Initial Thoughts: Eggtown
1. Eye opening… at the opening. But you knew that. It was Locke’s eye.
2. Ben in the room that the “real” Sawyer was being held. Remember last season when Locke first encounters him all tied up?
3. Loved Locke’s line about the book he gives Ben. “Maybe you’ll catch something you missed the second time around.” Not that I, *ahem,* would watch anything a second time for things I missed….
4. Locke should have know Ben was playing him when Ben asks about the other prisoner, “Miles, is it?” Duh, Ben is the one that told Locke all about the four that came from the freighter and all about Charlotte’s background. So he obviously would know Miles’ name.
5. Do you see the bearded guy yelling at Kate when she was walking through the paparazzi into the courtroom? He really stuck out to me but I couldn’t make out what he was saying. Will for sure have to screen cap him.
6. Katheryn ANNE Austin. We had talked before about Kate possibly being the Annie from Ben’s childhood on the island.
7. Wow, Jin learned English pretty quickly didn’t he? If they’ve only been there 100 days and Jin only found out about Sun’s secret approximately half way, that means he had somewhere in the neighborhood of a month or more to learn the language. Impressive.
8. Interesting that when Jack came to the beach and told Sun and the others that Dan and Charlotte were there to save them, Dan looks down. Yeah, not their primary objective.
9. Creepy when Locke’s hands were all bloody from killing the chicken.
10. Loved it when Hurley asks Kate if she Scooby Doo’d him when she found out where Miles was.
11. Didn’t the boat house look like Jacob’s cabin?
12. Miles wanted to be in the boathouse? I think there was more to this than just wanting to get to Ben. There is a bigger plan at work.
13. The numbers again. Duncan (Kate’s lawyer) tells her to plead down to 15 years. Prosecutor offers four initially.
14. Charges against Kate (I think we’ve seen them all happen). Fraud, Arson, Assault of a Federal Officer, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Grand Larceny, Grand Theft Auto, and Murder in the First Degree. And 15 years for all this! She’s crazy not to take it unless (here we go again) she knows something. Maybe made a deal with Creepy Eyed Man and his people? They could have swayed the mom and the prosecuting attorney.
15. Of course the “him” is her son but how much time had to have passed since this epi and when Kate meets up with Jack (in the scene at the end of last season)? She says “he” will worry where she is. In the middle of the night why would her kid know she was gone unless it was much later and he was older. And why would the attorney consider bringing in this small child to a courtroom?
16. Busy signal on the phone to the boat? Why? What have they done with Sayid and Desmond? Guess we’ll find out before the first eight end.
17. Wow! Was Jack smoking hot in that courtroom or what? Guess Kate wasn’t the only one that cleaned up nicely.
18. Jack says that there were eight survivors. Maybe…. Michael and Walt make it back to land before the other six? Otherwise there would have to be two that die trying to get back and only the other six of the eight make it.
19. Whatever happens to get the six off of the island must be very dramatic. It must be something that really compromises their morals and feeds all of the post-island guilt. Jack and Kate couldn’t even look at each other in the courtroom when he was telling what happened. I WANT TO KNOW!
20. Loved the movies that Hurley has to choose from. “Xanadu” or “Satan’s Doom.” And, they looked to be VHS tapes. Again with the old school technology.
21. The only words I could hear during the Xanadu song was “Open your eyes…” ironically.
22. OK so Kate uses Sawyer for more than just getting Ben to Miles. So what, Miles knew she was a fugitive. What did she really want to know from him? I think there is more here.
23. So Ben is rich. And Miles knows who he is and “what he can do.” I can’t believe I’m going to say this… but can he somehow time travel? I don’t think he has a machine or anything but perhaps he’s found a way to get off and on the island through some sort of time rip. If I could do that I would get some winning lottery numbers and get rich but perhaps Mr. Fenry used it for evil. OK not evil but something very bad that makes someone off the island spend lots of money to find him.
24. I’m very curious to find out what the $3.2 million is for. Charlotte is already in on it. I’m sure that Miles and Charlotte had a plan before Miles let himself get caught.
25. Daniel has a terrible memory. Remember that. It will be important later.
26. It sounds like Charlotte tells Regina on the phone that Cassie wasn’t answering the other line. Remember that Sawyer’s baby’s momma was Cassie. Coincidence (or fate)?
27. Can I just say that this season has rocked!!
28. Locke is a FREAK putting the grenade in Miles’ mouth. Either he really knows something huge or how could the Six possibly leave everyone else behind with him?
