This week is late...again. I apologize, again. Sometimes I have real life commitments that keep me off the keyboard. Unfortunately it's the 'Gasm readers who are inconvenienced and I am sorry for that. The good news is that things look a little better for next week.
So, now that the formalities are done, let's take a look at last week's episode of Lost, just in time for this week's.
Don't shoot.
We open with Betty...er, Juliet, in an office. In comes Veronica...er, Harper Stanhope, who is a therapist, something that Juliet doesn't feel she needs.
Jughead's the one with issues. Get off my ass.
After an uncomfortable beginning during which Juliet tells Harper that she feels that she's feeling a bit under the microscope, Harper turns from pleasant therapist to bitchy she-cat, telling Juliet:
"Well, maybe you feel that all eyes are on you, but you're not a celebrity, and soon enough you'll realize that you're no different than anyone here."
Can't you just see her being one of those gals that put Nair in the cheerleader's shampoo bottles in high school?
Before the interview can go further, Moose...er, Tom busts in to get Juliet. It seems that Reggie...er, Ben wants to see her.
Duh, da boss wants you.
Juliet leaves with Tom, but if your freeze frame is REALLY good, you can see the message she left in the sand ...
Tom takes her across the compound to see the house that Reggie...er, Ben has prepared for her.
Don't leaf me this way.
Juliet is surprised that Ben has set her up in such fancy digs, and reminds him that she's only going to be there for six months. Could Ben possibly be lying by omission when he says that they just want her to feel at home? Nah. Not Ben.
On the beach, Juliet is setting up her shelter. Sun jumps up from patting Hot Dog (Was that taking the Archie thing too far?) and gives her a hand but then wonders why Juliet is going to so much trouble when they're about to be rescued. Could Juliet possibly be lying by omission when she reminds Sun that she still needs somewhere to sleep tonight? Nah. Not Juliet.
Just then, Jack slides into the conversation to ask if Juliet has seen Faraday and Charlotte. Seems they've disappeared, along with their stuff and the satellite phone. Jin, speaking Korean, explains that he saw the two newcomers heading into the jungle.
Jack asks why he didn't say anything at the time.
"You said they are friends."
Sun asks the obvious: "Aren't they?" Anyone want to bet that Jack lied by omission when he answered?
Shortly thereafter, Jack has the gang on the move, searching for Faraday and Charlotte.
"If you cut their trail, call out to me. I'll come to you." When did Jack become Island Action Guy With Kung-Fu Grip? Did I miss an episode where they found a stash of cool guy pills? "Cut their trail?" Last time Jack tried to track someone he ended up tracking himself in a big circle and now he's looking to "cut their trail"? And don't get me started on "I'll come to you." It starts raining right as he says that so A) Bad things are about to happen. B) Crying on them won't get them any wetter.
In the wet jungle, Juliet gets separated and hears...whispers.
(*Whisper Sidenote: I'll post some possible transcriptions of the whispers. Credit goes to http://the-odi.blogspot.com which is where I found them. I don't vouch for the accuracy, but here's what they said they heard:
"Sarah is having another..."
"Is that the other woman?"
I actually hear "Sarah is having another..." but don't know about the rest.*)
When she turns around she sees...Wet Harper.
(*More Whispers Sidenote:
"Look out"
"Sarah is having another..."
"Did you hear that?
"If she won't save us then who is?"
"Sarah, somebody's coming."
Male: There is somebody coming
Female: Hold on one second
Male: There is somebody coming
Like I said, I have no way of verifying these.*)
Whisper plastic surgery can be overdone whisper whisper whisper.
Wet Harper, no less a bitch than Dry Harper, gives Juliet a message, supposedly from Ben. According to Wet Harper, Faraday and Lewis are headed to the Tempest. Ben wants Juliet to stop them from deploying the gas. Juliet wonders how Ben could know this when he's a prisoner.
"Ben is exactly where he wants to be." Odd how that echoes Miles sentiment. That doesn't really bode well for Ben. I wonder how he likes his hand grenades? Over easy or poached?
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Comments (16)
nice recap :) loved the zen garden commentary >:)
my fav ben moment.. the numbered rarebit comment...
i'm wondering where juliet and faraday may have met, obviously they know one another.... some physicist/OBGYN mixer?
the single instance i've seen of this wk's preview.. i noticed a splitsecond image of someone jumping into water... claire? they appeared of slight build and blond...
speakin of hot chick factor... if sawyer stays native, who'll be his next houn'dawg howl?
gotta run.. duty calls
1 of 16 | Posted by kikz | Posted on March 13, 2008 4:45 AM
A bit of a weak episode. The counselor lady seemed shoehorned in and unnecessary. The flashback filled in details that weren't really interesting and weakened Ben's character.
I'm getting kinda tired of the "Are the freighties good or bad?" thing, and Charlotte sure likes knocking people unconscious when just telling them that they're going to shut off some deadly gas would work as well.
I still want to know *why* DHARMA had all this deadly gas anyway.
Glad to see Widmore's place in the story resolved a bit. It raises all sorts of questions though: Does Ben know Desmond's background? Does Widmore know about Penny looking for Desmond? Is it merely coincidence that Desmond crashed on the very island Widmore wanted to find?
