"The Economist"
In a word: Whoa. In a few more: this season is the greatest thing since...season 1.
First things first: we have a new member of the Oceanic 6 club: dear old Sayid. And in his post-island life, he's an assassin, who falls in love with another assassin in order to get to her boss, but she shoots him first, but then (cause he's Sayid and could beat up Chuck Norris with both hands tied behind his back) he shoots her and kills her, and it turns out he's actually working for BEN. And Ben wants him to kill MORE people, who are apparently all connected somehow. Crazy.
But back on the island, there are hijinks when Sayid goes off to fetch Charlotte, because Frank won't leave the island until she's safe. Kate and Miles travel with him, and they head to the barracks, where they know Locke & Co. are located. And indeed, the Locke party does show up at the barracks, but not before they make a slight detour to try and find Jacob's cabin. Ben rightly supposes that Locke is looking for instructions on his next move, but all they find at the site of the cabin is some kind of salt/sand/gunpowder mix on the jungle floor.
When Sayid, Kate, and Miles arrive at the barracks, they find Hurley tied up and shoved in a closet. Hurley tells them that Locke was heading for Ben's house. As they look around, Sayid finds a secret passage behind a bookcase (like Narnia!) and finds Ben's secret lair. Passports, thousands of euros, traveling suits: it appears to me like Ben frequently travels off the island for as-yet-unknown purposes.
So it turns out Hurley was lying, it was really just a set-up for Team Locke to capture Sayid and crew. Sawyer and Kate have a nicce heart-to-heart, and he reminds her that if she goes back, she'll likely find a jail cell waiting for her. Come to think of it, so will Sawyer -- he killed that guy at the seafood stand. He basically asks her to stay on the island with him and play house. Awww. (SKATE FOREVER, WOOT!)
Sayid trades Miles for Charlotte and heads back to the chopper, after telling Locke that he's going to get on the boat and figure out what the Boaties are all about. He and Charlotte get back to Jack, Frank, and Daniel. By now Desmond and Juliet have also shown up. Sayid tells Jack Kate decided to stay with the other group (a.k.a. Sawyer). Jack looks...displeased with this news. Teehee. Desmond wants to get on the chopper, and with Frank and Sayid, there's room for one more. Charlotte stays to do some experiments, so they take Naomi's body back. We fade out on the chopper heading out over the water to...what? Safety? More danger on the freighter?
Three epsiodes in, and the questions I most want answered right now are:
What's up with time on the island? Daniel's experiment with the rocket showed that there's at least a 31 minute difference between the island and the freighter. But what does it mean?
Who is Ben, really? Why is this strange group after him? How did he get off the island? Why is Sayid working for him in the future?
Now that we have 4 of the 6, whoare the reamining two? Are they Kate's "him" and the guy in the coffin shown in last year's finale? This is the real stinker: why didn't anybody but Jack want ot go to that funeral?
Even though I want answers, I know they're not coming right away, and it's stupid to assume that they will. If anything, this season has convinced me that the producers actually do have a plan, and with the given end date, they are executing it. I've learned to take the show as it come and not get hung up on the minutae of the twists and turns.
In a word: Whoa. In a few more: this season is the greatest thing since...season 1.
First things first: we have a new member of the Oceanic 6 club: dear old Sayid. And in his post-island life, he's an assassin, who falls in love with another assassin in order to get to her boss, but she shoots him first, but then (cause he's Sayid and could beat up Chuck Norris with both hands tied behind his back) he shoots her and kills her, and it turns out he's actually working for BEN. And Ben wants him to kill MORE people, who are apparently all connected somehow. Crazy.
But back on the island, there are hijinks when Sayid goes off to fetch Charlotte, because Frank won't leave the island until she's safe. Kate and Miles travel with him, and they head to the barracks, where they know Locke & Co. are located. And indeed, the Locke party does show up at the barracks, but not before they make a slight detour to try and find Jacob's cabin. Ben rightly supposes that Locke is looking for instructions on his next move, but all they find at the site of the cabin is some kind of salt/sand/gunpowder mix on the jungle floor.
When Sayid, Kate, and Miles arrive at the barracks, they find Hurley tied up and shoved in a closet. Hurley tells them that Locke was heading for Ben's house. As they look around, Sayid finds a secret passage behind a bookcase (like Narnia!) and finds Ben's secret lair. Passports, thousands of euros, traveling suits: it appears to me like Ben frequently travels off the island for as-yet-unknown purposes.
So it turns out Hurley was lying, it was really just a set-up for Team Locke to capture Sayid and crew. Sawyer and Kate have a nicce heart-to-heart, and he reminds her that if she goes back, she'll likely find a jail cell waiting for her. Come to think of it, so will Sawyer -- he killed that guy at the seafood stand. He basically asks her to stay on the island with him and play house. Awww. (SKATE FOREVER, WOOT!)
Sayid trades Miles for Charlotte and heads back to the chopper, after telling Locke that he's going to get on the boat and figure out what the Boaties are all about. He and Charlotte get back to Jack, Frank, and Daniel. By now Desmond and Juliet have also shown up. Sayid tells Jack Kate decided to stay with the other group (a.k.a. Sawyer). Jack looks...displeased with this news. Teehee. Desmond wants to get on the chopper, and with Frank and Sayid, there's room for one more. Charlotte stays to do some experiments, so they take Naomi's body back. We fade out on the chopper heading out over the water to...what? Safety? More danger on the freighter?
Three epsiodes in, and the questions I most want answered right now are:
What's up with time on the island? Daniel's experiment with the rocket showed that there's at least a 31 minute difference between the island and the freighter. But what does it mean?
Who is Ben, really? Why is this strange group after him? How did he get off the island? Why is Sayid working for him in the future?
Now that we have 4 of the 6, whoare the reamining two? Are they Kate's "him" and the guy in the coffin shown in last year's finale? This is the real stinker: why didn't anybody but Jack want ot go to that funeral?
Even though I want answers, I know they're not coming right away, and it's stupid to assume that they will. If anything, this season has convinced me that the producers actually do have a plan, and with the given end date, they are executing it. I've learned to take the show as it come and not get hung up on the minutae of the twists and turns.
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