Lostwatch: Adoptive Parents
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, grab yourself a milk—no, make that a juice box—and watch last night's episode of Lost.
Everything, they say, comes back into fashion eventually. So though I wouldn't have believed it had you told me a few weeks ago, Lost has actually begun having interesting flashbacks again. This week, in fact, a flashback that was more compelling than the events on the Island—and a flashback centered on Kate, yet. Will wonders never cease?
I've taken my potshots at Kate Austen over the seasons, but this was probably one of Evangeline Lilly's best episodes so far. While I was not, am not, and cannot imagine being interested in whether or not Freckles ends up with Sawyer, or Jack, or any man on the Island, Lilly completely sold me on why Kate needed Aaron so badly after escaping the Island, and how badly it hurt her to leave him in order to go back.
Lilly was so good in that tearful parting motel scene, in fact—you could almost feel her tearing herself away from her baby—that I felt the episode didn't need the explanation that it devised in order to get her to that place. Her flashback seemed, in part anyway, reverse engineered to answer the questions: why did Kate pretend that Aaron was her baby, and why didn't she just return him to Claire's mother?
Saying that she did it for herself—that keeping Aaron was somehow a way of getting over having her heart broken by Sawyer—made dramatic sense, I guess, and it allowed the story to come back around to Cassidy and Clementine. But it would have been simpler, and would have made as much or more human sense, simply to say that she took Aaron because he was her friend's baby, that she kept him because she trusted only herself to keep him safe (as we all know, Kate isn't the trusting kind) and that it was wrenching to give him up not because of some three-year-old heartbreak, but because she had raised him as her own baby.
In the same way, the story on the Island may have been working a little too hard to explain things that didn't need explaining. The conversation between Hurley and Miles was a pretty blatant let's-break-down-time-travel-for-the-home-audience scene, but is the concept really that hard to get? Hurley and Miles have traveled back in time, but they haven't traveled to an earlier point in their lives, so of course they can die. On the other hand, Young Ben is a kid who hasn't grown into Big Ben yet, so he can't. And, the end of the episode confirms, he doesn't.
That said, the show is getting into hairy enough sci-fi territory that it probably needed someone to say, flat out, "This is not Back to the Future." (Had no one on Oceanic 815 seen Twelve Monkeys? What was the in-flight movie, anyway?) And it was probably worth it just for the who's-on-first exchange between Hurley and Miles, concluding with a question we'd been asking here: why, then, didn't Ben remember having been shot by Sayid when he was captured as an adult? Answer: "Huh."
Personally, I'd assumed that Ben did remember, and concealed his knowledge because he saw some advantage in it. Because he's Ben, and that's what he does. I was wrong, I guess, given Richard's saying that Ben's "treatment" in the temple will have the convenient side effect of erasing his memories of the shooting incident.
So bottom line: much of "Whatever Happened, Happened" served simply to explain that whatever happened did, in fact, as we suspected, happen. Ben lived. He didn't remember his past with Sayid in the future. And no one faded away, Back to the Future style.
Beyond that—and the revelation that both Ellie and Widmore are still on the scene with the Others in the 1970s—we're kind of like Hurley sitting in that living room, biding our time, awaiting instructions, wondering what will be the next development to move the Island story forward, now that it's not clear whether or why the other survivors need the Oceanic Six.
Most of the action in this episode was instead on a character level. First, Juliet, Kate and Sawyer came to the decision that whether or not one can change the past, it's not worth changing your moral character in the attempt. Young Ben is still a child, still an innocent, and it's still wrong to let him die.
Unless you're Jack, of course, whose moral compass is again aligned 180 degrees in the opposite direction. His decision to let Ben die at least stems from some kind of principle: he's seen what Ben does in the future and, like the doctor he is, wants to catch the disease in its early stages. But he also seems to be acting partly out of pique, telling Kate that he'd already saved Ben once, at her request to save Sawyer, and he regretted it.
Jack says he's made this decision because he's a different person. But has he? Because once again, it seems that it's all about him. Except this time, that's true in an even bigger sense: his decision, his willingness to be callous, was probably what ended up making Ben become what he did, as young Linus gets adopted by the Others.
