Love Is in the Air

Lost

By Kat | | 5:45 pm | 41 Comments

So this was a pretty good episode of Lost. It moved along nicely, gave us a few thrills, did a little more backstory. But at this point I sort of feel like we’re just waiting around to see who else dies this season.

Rose and Bernard are unloading the new Dharma food onto some homemade (island made?) shelves on the beach. Let’s call them the Bickersons! She’s happy for the blessing, but he’s highly suspicious of food falling out of the sky. He even throws out how he traversed the island just to find her, as though she should feel guilty about it. This honeymoon was over fast ” quite literally, as we’re about to learn.In the hatch, Locke is trying to recreate the map he saw on the blast door walls. He’s so into it that he doesn’t even realize the timer is beeping until Jack comes and points it out. I wonder a little if Locke secretly just wanted to test Henry’s assertion that nothing happens if you let the timer run out. After taking care of business there, Jack heads over to change Henry’s bandages. Ana, who’s hanging out with her gun, exposits that Henry hasn’t spoken, eaten, or had anything to drink in two days. Jack tells Henry that he’s calling his bluff ” he’s going to trade him for Walt. “They’ll never give you Walt,” replies Henry. I think that if he broke two days of silence for that, he pretty much means it.

In a flashback, Rose is trying to get her car out the snow in an alley, and Bernard is helping her. It’s obviously very recent and we can figure out that this is their first meeting. They get all googly eyed at each other and Rose, modern woman that she is, asks Bernard out. He trips over his tongue accepting her offer. Back on the island, Bernard strides up to Rose, who is trying to unload some “Dharmalars” onto Hurley, who declines due to his diet. Are Dharmalars like Mallomars? That’s pretty funny. And for those of you keeping score at home ” and who isn’t, eh? ” the number on all the food packages is DI 9FFTR731.

Bernard’s all worked up and sassy and is asking people to meet him at the tree line in five minutes. He has a plan, as he tells Rose with a wink. He seems like a go-getter, that one. Speaking of go-getting (ha?) Jack’s ready to initiate the prisoner swap. Ana gives him her gun to use, but it’s Kate who gets an invitation to go on the sex romp camping trip. Sawyer gets all sulky about this and probably goes off to kick a wall and break his favorite GI Joe.

On a different part of the beach, Bernard’s tying to incite the masses with a rescue plan. He thinks everyone’s given up on being rescued. “How can you say that, of course we want to go home!” says Claire, only she shrieks it, in a way that startled dogs in Australia. Hurley reminds Bernard that a raft had been built and was somewhat less than successful. Bernard makes the excellent point that a plane must have dropped off the food, so they could make themselves visible to other planes. Rose drops by, apparently just to be an enormous bitch ” she thinks they need to run the plan by Jack (which, really?) but Bernard counters that Jack isn’t the president, just a doctor. “You’re a dentist,” says Rose. DAMN, woman!

One of the female extras is wearing hoop earrings, which is totally distracting; although I realize later that Rose is wearing them too. Rose thinks Bernard is just giving everyone false hope. Methinks something deeper is going on there. Wonder if the flashback will explain? Well, here Rose and Bernard are at Niagara Falls, and Bernard’s rather distracted. Cue the violins, literally, and Bernard asks Rose to marry him. They’ve only been together five months, but he knows she’s the one. Awww! She tells him that she’s dying. Oh! Bummer. Rose explains that she’s been in remission for a while but her cancer came back, and the doctor gives her about a year to live. Bernard still wants to marry her, though. Schmoopers.

Back on the island, Bernard’s on a mission to get more helping hands, and approaches Eko. “Boy, you bunk with a guy for 48 days, and now he doesn’t call or write,” says Bernard. Nice one. Eko and Charlie explain that they’re too busy building a church to build a sign. I think they’ve lost their damn minds, but then I’m a heathen. Bernard gets angry about people building things on the island when he’s trying to get everyone saved. “People are saved in different ways,” says Eko. Bernard walked right into that one. “I think I like you better when you just hit people with your stick,” says Bernard, which wins awesomest line of the episode. Charlie comes in second with “I like you just the way you are.” Hurley’s got some funnyman competition!

