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aunt_zeldaA quick summary:
Dead daddy’s on the loose in the present and future! Claire goes missing at the end of the episode, and Jack gets his appendix removed.
I forgot that Sayid was on the Boat, missed the Ben/Locke, and developed a girl-crush on Evangeline Lily.
My thoughts as I watched the episode:
'Something Nice Back Home'
We begin with Jack's eye. The eye-thing's getting a little old. How about some new, inovative, camera shots?
Jack is deathly ill. Oh, the horrorz. (Readers are encouraged to note my sarcasm.) Personally I've been wishing Jack, his twisted morals, his bad leadership, his emo-angst, his participation in the infamous Love-Square of Lost, and his daddy-issues to the bottom of the deep blue sea for the past two-and-a-half seasons.
With half the main characters away with Locke (now dead, with Locke, or returning) Rose and Bernard seem to be stepping up in the world of Lost-characters. I hope this promotion doesn't mean they now have 'can kill' next to their names.
Rose seems to be feebly attempting to take over from Sawyer on the nickname-front, calling
I had the sudden fear that Jack's sudden status as 'out of commission' would cause the Red Shirts and the secondary-characters (I'm looking at you, Rose, Bernard, Sun, and Jin) lynch Danny-boy and 'Red' Perhaps Danny-boy and Red should take this opportunity to skedaddle.
Flashforward! Jack, half-naked, in a bed. Many people took this opportunity to either scrutinize his many tattoos, squee at how hot he is, or both. I really don't understand why people think he's hot, really I don't. I can't even slash him with another guy, that's how bad it is. It's not that I find him 'ugly' per se, I just don't like him. Maybe because he tries to be a badass and cries too much.
OMG HE'S IN KATE'S HOUSE! (I don't even want to think of Kate in those lacy salmon-colored panties, or her with Jack because ... ew. No thank you.) Jack steps on a toy copy of the Millennium Falcon. Tee hee, that makes the geek in me squee with joy.
Blah blah, Red Socks. Blah blah, Jack tries to spark my interest. Blah blah, not working.
The music indicates that we should be shocked that Jack is sleeping (and perhaps living) with Kate. I don't understand this at all.
Ah, the kiss. Evangeline Lily is very cute, not hot, but cute, and as seeing-people-wet-and-naked go, I'm cool with her being onscreen so much. But she and Jack are like Gwen and Jack to me. I mean, no chemistry. Really. And the kiss? Evangeline is really working it, but Jack looks like he's trying to eat something on her cheek. Then again, I'm very critical of kisses since I started watching Torchwood.
Ok, Jack may be a bad kisser, but he can read aloud any damn time he wants. Maybe he and Sawyer could start a read-aloud-to-Aaron contest for Kate's hand! Hurley could referee!
What is the book that Jack was reading from? It sounded familiar ... but it's not
Jack, you should have kissed Aaron's forehead. Bad father-figure points for not, I don't care that Evangaline Lily is standing seductively in the doorway in a big baggy shirt and ... hello, I might be developing a girl-crush!
Kate expresses joy that Jack seems to have finally let go of those beastly daddy-issues. So do I. Except I do it by realizing she has a very sweet smile and ignoring Jack altogether. When I smile with my teeth, I look insane. I never ever smile showing my teeth if I can help it.
They snog, Jack lifts Kate in a very orchestrated-looking-move up and she wraps very pretty legs around his waist. She giggles and Jack walks them off-screen, and the rushing, jet-engine noise of time-switch plays.
This episode is very silly indeed, if they're showing us Jack in mortal-peril and Jack, many years later, in peril of nothing but happy sex with Domestic!Kate.
Sawyer, Claire-n'-Aaron, and Miles find Rou and Karl's bodies. It's disgusting, because they're buried in really shallow graves. So that dashes my feeble hopes that Rou, at least, was alive. Karl never did anything for me but be sweet and noble and have a sweet boat.
Miles claimed to have not signed up for 'this' when Sawyer asks if 'his buddies' killed Rou and Karl. Yet he was flippant in
Juliet pokes above Jack's hipbone, and he looks like I did a few days ago when I was ovulating. *winces at the memory* I was walking hunched-over all morning ... sorry guys, that's probably TMI ...
Juliet says, very matter-o-factly, that she'll just have to take Jack's appendix out. Why is it acting up? Did he eat too much grass?
