Saturday, February 24, 2007

Lost: "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Feb. 21-07)

RE-CAP: Flashback: Jack gets tattoo from girlfriend in Thailand.  Jack is angry.  Jack gets beaten up.  In the "present" Jack agrees to help Ben with his recovery, Jack saves Juliette.  Sawyer and Kate argue.  Karl is weird.  Karl goes off to "rescue" Alex.

 

Episode Rating:  Good.  The Juliette storyline surprised me with the amount of drama it kept.  Other than explaining his tattoo, though, was there a point to the Jack in Thailand story?

 

The "Others":

 

Okay, this has been something I've been trying to work on for a while...  What do we know about the others?

-  The live on the main Island and work on "Alcatraz."

-  They have a true society of a sort.  Not only that but they appear to be a society with a high degree of shared purpose.  We don't know what it is, but its important enough to them that they are prepared to kill to protect it.  When its not threatened, they apparently would find this behaviour unacceptable.

-  Part of protecting their work/true purpose is that it must be concealed.

-  Ben's authority is absolute, except for "Jacob."  That said, they have some degree of self government (as we see through Juliette's "trial" even though Ben overrode it).

-  Their purpose is something about bio-medical research.

-  They don't appear to be directly tied into The Dharma Initiative (the hatch people).

-  Their research may be on the Island because of the Island's mysterious powers.

-  Until the Swan Hatch "imploded" they had communication with the outside world.

-  Their appears to be both widespread support for Ben's authority.

-  Jacob is still actively giving them direction and is known to them (not just Ben).

-  They are able to accept new members into their society (like the flight attendant from the flight.)

 

I have no idea yet how to sort out how the plane crashed by accident, thank you, Desmond. Then suddenly Jacob's list is generated (with Sawyer, Kate, and Michael's names on it?).  The only possible explanation would be that Ethan and Goodman's intelligence back to Ben as they got to know the Tailies and the Fusies was then fed to Jacob.  Makes "sense" I guess.

 

QUESTION:  Who is your favourite "Other"?  Leave a comment to let me know.

 

B

 

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