The child is father to the man, and in an episode that was so much about adoptions and their repercussions, Jack has become a kind of father to the man Ben will become. In that sense, it really is all about Jack—much more than he may like to admit.
Now to the hail of bullets:
- OK, I think we all expected Ben would end up alive somehow. And I accept that Lost is a TV show. People will appear to die, and then not die. It has happened before. But: Sayid is a trained killer. You mean to tell me he's going to screw up the killing of an unarmed 12-year-old? Does no one on this Island know how to shoot for the head? Do we have to get Snoop in here to teach people how to kill a m__________?
- Lesser quibble: are microbuses really the best vehicle choice for offroad driving? And how do you get one in on a submarine? Break it down into parts?
- I was surprised to learn how much blabbing Kate did about the Oceanic Six's lie. With Cassidy and Claire's mother both knowing that there are people left alive on the mountain, we've got to figure that, at some point, that information gets from them to someone else, right?
- It's good to see Juliet and Kate working so well together on the Island—the cheap and predictable route would be for the triangle/quadrangle issues to arise immediately and for the claws to come out. But so far the only one being a total bitch is Jack.
- I'm so happy whenever I see Miles. "You're all free to leave whenever you want. But I'll shoot you in the leg."
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I'd like there to be something more (because why not?), but if the O5's purpose for returning to the Island is to create Benjamin Linus as we know and fear him, I will be satisfied:
Jack - Do nothing
Kate - Take him to Hostiles
Sayid - Shoot Him
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OK, so Hurley and Sun are MIA from that equation. But like you mentioned James, Jack DID make Ben, Ben.
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So going into the Temple does indeed "otherize" people. So our hunches about Rousseau's team are confirmed.
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Small character moments I appreciated:
-Roger expressing remorse, only to lose Ben spiritually/emotionally.
-Adult Ben's eyes at seeing Locke alive.
-Richard's remark that he doesn't follow Ellie & Charles. So it seems he's always been his own player (he mentions something like this in Season 3 to Locke) -
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So many thoughts to share but I wanted to post this first....I really wish I hadn't seen next week's promo.
To anyone who has not seen it yet, good choice. -
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@ meg - THANKS!!! I am a stickler for staying away from previews/titles until the show. I appreciate the lack of info about what you saw.
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Interesting how the lack of action leads to the results rather than someone taking a specific action...
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Sayid not killing Ben REEEEEAAAALLLLY Bothers me.. there is no way such an important kill would not be accomplished. He shot everyone else more than once and probably in the head, no? Especially the man he thought killed Nadia. I just don't buy he'd only put one bullet in Ben.
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Loved the specific character moments Matt mentioned with Juliet's (one of the first times I feel we've actually seen her acting chops) anger at Jack and Kate's motel scene as additions.. .. One thing that I continue to be confused about - Why would Ben insist John's body be brought back to the island, only to be shocked and scared about him being alive when then get there... It seems he knew John would come back to life, but is still scared and shocked???? -
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@Poniewozik
Were we watching the same episode? Tonight's show was weak ESPECIALLY because it was so Kate-centric. The maternal connection between Aaron and Kate felt so forced, with the horrible child actor playing no small role in the relationship's artificiality. I mean seriously, if the casting directors are going to go for the cute factor, can't they find someone like Jonathan Lipnicki from Jerry Maguire instead that blue-eyed robot? Maybe then, I could feel more sympathy for Kate and her plight.
Overall, tonight's show felt contrived, clearly written to tie up some loose ends and with little creativity as a result. The really obvious attempt to explain the sci-fi elements of the show with Hurley and Miles, the ridiculous idea that Kate would take Aaron to get over her "heartbreak," Richard's too perfect explanation for Ben's induction into Other-ness. The return of the Oceanic Six really has screwed things up, especially the show's writing. -
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@natego
glad my comments helped
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I think Sayid was already struggling with killing Ben and killing a helpless kid once in the chest would be enough. I know he is killer etc. but the look on his face and the way he ran seems he just wanted to do it quickly and disappear.------------------------------------------------------------------
Totally loved the episode.
