What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate - 
by EdHIll
Even though last week's episode was Lost's season premiere, it only dealt with essentially a third of last season's cliffhanger finales. We had Jack, Kate and Sawyer's capture by the Others, Sayid, Sun and Jin waiting on the boat and Desmond Eko and Locke in the now blown to smithereens hatch. Technically this weeks is like part two of a three part season opener. Lost is nothing if not methodical.
The Locke, Desmond and Eko cliffhanger is more exciting, and ABC originally planned to air that episode second, but they decided at the last minute to switch it out with this one, following the story of Jin, Sun and Sayid. God forbid they should give us what we want too soon. Let's just say if Lost was a girl, you'd have to date her 3 months before you could get to second base and even then it would be all above the bra. But you keep coming back because dammit, you put in the effort and you figure you're bound to score eventually. But then nothing happens and you wonder if you ever should have broken up with Desperate Housewives. Sure she's annoying and not that good looking, but man is she a slut. OK, this metaphor is getting a little awkward, on to the recap...
The show opens with an image of a beautiful glass ballerina. The kind of beauty you can only get from participating Hallmark stores, but only while supplies last. The ballerina crashes to the floor. We pull back and see a small Asian girl standing over it. She runs into the other room and starts to practice her piano. Soon her father enters the room and we hear him call her Sun. He asks her if she broke the ballerina. She denies it and blames it on the maid. When her father then says if that's true then he will fire her, Sun again blames it on the maid. Then the father says "Very well" and walks off. Arguments over who broke a glass ballerina statue. Not the kind of thing you'd expect to see in the Godfather. These Korean gangsters are kinda fruity. When Scarface says "Say hello to my little friend!" you expect him to whip out a gun, not a keepsake ornament.
From there we cut to the island. Or the boat that is located just off the island to be exact. Sun is washing her face in the bathroom, or whatever nautical term they call the bathroom (galley? Head?). There is a knock on the door and Jin comes inside. She tells him that she has morning sickness. Out on the poopdeck (OK, so maybe its not the actual poopdeck, but there's no way I'm gonna pass up a chance to type the word poop in any form) Jin has Sun tell Sayid that they need to leave. Its been over a day since Jack, Kate and Sawyer left and he doesn't think they are coming back. Sayid refuses saying he made a promise to them to wait. Jin reverts back to his dickhead mode and demands that they leave, even throwing in one of his patented "I am your husband!" like screaming fits at Sun. This only annoys her and she tells Sayid that she can help sail the boat farther up the coast to light another signal fire. Man, Jin needs to reign in his woman! Maybe Sayid can help him sew a burqa or something. Oh what am I talking about, sewing's for ladies!
Back with the Others, Juliet is bringing Jack some food to his cell. She's keeping up the sweet "I'm your friend" routine telling him that she even made the soup herself! At first Jack seems to smile but tehn he realizes she made gazpacho and his revulsion at Juleiet comes right back. When Juliet leaves she goes to talk to Ben who is in another room looking over the prisoners on a bunch of old black and white monitors. "You never made soup for me" he says. Hmm, so was Ben was once a prisoner just like Jack and Juliet "turned" him, or is he referring to their romantic relationship? Interesting. They are then interrupted by the crass but lovable whore Trixie from HBO's Deadwood, or at least the actress that played her. Now that the shows canceled a girls gotta find work. Alas since this is ABC and not HBO, she will probably remain clothed the entire time and won't utter the c word even once. I'm gonna miss Deadwood.
She tells Ben they have a "situation". The Iraqi found the fake village, but what's more important, they have a sailboat. Ben is shocked at the news. Juliet just says that that means they will waste time sailing in circles (referring to the clue from last season where Desmond said there is no way to sail away from the island, you just end up coming back to it no matter which way you go). But the woman says that that means they could find them in the underwater station. That would be bad. Ben tells her to get a team ready within the hour and also tells her "I want that boat".
Sawyer meanwhile is in his cell getting some fish biscuits for breakfast when the Others show up. They take both he and Kate out of their cells. One of them gives Sawyer some food saying he'll need to keep his strength up. As they are being led away the Other named Colleen comes out to talk to one of the lead Others. After they talk for a few moments he kisses her and then goes back to Jack and Sawyer. Other love. How sweet.
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