Lost - Bookem Dano!

Welcome to another wonderful edition of Lost ramblings on our glorious show about not knowing anything but thinking that we actually know something when in reality we seriously know nothing. Confused by that sentence, good, today is St. Patrick's Day and to celebrate I'm going to try and be a little off my rocker today, not to mention that I've got a nice little cold so my mind is looking for a little levity, congratulations to you for finding my ramblings may you be entertained whilst I listen to some Flogging Molly. And FYI none of that has anything to do with Lost, or does it??? No really it doesn't.

Now I'm going to need to keep this episode somewhat linear because I didn't take any notes whilst watching it last night, so I'll be piecing the plot together like so many dead bodies on Hydra island, seriously WTF was up with that grizzly scene. I had a point here... Oh yeah, So we start this episode with Jin telling Sawyer that they need to get out of the mom of the year's tent before she and castaway formerly known as Locke make it back. Sawyer tells Jin that he's with Smokey but promises that he'll help get Jin off the island after they find Sun. Considering that Sawyer tells Kate that he's going to get her off the island, and taking how he was the last time we saw him, should we really believe anything that Sawyer is saying? I want to believe him because I think we all really love Sawyer and are rooting for him to be the good guy in the end of the story, but I have another take. Maybe Sawyer is going to be Smokey's replacement, like it's looking like Jack might be Jacob's...

Here are some reasons to think that he might. As Smokey said, "You're the best liar that I've ever seen." That's better than Ben mind you and based on the way he was pulling crap out of his arse last night, he might even be better than Smokey. The trick of course with that is, can you really outsmart the devil? Sawyer is sure looking to. Point being that Smokey is all about making promises to people in order to get them to do what he wants them to do, and here was Sawyer sort of looking after his friends (Kate and Jin) by telling them he could give them what they wanted, just like Smokey was. And what is the one thing that Smokey wants more than anything and apparently will do anything to achieve, getting off the island, sound like Sawyer? I thought so. This next idea I'm stealing from Jeff Jenson on EW.com, the title of the episode was Recon, but if you take it as Re - Con then it could mean another con, or maybe the con starting over, hence, Sawyer being the new smokey. Man I just got another thought on that too! Here is another trait that Smokey has, the ability to read people like no one else, except maybe Sawyer, Sayid maybe just as good, but Sawyer does have a little bit more compassion than Sayid in that if pressed Sawyer will do the better thing. I don't think that Smokey is pure evil, I just think he wants what he wants and he's going to do whatever he has to do to get it. But as Smokey said in an earlier episode, "I always keep my promises." Sawyer reflected that statement last night when Smokey asked him why he was being so loyal. Sawyer said, "We have a deal." Honor among thieves.

So does my theory of Sawyer becoming the new Smokey just blow you away?! Did me, I hadn't even thought about it until I started writing, thank you Irish punk rock music! So clashing with all that coolness of the last paragraph how about the lameness of Sawyer and his new found affection for Kate. I hope that he's just playing her, but the way he held on to that dress in the bear cage I have to imagine that he was being genuine, and that is just dumb. Ok Juliet died what two days ago and now he's getting all emotional for Kate again? Seriously? I was so so hoping that Claire was going to slit her throat so that we wouldn't have to see her anymore, I mean the character is just useless, except for one reason to keep her, Sawyer or Jack sacrificing themselves to save her so that she can get off the island and take care of Aaron. And like three episodes wasn't Kate apologizing to Sawyer that she should never have gotten on that sub with him and Juliet? How did he say they were going to get off the island, on a sub. Maybe he's going to kill her, oh we can only hope.

Anyway Sawyer goes over to the Hydra island and finds the wrecked plane, really, how the heck is that thing going to fly? Look I can after watching Lost all this time, I'm willing to buy a lot of things, I can buy a monster made of smoke, I can buy a lighthouse where you can see people's lives, I can buy a pool of water that can bring people back to life, but if you're telling me that that plane is ever going to be able to fly again you've got to be kidding me, but I guess that's why Frank is on the island, hey he does have a purpose except for upping the level of chest hair each episode. "I'm on a horse." Near the wrecked plane Sawyer finds Tina Fey, I mean Zoe, just to prove that glasses are totally sexy, but it turns out that she might have well been wearing a patch over her eye because she was one of the bad guys. Enter Charles Widmore and his plot to take out Smokey with his new and improved 21st century green pylons. Little tangent here, When Sawyer gets back to the main island and tells Smokey about the trip, Sawyer tells him about the pylons knowing that Smokey is the smoke monster, but it doesn't scare Sawyer in the slightest, tell me he isn't a badass! "Yeah I know you have the ability to kill me and everyone else in a heartbeat, but I don't give a crap, just try it." - Sawyer (what he isn't saying).

Seeing Widmore on the island made me consider two different possibilities for the final conflict on the island. Either we have a three sided war coming between Jacob, Smokey, and Charles or we have a two sided battle coming between Charles and the combined team of Jacob and Smokey. I guess Jacob and Widmore could be on the same team, considering that Jacob said that he had someone coming to the island, but I'm still holding out for Desmond (will be the center of the episode in like 3 weeks). So I'm really going with the thought that Smokey and team Jacob will join up in let's say 2 weeks (Jin and Sun episode) and then take on Charles for the sake of the island so that Smokey can then get off of it. Most likely Smokey will go to them looking for help and they will of course go along with it. Seems like a stretch but I could see it play out like that.

*intermission - go ahead get that drink you were wanting, this DVR will wait for you."

Welcome back, time to go sideways for a little bit. How about Sawyer the cop? (Time for that movie trailer voice guy)... "James Ford, he's a cop that has a knowledge about con artists, he makes a living putting hot and sexy ones into handcuffs and then afterwards arrests them for being hot. But he's a cop with a dark past one that his partner Miles doesn't know about, Detective Ford is a man looking for revenge for the murder of his parents, and once he finds that man, all bets are off." Oh and I'm with the message boards, that's a spin off that I could watch.

Seeing Sawyer as a cop was kind of fun, too bad they didn't have Ana Lucia in the police station as well. But there were a number of things that just didn't seem right with this story and I'm not talking about how they made Charlotte actually look not bad. (Thinking about it, there was a lot of sexiness in this episode wasn't there?) Here is what didn't make sense to me, it was at the end where Sawyer catches Kate. Flashback to the second episode this season where Sawyer sees her in handcuffs and lets her go in the elevator with the other cops. Seriously WTF!!!! So he only chooses to be a cop when he wants to?! Was the realization when he caught her in the end of the episode, ah crap I let her go, or what? No really what? I don't know.

And how about Miles, can he still speak to dead people? The reason why this would have been nice to know would have been to tie it back to the island. Maybe in this timeline he and his mom left the island, maybe his dad came too, who knows, but if Miles ability to talk to dead people is no longer available to him then that means that things on the island have changed things in the sideways world yet again. For that matter, Charlotte was born on the island too.

I might have some more later if I find anything of interest, Oddly enough as I kind of bashed this episode, I liked it. Next week is Richard's back story, I will be popping some popcorn for that one. I can't think of another episode that is almost guaranteed to give some answers than this one.