I think Hurley and Miles scene was good. I liked the exchange between the two breaking up some of the Ben dying who wants to help drama. I think that Jack listening to that exchange changed his mind (was he thinking he could kill Ben and end all of this) and ironically led him to not do the one thing that could have changed young Ben becoming the adult Ben we know.
-----I agree with you that this is the first time I have actually liked Kate and enjoyed a Kate-centric episode. Though totally loved Sawyer's I'm doing this for Juliet....
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It seemed to me that Richard was particularly interested in young Ben (not only from I have met this kid before point of view). It was like he knew Ben is important).
-----So it seems that Ellie and Widmore are leader(s). Interesting that Richard says I don't work for them. During Ben's leadership also Richard has been shown doing his own thing with supplying Locke information about his father and Sawyer......
The only person Richard has recognised as a leader is Locke so far (Am I right in thinking that). Any thoughts people.
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Last thought- how much did you love the expression on Sawyer's face on hearing about Clementine. (Another mystery answered, which pretty much all fans guessed)
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yeah! after all lost is becaming interesting again!!!
thank god!!!
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** This is my first post. Hope I don't blow it.
** With Ellie and Widmore still on the island, it got me thinking about that whole connection again. It seems pretty safe to me to assume that Ellie is Eloise, and she and Widmore are obviously something (siblings, rivals, co-leaders or lovers). And it's always seemed very likely that Charles is Daniel's father, given his financing Daniel's lab work. So what if in the past three years, Ellie and Charles have conceived either Daniel or Daniel and Penny. Maybe that's the reason Daniel isn't anywhere to be found anymore, because the island has a tendency to keep people away from their former selves (Charlotte disappearing in 1974, Ben failing to leap to 1974). It's not a hard and fast rule (like when Sawyer saw Kate and Claire in the jungle during a leap), but it makes sense almost all the time, and it could explain why Farraday has vanished.
** I also enjoyed the conversation between Hurley and Miles. Yeah, for people who keep up with the show on the internet to make sense of it, the 12 Monkeys concept should be a no-brainer. But for most casual fans, that conversation has probably occurred sometime in the past few months. I thought it was kinda clever.
** The new passive-aggressive Jack is no more likable than the old ultra-aggressive Jack.
** That being said, I loved Jack's line about how Kate didn't like the old Jack, either.
** I wonder what will happen with Roger. He seems to have found a heart for his son for the first time in his life, and now, it will appear that Ben just disappeared from the infirmary. Somebody's gonna have to pay. Hope it's Phil.
** I'm not buying that Jack's purpose is to not perform surgery on Ben. He could have completed that task by not coming to the island at all.
** Handing Ben over to the Others was a pretty grim task for Sawyer and Kate. They essentially set the purge in motion. Everything always happened, but they set out to save a little boy, and they really just ordered the deaths of dozens of other people.
** Was it just me, or did it sound like some of the characters had colds? Especially Sawyer.
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First things first, @meg7 and natego - I'm actually really glad I saw next week's promo. It's not that I need any more motivation to watch the show, but I absolutely can't wait to see next week.
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I'm suspecting a busy day at work, so posting may be sparse from me, so here's what I want to get out:
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1. I also liked the episode a lot. Probably the best Kate-centric one we've seen in a long time (ever?).
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2. I always assumed they airdropped in the busses, or else they brought them in on a freighter. There's nothing magical about the sub - in 2004, the reason the sub is the only thing that gets in and it is because that's the only thing the Looking Glass is talking to
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3. When Sayid shot the guy who Ben said killed his wife, he was bitter and put more than enough rounds into him. When Sayid shot Young Ben, he had to convince himself that it was what he needed to do, but couldn't bring himself to put more than one bullet into a kid.
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4. The way the Others were talking about Ellie and Widmore sure sounded a lot like both were in charge. I'm sure there's plenty to glean from that, but I'm just looking forward to learning more about them. As for Richard, he recognizes Other leaders, but he doesn't answer to them.
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5. It's interesting that Sawyer and Kate apparently don't tell the DI about the deal for Ben's soul.
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6. It's also interesting that Sawyer is apparently still consciously choosing Juliet over Kate (good for him!). We'll see how long that holds up.
