Lost - Turn out that darn light!

After every night of Lost, the next morning I like to come in and see what everyone is saying about the episode. It looks like there is some negativity, but honestly I don't see why, I really liked the episode. Jack no longer seems like a tool, Hurley is funny, Claire is out of her mind, and we're wondering around on the island once more, "just like the old days." Thank you Hurley for making that observation.



I really liked the observation when Hurley and Jack arrived that the lighthouse wondering, "Why have we never seen this before?" Thinking the same thing I was thinking, why the heck have they never noticed the light house before? "I guess we were never looking for it." Well played sir. It was a cool nod in my opinion that yes you would think that we'd have seen the lighthouse before now, but it was like the show was saying, "Give us the benefit of the doubt here." Knowing that we were going to ask that question. And isn't that why Lost is so great, the show isn't hiding the fact that it's a show where people are watching, sure it's not totally in your face, but the writers know it and the little nods that I written into the story are cool, because it lets us know when they are reaching for something, like with the lighthouse, or when Jack asks Dogen about the baseball.



Hurley's little quips in the episode were great, "He's kind of like Obi Won, he just pops up from time to time." or "I like temples.... like Indiana Jones..." or "I'm a candidate and I'll go where I want to, why don't you go back to the courtyard." Hurley is always great for some humor but at the same time a serious character in the show. Hurley is just the simple whatever guy, not stupid by any means he's just the everyman character. As Jacob said, "Some people you just need to get into their cab, others require a little something more." Which leads us to Jack and how Jacob used him.



I'm really at a crossroads with Jacob, I can't tell if I should take him at face value or if he's totally playing Jack. When they got to the lighthouse I knew that Jack was going to smash the mirrors, we'd seen it in the promos, so I was thinking that Jacob was playing Jack, making him come there, knowing that he'd get upset and then shatter them. Mission accomplished the person that was coming to the island would now be unable to find it. Or was Jacob sincere in saying that he was trying to get Jack to come around to being the hero that he needs to be. Normally I'd suspect that Jacob was the bad guy, but the way he was at the lighthouse and how he told Hurley that they couldn't help the people at the temple made me believe in his benevolence. Time will tell, but mixed with Claire and her "friend" you have to be thinking that Smokey really might be the bad guy.



Claire is off her rocker, she has been told by Smokey that the others have her baby, sound like anyone else we know??? And as such she is trying to get Aaron back. Oh and don't mention the fact that Kate took Aaron off the island because she really isn't going to like that, but my guess is that, that is coming. Now back in season 4, Kate saw an image of Claire where Claire said, "Don't you ever bring Aaron back to the island." I'm wondering if that was the Claire that didn't die in the fountain, maybe a part of her left the island and was telling Kate to keep Aaron safe because she herself was no longer safe. Meaning the island / Smokey wanted the baby and by bringing him back, he'd be in danger. Interesting little tidbit... In season 1 when Roussou #22 took Aaron to the other side of the island, she was taking him to a pillar of black smoke, I'm just saying...



So while we're talking about every one's kids, let's talk about David Sheppard. If Lost has pounded one thing into our heads over the past 6 years, it's that everyone has daddy issues and David was no exception with the relationship that he had with his Dad, Jack in the weekends that he got to see daddy. Humm any question why this episode might have struck a cord with me... (get it cord? =) hahah, nothing...) Here was Jack, the kindlier gentler Jack trying to forge a relationship with his son but no matter what he did it seemed like he was going down the same path that he and his dad went down. The problem of course was that Jack was still consumed by his poor relationship with his father. In the end he lets go of that pain and he and David bond, in yet another happy ending in sideways world.



I'm really finding it interesting that sideways world is all about happiness or correcting the mistakes of the other life, the sideways world is the redemption that they are all trying to achieve on the island, but just can't. Best part of if it, it seems like Jack and Locke both came to the their changes on their own, without the help of Smokey or Jacob. And one final thought, they are breaking a chain of events in their lives and making themselves better people which is pretty much the redemption that this show has preached for years now.

I'm kind of drawing a blank on what else to write this week, lack of outside input. =)