Lost: 316
By fred | February 19, 2009
(S05E06) Frustrating, is how I would have described about this episode, and the way it made me feel, right after watching it. It’s funny because by the end of it, I was under the impression that what we were just given was an awful lot of new questions and mysteries, and nothing else. Of course that isn’t the case, far from it. In fact, from the very beginning of the episode we were given an answer, though we knew that eventually some people would have had to go back to the Island, an answer that also is a testament of how better this season is than previous ones.
It used to be that when something big was at play, it would take at least a season if not more to eventually get there. Because you don’t get inside the hatch or leave the Island over a couple of episodes only, it takes a (very) long time. But now, the end of the series is near and there is plenty of things to go through — starting with the very essence of the show, and what the Hell is going on on this Island, what is that game Desmond mentioned…
I think I might sometimes have a tendency to give too much credit to the evil mastermind of Benjamin Linus. For instance, I never believed and still today can’t accept the fact that Juliet really had a trial with a possible death sentence at the end of it. To me, that was all Ben’s doing, him manipulating everyone to get them exactly where he wanted them to be.
I just can’t accept that for a long time the Others only appeared to the eyes of the 815 survivors when and how they wanted to, passing themselves as bearded savages living in the jungle, and then when on their smaller Island near-by, in their own hatch, that Jack would come out at the same time Juliet is being brought in, hands in the back handcuffs on, just by coincidence.
I can’t believe that it’s just a coincidence that Jack ended up willing to save one of the Others (Juliet), after Ben told him that he had not been trying to get Jack to save him, but to want to save him. To me, this was part of Ben’s plan, it had to be, he wanted to get Jack some place, and he did exactly that, only with a few adjustments along the way.
It’s also why I can’t believe that Ben needed Michael to get info on Charlotte, Dan & the rest of Widmore’s crew. Not when he was able, from the Island, to find out that Widmore was planning a secret expedition to the Island, and not only locate the boat but also put a man of his (Michael) on that boat, as well as a bomb or two. If he could do that, to me that means long before Michael knew about the boat and agreed to get on, Ben had the files about Charlotte, Dan, Miles and the rest of the people that would be part of the expedition.
But I have to realize that Ben might not be all knowing all the time. So here’s something I failed to mention last week, but I don’t think Ben knows about the time jumps happening on the Island, to Sawyer, Juliet, Dan and the others. Unless Locke told him when the two met on the mainland, I don’t think Ben even ever suspected that such a thing was happening.