In the hatch, Locke wants to speak to Henry, but Ana won’t let him open the prison door. It doesn’t really matter, since as we all know, Henry can hear everything in the hatch. Locke asks Henry if he really didn’t enter the numbers, and as Henry remains silent, Locke gets more and more agitated and starts yelling and banging on the door. We see Henry sitting in his cell with a smug smile. Damn, this guy ” both the character and the actor ” is so damn good.

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On the beach, Bernard’s troops have diminished considerably. I think at corporate retreats Bernard would be called “abrasive.” He starts giving orders and rather unwisely gives himself the easiest job (sketching SOS on the beach) while telling everyone else to start dragging rocks from half a mile away. In a flashback, Bernard and Rose are driving around in rural Australia by Ayers Rock on their honeymoon. Not the most obvious choice for a romantic getaway, and I think Rose agrees with that. Bernard pulls into a dusty little homestead and reveals that they’ve arrived at a faith healer. He donated $10,000 to get Rose an appointment. She’s pretty pissed. As she says, she’s made her peace with dying, but Bernard is not someone who just lets things happen.

On the island, Rose tells Bernard to chill out again. She wants him to just “let things be,” to which he replies “if I didn’t always have to do something, you wouldn’t be here.” Now, at first I thought this meant he felt guilty about Rose being in a plane crash because it was his idea to go to Australia. But now I think he means he saved her life by taking her to the healer, which is a lot to hold over her head. That was a mean thing to say, and it looks like he knows that.

Let’s move on to some younger, more nubile bodies! Jack and Kate are hiking the jungle when Kate says she’s flattered Jack asked her to come along. He explains that he actually asked Sayid first, and only settled on Kate because “they don’t want you.” Oh, snap, Jack! He figures that they didn’t keep her when they had her, so there’s no danger in her getting kidnapped this time. Kate sees a baby doll in the grass, and even though Jack yells at her not to pick it up, she does, and they’re both caught in the same net trap as Henry. Nice one, Kate. In her defense, she does apologize.

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So basically Kate and Jack are all tangled up together, writhing and breathing heavily and accidentally fondling, and it’s VERY SEXY, in case you couldn’t tell. Jack thinks the Others didn’t build the trap, and Kate agrees: “It’s not sophisticated enough.” More fuel for the fires of those who think Kate is an Other. Kate reaches for Jack’s gun, which is at the back of his pants. Again, VERY SEXY. Kate takes the first shot at the rope holding them up, and misses. “Well at least they know where we are,” snarks Jack. He manages to shoot the rope, and down they come. Miraculously without even spraining an ankle.

On the beach, Bernard is yelling at Jin for not following instructions (dammit!), which doesn’t seem like a wise move. It looks like Jin is the only one still helping. Jin starts to storm off but Bernard stops him by saying he’s doing this all for Rose. It looks like Bernard’s trying to appeal to Jin by playing the wife card, but by this point Jin’s over it. No one will play with Bernard.

Locke hasn’t been out on the beach in quite some time, but he’s there now soaking up some rays. Rose stops by for a chat and explains that Bernard’s building a sign “so the satellites can see it.” Notice she only mentions satellites, not planes. It’s a good line that shows the way spouses can belittle each other like no one else. Locke claims to be done with the hatch, but Rose thinks that as soon as his leg splint comes off he’ll be king of the island again. Locke’s not so sure, since word from Jack is that his leg will take four weeks to heal. “But honey, you and I both know it’s not gonna take that long,” says Rose, leading to a knowing smile from both of them. I still wasn’t sure what that meant at this point in the episode.

