Full Circle
Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 12:39am by Maggie
Whoa. I can’t even DO this anymore! So, after the jump, just the main points and discussion.
Daniel is dead at the hands of his mother in 1977. She reads his journal, talks to Jack and Kate and is inclined to believe them, remembering meeting Daniel in the past. Jack tells young Eloise that if they do what Daniel wanted and complete his mission of detonating Jughead at the Swan Station, the events that put her in position to accidentally kill him will never happen. Jack says that if they’re successful, Flight 815 will never crash, and they’ll never have endured the misery of the past 3 years. Kate is hurt and extremely offended at the suggestion that their lives since the crash were misery, and I wonder how much of that pain is the possibility of never meeting Jack and Sawyer, never playing mother to Aaron, or the fear of going back to her reality as a murderer under guard by that Marshall.
Kate decides she wants no part of furthering Daniel’s plan and tries to leave. Sayid shows up just in time to save her life by killing the Other who is about to shoot her in the back. He tells them he’s killed Ben yet nothing’s changed and Kate tells him she helped to save Ben’s life. Sayid is appalled. Kate goes back to Dharmaville. Bye bye.
In the meantime, Widmore is looking at a dead Daniel and wondering why he looks so familiar. Eloise announces that she and RIchard will be taking Jack to the bomb to complete Daniel’s mission. In the background, Widmore and Eloise talk privately and he holds her stomach; she’s already pregnant with Daniel. Eloise and Richard lead Jack and Sayid to Jughead; it seems they’ve hidden it in their temple, the same place Ben got his ass handed to him.
Back at Dharma, Miles, Hurley and Jin are preparing to escape. Dr. Chang follows them and demands to know if it’s true, if they’re really from the future and if Miles really is his son. Hurley’s excellent edumacation about things arithmetic and historic give them away immediately. Miles tells his father that Daniel has been right about everything so far, so if he thinks the island should be evacuated, then Daniel is probably right. Chang rushes back to get that plan in motion.
When he gets to the security station Chang walks in on Sawyer and Juliet being held captive by crazy Radzinsky. He convinces them that they must evacuate as many people on the sub that they can. Sawyer and Juliet agree to tell Radzinsky anything he wants to know as long as they can get on the sub as well. He agrees, and Sawyer draws him a map to the Others’ village.
Miles and Hurley watch Sawyer board the sub from the bushes and Hurley is confident that Sawyer’s got a plan, having no idea that Sawyer’s just sold everyone out. Miles gets to witness his father force his mother onto the sub and understands that he did it to save them, he was never the horrible man as portrayed by his mother. Just after Sawyer and Juliet board the sub and talk sweetly about the life they’ll have, free in the real world, Radzinsky throws Kate into the sub as well and she gets chained up with them. Juliet is crestfallen.
In the future, John brings Sun and Ben to see Richard, who is surprised. They go to the heroin plane, where John instructs Richard to play his role during the white-flash, time-travel portion of the program — tell injured John that in order to bring everyone back to the island he’d have to die. Richard does as he’s told, and then John announces to the entire Other population that he’d like to go see Jacob and wants them all to come along. They do. He assures Sun that if there is a way to reunite her with Jin and their people from 1977, Jacob will know what it is. Secretly, John tells Ben his goal is actually to kill Jacob.
Did I miss anything? Whew.
1. freakgirl said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 7:53 am )
Wow, nice wrapup. My head was spinning last night. I felt so bad for Juliet. Stupid Kate.
Kill Jacob? WTF?
2. Papercuts! said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 9:00 am )
They should rename this show “Kate Ruins Everything.” Because she does. Always.
3. Soosan said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 9:35 am )
Soooo like…..
Try as they might, it seems “time”lines are sorting them out to lead back to the original set of events… despite what they try, things such as the evacuation of the island happened BC of them..not in spite of them…. I think… I’m not sure what I think.
Was anyone else waiting for Sun to mention she saw Jacob/Jack’s Dad? Is he jacob? Who is Jacob? Can jacob be killed?
4. Jack said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 10:58 am )
That was really smart of Locke to tell Ben about his plan to kill Jacob. Because, like, Ben is so trustworthy and everything.
Vincent? Where are you!?!?
5. Jason said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 11:11 am )
Exactly Soosan.
What I’m more curious about…Faraday’s the youngest between Charlotte, Miles, and Dan?
Really?!
I’m concerned about Richard and Ben starting to get back together.
Great, great episode. Also, even though Kate ruins everything isn’t it also true that Jack is always wrong?
6. freakgirl said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 12:23 pm )
from ack attack
7. Maggie said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 2:06 pm )
Jason, they screwed up a bit with the timeline when they made Charlotte the oldest…Freakgirl found a link about it, but I can’t remember where she posted it!
One theory I have with the show is that all of the things they do in order to change history and make Flight 815 crash on the island is what makes it happen in the first place, and that the last scene of the series will be the same crash scene from the beginning of the series.
8. freakgirl said ( Thursday, May 07, 2009 at 2:47 pm )
Oooh, that would be cool.
I was reading on another forum that even if Jack succeeds, the plane still crashes. Because if he succeeds, then the plane doesn’t crash, Daniel doesn’t come to the island, Ellie doesn’t shoot him, doesn’t meet Jack & Kate, and so doesn’t help Jack set off the bomb.
Or something like that. Right? What happened, happened.
9. freakgirl said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 8:08 am )
Man, remember the days when we’d get 50 to 75 comments on a Lost post? I guess only the die-hards are left.
10. Stephanie said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 8:14 am )
Yeah…..I seriously thought that Kate was shot. I was kinda mad that she wasn’t. I can’t stand that bitch…..such a buzz kill.
11. sandra said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 9:41 am )
FG, it is the recession and comment times are tough.
It will be nice when Sun has more to do than just stand around looking sad asking, “Will this help us find Jin??!!??”
12. freakgirl said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 10:04 am )
I know! I said to the geekboy the other night, “If I don’t get a Sun/Jin reunion during the finale, I am going to be VERY ANGRY.”
13. sandra said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 10:46 am )
Did I hear somewhere that the finale is Richard-centric? That would be very cool. He is awesome, eyelashes and all.
14. yahtzee said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 11:04 am )
I don’t comment much on Lost because I’ve stopped trying to figure things out – I just let it wash over me now and accept what they throw at me. I loved this week’s episode, but I’m incapable of articulating why.
Also, I think the cage episodes from Season 3 lost (ahem) a lot of viewers.
15. Sandy said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 12:04 pm )
Maggie – awesome recap. I missed the Eloise/Widmore holding the belly thing so I was glad to pick that up.
16. Jack said ( Friday, May 08, 2009 at 12:15 pm )
I hadn’t thought about the last scene of the series being the plane crashing all over again. I like it. It makes my brain hurt, but I still like it.
17. Genevieve said ( Sunday, May 10, 2009 at 9:45 pm )
I don’t usually comment because I don’t get around to watching til over the weekend.
Anyways, a couple of things I heard on the writer’s podcast:
Charlotte was always written as older, but they loved the audition from the younger actress, so they cast her despite the fact that she was obviously not in her late 30s in the present.
A reader asked a question about Richard’s “eyeliner” and they said something very coy about kohl and hinted at some connection to the Egyptian looking giant statue and ever since then I have had a theory that Richard is either a pharoah or an Egyptian god.
18. freakgirl said ( Monday, May 11, 2009 at 12:02 pm )
Hoping we find out more about Richard on Wednesday.