Sawyer has become very protective of Claire and says Miles has a 'restraining order' now. Hee, I love intense, protective, leader Sawyer. Can't wait until he is reunited with Kate. I'll bet she finds his leadership just as sexy as I do.
OMG PING-PONG TABLE FOR SURGERY! *loves whoever thought that up*
Bernard shakes off that Jack 'did something to offend the gods.' Seeing as there's a four-toed leg of a giant statue, I'm not swearing off deities quite yet.
Jack proposes a three-way for the surgery. I'm serious, he wants to be conscious while Juliet operates and Kate holds a mirror! Take all of that out of context and you've got one helluva a bad-fic!
Damnit, Jack's seeing his dead-dead-DEAD-Daddy all over again. *headdesk* Ooo, hey, it's Hawkins' wife! She's still got a bad haircut! How'd she hightail out of
Hurley. Poor Hurley. The prices you pay for being everyone's favorite character. If he and Hiro Nakamura got together the universe would implode.
Hurley claims that the Oceanic 6 never left 'that island' and they're all dead. I think he's talking more sense than anyone else on this show, from what we've seen of bearded-junkie-Jack, mourning-Sun, Kate-and-Aaron (which I'm not getting into until I know what happened, if anything, to Claire) and poor, poor Hurley. They're not physically dead, but they're dead inside.
Hurley claims that Charlie visits him and likes to sit beside him on the bench outside. Awwww ...
Charlie apparently wanted to tell Jack that he's 'not supposed to raise him.' Could mean Aaron, it probably does. Jack gets ticked off and tells Hurley to take his meds. On his way out, Hurley passes along something else Charlie said, that someone's going to visit Jack.
I hope it's Ben. With Sayid lurking behind him in his long-dark-coat of sexiness.
Danny-boy is chivalrous and offers to go first into the med-center, instead of Red. I fear he's gonna die. I don't want him to, he's cute, and he and Red remind me of Zoe and Wash, minus the dinos, spaceships, awesome dry-wit that is Zoe, and really everything but the barest ideas of a relationship involving a powerful woman and a cute little man.
Jin and Sun exchange the required subtitles about the crush.
Danny-boy wonders aloud where the power for the lights comes from. Red suggests he add it to 'the list.' Hee ... are you on the List?
Sun and Jin exchange a romantic moment in subtitles. I wibble because Jin supposedly dies (I need to see that episode!) in the future and I think he's such a lovely husband.
I view lots of groupings as D&D cells. Like, Sawyer = warrior/rouge, Miles = low-level necromancer ... does anyone know what Claire = ? I got nothing, but then again, I haven't played D&D in ages ...
Anyhoodle, Miles tries to be nice (or creepy, I dunno, but Sawyer wigs on him.) Then the Pilot leaps out of the underbrush and yelps at Miles (and the others) to hide because ex-Marine and buddies are coming. The D&D cell hides, and it turns out that ex-Marine and his buddies didn't get decimated by the Smoke Monster after all. I bet Ben's wishing for some nice, efficient Toclafane right about now. Pilot convinces ex-Marine and Co to hightail to the helicopter, after Aaron makes a suspicious-whimper noise that had the ex-Marine's ears twitching.
Flashforward! Jack sits pondering/waiting outside of the mental hospital. Then he drives off. Kate had perfect eyelashes. I have insanely long ones, but she obviously maintains hers.
After asking if Kate thinks he's good at 'this' (meaning raising Aaron, hanging out with her, or all of it) and Kate saying yes, he asks if she'll marry him. He produces a ring. Silly Jack, you're supposed to do these things in candle-lit restaurants, or right before a big damn battle, not in the dead of night whilst sitting on a bed! At least get down and kneel!
Kate is one of those insanely lucky people who can cry and still look good. Me, my eyes get red and my face gets blotchy and it's not a pretty sight.
Jin corners Red and insists (in Korean) that he knows she understands him. Red makes a few lame attempts at cover-up, but Jin says "if you continue to lie, I'll hurt your friend Daniel" and promises to break Danny-boy's fingers one by one. It's chilling.
Gray's Anatomy: Lost Edition! *is squicked out*
Bernard (who can, apparently, do anything now that he's got more lines) offers to knock Jack out with chloroform. "Wouldn't you rather be dreaming of something nice back home?" Tee hee, he said the episode title!
