LOST recap of "Something Nice at Home"
"Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I have been changed in the night"
~ Jack reading Chapter Two of Alice in Wonderland to Aaron in "Something Nice at Home"
Wow. Last night's Jackcentric LOST got under my skin more than I thought. After watching it, I had a creepy dream that included a ghost banging angrily around, scaring me so badly that I woke up with my heart pounding. Yikes.
Look away if you must.
My guess? Hurley is right. Hurley has always been the voice of reason, the chill dude who keeps a clear head without getting overly emotional or egotistical about the stressfest they've been enduring on the Island. He proved this when he "elected" Sawyer to lead the group when Jack was off and away at Locke's, remember? He could have been all "I'm gonna lead you all," but Hurley's got it going on. So if he says they're dead, I bet they're dead.
However, don't forget whole physics theme introduced with Faraday, who zaps the mouse with radiation at his Oxford University lab back in 1996 in front of Desmond. When it "returns" it has traveled through time, as proven by its ability to run the maze. Perhaps the writers haven't quite "killed" off the Oceanic Six. Perhaps this is a parallel universe, so they can be dead in one yet alive in this one, or they are playing with the idea that time is cyclical, not linear.
Jack continues to bug me with his constant "I'm right and you're wrong" behavior. When Hurley passes on Charlie's message, "Jack, you're not supposed to be raising him," you can tell he's sufficiently freaked out that he is taking Hurley seriously. So to prove Hurley/Charlie wrong, he runs back home and suddenly proposes to Kate, because goddammit, he's going to prove that he is going to raise Aaron. The proposal is just a side effect of the pissing contest his created in his head. Kate should have stuck with Sawyer, who has become quite a softie. "CLAIRE! CLAAAAAAAAIRE!"
One of Jack's angry utterances seemed weighty with meaning -- occuring when he and Kate are fighting as usual over his Sawyer jealousy. Even from beyond, our sexy southerner continues to irk Jack to no end. Ha! Jack barks at her about Sawyer's deciding to stay on the Island, while Jack instead saved Kate. Hmm, there's more to this line than meets the eye, methinks. I wonder if it's Sawyer whom Kate, in a previous episode, refers to later on (chronologically) when we see Jack all strung out at their shady airport meeting when she says, "I have to get back, he's going to wonder where I am." Come back, Sawyer, come back!
And obviously with that drunken cruel, "You're not even related to him!" line, Jack knows he's Aaron's uncle. Who told? Ben?
I love the cynical Ghost Whisperer medium, Miles. His character is begging for more plot-centric importance when it comes to all these dead people walking around. Looking forward to seeing where the writers take him, hopefully someplace on the Other Side where he can help reveal what the hell is going on!
