LOST: Coming Together Just To Fall Apart
Sure, some things have gotten sloppy to the point of frustrating. Still one of LOST's best moments is when the previously separated group reunites. Unfortunately, the show's best moments have also been events that break them apart. While X-Desmond works his magic to bring the various ex-passengers together, on the Island the gang gets together just in time to split up. For the most part, things we've learned or known are finally revealed to our characters, and in true fashion, their reaction is either cut for another scene (Jack and Claire on the Island) or interrupted (Jack and Claire in the X-World).
DISCOVERIES
- Smokey confirms that he was posing as Jack's dad, and reveals that he can only take the shape of the dead (and maybe just the dead people who are on the Island).
- Widmore brought some heavy artillery to deal with Smokey.
- We learn Ilana's last name (via the X-World).
- Smokey promised to reunite Sayid with Nadia is he submits.
OBSERVATIONS
- Jack jumping out of the Elizabeth mirrors Sawyer jumping out of the helicopter in Season 3. Both times, the "jumper" left a vehicle going somewhere to get the group to safety and ended up swimming back to the Island. Also explosions were involved (in Season 3, it was the Freighter blowing up, here it was Widmore's attack).
- Sawyer seems to have adopted Jack's former role as the skeptic who just wants to leave the Island (previously he was more or less the group's opportunist). Jack has seemed to adopt Locke's role of the believer.
- Smokey seems to have a real aversion to technology.
QUESTIONS
- The promo commercial suggests that Sayid shoots (and kills) Desmond. But in the actual episode, there's nothing definitive: did Sayid kill Desmond?
- Why did Smokey want Desmond dead? Why didn't he kill Desmond himself?
- Does Claire still want Kate dead?
- If Widmore needed Desmond, why did he order the attack on Smokey's camp?
- Was Smokey posing as Christian Shephard every time we saw the character on the Island?
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