"Why didn't you burn his body with the others in the fuselage?"
"Because the writers needed it to be accessible now."
Always thought this episode was kind of dumb. I understand not telling Sawyer anything, but if Kate had just told Jack that there was a memento of hers inside, that would've avoided all of the conflict. But, no, gotta drum up some drama over nothing. Also, Sawyer had literally handed the case to her at first, but she passed it off in an attempt to make it seem unimportant. That was stupid as hell.
The idea of an unpickable lock is kind of funny, after watching a bunch of LockpickingLawyer videos. Although it would indeed be difficult with the supplies on hand.
I watched the first season when it first came out (13 years ago?) and don't know why I didn't watch the rest, so I remember almost nothing. I guess it's obvious, but the safe deposit box that kate wanted was 815, the same as the flight that they were on, and it had a toy airplane (btw the revelation of the content was underwhelming, even if i'm sure it will be important, there was literally nothing there that could expose what she did) so I'm intrigued with how they are connected.
*Shannon was talking about nemo, right?
So many shots of Jack make me think of Tom/Jacob from The Blacklist, now that I've finished two seasons of that show. He's not played by even remotely the same actor, but there it is.
What I do know: If I was Charlie, I'd be so mad at this woman telling me to ask for help when I need it, then saying she's not the one who can help me. Please don't let them turn him into a born-again Christian or anything like that…
Ah, the gun case episode. Where viewers finally found out some of what Kate did; not all of it, of course, 'cause that girl was fucking busy in the years leading up to her boarding 815. Any re-watchers may recognize this lagoon as the one most of the Ajira passengers woke up in or near...
Sawyer's got himself a new Samsonite -- "Oh, Halliburton. I was WAY off!" lmao.
"There's a lot not normal around here." Indeed, Jack, and the reason behind the suddenly shifting tides won't even be explicable to you even after you personally witness the island disappearing in the blink of an eye. Eloise's later explanation at The Lamp Post still won't make it crystal clear, but at least it provides the "the island moves on its own" reasoning. There was however a real-world reason for this; the seasonal tides on Oahu's North Shore where the beach set had been filming were returning, and the show had to get the fuselage wreckage out of there because it would've been submerged for real and caused an ecological disaster. So this was a quick way of explaining why the fuselage would soon be gone from the beach scenes.
Damn, Boone. I mean, I get the frustrations -- especially given the history between you and Shannon -- but "you're useless" was a bit harsh.
Pfft, of course Sawyer would know Kate well enough by now to know she desperately wanted that case, and sleep with it between his knees, probably hoping he could use that as an attempt to woo her...YEP.
"Impact velocity. Physics my ass!" Feel ya, Sawyer. I hated physics in high school and developed a deep, deep loathing for it in college. Ha ha! Kate sprang out of the bushes just waiting for that moment.
Damn, I always forget just how many layers to Kate's many pre-Island cons there were, and her pre-Island life. I remember how and why she was originally on the run, but all the shit she pulled off between that and her walking out of those bushes in the pilot when Jack sees her is a blur. I do remember that this bank job was entirely her plan and that she's gonna betray all the gunmen, and for what: that little toy airplane.
And of course Kate goes to get Cave Town sheriff Jack. See, Kate, this is why Jack has trust issues; you've already used him for similar "problems" in an attempt to get something that he probably wouldn't have cared about if you'd told him. I know, I know, you've got a lot of trust issues after your decade+ on the run from the law, but after three weeks, you should probably know Jack well enough to know he really wouldn't have cared enough to ask why you wanted an envelope with a toy plane in it.
"Because I needed to bury him." That's what I like the most about Jack; he killed Edward -- the US Marshal escorting Kate -- out of mercy after Sawyer missed his heart with the gun, and it went so against his Hippocratic oath as a doctor to mercy kill a patient that he felt like he owed Edward that much.
