I didn’t think that was great…. Sure, it confirmed that the kid Mocke (and some others, Sawyer, for instance) have seen in the jungle is a young Jacob, and we finally found out who “Adam and Eve” were — well, not exactly their names…. Jacob’s brother doesn’t seem to have a name and the woman was, well, that crazy woman who raised Jacob & his bro.

But…. did we find out anything else? Not really. The smoke monster came out of the weird light-cave after the MiB got thrown in and then I assume it took on the form of the man in black since his body was available?

Did the mother actually speak Latin, Spanish and English or was something weird going on there?

Who were these boat people? How did they (with the help of MiB) create the system that is attached to the frozen donkey wheel that moves the island in time…. Who completed that system between then and the 1900′s?

The crazy foster-mother made it so Jacob and his brother couldn’t hurt each other… Right. Erm. Didn’t Jacob knock out the MiB and throw him into the river resulting in him dying? And didn’t Jacob lay a few punches on his brother earlier in the episode? WTF.

So…. It doesn’t explain why the smoke monster had to take the form of Locke and make Ben kill Jacob — where did those rules come from?

Why couldn’t the MiB find the stream with the light? Yet Jacob could take him there..?

Gah. Too many questions came out of this episode; and very few answers. Here’s hoping next week’s episode, the penultimate “What They Died For” is better. Then it’s the 2.5 hour long finale on Sunday.

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Well, it seems as though Mocke has finally shown his true intentions — to kill all the candidates; perhaps everyone who is on the island. Whether that’s what he has to do in order to get off the island, or just because he wants to, it seems clear he has evil intentions – right in line with our initial opinion of him.

In this episode he managed to kill off 3 main characters (perhaps 4, we don’t know about Lapedus, though I think it’s likely he’s gone too). Sayid redeemed himself by running off with the bomb in order to save others. Unfortunately, Sun got trapped, Jin maintained his promise to never leave her and they both drowned!

Kate’s been shot — though seemed perfectly fine on the beach miraculously. I’m still curious as to why she isn’t a candidate… she isn’t the only one who’s killed — Sawyer has and he is a candidate.

Before Sayid runs off to sacrifice himself he tells Jack that he’s gonna need Desmond and when Jack asks why he’s telling him that, he responds with “because it’s going to be you.” — Somewhat cryptic, but I assume Desmond told him that Jack is going to be the Candidate and he’ll be able to help somehow. Plus he was the only one who knew about Des and we need to see him again!

Ben, Richard and Miles — Where’d they go? Was it them who put the C4 on the plane or Widmore?

Alterna-Jack said “I think you’re a candidate” to Locke. Heh. Locke was dreaming about pushing the button & said “I wish you had believed me” — what he wrote to Jack in his suicide note. Later, when trying to convince Locke that he can help, Jack says “I wish you believed me”; it almost seems as though Locke remembers something then. Interesting parallels, that’s all.

Well…. there are 2 episodes left then the 2.5 hour finale! It was originally planned to be just 2 hours, but I guess they crammed so much in it got extended. Awesome. But sad.
Next week’s episode is called “Across the Sea”.

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…it really seemed to advance the story quite a bit.

First off, this episode was entitled “The Last Recruit” — having watched it, I’m not exactly clear on who that’s about…. Jack joining team Mocke, perhaps Desmond getting Claire on board in the alternate world? I don’t know.

Anyway, Sun an Jin finally met up, that was rather nicely done. She’s fine and the baby too, in the alternate world. They are of course taken to the same hospital everyone has been to this season — including Locke. When Sun’s being wheeled into the hospital she starts freaking out when she sees Locke next to her… I assume she had some realization of the island timeline and was afraid of him since he’s the smoke monster…?

Of course, it had to be Jack who gets called in to do the surgery on Locke; upon seeing his face Jack says “I think I know this guy”. It’s probable that he’s just remembering him from the airport, but I suppose there’s a chance he’s remembering Locke from the island.

