Lost 2x15 - "Maternity Leave"

I know I haven't updated this thing in a while, but I know that there are a bunch of people that read my Lost posts. So, here I am. It's a long post, so be warned. And feel free to comment.

• It’s nice to see them revisit the scratches Claire gave Rousseau.
• Claire is amazingly annoying. Why, oh why didn’t someone just slap her and tell her to calm the fuck down? Rousseau should have hit her with the rifle again.
• This is an island full of idiots. Rousseau mentions an infection; the find a hatch that says quarantine on the inside; Jack sees that Desmond has been injecting himself with some kind of medicine; Desmond leaves most of the medicine behind; the baby seems to get some sort of mysterious illness; So, of course, the logical conclusion would be to go traipsing about the extremely dangerous and spooky jungle in search of medicine that they could logically assume they already have. Brilliant!
• And yes, it was the same, exact medicine that Desmond was taking. Had the numbers on the label and everything.
• So, Jack and Locke have switched sides in regard to Henry Gale, eh? WTF? One minute Locke is conspiring with Sayid to imprison and torture the guy to Jack’s overwhelming opposition, and the next Locke’s trying to talk Jack into letting the guy go? Did I miss something, or did some one fuck something up?
• The young girl from the boat last season does, in fact, seem to have been Alex. What’s more, she seems to be working against the rest of the others and helped Claire escape. Neat oh.
• Ethan didn’t seem like such a bad guy in this episode. I kinda felt sorry for him.
• Zeke’s beard is fake, as was the whole “dirty, savage island people” look all of the other have been sporting lately. It seems as though they’re much more sophisticated and organized than they want the crash survivors to believe. Really, though, that could have been inferred by the fact that they had a frickin’ motor-boat out in the middle of nowhere at the end of the last season.
• The others sure did abandon that medical bunker rather quickly. Could have been more than a month since Claire had been taken, but that place looked like it hadn’t been used in years.
• I’ve seen some theories that suggest the medical bunker was abandoned because the time hit zero in the last episode. I’m not that digs with what we saw of the bunker. It wasn’t just abandoned, it was cleaned out. That takes some time and organization and doesn’t happen in the few moments you might have to escape some kind of cataclysmic event. Also, because the costumes and stuff were very neatly stored, I think the bunker might actually still be in use in some sort of limited capacity. After all, costumes are just that: costumes. It’s pretty obvious that the Others only don them for encounters with the survivors. If an encounter isn’t expected, why would they be dressed up?
• Also seems like they should have hung around a bit more. I mean, how often do you get the chance to freely explore an enemy stronghold? They should have at least taken some of the costumes and not just that damned booty.
• Again, speaking of Claire and her flashbacks; I know she was being drugged and all, but she was still really fucking annoying. Her and Charlie really are my least favorite characters.
• Also, this episode marks the first time that all of the flashbacks occur after the crash. They were nice sequences because they gave a hell of a lot of information, but I think I prefer the flashbacks that show us what the characters were like before they got to the island. Especially when their pasts are connected in some strange and obscure way.
• The nursery was creepy. And I mean really creepy. The little planes on the baby mobile were Oceanic airliners and looked strikingly similar to that little plane to which Kate seems so attached. Anyone know what song the thing was playing, though?
• And I’ve gotta wonder if the Others used the same nursery for Alex when they took her.
• The hallway opposite the nursery in the medical bunker was labeled “escape hatch.”
• Were they actually going to kill Claire and take the baby? That doesn’t seem to jive with the treatment they were giving her and the relationship Ethan seemed to be forming with her. Also, the Others are some crazy bastards, but they don’t seem to be sadistic. Claire had willingly agreed to give the child up to them. There would be no reason to kill her and take it.
• Henry Gale is definitely an Other. If the stuff from his initial appearance didn’t confirm it, his reaction to the Eko’s confession and his (successful?) attempt to breed some discontent between to Locke and Jack really sealed the deal.
• Also, speaking of Eko, what the hell is he making with the trees? I bet it’s a cross, though, I guess it could be a giant “Jesus” trebuchet. If you don’t know what that means, look it up. It’s funny, I promise.
• And also speaking of Locke, what the hell is up with him lately? The Locke from season one would never have been so easily manipulated by Henry Gale’s very obvious attempt to play his captors against each other.
• Completely unrelated to anything above, Sawyer’s reaction to the baby being sick was interesting. He seemed genuinely concerned and sincere when he said that he had medicine. I just can’t figure out if that concern was for the baby or just for Kate to not go into the jungle.
• Libby is a clinical psychiatrist; and, apparently, a pretty decent one. Coincidentally, she’s also got a pretty decent ass.
• Was Ethan an actual doctor? Seems rather strange that they would have a whole medical facility set up and have a guy who isn’t a physician working on their only patient.
• I’m pretty sure that the Others are somehow responsible for the crash. At the very least, they had some sort of foreknowledge of it. It’s pretty clear, now, that they had a definitive plan to infiltrate and abduct the survivors. Ethan’s conversation with Zeke all but confirms this. The fact that Ethan and the Peace Corps guy that Anna Lucia killed were all dressed and ready to go the instant the wreckage hit the ground really shows that they knew exactly what was going on.

Until the next episode, then.

Actuall, I'll probably post some crap between now and then. To be honest, I'd kind of lost interest in this thing, but I think I might feel some ambition boiling up again.

Cya!

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