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First, some general reactions to last night's ep. -- awwww heck yeah! Some action, some humor, some delving into the mystery, some character development and elaboration on back story, a pwetty kitty cat. The show stumbled a bit the last couple eps., when compared to the Juliet episode and the Desmond episode, but it shook it off and came back swinging, I think. The ending was a bit predictable - once you saw the C4, you knew Flame was going up in flames (ha!) at some point.
So what we know now - according to what Patchy was saying, prior to the plane crash there were two groups on the island: the Dharma folks and the Hostiles/Others, and for some reason one wiped out (completely?) the other.
But he's obviously a liar. The question is to what degree he lied.
Let's examine the likelihood that the Others and Dharma scientists are separate people altogether - to my thinking, that's hard to swallow. How would the Others know how to use the technology, speak Russian, read Chinese tatts on Jack? More likely, I think, is that the Others - or at least some of them - are former Dharma. Patchy Mikhail, who's now part of the Others, keeps the communications going with the outside world, so the supplies keep coming. Or perhaps the Others were former test subjects?
Meanwhile, maybe the Others are crazy - case in point, the woman seemingly telling Patchy to shoot her rather than be captured. Then Patchy told Sayid to kill him. What the frell?
According to Lostpedia, the exchange between the woman and Patchy was along the lines of "You know what to do, we cannot risk it," "No, there must be another way," "Just do it," "I'm sorry," bang.
Regarding Rousseau - oh c'mon. You're on this island 16 years and you've not explored every nook and cranny? Am I supposed to believe she's not playing on both sides of the fence here? On a side note, Patchy's name is Mikhail. And Rousseau said at one point that her husband's name was Michael. Connection? I wonder how he lost that eye. Maybe Rousseau didn't kill him after all.
Regarding Locke - dude, don't touch anything. This guy seems somewhat dumb. I don't think he expected to blow up the Flame hatch by entering 77, but when you're in some crazy situation like that you be careful what you touch. I wonder if that's the sole communications method to the outside world, that satellite dish.
Regarding Sayid - fascinating back story, though it didn't really tie horribly much to the island half of the episode. All it seemed to illustrate is why Sayid didn't kill Patchy. But was that that dramatic a question?
Regarding the cat - was that cat which resembled the cat Nadia really there, I wonder. Or was it a manifestation of the smoke monster.
Lessons: Locke is a video game addict, getting distracted by chess enough to let Patchy escape and get the drop on him.
Nice touches: Dharma-brand vodka, Sawyer calling Jin and Sun "Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon."
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Theory: There are no hostiles. All part of Dharma's pysch experiments. The c-4? A method to see how devoted people would be to a cause. Would they blow themselves up for it? Dharma, it's not just a job, it's a cult.
Hence, the "you need to shoot me for the good of the cause" scene. And the preview of Patch Adams throwing himself into the electric fence-thingy.
Now, the experiments may have gotten out of control and everyone's gone nuts, but that's my two cents.
I liked the Sayid back story. But the woman was not Nadia, right?
Yes, an epidode with no suckage.
First, let me remind you all HOW MUCH DISLIKE I expressed for Locke. But NOOOO, most of you thought he was cool, deep even. It was dumb luck. He is a booty. QUIT pushing buttons, Locke. His dumb &^% blew up the hatch and now he blew up their chance for outside communication. He is like an inquisitive child with no common sense. OK, I'm done.
I think it is quite possible there were two groups on the island, so, for now, I will kind of believe what ol' one-eye said.
And ya know, Russo is a nut job, I have no doubt she only went so far on the island. Hell, I've lived in Rochester for over 30 years and I've never been to most of Penfield. Scary suburb. Lots of cows.
Sayid is the man. People need to listen to him more and Locke less.
But the map, I fear, is a red herring. Can't be that simple.
That's one of the fascinating things about how Locke's character has turned out. At first, he seemed all bad-ass because he was quiet and had knives and seemed competent at this survivalist thing. But yeah, he's not much brighter than my cat. I kind of like the way both Jack and Locke have turned out to be pretty flawed - Locke moreso. TV heroes don't need to be these superhuman stereotypes, like MacGruder.
Oh sure, Sheila comes out of the woodwork to bash Locke NOW. Next, she's gonna tell us how she knew the Ford Pinto was a bad deal all along. :-)
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