside with fresh air… WTF
1. Oh the irony of Cassidy pulling a ‘black box’ filled with Bibles to see Kate’s mom. Also, remember the black box that our long-lost-Echo ( I miss him) found with the Bible and the glass eye (clearly from patch)?
** Locke is on DRUGS! And I think he is liking it! Tell me… if Ben knew Locke’s story and wanted so badly to learn how he is healed… why was Locke not one of the ‘chosen’ three? Why bother even bringing Jack to do the surgery and take that risk??? Something is just not right… watch out for the scam folks!
April 7th, 2007 at 7:30 am
1. The watches - everyone is trying to maintain some normalcy, some routine. The only person who has realized it’s stupid to have a watch on the Island was Michael. Would you want to be like Mike?
2. Hurley - Dick Cheney without shooting your friend.
April 9th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
I wonder if they’ll even ask about Locke when the group gets back to the beach. I have this feeling no one will ask/bother/care. But I want to know what’s going on with him.
I don’t trust Juliet at all. I hope Sayid interrogates and tortures her :p
April 10th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Andrea - I don’t think he’s coming back to the beach. Or, if he does, it will be to get something or someone and then leave. So I guess I can see a situation where he comes back and nobody asks anything (like the writers frustratingly tend to do with these characters) but then he’s only there on a “Locke mission” before leaving again. I feel like he’s on a different journey now and deciding to leave with the others was a big turning point. Remember how everyone thought the writers were going to have Jack join the others? Surprise. Not Jack.
So far as Juliet… Her first (only) flashback made her seem like a pretty nice person and a victim. However… do we really know what she was doing with her sister (?) that was pregnant? She could very selfishly be following her own path too - damn the consequences. She got recruited by the Others to come to the island because she may just be the kind of person you’d think of as being an Other. Wah wah wah, it didn’t work out the way she planned and now she acts all sad and like she’s the oppressed captive. Perhaps there are some more skeletons in her closet we just haven’t seen. How many other experimental drugs did she use on people that didn’t turn out so well?
Sayid… He’s getting a little torture happy. I don’t think I’d want to be his beach neighbor. Sayid, “Where’s my towel?!? I laid it right here by your bungalow!” Me, “Umm… Dude… Sawyer took it!” *runs the other way*
April 11th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
I agree. Locke is an island in and of himself. He’s looking out for one person only. Locke. I think he’ll come back and sprinkle just enough enough on the beach to keep people happy. The same as what he did when he was spending all that time out in the jungle finding planes and mysterious hatches and who knows what else.
Did you know tonight is a Juliet flashback?
I would want Sayid to be on my side.
April 20th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
We know now that Juliet does know about Smokey yet she didn’t run. Why?
why didn’t she run?? because that wasn’t a camera shining on them…it was a face recognition machine that scanned juliette and recognized her as an other which made it squeal and then take off. she knew it wouldn’t get her.