On Lost

I thought that this episode was pretty good. I was relieved that it didn't return to the love triangle story line between Jack, Sawyer and Kate. Although, to be sure it's only a matter of time before we need to revisit the romance split in three, I'm just glad we've managed to skirt the issue for the last two episodes. To be hones I like Jack a lot, I've liked him for a while now. Kate, I could take her or leave her at this point. She seems to be, becoming more like a tool for the writers to expand Jack and Sawyer's characters than she does an actual character in the show. Maybe it is time for them to return to her past again to remind us of who she is. Sawyer to me has become one big cliche'. Did you ever watch Full House, you know w/Bob Sagget and Candace Cameron? Well if you did than I'm sure that you remember John Stamos' character in the show, Uncle Jesse, who was supposed to be an uber bad ass, but in reality was just an average nice guy in a tough guy costume. The way I see it, that is what Sawyer is starting to become, a joke, comic relief, a foil and a big cliche. What happened to the guy who was so devious and anti social that he conned and then walked away from the woman he was in love with just for the money? Any way...so yeah I'm glad that they didn't focus on the love triangle. Having said that, did we actually find anything out in this episode? No, we just learned something new that we don't completely know the truth about, that somehow, eventually, will be tied in with whatever the heck is REALLY going on. Ha. That may sound like I'm angry, but I'm not, I'm fine with adding more pieces to the puzzle, but not being able to fit them together. At this point I've accepted that, that is Lost, a total conundrum that none of us ever have any chance of solving. To get into specifics, what do you think of this guy with the eye patch? Is he the same one that beat Sayiid? and if so does he recognize Sayiid? how the heck and why the heck is he there? and more obviously where'd the wife go and how did the cat manage to make it? Now that Locke set off the explosives and assumedly some type of warning to Dharma headquarters that they've been infiltrated what's going to happen? Is there actually a warning that gets sent when you press 77 or just an explosinary defense reaction? Is it possible that somewhere in the outside world a signal has now been sent to alert someone that things have gone awry? Ah, but does that really make sense? I suppose not, if it is true that the last survivors of the Dharma Initiative died in the 70's did they say? But just in case let's not forget that when the numbers ran out in the hatch and Desmond turned the key someone, somewhere got a signal...didn't they...? Finally, Are we to assume that Ben and Co. are the rebel group that purged all of the remaining members of the Dharma initiative? If we believe this story, then we should also believe what the eye patch guy said about Ben and Co. having been there for a long, long time. I pretty much figure that's what he's getting at and that, that is the reality of the situation, but I still don't understand why anyone not linked to the Dharma Initiative would be on the Island, not that I really know why anyone who is linked to the Dharma Initiative would be there either. About Rousseau, we do not know that much about her really and it seems like a possibility that she knows far more than anyone originally thought, and is also possibly working for the others. I definitely got the feeling last night that Rousseau was "in the know" more than she let on, but of course she must be, mustn't she? She did after all father a child w/Ben. So what happened to her? Is she really defunct from the Others or is she a plant that the others put in place, possibly the only plant that actually worked, since we know Ean and Ben both failed to infiltrate the group. Of course any episode that doesn't feature Desmond could easily be improved upon, by putting him in the main story line, so in that regard, the episode could have been better. Watching this episode makes me more appreciative of last week's show. Last week's show was fun, had great music and just made me smile, it's good to have that break here and there. A final thought not related to this episode specifically: this goes back to the whole Sawyer vs. Jack issue. Personally, I wish that they could just do away with the whole love triangle (as I previously stated) it's been used a million times, and really there's no where to go with it and there's no right way to pair two of the three off. If Kate were to chose either one, Jack or Sawyer, it wouldn't seem final, is too easy for her to waver between the two because they are stranded on an island. So, pairing two of them off won't work, and continuing the love triangle is annoying, can't they just defuse the whole situation and make them all friends like they would be if they were eight years old? If Kate picks anyone I hope that it is Jack. He may have come off like a goody two shoes, follow the rules kind of guy in the beginning, but I think by now he has proven himself, not only to be a tough guy, but a stand up guy as well. While it may be easy to admire Sawyer for his tough exterior, I think the character to really look up to is Jack. It is far harder to be a stand up guy than it is to be a tough guy. Jack is just as ballsy and tough as Sawyer, it's just that he's also honest and able to be "a man" and to be selfless. I'm tired of these guys like Sawyer whom we are supposed to love not for who they are currently, but for the person that they have the potential to become. Suck it, these guys aren't 16, they're not even 22, they're full on adults and whatever a person's potential may seem to be it is worthless if they can never live up to it.