Tonight’s LOST Recap – The Candidate

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

Have you stopped crying yet?  Ok, that’s an exaggeration, but really I was a mess during the whole submarine-killing-off-major-characters blitz attack.  There was tons of little stuff in this ep, tons of big stuff, aah! I can’t believe it’s all going to be wrapped up this month.  That alone makes me want to cry

There’s so much that isn’t going to make sense to us until we see the “whole picture”, like how the ALT interactions are all going to collide and how much each character knows of their ‘past life’.  In the hospital, the dialogue and looks between Jack & Locke are very strange.  But moving on…

Were you confused when Sayid says “Welcome to Hydra Island” to Jack?  They weren’t cutting us any breaks with a two week gap in episodes, it took me a bit to realize that the last time we saw Jack he was blown away from the beach explosion and that Smocke must have paddled him over.

Forgive me if you are one of the few people who actually like Kate’s character, but I was kind of happy to hear Widmore talk so casually about off-ing her, like ‘well she’s not on the list” and then to see her face when Sawyer tells her that her name was crossed out.  Then, to see her get shot was honestly amusing to me.  (I know, I know, I’m terrible.  I just could really do without her character messing up Jack, Sawyer, Juliet, Claire, Aaron, etc.)

Bernard = total stretch.  I’m willing to go with almost everything the Lost writers throw at me, but emergency oral surgery?  That was just the silliest, most contrived scene.  So it served the purpose that maybe Desmond has already gotten a hold of Bernard or to really drive through Jack’s head that the 815′ers are all weirdly connected.  Still.  Painfully silly!

When Jack does visit Cooper, don’t you just love seeing him vegged out in the wheelchair? (Wow I’m totally vicious tonight!  If it weren’t so late I’d have a glass of wine and relax, lol)  It’s just that he was such an evil man to Locke, Sawyer and who knows who else, that it reinforces my theory that whatever the Losties have done in their pre-ATL timeline is affecting their ultimate life/happiness in the ATL.

Got any takers on the significance of the music box?  It’s playing “Catch a Falling Star” which Claire wanted the adoptive parents to sing to Aaron, but not sure if I’m spacing out and missing some deeper meaning.

Sayid’s death was heartbreaking in slow motion; I loved that he redeemed himself, and it seems that his interaction with Desmond is what brought him around (PS- Can’t wait to see Desmond and happy to hear that he’s alive!).  But of course the really heartbreaking scene was Sun & Jin dying together in the sub.  I was disappointed that Jin wouldn’t just leave and save himself (and that Sun didn’t go crazy insisting he leave), but after his final “I won’t leave you. I will never leave you again.”  I gave up that disappointment and accepted this scene for what it was.  Me sobbing on the couch.

It seems that lately my husband always has some Lost quip he wants me to include “on the blog”, and he did say that Lost death scenes don’t have the same sting anymore, since the characters are still popping up in the ATL.  He said that Lost is pretty much like the A-Team, no one really dies.  It does soften the blow a bit now that we are seeing them again, but something about that little touching music they play during a character’s death scene gets me every time.

At the end of the episode, Jack is talking to Locke in the hallway and says “I can help you John, I wish you believed me.”   We had just heard Locke mumble “I wish you believed me” earlier, and this seemed to stop him in his tracks.  I’m back to wondering just how much ALT Locke knows about his previous island life.

Next week looks awesome with the Jacob/Man in Black action, and looks like we’re going to get some answers on the ‘young boy in the jungle’ thing.  Totally loved seeing first season Locke talking about the “two sides, one light one dark” thing. 

I’d l-o-v-e to hear your thoughts on tonight’s episode in the comments.  And if you blogged about Lost, please feel free to drop your link so I can stalk out read your thoughts as well!