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7. I'm starting to think that a few characters are going to die in the Purge. -
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When Miles explains to Hurley the rules of time travel, he mentions Ben turning the wheel.
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I've always thought that Evangeline Lily as Kate was the weakest link on the show, and that the Jack/Kate/Sawyer was the least interesting storyline. But this was an episode that made me a Kate fan. At least for now. The scenes where she was leaving Aaron was heartbreaking, and the scene where she told the grandmother that she was going back to the island to find Claire made Kate my new Lost hero.
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About the time travel theory of 'Whatever Happened, Happened'. I think it works really well in terms of the story flow of this show. Isn't that what they've always done in one form or another with the flashbacks/flashforwards? A plot point is established. (For example, we find out that Locke was in a wheelchair but we didn't know why. Or we found out that Jack and Kate got off the island, but we didn't know how or who else left.)
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Then the subsequent story fills in the holes so that we find out how or why something happened. The time travel stuff is doing the same thing. We know what Ben grows up to be and that the Others are going to destroy the original Dharma Initiative, we just don't know how or why it happens. This is how they've always told the stories, the time travel theory just makes the characters aware of it. They know the results, they just don't know the events that cause them. -
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@macevangelist - I just figured that Daniel told them what happened, since Daniel knows freakishly much about the Island and what's going on.
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@renewkir - it doesn't seem like Daniel "disappeared". He's probably a) with the Hostiles (my personal guess/hope) or b) holed up somewhere with Pierre Chang.
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@ Dave - I don't expect the Losties to stay with the DI through the early 90s (they'd age too much!), I think they're leaving at the Incident. But yes, I do expect a character or two to die in the Incident.
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I really liked this episode. I had a little different reaction to both Kate and Jack though.
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1. Kate. It's clear the main reason she took Aaron for herself was for her own personal reasons, but I think a lot of what James mentioned played into it as well (she didn't trust anyone else, etc.). But I think giving him back was heart-wrenching for her simply because she had been raising him for almost 3 years. She TOOK Aaron mostly for herself, but she's going back (and therefore giving him up) for Aaron and for Claire. (Which is in stark contrast to what I at least assumed she was about to tell Sawyer last week - that she came back for him.) She's trying to right her wrong, and really take care of him. She had selfish reasons for taking him (perhaps only subconscious reaons), but her reason for going back is purely to take care of Aaron in the largest sense by finding his real Mom, though there are probably some selfish redemptive reasons in there as well. I totally bought it. (Though for me, it didn't mesh at all with Kate telling Jack, "Don't ever ask me about Aaron again." That still doesn't make sense to me.)
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2. Jack. Jack has done a complete 180 this season - he's the new Locke. He came back b/c it's what he was "supposed" to do. I think part of why he didn't do anything for young Ben is b/c he was given no sense or indication that he was "supposed" to save him (again). Just the opposite: everything in his soul is telling him it was wrong to save Ben the first time, and that he screwed up the Island's plans by doing so. He said as much to Kate in the kitchen. He knows he's there for a reason, and until he learns what that reason is he isn't getting in the Island's way.
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In another sense, I think Jack's trying to do this time what he wanted to do from the beginning - just survive and get by, without having to shoulder the burden of being leader. He never wanted it in the first place, but it was forced on him by others like Charlie, Hurley and Kate. I think he's standing up for what he wants this time - "I'll do what the Island wants me to, because I believe it's what I'm supposed to do, otherwise I'm keeping to myself." Juliet was right about that part, at least. -
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@Dave…
I guess so, Dave. Maybe we see them all follow Daniel down into the frozen chamber in a flashback…
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@Dave, I don't need any extra motivation to watch this show.. I'm like a rabid dog come Wednesday night, no matter what!
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I'm stewing this episode over in my mind, but here's one thought:
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Are we sure that Jack could have saved Ben?
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I mean, I gather that he's supposed to be a good surgeon, and he's made miracles happen medically speaking, but if he HAD tried to save Ben, are we sure he would have succeeded?