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Back in Australia, Rose is led into a room with dozens of crutches hanging from the ceiling and thank-you letters on the walls. Looks like Rose agreed to meet with the healer. The healer explains that they’re on a spot on the Earth with good energy (I’ve heard that about Sonora, Arizona) and that he can harness it to help people. He lays hands on Rose, but quickly says that he can’t help her. He offers to return Bernard’s donation (so that we feel like he’s not a quack) but Rose has already decided that she’s going to lie to Bernard and say she was healed.

On the island, Jack asks Kate how she knows that the trap wasn’t sophisticated enough to be from the Others. She hems and haws for a bit. I wonder if the writers always knew they were going to create suspicion about Kate, or if they went that direction after the fans started the theory that Kate is an Other. I feel like they do that a lot. Anyway, Kate tells Jack about the medical station that Claire had been held at. Whoa, for once Jack is the last to know! Kate says she held onto this info until Jack “let her back into the club.” Well, Kate’s a big baby, but at least she’s honest about it!

The conversation ends quickly, as Jack realizes they’re at the place where they met Zeke. He starts yelling, saying he’ll be there until they talk to him. On the beach, Rose has brought some food for Bernard, who’s toiling alone on the SOS sign. Rose has decided to come clean about not being healed in Australia. She explains that she knows when she’s sick, and while the healer didn’t fix her, the island did. She’s been healthy since the crash. We see scenes from the airport, where Rose drops a bottle of pills, and they’re picked up by….Locke! Still very much in his wheelchair. Ah, so that’s what that earlier scene was about; Rose knows Locke was in a wheelchair, and he knows she was sick! Nice! That gave me chills. Bernard finally realizes that Rose does not want to go home, and as soon as he knows this he agrees to stay on the island forever with her. He’s pretty whipped, y’all.

Back in the hatch, Locke’s listening to some musica romantica, and Ana tells him that she “pushed his button.” Oooh, saucy. Montage of love that includes Charlie and Eko (nice), Jin and Sun, Claire and Aaron, Libby and Hurley, and rather pathetically, Sawyer and Vincent. Who is played by an entirely different dog now, I might add.

Jack and Kate are sitting by a campfire, and Jack says he’ll start yelling again when he gets his voice back. “maybe they can’t hear you,” suggests Kate. What do you know, lady? You suspicious lady. She apologizes for kissing him all those episodes ago, but Jack isn’t sorry. They look ready to mack again when someone comes running into the clearing. It’s Michael (who?!), looking half-dead. And there you have it! So, will Michael be in the same state of mind as before, or do you think he’s been turned by the Others?

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41 Comments

  1. 1
    dbright
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 6:39 pm

    Firsties? or seconties?

    I enjoyed the episode as always. Not as good as 24, but it is right up there as one of my fav’s. I might be ok if I just watched the show, but y’all at TVGasm have the links that make ya think…sorry. Love the recaps.

    db

  2. 2
    m_ruv
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 7:05 pm

    Yeah, I used to think Claire was cute and all, but now I mainly just wish she’d bite off her own tongue. And HA HA regarding Bernard being deemed ‘abrasive’ at corporate retreats. He probably always files TPS reports late.

  3. 3
    babeblue
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 7:09 pm

    kat, i read somewhere about one of the letters on the faith healer’s wall possibly being from one of the losties. do you have any info?

    also, it was a little ambiguous, but i think that bernard was alluding to the fact that him setting up that trip was the reason why they were on flight 815 when he said the thing about being the reason why rose was still on the island.

  4. 4
    ATCmurph
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 7:51 pm

    I thought that Bernard meant that he saved her life by taking her to the faith healer.

    About time Michael showed up…I’ve been wondering what the hell ever happened to him. Can’t wait to find out!

  5. 5
    Buttafly94
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 8:33 pm

    No, when Bernard says if it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t be here. He means “be here” as in be alive, not “be here” as in on the island. At that time he thought she was cured by the healer.

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    CapoSTAT
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 9:41 pm

    i thought Kate’s excuse for not telling Jack about the medical hatch is pretty bogus. She’s up to something. She could have easily negotiated her inclusion in the hatch goings-on in exchange for what she knew. Withholding important info about the OThers vs. not being invited to the hatch party…hmmm what ‘s more serious?

