Photos
Video
'Lost': All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
Maybe it's the fact that the Jack Shephard's favorite baseball team just swept the Minnesota Twins, but I enjoyed this one a heckuva lot more than I thought I would upon re-reading the synopsis this morning. I sort of instinctively react to a Lost "Jack flash back" episodes the way I do "interpretive dance": I mean, yes, I give both the benefit of the doubt, but I usually end up wishing I'd spent my time alphabetizing the contents of my pantry.
But this had its rewards, particularly in a flashback scene that resonates a lot more now than it did at the time. Oh, and there's the best CPR scene EVAH, as we say here in Beantown. Away we go!
All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues
4) In Short
"I won't make the same mistakes I have before: I aim to make fresh, new ones!"
8) On the Island
It's immediately after the end of the last episode, with those in the cave gradually realizing Ethan wasn't on the manifest. Jack then notices Charlie's not in the cave either, and Jack and Locke take off in the jungle after them. Locke finds footprints, three sets, signs of a struggle, and what looks like two sets of dragged foot marks close by. Ruh row.
Jack and Locke continue working together, and believe me, that's as weird to type as it must be to read. Jack wonders how one man could have dragged off two people, and Locke points out that Tom Cruise's cousin can do anything, as one's thetan levels on the Island can go off the freakin' CHARTS. Locke wants to organize a search party before continuing, but Jack hastily follows the tracks. (So much for working together.)
Back at the caves, Kate says, "I'm coming with you." (Doing a shot after each time she says this throughout the course of the show's run would be an excellent addition to any drinking game.) Boone also offers to help, a fateful offer indeed. Michael also wants to help, but is told any more would slow the party down. Michael makes a face like I do when told I have to stop playing Grand Theft Auto IV and come to bed already.
Locke, Kate, and Boone catch up to Jack, who's pulled a Blair Witch Project and gone round in circles for a while. Locke blames himself for what's happened, citing his inability to detect anything off about Ethan while the two spent time hunting and gathering. Locke can't find the trail (Ethan's the superior outdoorsman, it seems) and so resorts to tying red cloth to trees in order to ensure they don't get completely lost tracking Mr. Rom.
Back in the caves, Michael complains to Hurley about being left behind. Walt essentially says, "I wish he were my daddy, not you," which is ice cold, man. Youch. He calls Locke a warrior, shooting down the walls of heart ache, bang bang. Michael replies, "I may not be a warrior, but I am going south," and I'll let that line just sorta linger there, all weird like.
Jack's upset because Locke wants to take a break. It's his fault, he tells Kate, for not believing Claire's account of being attacked. (I thought it was Locke's fault? Oh well. I'm blaming Frogurt, personally.) Guilt fuels his salt-and-peppered stubble, y'all. Suddenly Locke yells to the two of them: he's found the "L" from the "LATE" written on his finger bandages from the pilot episode. A trail....huzzah!
Later on, two roads diverged in a creepy jungle, and the four were sorry they could not travel both. Jack wants to take the one marked with Charlie's bandages, and Locke wants the one less bandaged by. Kate reveals a whole lot about setting up false trails, much to the surprise of the Boys' Kidnapped Club. Kate eventually goes with Jack, with Boone wondering how he drew the short straw on this one.
Walt's with Sawyer, having a conversation rich with irony/insight given the events to come in later seasons. "So a tribe of evil natives planted a ringer in the camp to kidnap a pregnant girl and a reject from VH-1 has-beens. Yeah, fiendishly clever." sayeth Sawyer, and I love how accurate a lot of that turns out to be. (And yes, where it's incorrect also turns out to be fascinating as well.) Sawyer then learns Mr. Torture himself is back amongst the Lostaways.
Boone and Locke bond over Star Trek and previous employment. Boone doesn't believe Locke when he says he worked for a box company. Heh. Kate gets passive-aggressive bull from the Jack we now all know and semi-loathe. Kate reveals the source of her tracking skills: hours of playing Duck Hunt! That, and having an Army Ranger for a dad. That works too.
Sawyer confronts Sayid in the cave. Anger turns to curiosity when he learns about Sayid's confrontation with Danielle. Nice little moment there as Sawyer eventually reveals he's kept the signal fire burning. On the beach, Walt's wrecking Hurley at backgammon, almost as if he can control the dice with his mind. Hmmmm. At the end of the game, Hurley storms off. Walt wants the $20K he's apparently won. Hurley tells him he'll get it.