Bleurgh! GROSS! This is why I don't watch hospital dramas. Ew ew EEEEEW! *hides eyes behind hands*
Jack gets knocked out and Kate get sent away. She's in tears. I don't know why. Then again, maybe Jack's secret dream is to watch while a pretty blond operates on him and his semi-girlfriend watches. I mean, we shouldn't judge, right?
Flashforward!Jack in the hospital, interrupted by doing one of those things where you speak into something that clicks, by a beeping smoke-detector. Ok, what's up with that smoke-detector? Mine go haywire if I take a shower with an open window, and they're loud, man. This one is just semi-irksome. Mine are so loud I have to cover my ears.
Oooo, Jack's dead daddy! For a second he sounded like Tom. I miss canonly-gay Tom. And not-so-canonly-gay Ben-n-Locke. And James-Bond-Sayid.
Hawkins' wife ... I mean, that doctor-lady with the annoying haircut, runs into Jack. He confesses his stress to her, and she suggests he 'talk to someone.' Oh, if only you knew, Mrs. Hawkins, if only you knew ...
Hee hee, Jack and Kate have the same water-filter thing as me!
Jack washes down two white pills with beer. This is not good. I can see him growning a nasty Nathan-S2-beard. *shudders*
The D&D cell is asleep by a campfire in the jungle. (With no one on watch: stupid D&D cell, that's how you get kidnapped by slavers!) Anyhoodle, Claire wakes up and discovers Aaron missing. For a horrible second I think Miles has stolen him, but Claire stands up because her-and-Jack's-DEAD-DEAD-DEAD Daddy is standing across the fire, rocking Aaron in his arms.
Jack is unconscious and having his side stitched up. Kate and Juliet talk about Jack, but not in the way that Martha and Donna or Rose and SJ talked about the Doctor. It's sadder and more serious. I don't know what to get from it, but the femmeslashers must be going mad.
WHOA. Jack was actually awake for that.
Flashforward! Jack and Kate talk about a lot of stuff that'll probably be resolved in the finale. Apparently Sawyer chose to stay on the island and Jack saved Kate, and Kate made a promise to Sawyer that she fulfilled without telling Jack, who thought, like me, that Kate was having an affair. I thought she was having a gay relationship with another mommy.
"Your son?" Jack exclaims. "You're not even related to him!" Jack, you don't know that for sure on this show! Jack is, in fact, related to Aaron, after all. He's his half-uncle.
Aaron is standing in the doorway, holding a stuffed animal of a killer-whale (eh? Who gets that for their child? ... oh, wait, murderers, I get it.) Kate hugs him and cries.
Sawyer wakes up, Miles is poking at the fire. He tells Sawyer that Claire walked off into the jungle in the middle of the night, with someone she called 'dad.' He claims he would have followed her if not for the restraining order. Sawyer, sensing a rival for 'sarcastic bastard of the island' pulls a gun on him but then he hears Aaron crying in the jungle. Saywer grabs his rifle and races off, and finds Aaron alone, abandoned by a tree. Sawyer holds him close and yells for Claire, to no avail.
NEXT WEEK: ex-Marine strides across the beach at night. Michael (with blood upon his face) insists that 'he' will 'kill everyone.' SAYID IS BACK! YAHOO! ALSO DESMOND! YAAAAAY! There's also lots of mortal peril, such as Kate holding a gun and someone whacking Michael. LOCKE! He's cutting down a tree and talking about Jacob with a man wearing a Dharma uniform, who is apparently named 'Horace,' you know, the guy who greeted young!Ben and his father ages ago. Horace claims to have been dead for 12 years. Also Ben and Hurley, but not with Horace, which is odd because everybody loves Hurley, and Ben killed Horace.
Oooo, another promo! With what I wanna say are Italian subtitles ...
Michael handcuffed and ex-Marine pointing a gun at him, Locke waking up with Ben staring at him slashily. Ex-Marine asking Sayid to tell him how many people are on the island and where they might be located and Sayid looking defiant. Sayid insisting to Desmond and some-guy that the only way 'to save our lives is to get our people off that island.' Ben says that "there are consequences to being chosen."
I'm afraid I've got only one thing to say to all of that: woohoo! Slash next week!
