Tonight’s LOST Recap – The Last Recruit

If you are not caught up on LOST cease and desist from reading this post or you will be spoiled!

I feel a little on the fence about tonight’s episode.  There were great moments, but I was kind of expecting more, or maybe I should say that I just don’t know where I stand on some of the elements.  It was a solid ep, but I feel like I won’t know how awesome or lame some scenes are until we know the ultimate ending to all of this.  The sideways/ATL tonight was great as it was packed with Jack, Desmond, Sayid, Claire, Sawyer, Kate, Ben, Locke, Sun, Jin…Ilana!  I guess you get the idea.

The beginning conversation between Smocke and Jack was cool, but I bet we all cringed when we heard him say that John Locke was “not a believer, he was a sucker.”  Ouch.  Then Jack has a great moment with Claire, where she shows her insecurity that everyone leaves her behind.  But she also tells Jack that he is with Smocke and that Jack made that decision the moment he let Smocke talk to him.  Do you believe that?  I don’t, because we’ve seen this sort of thing before where a candidate talks to Smocke and then Jacob gets ahold of him and sets him straight (Richard).  I think there is always a choice, like Hurley says, people can come back from the dark side (just over-reading into his Anakin reference, do you think that someone is going to switch over from the dark side just before dying, and then be “good” in the ATL/future?)

In the sideways flashes there was a weird moment with Locke being wheeled in to the ER next to Sun, with Sun yelling and clearly recognizing Locke.  Seeing as later on it doesn’t seem like Sun is aware of her island life yet, I feel like this was just a red herring–probably just Sun recognizing Locke from the plane.

Desmond with Claire in the ATL:  hello creeper! If I were Claire and had Desmond tailing me that way, I would run!  Not follow him into a strange attorney’s office.  But that leads us to having another nice Claire/Jack reunion right in front of David.

Can I just say, I love mini-Jack!  David is so cute, I really hope that whatever the end is for us in this series that Jack is happy and still has David.  Which reminds me, if you didn’t notice, I am back in the camp that the ATL is the ultimate end for our Losties.  I know, I’ve flip-flopped on this many times, but I still think this could be the “end” that we are seeing.  It’s too much to go on about here, but I can get into this with you in the comments if you’d like

The most frustrating thing tonight?  Dear ol’ Des bloodied at the bottom of a well trying to bargain with Sayid.  It was great to see Sayid showing a human side and hesitating a bit, but I can’t stand waiting to know what happened to Desmond.  Last week during the previews we did see Sayid shoot a gun into the well so I can’t say that things look good, but I’m holding out hope!  The defiant look Sayid gave Smocke (along with an “I’m lying to you” delay)…he must have something up his sleeve.

The Sun & Jin reunion was great!  But…why did it have to be so short?  The happiness quickly got squashed when Widmore gives the order to take our Losties hostage and start bombing Smocke & Jack.  Whatever Smocke says I don’t believe that Jack is “with him’ now.  I’m also in denial about the title of this episode.

The best parts of the night for me were the funny Frank-related quotes from Sawyer.  Sawyer to Kate: “That pilot that looks like he stepped off the set of a Burt Reynolds movie”.  Then on the boat when Sawyer’s talking to Frank and he calls him Chesty. LOL

There is no new Lost next week (next new episode is May 4th), just a repeat of one of the best episodes ever, Ab Aeterno.  I’d love to hear your thoughts on tonight’s episode in the comments!  And if you are talking Lost at your blog, please leave a link so I can come check out your post!