GOOD FRIDAY, LOSTIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I actually mean that...
Let's talk about "Left Behind", episode 15 for season 3....We have 8 more episodes left for this year and they are rounding the bend and as I like to say: Business is about to pick up!
Let's start with the obvious. As I made mention earlier in the week, there was a major "crossing". Kate and Cassidy.
Like a modern day Thelma and Louise, except without Brad Pitt and they didn't blow anything up..But they did however, unwittingly, sleep with the same man....Sawyer gets around. I'll be the first to say it. The guy has seriously been with 5 women since the show came on...The writers are certainly playing him up as a rabble rouser, which is different than razzle dazzle but I digress...
Cassidy helps Kate ask her mom why she turned her in. Turns out it was love. I think we are finally getting the answer to what Kate really did. Yes, she blew up her father and yes, she robbed a bank to get a toy plane that belonged to her childhood sweetheart, who was killed trying to help her escape. Yes..my baby's done a bad, bad thing.
The point is that her actions have caused serious harm to those involved. And her actions, which she thought were altruistic, were actually selfish and beneficial only to her own motives. She didn't like her stepdad because he beat her mother. Who would?? But she took justice into her own hands and commited a sin. MURDER.
She tried to see her mom again in the hospital, to appeal to her mom that she killed Hank for her mother's well being and in the end, caused another person to die. I'll attribute that to GREED.
I'm mixing my sins with my 10 commandments but Locke had it right.
the short of it, is that Kate isn't a good person. She has done some pretty awful stuff. Locke's admission that the Others weren't very forgiving was interesting. I guess they are forgiving of someone who caused two of their people to die(pushing one through a sonic fence)...I think we may actually see that Patchy ain't dead...It would absolve Locke from murder, or maybe Ben gave him immunity for an island information exchange. Whatever it was it brought up two things to note:
Locke's hand was bandaged. So we may see some back story as to what happened right after he saw his dad tied up in the room to when he talks to Kate.
The other thing was Locke saying "I don't want to go home". Locke has become an Other. Whether he'll be as evil as they seem to be or if he's using them to gain some more insight into the island remains to be seen.
It is my opinion that Left Behind has a bunch of different meanings. One is that there was a trade on the show: Juliet for Locke. An other for the others, if you will. Both could be seen as pulling some "long cons". The fact that the episode actually referred to a person that was involved in a long con(Cassidy) sets the idea in motion. Locke is using the Others to find out more about the Island and Ben is using Juliet to find out more about the survivors of 815.
It's all about the mind games.
Juliet is wicked tough
So let's talk about good old Juliet. She was left behind. Don't feel sorry for her. She's not to be trusted and as far as I can tell, she may be the second in command after Ben. She seems to be at his side for the most part. I think she may have made a deal with the devil and now it's all coming down to her doing her part. We'll find out next week.
Wouldn't t be interesting if the Others didn't view death as a bad thing? Especially killing someone in the interest of promoting their cause? Think about this: Suppose the Others are working towards something that we'll call "The Greater Good". Basically saving the world. To die for that cause would be totally acceptable because of the BELIEF. So Juliet shoots Danny with what we consider zero remorse. She doesn't feel bad about it. It's part of the PROCESS. The belief that when he's killed, he's been killed for the greater good. He may have actually been happy to die. Perhaps they believe that when they die, they are actually able to leave the island and return to the REAL WORLD.
I'm not saying this is purgatory and redemption gets you out of it. I'm swinging more towards reincarnation. Or being thrown back to the beginning of your life. Like Desmond. He should have died when he turned that key. Instead it looks like he was given another chance.
So imagine that when Patchy shot Mrs. klugh and then Locke pushed Patchy into the fence, they were all acting for the greater good. Locke was a little less informed but his intention was the same: Preserve the greater good.
The island. All of this is to protect whatever the island represents. Whether it is an actual "magic box" is to be determined. But suppose it's the kind of place where you can be anything you want. Take Juliet as a case in point. A meek, walked all over lady transformed to kick butt, tough as nails, steely reserve woman. The island made her that way. She's had her shoulder dislocated 4 times??? Doing what?
I'm getting way off track...Let's circle back to the show and Mr Smokey....was he taking pictures of Juliet and Kate as they were hiding in the tree? remember Eko's first encounter with Smokey? The flashes were his memories. I would like to beleive that's what we saw this past week as well. Smokey was taking some mental notes on one of those 2 and my money is on Juliet.
Let's not forget Smokey doesn't seem to like PRIDE. And Juliet looked mighty defiant on the other side of that fence..I think that's the tell to this episode. We're made to believe that Kate is the bad one that Smokey is after but it could be Juliet. You think she hasn't stood on the other side of that fence before and looked at that thing?? And if it can rip trees out of the ground and hover and fly around, why couldn't it go OVER the fence like Kate and the gang did 2 episodes ago? Very odd.....
So next week it's back to the beach, with Juliet in tow....
We'll see how she got there and I'm interested in the line:
Juliet:If I told you everything, you'd kill me.
Sayid: What do you think I'll do if you don't?
I personally don't think Sayid will do anything but who knows? maybe he's had enough of this bs..:)
That's all for me...I'm out of the country on some diplomatic affairs all of next week and then I'll be back. Rest assured that when I come back, there will be a full on assault on next week's episode: One of Us
Later
EPdeLFC, JB
