Lost - Eggtown
I suck at reviewing, so I just make it through simple points.
1. Locke. What are they doing to your character? Seriously. Speaking to Kate like that? Telling Miles you're "the responsible of the well-being of the island"..? You set the rules, you are the "shepherd" of your group? Has he been listening to himself lately? They're setting up John Locke for a major fall, and it makes me sad because it's not like they didn't bring his character to some extreme lows before, already. He's just as lost as Ben pointed out, we're witnessing a repetition of an old storyline, so I wonder the reason behind it. I truly hoped the con Sawyer and Kate pulled on him would break the "bond" between him and James, but apparently Locke doesn't know he was involved too, so I really fear what may happen to Sawyer if he's still with him when Locke will fall flat on his ass. Terry O'Quinn deserves better than this after the scripts he got in S2.
2. The trial. Lamest thing evah. Oh my, thanks writers for insulting my intelligence, and yeah I'm being "snob" here. You want to make me believe this shit? 10 years on parole? "Do you love the defendant, doctor Shepard?" I had read the spoilers, but still I laughed histerically at the whole thing 'cause I had been hoping against hope that it wasn't as bad as it sounded in the early synopsis. Soap-opera at its finest. Even the reunion with her mother, and the worst cliché in the history, the parent who has little time left to live and forgives their daughter. Oh, and Diane looking better now than when Kate visited her in hospital, sure. *rolleyes* I was so moved by the whole thing. NOT. It already turned me off big time when in the previous episode, it looked like before Sawyer brought the whole "fugitive" thing up, Kate seemed to have totally forgotten about it - yeah, jail, her worst nightmare ever, and she was all starry eyes at the idea to go back home. I hate when Lost just ignores a issue for a character until their centric episode is on, it was like having Kate ignoring the whole pregnancy=death last year until the season finale aired. Absurd.
3. Juliet. She had like, 3 lines in 2 scenes, but they were pure gold.
4. Claire. If she weren't already my least favorite character, she would've been after this episode. Has she already forgotten Charlie died two days ago, for her and Aaron?! I never was a Charlie fan, but this is just... blah. It's weird that no-one is mourning him anymore, to be honest, but Claire was supposed to be the closest person to him. She's giggling and smiling. I don't know if this makes her look more dumb, or a bitch.
5. Skate. Kate acted super bitchy in the first part of the episode, Sawyer acted like a jerk at the end. Wonderful. Kate at least was more in character, being cold towards Sawyer is not a news, although what she said to him on the porch took it up a notch... what has he done there to deserve that? Well, other than act a bit pushy about the moving in with him thing. And what did the writers do with Sawyer in this episode?! His smugness in the bed scene, huh? Where that came from? He's Mr. Insecure and we all know it. It made me cringe to hear him being so secure in certain lines. Although, of course, when he mentioned Kate doing the back-and-forth game? Truest words were never spoken, although the arrogance he used to deliver the message was out of character and unnecessary. And let's not forget that she wouldn't have gone to him if Miles hadn't told her there was nothing but jail to wait for her at home, let's face it. For how much I want to defend Kate in the final fight, this episode did nothing to make me more sure about what her feelings are, about either Sawyer or Jack. I honestly hope this turn of things cuts the crap for good, after this episode. Enough with the triangle and the damage he does to the characters as single figure. Kate now has the Aaron storyline, I hope this break-up is definitive, and Sawyer stops to have his storylines centering around being a puppy in love or following crazy Locke in ruling Otherville.
BTW, I must say this, and I know already this will make me look like an "anomal" woman, but if I had gotten the news about not being pregnant like Kate did? I would've put Sawyer's "celebration" to shame, I would've thrown a party, no kidding. She knows, unlike him, what pregnant women face on the island and what may happen to their baby if she ended up in jail for life. Also, the first part of the episode proved without a doubt to me that she isn't fully committed to Sawyer or her feelings for him, so exactly how can a child make this better, or clearer? She can tell me she was expecting a warmer reaction from Sawyer, ok, but not that right there, in that moment, in that bedroom, she wanted to have a baby for real - after we'd seen her so cold and focussed just on knowing if it was safe to go back to mainland with Team Jack in the previous hours. I wouldn't believe her.
Again, as I said, I would've thrown a party if I were Kate, and I'm death serious about this.
At the moment I don't have the energy to speculate about what's up with Ben, Miles, Daniel and his memory losses & co. The only thing that's making my head spin is Aaron's future. I have a feeling they've simply sewed this storyline of "perfect mommy" on Kate to advantage the mythology, because the contrast felt rushed, with Kate calling Aaron her son and everything when Claire may be still alive on the island and she may have to give the baby back to his real mother. Then maybe Aaron will be the reason why she'll agree in the end to follow Jack back to the island? The "raised by another" prophecy will come true, something bad is in store for Aaron away from Claire and that's why he must be brought back to her? That's going to do a number on Kate on a psychological level, but again, if she knows her friend is still alive, this whole Aaron calling her mommy and her seeing him as her son is weird, if not creepy somehow in a long term perspective.
Bah, it was all so messy.
