Initial Thoughts: Meet Kevin Johnson
I’m still disappointed with the whole Michael returns story line. I *almost* had sympathy for Michael tonight, however. He keeps making really bad choices and getting himself into some very bad situations. Not sure I thought it was a tremendous cliffhanger either.
1. What I want to know is when Michael and Walt found rescue how did they explain who they were and how they got that boat? They obviously didn’t admit to being part of the Oceanic survivors.
2. I would guess that it’s Michael in the coffin, but it almost seems too obvious. On the other hand, it would explain why no one came to the funeral - he was using a fake name. Again, how does Michael get back to the mainland if he doesn’t die on the freighter? Jack would have to know Michael’s pseudonym in order to know it was his obituary which means Michael meets back up with the survivors.
3. So the sanctuary is the last safe place on the island? I’m thinking it must be a bunker similar to the original button pushing bunker. Remember those thick doors that Michael was checking out?
4. Are we supposed to believe that the people on the boat are the one’s who are coming that Ben is so afraid of? I’m thinking we may see the “Other” Others that have been on the island. They could be the remaining Dharma’s that weren’t killed by Ben. Besides the fact that the men on the boat have machine guns, they don’t seem to be in very good shape (think Minkowski) and the boat is trying to get AWAY from the island but Michael sabotages the engines so they can’t get away. I’m just not convinced that the freighties are the ones coming to kill them all.
5. Michael’s eye opening in the hospital. Interesting it wasn’t at the beginning of the episode this time.
6. Did you catch that nurse Libby was bringing Michael blankets? Just like when she walked into the hatch when Michael shot her. So why is Libby haunting Michael? We’ve seen a lot of hauntings in this show. Charlie, Christian, Ana Lucia, Eko’s brother, Boone, and Dave who technically wasn’t ever alive.
7. So the time frame is that Michael has been gone two months according to his mother. Mr Friendly didn’t have too much more time to live after this episode if my memory is correct.
8. Could they have at least used the original actor for Walt? Seemed too cheesy.
9. Someone needs to read Korean! what was on the back of that watch? I haven’t thought about that watch for awhile. Good thing Jin didn’t make it back without it.
10. The island won’t let Michael die? Is that why Mikael kept living through those crazy accidents that should have killed him? This idea is very strange. If everything on this show has some explanation, how do you explain this outside of pure coincidence? Reminds me of an XFiles episode. I forget how that guy finally died.
11. Michael sure seemed to heal fast after trying to kill himself. He was out running around in no time. Did the island somehow give him the ability? Not like a Heroes power, more like some magnetic *hangover* if you will that allows your cells to heal faster. Or at least for awhile.
12. Mr Friendly tells Michael that he has work to do. Boone told Locke the same thing in his airport magic carpet ride dream and Walt also tells Locke this when he’s laying there dying after Ben shoots him.
13. It wasn’t a secret that Mr Friendly was gay. Remember that when Kate is first in the Others locker room after being kidnapped, he tells her not to worry because she’s not his type. He indulges when he’s not on the island.
14. I still don’t believe that Widmore staged the crash. Mr Friendly knows so very many details about how it was done, seems like maybe he knows just a little *too* much about it. I did appreciate that the reason the bodies weren’t pulled out of the wreckage and identified.
15. No one in Thailand noticed all those bodies missing?
16. Miles could have been talking to the ghost Libby that is following Michael around and that is how he knew it wasn’t really his name.
17. Maybe Michael sees that the effects of the island are killing the freighter crew and that is why he doesn’t want the ship to move away.
18. Is Frank really a good judge of character? He confides that the survivors of 815 might still be out there. Or since he has the manifest memorized does he perhaps know this is Michael somehow?
19. Michael killed Ana Lucia on his own. Wow, makes him seem even worse.
20. Ben wants a list of people on the boat. Makes me wonder if he is the one who orders the list of survivors on the plane. Makes me even think that there could have even been a mole on the plane who had the list before they crashed. Who is good on that boat that they want to save and why would Ben care?
21. Looks like Sayid must like Desmond’s hair this week because he has the same ‘do’ in the future. Yucky.
22. Ben is totally communicating with the Others - how else would they know Alex was coming? Ben is really a very selfish person - wanting Alex all to himself and he’s willing to kill to make that happen. However, it would be a cool twist if this explains where Frank and the other freighter guy went on their *errand.* They went to capture Alex because she is a great bargaining chip to get to Ben.
23. They can’t kill Danielle! We haven’t seen enough of her story yet!
24. April 24th. Doesn’t sound like too bad of a wait.
25. I could hear the monster outside of one of the houses in the previews. Looks like old Smokey must find a way around the security perimeter.
26. Instead of whispers, Michael hears a song right before Libby shows up to tell him not to push the button (remember Walt’s “Push the button, don’t push the button. The button’s bad?”). And the Execute button was just like the one in the hatch.
27. I thought for sure Michael would ask Sayid how Vincent was doing.
March 21st, 2008 at 12:29 am
#9: “Congratulation
mutual cooperation
business development
Mr. Paik”
(Got it from the Fuse.)
#10: Guess that’s why Jack’s suicide attempt failed.