It's raining on the Island. That's never good. Kate and Jack hear something that sounds eerily like Claire screaming. Turns out, only Jack heard that sound, which sends them both up a nearby cliff face. Jack suffers an Epic Fail, sliding down and cracking his skull upon a rock. Ethan Rom suddenly appears, insisting he'll kill one of them should Jack continue to follow them. He then Cobra Kai's the living bejeezus out of Dr. Shephard-san.
Kate wakes Jack up, the rain having now stopped. He wonders where Ethan went. Kate thinks Ethan's just a figment of his imagination, a point of view that sorta landed everyone in this mess in the first place. They soon come across the horrific image of Charlie, blindfolded, and seemingly hung to death from an impossibly attached noose.
What follows is one of the more brutal and intense CPR sessions in television history, one that still hurts to watch even though you know the outcome. Fox and Lilly SELL it. My God. Once you hear that familiar melody, you're convinced Charlie's gone to the West to be with Frodo and Gandalf. And yet, the show cleverly plays with audience expectation as to the ebb and flow of these scenes, to the point where when he starts pounding the hell out of Charlie once more, you don't know whether or not to cheer or hurl. In any case, Charlie comes through, though for a while wishes he hadn't.
Back at the caves, Charlie sits, shell-shocked. Just staring ahead. Charlie claims to not have seen or heard anything, but insists, "All they wanted...was Claire." Shannon confesses worry over Boone's continued absence. Back in the jungle, in the dead of night, Boone worries they are lost. But Locke feels..."it." "It" isn't good enough for Boone, who wants to go back. Locke tosses Boone a flashlight, which Butterfingers drops...onto something metallic. Whoa. Wonder what THAT could be?
15) Off the Island
Jack's in surgery, trying to revive a woman on his operating table. Unfortunately, nothing works, and even while being told to "call it," Jack continues CPR in vain. The man asking him to "call it?" HIs father, Christian Shephard. Jack insists that his father call it.
Christian and Jack are arguing over the corpse. Turns out Christian's mad over Jack's involvement in the surgery. Turns out Jack's mad about his father performing said surgery while drunk. Uh oh, it's on like Donkey Kong now.
We're in Christian's corner office at the hospital. He wants Jack to sign an affidavit that essentially gets Christian off the hook for trying to cure her with 50 ccs of Jack Daniels. The two bicker back and forth, each hurling blame upon the other. Finally, Christian apologizes for being a bad daddy, a line Jack eats up like so many Froot Loops. Jack signs the document, Christian breathes a sigh of relief, and I look hard for subtext that can explain things in Season 4. Good Lord, are there some. Fantastic scene in retrospect.
Jack's walking down the halls of the hospital later on, and catches his father consoling the widower of the woman who dies in surgery. The image haunts Jack as he and his father sit before the hospital's review board, with Christian foisting the false story. Jack learns that the woman herself was actually pregnant when the accident occurred, a fact that breaks Jack's resolve to cover up for his father. He tells the board the truth, an act that will affect more than one life down the road.
16) The Mythology
- Watching Walt play backgammon is the first sign we've seen since the pilot episode of him exerting mind over manner. We now know that he didn't literally create the polar bear into existence in the second half of the pilot episode, but when this kid puts his mind to something, he sure can work wonders. Wonder if Danny Ocean will pull him into a craps scam in the near future.
- Locke's knowledge of impending rain shows just how closely attuned he once was with the Island. Ironic and perhaps tragic that another unseen element of the Island steered him away from nature and towards the man-made in the same episode. Worth noting.
- And yes, the hatch makes its first appearance, as we watch our Lostaways literally unearth a whole other level to the show.
23) The Moment
The POV shot below Charlie as he hangs from the trees is one of the how's all-time great visuals. As haunting as it gets.
42) In Retrospect
- Interesting how Locke notes that Ethan was always around him in the beginning. Almost as if Ethan was not only acting under Ben's directive, but perhaps Richard Alpert's as well? Curious.
- "Be the doctor; let me be the hunter." I wrote about this before, but these binary definitions just don't work, guys. I hope eventually these two guys put out an "Ebony and Irony"-esque ditty in which they finally learn to combine their skills towards saving the Island.
- I couldn't help but read between the lines in the scene in Christian's office. One wonders if Christian prepped Jack not simply for life in that hospital, but life on the Island itself. Yes, that's a fair stretch, but not terrifically far-fetched, honestly. Christian Shephard rose during Season 4 into the upper echelon of important Lost figures, and I can't wait to learn his ultimate role.
