This was an okay episode.  It opened with Jack trying to save someone swimming in the ocean, but then choosing to save the brother (who I thought was a lifeguard?  why is he drowning 50 feet from shore?  now he’s on my fishy list) instead.  This scene paralleled the Jack flashbacks where he tried to save a kid from being bullyed at school, but failed and got beat himself.  And it paralleled a story his father, also a doctor, told him about trying to save people.  And it paralleled his reason for going to Australia, to try to save his father and bring him home to the U.S., only to not succeed, finding him dead.  And it paralleled his descent into sleep-deprived madness causing him to chase a hallucination of his father into the jungle.  Analogies are good for a story, but this was all a bit too much.

I do like the effect Jack’s little journey had on his view towards leading the group; one thing I felt was missing in these early episodes was the social stuff about how they all interact, or the group politics, that sort of thing.  Now they’re hinting at some of those things (who needs to stay behind and why when they went searching for water, the lifeguard guy seems jealous of Jack’s leadership, etc.), which is good, and I find it interesting.

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 23rd, 2008 at 12:22 am and is filed under Lost. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.