Lost: The Brig
That was good. That was first season good. There was a believable tie between Locke and Sawyer. Sawyer’s letter from the first season came back into play. The Black Rock came back into play. What does Rousseau need the dynamite for? Is she planning something?
I’m not buying the Man from Tallahassee’s assessment that the island is Hell. We already know that the Others have significant resources, and could stage a car wreck, a plane wreck complete with a decoy crash site, and possibly a helicopter pilot falling from the sky. I don’t think she’s with the Others, but I’m not a hundred percent sold on Helicopter Girl’s story.
I keep going back to this “the island gives you what you want” idea. Locke walked. Rose’s cancer disappeared. Shannon found “true love”. Boone found independence from his evil step-sister. Sayid has found redemption. Sawyer got to confront the guy that destroyed his family. The whole island could possibly be a holodeck type of thing. But. . .
There’s a short story by Ray Bradbury called “Here There Be Tygers” which is about astronauts exploring a planet to be exploited for natural resources. They find that the planet is a living thing that fulfills their every desire and punishes them when they try to drill, hurting it. Sounds a lot like Craphole Island. Incidentally, Bradbury did a treatment of the story for The Twilight Zone, but it was too expensive to make and went nowhere.
There’s starting to be two camps on the beach: the Jack Camp, which is made up of Jack, Juliet and Kate, and the Reasonable Camp, which is made up of everyone else. Understandably, the Reasonable Camp doesn’t trust Juliet and has doubts about Jack. The Jack Camp wants to act like it’s the first season and Jack is the only one who can save them. The Jack Camp wants to keep secrets.
Jack and Kate need to die. I’ve been very clear all along that Jack is a jerk and Kate is a moron, but never more so than this episode. Sayid specifically tells her to keep quiet about Helicopter Girl, and the first thing she does is run and tell Jack? Jack who was alone with the Others for ten days playing football. Jack, who is hanging out with his new Other girlfriend. Jack, who no one else trusts. And she TELLS him about Helicopter Girl and her radio-phone thingy?
I’m starting to think that there is a ninth rule to staying alive in genre entertainment: be an idiot. Idiots, while a nuisance, are not particularly threatening. Kate has broken all of the other rules: she has sex, she doesn’t act like a lady, she tells lies and is, in general, a sneaky bitch, and she doesn’t have a baby. And yet, here she is, running around screwing things up.
Kate isn’t a strong female character. She’s an idiot.
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Well, Kate actually DOES have a baby now – though I agree, she’s a freaking pansy and a moron, and not worth any more time. They’re only keeping her on, because she’s an extra uterus…
Oh, and by the way…here’s a theory for you re: Kate. Because we still don’t know exactly what happened to her when Ben took her out of the cage dressed her up and then brought her back with her wrists all bruised from the handcuffs.
My suspicion? Kate’s preggers with Ben-seed.
Ben seed. . . . ewwwww.
I want to know what Jack wouldn’t let Juliet say. “Not yet.” Not yet what???? Does he know she’s only there for a short time and that Ben is coming to get them? And what’s with Locke and the Others, Is he their new Messiah?? Does that make him Jesus, and does that give him the spiritual enlightenment that he has been seeking? Is that what the island is giving him? I love this show and hate it all at the same time.
Locke lost faith for awhile; I think he’s trying to get some of that back. It’s also becoming apparent that the Others are losing faith in Ben and are possibly looking for some new leadership. I see Locke as more of a Buddha figure than a Jesus figure.
I go through the same love-hate thing every week. . .
Hurray! Other people who hate Kate! I felt so alone…. *weeps*
The thing is, I USED to like Kate. In season one, and even part of season two, she was an awesome, strong, interesting character. Now, though, it seems like she’s only there to help Sawyer’s and Jack’s stories play out, and that annoys me. Plus, the reason why she’s on the run in the first place is just so lame and unbelievable….I don’t even have any sympathy for her anymore.
Now, Sun, on the other hand is amazing and badass…