Lost: "Every Man for Himself"
October 26th 2006 20:00
Category: Lost
Lost: “Every Man For Himself”
Last night was a great episode. It was the first episode of this season where we saw both the people on the beach and the story of Jack, Kate, and Sawyer. Lets talk about the people on the beach first.
Desmond, man he’s really starting to figure out that he’s got some nifty abilities since that crazy hatch implosion, isn’t he? Desmond goes up and tells Claire that her roof isn’t stable enough and that she should move down the beach for the night and he’ll fix it. Charlie becomes a little too protective saying, he’ll fix it. Desmond concedes and walks away. Desmond then finds that new guy Paolo I think his name is (he’s not really doing it for me. I know they’re trying to introduce other Losties, but this isn’t the way to do it I don’t think.) who is hitting golf balls into the ocean. He borrows the 5 iron from Paolo who gives some kind of tough guy speech about never using a five iron and that Desmond can have it.
Hurley comes out for a nice walk along the beach, Desmond stops him and tells him to wait. Right then it starts raining and we see that Desmond has constructed what looks like a makeshift lighting rod. Not soon after it starts raining does lightning strike the rod. My question is, did Desmond know that lightning was going to strike there so he put the rod there? Or did he put the rod there because Claire wouldn’t move and the lightning would’ve hit their tent? Because, to me it just seemed like it was raining inside the tent, and that could’ve been the reason why Desmond suggested to Claire to move. But, we now know that Desmond has some weird kind of ability that allows him to see/predict/understand the future. I wonder what kind of storyline this ability is going to go along with. And why Desmond?
On the other side of the island…err…scratch that…on the OTHER ISLAND. That’s right, we found out last night that there isn’t just one island, but apparently wherever Jack, Kate, and Sawyer are is a completely separate island.
Here’s an interesting tidbit that I’ll have to re-watch the episode to make sure. But, when The Other’s were bringing back Colleen because Ben appeared to say that a "sub" had arrived ("sub" as in "submarine"), that would explain how they are able go from one island to the next.
The back story was about Sawyer and how he was in prison. He gained the confidence of a inmate who supposedly had 10 million dollars of government money hidden away somewhere. Sawyer, cut a deal with the warden and FBI that he would find where the money was, which he did. I have a hard time believing they would release a person from jail AND give him a cut of the money, but hey it’s TV.
Most of the show was dedicated to Ben conning Sawyer, by telling him he’d inserted a pacemaker in his heart that would cause it to explode. Did anyone get the reference of that? J.J. Abrams made Mission Impossible 3 in which the same thing happens to Ethan Hunt, sort of the same thing I guess. But, come to find out there’s no pacemaker at all. But, Sawyer didn’t find that out until he was completely emasculated in front of Kate. Taking that beating from that crazy Danny fellow. Then that’s when Ben showed Sawyer the original island.
Ok I’m going to go off here a little bit, and say, I’m thinking that the whole other island thing is a total con also. Remember very first episode of this season we see the plane going down on the island right? All The Others come out of their little commune houses and Ben tells Ethan and Goodwin to run to the beaches where they crashed. Are we to believe that all The Others have just left that crazy compound place and gone over to the other island? I guess we’ll all find that out soon enough. (On sort of a bad note: I’m really kind of disappointed if there REALLY is another island. To tell me that no one has seen this other island is really kinda dumb. Sayid sailing and exploring almost the whole island, and not seeing that other island, is crazy. But, we’ll see.
Did I miss anything? OH! Jack is called into help the Colleen that got shot, and sees some x-rays of someone who has a tumor on their spine. He puts two and two together and figures he’s there to operate on one of The Others (my guess is Ben). The Others really make me mad though. They have no sympathy or compassion towards anyone, but if something happens to one of them they go completely bonkers. What’s wrong with them?
Here’s looking to next week.
(Sorry no pictures yet. They will be up soon promise. Just haven't had time.)
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Comment by Adele
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Comment by Aaron
I hope we get a episode of Desmond where we get to see what he's seeing. Like in Locke's dreams.
Aaron.
Comment by Loren
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Aaron.
Comment by melisa
With you on the apperance of another island. Did no one ever go and explore the perimeter of the whole island?? Wouldn't that be one of the first things you do? I would. But even with that bit of news I don't think the Others on a seperate island. But I guess after they released Hurley they could've knocked out J, K & S and sailed them over. Maybe.
Comment by Luke
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Some nice touches with Desmond... he's hair/beard makes him look very Jesus-like, he calls everyone 'brother', and in the last episode he wears that tie-dye shirt - which looks very Jesus indeed when he wades out into the water. I think they're setting Des up as some sort of Messiah/hero/prophet character.
Also, in regards to the other island... the first episode of Season 3 shows the island to be a LOT bigger than the show has implied before. When the plane splits in two and lands on opposite sides of the island it looks more like it is just landing on opposite sides of a rather large headland. With this mind, the island being so big and all, it's entirely reasonable to suppose where Jack, Sawyer and Kate are being held is another island. This other island isn't neccessarily where the others live either, it's just where they're keeping their captives. Of course, it could just be a con... you can never tell where it's going with this show!