I'm just relieved it's over.
1. Locke. What are they doing to your character? Seriously. Speaking to Kate like that? Telling Miles you're "the responsible of the well-being of the island"..? You set the rules, you are the "shepherd" of your group? Has he been listening to himself lately? They're setting up John Locke for a major fall, and it makes me sad because it's not like they didn't bring his character to some extreme lows before, already. He's just as lost as Ben pointed out, we're witnessing a repetition of an old storyline, so I wonder the reason behind it. I truly hoped the con Sawyer and Kate pulled on him would break the "bond" between him and James, but apparently Locke doesn't know he was involved too, so I really fear what may happen to Sawyer if he's still with him when Locke will fall flat on his ass. Terry O'Quinn deserves better than this after the scripts he got in S2.
2. The trial. Lamest thing evah. Oh my, thanks writers for insulting my intelligence, and yeah I'm being "snob" here. You want to make me believe this shit? 10 years on parole? "Do you love the defendant, doctor Shepard?" I had read the spoilers, but still I laughed histerically at the whole thing 'cause I had been hoping against hope that it wasn't as bad as it sounded in the early synopsis. Soap-opera at its finest. Even the reunion with her mother, and the worst cliché in the history, the parent who has little time left to live and forgives their daughter. Oh, and Diane looking better now than when Kate visited her in hospital, sure. *rolleyes* I was so moved by the whole thing. NOT. It already turned me off big time when in the previous episode, it looked like before Sawyer brought the whole "fugitive" thing up, Kate seemed to have totally forgotten about it - yeah, jail, her worst nightmare ever, and she was all starry eyes at the idea to go back home. I hate when Lost just ignores a issue for a character until their centric episode is on, it was like having Kate ignoring the whole pregnancy=death last year until the season finale aired. Absurd.
3. Juliet. She had like, 3 lines in 2 scenes, but they were pure gold.
4. Claire. If she weren't already my least favorite character, she would've been after this episode. Has she already forgotten Charlie died two days ago, for her and Aaron?! I never was a Charlie fan, but this is just... blah. It's weird that no-one is mourning him anymore, to be honest, but Claire was supposed to be the closest person to him. She's giggling and smiling. I don't know if this makes her look more dumb, or a bitch.
5. Skate. Kate acted super bitchy in the first part of the episode, Sawyer acted like a jerk at the end. Wonderful. Kate at least was more in character, being cold towards Sawyer is not a news, although what she said to him on the porch took it up a notch... what has he done there to deserve that? Well, other than act a bit pushy about the moving in with him thing. And what did the writers do with Sawyer in this episode?! His smugness in the bed scene, huh? Where that came from? He's Mr. Insecure and we all know it. It made me cringe to hear him being so secure in certain lines. Although, of course, when he mentioned Kate doing the back-and-forth game? Truest words were never spoken, although the arrogance he used to deliver the message was out of character and unnecessary. And let's not forget that she wouldn't have gone to him if Miles hadn't told her there was nothing but jail to wait for her at home, let's face it. For how much I want to defend Kate in the final fight, this episode did nothing to make me more sure about what her feelings are, about either Sawyer or Jack. I honestly hope this turn of things cuts the crap for good, after this episode. Enough with the triangle and the damage he does to the characters as single figure. Kate now has the Aaron storyline, I hope this break-up is definitive, and Sawyer stops to have his storylines centering around being a puppy in love or following crazy Locke in ruling Otherville.
BTW, I must say this, and I know already this will make me look like an "anomal" woman, but if I had gotten the news about not being pregnant like Kate did? I would've put Sawyer's "celebration" to shame, I would've thrown a party, no kidding. She knows, unlike him, what pregnant women face on the island and what may happen to their baby if she ended up in jail for life. Also, the first part of the episode proved without a doubt to me that she isn't fully committed to Sawyer or her feelings for him, so exactly how can a child make this better, or clearer? She can tell me she was expecting a warmer reaction from Sawyer, ok, but not that right there, in that moment, in that bedroom, she wanted to have a baby for real - after we'd seen her so cold and focussed just on knowing if it was safe to go back to mainland with Team Jack in the previous hours. I wouldn't believe her.
Again, as I said, I would've thrown a party if I were Kate, and I'm death serious about this.
At the moment I don't have the energy to speculate about what's up with Ben, Miles, Daniel and his memory losses & co. The only thing that's making my head spin is Aaron's future. I have a feeling they've simply sewed this storyline of "perfect mommy" on Kate to advantage the mythology, because the contrast felt rushed, with Kate calling Aaron her son and everything when Claire may be still alive on the island and she may have to give the baby back to his real mother. Then maybe Aaron will be the reason why she'll agree in the end to follow Jack back to the island? The "raised by another" prophecy will come true, something bad is in store for Aaron away from Claire and that's why he must be brought back to her? That's going to do a number on Kate on a psychological level, but again, if she knows her friend is still alive, this whole Aaron calling her mommy and her seeing him as her son is weird, if not creepy somehow in a long term perspective.
Bah, it was all so messy.
I'm just relieved it's over.