Locke refusing surgery
Kate: So Locke could actually get out of the wheelchair without the island’s help, but he doesn’t want to? It makes sense for his storyline, though. He would maintain that connection with the island as the one place where he could walk.
Jenny: I’d consider the real Locke to be an independent person, based on observations from previous seasons, so it is fitting that his alternate-timeline character is independent as well. He understands that Jack could potentially heal him, but he refuses to let someone help him. At least, this is what I thought until I realized that maybe “alternate-reality Locke” feels badly about his father’s injury. Locke doesn’t want to be healed and have to watch his father suffer in silence.
List of names
Kate: Kate was a candidate, but her name was crossed out. She’s not dead or insane, so what could she have done wrong? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that she tends to be in the middle of anything negative that happens on the island because she never listens. Maybe it’s because she took Aaron, who I have a feeling is pretty crucial to the island in some way.
Bernard in the alternate timeline
Kate: Seriously, which characters haven’t been seen in the alternate timeline yet? I love how they have people show up in completely random roles. Bernard was a dentist in the normal timeline prior to the crash, not a doctor.
Jenny: I’d just like to add that Bernard is much ruder and jealous in his alternate reality than he ever was on the island. Accusing a man (Jack) whom he barely knows of flirting with his wife? He needs to calm down a bit. Just because Jack is younger and better looking than Bernard does not make him the type of guy who would go after someone’s wife.
Sun and Jin
Kate: In the midst of all of this conflict and confusion about who to trust, it is precious that there is one adorable couple. I actually used to really dislike Sun and Jin because I found their storyline boring, but Sun giving Jin his ring back is fantastic.
Jenny: I’ve always liked Sun and Jin as a couple, regardless of their storyline. I found their storyline to be rather scary with all of the Vietnamese mafia stuff going on.
Claire and Jack relationship
Kate: While I think it’s great that Jack is trying to embrace his new sister, this whole situation is a little awkward. Maybe lunch would be a better first step than having her stay with him. I feel like there is something very familiar about that music box, especially the song, but can’t quite put my finger on it.
Jenny: Remember Rousseau? There was an episode a long time ago where Sayid fixed her music box. I’m not sure if either music box has significance though. I liked how both Claire and Jack looked into the box and we could see their reflection in the mirror. Maybe it’s just to show their new relationship?
Locke in the water scene
Kate: Jack is officially a man of faith, just like Locke, clear from his comment that Locke told Jack he needed to stay on the island. But obviously “Fake Locke” can’t die. He gets shot, brushes off the bullet, is hit with a gun, falls into the water, and is perfectly fine. And it’s finally made clear what we’ve known all along:“Fake Locke” wants to kill the survivors and, I would presume, get rid of all of the candidates.
Jenny: I previously thought that the reason why this creepy Locke guy, whoever he is, couldn’t leave the island was because he couldn’t touch water. I know it seems illogical now, but it made sense at the time because it gave an easy reason why an island would be the perfect prison for him. When he fell into the water, I wanted to believe my theory was correct, but I knew that Locke could not be killed off that easily. There still must be some significance to this scene, but I haven’t quite figured it out yet.
Jack/Kate/Sawyer
Kate: I think a lot of what has been missing this season is the focus on Kate’s relationship with Jack/Sawyer. I just want to know what couple is going to work out in the end. Jack’s genuine concern for her when she gets shot makes me lean towards them getting together.
Jenny: I have to say, I’m on team Kate and Jack. I love Sawyer, but Kate and Jack have had something special from the first episode of the series. On a side note, I thought it was interesting that Kate and Sawyer ended up in the polar bear cage together again. I was half expecting that something scandalous would happen, but only because we’ve seen what happens when two people locked in a cage get bored. However, any chance of a romance occurring was shot down when Ol’ Smokey came back.
“What is he hasn’t [killed us] because he’s not allowed to?”
Kate: This must be another rule, that Fake Locke cannot kill the candidates. I do love that Jack is taking control again – I’ve missed that this season from him because he works best in a leadership role. That was evident from how he handled the Kate getting shot situation and how he attempted to get Sawyer to not pull the wire out of the bomb.
Jenny: I’m really glad to see Jack stepping up as the leader of the remaining survivors. Too bad Sawyer still doesn’t trust him. Back to the rule: Since he couldn’t kill everyone himself, Locke created a plan. He planned to get all of the candidates in one area, secretly hand them a weapon for murder, and watch them kill each other. I took note that Locke grabbed a guard’s watch and stole some wire from that random airplane, but I was still completely shocked to see Jack pull the bomb out of his backpack. I totally missed that Locke switched Jack’s backpack with a different one.
Sayid
Kate: Okay, before the season started, I heard rumors that either Jack or Sayid was dead. Killing off Sayid, one of my favorite characters? However, he did show that his true allegiance is with the survivors, not with Fake Locke, when he took the bomb and ran. It’s a theme of “Lost,” though, sacrificing yourself for the good of other people (Charlie sticks out as a fantastic example of this). I wish he’d gotten a better ending though Sun and Jin at least had a poignant moment when they dropped each other’s hands as they drowned.
Jenny: I still don’t understand why Sayid had to sacrifice his life. Why couldn’t he have just thrown the bomb to the back of the submarine and ducked for cover with everyone else? At least one life would have been saved.
Kate: I think it was because he had to almost redeem himself for helping Fake Locke, and this was the perfect way to do it.
Sun and Jin’s death
Kate: This reminded me of Charlie’s death. And this was the quintessential example of how far Sun and Jin’s relationship has come since the series started. They’ve embraced their love and respect each other. As Jin said in his final words to Sun, “I won’t leave you. I will never leave you again.” I’m sure Fake Locke is glad. There are now two less candidates to contend with.
Jenny: While I could have easily predicted that this was going to happen (did anyone seriously think Jin would leave her again?), I still found the scene to be emotional and powerful. I almost had tears in my eyes when I saw Hurley break down on the beach after the incident.
“To finish what I started.”
Kate: Fake Locke is going to try and get the rest of the survivors to kill each other off. But from the look of the preview, it’s going to good vs. evil or Jack vs. Fake Locke. I have a feeling Jack is going to take a more vital role from now until the end of the season.
Jenny: It’s as if Jack will end the series where he started: as the leader of the good guys. There’s going to be a big showdown sometime (likely to be during the final few minutes of the last episode), and who knows what is going to happen. I’ll probably change my prediction by next episode, but for right now, I’m going to guess that Fake Locke will ultimately fail.
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