- "The greater good." A phrase used by Christian. The name of a later episode in Season 1. And an ethos shared not only by certain Lostaways, but certain Others, as well. These words just leapt off the screen for me this time.
- Walt's backgammon game with Hurley: not only do we get hints of Walt's psychic ability, but get our first insight into Hurley's finances. Beautiful scene all around. A seemingly throwaway scene that instead packs in mucho back story.
- I forgot that Locke asks Boone if he can "feel it" just before discovering the Hatch. It suggests that something is calling him to that particular place. However, given his kinship with the Island, who would do that? And why? And might it have something to do with the person giving his marching orders in "Cabin Fever"?
108) In Summary
As mentioned at the top, a very satisfactory episode that didn't match the heights of the last two but offers some interesting morsels upon re-viewing. The flashbacks are far more compelling now that we know the centrality of Christian Shephard in the overall story, and Charlie's near-death experience, Locke/Boone's discovery, and the short, vital character building scenes peppered throughout the hour make this a worthwhile episode in the overall canon.
Leave your thoughts about this episode below!
Ryan also posts every 108 minutes over at Boob Tube Dude.
Did you say "Butterworth", Ryan? Oh, it was "Butterfingers". Sorry, carry on.
Brian of the North | Jul 9, 2008 6:52:04 PM | #This one definitely packed more of a punch this time around. As I have believed for a while now, Christian is more connected to the Island than most. It is evident from this episode that he has been laying the groundwork for the Island for a long time.
Something that had bothered me since this episode originally aired: if they knew Ethan wasn't a Lostie from his name not being on the manifest, what about Sawyer? Did he tell Hurley his real name or was the real Sawyer on the plane?
And what a gut-wrenching scene when Charlie almost died. I mean, when this originally aired I was sure he was dead. That's one thing about Jack, he's got determination.
Was it just me, or was the POV far-away of Jack, Kate and Charlie very similar to the POV of when Sawyer found Aaron abandoned in Season 4? Is it Christian looking down on them?
Shaggysteve | Jul 9, 2008 7:38:44 PM | #In no particular order, but I'll number them anyway:
1) It was the most realistic CPR scene I've ever seen, if only because Charlie didn't cough up half the Pacific Ocean when he came to. True, he wasn't in the water when he "died," but it doesn't seem to matter on most shows. On soap operas, a character could have been in the desert for three weeks, stopped breathing and after CPR, would've coughed up a swimming pool's worth of water. Good make-up, too, although since Charlie's been coming down off heroin, near-dead isn't much different from usual.
2) I'm not sure they ever mentioned if Sawyer was listed as such on the manifest, since that was the name he was going by at the time. I'd imagine that the two matched up, although it is a good point.
3) I guess now that time has passed, and it seems as if Walt is either being phased out completely, or his role is being curtailed, that I no longer see his purpose. It just seems like there was a lot of potential that was wasted, although it wasn't anybody's fault, really. They just forgot to take into account that 11-year-old boys grow, and grow fast.
4) I was watching The Grudge tonight, which just happened to semi-star William Mapother. I won't spoil the plot (such as it is), but his dead body was a lot scarier looking than it was on Lost, after Charlie shoots him. It was nice seeing him playing a good guy and shows Mapother's range. He also didn't look quite as bug-eyed as he did on Lost, so maybe that was just good acting on his part.
5) I liked how Christian's role was brought into play very, very slowly. At first, he just seemed like a drunk, piss-poor excuse of a father (and perhaps even worse of a doctor) who turned Jack into a near carbon-copy of himself. This shows how even seemingly-minor characters have an important part to play, even if it doesn't seem obvious at the time. Although I still haven't figured out Ana-Lucia's presence yet.
6) I would like to know exactly why backgammon seems to be the game of choice on The Island. Sure, there are a limited number of supplies and such that they retrieved from the plane, but surely somebody on board had a chess set, or a deck of cards. I know, I know...sometimes a game of backgammon is just, etc, etc.
7) I liked the title of this one especially because it's just so damn snarky. It would've made a good tag line for the movie Brokeback Mountain, too, I reckon.
Two Bits, signing off.