    And WHY THE HELL did CLAIRE keep this a secret. Claire happens to forget to tell jack about the adventure, what she remembered of Ethan and Zeke, what they were planning to do?

    I think Jack should start practising the Sawyer Barter System. No info, no treatment…

  7. 7
    Lady J
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 10:26 pm

    I’ve decided that this entire situation is a virtual reality experiment (ie. Matrix). That’s how all of these people’s lives could be so neatly intertwined, they could all have been drawn to Australia and then survived the crash.

    Dharma is the group of scientists administering this psych experiment while all these people lay in a huge facility with nodes attached to their temples. Occasionally some of the scientists jack in to prod the proceedings along. The medical hatch, costumes and glue are either their collective subconscious creating a metaphor for disbelief in the Others, or a metaphoric clue inserted by the orchestrators.

    The healing of Locke and Rose instills a presence of faith, while the aspect of Walt conjuring animals from images as vessels of his anger may eventually instill a sense of wonder or superstition.

    This is like that “Twilight Zone” where the man walks into a town full of mannequins and starts to go nuts from loneliness. Then he wakes up and the scientists remove him from a sensory-deprivation box and remind him it wasn’t real.

    I just need a context to put this stuff in before the not caring completely takes over.

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    Shollia
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 10:44 pm

    No kidding… why didn’t any of the women tell about the other hatch.
    It’s stupid that Claire didn’t.. hellava stupid that Kate didn’t. Maybe if they spent some time communitcating with eachother they could find a way to fight back and get off the island, but nooooo they’re too petty and act like big babies.

    Anywho.. when’s Lost coming back on again???

  9. 9
    Steve
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 10:50 pm

    It’s not that complicated people! The whole show is just an elaborate dream in some autistic kid’s head.

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    DelRay
    Posted April 19, 2006 at 11:56 pm

    Anyone see that island is sad link? The part of the SOS they completed is just a sad smile, with two rocks making the eyes.

    How are we to know he’s a legit faith healer? I think he just bribes the old people there to steal their walkers and crutches!!

    Re, earlier — Lost is back on the 26th, I believe — but a clip show the week before if you know anyone who’s missed a bit of the loop due to spring fever.

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    Tony A.
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 5:01 am

    Bah! I’m out.

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    Leah3t
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 5:47 am

    “How are we to know he’s a legit faith healer? I think he just bribes the old people there to steal their walkers and crutches!!”– HAHA! First laugh of the morning- thanks!

    I thought the ep was pretty boring. Why didn’t Jack get angrier at Kate for her childishness? Sawyer acts childish and everyone pulls his fingernails off.

    Kate clearly does not want anyone to find Walt. First she messes up his rescue by getting herself “kidnapped”, then she doesn’t tell about the staff station, then she “accidently” picks up a doll that requires them to fire a gun to get out. Picking up that doll was a rookie move- everyone on that island knows about rousseaus’ traps. (well maybe not the poor extras who walked away from their one chance to be in the story. lazies.)

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    dbright
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 6:02 am

    Ah man, I would be so upset-I think- if it all happened to be a dream sequence from someone.

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    nocable
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 6:52 am

    I thought Vincent ran off a long time ago- when did he come back?

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    Leah3t
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 7:01 am

    vincent’s been around since shannon got shot- i dont think he ran away after that.

    and yes that is a totally different dog.

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    nemski
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 7:23 am

    If it is a dream, I swear I’ll go postal.

  17. 17
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 8:55 am

    The part where the faith healer explains that certain places have healing properties — “magnetism” if you will, really stuck out for me. The Locke scene sealed the deal. Apparently Dharma was an experiment about using magnetism to heal. This goes a long way to explaing the baby’s recovery and why the Other’s are suddenly more interested in the place.

  18. 18
    CB
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 9:25 am

    No offense Kat, but Edhill does a way better job recapping.

