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Part Two was delayed by exhaustion and people who expect me to socialize with them during the weekends.
I'll try to make it brief. :p
21. Juliet's story about the guns not being questioned falls into the same category as Charlie's swimming abilities not being questioned (after the Joanna situation) and Bernard readily revealing the location of his wife to the bad guys. Nonsense needed to move the plot along. In a regular episode, it pisses me off. This wasn't exactly an average episode though.
Juliet was also a pleasant surprise because she actually voiced what I was thinking: yes, she kinda owed it to them (and to Jack, whose trust and protection turned her away from Ben).
22. Jack's reaction to being kissed was adorable in his dorky, clueless "wait... girls think I'm cute?" kinda way. I'm not picky when it comes to people who show him affection and don't make him crawl and beg for it so go Juliet! He knows you like HIM, he doesn't have to wonder if it's who the other guy is and he's not and all that.
23. Sexy goggles you got there, Rasputin! When he took his eyepatch off, I was expecting to see a glass eye so I could jump and go: "Zomg, it's the one the tailies found in that abandoned hatch!", but alas, it was just makeup scars. I laughed so hard at his casual mention of Canada. So the Others have evil beyotches assigned in Canada too? Is Canada the international hub of evilness and Ben's retirement location once he's managed to impregnate all the Others?
24. Most. Nauseating. Ad. EVER. The one with the twins and the gellin, gellin... YUCK. Die Dr. Scholl, Die!
25. Juliet. Sawyer. Sawyer wearing Juliet's lacy underwear. Juliet ordering him around. Sawyer calling her nothing but Mistress. Juliet ordering him to fetch his spanking paddle so he can get his afternoon delight with a side of pain. Sawyer loving every minute of it. THAT my friends is what the next flashforward episode should be all about. I bet that glimpse into the future would be a lot more... uplifting than what we got so far. "Why do YOU want to go back, James?" I swear, she's the only one whose usage of "James" I can tolerate.
26. Dude, telling the fat kid to get out of the way is NOT cool, not after all the fat jokes. Hurley got his revenge in the end though. "Attention all Others!" I think that was the second best speech in the history of the show.
27. Ben and Claire should read each other's diaries. And you know what? When he told Richard he was going to talk them out of leaving the island, I knew Ben MEANT it and the magnificent bastard actually believed he's capable of stopping them all by himself.
"Because I didn't want him to get you pregnant." LMAO! Ew. The idea of Karl and supersperm... OK, I'm kinda feeling Ben on this one. :D
28. Jack does Kurt Cobain much better than Locke (Locke listens to Driveshaft. Nuff said). So... future!Walt can cure paralysis? Or is he there just to invite Locke to the stoners' hottest party that just happens to be held in his dorm? DUDE. No camera angle in the world is going to beat MDK's obvious teenage growth hormones.
29. Matthew Fox's eyebrows have more acting range than half the cast:
"Yeah, I didn't think so." But it's OK. He just needed to do it and it was beautiful and understated.
30. Jack rocking out to Nirvana's Scentless Apprentice kinda rocked my world. Not so much as seeing yet another confirmation that we're soulmates: he's a scary driver like me. :) I totally called it in terms of musical preferences. :D
31. He seemed surprised that "Nobody?!?!?" showed up at the funeral. It's another point for the Michael theory because he would have expected Walt to show up. However, he was much too affected for it to be the man who sold them out to the Others and killed Ana and Libby.
32. "Dammit!" Bauer House in one pill popping scene? LOL. Speaking of which, they made a boo boo with Oxycodone because apparently it's not the type of drug you can refill. I don't know. It makes sense that he'd use an opiate mixed with alcohol to numb himself from whatever happened, but I think he might have started like House. He probably needed it to numb physical pain. Gah. There are now 2 and 1/4 years of backstory I can't wait to see.
33. Jack Daniels is my OTP! Just ask workingmom. I loved every single second of screentime they shared this season and there's a line from Danielle that stands out in hindsight: "This is my home now."