Dark Disciple | Jul 9, 2008 8:18:33 PM | #That Charlie scene has been bothering me since this episode first aired. Not because of the CPR: Extreme Edition, but why he was hung up in the first place. From what we've seen, the Others haven't really intentionally hurt any lostaways (not including the Jack/Kate/Sawyer kidnapping thing). From what I can tell, this action goes against everything Ben and the Others have done since. But then again, maybe Charlie threatened serenade Juliet with "You All Everybody."
A-Rob | Jul 9, 2008 8:22:12 PM | #That CPR scene was the best scene of CPR ever. And Ryan you are right Fox and LIlly made you believe that action every step of the way. I forgot how emotional that scene was and although I knew how the scene would end I still felt the tension and dread as if perhaps I really did not know.
A-Rob I believe that Ethan took Claire on his own w/o the knowledge of the Others.
I believe in watching this episode it is possible to see the importance of Christian. My thought is that he would be a positive for Jack on the island but he and Claire are just creepy by season 4. I'd like to know what changed.
kelster | Jul 10, 2008 4:50:32 AM | #OK someone please help. In the previous blog Ryan commented that the hint from Darlton for season three was snake in a mailbox...I am trying to remember season 3 and I am clueless as to what that hint came to be. Frozen Donkey Wheel (FDW) is obvious but what snake...in what mailbox. I know once you tell me I'll give myself a good kick for not remembering but right I am giving myself a good kick for also not remembering...Not good.
OK Debra this is for you. I have tried going back and looking at the archives of Ryans post, and you are so correct there are so many comments that it's "jamaican" me crazy, if you remember when DD snapped (became slightly pissy) you have got to let me know. I am desperate to get this inside glimpse of my too cool DD having a 'moment'. Thanks!!
kelster | Jul 10, 2008 5:01:40 AM | #I wish that I would have written down when "that" happened, Kelster, but I didn't. I read SO much the two days that I was sick, it would be difficult to find again. But this may help -- when you are reading this if you click on the "Lost" link (not the episodes) on the right, it will take you to previous blogs (not the most recent), and that is where I was reading. I didn't finish, so maybe that cuts down the looking a little, and started reading from the top down. It has been interesting to read all the "long-time" posters and see their theories as time was going on. The episode with time travel made my head hurt -- many of us are too smart for our own good (notice how I include myself!)
Debra | Jul 10, 2008 5:23:52 AM | #Oh and I was so busy answering Kelster's question, I forgot to comment on the episode.
I didn't remember (and this was neat) how the term "red-shirts" came from Star Trek (I wonder if its true, that all the "red shirts" always got killed off!) I myself am an avid "Star Trek" fan (and watched all the subsequent incarnations -- Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and all the movies). The only one I didn't like was Enterprise. I wonder how many of us are also "Star Trek" fans.
But I diverted. Yes, wasn't it interesting to watch the un-folding of the Jack/Christian relationship.
A-Rob, as to "why" Ethan did that, it was to get Claire. Although the "others" didn't purposely kill, I think they would do so for a reason (and have shown they would do so for a reason), and (I guess) getting Claire was reason enough (don't you think?)
Debra | Jul 10, 2008 5:29:02 AM | #One of the best "red shirt" homages can be found in the movie Galaxy Quest. Carry on.
Brian of the North | Jul 10, 2008 5:54:05 AM | #Kelster, you're funny!
I used to love the old Star Trek with Kirk and Spock. Since then, not so much. Red shirts were almost always killed off.
I believe Ethan hung Charlie as a warning to the Losties. When Jack ran into Ethan a second time, Ethan threatened to kill one of them if they continued to search for/follow him. He didn't lie, that very night one of the red shirts bit the dust courtesy of sir creepy.
Ethan obviously had his own agenda where the pregnancies on the island were concerned. We learn later that he accompanied Richard Alpert to recruit Juliet, the fertility Doc.
Ethan told Jack that he would kill one of them if Jack didn't stop following him. Jack didn't stop so Ethan hung Charlie, albeit not well enough to kill him.
One thing that jumped out at me this time was: after Kate wakes Jack up, he jumps up and starts running after Ethan again. When Kate asks what he's doing, Jack's answer is "I'm not letting him do this, not again." Was he talking about Ethan or his father? It was right after a flashback, I think the boardroom one where he learned the dead woman was pregnant.
I am a HUGE Original Series Star Trek fan, and can say that not every single red shirt died, only most of them. Scottie wore red shirts....
Fray | Jul 10, 2008 8:53:53 AM | #kelster, the "Snake in the Mailbox" was the reveal that the season 3 finale was a flashforward and that Jack and Kate were off the Island.