Fuck, that stench is almost impossible to display through acting alone; about 30 years ago on a family vacation to some beach resort, a dead manatee had washed ashore right in front of the hotel, and you could smell that thing for days before it finally made landfall. Hotel staff being hotel staff tried to find a way to drag it away, but it was already so decayed that the second some local redneck hit the gas on the makeshift tow truck, the matinees corpse just split in half with almost zero effort/force. And boy howdy, lemme tell you that it already smelled bad enough on the outside, so all the gasses barely being held in by its still in-tact carcass created a stench that's hard to forget 25/6 years later. Seriously, just watching actors fake-gagging in reaction to decomposing flesh makes me nauseous just thinking about it now.
As usual with Kate's relationship to the truth, "the man I loved" and "the man I killed" are true, just not the whole truth. The man Kate literally killed, which is why she was originally on the run, was her violently abusive alcoholic step-father who'd been beating the shit out of her mom. Kate, worried that he'd finally one day kill her mom, took out a life insurance policy on her step father in her mother's name, waited for step-daddy to get home drunk as hell, carried him to his bed, then let his house fill with gas before rigging it to blow; she then confessed to her mom what she'd done, and since her mom loved that abusive POS, she was not thrilled and wound up reporting Kate to the police. "The man" she's referring to here was her childhood best friend/childhood love that she turned to for help; her mother was dying in the hospital, and her mom hated Kate for killing her step-father and would call the cops in a second if she saw Kate coming. Her childhood friend was now a doctor at the hospital her mother was currently in; she roped him into helping give her just a few minutes alone with her mom, and eventually the cops found out Kate was at the hospital. Kate's friend tries to help her escape in his car and is shot and killed by the police in the process. So both statements were technically true even if Kate didn't intend to kill her friend; he was killed because of her. That's what I fucking love about this show. There are so many layers to these insanely complicated people that even when they're being evasive with the truth, they're still sometimes telling the truth.
Rose: There's a fine line between denial and faith; it's much better on my side. -- God, I forgot how much I love Rose; she seemed like the kooky religious type at first, but as always with this show, she had a damn good reason to be so absolutely positive in her faith. Like John, Rose had some less-obvious health issues that she knew were resolved within hours/days of crashing on the island. She'd been diagnosed with a terminal form of cancer before her now-husband, Bernard, had proposed to her. She tells him this grievous news while initially denying his proposal, but he loved her so much that he wanted to marry her anyway. Not long after that, Bernard started searching out every possible doctor, shaman, medicine man who'd promise all kind of miraculous cures to the kind of person desperate enough to mortgage their house for a flicker of hope. That was why Rose and Bernard were in Australia; Bernard pretended it was a last trip together before Rose's imminent death, but it was really a ruse to get her to meet with a professed miracle worker. Rose, who'd already accepted the fact that she was very likely going to die soon did not appreciate the deception and wanted to return to North America ASAP; guess which was the first available flight out of Sydney? Her realization that she was cured wasn't as immediate as Locke's, who could immediately feel his legs and walk again, but she eventually realized the cancer was completely gone. After that, she became convinced that Bernard was still alive. And he was!
Shannon talking about that French lover's son who watched Finding Nemo over and over again 900 times reminded me that about the time this episode was airing in early 2005, my oldest nephew was just about to turn three, and this was in his "Rewatch Shrek every waking minute of every day" phase; I loved that movie when I first saw it in 2001, but lemme tell you, when you have to hear "Somebody once told me!" every 90 minutes on a loop every day your sister is counting on you to watch her then-two children, whatever movies/shows you think you used to love start becoming more grating than nails on a chalkboard by year two of that kid's obsession. Thankfully, by early 2006, my nephew had discovered Star Wars, and even though I'd seen all then-six movies a bunch, I was more than happy to watch them over and over again with him.
The easiest way isn't always the best.
For some reason Jack and Kate really annoy me.
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I'm already sick of Sawyer's casanova shtick. Does he ever stop sexually harassing Kate?