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Playing along with "whatever happened, happened" -- Jack was ALWAYS supposed to not save Ben in 1977, so that Ben would get "Temple-fied" or whatever. If Jack HAD tried to save him, doesn't it follow that he would have failed? (And doesn't it now follow that Jack was ALWAYS supposed to save Ben in 2004 SO THAT he could come back and not save him in 1977, forcing Sawyer and Kate to break the truce and get Alpert involved?)
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Overall, though, I really liked the episode. Some great dramatic work by Lilly, comedic work by Miles and Hurley, and the scene between Juliet and Jack was AMAZINGLY powerful.
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Oh yeah -- I almost forgot: any scene between Locke and Ben? Instant Emmy-submission, in my opinion. -
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@macevangelist -- Miles would have HAD to have known about Ben turning the wheel because he was there when Locke turned it. Locke knew Ben turned it, mentioned it to all the DI-Losties, and that's how Miles knew about Ben turning the wheel.
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Anyone notice a line I deem important: "Where's the doctor" "He's at the Looking Glass".. anyone else wondering exactly who the doctor is? Or, do y'all think this line is trivial.
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@Chaddogg: I think we can assume that Jack would have saved Ben. Juliet thought he would be OK if an actual surgeon was around because she just needed to find the source of the bleeding.
Whether that originally happened is irrelevant, since the island would have just course-corrected anyway. One way or another, Ben was going to survive.
I actually think Jack WAS supposed to save him, and what we're seeing now is the course-correction. We know from previous episodes that Ben was still in the DI at the time of the purge, and that his dad was apparently still treating him like garbage. with what we saw last night, both of those facts are in doubt, especially his dad's attitude.
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I really liked this episode, another strong one in a strong season. I liked that they pretty much took the most basic path to fit the landmarks we already had for Kate's time back home. So much of the chatter on the internet was about something else happening to her, some other influence, and then it was just her dealing with her actions and making a different choice. Which is what the island does to you (it's what growing up does too, but on this show it's the island.)
I had been wondering, after we learned that no one was forcing the O-6 to lie, how Kate was going to manage to fulfill Sawyer's final wish, so I was glad to see that. I do think that the whole "you took the kid to mend a broken heart"(!?!) is still only Cassidy's interpretation of things. We don't know if it is what was going on in Kate's head, that she was becoming a Mom to overcome heartbreak, but it showed her that it was for her -- as a prop to show she'd changed or out of guilt or saddness, or because it would look good in court, not for Claire or Aaron alone. But whatever reason she originally kept him,she had been his mother and doing the right thing, what a huge wrenching step, so no wonder she was so upset when she went to Jack. But why he could never ask her about it? Unless she didn't want to get in trouble for "telling".
And to have all that balanced out by the funniest meta-conversation about time-travel ever. And James, going back to your question about ultimate answers comparing this to BG., they are certainly acknowledging that people want answers!
And as for the time travel, what gets me about it is how it shows that different roads lead to the same result.
a. the losties never go back Ben is abused by his father until he needs to kill all Dharmabums
b. the losties go back after Ben has abused the hell out of them and one of them attempts to kill him, and one of them who can won't save him, leading him to be taken to people who will ROB HIM OF HIS INNOCENCE (what the hell does that mean anyway????)
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c. the losties go back Sayid tries to kill Ben, Ben's Dad realizes the error of his ways, Jack steps up and saves Ben and Bens Dad tries to make ammends, hence no angery teenager to be the inside guy on the purge.So there could have been a way out of it, but it wasn't taken. Can't change the past. But there seem to be lots of ways to live it anyway.
And to that, when Juliet confronted Jack and he said he came back to do something but didn't know what, I was expecting Juliet to say "how do you know it wasn't this?" Because how does he know it wasn't this, and like Charlie's death no matter how many times Ben's saved he would still get to the place where he gasses the village. But now Jack has to live with not stepping in and seeing whatever it is the Hostiles do to Ben.
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@natego: isn't the doctor the same one who couldn't deliver Ethan, necessitating Juliet intervention. Which, btw, I'd still like to know how they explained that one to the DI. Was she a mechanic who took an emergency C-section weekend seminar or what?