Both of the zombies, Sayid & Claire (okay, I’ll admit, Claire isn’t really a zombie but, I digress) seemed to show some inkling of a personality in this episode — Sayid clearly didn’t kill Desmond like Mocke asked him to and Claire had a brief moment of relative sanity with her bro, Jack. Perhaps Sayid does indeed have feelings still.

So, according to Claire once Mocke has spoken to you you’re on his side; hmmmm. That would make, erm, everyone on his side. Surely it can’t be that way.

There were some surprising character contrasts — Jack having complete faith in the island; to the extent that when he left it, he felt as though part of himself was missing… causing him to jump off the boat and swim back. Also, Kate saying we have to go back to the island! Admittedly, I’m guessing she’s just saying that because of Jack, but still.

Mocke speaking of how pathetic Locke was felt rather cruel, though it was quite funny that he was saying it to Jack who, it seems, is on the island for that reason alone — he has faith.

I assume Desmond knew that Jack’s lawyer was looking for Claire and that’s why he took her there? If so, I’m wondering how he knew that!? Either way, it was all very coincidental.

Oh yeah, there isn’t an episode on next week, in 2 weeks time there’s “The Candidate”.

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“Sayid ain’t invited, he’s gone over to the dark side”
“Yeah, but you can always bring people back from the dark side… I mean Anakin”

Ilana blew herself up!
Desmond ran Locke over!
Michael showed up!
Desmond got pushed down a well!
Hurley blew the Black Rock up!

Sooo…

Quite a lot happened in this episode, and finally, most people are together (although not Sun & Jin).

Desmond’s now down a well…. I wonder if there’s anyone down it too? When Locke went down the well he saw Christian Shephard. Still though, I wonder who’ll be coming to his rescue — Widmore and his people?

I wonder whether island-Desmond can see the future like he could last time he was exposed to electromagnetism — perhaps explaining why he’s so willing to go along with everything? He already knows what it results in…?

Alterna-Desmond is making people aware of their other existences, and perhaps that explains why he ran Locke down at the end. Him being on the ground like that was very reminiscent of the first season or when we saw him on the ground after being pushed out of the window, I don’t remember which in particular.

That weird kid was back from a few episodes ago; looking slightly different, but clearly still bothering Mocke. Desmond & Sawyer can see him, but not Richard…. I wonder who he is!?

The whispers were confirmed as dead people who can’t move on, including Michael who claimed it was because of what he did.

Next weeks is called “The Last Recruit”. Perhaps referring to the fact that Locke only needs Jin to ensure he has all of the candidates? Until then, then.

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Initial thoughts: DESMOND!!!!! Yay.

Sooooo, Mocke needs all the candidates with him in order to leave the island!? Iiiinteresting. Don’t see it happening at the moment though.

When I heard Mikhail’s name I immediately thought “I wonder if he has both eyes?”… Well, he did. But not for long lololol.

Sun getting shot… I’m assuming she’s not going to die since there seems to be a balance or something between the two realities. So far most who’ve died on island have died in the other reality too.

And since I’m unable to think of anything else for this episode when there definitely is more to talk about I’ll leave you with my first thought again. DESMOND’s finally back!
Up next is “Happily Ever After”.

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…Which gave us Richards back-story and, inevitably the back story of the Black Rock since he came on it.

So, if Richard doesn’t stop the man in black, they all go to hell…. I wonder if that means he’ll release his darkness upon the world or just the people on the island will go to hell? The bottle analogy would suggest it’s the former.
Speaking of that bottle analogy…. WTF!? The island is a cork for evil/darkness in the world? Colour me confused.

Yet again, if you want to kill either Jacob or the man in black it seems you can’t allow him to talk to you first…? Weirdly though, when the man in black found and used his loophole in Ben, Jacob talked to him before he had a dagger plunged into his chest… Hmm.

The man in black wasn’t even in his own body before he took Locke’s form…. WHA!? Jacob took his body apparently.

I wonder how Illana has been preparing for the need to protect the remaining 6 candidates??

