Tale of Two Cities post

>Season one premiere, Lost - opening shot of Jack's eye as he comes to >in the jungle just after the crash Season two premiere - opening shot >of Desmond's eye in the hatch as he hears a loud noise>Season three premiere - opening shot of Julliette's eye as she bakes>muffins in OthersPleasantville>This a.m. - opening shot of my eye as my cat headbutts me awake,wanting>to be fed.>See the eerie parallels?>Welcome to a new ep. Let's get started in the analysis/chat.>Personally, I loved the opening segment. So the Others have nicesuburban>bungalows. And a gazebo. And access to Stephen King books. And muffins.>And CD players. Obviously they're getting more than supply drops from>airplanes every once in a while.>So we got a better look at the Others - or at least one faction ofthem.>Some interesting issues there: the plane crashes, Ben/Faux Henry pretty>quickly starts organizing things and ordering infiltration and askingfor>"lists." We'd been led to believe the crash was a total accident causedby>Desmond. Is that incorrect? Or did the Others go through something like>this before? Or is Benry just quick on his feet?>Pretty obvious the Benry Others are now testing psychologicall (and>perhaps physically) Jack, Sawyer and Kate. For what purposes isunclear. I>assume at some point there'll be a flashback showing how kate got those>injuries on her wrists while cuffed.>Also pretty obvious now that Ben is a top dog for this group of Others.>But there still might be someone above him - remember FauxHenry saying>when a captive of Sayid that "if I talk, he'll kill me." Or it couldhave>just been a ruse.>Speaking of ruses, Chachi, the captive who was in the other cage across>from Sawyer - interesting addition. Could be an Other planted there as>part of the testing/disorientation theyre doing to our captives. Couldbe>a survivor from the plane crash we've not seen before. Could be acaptive>from another Other group. Or could be something else. My bet, based onno>info whatsoever? I wonder if he was also in the hot air balloon.>At least two of our captives - Jack and Sawyer - had little bandages on>them. First glance, I assume that's where they were drugged. But maybe>also blood was taken? The Others burned kate's clothes, too - some kindof>medical precautions against this Sickness thing Rousseau had talkedabout.>Under the heading of 'not sure if I like this trend or not': Jack inthe>first season, like Locke in the first season, was your typical TV hero->competent and decisive and loaded with mad useful skillz and soemoneyou'd>naturally defer to as a leader. As we go along and learn more aboutthese>guys, becomes much more obvious that they're such damanged goods>emotionally that I'd be more willing to follow Mark Foley into a ChuckE.>Cheese (hey-o!). When Jack is reduced to tears because Julliette saysthat>her big file indicates his wife is happy? You can chalk some of that upto>he's dehydrated and disoriented and in a bad overall situation. Butpart>of it also is that he's obviously more than a little batpoo crazy. Didhe>really hear his a voice (his father's) over that intercom or was it a>hallucination? Interesting though that he obviously feels some heavy>guilty for his father's death since he sent dad back off the wagon.>Accusing your dad of sleeping with your wife will do that. I know.First>hand.>Your observations?