As for the significance of "Snake in the Mailbox", there is none, execpt that it was meant to hint that the Season 3 finale reveal would give you the feeling you'd get if you found a snake in your mailbox. It's only slightly more significant than the Season 2 finale moment: the "Bagel".
JeffC | Jul 10, 2008 8:54:28 AM | #Any scenes with Christian are always great, for me.
Given the events in Season 4, I think this episode ACTUALLY showed the first hints of a nefarious entity at work, undermining every character on the show - the "long con" that has been mentioned before.
Of course, there's no way we would have recognized it at the time, but what this episode introduced was, in a word, "distractions." This was the episode that really brought the Others out as a tangible presence on the Island and an enemy to the Lostaways, and this episode also brought the first of many, many distractions for Locke and his "true purpose".
By keeping Jack and the other Lostaways focused on the Others (and the Others on them) and by keeping Locke so obsessed with things like hatches, confusing them for his true calling, this evil entity was essentially laying the groundwork for the situations that led Jack off the Island and Locke to his death in exile.
Other Sean | Jul 10, 2008 10:11:34 AM | #Uh oh, the last episode of Lost spoiled!
http://icanhascheezburger.com/2008/07/07/funny-pictures-oh-crap-mah-paw-slipzed/
Fitty Cents (or Two Bits, if you prefer) in da house, yo. Well, that got old in a hurry, di'n't it? :P
I had forgotten about Ethan's warning, so now Charlie's near-death makes sense. Personally, I don't think that Charlie was meant to live, because that tree was a bitch to climb and his timely rescue was a very near thing. Probably why Ethan and the rest got so violent later in the show. Amazing how having your plans thwarted (and how many times in your life do you get to use THAT word, really?) can bring out your pissy side.
Speaking of pissy, if you really MUST discover the date of my drama king/queen/semi-noble-with-no-title-but-lots-of-'tude moment, I believe it was around mid-February or so; I'm pretty sure it was a little prior to mid-way through this past season. Not that it was one of the prouder moments of my life, but if you simply have to dip your toes into that particularly nasty puddle, there ya go.
Other Sean, your points about the events leading up to the season finale being distractions to keep Jack and the others (not The Others, mind) from noticing what Ben and The Others (the English language, oy!) were doing are spot-on. I'll be interested to see if, at the end of the series, everyone who gets back to The Island is allowed to leave a second time, knowing all that they know, or if they'll meet some necessarily-tragic fate to keep whatever secrets they have yet to discover. What'll really be cute is if the series Lost turns out to be like the movie The Ring, and everyone who watches the final episode gets a phone call after the kids say "Bad Robot!" with a young girl on the other end whispering, "Seven...days..."
I say again, mwa-ha-ha-ha...
Dark Disciple | Jul 10, 2008 11:56:48 AM | #At this point, I really wish this site was like alot of other Lost sites (well, I don't really) in that you can post a picture, and see who you are talking to. I'm really curious who everyone is...
Debra | Jul 10, 2008 1:50:11 PM | #I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together. Coo coo ca choo.
Ryan | Jul 10, 2008 2:20:23 PM | #JeffC - OK I have to ask..Season 2...Bagel? Help!!
DD - You are such a good sport. I am on my way to search for your pissy comments. Have to say though glad you decided not to leave here...It wouldn't be the same w/o you.
kelster | Jul 10, 2008 3:05:20 PM | #Ryan - you been gettin' into the libations for your next podcast session with Moonbeam? You're really dragging up the obscure strange things that people only think about when their minds have been a little ... er ... liberated. coo coo ca chooo?
Help me, now that is stuck in my head.
Yea, Debra, it would be interesting to see what people put up as representations of themselves. But after hanging out on this blog for months, I've got little pictures in my head. DD with feline friends and a bottle of cough syrup. a stack of monster books by his chair. Ryan and Diana sipping Chardonnay and guffawing/giggling over obscure Lost theories. I even have little images of people who don't post any more but may be lurking ... or who got totally freaked out by the btrwrthy discussions during the break and left us.
djc | Jul 10, 2008 4:04:05 PM | #To truly appreciate the impact of Charlie's certain (or almost certain) death scene, you have to remember that Dominique Monaghan received this role fresh of momentum from the LOTR trilogy. It would have made perfect sense for him to be on the show for 12 episdoes before leaving to return back to movies. His three year run on the show makes it easy to forget what earned him the role in the first place.