2 of 16 | Posted by Merick | Posted on March 13, 2008 5:05 AM
Finally, confirmation that Widmore's running the show!
Other than that, this was my least favorite episode of the season. I agree with Merick that the whole "other woman" thing was unecessary. For a second I wondered if I had accidentally flipped to Day of Our Lives :) Ben's whole "your mine" thing/hate for Goodwin would have been just as effective (if not more so) without this contrived plot device. The whole thing with Faraday shutting the gas off with only two seconds to go was a little lame too...
Sorry for all the complaints! To me, those were the only two missteps in a great season
Finally, and I might be wrong on this cause it's been so long, but wasn't Goodwin's cover blown when the person that they THOUGHT was an Other (and tossed in a hole) was killed? I'm a little fuzzy on this though...but maybe Ben deployed someone to kill the prisoner so that Ana Lucia & Co. would realize the truth about Goodwin and kill him...??
3 of 16 | Posted by msu11y28 | Posted on March 13, 2008 8:09 AM
Thanks Kikz.
This is one week where I can take credit for most of the pictures and captions. I worked my little photoshop fingers to the bone!
I'm sure that next week we'll return to Flipit doing the pix and captions and all the funny he brings to it!
msu11y28 -
I don't think that we have "confirmation" that Widmore is running the show. We have Ben's word that he's the owner of the freighter, and a video that shows he likes to punch people, but not much more than that.
Merick - I agree with you wholeheartedly.
4 of 16 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on March 13, 2008 10:35 AM
"Whisper plastic surgery can be overdone whisper whisper whisper." Thank you, Greybishop, for making me spit my Snapple all over my desk.
Not my favorite episode, but simply because I want (and am expecting) more. I'm at the point with this show where I want more answers and less questions. And waaaaay less kissing from Jack and Juliet. Not hot. I hope that you're right, and the complete lack of attraction between them was because they both have ulterior motives.
And Ben's creepiness factor? Off the scale when he was yelling at Juliet that "you're mine!"
Thanks for the recap, GB.
5 of 16 | Posted by amyeditor | Posted on March 13, 2008 11:04 AM
Did I miss something? How did the Freighties know about the gas? How did everyone know that there was an imminent release? Also, why would Ben need to keep the tape of Widmore in his safe? Who would attach any significance to it? Unless of course there's more to the tape than we were shown.
I agree that this was a weak episode, and it certainly had more head-scratching scenes than revealing ones.
As always, though, great recap!
6 of 16 | Posted by xqzmoi | Posted on March 13, 2008 11:33 AM
I too saw in the previews for tonight's show a woman jumping off the boat holding something close to her body. I thought it looked like Kate though...might she have been rescuing Aaron?!
7 of 16 | Posted by Tadow | Posted on March 13, 2008 11:48 AM
Amyeditor -
Thank you, but that one was PURE Flipit. I wouldn't have come up with that on my best day.
xqzmoi -
Thanks!
8 of 16 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on March 13, 2008 11:52 AM
Someone please clear this up for me... Red Sox won the World Series in 2007, right? The calendar on the freighter says it is Dec 24 of 2006.
So... when Jack asked Frank about the Red Sox winning AND when Ben had the "Red Sox" tape... it supposedly hasn't happened yet after all, right??
I'm probably wrong and missed something since this would have been shouted by everyone else by now!
9 of 16 | Posted by dragonlily | Posted on March 13, 2008 12:56 PM
Great recap, but it did sort of reinforce that this wasn't a good episode. I enjoyed it at the time, but looking back on it while reading I realized I was a little pissed off.
Thanks for posting the shot of the picture in Ben's house. I hadn't even noticed it. Unfortunately, I can't really recognize anyone in it either. I suppose it bears a slight resemblence to a fuller faced Juliet but otherwise its just a chick.
10 of 16 | Posted by Splotchie | Posted on March 13, 2008 12:58 PM
d'oh wait that was 2004 World series not 2007. sorry, I'm totally a girl about sports.
NEVAHMIND!
11 of 16 | Posted by dragonlily | Posted on March 13, 2008 1:00 PM
Sorry, meant to compliment you, GreyBishop, on the Wet/Dry Harper comments. Funny stuff.
12 of 16 | Posted by Splotchie | Posted on March 13, 2008 1:05 PM
dragonlily: The RedSox won in 2004 and 2007. 2004 was the breakthrough win after something like 86 years of futility. That's why it had so much emotional resonance with Jack.
13 of 16 | Posted by tyrantking | Posted on March 13, 2008 1:07 PM
Thanks, Splotchie!
14 of 16 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on March 13, 2008 1:43 PM
Kikz: didn't Juliet and Farady meet just a few episodes back? Before Faraday and Lewis left the beach? Or did you mean they knew each other even before that?
Greybishop: you were killing me with hasenpfeffer. Hilarious!
15 of 16 | Posted by Anonymous | Posted on March 14, 2008 2:37 PM
anon.
hmmm.. maybe i miss'd out on an earlier juliette/faraday mtg.
...headscratch......
16 of 16 | Posted by kikz | Posted on March 16, 2008 4:23 PM