29. Kate can’t get pregnant. Eggtown. Was there some kind of X-Files-esque conspiracy to steal her eggs? Falopian tubes removed and cannot get the eggs to hatch?
30. Red flowers in front of Kate’s house. Those things are everywhere!
31. Aaron. I didn’t see that one coming. I can see why Jack didn’t want to come and see the baby. Guilty conscience. Just another reason to head back to the island. Claire must have given Kate the baby just in case they didn’t get back to rescue them. Not sure why Claire wouldn’t have gone instead of Kate. But, if Desmond saw Claire and Aaron getting lifted into the helicopter I would say that is a sure sign that we will see a rescue of the others by the end of the show. Eeek! I don’t even want to think about the end of the show.
32. I agree. Who cares if Kate leaves the state? I think after this she’s going to have to leave the state to find Penny to get back to the island and save the others left behind. Who really wants her to stick around?
33. Next week looks really cool as they are flying into the electrical storm. If they left in the helicopter at least one day before Jack radioed the boat can it be possible that time moves differently going to and from the island? We know they make it to the boat because the other freighter people are in the preview. I also saw a chalkboard….then again…. it is a Desmond flashie. He has short hair in the preview too. And…. per NBC the flight to the boat causes some unexpected side effects. Another weird Desmond time/head trip?
February 21st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
I know you’re going to disagree, but I’m thrilled with the reveal of Kate’s “son,” because, well, I’m a Jater. But, anyway, I’m pretty sure that when she said she couldn’t be pregnant, all she meant was that she’d gotten her period.
February 21st, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Quite a few scenes were reminiscent of previous episodes. I noted several of them but I forgot most of them. One of them is when Ben is asking about the other prisoner. Locke seems to know that Ben is playing him, but when he shuts the door, he slams the plate, just like in the hatch. Another is when Kate is talking to her mom in private, and she gets sick of it and says something like “We’re done in here,” or something, and it totally reminded me of Jack when the Others had him. There were other things, I just forgot them.
In other news tonight…
Oofda! That boathouse gave me the heebie-jeebies!
I liked when Ben questioned Miles’ wanting $3.2 million: “Why not 3.3 or 3.4?” I was wondering the same thing.
Ummm…
Is there any possibility that the Aaron at the end of the show is actually Kate’s son? She could have lied to Sawyer about not being pregnant (I feel pretty confident that she lied about this anyway) and then named her baby after Claire’s Aaron. I suppose this is a stretch, but I’m willing to go out on a limb and at least throw the idea out there.
Loved the post, by the way.
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:27 am
Hi.
I guess the miles-ben conversion was some kind of code. Maybe miles is bens spy? They spoke in code because Kate was there…..
How old is aaron?? not sure of how much time passed after their rescue but itl looks like a couple of years… unless he is growing by island time, that is much slower….
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
gg – great ‘initial thoughts’ .. you are setting the bar high for your officila re-cap !!
assuming aaron is claire’s aaron (which i think it is) and knowing the fact that kate is SO ATTACHED and EMOTIONAL about this kid AND knowing that she is raising him as her “son” and he calls her “mommy” – this all leads me to believe that they are not going back for claire and a happy reunion on mom & son!!
i dont want to sound like the grim reaper here but i think some very, very disturbing and dark things are gonna go down on this island over the remainder of this show …
if you look at the flash-forwards there is so much guilt and drama that you can cut it with a knife!! the airport scene with jack and kate, the boozing and pills, the attempted suicide, jack flying every weekend and hoping the plane goes down, the game of horse with hurley, the drama from last night, the sayid killing spree ?!?!?!!?!?!
some crazy stuff is gonna happen !! CRAZY BAD STUFF !! i definitely dont think we are heading for a happy ‘oh we will be back to get you guys soon! bye bye, see you soon guys!’ scene …
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
mm please don’t read my last comment about aaron XD, it doesnt make sense. =)
Additional thoughts:
So we have oceanic 6 = jack, kate, hurley, sayid, aaron? …. and ben????
about aaron he might be included or not, because he wasn’t on the plane as he wasn’t born before the accident.
and ben couldn’t be in the oceanic 6 because he wasn’t on the plane unless he took someones name..
in the economist that woman (who sayid killed) was trying to get to ben.. so the organisation that she was working for, and that sent dan, miles, naomi, etc to find ben knew that ben was off the island.
I think that ben is in the oceanic 6 but he took someones name….
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Get this – in the bible Jacob is Aaron’s great great grandfather!!
Bible reference – Benjamin is the youngest son of Jacob