EVIL PUPPET MASTERS

Here are my notes on last night’s “Fall Finale” for Lost. Feel free to comment and add things I may have missed

• Kate’s husband Kevin is played by Nathan Fillion, who may not be recognizable to the general viewing public, but is HUGE in the cult fanbase. He played Mal on Firefly (and in the movie Serenity), and is fondly referred to as “Captain Tightpants” by the fanbase. His character “Kevin” on Lost is a police officer with the Miami Dade police department (patch on his sleeve and logo on police car). He also mentions Tampa.
• NUMBERS — Not many. The only one I picked up on was when Kate was talking to her mother-in-law and she said she had four boys.
• Jack “grew a pair” and has taken the control away from Ben — but is Ben really the “Him” that has been referred to by The Others as who they answer to? A comment is made by Danny that “Shephard wasn’t even on Jacob’s list” — WHO is Jacob? Could he be the real leader? Could he be the guy with the patch we saw last week? (whom I like to call Patchman)
• Alex (who we assume to be Rousseau’s daughter) tries to help Kate and Sawyer escape by using a slingshot and rocks (Danny in the walkie - “How the hell did she get over here?” — So she is usually on the main island?). She says, “I wanna talk to Ben” and that they “killed my boyfriend” (who would be Carl who used to be in Kate’s cage). Later, as Ben lies facedown on the table before his surgery, he asks Juliet if “Alex asked about me” and Julies says “No, we took her home last night. I don’t know where she is now.”
• Kate’s choice seems to be Sawyer — they get busy in the cell (and were watched by Ben) and they exchanged “I love yous” kind of. Jack is crushed twice by Kate’s choice — once when he realizes that Kate asks Jack to do the surgery to save Sawyer and the second time when he sees them post-coital in Ben’s viewing room. Ben is obviously upset that Kate doesn’t break Jack (and admits to Jack later that he thought Kate would chose him), but is even more surprised when Jack agrees to do the surgery anyway.
• Jack takes control — he doesn’t take the tumor out (yet), but he doesn’t discreetly kill Ben either (for Juliet). Jack has become the hero (again?). He gave up the girl and intends to sacrifice himself in order to give freedom to Kate (and Sawyer?).
• Locke is mid-eulogy when he notices the words “Lift Up Your Eyes and Look North” — which partly comes from the scripture next to it: “Lift up your eyes and look north, south, east and west” (God to Abram, Genesis 13:14). The northern part of the island is probably where you can see the other island.
• In the scene when Juliet comes to get Kate, Danny is arguing with Juliet and says something like “supposed to be 2 weeks!” and “it’s stupid!” What was supposed to be 2 weeks? How long they kept Kate/Sawyer/Jack? Or was that part of Ben’s original plan on how long it would take him to manipulate Jack into doing the surgery?
• When the intercom wakes Jack up (and finds the door open), the voice sounds like Alex.

So, what answers did we get? Not a lot really, but is that a bad thing? We know that the tumor IS Ben’s (there was speculation that it was part of the ruse) and that there is someone named “Jacob” who seems to have made a list that Jack was NOT on. Ben’s premonition-type comment — “Whatever happens, it’s going to change everything.” Jack agrees. Kate and Sawyer can be controlled by threatening the other, but Jack has his own power over The Others now. Also, we have true hope that Kate (at least), and possibly Sawyer, will make it off Bencatraz — and that Locke is going to head North and SEE Bencatraz.

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