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LOST 3.22, Through The Looking Glass
Ok, I wrote the outline to this while the episode was airing. Now let’s hope I can get my thoughts together enough to pull the outline into an actual review.
There was so much going on in this episode. But I know exactly where I want to start: with Jack. For the first time in three seasons, I like Jack. I have spent the entire series being alternately irritated and bored by him. He and Kate have been easily tied at my least favorite characters. But I liked him in this one. In fact, I would go so far as to say that I loved him. He was bloody amazing in this episode. I love that he finally stepped up and really took charge. I mean, he’s made decisions in the past, but never has he seemed as in control as he was in the finale. Awesome. However, I seriously, seriously hope that now that he’s admitted that he loves Kate, he won’t take up with Juliet. Because that very brief, close mouthed kiss they shared made me want to Clorox my brain.
The “flashbacks” (flashforwards, really, I guess) were a little odd for me. First of all, Jack’s child molester facial hair. Just… why? Why would you do that with your face? It was weird seeing him so out of it, too. As much as I dislike him, there’s never been a moment in the series where I could actually see him becoming a junkie or a drunk. I don’t think it fits, either. I can see him getting super pissed off and ruining every chance he has at every opportunity he gets. But the whole substance abuse thing was kind of a stretch for me. Also, he could stop crying and that would be just fine with me. I really did not like the scene with his ex-wife. I thought it was pretty bitchy of her to show up after he saved the lives of a woman and her child and then to tell him that it would be inappropriate to give him a ride home, like he’s gonna rape her on the way there or something. It also annoyed me that she had to give him shit for drinking, considering that they were divorced and he no longer had to listen to her anymore. And then, of course, there was the dead guy. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t Sawyer. You can see enough of the clipping to see the beginning of the person’s name—Jo. So it might be John, but I can’t see him willingly leaving the island, and it isn’t like he’s incapable of hiding out from whoever would want to make him leave the island. Same goes for Ben—he won’t willingly leave the island, and if the people coming are from Dharma, he’s not going to have to, because he’s going to end up in that mass grave of his. But the only people I can see Jack denying being friends or family to right now are Locke, Sawyer, and Ben. So I tend to believe that the dead person is someone we just haven’t met yet.
It was pretty awesome seeing Ben get all flustered. He’s been so cocky and self-righteous that I really enjoyed watching him fuck up all over the place. You know who he reminds me of? Acostas Kolya from SGA. Just completely self-assured and utterly confident that he is right. He also has the complete inability to accept that when the survivors do something to fuck his shit up, it’s because he’s backed them into a corner, and not because they’re just blithely killing Others. He just can’t stand it when the survivors kill his people, but he also can’t understand that they only do it to keep the Others from killing them. That’s pretty much why he’s been a really irritating bad guy. I also love that it never crossed his mind that Juliet might betray him. I mean honestly, I thought he was supposed to be smart? Why would he think he could send her off to the enemy’s camp and expect her to stay loyal when she’s surrounded by people who want to get off the island almost as badly as she does? Especially since she’s the person who hates him the most? That was just not a particularly bright move on his part. It is entirely his own fault that “Ben’s little mess” is rapidly turning into “Ben’s big mess.”
Ok, Charlie. Charlie redeemed himself in this one. He’s been pretty irritating for quite some time now, but he too was excellent in this episode. It was really cool how his acceptance of his own death made him so cavalier about the way the Blonde Bitch was treating him. His death scene was very dramatic and very very sad, and I watched the whole scene with very wide eyes, but it was also just a little annoying. I’m assuming that the door to the room he was in only locked from the inside, but I’m confused as to why it was necessary to close it in the first place? I mean, he could have dived out of the room and he and Desmond could have made a swim for it as the grenade went off. It seemed to affect only the room Charlie had been in, so it’s not like the whole station was collapsing around them. But if the room only locked from the inside, then what was the wheel mounted on the other side of the door for? Hell, he could even have tried to swim out the window. So yeah, I’m just not convinced that he had to die. I’m also not entirely convinced he’s going to stay that way, but since I refuse to read spoilers or hey, even who stayed on for another season, I’m not going to speculate too much on that.
Kate was, as ever, pretty annoying. Her whole line about Sawyer, asking Jack why Sawyer said it if he didn’t mean it was just stupid. As if the convicted con has never said something she didn’t mean before. /sarcasm Also, if Sawyer doesn’t call Kate by her name when they’re fucking, then what does he call her? Actually… I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know that.
Um, I love Sawyer even more than usual now. I know he’s going all dark and scary, killing people left and right and all that jazz, but I seriously love his character. It’ll be fun to watch his evolution through the next season.
As usual, I adore Juliet. I love how she so calmly accepts that no one but Jack trusts her. I love how she went back with Sawyer because she felt like she had to. I love how she messed with him as they went. I just really like her character. She’s such a strong presence, without being a loud one, like Kate and Jack and Sawyer all are. She’s actually kind of like Sayid in that regard; calm, capable, tough, and quiet.
Sayid, as usual, was wonderful. So was Hurley, man. I’m so glad he didn’t get pissed at Sawyer and leave, because that scene with him in the van was awesome. I love it when Hurley gets to save the day!
I forgot that Rose was both irritating and funny. That little line that she made Bernard say in the beginning was the best line in the whole episode: “I am a dentist, not Rambo.” Great line. Also very true. I was not impressed with Bernard in this one at all. I guess I understand his inability to blow people up, but when he started squealing, I was so mad. I was growling at the TV “Bernard, STOP. TALKING. You weak son of a bitch.” I dunno, I guess I expected a little more from someone who was in the camp that had more experience with the Others. He should have known that no matter what he said, what he told them, the Others wouldn’t let them go.
Ok, at the end when Ben is all tied up, I think it would be really hard to resist the temptation to taunt the hell out of Ben. I’d have to do a Snoopy dance in front of him and chant “You lose, you lose, you lose” at him or something.
But the best scene in the whole episode was when Ben was tied to a tree while Naomi was dialing the phone, and he was yelling at Jack, and Danielle elbowed him in the face. That was awesome.
Ok, here is where the review is going to lose ALL semblance of coherency, because now I’m going to react to the final flashforward, on which I have absolutely no theories right now because why would they want to go back and this is what’s bothering me most of all, how the hell is Jack’s father alive? Here goes: What. The. FUCK?! No seriously, what the fuck, what the FLYING RED FUCK?! What the hell, what the hell, what the HELL?!?!!
So yeah, this episode was great. That thing that they had in the first season? The thing that made you lean forward in your seat and get mad because of commercial breaks and wait anxiously for the next new episode and that’s been missing for a while now, even though the show is still good? This episode had that. It’s totally caught my interest for next season, which I will be very impatiently waiting for now.
And this has nothing to do with LOST, but the commercial with the little boys with backpacks dancing like dorks in the hallway? AWESOME.
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