While watching the "LOST" Season Three episode, "Not in Portland", I noticed something about James Ford aka "Sawyer". In the scene where he and Kate Austen were making their escape from the Hydra Island cages, Sawyer grabbed hold of Other Danny Pickett and continuously banged his head on this circular trigger in retribution for Pickett's earlier bullying. Kate had to pull Sawyer off so they could make their escape.
Watching Sawyer bang Pickett's head like that made realize how incredibly petty and vindictive he could be. For as long as I can remember, he always wanted revenge for even the most minor slight to himself. Sawyer knew how to dish out the pain to others, but he never knew how to take it. Even less so than many other characters. This is why Sawyer has NEVER been a favorite character of mine. As for Pickett . . . he was the same way. He and Sawyer had very similar personalities.
Ah yes, Juliet episode, so prepare for misery and emotional turmoil. My kind of television!
F in the chat for Juliet’s flashback hair
As far as I’m aware, this is the first time they do the ‘Woah they’re actually not on the island’ fakeout, and it’s easily the best done here. Ethan, the facility-looking corridor Juliet’s walking down, Rachel saying “Are you afraid he'll find out?” - it all makes sense within the context of what’s happening
Wait, I thought Jack knocked that other guy in the room unconscious?
I’m not quite sure what Juliet’s plan is in getting this other guy to catch and/or kill Sawyer and Kate
Given who we learn Juliet is, I am very surprised that she was at one point married to such a prick
Not only that, but she keeps his last name! Actually, I can understand that - he seems like quite the manipulator. Quite the Ben lite
How did Alex know exactly where Sawyer and Kate where?
That’s the second person Sawyer’s called ‘Sheena’. You’d think he’d be more original
They play off Ben waking up early with Jack saying that he’s not an anaesthesiologist, but there’s quite a large difference between many hours and twenty minutes
I see Alex inherited the sass from her father
Wait; when Ben wakes up, Jack has just said that he has 40 minutes before he dies, but when Juliet comes back in Ben says he has half an hour left. It took ten minutes from Juliet to get here from just outside the building?
They seem to start building Tom up as the comic relief Other, and as possibly the seconds nicest one after Juliet. Which is an odd choice, given that this was the guy who personally kidnapped Walt and was the primary antagonist of Season 2
Ay, it’s Richard! I take back what I said about Tom being the second nicest Other
How exactly do you impregnate a male field mouse? I get that it’s supposed to be an example of Juliet being a great scientist, but... there’s no womb???
I love the cut from flashback-Juliet saying “I’m not a leader, I’m a mess”, to present-Juliet being all ‘walk walk, fashion baby’
Why is it that, in basically every tv show involving time travel, we see at least one character reading A Brief History of Time?
Karl is in Room 23
Kate says that her threatening to shoot that random guy’s knee ‘wasn’t a con’ - great line, by the way, great to see Kate being Kate - but we’ve already established that they don’t have any bullets left, so it had to be a con
The scene where Rachel tells Juliet that she’s pregnant gets me every time
So Juliet’s ex-husband being hit by a bus was obviously Richard. But why would he do that, when Juliet would obviously be suspicious. Why not hit him with a car?
If Tom doesn’t like blood, why was he in the surgery in the first place?
Tom says they can’t take Ben to a facility since they sky turned purple, but surely they were planning this whole Jack manipulation thing for a while beforehand, right? Hell, they sky turned purple as Jack was being captured. Why couldn’t they have taken Ben to a facility beforehand?
So, does Juliet have no emotional reaction to shooting a colleague? Hell, as far as we know, this is the first time she’s ever shot anyone - surely that would have an affect on a person?
Jack asks Kate to promise not to come after him, but then hangs up before she can
Ughhh, when you’re breaking down crying over the death of your ex-husband, Ethan’s face is definitely not one you’re gonna want to see
Why the hell would Richard decide to show up at the morgue? Does he want Juliet to put two and two together?
“I've been on this island for 3 years, Jack. 3 years, 2 months, and 28 days. He said that if I let him live and I helped you -- that he would finally let me go home.” - that really hurts when you know what happens to her in the end
Overall Review:
I really enjoy this episode. Most of the stuff with basically every character I don’t care all that much about, but Juliet! It’s at this point where you realise that everything’s not so black and white - maybe not all these Others are as bad as they first appear