Jacob’s been trying to prove the man in black wrong by bringing people to the island and hoping they do good things. Conversely, the man in black has been sitting back and observing how he was right, since the people he brought to the island didn’t do good things. Perhaps that has something to do with the loophole? He brought Ben to the island and he killed Jacob..? I don’t know!

Lots of questions were posed by this episode, but I suppose we got answers to a few. For instance, how the Black Rock ended up in the middle of the island — Apparently it was a fuck-off tidal wave which propelled the ship through the statue and left it in the middle of the island…. Who knew!?

Well, next week’s episode is called “The Package” and I am, as always looking forward to it.

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So, in alterna-world, Sawyer’s a cop. That makes it all the more strange that he let Kate go in the premiere episode of this season; and his reaction to seeing her in this one…. Must be that weird non-memory they seem to have of island events? Or at least that Jack seems to be having.

Widmore…. He’s… There to stop Mocke!? Hmmm

So, Locke admitted to Sawyer that he’s the “Smoke-thing” and he didn’t seem bothered at all. He just carried on treading his own path, leaving it unclear to us as to which side he’s actually on, if any, at the moment.

And Sawyer’s not after the plane, but the submarine. Because that’s clearly a piece of cake to pilot.

Locke has mother issues; I suppose that will be touched on a bit more, he made out that it was important to shaping how he is.

Claire attacking Kate… that was sorta expected, but just apologizing and seemingly reverting back to the normal Claire after Mocke spoke with her was very strange.

Well, next week’s episode is called “Ab Aeterno” which apparently means “Since the beginning of time”

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“Very insightful…. For a dead man”

“Well nobody’s perfect.”

Yay, I don’t have to eat a metaphorical-hat — this episode was Ben related

So… Ben and his father went to the island with the DI and came back again! I wonder why?

Alterna-Ben was clearly a complete opposite to the Ben we know. He put Alex before himself! [or Jacob/The Island, whatever he justified it off to].

Locke wants Ben to take over as leader of the island then… I assume that would infact be him taking over the Man in Black position as opposition to Jacob?

Either way, he’s not having it and is happy to be accepted back with Ilana, who I never expected to forgive him. Michael Emerson performed awesomely in that confession scene. He’s very enjoyable to watch.

WIDMORE! Next week should be interesting.

Jack is suddenly the man of faith. I suppose Jacob succeeded in his mission to let him know how important he is then.

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“You a Cyborg?

Vampire?” I note that all the quotes I’ve remembered recently have been from Hurley.

Despite being called “Sundown”, this episode was a Sayid-centric episode and the episode name was of course referring to the fact that the everyone at the temple had to make a decision by sundown. A lot of them chose to stay and got fucked up by the smoke monster.

It was quite difficult in the beginning of the episode to place which side Sayid was on; clearly though, he’s on the dark side with Mocke, and apparently, Kate too. It was quite weird that he tried to kill Locke though, had the darkness not grown enough by that point?

There wasn’t a great deal of questions brought up in this episode, its purpose seemed to be simply for us to see the temple get attacked, something they’ve been telling us would happen for a while now. Still, I’m not sure that everyone will be happy with the sides they’ve chosen (or forced into). It’s likely that those with Mocke will not be rewarded by getting off the island or getting whatever they want most.

Keamy was back for a little while in the alternate timeline and he has Jin in a freezer for some reason… Hmm.

I suppose island-Jin is still in Claire’s shack or limping around somewhere, but I wonder where Sawyer is? Last time we saw him he was in the cave with the names and it seemed he had also joined the ‘dark’ side.

Meanwhile, Ben, Lapidus, Ilana and Sun come to the temple to rescue people like Jack & Hurley; neither of whom are there so they settle for Miles and go hide in some hidden section of the temple.

Next weeks episode is called “Dr. Linus”… and if that isn’t a Ben-centric episode I’ll find one of those metaphorical hats and eat it.

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Ben looked genuinely afraid when he backed away from Sayid

So, Jack has a kid and surprise surprise, their relationship isn’t that great. He seems not to remember his appendectomy occurring (which happened when he was 7 or 8, in the side-flashes, and not-so-long ago in the standard timeline); which is rather strange since he also was looking at that weird cut on his neck in the first episode and didn’t seem to know anything about it.