#18: He memorized the names on the manifest, but not the faces that go with them. So, he has no clue that “Kevin Johnson” is actually the passenger named “Michael Dawson.”
Great episode, I thought. LOVED it.
Btw, GG, what’s your name on the Fuse???
March 21st, 2008 at 8:33 am
I don’t think it was the others that sniped down Karl and Rousseau. Lest we forget the chopper is gone from the freighter and we saw foreshadowing of the “muscle” on the freighter shooting military grade weapons at clay pigeons. Just the way they were shot tells me the others didn’t do it. For one there was not shot heard telling us that either it was from really far away, or it was a silenced weapon. The others haven’t shown the ability to pull off either. More freighter people have made it on the island and are doing exactly what Ben has predicted. Killing everyone that comes between them and him.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:45 am
Did anyone else notice the ear piece that Alex was wearing? You can see it during the shooting scene as Alex is talking to Carl & again when she is surrendering / pleading for her life. Was it just a blooper or is something more going on?
March 21st, 2008 at 12:11 pm
GG, what did you think of Sayid “outing” Michael at the end of this episode? Personally I thought it was a brilliant move. First of all he pays Michael back for selling out Hurley, Jack, Saywer, and Kate at the end of season 2. Also, it could score him big points with the captain of the ship, maybe prove that he’s trustworthy. If that’s the case then this may be where Sayid becomes allies with Ben. If Sayid has won the trust of the captain, then he is of great value to Mr. Linus. I, for one, can not wait to see where they go with that storyline.
Was it just me or was it really great to see “Mr. Friendly” again? That may be the one thing that I hold against Sawyer. Why’d you have to kill TOM?!!
Now that we know that the island can control whether you live or die, doesn’t that raise some more questions? Is patchy still alive because he still has “work to do”? What about Charlie? Did the island let him die?
As much as I don’t like the Michael character, I found myself feeling a little bad for the guy. Not only do you have to live with the fact that you sold out all those people on the island every day of your life, but now you don’t even get to see your son anymore! Walt was the reason that he sold everybody out and now he doesn’t even get to SEE him anymore. Then he finds out that he can’t even take his own life. There is just no end. So he takes the job on the freighter and finally gets all his courage up to use the c-4 that Ben gave him. Here it is, he’s going redeem himself. He is going to make it up to everybody on the island, he is going to show his son that he really is a good man, he is going to do the right thing damnit!! Then he gets……………a note? Good lord, you put yourself through all of that and all you get is a stinkin’ note that says “Not Yet”? At this point, Michael was probably happy to see Sayid on the ship because he figures that Sayid will just kill him and get it over with.
I don’t know what I’m gonna do over the next few weeks waiting for the rest of the episodes to air, but I can’t wait to see how they are going to finish off this season.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
well the best episodes of the season so far have definitely been Sayid’s and Desmond’s. Wowzers those ones were good. I think the reason this one felt like kind of a ripoff was because it didn’t answer any questions at all, really. We already knew Michael was the man on the boat, we didn’t even KNOW there was a man on the boat until recently so it’s not as big a deal as say, the smoke monster…uh, even the answers it gave (about the fake plane) were sketchy because they came from an unreliable source, tom.
anyway, i agree that it’s probably the freighties that be killin’ alex’s mom and bf, and we’re supposed to believe that it’s ben. although whatever, it could also be ben. also, i wanna see the TEMPLE HATCH!!! gimme some Dharma religious extremism out of left field…
alex looked pretty hot in this episode btw.
and yeah, i’m pretty sure that ben is actually the guy that staged the fake plane thing, not widmore. i think they’re both bastards though.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Widmore is actually looking for Desmond so he can give his daughter the bestest Valentine’s day gift ever! Ben staged the crash because he’s against love. Got it.
;-)
March 22nd, 2008 at 12:15 am
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March 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 am
Heather; Tks for the translation but it still means nothing to me so far. Maybe someone’s Korean is rusty? My name is GG there, too. Didn’t post much there until recently.
Geno: I guess the “whodunnit” is supposed to be our cliffhanger. Gives us something to talk about until late April.
Jenny: Guess I should have read your comment before I made my next post. I have a screencap, however, and it looks like a prop error to me.
Crazyray: I agree, I wanted to see more of Tom and was very interested in his backstory. As far as the break goes, I’m sure that the writers weren’t very happy knowing what a huge break we had to get to the new epis, to have to take another break in the story. But they are promising to jam pack the 3 missing epis into the 5 that they are shooting. Yeah!
I addressed the Sayid outing in my next post. I think it rocked.
Dane; I was expecting that since we knew the big reveals that we’d get some crazy twist that we didn’t expect… which we didn’t get. But I feel like we’ve been getting answers or you might want to call them confirmations of information. I’m still waiting to read what happened to Kate’s toy airplane. She was willing to rob a bank to get it so it must have some serious value to her.
Scott; What a romantic, that Widmore. Maybe Ben needs to spend less time plotting fake plane crashes and more time reading romance novels. That outta do it.
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Cool, GG. I’m “Bella” on there. I added you to my buddy list, because I guess you’re too new to allow PMs yet.
:)