Lost #3.15: Left Behind
OK bear with me as I try to cram the rest of season 3 here over the next week.
After Locke blew up the submarine, stranding everyone on The Island, The Others took them all prisoner again. But then a cannister of gas is thrown in Kate’s room, she passes out right after seeing them all put on gas masks and packing up and leaving. She wakes up handcuffed to Juliet in the jungle. They bicker about Jack, duke it out, fall in some mud. They also encounter Smoke, which did some new weird scariness (flashing lights like a strobe). Then it turns out Juliet has a key to the cuffs–she’d been left behind by The Others, and wanted not to be alone. They go back and get Jack and Sayid, and head back to camp. Why don’t they bring the Survivors back to Suburbia, where there’s houses and running water and refrigerators and playgrounds?
It was good seeing Kate and Juliet in the jungle–like I said before, the show had gone away a bit from the island mysticism. Jack wants to take Juliet with them, he’s not going to strand her. But Sayid has his doubts, which undoubtedly will prove correct! Thus, I wonder whether Juliet was left behind for a reason by Ben. The show is playing it as if she’s sort of a rogue Other (and falling for Jack), but I am going to have to go with Sayid. Something is up.
Oh yea, and Locke has gone with The Others. He doesn’t want to go home, he wants to stay there forever. Nothing about his father being trapped there, but he tells Kate good-bye as she wonders how he’s been brainwashed. That was pretty interesting, and such a small part of the story!
The flashback was to Kate and The Girl Sawyer Conned And Has His Baby meeting by chance and helping each other out. She says she’s in love with a bad guy, but never tells Kate his name. And then on The Island, Sawyer is conned by Hurley into acting nice to everyone. Bad guy/good guy/love interest/comic relief–Sawyer’s everything. Including the group’s new Leader, apparently.