34. Is Richard styling Ben's hair? Did he apply an extra coating of mouse to make it all cute and casual spikey like that?
35. Damn, Cyclops. That was cold! I rolled my eyes out when I saw him harpooned through the heart later. They need to use silver bullets.
36. In his most House-ish ff yet, Jack insists that he's not a hero. It's the same type of shame you see when the little kid waves at him. I want to know why so badly, dammit! And it kills me to think he thinks Christian was right... even though he knows via Sawyer that he didn't mean it.
37. I don't really think I can do justice to Jack's scenes with Ben and everything after. I need to rewind a couple hundred times before I find the words, some words that are not: "Fuck you, Ben, he's not YOU! He doesn't care who's not waiting off the island, those 40 people do have a life and families and he wants THEM to be safe and as far away from you as possible" and the words "OMG, Matthew Fox I kinda fear for your mental health because you are scary good and so into it I forgot he's not real and you exist!"
I was so shaken up by his conversation with Tom and by his "I let it happen... I had to let it happen..." later on that I just... can't... oh, God. Sayid. I adore Sayid for yelling at him over the walkie talkie, reminding him why he HAS to let it happen.
"Tie him up, he's coming with us." I can't stop listening to his voice when he says that. It's so broken and it breaks me too.
38. I bet Charlie wishes he had TiVo right abot now. I didn't rewind to hear the Good Vibrations chords because I didn't expect Charlie not to know the song. C'mon...
39. Danielle does indeed have much to teach Alex about blowing shit up. See
mysticxf's icons for details. I laughed like a crazy woman at her first words to her long lost daughter. My OTP loves to punch Ben in the face! :p
40. Did you see Jin's face when Sayid snapped that guy's neck Bauer-style with his freaking legs??? That was Doyle saying: "Daaamn, Jack!" when he sees Fayed hanging by the chain.
41. Go back to 25. Sawyer killing yet another defenseless man is when it all started. Meant to be.
42. I'll ignore all the Christian theories, kthx. HE'S DEAD.
43. Jack's relief at hearing that Sayid and co. are alive and Charlie unjammed the signal is a beautiful thing to behold. As is the little look he gives Sun and Rose now that he no longer has to tell them their husbands are dead and he HAD to let it happen.
44. Penny sitting in front of the monitor was hella convenienet, but oh well... God Bless the Queen, between Charlie, Desmond and Naomi, it's the Empire Strikes Back!
45. Speaking of Naomi... did I call that or what? Yes, I'm still rolling my eyes out a little at those who trusted her but didn't trust Jack.
46. This death scene for Charlie was right up there with the other "death" scene from ATBCHDI and I immediately flashbacked to Jack cradling Charlie in his arms and welcoming him back to life and that music... Fuck, I was so emotionally manipulated, but I didn't care one bit. Dom was excellent. He was at peace with leaving the show and you can tell. Bless Charlie and his tendency to write on his hands. (Remember FATE?) Now we'll see what Desmond does with that piece of intel.
47. Swoosh. I told you guns don't kill people. Locke kills people. I loved how badass Jack was and how he never backed down with his two creepiest fangirls, Ben and Locke. Big brass ones.
48. Danielle is quiet but deadly effective in getting Ben to shut up. She was protecting her new crush. :D
49. Jack doesn't do dishes anymore for therapy. Oxy doesn't seem to help either. "Thank you." Yes. Thank you. That's the second thank you after the one he said to Sarah at the hospital. It's things like these that break my heart a little more each time.
50. It scares me to think how much he hates himself for not caring about the rest of the passengers on those planes. And the image of his weekends spent in airports and airplanes and then back to his maps is so poignant and so well done and Foxy nails this scene so perfectly, I'm really done because I don't know what to say.
There are many ways in which they can screw up this story, but they've just added 2 years of background to The Jack Show and a new quest to go back to the island. That's exciting for this fan.