Lost continues the third season with a Sun and Jin centric episode. As if often the case with their back-stories, the focus was on their relationship and its troubles. It cuts nicely with Sun, Jin, and Sayid on their journey around the island on Desmond’s boat. Jin insists they return but Sun and Sayid decide to deceive him to save Sawyer, Kate, and Jack.
I had so wanted Sun to not have slept with the bald man teaching her English – I wanted her to be better than that. Either way, the three on the boat find the dock and decide to go ashore. Yes, the dock says Pala Ferry, which is mentioned in the Pearl Orientation film. Anyway, Sun realizes Sayid knows they aren’t safe and is trying to lure The Others to them. Turns out Jin knows English better than everyone thinks and he is fully aware of all the deception and betrayal. Sun goes back on the boat for safe keeping while Jin and Sayid wait on the beach for their plan to come into play.
Ben is told the Iraqi has found the phony village and is sailing around the island on a boat. Finding the village isn’t his concern. Getting the boat seems to be of the utmost importance though – he tells them to gather a team and get the boat. However, his lack of knowledge about the sailboat suggests he doesn’t know as much about the island and he would have us believe. He obviously doesn’t know about Desmond, which begs an answer to if he knew about Kelvin and The Others relationship to Dharma at all.
If the Longfellow reference is lost on you, it seems one signal fire and The Others would attack by land, but with two it was by sea. So much for all of Sayid’s military training. However, The Others’ ability to sneak onto the boat without detection leaves open the possibility for them being the ones slinking in the jungle with the creepy teddy bear – not that I think there is only one group of “Others” on the island.
Left to her own defenses, Sun kicks ass and shoots the female Other after the woman said it would make The Others enemies. The gunfire clued in Jin and Sayid about how they were tricked. It was really a nice touch with Jin and Sun swimming towards each other; even deception and betrayal isn’t stopping the two of them from truly loving one another.
Sawyer and Kate are taken out of their bear cages and led – at gunpoint – to a gardenlike worksite where they are forced to clear rocks from the ground. They aren’t allowed to do anything without the threat of being shocked. The rock thing reminded me of Bent or The Talisman, but unlike either of those I think they are actually clearing rocks for a reason. While they are working, Kate is signaled to the bushes by Alex and asked about Karl’s location (remember Karl from the cage across from Sawyer in the premiere?). Classic Sawyer for pouring out the canteen and kissing Kate. But can she get any more useless, I mean how many times is someone going to have to go to her rescue in some way?
Too bad there are surveillance cameras watching as Sawyer explains to Kate everything he learned from the tussle by the rocks. Ben is a smart cookie and it really isn’t hard to see how The Others keep outsmarting the Losties.
Jack is still held captive in the aquarium but Juliet seems to have better security with regards to opening his door. Ben visits Jack with an attempt –phony or genuine, I’m not sure—to introduce himself to gain trust. Benjamin Linus has supposedly lived on the island his entire life; his age would put him on the island before the Dharma project was underway, according to the Orientation films. I loved the shout out to the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series, but I sure hope they have the written consent of the Baseball Commissioner to show that footage! But knowing they choose to live there really makes me wonder about why Ben wanted the sailboat so badly.
Of The Others, I find myself really liking Juliet, though I suspect she might be the most “evil” of them. Ben just comes off as being too swarmy for me to be drawn to him or even want to believe a word he says. Plus, Juliet has been pretty good with the torturing Jack and anyone doing that gets major points in my book.
Sawyer and Sayid are by far my favorite characters on the show. I would absolutely love to be stranded on some remote island with the two of them – heck I would settle for either one of the men! This episode of Lost certainly had Sawyer’s wit and intelligence shine through, even if only in the way a con-artist would be able to excel. I’m really disappointed in Sayid and hope he makes up for his complete lack of skill in this episode. I want Sayid to kick some major Others ass!
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