Lost #2.13: The Long Con
This episode was really interesting! But cons usually are I guess. The flashback showed Sawyer conning a woman out of $600,000. And on the island, he masterminded some conning to freak everyone out, and be “the new sheriff in town.”
It started with an attack on Sun. Sawyer planted the idea that Ana did it, in order to make the rest of the group more afraid. Is the show getting political? Make the public afraid, and they’ll do what the leaders want them to, right? Or at the very least, they’re using the shock of Sun’s attack to get them to do what they want. I’ve been reading too much Naomi Klein. Or, the writers of Lost have. Anyway, it wasn’t Ana in the end. And Sun’s attack had nothing to do with getting more people to join Jack and Ana’s Army. It was all just because Saywer is “not a good person” and what conmen do, (in his words), or because he was mad at Jack for taking back medicine, or he wants the rest of the island to hate him (Kate’s reasoning). All of the above, I guess? Now Sawyer has control of the guns, and what he’ll do with that “power,” I don’t know. Nor can I imagine.
I like that there are some within the survivors causing a bit of havoc with the others (i.e., Sawyer) (and Charlie helped too). That makes the show interesting, and not relying solely on unnamed mysterious bad guys for drama.
For some reason I always want to note when Jack and Locke clash–and there was another instance here. After Sun’s attack, Jack was like “WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING! WE’LL DO IT AS SOON AS SHE WAKES UP!” and Locke was like “that’s a plan” and rolled his eyes. Instinct vs. logic?
I am also contemplating what Jack’s feelings for Kate are, and vice versa. The writers seem to be hinting at things, but dancing around it, nothing explicit. But something must happen between Jack and Sawyer over her, no? I guess this is Lost, it may not.