Thoughts on this week's Lost (1.05, White Rabbit), with occasional comments.
This was a good one. There were, I think many subtle clues we'll be looking back on later.
Loved Sawyer's line: "light, comma, 'Sticks'." Really, I'm loving Sawyer more and more, bit by bit.
Did anyone else notice that when Kate was separating the practical clothes from the impractical, some of the practical clothes she was folding were camouflage? I wonder who those belonged to.
(Heh, Kate is a fellow Gemini)
I loved Jack-Groupie!Charlie and Jack-Groupie!Hurley.
In the first flashback, with his mom, I noticed Jack doesn't seem to dress like a doctor, either. Two things mom said really stuck with me:
In reference to Jack's dad leaving: "Now why do you think that is?" seeming to imply a causative event. That, tied with her moments later: "Not after what you did," heavily implies that Jack was that very cause. I'm thinking that it probably ties in with his "counting to five" story, and that it has the unhappy ending we all seem to think it actually has.
Further, I think it was that Jack was maybe trying to finish his surgical residency, to prove to his dad that he "had what it takes," perhaps even at the very hospital his dad was Chief of Surgery (or whatever) at, which would give us a very direct cause-and-effect relationship between Jack, his not really being a doctor, the counting to five story, and his dad's disappearance. And of course, the botched surgery would also in turn finally convice Jack he didn't have what it takes, allowing him to say as much to Locke, after he pulled Jack off the cliff.
Locke's line about finding water: "I know where to look." Locke has already forme d a special relationship with the island, due to his "looking the island in the eye," encounter with Tree-Bending-Beastie. Now I think he's just waiting for everybody else to get with the program.
Jack's line: "Where are you," while chasing after his "white rabbit" dad is a direct echo of Charlie's "Where are we" (emphasis mine) from the end of 1.02.
SmakHedCharlieNPreggersClaire4EVAH!!!1!
Everybody commented on Sawyer's line: "I made this birthday wish four years ago," and pointed out the "four years," connection with Locke and his crippling injury, but did anybody else think that the way Sawyer said it seemed to imply that his birthday wish was not for a woman to fall on him, but for Kate? I wonder if they knew each other before the island. Does anybody remember anything textual from earlier episodes ruling that possibility out? (aside from Saywer not knowing it was Kate in the cuffs, which seems to be a pretty big contra-indicator)
Did anybody else notice that when Jack's dad walked past him in the night, by the campfire, he was accompanied by the sound of ice clinking in a tumbler?
DDK had two lines: (at the beginning) "I will tell you what to do." (and at the end) "That is what husbands do."
Especially because of those two lines, I don't think he and Sun are actually married.
There's the "it's been six days and we're all still waiting" line -- but I was mistaken, it was at night. Does that change anything?
Cranberry, you weren't mistaken. There was a line about "day six" at the beginning, after the rescue, in the daytime, and the one at the end, during Jack's speech, at night. So episode 1.05 took place entirely on day six, which I think means we're going to get episodes that cover mostly a day, at first, and then later on, it will broaden out to covering two or three days and ep, giving us the forty days over the course of the season.
I am just so. damned. chuffed that one of the heroes is a guy who is unattractively overweight. Not fat-for-Hollywood, but genuinely fat. And he's resourceful and intelligent and kind. Rock on.
Betsy, I love this too. Tangentially, I'm loving that they're doing something similar on Rescue Me. They've introduced a big girl, and she's not Renee Zellwegger/Bridget Jones (continued...)