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@natego - I had the fleeting thought that the doctor mentioned was Mikhail
But I think it may be inconsequential. The doctor wasn't there, so they needed Jack.
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@Chad - Locke knew Ben did something, but he only knew the Orchid was important. He didn't know it was a wheel until he got to the chamber. Either way, I assume Daniel knew about the wheel and how it caused all the havoc.
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Re: Jack saving Ben. Yes, in hindsight, we know that Jack has never saved Ben, but like Miles was saying, that was their present, so they didn't know the outcome. Could the show have played it out that Jack saved Ben, then Sayid shooting him was forever his motivation for Ben being Ben? Sure, we hadn't seen it yet But I agree, this was a very good episode. I really like how they played it out.
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@archstanton - I'm with Chad; Jack never saved Ben, and Ben was always taken into the Temple.
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Roger showed remorse when his son was dying, but he's going to fall back on old habits. The Purge scene between Ben and Roger was what tells us that Sawyer and Kate don't tell the DI about the deal for Ben's soul they made with Richard.
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Speaking of the deal for Ben's soul... was Richard just putting on a show? He knew that Ben was special already, so he knew that Smokey/the Temple would heal him, and he knew that once the Island saved him in Richard's arms, he'd never willingly go back to the DI without being a Hostile, so Richard cooked up the selling-his-soul story so that they wouldn't suspect Richard of being in contact with Ben previously? -
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Hello everybody. First time poster, long time reader. I haven't seen this anywhere else, but I am pretty sure that the supermarket scene where Kate almost loses Aaron is a direct reference to Ian McEwan's novel, The Child in Time (written long before Atonement). From what I have heard, the hero of the novel lives in a dystopian future and one day, loses his young daugther in a supermarket. Her name is Kate.
From wikipedia:
"The book deals with the theory that time is relative, and that time can be fluid and unstructured. In one respect it could be viewed as a time travelling story"
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Excuse me, daughter. It's pretty early in the morning...
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Don't have much to add: This was a spinning-our-wheels episode that actually featured decent Kate flashbacks for once, mixed with stupefyingly dumb motivational retcons:
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In Season 4, Sawyer was the one pushing for the relationship with Kate. But now we're told that once freedom (and the relationship) was at hand, he jumps ship (well, helicopter)?
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"Why didn't Ben remember getting shot?" Ben remembering it would explain so much - his Juliet fixation, his always being a half step ahead of the 815ers, their inclusion on his Lists, etc. Instead, the magical Otherizer gets put to use - also leading to the question of why Dharma would ever welcome him back/trust him again. (As well as turning Ben's joining The Others from a choice into coercion.)
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Kate now took care of Aaron because of her broken heart - except Jack & Kate were already friendly at the time of Christian's funeral, and would have been together shortly had the Aaron parentage bomb not been dropped. Not to mention that, IIRC season 4 correctly, Kate broke up with Sawyer, Locke kicked her out of Otherville, then she met up with Claire/Aaron and didn't want to have anything to do with him. But two days later on Penny's boat she is raising Aaron because she's heartbroken over the man who she already dumped? What?
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Actually, I get more upset with the retcons the more I think about them. Sigh.
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But there were a couple bits I liked:
So Widmore & Hawking are indeed still on The Island (and Widmore's banishing is The Incident). That in itself isn't surprising, but it means that young Penny is probably running around with The Others "now". So we get the creepy/icky factor of young Ben playing with young Penny back at the 1977 Temple while in 2007 Ben is busy trying to kill her?
And shouldn't Daniel be born now as well? Is Charles his father, making Dan & Penny half/whole brother & sister? But doesn't that counter the nosebleed order, where Sawyer (who had spent only 100 days there) picked one up before Daniel? Or is 1977 Hawking just extremely pregnant with Daniel?
And yet more people know that the 815 cover story is a lie. Not that we should be surprised - when the public finds out that nearly every member of the O6 happen to be on 316 (that also disappears without a trace) the guano will hit the fan anyway. So is that the big season finale twist - once everyone gets back to 2008 after The Incident, we find out that Dharma has been reconstituted - and gone public with The Island? With the Dharma video that Jack filmed which we saw way back in the first Season 5 preview as evidence A?
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