Some observations:
- Before I forget, I was just re-watching episode three, and I noticed that when Desmond goes to Widmore’s office, there’s some Dharma art on display. It’s a painting of a polar bear with the word NAMASTE across it. It’s pretty tacky and totally unlike what I’d expect of Widmore’s taste.
- Hurley’s orange jumpsuit is actually slimming. I think he should stick with it and lose that horrible shih-tzu shirt. The scene with Hurley was the second best in the episode, by the way. The best was the one with young Danielle. I knew they would get around to explaining some Danielle backstory!
- It sucks that this episode was missing Richard. More Richard, please.
- It looked almost like a Dharma Initiative logo on young Danielle’s canteen. Almost.
- If you’re one of the several people who emailed me in excitement that Jin is still alive, congratulations on one accurate prediction, but that one was a giveaway. How could the writers have killed him off without showing him actually dying? Also, the actor is still in the credits so it was obvious that he’d be back as a main character this season. Also, Lost is all about dramatic irony. Where would the irony be if Sun was mourning her husband and her husband was really dead?
Some predictions:
- When the lawyer tells Kate, “you are going to lose the boy,” it sounds a little bit like how they spoke about Walt in the first and second seasons. Maybe Aaron is actually Walt. Or something like that?
- Sayid was tranquilized with the venom from the spiders that paralyzed Paolo and Nikki. The Others have harvested it and refined its use. And Locke isn’t really dead – he’s pretending to be dead by dosing himself with that very same venom.
- I bet Dr. Chang used his son Miles in Dharma experiments when he was little, and that’s how he got the ability to communicate with dead people. Or baby Miles crawled into one of the rabbit experiments by mistake.
- The “other others” who shoot from the canoe are … Bernard and Rose (actually Rose paddles while Bernard shoots).
- Sun is going to try to trade Aaron for Ben.
- I wonder if the lawyer is just Ben’s personal attorney or if he’s one of Ben’s “people.” I bet we see him on the Island in a flashback one of these days.
- My French is rusty, but it sounded a lot like “Oui! Widmore sent us to this island! Out mission is to discover what happened in the Great Purge of Approximately 1988! Oui! Let’s discover how the Dharma Initiative ended! And we’re armed with rifles because we’re likely to encounter the Others, though we’ll probably be too French to fire them!”
Some complaints:
- Daniel has been doing time travel experiments for a decade, and all the time with the mice they experienced the same sorts of symptoms as Charlotte (and now Miles and Juliet). He’s also helped Desmond recover from this sort of illness. So he should have a somewhat decent explanation for the lay person about what’s going on with the nosebleeds. I mean something a little bit more convincing than “really bad jet lag.”
- Jack says that Sayid was unconscious for 42 hours. Let’s see here … Sayid gets hit with the darts at the safe house, at night, after breaking Hurley out of the mental institution. Then Hurley drives around Los Angeles with Sayid the next day and takes him to his parents’ house, still during the day. Then his dad brings Sayid to Jack, and Jack revives him in the hospital at night. Part of a night, a day, and part of a night come to about 24 hours. Where are the extra hours?
- Why does the hospital’s “director of clinical services” need to introduce herself to Jack? Shouldn’t he know who she is? When she mentions his suspension, why doesn’t he just point out how he successfully overcame his addiction to painkillers when his friend Ben flushed them down the toilet the other day? And when she’s in the middle of chewing him out for exposing the hospital to a lawsuit, why does she just let him walk away when his phone rings?
- When the male nurse attacks Sayid, why does he go through the whole charade of pretending to administer medications, if he’s going to end up shooting Sayid with a dart gun anyway? Why doesn’t he just open the door and immediately tranquilize Sayid with the dart?
- I don’t understand why Sayid is suddenly on Ben’s side and willing to go back to the Island. Is there a scene I missed or something? Isn’t Sayid still supposed to be suspicious of Ben?
- When the lawyer says there’s “no solid case against Reyes,” I see why they can’t get Hurley for murdering the guy outside his mental hospital. But what about the two guys Sayid killed at the safe house? Doesn’t it appear to everyone that Hurley killed them? Also, if he escaped from the mental hospital, why can’t the county keep him in custody and then transfer him back to the hospital?
- Why are French “scientists” in 1988 dressed like American college students in 2008?