Feline friend, yes, but only if it's Catwoman. Rowr.
Cough syrup, aye, but only if it's made by the same folks who make Jack Daniels Sippin' Whiskey. *hack*
Oh, cats...furballs...cough syrup...it's serendipity! :P
I'm reading Insomnia by Stephen King now (re-reading actually), so I guess that counts as a "monster book," in both senses of the word. Damn, but that man is long-winded. Said the pot to the kettle...
You forgot the pipe, with wisps of cherry-laced tobacco smoke wafting around my head. Hence the cough syrup, part two.
Dark Disciple | Jul 10, 2008 5:02:47 PM | #In relation to Ethan taking Claire for his own and not under the direction of the Others: I believe we learned from the Mobisode starring Jack and Ethan that Ethan's wife died during childbirth, which would explain his vested interest in kidnapping Claire.
Shaggysteve | Jul 10, 2008 5:15:31 PM | #This episode held a lot of firsts. Like Ryan, I liked it so much better on the rewatch. I remember that it was the last Jack-back I actually liked Jack in, but I’d forgotten how much was packed into the episode!
Ethan is really scary! I can’t believe how freakishly strong he is! Do you think there’s anything to that? The attack on Charlie is one of the only acts of violence that can be attributed to the Others.
The Jack-back goes to something that has always bothered. I feel like we are encouraged to blame Jack for destroying his father’s career, and everything that came along with this final stage in Christian’s alcoholic plunge - falling off the wagon, getting fired, running to Australia and then dropping dead. We and encouraged to think of Jack as this overly zealous boy-scout type who drove his wife away and drove his father to drink after 50 days of sobriety. Really, 50 days? :rolleyes: Forgive me for being skeptical, but how many times do you think Christian “quit” drinking over the course of Jack’s life? I think Jack is totally in the right here. Christian was operating on a pregnant woman under the influence. A nurse noticed it and came to get Jack. Jack didn’t destroy his father’s career, life, marriage or make Christian fall off the wagon. Christian did those things all by himself. He is an alcoholic, and that is their stylo, my friends. Booze kills you slowly but first it destroys everything you love. And as much as Jack gets on my nerves, Matthew Fox plays an Adult Child of an Alcoholic so well it is scary.
Nice call, Other Sean, on how the Island begins to work on them. Locke finds the hatch and his obsession is born. Jack becomes obsessed with saving everyone and starts to make the first of many bad calls. He lets the fear that he is so proud of rejecting control his actions. He performs another miracle – saving Charlie. Is that three for him? Sarah, Rose and Charlie?
This episode held a lot of firsts. Like Ryan, I liked it so much better on the rewatch. I remember that it was the last Jack-back I actually liked Jack in, but I’d forgotten how much was packed into the episode!
Ethan is really scary! I can’t believe how freakishly strong he is! Do you think there’s anything to that? The attack on Charlie is one of the only acts of violence that can be attributed to the Others.
The Jack-back goes to something that has always bothered me. I feel like we are encouraged to blame Jack for destroying his father’s career, and everything that came along with this final stage in Christian’s alcoholic plunge - falling off the wagon, getting fired, running to Australia and then dropping dead. We and encouraged to think of Jack as this overly zealous boy-scout type who drove his wife away and drove his father to drink after 50 days of sobriety. Really, 50 days? :rolleyes: Forgive me for being skeptical, but how many times do you think Christian “quit” drinking over the course of Jack’s life? I think Jack is totally in the right here. Christian was operating on a pregnant woman under the influence. A nurse noticed it and came to get Jack. Jack didn’t destroy his father’s career, life, marriage or make Christian fall off the wagon. Christian did those things all by himself. He is an alcoholic, and that is their stylo, my friends. Booze kills you slowly but first it destroys everything you love. And as much as Jack gets on my nerves, Matthew Fox plays an Adult Child of an Alcoholic so well it is scary.
Nice call, Other Sean, on how the Island begins to work on them. Locke finds the hatch and his obsession is born. Jack becomes obsessed with saving everyone and starts to make the first of many bad calls. He lets the fear that he is so proud of rejecting control his actions. He performs another miracle – saving Charlie. Is that three for him? Sarah, Rose and Charlie?
Red shirts anyone? how could it not be mentioned in the blog?
Tom | Jul 11, 2008 12:26:51 AM | #
Zap2it Twitter Talk