    WHen Ana tells Locke that she pushed his button he says back to her “Its not my button”. It was nice to finally see Locke back to his normal self and not all wacked out.

    Jack didnt get all mad at Kate about the other hatch and the beard because right at that point they came to the place he recognized, so he kind of got off track.

    I too thought it was a bit strange that the girls told NO ONE about the other hatch and the medical supplies or exaclty what had happened to Claire. Isnt that kind of important? DUH!

  19. 19
    BarryJV
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 10:01 am

    DelRay

    Anyone see that island is sad link? The part of the SOS they completed is just a sad smile, with two rocks making the eyes.

    I noticed that. It makes the sad emoticon :(

    Except that there’s a third rock above the ‘eyes’ so it ends up looking like sad face with bindi, which is either a bit odd, or massively significant given the number of bloody hidden clues in this program.

    Link to explanation of bindi for anyone who doesn’t know what it is:
    http://www.kamat.com/kalranga/women/bindi.htm

  20. 20
    jfn
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 10:01 am

    As far as Kate and Claire not telling anyone about the abandoned medical hatch, I know that was like MONTHS ago in our time, but in magical island time, hasn’t it only been like, I don’t know, a few days?

    Still, okay, if it were me I would have come running back to tell someone about Zeke’s cheesy costume beard, but perhaps the ladies didn’t want to get reemed out for their jungle adventure. I could see Jack and Locke putting the chicks in some serious lockdown if they thought they were inclined to strike out on their own again. Plus, okay, they found an abandoned hatch. Big deal. That’s not too, too weird considering all the other shit these people have seen on the island (animated puffs of black smoke, horses, polar bears, a bathrobe swaddled Harry Goldenblatt). Now if it was a hatch full of something useful or kooky, it might merit a report, but otherwise, not so impressive. Still, that fake beard has stuck with me as being a bit over the top. I guess I would ahve told someone about that.

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    jfn
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 10:03 am

    The idea of Kate being an Other is new to me. Who can back this up? We’ve seen her flashbacks on the plane — how can she be an Other? Please explain.

  22. 22
    TWilliams
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 10:16 am

    CB — Ed probably stayed away from this episode because of his horrible joke last week about cancer. I chided him that “cancer was NEVER funny” and what a shock that the following episode was all about the terrible disease. From someone how has had the disease 3 times before hitting the old age of 22, I was highly offended last week (but appreicated Ed’s gesture to say the analogy wasn’t part of the joke). As soon as it revealed that Rose had cancer, I immediately though Ed was having a laugh riot. Perhaps it was better that Kat recap this episode. Thanks Kat.

    Kate was acting childish; but so was Jack. Regardless of this, her not fitting into Jack’s circle is no excuse for not revealing what they found. I am just as surprised that Claire (maybe more so on her part) has said nothing since they trekked off because of HER baby. As for Kate picking up the out-of-place doll head . . . come on Kate. Yes, she is up to something and I have been saying that since season 1.

    Bernard is a terrible manager. What a jerk.

    I liked the Rose story although I thought I had read that Rose and Bernard “may” get a flashback next season. I hope this hasn’t pushed a possible Libby flashback out of the season — she is my big ?. I thought Rose’s story needed to be told and it gave us a lot. Now we know (for sure) why both her and Locke want to remain on the island. I was also glad that someone finally realized that Locke was in a wheelchair at the airport.

    I think Michael has been in a cave somewhere playing Atari. Seriously, I am so glad that he is back — it is about time. Now, if the next episode will actually feature some of his dialogue maybe some of our questions can be answered. I am praying that he doesn’t revert back to his “WWWAAAAAAAAAAALT” lamentations.

  23. 23
    Tracie
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 10:26 am

    The producers and writers have told us this is not someone’s dream or comatose fantasy. So don’t worry nemski and dbright.

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    m_ruv
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 10:45 am

    Ed and Kat just alternate episodes—nothing to do with cancer. No offense but I have to reiterate that you missed the entire point of Ed’s line last week. He was mocking HURLEY for complaining about his weight problem as if it were a health issue completely beyond his control, like cancer. Nobody’s making fun of cancer. Three of my grandparents died of it. We all know it’s a terrible disease.

