Lost“This Place Is Death”
Original Airdate: Feb 11, 2009
Laura Kelley - TwoCents Reviewer
laurakelley@thetwocentscorp.com
I can’t think of a more inopportune time to get a phone call from your daughter than when you’re about to kill Ben Linus, and this is the pickle Sun finds herself in at the start of the episode. Sun gets out of the car, points the gun at Ben, and tells him it’s his fault her husband died, and she seems to have forgotten that he didn’t send that freighter on which said husband presumably was blown to bits. Oh well, close enough, I guess. Kate complains about something, though no one is listening because Ben’s just told Sun that Jin is alive. But we knew that already. Though it’s my guess that maybe he’s pulled a Claire, and didn’t really survive that explosion. Just something for you to ponder…
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Original Airdate: Feb 11, 2009
Laura Kelley - TwoCents Reviewer
laurakelley@thetwocentscorp.com
I can’t think of a more inopportune time to get a phone call from your daughter than when you’re about to kill Ben Linus, and this is the pickle Sun finds herself in at the start of the episode. Sun gets out of the car, points the gun at Ben, and tells him it’s his fault her husband died, and she seems to have forgotten that he didn’t send that freighter on which said husband presumably was blown to bits. Oh well, close enough, I guess. Kate complains about something, though no one is listening because Ben’s just told Sun that Jin is alive. But we knew that already. Though it’s my guess that maybe he’s pulled a Claire, and didn’t really survive that explosion. Just something for you to ponder…
On the island, Jin is chilling with young Rousseau, who tells him it’s 1988 (the year I was born…coincidence? Well, probably.) Rousseau’s boyfriend/husband/ significant other asks Jin if there’s a radio tower on the island, and Jin agrees to take them there and then find his camp. As they’re trekking through the jungle, one of their group, a woman named Nadine, goes missing. Jin simply says “monster,” and Rousseau’s team assumes that means “quick, everyone spread out and endanger yourselves.” After Nadine’s bloody corpse falls from a tree, a man is taken by the smoke monster. Everyone grabs him and tries to hold on as the monster cheesily drags him into a pit-thing, and his arm is ripped off, a la Dead-Alive, Peter Jackson’s finest horror offering. (Seriously, you need to watch that movie.) The team hears the man calling for help, and being the genius he is, Rousseau’s baby daddy wants to head in after him.
Then there’s a flash, and Jin is standing near a mysterious temple. He sees smoke in the distance, and ignores the super intriguing temple for a long walk. Genius. He heads to the beach, where he sees Rousseau’s man try to shoot her, and then she shoots him. There’s another flash, and Jin finds Sawyer and the rest of the group. Jin makes Charlotte translate for the rest of the group, and Locke tells her to tell him he’s sure Sun got off the island, and they have to find the Orchid. Back on the mainland, Ben says they have to go see someone who can prove Jin is alive. Mrs. Hawking, I presume? Kate pulls a hissy fit and leaves, and so does Sayid, albeit in a less annoying fashion. Sun gets in Ben’s creepy van.
Locke promises Jim he’ll get Sun, and Charlotte tells Daniel she speaks Klingon, which means her awesome tally is up to 1. Two flashes occur, Charlotte collapses, and then she starts telling Jin not to let Sun come back, because “this place is death.” But maybe it’s only certain death if you’ve been there before? Back in the van, Jack seizes this already awkward moment to apologize to Sun for leaving Jin, and says that if Sun doesn’t kill Ben, he will.
Ben, having had enough of playing dad to these two ungrateful children, pulls a classic Mom move and stops the van, yelling at them that they should be grateful because he’s been keeping them safe. This scene cracked me up so much. It’s safe to say neither of them is getting one of Ben’s delicious hams of love anytime soon. Charlotte is incoherently rambling, causing Locke to want to leave her behind, which Daniel refuses to do. Charlotte tells them they can find the Orchid at the well, and Daniel stays with her while everyone goes looking for it. She tells Daniel she grew up on the island but left with her mother, who told her she made it up. She also tells him that a crazy man once told her she’d die if she came back, and that it was Daniel.
At the well, Jin tells Locke not to bring Sun back, and gives him his wedding ring. Locke climbs into the well and falls when a flash happens. Sawyer and the others find that the rope has been buried. Meanwhile, Charlotte’s three-episode death sequence finally ends, and Daniel cries. Locke has fallen and jammed some sort of spike through his leg. Luckily, Christian Sheperd shows up to “help,” and is mad that Ben moved the island instead of Locke. Christian tells him to go see Eloise Hawking to find out how to get back, and tells Locke he has to push the giant island-moving wheel back onto its axis to get off the island. Locke does. Elsewhere, Ben and the rest of the A-team arrive at a church, where Ben pulls Jin’s ring out of his pocket and uses it to convince Sun to go to the island. Desmond steps out of the shadows, and they all go inside and meet Eloise.
I thought tonight’s episode dragged during the half hour that was spent following Jin, but it picked up when Charlotte finally stopped complaining and Ben pulled a soccer mom move. Next week’s episode looks like it’ll be amazing, since Eloise, HBIC of this show, is coming back.
What did you all think? Leave your theories, guesses, thoughts, and Two Cents in the comments below!
Lost is seriously my FAV show on TV. Every week it's just a new mind-tweak.
ReplyDeleteWhen Desmond showed up at the end I nearly fell off my couch.
And I hope Charlotte somehow comes back to life (she's hot and I like her accent).