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Lost: Jack vs. Sawyer
Posted Feb 3, 2010 by Kevin Walker
Updated Feb 3, 2010 at 01:08 PM
I thought “Lost” was really on its game last night.
There were a lot of great moments, but my favorite was how Jacob nonchalantly walked up to Hurley and says, “Hey, Hurley. You got a minute?”
Some other thoughts:
1. Looks like the producers have gone whole hog with parallel dimensions, which is actually real science! Or at least it’s a real interpretation by some scientists of quantum mechanics. You can read about it in great detail right here.
2. I love what they did last night with Jack and Sawyer. “Lost” writers have always done a great job showing how someone who is well intentioned (Jack) can sometimes do terrible things and how someone who is completely self-involved (Sawyer) can sometimes do good things. Last night was exceptional in this regard, especially with Jack.
3. Jack’s plan actually worked, but the show continues in a dimension where it didn’t work, and you’ve got Sawyer holding Juliette’s dead body screaming, “You do this!” at Jack. Feel the guilt, baby!
4a. In the dimension where the plan DOES work, you’ve got Charlie resenting Jack for saving him from choking on a bag of heroin. Feel the guilt, again, doc!
5. It’ll be interesting to see where they take Sawyer now. He’s been very bad (stealing, shooting people, strangling people with chains, generally getting his anger on) and even not-so-good when it looks like he’s good (jumping out of a helicopter to save people when really it was to avoid a relationship). But with Juliette, he became a “good guy.” Now he’s lost her and he’s back in anger mode. But will he revert to being “Bad Sawyer?”
6. Poor John Locke. “You know what his last thought was? ‘I don’t understand.’”
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Por (mhsamuels) on February 03, 2010
J.J. Abrams is also exploring the whole theory of multidimensions and alternate universes in his show Fringe on FOX. I’m not sure which is going to be the more epic showdown, Jack vs. Sawyer (part deux) or NotLocke vs. Sayid (Jacob reincarnate). Both duels will be fights to the death. If dead really is dead, which apparently it isn’t.
Por (Courtney Cairns Pastor) on February 03, 2010
I felt so sorry for Locke. The real, dead one, not the fake mean one.
What you said about Jack’s plan working but there being a dimension where it didn’t work—do you think that’s what Juliet meant? The first thing she said was that it didn’t work, but then she says, through Miles, that it did work.
And can you be dead in one universe and alive in the parallel one?
Por (StephanieB) on February 03, 2010
What was the thing Juliet said between “it didn’t work” and then ” I have something really important to tell you”? Something about coffee?
Por (Kevin Walker) on February 03, 2010
@StephanieB—she said something about how they should get coffee together, and she would buy.
@Courtney—I can’t believe how harsh this show can be with its characters. No one is safe.
I’d check out “Fringe” but I’m afraid my brain would explode.
Por (msager) on February 03, 2010
Adding to your comment Mike, I think the Jack vs. Sawyer thing goes along with the comments made between Jacob and the man in black where the man in black said you keep bringing people to this island and it’s all the same, they come, they fight, they destroy. An ongoing theme of the island, Jacob vs MIB, Ben vs. Widmore, Jack vs. Locke, Jack vs. Sawyer, Others vs. Dharma, Dharma vs. Oceanic people and on and on…..