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    Leah3t
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 11:04 am

    yeah, Kat and EdHill have been switching every other week. Ed apologized for any offense he may have caused and said it wasn’t intended, so don’t see why we have to re-hash it once again.

    jfn- the “other” theory has been bounced around for a while, but got louder when Kate botched up the Walt rescue in a very similar scenario to her stickup in the bank (fake hostage). if you look back it seems that’s she often hiding things or part of plans that end up getting foiled. pretty interesting theory.

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    Ceri
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 12:09 pm

    JFN (20& 21), I agree with you. Does anyone here watch ER? You know have they did those backwards episodes… Maybe we are going to see a backwards one about why the girls didn’t tell about the hatch¦ could be that it was just the next day. I watch every episode but I don’t have it all figured out like the rest of you. What have the girls been doing science they found it? I don’t think they have showed them very much. Also it’s not like they made too much of a big deal about the other hatch the other group found at the beginning of this season¦. And also how could Kate be an other?? They have focused WAY too much on her back story¦ she was on the plane¦ that is unless she was on the plane to get others on the plane to bring them to the island¦ (Libby could come in to play here) Of course I could just be way off on that. WOW I can’t wait till the next new episode!!! Did Michael ever tell anyone he actually talked to Walt on the computer? Do we think he found them, and Walt? If so why would he just leave? Do we think the others where chasing him? With the way the torches appeared I totally thought the others were there¦

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    cansnuts
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 12:23 pm

    the thing that baffled me most about this episode is the Benard is a dentist, yet still has a uterly messed up bottom grill. The whole time he was talking I couldn’t help but stare at those teefs!

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    LuvzSunshine
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 12:43 pm

    cansnuts-I was thinking the same thing. For a dentist, Bernard sure doesn’t represent well with those jacked up teeth.

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    Posted April 20, 2006 at 12:46 pm

    If I was on the island I would institute a nightly campfire meeting, where all the Losties could update the group on any new developments- i.e “dude,I saw a polar bear” or “the button is bogus, yo”

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    MoVieVVhore
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 1:03 pm

    1) How the hell could Kate be an Other?

    2) Vincent and Michael have reappeared in the same episode after long hiatuses. Coincidence?

    3) And considering the general consensus that Vincent is played by a new dog, if Walt comes back anytime, won’t the actor who plays him be noticeably OLDER?

    4) I totally agree with #1 that this episode (and most of this season) has not been as good as 24. This season of 24 has been the best ever… better than seasons 1 and 2!

    5) I’ve long thought Claire and her shrieking are annoying. Too bad the mutants didn’t finish the job in The Hills Have Eyes.

  31. 31
    djo8901
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 1:26 pm

    I agree with LadyJ “ the LOST people need to kick this thing into gear before we all stop caring. They are seriously milking the stories.

    And Moviewhore “ Walt is bigger “ he was on My Name is Earl a couple of weeks ago “ he isn’t a little kid anymore. Maybe they filmed his comeback scenes before he got older.

    I agree with all of these comments about why don’t these people exchange information??? There is rarely a real follow-up to anything that happens. WHY wouldn’t Kate and Claire tell everyone about another hatch with costumes??? When people like Eko and Locke have looked into the “eye” of the island why don’t they talk about it? Tell their island mates and us (more importantly) what they saw? I think the producers are making a big mistake by dragging this out and not giving any major answers. Forget about the huge lapses between episodes. It seems like this should build up to some huge revelation but I am so afraid we will all be let down.

  32. 32
    MoVieVVhore
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 4:02 pm

    btw… happy 420!

  33. 33
    Posted April 20, 2006 at 8:42 pm

    i loved the episode. Nice to see some of the islands ‘healing powers’ come into focus. Bring on may sweeps!