Here’s something a little odd: Jack’s mum (or mom, if you must) says that David (Jack’s son) was upset at the funeral….. Whose funeral though?? They don’t have Christian’s body yet, surely they wouldn’t have gone ahead with the funeral? I suppose there’s a chance it was a mistake, but, I suppose we’ll find out eventually. If we don’t, I’ll just assume they were talking about Christian.

Meanwhile, Claire has  definitely lost it. She’s replaced her baby with a creepy skull,  she’s now friends with Mocke/Smokey/… and is convinced (having been told by Mocke) that the temple-folk stole her baby. Also, when Jin tells her the truth that Aaron was taken off the island by Kate, she doesn’t believe him and says if that’s true she’d have to kill Kate… Infections these days, eh?

Shouty Jack, the Shoutiest Doctor in the West™

Mocke and Claire are off to the temple, it would seem and Jacob made sure Hurley and Jack weren’t there; instead, they’re at his weird lighthouse which contains a mirror that, when pointed to certain degrees seemingly shows images of people’s lives. Also, each degree is mapped to a ‘candidate’. Very strange indeed. Having seen his childhood home, Jack gets angry and smashes the magical mirrors and buggers off outside to stare at the ocean. Apparently though, that was Jacob’s plan all along — to make Jack realize how important he is.

What Dogen said in Japanese, in response to Hurley saying he can do whatever he wants was apparently “You’re lucky that I have to protect you. Otherwise I’d have cut your head off.”
Nice, huh? I wonder if he has to protect Hurley because he already knows he’s a candidate or if it’s just because he was on one of Jacob’s lists?

Well, next week’s episode is called “Sundown” and if it follows the same pattern, (same character-centric episodes as season 1), it’ll be a Sun / Jin centric episode.

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“He turns up whenever he wants. He’s like Obi-Wan Kenobi”

I definitely could have taken screenshots of better things in this episode, but the fun you can have looking through Jack scenes in slow-mo is almost never ending

I was left rather speechless after seeing this episode. It’s awesome…. but it’s difficult to say exactly why. Nice mythology-style episode.

So, Jacob has a list of the Losties who are apparent ‘candidates’ and each of them has a number next to them
Locke was 4, now crossed out, Hurley was 8, Sawyer was 15, Sayid was 16, Jack was 23 and Kwon (Jin or Sun, I guess) are 42.

There were some people we recognize crossed out on there: Claire, Faraday, “Goodspeed” – Ethan, perhaps? & Charlie, to name a few.
Interestingly, there seems to be no mention of Kate on the mysterious rock — Perhaps it’s because she didn’t do what Jacob advised her to do as a child? i.e. Be good and stop stealing.

It seems rather logical to assume that Jacob isn’t wasn’t there to protect the island, but rather to prevent Smokey / Mocke / … from leaving the island. I wonder when he was a man, and what happened in order for him to become ‘trapped’?

Presently, it seems as though Sawyer is on his side, which currently seems to be the Dark side…

Ben was awesome in both dimensions, especially his speech at the funeral

I wonder who that kid is… and whose message he’s giving. Also, why couldn’t Richard see him and Sawyer could? If you notice, when he appears first, he has blood all over both arms, whereas later, he doesn’t. Who knows what that means!

Mocke throwing the white stone out to sea and responding with “inside joke” when Sawyer asks what that was all about… ’twas quite funny. It’s clearly about the metaphor of light vs dark, as the original Locke pointed out by holding up two stones in the first season.

I wonder how any of the candidates are supposed to know what to do once Jacob’s dead? Perhaps Richard is supposed to tell them, but hasn’t had the chance yet? I’m hoping we’ll discover more about this.

In the alternate dimension Locke wasn’t having the best of times, but to be honest, it was really enjoyable to watch. Quite funny at times too.

There’s lots more to write about this episode, but I can’t think straight right now so this is it. Until next week, with the episode “Lighthouse”

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“DON’T TELL ME WHAT I CAN’T DO!”