Quick Hits
- Jack and Esau have a chat. We’ve heard both Jacob and Esau tell those going to see the other that they can’t let them say one word, lest they convert you with their silver-tongued trickery. Claire says as much after the fact to Jack, intimating he’d essentially accepted the dark side by even allowing Esau to try and convince him.
There are a number of hints in tonight’s episode that lend themselves toward the stance that Jack is the prime candidate to replace Jacob and battle Esau at this point. Hurley, essentially flying blind the last two episodes, tells Jack it’s up to him whether he wants to talk to Esau or not. Jack, shortly before jumping overboard and heading back to the Island to be with Esau (though not necessarily “with” him, if you catch my drift), tells Sawyer it felt like a piece of him was missing when he left the Island the first time. I don’t recall any of our other candidates having such sentiments.
Jack has chosen to stay on the Island, seemingly for good, regardless of whether or not Smokey truly “has him.”
- As with the Island timeline, our castaways are coming together in greater numbers. Jack and Claire reunite at Ilana’s law office (Sweetzer & Verdansky), courtesy of Desmond the Wandering Reality Cop.
Sun and Jin have a brief, gurney-bound encounter with John Locke en route to the emergency room. Sun’s recognition of Locke seem to validate she’d had visions of his less-friendly Smokey self on the Island.
All this at the hospital Jack happens to work at (perhaps Desmond chose the time and place of his hit-and-run to ensure Locke would be taken to this particular hospital with Jack only twenty minutes away at the law office).
Jack has a chance to repair Locke’s paralysis as well, something John dismissed earlier in the season, tearing up Jack’s business card.
- Locke’s spear seems to have become a walking stick / walkie-talkie-destroyer. As he led his band of merry smokesters to Hydra Island, I couldn’t help but compare him to Moses, who you’ll recall parted the Red Sea with his staff to lead the Israelites to salvation. Will he part the water between the main Island and Hydra Island to get there safely now that the yacht’s unavailable?
- Said yacht, of course, was the very same Desmond was using to race around the world to win Charles Widmore’s race in a misguided attempt to obtain his approval and thus become “worthy” of his daughter, Penny. Said yacht, you’ll also remember, came courtesy of a recently-widowed Libby who Desmond ran into at a coffee shop a couple of seasons back.
On ABC.com’s website for LOST, the “Last Supper” pose for the cast has always intrigued me…obviously the same Biblical reference, but maybe a look at which character is in which position at the table….or other analogies could surface…has any of the websites addressed it?
Great write up…
I liked tonight’s episode.
John Locke looks like Owen Wilson in that shot with his neck brace….
Requests? How about a recap on the first show of the second season….the one where they get into the hatch and see Desmond for the first time…..?
…or pick one….and thanks, in advance!
EUREKA!! I’ve got it figured out!!! (I think). Think Groundhog Day….you can’t change things that HAVE happened, but you can correct them….in the future…next time around? amiright? I tried putting a couple of examples to my “test”, and I tried to reconcile what Desmond is “doing”, what Richard “did”, what Jacob “did”, and each theorm, as in geometry, seems to make sense.
However, I haven’t gone very far with this….but I think I’m onto something!