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    lynturn
    Posted April 21, 2006 at 6:47 am

    Where in the world is EdHill???
    Can’t wait until next week. I’m hooked on this show. This episode was great, I like the fact that we all question WTF is going on. That is why we keep watching.
    Please EdHill, do the next recap. They are almost as good as the show!

  35. 35
    TWilliams
    Posted April 21, 2006 at 10:25 pm

    DJO — you are totally right in saying the producers are making a big mistake on dragging this out too long. I have had a few friends give up on the series because they don’t see the point in watching anymore because nothing is going to be answered anyway. I can see where they are coming from and I think the producers MUST give us a big reveal by the end of this season or they will suffer for it come next season. If we are told that more people are going to die or something in order to get us to tune in while NOT giving us anything new to work with or comprehend, I think a lot of people will be turned off (and rightly so). The “Death Ploy” has worked twice before but that had better not be their ace up the sleeve for EVERYTHING. Seriously, give us something here. One reveal isn’t going to be giving EVERYTHING away.

    I love the hysterical questions and quasi-logic presented here with “Kate can’t be an Other because she was on the plane!” Sure . . . someone on the plane couldn’t be connected at all with the island or the people who concocted this “crash.” Wouldn’t one of our own be the biggest shock this show could throw at us? And why not Kate because (really?) what do we know about her past? Who was Mars and who did he work for? How many times had he captured Kate before because he tells us that he once fell for “her story” but we have never seen him do so? Where did she sink in the sand with her mother because there are no beaches in Iowa? Who was the military presence on this South Pacific island and why does Kate’s “father” know she has murder in her heart? Why was Kate NOWHERE on the beach after the crash (Jack meets her walking BACK to the beach after he has restored order)? Who has Kate been running from her entire life (meaning she might be working with these people but that doesn’t mean she wants to)? What was Kate’s slip about the trap not being high-tech enough for these Others? Why did Mars tell us “don’t trust her” if we aren’t supposed to? Now . . . I like Kate but there is much more to her. And us thinking we know enough about her past to NOT suspect her is rather laughable.

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    Web_Bandit
    Posted April 22, 2006 at 8:37 am

    TWilliams(#22)

    Yes I am sure that Ed stayed away because you chided him. He explained himself and even went so far as to apologize for any accidental offense he may have given. Move on.

    Kat, Great recap. Was Lost a repeat this past wednesday? I actually missed the time slot due to my son breaking an arm. If that isnt a good enough reason, I guess there isnt one. LOL

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    zoobabe
    Posted April 22, 2006 at 9:11 pm

    I’ll answer your q Web. Lost wasn’t on this past Weds. b/c ABC was showing a 2 hour episode of Alias.

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    mag-o-hats
    Posted April 24, 2006 at 8:08 am

    Hey TWilliams, I’ve survived cancer and find a way to not be offended by comments made by others. You’ve got some great commentary to add to these boards – but I doubt that anyone was avoiding doing a recap because you felt slighted last week. Lighten up. If you’re easily offended don’t visit a snark board…pretty much everything’s fair game I thought.

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    mag-o-hats
    Posted April 24, 2006 at 8:10 am

    Sorry for the post – but you activated my groan and eye-roll button.

    Still feelin’ the love for your posts TW

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    james_woods_rules
    Posted April 24, 2006 at 1:40 pm

    I WISH Kat and Ed were taking turns, but ED wrote three or four shows ago that Kat was on vacation or something, so Ed would be doing it until the vacation was over. Oh, Kat, really you are probably a very sweet person, but Ed’s recaps are one hundred and fifty percent better than yours.

    I want Ed back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    EdKim
    Posted April 25, 2006 at 8:17 pm

    i thought this episode was pretty good. cool to see what happened btwn rose and bernard. i think its interesting that people are consciously deciding to want to stay on the island. earlier, locke and walt were known to have wanted to stay, but now bernard and rose want to stay too. cant wait to find out what happened with michael.

    are we going to see libbys backstory this season?

    and kat, got nothing but love for you. quit hatin all you hateful haters!!

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