Lost: Catch-22

It’s sexy time on Craphole Island. “Shut up and don’t talk” is an oxymoron. Kate may be a lousy criminal, but she has verbal skills better than that. Her reaction to Jack and Juliet dining under the stars was silly. She’s acting like she got dumped, when she never had the guy in the first place.

Who would win in a foot race: The Flash or Superman? Seeing Brian K. Vaughan’s name in the credits gave me hope and I wasn’t disappointed. It was another episode where no answers were given, but I’ve stopped looking for answers. I’m learning to like Lost for different reasons. Desmond’s flashback was pointless, but how many of them are worthwhile anyway?

I keep thinking that the books that show up in various places with various characters have some meaning. Watership Down, which has shown up a few times in the past three seasons, is about rabbits in search of a home. The rabbit Fiver can see bits of the future, like Desmond. The rabbits come up against another group of rabbits (do rabbits run in herds? packs?) bent on killing them. Sounds like the Losties and the Others.

I’m not sure if there’s any relevance to Carrie showing up in The Others Book Club. There haven’t been any telekinetic teenage girls going bonkers and killing everyone yet. There certainly hasn’t been any tampon flinging.The helicopter refugee had a copy of Catch-22 in her backpack. The events in Catch-22, like Lost, happen in the present and in flashbacks. A catch-22 is a problem of circular logic. Like when you’re looking for a job, and you can’t get one because you’re not experienced; but, you can’t get the experience unless you can get the job. A lot of the Losties are in catch-22 situations. Kate is a fugitive. If she stays on the island, she’s trapped and hunted. If she leaves, she’s a hunted fugitive again. If Locke and Rose leave the island, it’s likely that they’re revert back to being paralyzed and dying of cancer. If Claire leaves the island, there’s that couple in L.A. waiting for her baby.

Has anyone else put that together? Any of the people stuck on Craphole Island?

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